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NOTES OF THE DAY
ITALY'S LAURELS
While Scott and Black hurtling southward in their Brit lah-built Comet, to set a new record for the London-to-Melbourne flight,
EAST MEETS WEST ON
MODERN AIRWAY
By "VOYAGEUR"
The Very Idea!
TIPS FOR WIVES (Contributed).
a young Italian, Francesco Agello, houses where East meets West. in quickening circles with his good wives who want THERE are still a fow halfway Meanwhile, the witch doctor spinsHIS is a warning to all was going to bed early and fitting himself for a test of nimeat equal side by alde. The great seaplance swoopa upon the body of his victim ions" to their husband, and where science and magle operate trophy held high. Then, ho to become real. "compan hazard. It was probably coincid once that he attempted, on behalf tying between Florida and Argen- and refits the head to the bleading of Italy, to lower his own world a land at some of these strange neck.
places.
share in his work, his speed record at a time when atten- Miami, from which they start, is nudience. The victim-rises, cau-
A shiver passes through the pleasures, and his play.. tion was focussed upon the Eig- land-Australia race. In any event the playground of speculators, tiously feeling his neck, on which Do not, under any conditions, he broke the record, and space had There is no getting away from mark, and recommences his shuffle. husband! It's fatal, horribly,
apoed-fiends, platinum blondes, the recent operation has left no take golf lessons from your »‹ to he made on the front pages of
them, and they all look extremely Immediately the audience, still finally fatal, to love and respect the world's newspapers for the tale
kneeling, begin to jerk themselves and wedded bliss, and no wise Soon after down the quadruple-into the arst stages of an ecstasy. woman will risk it.
of his accomplishment. At the expensive. same time, Sir Charles Kingsford- Smith was grooming his ship for engined seaplane starts on its way which, a few hours later, will lanvo n danh across the Pacific. Yester-south-eight days to Buenos Aires, them limp as
To a man, especially a husband, na corpses. day he left Sava for Honolulu. the other end of the world. At
golf is even more important than "Let's get out" says one of the to hear your wishes to share in Man progresses. Only the world Cuba there may be a whisper of
wife. Although he is quite glad.. revolution. Convents are in dan-engineers. "I guess there's some-it, and may even promise to take apins on at the same old apperi.
xer. Two sisters who have never thing wrong with our eyes,"
you round and give you, a few
NO ISOLATION
loft the Island, or the ground. Antigua Port of Spain, Para-tipe, just smile aweetly and do come on board. It is very hot. marlbot The seaplane descends Their stift skirts fill the cabin, on the Surinam River beside a nothing.
Their petticoate must be made little Dutch town built on stilts to
from surprise attack because of its the smallest
MORE SILVER VIEWS argument.
the
SOLUTION REMOTE
space between
over the
Ten chances to one that tip- round would end in a serious
any.
They want a wife who knows the on ass of herself on the first tee, aacredness of gelf, who won't make and certainly won't talk when they are playing a shot.
But they mustn't be expected to
The day has passed when a of planka!" complains a motor avoid the white ants, with bells unrich He would shudder every nation could consider itself immune saloaman, as he alte crushed into ringing from the twin spires of the time you "dufted" a shot; groan as the Lutheran Church, and a white rain you cut the turf; and swear long isolation. Britain's frontier is the spreading sisters, who never look or a black rain, according to its and loudly as you made a casual Rhine and Germany's is the Chan-out of the window and whose lips violence, falling on the statue of remark while he putted. Unless nel. Japan and the United States move ceaselessly, silently, till, Queen Wilhelmina, are about to engage in a debate with a majestic swirl, the seaplane| By missing n connection nt Part-
ho's a super-man and you are a na to what constitutes a natural descende at Haiti,
maribo you can go up river be the aulks at the fourth hole. super-woman, you'll come home In barrier to invasion, and out of
We passengers crowd into a bar tween smooth jungle walis, pall. You'll be justified, of course, but their discussions, it is hoped, will famous for a pineapple drink laced Anded with trees that break into remember that we warned you! come some compromise that will with rum. Amerten in still with flowers eighty feet above the make possible an agreement at the us on the radio. Elder Michaux, swamps, in which they struggle and be a companion to your hus- By all means learn to play golf Naval Conference. Japan claims who rose from Negro flah peddler for footholds, and close-plaited band; men secretly long for a wife that because of the increased to preacher, is being interviewed creepers wherein lurk the murder-who is ready to go round with them cruling radius of alreraft and In far-away Washington. "NooBs maen snakes. warships, her position in the north- member of my church amokes,į A monotonous coastline edged stray pals waiting for a game.
before they have found west corner of the Pacific is no drinks, or dances," expounds the by coffee-coloured awamp reaches But they longer as remote, and as safe, as elder, "We fast one day a month out to Cayenne, where the whole golfing wife, not a rabbit who must want a ready-made it was.
