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MAGNIFICIENT MACE
Members of Parliam'nt are in- terested in a mace which has been for some time on exhibition in the library of the House of Commons.
It is a fine example of craftsman- ship, and dates back to 1781.
It is the mace of the Legislative! Council of the Island of Grenada, southernmost of the Windward Is- lands.
The mace was sent to this coun-
CHARM- WHAT IS ITS
SECRET?
PERSONS OF ANY AGE
MAY POSSESS IT
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH SEX-APPEAL
(By Gilbert Frankau)
London. necessarily mean that he finds her
T was one of Barrie's heroines either extremely beautiful, or ex-
try for repairs, which have I complained,
me
been made. It is larger and more ly, that whereas some women had What does he mean then? Hig Jornate than the mace which is car charm for everybody and most meaning, I think, is, "This parti
ried in the Speaker's procession at women had charm for somebody, she cular young woman makes Westminster.
herself appeared to have charm for think better of women generally. nobody.
She Increases my admiration for And it was Thomas Hardy who human nature. She is a pleasure wrote the poem which begins: to me in the same way that my
MR. MAXTON'S JERSEY
When Mr. James Maxton, M.P., spoke in the North of Scotland re- cently kis chairman was a fisher- man in a jersey.
Mr. Maxton admired the jersey. The fisherman's wife offered to knit one for him. Mr. Maxton said he would be glad to buy it.
The jersey arrived: it fitted like In glove,
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Mr. Maxton admired it in artificial light and laid it aside to wear next day.
In the morning it was revealed In its true colour. It was black,
Mr. Maxton's courage failed him, He gave it to a friend.
When he was again in Scotland Mr. Maxton told the story of the jersey.
Never a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to thous
Patient to peruse her: Some one charm the world
knotes,
Precious to a muser, Hapin what, ere years were foes, Moped her mate to choose her,
favourite pieces of music or mỹ favourite pictures or my favour Ite books are a pleasure to me."
Charm, in a woman of any age, un-inspires both admiration and de
votion. Et inspires kindliness. It does not at first contact inspire that particular blend of the men- tal and physical emotions which But neither poet nor playwright, we call, for want of a better name, you will observe, does much to love. elucidate the mystery of a charac- Therefore. in 90 cases out of teriatic which is neither altogether every 100 when one heare ther mental, nor altogether spiritual, nor epithet "charming" one hears t altogether physical. It is, in fact, applied about a child!
a blend of all three.
Charm In Old Age
Charm In Both Sexes
I have not so far dealt, except
One of the most charming women cursorily, with the charm men, ex
I know, for instance, is a little oldjercise over women. And not at
women
Over
The other day another jersey ar-lady who just remembers the Indian all with the charm which both rived. It was blue,
Mutiny and with whom one can only men and
exercise just hold a consecutive conversation, their own sex. But in all, such Your Daily Smile! As another example, of this charm cases, I am certain, charm la the in the aged I can mention to you anjsame blend of the mental, the Defendant: "Whatever the outcome aunt of mine who died two years spiritual and the physical has no chance of upsetting a of this trist, I feel sure the experience ago at the age of 70, and whose Let the mere male, therefore,
will make me a better man.”
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Tenure of rule nowadays is settled beyond all dispute by the The Red Czardom has its own attitude and conduct of a coun- Inquisition. More than two hun-try's armed forces.
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salon is still remembered regretfully sum up his opinions on this pecue
to the speech made by my Counsel.”
Defendant: "In striving to live up by all of us-and there were very lar quality of charm in the op
many of us who frequented it. posite sex by stating, as every These and similar instances of mere male usually ends by stating, dred persons have been summari- stand by the Government, it can (both members of one of the conduct the interest which the best type of finds charming, and with which he, First American Tourist to Second charm, I always imagine, are due to the particular attributes which he ly shot in vengeance for the defy its opponents. The timed Peppy Tours, doing Europe hy murder of Kirov, including the has gone, probably for ever, in second: "Is this Thursday, or Fri- In the company of such women one good fairy, would, endow a "Prin schedule): "Is this Rome or Florence 7" old people display towards the young, given the fabulous chance of the mother of the assassin, a woman which a discontented populace day?"
If these
of 85 years. At the same time could rush out into the streets First: "Friday." we have M. Litvinov (alias and with rapidly improvised Second: "Then it's Rome" : Finkelstein) personally assuring weapons overthrow a dynasty or
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feels that one's own acts, or it may cess Charming at her birth. be only one's own feelings, are of My princess la question, then paramount Importance. This is, of would not be dazzlingly beautiful of countenance. She wouldnot course,.supremely selfish,
affairs,
...
"
the League of Nations at Genevaja party. Modern-invention has John and his sister Mary were argu
Not Her Prerogative that the struggle for the Marx-given truly terrible powers to ing. Mary was winning on points.
But then most of only we are possess one of those figures, whichTM ian ideal la a negation of ter those who hold the means of Why are you always telling me marily concerned with our own ture directors into ecetasfes. She
so afraid of admitting Itare, pri sand dressmakers and moving ple rorism, which the Soviet has per-using them, and so long as the what to do asked John. "I'm not sistently opposed. Fanatics of masters of Moscow can retain the your husband.”
