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DEATH PENALTY.
THE CAMPAIGN FOR ITS ABOLITION.
GERMAN MOVEMENT,
----The present-German-penal codo
FIRST CIRCUS.
OUR MANNERS.
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"YAGUE AND FLUFFY."
THE YALE BLUES.
STRENUOUSLY DENOUNCED IN 1921.
OLD OAK CHESTS.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS, NOT TREASURE. MYSTERY AT SOUTHEND. "IS OLD, OF COURSE."
Criticisms of the youth of to-
The mystery of the "old oak Last season-Black Bottom. was promulgated in the year 1871, doners was established in West-day, though very universal, are cheats" at Southend is solved. The senson before-Charleston. but the study of crime and punish-minster Bridge Road, just by the often of somewhat vague and Thousands of visitors to the re-To-day-Blues. ment made such progress that it hospital, by certain Philip fluffy nature.
The blues is old, of course. We Bort have wondered what they became obsolete long before the Astley, a cavalryman who, in re- It is fairly clear that we have were and how they came to be were dancing it in 1921. But It Great War. The war interrupted cognition of his brilliant services in no morals and no manners (says fastened to the end of the pier was strenuously denounced, it passed quickly, and probably not the drafting of the new code, but the Army, was presented by his "A Modern Girl" in a Home more than a mile out to sea. after the war the work was resum- General with a valuable charger. paper), but when we ask on what' They did not contain pirates" the half of to-day's dance public ed and the completed draft was This gift, curiously enough, was grounds these rather damaging treasure, after all. Their con have ever danced it (says Patrick For the past four Issued by the German Ministry of the source of his inspiration to observations. are made, confusion tents were worth millions, none Chalmers).
years very few blues records have Justice in 1925. It is now being give al fresco equestrian displays is apt to rise. I, for one, feel It the loss. discussed by the Judicial Commit-on a small patch of ground now might be taking rather a lot upon Here is the solution to the boen made, and the bands have
seldom played a blues, tee of the. Reichstag and will, as occupied by Waterloo Station. myself to discuss the morals of a mystery. amended by the Committee, bo sub- These consisted of exhibitions of large class of people who, after mitted to the Reichstag itself: during and skilful horsemanship, all, are not all made in one pat- The draft code, although it is writes Raymond Stett in the "Daily tern. But their manners are far more easily noticed and perhaps rather conservative in character, Chronicle." foresees a time when capital! Fortune favoured him, and after more easily judged collectively. punishment will no longer exist. Ita while he determined to build with proposes to retain the death his profits a large establishment in penalty not as a requirement of the neighbourhood of St. Thomas's abstract justice but rather of ex-Hospital. This project resulted in pediency. As stated in the official] the familiar Astley's Royal commentary which is published Amphitheatre, which for over 120 with the draft, "the draft does not years was one of the most popular Ignore the weight of the objections entertainments in London. raised against the death penalty, Command Performances. but it holds that the time for its When her children were amall,
Morals and Manners.
The chests were for a scienti- fic experiment that will, it is expected, bring trade worth £2,000,000 a year to the British Empire.
A slow, dragging fox-trot, with the melody well emphasised or well broken up (there is no happy medium), and a jerky rhythm creeping through-that best des- cribes the blues. Most couples. execute it in an orthodox way with long, slinky strides, but eine experts introduce moat effectively various steps of their own which sult the rhythm and relieve a certain monotony.
›WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.
FRENCH DEATHS.
EXPERT SAYS TUBERCULOSIS IS RIFE.
:
MOTHERS-IN-LAW.
LAND WHERE THEY ALWAYS
MIND THE BABY./
NO MAIDEN AUNTS. ́ ́ SUCCESS OF NEW SERUM.
Paris.--A fresh 'slur-after, sO Paris. A note of warning con- cerning the serious wastage of many others has been cast on life in France has been sounded mothers-in-law by a judge of the at the Academy of Medicine by Paris Divorce Court, who lays it Senator Paul Strauss, a former down as no part of a married Minister of Hygiene, who has woman's duty to share her home pointed out that, according to the with her mother-in-law.