The United States claims and our savings go to the
un-country is a prison. The seaplane i put through the gruelling and that Japanese bombera could employed."
makes n circlo demolish New York within 48 But, tired of the virtues of the Islands of the French penal sottle-
three exasperating first lessons. hours of leaving Tokyo. One says north, the passengers wander out ment, she must be granted a higher ratio among the pensanta, who wear blue
Devil's Island is the farthest out in naval armaments; the other any overalls and hats made of fan- of the three, and, in spite of its she mustn't. A delicately balanced palm leaves. The men work with reputation, in charming to look at. cutlassen; the girls carry on their Next day the plot makes Д heada gourds Alled with syrup, detour to show his passengers the teach all that to a wife. Love and. Silver continues subject of comment in all parts
to be
Black men, striding silently, their lighthouse of L'lla Perduo tended marriage will never atand the out-thrust lips, their palms, and by convicts' who volunteer for the strain, and neither will the hus of the world. Quite recently,
the soles of their feet paler than task; and who, surrounded by a band's own goll..Watching you the London Financial Times took and American experts are probably There is a ceremony-" someɑne
the rest of their skin, their eyes stormicas sea, mysteriously de- hacking around, driving with the The assertions of both Japanese bloodshot, make for the hills. erense in number. the issue and cited the decline quite true, but if the argument says,
Sheets of rain as the seaplane puts them off their own precious wrong swing, and the wrong stanco DB-6513 Mr. John Mackay
approaches the Amazon. The sen drive. Anyway, they'll blame you." Sir Harry Lauder. ¡trade us
in the volume of China's foreign applies to one it must apply to the I've something in the bottle for the morning
is churned into tea-coloured foam.so what matters? other. If isolation is no defence support for the view for Japan, it can be no defence for paper dies at the outskirts of the ing water. There is gloomy talk go out and see the professional
The sound of flutes muted with Space is cartained in dark, sting- Sir Harry Lauder, that rising silver prices adverse-America, and the relative vulner-town. The whole black world is of a night afloat, but directions about a few lessons before you dare Well, just smile to yourself and B-8212 A Picture of Mary (Handman). Charles Fitzgerald.
ly affect Chinese exports. Itability of the two is not altered. moving towards this sound, with come by wireless: "Visibility I Never had a Chanco (1. Borlin) Charles Fitzgerald, went on to remark:-"That this argument against an increase of ente at full moon: Impeded by wards, and in a few moments the already married to him!
The United States adds to her which the witch doctors communi-2,000 feet."
at suggest going round with the.man B-8151 Simple Aves (Thomo) Marek Weber & His Orchestra. would happen as silver rose was, the Philippines. Japan's obvious are ranged a crowd of flares the
The pilot zooms up- of your heart. That is, If you are decline of China's foreign trade Japanese naval strength the re- our boots, we Anglo-Saxona follow. Amazon is seen as a flat, broad Spring Song (Mendelssohn)
minder that she. Is about to quit In a declivity, surrounded by rocks, waste beyond the storm.
But if you are still slugle and Marek Wober & His Orchestra.it is believed, the news brought rejoinder will be that that is not colour of burned coffee. In the
want to know something of the man who is to be your hyaband, (Please use number 20002 when telephoning for
back by President Roosevelt's yet a fait accompli, and that in any centre of the circle is a huge nab-was unbelievably enriched by her and let him teach you. By the Para ifves in the past, when she take your courage in both hands Military Searchlight Tattoo Tickets).
special envoy, after gaining first- from Honolulu ns from Manila. shuffles from one foot to another lators paid ten and twenty dollars pretty rough idea how much he event America enn strike as hard grey Negro with glazed eyes whe forests of wild rubber, when specu- cad of the round you'll have a hand information on the subject. Japan can say, furthermore, that We have no right to surmise that her relations with Russia are not
as if he were an automaton. for the privilege of sleeping la a loves you and what kind of temper
The witch doctor advances with crowded corridor, and gamblers lit he really has. the President was not impressed cannot conceivably find herself in smeared with lime. Tufts of notes of the same value. She of the friendliest and that America an axe in his hand. His face is their cigarettes in the casino with by the opinion brought back by such dangerous proximity to a feathers stick to his loins and dreams of the future, when she angrily, thrown his clubs away in If he has snarled at you, shouted his messenger from the East, powerful neighbour.
