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# little boy there had swallowed a chunk of dynamite. His father is afraid to whip him now for fear of an explosion.
A little sighing, a little crying a little dying and a great deal of lying constitutes love."
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ABOUT THE "VITAPHONE"
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There are probably, very few At what time of the day was. Adam born?A little before Eve, people who have never been to a What is the greatest conun- picture theatre, and there can be drum in the world?-Life for werery few who have not noticed all have to give it up.
the difficulty which arises from time to time in synchronising the" music played by the orchestra with the niovements on the screen.
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Why is a hangman a very good friend-Because he never lets you down.
Why is a new-born baby like a Sale of wind Because it begins with a squall.
Why is a bride less expensive than a bridegroom? Because Why is an amateur artist dan- she is given away..
gerous Because his designs are generally bad.
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Why is the wick of a candle like Athena? Because it is in the middle of grease (Graace)
Why are women like salad Because they both need a great
deal of dressing.
Why is a false fand like the letter P-Because it is first in
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A certain local "shark" had a pity and last in help. dream the other night. He," dreamt he owed another man ten. dollars; when he woke up, he found it to be true. He's afraid to go to sleep again for fear he might pay him..
Never lond a musician anything they make too many promissory notes.
An American picture producer, who is exceptionally busy, is said to have said his prayers last New ¡Year, and ever since to jump: every might into bed and say just "ditto,"
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HUBERT VAN EYCK,
The First Oil Painter's Great Discovery.
five.
on
years 1426, Belgian
Van
"What is stronger than à
hundred mother's love?" asks a movie sub.."Just
Sept. title. I should think that it is ago,
18, died in the the smell of apring onions on one's there
city of Ghent, Hubert girl's breath.
Eyck, who may be called the first There is no truth in the rumour of the oil-painters. Like another that a certain young man in How-famous man of his day, Thomas loon serenaded his girl the other Kempis, he took his name from night singing "Come, Birdie. his birthplace, the town of Eyek. Come," and got arrested the next morning for stealing chickens..
No matter how. truthful a man may be in life, he is bound to lie at the point of death.
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George Washington never told a He; but it must be remembered that he entered politics when his country was very new.
IMPARTIALITY.
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Hubert and his young brother, Jan van Eyck, were painting one day when, after varnishing their picture, they set it to dry in the sun. Presently they found it warped and spoiled, and turned their minds to discover a varnish
Putting it another. way, the orchestra often finds it difficult to keep step with the marching of the soldiers in the picture. ¿ This difficulty disappears with wi wonderful new American inven- tion called the Vitaphone.
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Its use at present is the exact chronising of sound and action in the presentation of films. ·A Philharmonic Orchestra of the performance by the "New York Tannhäuar. Overtues was filmed and recorded by the Vitaphone, and later a most successful projec tion of the picture with un cact reproduction of the music per- formed took place..
Great Possibilities.
It was a remarkable experience to be present at this performance. making a picture had been used The usual methods employed in in this case, so that, as well as a general view of the orchestra per- forming, one had from time to time close-up views of the instru
mentalists.
st.
If the invention is widely adopt- ed there are great possibilities in We shall be able to see and hear operatic performances by great artistes in foreign countries without leaving our own town.
Thanks to wireless and the gramophone, we can hear many great performances at which we could not be present; thanks to the kinema. we are able to witness. rany events which take place The Vita- miles away from us.
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THE WORLD'S LOVE..
Is there any single thing ad- mired all round the world?
At first it, would seem that the answer must be No.
The
A boil in the pot is worth two which would dry in the shade. on the nose.
At last they hit on a method of In some countries honesty is using certain resinous substances admired, but in certain savage with the oil, and when the colours tribes it is thought clever to steal. were mixed with this not only did Most nations hold that the great- they become more durable, but fest of crimes is to take human life, they were also brighter and but the head-hunters of New richer than anything the world Guinea honour a man by the num had seen in a picture before. Theber of people, he has slain, five centuries that have gone by Dutch woman washes the outside since the time of those Flemish of her house as well as the inside, painters have not produced any-but the worban of Tibet thinks it thing to surpass their transpar-is unlucky to wash her face. In ent and jewel-like colour.
