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Name Spring, about 175
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In rejecting Mr. Charles Gard- publication should be addressed to miles north of Little Rock, flowsner, winner of last month's Trice "below the Editor, and be accompanied by like a great river from a low rocky for the King's CEF, 15 the Writer's Name and Address ridge, discharging 9,000 barrels of standard" for a pilot's B Licence, not necessary for insertion, but water per minute. Due to the the Air Ministry was acting at er a guarantee of good faith.
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large amount of carbonic acid held cording to international regula- in solution, the surface of this tions.
wonderful fountain is in a continual Mr. Gariner wears spectacles. state of effervescence. Mammoth By international agreement, "arti
THE PLAIN WOMAN'S TRIUMPH
WALKS ALONE, BRAVEST
OF THEM ALL
WILLING RECIPIENT OF OTHERS. JOYS AND SORROW
(By May Edginton)
Spring covers 15 acres to a depth ficial aids to eyesight disqualify S greatest and innermostat us as we enter a restaurant.”
if
HE has learned one of life's,answered: "When no one looks of 100 feet at the source. It gen-for the B licence.
She knows how to "When is one too old for erates enough water power to RA.F. pilots, however, may wear secrets.
is walk alone. their sight
love?" someone asked a cele- Yet she is one of a Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1936. operate one of the largest flour glasses
great brated old Frenchwoman of 80. mills of the South and to furnish thereby brought up to the high
army: she is numbered in her With the memory of a life- electricity to several nearby cities standard required for flying.
Mr. Gardner's rejection came in a thousands; even in her millions. time of beauty and conquests Its From it rises the beautiful Spring
River which is 50 miles long.. week during which two other be They seem to march in regi- fresh in her heart, she replied:
one is "Ask someone older than L." spectacled men had distinguished ments, although each
You meet her a hom- The armies of the plain themselves in sport Capt. G. E. alone. T. Eyston is inseparable from his dred times in the length of a woman, who is plain in a neu- She is standing tral, ordinary way, know none
The Typhoon And
Lessons
The first typhoon of the sea-
son has come and gone. Hong
the main disturbance passed
Married 95 Times
E. Franco-Urias is an interna-“artificial aids," and so is S. C. short street.
Kong is perhaps fortunate that Manoa with onces Wooderson, who beat Lovelock in next to you at the sales coun-of these thrills, and only the 100 miles to the south, since at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez ac.the mile at the White City not ter; she is behind the sales more foolish of them would
EG. Meers won
W. M. Washburn, the
counter; she and her sisters are assert: "I don't care." For the covered in every public vehicle; in every they must care passionately; even the edge which we experi-ross the border, and practices in long ago. enced was severe enough in all the busy divorce centre at the lat
of ter city. In the 35 marriages. Mr. court title at Queen's in spectacles, tea-shop; every theatre and and are well aware of what they American, cinema. She is in the roaring lose. They are vividly awake conscience. What sort
the delights and the havoc would have been wrought Franco-Urias acted as the proxy if the centre of the typhoon had bridegroom while other attorneys wore them in the final of the cities and in the green of coun-to passed over the Colony can be acted as the proxy bride as provid tables at Wimbledon, en tan- she is all, over the glamours of the countries which better imagined than described, ed for in the Mexican law. The Lester was a spectacled lawn ten-world, noiseless, self-effacing, they will never travel.
was 131 mile-an-hour ceremonies were held in the Ciudad nis captain of Cambridge. gusts were registered, which is, Juarez Civil Registry.
As it
we believe, an even greater wind velocity than the Colony: experienced in the last visita-
IN ENGLAND
tion of the "Big Wind" in 1923. SUNNY WEATHER But the material damage has been considerable, and it is most regrettable that several lives have been lost.
Swimming Pools And Cafes Patronised
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They mostly unnoticed.
The are like would-be travellers Plain Woman.
who, with the panorama of She is not what the French romance flashing before them. | SOVIETS VESTAL VIRGIN
call wie belle laide. There is always see other people off on Stalin's new policy of making nothing so redeeming as athe marvellous adventures. frequent public appearances to striking ugliness about her.
Royal Status labour" That may fascinate. She has congratulate heroes of
"Good-bye: good-bye," they has had strange results in the little of that gift called per- say sweetly; and the train pulls Russian provinces.
sonality, nor any otustanding out; the ship sails away; the the great talent which more than atones wedding bells ring: the glorious
A handshake from
Red Vojd a title which, like for the lack of any physical babies are born; Life heaps her Duce and Fuehrer, means "Leader" beauty; she is merely ordinary. favours on other people. We have travelled a long way
virtually canonises. its humble She will come into a roomful of "Good-bye," says the plain since the disastrous days of
recipient
people and you will not know it,woman, and goes quietly home 1906, when over 10,000 people
London, To-day. Most remarkable of all is the land go out of the room with-alone. lare said to have lost their lives!
