"HUMOUR: ANCIENT
neacher: "Can you give me a example of wasted energy!"
Bright Student: "Yes, air; tell. ing a bair-raising story to a bald. headed man.".
Mrs. Henpeck: "My dear, l'a sure that our boy is thinking seri- Gusly of amatrimony."
Mr. Hempeek: "Well, I hope so. I wouldn't want any boy of mine to be so foolish as to regard it aa
joke."
"I guess my daughter in, college has changed her mind about basket- ball, and has gone in for some- thing more useful,"
"How's that 7"
AND MODERN.
Head of the House (angrily): Who told you to put that paper on the wall"
Decorator: Your wife, sir." Husband: "Pretty, isn't it?"
Elderly Gentlemen: "Is this the cheapest umbrella you keep 1" Assistant: "Yes, sir, the very cheapest."
"I'll take it. I only want it for leaving behind in the train."
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Mr. Hardfax. "So your son left us to go into a bank in the City How did he acquit himself?"
Mr. Timbertop: "He didn't ac-
"She writes me that she's made quit himself. It took the best law.
the scrub team."
"When are Joan and Edward to be married 1"
"Never, I'm afraid."
"Why, how's that?"
"Well, she won't marry him until he pays his debts, and he can't pay his debts until she marries him.
Pedestrian. "Well, we're right off the beaten track now, anyway. No traffic congestion in this neighbourhood!"
yer in the country to get him ac- quitted."
If you think there's something wrong with your heart, why don't you consult the specialist ?"
"I'm afraid he would say it was some thing fatal."
"Nonsense! He wouldn't.
an awfully good sort.
He's
General: "Look here, my man, why don't you be careful?
Army Clerk What's wrong, sirt General: "Why, instead of ad-
Village Constable: "Oh, I dun-dressing this letter to the 'Intel. no. Only last week we had a bit of a collision 'ere between Old Parkin's bath chair and the school mistress's tricycle!"
An inquisitive young man read this advertisement in a local paper "Young man, some woman dearly leves you, Would you know who ebe ist Send postal order for ten shillings to occult diviner, address as below, and learn who she is." Ho sent the money, and received this adswer: "Your mother."
Jimmie giggled when the teach- e read the story of the Roman who swam across the Tiber three tines before breakfast.
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"You do not doubt trained swimmer could do that, do you, James ?"
"No, ir," answered simmis, but I wondered why he didn't make it four, and get back to the side his! cluthcs were on."
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ligence Officer' you have addressed it to the Intelligent Offeer. You should know there is no such per- son in the army,'
For the first time in her life a young woman was travelling to the seaside hy train. At a certain station she heard the porters shout "All change here." She jumped out of the carriage, and, running up to the guard's van, said "Would you mind giving me costume from that trunk over:
my brown
there?"
She had taken her hushand shop- ping. When she saw him gazing rapturously at a beautiful manne- quin she was angry. She threw down the frock she had been ins- peeting, and grabbed her husband by his coatsleeve.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JANUARY
CHRISTMAS GLOVES
EWYRS WILLIAMS
TRIES ON NEW CHRISTMAS GLOVES
GAN'T FIND SALES SLIR LOOKS THROUGH WASTE
BASKET.
SAYS THEY'RE TOO TIGHT, HE'D
BETTER CHANGE "THEM FOR THE
NEXT SIZE LARGER..
ASKS RETULANTLY WHAT SHALL HE DO, STORES MAKE SUCH A FUSS ABOUT CHANGING ANY- THING WITHOUT THE SALES SLIP.
(Copyright, 1925, by The_Ball Syndicate, lac;
KING EDWARD'S HEROISM.
UNPUBLISHED MS. BY SIR FREDERICK TREVES.
"It is a sign of the times that modest little Dorset should at lart have the courage to stand up to great London and sof, 'Who'z A-fard 11"
The truth of Thomas Hardy's words is demonstrated in many ways, and in none more than in
"Herbert, you never look at me. like that!"
"No. But then, you never look the publication of the annual Dor- like that yourself."
set Year-Book. A county which ena produce such a delightful re- cord of lore about its people is clearly intended to stand up to all In articles, verse, and llustrations, the Year-Book recent- ly issued-it is the twenty-fifth-is
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
12
14
Horizontal.
