SOCIALISTS CAUGHT OUT.
́ ́THE COMMONS RISE EARLY.
Westminster, May 8, The House is often constrained to smile at Opposition tactics, but Turely have the Socialinis perpetrat- ed such a rich Parliamentary joke against themselves as to-day.
By soon after four they had ad- Jourted the Commons and cheated themselves of a debate of their own *preference and choosing.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPII,
FLAPPER COMES TO
FULL ESTATE,
ANGELS AND CONIES IN ONE EVENING.
Without a word to mark its final stage, the Bill which entitles wo- men of twenty-one to vole, and so adds more than five millions to the electorato, was finished by the House of Commons in an hour or two recently.
Thus, unless the Lords do any- thing unexpected, the flapper has come to full estate; the legions of "Joshua" having spattered the for-
MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1928.
19) ANGLE BET
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
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Miss Dash, I see you have been Sowing Beauty Seeds.
"Successful Women.lucky again."
[By Dorothy Black.] In official phrase, this was an
No'woman who makes an income allotted Supply Day, and the Oporn. Conservative platoon of we-running into four figures dan hope, position selected for discussion the ive, have reached their objective; to have many women friends. Scottish Estimates. But they the second greatest extension of opened their subject by complain the electorate in British history has Someone told me that years ago, ing that too little time had beeni given for it, and, as a "gesture," been accomplished and, according moved to report progress the Part the Home Secretary, we now en- Hamentary method of signifying joy "greater and freer representa-
Lion than any ollier democracy." protest; ...
After the Bill to elevato sweet- To their dismay and stupefac-and-twenty, the Commons consi tion, the supporters of the Govern-dered one to suppress the rabbit. mellt did not resist the motion, and Angeld and conles in one evening. once it had been guilefully allowed The comprehension of Parliament, to pask any talk about Estimates like the poet's, embraces all. became instantly impossible. The consternation on the faces of the Clydeside group, who by scerning half a loaf had deprived themselves of any bread at all, was a ludicreas and rewarding study.
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The report and third reading of the Franchise measure ware taken has in- consecutively. As diented, there was no speech and no division on the last stage, but previously the Socialists, tried to make two alterations, both of which Tailed.
Double Voters,
The Conservatives, and even the English members of the Opposition, laughed, and laughed. Perhapi they were visualising what a place it will be if ever the Scottish So-
Mr. Snowden wanted to abolish cialists succeed in their demand to, found in Edinburgh Parliament the qualification for a second vote with procedure and rules of its own, bestowed by business premises;
With a bland and formal air, residential franchise, he thought, was quite enough. The Home the Fyres-Monsell, Commander Government Chief Whip, moved the Secretary sought to smooth him adjournment of the House. "No," down by pointing out that there shouted the Socialists, looking would be only about 400,000 double blackly amoyed, and, suddenly voters among twenty-five millioos. coining artful, they tried to steal buch as their subjed by chicting a discussion on the motion that the Ilouse should go home. But the Speaker, who had been concealing smiles behind his wig and gallant
"What," so to speak, "is one among so many Besides, this was an attempt to equalise, not reform, the electoral scheme.
Sir John Simon thought the plural attributes which women will
share with
future
'men,
Interesting le the trimming felt achieved in this red hat by sticking ordinary pins through the felt to form a design.
"
But it is not an entirely one-sided affair. Those who achieve any- thing at all must become a little' hardened and a little. Intolerant in the process, Their attitude to wards their fellow creatures is per haps a trifle off-hand.
Success or popularity which would you choose?.....
Success wins every time. "One. rént friend, rather than a dozen ac quaintances. The successful wo man's friends are perhaps few, but they are always lasting ones.
Too Many Now Dances.
[By Antony Quindle.]
With the opening of the London season the dance season has clos- ed. During that time we had, It is computed, twenty new dances on which to practise our none too nimble feet.
Of these, how many, have sur vived? So far as I am aware- none. At fashionable dance places they are not dancing the Sugar Step, the Kinkajou, the Rhythm Step, the Baltimore or the Heeble Jeebies. They are dancing cool, summerlike tangos, Yale Blues, the old ring foxtrot, the waltz, and But we must not draw too rapid fragments of the Charleston.
(By A Woman Chemist.} Good looks are desired by avery woman. But unless the seeds of beauty are sown in the spring time, many women will be doomed
A new white feathered even- ing cap brings with it sugges- tions of the white wigs of the
old French court.
to disappointment in this respect.
