SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927.
DON JUAN BARON. world within a fortnight. I love 'HOME, SWEET HOME'
my fiancee, understand? Your charming wife is just a dear
marriage with a Manicure fr
GIRL.
PERSUASION AT PISTOL-POINT,
The Baron Charles Ferdinand van Heukelom's ten points on love-making are as follows:-
1. Find the most attractive
"Who is this fiancée of yours ?" the husband roared.
Q
TUNE WHICH HAS INSPIRED THOUSANDS.
The baron made a quick mental THE STORY OF THE SONG. review, and suddenly recalled the imploring eyes of Georgette
"Now, don't make a silly as of yourself, Galopoulos,"
he
"Home, Sweet Home!" is al-
THE CHINA MAIL.
AIR RACING.
"BUNCHING" AT SHARP TURNS.
11
IDEAL HUSBAND, UNÜSUAL FASHIONS. THE KISS OF PEACE.
IS INTELLECTUAL TYPE BEST?
TAPESTRY AND BLANKET TIES.
SOME STYLES FOR MEN.
HOW VENDETTA WAS ENDED.
END OF A TRAGIC CYCLE.
feature in a woman's face and laughed; "the wedding invita- inspired by memories of an mouth, on Squadron-Leader W, H. lar vote that he does, writes a girl on London's hitherto unchalleng-a law-abiding, God-fenring stretch
rave about it.
2. If her face is enamelled or the kin raised at the temples, tell her she has the beauty of intellect.
tions will tell you the name, the time and the place. So please let me go, old man; I'm in a hurry." But in the mind of Galopoulos shall go with you," he said, "and you will marry her TO-DAY."
Major I.
3. Always notice her form. If other plan had sprung up.. "I The cottage is really a weather-races at Ensbury Park racecourse than by their purely intellectual our cousins, in different parts of that has taken place for years.
the ludy is thin, say she has a perfect line. If she is plump, argue in favour of the Chinese
·idual of substantial beauty.
4
!
4. Never fail to discover something sad in her eyes. She will want you to read her future
in hor hand.
5. If she smokes more than 30 cigarettes a day just grit your teeth aggressively and say you
want her,
JURY ON "INVITING DISASTER." GIRL STUDENT'S VIEWS. on the day they parted. Still, heways considered a typically Eng-together over a short course with the best husband?
The danger of aeroplanes racing
Does the intellectual man make fought for time."
There are (says a writer in the
In the Sardinian village of written by an American and were inquest at West Parley near Bourne- States have just agreed by popilare making determined onslaughts district from one of bloodshed into lish song, yet the words were sharp turns was emphasised at the girl students all over the United that America and the Continent granite, the ancient custom of American London "Daily Mail") indications Aggius, lying amidst mountains of swearing peace has changed the lowly thatched cottage of which Openshaw. American home. That home, the Longtan and John Howard Payne speaks so
P. student, in the "Daily Express." ed position as arbiter of men's of country. movingly, is about to be sold, and which collided at a turning-point feeling. They are
English university students, fashions. They were pilots of machines however, do not share the same has always varied somewhat, ing of the church belis called the
Of course, local taste! its fate is uncertain.
On Sunday, at sunset, the ring- at the village during one of the air much more by the athletic man as ties and hats, but not only are mony far more solemn than any attracted especially in such details of dress people of the countryside to a cere- beaten old farmhouse, nestling on Whit-Monday.
colleagues. The athletic man is the world now showing a more ton, Long Island, NY. under huge trees, at Easthamp- Mr. Leonard Edward Dawe, who more of a companion and less decided wish
A eyele of tragic events, death village in which it was built, near-
The was on duty at the turning-point difficult to live up to; the intel- fashions, they are trying to have by the death of participants in the to set their own and desointion, could only be ended ly three hundred years ago, was two machines had turned, and then teresting when he chooses, but England, too. I hear that Italy is tion.
as a despatch rider, said one or lectual man can be extremely in- them adopted in London and vendetta or by the rite of pacifica- called by the English settlers came five six together. Squa-he Maidstone after the town from dron-Leader Longton was in frant. strain on their own intellect.
is always somewhat of a making a bid for supremacy in which they came,
How Feud Began. "I was watching Major Openshaw
the tie and scarf line, and in this The feud began four years ago. Sweet Home!" are American, the
Another reason why the Eng-connection is offering large prizes At sunset, In Arbitru, high above However, if the words "Home, particularly," said Mir Da "the lish girl students prefer the so- for designs in a competition to the plain.
was overtaking Longton all the melody which inspired and still way from the previous turning-city of the athletic man is be- find the "world's most beautiful Quirico, was struck down by a inspires thousands to love of coun-point. They were flying at a height cause there is no jealousy in their necktie." It should produce in-ncythe. He died before he could
lided, crashed locked together, and that he does not like women com- men would care to adopt. completed the turn when they colman, if he is honest, has to admit haps ones which most English- of about 100 feet and had nearly relationship. The intellectual teresting results, though not per-reveal the name of his nasassin. burat int flames."
