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¡Service.

Liquor Smuggling

Ottawa, Yesterdiny. A conference is to be held hore in Januhry between Canada and the

Philip Sasson, Under-Secretary for behalf of the Council of the League. the enforcement of prohibition. Air, said, a number of flights had Bolivia. throws all the blame on It is extremely unlikely that the taken place between London and Paraguay while Paraguay enters House of Representatives will en- South Africa and Intermediate explanations and foreshadows adorse this sum.-Reuter's American points. Valuable Information had pacific settlement to the dispute.-i been obtained as the result but the Reuter.. actual details of the route selected

The Telegram would depend on whether land The League's telegram, is con 'planes or aca 'planes were used on tained in the following message certain parts of the journey. That puublished yesterday:— could only be determined when The Council of the League of Na concrete proposals were formul- tions. at Lagano, decided after two United States to discuss the pro- The Air Minister expected secret sessions to dispatch to the blems of liquor smuggling from such proposals to be made in the Governments of Bolivia and Para-Canada-Reuter. near future," and if these were conguay-both countries being mem- sidered practicable immediate steps bers of the League-a telegram in would be taken in co-operation with reference to the frontier incident! the Government of South Africa, that has arisen betiveen them. who were aware of our intention

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SCIENCE AND LOVE

BETTING LOSSES.

BANKRUPTCY COURT DENIAL

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MR. DE BEAR'S BETS

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and desire to, dévalop air communi-name of M. Briand as Acting Pre-|· cations of that nature.-British sident of the Council, and gives the Wireless' Service,

text of a resolation unanimously adopted by the Council as follows:

"The Council expresses its fuli, Betting losses of £600 during conviction that the incidents which the three years before his fatture have occurred between those iwe were mentioned by Mr. Archibald' members of the League of Nations de Bear, the theatrical producer, will not become serious. It does and one of the founders of thei not doubt that the two states which, Co-optimista; at his public exami- by signing the convenant, have nation in the London Bankruptcy

DR. BERNARD HOLLANDER ON MARRIAGE

"OLD WORLD PASSION"

Dr. Bernard Hollander; president Holemly pledged themselves, to seek Court.

of the Ethological Society, gave an by pacific means a solution of the Mr. De Bear returns total liabili address to members of the society disputes arising between them, will ties £7,046 and a deficiency of

have recourse to such methods as £6,393. on "The Paychology of Matrimony" would be in conformity with their Replying to Mr. Walter Boyle, at the Royal Sanitary Institute, international obligations and would Senior Official Receiver, Mr. De London. He asked if the cold volee appear in the actual circumstances Bear attributed, his failure and of scichce should strive to dictate to to be most likely to ensure together insolvency to lack of capital, to the old world passion of love, and with the maintenance of peace a promised financial support not supplied the answer-"Assuredly, settlement of their disputes." forthcoming, and to losses on

The members of the council pre- various theatrical ventures:

Yes."

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Nature everywhere set the model, sent included representatives of

His deficiency account showed

He said. It was for civilised man,, Chili, Venezuela, and Cuba that during the three years pre- in proportion to his advancing cul- British Wireless Service. ture, to improve upon the 'model.

As man the barbarian came to apply

commoner

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ceding the fallure' his income from salary, dividends, authors' fees and royalties amounted to £11,769. His rules culled from the school of ex gularities in food and drink. Single expenditure during the same period perience, so he became civilised,

next to nothing. was $18,504. This figure included cultured, intellectual, and moral.. women often ate

Married women with good healthy household and personal expenses Scarcely in any other field had he

£4,680, business entertainment ox- allowed the primeval instinct to hold appetites were

penser £3,900, other business ex- Sivay, so little influenced by the single ones. rules of organised knowledge, as in

Advocating a reform of the mar-penses £1,678, and £600 betting this all-essential matter of the riage laws, the lecturer said that, losser.

