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Tibet Waits For Baby Who Shall Become A God
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France is building the largest high-speed airliners ever seen in Europe becausé:
British services worked by two companies, Imperial Air ways and Hillmans Airways, with luxury Eners, have between them captured practically three-quarters of the total passenger traffic on the cross-Channel routes.
The remaining quarter, is shared by French, Dutch, German, Swiss, and Belgian services.
Air France's new machines, Farman monoplanes, are to be of forty-passenger, 3,200 horse-power, four-engined giants, capable of at least 180 mp.h. Undercarriage wheels retract in flight to lesson wind resistance.
In a year French average cruising speeds on all European services, including slower lines, have risen from 109 m.p.h. to between 130 and 137 m.p.h.
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France expects her new machines will put cruising speeds up to the 160 m.p.h. mark or more.
FIVE MOTHERS IN
£100,000 BABIES
'MOST RACE
Toronto, Dec. 15.
ENTER Mrs. Arthur Timleck (Irish, and proud of it, too) into the ranks of the contestants for the oddest race in the world's history-the Toron- to Stork Marathon.
In case the words "Stork Marathon" mean nothing to you let me explain,
On October 30, 1926, Charles Vance Millar, Toronto, lawyer and sportsman, died, leaving the bulk of his estate, valued at £100,000, to the Toronto wife who became the mother of the greatest number of children in the ten years immediately follow- ing his death.
For months now four women i have been bonating that the prize will be theirs.
Those four are:-
Mrs. Matthew Kenny, French wife of a man who is of Scots- Irish parentage:
Mrs. Joseph Bagnato, an inter- preter (Italian) in Toronto Police Court;
Mrs. John Nagle, aged thirty- three and living on relief;
Mrs. Graziano, wife of an Italian Inbourer.
Mrs. Timleck's entry into the contest has upset all their plans. Mrs. Timleck claims to have had October 30, nine-children since. 1926, and is expecting another BOON,
Here is what the four other con-
testants say about the contest and
about their claims:
Mrs. Kenny: "I have had eleven
children (all living) since Mr. Millar died, and I expect a twelfth child long before next October. The prize is mine."
Mrs. Eagante: "I am not worried about Mrs. Kenny's claim.
I'm pretty sure I shall win."
"Pay Back" Plan Mrs. Nagle: "I have eight chil dren who satisfy the conditions, and I am going to win this race. We want the money, so we can pay back all the money we have had from the Relief."
Mrs. Graziano: "I have hopes that I shall win the prize because all the leaders will be disqualified for disputing. I want the prize to buy plenty of food. We do not get enough to live on."
Many attempts have been made to have Bir. Millar's will set ualde on the ground that it was only drawn up as joke, but the law courts point lo sentence in the will which seems to disprove that theory. That sentence says:-
"This will is necessarily uncom mon and capricious, because I have ao dependants or near relations, and no duty rests upon me to leave any properly at my death, and what do leave is proof of my felly in gathering and retaining more than I needed in my lifetime."
SALESMAN SAM
FILL'ER UP
JOE!
EARTHQUAKE WARNINGS
Scientists have discovered
send
out that earthquakes warnings in advance.
Before almost every large earthquako minor cound waves radiate from the affected area. Charts to record forecasta of the earthquake centre are being devined.
Warnings, will then be sent out to people living in the areas Bome hours before the earth. -quake-in-szpaciad.
Destruction
Of World
Predicted
New York, Déc, 12. Destruction of all life on the earth because of tremen- dous heat in the interior and. transformation of the earth from a planet into a flaming star was predicted here by Professor Bailey Willis, of Stanford University.
BOY WITH
HOLY SUNSPOT
BECOMES THE HIGHEST IN' THE LAND
PARENTS JOIN ̧ THE NOBILITY TIBET, the vast and mys-
terious tableland that defied the conquerors of all the ages, is looking for a baby who shall be a god.
He is, according to Buddhist belief, à reincarnation of the former holder of the office.
