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London Offens
1938
ACTION AGAINST Here There And
AUTHOR Attempt To Saddle
Responsibility
Everywhere
DIAMOND RING IN OINTMENT FAR
Woman Accuses Lodger
The alleged Ending of a £1,5 din-
7. Garrick Street, London, WC2Mr. Sutton Vane, the dramatist,
NOT GOING BUT BETURNING Though technically a shipping mond and platinum ring in a jar and anthor of "Outward Bound" Notics To Contributors.
was sued at Clerkenwell County) Surprise “was expressed in of-measure, and therefore the concern of ointment was described at Dor- All communications intended for Court last month by Mrs. Louisa ficial circles in London last month of the Board of Trade, the bichester last mouth, when Percival |J. Tamuiadge, a carpenter, of Hill- publication should be addressed to Sarah Ann Jenny, who claimed at the fact that Herr von Ribben-aises issues of foreign policy ingdon street, Walworth, London, the Editer, and be accompanied by me as for alleged damage done trop, the German Ambassador in which is a new field for Mr. Runci was charged with stealing the ring the_ Writer's_Name and Addres during his tenancy of a furnished London, should have been the sole
|from his land-lady, Mrs. Annie {not necessarily for insertion, but
With the Foreign Secretary of Starney, of Orchard-street, Dur- Ormond-street, signatory of the Germano-Japan-ais left and an ex-Foreign Secrechester. ļas a guarantee of good faith.
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Mr. Sutton Vane qontended that he was not responsible, and Judge Konstam dismissed the action, giving the author costs. The jnds described the case 65 en-attem to saddle Mr. Sutton Vane with all
the wear furniture:man.
Mr. Sutton Vane said that he
and tear of very, old
ese Pact
Man.
'When he was appointed, how~!
The first Opposition speaker,
In the normal course of diplo-tary, Sir John Simon, on his right He was committed for trial, bail Mr. Runciman had to walk warily, being allowed. He reserved his de- matic usage it is as if Sir Erie Phipps, the British Ambassador in
He never departed from the full fence. Berlin, were to return to London rapidly as possible.
text of his speech, which be read Mrs. Sturney said that on to sign, with Signor Grandi, the
November 23, as it was wasting projected agreement between Italy RUSSIA GONE TO HIS HEAD
day, she took the ring off and put it in a dish in the acullery, whe. and Great Britain.
her two lodgers” washed" and
When the police were called in left the fat in a better state than ever, it was made clear that Herr Mr. Noel Baker, had also to feel shaved. At night it was missing. be found it. When a friend sat in Ribbentrop would regard him-his way. It was his first speech
| Tammadge laid out on his bed the desire to thank all friends for an armchair it collapsed, a maho-self as having a dual role-Am-from the despatch box since he contents of his dressing case, in- their kind expressions of Byme
gany dining - - table had cas le bassador in London and Herr Hit-jreturned to Parliament in July. \cluding the jar of ointment. pathy in their bereavement 25
As he developed the Socialist
The constable found the ring in well as for the floral tributes and mechanism of a pianoforte was
shorter than the others and the ler'e principal adviser ca foreiga
case a few interruptions came from the ointment. out of order. A geyser would not
He was to play a particularly the Conservative benches, chiefly P. C. Symonds said that Tam- work because there was a bird's minent role in questions of the classic "What about Russia madge, when charged with steal-
Weltanschauung such as that in- Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 31, 1936. nest in the vent
Baker persistentlying the ring, denied that he had He said that when he left the folved in the anti-Bolshevik frost omitted Russia from his list of put it in the ointment jar. fiat the keys were thrown after formed by the Pact-which, inci-States which were breaking the him into the cab.
dentally, he negotiated months non-intervention agreement.
Your Daily Smile! ago.
Once, when tied up in his argu- Indeed, it was officially stated ment, he corrected himself, and] that he had given Mrs. Jenny in German circles in London that remarked, "Russia seems to have charge on his royalties so that she Herr von Ribbertmp was not "go-zone to my head" To that Mr. fast table when he came downstairs might get her rent.
ing to Berlin" but "returning to Maxton muttered, "Don't I wish it the last day of his holiday. Derlin after having come over specially to see Mr. Baldwin."
attendance at the funeral,
The Common Cold
Everyone knows how to cure a cold. There are in fact al most as many remedies against the common cold as there are people who suffer from that uncomfortable and unaesthetit | disorder. Mustard baths, nasal sprays, tablets and tinctures and essences galore, aromatic vapours and oils, hot applica- tions and cold applications,
Asked why he had stayed three rears in the flat, the nethor stated
MAN FALLS FROM TOWER BRIDGE
A middle-aged man who
affairs.
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Mr. Noel
had."
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Day of Reckoning Jones found his bill on the break-
Ба stared at it, whistled to himself in amazement, then laid it down dis- mally. A fellow-suxerer smiled at
“Highway rubbery, but it?" he commented.
Janes rubbed his chini. "Well," he remarked, “I don't know
it's just mash-and-grab.”
| FATHER COUGHLIN—EDUCATOR | him supathetically."
Father Coughlin's farewell to the radio has made Bishop Gal-
Prince Bismarck gave a fare well party last month at his house lagher, of Detroit, a sad man. He fellin Stanhope-street before his de-bopes that the American people that I'd call it that." I should say
will make the "radio priest” recall Itis decision. He did not immediately take up his new duties as the "successor
purging, fasting, special foods from Tower Bridge, London, parture for Berlin. and special drinks, abstinence, was rescued by a rowing boat continence. alcoholic excess, after two lifebelts had been thrown plenty of fresh air, warm rooms to him. and even temperature, shine, exposure, protection from
St
draughts, light" clothing, thick the view that bacteria alone woollen underclothes, dry feet, without the virus can cause a bare feet - there is no end to cold, though some colds are due the things that one is advised to infection from a virus. One to do, or to take, or to have important fact that has emerg-
The Probationer“
He denies emphatically that the A farmer in conversation with a recent visit of Cardinal Pacel tourist remarked that his father, of his successor," Herr Woerman, had any bearing on the question. ninety years old, was still living and
the new Counsellor in London.