He admitted that he had betted marriago was still regarded by many as a divine institution. But considerably. and had put £10 on tions for marriage were made by the divinity of marriage was sadly several horses on the same day. experts, access could not be guar- masked by the fact that, whatever He had won and lost big sums, but anteed. Our knowledge was scarce it was in theory, in practice it was the whole of the transactions.

there was not much differance, on ly complete enough to enable us to

a human institution, in which the give hard-and-fast rules. Still, we

contracting parties were not demi-' knew enough, if not to help every gods but human beings. Marriage

union of the sexes. If the selec

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He did not, agree that he had lost £1,000 by betting. In fact, at

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The Choice of a Wife That men were not guided în

The Divorce Laws choosing a wife by reason, appro- priateness, common sense, good The question whether morality judgment, or any of the other evid- was bettered or made worse by lax! ences of sanity that they displayed divorce laws was still an open one." in deciding the other problems of, If either the run or the woman had life was illustrated daily by the made a serious mistake, matrimony unsuitable matches all about them. was hell. There should be no law,

weck. He practically gave up bet- ting two years ago.

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HIGH HEELS

WHAT A HARLEY-STREET PHYSICIAN SAYS

AM FOбe "Prezente

The ESCAPE

A man might praise domesticity human or divine, compelling people The recent death of a woman as and economy in theory, yet'in prace to live, in a hell on earth. It was a consequence of a fall down some] tlee it was not the girl able to itself immoral, and led to immo-stairs due it was believed, to the manage a household who got her rality. There was much opposition height of her heels-four inches- hand held, but the idle maiden who to making divorce easier, but none has drawn attention to the dangera||||AT THE kad kept her fingera soft and white. to the present system of allowing attending the wearing of shoes so

For some, wedlock was the açme anybody capable of asking for a equipped.

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of bliss; for others, a' foretaste of licence, in person or by proxy, to A Harley-street physician who the agonies of perdition; while still marry. Until marriage was made was interviewed on the subject said athers found in it only a dead level more difficult and properly regulat-that women who wore "very high] of commonplace existence. Every-fed, altruism would appear to lie in, heels ran the risk of displacing vital body was more or less led by the the direction of making divorce argans. If one came to him for life delusion. that he could avoid the easier.

Insurance purposes he would feel blunders of other people, and so the If people gained their freedom in bound to warn her that she would stream flowed steadily on. Two time instead of, as was often the probably, find her premium In- facts had to be kept in ylow:-(1) case, living in immorality and fight-creased. The wearing of high heels While a man's character in wedlocking a case on some obscure. issue also thickened the ankles, put a need, not undergo any change, the for years, more marriages might strain on the system, which made girl, being transformed Into a ensue, and the second trial prove the wearer. irritable and might even woman, might have her whole dis happier than the first If we were go so far as to affect her comple- position, altered; (2) husband and to stop the marriage of persons xion. No woman's feels should wife, having to live together day whose family records showed a his exceed about two inches. aftor day, year after year, every tory of serious bodily or mental. According to a leading firm of secret feeling, trait, and purpose disease, few people would be alloy woman's shoe-makers, English- would out." There could be no ed to marry. On the other hand, by women refeated the Parisian four- permanent deceit. Even the most allowing, as we did, chronic luna-inch heels of five or six years ago, perfect man and the lovellest. good tics, imbeciles, epileptics, and habit- and now the average height is about women had their defects; but ual drunkard to get married, 14inches or 2 inches.. For walk- sensible husbands and wives looked the contamination of the race had ing shoes it is as low as 11⁄2 inches. the other way. Where they remain become so great, and the care of the Almost all the exceptionally: high ed lovers through life, their con- useless offspring so heavy a, charge heels. It was added, are to-day worn Jugal good fortune owed much to a on the community, that some effort in the East-end.. cultivated and. happy blindness on should be made to stay this curse

both sides.

on the land.

Touching on the advantages of The least that could be done was Geneva, Yesterday.-Mr. Avenol, the married over the single state, to teach defective people methods assistant secretary, general of the Dr. Hollander said that single men of birth control. At present, how-League of Nationa, has gone to and women,, by taking their meals ever, it was the sound people who Marseilles, to embark for China in restaurants, were in danger of limited most the numbers of their after which he will visit Japan and damaging their digestions by Irre- offspring.......

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