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WHAT THE LEADING HOME *JOURNALS SAY.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 29,- 1927.
LAUGHING GIRL
LIFE IN MALAYA.
"IS IT WORTH ITT
WHAT DOCTOR FORGOT AND WILL NOW REMEMBER.
There is
But it may be doubted whether case of a tombstone in this rhetor- modern authors will ever regain ical idiom? Observator in "The imagination that courageous faith in the of the audience which enabled the Elizabethan In view of the news that the dramatist to introduce such stage New York City Authorities have Goif has always been the most directions as "a noise within of just given a licence for a building been brought under escort from Echo" in an article moralising on girl, about 25 years old, lying st
Mysterious packages which had "Is it worth it?" asks the "Straits democratic of sports,
Common driving beasts" or
"hounds in 110 storeys high, it will come as
a charming American, land by the sea is usually called full cry within." The latter, or a surprise to many that the sky- Cardiff, untouched by the Customs, the delights and disappointments of this moment in a London nursing the Jinks; and all of the historic something similar, is found again scraper, so long the pride and were being opened in the back re-life in Malaya. The problem pro home in the oddest circumstances. courses such as Leith, Brunts-and again in the plays of Shake- glory of the United States, is fall-gions of the Natural History pounded by our contemporary is
A little over two years ago ' she feli, Musselburgh, Blackheath, speare and the writers of his ing somewhat into disrepute, and Museum, Kensington during mail one that every man must solve for had to undergo a severe operation and St. Andrews were laid out time, and the frequency with is the subject of much heart-
himself, it a really impossible to in New York. The surgeon left in week. which it occurs is a proof of the searching over there. At one ment known as the "spirit room," may be summed up in the assertion
They were taken to the depart-generalise. The Penang attitude her body a forceps eight inches long. on community land.
The best players have usually success with which the effect was time it seemed the very sign and where Mr. J. W. S. Merr guards that "it all depends upon the man pretty rough travelling in India and Since then she has done some) been artisans. Many of us have produced as well as of the favour symbol of
the New World's them for the Colonial Office, for and the job he has," From the An-Morocco. A healthy sporting girl, heard of Patersone, the shoe-with which an Elizabethan audi- achievements.
First a hideous, they are specimens from the re-ancial point of view, we are told full of life, she has danced and maker, whom the Duke of York, ence accepted such reminders of elongated cube stood on end, search workers on the exploration many people find that their salaries swum, and played lawn tennis and afterwards James II., chose as his the free, outdoor life in which all gradually it developed into a pile ship "Discovery," now in the Islands do not make ends most and "unless ridden on horseback, and even gone partner when he contended with classes delighted.Janet Ogilvie of real beauty, especially since of South Georgia proving the surplus and do well in the share ing, which is nearly the limit in the they are lucky enough to securo in for a course of acrobatic danc- his English rivals. Golf in earlier in "The English Review."
what are known as zoning laws obscure babits of whales. centuries seems to have. been the
Superstitions..
came into effect, and compelled
Another strange carga of stuff market they are not much better off way of human convolutions. favourite sport of the "common
buildera to set back upper storeys, has been added to the consignments smaller wage at home." The first forceps has bean lying inside her, than they would be on a very much And all the time the eight-inch so that their full ration of sun which previously arrived, and over ten thousand dollars, and the rest Nature doing its best to protect her light could reach surrounding 100 of these sealed packages have is easy. Perhaps... houses and streets.
to be investigated.
by forming Socially, it is said that the man membrane around the murderous a sort. of cocoon of
the sportsman of moderate means. games finds Malaya a paradise for who takes an interest in outdoor instrument.
And, socially.. .?
are con-
and meaner sort of people" wher- Up and down the country under ever they had easy access to the the placid exterior of agricultural links. History is very uncertain England there still lurks, firmly as to the origin of the game. tions, traditions, and sayings believed in, a mass of supersti- There are, those who vinced that it was imported from
which embody an unsuspected and Holland, and it is not, unreason surprising amount of folklore able to believe that the Scottish folklore that is, in part, the re- sportsmen of property and posisiduum that has filtered down to tion may have brought bails and us of the worship of strange gods clubs from Holland and adapted in a past of our people that has no the Dutch game of Kolf to the record in history. As such one links of their native land. any case, it has been the game of the common for centuries and the chief pastime of the people re- siding near such public ground Robert Hunter in "Scribner's
. Magazine."
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A Sane Socialist..
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cannot nowadays, as one once did, dismiss these superstitions and tales as nonsensical and ignorant, for it is now realised that they are valuable matter for study for those who would attempt to read a blurred and misty past.
