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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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MORIZONTAL

1-Clumsy

9-Decreasea

10-0lunder

12-Misalio weapon (pl)|

13-Head of

newspaper

16-Perlah 16-Sewing implement

(pl.)

1-French pronoun

20-Kind of cheese 22-Gulde

23-Nine inaban

24-Allotted by

measure

26-Serrawful

27-To be scanty

23-Theater attendants

30-Thinly scattered 31-Journey

32-An agent

31-To review and

mend

-87-Cantrive'.

40-Makes lovel 41-Vahtols

43-Blemishes,

44-Smail hoop

HORIZONTAL (Cont} |

|45-Robber 47-Begane 43-Abbreviation for

untled

49-Changed the place

of BI-Pronoun

52-8elected |54-Made = hostile incursion 56-Elevate

57-Requestad

SB-A member of the

Presbytery

VERTICAL

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2-Prasantly

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VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Aaslatanta 14-Horses of dark color.

with shade of red 15-laruan on polnta of

law

17-Executiva officer of college faculty *19-Personal concerns 121-Assembly [23-Bubdues by famine

26-Sediment 27-Velocity 29-Entreat [30-Turt

|34-AMliations

|36-Pedler" |38-Homeless wanderer

38-Moved slowly

3-Borough of Bussex |89-Bedate

County, England

$41-Bealds

4-The entire property|42-Deceive

of a company

5-6 Laggered

6-Command T-Rainbow 8-6mat) child

9-Garland

11-Boisterous player

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[46–Plural of "that",

46-Sumptuous repast 49-Agitate ||60-Embankment

[63–Strika sharply |58–Abbreviation for

"derivative"

will (The solution of the ab ove crossword puzzle appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word

puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. CURATE SI

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THE CHINA

BOYS' CLOTHES

DR. GRAHAM LITTLE ON ORIGINALITY

WEAK-KNEED PARENTS

MAIL,

51 NOTES BURNT

"WOMAN'S · STORY OF LOST

LOAN CLUB MONEY

When members of the Diddlum Loan Club at Garrett-lane, Wan-la- Dr. Graham Little, MP, dis- worth, 8.W., called for their money tributing prizes at Quainton Hall recently the treasurer, Mrs., Weak-Kneed Parents"." School, Frederick Dunk, stated that 290 in Harrow, sald that too many 81 notes of their money was burnt schoolmasters seemed to have the by mistake in her kitchen grate... ambition of turning out their boys Mrs. Dunk is the wife of a coal all dressed exactly alike, and, if and wood merchant of Lydden- they could manage it, all thinking grove, Garrett-lane, and she has exactly alike.

run the club for the benefit" of

He had tried to persuade some of the big schools to break the silly

custom of dressing up little boys in most uncomforable clothes, stiff bonta, heavy, clumsy suits, and hard hata, all quite wrong things cording to medical notions.","

Very Unfair

about 100 poor families in the district for the past 14 years.

Mrs. Dunk told a “Daily Mail"! reporter that on the previous evin- ng she took out a bundle of notes. from a box in which they were ac-kept and counted out 510 to pay a member of the club who had called for her money. Sho add

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- "It Is vary unfair, that you boysed: have to suffer these things while your, alsters are so much more sansibly and conveniently dressed. But schoolmasters are very power- ful. They usually are able to make parents do the things parents don't like, and in this matter of clothes there never was such a weak-kneed race as the parents of to-day.

The rest of the £90 in notes were rolled up in a bundle, and I must have put them among a litter of papers which I was going to destroy. At the time I thought I had put them back, In- the box. The following mor- ning I took the bundle of papers and put them in my grate to start the fire. The notes were in the bundle.

"Originality is the most precious quality of the human mind; it la

Mrs. Dunk also stated that the that quality which has produced the funds of the club in her possession great, thinkers, the great writers, totalled £256 Ks. She had pald the great inventors, and we used to out the balance of the money to be pre-eminent in this quality our-the members and each received a selves."

share.

Dr. Little then quoted remarks олсе made to him by a famous eclentist, who said:

"You English people go your own way; you are the most insular and the most aloof nation on earth, and

you are

"A Tragedy to Me"

HI will make good their full shares during the New Year," she said. "I am only a poor woman and cannot pay all the money that *All the people often ignorant of what is lost at once.