1.Foundation, 6-To decorate. 11. To case. 12.-North wind. 14.-Paradise. 15.-To please: 17.-Toward.
18.-Wing-like part.
18.--Hackneyed.
40.-Bone.
21.-Sun god.
22.-Sheep folds:
93.-To wash.
24. To improve in appearance.
20.-More recently.
27.-To provide sustenance.
£8.-Departed.
29.-Secret secuts.
31.-Shallow pan.
34. To cavil.
35.-Groups,
36.-Over and touching.
37: To regret.
33.-Cereal (plural).
39.To decay.
40.-Bose.
41-Rescued.
42-Stockings.
43. To remove from office.
45.-One who cludes,
47.-Satiated.
48.To mature.
Vertical.
1.-Incoherent uproar. 2-On the water.
3. To do wrong.
4.-Exista
5:--Begun
--Borders on.
7. Portion
MUSTER! note. 10-Innale.. 11-Loved ones.
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17 13 19 110
13.-Dignified. 10.-Aspect.
19. Carries..
20.-Classified.
22-Te approach sneakingly.
23. Disembarks.
25.- Alame.
26. Choice cuts of meat.
98.-Moro noble.
A food fish.
30.-Stops.
31. To pierce.
32. To freel
33. To come in.
33.4 Dislodged. CS.-Box.
30-When by vehicle. 41.-Drunkard.
42. By chance.
44.-Father.
40.--Six.
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CLENCHES AND UN- CLENCHES HAND TO PROVE TO WIFE THEY REALLY ARE TOO SMALL.
TRIES GLOVES · ON AGAIN AND DECIPES HO'LL GET USED TO THEM AND MAY- BE THEY'LL STRETCH.
PLACE-NAMES AND
RESEARCH.
VOCABULARY OF OUR
FOREFATHERS.
Professor All Mawer gave a lecture on The vocabulary of our forefathers at a meeting of the English Association, held at Man- chester University last month.
Place-Name Material,
LOOKS IN BOX FOR SALES SLIP SO HE WON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE CHANGING
THEM.
CUTS GLOVES APART, ENDING ANY CHANCE OF CHANGING THEM, JUST AS WIFE FINDS
SALES SLIP ON DESK.
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25, 1930.
SOCIETY GIRLS.
THEIR ATTITUDE TO UNIVERSITIES.
Miss Tuke, who has retired from the Principalship of Bedford College, after twenty-two years, recently spoke about the develop- ment of women's education, in which she is a pioneer.
SOVIET MARRIAGE.
NOT RECOGNISED BY
ENGLISH LAW,
JUDGE INVITES AN APPEAL.
In view of the general English rule of law that the validity of a marriage is governed by the law of the country where it is celebrated, the decision of Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce Court recently that a marriage in Russia between Bus- sian subjects is no marriage in English law is of no small import-
ance.
Hitherto, the only classes of marriage not recognised by the English courts have been those which are csecatially polygamous, and those which are opposed to the law of consanguinity.
Mr. Justice Hill has now defited marriage in the English legal sence as the voluntary union of one man with one woman to the exclusion of all others, which is indissolublo except by death. By Soviet law a marriage might be dissolved before 1027 by mutual consent accom- panied with registration at a regis tration office, or at the request of one party accompanied with the automatic recording of a decree of divorce by a competent court, which had no discretion to refuse a de- cree and no power to inquire into the grounds.
Mr. Justice Mill in effect draws the following broad distinction be twels the character of marriages in England and Russia. In England the promise is to remain husband. and wife till death; only the court on specific grounds about which it must be judicially satisfied car dis- solve a marriage in England during the lifetime of the spouses. In Russia, the promise is to remain husband and wife until death, or until one of the parties exercises the option of divorce, and that option is exercised by the individual, the dissolution being recorded matter of course by an Act of State without any judicial procese.
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So he held that a Moscow mar. riace in 1024 was no marriage, and muded that any difficulties that might arise from refusing to recog It has not developed quite as nise the validity of a Russian_mar. thought it might," she remarked.riage were caused by the Soviet "I imagined in the beginning that law which had cut itself adrift socisty girl who spends her time held by civilised countries." le girls of the leisured class-the from the view of marriage hitherto playing tennis and has little to do invited an appeal, and it is pro- would go most to such colleges as bable that this decision, which this one. 39
affects so seriously the comity of nations, will be reviewed in the Court of Appeal.
