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WILL WOMEN OF ITALY OBEY THEM?
GENTLER SEX OPENLY REVOLTING AGAINST DUCE'S RULINGS
*(By Kathleen Norris)
TUSSOLINT has an extraor-, fused and repetitional that they
or user four midshipment Mdinary talent for making mo- right curiay be rolled down to four Can were H-RH. Prince Albert, Lord men mad. Whether or not bis smug for five, he suggests that they re- Osborne, the Hon. G. A. Hardinge. pronouncements have the, effect of main faithful, sweet and serene in and Mr. Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, enraging his fellow-countrywo-separation, carry on in industrial afterwards Lord Wester-Wemyss men I don't know; perhaps they fields, live simply, help the needy, and First Sea Lord,
admire the man and his achieve never despair or doubt the out- After Commander Hillyard re-ments so whole-heartedly that they come of the war, and "be proud tired, he did not meet King George like it. But to me it is inconceiv-of your motherhood; in spite of
were
Like every other message from this source it sounds to me did- fashioned. Mussolini's
of way thinking, at least where women
Mr. and Mrs. A. Victal tender Charges of Theft That again until the Wimbledon lawnable that any woman can read his separation."
tennis meeting in 1907. The Com-bulletins of advice to war brides Were Dismissed
mander then wore a moustache.
This last would seem to me, if without a sensation of anger. King George said to him: “Why
I were an Italian war bride, about Mrs. Florence. Colman, aged don't you stick to the Service way signed with Il Duce's name. Ther to be suavely advised to rejoice These, by the way, were not the bitterest drop in the bitter cup; tendance and to Mrs. M. E. de 60. a widow, of St. Michael's and wear a beard or shave clean appeared, appropriately enough, on in the coming of the poor little Souza Remedios, the proprietress road, Stockwell. S... claimed of the Kowloon Nursing Home for damages in the King's
Next day the Commander apthe feast of All Souls, in Bench her indefatigable and zealous care Division recently against the and has remained so ever since-italia, and were signed "Bene- his own father.
peared at Wimbledon clean-shaven Roman
the baby whose father I knew so little newspaper Giornale myself, and who might never know and attendance to my
only be British Home Stores Ltd: for He is now the sole survivor of the loved daughter, Zuleima, which alleged assault. false imprison-Bacchante's midshipmen.
How easy it all detta."
is to say. how next-to-impossible conduced to her rapid and complete i ment, and malicious prosecu-
But this paper is recognised as to do! eure from the dreaded "Typhoid tion.
the semi-official mouthpiece of the SOVIET CHILDREN'S STORIES
Old-Fashioned Bondage ¡Fever."
It was stated that Mrs. Col-I About three years ago Krup-leader, and it is safe to say that man was stopped when leaving skaya. Lenin's widow, astonished the "commandments" Hong Kong. Monday, March 2, 1936. Brixton store (not the defen- the USSR by suggesting that published without his sanction.
dants"). and later detained for the time had come to re-introduce
Cheer And Guide lover seven hours in the police fairy stories, such as Goldilocks. They are supposed to cheer and are concerned, is distinctly old- station, charged with stealing Before then, Soviet literature guide all mothers and wives and fashioned. a pair of stockings and two for children had been as drearily daughters of soldiers, and to be battles of smelling salts, the ideological as literature for adults, especially directed at those unhap the women there, as a class, were When I lived in Italy I felt that latter from the British Home and dealt with brave little boyspy girls whose fate it is to be mar-1100 years behind Canadian and Stores. Next day the charges who distributed A manifeste issued by the
anti-capitalist ried to young untried warriors American women; he takes them. National Government at the end were dismissed at the South-leaflets in capitalist countries, and just in time to taste the sweets of back still another 100 years
xallant school-girls who denounced wifehood, to meekly surrender up of the last Parliament set forth
They are not to think: they are Paid $75
their Kulak parents to the G.P.U. their men when the bugle sounds not to question what the men do. Cross-examined, Mrs. Colman Since Goldilocks, more and more and--if God so wills-to bear, in They are to be good and busy and country's more stable financial said she had been paid £75 by pre-Revolution children's literature bewildered loneliness and poverty cheerful faithful to their men in position had brought from the Messrs. Marks and Spencer in has been allowed, both Russian and under all the restrictions of separation. helping the "sick, realm of the remotely desirable respect of the charge of steal- and foreign.
wartime shortage, the babies who feeble and tired," living, austere- The latter now includes "The will be ready in their turn for the ly and simply, and bearing children into the region of the imme-ing stockings. diately practicable. Early last .C., for Mr. Colman, said, in Finn."
The Marquess of Reading, Jungle Book" and "Huckleberry cannons of say, 1960. In other for the State. month a circular issued to
Raising The School Age
ja comprehensive programme of educational reforms which the
Western Police-court.
Local Education Authorities reply to Mr. Justice du Parcq. implemented those parts of the that he would ask for damages only for malicious prosecution. programme which could be car The hearing was adjourned. ried out by administrative ac- tion. Three weeks later, with equal promptitude, that part of the programme which requires legislation was formulated in the terms of the Government's Bill In brief the Bill will con- tinue the period of compulsory. school zitendance throughout.
