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A SATURDAY CAUSERIE.
Mr. Tom Mann, the Communist agitator who last year visited
puerility which it was hoped had been banished from the stock in Strade of Indian politics. Whether or not that threat assumes threat- ening proportions is really im- materjal, although rogrettable. The Commission may be trusted to pro- ceed on the even tenor of its way doing its duty in accordance with ita obligations. It will, moreover, 'be ready to take heed of such opinions as may be of value to it in its work, whatever their source' and however limited their scope.
I to do among those who are not acquainted with the subject. In territories, administered in any way under British acgia trade unionism which has for its object the furtherance of the wolfare of its members-not the well-being of
ST. PETER'S CLUB.
YOUNG MEN'S CONVIVIAL GATHERING.
YEAR'S ACTIVITIES. ·
The record of achievements of the St. Peter's Young Men's Club during the first year of its exist- once was outlined on the occasion of a dinner and dance held at Lane, Crawford's restaurant yesterday.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1928.
EVENING DRESS.
STORY OF LONDON WAYS.
CHRISTMAS EVE.
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOTI
First Dear Thing (to Second Dear Thing of Third): She pre- but I think she's the skim do la tends to be the creme de la creme.. akim
condemned
A story told to me by a strong minded Australian about his Christ- mas Eve adventures is worth re- telling as a record of London ways in 1927. He had been staying Warder (entering for some time in one of the great cell): There is no hope of a re- hotels on the. Embankment, dining priove, What is your last request? in the restaurant every night. On Convict: I would like to learn the Christmas Eve he went down As piano. usual not in evening dress, and in- stead of being ushered to his table as usual with the ceremony due to good customer he was told very politely that he could not be admítled.
except In evening clothes, He Ipvist. ed on seeing someone in auth and a polite under-manager in ed him to the grill-room to have an exquisite dinner there, and then offered to send up the best dinner in the house to his rooms.
"I knew an artist once who painted a cobweb on the ceiling so realistically that the maid spont hours trying to get it down.
"Sorry, dear. I just don't believe it."
"Why not? Artists have been known to do such things.” "Yes, but not maids!"
Teacher (giving lesson on ores); Now, boys can any of you tell me how fron was discovered?
say they smelt it.
Boy: Yes, alx. I heard father
The strong-minded Australian, however, after pointing cut that walle they had gladly taken his other nights of the week, although money at the restaurant on the
he was not in evening dress, they The toast of the Club was sub now refused him entrance on this nitted by the patron, the Hon. Dr. special night of goodwill, sald very
"Now, Pat," said his employer, 1. H. Kotewall, who associated well, he would go elsewhere. It "I am giving you this pig for your with it the names of the Rev. N. V.would only have taken him ten birthday." Halward, Mr. Peter Pau and Mr. minutes to dress, but he was made "Faith!" It's just like you, George Zimmern.
of stern stuff, so he took a taxicab sorr!" exclaimed Pat, gratefully." and spent two hours travelling from one restaurant to another, and every time was refused abmittance
Mr. G. S. Zimmern replied on be- half of the Club and the health of Lae" quests was toasted by Mr. a. C. Mow Fung
was the
Among those present Very Rev. Dean Swann.
After the toasts, dancing was enjoyed by members and their Lriends to the music
of the "Titania's" band, the "Melodians."
VISIT TO TIBET.
EERIE DANCES AT A MONASTERY.
WOMAN'S TRIP.
One of the most remarkable
n
a few political, agitators dominat- ing its policy-ls both recognised and encouraged. Hours of labour in factories and terms of employ-shooting expeditions in which ment of women and children have been regulated wherever possible and the only stumbling block is the unwillingness in many cases of Chinese employers to fall into line. In spite of the fact that all possible has been done by example and precept by British pioneers in the improvement of conditions of industry, Mr. Mana would have his hearers believe that "the Chinese textile workers, in British factories work twelve hours a
day-men, women and children aliko-for a wage equivalent to one-fifth of that paid to mill workers in Lan- cashire." The worst of it is that
safely accomplished by Lieutenant- woman has taken pårt hus just been
Colonel S. Gordon Johnson, late of the South Staffordshire Regiment, and his wife.
after a journey of 1,200 miles from They have returned to London
Kushmir to Tibel and back across the Himalayas and other mountain ranges,
many who are ignorant of condi-
tions in China will believe him and will regard the returned foreigner
Colonel and Mrs. Johnson, who vere accompanied by G native ser vanta, 10 transport men with 15 vals, a herd of sheep for food, and a herd of gonts to provide milk secured a Tibertan antelope at a height of 21,000 feet.
