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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925.

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Hymns to Jazz”Music.

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The nation has just come into Hymns set to jazz dance music There are many distinguished possession of Clasbury Ring, will be broadcast from New York Oriental visitors to London Just beauty spot and ancient camp in Sussex, Bodtam Castle in Sussex radio station, despite the protests now who have brought their and Tattershall Castle in Lincolu- of the Methodists? Council, whose wives with them, says a "Glasgow shire, says a writer in a Glasgow members characterised the plan as Herald" writer. But while the paper. The possession of the an insult to Christian people.

orchestra men make haste to get into con-" frat is largely due to the raising leader, who is responsible for the ventional Western clothes, and to of a fund by a London newspaper; the two castles come to us through experiment, declares that he does don inconspicuous lounge suits or the will of the late Marquis not intend any mockery, and does start morning coats, the ladies Curzon. Bodiam Castle is one of not see why people should not the finest and best preserved dance to hymnal music, as they are left to go about in their beautiful and picturesque native monted buildings in the kingdom, did in the days of ancient Greece,

costumes. It is not surprising and has played its part in the Church music. in Golden's opinion that this has excited some com- history of the country, although, is altogether too, deadening and

ment. sends people to sleep, but when he Peeress, who is noted for her The other evening one this has not been a great one, Tattershall is more modern, and syncopates such hymns-as "Holy, daring and outspokenness, was So far as I know it is the only real Holy, Holy," and "Onward, Chris bold enough smilingly to chide her castle which is built of bricks tiun Soldiers," he will merely be Eastern guest on his ungallantry is without any history expressing religious sentiment in in this matter. She pointed out

But it save as a residence, and only dates from the fifteen century. Familiar Quotations.

Of great interest is the dispute started by Sir Edmrd Gosse as to which of our poe. are most freely quoted. The general view seems to be (observes a "Daily Chronicle" writer) that they run in this order Shakespeare. Milton, Pope. But this is cer- tainly to reckon without Tenny. son, whose peculiar grace was the making of phrases that cling to the memory to leap to the tongue. Of these "Jewels," five words long, that sparkle for ever," as

veritable treasure mine. We are always drawing from it, often un- consciously, and even those who deny him a place in the greatest company recognise how vastly he has enriched our stock of house- hold words.

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Assassin's Thyroid Gland.

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a modern way.

Wife Hires an Assassin,

that men are all like-self- "• centred; for while the lady must attract attention and the idle gaze of street boys wherever she goes, the happy mar escapes by getting into orthodox Western garb. The potentate enjoyed the! reprimand, but did not promise amendment. Still, there is much to be said for her argument. Our streets would lose some lovely touches of colour just now if the ladies adopted our modes, and yet, if one may put on Western The clothes, why not. both? answer is that the word "obey" is somewhat emphasised in Oriental marriage pacts.

The Chicago police report a case in which a wife paid £50 to have her husband murdered and hired an assassin, who sublet the job for £40. Mrs. Lisa Nobile, the woman in the case, admitted engaging the assassin, and justi- Red her husband's death on the ground that he had abused her daughter by a former marriage. The daughter corroborated the story, James Salina confessed that he acted as "middleman." and thought he should go free because "the job was done by Andrew Cappa. The latter admitted shooting, and said he had not No Truants Now. benefited because his wife.stole "There are no 'truant schools' the £40 and eloped. Mrs. Cappa, in London now, because there are who was arrested later, exclaim- no truants,** Mr. W. G. Rash- ed indignantly, "What's, forty brooke stated the other day at a pounds?"

school prizegiving. It is quite. true. Truancy has ceased to exist largely, it was explain- ed at the London Education offices, because school is now a pleasant place and children no longer fear school. There is also the fullest co-operation between the school authorities and the parents, and the problem now is, not how to drive children to. school, but how to find sufficient education opportunities to autisfy them and their parents. With the i discontinuance, of the truant school the duties of the three hundred school attendance officers appointed by the City Council have undergone #change. Formerly the whole time of these officers was occupied with enforc ing the attendance of children at school: to-day their duties are mainly concerned with looking after the children's welfare, acting us liaison officer between the school and the home, and seeing that every child has a school place. Whilst, however, there are DO longer truants in the old sense there is still a certain class of Naval circles are considerably boisterous and irregular boys and exercised by a report made by girls to whom the name is applied Lieut. Cornet, commanding the for which a special discipline is transport L'Orient, and forwarded necessary. These truants are sent to the Ministry of Murine, dealing to industrial schools. with a submarine upheaval in the!

