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Oh these men! If it's not the dollar it's racing, and when it's neither it's golf! I do think that we women find much more interesting things to talk about—even if our topics are on the intimate side. By the way, I hope you didn't
* think me rude to Mrs. Phenacitin at your lovely bridge party the other afternoon dear; but why. on earth did she discuss those horrible cheap
shoes she was wearing-and fancy having the indecency to talk about the price! Anybody could see that they were simply ghastly.... the way she hobbled was enough...I simply revelled inwardly when Mrs. Newbride said that she
bought hers at Gordon's. We old-timers always
do, don't we dearest ?
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QUEEN WHO
FRIDAY,
TUNIC SEASON
ASKED FOR Light Blouses Favoured
A HUSBAND
"SEND ME ONE OF YOUR SONS"
· MEDDLESOME PRIEST
Istanbul, 'March 27, Tutankamon's young widow wanted to marry a Turk, according to discoveries made in Anatolis by German archaeologists:
After the famous · Egyptian monarch had taken up his final re- sidence in his splendid tomb, the boreaved queen sent a uniform let- ter en a stone tablet to the Hittite king, direct ancestor of the Turks, at Bogaz-Kouy,
This has just been brought to.
·light and deciphered by the German excavators. It runs-
To King Suphilulimas:
My husband Tutankamon is dead. I have learnt that you have lots of Rons. I do not wish to marry a mart of my own country. Send me one of your sons, and I will marry him and make him King of Egypt. King Suphilullmaa, however, was
as wlly as his descendants, the
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Turks, and sent a general to find HOW WOMEN SHOULD RIDE out If the sovereign lady waa not pulling his beard.
The report was satisfactory, and he then sent one of his many sans to Egypt to mount the late Tutan. kamon's throne.
But the Egyptian high priest intrigued against his queen marry- In a foreigner, and when, the Hittite prince arrived, ha caused him to be behended.
The letter of Tutankamon's queen dates from 1380 B.C. and will be placed in the Ankara Hittite museum.-United Press.
TASTES OF THE PEOPLE
AMUSING AMERICAN
London.
FOR Bafety's sake no heavily built woman should be allow. ed to ride astride.
Every woman who rides should be compelled to wear a bowler hat as protection against falls
These rules were given by Mr.
APRIL
1935.
NEW AIR WARFARE
U.S. TESTS LATEST COMBAT PLANES
ARMOURED MACHINES
Los Angeles.
Army tost vilats will roar into the sky shortly in final tests flights for a new type of armoured attack plane that may revolutionise wars fare in the air..
Under command of Capt. E. M. Robbins, chief Army test pilot, they will wheel a fleet of thirty steel plated silver Hornets out of a gloomy, gray structure of the Northrop Corporation, far out on the flats to the south of Los Angeles. They will put the planca through their paces, and if the new warbirds live up to expecta- tlona, the United States Army will have devised the deadliest of modern weapons.
Thirty planes are being built, and 30 more will be built if these provo successful. Much silence surrounds their construction. Of ficials of the Northrop Corpora- tion, which has the-contract, refer
all queries to the Army officers supervising construction. If you walk near the construction unit at the Northrop plant, where the new plane la being built, someone will Pay to you:
Frank Hawks, internationally known speed flier, was
recalled from the East presumably to make
"I'm sorry, but you're not sup ter, in discussing the large num- W. Smith, the Mayfair riding mas-posed to look at that plane. That's'
a new Army job." ber of recent necidents to women riders. "Longth of leg and light- ness of bady are essential to a woman who wants to ride natride," he said. "No woman can grip the saddle properly from knco to speed tests of the new plane, thigh if she is short and rounded. although company officials were And unless she can grip the silent on that. Hawks' plano, the saddle she is always unbalanced Sky Chief, is of the same "Gamma- and likely to fall off. "Thon, 80 type" low-winged type, monoplane many women go riding improperly oquipped. The most foolish are as the new' attack plane. Sheath. those who wear soft hats. "The ed tempered steel over all its bowler was adopted, both by men vulnerable parts, the snub nose; and women for riding, not for the cocoon-like metal coat and taper- sake of appearance but because it gives definite protection to the ing, upeurved wings give the plane head in case of a full.”
