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and it is an incomparable fier: For days together it keeps pace A bluejacket was in charge of a with a swift steamer, but it is not party of sightseers on the "Vic-content to sail straight on; it! tory."

makes great circles, miles in ex- A Dévonshire curate

They came to a marked spot ontent, round and round the shipil cently fined for kissing a girl the deck.

swooping from time to time to Another clerical error?

Bluejacket: "Here Nelson fell.", snatch pieces thrown overboard. Old Lady: "An' I don't wonder The majestic feats of this bird at it, poor dear, Nasty slippery are rendered possible by its place I nearly fell there my unique structure. The body is self!".

quite light, but its wings are im- mensely long. 12 feet from tip to tip and with these outspread it files like a meteor through the gale and akims like gossamer in calm, taking advantage of every current of air thrown up by the tossing waves over which it glides without apparent effort.

Painted legs are likely to come Into fashion generally, advises a millinery journak Men are sure to look down on such an innova- Lion.

A New York writer thus defines the modern damsel: "Like "a house-painted, in front, shingled at the back, and empty in the at- tic.".

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More beauty parlours come into being in Hong Kong, but it is at the same time both alarming, and regrettable to find that there are fewer beauties,

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Some husbands are regarded as treasures; others merely as trea- suries.

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CAUSE FOR DISASTER. Irascible Lieutenant (speaking on the bridge, down engine-room tube) "Is there a blithering idiot at the end of this'tube.?"

Voice from engine-rcom: "Not at this end, sorr!"

A POSER.

Private, Smith had walked across a prohibited grass area. Sergeant Major Barrel saw him.

Sergt.-Major: "Private Smith, you know very well none but officers and N.C.O's are allowed to walk across this graas!" Nowadays, a radical, may be "Private Smith: described as a man who is satis-geant-Major. I've Cap'n Craham's "But, Ser- fled with his government.

verbal orders to "

Sergt.-Major: "None o" that, Show me the captain's,

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A wedding was recently delayed sir!

in New Zealand because the verbal orders!. Go on, show'm bridegroom had fainted. I under-to me, sir!!" stand, however, that the poor fel- How was mecilessly revived.

TACTLESS!

Restaurant Proprietor to orchestra leader): "I wish you'd display a little more tact in choos- ing the music... We've got the Worshipful Company of Umbrella Makers dining here this evening; and you've just played 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More!"

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ASSURANCE.

Chemist: "Pills, eh?" phasising question) bilious?"

HIS SOLE DESIRE,

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of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner turns on the slaying by a cross-bow bolt of the bird which the sailors had loved':

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Albatross: Through the jog it came; As if it had been a Christian

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We hailed it in God's name. But the mariners in the poem albatross. The real creature is a loved an ideal bird, not an actual

horror and doomi to drowning sailors. Actually it is a scaven- ger, a lovely creature mounted on "She: "No! I can't give you an-by the same instinct as the jackal matchless pinions, but animated other dance, but I'll introduce you to the peach in the room!"

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DAINTY JUMBO

Mr. Bob: "Five hundred elephants are needed every year for making billiard balls."

people can teach such big and

Auntie; "How strange that) clumsy beasts to do such delicate work !"

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WHY? WHAT? WHEN?

Why are kisses like the crea- tion? Because they are made of nothing and are very good.

What fur did Adam and Eve wear?-Bear (bare) skin.

Why is a cabbage run to seed like a lover? Because it has lost its heart.

What is the difference between a butcher and a fashionable young lady-One kills to dreas, while the latter dresses to kill.

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Why are good husbands dough? Because women them.

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Little Girl Customer (readily): "No, sir; uncle is!" "

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and hyena, the vulture and the tates of its nature in this as in all carrion crow. It follows the dic else. It does so incomparably as an airman and as a swimmer, but not, as the camera has now finally revealed, without any movement of those unparalleled wings

WOMEN IN INDIA.

Hindu Custom Forbids Widows.

to Re-Marry,

One of the great evils of the caste system in India is being much discussed.

custom no widow can re-marry, no According to Hindu law and

when her husband dies. When it matter how young she may be is remembered that it la custom- ary for all girls to be married be- fore they are thirteen, and that girls are only two or three, it will often marriages take place while be readily understood that in India there are a great many child-widows.