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going from Oran. to Rochefort | Old legends stand Bttle chance when, 100 miles from shore, off in this scientific age. observes a the bay, an enormous wave was London paper. But many simple noticed to be breaking against the folk will be sorry to hear that an A few months ago two Lille vessel. Depths, which on the map American man of science, Pro-16 surgeons, Dr. René Eefort and Dr. were shown to be of about 4,100 fessor Beebe, has disposed of the Jean Picquet, performed a daring metres, were at opce sounded, and familiar myth of the Sargasso operation on a young girl who, for to the astonishment of those on Sea. Ever since Columbus in a long time, had been in an board, no more than about 40 September 1492, first sailed into abnormally feeble state mental and physical, reports the ings were continued for sume dis- waters, east of the Bahamas, the

both metres were registered. Sound those mysterious weed-covered | 441*** "Daily Telegraph's" Paris corre- tance, and this, sounding was popular imagination has invested spondent. They grafted on to the exceeded by no more than about the Sargasso Sea with strange patient the thyroid gland of a 20 metres. By way of corrobora- terrors. Many a story of adven- man, and the results were im- tion, sand was dug up from com-ture has described how ships mediately beneficial. Recognising, paratively shallow depths, con- became entangled in the dense however, that such results are too Arming first impressions that a masses of algae and there remain- often merely temporary, and submarine upheaval had takened till the unhappy sailors perish- knowing that foreign glands are place.

ed of thirst. Sea monsters of vast not easily assimilated into the

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A striking comparison of prison ships that happened to come near, ment on the subject. The im- statistics in "wet" England and As most landsmen know the dif provement in the patient has con- "dry" America is made in a state culty of rowing or swimming in a tinued, and the surgeons now feel ment issued by the United States river full of water weeds, and as justified in declaring the success Department of Commerce, show few sailors have ever visited the of the operation, The interesting ing that, whereas England has Sargasso Sea, which lies off the fact is that the man whose gland closed nearly one-third of its jails ordinary tracks of commerce, the was thus utilised was the leader since 1914 for lack of inmates, the legend seemed plausible and grew of a band of robbers and assassins United States experiences diff stronger with time. But Pro who was convicted of murder and culty in finding enough cells to fessor Beebe, having sailed into executed at Lille in April. The accommodate its law breakers. this dreaded sea, assures us that gland was, indeed, removed within English criminal statistics, com- its dangers have been grossly a few minates of his execution, piled by Alfred Nutting of the exaggerated. Like the experts in and grafted on to the young girl. American Consulate General staff the Michael Sars expedition some The extraordinary rise that has in London, show that twenty years before the war, Professor faken place in her intelligence Prisons were closed in England Beebe found that the floating would appear to be a great tributo and Wales in the last eleven years. banks of weed are not continuous to the mentality of the notorious1r. Nutting attributes the empty but scattered. We must no longer criminal, and it is this particular jails and decline in prison popula-, think of an expanse of sea which aspect of the case that is furnish- tion from 167,000 ten years ago for some hundreds of miles le ing psycho-analytical experts with to about 58,000 to-day to wise nothing but a tangled morass. If abundant material for disconcert prison regulations, the use of a is, in fact, an archipelago through ing discussion. Is it after all, probationary measures for adults which any ship could pass. credible, they are asking, that the and Borstal institutions for young Indeed, as Columbus's three little children of darkness are wiser in people. The comparison with caravels, ranging from 100 tons their generation than the children Anterica's record de left to the to.40 tons in burden, had no diffi- of the light?

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