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MORTALITY FROM WILD 'ANIMALS IN INDIA.
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The mortality from wild an- imals and sanke bites in British ndia during 1927 was respective- ly 2,285 and 19,069, as compared with 1.965 and 19,724 in the pro-
vious year.
were
Tigers were responsible for 1,033 deaths, leopards 218, wolves 1465, bears 78, elephants 56; and
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Of 423 deaths from "other animals," about 156 are nesigned to ernendiles, RG to wild boars and pigs, and 41 to jackals. The highest number of deaths from wild animals occurred in, the the Madras Presidency (379), United Previces. Bihar and Orissa, and the Central Phen: vinees and Horne eændur next on ༈༙ ;" ་ Jurier. The money RE
phanis snowed a slight decrease,
Deaths from snake-bites de-i creased from 19,724 to 19.069. Bombay. Bengal, the United Pro- vinces, Burma, Central Provinces and Rerar, and Assam showed a decrease, wirile increase occured in Madras, the Panjab, Bihar and Grissn, and the North-West Fron- ter Provinces.
During 1927 25,612 wild animals were reported to have been des trayed, of which 1,368 were tigers, | 4,300 leopards, 2,789 bears, and 2,439 wolves. A sum of Rs. 139,- 158 was paid in fewards, against Rs. 140,061 in the previous year, The number of snakes destroy- ed in India increased from 46,012 to 57,116, and rewards paid for their destruction were Rs. 1,241, against Rs. 1,615 in the previous year.
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WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Husbands I Should Dislike,
[By a Modern Girl.3
Evon to-day, when husbands are a coveted possession, there are some I would really rather bo without.
One is the tender, solicitous husband who is always so charm ing and affectionate to his wife in public. He calls her "sweet- heart" and "learcat" overy time He hovers ho speaks to her. around her like an anxious bird, looks down into her face, anya tenderly, "Sure you're quite all right, darling?" and pats her hand all in the hope that his audience will say what a devoted couple they are.
In private his manner changes. If he does not show the iron.hand in the velvet glove he at least reveals claws.
Then there is the husband who treats his wife ka a brainless Ile devotes all his housekeeper. time and attention to his business, but never tells his wife anything about it. He assures her she wouldn't understand. He treats' her like a pretty doll, just capable
ne-Minute Interviews.
“ PHILOSOPHY.
OF DRESS"
IS NEED OF
ALL WOMEN.
Cool Salads for hot Weather.
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TASTY GRAPE FRUIT SALAD.
For six people" uso two large Wanted-a clothes philosophy for grape fruit. Peel and separate fruft Into sections, removing all every woman!
That is what an eminent cou-the white skin. Arrange, the Bec-. turier, Madame Bady Weiss, of tion like a flower on lettuce leaves Bruck-Weiss, feels is a great Ame-placed on individual plates. Chop rican need today.
8 dates, 4 figs, 6 prunes, and 1⁄2 cup: "Until a woman has a well-ca-ful of nuts. Put 2 tablespoonful tablished idea" in her mind of just of this mixture in the centre of each cooked what clothes she can wear, she is flower and on top some
*unsettled, drift-salad dressing which has been 12 Verbal
ing. A clothes sweetened and has whipped cream philosophy la al-
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5 Resinous substanco used int
varnish.
8 Concaited precision.
18 Kimono sash.
14' Drove.
15 To be exposed to a genial heat. 16 Upright shift.
17 Paragraph in a newspaper.
moat as import-alirred into it. .ant in a woman's
Candlestick Salad. life as a career," Madhme Weiss Mako individal servings. Put a 18 Every.
lettuce leaf on a plate and on each 20 Battering machine, asserted.
"It is not the a slice of pineapple. Into the 22 Nimbio.
who centre of the slices put a half of 25 Light carriage. knows her type bannana which has been cut cross-26 Feminino pronoun. and is consistent wise, the round end at the top. 20 A mutual giving, In everything she Make an incision in the top of the 32 Golf mound.
33 To dovour. banana and stick in it a small piece wears whose mind is totally of a cherry to represent the flame. occupied with Serve mayonnaise with the salad. clothes.
Pear Salad nu Naturel.
Rather,
it Is the woman who has never thought out what of looking after his home, but of Madame Wolsg the should have, nothing else. His real problems
he takes to his secretary. It must who spends her life worrying about be very humiliating to be his wife.it.
An exasperating husband I have met is the fussy, interfering type, who likes to know everything that takes place in the house, and is quite
are better sure there methods of doing everything.
Then there is the very placld, absolutely spotless husband, who
Pictured is one of the new smart checked taffeta frocks with a surpllee neckline, and a skirt with diagonal ruffles across the front, and a smart, piquant bow fastening.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
THERE'S SOMEBODY IN. MERE AS SURE AS I'M A FOOT AGA!! 6EE, WOULDN'T I BE GLAD IF I FOUND: UNCLE HARRY!!
36 Silk worm. 30 By.
4 Selected by ballot.
37 Blood-sucking Insect. 40 Capuchia monkey. Mix saft cream cheese with nuts 42 Achio, and a little mayonnaise. Makg into 40 Back, small balls and place in centres of 47 To annoy pears putting two halves together. 18 Unoccupied. Touch the aides of the pears with 40 Spun wool, red colouring and put a clove in 60 Born. "As a practical woman, I should the end of each. Place on a lettuce 51. A dunce. advise young girls starting out in leaf on individal plates. Iland life to settle their sartorial polley, mayonnaise. It will save time, money and free the mind for other tasks. And it! will give them that well-groomed chic every woman craves.