He had a period of leave before terfere in a purely national mat-
"Rome," he said, "would not in-working on the farm where he was
bown
"Ninety years old, eh?” said the he assumed Herr Woermann's post
tourist.
the German Foreign Office.
tex."
of head of the Eurpean section of With Congress now "90" one-
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· Fresident Roosevelt seems
“Is his health good?” ***Tain't much now. He's been complainin' for a few maths back.”
“I dunno; sometimes I think farm- [ing don't agree with him?”"”
Early Habits
"tly to bed, early to rise, makes a man wealthy, healthy, and wise, you
going to an early habits."
sided," he believes that Father His immediate superior is Dr. Coughlin is needed "as a check, as done to one, for enring or pre-ed is that a cold is not a single Dieckhoff, the permanent head of zn-educator send as a critic.” venting colds, from surgical entity but that the name covers the German Foreign Office. He has operations to wearing a copper a range of allied ailments. It worked with Dr. Dieckhof before. M. ROOSEVELTS LOSING ring on the proper finger or is not surprising, in view of When Dr. Dieckhoff was Counsel- BATTLE suspending an iodine sachet this fact, that vaccines used for in London Prince Bismarck! ·
The next-door neighbour had called round one's neck. And with all for injection to prevent colds was second secretary.
to) azul,wax in a moralling mood. M this wealth of antidote and are not invariably successful
have fought a losing battle over he reflected, looking at small Tommy,
| who had just been told to go to ded remedy we all catch cold from The recognised stock vaccines NEW FIELD FOR MR. RUNCIMAN his visit to Buenos Aires. time to time and have to see it made from a mixed selection of
In his weekly Press reception through. If the sufferer will bacteria have been tested fre-
In spite of some last-minute immediately before he sailed he know, my boy. Everything depends take the trouble to hold up quently on large numbers of coaching by Mr. Eden behind the denied three fingers before breakfast people. The results are con- Speaker's chair, Mr. Runciman "open" the Inter-American Com- every third day, saying at the ficting. Whilst some experi- was far from comfortable when ference for same time in an even tone,ments, notably those of Park introducing the bill to prohibit the Peace. “Abracadabra," he will find that and von Sholly on the em-carriage of munitions to Spain. before many applications of this ployees of the Metropolitan In- simple procedure, his cold will surance Company, gave entirely be completely cured. This is a negative results, those of Lem- sure remedy. It will be found priere in 1929 at Haileybury on examination to be based on School, and Simey at a public much the same logic as most school for girls, seem to have. other cures for a cold.
met with a reasonable degree
Scientific investigation of the of success. common cold has yielded a con“) Very recently a series of ex- siderable amount of information periments in America seem to about it, but has not yet re-bear out the supposition not yet. vealed either of the two things definitely established that the that the plain man wants to infection is airborne, and reveal know, viz, how to prevent it, the interesting and promising and how to cure it. It is often fact that if the mucous mem- argued that medical science has brane of the nasal passage is achieved very little, after all, if coated with a suitable harmless it cannot find a means of deal-substance in people exposed to ing effectively with such a an epidemic of colds, the sub- simple and common ailment.jects become immune from in- But though colds are common fection for a period of several they are by no means simple. days, when the period of im- That is to say, they cannot be munity can be extended by re- attributed to a single specific peating the operation. Recent germ as can some more deadly research in connection with the diseases like, say, anthrax; nor virus of the allied ill, influenza, their cause assigned to one of by Drs. Brown and Wells, of those invisible viruses that the Harvard School of Public cause some infections, ultra-Health, has yielded a fact which microscopic bodies, conjectural-may also be applicable to the ly living, but too small even to control of the spread of other be stopped by the finest filter. respiratory infections. It is the Bacteria, indeed, are invariably fact that ultra-violet rays from Įpresent in the nose and throat the quartz mercury lamp are
passages of sufferers from capable of killing the virus off colds; but the same organisms induenza. It may become prac are not absent frequently from ticable to subject to ultra-violet the apparently healthy subject. rays the air entering buildings, What is more, they are not of a and even to irradiate the at single type, but are numerous mosphere in the auditorium of, in kind, and include the in- say, crowded cinemas or meet- ffaenza bacterium, the common ing halls, and so. to lesson the { bacterium of pus, and more possibility of the broadcast of than one type of bacterium infective germs when colls are associated with pneumonia. (rife. It is not indeed for weat Much study has been devoted of thought and study that recently to the changes in the scientific men have not yet Enc- |numbers and proportions of the ceeded in their efforts to con- bacteria present in the respira- quer the cold and to relieve ns tory passages when colds have of this wide-spread - petty-al. been contracted. The numbers ment, so easy to contract, hard certainly increase, and decrease to cure, troublesome to sustain, again with the passing of the injurious in the long run to our allment. It is suspected also health, damaging to our dig that the infecting agent is a pity, unkovely, almost ridical- virus which has as yet eluded ous, that distresses and de defection, but this is by na presses undeperiatically sneans certain, and some enin- pairs our efficiency for work or ent workers in this field take play or social intercours
that he was
the Consolidation of
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