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U.S. PRESIDENT'S HELPMEET
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES OF MRS. ROOSEVELT
MOST TRAVELLED WOMAN EVER
TO OCCUPY WHITE HOUSE
(By Douglas Williams)
doing s povelty act in wade. LOVE OF TITLE ville which required a 36-inch All communications intended for of newspaper stock. A roll A correspondent to an American publication should, de addressed. to. he purchased for the purpose was paper supplies the following hist the Editor, and be accompanied by too wide, necessitating the saw some Negro societies in Mis- the Writer's Name and Address off of a 4-inch end. On thississippi, "transcribed from the re not necessarily for insertion, but huge reel of paper Clardy wrote cords of charters of incorporation as a guarantee of good faith letter using large lamber cray in the office of Secretary of State
ons, writing and rerolling until Walker Wood at Jackson":-
New York. In her first year`as Mistress of finished.
The Brotherly Love Continne. Un- "The letter was then
One morning I was sitting in the, White House she travelled crated and shipped to Ed P.dertakers and Sons of America.
other more
40,000 miles. The The Connubial Anti-Matrimonial company with half-a-dozen Mr. Quinn Society. Quian in Panama.
jounalists talking to President speedometer on her own little blue waited until he had a day off,
The Nuptial The Union.
Boosevelt in his little study at ear, which she loves to drive alone then unrolled it along the ties of Co-operative Ton-Utter Utterly Ut-Hyde Park, the old Roosevelt and unescorted, showed a mileage the Panama Railroad to read the ter Mariage Aid Association.
family mansion overlooking the of nearly 20,000 Grand Fountain of Grand United Endson River, north of New York. İletter, which reached from Em-
Order of True Reformers of the State
A trained public speaker, she pire to Calebra.
of Mississippi.
The routine of our daily confer-]makes more public appearances - in The Old Student Grand Tabernacle Independent Orence had been completed, questions a month than many other. Presi-: HALL-To Mrs. Ronald Hall on
der of Brothers and Sisters of Love had been asked and answered, and dents' wives have done in the whole December 10th at the War
87-year-old Martin Link of and Charity. Memorial Hospital à son
Supreme Lodge of the United Be the conversation had turned to course of their husbands" terms of office Reporters endeavouring to The Bishop and Mrs. Hall wil Buffalo, walks & miles every day formers of America Asia and Africa lighter topics.
The Supreme Division of Men and An animated discussion was in keep up with her become exhausted. be happy if their friends will to attend classes in horseshoe
of New York Women of the City of Refuge.
full swing as to the respective | On one typical day she. not send fowers or gifts to pitching at one
Supreme Lodge of the Grand Arch merits of the Newspapermen's aid State's education
He centres. Mrs. Hall but a donation to
Temple of
of the Brothers and Sisters of of America
the Presidential baseball teams.). the Society For The Protee likes it so much that, rain
shine, he never fails to answer Independent Order of the Sons and when suddenly the door leading to tion of Children.
"Here." He recently
à Daughters of Jackson, of Mississippi the main part of the house opened, tourcament restricted to entries and America Hong Kong. Tuesday, Dec. 10. 1935. more than 60 years of age
BIRTH
New Light On The Speed Limit
"I have a pair of eyes," said
Mr. Samuel Weller; if they
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Independent Pale Bearers of Ass and a slim, dark-haired woman en- tered unannounced. Her hair was The Grand Court of the Indepen-combed straight back over her dent Order of Calanthe, under the head, and she wore no make-up. Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court She was dressed in a pair of not Annexed to the Supreme Lodge
માં.
Inspected her son's rooms at
Harvard College; ** Ladled out soup at a charity
kitchen;
Went down a coal mine; Reviewed policemen; "Laid a comer-storie;-
Inanguated a swimming pool; Visited a theatre.
In her journeys alone in her car Knights of Pythias, Coloured, of too-well-fitting jodhpurs and a
thinks nothing of motoring North America, South America, plain white blouse, and was hat-she Europe, Asia and Africa.
¡less.
from Washington to New York a We also have it on the author-
ander distance of 240 miles, in Unceasing Activities Among the recent arrivals to
Mrs. Lee Chuan-ity of a distinguished churchman
Bending over, she kissed the seven hours. was a pair of patent double-mi the Colory are
"Sare Spots" lion extra magnifying gas mic- guan, O.EE, one of the wealthiest who recently passed through Hong President and wished him good- roscopes I might be able to see women in Malaya, and Mrs K Chong that the beginning of the morning-all in the most natural She justifies her wanderings by through a fight of stairs and a Eu, daughter-in-law of Mr. Eu Ethiopian trouble saw the forma manner, without affectation and explaining that she is constantly deal door. But being only eyes. Tong-sen, the well-known Malayan ion, by negresses anxious to emu-with- obviously real affection. It looking for "sore spots" where late the well-known Daughters of
was Mrs. Roosevelt, just setting are," she said in a recent speech, my vision is limited" Many a multi-millionaire sportsman.
the Revolution, of an order styled forth on her morning ride, and a great many social injustices in motorist must have felt, like Sam, the need of more than ho- Among the passengers who dis-Daughters of the Ancient Ethio few seconds later through the win the United States, and it is sur
5.$. Conte Pian Eanuch!
dow I saw her swing into her prising how few people actually man eyes to discern when he is embarked from the
saddle and canter away down the know about them. A sore spot in within a restricted area. From Verde last Sunday morning were
gravelled driveway.
any one State, mless it is cured. a case heard recently at Fel Miss A. Frankel and Miss M.! tham it appears that the law is Addis, two charming members of so adjusted as to make certain Singapore's younger set. who are ty almost impossible.
on a month's holiday in the Colony. The theory of the speed limit |
Your Daily Smile!
