Humanly Speaking

e was something straightforward in these prohibitions. Once started in the right direction one could hardly stray

there should be "reasons annexed," and that these also should be remembered, seemed to my youthful understanding a grievance. It made the

ny rational account of these bits of fact. They tell what is done in different parts of the world, but they forget to mention "the moving why they did it." The consequence is that, in

of reproach has been hurled by one candidate at another it is promptly reported to a waiting world. But the "reasons annexed" are calmly ignored. The consequence is that the reader is confirmed in his exaggerated idea of the nervous irritability of the American people. Ther

uperation that a conservative London newspaper remarked, "All this is cha

ature years listening to the screams issuing from her neighbor's nursery. She had not been used to hearing naughty words called

oings of Europe. Here I should find examples worthy of consideration. They are drawn from the homes of ancient ci

idently has troubles of her own. So, as ill-luck would have it, it is with Dame Europe's household. The visitor from across the Atlantic is surprised at the o

and every sign of uncontrollable violence. What are the "reasons annexed" to all this uproar? I do not know. In Budapest such unparliamentary expressions as "swine," "liar," "thief," and "assassin" were freely used in

as a fit Imperial residence the castle where the Mad King of Bavaria was allowed to exercise his erratic energies without injury to the commo

oduce peace. We read of the Czar's recent visit to his ancient capital: "The police during the previous night made th

ing the Chicago convention, the police had made three thousand ar

disappointing to the pilgrim in search of decorum. The

ecincts as a Member ri

o whether the honorable gentleman is entitled t

the term 'miscreant' is a pro

r. Speaker is not infrequently compelled to repeat his

statement of Mr. Asquith's. "Then up jumped Mr. Lansbury, his face contorted with passion, and his powerful rasping voice dominating the whole House. Shouting and waving his arms, he approached the Government Front Bench with a curious crouching gait, like a boxer leaving his corner in the ring. One or two Liberals on the bench behind M

ouse of Commons used to be called the best club in Europe. But th