Dee. 2.
'A home periodical makes the quaint suggestion that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as he sailed up the Channel on his return from America, possibly, had a Monday morning feeling." He had undertaken a great venture; had he made one blunder in speech, or even in gesture, the result would have been disastrous. His every word was weighed by keen critics, his every posture noted by vigilant. observers and, had he struck one false note, years of diplomacy would not have rectified the mistake. But he returned with blushing honours thick upon him. Our relations with the United States were good before he went there; they are on a basis of warm cordiality. now. Canada was loyal to the Empire before he visited her capital, she is enthusiastically loyal now. No treaty has been made, no engagement entered into; only his visit has been like a breath of caller air from his own heather hills and the mists of suspicion and distrust have been blown. to the place where the. rainbow ends. To have az complished this, is to have accomplished much and the writer we quote seems to have put himself in the Prime Minister's place and felt, vicariously, the strain ho must have suffered before, and during, the testing time. To all such strain there is an inevitable reaction and so he supposes "the Monday morning feeling" must have made itself felt as ho returned to the great tasks awaiting him at home, We remember to have heard a famous: preacher say that the time when he felt himself to be, morally, at the lowest ebb was on Sunday. evening after the'labour of a exhausting day.. The brain is then tired and the mind exhausted and the next day is Black Monday when the vitality is low.
Logically, Monday should be the one day of the week on which all those not engaged in duties requiring their attention
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