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What is a "Life" Sentence?
many flowers in midwinter? The Earliest Swiss Book. Commenting on Mr. Justice main part of the answer is simply "Over £9,300 was realised by a Branson's sentence on E. W. Smith plants rest in winter, most of the three-days' sale of books and manu for his attack on Constable Dainty, Mediterranean plants rest in sum-scripts at Sotheby's. One of the the "Law Journal" says:-of mer, when the coasts that keep the first books printed in Switzerland, course, a life sentence does not sun become dry and parched lands. the "Pustill super Evangelia," by mean what it says, though it is not At that season the secret of survi- N. de Lyra; Issued at Bale in 1468, the practice to tell the prisoner at val for most plants is to lie low or of which there is no copy yet in once what it does mean. When he fall into summer-sleep.-Professor America, brought £200 (Thorpe), commences the sentence he is, J. Arthur Thomson in "John o" Lon- The value of an, Amsterdam, 1656, warned not to entertain any exped- don'a Weekly." tation of relonae til! he has com- pleted twenty years, and formerly this period was netually allowed to pass before the sentence came un-
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A Plen for the Fairies,
MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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Every practical man belleves in designed for the work, although, on der review, Under the more the Fairies. There are, of course, account of his delineation of the humane ayatem now prevailing, hopelessly unpractical and unrea-Almighty in the last of them, they Mesara, Colnaghi sentences are considered every five sonable individuals who only be- were not used. years, and in practice prisoners lieve in such shadowy things as gave £150, for this work; a Strass- serving life sentences are released Treasury, notes, ledgers, bricks, burg, 1471 (circa), "Epistolae" of after twelve to fifteen years. Even mortar, and didends. These folk St. Augustine bringing £100, and thua mitigated, of course, the sen-are the dreamers of the world; and another carly Strassbury book, the tence is, in wards used at Smith's perhaps in some ways the world is "Pharetra. Doctorum et Philoso- phorum," £105. Among the trial, a terrible sentence, and can the better for them, and for the
Illuminated manuscripts was R only be justified in very exceptional touch of romance they bring into French, fifteenth century, Book of enses. Formerly there was a cus-real life. At any time of the year, Hours, Touraine use, on ninety-six tom at the Old Bailey for 'two or however,
thoughtful man,
the
world is old!
Hazards of Marriage.
Sir Patrick
three judges to sit together, so that woman, or child turus from these vellum leaves with eleven minin- sentences arrived at by them in con- lovers of the shadowy and the un-tures, one of the larger ones depict- cert might form a standard at real, from the daily newspapers in ing Job' among his friends. This realised £266 (Permain). At Aнsizes: However reprehensible which their fantastic deeds and was Smith's conduct, and however aspirations are solemnly recorded, Christie's an early Flemish fif- Ivory diptych, great the courage displayed by the and from the banks, shipbuilding teenth-century police-constable, Dainty, who tried yards, camps, barracks, seven-and-carved with subjects from the Life to arrest him, the sentence does not sixpenny novels, Houses of Parlia-of Christ, brought 210gs, and a seem to have been adjusted to the mont. Burke's Peerage, factories, Graeco-Roman Ivory statuette of actual circumstances of the case. steam engines, and other phantoms Dionysos, 95ga.
in which they are so absurdly in- Adventure.
tercated, and hails the Fairies with ja cry of joy. The Fairles who were
"It is still the law that a woman Once I drove a quiet, shy young young when the world was young, woman down to a very famous and are young to-day when the can ruin her husband by libel, house for a New Year party. As I
The Fairies who fraud, or negligence committed by had no chauffeur I ran the car
were able to "put a girdle round her while they are living together, straight into the stable-yard. It the earth," long before the electric said Mr. Cecil Havera in 'a lecture was freezing hard, and I wanted to cable was thought of! The kindly in the Middle Temple Hall at a look at the magneto, so I pointed to sylphs and the malignant gnomes of meeting of the Solicitors' Managing the back door. "You can get whom Mr. Pope writ-s so charming- Clerke Association.
