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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27, 1930.

LOUNGE SUITS -- A

JOKE!

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOSQUITOES PREFER FAT FRED AND 10-TON NOVEL BOOTLEGGING

BLONDES.

vs. U.S. Theory.

Clothes-Free People on A Woman's Experience

a Care-Free Island.

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JOYFUL JERSEY,

I was sitting in the principal cufe of St. Hellers, the capital of fersey, A girl wearing beflowered pyjamas walked to a, table. A party of young men and women wearing shorts sat at another table. A stream of young people to bathing costumes strolled past the door. No

one seemed to notice.

I had just arrived in the island, and was dressed like all self-con-

Gentlemen are apparently not alone in their preference for blondey,

According to Mr. Herman Horn-

TERESA.

Only a Shopgirl

Romance.

NEW SIGHTS OF LONDON.

Visitors to London hurry fover ahly round the sights. They see the Tower, the Mint, the Bank, West

Bernard Shaw used to live, where minster Abboy, the National Gal- lery, the Embankment, where Mr. Mr. Shaw lives now,.. Shaw will probably live to-morrow

a Philadelphia authority on equities and their habits, mos quitoes niso prefer blondes. times out of ten when there is

They will ignore n brunette nine blonde in sight. There is nothing

orning, as the insects are sensiand the rest. extraordinary in that," says Mr. tive to light."

where Mr.

OPERATIONS.

O.T.C. Manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain.

London, August* 2.

VON HARNACK'S SUCCESSOR.

Political Strife in a Scientific Society.

GERMANY'S CONTRIBUTION,

Instead of the usual military maneuvres, novel bootlegging operations were undertaken last night by the Ollicers Training

Berlin, July 17. Corps, consisting of cadeta drawn

The death of Adolf von Harnack from the principal English schools, left open the question of a successor at present-encamped on Salisbury to the presidency of the Kaiser- Plain.

It was assumed that England had tion is Germany's admirable con Wilhelm-Gesellschaft. This institu- gone "dry" and beer was scarce, but a band of desperate bootleggera tribution to that part of academic But what guide book has anything (Harroviana and Paulines) possess life which

blazes new to say of Fat Fred-Pink-gilleded a considerable quantity of beer follows up scientific research out- trails and

Gladys, Tin-skuiled Vivian, Square- and hitherto had evaded the author- characters as famous as Gog and to different strongholds and the acribed to the occupant of a univer- hipped Molly, and a host of London ities by frequently transferring it side the ordinary curriculum pre-

Mayor of Salisbury had authorised sity chair.

force necessary. picked troops to use any degree of

A much-travelled woman said to a scious Britons in a lounge suit Daily Express representative:" and collar and tie. I became con- "The mosquito's well-known dis- scious of laughter all round me, and dain for the dark natives of the I looked towards the girl in the East and Near East, and his pre- Magog or the Landseer ⚫lions? pyjamas. She was laughing too. ference for white people, may seem The awini realisation came to me but the preference is usually At to support Mr. Horning's theory, that they were laughing at me.

tributed to the immunity, which the natives have acquired, It is com-

Shorts, No Stockings.

Juracy is a nature island. Every une who goes there becomes an inveterate sun-worshipper, and no- iody cares a rap about British middle-class shyness. They come here with the idea of obtaining the health-giving rays of the sun, and they have them.

monly said that their blood tastes different.

mosquito-

the mos-

"Newcomers to A Infested district. be they fair or dark, are always bitten much more than the people who live there all the time. 'New blood' seems to be a desirable addition to During tour of the island just quito's menu. It takes about six completed, I have not seen any one months to acquire comparative im- wearing a collar and tie. Fifty per munity, during which time all pos- cent. of the hundreds of people onsible precautions should be taken." the beaches and in the hotels wear shorts, open shirts, and no stock- ings.

I watched a stream of customers

WONDERFUL CLOCK.

enter an hotel near Ouaine Bay for HOURLY ENTERTAINMENT FOR

half an hour, and during that time

I counted ten people wearing bath- ing costumes not the "Mrs. Grundy" type'

forty wearing ahorts and open shirts, eight wear ing pyjamas, twelve in white_lan- "nels, and one in ordinary clothes.

