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it is reported from Oxford that the Oxford trousers are rapidly passing and that Plus Fours are to reign in their
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RED SAVAGERY INTENSIFIED. 1,000 DIVORCE TRIALS.
SOVIET GLOATING OVER CRUELTY.
· 'WOMEN'S - EQUAL, RIGHTS.
DESCRIBED BY THEMSELVES.
EX-P.M.G AND WIFE,
For some months past there has been Somerset House, the headquarters of a recrudescence of brutality, and ter the country's divorce work, has been rorism by the Soviet disciplinary autho busy making Fendy the lists rities in Russia, believed to be due to matrimonial causes set down for hear the expression of resentment by the civiling during the Michaelmas law sittings.
The totals are not yes oficially a population against the savagery of the nounced but the lists, it is believed, will administration of the local commissuralgade some 800 cases for trial in Lon Six weeks ago the Cheka (the despatiedon, in addition to which probably 200 cases will be set down for hearing st counter-revolutionary organisation) of
Assizes during the autumn,, Petrograd, who rule the city at the point of the bayonet, ordered 38 execu tions in the yard of the police office in the Gorokhovaya-street, and has since, as an act of discipline, ordered the de The hard felt binck hat, is also reportation of the wives of 200 citizena gaining popularity. It is more dressy' to concentration camps at Archangel and and much more economical, because the in Siberia
According ta 4 leading tailor in Oxford, Pius Fours will be in brown' with shirts, collars, stockings, and pull- shades of Scotch and Shetland tweeds,
over jumpers to harmonise
SAILORS SUPERSTITIONS. Twenty-five years"ago a senman's life was full, of superstitutions," but to-day there are practically none. They went out of date with haulyards, sheets, and chanties. Only among fishermen, and the few square-rigged sailormen who are Bit, will you find the old charms, ghosts, and traditional superstitions of the seas.] stead. i No modern Jack Has any place or time) for such things. He is na different from the old order of the sea sa the ships are different Fle would Le considered childish and out of date did he voice them, just as much as the sailor of square rig would have been considered unlucky, and a menace to the welfare of the ship, did he not voice and believe in them. To-day a scaman asks, of his shipmate on joining: Ta she a workhouse ↑ "' | soft felt hat is finished after a few weeks! Years ago he would have asked: "Is wear. There have been inquiries for she a lucky ship 7 The other question brown howlers, and they may return to
favour." would have been superfluous. All ships were warkhouses then, "
The day of the vividly coloured | jumper is over," he continued. "There will be bald colourings and designs, bat there will be nothing effeminate about them.
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The policy of renewal terrorism by the Soviet administrators is being r flected in the official publications of the Russian Governinent, in which accounts of recent outrages are being given with the object of warning the people of the terrible power of their rulers.
*BARBARIAN" CLOTHES. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Joseph Wells, speaking at Convoer.
TO COW THE PUBLIC. tinn on Oct 7th, said less wine and less bear were now drank by undergraduates, For the purpose of cowisk the public but too often to the detriment of study the columas of the Soviet magazine, and discipline more coffee was consumed
Red Novelties, have
been specially by young men and women in the morning selected. This publication, the title of hour. "We older men," he continued, which, literally translated, is Our miss the becoming dress of our con- New Régims Under the Soviets," is pro temporaries when we see our starteduced in Moscow at the Government adorned in clothes of various colours and printing office. In consequence it is wearing trousers which, in their fal- allowed to state that it reflects only re- ness, are more barbarian than any which alities, and it has to pass through the the Sarmatians wore in the days of old."
sieve of the official censorship.