Many of them have to do with good luck and ill luck, the reason Mr. J. H. Thomas has played for which it is often difficult to
understand, some are
omens of
many parts on the political stage, but we like him best in his ultra-life and death, others are empiri- cal rules of sowing and reaping British, Constitutional role. It is in that character that he has and agriculture in general, which been appearing during the past are the accumulated experience of few days most successfully and endless centuries. Many, again, appealingly at the N. U. R. Con-have reference to the ever-chang- The resulting weather and to the influence ference at Carlisle.
was that the Communists and of the moon; some have arisen their Soviet paymasters got the round certain animals; others are, greatest dressing down in their no doubt, weird and twisted ver- lives, and that the railwaymen, sions of religious rites practised following Mr. Thomas's lead, dis- when Odin and still stranger gods. played an unwonted spirit of rea- held sway in the land. And mix- sonableness and the desire to co-ed with it all are remnants of the witchcraft of the Dark and Middle operate.
Ages.
A Socialist leader who really speaks out, as Mr. Thomas occa- sionally does, can always be sure of a hearing and of influence.
The record would be amazing, unbelievable, if one did not re- member that even the sophisti-
in this country with buildings of We are constantly threatened unusual height and many are the
cle" representative, to ensure that are taken, writes a "Daily Chroni- Most extraordinary precautions
they arrive safely.
None of the
Lunch Swimming-Pool Style.
There's nothing like a bite to eat of a new one on him, nevertheless after a swim. At least that is he complimented the originality, of what these young ladies maintala idea.
and from the general consensus of But Lake Louise prd other opinion they aren't far, wrong.
mountain resorts in this Ticin- ity have always novel attractions for thousands of tourists that visit in the Canadian Rockies each year, regardless of whether the season is summer or winter. In fact, in win-
The photograph was taken recent ly at the Chateau Lake Louise awim ming pool and not the least of its attractive features are the two young ladies who decided that the invigor ating water of the pool was too ter open-air bathing is indulged in at much for thair appetites. The Banff with the utmost comfort, the walter admitted that serving lunch naturally warmed sulphur "water swimming-pool style was somewhat pools making this possible,
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"The Eastern resident whose in- Inevitably, now and then, in the terests are artistic is less fortunate past twenty-four months, she has ly placed. If his pleasure to in not felt particularly at. It seemed music he finds himself cut off from to her more effort was called for to Ing. the opportunity of hearing the best get through the daily round, and save on rare occasions. he may when she came to England a few well wonder whether life is worth weeks ago she made up her mind to while." The "Straits Echo"
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In Kuala Lumpur, life is apt to carry one along in such a whiri of work and play that it is not until She
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When she saw it she exploded in for anyone of average intelligence a great burst of laughter and and enterprise, the days of one's talked of It B$ life here can be as full of Interest the best jokes that ever happened and enjoyment as .they are and also a proof beyond all dis-. at home. It is only a matter of puting of her physical. fitness, adaptability. You need but to de- She has not so far developed any termine to make the best of things, feeling of rage against that New and it fe inevitable that "things" York surgeon. She will make the best of you,
even speaks If of him with pity. But being prac people would only Investigate more tical as well as delightful, and the fully the recreational possibilities daughter of a well-known American
British Socialists, if they knew cated town dweller, the product | arguments wasted in the daily authorities inspect them until they of Malaya, physical, and mental, in-industrialfst, she has no intention of]
their own interests, would be keoner than any one to shake off the Russian connection...'
It sounds a little, amusing to hear some belated pessimist talk of this materialistic age. British railway-men, with the
very
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hazardous position of the railways G. Clarke Nuttal in "The, Nine-scraper in London; and the best of fauna of the regions which are bei far more than that. In fact, big-ready, and the New York surgeon
An. Epitaph.
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SHORTHAND CONTEST.
stead of making the same old round letting him off too lightly. of food, work, food, work, tennis, club, food, sleep, we should hear the
Coming Claim. less of neurasthenia and repression.
Salaries after all, are generally been deposited with an American So the X-ray photographs have
month, and many assistants draw the case, will have their affidavits should live "all in". for $300 a and surgeon and all concerned in far from inadequate. A bachelor official in London, the London doctor
ger pay may be won for less work will be invited to refund the fee country in the world. Rates and two years ago and to shoulder in in Mulaya than in almost any other paid him for the operation of over taxes are all but non-existent, poli-addition the expenses of this one tical worries there are none; in al-and of the four weeks or so in a most every way, life is more free nursing home in the country that and more easy hers than elsewhere, will be needed to restore The trouble lies in the fact that, on patient to health. the one hand, some of the maleon- tents refuse to do at all as the bower of roses and earnations, this Meanwhile, in a room that is a Romans do, and, on the other, others merry girl, who had come to Eng- become too truly latinised.
land to be quiet and to try her hand) at writing, lies propped up on her Chartered to the Commonwealth pillows, weaving plots for short and Dominion Line, the Brocklebankatories that can scarcely be more liner "Maldan" made the passage original than the one she has been from New York to Sydney in thirty-living herself. four days.