The poor ladies have always statistics compiled by the League of Nations, France is one of the been the butt of the low comedian, countries which shows the lowest and some really delicious jokes excess of births over deaths. In have been made at their expense. But viewed with an impartial this respect her record is the worst among the forty-die na-eye, mothers-in-law have qualities tons of Europe and America, that have never received the pub- All over the world there has to recognition they merit. There been a general tendency since ought to be a medal for them-in 1913 to a falling birth-rate. This France at least. rate has fallen in England by 22 per cent., in Germany by 26.5 per cent, in Italy by 18.2 per cent, and in Belgium by 8.8 per cent, while in France it has risen by .53 per cent.
Infantile Mortailty.
If you can lift the cartain that always hanga over. French family life, you will glimpse the mother- in-law from an angle very differ ent from that of the vaudeville or farce.
They, have proved, almost be Morals and manners, however, yond doubt, that certain strong may not be an entirely separater.pe which hitherto has always question. Although there can been imported, can now be made certainly be few more profitable in the Empire.
Effect of Birth, Control, investments than good manners, Better Than Manila Rope.
This slight increase in the
Generations of birth control they generally spring from a
In the chests, which were per genuine good feeling which may forated to let in the water at high
Queer Rhythm.
French birth rate is offact by the have practically eliminated the reasonably be expected to in-tide, were hundreds of yards, of
The music, slurred, quaint, fact that during the past seventy maiden aunt in France-the fluence conduct as a whole. And Sisal hemp and Manila hemp fled, without the insistently years, there has been a smaller re single woman, left over, to be the abolition has not yet come." The Queen Victoria often used to take are the manners that come from for a year their strength and lively note of the fox-trot, is play duction in the death-rate in stand-by of families in hours of
this good feeling really on the durability has been tested.
ed a quarter slower than fox-trot France than in any of the coun- crisis. commentary then goes on to state them to Astley's Amphitheatre, or down grade?
It is the national practice for Experts on the committee ap-music; and in my opinion the tries mentioned. Since 1918 the that owing to the general "coarsen- when this was impossible, com- ing and brutalisation (Verrohung)manded performances at Windsor, have made enormous strides since have found that the Sisal rope melody is emphasised.
Few people will deny that we pointed by the Imperial Institute. Leat pieces are those in which the French death rate has been re- children to be brought up by duced by only 1.18 per cent., their grandmothers an arrange that have resulted from the long Sandringham and Balmoral..
the eighteenth century. For in- (British) is as good as, or better,
The dance style that this queer while the rate has been reduced ment that leaves a young couple war, and owing to the increase in murderous deeds of a horrifying lover of the circus, and once pre- be drunk in mixed company from American dependencies.
King Edward was also an ardent stance, it is now bad manners to than the Manila rope which comes rhythm induces is a languorous, in England by 11.8, in Germany free to prolong life's playtime (if swaying one, without the wrig-by 21.3, in Holland by 20.3, in in easy circumstances), or to la- mature, it does not seem possible aented Sanger, who later took over Most modern maidens would‹ be Once the prejudice against les, shimmies, and exaggerations Italy by 11:15 and in Belgium bour uninterruptedly, side by side if they have their way to make to forge the powerful deterrent Astley's, with a ring set with 365 put to the blush by the conversa-Sisal rope is broken down there characteristic of the parent by 5.75. (Abschreckungsmittel) which ́ un- diamonds as a token of his esteem,
The rate of infantile mortality in the,world. tion even at the sober beginning should be a growing industry, Negro dance. This is important, doubtedly lles in the death penalty." In return Sanger persuaded his of an eighteenth-century dinner giving more, and more employ. because young dancers not actus- has been reduced considerably,
Sometimes there is jealousy be- Nor does the draft make denth the Majesty to be present at the mak-party. And wa should not now ment, particularly in Tanganyika tomed to the blues, are or were but it is still, M. Strauss con- over the love of the children only penalty for murder. Item-ing-up of the notorious Sacred tolerate the conceited aira some- powers the judge to sentence a White Elephant," which perform-times met with in the nineteenth and Kenya Colony, where Sisal is when it was with us last-apt to sidera, much higher than it over the love of the children. jazz it, throwing in nods and should be, while there is, need for "You keep my child from me," murderer to penal servitude iffance mainly consisted in covering century.
