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A WAR ECHO.

SHOT DOWN BY HIS SOLDIERS.

A MINISTER'S DEATH.

PUBLIC FLIRTING.

WHY LOVERS MEET IN

• MUSEUM NOOKS.

COMPLAINT FROM SCOTLAND.

THE CHINA MAIL

Seeking Privacy. Nor is there anything new in the display of this particular charac- teristic of human nature In mu- seums and picture galleries.

serving it to any formidable extent, there is no need for us to be unduly troubled bocause they are in fact being used, once a week, as sub-! stitutes for lovers' walks..

If it were alleged that the normal behaviour of the lovers was too openly lover-like, remonstrance'.rd protest would indeed be called ior; but that allegation is not made.

It is alleged only that the young people appear to be more interest ed in each other than in the museum which any man of the world will take seriously.

AUCTION BRIDGE RULES.

the

Leading authorities on game of auction bridge met the Card Committee of the Portland Club, with the object of framing a new code of laws. The meet- ing was private, and a statement issued later said:

SATURDAY, JULY 9-1927.

BRIDGE LAWS.

HOW THE GAME WILL BE IMPROVED.

BRISKER BIDDING.

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Before the Portland Club issued

"EQUAL RIGHTS.”

WOMEN INVADE · SMOKE ROOM.

ATLANTIC LINERS PROBLEM.

met his death at Bratislava "It la," he says in his annual report, well known, at any rate, to all atu- collections; and that is not a charge points submitted to them, and the 1924 I repeatedly pressed in "The of the London "Morning Post"),

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Women cigarette devotees have The meeting received replies from 170 bridge clubs on various its new code of laws in January (says the Liverpool correspondent Daily Mall for the introduction provided n new problem on voting resulted: In favour of of majority bidding, writes Mr. Trans-Atlantic ships. Up to re- majority calling 87, against 68; in favour of the right to "closure" A. E. Manning Foster in that cent times the smoke-room of a paper. I pointed out that major- liner has been regarded as the the bidding in the case of an un-ity bidding improves the game, one portion of the ship designed of the Portland Club revoke holders of long minor suits on where they can discuss business derbid 146 against 17; in favour makes bidding brisker, puts all exclusively for male passengers, penalty 165, in favour of the better fighting terms, and, if matters and affairs of the world American revoke penalty. 5.

adopted, would bring English safe from feminine interruption. The chairman said it was pro- Bridge more into line with But there is no territory that posed to take the opinion of the Bridge as played abroad. The

some women are afraid to invade,

Our novelists have noted it. Novelista as divergent in their gen- eral outlook in life as Walter Besant and George Gissing have both local Mr. C. O. Curle, Director of the ed love scenes in the relatively un- How General Stefanik, the first

Royal Scottish Museum at Edio-frequented Assyrian galleries of the War Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, burgh, has a complaint to make. British Museum.

It is also a well-known fact- (Pressburg) is revealed after "not altogether to the benefit of eight years by the narrative of a the public that the museum should dents of the arts-that the quiet Czech named Lechta, submitted have become, to the extent that it picture galleries of Bond Sreet and to President Masaryk, and now hus, a resort on Sunday's for young Conduit Street are resorts not infre- forming the subject of an off-peranns of both sexes whose inter- quently chosen by lovers for their

est is more centred in one another interviews,

Obviously, therefore, the young DOG'S VIGIL BY DEAD BOY cial inquiry at Prague.

He states that the general, who than in the Museum collections."

eople whose frequentation of the Strictly speaking, of course, the people was on his way to Prague in May description of the proceedings thus Royal Scottish Museum at Edin- 1919. by acroplane, was the vic-deplored as "not altogether" bone- burgh for purposes entirely uncon- A dog's fidelity was illustrated tim of an error on the part of a ficial to the public implies that the perted with the faithful study of in a striking manner when one number of soldiers at the artillery public is deriving some advantage the arts and science has been the boy was killed and another severe-

the took the Caproni machine, which it ought, to; but one suspects that director have been following. not ly injured during an expedition | conference on a number of points, reform has now been accepted by and their incursion even into the barracks at Bratislava, who mis- from them, though not as much as flew the green-white-red Italinn that is not exactly what Mr. Curle setting, a precedent; and it is prob-1 for seagulls' eggs on the cliffs at to redraft the laws in accord- the Portland Club as a result of a the smoke-room of the ship at soa able that even he has been upset Cloughton, near Scarborough, ance therewith, and to submit less by their exaggerated demon- An all-night search was made the laws, so drafted, to a subae- strations of mutual regard than by for the boys in vain, but the folquent meeting. The discussion the immense numbers in which they lowing afternoon Patch, a fox tet showed that a preponderance of have lately taken to availing them-rier, who belongs to the father delegates were in favour of selves of the facilities such demonstrations: Provided for of the boy who was killed, was majority wiring, favour of He certainly is wrong if he attri-seen at the foot of the cliffs system of honours, and the. butes their patronage of the coffee- guarding a mackintosh and two abolition of chicane. Any other Lions over which he presides to any caps, in each of which were a alterations would be of a minor ill-conditioned desire to make love couple of sengulis' eggs.

