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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1934,
SKILLED MEN REQUIRED
·THE HOME
DRESSMAKER
REAL DEARTH IN The Child's "Rompers"
MOSCOW NOW
THEFT OF TRAINED
MEN PRACTISED
Moscow, Oct. 1 thousands
skilled -- While
of workers in America and Europe are looking futilely for jobs, cer- tain kinds of labour are so scarce here that the "theft" of trained men for one organisation by an- other has become a real industrin problem.
That does not mean there in no unemployment in the Soviet Union.. The streets of Moscow, especially' in winter, teem with beggars. With outstretched palms they stand in groups around the stores patronized by foreigners and more prosperous
Ilussians. But any
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Boston, Sept. 27. Mr. Jeremiah Christopher Leon- ard, 34, a sign painter who likes to rummage through musty shops for second-hand art was revealed re- cently as possessor of an apparent masterpiece that may bring him a Furtune.
Some of the country's leading museums have become keenly in- terested, it was learned, 'in "Madonna and Child" that for three years adorned the parlour wall of Mr. Leonard's Somerville Houne.
The duat-smothered painting, belleved that of an Italian makter man with technical skill can get To make up these useful little of the Renaissance period cont Mr. Now it appears that job. In fact, employers hunt"Rompers" for the toddler-boy Leonard $0.
him...
TRICKERY.
or girl-you will need only one the work may bring him anywhere Some organizations, particular and a quarter yards of thirty-six from $50,000 to $150,000. So he y the big construction trusts, inch material. Choose something has removed it from the parlour employ special agents to Beck urable and make sure that it, wall and placed it in anfekeeping. Mr. Leonard supports his wife workers. Sometimes, these agents washes well.
and children-five to fourteen "steal" mes from other trusts,
Study the diagram, cut a paper years old-painting buildboard promising them better pay or in-
the mobrementa poaters. His hobby is visiting Freased privileges in the way of pattern to
riven. tack up, try the pattern on second-hand furniture stores, seck- housing and food.
the child, and make any necessary ing art gems among their mouldy alterations. Now
the litter. eut
Five years ago he found the The extent to which some organ.material, as shown, by the cor-
The waist-band,, "Madonna and Child", coated with izations will go to get workers was rected pattern."
is not shown in the dust and grime. in a Somerville illustrated recently by the Staka which
a straight strip of shop. It had lain unnoticed for Regional Executive Committee, diagram, la Needing more workers, they sent material, three inches wide, to be an long that the Jewish proprietor forgot where it came from. A bid Instructions to a number of men used double,
of $6 was accepted ready-the employed by the Magnesite" In making up the "rompers," merchant even threw in a bundle Iactory to report for military arrange the back fastening of the of frames for good measure. training. S1 Ceorge's Bldg.
bodice part by turning in the Though attracted by the under- The workers arrived at the edges and facing with a strip of lying beauty of the painting, Mr. place designated in the order and material about three-quarters of Legnard was equally ignorant of were met by the members of the an inch wide. Lap right side its intrinsic value. It wasn't until con- 'ommittee. With great secrecy, over left, new on Iniltons and | Dr. Charles McCrossan, art
slan or else usenoisseur and friend of the they were shipped off to an un-work buttonholes,
painter, spied it about two years known destination. Upon arrival press-studs.
ago that it was decided to submit there they found not a military
Join the back of the bodice to it to experts. camp but a timber camp and were set to work floating logs down the front of the garment, by shoulder and side seams, Then river.
Meanwhile, one of the furnaces join the back of the knicker part the "Magnesite" plant was to the front by side seama, leaving forced to close for lack of men to them open at the tops for a few
11. The former ironmongers inches for the side fastenings. were rolling logs.
Bem the edges of the openinga The regional committee to, the and the lower edge of bodice to 500 years old.
One authority at Boston Museum Communist Party, which keeps it back. Now gather the top edge eyes open for such trickery, found of the knicker back and stitch thinks it may be by Sasoferrato, out what was happening and the between the doubled waist-band, who lived between 1605 and 1686. "military order" was promptly the ends of which should be long and painted many Madornn and revoked,
enough to go round to the front Christ pictures. An expert at the Museum in Cambridge thinks it Heavy labour turnover, result of the waist and fasten with
may be by Corregion, who lived ing in many
from such small buckle. cases
between 1494 and 1534. A genuine taciles, is one the industrini
Sow up the little log Keim. Corregion. It has been estimated. problems which Soviet adminis trators are now trying to solve.-hem the leg edges, and run elastic might bring as much as $150,000
In fashionable collecting circles. through these hems, Cuited Press,
Oval in shape and measuring 14 Bind the arm-holes, and cut inches across and 20 inches from small slit in the centre front of top to bottom, the painting is in
bodice. Bind This slit colours
rich and harmonious. together with the neck edge, then The intensity of expression on the IN ICE
tack It together again. This labeautiful facea and the concentra- not a fastening, but it makes ation of the four eyes on a given point were said by one expert to Untouched Wealth Of jetty finish to the neckline.
remind of both Raphael and Rem- brandt, but other characteristics Labrador
settlement of the younger and made it clear that it was not the active are entirely governed by work of either United ProRR. the presence of food and fur.