the
of education and civilisation, still Press in favour of the concentra-
are safely in the hands of the to-day hastens to "touch wood" to tion and compactness for commer- perts." avert a change of fortune when he cial purposes which the skyscrap
Police officers and the Customs He is er affords. But, so far, the old oficials then come down to speaks of any good luck. really propitiating unconsciously block of Queen Anne's Mansions museum to see the packages are all
right. some nebulous unknown spirit remains, with its thirteen storeys who might revenge the boasting--the nearest attempt at a sky- rare and others illustrating the In these crates are fish, some our new buildings do not containing explored. staring them in the face, must teenth Century and After," indeed be blind to inngine that a
more than eight or nine floors.-- Arthur Huddleston in "The World specimens they send them back to When the explorers have their quarrel with the companies will help them. On Russia; on the Mr. Christopher Morley's dis- To-day."
England. by one of the whaling need for industrial pence, on the quieting inquiry about the origin
Miner's President.
fleet. impossibility
of the phrase "O rare Ban John- of resisting the
The refusal of Mr. Frank Trade Dispute Act, Mr. Thomas son," transfers to the realms of Hodges to take office as President made his stand unmistakably criticism the simple humours of of the Federation of miners' Non- clear. When other leaders were "Bill Stumps: His Mark." The Political Unions is to be regretted: hovering and objecting to this suggestion is that the stone Mr. Hodges has a unique experi- course and to that, Mr. Thomas mason, being instructed to chisel ence of the intricacies of miners' went straight ahead along the the inscription, "Orare Ben John- organisation, and a thorough Radio stenographic speed con- road of common sense. The re- son" (Pray for Ben Johnson), and grasp of the difficulties of the Bri-testa as advertising stunts for duit, which we hope he will file for being a man of slight learning and tish coal industry.
schools of shorthand are being reference, is that the Conference considerable inattention to detail,
The non-political unions pro-tried in Germany with success. mise to change the whole face of stood by him while the country put it "O Rare Benn Johnson."
More than 50,000 stenographers applaudod.-"The Sunday Times." The hypothesis is all too prob- industry. Already the movement participated in the first contest, able. The phrase has come down for their creation grows rapidly, for which 500 prizes, some of them to us as a consecrated one, and and when the workers have fully typewriters, were awarded. An age is materialistic whose we no more think of analyising it weighed the basic sanity of such the Berlin station at the rate of 150 interest centres in material than of parsing the (old) Pray- organisations they will turn more syllables a minute for five minutes, things. But anyone who is at all er Book. But would anyone desir and more to organisations directed Shorthand experts all over the sudden and severe crampe, agonizing alert knows that the interest of ing to give a friend an eighteen solely to the betterment of their country listened in, took down the Intestinal pains and weakening diar- the present age is precisely not in penny epitaph (that was the sum members, and away from those speech and then sent in typewritten hoea prostrate some one of the parents in naming their children A bill limiting the liberty of material things, but in something paid) put it in the form of anf bodies which use the workers' transcripts. Prizes were awarded and Diarrhoea Remedy in the home Senate and now is before the Cham- Keep Chamberlain's Colle has been passed by the Italian far more important, far more pre-apostrophe? "Rare" is a possible, money to exploit some crazy poli- on the largest number of correct carious. Things, after all, are though an unlikely, word; but tical remedy."The Yorkshire words. The winner scored 90 per neither fear nor alarm. It cases pain ber of Deputies.
and such emergencies need comparatively harmless, com- why "0"
Men and Women.
pliant affairs. We can do pretty much what we please with them. They neither answer back nor stir up trouble. What really gives us concern are people.
Men and women, we discover, are the stuff out of which most of life is made. If they are politi- clans, they have the fate of mil- lions in their hands. If they are parents, they can make or wreck the lives of their offspring. If they are teachers, they can twist and darken the souls of their young charges, or can build them straight and luminous. If we marry them, we soon discover they can make heaven or hell. Things, of themselves are singu- larly impotent. It is men and; women that mostly count.-H. A. Overstreet in "The World To- day."
Noises "OT."
It has been said that "Radio Drama" will develop a new techni- que for playwrights, and that owen plays written primarily for theatrical presentation will con- form' to the requirements of the "wireless." If the prediction is fulfilled, it will be interesting to observe the whirligig of Time bringing in his revenges. The elaboration of scenery and cos tume which at present encumbers the art of the dramatist will be swept aside, since plays intended for broadcasting are freed from the requirements imposed by viadal presentation. As in older English drama, the scene will be perpetually changing precisely be cause it is not changed at all; and another interesting reversion to older methode will be the rev of fusions of sound to produce dramatic effects.
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Many persons have applied to have their names changed, but this has meant going through a long legal process. The proposed law makes such freak names illegal, even If the owners do not object to them.
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