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STROLLS OUT TO KITCHEN AND REMARKS TO WIFE HE'LL HELP HER WIPE THE DISHES
SELECTS A TOWEL AND WANDERS ROUND TRY- ING TO REMEMBER WHERE HE PUT THE CUP
SATAN GETS A REST.
SELECTS A CUP AND A DISH-TOWEL AND BEGINS WIPING
FINDS IT IN PANTRY AND RESUMES
WIPING
NO BOUT WITH SISTER AIMEE.
"HOT GOSPEL" HUSTLE TO
HOLY LAND.
SAYS THIS TOWEL IS WET, HE CAN'T DO A THING WITH IT.
GOES ON WIPING AND WIPING IT WHILE DE-
BATING WHETHER THAT IS A NEW SPOT ON
THE CEILING-
(Cepyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.).
WHO INVENTED THAT
DOUBLE COLLAR?
LOST CLAIM FOR SIR GEORGE ALEXANDER.
LONDON OUTFITTER.
"I suppose you will be disap-¦ It is difficult to write history. It pointed, but I have unt come to is hard to discover the truth about Europe this time to have about great events. How much harder to with Satan.'"
find out for certain who invented Thus spake Mrs. Aimee MaPher-the double collar for men, and when son, the Four-Square Cospeller," it caure into general weart and pastor of the Angeles Temple of Los Angeles, smilingly apologis- ing when she arrived at Cherbourg in the liner George Washington last
month.
In Sir Nigel Playfair's book of recollections, he writes of a visit to Ascot bout 1894 or 1993 with Sir George Alexander.
On that occasion Alexander wore, Sir Nigel says, "the first example "I did give the old raseal a good of that double collar which is now smuck every time he raised his to universal, and uf which, unless. horny head, she added. I hope evidence to the contrary is brought, I landed some jarring ones in Eng I believe him to have been the in- tand some two years ago. But evenventor." the humble handmaiden in the viño-
That is a belief held by many. yards is becoming a bit weary of But there is nothing in it. the struggle. This voyage is only. It is true that Alexander, who for inspiration and repose, but if Beelzebub fries any of his tricks I was as well dressed always off the will put on my fighting clothes and stage as he was on it, became one go right after him
of the first wearers of this collar, but he had no hand in designing it
Sister McPherson, who is making hustle journey with sixty-six of her Angeles. Temple flock to sperd Easter in Jerusalem, has the same fiaming blonde hair and sparkling grey eyes, and the same fowing tirades against sin as ever.
A Trim Figure.
She wore a smart green costume that set off her trim figure to per- fection, and a green hat that would have done honour to the Rue de la
Paix.
air.
+
#!
There was just a suspicion of rouge on her lips, but Sister Me Pherson told me that the high colour was really due to the salt
"We had
uneventful very voyage, except that a young man asked me to dunce "with him one night," the evangelist confided, when I asked if she had found any excitement on the Atlantic. "I sce no harm in a woman dancing in a pure atmosphere, and especially if she has serious things in her mind. But I had to refuse.
"I must also say that the good or evil of dancing depends on the kind of music. Fagan, jazz, and soft waltzes stir different instincts.
There is surely such a thing as holy
dancing.
The Man Who Did
The man who did so is Mr. G. D. Brown, who is still to be found in Drew's shop, at the entrance to Burlington Arcade, and who bas been consulted by two generations of fashionable men.
Thirty-nine years ago, a "shirt reached Drew's from America with
instead of the usual tennis collar. collar on the fold-over principle, Mr. Browe thought it might be equally smart in starched form. So
RUMMAGES IN PANTRY DRAWERS AND AT LAST FINDS WHERE CLEAN TOWELS ARE KEPT
AS WIFE PUTS LAST TXEK AWAY, HANGS UP TOWEL "REMARKING IT SURELY
GOES A LOT QUICKER WITH TWO- DOING IT
GOVERNOR'S WIFE AS BURGLAR.
