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SELL, THE SHOWS IN THE OFFRE,

Rollin Kirby, famous cartoonist) of the New York World and twice winner of the Pulitzer prize of $500 to the best cartoon of the year he was the winner for 1928 Is not only a great cartoonist but an ardent sherman as well,

Montreal, has splendid trout fish- ing; big "muskles", pike and other fish ture the angler to French Hirer, Ontario, where there is an excellent bungalow camp, and the the north famous Nipigon, on shore of Lake Superior, still holds

ren rhaling Herbert He record for the biggest brook President of the United States, in trout ever caught, the 1414 pound- his devotion to angling.

or landed by Dr. JW, Cook, of Fort *No

There are plenty man can lose what he never had." William. Ont. sald Izaak Wallon, and that's 6-pounders left which measure more than two cet in length, and a bungalow camy to make visitors comfortable.

Every fisherman visiting the vicinity of Winnipeg should try his luck at Devil's Gap Camp, Kenora, on the Lake of the Woods, where there la fine aport catching bass, lake trout, muscalunge and pike.

what Kirby tells the fisherman who says he caught the biggest one but it got away! Kirby has fished in many rivers and lakes of Canada, and declares that no better fishing exists any where.

His cartoon indicates that the fisherman is happy, far from business cares, and that he Iz sorry the boys in the office are not having such a good time.

Far-famed is the salmon of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia and there are expert guides a-plenty to care for the ugler and show him where the big unes jurk... The Lauren- tan Mountain region, not far from

In the vicinity of Banti, Alber- tn, famous resort in the Canadian Rockies, there is good trout fish- ing, cut-throat,, rainbow, stcel- bead and Dolly Vardon trout be- tng the popular favorites. Lake Minnewanka, near Baff, has enor mous whitefish. Here's to the boys in the office-way they, too, go a-fishing and catch a-lenty

Noblewoman Wins Shilling

Endurance Flyers

Adding their efforts to the many already in the air contesting the laurels of the famous "Fort Worth" Byers, Byron Newcomb, left; Ray Mitchell, centre, and E. E. Basham, right, flew near Cleve.

Fand in the 'plane "Cleveland," above, but their record has since been twice eclipsed.

Women Love Homely Men

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929.

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Mrs. Rose Hanuer, left, who lost court case against her noble- woman tenant to the tune of one shilling. Right, above, Lady Strabolgi, who won the infinitesimal Judgment against the landlady. following a free-for-all in the latter's London apartment house. Centre, Commander Kenworthy, member of Parliament and the Royal Navy, distinguished son of Her Ladyship, has made no public com- ment on his mother's tagale with Mrs. Hanner. Right,, below, pretty

her's tagolé with Mrs. Hanner. R

Joyce Hanner, daughter of the London landlady, who helped to bear

the family ill will against Lady. Strabolgi.

GOOD LAUGH OUT OF COURT ROW

Lady Strabolgi is richer to-day by £ shilling and several pages of undesir able publicity as a result of winning a verdict in the London courts against Mrs. Rose Hammer, her landlady.

shock, bruised and scratched her. The daughter Joyce Hanner, ran to the de fence of the landlay, a knife in her hand. Gentle playmate!!

Mrs. Hanner took to her bed for re pairs and entered suit for damages. Lady Straboigi countered with other civil claims.

The courtroom witticisms, clumsy but Her Ladyship, once a svelte and comical, were rehashet nut ""played. beautiful girl, but now a dowager of up." Mrs. Hanner had called the weight and inches, had rented the com- "Baronesa "an old hag" and a "glut paratively modest apartinent with the ton" " her testimony and admitted friendliest of gestures; but thereafter, a sweeping adjective before the “old having differed with the Hanner woman hag epithet

and her daughter about heating, altera-] "She was always ineering at me and tions of locks and other domestle de accusing nie of being jealous because tails, she turned into a bitter foe of she was a baroncss, swore Mra. the proprietress, according to the testi- - Hanner. And when asked whether she mony,

wouldn't like to be a baroness,” she naively, but latigningly replied, “Yes— but a nice one

• ̈ ̈ ̈A scuffle and a row resulted in Lady Strabolgi summoling F. H M. Muller

whom she sent ou So close were the two bills of griev Mrs. Hanner sayə, ance that Justice LeCardiel could, yengeance in his own the end, find only one, shillings, difer. threw her ence with the balance in faveur of further the noblewomare" The loser naid with

cost me a bob, but it was worth

Ker out of the housel

The late Captain Coli, above, French aviator lost in trans-Atlantic flight, who, it is maintained, would have enjoyed even more adulation than Lindbergh if he had lived to complete his fight, in spite of the fact that he was eyeless and otherwise physically unattractive. Likewise, Lord "Nelson, centre above, a three-quarter view of whose unromantic face is shown here, won the love of a famous beauty of a previous day, and was otherwise adored by women. Right, Cyrano de Bergerac, the big-nosed wover of the play of the same name by Rostand, in which he is evestually romantically worshipped by the lovely Roxane, Ruth Elder, left, below, the first woman to make the trans Oceanic fight, a handsome woman, not to say an accomplished one, has nevertheless not been singled ont by men to worship and adore.

MONOPOLY FOR UNATTRAC“. TIVE MEN

Resolved: That women rave about bardzone men but really love the homely ones. That superficially they adore the Apolles, but centre their emotional interests in homely men who de more worthwhile things than just pose around for the benefit of all who may care to look. But why?

Here Herc worship is the answer. worship of aviators for instance, by men as well as women, is one of the increasing and notable facts of the time. The individual and mass love of girls and women in particular seems to have been signally transferred from sailors, soldiers, explorers and other type of heroes, to the aviator.

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, by his feat in making the first solo fight from New York to Paris has stirred up|

more world-wide feminine admiration case of Lord Nelson, the British than perhaps any single hero of the admiral. He was not only little and a past quarter of a century.

weakling, but lost at different times an This provokes the question:

arm, then an eye, yet was worshipped What would have been the attitude Hamilton, the famous beauty.

by

women, many

notably Lady of women toward Captain Francois

To prove that the rule often kolds Coll, the French aviator, who was mar true where women are concerned, there ried, bald-headed, one-eyed, wooden- legged, a war ace, bad he succeeded in is the example of the handsome Rutk solo flight instead of the handsame, Elder, who was the first woman to fly youthful Lindy? It will be remembered the Atlantic, but in spite of her good that Celi made the attempt westward looks and prowess she has never been accorded tremendously widespread from France in 1927 and was lost, to popularity by men admirers. the grief of an anxious world:

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hours across the stormy Atlantic was

The feat of sweeping in a wonderful when done by such a man as Lindbergh. But it would have been far more wonderful if done by a man such as Coli, handicapped by wounds of war, and would undoubtedly bring

adoration from that much more

women.

To go back a century, there was the

A number of psychological problema way woren delight to vield themselves of the emotions are involved in the

to the pleasure of loving a hero. significant one is the age-old conun- drum about ugliness. Ugliness in a man as long as it is compled with strength that makes him look like a herd customer to handle is an added stimulus to the attention of many women.

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