Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

SIR MARCHANT WILLIAMS AND WELSH ART. Speaking at the opening of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in connection with the National Eisteddfod at Colwyn Bay-which was arranged to be opened a fortnight in advance of the Eisteddfod gathering-Sir Marchant Williams said he must at once disabuse the minds of the audience should there be any supposition lurking in their minds that he appeared before them as an expert in art-or anything else except per- haps crime (laughter). About 10,000 cases a year came before him in his courts and perhaps in crime he was somewhat of an expert. What accounted for his presence was the fact that he was a friend of the Eistedd- fod, and, curiously enough, the oldest of its regular camp-followers. The first National Eisteddfod he ever attended was forty-nine years ago, and he had followed its meetings ever since with two or three ex- ceptions, so that he could be truly described as one of the ancients of the institution, and he was a thorough believer in it. He took a great interest in art and all beautiful things in his collection of china, snuff-boxes, and pictures-and though he had many times burnt his fingers, yet by associating him- self with great experts he had acquired what was within the reach of most people, viz., the power to detect good work when he saw it. And they all could do that. He was a great believer in the Celtic genius for art. As Celts they had not produced much, but no one durst say that they had produced nothing, because Richard Wilson was one of the immortals, and he was hoping that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn would before the close of the exhibition lend them some speci- mens of one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen or known. He therefore held that the Celt was an artist, full of power, of delicacy, of thought, of speech, and of touch. Hence it was that he was interested in the art side of the Eisteddfod, which first had an art exhibition as an adjunct on the occasion of the Wrexham gathering twenty-two years ago. He desired the Exhibition to be an education to the neighbourhood. He wanted the neighbourhood to have its school of art and to see the walls of its day schools decorated with better pictures than oleo- graphs, for it was by looking at pictures that one got to know them just as one knew members of a family. Children developed the taste for real art when brought in contact with it. He also desired to make the mem- bers of his audience collectors of objects of art. There even now remained uncollected wonderful things relating to the history of the country. Let them be collected and sent to the Welsh National Museum. When the National Museum was established loans

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This, however, is a mistake, for his body was interred at the Cwmavon Parish Church Cemetery. The tombstone bears the inscrip- tion, Sacred to the memory of Jenkin Thomas, of Goytre, in the Parish of Margam, who died 26th December, 1807, aged 61.' There is not the least doubt that this Jenkin Thomas, of Goytre, and Siencyn Penhydd were one and the same person, for the famous preacher lived at Goytre, in the Dyffryn Valley, Port Talbot, and a small Methodist chapel was erected there to his memory." The British Widows Gazette contained the following interesting reference to Dewi Vychan, a popular resident of Cardiff, a leading member of Ebenezer Welsh Inde- pendent Church, and the South Wales Inspector of the British Widows Assurance Company. The reference is to the social gathering held to celebrate Dewi Vychan's silver wedding this year :—" Several of Mr. Davies's bardic friends made beautiful speeches, embellished, as is their wont, by verses composed for the occasion. When bards are moved to write poetry, they do it naturally in the Welsh language, but there were at least two verses, by the Rev. Crwys Williams, in English which are well worth recording I have seen a Gold not golden That glitters for only awhile, Just as an empty laughter Will fade in a sickly smile. But Love is a nobler virtue, Grows better as it grows old The love which is only silver To-night, will some day be gold." Messrs. Evans and Son, the old-established Tailors, Wharton Street, Cardiff, have a re- markably fine window of sporting materials, with the realistic surroundings of heather, grouse, &c. It is much admired. At Lady Bute's Garden Party eulogistic reference was made to the beautiful display of real Welsh flannels at the premises of Messrs. Howell & Co., Ltd., St. Mary Street, Cardiff. CELT readers should not fail to see it. The two great sources of poverty which might be remedied without any great effort or any great sacrifice are sickness and widowhood." So remarked Mr. Walter Roch, one of the Welsh M.P.'s. It would be interesting to hear what is Mr. Roch's remedy for the latter of these two evils. A little girl at Portmadoc who picked up a silver watch and gold chain and a purse containing £ 10 was rewarded with a shilling by the owner. There's generosity if you like "In the form and in the quantity now indulged in, tea-drinking ranks high as a cause of much of the ill-health present to- day." Such is the testimony of Dr. Thomas Harrington. The South Wales industrial outlook is not assuring. The colliers and the seamen are very restless, and the possibility of strikes is the question of the hour. It is scandalous to hear some of the men advocating a long strike with its attendant miseries and suffer- ing. The people who really suffer from strikes are innocent women and children. Vaccination has many opponents in Wales, and the number is increasing. Mr. T. Colby, speaking at a meeting of the Cardi- gan Board of Guardians, said that Vacci- nation was now quite an exploded fancy, and not fit to be offered to any respectable man."