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BATHS IN SCHOOLS.
The LO.C. Education Con- mittee at its meeting recently discussed a report by the school medical officer to the Central Care Committee recommending the provision of spectacles, open- air schools, and bathing facilites for children. Miss A. E. Tones. chairman of the sub-committee,! said that three new open-air schools were to open shortly. Since March, sites had been ac- quired for seven such schools, and more are, contemplated. agreed that all schools should have baths, and steps were being taken to that end in all new schools, The Sub-Committee had also
She
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KING'S HOMILY ON EDUCATION OF GIRLS.
"These methods of preserving and utilising fruits are very important, and 1. think they should be taught to our girla in school. All knowledge may be, desirable, but some forms are more desirable than others, and while it may be very well and very interesting to teach girls about flowers which they seldom see and birds which they can never catch. I think it would be better to direct attention first of all to those things which would help to make them good house- wires." In these words King George expressed some of his views on the education of girls. The occasion was a visit, in com-. pany with the Queen, Prince Henry, and Princess Mary, to the Scientific Products Exhibition at the Central Hall, Westminister.
WELSH CENTENARIAN, Bryngwyn, Monmouthsire, had the distinction of having a local centenarian at its peace celebra- tions in the
person of Betsy
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Arnold, who has been stated to. be 117 years old. This is some- what doubtful, however, though it is established that the old lady is well over 100. She was born at Skibbereen, County Cork, at 2 time when the registering of births was not the rule. The Rev. Father Exton, of Llanarth, has made inquiries in Ireland, as a result of which he has come to the conclusion that she is 104,
Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Food having been born on June
Controller, speaking at a luncheon 1815. When younger she did a
Wandsworth recently to A. from the areas embraced by the more or less visible from our own i celebrate the anniversary of thei good deal of work on farms, and had a reputation of being stronger
Postal Union, we should no longer coast, have no advantage over opening of the than any man for miles round,
delay the establishment of cheap distant China and Japan. One national kitchen, said the Minis her weight-barrying prowess being phenomenal. At the peace
little corner of China, Wei-hai-try of Food were anxious that the between the British Empire and wei, with a population of fewer public kitchen movement should A Times correspondent writes: the rest of the world. To all an 200,000 and an area of less be developed daring the coming celebrations at Bryngwayn she-Commerce depends much on countries we should make known than 300 square miles, actually danced gaily round a "Verdun enlarged means of communica our willingness to create with
winter. oak tree planted by the Mayor of tion. The British Empire can then a
As to the outlook, there, was Until about four neither know itself nor increase natively a three-halfpenny post, the Abergavenny.
penny post, or alter-1 comes under the three-halfpenny its acquaintance with its friends. if they also will conform.
rate, and in pre-war days secured food in the world, but we had to years ago she smoked.
benefit of the penny. pay a high price for it. People DIVORCED WIFE'S RUSE. who are also commercial com-
petitors without extended facil. ever may be the result of this Presumably the Peace Treaty were likely to be misled into negotiation, we ought not to be will bring other small places into believing that profiteering was a case which came before Mr.ities. Hence by many capable of deferred from instituting cheaper the same postal category. Huge the cause but we could not freel ourselves from responsibility for postage from the United King- tracts of continents and tiny Court recently. The petitioner that the bedrock of reconstruction dom. Be the initial cost what it islands will be administered as Past generations. We was Mr. George A. Farman, is cheap and expeditious com- might we should be repaid hand-the property of the Crown or the first year of the war we had suffering for it to-day, and during Durand-gardens, Clapham, and munication by letters and tele-somely for thinking imperially under mandatory powers. the co-respondent Sergt. Martin grams, which should put us in and at once inaugurating, at the due course they will illustrate the to pay £85,000,000 to foreign Howell, of the Canadian closest touch with every part of
We were compelled Engineers.
importance of cheap and expedi- countries. seat of Imperial Government, a The Сабе was the globe, stated that Mrs. Farman had
The letter and the telegram. or ed
system of enhanced and cheapen- tions posts and telegraphs-or, if to outside markets, and introduced Howall to her husband
communication throughout we take the penny wise and there was only one market avail- cable." are complementary aids the world. to business. The one announces
pound foolish road of administra-able, North America. We could was the relationship or not the bare fact, or makes opening mercial supremacy, would be their progress by relative ignor-through shortage of tonnage, and A great step towards our com.tion, will be let and hirdered in not get the Empire's supplies
counsel. Mr. J. A. Hawke, said fuller or alternative suggestions, age for the Empire and America is one opportunity offered by the been compelled to deplete their Mr. Farman did not know, but his inquiry; the other follows with taken by reverting to penny post. Jance of the world at large. There the Scandinavian countries had the wife's brother had left Eng-giving or seeking information of yet it is far more important to
Peace of demonstrating the stocks during the war. land years ago and one of the this or that nation's requirements establish a uniform postal rate to practical beneficence of British
The financial circumstances relatives could not recognise and the imports or exports that all lands, whether that rate be
were entirely against us. The Howell 85 the brother. Mr.
