THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933.
WHY THESE MOTHERS Revokes Nazi Laws
KNOW
That This Christmas Is Going To Be.
THE HAPPIEST THAT EVER WAS
احية
BY CONSTANCE WALKER
Nottingham, Nov. 21.
A Merry Christmas...next year
time.... that ...some
was what
wage-earning Britain thought last year and the year before, and the year before that.
But this year things are on the up-grade. There will be a Merry Christmas--and a happy New Year.
I know because the women in the homes and the people in the shops
tell me Bo...、
I have been touring
lands,
Lhe Mid-|
Nottingham, Leicester,
Rugby, Northampton,
Six years ago 1 came to Notting- ham to write about the laco trade,
nothing. and wrote
because the truth was unbearable.
To-day I took a taxicab through Boveral districts where the workers live, and everywhere I saw piled stalls, thronged shops, bright-eyed women loaded with parcels.
And the women were loaded with
Bishop Mueller
By agreeing to promulgate a decree rescindling all church laws adopted. by the dates or the nation in re cent months, including the so-called "Aryan" statute, Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller, leader of German Protestantiam, restores the right of "non-Aryan Christians those with Jewish blood-to continue membership in the church and hold office in it
bunches of flowers. Flowers are CAT RUNS AMOK IN
the finest luxury a woman gives way to.
"THINGS LOOKING UP" In Carrington went into draper's shop owned by Mrs. Hart and asked her if she knew of any one who was genuinely in a bad way from unemployment,
She thought for a long time, consulted her husband, asked the wife of a greengrocer next door. In balf an hour they could think | of no one.
Mrs. White, just down the road, has known her share of unemploy ment troubles,
NOVA SCOTIA
Four People Attacked And Routed.
FLEW AT POLICEMAN
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Mr. Nathan Green's cat went on a rampage and this is what hap- pened.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LEGAL CONJURING
IN SYDNEY
Judge Orders Juryman To Pretend Absence.
"FIXING" AN ADJOURNMENT
Sydney, N.S.W.
To-day's Short Story.
PROOF
OF THE
PUDDING
By O. Henry.
PRING winked a vitreous had 'em. The owners of the maga- white rabbits and top, hats, Mr. of "Minerva Magazine,**** and salary: he had just Installed in his Justice James in Sydney recently deflected him from his course. home a jewel of a recently imported made a juryman disappear into thin He had lunched in his favourite cook who was afraid of policemen; air. It was a comedy of legal con-corner of a Broadway hotel, and the morning papers had pub- furing
and was returning to his office lished in full a speech he had made So complete was the disappear when his fect became entangled at publishers' banquet. Also ance that the judge found it neces in the lure of the vernal coquette. there were echoing in his mind the sary to stop the case before the which is by way of saying that fubilant notes of a splendid song court, and discharge the remaining he turned eastward in Twenty that his charming young wife had sixth Street safely forded the ung to him before he left his up-
Without the aid of the traditional SPRI
optic at Editor Westbrook, zine had raised his (the editor's)
three jurymen.
A
The judge performed the trick spring freshet of vehicles in town apartment that morning. Bhe because he found himself in a diffi-Fifth Avenue, and meandered was taking enthusiastic interest in culty. Gordon Arthur Costello, along the walks of budding her music of late, practising early 15-year-old boy, was suing Eliza- Madison Square, mak and diligently. When he had com- The lenient air and the settings mlimented her on the improvement ages, following injuries received in of the little park almost formed in her voice she had fairly hugged a motor collision,
beth S. K. Vines to recover dam-
On the assumption that the de-pastoral: the colout motif was him for joy at his praise. He felt, the trained nurse. Spring, tripping fendant would not appear, four green-the presiding shade at the too, the benign, tonic medicament of Jurymen heard practically the whole creation of man and vegetation.