Colonel Johnson told a "Dally Mall" reporter:-
My wife and I made the journey, which totalled 2000 miles from when we left Kashmir on May 4 till cause we are both enthusiastic we returned on November 4, be-
shots.
Leaving Srinagar, the capital of
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Tareher: Surely you know what
as he was not suitably attired. But the word mirror means, Tommy? at ten o'clock he struck very After you have washed your face, famous restaurant in Regent Street, where do you look to see if it's where he could dine in any part clean! without evening clothes, so he lined well there.. He intends to let Australia know about it all
The question before the hotel and restaurant people is whether it ia really worth while to maintata this Victorian rule of compulsory Evening dress on occasions. The theatres have now tacitly given it up or at any rate do not enforce
Tommy: At the towel, siri
came for you yesterday marked Wife: Did you see the letter that "Private and personal?"
Husband: No. What did it say?
the rule. Even on the great liners going at all well, but he stuck dog- The conjuror's turn had not been at dinner, where wonderful dresses;
are worn, many Americans on prin- gedly to his task. "Now," he said, ciple appear in day clothes. Eng.if any lady or gentleman in the land is the only country now, I audience can oblige me with an egg. think, where evening dress is made will proceed to perform an amaz compulsory for men in hotels and
ing trick. restaurants.-Ex.
BAD TEETH.
THE ROMANS HAD TOOTHACHE!
FORMIDABLE JAW BONES.
Most of
us, from our earliest
days, are at intervals gravely trou bled by our teeth. It was not al ways so
There was a momentary silence, and then from the back of the hall came a voice: "If anybody 'ere 'ad a egg, you'd 'ave 'ad it long ago!"
Seller: There are new tyres on the two front wheels-I'll take twenty pounds one and ninepence.
Buyer: Um! What's the one and rinepence for?
Seller: Well, dash it, sir, I want something for the car!
It was Michael's first visit to the
The jaw bone of the Heidelberg country, and feeding the chickens Man, who walked this earth about fascinated him. 500,000 years ago, is placed along- side that of modern man. realise that our unterkiefers, as the Germans call them, are but as toys when compared with these of
cient people than the Heidelberg our earlier ancestors.
The jaw bones of still more an
Early the following morning he We caught his first glimpse of the pea- cock, sunning himself on the lawn. Rushing
race were even more formidable. As
canine teeth, which, without much
Canton as a member of a delega from China with suspicion and dis- Kashmir, we crossed the Himalayas they were provided with projecting tion sent by the Red International trust, not
most to represent his fellow na- tionals in China as unscrupulous exploiters of the Chinese. To fur-
went 240 miles without seeing a at Zogi Pass (11,500 feet), We village, and arrived at Leh, the chief village in the Ladak Range.
of Labour Unions, is doing his ut any steps which the Government to mention hampering
may have at any time to take to ensure his safety. It is in
Leh, which nees perhaps 25 counteracting such pernicious pro-Europeans in a year, is a market of Paganda as Mr. Mann's that the barter between India and Kashmir, China Association and other kin-
on the one hand and Chinese Turkestan on the other.
ther his aims there are apparent, ly no depths of baseness and fal- nity to which he will not descend, | judging from his address at Bed- ford in mail week when he spoke at a meeting under the auspices of the National Left Wing move- ment. "After making the most enreful investigation," said Mann,
clusion that wherever the Chinese
by trade union action the British authorities find some
reason for
dred bodies can most usefully func-
tion.
the violence which
doubt, were used in fighting and in other manly sports of those days.
Our wisdom teeth are in procese
of going out of business, which is
fact.
indoors
excitedly, he sought his grandmother. "Oh, granny," he "one of the chickens is in bloom!" exclaimed,
plugs in some way. The radio is Volce over, telephono: John, come home right away. I've mixed, the
all covered electric ice-box is singing, "Show- with frost, and the
a very important and significant ng Me The Way to Go Home."
of this atrophy of his rearmoat forth. "Look at me," he thunder-
In ancient man we find no signa
The prohibitionist was holding molars, which were evidently in
Mistress: Why are you taking
Mariel..
