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Paderewski and the Street Player.

A person who left the Albert Hall recently with Paderewski tola| ofapfcturesque incident which escaped the notice of the large crowd of admirers waiting, "out- side.

MONDAY APRIL 17, 1933.

GREAT LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE

MRS. ROOSEVELT LEADS AS A HOMEMAKER

MRS. LINCOLN "THE TYRANT”

(By G. Kent Oliver)

J

Paderewski had entered his car with some difficulty, and the car Ou March 4 Mrs. Roosevelt, Din Yet when their Idolised little · son. had moved some yarda away from the United States, became the lady was killed in a railway "accident the hall, when the pianist impers- of the land.

Mrs. Pierce would not have, the tively signalled to his chauffeur to Here is a gracious, a friendly a railway company prosecuted for stop.

supremely intelligent personality. negligence. Above the cheers of the crowd At the same time, she is es- "It was an act of God she de- of Paderewski's ears had caught sentially a homemaker, In this sheclared. →→ Their little one had been the familiar notes of his own follows a long line of predecessors taken away in order that her hus {"Minnet,"""" played by a street vio-who, with"sound" common sense, band might the more -faithfully {linist, and, müch touched by the have realised the truth of the way and uninterruptedly fulfil the duties

compliment, he hastened to rewarding: "The President pays dear of his office. the humble musician.

for the White House," and have de-

A Tyrant. voted themselves to easing the The wife of Abraham Lincoln path of their man without stealing has passed down to history as a

Įdomestic tyrant of the first order.

Yet perhaps the plump little wo

“The National Anthem,

"It is understood that the 'stan- his limelight. dardising" of the National Anthem)

None of them, with the exception

The late, Colonel Mackenzie- ried life. Rogan, Director of Music of the

as regards the rate it is to be of the adorable Dolly Madison, has man has been maligned, since we played is the result of the express stamped her individuality upon her hear that she loved to work in the wish of the King. King Edward age.

conservatory of the White House, VIL also took a strong personal

George Washington was a devot where the flowers "grey for her"> interest in this matter..

ed husband during 40 years of mar as they do for those they love..

His wife had riches and breed-equally authentic story of how a On the other hand, there is an Brigade of Guards, told me thating, but our hearts are more with servant" opened

виссевног, her humble. King Edward more than once sent Adams, Before he became Presi, door. at a conference with the for him and asked him to use every dent, her husband had the unpopulaconic "She wants you!" effort to ensure that the National lar job of being Minister in London It was President and Mrs. Hayes Anthem should not be played too after the Revolution. fast.

Abigail

the President's

who started. Prohibition at the

Very sweet must Abigall have White House long before its time, In military bands this could, of locked in the white lutestring gown much to the disgust of their course, be enforced as an order, in which she was presented at guests, who used to bribe the White Theatre orchestras used to be, as Court. It is with a sense of shame House chief to serve up rum punch they still are, the chief offenders, that we read that Queen Charlotte in orange skins towards the mid- both in playing the Anthem too treated her with contempt and dle of the very "dry" banquets... hurriedly and in making, fantastic! |scorn."

"My God, what is there in this The China Mait port cannot fail to be impressed alterations in the harmony.

But her plain husband was a

place that a man should ever want man indeed, and snubbed the royal to get into it?" chafed President Your Daily Smile.

ties in a way which must have made Garfield, of the White House, This Abigail's basom swell with pride'

President Cleveland's alster was jevidently of the same opinion; since under its lilác ribbona.

by the immense variety of its ac tivities, Among the investiga-

Hong Kong, Monday, April 17, 1933 tion have been surveys of feet in--

the Navy, Army, and Air Force;

it is inevitably the policeman's

Research In Industry, turn to come next. Nor can it

land

the

GOOD AT FIGURES

"So you let your old bookkeep-

Soon she was relieved of her un-

· The most elementary needs of the report records a decision to couldn't he balance his accounts." "He could--and so well that he man are the chief subjects of re-examine the use of fish's liver scientific research: undertaken for the treatment of pernicious was beginning to juggle them.” with the aid of State funds, anaemia in conjunction with the

SOMETHING IN THIS University of Aberdeen, "parti- the Annual report of

of cularly owing to the high price BARBER: You complain of our Department British Scientific and Industrial Re-of-mammalian liver and its ex-charge for shaving, sir, but you

must think of the extra inbour:....... search is a valuable record

of tracts."