"For want of good clothes sense, luvers oven had been turned away,
"Why not alt down and study yourself? Then ask the opinion of some expert. Once a general philosophy is worked out, Hio in easier, clothes are apt to be lese expensive and the woman is at her hest, which is reason enough in it self."
For Company.
had one time, for company;
A host of dreams and hopes
niost fair,
But they have fuled long ago,
Yet have not left me to des- pair.
For in their place, for company.
These fellow human hearts I
And,
Unsatisfied, Hke mine, rebuffed,
Yet Jiving, loving, kay and
Itind.
Thelma Coombs.
never gives an anxious moment. He doesn't mind what his wife or anyone else does as long as they don't actually interfere with him. lle, never notices what his wife weais, and merely listens with a polite smile if she tells him any-
He thing.
complains, Bever
be to anything will du agreeable, never has any ideas of his own, never says a thing worth listening to,, and altogether has the personally of a white rabbit.
I should like a husband who would take an interest in my life as well as in his own, who would sometimes make me jealous, who wouldn't always expect me to be tled to his apron strings, and who would be enthusiastic and full of ideas,
I should secretly like to know he was my master, and I should want to feel terribly proud of him.
WHATS THAT? A CROCODILE!! NOW WE
ARE IN A PICKLE AGAIN!!
GIVE ME MY STICK, BOBO!!
For years Hollywood ac tresses have been going, to Paris to buy the latest crea- tions in clothes. But when Dolores Del Rio left the film. capital for Europe, she re- versed the order of things. Miss Del Rio took $30,000 worth of gowns with her, in- cluding the above Japanese out-
fit.
Bobo's on the Job
Vortical.
1 To cry convulsively.
2 Constellation."
3 Acriform fuel,,'
4 Sodn ash.
5. To lo at card.
6 Stripod camel's hair cloth.
7 Pertaining to t sour acld.
PLANES FALL AMONG HARVESTERS.
LOCKED TOGETHER IN MID-AIR CRASII.
Digby (Lines), Aug. 17. Locked together in a mid-air collision, two R.A.F. aeroplanes to-day crashed to earth herd amid
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To docny,
10 Email fresh-water fish
11 Jowol
10 Person affected with leprosy,
21 Common century, plant,
22 Work of genius.
23 Driving command.
24 Frozen water.
25 Secured.
26 To perch.
27 Garden tool.
28 To Anish.
30 Dried grape.
11 Inert.
36. To deserva.
16 Fish allled to the perches.
37 To cook in a griddle
38 Meadow.
39 Organ of sound.
41 Part of verb to be.
43 Stir.
14 Bick.
46 Tennis fanco.
Yesterday's Solution
ALBERTS
WAGNER
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would crash in the hedge at tho. end of the fold.
"One was only about 20ft.; be hind the other. They were travell- ing at about 60 miles per hour, A second later they crashed into each other.
a group of horror-stricken harvest directions like workers,
"For the moment they wont en in a tandem. Then the tail of one of the planes fell off.
"Splinters of wood fell in all a shower. Both planes seemed to steady them
and then down they Pilot Officers Adrian Gordon solves, Cole and Bertrand Guy D'Oller shot,"
Mr. Warwick, of Highfold were killed instantly, and Flying Officer Arthur Radley Feather Farm, on whose land the machine died in hospital a few hours after-fell, described the frantic efforts
to extricate the airman. warda,
"A dozen of us who were work- The machiner-a D.II.9 and an Avro-with a squadron of othering near dropped our rakes and planes had taken off half an hour dashed to the spot. We lifted out carlier from Digby Aerodrome, Pilot Oleor Feather after we had only 300 yards from the scene of used our weight to bend back the the crash. Flight Officer Cole was body of the aeroplane, which had, in the D.II.9, with Plot D'Olier as broken over him.
"From the other machino we his passenger.
After circling the aerodrome took Pilot Officer D'Olier, who had the machines had dropped town severe wound In his head.
"Pilot-Omeer Cole was pinned over the field, and were about to land. The Avro was following in the wreckage. The fire and close behind the D.H.9, when the ambulance bridges from the aero- flold, workers in the field saw the twofdrome rushed across the machines crash together,
and they had to use saws,
axes
Fell in Barley Field.
and wire-cutters to cut away the The tall then fell from the fuselage to get him out."
"It is a marvel to me, that the lending aeroplane, The impact echoed loud above the roar of the machines did not burst into flames engine, and pieces of wood flew for they were drenched with In all directions,
petrol."
Then both machines fell into Half an hour after the crash, the field of sheaves of harvested in accordance with the R.A.F. barley, striking the earth within tradition, all the other available. machines in the aerodrome went 60 yards of each other.
"I was working in the field up for exercise.
To-night the Air Ministry ex- few hundred yards away," said John Wilkins, a farm labourer,perts are examining the wreckage. and the first man to reach the it is the general opinion at the spot.
aerodrome that, had the machines "Hearing, the roar, I looked up Been higher, the airmen would to see two acroplanes swooping have been able to use their para- down directly over my head. So chutes, or even to land the ma- low were they that I thought they chines.
By Blosser
WELL-THERE GOES MY STICK, BUT THAT OLD. CROCODILE BOES WITH IT. SO IT'S WORTA LOSING!! HURRY, BACK BOBO!
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