character. in public.

those demonstrations are If

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meant to say (writes Alexis Broome flag, for a Hungarian machine, in the "Sunday Mail"). the Hungarian flag being red- His view almost certainly is that white-green.

flrtations and amorous, demon He and other witnesses are bestrations are out of place in the ing examined the of severe atmosphere National Defence at Prague. His and it may be freely admitted that statement is to the effect that with other civilians he was in the artillery barracks when the ma- chine was sighted, flying low, There was a rush to the barrack square, and several soldiers shouted, "A Hungarian aeroplane -shoot it down" and forthwith a number of shots were fired.

The machine was hit and came lower, the inmates waving white handkerchiefs frantically. More shots were fired, the machine turning in circles, till it fell into the Danube.

The four occupants, including General Stefanik, were found dead in the machine when it was re- covered later in the day, May 4, 1919. According to M. Lechta, therefore. General Stefanik was killed by mistake by his own sol- diers.

ANOTHER "DARWIN" CASE.

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spectacular, as they are apt to be when lovers are young and ardent, he is right..

Just Human Nature.

One cannot reasonably exact quite us high at standard of de- corum in a museam us in a church; but it does not follow that it is proper, to go to the opposite ex- treme and behave there as if one were in a dancing saloon abode of love.

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served and commented upon by

Few if any of us are so ill-con- ditioned as to prefer to do our lovelį making in public places.

We meet in public places. We dance and play games in public places. But for the confidential interchange of tender sentiments we seek some secluded nook in the conservatory, or

solitary some avente known as a "lovers' walk,” mr some cosy carner,

ttim with lights. contrived for our conven- re-ience by a thoughtful hostess.

of

seen

Un that point the court

to public opinion will certainly sup port the authorities who may ner haps, now and again, have sights justly provocative of

uke; but, that concession made, there is also something to be said from the paint of view of the young people whom those authorities so sweepingly condemn.

There is, as a wise man nuce re- marked "a great deal of human nature in people."

There is probably more human nature in the young than in the elderly; and it certainly is human nature for young people to be more interested in each other than in mummies, sarcophagi, medieval armour, Etruscan pottery, cunei- inform inscriptions, and fossily.

A Darwin case which has aroused considerable interest in Poland and Germany ended Pless with a victory of the local It is human nature, indeed, for schoolmaster, who was accused a young man to take more interest by many parents of teaching the in a pleasant young woman of his theory of evolution which, it was own generation, when he is in her alicred, upset several of the child-society, than in a Venus of Milo or

Medicla preference forcibly ren's religious balance. The

ex- schoolmaster sued a parent who pressed by Byron when he wrote:

I've met much finer women, ripe

and real,

started accusations for libel, and, after many witnesses had been heard, won his case.

Than all the nonsense of their

stone ideal.

Sheltered privacy of that sort,. however, is not, at all times, avail- able for everybody,

Dances, with the provision of cosy corners aforementioned, age few and far between; and the wen- ther, of course, is not always favourable, especially in the winter and the early spring, for long coun- try excursions.

But the museums are open; and the structure of museums affords, in the nature of the case, an abund- ance of facilities for relative, if not absolute, privacy.

No Open Love-Making. Their halls numerous; but it takes

are spacious and a large crowd to make them seem over crowded because of the breaking up of the space by monumental statuary and glass cases filled with opaque curios.

The museums, it is true, were not founded or endowed to serve. this purpose; but as it is only on Sunday afternoons that they appear to be

THAT HEADACHE might easily have been avoided. You alone are to blame if you are

"verish" or bilious and cannot interest yourself in, your daily affairs. Keep Pinkettes, the ideal laxative and liver regulator, at hand and use them when required to clear your system of matter that literally poisons your blood. Then there is no reason why you should not keep well and fit all the year round.

AN IDEAL IDLER.

A Limehouse stevedore who claimed compensation for an in- jury at Bow County Court was asked what he lived on.

The man Food. Mr. Kingsbury, barrister: Where do you obtain it? The Guardians.

What do you do all day?-I go

out for a stroll.

What do you do when you have finished your stroll?Sit down.