The results of this homage to the sun are amazing. Some people are so tunned by the sun that they could be mistaken for Indians. Every one is healthy and full of vitality. Every one has sufficient reserve of sunshine to carry them through the winter months,

Back to Bondage.

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"Clothes -consciousness' is easily dismissed that one would think Jersey's visitors were used to life on a desert island. They could - never, one thinks, wear blue serges and wool overcoats in Cheapside. These men and girls who graced the ballroom in tennis clothes could never wear boiled shirts and long evening frocks again.

But no. I want on board one of

were

MESSINA.

Rome, July 16.. Messina, the most Important town in Sicily after Palermo, is gradually struggling back to its

in the London shop windows." interviewed the famous wax figures A Dally Express representative

Why is it that tailors and dress makers endeavour to make their wares attractive to the public by draping them round, figures which a Missing Link gone look like Euclid?

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Dismembered Limbs.

Oblong-nosed women with yellowi faces and green cars leer from the windows, bald youths with no eyes tempt you to buy collars, masses of dismembered limbs tell the beauties of stockings, shoes, and gloves.

Take Fat Fred.

He first appeared in the Strand, and is now to be seen in most of the

As in all academic life in Germany to-day, there is a political side to the The Prohibitlonist Army was on the qui vive to frustrate the boot- question. Not only were the views leggers! movements, but the latter of von Harnack respected during his prepared a feint attack and their life, but even the name "Emperor main body got through on one of the William Society aroused no ire in flanks of the defeated forces of the the breasts of those who knew how law, after a hand-to-hand struggle the institution came into being some following firing,

twenty years ago. To-day there is à strong movement in favour of changing its name to the equivalent of "German Society for the Further- ing of Knowledge,"

The "Dry" captured only a few prisoners.

SOME BALLOON !

DESIGNED TO RISE TO HEIGHT

OF TEN MILES.

M. Piccard, Professor at Brussels University, has given detalls of a remarkable. experiment which he will attempt towards the end of

cities. He is of the most obese is Fred! The number and variety of hía chins are startling. He revolves round and round on his pedestal the summer. wearing a grey lounge quit, a well ( fitting lounge adit. He is the Fat Man's dream in wax!!

All London knows him. Stoutish former prosperous condition, so men blench and eat lettuce for lun sadly interrupted by the earth Icheon every time they pass him. quake of 1908. Re-building, de "Cæsar and I."wheezed Fred, tayed by the war, is now proceed-"like men round us who are fat ing

This suggestion, however, stirs up as much strife as does any change of name in Berlin to-day. It re- quired a dictatorial decree to alter the old "Koniggratzer," which was a thorn in the flesh of our Austrian brothers of to-day, into "Stresemann Street.". Still more importance has been attached this week to the appointment of a principal, to this M. Piccard has designed a new most International and progressivu kind of balloon with which he ex-of all German scientific bodies. The pects to resah-a-height of 16,000|"fros-and-unpolitieal" position-of metres, about 52,000 feet (or, ten the society in the midst of Ger- miles). The highest altitude many's cultural life is stressed. hitherto attained by a ballon with a Controversy has been violent in passenger is 32,940 feet by the the Senate concerning the desire of Germans, Suring and Deraon, in Prussia.to fill this post by the 1901.

appointment of the Republican, Dr. M. Piccard's balloon, which is Becker, who has done much to fur now nearing completion, will be ther all forms of art and science fitted with an envelope very much during his term of office as Repub. larger than those used for ordinary Ilçan minister. This was to parry Then there is-Pink-gilled Gladys, balloons. It will have a capacity the reactionary outlook of the of Regent Street, Occasionally she of 14.000 cubic metres (about universities themselves. The only wears a clinging robe, sometimes a 400,000 cubic feet) as compared really worthy successor to the mere dress, sometimes a corset with 2,000 cubic metres, (about venerated von Harnack was thought sometimes a... just like that! 17,000 cubic fent) of the Gordon to be the eminent physicist, Profes Her eyes are too blue, her mouth Bennett balloons, but owing to the sor Planck, though a close runner- too red, her fingers too tapering, expansion of gas with the increase up has been, the present head of ret clock in the world, with ela- her aimper too sweet; She is an altitude only one-seventh of the Krupp's works, Dr. Krupp von borate and complicated mechangluttony of the beauties is Gladys. bags will be filled with hydrogen. Bohlen und Halbach. iam surpassing that of the hither- But famous. You hear women