Hastings, K.C., was to have deliver- ly in "The Rape of the Lock" through that way and you'll finds there anybody in Parliament cd the lecture, but he was detained aome footmen in the hall.” The
who is aver likely to do as much on legal bustness in Paris. "If a young, ahy person left me and
good to the world as Mr. Addison husband is fortunate enough to promptly lost herself in a maze of did when he sat down and wrote survive those acts," Mr. Havers con- servants' premises. Somebody mis- took her for a maid, and directed that little story called "The Vision tinued, "he may in some circum- of Mirza," at the whispered bidding stances still be called upon to pay her firmly to the housekeeper's of one of the Fairies, or as Annan wife's debts upon contracts dur- room. By the time she found it Sewell did when she wrote hering the time they lived together." she was too frightened to do any novel, "Black Beauty," at the bid-They would, therefore, see thing but y. Finally, she ran raund a corner, plump into the ding of an angel? These divine to-day marriage had some legal visitants have been hovering hazards over a husband, who might arms-of a very muddy young man, around men and women from the find himself in a nasty bunker when with the blood of pheasants on his beginning, and the debt we ove he thought he was in the fairway. hands, who was sneaking up the back stairs to avoid the crowd eat them is something inconceivable. Mr. Justice Sankey, who presided, ing mufins in the hall.
H. M. Walbrook,"A_Playgoer's said it appeared to him that the "Hullo,
Wanderings" (Leonard Parsons). |authority of a wife to bind her hus- somebody's got a pretty maid," he
band by her contracts was first and thought, and took charge of the Force of Habit,
|last a branch of the law of principal aituntion. "Lost your way, eh?
and agent, although there might be
that
You come with me." He shepherd- Washing, always a bore, practised some rules applying to that branch ed her on to a front landing and with regularity, is obviously which did not apply to other handed her over to a housemaid. habit, which only becomes an in-branches of the law of principal Two hours later, when the heir of stinet in moments of acute need. I and agent, and the first thing that the house, no longer muddy, came mean that we should not by nature they must remember was that the down to dinner, he found his pretty wash unless we were dirty, whereas mere fact of marriage implied no Indy's maid by the drawingroom now we do ao because we are clean such authority. That was decided fire. He was so surprised that he By washing I mean, of course, the in the time of Henry VIII, and no fell in love with her at once--or chilly; busy conscientious work, doubt properly decided in the reign perhaps he had done so already on standing on a mat before a wash-of a king who had six wives. the back stairs.' Within a month stand. To flap a lazy dn in a hot (Laughter). they were engaged. After all, we bath, an ecstasy with no ulterior are, every one of us, Cinderellas, motive that is &
very different
and each-New Year is a potential matter. Washing is, of course, a Vegetable Wool. fairy godmother-Rosita Forbes in strictly local habit, subject to in- the "Royal Magazine."
The fast increasing needs of fialte variation by climate, religion; the world for woollen goods or nationality. I remember hearing A Wealth of Flowers.
