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NOW IS THE TIME

TO TEST THE

ODDS AND ENDS.

THE CHINA-MAIL.

THE CUCKOO'S SECRET."

MAINLY SCISSORS LOUT.

SOOTHING EFFECT Mourning By Request.

OF

The bequesta made by the late Mr Charles Godfrey Le Bas, formerly of Jersey, include £10 000 to the General

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WHEN APPLIED

ON

INSECT BITES

MENTHOLATUM TRY IT!!

A LOVER'S STROLL

HAS RIOTOUS ENDING

"NOTHING DOING, MÄLUD,”

a

The love affair of a batman and young lady did not run smoothly, and the result was a High Court action for breach of promise before Mr. Justice Horridge, in which there were several

amusing passages.

"MA JONG” GOES WEST.

HONGKONG CLUB'S PART.

"Ma Jong!"

bandings on a site which he gave some time age and situate in St. Baviour's-road. He also leaves all his books and bookcases to that institu- tion for the establishment of a library, The following alsuse was contained in the will: "Whereas I do not approve of the wearing of mourning appari, I especially enjoin all who benefit under this, my will, to sbstain from doing so on my behall or in respect debarred from participating in my of my decease; otherwise they will be estate and bequests made in their favour will be cell and void." Birds in Mass Formation.

REWARD OF 4 YEARS'

WATCHING. --

collected by an English naturalist are The strangest experiences evar recorded in precise and scientific terms by Mr. Edgar Chance in his book on "The Cockoo's Secret,”

That the cuckoo was last summer

filmed for the first time while engaged

LADY RHONDDA.

RESTITUTION DECREE

GRANTED

Viscountes Rhondda, of Chelson!

The suit

Court, &W., petitioned in mail week for a decree for the restitution of con- jugal rights. Her husband is fir Humphrey Hackworth, 7th baronet, in laying in another bird's nest is now to whom she was married on Jely & general knowledge, and the film will 1908, at the Parish Church, Christ be exhibited in the coming months church, Moumonthshire. all over the country. It carries in proof of Lew discoveries about this picturesque and pleasing form, the

was not contested.

Examined by Mr. Bayford, K.C strane bird; but the written ward her counsel, Lady Rhondda said her tells much that is invisible or the maiden name was Thomas. At the film. Not one but many discoveries time of the marriage her husband had were made in the course of four years not come into the baronetcy. They watching of one female cuckoo on a Worcestershire common.

lived at Oaklanda, Caerleon, Mon- mouthshire. There had been no ohildren of the marriage.

We

pily with your husband for a good Mr. Bayford: Did you live hap- many years-Yes.

By infinite patience, by help of a little committee of expert watchers, by ingenious deduction, by the spending of many hundred pounds on A remarkable sight was witnessed facts about the cuckoo (obscured to apparstas and organisation, strange If the predictions of those who at Deal on March 27 when a number observers for the two thousand years in Lezden en business matters ---I follow the dizzy arbits of society's of Deal boatmen on watch on the during which-as

In 1920 had you to be a good deal higher spheres are correct, this cryptic beach observed a huge black cloud, cuckoo has been studied have at last

boow-the bad. exclamation may very well take the estimated by them to be over one been brought to light and illustrated. place of "I bid spades!" in drawing-mile in length, coming rapidly across In his third and fourth season ki rooms along Park and Fifth avenue the Channel. At first they thought Chance could prophesy exactly on it heralded the coming of a violent what day the cuckoo would lay in the share it was seen to be a huge London for an operator, put him in storm but as the black mas neared what nest. He had only to wire to thickness of birds which owing to the the arranged hide or heath-covered colour of their plumage, the boatmen wigwam an hour or two before the thought were larks.

this spring.

From Palm Beach and Hot Springs people are returning full of entha iam for the new game of H Jong It is a game 2,000 years old, played

principally in the country-Ye

And was your husband living

almos entirely.

two. She wrote to her husband, but she was abroad for a month or received to answer to her letters. After ptber 1921. Lady Rhondda

berretera abe got a letter from him

Miss Mary Ann Browning, of Fem broke road, Seven Kings, sued for breach of promise Mr. G. E. Smith, said to be chief barman at the White Hart Hotel, Green street, Forest Gate, for centuries by Chinese philosophers millions upon millions of them," sai/event, to make quite sure of a picture on November 14, 1921, addrewed from

· The couple met seven years ago.

in summer gardens by the side of

"There were

Oaklands, Caerleon as follows:

Dear Margaret-It is idle not to realise that the pressit. position is impossible. We cannot go on as we ara. Ihave thought the whole thing over most seriously and have come to should definitely separate and that I should live with you no more.