Vague suspicion fell on Antonio Pinaa, the husband of his nieco peting against him in his work. here ties are already being shown the trial Antonis was acquitted. Mr. C. G. W. Ebbutt, aircraft There is always the fear at the with patterns copied from East-
Anita. But he had an alibi. At engineer, who was observer at the back of his head that a woman ern turning-point, said that Major might "beat him."
Nevertheless, tapestries,
Red
vendetta was Indian declared. Leader Longton on the inside of feeling seldom exists, even if the of them. But it seems to me that arrested, others fled to another part Openshaw overtook Squadron- With the athletic
blankets, heraldry, and other like man this subjects, rather fascinating some was shot down. Two persons were Some months later Clement Fara
Squadron-Leader Longton and was have a different standard when it can afford to wear them once or men was acquitted, and the dead the turn. He was slightly below girl is also an athlete; women their appeal is more to men who of the island. One of the arrested gaining height on the turn.
comes to games. They may play twice and then discard them, for man's brother-in-law was sent to with the athletic man, but they they might soon pall on the wearer prison for 33 years. rarely beat him, and do not ex- as much as on his long-suffering As the families had now sworn friends and acquaintances. On vendetta, the Bishop, of Tempio in-
Thus it happened that Geor- gette Artois looked up from a partly-manicured hand a little while later. Before her stood Charles Ferdinand van Heu- kelom, the man she loved more other man, who held something in thun, life. With him was an- his cost pocket which he was pointing at Charles Ferdinand.
"I want you to come Mairie at once," said the baron to to the the startled girl. "We are going to be maried TO-DAY, aren't we,
6. If she is over 50 and makes up like 20, tell her you are lonely and need an înfluence in your "life. Then send your trunk and Galopoulos"?"
gulf clubs to her villa and turni
Georgette did not understand. the library into a private bar.
7. If she is young and unso-breaking-point. It was her hap- But her heart was beating to the phisticated, take her on your lappiness at last. Like one and tell her ghost stories until dream she entered the waiting her eyes float in a sea of absent-motor, and a quarter of an hour mindedness.
comes
A
in a
posed by Sir Henry Bishop, who try is truly English. It was com- included it in his opera "The Maid of. Milan," first heard at Covent Garden in 1823.
Bishop did not write the wrote it as a young man when he melody directly for the song. He
publishers, who were issuing a col- was employed by a firm of music lection of national melodies of all the nations and employed Bishop to edit the tunes. He could not find a suitable Sicilian air, and therefore composed the melody which we associute with "Home, Sweet Home!" and called it "Siciliano."
When "The Maid of Milan" was intourse of construction, Bishop thought how suitable to Payne's words his early melody would be. so he looked it up, revised and adapted it.
"Blind" On The Turn.
"In my opinion Majer Openshaw never saw Squadron-Leader Long-
ton on the turn," he said.
The Coroner (Mr. F. Johns): Was either to blame?-That I can- not say, but I can say definitely Squadron-Leader Longton was not to blame.
was less
Mr. Ebbutt said the machines crashed from a height of 150 feet. The angle of the tura than 90 degrees,
The Coroner: Do you consider that is sufficient for safety? Yes,
I certainly should.
pect to.
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Over
Д sheepowner, Malu
Home Loving Man A "Back the whole it is advisable to stick tervened.
Number."
The Bishop called his flock to American girls have placed the handsome and very varied range
to the quieter designs, of which a church. "home-loving" man gecond
Down the aisle, in double fle on is available, to make up a colour stood 30 men, heads af familles, lish girl is of a different opinion. man's fancy. their list. Here again the Eng-scheme in accordance with each enemies on one side, and the others In these days, when a woman has so many outside interests, the
Tailoring By Post. home-loving man is rather a "back number."
post, there is one difficulty which The business man interests the has made itself felt. It is that English girl student far more as of judging from a cutting of
a
:
opposite.