"But, I am disappointed to say, that is not what has happened Bather fewer of this class have taken to university education than I had hoped. It has occurred to learning things, getting knowledge. me it would be much more fun
But no, that is not the case.
•
Mr. Justice Hills Decision, The case arose on a preliminary pplication for judicial reparatios. issue associated with a ronding
The suit was brought by Miss S. I. Nachimson, a Russian actress against her husbanil, Mr.Gregory Nachimson. The main question in the taue was whether the dissolu- tion at the Soviet Consulate in Paris of a marriage in Russia waS valid in the English courts.
she was lawfully married to Mr.
No systematic use, he said, had material as a means of caabling us hitherto been inade of place-name
to recover the vocabulary of our forefathers at any stage in their to be found in the boundaries set history. The value of the material
forth in Anglo-Saxon characters was certainly realised in the later stages of Toller's revision and com- pletion of Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon dictionary, but littic or no use was a treasure store of good things. It made even then of Anglo-Saxon is edited by Mr. Stanley I. Gal-lace-names not found in these lists And there has been a quicker de
of boundaries. pin, and includes, among a feast
velopment of the university idea of good things,
among people to whom it meani Place names as such played little not only a better education, but tions of Sir Frederick Trees" by part in the material used in the niso a path to a profession. Women Newman Flower, and an ecount Oxford English Dictionary. The economically dependent on the of how Queen Victoria, when a girl reason for this apparen: beglect result of their university career
Mr. Justice Hill pointed out that of 14 helped to keep her: youthful aries were compiled the material
was obvious. When these diction-have increased beyond my wildest
hopes."
en March last Mrs. Nachimson Agure by turning mattresses at the had not been collected, still less judice against women being educat- alleging that on March 19, 1871, When asked if she thought a pre-petitioned for a judicial aeparation," Royal Hotel, Weymouth.
analysed and presented in a formed-thank Heaven, they are no This is contributed by Mrs. A. F.which would make it serviceable to longer called blue-stockings-was Nachimson at Mosco. Mir. Nachim- Maddocks, of Christ Church Rec-the lexicographer. But there was a still in existence, she replied that tory, the Pas, Manitoba, whose mo- mere fundamental reason, The ther was a sewing maid at the place-name or the place-name ele- it probably was to some extent. hotel which the future Queen was ment had as a rule no context which visiting with her mother. The book the lexicographer could
use, for is half-a-crown's worth of delight. determining its meaning, and even
Ilne Kopt Socrat,
when it was found in a piece of con- In his contribution, Mr. Newnan tinuous topographical prose, such Flower relates how Sir Fredericks the list of boundaries, there was Treves had sent him a manuscript which enabled him to argue from not that logical sequence of thought of his reminiscences.
"Before long, says Mr. Flower, the context what the meaning of the I was aware that I was reading term might be. the finest book of reminiscences. I Great though the difficulties had read for many years. The ma might be our language, race and terial about King Edward's opera civilisation. For place-name ma- tion alono showed him a great terial, there was no doubt about figure of courage, a man who fought its extreme importance not only for his doctors to go to his Coronation, the lexicographer but for the his and so keep faith with the British torian of our language, race, and people. If over the heroism of a civilisation, or the earlier periods British King was revented, it was of our history, our knowledge of revealed in that manuscript.
Miss Tuke was inclined to doubt the secular vocabulary, the language "King Edward had hidden bis df everyday life, was all too scanty.if the near future held much change malady in order that the public The literature was largely religious in this aristocratic avoidance of should not be alarmed. The doc and homiletic in character, and had higher education. tors, the nurses, went to Windaor its obvious linguistic limitationA. numbered and not by name so that Much could be learned from gloss- the arrival of these medical people aries and vocabularies, but it was should not be known. Treves was clear that there would still be great Number Six," and he used to go gaps in our knowledge, Some help to Windsor in a tweed cap and a from place-names, which in their tweed suit, and get off at a station origin and history touched so many before Windsor and walk the rest different activities and interests in of the way. These were the instruc- the daily life of the past, ought to tions of a King to spare his peo-be of service in filling some of these ple an iota of anxiety regarding gaps. the Coronation.