Often a quite middle-aged man, sometimes an old man, marries a very young girl, and when he

"Anti-Why is a stick of candy like a dies she must remain a widow for

horse?-Because the more lick it the faster it goes,

Why is a kiss like a sermon properly divided? It requires an introduction, two heads and an application

SAY IT AGAIN. Tommy Talking of riddles,

Why was Eve made?-For Uncle, do you know the difference Adam's Express Company. Between an apple, and an

Why are books your ele- phant?"

best friends?-Because when they Uncle (benignly). "No, my bore you, you can shut them up, lad, I don't."

and they will take no offence."

Tommy: "You'd be a smart chap to send out to buy, apples, wouldn't you?"

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THE WINGED WONDER.

How the Albatross Flies:

to

the rest of her life. Often, too. lieved that the death of the hus- among uneducated people it is be- band is due to some sin of his wife, either in her present or in a suffer all sorts of persecutions previous life, and she has

and indignities at the hands of her husband's relatives. Usually she becomes a household drudge, with no hopeful outlook on life and only long years of dismal ser vitude before her.

Working for the Widows.

About a hundred years ago an Indian widow had to mount her husband's funeral pyre, and was burned alive with him, but the; "All who have been at sea wheresult of an agitation carried on by British Government, as the re- gulls and other birds of the deep missionaries and others. made rise all about them have been im-this practice illegal But the pre- pressed by the small effort the sent condition of these widows is birds have to make to keep afloat little better than a living death, Kiss her when she says, "on the wind; and we have all heard and those who hope to see India

won't!"

the argument that these sailors of Kiss her when she says, "Now, the air keep aloft without beating

their pinions.

And when you kiss her, see that

no one

"Peeps at you from nigh,

don't ""'.

See that you are face to face,

and nose to nose, Flippety-flap, flap, flap- and away it goes!..

A MYSTERY.

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take her full place among the civilised nations are working hard to remove the evil.

Out at sea flies the mighty albatross, the king of sea birds the number of Hindu widows un- "According to the census of 1921 which soar, and there has been der five years old is 11,892; more debate concerning it than between five and ten years old about any other bird. Ever since 85,087; from ten to fifteen years it was known the albatross has old 282,147. been

That is declared to fly for hours, 329,078 child widows. even whole days, without so much number can be calculated, but the a total of Actual as the flicker of a wing. Such a amount of human misery repre thing is apparently impossible; sented by these figures is incal- nevertheless, travellers have al-culable. ways said, "Impossible or not, here it is, a fact-flight without motion of the wings."

Justice for Women.

Mr. Gandhi, who is in the fore- No Flight Without Effort. front of this agitation for better SO DEVOUT!

At last the myth has been dis- conditions for the people of pelled; the camera, which can India, wishes it to be made illegal Sam: "I call my cat Noah record what the human eye is in- for any marriage to take place at

capable of registering, has shown an earller age than fifteen. Sure Bill: "For what reason?" the albatross as speeding italy that is a reasonable enough re- Sam: "Because he was in the flight by almost imperceptible quest. He also wishes a law cellar forty days and forty nights flapping of the wings. This is passed to declare that the mar before he lit on Ararat ('airy in agreement with the suggestions riages of all present child-widows rat).

now."

FIND THE CULPRIT!

and impressions of the few train-were never religiously binding, ed observers who have written on and to support this he points out the problem, and it finally dis that there is no warrant in any poses of the old theory of flight Hindu Scriptura for child-mar "An Irishman met a friend, and without effort. greeted him thus: "Sure Pat, and

riage or enforced widowhood. That theory had we have a child down at our strengthened of late by the won- and make it perfectly legal, both been Then he would go one step farther thouse.

derful success of aeroplanes with according to Hindu law and to the out engines, which have gilded for law of the land, for widows to re hours by taking advantage of air marry at any time on m currents but gliders come down If-India is to rise to a high and albatrossas do flap.

Place among the nations it can Flying Like a Meteor. only be when she gives utice to Of

course, the albatross does her women. actually achieve much by gilding,

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