My own shares and other nations are doing; but you do trust me.

those of my husband and family somehow manage to stumble upon have been used to pay others. new ideas, perhaps just because This accident is a tragedy to me. you are so mentally Independent. It is that mental independence My family had no dinner

Christmas Day, which educationists are concerned gone amiss with the funds before." Nothing has ever to retain 83 the most precious characteristic of our people."

Hobbles

on

CHIEF OF CID.

THE HON. TREVOR BIGHAM'S APPOINTMENT

MR. KENDAL'S FOST "

The Kings approved the. re commendation of the Home Sacre- tary "that"

The vacancy in the rank of As sistant Commissioner of the

A Metropolitan Police, arising from the retirement of Major-General Sir Wyndham --Childs, shall · ba filled by the 'oppointment of Mr.

Norman Kendal, a Deputy As- sistant Commissioner, to be an Assistant Commissioner.

The Home Secretary has approved the proposal of the Commissioner of Police that Mr. Norman Kendal, on his promotion; should take over the duties hitherto performed by the Honourab o vor Bigham, an Assistant Commisiloner, and that...--

Mr. Bigham should assume con- trol of the Criminal Investigation Department. place of Sir Wyndham Childs.

In some respects the appointment of the Hon. Trevor Bigham to auc- ceed Sir Wyndham Childs will be a reverslap to a policy formerly pursued at the Yard. He has problems with which the Yard is dealt largely with the many legal confronted, and has also occupied the post of Chief Constable at His appointment

Scotland Yard.

to succeed Sir Wyndham Childs Is: appropriate, because he has pro- bably had experience, of more branches of the work of the Yard than anyone else."

The Hon. Frank Trevor Roger Bighem is the third, but second surviving, som of Vlacount Mersey. Born in 1876, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Templo in 1901. From 1909 to 1914 Metropolitan Police, and in the lat- he was Chief Constable to the

ter year was appointed Assistant Commissioner. Mr. Bigham is also a magistrate for the County of

Mr. Norman Kendal was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in May, 1906, He joined the staff at Scotland Yard in November, 1918,

Referring to the need of a hobby. COMMANDER BOOTH London Dr. Graham Little said: "Those

of you who are blessed with a capa-| HER VIEWS ON THE MODERN city for musical training may find

that

GIRL

ม very fruitful plea- Bure, and its importance is Friends, some of whom have not and has been a Deputy Assistant becoming increasingly recognis seen her since she worked in Lon-Commissioner of Police for many Jed at the public schools. don thirty-four years ago, went to years, and previously held the posi-

The great and famous foundation, London from all parts

totion of Assistant Director at Scot- your near neighbour, Harrow great Commander Evangalina Booth, land Yard. He could be described School, has made a notable reputa-the head of the Salvation Army in recent years as Sir Wyndham tion by the attention which it pays in America, who has gone to 'Child's first lieutenant. to the cultivation of music... [England to attend the first meet- "I am personally an enthusiast ing of the High Council of the for teaching chess to young boys Army, called, in view of the illness and girls.

That, again, is a game of her brother, General Bramwell which fosters concentration per Booth. hape

Immediately she arrived she got more than any other, and which can be played at all times in touch with General Booth's home of life, and very happily at the end on the East Coast, and as soon as of life, and it also cultivates valu-he is well enough to see her, she able qualities of character and mind."

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SAD TRAGEDY

HEADMASTER WHO THOUGHT STAFF WAS DISLOYAL

'will visit him.

Commander Booth has light brown hair flecked with grey, and brushed backed from her forehead, Her trim figure is accentuated by the familiar plain blue uniform of the Army. She is a great bellever in physical auture, and is an expert swimmer, driver, and tennis player. An inquest was held at Leather- For nearly forty years now she head Surrey, on Richard Arthur has studied every phare of the life Goodwyn Brooker, aged 44, head of our time, and she is a staunch master of St. James's Boy's School, supporter of the modern girl and was found dead the modern boy, too. Miss 1928-29 Weybridge, who on the railway line.

is, in her opinion, not a bit worse. Mr. Edgar Littlewood, father than her forbears were, and not In-law, said 'two years ago Mr. nearly so black-or pink-as she is Brooker went to the school, which, sometimes painted. Commander he gathered, had been allowed to Booth believes strongly in youth, get into an undisciplined state. Nor does she disapprove of short Mr. Brooker felt it his duty to skirts and other characteristics of

she dress, but

dis "bring the school up," and was modern

of extremes. The encouraged to do this by the mana-approves gers.

vation Army were adopted. That is the happy medium.