"We began to walk out," the lady running waters. It is an aristocratic at man. They were over a mile BER MESMÈRIC INFLUENCE, told the Judge, half confidentially, game, very beautiful, indeed, and in length, and were flying in complete Almost all that is peculiar about "and after three years I went with well adapted to the leisured and formation about 200 it. high." The the female cuckoo is illustrated; her him for good, you know." (Laughter.) philosophical.

noise of the birds' wings, was likened mesmeric influence on the foster Mr. Justice Horridge: No! I am So far Ma Jong has only invaded to fleet of aircraft. Many inhabit parents, the alternate attraction to afraid I do not know. (Laughter.)

She received an engagement ring to the most select trade, but already volume of sound.

one New York store; one that caters eir sleep by the extraordinary removing an egg from the nest before the conclusion that it is better we ants of Deal were awakened from her and repulsion; her practice of from Mr. Smith, and during a walk orders for Ma Jong sets have come down a country lane Smith noticed in so fast that the proprietom of the

laying her own; her militant protes that she was not wearing it

tion of his pitch or territory; her of less expensive ects. The one they

amazing speed--some 8 seconds over store are planning the manufacture

and one species of foster-parent; her fidelity year after year to one spot have now retails for $250,

the whole process all these and other paints about both cuckoo and victim End a place.

He seized her by the thrust," she said. "tried to strangle her, twice knocked her into the ditch, and at tempted to wrench rings off her fingers."

WRESTED FROM CHINA,

Members of the English Club in Hongkong claim the credit of having wrested from Caina her exclusive possession of this fascinating game. there, ali, as a matter of fact, the They play Ma Jong for high stakes game, if played correctly and for sts

sing. Not that stakes are essential to to lose considerable sums of an even

ed herself in her house just of the its enjoyment. One woman has lock Avenue, spending long afternoons teachin: Ma Jong to her children.

I hit him with my umbrella" Miza Browning explained, "and it broke in two, and I shouted murder." When a mat came up on a bicycle Smith said (according to Miss Brown-

"It is quite all right.” ing)

was sorry, and gave me £l to buy Dew ambrella." (Laughter.)

Counsel: What happened after that? We got on quite all right (Laughter.)

The Sex of Eggs.

is

a

triumph in persistent and scientific The whole is a singular, a unique observation.

many eggs-61-from one bird; no one No one has ever before collected so

Humphrey. see no other alternative.-Yourd, I am sorry to write like this, but

Court, London: -

She then wrote to him from. Clea

My dear Humphrey,-Do you past 13 years are to go for nothing really mean by your letter that the

and that all we have to admit is failure?

has ever before proved that she may and if possible I want to try and I can hardly think this can be so,

Be followed me home, said he kes, is only for those who can afford warde. This is held steadily between lay as many as 21 in season; no one prevent a separation. So I am

Later, however, Miss Browning said he did not keep an appointment, and did not come to her again.

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farther in egg-testing, for we can now "Science has advanced as a step tell the sex of egge before incubation by the aid of a little instrument lately invented. It gces by various names and is sold at different prices. It the sexometer, sexography sextel etc. but it is the same principle in each. pyramid hung by a piece of silk A little piece of metal the shape of thread with the pointed end down

If it contains a male germ the instru- laid, not placed in the victim's nest resolution and to resume your life the thumb and finger over the eggs. has ever before proved that the egg in writing to ask you to reconsider your like the pendulum of a clock, but if that the focuses attention on the meat will swing backward and forward by the beak; no one has ever knows with me again.-Yours affectionately, it is a female it will resolve round victims hours, even days, before the and round. It can also be used to due moment cames, discem the sex of animals and plants. An international controversy has "We have not yet tested its accuracy, been aroused. Probably cuckoos vary Pickford, as Mr. Chance called his immensely in their habits, and Mary favourite bird, subtracts from the value of this most is fical, and was only taken by me altogether a type. But so exception me to reconsider any position, which is not perhaps That being so, it is useless to ask

remarkable series of operations, of after fully weighing everything- which all British naturalists should Yours, be proud.