For the rest of the day?—No, I have another stroll. ̈ ̈

At what hour do you retire to bed?-Sometimes six o'clock and sometimes seven.

guardians,

Who are the Poplar?-No, Stepney.

How much money do you have from the guardians £2 3s, a week.

How many children have you? --Six under fourteen,

Do you help your wife with the

Of your chemist, or post free, 60 cents the vial, from the Dr. Wil-work at home?-No. liams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse

Road, Shanghai.

PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL.

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conference with other clubs.

has now been quite definitely The law as it stands in the made. American code reads:--

Liverpool shipowners whose A bid of a greater number of vessels are engaged in the Atlan odd tricks ranks higher than tic passenger trade have endea- a bid of a lesser number. When voured to steer a middle course by two bids are of the same num-a naively worded intimation near ber they rank: No Trumps the entrance to the smoke-room (highest), Spades, Hearts, that the room is primarily for the Diamonds, Clubs (lowest).

use of gentlemen. 3 The opportunities of bidding long, powerful minor suits over long major suits are of sufficiently frequent occurrences to make the change to the American system interesting.

"As a rule this polite hint has the desired effect," said an Atlan- tic ship's officer, "but not always. There are some women who insist on being in the smoking room. Such women are viewed with dis-

Scoring of Honours. The second point is the decimal favour, and there have been mild, protests. It is, however, largely system of counting honours.

a matter of good tuste, and most Thus simple honours (3 in one women have sufficient instinct to hand or 2 in one hand and in judge as to whether their pre- partner's) will score 30 points, sence in the smoking room is wel four honours (divided) 40, four in one hand 80, five honours (divid-leave it at that."

come or otherwise. And we must

ed) 90, and five in one hand 100. The scoring of chieune is to be abolished.

A change that is likely to be made is in respect of a "no bid" out of turn. Under the present laws, in the case of a pass out of turn, the adversary on the left of the offender may demand a new deal. This is considered too harsh for what is after all a venial offence.

It is probable that the Ameri- can law will be adopted which mades a pass out of turn void. The proper player bids and the offender may not bid, double, or redouble until the first bid has

Not such as carrying coal up-been overbid or doubled. stairs or helping with the mangl- ing?-We don't live upstairs, and we ain't got no mangle.

The Revoke. 'It should be observed that there is no intention of altering

In contrast with the freedom thus extended to women smokers on the Atlantic liners, on Liver- pool ships sailing to India and the East the rule of reserving the smoking room for men is strictly enforced even to the point of re- questing any woman who inadver- tently strays in to leave.

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the revoke laws on American lines, although it is possible that the penalty for a revoke which the declarer can take from his ad- versaries may be reduced from three tricks to two. The new code will not become operative until probably the end of July.

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Best built on CPR. Irain beard al

| Hrudayale Station, Hade herds the

¿tratus that rear by only a few frei

Hla Binjanip King Georro

The world's hearsweicht champion is in his glory when attached to the thick, end of a trout rod. Here Tunney in photographed es Leently at the C.P.R. Sisilon In Montreal an hla way to famous treul | waters nghe Labelle, is the Laurentians, accompanied by W. D. Me- Geiban, sporting editur of the NY, Herald-Teibung (left), and W. A Davenport of Colliers Weekly,

Thele Excellonates, Lord and Lady Willingdon photographed at the C.P.R. Biation at Regina during their recent, Dominion feat. With them are sean H. W. Nawiande, Lieutenant-Gåvernor of Baskaizlawan, and Alden Newlands.

V. was an interested aper tator at the football cap fin. al at Wembley recently and La sen congratulating mem- bers of the Cazulší teams,ške | victues,

Gine Taney's face

ferow and when he be

held this flyweight tesl that roso to dis

tury during a recent fhing trip to the Laurentian Mountain. [Gene threw this one back, but took home ja string no' beari}ful

six poundera

One of the seven Canadian

maple

applings to he planted" at the Australias capt- at, Canberra, by the Canadian Go- vemment repra eattle là o tu vi Ernest Lapoints, Minister of Jus ilce, to commim- states_the_ Ding mend Jubitem of Canadian Confed- Pritian.

| Premier · Baldwin's sister, Mrs. Mase fries Huntington, Whitter, travelled Įseria Canada over the Cénadian Pa. Fifig recasty tejala her husband at Vancouver, on lupya from anval Mer {vice, in 'Gilsome waters,

The Intent addition to the Canadian Padfie'n chala ať fine Lotufa, che "ilotul: Buskatchewan,): kali)

been ernied at Region, and was formally opened by President · Dealty, recently,

·This, apecially' darignad open-air thaarvallen car will be said an Canadian Pacific trains travelling through the Roche Mountains this summer. It is angemskully 'an aitowwathur ear.