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HOW TO RUBBER- NECK OXFORD.
AMERICANS TAKE IT IN
THEIR STRIDE. -*
TWO-HOUR TOUR..
We were disgorged at Christ Church and ripped round a couple of quadrangles. The quide ad- ministered sharp doses of the col f
THEN AND NOW.
lege hall, the cathedrak windows,MORE METRICAL MUSINGS.. and "the relics. of the monks' re fractory." Then we dived into the famous kitchens.
[BY PERIPATETIC."]
Then.
In days at old the poetaster wrote Long odes to some fair damsel's
eyes and throat,
CHRISTENING IN ST..
PAUL'S
HEIR TO THE DODGE. MILLIONS.
A baby boy who is heir to millions was christened in St. Paul's Cathe dral last month. He is David Elgin Dodge, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oxford has just undergone its ing spits for Americans and hold- And strove to wake her heart to Horace Dodge and grandson of the
summer change from a university to a peep-show. The American has come down like a wolf on the fold, and the vacation-empty colleges and strects are teeming with new life.
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The inaccurate guide now reaps his harvest, and the lesser collego officials turn showmen. Chapels echo with the tramp of feet and whire of baby cinematograph cam
eras,
The Pannerammer."! Here the manciples and kitchen boya in high linen caps were plying their summer trade, which is turn- ing lighted torches in the tunnel areas; thumping the tables ent from a single onk where they used. and dropping auch casual phrases to fashion Cardinal Wolsey's pics, as barons of beef, or half a ton of coal to every or into avid
eara.
The stream of traffe through the kitchens is a incessant and slew as it is through Regent-street, and the high Tudor vaults echo with coos of delight and shrieks of hygenic disapproval. For, as an American woman pointed out to me when both our heads were in a brick oven as big as a modern fat and much darker. "It is not at all what we have been used to at home."
The Bodleian Library is invaded by whispering hordes nourishing themselves on the smell of moul
We take the High-street and half dering volumes. Even the hotel
& dozen colleges at a brisk mera- waiters overlay their rich Oxford then, and swarm up to the dome fot the shire with an American accent; of the Radcliffe camera while that occasional, pariah, the
"pannerammer." There is much uncontrolled traffic on the stone undergraduate who has stayed it stairway to the roof, which is long, Oxford to work through the vacaspiral, unbelievably narrow, and tion, creeps furtively round the pitch dark in places. back streets, shamefully consci ous that he is an intruder.
Reserved Richness.
"Trouble on the Stairs.
to
On the roof we are given a chart of the spires, and quarrel as I joined a party of Americans which is which; the guide has beën under an American guide (or per- too wise and fat to ascend. Com haps he was an intelligent English- ing down, we have a sharp encoun- man trained to speak the languter with an ascending party. We age), and travelled in reserved find ourselves a guidebook and a richness by train to Oxford, hop-packet of sandwiches the better ing to discover more about the after the struggle." place than I had ever known when I was there.
An old gentleman asks to see the Rugby stadium, and laughs for the rest of the day when he learns that Oxford, has not got one.
There is a race round a couple more colleges, a long luncheon eaten in comparative silence, because now is the moment for reading up the monuments and the Stock Exchange prices; and then a cireular bird' eye view of the whole city is taken in a car.
Jove's alarms,
By much reiteration of her charms. His details were received as well- Provided legs, of course, were never j'intentioned,
mentioned.
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Two nurses accompanied the child, and he had four god-parents from the United States-Miss Zoe Vachell, Miss B. Goddard, Mr. Hugh Dillman, of Detroit, and Mr. Joseph Mather, of Pasadena, Cali-
He'd risk a cold, or irate parent
boot. By singing 'neath her window, withfornia.
alute.
While she, the mins. would lie in
bed and gurgle, Quite ready for the "vapours"
should he burgle." No butting-in of rivals was per-
mitted
Unless ther took the chance of
being spitted."
Now,
But nowadays the youth who pays
his court
Must first of all remember she's x
sport,
Who, bright and early, leaves her
feather bed.
And strives to emulate Joyce
Wethered,
With nerves attuned to stand (and-
like) the racket
at sports two-seater or the flapper
bracket.
No, " sloppiness" must mark the
"lover's wooing.
Lest he be told "old thing there's
nothing doing"
He's well advised to cut out all the
long songs
And tell her that her style reeem-
bles Lenglea's.
Or yel above the engine's roar
aloft
His plea if he would get the answer
"soft."
HOW TO AVOID INDIGESTION.
My only gride-book was dated 1817, and prescribed five days to see the beauties of "the venerable Seat of the Muses," but my ebm panions on the tour were better equipped, and know that the whole thing could be done in an hour and a half before luncheon and half an hour after. They worked deeper ately hard to allow themselves a long untrammelled spell for lun I took the train, back to towa
In most digestive, troubles, ex- chenn at the best hotel in the town. in a state of exhaustion, at once
They were equipped with busi- painful and alarming. It takes cess acid ferments food and canses ness-like attention to the work in months of rigorous training. to get gases to distend the stomach. That hand. Nobody
is why intense pain so often fol- encumbered into rubberneck form, but, was
after eating. with more than a few Baedekers achieved, pride in your achieve lows immediately and a cinematograph camera. The menty spurs you on from strength Digestive disturbances of this kind can be absolutely prevented by "man were tastefully dressed to face to strength: The others of the the blazing sun, for many wore party had a high standard.. taking a little" 'Bisurated? Mag- open-necked shirts and beautiful "I don't feel as though we'd donenesia in water after eating. This large cape in pastel shades; a few so much," a voracious matron com- neutralises the excess acid and en- favoured just a simple little me-plained to her daughter in the ables the digestive organs to fune- cintosh and spectacles.
train; we made better time than tion, in normal manner without The women were prone to fur this the other day at Versailles." pain or distress. Every chemist coats as being suitable for anything, Whereupon they fell to changing sells 'Bisurated' Magnesia, and if. and many wore the special tourist's the films in their cancras and look you will take it as directed yon. fatheeled shoe with steel tacks foring in the guide Index for Cam will quickly gain freedom from. climbing or cloister wear.
bridge.
digestive pain and discomfort.
once
The top and base of the font were decorated with small white roses, love-in-the-mist, and white heather, and the Rev. Noel Hopkins christen: ed the child..
Many people who were visiting St. Paul's at the time watched the ceremony."
The baby, who is four months old,' wore a christening robe "of lawn, finely embroidered and trimmed with antique Valenciennes lace, and a white satin cape and bonnet.
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
Hara Koro n AUGUST 31, 1930, 11th Sunday after
Trinity:
Holy Communion at 8 am Parade Service at 9.18 m. Children's Service at 10 am.. Mattins and Sermon at 11 am
- Preacher-The Rev. G. K. Carpenter, M.A., St. Stephen's College..
Evensong at 6.00 p..
Preacher: The Rer. H. . Koop. [97
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SCIENTIST, S
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, U.S.A:) MACDONNELL ROAD, BELOW BOWES" ROAD TRAM STATION. SUNDAY SERVICE, August 31, 1930, at
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SUSPAT, August 31, 1930:-
Morning worshipat llam
SabjectThe Fight for Peace." Evening Worship at 6 pm.
Preacher Rev. John Foster.
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