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YKINGS OF THE TURF" TO-DAY.
nt all
maintained its abnormally THE POST WAR GIRL. high level but Increased it. It vroccaded, The widening of its tanks as it travelled towards itu mouth would under ordinary cir cumstances, automatically reduce
SUPERIORITY OF CLERICAL
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WORK CHALLENGED.
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"Kings of the Turf" is to be its level. But after the melting of About 400 delegates from all screened from to-day to Satur the winter snows at the sources of parts of England attended the con- day at the Queen's Theatre the river, very heavy rain fell overference of the Association of Head except vast districts all along its course. Mistresses, which opened on June performances 9.16 p.m. It is the life story About the middle of May entus 11 at Haberdashers Aske's School! of Virginia's Future a royally trophie rains flooded the lower-at West Acton England, under bred filly, as told by herself.. Itlying streets even of Moscow to the the presidency of Miss B. M. Sparks, head mistress of Chelten was Mike Donovan who presided depth of three feet or so.
From the town of Rybinsk, whore | hàm College." at her birth, who broke her to
The report of the association for halter, who saddled her for the the flood first became menacing: 1a first time. She was the apple of trakhan, the last of its victims, the past your drew attention to the the distance on the map in a number of women, who, owing to his eye, destined to be the hext "greatest race horse." And final-straight line is about 1,000 miles, the war were compelled to "earn ly it was Mike who taught her but, allowing for the windings and their own living, which made it a turninga of the Volga, the distance matter of social importance, that to run straight and fast."
As many suitable outlets as pos- Just as she was about to winpproaches 2,000 miles.
The food is now subsiding, letv-sible should be provided for their her-first race, fifty feet from the a wide cone of desolation all energies. It was further stated in wire, Virginia's Future fell and along its truck. A week ago there the report that there had been an broke her leg, thereby ruining not were over 7,000 houses still under increase in the number of girls who only herself but per owner, who water in the méighbourhood - of choge wath professions As estate! had bet on her the remnants of Pokrovsk and more than 12,000 management.. accountancy. hur- his dwindling fortune, Evill peuple there without a roof over dressing, interior decoration - of| times came to both, especially to their heads. At Syzran the name houses, entering, dressmaking, etc., the lamed filly, until at last she ber of homeless was officísily gsatelj in preferénce to clerical work. became the chattel of a brutal at this time to be about 3.000.
The "Practical Girl
human...
peddler, who abused her unmer- Little publicity is given to the Miss Gwatkin, Streatham Hill difully. Then it was Mike who distress of these areas, as the au- High School, chairman of the) discovered her. rescued her fromthorities are otherwise engaged. Education Committee, in an address || her Bondage and rode her to the The few random detalls given on The School in relation to the track just in time to see her above may, however, convey somej Word to-day.""sold her task was to daughter. Confederacy,' win idga of the magnitude of the dis-approach the subject from the spe thrilling race and redeem the aster,, the brunt of which falle on cial angle of the practical girl, and family fortunes. equine and the peasants, and working masses angolar she often was, being a Nizhni-Novgorod, Kostroma, square peg in a round hole. It was The picture was directed by Kazan. "Astrakhan. Santoy, the practical type of girl who had John Ford, famous for his pro-Rybinsk, Yaroslav. Pokrovsh suffered most. She was mbet duction of The Iron Horse."Sygun and other towns. In the sure to be the motor" syne who Among the human autors are Caucasus, too, torrential rains and wanted to do things for herself and Henry B. Walthal. J Farrell foods have inundated the country.not contemplate the doings of MacDonald and Gertrude Astor, and sheep and cattle have been others.. It was this type of girl On who got least thaner in the schools The principal actors in this swept away by the thousand, thrilling screen drama are horses, the other hand in the Khiva and of to-day especially governed-na jand the cast includes some of the Bokhara Oases, terrible drought they were by the University Board most famous race track cham- prevail. The irrigaslon canals are jef Education with ideas of yester..
Before the movement for the pions of recent years, each play dry, largely in consequence of the day. ing himself. In the list are Man new leftward course
the higher education of girls she had War, the world's greatest River Oxas is seeking. The crops had more than her chance. A'good! housewife was esteerned above! thoroughbred, Fair Play, Segofoare, therefore, ruined. Morvich and other horses of
Appeals for help reach Moscow.ther women, and her thoughtful|. international renown.
but the rulers of Russia think it intellectually curious sister, was
With thei more important to use their money cramped and stultified. for stirring upy industrial unrest in swing of the peltham things were Beitain and fomenting anti-British reversed and all girls treated as University praduates.
WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION,
et would be difficult (says a cor respondent writing in the London ¡“Times" of dune,23) to find a period į when some parts of the vast ber-j ritory which was once known wi the Russian Empire did not suffer from some serieus visitation · or other, but this spring it has been! particularly unfortunate. There' have been serious outbreaks of in- Ruenza
which
THE VOLGA FLOODS.ng in China, than for helping potential
their wn, Homeless and starving: They realised that though the
school should provide for thei potential graduate, it also housed! the embryo artista housewife, Hd- ministrator, business woman, and technician. The teaching of house- craft and the raising of its status: to a level with other subjects should give the practical girl another; avenue for self-expression. Many) people stil regard it as a superior] occupation if a girl spent her time typing other people's letters, and an inferior one if he performed the duties involved in the care of a house. This was the result of al system of society, in which the ignity of work had not been re- This clerical work was Ecognised.
really suited to giris of mediocre ability.
