Show HOURGLASSES HOUR AGAIN r r The rhe British house of commons has has' not not yet Jet yet decided on introducing b time re recorders orders on each side of oC the chamber so that speakers noting the tIle flight of the minutes may bri bring g their eloquence to a close But that there is an au evident desire for shorter speeches is shown from the suggestion Lion Hon in Paris that the chair in the cham chamber b. b r of deputies ties should be furnished furnished furnished fur fur- with an nn hour If such a check is adopted we wet t shall be back hack in Elizabethan and Jacobean times when hour hour-gla hour glasses were c almost invariably placed in the pulpit The P. P Puritans were were ere fond of long Jong sermons sermon but there was a limit even een to their patience If a II preacher preach preach- er reached readied his lastly before the first hour lour was spent pent he was regard- regard eel el as lady l la y If II he lie spoke for lor two tiro hours houra he had done dole moderately well a sermon sermon ser ser- mon men three e hours long l rather muter bored the congregation J t Ir |