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IST" A' FAIRY TALE.
[By Jane Doc.
The situation has got to what Is called a pitch.
They say that, you know, when things are very black. As black as pitch.
CB, I've got that. But my books say sho i was a 'blue-oyed baby with fair hair. Weight 716.' Your Mignon Mignonette has got groy oyas, light brown shinglede. hair, and," he smiled kindly," "I'm sure she weights a lot more than that!"
JUNE
CHINESE COURTS.
A CHINESE LAW STUDENT'S FRANK CONFESSION,
LIBEL ACTION.
£360 CLAIMED FOR WOMAN.
A woman's letter, containing an Chicago 111 May 1926, Dr. alleged libel against a concert Yung Li-yao, government student Agent, was read in the King's "But that was when, she was a for China, who recently re- Bench Division recently. baby. She's 10 now, and her oyes ceived his degree of doctor of law
Mr. Lauchian George Sharpe, of have turned colour; and she goes from Chicago University and is at Tooting Bec-gardens, Streatham, to school and plays netball, and present studying the American said to be sole agent for Messrs. she got a goal one day, only they common law system, recently laud- Paderewski and Chaliapin, then weren't playing at the time; and ed. the United States judicial in claimed damages from Miss The Bobbed-Haired Mamma, last term she got honours.”
dependence and equity plan. Eleanor W. Steele, of Linden-gar- whose little daughter had flaunt-
Two Jossona which Chinese dens, London. The words com- ed mutiny-aboard flags from pow The Bobbed-Haired Mamma courts can learn from United plained of were contained in the ter-grey eyes for nigh on ton bit-reeled off a long list of her child's Statea courts are the value of judi- following letter from Miss Steele ter days, desperately explored accomplishments as if she were cial independence as based upon to Miss Helen Sealy regarding, a every avenue.
quite proud of her again. In fact, tenure of office and the value of concert at the Aeolian Hall She tried Anger, laying down she not only beamed on the off-the equity system of enlisting the her work for the Smack. She tri- cial, who beamed back, but she aid of exports to give their ed Patience and Indifference. But turned and beamed on Mignon opinions on questions of fact, and it was when she tried to appeal Mignonette, who also beamed back accepting these as advisory rather to her child's Better" Nature by saying "You don't realise that it hurts me far more than it hurts you!" that she completely lost her tempor.
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So would any self-respecting mother if she were laughed at like that !
nonsense
I should have been pleased to go to your concert, were it not that L. G. Shape is agent. In no circumstances would I go to any contert for which he is responsible and I think that this opinion, la very largely held in London. Miss Sealy, a client of the plain-
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"Ah!" exclaimed the Recorder, than binding opinions, Dr. Yao as he shut the book with a bang, said recently. "That makes all the defference. "The trouble with the judicial You can't change her, now. "Wandministration of China is not. may only take her back providing with the law or with the judicial she's in the same condition as bodies proper but rather with the tiff replied: when you took her away. If you enforcing bodies of the executive
I have not the pleasure of took an infant, you must bring branch of the government's," he
knowing your name." Mr. Sharpe back an infant, Those are the sald. These are dependent upon, rules."
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"The courts themselvca,” he con- and her little girl were already tinued, ""are undergoing constant
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any further." Her voice snapped so hard that the words might have been the poppings of a lot of little patent dress fasteners. "The best thing we can do is to part. You obviously want another mother. I most certainly want another daughter a better one. I shall jake you back to where I got you from."
When they were shown into the private room of the Keeper of
And they forgave each other There is no jury frial, a system the Records of all Little Girls, there and then, and promised al-aimilar to the equity court system that gentleman looked up from his ways to be polite and kind and prevailing All cases involving the excellences of the American desk and over his spectacles in sweet and loving,
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"It at once protects the individual So now they're expecting to live The choice of a jury trial or in his rights and gives a possible returned to the colony, 6, Ashley happy and petted ever after."
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"And what can I do for you? he asked, as if he never expected to see such nice people there.
"I'm sorry to trouble you," be gan the Bobbed-Haired Mamina, "but the fact is, my daughter and I are very dissatisfied with each other, and would like a change."
Certainly, certainly! But, of conrac, we can't effect any change over without adequate. Causc. There must be reasons."
"We've plenty of those, I assure you. In the first place, we've no interests in common. My daugh- ter prefers to buy comics' when 1 want her to read good books. Nor will she let me show her how to do things. And she's unreason- able. I spend a lot of money on her piano lessons, and she has a very nice voice, and yet when I ask her to play the Cherry Orchard or sing me the Happy Clown she makes as much fuss as if she were Paderewski or Galli Curci. And, besides, she's growing too tall for me. Why, when I tell her to stand up in the bath, so that I can wash her neck the water actually runs up my arms. And..and...
The Bobbed-Haired Mamma smiled rather lamely: The funny thing was that when she started out to pay this visit she had hun- dreds of dreadful things to tell the Recorder, but now she could only think of a few, and even they seemed silly....and vain....and certainly not worth giving up one' small daughter for.
looked
So the old gentleman over towards the little girl who was sitting bolt upright.
"Mamma's always 'don'ting me." she complained. "One day I counted nearly one million and a { half ‘don'ts.' And yesterday, when" I told her that my new gloves fit- ted me, all but the little fingers, which were too big, and would she take them back, she laughed at me and told me not to be a silly donkey. Then she always grüm- blea if I read when I'm doing things. But I can't see why your can't read Coral Island and clean your teeth properly at the same time, can you? And....?
She, too, queerly enough, couldn't think of half the things she wanted to, say..
But the Recorder hummed and hawed as he went though his, card index Ale and bit the end of his pencil. "There seem to be faults on both sides," he remarked.
It was on the tip of the Bobbed- Haired Mamma's tongue to say, "But I'm tired of being answered back!" yet she coudn't bring her- self to say it. It was on the tip of the little girl's tongue to say. But I'm tired of Mamma biting my head off yet she couldn't bring herself to say it.
"This is very strange," murmur- ed the old gentleman, "but I can't find any records of this child."
"Oh, that's ridiculous!" said the Bobbed-Haired Mother." "Mignor Mignonette is her name, and she' was born on February 1, 1916,"
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