To make certain that the re-shrugs and ungraceful tricks. of a great effort against the ravages cried a young mother the other there arc extenuating circum-the animal with a thick coat of
sults are accurate, a second ex-arms, shoulders, feet.
of tuberculosis, as is shown by day. "I can never have her to stances. Thus the draft goes ́6]whilewnshi
Our "lounge lizarda" (if they periment is to be made. Five
Not Easy,
the fact that, while in England myself. A little more and I will long way towards meeting what the Thirty-five years ago people had exist) could not really compete large trunks are to be fixed to the slow dance is. Perfect balance people in 10,000 between the ages can do as you like with her
It is not an easy dance no tuberculosis carries off only 18 renounce her entirely, and you commentary calls "the fundamental to be contented with the etreus and with the. insolent Victorian pier end. objections to the death penalty." pantomime and the musical con- "swell:"" Open any nine.
is needed, and a sure and graceful of 25 and 34, it accounts for 25 will have another that I will Strong Prejudice.
share with no one." The debate now going on in the fearts, which were then greatly in teenth-century volume of Every few months the experts carriage, a neat-stepping foot and persons in France. Judicial Committee, is being necom-vogue, for their entertainment. "Punch,"
you will have taken a trip to Southend, perfect sense of blues time. panied by a debate in the daily The music-hall, of course, was probably find a picture of a grand walked to the end of the pier,
In this connection great inter press. During the last few weeks taboo as far as the average person young man telling his hostess climbed to the lower deck, where temptation to lean forward and to est attaches to a report made by like that, Colette," said the elder every important newspaper has was concerned: the main frequen-that he is glad he looked in at the boats come in, and looked to fling his feet about instead of con- Dr. Calmette, of the Pasteur In woman, reproachful but also devoted columns to the problem. ters of these establishments being her little party, but must go now see how the coils of rope were far-the tango; and the girl must be the "B.C.G. serum," which, ad- is not large and she would hate to trolling them as precisely as in stitute, concerning the efficacy of alarmed, for the family patrimony The great Liberal papers-the young men about town in search of because he is bored.
ing in the wave-washed, wind- careful to hold herself well, ministered to newly born children, divide it between two grand- "Frankfurter Zeitung," the "Ber-{adventure.
Owing to our pernicious modern swept chests. liner Tageblatt," the ""Yossische In the late nineties, however, system, the.blase young man of
immune Dr. Ernest Goulding, head of slightly back from the waist, still renders them Zaitung," and the "Morgenpost several far-seeing men in the enter to-day often does not know his the fibre investigation work at her partner, Legs and feet must way 24 to 30 per cent. of the in the self-abnegation of the from the waist, up, and close to tuberculosis. In the ordinary There is something magnificent us well as the entire Socialist press tainment world, among them Sir hostess personally, and may even, the Imperial Institute, says: have been conducting a campaign Oswald Stoll and Mr. Edward Moss, have to ask the bandmaster to "We are pleased indeed with the the body kept springily, poised. a tuberculous family die of this middle-age is stealing on her, in-
be moved from hip, not knee, and children exposed to contagion in French mother-in-law. for the abolition of capital panish-realising the possibilities of variety point her out to him. But he gen- experiment so far. The results. The blues comes most piquantly ment, a campaign in which some of run on the right lines, came for-erally goes up and thanks her afford no evidence that Sigal de- the most eminent German jurists ward and in a very short time swept quite nicely before leaving her teriorates more quickly than hetween a lively fox-trot and a and criminologists are taking part. away the low-class music-hall and what he always assures her was a Manila.
dreamy waltz. established in its pluce the variety most enjoyable evening. Rarity of Executions.
theatre as we know it to-day, The arguments for the retentioa
On the Continent,
'Lounge Lizards.
and
grown.
'RICH WIDOW BANKRUPT.
The man must avoid a certain
WALTZ COMING BACK,
There will never be another waltz like "The Blue Danube," ac- cording to Herr. Johann Strauss, the conductor, and nephew of the waltz composer, who has arrived in London from Vienna,
Serum for Children.
New Burden in Middle Age. "You would never do a thing
from children.
