SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931.
MOTHER | THINKITS A SHAME FOR YOU TO WANT DADDY TO GIVE
UP SMOKING WHEN · YOU KNOW HOW HE
ENJOYS IT-
YOU BE QUIET`I'M
SICK OF SEEING OLD
CIGAR BUTTS AROUND THIS
·HOUSE - I'LL FIX HIM-.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Bringing Up Father
HERE ARE THE CIGARS YOU ORDERED-MUM: MADE AS PER
YOUR
DIRECTIONS-
GOOD JUST PUT THEM
DOWN-
11
NOW-I'VE TAKEN HIS CIGARS OUTAND PUT THESE CIGARS IN THEIR PLACE.
THIS WILL CURE HIM-
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AH! SOME OF HIS CIGARS-THEY ARE GOOD-I'LL JUSTI HELP MYSELF-
BARON OE FLATED-
SIR!
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SORRY-SIR!
BUT HE IS
NOT HOME ·
VERY WELL! TOODLE- 00!
TO THE ELITE
CLUB, AND MAKE
IT SPIFFY-
BOYS-HAVE SOME OF MY CIGARS-YOU
KNOW I SMOKE ONLY, "THE BEST-
MY WORD! 19 IT YOUR
BIRTH-DAY?!
BY JOVE, EVEN LORD AIGY IS TAKING ONE
THANKS- OLD SAC-
GRACIOUS! ALL THE CIGARS ARE GONE-DID
MR-JIGGS SMOKE ALL OF THEM?
NÓ MÀ HỆ HASN'T BEEN OUT OF HIS ROOM SINCE YOU WENT.
OUT-
LOOK-MAGGIE! IT SAYS
HERE THAT BARON DE FLATED NEARLY BLEW UP THE ELITE CLUB WITH SOME LOADED CIGARS - HE WUZ.
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THE
TOMMY LIPTON.
The Chief Scout, Lord Baden- Powell, in the current issue of The
Scout, the official weekly organ. of, the Boy Scouts Association, pays &
tribute to Sir Thomas Lipton.
CAMP
FIRE
and he resolved there and then to make money enough to buy a car riage and pair,
He saved enough to start a little grocery shop with another young
SCOUTS VISIT ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE.
Four thousand Boy Scouts took part in the Twelfth Annual Pil- grimage of Boy Scouts to the grave of Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
The Scouts came from New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Massh- chusetts, and Pennsylvannia.
Starting with a little group of
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
...Tho
pessimist wants change the optimist usually has it"
DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S CHALLENGE SHIELD.
The Boy Scouts Association an- nounce that the results of the com. petition for the Duke of Con- kommunen | naught's Challenge Shield this year
are as follows
DINOZAURANTULERAS LIRISË "SCOUT" MARR SAILS AGAIN,
Mr. J. W. S. Marr of Aberdeen, who
Sir accompanied
Ernest Shackleton on his last expedition to the South Pole in the Quest f "Scout Marr," has left on another expedition to the Antarctic,
This time Mr. Marr sails as
fellow, and before long he and Scouts in 1920 the pilgrimage has made much a success of it that he grown year by year until last year was able to carry out his great more than 3,600 boys took part: desire
Though he is now past 80, "Dan" I had a great liking for him, pot piest and proudest day among the Beard headed the line in the pic- only because he was a good sports many proud and happy days of his ¦ turesque costume of a Buckkin member of the scientific staff of
of "Tommy Lipton," as "B-P." talls him, he says:-.
He described it to me as the hap-
man, but because he was such a life when he gave his mother her good example to Scouts,
carriage and hørgen
Ilu niarted as an errand boy in
miin...
A group of Scouts in Indian
Senior.
Winners 2nd Framlingham Col- lego Group.
Runners-up-1st Culloden Group.
Junior.
Winners-2nd Framlingham Col- lege Group,
Runners-up-45th
Group.
Nottingham
The competition, which is under the Research Ship Discovery II, the control of the Society of Minia-
tific research in the Far South.
ture
of six from any Group of Boy
He spent a lot on building the dress had a place in the procession, now on her sceand yoyage of selen Rifle Clubs, is open to Teams a chop in Glasgow, earning 2/6 a Shamrock to win the America Cup At the cemetery the Scouts pro- Since his Boy Scout days with Scouts in the British Empire. The week. He told me he used at one for Great Britain, and when a ceeded" past the grave where time to sleep under the counter! Failed he built another and batter)
Commander Shackleton, Mr. Marr
Scouts or Rover Scouts taking part He loved and admired his mother vessel, but with no better luck.
wreaths from Scouts and others
accompanied the, Algarson expedi and worked hard and earnestly for Time after time he did this; so I were placed,
tion to the antarctic regions in ad- must be under the age of 25 years her sake. He told me that it was asked him once what was the good From a black walnut tree, over-dition to qualifying for various for the Senior Competition and a proud moment for him when he of going on with it and he replied hanging the grave the nuts will scientific degrees,
under 16 for the, Junior Compati- brought her his first week's pay that he did it, not for his own later be gathered and sent to all
tion..
She laughed as she thanked him and' sald:-
"Why, Tom, you will be giving be a carriage and a pair of horses next."
amusement, but because his yacht's
crew would be so disappointed if
parts of the United States where
to Theodore Roosevelt.
Each-empititor has 20 shots, 10
a distance of 15, 20 år 25°
he did not give them another they will be planted, as memorials living gelons in many towns and chance of winning.
ellies which trace back to the old deliberate and 10 In 100 beconds, This practice has been followed tree at the edge of Oyster Bay over That was his way; he was always in other years and there are now i cemetary;
yarda.
• -That-caught his imagination, thinking of others"