Iwould not be a great poetess, this class have neither consis-allegiance. of the Red Army, they
Now let us descend the feminine treat painter, a great musician, or tency nor humour. When Char-can count themselves secure and
Hatching
charm-scale a decade or so and con-even a great actress. In fact lotte Corday killed Marat, who can spill as much blood as it gress has been made in flying. Men
Clever Man: "What wonderful prosider what we will call the middle there would be nothing, great had instigated unceasing blood-pleases them.
aged woman. Here, too, I fancy, about her at all. can do anything bird can do.” shed, the Republican journalist If Yugoslavia had split only a
She would be just an ordinary Bored Listener: "Is that so? Well, charm springa mainly from unselfish- who succeeded him cried out for tenth as much in blind revenge egg, tell me, and I'll come and have
when you see an aviator sitting on an ness.
young woman, ordinarily attrac still greater massacres, "in order for the murder of her King, what
We may say about any middle-tive in face and figure, ordinarily to teach these Royalists the an outcry there would have been
a look!
aged woman that we like her be careful about her appearance, or sacredness of human life." from holders of "advanced"
cause she is always so. well turned dinarily intelligent, ordinarily Doubtless the present rulers of opinions all over the earth. The
out, or because she is so intelligent, healthy, and ordinarily capable of Russ are inspired by the same same people, however, will have
or because she has such a marvel managing the ordinary everyday jexalted ideal. Yet the lesson it is safe to assert, little or four arrived in the Colony from gives such wonderful parties, or
Mr. S. Balfour and Mrs. A. Bal-lous sense of humour, or because she affaires
But whatever she did my prin.. seems to take a surprisingly long nothing to say concerning the Shanghai this morning, by the s.s.merely because she is so well pre- cess would do with a smile. What time, having lasted already nearly Red, terror in Russia. They as many years as the. French have condoned, not condemned, Talyo Maru
served. But what we actually mean ever she had to bear she would blood-letting lasted months, and it from the outset. The contrast Mr. Carl N. Werntz, President of whether consciously, or unconscious-she would never think, "I am the is that she goes out of her way vital of all-whatever she thought. bear with. philosophy. And-most: having caused destruction on an afforded by their attitude to- incomparably larger scale. It is, wards all forms of Fascism com-
the Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, ly-to make us feel happy when we indeed, as some even of our own pletes a nauseating picture. No and Mrs. Werntz were passengers are with her. doctrinaires delight in remark-true lover of liberty would accept sailed from here yesterday.
aboard the s.a. Assma Maru, which; ing, an interesting experiment! their assistance of a moment. Nor is there any promise of an The Right and the Right Centre,
Personal Para
For between sex-appeal and charm-appeal there is all the differ- ence in the world,
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only person in the world who mate tera:" This again may sound a little bit selfish; but it seems to me none the For the only people who are less, correct for that.
quite devoid of charm, whether end being reached. The Minister which approve of neither Com- Mr. Denys Reiss, Manager of And now, finally, in so far as the men or women, are those who for War, M. Voroshiloff; has just munism nor Fasciam, have alone Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Company, female sex is concerned, let us can never smile, who possess no phi- given the Moscow garrison his the right to denounce either accompanied by his wife and chil-sider this characteristic of charm in losophy, and who are entirely self- "sacred word of honour" (a sur But the Left, which refuses to dren, left the Colony Jesterday by those who are young.
centred Yet even such are worth But what prisingly bourgeois phrase, by see that Fascism is but the sore the 6.8. Asama Maru,
ever we do, do not let us consider observing if only to enhance our the way) that "within a fewly provoked reaction against the
[own opinion of this particular characteristic as
our charming- Belves. months, all the enemies of Stalin far worse exceases of Commur Dr. Harukichi Tamura, President having anything to do with that in Soviet Russia will be under ism, deprives its own protests of of the Medical University, Nagoya, other characteristic which the out- ently, of whether they give pre-plore the Nazi mentality which Asama Maru, which left here yes- the earth"-regardless, appar-all aincerity. Its members de- Japan, was a passenger by the s.a. of-date 1920's knew as "It." text, or not.
frowns on the memory of inter-terday. From the death of Kirov and nationally-minded Goethebut the shocking reprisals which have have no fault to find with the Mr. W H. E. Thomas, Sub-Mana- followed it, several reflections mental tyranny of Bolshevism, ger of the Chartered Bank of India, arise. The first and most which despises Tolstoi. They Australia and China, accompanied actresses, for the films, who spend obyinus is that no system of rule shriek to heaven over Hitler's by Mrs. Thomas, left the Colony vee-hours and hours in the attempt to exempts, a community from such killings, numbered only in scores, terday by the ss. Mama Maru, cultivate the former appeal. Nor
London, To-day. cccurrences. Monarchs, abeo- but are dumb in face of the lute or constitutional, dictators. Soviet's slaughterings, numbered Mr. Gould Dietz the American cated young woman will tell you,
it at all difficult, as uny sophisti-Sir Francis Lewis Castle Floud, K. C. B., left London yesterday presidents of republics all have in, millions. The reason is of delegate to the Red Cross Conference any young woman, granted only morning to take up his duties as at times furnished victims for course, that they do not, as they held recently in Japan, and Mrs. tolerable basis of physical attraction High Commissioner in Canada for dagger or revolver. Nor can any still like to pretend, object to Dietz, passed through the Colony on to crown such attempts with at least His Majesty's Government in the profection, avail for ever against tyranny in itself. On the con
board the 8.5, Asama Maru, which some measure of success
United Kingdom. Sir Francis WAS reckless and desperate assault. trary, they like it, if only it be sailed for San Francisco yesterday. But sax-appeal seldom Inspires appointed last year British Wire- The Red Czar is guarded as the exerted by some section that
men to great deeds, or women. White Czar never was yet in a calls itself Left To prove some SANITARY INSPECTOR ROBBED great unself aness. It is at its country like Russia us at present radical theory, they are perfectly administered not even Stalin can willing to see millions starved and Sanitary Inspector. G. W. Bowden, Whereas the charm appeal is the feel too secure, and he would not slain. Russia, as an object of No. 4 Cox's Road, Kowloon, re- precis
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