Just as
disease. Dr. Calmette stated that clining her to adopt a passive, 5,749 children who lived with leisurely way of life, this French- tuberculous parents and who were woman takes over her daughter- inoculated with the serum were in-law's burden, accepting the re- kept under special observation, sponsibility of the nursery, with and it was found that the mortal-all its anxieties and fearful joys. ity among them was only .9 per cent. during the first year and
HUSBAND'S EFFORTS TO SAVE WIFE
2 per cent. in the second year, BURNED TO DEATH. while there were
no deaths among those between 2 and 311⁄2 years. The immunity conferred by serum is already known to last The waltz will come back," he for at least five years, and 52,772 said to a reporter, "if only because children have been so, protected.
Mra Gertrude Elizabeth Willden, aged 22, of Colony Cot- tages, Coventry, died in hospital from burns received earlier in the
"There seems to have been a Manners of Ceremony. strong prejudice against Sisal for It is easy to confuse good man-marine purposes without ade- fif capital punishment in Germany No sooner, however, had the pers with mere ceremony. There quate proof that it does not resist
are much the same as in other music hall commenced to prosper is a general assumption that men the water as well as Manila. civilised countries. The argumente than the proprietors began to ex- on the Continent have, better "If the first experiment is borne for abolition are largely, but not perience great difficulty in securing mannera than Englishmen. How out by the second, its success will wholly, the same here as elsewhere, original "turns." In their dilemma do they earn their reputation? It be conclusive." so that they have a special interest they appealed to the circus, which is mostly done by bowing and nil the more so as they represent was then a thriving business, and kissing ladies' hands, which, of the most advanced legal and before long had aborbed the course, inconveniences these cour- criminological opinion in Germany majority of their "star" turns.
teous males little more than say- und reflect circumstances that On the Continent, the circus is ing, "How de do?" Having made The "London Gazette" states it is the soul of the dance. There Dr. Calmette's statements were have made Germany, far more than still immensely popular. In Paris their effect, they will often re- that a receiving order in bankare signs of it already. Jazz is greeted with enthusiastic ap any other country, {[ testing alone, there are three permanent main comfortably seated while ruptcy has been made on a credi- as ephemeral as a woman's fashion; plause.
day. ground for the value of capital circuses open all the year round, their hostess and her daughter tor's petition against Dorothy it will change just as surely as
She was sitting with her back to punishment.
and which attract visitors from all hand cups.
Amber MacMillan, of H.M. Prison, the etyle of a woman's clothes,
the fire bandaging her husband's Although the German ponal over Europe. On the Continent, Your Briton, however, is con- Holloway, N., widow, lately resid- Not that I want it to.
It ex-
bad foot, and neither of them code applies to all the German however, the cireas is fortunate in tinually leaping to his feet and ing at the Hotel Cecil, Strand, presses so well the mood of rest- The Shanghai Municipal Police noticed that her dress was in the States, it is not uniformly carried rarely experiencing any difficulty in lodging helpfully between the oc- London.
Isness which hangs over
the, have added another useful item to fire till it was well alight. out. In the State of Hessen ther securing housing accommodation, casional tables. Moreover, he Mrs. MacMillan was sentenced world to-day,
their campaign against the dis-
The husband sprang to his feet has been no execution since the even in the large capitals, nor has continues to wait on us however at the Old Balley on October 20 "In Vienna the waltz is now orderly elements. The trams were and wrapped an overcoat and rug year 1919, and, under the deep im-the cinema invaded its domains to obstreperously we may claim to fast to six months imprisonment again competing with jazz-and posted with notices in English, around his wife, but the flames pression made by the fate of Saeco the same extent as it has in Eng-be his equals, thus, perhaps, scor- for obtaining £1,000 by false pre- winning the fight."
Russian, and Chinese, announcing had obtained such a hold that he and Vanzetti, the Hessian Diet hasland.
ing off us rather subtly.
tences from Mrs. Margaret Lilian
that suitable rewards would be paid was unable to put them out until abolished the death penalty alto. Curiously enough, the huge tent)
Little Restraint.
Lift, a widow living in Kilburn,
to anyone giving information lead all her clothes had been burned gether by a majority resolution, jusually associated in people's mind Of course, the good manners N.W.