And scarlet fever in Leningrad and Moscow, typhoid (4) the Rostoy district, plague in Turkestan, "and malaria in many purts, while storms and floods have caused colossal material: loss, sper cially among the crops.
The heavy snowfall during thei winter enaned all the bigger rivers to overflow their banks when the
haw set in. Moscow. Leningrad and) Kiev were early "victims of the food, and boats were the only means of communication in the lower parts of these towns for about a week towards the end of April. In many other towns n Western Russia stores and factoriek were submerged and much damage done. But, except to those immedi
lely affected, these floods seemed} jas nothing when the Volga broke
4 banks, spreading, destruction for, miles on each side of its normal bed, along the whole of its course of 2,000 odd miles from the Valdai Hilla to the Caspian Sen. *
For a month the floods continued Land town after town. was in-
undated. Some 10,000 villagel| wire swamped, even the roufs of houses being in many cases sub- merged. News of high water ct the sources of the Volga began to trickle in soon after the floods in and around Moscow had abated. First it was heard that the towns of Rybinsk and Yaroslav were in- Lundated, the level of the Volgaļ there being 42ft. above normal them that Nizhny Novgorod was under water, that the level of the Volga. had risen to 46ft. above normal. that the width
the
This is the first photograph of Helen Wills to be taken after her operation in Parla, which caused her withdrawal from tennis matches.
Her recupuration was rapid.
stream there was over 20 milea,¦ that towns by the score and villages!
y the thousand
de- were Boing vastated. And day by day as the] Volga foods pressed on south- :/ mutwards' towards the mouth of! the river, fresh disasters were re-l corded.
TO VISIT INDIA.
DELEGATION FROM SOUTH “AFRICA
Shobhishness,"
Mies Oldham. vice-president
the association asked: "Can it be that the girla' wehoals in the coun- try are in any way responsible for of the deplorable snobbishness some of those who were educated in them and who "now set wrong standards and perpetuate foolish conventions which limit the number of callings in which girls might do honourable Bervice to the com- munity? She instanced the care of the daughters of a managing director of a large drapery busi- reas who preferred to be typista of a bank because they had a pre- judice against a shop.
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Miss Lilian Clapham, of the Min- istry of Labour, had many Interest- ing things to say concerning pre- Employers. fussions for women.
had a hazy idea as to what con- stitated secondary education. They asked for well-educated, girls, but stipulated that they must not b more than 18 years old. There were openings in electrical supply' tims, in engineering. for girls with a knowledge of mathematics; in restaurants attached to big spores, where girls could learn the busi- neas and possibly set up on their own account; in pianoforte sales- manship and tuning; "in opticians' show rooms, where, again, mathe- matics were required; in nursing. and there were good openings at the top in the laundry trade.
LOSS FROM FENGTIEN NOTES.
12.--Mr. Finance
Mukden, August The Standing
Con- mittee of the Indian, Assembly has Yoshida,
the local Japanese
On May 26 it was announced unanimously agreed to the pre-Consul-General, in expected to have interview with Mr., Saburi, tant the Volga was rising again and vision of "Ra. 70,000 to cover the n that tracts of country which the expenses of the forthcoming Indian Chief of the Commercial Bureau waters had never reached before tour of the South African delern of the Foreign Office and one of (not even in the great flood oftion to study Indian conditions. the Japanese technical experts to 1719) were now flooded and that The estimate assumes that the the Chinese Custom Tariff Confer the population was fleeing by tens delegates will be accompanied by race, who fa now on his way home, at Dairen in order to confer with
of thousunda with their eattle, etc. their wives..
On June 1 the bity of Astrakhan, The tour roughly will be 8,000 him on the question concerning the was recorded to be in grave dan-mile and a special train will be Fengtien-notes.
According to the investigations. ger, Thousands worked day and arranged for the delegation.. night on the construction of a dam The Committee also sanctioned amade by the local Japanese Chara- 20 miles or more in length to pro-lakh of rupees to cover the expendi-ber of Commerce, the loss Auxtaiz- bect the city. Three days later the ture of the Indian delegation to the ed by the local Japanese merchants bursting of the dur was an-Conference. In Cape Town on the from November, 1924 up to July of) nounced. The level of the Volga Indian qucation in December next, this year owing to the heavy de- had renched 62ft. above formal. It is assumed that the delega-cline in the value of Fengtien-1 This is merely a brief summary. tton's work, including the period of notes, has reached. Yen 8,000,000.
The amazing feature of the flood the voyage, will take three months. was that although the river was The delegation, it is anticipated, "In Italy we have achieved what overflowing its banks and sub-will consist of a Chairman and Ave the Russian Bolshevik: tried to da Benito
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