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JUST AN ORDIN- ARY, decent, mid- dle-class little couple they were, neatly and well-dress- ed in good tailor-mades.
Neither was conspicuous- ly Jewish.
He would probably easily be recognised as a German. She-thin, hatless, with beautifully curling lashes in a pleasant, freckled face, might be a native of any European land.
Two units in a desolate (in truth but not in aspect) band of homeless, penniless |searchers for any country which would receive them and permit the earning of daily bread.
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in who knows what memories of eighteen months; that he had have travelled 2nd or 3rd class.
the past or fears of the future?
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been a Hamburg merchant in a and have a few dollars for em- modest way; had, of course, barcation! Verboten!!
been ejected, with only the So the arrival in Shanghai will
be virtually penniless. When will they next get "chicken all. day 7"
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CERTAINLY AT PART-
ing I was the more
WITH THE POLITE
NESS of their race clothes they wore. (outside Germany, at least) or Even the little lady's wrist- possibly born of recollected watch had been confiscated.
Ten marks of their own money tyranny, they commenced, en- quiries of the Chinese police were they graciously permitted man with: "Excuse-where Jew to tako on their world-wide Committee?"
search for sanctuary. The little couple wanted "Jew But Joseph says cheerily depressed than they.
first-class beautiful Or have this virile people shops," which, being beyond the "Travel gave no outward sign of their orbit of the constable, I en- ship. Food. Chicken all day." greater capacities for courageous
deavoured to assist, regretting I wondered. His wife scerned dissemblance? forlorn plight. Very few
was to read my thoughts.
A brave and uncomplaining Never one word of children. Here and there the dearth (as far as I
"Yes, that permit; use money people. cotton-frocked, handkerchiefed nware) of anything of the kind.
This polite, pleasant-manner- passage. Not permit take money query, of anger or of condem-- woman or a cloth-capped man.
nation did they utter, but stend- Almost all, and particularly ed, rotund little man and his from Germany."
told me
So these unfortunates auffer fastly faced the future, dark as the women, were anxious-eyed, anxious-featured wife
torture. To it is, But a brave and entirely un-that they had been married additional mental complaining little throng, the majority ready to smile, and even laugh amidst their troubles. CHISELERS of as many
Two oldish women, possibly 300,000 years ago have been sisters, of the small shopkeeper playing a well-sustained hoax on type, garbed in cotton gown and
cardigan shabby modern archaeologista and geo-bananas, carefully depositing often seen in the tnily Press.
munched MALTA: 11.M.S. Queen Elizabeth Whitehall, and funnily enough, only has the power of making re- is Whitehall is reluctant to reveal the commendations us regards the names statement arrived." The
But processes whereby a ship's name is of new ships. The next step within the Admiralty is for these recom- logists. The assumption arises the debris into the sen.
why should the ship bo H.M.S. Queen decided.
mendations to be forwarded by the One little family of cloth-Elizabeth? So the question arises: because of some footprints. It
a rail Who gives the King's ships the names capped father, thin
Dut, shorn of official mystery, the Third Sen Lord and Controller to the scoms that footprints do not this Grecian nose should have by which they shall be known process is as follows. There is in use Board of Admiralty. The Board of
Admiralty n throughout their careers?
Naming Committee," Admiralty can veto certain names. always have to be connected saved him), tired-eyed, worried- When Sir Semuel Hoare, the First which, although it does not remain in and substitute others if it so desires, Anally the names of all announced being, is available whenever the but with a murder mystery in order looking mother with handker- Lord of the Admiralty,
chiefed head, and a pale and that the two first battleships to be question of naming new ships is to fighting ships have to tiny boy, warmly clad; he, it is built under the naval rearmament the fure, The Committee has at its mitted to the King. No fighting ship hoped, childishly ignorant of the Programme were to be named H.M.S. disposal all innnner of historical and of the Royal Navy can be named "King George V." and H.M.S. "Prince traditional data. The influence of without the permission and approval real calamities of life.
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argument.
ern state in America recently
led to the hypothesis that they
had been made by some large rehistoric creatures of the am- phibian family-in other words,
occur
NAMING the KING'S SHIPS
would
choose
the names. But on for centuries.
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All manner of things have to be
name for a new warship. Tradition
taken into account when selecting a naturally in the case of small craft, Among the names just announced must always be consulted, and so such as river gunboats, submarines or for ships to built, three are notable must the well-known superstitions of Badge, having been chosen, for their historical associations. the British sailor. The latter is would be submitted to his Majesty H.M.Ş, Edinburgh is to be one of the particularly important in two ways. for final approval.
new large cruisers. The first Edin No sallor likes to serve in a ship burgh was a ship belonging to the bearing the name of a vessel which If one looks through the Navy List Scots Navy, launched in 1707, and has recently come to grier, particular- one finds that certain classes of ships entering service on the very day of similar to one another. For instance, England.
Blondes Chess Players?
necessary concentration
never been fully established, and no a toad that walked like a man. Do blondes make good chess bear names which are in some way the Union between Scotland and by if the cause of the disaster has
players? The Smithsonian Institute scouts
the names of the two aircraft carriers The name Jupiter is to be borne by sailor will willingly serve in a ship Mr. A. Rider, director of the which are to be built have the one of the new destroyers. The first bearing the name of a repțție.
