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against this brilliant company of Britons. “But he laughs best who laughs last,” and I stuck to my thesis, intimating, as politely as I could, that it was pure ignorance which caused their merriment. I then gave the following account of this classic example of false logic: “When the encroachment of the shoals called the Goodwin Sands began to be dangerous to navigation, there was some sort of a commission appointed to investigate the matter, and if possible to ascertain the cause. Many expert witnesses had been heard when a common sailor took the stand and said he had always understood that Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands. Of course, he was laughed at for his pains by the wise and learned commission, and his testimony has served to amuse the knowing ones for many generations. But a little knowledge of the local tradition of Tenterden confirms the testimony of the poor ignorant sailor and turns the laugh at last upon the commission. A sum of money had been left by an enterprising citizen of the parish of Tenterden to keep the Goodwin Sands from encroaching upon the channel. This money was honestly applied for some time, how long is not known, and the shoals were kept clear. But the time came when these funds were diverted from their rightful purpose, and were misapplied for the erection of a steeple on the parish church. The sands were thus left to accumulate, and hence the very truthful, as well as logical, saying of the people that Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands. Here we have a perfect bit of logic, containing a very interesting and valuable historical incident, wrapped up
in a traditional nutshell—which has been handed on from generation to generation by word of mouth.” “But where is Tenterden steeple? It is nowhere near the Goodwin Sands,” exclaimed several of my literary auditors at once; and I then had to supplement my lecture on the persistency and value of English oral tradition with a short discourse on English geography, explaining that there was a time—strange as it might seem to these highly literary gentlemen—when Tenterden steeple was nearer the coast than it is to-day. The Mayor of Canterbury writing to the Times only the other day, in answer to a letter of Sir W. B. Richmond concerning the alarming condition of the cathedral tower, states that “the Mayor and commonalty, as a body corporate, are no more responsible for the present condition of the cathedral tower than are the Goodwin Sands for that of Tenterden church steeple,” The Mayor in his quotation of this old maxim has got
it wrong end first, but his meaning is clear enough, and he has unwittingly evoked an example which is fatal to his arguments, for if the municipality of Canterbury is no less as well as no more responsible for the decay of the cathedral tower than Tenterden steeple was for the accumulation of the Goodwin Sands, then it is wholly responsible.—G. M. Royce in the Nineteenth Century.
M. Osiris and Malmaison.—M. Osiris was a true Frenchman of Bordeaux, although as an Israelite he had a right to his strikingly Oriental name. He was a widower
from his youth and remained faithful to her whom he had lost. He watched the slow but sure heaping up of riches which came to him almost by spontaneous impulsion after the first start; and he used his leisure, which seemed to be his whole life, in conjuring up objects on which to bestow his largess. Every one remembers the house of Malmaison where he patiently gathered together every least fragment of furniture and art or personal relics which had once belonged to the Empress Josephine. It was long, very long, before he could persuade the public authorities to accept this startling historical museum, with , all the funds needed for its support. When he came back from his chateau in December, only a few weeks before his death and with the hand of death already heavy upon him to his certain knowledge, he called for the proper State officials and there, in his house, had them make an inventory of all the precious objects which he wished to go to this Musee Osiris; and he stipulated that his faithful valet of many years, should be its guardian.
Competition.—Competition . is becoming the recognized channel for obtaining designs for the majority of important new buildings. It is useless to pursue the old line of bewailing such a state of things; we have to face the facts, and, taking human nature as it is, we may just as well recognize that there exists in the architectural profession a fight for existence no less acute than in any other profession to-day, and
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In the public mind “StanctarcT and Sanitation are synonymous terms. Whenever you specify .Standawr Porcelain Enameled Fixtures for Residence, Hotel or Apartment House you are assuring the owner that he will receive what he recognizes as the best in the way of sanitary equipment.
PITTSBURGH. PA., U. S. A.
Porcelain Enameled Sink, with Apron all around, Enameled Sink Legs with Wall Supports, Nickel-plated Strainer, Fuller adjustable Flange Bibbs and “p” Trap with Waste and Vent to Wall with or without Bibbs and Trap.
against this brilliant company of Britons. “But he laughs best who laughs last,” and I stuck to my thesis, intimating, as politely as I could, that it was pure ignorance which caused their merriment. I then gave the following account of this classic example of false logic: “When the encroachment of the shoals called the Goodwin Sands began to be dangerous to navigation, there was some sort of a commission appointed to investigate the matter, and if possible to ascertain the cause. Many expert witnesses had been heard when a common sailor took the stand and said he had always understood that Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands. Of course, he was laughed at for his pains by the wise and learned commission, and his testimony has served to amuse the knowing ones for many generations. But a little knowledge of the local tradition of Tenterden confirms the testimony of the poor ignorant sailor and turns the laugh at last upon the commission. A sum of money had been left by an enterprising citizen of the parish of Tenterden to keep the Goodwin Sands from encroaching upon the channel. This money was honestly applied for some time, how long is not known, and the shoals were kept clear. But the time came when these funds were diverted from their rightful purpose, and were misapplied for the erection of a steeple on the parish church. The sands were thus left to accumulate, and hence the very truthful, as well as logical, saying of the people that Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands. Here we have a perfect bit of logic, containing a very interesting and valuable historical incident, wrapped up
in a traditional nutshell—which has been handed on from generation to generation by word of mouth.” “But where is Tenterden steeple? It is nowhere near the Goodwin Sands,” exclaimed several of my literary auditors at once; and I then had to supplement my lecture on the persistency and value of English oral tradition with a short discourse on English geography, explaining that there was a time—strange as it might seem to these highly literary gentlemen—when Tenterden steeple was nearer the coast than it is to-day. The Mayor of Canterbury writing to the Times only the other day, in answer to a letter of Sir W. B. Richmond concerning the alarming condition of the cathedral tower, states that “the Mayor and commonalty, as a body corporate, are no more responsible for the present condition of the cathedral tower than are the Goodwin Sands for that of Tenterden church steeple,” The Mayor in his quotation of this old maxim has got
it wrong end first, but his meaning is clear enough, and he has unwittingly evoked an example which is fatal to his arguments, for if the municipality of Canterbury is no less as well as no more responsible for the decay of the cathedral tower than Tenterden steeple was for the accumulation of the Goodwin Sands, then it is wholly responsible.—G. M. Royce in the Nineteenth Century.
M. Osiris and Malmaison.—M. Osiris was a true Frenchman of Bordeaux, although as an Israelite he had a right to his strikingly Oriental name. He was a widower
from his youth and remained faithful to her whom he had lost. He watched the slow but sure heaping up of riches which came to him almost by spontaneous impulsion after the first start; and he used his leisure, which seemed to be his whole life, in conjuring up objects on which to bestow his largess. Every one remembers the house of Malmaison where he patiently gathered together every least fragment of furniture and art or personal relics which had once belonged to the Empress Josephine. It was long, very long, before he could persuade the public authorities to accept this startling historical museum, with , all the funds needed for its support. When he came back from his chateau in December, only a few weeks before his death and with the hand of death already heavy upon him to his certain knowledge, he called for the proper State officials and there, in his house, had them make an inventory of all the precious objects which he wished to go to this Musee Osiris; and he stipulated that his faithful valet of many years, should be its guardian.
Competition.—Competition . is becoming the recognized channel for obtaining designs for the majority of important new buildings. It is useless to pursue the old line of bewailing such a state of things; we have to face the facts, and, taking human nature as it is, we may just as well recognize that there exists in the architectural profession a fight for existence no less acute than in any other profession to-day, and