Prohibition she regards as the came to finest thing that ever America, and she thinks the laws for enforcing it should be tightened rather than loosened.

She has worked among the "hobos" or "down-and-outs" in America, and studied closely the unemployment and other social pro- blems of England. She believes to a large extent in the policy of her father--that of taking families and putting them into some 'sphora where they can obtain work. Thera Is still much sense in the old slo- gan, "The landless man for the man- lean land," and this has been proved in America.

There are six Americanrepre- sentatives on the High...... Counell, which consists in all of sixty-four members, representing eighty-two countries and colonies. What is felt regarding the future leadership of the Army is at present a secret. Commander Booth would have gone to England earlier but for re- short skirt problem would, she assuring bulletins regarding her

He did not do anything personal-thinks, be solved if the regulation brother's health. She was visited

recently.

ly to have any of the teachers length of nine inches from the by many high officials of the Army removed, but the inspectors or the ground which they have in the Sal- school managers insisted that something should be done. What did take place seemed to be a great worry to Mr. Brooker, who thought that the friend of teachers were accusing him of being responsible. He was conscientious man who

did not like to hurt the feelings of anybody and when one of the staff resigned on September 80 it worried him very much,..

MRS. B.-L. MANAHAN SAYS: “I KNOW ABSOLUTELY THAT

MY PRESENT. GOOD HEALTH AND WONDERFUL VITALITY.

ARE DUE TO POO ON CHINESE HERBS."

Mrs. B. L. Manshan, Ronts C. Box. ↑ Sinco taking the treatment I have 278, Modesto Cal., U.S.A says felt better, than I have ever felt in. had. suffered for nine years, with my life and have never had a day female trouble and gastritië, TE WES of sickness since I am now living "Awful Strain"

afraid to go to a doctor becauíe they, on a ranch, getting, up at 5 o'clock Mrs. Brooker said her husband would surely advise an operation. "in the morning" and "doing the work told her the strain was awful, and Having seen the terrible results of ...of a man. ::1 am positively sure that he begged one of the teachers who operations on similar cases like mina · my present good health and wonders I did not have confidence in this

ful vitality are due to Poo On Chin had resigned to stay on. He means of regaining my former goods Herbs, and the careful attention thought the whole staff was dia- health, s

Hay loyal. He could not sleep and one " contined to grow worse until 15 morning he said the school was was confined to my bed. I was in hell."

terrible pain and agony and nothing would give me the least bit of relief. The first assistant teacher, at Any, food taken into the stomach the school said there had been a would invariably turn our and lot of trouble. Mr. Bronker tried suffered greatly from, bloating and to tighten up the disciplin A gas in the stomach. I was unable to

lot of people in the neighbourhood severe pains besides my female droper

do any-house-work, and suffered |"case, diabetes, rheumatim, neuralgia,

of the Herbalist." Weathe

Thousands suffering from catarrh, bronchial, and lung trouble, throat, cough, asthma, bay fever, malaria, (stomach: trouble, indigestion, constips- tion, gastritis, piles, diarrhoes, Astula, heart disease; exams, scrofulf, female trouble, nervonianesa, insomnia obesity, Hidney, bladder, troubles: Brighte, die

pyorrhea, epileptients, did not like that, and some talked trouble." Nova Sparalysis, tumoru ulcers, pimples HONG KONG HEIGHTS about taking their children away. I was in San Luis Obispo, at that dieziness, headaches, neurasthenia,

He (the witness), heard that time trying a change of climate, burritin and many other chronic dis

cases, havo bem restored to health For the information of visitors some of the boys thought of going became so bad that I was near

iness without "ej polsonous, the following list of some of the on strike when one of the teachers forced to return to Mo

| an "ambulance." I was

the Poo highest points on the liland and resigned. He did his best to suport Cares Mainland is published:—

|port "Mr." Brooker in disciplinary, in which. I wa

Herbs

measures, but got a bad reputation While staying for so dolog, and they s

On China The jury returned a verdict of sort burs Suicide during Temporary ==In- | 'diftong sanity brought on by

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