In the piping times of peace, when this theory, however, and as-Hastings Chess Congress, now termination "ous," which has become Jupiter was captured from the Dutco
associated with aircraft carriers at the battle of Schooneveld in May, comparatively few ships have to be acrts the apparent footprints are taking place, says they do not.
And in support of his assertion, he through the Glorious, Furious, and 1873. The career of this ship in the named, the task of the "Naming Com- Courageous. In the same way the English Navy was shortlived, for shot mittee" is comparatively simple, for not impressions of any foot but pointed out that of the 130 players destroyers of the ordinary type are to was recaptured by the Dutch the same tradition will provide names many rather are skillful Indian car only one fair head is to be seen.
"Fair-haired people," he added, have names beginning with ""; the day. The second Jupiter was also times over. But when there is great
maiter. During in rocks "do not seem to have the powers of minelaying submarine is to be named a prize, being a French privateer war-time expansion it is another the Great War the vings. They
for the after a denizen of the deep; and the captured by the British in 1762.
There is a hint of poetic justice not British Navy acquired a large num- from
larger destroyers of the "Tribal" James River
and Bervous of game. They become
class are, obviously, to be named usually associated with Whitehall in ber of anti-submarine sloops. The Virginia to the foothills of the reckless under the strain of th which after tribes to be found in the British the naming of a new submarine after Admiralty were at a loss to decide
petition atmosphere,
the old cruiser Thetls, used as one of upon a classified series of names for Empire.
Even if one concedes a tradition the blockships which denied the use these ships, until a bright Idea came Rocky Mountains and have been brunettes are at their cuse."
Mr. Rider's statement was quickly whereby ships of a certain class are of Zeebrugge to the German subma- to a keen gordener in Whitehall. He to bear names of a certain type-rines after the epic raid of St. had on his desk a seedsman's catalo- a subject of controversy for a challenged.
"NONSENSE"
be it alphabetical or racial there George's Day, 1018,
gue. The index provided a large hundred years.
remains the question of how these The "Naming Committee," which number of names which had never things are decided. It is dane is by way of being entirely unofficial. been used before for warships. Thus
there came into being what known for years as the "Flower class" sloone
!!
the
type of the face.
The only thing that bears on that question is a paper, read recently, showing that tall fair-haired people are less sulted to conditions of city open-air, adventurous life than are amall dark people.
"There is no reason to suppose that a person inherits a particular colour of hair or eye together with a men- tol quality. They are not linked together."
Mr. H. J. Braunholtz, keeper of ethnography at the British Museum, the theory as "absolute Even the fact they are nearly described
nonsense."* always found close to water does "There are plenty of blondes able to concentrate," he declared. "There not persuade the ethnologists is no reason to think they are more or unft for competitions that the imprints were made by nervous
then others, human feet in the pleistocene "It has not been proved that you
can associate certain mental quali alime or that they were pre-Des with the colour of the hair or cursors of the urge which impels modern parent to press the baby's foot into the soft concrete of a new sidewalk. Not having the advantages of working with artificial stone or plastics, the aborigine was obliged pains- takingly to wield a mallet and perhaps a flint chisel until he A "Blondo Chess Player" (male) points out that tho present world had laboriously sculptured out a champion, Dr. Alexandre Alekhine, sufficiently accurate likeness of how 45, was in his youth blondest
of the blonde, the human foot to fool amateur "I agree that a mere blonde (he continues) cannot scowl and frown explorers of centuries afterward.at his opponent with the same capacity to strike fears possessing The impulse was more like flerce black eyebrows, and chess masters have not yet renched the that which is responsible for stage of boxing champions who go unshaved to their contest, but when the carving of initials on so they do blondes will be at a disad- many of our friendly trees. But why should the primitive man put so much energy into leaving
CHAMPION WAS BLONDE
vantage
"Mas Vera Menchik, the woman's world chess champlon, is brunette and has yet to and a dark-haired woman who can beat her.
"Stahlborg, the Swedish champion,
his footprints on the sandstones as far as one may expect a Scan-
of time? Well, most of us will go to great lengths to leave our mark on the world.
dinavian to be. Reshevsky: cham- plan of the United States, "is going bald, although he is only 27, but what hair he possesses is definitely
all
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
RE BEAUTY SH@
"Take all the time you want, dear remember, Rome todan't built in a day!"
was
And even Whitehall is not infallible, More than one ship of the Royal Navy has gone through life with u name which was bestowed upon it in errur.
Whitley Conditions.
Civi
The destroyer Whitley, for instance, was never intended to bear thai name. The name allocated to the ship was Whitby, but a typist in the Admiralty, thinking obviously of the which WDS 10 ameliorate
for Servants, inadvertently typed White ley for Whilby. All
of papers were made out before the mistake was discovered, and then it was decided to let the name Whitley stand, In honour of the Chairman of the Whitley Council, who afterwards became Speaker of the House ol Commune.
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¦ Another famous error was the case of the destroyer Sterling. The ship had been named after the Scottish lown Stirling, but a' typists' error, which was, not discovered until too late, substituted "" for the first The name stood, and instead of bearing the arms of the town of Stirling an a badge, the ship's badge became a replica of a sovereign,
In several respecta ona must com- pliment Whitehalf upon its choice of names for classes of ships. For instance, what could be more appro- priate than to call the new submarine minelayers after monsters of the deep? And again, what could bave been more andropriate for the ramOS of the river enbocla employed on the Yanged Hang than the name of insects and when these, had to be replaced, the use of the names of wild fowl, myat bf which are to be found upon the beats of these vessels?