1931-08-29 — Page 11

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1931.

MOTHER-TO-DAY IS FATHER'S BIRTHDAY-LET'S GIVE HIM A SURPRISE PARTY HAVE 'ALL HIS OLD FRIENDS HERE WHEN HE GETS HOME THIS.

EVENING-

WE'LL HAVE A

HOUSE FULL OF; LOAFERS-BUT I'LL DO IT-

THE CHINA MAIL.

Bringing Up Father

MR-MOORE-I WANT YOU TO HAVE ALL OF HIS PALS AT | THE HOUSE AT SIX- DONT

"FAIL") WANT MY DADDY TO

HAVE A REAL GOOD OLD

| TIME:|

LEAVE IT TO ME- PLL GIVE HIM THE SURPRISE OF HIS LIFE "

REMEMBER-BOYS-JIGGS IS NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

NOW ALL OF YOUSE GIT OUT OF HERE HE'LL COME HERE AN' WHEN HE FINDS I'M CLOSED-HE'LL GO HOME SO BE AT HIS HOUSE AT

SIX O'CLOCK-

11.

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DINTY MOORE

CLOSED EH? STRANGE DINTY DIDN'T LET ME KNOW. BEFORE-

1100

WELL I'VE BEEN TO RYAN'S COAL YARD AN' DUGAN'S LIVERY STABLE IN FACT, EVERYWHERE AN'I CAN'T FIND ONE OF THE GANG-

· AH·MR:JIGGS. YOU LOOK! LONESOME-AM I DISTURBING YOU?

I'M SO LONESOME- I'M EVEN WILUN'

TO TALK TO YOU-

GREAT

SUMMER

SALE

NOW ON

LONESOME-YOU JUST COME RIGHT OVER WITH ME TO MY CLUB

I'D EVEN GO TO THE OPERA WITH YOU-

YES-MY STATEMENT, ASTOUNDING AS IT IS, 'HAS BEEN CORROBORATED, BEYOND THE-POSSIBILTY- OF QUESTION OR SKEPTICISM-

TOO TRUE"}

| BUT IT IS INFINITESIMAL COMPARED TO THR -- OTHER ISSUES BEFORE THE COMMITTEE -

OH, HUM!

! SAY:MR:JIGGS.IT'S ONE-THIRTY O'CLOCK AN' EVERYBODY IS GONE- WE CLOSE THE CLUB

AT TWO.

THEN WAKE

ME UP AGAINI AT TWO-

TAJMAHAL

SILK STORE,

King's Theatre Bldg.,

WELL-THERES NO USED STAYIN ANY LONGER

LET'S 40. I'VE HAD ENOUGH TO EAT-

MY WIFE! WON'T

BELIEVE 1 Wuz

HERE:

EVEN IF MINE DOES THERE'LL BE A FIGHT

WONDER WHERE JIGGS)

15?

YOU BIG MULE - DIDN'T YOU KNOW

THAT TO-DAY WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

I HAD ALL YOUR FRIENDS HERE FOR DINNER TO SURPRISE YOU AND YOU SHOW UP AT THIS HOUR IN THE MORNING-GO TO BED- YOU MAKE ME SICK-

HUH?

IF I EVER DID ANYTHING RIGHT! IT WOULD BE

WRONG OUCH !!!

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ROUND THE

SCOUTS WHO EFFACED THEMSELVES.

1931, Int Feature Service, Inc., Great

CAMP FIRE

LOG CABIN TOKEN OF APPRECIATION.

:

Boy Scouts have erected n log cabin to be known as the Copeland. Cabin at their training ground at Kibblestone, Staffordshire, as A tangible expression: of... their ap preciation of the long service of their District Commissionér, Mr. Ronald Copeland.

Mr. Percy Armytage has received the following letter from Sir Ed ward Knapp-Fisher, the Custodian and Receiver-General of West- minster Abbey, thanking the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides for their Commémoration Service of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem :- The cost of the cabin; £150, was As. Custodian of Westminster contributed by the Scouts them-- Abbey I should like to express my selves. It will De use din con- deep gratitude to the Commission- nection with the training of Scout ers, Boy Scouts and. Girl. mastors and for holding courses Guides for the invaluable as during Inclement weather.

sistance they gave to me and my Staff on the great, oc- casion of the. Centenary Com- memoration Service of the Grand great temptation, especially when Priory in the British Resim of the you are young, to press for

word to get # Venerable Order of the Hospital of There was none of this, however, good view: The boys and girls performed meroly, attention to duty, which one their duties admirably and what expects and invariably gets from Wan even more important, they Scouts and Guides.

St. John of Jersalem.

olfaced themselves at the right "I should also like to thank you time, by no. meana an easy personally for the Invaluabla, help matter, because herd is you gave Lo us."!

JACK LENDS THE SCOUTS A

HAND.

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When H.M.S. Nelson, put into Lamlaah Bay, Firth of Clyde, re- cently, the ship's company gave ́a

danco ashore in aid of the local Boy Scouts' funds.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

The way to wipe out a friend- ship is to sponge on it.

SCOUTS GOOD TURN ON A POSTAGE STAMP.

Books and

Authors

AL

"MAIL" REVIEWS,

́ON WINDMILLS.

divorced wayside totally

from windmills. He has also allowed himself to be submerged by far too much detail. These eleven chapters could well have been con- [In Search of English Wind-densed Into thres, and they would mills," by R. Thurston Hopkins then have more satisfed the read- and Stanley Freese; Ceciler and equally well served the Palmer, 6/- net.}

writer's purpose:

The remaining Chapters I. and A book for windmillians in the XIII to XVII. are worthy of close writing of which two ardent and reading. They are decidedly inter enthusiastic windmillians have col-eating It seems an unfortunate' Iaborated.

decision to have arranged the But, who and what is a wind-chapters in their present sequence. millian? He or she is the person. In Chapter. I the évolution of The Roumtaalan Government has who sees in a windmill "a thing the windmill is traced as far back issued a set of five propaganda of laughing strength, and beauty, as possible, and the writer, while stamps to commemorate the nan "glorious spectacle" who knows expressing surprise at neglect in tional Scout exhibition held at of the "Emotion of the Past, the their development over the years, Bucharest.

charm of old and gracious thinge." argues their utility and makes out Each of the atampa is inscribed Who, "through some strange, moral a good case for greater attention "Expozitia 'Cercetaseasca," which twist, is complexionally. propense being paid to using the wind and depicts some aspnet of Scouting to the old ways of life, feels a tide which roll their power on The green. Issus bears a picture of passionate reluctance to part with our beaches, and along our creeks, Intended to signify the good turn of which is fast passing away."

Scout alding a damsel in distress, this building of common beauty, and always that power returns un- used." He also contends that the Boy Scout code; the blue The book is difficult reading. "our neglected windmills ́hold the stamp is typical of a Roumanian By that is meant, many chapters, secret of producing flour contain- Scoutmaster; the carmine stamp, a especially II to XII are weari-ing the valuable health-giving' Boy Scout, camp; and the lake-red some. The writer has lot his pen mineral saits and yitamines" which stamp shows King Carob in Scout run riot over description-descrip roller-millers' oxfract, ́devitaliso uniform.

tion of scenes and scenes by the and replace.