Ing to the arrest and conviction of off. That is to say, while a Hessian with the circus was not its original due from youth to age should be
Mrs. MacMillan, who is 57, was
anyone committing any of the major Mr. Willden is a railway work- court must, of course, observe the home. Both in England and on the of the first importance. In these stated during the trial to have
crimes, causing strikes or labourer, and the couple had been mar- penal code and may have to sen- Continent the circus lived for many days of little restraint they must posed as a wealthy woman.
agitations, in Communist activities, ried about, four years. tence a prisoner to death, the Hes-years in buildings. It was only be entirely voluntary, and eman- aian Ministry of Justice is now when it began to tour the smaller cipated youth thinks all too little, bound to commute every death sen- towns and a suitable building for tence into one of penal servitude. ita reception was often impossible In the free city of Hamburg there to secure, that the tent came into
has been no execution since the being. year 1917. In Prussia cxecutions are extremely rare; the last one
no doubt, of its elders' opinion. But it is rare enough to cause considerable comment if the young of either sex openly contra- dict their elders, or prove other-
The total number of books pub-wise than grateful for hospitality
was that of the multiple murderer lished in Great Britain in 1927 was
and pervert Haarmann. In Prus-13,810-a.record.
sia 60.4 per cent, of persons sen-
tenced to death were executed dur-
ing the reign of William II. In the
and kindness received from them. The phrase "manners" should be used in a wide sense. includ- ing customs and deportment gen- erally. We sometimes hear our. short skirts greatly deplored as a
years 1919 to 1926 greater clemency anomaly that han strengthened the "sign of the times." So perhaps was shown and only 7.5 per cent case for abolition. As things are it should be more widely remem- of the death sentences passed werd now, a crime that will be punished bered that in the Victorian Era carried out. There were four ex by penal servitude in Hessen might there were "Modern Girls" who cutions in Prussia last year. In be punished by death if committed bicycled in bloomers. Bavaria, which is one of the niore in Bavaria. Indeed, it is possible backward of the German States, that the fate of a murderer will de death sentences are carried outpend on a change of Government more frequently,
in the Stute where he is awaiting
C
GORILLA-MAN HANGED.
If the incidence of crime and sentence.
Earle Nelson, the so-called! punishment in the different German Another anomaly is the difference gorilla-man, was hanged in the States la studied, it will be found between the German and the Aus courtyard of the gaol at Winnipeg. that the complete, or almost com-trian penal codes. The two coder He seemed resigned to his fate. plete, absence of capital punish-Fare being assimilated to each other Before the execution he received ment in certain States has not re-and there has been a series of the last sacrament of the Roman sulted in a greater frequency of negotiations between Austrian and Catholic Church. Nelson protest- murder us compared with those German jurists for this purpose.ed his innocence on the scaffold. States in which capital punishment Sooner or later the two countries Mr. McConnell, of Philadelphia, still prevails.
will unite, and there must be whose wife is ħileged to have been Austrian and German Codes. penal code common to both. The strangled by Nelson last-April, German abolitionists point out outstanding difference between the spent an hour with the prisoner. that the same is true of countries two codes le the omission of the but refuses to divulge the conver- like Denmark (where there has death penalty in the Austrian and sation.-Reuter. been no execution, since 1892), ita retention. In the German. The [Nelson was sentenced to death Holland (where capital punishment Austrians will certainly refuse to on November 6 for the murder, by was abolished in 1870), Norway make what they would consider a strangling, of Mrs. Emily Patter (where it was abolished by the ro-concession to German reaction by son at Winnipeg, but the evidence formed penal code of the year reintroducing the death penalty, pointed to his having been the 1905), and Sweden (where there which was abolished by the frat perpetrator of 22 similar murders has been no execution since 1910, National Assembly of the Austrian of women in the United States and and where capital punishment was Republic. 'German abolitionista Canada. He left a trail of terror formally abolished in 1921) as argue that the only way to secure behind him from San Francisco compared with countries where uniformity amongst the different to Winnipeg. He Javariably de- executions are still frequent. German States and between Ger- nuded his victims of their clothes.
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committed be
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