120 WAYFARING NOTIONS 



Australian history, when making it was rough 

 work indeed. Austral-Colonials "come home" 

 to England : doing the return journey is called 

 ''going back." The homing instinct strong in 

 our race is manifest in these two expressions, is 

 it not ? Most English-bred Colonials must, I 

 fancy, yearn to ''come home" when there is no 

 chance of making the return journey and "going 

 back," because time has come to end all travel. 

 About this is always to some of us suggestion of 

 the pathetic, even when poor, despised John 

 Chinaman is the sacrificer to home hunger, and 

 can get no nearer to his heart's desire than having 

 his bones shipped to the Flowery Land, part of a 

 wholesale freight of such remains. 



I wonder if ever our rulers will leave off 

 cramping facilities for learning swimming, and 

 practising that most valuable art may at last 

 wear into our ruler's hearts. For years and 

 years the Referee has begged that bathers who 

 cannot swim and those who can should be given 

 a fair chance. The Life-Saving Society, started 

 by Messrs Henry and Sinclair, has done wonder- 

 fully good work in extending opportunities in 

 certain directions and arousing sympathies which 

 wanted wakening. Certainly the society, though 

 opposed or discouraged in various ways, has at 

 least brought swimming's claims more before the 

 people, who might give it a lift if they pleased ; 

 but with all tried and done you find genuine 

 support rare where it should be strongest and 

 most frequent. To get the best swimmers you 

 must XMxxs.from the natural school for them, the 

 coast, and to the inland counties. To understand 

 what proper encouragement means, go to 

 Lancashire. Take Manchester, as we under- 