Ma Jong is a combination of domi- noes, ches, Oriental allegory, and consist of 136 pieces, fashioned some Perience, but we are at present doing medern warfare. The Ma Jong set that we cannot speak from ex thing like dominoes, made of ivory 60 says a home paper which adda, and mounted in bamboo. pieces are in three suits, which are great value to the poultry breeder, as "If it proves correct it must be ct bamboo," he can decide how many cocks and

These

Counsel asked Miss Browning whe ther she was still find of the errant lover, and she replied "Yes."

Mr. Justice Horridge: Are you still willing to marry him ?—Yes,

What does your client say to that, and "dot" They run from one pullets to hatch out,” Mr. Joace ?-He says there is no to nine, and there are possibilities A Test of Intelligence. thing doing," m'led. (Loud laughter.) of four of a kind. There

called "character,"

sre

The University of Wiscontin has

A photograph was produced which also four pieces called North, East, published an intelligence question showed Miss Browning in bathing South and West Wind, and three large naire, comprising 100 questions, com- cortume sitting on the shoulders of her pieces, the red, green and white piled with the assistance of twenty- Was Mr. Smith annoyed with you player drawe bis pieces from the centre fairer and more sensible test of the dragons East Wind is banker. Bach four professors, which, it claims, is a over that!-No.

and sets them up in front of him in the

svezage college man and woman than

brother-in-law.

PRISON LIFE.

AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE'S

EXPERIENCE.

The Judge: The jury had better shape of a miniature Chinese wall, the one drawn up by Mr. Thomas left Detroit gaol on completing a five- see the picture. There are twenty East Wind then shakes dice to see Edison The questionnaire is not a day imprisonment sentence for ex- ladies in bathing costume all round whose wall shall be broken down and test of a college man's ability, because ceeding the motor-car speed limit, John Dodge. the millionaire, who the brother-in-law. There seem to the owner of the attacked wall shakes the student goes to college to train told the reporters that the popular j

MARGARETA

of November 30. I am afraid I must

He replied from Caerleon:

admit that our married life has been Dear Margaret, I have your letter

a failure, the reasons why you know as well as I do.

HUMFERET.

Lady Rhondda added that Sir Humphrey had not been back.

Mr. Justice Horridge pronounced a restitution decree, with costa, direct- ing that it should be complied with | within 14 days of service.

SUDDEN FORTUNE.

be safety in numbers. Is his wife the dice to find out from which part and develop his mind, and not to conception of prizon life was erron- PARIS. MOST DESERVING CASE. -

there?

"Yes," replied Miss Browning,

auid more laughter.

.

She denied that she had ever

braced her brother-in-law.

of his wall a tile is to be taken.

BRIDGE EXPERT ENTHUSIASTIC,

East Wind from blowing down one's The point of the game is to prevent

gather facts, but it is believed that he ecus, and that personally he had why now is white, what are the four inmates which enabled him to retain the Pazia branch of a New York com and that he should know, for example, the system of self-government by the Germaine Chalandre, & young clerk of should have surface general knowledge, found a humane administration of All Paris is congratulating Mile.

"

called as a witness. He was backward, from the Western stand-Mr. Bernard Shaw is young of clo, by personal experience that prison 140,000 francs.

The man in the photograph was wall. Everything about it is done horsemen of the Apocalypse, whethers corkscrew. Dodge was convinced pany, who has just won a prize of Frederick Merry, of Harringay-road point. The desi runs counter-cockwise. why raindrops are spherical, who was law is most successful when it is A newspaper offered a West Green, and he denied kissing from right to left. In place of chips, Lot free libraries, what are three com- he hopes that the system of the golden working girl to be selected by and the counting of the characters is Cicero, why free meals pauperise but reformative rather than punitive, and fund for the moet deserving Paris embracing Miss Browning.

marriage Mr. Justice Horridge: As a matter sticks, and, in the course of an even-

Ma Jong layers use long, dotted moa forms of house architecture, is rule administered by councils of cinema audiences, while the amount of curiosity I should like to ask whying, so rumour around the Chinas Bra country, a book, or a man; whether American gaols should be extended the leading department stores of

the word Utopia the name of a prisoners now prevailing in various was the photograph showing you sur- Tunded by a multitude of females has it, as much as $25,000 hasarticulation is performed in the langs.generally. The young millionaire ban the city until a

substantially increased by was dated **1925" (Laughter.)

changed hands. Counsel: I am told it is 1825. list of einbe after his name in the Counteas's Dress Bills.

