WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1926.
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Victoria Peak
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says the "Daily Mail To various "Bullers" Headwear The College for Women in men such as General Sir E. A most disquieting rumour Boston University has started a Swinton, Sir W. Tritton, and reaches us from Cambridge. It is course in matrimony, and any Major W. G. Wilson, each of the to the effect that the top-hats girl who takes. it and credit is admittedly due, but the worn by Proctors' bulldogs are to satisfies the examiners is entitled, tank as a practical and powerful be abolished in favour of some- if and when she gets married, to weapon was, as Mr. Justice thing more utilitarian. says the This is mons- wear the letters C.B. (Certified McCardie stated, "a enmination "Morning Post." Bride) after her name. Every hot many experiments." and no trous. The ludicrous arguments College department is helping doubt the brains and energy of advanced in favour of the pro- the Professor of Psychology, for many men, went to the perfecting posul are that the top-hat is not example, explains the mentality of of 1. The question as to who suitable for quick acceleration, the male with special reference to invented the tarik is, after all of when In pursuit of a disappearing It appears. that domestic relations and the occup- only personal interest. The really undergraduate. ant of the special "Chair of Love important point is that it was the a mathematica! don has arrived and Marriage, a well-wedded creation of British ingenuity and at the conclusion that the centre matron, Alls her lectures with resolve, and that it proved of over- of gravity of the top-hat is too epigrams such as: "Never marry whelming value in the latter high, and that its powers of a man just because you love him" stages of the war. Indeed, the adhesion to a body in swift motion and "Romance and roses fade; but German General vón" Zwehl has are not all that can be desired rent and bille remain,"
goue so far as to assert that it especially when centrifugal force The Welsh "Blue" Guards.
whs "General. Tank," and not comes into play going round Marshal Foch, that won the war, corners. Such arguments are The Royal Welch Fusiliers have and though we do not go so far paltry. If the top-hat, which is a much rearer relationship to the as that, nevertheless its signi- sufficiently conspicuous to give Guards, whom they have relieved fcance in the final victory can fair warning to undergraduates, for duty at the Royal Palaces hardly be exaggerated. The fact is to be abolished in favour of than many people imagine. When that Lord Kitchener appears to something furtive, something] Dutch William was chasing James have hath no belief in tanks and streamlined or something athletic. 11. all over the place he was forced that in the battle of Ypres, where such as a "gents' boater," then a to raise extra troops, and one they got stuck in the mud. they blow will have been struck at one regiment was recruited from the proved an expensive failure speaks of the fundamentals of Cambridge Welsh Marches, afterwards called highly for the tenacity of those life. They will want to dress the the 23rd Foot, or Royal Welch who had the vision to forsee their bull dogs in running shorts next! Fusiliers. These were flattered by ultimate success and the courage being dressed, not in searlet. but not to be dismayed by one appar- in blue, in imitation of King lent failure. William's famous "Blue" Guards, j
But they wear scarlet nowadays, and one would like to know why such a famous regiment should not wear their bright uniform at the Palaces. Instead of the dull khaki.. Lo, the Poor Indian.
Most people regarth the Ameri- can aborigine as now inhabiting exclusively the fiction of their boyhoods the remote fastnesses of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Estudios of the Los Angeles Moving Picture factories. They will be surprised to learn that in New York State 23,000 acres of land are still being cultivated by Indians, of whom one tribe-the "Onondagas, chim to be 100, per rent. pure. Many other Indians still live by hunting and fishing as of old. Such story book names. as Tallchief, Bluesky, Bigtree..and Backtooth still survive, but are growing scurcer. The four oldest Indians in the State are June demieson, Ira Pearce, Julia Crow. and Martha Brown. Normally the Indians in the States have increas ed twenty-five per cent. in the last twenty-five years, but actually the Amer-indian blood is fast dis- appearing.
The Tank Judgment.
The judgment given by Mr. Justice McCardie in the £300,000 tank invention claim brought by Captain Bentley makes it obvious that whoever did or did not invent the tank. Captain Bentley did not.
(SAXBY GILRA, KUMTERI.
This jungle perch was assumed by his mujesty, Saxby Silver Triumph, after bù bail won a prize at the Silver Club Cat Show in New York.
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