At no season of the year is diet
Useful as toilet aids can be, the real "aids" to beauty will be found
so important as it is in the spring.
and I did not believe it then. But the statement rings true to those who aware they have the knack of doing something well, have stack at a conclusion from these facts. If in the larder. "Green meats," in a dance is to succeed it should be the form of fruits, salads and are most ecossary: it until they have succeeded,
Perhaps the greatest and must launched at the beginning of a vegetables, ly trying to keep his countenance | IB grave, assured them that, it would grotesque, und Lady Astor, after conscious enemy of the success-season, not at the middle or the Many people do not cat sufficient at any season, but particularly in It is conceivable, but no means the spring. Fruit should be caten not do. So nothing remained but summoning the Liberal lawyerful woman is the Other Woman's end.
the ad-ross the House into private con- Husband-that hearty and blithe
who says: "I hear you certain, that in the autumn thedaily, and is especially good if to take the division on few minutes the Mace had disapslightly fuddled dissatisfaction. make a large, income of your own Sugar Step and the Heebie Jechies taken at breakfast journment question, and within a soltation, also arose, and evinced a fellow
"No party is really sound on the in your spare moments, Misa Dush.will be refloated on a tide or During the winter porridge and quality of wemen," she complained, Now, Myrtle, my dear, why can't "pepful" and enthralling music; cocon art and shrugged, as if to convey that you do something of the sort?"
some things mon will there are never understand.
peared.
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two favourite foods.
So Myrtle, who might have been and as the musle always makes the Now that the spring has arrived,
dance, we may yet encounter season stored with graceful, lively, or wistful rhythms.
under the
disharmony.
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Saturday's Solution.
MOOLA GROEY TALE
GAYM C
TERRIFIC STORM.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE IN
HUNGARY.
All
"The complaint of the Socialists was that the latest reports were hat
our friend, is lost to us. She will
the quantity consumed should be available on which to base the
go for ever with that shaft in her
lessened considerably. The money Scottish debate. But, when the
invested on chocolates in cold wea. Unlimited Policies, dale was arranged they must have
poor pride, hating us in her heart,
ther should now be spent on frult. heen well aware of what material.
Budapest, June 10. An air pilot and his passenger Two points emerge from the ex-The amount of meat eaten, ea- Already the House has settled Useless to grieve over her, or, in-
The most terrific storm within would be at the disposal of argu-
perience of the past season. We pecially fat meat, can be diminish- were killed instantly recently when ment, and nothing but false reckon that candidates may spend five-deed, to think about her any more.
their machine crashed at Filton living memory raged yesterday in "Then again, to be successful lays have had too many new'danees; weed. ing and foolishness may he put for-pence a head on cach constituent in She can never bo won after that.
them There are two more "benuty Aerodrome, near Bristol, and sub-the Peca district of Southern
The Hungary, ward in explanation of their pur-lighting horough elections, and co
there was little chance for the So-one open to suspicion of being do not know how to name bimal tactics.
The Lords did their best to pre-cialist amendment to make the clever, although in a great many when we get them. What does the seeds" of the greatest importance.sequently burst into flames.
One is oxygen. Open windows day tragedy followed the air pageant at
wire were eat by the storm and vent Parliament's reputation as a sum fourpence-halfpenny. "Voles cases it is all a matter of Industry Kinkajou mean? Nothing. hard-working assembly fran being should not be bought," declared the and seizing those opportunities all does the Rhythm Step mean, since and night should be the rule, the aerodrome of the Bristol and All telegraph and telephong The dead men were. Mr. R. E. therefore details are not obtain dansted by sitting until dinner-Opposition Chief Whip in rotund of us get and so many of us let all our ballroom dances are in-The other "beauty seed" is exer- Wessex Aera Club,
pass by. Cleverness is the hardest evitably based on rhythmic prin- cisc, which should be taken in the
Man Lime. They made progress with moral tones.
There is po obligation, however, of all things to live down.
Two people, were killed and two several small Bills, and heard a proposat from Lord Ernie, that im- on Socialists to spend all that is will forgive a woman anything but ples? What does "Heckie Joe- fresh air. No amount of exercise Hopper, aged about 24, of Corn-able. ported refrigerated ment should permitted: Already according to that she may perhaps catch him out bis mean? In its Negro deri- indoors can make up for it. The wallis-erescent, Ciffion, the pilot,
damage is believed to be enormous, be stored at the ports for a certain the Home Secretary's, researches over a Latin quotation. No happy viation it means "the hump," de weather may be wet or bleak, but and Mr. D. Tanner, aged 21, of. The
labouring
officer of the R.A.F. Reserve. period as an additional measure of they fight town elections most futile moments are allowed to the pression, a general feeling of the oxygen will be there all the Lenze House, Frome, Somerset, struck dumb in one village.
But what does it mean to us?me, and so the beautifying pro- the passenger. The former was an the crops were destroyed. The
cess will be going on. The nor
Both were members of the club, Reutor safeguard against the spread of cheaply of the three parties, while woman
suspicion of possessing brains. A foot-and-mouth disease. But there the Liberals pay most.
I do not suggest," and Sir W- dark significance is laid on every-Nothing but eccentric and not very mally healthy girl should enden-and had gone up for a pleasure ride were practical objections which prohibited the Government from ant looking towards where Mr. thing she says or does. There is humorous words out of the dic-vour to get all the outdoor sport in Muih teroplane shortly after Lloyd George sits they have more only one serviceable cleverness for tionary. Yet the Heebie Jeebies she can. Dancing is useful as a two o'clock. When over the Filton
women to cultivate, and that is the is an admirable design in ballroom from of exercise but it must never golf links they made a sudden turn, od during the pageant., Miss adopting this plan.
terms. Complicated though it ap-be allowed to usurp the place of and getting into a nose-dive crash-June," the parachutist, went up money to spend.?
