"Every day and in every way" four breakfast reading get more} dismal. There really seems every! reason why people who want to spend an ordinarily cheerful day! should avoid buying any morning paper. We are told regularly every! morning that France is heading; straight for national bankruptcy, because the Allies will not allow; jiier to extract money from Germany; that tuberculosis in the/ principal capitals of Europe is! spreading more rapidly than be-) fore the war; that four. years' privation have generally undermined the public physique and "moral and the rest of it.
_On top of this we have the ever-present problem of population. We are treated to diagrams with large black lines very much like the edging in mourning note-paper from which we gather that whereas in 1913 every hundred marriages in France produced 248 children (in due course), the country is now only 166 up in little ci each 200 parents. Depopulation, we and put an end to all trouble by; We are ominously told, has begun. giving Ireland what she wanted.
What with the drug traffic, the In face of the spectacle of the ruin white slave traffic, standing headings and misery caused in that unhappy of half a column or so of such small country by this very action, the motor accidents as don't deserve French ave puzzled, a little separate treatment, and our daily ficent, and rather disturbed by the; railway accident, the morning paper! difficulty of being perfectly sure of; is anything but merry and bright. the manner in which the deaths of Evidently, the world is going to the Wilson, Collins, and Griffith can! dogs. It's been a long time going, best be lair at England's door. but nobody can say that it hasn't Wilson they can manage;.a little announced it frequently enough. I) twisting and turning may suffice for suppose there was even a time when Collins; but how Griffith's heart people sat in caves telling each failure can be brought into line is other that the country was going; rather a puzzler. to the mastodons. But, after all, it was the mastodons that went.
Business depression has hit some of the French seaside places rather
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