ROBBERIES STAGED AT OWN HOUSE.
*MASKED FACE."
LAW ENFORCEMENT IN AMERICA.
A dramatic confession by the wife of Dr. Momm, Governor of the Potsdam district, Brelin, has led to his resignation..
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S
MESSAGE.
ASKS FOR MORE LEGISLA. TION, ON SUBJECT.
[UNITED PRESS]
"Washington, April 25,-President. Hoover's belief in the urgent neces- sity for enactment of law enforce ment legislation caused him to send message to Congress to-day, em- phatiently urging that there be speedy attention to the matter of such legislation.
After "cross-examination by Bex in detectives she confessed that burglaries which had recently taken place at her house were committed by herself.
In-1027-Frat-Mom-informed- the insurance company that house- hold linen had been stolen from the official residence, and obtained nearly £10 as compensation.
to the insurance company that other In June last she again reported articles had been stolen, and re- ceived £25.
in-
formed the insurance company that
Last December the woman rainable silver ornaments, candles ticks, &c., had been stolen from her house and received £35.
Face at Panel.
On March 10 Frau Momka re- ported a fresh robbery,, but her atory was so strange that suspicion was aroused.
She declared that she had taken a strong sleeping draught owing to her shattered nerves, but had neverthelem been awakened in the middle of the night by a noise.
The message was sent to both Houses of Congress, but the Presi deat did not appear in person...
In the course of this message, Mr. Hoover reviewed his former messages in which he had recom mended transfer of prohibition enforcement from jurisdiction" of the Treasury Department to that of the Departraent of Justice, as well as the extensión of federal prisons.
The President declared that pass- age of auch legislation was most necessary.
In urging this," he said, "I
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Reference was made to the pre- sent congestion of the courts, and also to recent recommendations of Mr. William D. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney-General, that there be an adequate machinery for prohibition obtainable in handy enforcement..
eise battles, of all wedicine venter:
Mr. Hoover declared that law en-disposi forcement in the United States, and also judicial organization, had fallen below the standards that must be secured."
The President also said that the personnel for enforcement of the federal laws needed to be improved, within limitations of the existing
Approval Rescinded.
Inws.
ני
LATER. On the basis of fresh information
the Senate Judiciary Contaitte to-day rescinded its earlier approval.
tion law from the hands of the forcement of the national prohibi of the proper to transfer the en-
Treasury Department to those of the Department of Justice.
had been found that according to This action was taken because it the present, reading of the bill, the civil service status of present em- ployees might be jeopardized.
The bill will be rewritten to eliminate this objectionable feature-
DO PLANTS HAVE
· MORALS?
BLAMELESS LIFE OF DANDELIONS.
resen-
She was startled to see a masked fuce framed where a panel of her
The ordipury, everyday dande. bedroom door had been taken out.
lion (so called from the She discovered, she said, that Flance of its leaves to the tooth
1 . charitable
of a lion-"dent du lion") is the £100, belonging to fund, hed disappeared.
The police found that 30 foles life" in the opinion of Professor "most moral creature of plant' had been bored round the sides of John Davidson, of the department the door panel, which had been of botany at the University of Bri-
he got the shirtcatter to make him sawn- out. They calculated that some detachable collars of this the operation must have occupied shape, and wore them.
ut least an hour and a half, and Customers noticed and asked must have made considerable noise. about them. More were made and sold. They were known in the shop as "Mr. Brown's collars."
** An Early Wearer. Alexander was one of their early
wearers.
tish Columbia.
The professor déclares thaj “the dandelion is the most highly deve- loped member of the plant king- Later, Berlin detectives found dom and occupies the relative posi the greater part of the valuabletion of man in the animal kingdom. eilver buried in the cellar of Dr.
