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RATHER A GIRL.
MERE MAN RETAILS THE ADVANTAGES.
FILMING AN ELEPHANT CHARGE.
Safari." By Martin Johnson.
(Putman, 218.)
This volume gives a thrilling and intimate picture of the African jungle, and its many photographs of wild animal life are of quite ex- ceptional interest.
Safely married 'I should sit at JUNGLE GENTLEMEN home in my nice little modern Jabour-saving house, bungalow, or flat, while my poor slave went forth to labour for me, and house Asauming the place to be Eng-keep with the greatest possible land and the time the present, the economy of effort. number of reasons why I would No one would expect me to pro- rather have been a girl is almost duce a large family, because the embarrassing, writes F. E. Bailey price of families is prohibitive. (Merely a Man) in the "Sunday We might have one child, or two at the outside, and I should get it Chronicle."
Girls in England are a sort of all over as soon as possible and
On the shore of Lake Paradise "corps d'elite," a petted and pam- be free to enjoy myself for the stretch of water in the crater of John would have an extinct volcano 500 miles from pered class to whom everything is rest of my life. offered, and from, whom hardly to work a little harder in order to Nairobi and from the nearest keep the child or children, but, store, Mr. Johnson and his wife anything is expected.
The result is that they grow up after actual babyhood is over, the established their headquarters, modern Their purpose was to take still and to exercise an Innocent tyranny modern child with its
of elephants, which would be amusing if it were clothes and upbringing does not motion pictures not rather tiresome, and, even if give much trouble, because it is rhinoceros, giraffes, and other big only moderately endowed by nature seldom i or cross.
game as they came to drink at the ALL MINE.·
fow waterholes in an arid region. with looks, charm, and Intelli- gence, to give themselves the airs Custom and the law, which had The book exhibits the jungle at of a Ninon de l'Enclos a looked after
Here is the me so well in my very close quarters. Cleopatra..
single days would not neglect me account of a successful morning's Опе
many girlish as a wife and (perhaps) mother. work: luxuries which tempt me is the I should still be immune from the All fact that a girl can defy, if she argument of physical force. chooses, all rules and regulations my income, if I had one, would be -parental, social and legislative mine, but my husband would be because she never comes up compelled to maintain me, and be against that ultimate argument responsible for my debts. of physical force which con- fronts the male from the cradle to the grave.
of
the
or
For some reason I am unable to explain it is not considered seem
My husband would have to pay my income tax for me or go to prison, because in the eyes of the Commissioners of Inland Revenuol my income would be his, though
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor,' plow, and altho.)
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Eleven unconcerned lions were right out in plain sight, loafing around in the grass and panting with the heat. Some asleep; one old måle rolled over with his four paws in the air while we were there.
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Slowly we approached, taking pictures as we went. It seemed
the impossible that
animals would continue to lie right out there in the open and neither But that la charge nor retreat. exactly what they did.
ly to cane out-of-hand flappers. by law he would enjoy no control
I should have legal right: Following this immunity from over it. physical force, there is among to the equal guardianship of our girls none of that rough but honest infants (if any) and equal grounds mutual discipline which obtains of divorce. among boys.
On the other hand, I should not distance of the "blind" where the
On one occasion a lioness ap. proached four times within easy'
If in her adult years she chooses be liable to military service, or to Johnsons were waiting with their to defy authority, she cannot be be called upon by the police for camera with a recent. "kill" near She retired each time As the assistance, but sooner or later-them.. dealt with by the police police deal with men. Those old sooner if Mr. Baldwin can manage frightened by the glare of a flash- enough to recall the days of auf-it-I should have a vote.
light exposure, but overcame her |fragette demonstrators will remem- These, with certain others, legi- nervousness sufficiently to return. ber how handicapped the police timate and otherwise, are the rea- Photography, however, was sel- Mr. were in
infuriated sons why I would rather have been dem unattended by danger. restraining women, merely, because they were born a girl. Can any man blame Johnson brought down with his rifle the leader of a charging herd women. Had they been men nome, for certainly no girl would! difficulty would have arisen.
of elephants while Mrs. Johnson cranked the camera.
AT MAN'S EXPENSE. This liberty and licence would appeal to me very much.
Further, if I were a girl I should
be able to dodge discomfort at the expense of the nearest man. If it
GUNMEN GANGS.
"EAR CHAWED OFF" FOR 23.
NEW YORK THUGS.
But it was not often that they were forced to kill their quarry, and when they did so It was in the very act of making moving pic. tures as he charged.
were raining and I had no um- The Gangs of New York." By elephants as brella, a total stranger would hold
his over me; if the 'bus or the tube or the train were full he would stand that I might sit; and if I had left my money at home,
Herbert Asbury, (Knopf, .185.)
From one wb has seen so much of them Mr. inson's tribute to gentlemen of the jungle, of eve amper and unwill. ing to interfere with their neigh- Mr. Asbury's account of the des-bours, has a good deal of weight. perado ganga in New York and their methods will startle the Bri-
as happens to the best. of us nowtish reader. It suggests a state of and then, a man would pay my affaire quite unknown here, in
fare.
If my car punctured a tyre I which savage murderers and fero- cious gunmen kill the public and would only need to sit on the run- ning board looking forlorn, and one another with comparative im some passing male motorist would punity at their sweet fancy. The stop and change the wheel while I author's style is brief and business-
like, thus: waited, clean and unruffled, to say: "Thank you so much!" after he had finished his task.
