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the burned out fuse or the lank in Hot Bed-Stick Although have not, seen the
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(writes. "Gadabout" in the "Daily
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astir In certain circles intely, and
A Theatre Mystory.
A "bed-atick" was the old-time substitute for a hot-water bottle- a smooth hickory or hardwood perhaps 16 to 18 inches long, with stick, four to six inches through.
the bark left on fasys the "Daily Telegraph This was put into the It is always a mystery why some over early in the avoning by bod People go to the theatre (says the time it was almost too hot to touch. "Daily Chronicle.") · They aff and heated through and through. I hear that once or twice when hestonily through comedy which It was slipped into a woollen bag, has appeared there has been slight moves the rest of the house to con- just the right size to hold it, and misunderstanding owing to the re- tinuous laughter they stare put in the bottom of the bed, where (semblance. Friends of the new leaden arms are never raised in comforting than the touch of a hot- savagely at the Inughers, and their is provided a dry heat much more
comer have nicknamed
him applause for anything whatsoever water bottle. We are told that "Feathers," presumably after the Curiously enough, it is always the sometimes a careless user heated Prince of Wales's feathers, but at lightest entertainments that there the bed-stick to charring points and the moment I am taking all the people patronise, and their affect risked a fair chance of setting the on sensitive, more primitive folkbed on fire. Thore may still be stories l'hear about the Prince and near them must be deadly. Theatre occasions, fur from a radiator or This double with a bly grain of salt. managers ought to have a black-list hot-water bottle, when the old-
Is the Equater Shifting?
of such gloomy amusement, seekers, fashioned bed-stick may be worth and refuse thém admission. NB. trying
Of course, one does not refer toNot the “Mikado.”" dramatic critfes, whose criting
necessarily tend
melancholy. Tune-Tasters.
Dr. J. E. Harding, who has spent the last ten years making geological observatiohs In the Andes Moun-must tains, saya that his studies have convinced him that the equator is shifting, reports "The World || Magazine" (New. "York;) This would explain why the North American coast line is sinking and the South American continent vising. He wishes to conduct experiments with a rotating con- crète sphere in hope of proving his theory. Selentists have expressed Home double of his theory. holding that the rubbling" motion of the North Pole, with which the Equator- moves, is accurately measured by
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The veil of mystery is, indeed, being torn from all that used to surround the Emperor of Japan, for "every, Interesting room in the Probably a job where more self-Imperial Palace at Tokyo is to be control is needed than any other photographed, and the garden and facture of gramophone records. At are to be filmed anys the "Events is one of the processes in the manu-even the Imperial ancestral shrines
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A scheme to conteract the effect Communist teaching among their ears are so carefully tuned thut they are able to detect the schoolchildren by the presentation to them of medals on Empire Day slightest mechanical fault imme- diately. Another interesting spot | May 24, has been drawn up by Cat in a gramophone factory is the L: E. Frewen, secretary of the "dead record library." Here are Junior Naval and, Military Club, kept and jealously guarded valuable Piccadilly, W. The intention in records, which can never be repeat-that the medal should be struck ed. Records of the voices of in alumthium, and given with a famous men and women, since dead; piece of red, white, and blue ribbon. Noticing that apartment-house are here preserved for posterity.The scheme has received the sup- tenante seemed fond of airing their Gramophone records are now reach-port of the British Empire Union,. troubles to elevator operators, the ing a parts of the world, An the Empire Day Movement, and the owner of a deluxe apartment- Afgican chief, when he visited British Empire Service League. house in New York City installed England a short time ago. was so and the British Empire Union have an unscen telephone in the eramoured with the gramophone placed their offices and organisation elevator says "Popular Science that he not only took one back at the disposal of the "Empire Day Monthly." As a tenant rides ap or with him to his own country, but Medal Fund, as it has been. down in the elevator, she unknow-ordered all the newest records to hamed. The hope is expressed that ingly talks to a young man at the be forwarded to him. He has a local authorities will subscribe sufficient money to enable the fund other end of the line. who is sit- tuste for jazz, and a favourite re- ting out of sight in the entrance cord was "It ain't goin" to rain no to supply 1,000,000 children with hall below. If she tells him about
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Lady Mary Thynne, whom many connoisseurs declare is the most beautiful young English girl of the day-she created a sensation by her good looks when she was presented as a debutante-was bridesmaid | for the third time, the other day. The occasion was the picturesque wedding of Miss Adelaide Stanley, Lord and Lady Stanley of Ade- laide's lovely
daughter Lady Mary's other two appearances as bridesmaids were at the weddings of Princess Mary and the Duchess of York. Soon, rumour has it, she will be appointing Bridesmaids. on her own account (says a "Sunday Chronicle writer;}
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