There
were
young and old,
With the growth of tailoring by beards.
beardless or with long patriarchal
It was the last of these home beautiful. Then one day, the The owners of the copyright of of machines in front. It was all sional evening to suit his wife. compelled to order their clothes "enemies" stood.
turn.
later stood before the Adjoint-to- 8.. If a beautiful woman slaps the-Mayor. who performed the your face for being too enter civil marriage and made her prising, just smile seductively Baroness Georgette van Heu-
and say it was a caress.
Then kelom. try it again.
At the door of the Mairie the 9. If an indiscreet relative now smiling Simeon Galopoulos in at an inopportune bade the newly-wedded couple moment, tell him you don't like good-bye, and drove away in his the colour of his tie. It will make car. He drove directly to his hint stop and think while you solicitor and brought a suit for suddenly remember
an engage-divorce naming Van Heukelom men elsewhere.
16. Never cast a
as en-respondent, woman out A few weeks passed. Georgette But when the song became of your life. Drop her gently was happy as could be. She popular some firms of music
Sermon on the Mount. and make her think she is doing lived in
Mr. Harold Ernest Ferrin, the
After the Bishop had preached on small but nicely publishers, recognising the air: secretary of the Royal Aero Club, the dropping. Then tell her, if furnished flat with her husband. supposed it was non-copy-right explained that overtaking machines easily persuaded to stay at his appear, and affects all men more ceremony of pacification.
prospective husband. He is material how the suit itself would peace and goodwill, he began a she ever needs a true friend, to and the future looked rosy and aid issued editions of their own. call on you.
were responsible for keeping clear club for an odd meal or an occa- or less.
With cross in hand he approach- So that those who are ed the side of the aisle, where the an action laid down in the regulations. made rules (writes C. de Vidal-aron left the flat and did not re- Siciliano" brought
His hours are regular, and "busi-from a distance will be interested against them and won the day, The Foreman: Of course pilots ness" is such a habit with him in a "gadget" introduced by a question:
He asked each man Hunt in the "Sunday News"},
the same Two months went by, and poor | for Sir Henry Bishop swore on are fully aware of these regula that he is businesslike in every- firm here in an endeavour to cope Baron van Heukelom when husband. She was a sick girl, melody. which took the swagger out of Georgette never heard from her oath that he had invented the tions?
"Are you ready to make peace Mr. Perrin said a meeting of thing from his wife's allowance with the difficulty. It consists of with your enemies?" uncompromising husband got his
now. She was too weak to go to
Another story, to the effect that pilots was always held before rac-pwards. If he is moderately in-a card bearing the drawing of a Each. "Yes" was answered in a work. She did no. knew where John Howard Payne was himself ing began at which the regulations tellectual and an athlete sa well, man's figure, the suit being cut loud voice.
were gone through.
he is the ideal man to marry. out, and this opening covered with Then the Bishop added: "Kiss her husband was. Sometimes she homeless when he wrote the
The Foreman: Are there any re- The religious man came last in transparent paper, on the system first the Cross and then your words of the song, is not alto- gulations which forbid the wished she would die,
over-the estimation of American of the "window" envelope. Nor did she know that a gether accurate. He actor, poet, taking at a turn?
On enemies." voters. The English girl might the transparent material are As the peacemakers retired, one Baron van Heukelom, writer case
divorce had been granted in aand author, wrote the words dur- where her husband had ing a less prosperous period, cer-
neither would she put him last on crease, edge of jacket, etc., and braced, sealing their pact with a give him first place, but printed lines to show the trouser by one, the two rows of men em- of love epigrams.
Mile, Georgette Artois, mani-very day. She just lay in her when he wrote the song, Bishop figured as a co-respondent that tainly. And if he was unhappy
her voting list.
the card can thus be laid on any
kiss on both cheeks. cure girl, belonging to No. 7 of bed and wept her heart out.
Nowadays there are not many of the cuttings sent by the tailor, in procession to the house of Afterwards, the 30 men marched. men, particularly the baron's love philosophies.
among the and will give a very fair indica-Domenica Bianco, who had been younger generation, who are con- tion of how the finished suit would accused of being an accomplice in The society people who had composed the music, for the wife Simeon Galopoulos, private erammed the divorce court were he loved dearly had just eloped banker who might be classed aling out into the great halls of with a dissipated harpist.