a wicked appearance. Instead of fighting high in the amphitheatre Large numbers of middle-aged people are now taking up riding of the sky in spectacular skir Smith is not afraid to speak his dramatic but more deadly. Its enjoyable exercise. Mr. mishes, the new 'plane will be less
mind about them-especially those low, swallow-like wings will enable That in an average year an who are exercising “In order to It to fight close to the earth. With average American will spend $4 alim. "Big, top-heavy men and a bullet-proof shell of armour to for candy, $7.70 for movies and women should never ride at all. wrotect it from ordinary ride and theatres, $4.60 for soft drinks, 41-
machine gun fire, the planes are centa for chowing gum, $5.10 for
designed to level off near the cigarettes, $6.20 for cigars, $5.15
ground and attack Infantry. for pipe and chewing tobacco, and ous, $2.20 for musical instruments;
INVESTIGATION
Chiengo.
The National Recreation Asso- ciation, Inc., which works hard at Anding out what Americans do for fun, opened up its files for the public weal and disclosed:
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They are always liable to break their necks. Then people get the impression that riding is danger
The planes carry six machine guns and several hundred pounds of bombs. Pursuit planes, buzz ing wasps of the air which harry and destroy heavier and clumsler
That it costs $500. & year to ter writing, plenicking, serious maintain a boy or girl in a re-study and reading. formatory but only five cents cach
Among the things people would time the youngster visits a super-like to do, but can't for one reason bombers, may be rendered virtual- vised recreation park,
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or another these are listed under ly obsolete by the new attack 10 Mammal, healthy on the whole. 11 message that always carries That 22 cents of the American unmet desires are participa-planes. Improved types of bomb- weight, dollar is spent for luxuries, 24.5 tion in tennis, swimming, boating, ars have, made pursuit ships for 12 The place in America where the conta for necessities, 1.5 cents for golf and camping. The order of loss effective, and the new plane, education and 8.5 cents for crime.preference indicated most people with its equipment of guns and
would rather loaf than play soccer bombs, can outmanoeuvre the pur-13 Job's friend It's all done with questionnaires. Reading aloud was last on the flat. suit plate, which fires over its tall 15 A large cutter used by barbors. One questionnaire disclosed – that
and through the propellor. the ten things done by most people. The things that married, men
19 Repairs by the seat In their spare time, in, order of over 35 yearn for, and bachelor fare of machine-gun fire, are able Pursuit planes, zooming into the
at the end. preference, are as follows:
don't, include picnica, horseshoe pitching, and caring for pets. to attack ground troops only in a
24 Ancient Athenian philosopher Newspaper and magazine read-Bachelors like motor camping, single line of fire, while the new and general ing, listening to radio; attending concerts, evening schools, gymna-armoured attack planes can dart 27 Prove too much for. movies; visiting or entertaining; sium, and card parties. reading fiction; automóbile plan- sure; swimming; writing letters; roading non-fiction; and convers. ing.
Leafing was placed No. 27 on the list, and poetry writing, was No. 12.
Another questionnaire disclosed that during depression years home activities increased 61 per cent, with chief gains registered in let-
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the wings. The man in the rear will control the two guns on the fuselage and handle the hombs.
Both sexes enjoy theatre-going and card playing. Single persons mentioned. conversation among their principal diversions but married couples ignored It United Press.
The planes, with a spood only slightly less than that of the fastest purault ships, travel about 250 miles an hour-United Press.
No Wonder He Waxes. Merry!
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PALLY, WHAT'S HAPPENED. TO MAKE YA SO DERNED CHEERFUL? DIDJER WIFE
LEAVE YA?
CERTAINLY NOT!]OH,OH! I'M TICKLED PINK, P. FAT, CAUSE. JUST. JOB LANDED A NICE) MEANS.
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16 Pry, oh, pry for this variegated. rock, and you'll probably find it..
18 Speaking without the book-meo-
to speak.
20 With this: you shoot the sun.
not the moon.
21 Where one has fun in Madeira_ 23. Perfect.
25 Money for livestock?
20 Regards not necessarily. kind..
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