"Do you think a genius ever makes a good husband?”
You'd better ask my wife.”
* + *
is a chain of argument like the Pleading guilty to a charge of
"Polished woman, Mrs. Simmick, story of the house that Jack having stolen, în diferent dates, don't you think?” built. Speed is restricted to 30 three $10 notes from his master, "Very. Everything she says casts miles an hour in every built-Lin Chu, aged 39, a cook employed a reflection on someone." up area, and a built-up area is by Mr. F. D. Alves of No: 149,
a lit-up area. and a lit-up area Waterloo Road, was sentenced to 2 is where the lamp-posts are not months' hard labour by Mr. than 200 yards apart. Wynne-Jones this morning. Few motorists probably were
more
cere-
aware of that distance proviso. It is notified for the information
the other occupations of of civilians attending To their watching for signs, for lamp-monies of welcome to His Excel posts and
their speedometers Jency Sir Andrew Caldecott, GOF- they are not, however, advised ernor Designate, next Thursday to add mensuration. That way that decorations will not be worn madness lies. A police sum-with morning dress mons against a motorist for ex-
cessive speed on the Kingston The Students Dinner Dance of Staines road was answered by the H. K. Accountants and Secre- the contention that the lamps taries Students' Society will be on the timed stretch were over held on Saturday next, at the 1200 yards apart; therefore it Peninsula Hotel Rose Room, not was not built up. It was, then on December 12 at the Hong Kong not a restricted area, and the Hotel Roof Garden, as previously
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torist. But his case leaves us The Kung Shing Lecture Hali wondering how many people on at Caroline Hill Road, opposite to that road and others have been the South China Athletic Play- summoned and fined without ground, will be opened by the committing any offence. It is Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith this after- apparently not the habit of noon at 4 p.m..
police to verify the essential
contiguity of lamp-posts. They Seven cases of diphtheria and are not, under the law, to cothree (one imported) of enteric fine the operation of the limit
fever were reported to the Health
on Sunday,
to places marked by signs of authorities in the 43 hours ended restriction. Probably it would not make for more equitable conditions if they did; the signsį are generally less visible than the lamp-posts
Licence To Murder
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London: The new Irish Free State air service to Britain will be inaugurated early next year..
It is of the first importance that the law should not only be just, but have its justice made ed to be sane enough to be res plain. The Lord Chief Justice ponsible for his crime unless it in England was wise in taking is proved to the jury that when an opportunity recently to res-he committed it he was suffer- tate the conditions which are ing from such a disease of the required to establish a defence mind as not to know what he of insanity en a criminal was doing, or that what he did charge. This plea has become was wrong. This text is irrtis- so common in capital eases that putabiy both just and merch Lord Hewart called it an aful It protects those who were most invariable make weight" in fact irresponsible from the His remark on its rarity in punishment apportioned to other criminal trials was caus-their deeds, it ensures that tie Lord Buckmaster, that crime shall not be fostered by most eloquent, of legal oppon the escape of malefactors on lents of capital punishment, used the plea that they are not nor to argue that "the bulk of mur- Every case in which there
when ders are com
Bost cont of
a shadow of doubt should be ed. – Counsel sze
*
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*
UP-TO-DATE And where is your husband?” ✨ "Oh, he went back to his first wife
* * IT'S A GREAT LIFE Judge What brought you here" Prisoner "Those two policemen
Four Honour
Judge "Drunk, I suppose?" Prisoner "You bet. Both of them."
* * EU-R-R-R-R-E Charley on what grounds does your father object to me, dearest?"
Agnes-On our grounds principal- ly. Ee says if he catches you there again he'll set the dog on you"
It is probably safe to say that is sure some day to affect the whole rever has the White House at country." Washington contained a Presi Mrs. Rooseve. 2.ouses constant dent's wife who occupies a more criticism. but her personality is so and the important place in American life delightfully disarming, than Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. Her motives underlying her actions so adviser, well founded, that her critics make unceasing activities as diplomat, and social worker have small headway against a definitely made her the President's wolume of popular approval A partner-it is true, without official daily subject of discussion -- by’-- title, but still with great respon-housewives in a thousand different homes, she is denounced as a pub- gibilities.
She is a woman of amazing and licity-seeker and as a ""Radical,” aimless untiring energy. She is always or, alternatively, as an going somewhere in a great hurry busybody.
by motor-car, aeroplane, train or On one occasion she made horseback Since she entered the marks about the guzzling habits White House three years ago she of young ladies of to-day, and a has probably used more petrol and deputation of so-called “women purchased more train and aero-leaders" labelled her innocuous and plane fickets than any other wo-rather amusing address as "an in- an in public life anywhere in the salt to American girlhood."
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