Miss Decamerom.

apace; the beautiful old | And get "om! You ought to see the facade of the cathedral has been outsizes who come in and say, 'Giye entirely restored; and now atten me a suit like Fred's,'" tion is being turned to the erec tion of a new Campanile. In view of possible seismic movements !r the future, the tower is to be of reinforced concrete, and not over 140 feet in height. Thanks to the public spirit, and generosity of the Archbishop of Messina, it is to be completed by the finest tur

Aluminium Basket.

The basket is of curious design.

The inhabitants of Messina will changed to-day, she's wearing one of It consists of an aluminium sphere to unrivalled Strasburg clock. say, "Oh look, dear, Gladya has. the departing steamers the other be provided, literally at day. Those same maidens and men

every those too sweet step-ins!"

The Miss Decameron, of Regent with two manholes and nine port with a diameter of two metres, dressed again in woollen hour. of the day, with amusement, costumes and blue serges.

instruction and edification. Furs

Street, amiled "Oh, I lake The tower will be crowned by fratefully this profession. It's so because it offers a great resistance most holes. Aluminium has been chosen and stiff collars were again round their bronzed threats.

A bronze Ifon rampant--the nice to show the gels how they will to low pressure. The interlor of It takes a lot to stifle the Briton's heraldic emblem of Messina look, y'know.","

holding the city flag in its front

the cabin will be furnished with shyness-Daily Express

Regent Street has also Bronze scientific instruments. pondent.

paws, At mid-day the lion w skulled Hubert, a gentleman with a wag its tail wave the flag, and head and no body who advertises emit realistic roars. Below the collars. A fearsome person. He lion a bronze cock will crow three looks like something Epstein inter ilmes a day, to greet sunrise, noon, rupted half-way. and sunset. On either side of these

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corres-

A PRETENDER.

HATTER'S CLAIM TO FRENCH THRONE.

From this

Augsburg, in Germany, where the The ascent will take place at envelope fe being made. spot there is little chance of the balloon drifting towards the sea.

M. Piccard states that he ex-l arched recesses, are the bells on central emblems, within

pecta it to take him one hour to And there is a shop off Holborn rench 12,700 feet. which the hours will be struck al- where they, make wax models. The main there for about

He will re- ternately by two small figures re-front window display suggests, hour and make scientific observa- presenting the legendary heroines "After the Massacra" or "Contents tions.

Waxen Love Affair.

a half an Paris, July 11. Dr. Louis Philippe Brosseau, of Messina, Dina and Clarenza, of the Bloodstained Casket!"

Ballast will then be dis- hatter from Chicago, is returning who saved the city from being

charged to-reach an altitude of Arms, legs, and torsos are scat-52,000 feet. to the United States to-day after Backed by the French in 1282 tered with failing to establish his identity as (after the Sicilian Veapers) by hourls smile engagingly at half ating record" the Professor states.

abandon. Nude zay

"I do not desire to beat any sport- the grandson of Louis XVII., the giving the alarm of the enemy's square-faced centenarian. Dauphin who was imprisoned in approach.

What I wish to do is to carry out scientific experiments.".