only worth 414 dollars, and he was Nothing would be so helpful in British sovereign at present was in the relations of his wife and turn, to profitable account. By "Howell, believing her statement, reducing the cost of letters and Great Britain contains many democratic ideals and in con matte course of the week it The history of Postal reform in by our armis, in spreading the informed by his financial advisers but he found that she had been telegrams to the lowest possible proofs of the power of persuasion. the making of the whole world of only four dollars. That meant might be well in the environment visted by Howell at Seaford where minimum, interchange of news During the Franco-British Ex-
tributing to enduring peace, as the Canadian was stationed and and views would be encouraged hibition the late Sir Henniker/ one postal family. Our trade an addition of 20 per cent. to the and sellers Heaton and Lord Blyth tried would increase; the friendship of price of any article we had to buy world, while hard to obtain a penny post to would be cemented; and, what is
the Allied and neutral nations in the American market. of com-France. They failed, but
The only way to remendy that was to stimulate probably of greater. importance
production.
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as her brother. Whether that
rule.
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Farman did not suspect anything of thought and action promptly three-halfpenny.
are most marketable, which men the pre-war penty or the present maintaining what we have won
where she had gone to stay. In between buyers evidence Mr. Farman denied that all
over the he had threatened his wife with a the dissemination
ill. A decree nisi
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in
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was moted through the newspapers. post to the United States. Mr.else, the mutual good understand£75,000,000 worth of food. This ciple of mutual understanding presented his country in England, ing thus created would more and year we are exporting £25,000,000, worth, 19 years, old, residing at has shown how sadly we need advanced for the proposal con- safeguard the Peace Treaty from £75,000,000 worth of food. Hel A girl typist, Florence Papp between the peoples. The war was inspired by the arguments more, in the course of years, and with that we had to buy quainted with the Mormon sect tions, how much we have benefit-claim of men speaking the same eyes of the barbarian.
act such understanding in some direc-cerning France to urge the price becoming a scrap of paper in the had to raise credit in the very in London, and wanted to go to ed from the comparatively little language as ourselves and inhabit-
country in which he was making These things, obviously, cannot purchases with the exchange so Utah, was summoned at Bow we possess in other directions. ing a vaster territory than France / be proved. Like all the biggest badly against us that it meant an Street recently for making false Though both the profit and the The scheme to deliver letters elements in life, they rest upon
additional 20 per cent. statements in order to get a pass-loss are incalculable, the indica for a penny over the Channel faith moulded by experience mother earth, he said. We have port. It was stated by Mr. Har- tions of each are manifest. across the way, as it were-led
What cheap postage and old Pearce, who prosecuted, that Nobody, for example, will refuse directly to the accomplishment of telegraphy have done for man got to work, to produce, or else) the girl knew a man named Lim-to allow to Imperial postage and the other scheme, to convey them f and the Empire can no more be we can never hope to get food at ford, who was a member of the the cable links of Empire (such over thousands of Atlantic miles Mormon sect, and that she also as they are) a considerable share and deliver them over thousands influence of Shakespeare. None demonstrated by figures than the became acquainted with au in the unanimity with which the of American miles.
the less, it would be as foolish American soldier named Estel. Dominions and Colonies grasped persuasion is, or could be, equal to deny the one as the other; as The latter wanted to marry her, the position of Great Britain and to, that which comes "with the foolish, in fact, as to deny the the bravest of claims? Then but she refused him. She wanted rushed to her help in August, 1914. Peace? War has taught us that value of reading and writing. A come clustering memories to go to Utah, but her parents, Nor is it less easy to imagine it is vital for a nation to under-great instrument has been placed of Serbia who live at Peterborough, object that early, misinterpretation of stand other mano, tal for in our hands, and a signs! op-created ed. She applied for a passport, our efforts in some quarters of nation to be ignorant of other portunity to employ saying she wished to go to Ogden, France-and Italy would have nations. The ratification of Peace advantageously than ever.
it more of the Near East, to say nothing Utah for the purpose of joining been corrected more easily if we would bring a highter prospect posal, some of us will think first another. The conclusion must be of Japan, where lie so many "Should advantages be at dis-British interests in one form or my guardian." As a matter of had not been separated from of long continuance of the conse-France. It will seem to them that universality is the only fact, said Mr. Pearce, she had no French and Italians for so many quent blessings if we extended to oso berpic an Ally should be wise policy, and that preliminary 5,000 Copies Received guardian there and she forged the previous years by a barrier of each Allied and neutral nation, that a certificate signed by the speaking, are prohibitive of easy tween ourselves, our farthest out-respect, with America; for, while countries, Allied and neutral, name of her parents. He added each postal rates as, generally the advantages now enjoyed be-/placed on equal terms, in this inquiry should be made of foreign president of the branch of Latter and constant communication. Day Saints at Boulk: Tottenham stated that the girl was a member The magistrate bound the girl over for 12 months on condition
thatshe went to live at home,
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