sides. By a rhythmic incantation, hopes-in spite of the cheaper cost "You're simply not paying-atten- desperation, and told you that Silver, in the mind of the Pre-
he strives to summon the powers of production in Malaya-and-the tion to anything I say." sident, may by now have become ANOTHER VIEWPOINT
abedient to Black Magic. When East Indies-to be rich again worry! Marty him just the same: don't dissociated with China's peculiar
he begins to whirl the chopper But at present aho is dead. about his hend the watching It is from the impression of a problems; he may believe the But that will not settle the dis-Negroes shudder to their knees. cemetery that the passengers are metal is the more to be cherished nation which can prove itself most-Jelly, crouches the huge black with fight to Sao Luiz, where the radio!
pute. It would seem that the In front of them, quivering like a awakened at 3 am. for the long DUMB-BELLES LETTRES. on that necount. It is obvious," threatened must be allowed the the sub-grey face.
spenks Brazilinn-l'ortuguese, inter-
By Jalist Lowell, continues the journal, "that if greatest naval and air defence Then it happens or perhaps it spersed with the husky Spanish of
True Hospitality. the price of silver over the next forces. It might be shown, if the doesn't happen and two Canad- the republice farther south. Miss Belle Mitchell
Camocimi, Fortalezza, foreets as 1084 The Peak, theory is followed to its conclusion, an engineers, three burd-bolled twelve months is to rise another that Britain's position is ten times American salesmen, ene English uninhabited as any conceivable Dear Belle: fourpence per ounce, there is more vulnerable than that of either simply Imagine it! Readers can where, dropping down to fifty or for a small cocktail party on the traveller, and a local professor, desert, and long atretches of sca I shall expect you and Jim scope for appreciation in the of the relatively defenceless con take their choice.
Japan or America, to say nothing price of silver shares... But dition of the colonial empire if left
sixty feet above the water, the eleventh. Bring anyone you like In any case, the axe swings. pilot scares thousands of birds off who will help along, but I refuse the recent buying of silver issues without the bulwark of air and sea Tho huge nigger conses to shake. the mud flats, blue herons and to Invite Mrs. Podge again. I
Reeta. Rritain might add was more the outcome of what claim to, a useless argument that is-apparently-holding up a de-able gulls, flamingoes torn from never recuperated.
useless The next instant the witch doctor white cranes, the grey of innumer-entertained her once, and she' seems to be a reasonable hope she is as much in danger of attack capitated head, while two acolytes the sunrise, spoonbills, egrets, and than of an assured conviction from France or Ireland as are bend solicitously over the trunk. (Continued on Page 7.)
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that the future of silver prices neighbours.
can be foretold." On this latterdum.
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ad abaur.
permanently influenced by the The Jockey Club is abandoning monetary action of any individ-the two-dollar bet experiment. ual country, whether it be defi- Probably it is felt that anyone who can afford to bet two dollars can berate or otherwise. These corn-dig a little deeper and afford a menta, it is of interest to note, five. The Jockey Club does not were made a few weeks ago, know very much more about what when silver prices were very most of us can afford than some of slightly below the present level.us know about horses. A gentle- The fact that there was then talk man jockey's charming young wife, of a further rise of fourpence an the other day, remarked that the when acanning the race programme ounce, raising it to about 26d., horses seemed much lighter than indicates what London then those which ran at home. (She thought of the possibilities. was looking at the handicap weights Much has happened since, how-of jockeys, of course).. When & ever, but facts which stand companion expressed some doubt as out are that China's trade'decline to the exactness of the weights, ennnot be wholly attributable to marked: "Oh, but it's true. You the gentleman Jockey's wife_re- the rise in silver prices, that the see they make them heavier by-put- United States considers her silverting lead on.”. policy a purely domestic matter,
and that Indian and American
interests continue to figure in the however, that Mr. E. Kann, the. market as buyers. Powerful well-known authority on the cur- speculative influences are, more- roncy of China, last week told over, still operating, and acti- Shanghai Rotarians that he had vities under this head only serve no hesitation in anying that to add to the uncertainties of the silver la bound to rise. He position. With so many complex added that a 1s. 6d. or a 18; 6d. factors either operating or likely dollar would be fairly satis- to come into the picture at any factory to the trade of the port,. moment, it has become in that this basis could be easily creasingly difficult for experts to obtained, and that he believed forecast the immediate future of the authorities would welcome the metal. It is worthy of note, lauch a love!.
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