Above all, the financial advan- tage of being a girl touches my very heart. No one goes out on the batter alone; it is customary for the sexes to set forth for en- joyment and social relaxation in mixed pairs, and the man always pays, not only for himself but for the girl in the case. The girl never pays.
A frock or so and my racket or clubs being acquired, I should never need to spend another far- thing beyond an odd tip to a cloak- room attendant. Possibly I might. have to bo kissed good-night, but that would hurt me no more than it hurt him, though nothing would induce me to admit the fact,
Some day, perhaps, if I had been' born a girl, I should meet my Waterloo, and having taken all the circumstances of the case into con-
to sideration, consent
marry. Then, above all, my superiority over the feckless male would be- come manifest:
Incredible na it seems to a man, I should get through the business free, gratis, and for nothing. My father would buy my trousseau and my husband would provide a house, furniture, and all the rest of it. Being a British girl I need not, either by law or custom, bring one half-ponay into the common stock. "THE CHINA MAIL," General If I were a French girl and had
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Panama 26-The dye indigo 27-A town in & W.
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woman's sash 40-Final settlement 48-A part of the head 47-A doctrine or
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of a religious order. 32-King (Prenah) |38-To ripple against,
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39-To forbear 40-An English poet
laureate 141-One time |42-A bird snored in
Ancient Egypt
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waterfall
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thumb, which performed this Im- FOR HOUSEKEEPER. portant office with neatness and despatch.
Monk Eastman sometimes went abroad оп peaceful missions, with a cat under each arm, while several others trailed along in his wake.
Thus this killer of mon was an unconscious Imitator of spierre.
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Col. Ralph Peacock, for many years managing director of Messrs. Robe- Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., en- gineers and locomotive manufac turers, of. Gorton, Manchester, who Old Flaherty affected long
Commission to Kill.
died aged 90, left £198,533. white whiskers and a benevolent
Among the gallery of villains emile, but he was one of the
He gives £12,000, certain furni most cruel thugs in the Seventh whom Mr. Asbury parades is ture, a house known as The Chips, Ward.
Police-Lieut Becker, of the New and certain fishing rights in the to his house- Mush Riley once gave an ela-York Police, who made a fortune Ilampshire Avon borate dinner to Dan Noble and by taking bribes from gambling keeper, Mary Anna Jones, in recog
saloons. other
Rosenthal, nition of her long and faithful ser- famous
A crook, criminals, and
threatened to give him away and vice, directing also that she should served a Newfoundland dog as the plece de resistance, a fact actually supplied the authorities be paid £3 per week while employed unknown to his guests until they with evidence, whereupon Rosenthal after his death in looking after his residence pending the sale thereof. had aaten heartily and praised was shot: 'the unusual flavour of the roast, Big Jack Zelig was approached £800 la left to his servant Edith
while under arrest, and as the Williams. price of freedom agreed to furnish gunmen to murder Rosenthal, He gave the commis. Mr. Harry Seymour Munro, of men thought they had netted a small sion to Gyp the Blood, Lefty Nantwich, Cheshire, farmer, who whale, but their catch was after- Louie, Dago Frank, and Whitley left £8,912, gives,£500 and every wards stated to be a grampus. As Lewis,
thing in his house to Nurse Marsoon as it was hauled on to the their task, garet Healy for her care and at-beach it was killed. It was nine They daiy performed and for it were afterwards execut- tention to him. ed, while Big Jack Zelig, who was
Piker Ryan appears to have been a thug of exceptional en- terprise. When he was at length brought to book for one of his many crimes the police found this list in his pocket:
Punching
Both eyes blacked.
88.
169.
Nose and jaw broke Knocked out
£2
Ear chawed off .... Leg or arm broke. Shot in leg Stab....... Doing the big job
(murder)
£3
£500 For His Nurse.
London, June 18.-A child was were seriously injured owing to the collapse of
£3
going to denounce Becker and
SA
them, was killed by yet another
£5
£5
thug. The sequel to the story is killed and several Linteresting:
£20
and up. His fellow-gangsters regarded Dandy Johnny Dolan as some- thing of a master mind because he had improved the technique of gouging out eyes; he ls said to bave invented an apparatus,
made of copper and worn on the (Continued on next Column.),
Becker was electrocuted on July a large part of the ceiling of
GRAMPUS NETTED.
DESTRUCTIVE MONSTER.
There was much excitement on Brighton beach recently when a mackerel trawling vessel was seen coming towards the shore with an unusual catch in tow. The fisher-
feet long and two feet in width. The crew stated that the monster became entangled in their trawl and had caused considerable damage to the nets.
L
During the afternoon it was taken
30, 1915. His. friends insisted Central Hall, Westminster, facing round the town on a truck and a that he had been jobbed, and the Abbey. A mass of plaster fell collection was made to help pay for when his body was prepared for from a height of 20 feet into a the damaged nets. burial his wife attached to the tightly-packed gathering of chil-
who were attending top of the coffin a silver plate dren,
Nervous passenger at booking with this inscription: "Charles Sunday School party. Screams and
ticket Becker, Murdered July 30, 1915, pitiful cries filled the building. office: May I-er-have a
rendered un-for-er-a dog, please. by Governor Whitman."
Many children were
Central Hall is Booking Clark: Certainly not, you Mr. Asbury's lively pages ora il conscious, The lustrated with hideous photographs used for concerts and all kinds of must travel as on ordinary passen
of famous thugs.
meetings.
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