The lending prelates of Tibet | search for a baby boy who was born as nearly as possible to the time when the Dalai Lama died.
It is the ambition of every Tibetan woman to give birth to a boy who shall become the Dalai Lama:
She and all her family are forth- with ennobled. Estates are grant- ed to them by the Tibetan Govern- ment.
There is never any lack of candi- dates whon the chance presents itself.
Chief Test
A weeding-out process soon re- duces the choice to about a dozen
babies.
It is then that the serious task begins of deelding which of these Interesting infants possesses the soul of the Dalai Lama who has died,
The chief test is a close serutiny of a certain mark that every boy in Tibet bears. on his shoulder blade.
It is a sun burn produced by a burning glass, but interposed between the burning glass and the child's shoulder is a disci of metal held at an angle which represents the shape of the moon at the time the baby was born...
moon
The child with the mark nearest to the known shape of the moon when the Dalai Lama died is judged to be his reincarnation.
The lucky youngster is then taken from the custody of his parents and carefully trained by prelates for his high office.
The parents
are usually poor peasants, but so long as their son, the new-Dalai Lama, Ilves they en joy the title of "The New Patrimony."
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7. The ounce in its lair,
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8 Sounds like, a dressy animal, the
weed!
10 One of Sheridan's Indies, 11 Tingling (anag.),
14
effacement.
When he dids they, or such of his 12 Living on others, as aid to next of kin who survive, select a new name and enter the ranks of the, nobility,
"Thumbs Up"
as in combination with another race.
16 Usually attached to a 'plane, 18 More nearly upright. Great homage must be paid to the 20 Red Ivan in
new role. Dalai Lama,
22 A father, and a mother, too, When he speaks to any one 24 Al a great distance. the person addressed must stick 20 Orange. or pear, of a sort.
29 A mile, noni (anag.). out his tongue as a signal mark | 30 Alligator. of respect.
.DOWN
31 Public School. When he addresses a beggar 32 A regular mix-up fight. the favoured mendicant must not only stick but his tongue but must bold his two thumbs pointing upwards.
The highest form of blessing be- stowed by the Dalai Lama is the pincing of both his hands on the head of the person he blesses.
The lowest blessing is just a flick
The earth began to melt "cer-with a tassel. tainly more than two billion years
1 Type of medical man.
2 You'll And it in Cornwall. 3 Saucy wench!
Just a bit on.
Silvered, for example.
0 Though inexperienced, you must
take part.
9 Biblical character turned from
evil
13 Aromatic plant; from the Rand? All women have to be content 10 Mud, turned into mere frozen
ago" because of radio-active sub-with this lowest blessing except one, stances within its core, Willis aaya and she is entitled to be blessed by in the current issue of Science, the Dalai Lama placing one hand The melting has progressed slowly on her head. and may be exhausted, he said, but-
Tbls woman is the only member of her sex who is deemed by the It seems more probable that the Tibetans to be a reincarnation.
She belongs to the Sain-dinng persistent release of atomic forces la continuing and will continue to Monastery, and is known as "The supply heat and to melt the sur-Thunderbolt Sow," and is specially rounding shell, with the result that venerated as she is credited with mother earth may eventually take the power of actually turning into a her place among the shining sow whenever she wishes to show stara."United Prees,
her displeasure..
(OKAY, SAM! SAY, AIN'T THAT OU MAN PHRETT'S LAUNCH?
He Oughta Know
IT'S MINE, NOW, JOE-JOE! PRETTY GOOD) THASS ONE, TOO! PHRETT SAID HE HAD IT FIVE/RIGHT! YEAR'S AN' NEVER PAID A CENT FER KNOW
REPAIRS!
HE DIDN'T
*moisture.
NOVEL!
17 A soldier may be; and red-coated,
too.
10 They are dependent on the fair
REX.
21 Resolves.
23 Patriarch, began as a sullor.
25 To be got anywhere for two shil-
lings.
27 Onee a gt draw at the Tower
of London.
28 Lots will get this.
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