One-tenth of the plents of the Momm's official residence, and dis-world, he states, belong to the covered that the Icet. had been dandelion family, which is notable bought by dealere,
Dr. Momm was informed, and for its hard-working qualities and "He used to deal regularly with spoke to his wife who made a full the harmony existing between its
and I used concission.
component parts. us," Mr. Brown said,
"Orchids are the idle rich of the to supply him with those little bow
Frau Moom, who is known as Lower kingdom," says Professor ties he made popular.
fanatically religious woman, Davidson. "They derive susten- fession, tainted when she finished her con-
ance from decaying organic matter Dr. Momm returned to the in-instead of manufacturing their
own food. from the soil, How many years the office of surance company all the money "Men's, Wear' was not prepared paid to his wife, and has banded to say exactly, Probably not until in his resignation to the Govern
ment.
the double collar came into general But it was some years before
s
I felt that my party of pilgrims the beginning of this century. It might misunderstand my motive, was after the South African war however, and so I did not dance; that the old stand-up cellar fell into disfavour. But once adopted, I asked Sister McPherson if she the double never lost its would stop in Paris on her way popularity,
One attempt by the way, to in home to buy herself a few of "the
but it was a beautiful night."
ons
Bew fashions, as clothes are notoritroduce a change of this nature was ously one of her few weaknesses.
If I did intend to I would not tell you," she smiled. I am not going to fall into the devil's trap if I can help it, but have clothes?!
Woman 'must
STRAY CAT SHOOTS
FARMER.
nade as early as 1880, when g double patent was taken out, for collar which was an utter frost. idea, or if Drew's had got pro- If Mr. Brown had patented his
tection for the soft collar which, was first made in their shop, a large profit would have been made,
His dog, the other morning, chas- ed 'a 'stray cat up to the roof of Howard Atkins, a piominent the henhouse. The ent struck its farmor of Warkworth; Ontario, has head against the projecting roof, been shot by a stray'ent.
་ ་ and while falling to the ground (FAT), CONNISTING or Proteaçe me connecting WiYE WEE & shot gun, the trigger of which was discharged the gun and sent a load connected by wire with the swing of buckshot into the calf of the ing door of a hen-house in order to farmer's leg. prevent the persistent raiding of his poultry.
(Continued at foot of next column).
The farmer, fearing infection. was removed under doctor's orders to a Toronto hospital.
His position corresponds almost to that of z Lord-Lieutenant of an English county,, though more tual power attaches to it..
It has not yet been decided if any nation will be taken against Trau Monim.
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SIX OR EIGHT? THE IDEAL FAMILY,
A suggestion that the ideal num- ber of children in a family is..six or eight was expressed by Dr. W. Moodie, director of the Child Guid ance Clinic, in London
He was lecturing to the National Council for Mental Hygiene."" within limits, the larger the family Dr. Moodie said he believed that,
the better.
Parasitic Weaklings. Broom, on the other hand, re- presents the underworld" of plant life, roots and leaves being reduced. to functionicas structures. Many Be-garden plants also have become so degenerate that they are dependent on man to reproduce the species by means of cuttings......
"Certain plants, again, become
Family environment was an im ao degenerate that the elastic walls portant thing. The nearer the within their atems, provided to parents were in age to the child, keep them up-right, are allowed to comparatively speaking, the "better, perish, so that they become parasi and if the parents were not near to tic weaklings and finally descend the child in age; there must be to crime."
other children to balance things. "Have plants morala ?" asks Professor Davidso
Those Only Ones. "Of course they The ivy's Dealing with the problem of the morals are very questionable.. The only child, Dr. Moodie said: biggest and strongest trees will die "I have seen a number of parents in the grip of ivy.
who have purposely ill-treated their "The dodder, however, is the only child, because they had been assassin of the plant world, and told by so many people that they should it fail to find a victim at must not spoil the child. When told
Send Turkey Life Child could be spoled "Then, should an unwary plant little, the situation was considerably send out a shoot near by, it will based.” ka gradually sink its suckers' into the. food factory of the plant and sustain itself while the vietim perishes,"
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