The number of motors was continually, increasing, and the proctors had or- dained that undergraduates in their first year should not bring their motors to Oxford. That policy Cambridge had subsequently followed in order to lessen the peril to people using the streeta,
The luckiest of all seamen is he who is born into the world with a auk That man can't possibly be drowned providing hr wears his call always. The caul is worn round the neck in a little bag, night and day. It is never taken, off-that would destroy the luck. If you weren't born lucky you could always acquire fuck by wearing some relation's caul, or by purchase, and therefore you had three Stages of luck where the caul was con- cerned, I have no authentic data as to how the three different stages worked oat, but I remember as a boy having it explained to me by an old shellback. Born with a caul you couldn't be drawn- ed, nor could a shark get you. Wearing relation's call you couldn't be drowned but the shark might get you. Wearing a bought cau! you were just lucky, and might be drowned if you eduldn't swim. He, of course, was wearing his own caul, and, no doubt, had to show how superior it was an a charm over acquired ennls. Irishmen are the greatest believers in the caul charm. I remember one who told me he was wearing his grandfather's. Both his grandfather and father had worn it all their years at seo, and neither of them had been drowned He stated this with pride, and with conviction in the power of the caul, but he told me later that his grandfather had been knifed by a Greek before he was thirty and his father had fallen off a topsail yard and broken his neck, so apparently the caul was no use against a fight or an accident. At one time you could find in most of our senports & shop, some where in Sailortown, where they sold cauls all ready to wear. There was one such shop in Ratcliffe Highway, kept by Jew. He did quite a fair trade till sailor, who was either sceptical about the caut as a charm or did not trust the Jew, opened the little silk bag and found no caul. The deception became known to all seamen, and ever after when yard-army on dark nights when the Mailer was drowned someone was sure humidity was very gent. I think the St. to remark" He must have been wear- Elmo's Fire was the strongest of all ing a Jew's caul:"
wore
HUNGARIANS” ARRIVE. Among the arrivals for the October term at Oxford were a number of young Hungarians, who were attending the university by arrangement with the
ungarian Government,
When they have taken their degrees they will return
masters of a special school the Hungarian Government is setting up. It will be run ou English lines, and an English graduate is shortly to be ap- pointed headmaster.
ship or to someone on board. Why this should have been so I don't know. They are both caused by the same atmos- pheric conditions, except that the sun's rays gives you one and the moon's ray the other. Elmo's Fire, or Corposant Light, was also a sign of disaster. This came of small, particles of phosphorus which collected on the rest heads or
sca superstitions. I have known men re- At one time seamen were always pic-fuse to go aloft when it was to be seen, tured wearing earrings. Sailors and and, what is more, the mates didn't drive gipsies always
earrings, were them. always tanned, but you could tell the Friday was for a long time a very shellback by his tattooed hands and his unlucky day to put to sea, but Friday is rolling gait, "I've often been told" by considered an unlucky day ashore as well. shore people that carrings prevent deaf- I've seen a whole ship's company refuse ness. Jack didn't wear them for that to go to sea on a Friday, and I've also reason. His superstition was that they seen the same ship's company refuse to preserved his eyesight, which was of go to sea on the 13th of the month. To- much greater importance to him than day Friday is the sailing day of some hearing. When I first went to sea, whist of our western ocean lizers, and, if poss ling was, at times, a dréndful crime, andible, the tramp steamer will make it her often have I felt the weight of a rope's sailing day also. Week-ends in port cost end for doing it. The paly time you can mariey-harbour dues, dock dues, wages, whistle with impunity is in a calm. To and food,-and no work is done. At sea a scaran a head wind is preferable to she has no dues, to pay and is eating up The no wind at all, but woë betide you if the distance of her destination. you were caught whistling when a fair worst enemy of superstition is economy. wind was blowing, Superstitions were A.H.B. in the Manchester Guardian. not confined to the men before the mast. The captains and officers were often as bad na the wen.
The old Welsh captain with whom I served my time was the most supersti tious man I ever knew at sea. During a calm he would stand on the poop lor hours, facing the direction from which be wanted the wind to come, and whistle gently through his teeth. We boys would do the same down in the waist, giggling at one another and thinking what a fool we were making of the old man, but The never noticed it. Not too loud now, boys," he would say.. "Goodness to gracious only knows where the wind will come from, and if it is a head wind we don't want much of it." He believed that the loader you whistled the more wind you got Whistling bud to be used ut the proper time only, at any other time it was punishable. Another way of raising the wind was to throw money overboard. As our old man was Welsh he preferred' whistling, but I have often been told the story of the American skip per who bought a gale, of wind, for half- -dollar and remarked to his mates Wind's cheap here, Mister. I should have asked for change."