A New Yorker, who writes a long wrote the song, "Old Black Joe."

the voice-box, or the head; and who another charge of reckless driving francs was available. When the aum of 140,000 (Laughter.)

Mr. Justice Horridge: There must inveterate bridge player, came Social Register and who is known as

pending against him, alan a charge of result was conveyed to Mile. Chal- violating the probibition law, i andre she wept with joy, and she have been a transmigration of soula,

Earl Cathcart was sued in the ssmuch as he, contrary to the was again overcome by the thunderous (Laughter.)

back from Hot Springs the other day King's Bench Division by Mite Gray Volstead Law, did feloniously carry cheering which greeted her as she Mr. Smith, the defendant, who said the prettiest game I know of" he the sum of £215 for gowns applied beverages, to wit, whisky, gin, and Palace to receive the prize.

with the Ma Jong complex. It is Ltd, Court drewmakers to recover in his automobile diver forbidden stepped forward at the Gaumont he earned £2 10a. a week and his "board," admitted the promise. He said "It has taken the place of to Countess Cathcart, against whom cognac," and therein, one might add, gave the girl £25, he said, to bay a ment of watching your wall crumbled of divorce in February last. Defendant midnight joy riders in the United parents and three other children bridge in my affection. The excite the defendant obtained a decree nisi followed the universal practice of

The lucky girl is a victim of ring.

the war. She lived with her Mr. Justice Horridge: You seem to wind provides a captivating thrill. Countess had no authority to pledge

by the onslaught of the Fast denied fiability, and gloaded that the States. have been pretry Aush with money. I am sure that Ms Jong will catch his credit. It was stated that

at Grizne (Aisne), and when the You gave her £10 to buy a bracelet hold here and that every country club Countess Cathcart received an allow

Germane captured the territory. Mr. Smith was telling how he die will have its Ma Jong experts by the ance of £960 a year, which she said

MATADOR GORED liked the photograph when the judge time summer comes."

her father beltered some rozen British soldiers for several months. intervened

wax not sufficient, The dressmaken TOSSED AFTER KILLING

When the enemy discovered this they "Do you think," he said, ou one experienced bridge teacher is sit evening gowns. The defendant gave Maybe he is right. It is a fact that bill was for eight gowns, including two

¡FIVE BULLS.

summarily executed the father and could stand up in the box, and nothing up nights studying the ruler of notice that he would not be responsibie

the remainder of the family were sent to Germany as prisonem, Mille. Gez Mr. Smiri: Certainly, sir.. Y seo be filled with talk of "dragons" month after the purchases in question, in the areas Bayonne, the well-known two and three years' captivity the Ms Jong, and her rooms may soon for his wife's debts, but that was a rapid succession in a public ball fight term of hard labour. After between After having killed five balls in maine herself being sentenced to s I am so used to standing at the public winds," and the sound of the Plaintiffs' head saleswomen said ladies matador Saleri 11 was severely gored, family ratamed home, and Mme. bar counter. (Laughter)

Mr. Justice Horridge: W. you Evening Post.

crumbling of little walls-New York often purchased ten or twelve dresses

Jean over it !"

are not at the public bar counte pow, (Laughter.)

A few minutes later his lordship re

marked: You think you are less

ing orer the bar again, apparently," and Mr. Smith once more straight

ed himself

In further evidence, Bwith sid that he objected to the picture post-

Ats time. At the conclusion of the and wishing to impress the excited as the sole support of the family

Flushed with his continned access Calandre soon died leaving GermSİDU evidence Mr. Justice McCardie asid: audience with bis skill, Esleri neglected Eemoring to Paris, the obtained card. When Miss Browning came when the burdens of husbands and able to rush at the powerless man and and lite sister ever since.

I am not going to give judgment now to get into striking position, with work, and has heroically played the because I think the time has come the result that the engaged bill was part of mother to her two brothers back from Ilfracombe she told him the nights of shopkeepers should be to him into the air. The bull's little gid is sufering from tuber. that four of them had slept in one definitely stated, and I shall consider horns pierced his Zeck, narrowly Falces,

room, and he did not approve of this, my judgment and state the law to the missing the throat, and the matador ret

Verdict was returned for Miss Best of my ability and with the was carried away to hospital ver

Browzing with £65 damages,

utmost effuzzIDGE/

Ny vosidade

Germaine

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