The callow grass between the softly adown the wards of the con- of the boy's case. Then an agitated walks was the colour of verdigris, a valescent city. solicitor hurried into court. The poisonous green, reminiscent of the was a lot of whispering.
horde of derellet humans that, had Mr. Meares (for the boy) ex-breathed upon the soil during the plained to the judge that the de
summer and autumn. The bursting fendant had mistaken the day of tree-buds looked strangely familiar the trial, and wished to appear.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "It A Man Might Tarry," by. Sir Max Pemberton,
There was some confusion, and then to those who had botanised among the garnishings of the fish course of the judge solved the difficulty,
"This," he said, "is a' case for a forty-cent dinner. The sky above
While Editor Westbrook was was of that pale aquamarine tint! legal fiction."
filling with And the court sat back and wait- that ball-room poets rhyme with sauntering between rows of park
"true" und "Sue" and "coo." The benches (already jed puriously..
"Don't answer when the associate one natural and frank colour visible vagrants and the guardians of law- was the ostensible green of the less childhood) he felt his sleeve calls your name." the judge told one
newly-painted benches shade be grasped and held. Suspecting that of the jurymen.
"Call the jury," he said to thetween the colour of a pickled rurum-he was, about to be panhandled, hel ber and that of a last year's fast-turned a cold and unprofitable face. associate.
black cravenette ralpcoat. But, to and saw that his captor was-Dawe the city-bred eye of Editor West-Shackleford Dawe, dingy, almost chrank. the landscape appeared a ragged, the genteel scarcely visible In him through the deeper lines of masterpiece.
the shabby.
Only three Jurymen answered. The jury is not properly It attacked Mrs. Green and her stituted, and I am afraid that 11
but was repulsed with a will have to adjourn the case pend- maid broomstick. Mrs. Green sunt foring another hearing from a new
jury." he said regretfully.-Reuter. Mr. Green.
"My husband has been out of work off and on-mainly off-ever Rushing home from his office, Mr. since he came back in 1919," she Green cornered the cat after a bat- told me.
"But he's got a job now,tle, threw her into the dickey scat and it looks like lasting. He is in of his car and drove post-huste to the lace trade, and things are look-the police station.
ing up.
A policeman was ordered to ex- This will be a real Christ-ecute the cat. The dickey seat was flew at the We have always managed opened and the cat mü.6.
policeman landing on his shoulder. Homehow or other to make
→
Christmas for the children, but He retreated and the cat fled down this year--this year I think it the street. will 'ron to a few luxurlén."""
TAKEN ON AGAIN
In Leicester I went into the nome of Mr. Cooper, of Fleet-street. Her husband is a pickerup in the
JUDGE SITS WITH UMBRELLA. Laughter In Leaking Court-Room
Atianta, Georgia. "Judge Callahan was holding The police lator received a tele-court in the local police station: phone call from Mr. Green's home.
A terrific rainstorm burst over The cat was back again and Mrs. the building, which started Green and the maid had locked leak. themselves in a room, terrified.
to
Rain dripped on the judge but. press department of a boot and Fonce arrived at the house but while it dampened his head it shoe factory. He has been out of the cat had disappeared. So far failed to damp his ardour for work for two years, and now he has she has not been found and police duty.
been taken on again by his old firm. are scouring the neighbourhood He calmly opened an umbrella Mrs. Smith, of Newcastle, and with rifles, believing the cat to be and continued with the case in Mrs. Taylor of Leeds bought new mud.-Router,
Ehock inst week because they have
hore money coming in now. That
is why Mr. Cooper, of Leicester, is
back at work,
The hand of the two years on
not yet lifted from Mrs. Cooper.
65
•
SILVER-TONGUED
ORATOR."
-Reuter.
But it will be by Christmas. She Native Missionary Visits WOUNDED YOUTH
le elderly. Her straight and neal 2.5 her
grey hald is as tiny
house.
Australia.
...
f
KILLED.
Shot With Own Rifle.
And now. whether you are of those who rush in or of the gentle
"While the editor is pulling him- rencourse that fears to tread, you elf out of his surprise, a flashlight must follow in a brief invasion of blography of Dawe is offered..
He was a fiction writer, and one the editor's mind.
Editor Westbrook's spirit was of Westbrook's old - acquaintances,' contented and serene, The April At one time they might have called number of the "Minerva" had sold each other old friends. Dawe had its entire edition before the tenth some money in those days, and lived day of the month-a: newadealer in in a decent apartment-house near Keokuk had written that he could Westbrook's. The two families have sold fifty copies ore if he had often went to theatres and dinners together. Mrs. Dawe and Mrs. Westbrook became “doarest" friends. Then one day a little tentacle of the TRUTH LIVES IN
octopus,just to amuse itself. def AN ASYLUM.
gurgitated Dawe's capital, and' be moved to the Gramercy Park neigh- bourhood, where one, for a few Insane Doctor's Queer per week, may alt upon one's
Philosophy..
