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WHY "PAPA" KISSED TOBACCO-
SHOP GIRL.
Entertaining stories appear in mail week's instalment of the diary of Margot Asquith's Little Journey, which is continued in this week's Ladies' Field. We quote the follow ing extracts:--
We got to Luxor at tea time, and received a batch of latters. I read Arthur Balfour's Glasgow address. The motif not distines and, though clever, left you chilly. To say "know ledge is not power" to students at a university is discouraging in the first place, and a platitude in the second; it is one of the things one knows but
does not tell.
After dinner we rode to Karnak.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MANCHESTER MARKET
·REPORT.
Messrs. Morreau and Spiegelberg report on November 16, as follows
Cotton. The result of the week's American sorts fluctuations is a fall of about 1d in whilst Egyptian remains practically unchanged. Liverpool
prices Spot. Nov. Dec. Jan, American
FM..
Yesterday 11.22 10,62 10,59 10,59 Last Week 12.07 11.60 11.53 11.47 Egyptian
Sakellari. Spot. Nov. Dec. Jan. dis F.G.F.
Yesterday 22.00 19.85 20.05 20.20 Last Week 21.75 20.10 20.30 20.50
Yarns.-Little business has been done. Prices have fallen in sympathy with cotton. There is talk of "short time."
Cloth Trade is stagnant. There are no two opinions as to that fact, On the question of why it is stagnant
MARRIED IN PYJAMAS.
BRIDEGROOM WHO HAD OVERSLEPT.
Clad in pyjamas, socks and slippers and a long mackintosh, a þridegroom hurried into a London register office to be married,
He was staying in a neighbouring hotel, and had some days previously taken out a lipenes to be married. early in the morning, an hour before the usual opening time. He told the registrar that an early ceremony was
desired his fiancee and liimself wanted to catch a train immediately after the ceremony,
Arriving in a closed car he entered the office with just about six inches of his pyjamas showing below the mackintosh, and apologising to the registrar for his dress turned to greet his financée, who was waiting for him,
She smiled, and he explained that he had overslept, and if he had waited to dress they would have missed the
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LOVE WORK.
This is the title taken by Dr. Barnardo's Homes for their annual booklet, a copy of which we have just received from the Director, Rear Admiral Sir Harry Stileman.
In his accompanying letter he points out that it is most important in the interests of the Nation and Empire that the children should be taught to love work for the work's sake, for this will go a long way towards the solution of our industrial troubles,
So far as the Nation's destitute children are concerned, he urges the necessity of training them on right lines, lifting them out of the slums and giving them a good environnicut and & happy childhood, so that they may take their places as healthy, upright, honourable and God-fearing citizens.
help themselves. There is no system of votes and no red tape.
(laughing waters), and we flew, till the erupper broke, and my saddle collided with its ears. While the strap was being mended my friends caught me up, and remonstrated on the danger of galloping in the dark,
It appears to be agreed him
before getting married, bat declining American crop is a failure, and that use of a room if he wished to dream of long staple cotton there is on the offer he intimated that both were undoubted shortage. It would natur willing for the ceremony to proceed. ally be expected that Spinners would buy cotton. It is said that they are unable to finance any such purchases. The weak cotton market causes
After the ceremony the registrar turned to complete the certificate, and while the wife paid the balance of the licence her husband rushed
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ALL ABOUT ART.
THE NOVEMBER STUDIO,"
Its illustrations alone always make "The Studio," designated "s magazine of fine and applied art,"
Act. Another article on * Hindu art and its ideala" is of special interest to readers out bete because it surveys some of those essentials in art wherein the wain of East and West do indeed differ.
periodical Modern stage decoration is intereat-
where the shadows look like fences buyers to pause, and combined with downstairs and in the car slipped a Well worth studying. In the Novem-ingly discussed in an article called
the political outlook robs them of any confidence,
and cart ruts are as black as graves. I left my party, and, sitting under
The Washington Conference is the piercing, black shadow of the colams, looked at the obelisk. It expected to establish more confidence amongst traders. The German mark stood aloof and penetrating, with a fluctuates round about 1,000 to 1,100 single star above it, and was so to the £1, and there is fear less that beautiful that it filled my soul with
currency should go the way of the Russian, Austrian and Polish mone- tary systems.
reverence.
LORD ATHLUMNEY'S WOE. At Abydos, I got a tel gram from Lord Athlumasy: "To-day, I find the world is hollow, and my doll is stuffed with sawdust; horse pining away; am seeking consolation in the desert.-A."