After six weeks of unseasonable change in the circumstances of out attracting more than the What is her reward? She in the visitation of that year weather London and the south of little Usbek girl who beat the politely necessary "good-bye."
has none, except her royal In those days there were no
spell of cotton-picking record for Central
Nothing Duller
status, and I hope she realises meteorological stations to give England is enjoying a
her queenly estate. For she is sunny, hot weather, which seems Asia. As a reward, Stalin himself ample warning to all sections of likely to continue at least for sever-strapped a watch on to her wrist There Is nothing duller, a giver. Her heart is rich and the community; the arrange al days. The swimming pools and Now she is treated as a 20th nothing more deadening, than overflowing with gifts of her ments for the safety of the
A little to be neither loved nor hated. own devising: love and pity and' large water population of the open-air cafes, which have been century vestal virgin. Colony were primitive, if indeed Poorly patronised so far this sum house has been built for her, and It invites an atrophy both of patience and sympathy and mer, were crowded yesterday, and she is looked after by half a dozer soul and body. The world of understanding-generously she any existed at all We may
women will never grow too bestows them. therefore be profoundly thank-nearly 16,000 people watched the old women-
bored for a woman to SEVOUZ She has been aware from her ful for everything that is done England-All India test match
she will preserve the the Ovals much improved at MR. ANTHONY EDEN RETURNS the thrill of being the most earliest youth that nowadays to
admired passenger on a ship, never receive. No protesting population at large from the tendance compared with Saturday.
the momentary centre of in-lovers will sweep her off her extreme ravages of such a blowBritish Wireless Service.
London, to-day-The
Lord terest in
the stalls at the feet; no spectacular fortune Privy Seal, Lord Halifax, who in theatre,
the sought-after crown her. If she wants to the absence of the Foreign Secre-beauty at a party; or seeing all share the lives of others in how- she ever slight or humble a capaci- tary on holiday in Yorkshire has heads turn after her as CHINA & GLASS DEPARTMENT vatory was in a position to pro-
com-ty she must offer and never been in charge of the Foreign walks gloriously, with vide ample warning to all har-
She is the dear bour craft; secondly, splendid A businessman is of the opinion Office, was on duty yesterday, but placent escort, into a fashion-demand.
daughter, the unselfish sister, work was done by the police that a girl who is in love is a to-day Mr. Anthony Eden, who able haunt for dinner.
"When,” I asked of a wise the kind aunt, the sought-for and fire brigade in rescue work since in an office.
and sophisticated woman confidante-if she is lucky. worn charge of his department-Bri-friend, will we feel old?" She (Continued on Page 9)
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Since his typist in the lamentable tragedies at engaged, the X on the office type has returned to London, resumes
been practically writer has and away. Stanley and elsewhere; thirdly, we may be sure that the material damage done to public works such as roads and piers will speedily be put aright.
* Obviously No
Smith had been pestered by his small son asking questions. One eve-
*
Thoughtful
ning, as he sat down to a quiet per- usal of his paper, small voice pip- Though it may be an expen-ed, "Dad, am I made of dust?"
"I think not," said the father; sive process and smack some- what of the genesis, if "Elia" otherwise you would dry up now and
then." is to be believed, of roast pig, it is inevitable that we should learn from experience; and in
of thought is rather this respect one or two points charming which led a little boy, when may profitably be raised, fol- told not to mention a guest's amput- lowing yesterday's visitation.ated foot, to say, "No, and when I Only three people out of the 150 Ket to heaven I won't say anything to John the Baptist about his head." affected lost, their lives in the
The train
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crash of a contractors' matshed We read of a talking alarm-clock at Stanley, and while we may which announces the hour in a loud,
THL,
merely adding a reproachful tut,” however, when the owner turns over and goes to sleep again.
be thankful that the others manlike voice. It contents itself with were spared it is surely nothing The to be complacent about. ipoint seems to arise that the temporary and often. frail structures put up to house workmen on building sites question which needs careful should either be prohibited examination. Presumably the entirely during the typhoon police stations are always in a season or else be subject to position to warn the villagers stricter regulations to ensure of the approach of a typhoon; the maximum of safety for but whether any evacuation of those involved. In the ordin- people from the more fragile ary course of events a matshed, structures in the native vil- however strongly constructed, lages could be accomplished has little chance to outlive a would seem still to offer scope cyclonic blow, such as we are for official enquiry. It should liable
every summer to get not be beyond the wit of man here.
When it is a question to devise some co-ordinated of a bathing matshed on
scheme by which the people of beach, where no risk to living particular localities could be men is involved, the principle is removed to a place of safety unimportant; but it is a moot when danger threatens. The point whether temporary creation of special zones, each
the with buildings
3 central, strongly- matshed principle should be constricted edifice in which permitted for the purpose of people could take temporary housing workers on a building shelter, suggests itself We scheme, and we suggest that commend the idea something might be done to authorities for what it is worth. remedy the matter in future. Meanwhile every sympathy will Another point which arises is be heartily extended to all the question of conveying the those who have suffered loas by information of an approaching death or depredation, especially typhoon to the outlying villages to those who make a precarious in the new territories and of living by or on the sea, in sny securing the safety populations. This is a big storm may have caused them.
erected
on
to
The
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
ARGEST SPRING
IN THE WORLD!
DISCHARGES 9000 BARREIS. OF WATER A MINUTE
ITS FLOW OR TEMPERATURE NEVER CHANGES.
the
Arizoses
their misfortime, which yesterday's
BILLY HERMAN CUBS 23 BISEXAN
MAKUP-VENDS #2 ON HIS BACK
BAGERS WEEMAJOR LEAGUES
CRUSOE
ROBINSON CRUSOE
IS STELA BEST SELLER IN PARIS
SALVADOR FRANCO URIAS.
of ELPASO
HAS BEEN MARRIED 95 TIMES AS PROXY
- BE OBTAINED 52 DIVORCES IN ONEZDAY.
PLOW CANNON
COMBINATION PLON AND CANNON
· OSED BY WESTERN FARMERS TO RIDEL INDIANS
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Owned by GONE KASTRE, Ömera Neb
i.