*You do not suggest," echoed Mr.ability to disguise its Thurtle, with interest, "that they
Not only do people dislike clever- have unlimited resources ?"
"No, answered Sir William ness, they distrust it. They are Jaguson-1icks, "but they have un-Rot sure that, after all, the whole limited policies to advocate." The business is not a trick. People are of labour. A few noble souls there House grew rather merry over this loath to believe in the just reward amendment.
After disposing so lightly of per-are who realise that an actress may ed may be satisfying, hat does it has the major Bill of the Session, be successful because she can act raise the House in publie estima- the Commons gave a second reading and, has worked hard, and has got tion, and the Socialista onight not to the Rabbits BI, which has been where she is through talent alone. to be permitted to blunder too often.hanging about the Order Paper for There will always be wise head- shaking and whispared stories, andd the subtle suggestion that you and had been prepared to stoop to the could have got, just as far if we same depths.
Members of the Commons inno- cently continued to arrive at West- minster until the evening was well an advanced. There has been unnstal series of early rising dur- ing this year, which thoughtful members are leginuing to deplore. A party score achieved by the method of sending the Commons nway early with work unaccomplish-
several months. IL authorises County Councils to take a hand, when necessary, in the destruction
of thise pests.
Then comes the large class of But in pro-slightly scornful people who would
The RB, the last of the airship fleet which made aeronautical his-
One task only remained-to make tory a few years ago, is being arrangements for winding up the broken up. Several of the valu- Naval Prize Fand. able instruments in the equipment cess of doing so the Ilouse became like you to understand that it is not however, will be used on the R 101. somewhat disputations and weary, It was the R33 that broke from and adjourned itself just before her moorings in April, 1925, and drifted neross the North Sea with only a few members of the crew on board. Courageous work by the senior officer, Flight Lieuten-
nine o'clock.
that they could not have done just the same themselves, but it was beneath their dignity. They have every technique at their finger-tips but consider all that kind of thing unworthy of them. Success in one The London Education Com-person has a way of bringing out all that is worst in others, which is the reason why a successful woman does not have régiments of friends.
ant (now Squadrón Lander) R. S. mittee's three-year programme in Booth, and the men under him, cludes the provision of about brought the airship back to Pul-10,000 new school places, 19 now ham Aerodrome, Norfolk, after 36 schools, and the modernising of 18 Hard to bear with, also, is the kind-
hours.
Mackenzie's
schools.
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exercise out-of-doors.
If these few practical seeds of Beauty are carefully cultivated every girl, even if she is not beau- tiful, can be at least good-looking.
in an Avro machine wearing the ed to the ground.
As the mechine struck the earth parachute harness, and after the smoke and lames rose, and with-machine had reached a sufficient in three minutes. It was burnt out. helght she could be seen prepar- The bodies of the victims were ing to jump, found later amid the wreckage.
The parachute, which is held in a Police-Sergeant Turner, of the Gloucestershire Constabulary, who container which has to be lowered penrs in practice, it is far less so as a witness of the accident, said underneath the machine, was seen when the dance is taken to pieces that he Naw the young men swinging below the under-carriage Familiarity with too many new take off happily enough. They and Miss "Juno" was beginning to dances breeds contempt of them were over the golf links when the climb out of the passengers cockpit, theAt this point a spectator with all. Perhaps that is why-apart sudden glint of the sun on
from technical difficulties so few wings attracted his attention as powerful glasses said that the cable people are dancing them, or, inthey made a sharp turn. They attached to the container had got fnet, know very much about them.were then about 300 feet up, and it entangled with the lifeline leading We do need new ideas in the ball-struck him that they were rather from the harness to the parachute room, but until they are given low for such a manoeuvre. They There was consternation, among some native significaneg, instead made a second sharp turn and then the few who heard this and who parachutist was almost certain to of imitating purely American or got into a nose dive, and came al-realised that if she jumped the South American ideas, we shall most straight down.
never get the dancing world of It was impossible to do anything be killed. this country to take them serious to save them, although officials of
Fortunately, the fault had been
ly. Perhaps the annual conference the Aerodrome rushed to the spot observed by the occupants of the
of teachers this summer will crys- with fire extinguishers. tallise and reduce to their proper Parachute That Jammed. proportions
the too-numerous dances we have been offered, and
machine No jump was made, and the aeroplane landed with the parachute and container still dang-
Although few of the spectatore ling underneath it with the two give, in addition, a touch of com-realised it, there was nearly a cables entangled. Miss "June" ap exhibition peared afterwards. to be much at- ballroom.
when the dance- tragedy
parchute jump was being attempt-fected by her escape.
monsense names.
to
Uncle Harry!
YES-74S
15 THE PLACE!
UNCLE HARRY'S
ANINY!DONT
GET SO EXCITED,
·BOYG!!
WELCOME
TO OUR
MIDST!!
HERE IN A
·TAXI !! --
By Blosser
WELL HERE WE ARE WHERE
ARE THE KIDDIES.?
HE DOBONY
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PICTURE
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