Budapest
“OILED" HENS LAY MORE EGGS.
trunk under eight-branched chaude- llers and opposite Carrara marble mantels and watch the mice play upon the floor, J.
"I am very pleased to be placed
Dawe thought to live by writing hand, while ill-concealed titters in an asylum, because I can now. were heard from the spectators say the whole truth, and that is fiction. Now and then he sold a
rare to-day."
story. He submitted many to West In those words a Hungarian brook. The "Minerva" printed one doctor addressed his colleagues, or two of them; the rest were re- when they had certified him insane. tamned, Westbrook sent a careful "Insanity," he added, is the fato and conscientious personal letter with each rejected manuscript, of all intelligent men. Rester.
pointing out in detail his reasons unavailable. for, considering it Editor Westbrook had his own clear Sydney, N.S.W,
conception of what constituted good "Aye, we shall get straight now. A Fijian by birth, Semiti Gode,
fiction. So bad Dawe Mrs. Dawe we hope," she said. "But these a missionary of Papua, and his
was mainly concerned about the con- two years have been a long time.wife and four children recently Struggling home with a deep
stituents of the scanty dishes off always hoping. We shall have arrived in Sydney from Papua. gush above his left thigh, the re
food that she managed to scrape to Semiti Gode has spent three sult of a fall while out hawk
gether. One day. Dawe had been "Turkey?" Her laugh was small years among the nomadic tribes shooting. Patrick Piccione, e
apouting to her about the excellences and Infinitely sad. "No, I don't of the Efogi Mountains. There 22-year-old Zululand youth. For a bigger ogg crop try dosing of certain French writers. At din know about a turkey, but I shall be he encountered remnants of the stumbled when be reached the your chickens with cod liver oil. able to buy a bit of food.
once numerous pigmy tribes. gate of his father's farm. The Dr. A. D. Holmes of Boston told her they sat down to a dish that a *[ have two grandchildren. The natives who live in the butt of his loaded rifle struck the the American Oil Chamists. Society hungry schoolboy could have encom- We've managed to put some trin-Efogi Mountains are wild, and ground and was discharged, the that hens 'given the ofl·laid $125 passed at a gulp. Dawe comment kets in their stockings, but this count code is on them fight, shot entering Patrick's body just worth more of eggs than those that year I think I shall be able to give ing with spears longer than below the beart. He was pick did not receive it. the little girl 4 doll. She wants themselves and with poisoned led up dead a few yards from his He neglected to say how the he a doll. And there will be some- AITOWS. He said that the na- home Reuter
ked itReuter. thing for the boy, too."
Christmas.
to For herself? Well, her thoughts tives wandered from camp
¡camp. They stayed in one have not escaped from the two piace until sickness or other years yet. "Aye, there's many a
disaster overtook them, and they
thing I want," she said quietly, moved to another camp without bitterness.
In Mrs. Hanson's house. in Northampton three children were
Semiti Gode is known in Papua
as the "allver-tongued orator."
just finishing their dinner, She He has a wide knowledge of the waited until they had left for Papuan dialects. Reuter,
school before she talked secreta.
"Last Christmas Day they had stewed neck of lamb and fig pud ding.
"I put tresele In the pudding: to make it dark, so that it would look as much like Christmas pud- ding as possible," Mrs. Hanson Bald.
year Ive made three Christmas puddings, and “ĺWO caken already. I am making others, and unless Ted low his work and It doesn't, Topk as if
“And while Ted in ""waiting for the oranges to be counted I will slip into tobacconist's shop and get him the pipe hưa? been wanting.
"And am going to
sreen woolly suit with
Mich
hing
tired of seeing him in but things I've made mysel "And we might even got a few. crackers. And I'll be able to give
he will there will be a turkey, alkpance to the Bunday-ecl "I'm looking forward to Christ dren when they come car man this year, me: I never have in
my life before.
And if there's anow
an down, the road
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