Omens of approaching storms were very.common. Your sailor of the Inst generation was quite a good weather prophet. Weather signs which to the modern meteorologist explain atmos pheri phenomena were looked upon by the old shellbucks as supernatural. A halo round the moon was always the fore- runner of a storm. Given certain other weather conditions, it is But these other conditions weren't considered; the halo was enough.
Last night the moon had a golden ring. And to-night no moon we see.
There you have Longfellow giving the superstition. A lunar bow was always ure to bring disaster to the ship. The rainbow was sure to bring good wenther, but the other brought disaster to the Continued on seat Column).
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The first sections of the lists published at Somerset House show 310 undefended petitions and 80 defended probate and divorce causes.
Of the 340 undefended' `cases A four" over 200 are petitions by wives, who seem to be taking advantage of the daw which gives them equal rights with men and allows them to proceed for full re list on the single 'ground of misconduct. Daly three wives are petitioning for res- titution of conjugal rights"
DEFENDED LIST.
The defended list includes the case, officially entered as The Right Hon. A. H. (Baron) Illingworth v. the Right Hon. A. E. (Baroness) lingworth and Nottage." Lord flingworth was Post master-General between 1918 and 1981, when he was created Baron Illingworth of Denton, West Riding. He married in 1803 Miss Annie Elizabeth Crothers, daughter of the late Mr. Isane Crothers, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, of Château Croix, Nord, Franeo,
Lady (W. A.) Smith is petitioning for divorce from Sir H. W. Smith, and Mr. "The current number of the magazine, Alfred Charlemayne Lambart is suing to which the factory workers are con for a decree of restitution of conjugal pulled to subscribe, contains an article rights against his wife, Mrs. Anne entitled, "In the Cellars of the Cheka Labart, who at the time of their mar- with the purpose of restraining and fringe in 1020 was the widow of the th intimidating readers.
A series of in-
Each of Mexborough. Her title "Coun cidents is related, of which the fallow teas of Mexborough" is inserted in ing are the least offensive:-
brackets after her. present name in the official list.
The inquirer Prichring, thin and Heshless, in torn bents, his face cross ted by m scar, was examining & prisoner. The eyes of the latter! Eyes full of terror, sheep-like eyes,seventh Earl of Cacan. were fixed on the mouth of Prichvin"; the man constantly seized his head a his hands nad his lips moaned always the same "ou-nn-ou "as though he wanted to frighten a baby. "YOU'LL BE SHOT YOURSELF.”
WIFE'S PREVIOÇA PETITION. Mr. Lambart is a grandson of the His present
A dim lamp was burning. Tha young Mitka, a "nagan" (a type of farm) in his hand, stared with tired look at the dying light. When the prisoner was marched away, groaning na if into his pillow, Mitku asked the inquizer, When is Karposa going to habot Don't know, why do you nak?" Mitka glanced at Prichvine, then lowered his look. "Just so."-be fine snapped his fingers she's
He smiled, showing prasant girl" his white teeth. But the next moment "his laugh vanished under the stern. look of Prichvine. The inquirer made a gesture as if cutting something and shouted," "Look here! No, jokes, you'll be shot yourself."
Suddenly he turned towards Pouga .sheff, who was pacing alongside the wall covered with little whitish bits of dry human brains. A man clad in a dark shirt was brought in. Prich- vine called out "Korovine." Silently the man stepped to the wall, threw his head back crossed himself, nnd an- swered "Fresent," He way a naval officer. Hidden by the obscurity Pougatsheff in his corner lifted the "nagan." After the shot the skull was heard splitting like a walnut. In the next room someone began to howl; pro- longedly, terribly
suit follows nearly four years after his wife's similar petition for the restitution of conjugal rights. The case, like that of Lady Smith, is in the defended list.
The Hon. Mrs. K. M. Wrottesley is among the petitioners in the undefended section. She is seeking the dissolution of her marriage with the Hon. W. B. Wrottesley.
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