how a famous foreign General, at should direct. the attention of tending a meeting of the Supreme chemists and engineers to the When a visitor from the North War Council
in-production of artificial wool. A оп being comes to the Riviera, he is at once vited to have a bath, gazed new industry has been created, struck by the olive groves and the at his interlocutor as at one de- which is bound to repeat the vineyards, by the oranges and mented, and explained that he never sensational triumphs of artificial lemons, by the paim-trees and figs, did so either in or out of doors, silk. Pine needles are composed by the so-called century plants, adding almost apologetically, "Je of fibres held together by a re- which flower at distant intervals, jette parfois de l'eau sur les maine sinous substance. Heat, mois- and by the quaint prickly pears.("Now and again I sprinkle a little ture, and chemicals separate the which have turned their leaves into water on my hands." But on the fibres from the resin. The result spines. But his second impression, whole I think it is in the sphere of even in midwinter, must be the enjoyment that we are in danger of natural wool. It can be worked is a product closely resembling wealth of flowers. The great becoming most slavishly the sub- botanist, Strasburger, has said fects of habit. Work is determined in the same manner, and is that one would need to search the as a rule by necessity rather than curled, woven, and made into felt. whole of Ireland or of Sweden to choice, so that the working habit, Carpets and other goods, have get as many flowering plants as if we have been lucky enough to been made which have found there are in 15 square miles around contract it, should, be preserved at favour with the public. The Mentone. There are over a thou-fall costs, but in the pursuit of plen- Province of Quebec offers unique aand different flowering plantssure certain conventions have be- advantages for the development native to the coastland, the valleys, come established, determining what of this new industry on a large and the hills. The reason for this is and what is not really amusing, scale. The supply of its raw exuberance must be found in the and these are too rarely challenged. materials is well-nigh inex- xenial climate, the favourable soil, The Loudon "season" is a good case haustible. A certain amount of and the great variety of habitat in point. That all the people who afforded by the gorges and valleys. could most easily afford to do other-waste product is inevitable, with The native flora is added to by wise, should spend the three love the new process. This waste is numerous foreigners, which thrive Ifest months of the year, May, June, utilised to make briquettes, well in the open air. This is and July, mowed up in London, is which have proved an excellent Illustrated in what one must call an astonishing tribute to the force fuel. From the recovered resin, splendour by the famous garden of habit. To sell the bluebell car a high-grade lighting and heat. which the late Sir Thomas Hanbury pet in the woods, the early beeching gas is obtained. As Quebec established at La Mortola; and in leaves, the first burst of blossom must import every ton of coal re- a commonplace way it is illustrated for an orgy of jostling and chatter- quired for domestic purposes, by the fact that the Agaves and Ing in over-crowded rooms, is a power and gas, the briquettes true aloes, the prickly pears and bargain one cannot imagine free would find a ready sale as well as other cactuses, the eucalyptuses or men and women making when all gumtrees, all the palms, save one, the winter months are theirs to fill the gas Quebec is indeed the and many others besides are allens up to the brim with gregarious ideal place for this new industry.. that have become very much at amenities-Violet Bonham Carter Will British enterprise seize upon
But why should there be so in Good Housekeeping.
this opportunity?:
home.
HORIZONTAL -Guror coat of wheat matand 10-Pronoun
11-A river, N. Wales 13-Away (Boot-). 14-Enomy 10-Prefix Back 16-A-alient point 19-Personal pronoun 20-A legislativa bili 21-To wash up, sa
Waves
23-Esch (abbr)
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 63-Insanity ... 54–Goddess of flowern 57-Toward
50-A color 60-8tyle of cooking 01-Personal pronoun |63–A bitter tanlo herb
|64–Weight (abbr)
|85–Poznasalva pronoun
87-Flery
VERTICAL (Cont.) 18-To form; mold 21-Hold out 22-Artist 24-Near the stern 26-A massure of
capacity (abbr) [27-To allow
29-Pertaining to (lower leg bone
21-WIld heg
|68–Man's name (short) 28-A military sitia
69-An Insect 70-Unitedgad
25-To draw fuld from 71-To pazi with effort 26-Fundamental. 28-Mantxily deranged
(slang)
30-According to
nature" (Latin- abbr.)
31-More like a buah 32-Musole.twitching" 84-Three things saso-
ciated together 37-A slight color. 30-A large serpent 40-Girl's na
41-Habitual drunkard
42-To plak out
43-Iceberg
<5-Unused
47-A pertume
49-Lieutenant (rbbr.)
£1-A kind of sw
VERTICAL
1-An island, Malay
Archipelago
2-To regret B-Country of Ásla
_(abbr) \\
4-A petty farmer
(Europe) B-Fear-
-Musical note 7-Preposition, 8-Brawi
-Profound 11-Darlings
12-A casa for small
articles (Fr.) 13-Fx
TR-turished.
17-Yate
15-Drena
80-Wrath
|19-Chlity;
42-Prefix. Together 44-Paillated
148-Senda
48-Bodlum (oham.
#ym.) 50-Attempted. 62-To walk feably 64-Merriment
68-A legal claim an proparty..
60-An Insect 168-Clover: stylish. 100-A vottuaİS
62-A Gresk letter 163-To bend
64-Very small 06-South latitude
• (abbr) (67 inter ection 10-70 exist
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