You've seen him as a Sailor in "Son of a Sailor," You've seen him as a Marathon Swimmer in "You Said a
Mouthful."
Now See Him as a Cowboy in First National's Comedy
Cyclone,
Wed., 10th Oct. at the
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RICHES LOCKED the
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11
They kill birds and wild animaisi
OF GREAT AGE.
Connoisseurs at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Fegg Museum at Harvard University. and Metro- politan Museum in New York all have adjudged it as probably 400
with bows and arrows of spruce' ́MAN AS SEEN BY HIS wood.
TAILOR
Vast, untouched treasures of
In June, the Leaf Moon, the gold, silver, copper, nickel, and iron lie buried in the Labrador Indlank travel South. July, St. peninsula, which, "like some diffid-Anne's Moon, is spent receiving NOT GIFTED LIKE WOMEN
instruction, During unt virgin, is still wrapped in gar- spiritual ments of isolation, having turned August, the Moon of Flight, the
families return to the interior. Away her wooers."
Men, in the opinion of Mr. Stanley Johnson, honorary secre tary of the National Federation of This claim is made by Sir The Eskimos, it is suggested. Merchant Tailors, ure not natural- Wilfred Grenfell In "The Romance are the most contented of ally gifted in the matter of clothes of Labrador," published recently, people. Not one of them has ever
In this land of snow and rock, suffered from nervous postration A women are, and should, there- it is still only the fittest who can; and, as a race, they are brilliant fore, be given some official bureau. ofdress information to which they survive the rigours of the climate, utilitariana. Yet, it is stated that can go for advice. and until the wealth of the Inter-they are a dying race. In 1891
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1 How the father of # solicitor, and her father, might
(hyphens).
Woman husband's her
to refer
Though Inrgely couteur de rane, not at all poetical,
9 Sharpers do not play the game
in this bont.
11 Jack Sprat should have ked thin joint: there's no fat on it 12 Feasted sumptuously. 14 For anyone who is, it's al! U.P. 15 Glass.
10 Two words that might describe a macaw, or the regular patron of night clubs.
18 There's nothing common about
anything that's this..
21 Unfriendly.
22 Venomous snake.
.
24 Sentter the tin about the slightly
ruffled heir, in order that he may come in for it.
27 at some future time
28 American city. ·
29 He may not be the best of farm hands, but he might be worse, 30 What is it that points north and south at the same time (hyphen).
Down.
In the midst of anything.
3 "This East Indian ox is lively with
nearly everyone.
4 Part of a-Jooni
5 This horse is useless between
the shafts.
6 Can be gathered in a garden.
The Retual source of Nelson's Victory. 8 Walker; has to be pushed. 101-Perlm~~
Fragments attributed to Sam," 17 Dip.
19 Juet unto the book,
20 Made by a settler from a trestle,
21 Obsolete fendnine accessary,
23 Musical Instrument,
26 us a note, no hurry.
26 Only a little wheel, but it has its
points.
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as women's, but it should be poss ment of communications, no white!
sible to agree on some gradual
The Health Bulletin for Eastern ported at Madras, and four death Illustration of their changes in men's clothes, so that
were reported man can possibly make a homel there.
courage, they will, if need be, a man wearing. suit several years ports for the week ending Septem- from cholera
Chittagong, Small-pox cases, without When the Indians grow old and tackle polar bear single-handed out of date would be made to look her 29 states that one case of non-fatalities, were reported as follows: feeble in the country they are with only a dog whip. A knife is so ridiculous that he would, have fatal plague was reported at Pnom-C cases from Bombay, from Cal- killed by their familles, for they fastened to the end of a long whip, great difficulty in persuading any Penh, la cases of non-fatal cholera cutta, 6 from Madras, 1 from cach prefer death to abandonmont and and the animal is slowly Inshed to self-respecting woman to walk down were reported at Calcutta, If cases Talicorn and Vizagapatam, --und-- 6
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