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LOVE-MAKING AS IT
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Difficulties Under A Puritan Regime
ORIGIN OF “BUNDLING”
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but a recent film has reminded us
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.. OPENING THURSDAY JOHN BARRYMORE
days of the Puritan Fathers was something of a precarious pastime. For they made a law declaring that: no longer must men and maidens meet in diverse places" without! the knowledge of their parenta. The young man who so offended was fined £5 for the first offence £10 for the second, and was given a gacl sentence.if he still inaisted
"Bundling" was a custom of the time and grew out of the shortage, of firewood in those days. How! could a young man, courting a girl with the approval of her parents, pay her, his attentions if economy made it necessary to let out the Are? Simple! They were both tied up in bundling bags with draw-i strings at the neck and the knees then put to bed, with a centro board with jagged edgen down be tween them, and covered with the bed clothes,
But after a while the Puritan: objected to this, and made it their duty to go around the houses a 'see whether "bundling" was stil
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The word "flirting" was not used then, Courting couples were sald
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WALKED 50 MILES TO OLD HOME
Remarkable Journey Of Lonesome Cat
A cat recently walked 60 miles home to Pontardama, Swansea
Washington have just been given the Valley, only to find that its mis- strangest job in America. They have to keep starlings from poing to sleep.
Every winter Washington suffers
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COLOURED SHIRTS IN POLITICS
Limited Choice Only Now Remains
WHAT WILL THE NEXT BE?
Leaders of new political parties who decide to adopt a coloured shirt as their "badge" will have something of a job to decide on a distinctive colour, for there are few left, if all the movements in Europe are taken into considera. tion.
The Blackshirts of Italy need hardly be mentioned, while their brethren of the same coloured gar- ment in this country, are well in the news. The German 'Brown. shirts are the stalwarts who up- hold the edicts of Herr. Hitler in Germany, the Redshirts are a Brl- tish body attached to the Indepen dent Labour Party in this country. The Greyshirts are British anti- Fascists, the Blueshirts oppose Mr. De Valera in the Irish Free State. Austria claims the Greenshirt-it represents anti-Nazi principles.
Doubtless we shall soon have the Yellowshirts-though it is easy to see that there are few serviceable colours left'l
THERE IS ALWAYS CREDULITY
Wild Claims Made By Pseudo-Baron
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A man known as "Baron" Oscar. M. Hartzell, who used to be familiar figure in the West-end of London, has been arrested in Chi- cago and sentenced to ten years in fa penitentiary.
He claims that he is the descen- dant of a son born of a⠀⠀'secret marriage between Queen Elizabeth: Jand Sir Francis Drake; that his in- heritance, which includes the
Crown Jewels of England, is being illegally kept from him by King tress has left the house,
George; add that he is heir to The cat was left by its owner, nine-tenths of North America, the Bra., C. G. Dahne, during the sum whole of Devonshire, and 1,100
Carmarthenshire. '.
from a plague of starlings. They/mer with friends at Pendinacres in the heart of London.|||
Hartzell has swindled thousands Its old home is now occupied by of humble people who have been of an
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come to claim it."
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(Continued. From Pane 1)
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TOO-GENEROUS VICAR
The Vicar of Midhurst in Sur- roy is a generous man. Just be fore Christmas he hung a notice fought throughout the Great War, on his garden gate:" "Trampe during which he was twice wounded whose boots are done for can obtain and twice mentioned in dispatches. a, new pair' here." Now all the A dance will be held by the Ków He also acted as extra A.D.C. to the tramps of England are converging loon Cricket Club this coming Prince of Wales during his Colonial on Midhurst, and the local con- Saturday evening, and members tour, in 19015 Ma Hoki stabulary have been called in to or and their friends are requested to Has been a Senator of the Union|ganise the queue outside the vicar- give this dance their hearty support. Parliament of 8. Africa since 1910. age.
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