The coroner, summing up, said tent to sit and "talk religion." look in that particular stuff. The one of the murders. with the husbands in No. 9 of the the Palais de Justice. The Galo-
Two stanzas of the song as
that he did not think any blame Instead they make their religion idea is a very simple one-it is She was dressed entirely in black, sad rule, but who refused to dis-poules couple were free, and the originally written, are nearly called the attention of the jury to selves in boy's camps, and by help thought of before-and it is per-trict, with its picturesque head- could he attached to anybody. He practical by interesting them strange that it has not been in the quaint costume of the dis- cuss his cravat..
"most amusing divorce case of editions. One runs thus:-
always omitted in- the season" had been disposed of.
a suggestion by Sir Alan Cobhaming and teaching children in the haps effective for that very rea-dress. With great ceremonial she that cornering should not be allów poorer quarters of the town.
son, but I would mention that it received the delegation of 30 men, "How sweet, too, to sit 'neathed on an angle of less than 135 Girl students cannot help but has been protected by its origin and embraced them, with the tears
a fond father's smile, degrees.
have a higher regard for these ators.
rolling down her checks. And the cares of a mother to "I think," added the coroner, men, who slip away to the slums
So at last, there is peace in Mail order business has been soothe and beguile; "that the attention of the Engbury two or three times a week, than one of the most important deve- Aggius.
Park Race-course Company should they have for other types of lopments in tailoring during re-
revenge by forcing him to marry a manicure giri,
The principals in this real-life comedy, as revealed in the law courts, are as follows:—
Agathe Galopolous, wife of the former, and fitting into No. 4 of the 10 love-points, and eyes, and
everything.
But there was a little sequel. The Judge called Baron van Heukelom into his private cham- "Citizen of the World." The handsome' Baron Charles talk with him.
bers and had a long and serious Ferdinand was
At the end of the known as the interview the baron took the gayest Lothario between Ciro's judge's hand. The former but- and the Ritz bar. He always terfly of the boulevards had enjoyed telling his friends about tears in his eyes.
his love affairs, and entertained
handsomely at his luxurious
bachelor
quarters in the
Trocadero district.
"I am going back to her." he
said.
A little while later Georgelle Although a member of the hoard a timid rapping at her nobility, the baron rather relish-door. She had recognised his
ed being known as a citizen of step.
the world. He spoke English "Come in" she smiled.
with an Oxford accent, German
like a Heidelberg senior, and
French better than any of the Forty Immortals. His sayings were published in the boulevard papers, and always thoroughly .enjoyed.
The trouble with Georgette Artois, the pretty manicure girl, was that she fell in love with Baron Charles. But the baren did not then reciprocate, and they parted, Georgette going back to her shop with eyes swoollen from weeping.
Baron van Heukelom met Mme. Galopoulos at a fashionable tea.) She fitted into No. 4 of his love- maxima.
One day he was sitting in the Galopoulos mansion
holding madame's plak hand when M. Galopoulos suddenly appeared and held a pistol at the handsome "fortune-teller." There was real tragedy in the air, but the baron merely smiled.. Quick as a flash he thought of No. 9 of his love-i maxima.
"Ah, here you are, old top!") ho grinned. "Awfully glad to see you, but where in heaven's name did you get that atrocious cravat?"
Simeon Galopoulos stared at the baron and came a step nearer. Evidently "No, 9" didn't work
this time the baron thought. Then Simeon spoke.
"I've caught you, and I'm go ing to shoot you like a dog," he announced,
But Baron van Heukelom only smiled serenely into the business end of the pistol. He had found a way out.
My dear man," he said, tran quilly, "I can prove to you that} you are wrong. I am engaged to marry the dearest girl in the
was even more wretched when he
modern
Let others delight 'mid new
pleasures to roam,
But give me, oh give me, the
pleasures of home! Home! home! sweet, sweet
home!
Mr. Perrin: I am afraid there are not
not. There is a rule that you shall shall not cut in over the bows of keep ten metres apart, and you a machine by taking the inside curve.
Sir A. Cobham's Advice.
be called to that statement, so that colleagues, known in American cent years, and some firms al- they might see if on another occa universities as "parlour snakes." ready specialise in this business sion this bunching could be avoid-"he men," and "social lions."
ed."
The jury returned a verdict of Accidental. Death, and added a
There's no place like home, rider, stating that "it is only in-
there's no
place like
viting disaster to allow several home!" "Home, Sweet Home!" is evid-aeroplanes to race together over a ence that the Americanisation of
short course with sharp turns,"
They also expressed their high Britain began long before the appreciation of Mr. B. Steele and pictures were heard of.
his brother and others in their
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