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YOUNG AMAZON.
Scene in West-end Hotel.
A scono a West-end hotel, in which the daughter of an offfcor of the 7th Hussars smashed a panel in the hall door with the visitors' book, bad a sequal in the High Court recently...
Frequent laughter punotusted fibe hearing of the action by this young muscular lady, Miss Enid Violet Annie "Oroli-Kolly, who claimed damages for alleged false imprisonment from Mrs. Mary Ellen Thurlby, proprietress of the Gora Hotel, South Kensington.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1926.
TO-DAY'S FASHION.
WHY G.B.S. DECLINED.
Would Have Come in Handily 50 Years Ago.
BLUEBOTTLE AND SCIENTISTS.
Measuring the Air It Breathed. Mr. G. Boinard Shaw has sont to Mr. T PO'Conner, M.P., the
Tho honoured guest of the following letter, which is publish Royal Society at Burlington ed by the Yorkshire Evening House last month, where scientists Voca
gathered to admire the evidences "My doar TP-Absonce from of the year's progress in learning, town and a strong sense of was Mr. John B. Bluebottle. humour will provent me from Mr. Bluebottle arrived with accepting your invitation to dine many friends from bis University in teknowledgment of the political town of Cambridge (Eng... not eminence of Ramsay MacDonald. Mass), and was specially accom- Considering that the man balmodated in a tube.
bem Prime Minister of England, Fresh air was put into the tube, and cut a considerable figure in with an intimation that the Mr. Croom-Johnson, for Miss
thit capacity, I should bare Kelly, explained that bis ollent
theu, ht that his eminence had visitor could breathe as much as
he liked. and her mother had occupied & room with their own furniture in
Here are a pretty quartatte of Bain noticed,
Mr. Bluebottle breathed deeply the hotel. When they decided to hosiory. The upper one features If the dinner is a success, I and to the delight of those who leave, the workmen who were black foot, heel and top with a suggests that it be followed by were measuring his respiration called upon to remove the faml-dark An instep and leg. another to acknowledge the piety with an instrument called the ture found the hall door was Next, a flesh colour silk stocking of the Pope, yet another to Shakespear katharometer.
has a wide red band to show just emphasise the mathematical
At the same time the
locked.
Miss Kelly was told that ebe/below a rolled top. A figurod red talent of Einstein, and a final one taleness" of the atmosphere. could not leave until the bill on and prean on flesh colour makes to call attention to the existoncoinside the tube was also recorded to her mother. was paid. She the third and a most colourful of milestones on the Dover-road by this devica.MORT
told Mre, Thurlby that if she did sports hose of silk and lisle is not open the door she would very gay, force her way out.
£2,000,000 FOR BOOKS.
She then broko the glass panel in the door with the visitors' book, took a obair, and (said counsel): tried to climb through the hole which she had made. Mra. Thurlby's son and the porter pulled ber away,
Hunt for Treasures in
Europe.
After having spent £400,000 in England in the purchase of rare books for American millionaires, Dr. A. G. W. Rosenbach sailed for the United States recently in the Majestic.
Miss Kelly stated that when Mrs. Thurlby refused to give her the key she told her "it was an insult, only I used a stronger! He told a newspaper repre- sentative that during the past term."
Mr. Geoffrey Howard (eross-seven years he had spent £2,000,- examining): "You are an Irish 000 in Europe on books. girl, I suppose ?-Half.
Did you tell Mra, Thurlby you would smash her face in ?-It is quite possible.
Did you say "Give me that key"?.
Mr. Johnson: That is literary language. It is used in a famous play. (Laughter.)
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"HALF IN, HALF OUT.. Alfred Hodgson, the hall por- ter, said when he unlocked the door Misa. Kelly was half in and half out of the panel.
In bis latest search for literary treasures he found and secured a series of lettore written by George Washington in which be dealt with American, agriculture and climate.
His most expensive purchase was a copy of "Baxter'e Call to the Converted," printed in 1664 in the at Cambridge, Mass American Indian language, for which he paid £6,800. This price, said Dr. Rosenbach, is the fourth highest figure ever pald for a book.
"In spite of all our captures," he added, "There should remain in England many wonderfully While another hotel employee fine privato libraries such as was giving evidence, Mr. Howard America would desire to acquire. said: "Miss Kelly looked so I do not think many of them will demure in court this morning come into the market. They are that one could hardly imagine held as family possessions." hor swearing." (Laughter.)
A waiter stated that when he interiered, Miss Kelly said: "Do you want a good hiding, too?", She then knooked a cigarette, out of Mr. Thurlby's mouth.
Mary Fleming, the hotel book. keeper, stated that when Mrs. Kolly said she would write a cheque out ahs (Miss Flaming)' went up to her room to collect it. Mr. Justice Rowlatt:" You'did about the most useful thing that was done that day. (Laughter.)
The judge suggested that if anyone had any difficulty in leaving the hotel they could have got up the chimney, (Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Rowlatt, referring to Mles Kelly, said, Many people of excellent qualitios have quick tempers.". It was a great pity that the porter did not open the door and give her the key,
Miss Kelly "bad permitted herself language which no lady should permit herself to use, said the judge. She admitted using a word which gentlemen did not use as a rule, and which ladiesj should never use. She was wrong from the moment, when she interposed with bad language and violence:
Miss Kelly was awarded 40s. damagos and Mrs. Thurlby 368. on the counterolaim in respect of the broken window.
DAILY HUMOUR.
Friend: "What is the matter, Stolla? You soom upsat!"
Stolla: "Yes, just imagine Our sorvant is ill and poor darling: mother has to do all the scrubbing by horself!"d
Passing Show, London,
"If you could throw in a lunch
to remind people that Lam rather The katharometer con-Mens- good at writing plays, all there a plant's breathing, record an insect's respiration, find the water vapour in air. better.
Those meals would have come in more handily 50 years ago: Still, they are well meant and I hope you will all enjoy yourselves very much."
FLAPPER FANNY says.
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A pessimist is a man who firs tasks a girl if he can kiss ber.
It can also dotect the most minute leakages of gas in the envelopes of balloons and air chips, and tests are being made to determine its value in medical) research.
EARLY TELESCOPE.
In another part of the exhibi« tion. Mr. George H. Gabb showed what is believed to be the earliest English telescope. It is made of wood, covered with rod leather, and shaped like a trumpet. It bears the name and date," Jaceb Cunningham, 1661,"
Mr. Gabb, who collects antique instruments, told & romantic story of its discovery,
He was attending a sale in a London auction room, dad bought." for a song a job lot, in which he found the unique in- strument he showed.
Actually the apparatus was not oven recorded in the catalogue. He has made the most exhaustive research as to the original owner, but little has been traçed. The telescope magnifies only three diamotors.
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Among the exhibits were some from the 23 cases of deinosaur bones which lately reached the. British Museum from Tang- anyika.
Sir Ernest Rutherford da monstrated with a French flra showing the motion which is Incessant in minuto partiolos: Microscopiats know it as
Brownian movement." Tho
and irregular motion of those atomlo partiolos liquids in and gasos wore clearly shown in the photographs.
To secure them a high-power had to be used.
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