What Study Would Eevsa!.
son entered an appearance under protest, alleging that the marriage had been dissolved in Paris. Marriageable Years?
An order was made for the trial university," she said,
"The years a girl aperide at of an issue as to validity of the
"are the alleged dissolution. Before the evi years, in many parents" view, when dence on that issue was completed she is most marriagealbe when, it became apparent that there they think, she should be going might be a serious question whe friends, and having a good time. marriage within the meaning of the about seeing the world, making ther the marriage alleged was a And if there is plenty of money, English law. she usually assents to this view.'
Do you think," I said, "that the Society girl is, anyhow, more under the thumb of her parents than is the daughter in a middle-class home??
"I think I do," she replied. "The parents objections seem more powerful in those cases, at all events."
ascertain
It became apparent that he must first consider whether there was marriage at all, and he therefore made a fresh order to whether the petitioner and the respondent had ever been husband and wife. Unless there was a mar- riage no question of dissolution could arise, and that Court would have so jurisdiction over any of the matters in the petition.
Mr. Justice Hill, commenting on the evidence concerning Russ faws of marriage and divorce, mid Striking ProgroSE,
that the Russian lawyers called Progress at Bedford College, for were not agreed 28 to whether a small building in York Place, off registration on the part of only one example, had been striking. It was marriage could be dissolved by Baker Street, with 250 students, of the parties at a Consulate in when she, after, twenty years at
Paris, the point of difference be Newnham, Brat went there; it is tween them was whether a marriage Park, erected in 1913, and has 600 now in a fine building in Regent's could be dissolved in Paris. students. They were just in luckily,
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woman
The law of the U.S.S.R., the Judge continued, did not recognise before the outbreak of war.
religious marriage. In Reais a Her work, which at first had all marriage was formalised by regis Ms. Since Destroyed.
Registration was condu the glamour of experiment (how tration: The study of personal names
novel "When I read the manuscript I would also bring out a good deal
a university
sive evidence of the existence of realised the pluck of the King who, of material which would help Eng once(), had always the interest of the marriage. In England we had against the advice of his doctors,lish lexicography. It would bring for her, was not something "acaderiages, where a man and a woman
progress to absorb her. Education, what was known as Christian mar came to London bowing, in agony to light first of all a number of en- to the crowds that applauded him tirely new worlds; next it would but, if any more girls would under of all others for life, or until the mic," so feared of some parents; look one another to the exclusion 1 knew that these words of Treves give us earlier examples of many stand it, a means to a fuller, better marriage was would show what a figure of cour-common words, and further it
dissolved by the age the King had been.
life, lived with greater understand State, would give us examples sufficiently Then one morning my telephone early or of sufficiently different
1 hold the union of the peti ing.
Unsxaggerated Alms.
tioner and the respondent was not -rang-violently.Answering it, I form to throw new light on old
heard Treveal voice at the other etymologies.
Those were the ideas she kept and the repondent never
a marriage, and that the petitioner end. He said, 'Bring the manus The two great sources for such, before her, and, from them, it is band and wife within the mean- cript at once (to a certain bank). personal names were the Subsidy easy to understand her enthusiasm ing of English law," said Mr. I met him there. He snatched the Rolla and the Assize Rolls, the lat
for games and all healthy social ac- Justice Hill. That being so I nanascript out of
tivities in the college as well as have no jurisdiction to decide any my hands ter going back in some casca to the greedily. What are you going to early years of the thirteenth cen
for scholarship. do with it? I asked..
other question. The parties moet It shall tury. But there was hardly a single never he published,' he answered, historical document of the Middle.
resort to the. Courts of the U.S.B.R. and locked up the manuscript in Ages containing personal "names, matter. "I hope," added Professor
for the ascertainment of their legal rights," Ligaturulfth-century onvanis--Mawar that students of the hir "It has never been published, and which did not contain some exam tory of our language will soon turn ford. 'K.C.. for the bushand, Mr.
Or the application of Mi it never will be. Indeed, I believe ples which would be of use in this their attention to the systematic an- Justice Hill dismissed the wile's it has been destroyed long since.'
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