Croydon Times — Saturday 19 January 1918 / couples sitting close together under umbrella on Wandsworth Common
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Croydon Times — Saturday 19 January 1918
SPIRITUAL WARMTH.
Cold Storage was the foundation upon which Mr. Harry Jeffs built his addrews, and cold storage being, so to speak. in everyone's mouth to-day, it was a teat full of interest, and, as Mr. .Jeffs handled it. full of possibilities. Cold storage was a very important subject just now, and Mr. Jeffs showed that not only was it important in out national life, but, in our spiritual life &leo, because it was a thing to be avoided. There were churches — and Brotherhoods tot- where the atmosphere was that of cold storage; you could not attend without the danger of getting influenza or chilblains. The Brotherhood movement was started to bring back warmth and fellowship into religion.
The first thing in the religion of Jesus Christ was the heart in a glow, lame of fellowship communicating itself from heart to heart, and where there was fellowship religion wait in cold storage and often as dead as frozen mutton.
He had seen couples sitting close together under an umbrella on Wandsworth Common amid the snow to keep warm. The way to get warm in religion was to get close together and keep close together There was cold storage in the home. Old married men forgot the days when they used to sit, under an umbrella in the snow storm. The Apostle of Kiss the Missile was what he used to be called. Women had u ntugh time to-day, what with the tea shortage, the margarine queues, and the sugar tickets, and perhaps oft unhinged *and used the rough side of their tongues. Then was the time to cuddle close and get the loving wife out of the cold storage and into the glow of the old courting days. They wanted also to get the economic lif of the nation out of — the cold storage. Let there be an end of the bitter and destructive hostility of class; that bitter and destructive oondict of capital and labour that was so deadly a menace to our country before the was. What was the reason of it? Keeping the human side of things in cold storage. The success of reconstruction after the war would depend oii getting economics out of cold storage and getting masters and men to realise that they were not working simply for private profits or private wages, but were working for the good of the country in, which we all lived, for which our lads in khaki and blue were shedding their rich red blood in river streams.
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What some people would consider a supplemental supply of food was providentially thrown at us last seek. A whale was landed at Battersea, and whale is alleged to be very good eating. Our whale was claimed and carried away the authorities of the Natural History Moseum — in what right we slo not know. Those authorities have sent • whole steak to the Lord Idayot. A curious presetting. it to us. Lord Mayors are nointsheil with tattle ruts, not with the flesh of whales. Fish is not flesh, of course, •hut the newspapers have it " a portion of flesh from the white.' and we are not disposed to enter into a contentious Ispiitition with them now. If the Natural History Museum authorities had mole whale than they could eat they shouhl have sent it to the Mayor of Battersea. It was his whale if it was anybody's, beintow it wall in his borough brit the whale was stranded. And we are quite sure that the Mayor of Battersea is as good a fudge of whale steak as the best Mayor that ever lived.
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Last year they intended to visit some of the principal allotment centres in the London area, but the arrangement was spoiled by heavy rain. No further opportunity arose until Saturday, when they visited Wandsworth Common, Putney Common, Wimbledon Park, Wimbledon, Morton Park and Clapham Common and spent a couple of hours in inspecting allotment gardens and chatting with allotment holdors. A very cordial reception was given to Their Majesties at all points of the journey and at the various centres visited. Crowds of people lined the approaches to the allotments, many bouquets were presented to the Queen, and repeatedly flowers ( some of them grown on the allotments) wore thrown at or into the Royal motor as it passed. Mr Prothero, President of the Board of' Agriculture, lunched at Buckingham Palace ' and accompanied the King and Quoen on their tour of inspection! His Majesty wore military uniform ana the Queen'a navy blue costumeColonel-Clive Wigram and Captain Brian Godfrey-Faussett were in attendance. The first stopping place was Putney. Lower Common where the Royal visitors were received by the Mayor and Mayoress of Wandsworth, . the vice-chairman of the Allotments Committee, the Town-Clerk, the Borough Engineer, and the Chairman of the Putney Allotments Society. Their Majesties were informed that in the Borough of Wandsworth there are altogether 7457 allotments, or /a total acreage of oC 9, as against a pre-war acreage of 50. The crops were almost without exception very fine indeed, and everywhere there were evidences of application and great care. As the visitors were leaving, an elderly woman, apparently of the gipsy type, pressed forward and managed to grasp the King's hand, which she shook very heartily. She did not notice the Queen for a moment, but then apologised in a naive way for her neglect. She said, " You are not jealous, are you? " And the Queen replied, with a very hearty laugh, "Oh dear, no — not at all. " "God bless you both" exclaimed the old lady fervently, and then she asked Her Majesty to accept a pea pod "for luck. "The Royal lady, aware of the legend aboul the luck bC ' dine peas in a iv-d, smilingly accepted the " gift, and although the give did not add the familiar " cross my hand with silver, " the King directed his equerry to hand to her a sum of money. After visiting other centres, the King said the whole tour had been most interesting and instructive, and the Queen and he were glad to have had practical demonstration of the excellent work being done in increasing the country's food production. That phase was very important, but it was also of undoubted benefit to get bo many workers into the open air. From the health point of view, as well a 8 that of food production, the allotment system was of great advantage Loud cheers were given for the King and Queen as they entered * their car { or tno drive back to Buckingham Palace. [BNA: [