EXPOSITION AT. TOKYO
Canada May Take Part
Your Daily Smile!
Well. He Should Know:
words, this advice from headquar-↓ Even 15 years ago the wONDEN Itérs is for war brides.
of Southern Europe were living Pretty fat and banal it sounds under some odd handicaps. No ito me, too.. Rather, airy and master what a woman's husband patronising. It is so easy for adid, she had no means of escape A builder, when called upon for a man who is sending into a strange either from him or the situation, few remarks, modestly observed that country and a strange war the unless she wanted to surrender he was more fitted for the scaffold young, eager men that will so soon everything valuable in ber life; than for the speakers' platform.”
be cold, bloody, blinded, gassed, her faith, her family, her children,
*
Some Disabilities
A chemist was awakened at mid- crippled, made mad, to compose her position, her property. night by violent pealings on his shop some pleasantly advisory ideas for bell. He looked out of his window the women who bore those men. and found a modern miss in a cloak who will mourn them, nurse them. the country from its present Ottawa-A representative of one ül?"
"What is it?" he shouted. "Some-tend them, support them for the termination at 14 years to 15the Mayor of Tokyo has been in "Oh no,” she chirped. "I'm at arest of their lives! years. By the "appointed Canada recently in an effort to dance just down the road and I've | day." September 1. 1939, the ensure that Canada will be re- lost my rouge."
"Really." said the chemist, "I'm higher leaving age is to become presented at the Tokyo Exposition sorry, but I never keep, enough rouge fit or not he advises them. In tes always the husband.
operative throughout the coun- in 1940. try, and the local by-laws areį
to be replaced by a uniform seti
case.
R
It is understood that the May- ar's representative will interview
matter-Reuter;
The two Royal Air Force ma-
reto
of conditions applicable to every the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. are. This uniformity of prin-Mackenzie King) regarding the ciple is, none the less, elastic in detail. The exemptions which may be granted in certain gen- eral circumstances will remain the responsibility of the Local chines engaged or a goodwill flight Authorities, who can take into
to Japan, which has been cancelled consideration how far such cirowing to the political position cumstances apply to any given there, are expected in the Colony!
[00 Wednesday on their Such in outline is the plan set modore Sydney Smith is on one of flight to Singapore. Air-Com- out by the Government's Bill them. The third boat will join the Unlike the abortive Bill of 1930 fight as soon as repairs have brought in by the Socialist
been carried out to the engine. Government and defeated largely by a revolt of Socialist
sense and generosity of the pro- Members, it does not attempt to posals now made are likely to rush the Local Authorities into be met in a friendly spirit by an immediate expansion of all the Churches, and the pro- buildings, staff and curriculum visions designed for the separ which would discredit a theore-ate religious instruction of chil- tically great advance by a com-dren belonging to denominations plete practical disorganisation differing from those of the of teaching. To design as School Managers demand small
unitý a four-year course from sacrifice from either side. The the age of eleven, in place of a only other clauses in the Bill three-year course, means a con-upon which controversy is like siderable expenditure of time as ly to arise are those which pro- well as money during the tran-vide for exemption Children sition, quite apart from the can be exempted either when higher annual cost when the their parents specially need system is running smoothly. their assistance at home to Grants for building will be tend permanent invalids, for made for the first time to what instance or where "beneficial are known as the "Voluntary" employment is offered. To or Non-provided" Schools judge what is beneficial a long which are run on denomination-view must be taken, embracing al lines, but they will be avail-not merely wages and hours in lable only for an emergency the first year, but ultimate period. Where these grants prospects, not merely the time are made towards existing or available for recreation, but the new Voluntary Schools at least opportunities for further edu 50 per cent of the costs will be cation in and outside the work contributed, with the proviso itself. Arguments for raising that all the teachers shall then the school age have frequently be under the control. of the been based upon the lessening Local Authorities except those of adult unemployment if "reserved teachers" who give juvenile entry into industry denominational religious in-were less wholesale and dis struction. K
orderly. Important as these
It was upon the suggestions arguments are, the main rea- for aid to Non-Provided Schools sans inspiring the reform con- that the 1930, Bill was finally cern the future welfare of the wrecked. But, the common-children-themselves.
in stock to cover a cheek like yours."
CANARY
No woman could bold property in her own name: it must be in ja man's name, every cheque must Faithful And Serene
be countersigned by a man. "The Well, anyway, whether they like man, for a married woman, was
(Continued on Page 10) "commandments" that are so con-l
"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
BORN WITH ONLY ONE EYE Caned b!
MRS.LEE HILL Christoval, Tex.
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CLARENCE CAYTON Reusville, N.C. SHOT A BAT WITH AN AIR RIFLE-USINGAMATCH
INSTEAD OF A SHOT-
THE MATCH HEAD HIT THE BAS TEETH
· AND BURST INTO
FLAME
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IN THE FAMILY
OF
·SOL FIELD IN 60 YEARS.
THERE ARE 60 MEMBERS IN HIS FAMILY
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