Assiont "Papa is well, and happy. He has a wonderful memory, and knows Byron, the Ingoldsby Legends, Shakespeare, Milton, and Tommy Moore, by the yard. He told me that one day in Bath-when he was about eighteen--while looking through B tobacconist's window, hu BBW $ very pretty girl behind the counter, upon which be walked into the shop, and straight up to her; kissed her, saying as an excuse, It was all her fault for being so pretty!'
After dinner, Mamma, Mr. Scott and I talked of life seriously.
I found mamma reading "Lead, Kindly Light," when I went in to say good-night to her.
Mamma and I were taken by Lady Baring to see the Vice Roine, as the Khediva is called. We drank coffee out of jewelled teacups.
"JUDITH" AND HER GUN. The Open Sesame to their care is
Papa, Mamma, Godfrey Webb, destitution, and it is of the destitute Miss Fane and I visited Wilfred the Homes achieve such good results. Blunt. He is one of the most beauti- ! Up to the Ever-Open Door they ful men I have ever met. We went come, boys and girls-of every size, of in a dusty train to a little station, every kind, of every stock-dirty, and were met by the great man, hungry neglected, verminous; or beautifully dressed, on a splendid patched and clean and wet with the white donkey. tears of parents who would so gladly There was A strong contrast in keep them if they could. And out of papa's neat, dapper person, dressed green the far gate of the Fair-Castle of in Lovat mixture, with Transformation they go, years hence, taught and trained, self-respecting, self-reliant workers in the great vine- yard of God and the Empire..
Tyrolese Hat and smart "spata "— energy and success in every move ment-following this tall, artistic dreamer through a labyrinth of Children are suffering, children are unrooofed Arab rooms into an orange perishing, body and soul. Children garden, and presented there to a are crying aloud day by day, hour by farouche and good-looking daughter hour, for help, and it is in the power" Judith," also in Bedouin garments of each one of us, in some degree, however small, to lessen the terrible sum of child-suffering in this land of ours.
with an ivory dagger stuck through a wide ailk sash and a long, brown cloak paralysing to all movement, but graceful and pretty.
Barnardo's appeal for help. this The girl showed me her bedroom--- winter-time to save little ones from a qualid mixture of rags and shields. the suffering into which they are A gun hung upon the wall, I asked born.
its purpose, and she said it was to Never before have the Homes need-protect her from the Dervishes. I cd so urgently the support of those, pointed out the civilised distance that the world over, who think of the separated her from such a probability, welfare and happiness of little and she said, "Any animal, hyaena, children.
etc., might come at night." I replied, Would not an umbrella be handier? or can you shoot ?"
Barnardo's deal with 26,000 young people every year, and every year they permacutly admit some 1,400 children. In 55 years they have passed over 92,000 boys and girls through their hands, and to-day they have & resident family of 7,280-the largest family in the world-of whom 1,191 are babies and little tots under five. Donations, payable "Dr. Barnardo's The Charter of these National Hoines," may be sent to the Director Homes is: No destitute child ever at 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, Lon- refused admission." They cater for don, B. 1.
NOW THAT I'VE SNEAKED. OUT OF THE HOUSE-İ'LL JUST TAKE MAGGIE'S. CAR AN' RUN DOWN TO
DINTY'S PLACE.
She blushed, and I felt I had said, the wrong thing. ›
BRINGING
GREAT HEAVENS MY CAR
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pair of trousers over his pyjamas.
The couple waved a good-bye to the registrar and drove off to the station.
Some trade is done of course for all Markets. Enquiries are made and then seem to drop out and only a small proportion comes to book.
TRAVELLING CLOCK BINOCULAR
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DON'T WORRY WE WILL GET- IT-GIVE ME THE LICENSE! NUMBER-
ber issue there is much that the "The Art of the Theatre" and in general reader will be able to read "Domestic Architecture and Decors- with a good deal of interest and the tion" it is demonstrated how true art student will positively smack his artistic value may be given to lips over.
architectural themes. There is also a
The opening article dispusses what bit about the cotswold Gallery in he terms the renaissance of the Tate Soho, the always absorbing "Studio Gallery and endeavours to show how Talk" and a page or two of reviews. for the first time in its history it has Altogether there are sixty illustra- become a national gallery of British|tions.
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HELLO-DINTY -
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ME HERE.
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