Europe we say 'a woman' is Beauti- Painting that Took Ten Years." ful if she has a small, straight The greatest work of Hubert pose, little mouth, and a fair van Eyck is. the altarpiece in complexion, but in 'Africa" they Ghent Cathedral. The painting admire fat noses. thick lips, and occupied him ten years, and at his a brown skin. Certainly neither death it was still unfinished, his virtue, cleanliness, nor beauty is brother completing it six years admired all round the world;" later. When this masterpiece of
Kinds of Courage.
Nature, impartial in her ends, When she made us men the
strongest,
In "justice, then, to make
amends;
Made woman's tongue the
longest.
THE ABSOLUTË LIMIT..
Men scorn to kiss among them-
selves,
And scarce, would kiss
brother;
But women want to
bad."
&
kiss so
painting was first exhibited peopië | ·
came to see it in awarma like is honoured by everyone every- Yet there is one thing which bees, travelling long distances in where. It is courage. those. slow medieval times. The
painting fills nineteen panels, and We should all like to be cour- They kiss and kiss each illustrates the passage from the ageous. Sometimes bad or silly
other."
SMART!
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Book of Revelation beginning people have eneered at other vir lpoked, and lo, a Lamb stood on tues, but no one has ever thought. the mount Sion."
*། it clever to be a coward. Along various pathe in this pic-How are we to attain courage? wasture we see knights and judges The first thing to do is to find out
representing the life of action. exactly what courage is. with hermits and pilgrims repre- Some people would say that senting the life of contemplation, there are many kinds of courage. making their way through beauti There is the courage of the saflor ful country and under wondrous who risks his life to save a drown skies to the altar of the Lamb, ing ahipmate, the courage of the around which every kind of bril-invalid who bears great suffering liant flower is bursting into joyful with a smile, the courage of doc- bloom, and had not
tors working among lepers, and the courage, of a man who does
Simon: "Say, Jim, what, the Delaware River a hundred years ago?"
Jim: "Go long, you fool; it was a river, of course.
Simon: "No, it wasn't; it was a bottle of ink, because it was no good till there was a Penn in it
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THE TRUTH.
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Bill: "Say, that girl of yours is To judge from the Litle that what he thinks right even if all
a sweet kisser."
Ed: "How do you know ?"
Billy: "Oh, I had it right from her own lips."
DUDE IN LOVE.
Hast thou no feeling To see me kneeling, My love revealing,
Day by day?
Yes, I have feeling To see. you kneeling, Your bald head revealing:
Take it away!
SOME CONUNDRUMS.
is known about him, this first of the world reviles him. There is the great line of painters was a the open courage of the battlefield man of noble and attractive and the sacret courage of the nature. From the way he paint-heart.
ed little children we can judge. of
Facing Emergency.
his tenderness, He lived in the All these things are different time. of Chaucer, Froissart, Gutenberg, and Joan of Arc. But courage itself, that splendid ways of showing courage, and he was a modest man, working thing, is simply self-control. quietly at his craft, not even sign-
ing his name on his pictures. He denly the coward cannot think or When peril confronts men sud: was, too, a reverent man, with al mind lifted up above the things of is hand falters. His knees fail. act. His mind is panic-stricken, Earth, and well content to die in The man who is the hero of that hie fifties, having made the world adventure is the man with a cool more, beautiful, without reaping brain and quick, obedient limba, the glory due to him.
the man who is sure of himself be- Arm in an Iron Casket
cause self-control is second nature Hubert van Eyck was buried in to him, Why should a sailor be a good the crypt of Ghent Cathedral, and There are few people who will pugilist ?Because he is con- the floor above him echoed to the not one day be suddenly faced. stantly boxing the compass. Tootsteps of those who came for with a great emergency. It may Why is a lady's belt like an ash-centuries to see his masterpiece be danger threatening the man cart? Because it goes around When the crypt was destroyed the himself. It may be a chance to and gathers the waste (waist), tombs, were dispersed, Hubert's save life. It may be a decizion
Who was the wickedaat man | among them, but ha” right ari which can never be recalled mentioned in the Bible-Mces; with the hang that had wro because he broke all the com- auch amazing besuly, was p mandments at once
Gin an iron cas. And chibi What a better than presence of over mind kino mozor
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