A girl with no dnkles frowns at the Temple. Yesterday a man call-On each of the four sides of the a couple of legs and a bit of knee. ing himself Prines Louis of Bour-Lower will be a bon, Duc de

juminous dial, And there is a love affair on in Normandie, who eight feet in diameter, displaying the Waxen World between Fat Fred makes the same claim to Royal the phases of the moon, the move and Ten-Ton Teresa of Knighta- descent, was ordered by the Civil ment of the planets round the bridge. Teresa was made to attract Court at Versailles to pay 10,000. sun (including Pluto!) and a per- nvoirdupois matrons. [180] damages to Mm. Heitz, who petual, calendar with every detail Fred is quite elated. asserted that she had advanced of days, months,, and years. Be

"Have you seen her?" he mooned.

him 300,000f. (1£240] to help him low the clock-face will be a kind "When she's in the window they

throne of France.

EXPLORING SPACE.

INFORMATION FROM 250 MILES UP.

explore

to prove his right to the shadowy of moveable symbolical figures pick a thin assistant to dress the space 250 miles above, the earth are

Sky-rockets that will of-little stage on which a series rest. Mr. Brosseau alleges that

But she can't revolve like me,Agsured eventually, it is believed, his of movable symbolical figures will But the size, sir.... the...." and by a large gift from Mr. Daniel father only consented upon his represent the days of the week, his multiplied chins shock happily. Guggenheim to Professor Robert deathbed that the oath of secrecy the four. ages of man. and four

Goddard, of Clark University Massachusetts.

as to their true identity which had scenes from the New Testament,

hitherto bound the family should which will replace one another VITALITY OF BRITISH INDUSTRY

be broken. He says that his according to the period of the grandfather, who died in 1876 at ecclesiastical year.

Thus the

For the past seven years be has been conducting experiments, and

It is announced that satisfactory

the age of 90, possessed as evid- Adoration of the Magi will be ence of his Royal blood a small shown at intervals until Esster; ability to compete with increasing space-exploring rocket has already In connection with Britain's progress in the design of such a silver cross given him on the night the Resurrection will then be en- efficiency in the industrial markets been made. that he was smuggled out of the acted until Whitsunday, when the of the world, some reassuring com- Mr. Guggenheim's gift is not stat While the amount ef Temple and embarked for Canada, Descent of the Holy Spirit will ments were lately made by Profes-ed, it is sufficiently large to assure and a trunk full of late eighteenth- continue until the approach of sor Henry Clay, who is economic the continuation of research until in century children's clothes. Mr. Christmas brings the Nativity. Brosseau. brought these, relies with him to France, but appears to have most be called the turret-claema ferring to the present Industrial

The machinery for what may al- Securities Management Trust. Reis completed

adviser to the recently formed the course of a few years the rocket|

Professor Goddard has perfected

been unable to supplement the is being made by a special firm of position, he said: "The Postmaster continuously burning liquid fuel evidence which they afford by any clockmakers in Alsace. convincing account of how the escape of the Dauphin was effect-

ed. He has not, however, abandon- PROVOKED BY WIFE

ed his claim, and has announced

General, boasting the other day of to prope! his rockets, which will be a reduction in the working of his equipped with numerous Instru department by £400,000 a year, haaments for determining the condi asked why our iron and steal trade, tions in high altitudes, concerning and our coal and cotton trades fall which scientists so far have only to complete a reconstruction been able to theorise, equivalent to that which the Post The Goddard rockets, for Office could carry through The example, is expected to permit When Albert Edwin Topham was fact is, however, that there is not scientists to study the atmosphere

his intention of returning to HUSBAND'S ASSAULT CONDONED France next year with a fuller. knowledge of documents bearing

on the case, which," he says, are

IN COURT.

in the possession of Jesuits in summoned at Nottingham recently one of these Industries which has at a height where the density of Canada,

Poking for atriking his wife, he successfully: not

pleaded that she left their two tionate redik

The infant daughter of Senator young children Marconi was christened at Clyite house and came Vecchia (Italy) by Cardinal Pacelli,he mag the Papal Secretary of State, the said the hobbi Queen of Italy, as godmother, being provo represented by the Duchess di

aurenzana

public

bert Ball, much

ved great

Propor the air is less than. In the most

Its costs of properfect vaccum that can be produc- them which led on the earth's surface. The in- lucts at a prica formation obtained from the ro/ the pre-war price than rockets, which will be.

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