Dance of The Black Hat...
full use as such, and, we mayed, "I have never touched a drop Thirty miles from Leh
is the imagine, gave him no more trouble of strong drink in my life. I am monastery of Hemis, where we at than any other of the members of physically perfect-teeth sound, Hostility to the visit to India oftended the annual festival which his dental array.
eyesight unimpaired-". the Statutory Commission led by attracts people from all over Cen- It is, however, difficult to believe)
"Bet you half-a-crown⋅ you can't Sir John Simon, still continues ally clad figures wearing great maska present in the teeth of civilised terrupter, and held up an object tral Asia. Grotesque and brilliant that the widespread degeneration thread this needle," shouted an in- "I have definitely come to the con- though fortunately unattended by or huge black hats dance "the dance peoples has been set going lely which glinted in the light.
characterized of death" or "the dance of the by an unsuitable diet, and there "Done," shouted the lecturer. begin, to improve their conditions mob action in Madras a week or dismal one-note music.
black hat," or other eerie steps to may be some much deeper cause at
He was. It was a gramophone work,
needio. ao ago. In the course of the As-
During the festival you could
In Roman times decayed teeth sembly debate yesterday at New go to see the Shushak, who might were common-at any rate in the shooting them down. The British Delhi, Mr. Lajpatral, whose reso be called the Archbishop. He is jaw bones of the skeletons unearth that goldfish out of the water,
supposed to be the re-incarnation of ed in a cemetery of Buddha. When dying the Shushak examined by me at Ipswich. There this date has to
call the lamtas, the high is reason to believe that these hu- priests, and tell them where to find man bones belonged to poor people the newly born infant whom he of the period, who would be unlike Buddha, must be his successor. Yet their teeth were extensively de- on the inspiration. of ly to cat prepared and dainty food.
Smith, a lover of music, took his When the baby is found it is placed cayed. Is it possible that what we la the monastery.
are witnessing is a
Smith was enraptured. He turn- slow dis- The women wear head-dresses appearance and extinction of hu
ed to his friend, who held the pro- that go down their backs and bear man teeth which will result, in the gramme, and asked: "What is that turquoises.
course of sufficient time, in men magnificent thing he is playing being born edentulaus?.
now?
"Can't you see?" posterous and absurd notion, sud
At first sight this seems a pre other. "He's playing a plane."
replied the
authorities
are determined that lution pledged the Assembly to there shall be no trade unionism have nothing to do with the Com- in China. They deliberately create mission in any shape or form, said the conditions that they may have he did not believe in British bona some cover for shooting them down ndes. "The Commission's Ignor- when they try to improve their ance of Indian conditions, history standard of living. I can think of and politics was their greatest dis. nothing more horrible than that qualification," said the spokesman we should belong to a British Em But Sir John has already made it pire that does things-like that."
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knows
one which unfolds what appears to
to feed it on dry bread.
Maid: Well, madam, you told me
friend to a pianoforte recital.
us to be a truly terrifying picture. In the drawing-room the heiress : But it is well to remember that and her husband sat chatting after even greater changes than this dinner.
clear that all the Commission In-
Mrs. Johnson, who bought splén did specimens of turquoises for tends to do is to absorb the atmos- less than a pound in rupees, polat To all acquainted with the re-phere of India, to become acquainted out that these stones carried on cord of British ploneer work ined with the plemental facts of life the head-dress, wore the banking improving conditions in factories and thought and to accustom them accounts of the women. generally in all places in China selves, as far as they can in the Chang Chen Mo river to Tibet.
The journey continued across the where such juriadiction is possible time at their disposal, to the "feel"
have taken place in animals in the Percy, dear," she said present, Colonel Johnson said: there can be "nothing more hor- of the Indian atage. It is not their 18,000 feet into which my wife Eocene Feriod, birds possessed eighth anniversary of our wedding, remote past, and especially to re-ly, tender light in her eyes, "de We encountered, a snow-field at cognise that in the far distant remember that to-morrow Is the rible" than to have to acknowledge fault that the vehement desire of sank almost to the shoulders. When teeth. And we cannot well Ima and I have never missed baking common nationality
with one certain political circles in India for I went to help her 1 sank just as gine a bird of to-day, with its beak you a special cake for the great whose sole aim appears to fling indulging in empty spectacular pro- deep, and soon all our transport armed with teether day 12 mud, at his country irrespective of test against the alleged snormity was in. It took us from 8.30 am. Will the time ever come when they darling," he said softly. the accuracy of his statements or of the Commission throatens to field, in which we moved less than tooth will appear to the people then back on those cakes as tallestones to 2 pm to get out of the snow-idea of a human being possessed of "you have never falled me. I look make an occasion for the display of half a mile.
living equally out of place?--Ex in my life!"
the harm such statements are like