CUSTOMER: What extra what was done in 1931-82 to make the British citizen better) fed, better clothed, and bet-

In those days the White House she was put it on record that she be with unconscious humour that er go. What was the trouble was little more than a barracke, used to conjugate Greek verbs to But Abigail, when she became its relieve her boredom while presid- mistress, hung her washing in the ing at the social functions there. great East Room with a gay laughwelcome duties, for the President which echoed down the ages.

The wife of Thomas Jefferson is electrified America by becoming now little more than a name. Yet engaged to his young and beautiful. her husband's pledged word to lier

Love Tunes. on her death bed, that their little girl should never have a step The thought of a wedding at the bour?

mother, kept him a widower for White House turned America ma BARBER: Well, sir, with the forty years.

with enthusiasm. general trade depression, and the Dolly Madison was the world's The President himself hated pub-

Doomsday.

FAST THINKING.

The

Buxom.

ward.

ter housed. Scientific discovery From the Royal Observatory|universal tightness of money home-maker. Her mother received licity. In consequence, bis em is now proceeding at a of the University of Lund, Swe-gent's faces are longer. greater rate than ever be-den, comes the cheerful news fore, and it is A well-that it is about time the sun and founded complaint that much of with it the entire solar system WIFE: Just like a man! the dislocation of modern life is blew up. The Cassandra who only thing you could think of sa- due to the inability of our econ-heralds our doom is Dr. Conrading from the shipwreck was a case lomic system to keep the pace. Lonnqvist. He finds that the of whisky!

Some would urge that science average star explodes and be RE: But, my dear, I thought the But comes a nova or new star once bottles would be so useful for send- that every $400,000,000 years. Since ing of messages in

should be held in cheek.

the industry, or country, gives science its head will vitably win in the race for world's markets. Nor can the 1,000,000,000 years, it is as clear

ine- the seared and pitted face of the

the earth reveals no scar older than

THROUGH THE MILL Married yet?" asked Nobba" of process of producing better goods as a pikestaff that the sun and his friend..

at cheaper prices, and new goods the planets ought to vanish if "No," replied Dobbs, blushing,

into her house "a few gentlemen barrassment was acute when, at boarders."

Memorial Day parade, the band played nothing but love tunes!

The whole world knows the Yet James Madison was not pathetic love story of President ashamed to make her his wife. McKinley and his Invalid wife. Buxom and kind and focund, she Weak as she was, she was his com- appeared at their first ball in a panion in all his journeys.

a jolly Parisian turban and with

"I want to go too," she cried, smile for every one, not forgetting despairingly, when he was shot "the withered little applejohn," down by the hand of an assassin. her husband.

(Continued on Page 7.)

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be ultimately to the world's dis-by proving his calculations to be good as being married.” advantage. It is our economic correct. A nova is a star which Nobbs smiled and replied, "It's system that must keep pace with suddenly flares up in the heavens better, if you only knew" science, and those who are en- where there was either none be trusted with the country's policy fore or one that twinkled insigni- would do well to study closely the ficantly. About the only as-

satisfactory- report now presented to Parlia-tronomically

Facts You Did Not Know.

Moving a lover on the base of a

and diffuse the beam of light

:..

it over Washington, ----

Dolly was followed by Mrs. Mon rde, who must have been an un- welcome-change, since her new dignity went to her head. Guests were not allowed to sit in her pre- sence, nor did she deign to return their calls.

the situation. mu

"must:

DECLINE.

Death Rate Halved In 30 Years.

CURIOUS DILEMMA RESULTS:

London

ment by the Lord President. The planation of the Star of Bethle work with the greatest economic hem is that it was a nova. A

Dolly, whose mother had receiv potentialities is that on the use statistical study of novas made new electric lantern shifts a small edgentlemen boarders

A British, baby born to-day has of carbon dioxide in the storage at Harvard by Dr. Bailey shows reflector back of the bulb to broaden have found much to amuse her in

just twice as many chances of of meat. If the work passes that they are much commoner from the laboratory, where it than was once supposed. One

To foll thieves an Englishman has With the wife of Andrew Jack surviving as one her a generation has been successfully tried, tofor two reach naked-eye visibility

her divorce proceedings brought centres have Ilved the infant the ship's hold it will be possible (without being detected in most invented a shutter for store windows son comes Romance. Some flaw in ago. Maternity and, child welfare) to bring beef from Australia cases) and at least nine attain that is dropped automatically if the scandal upon her innocent head. mortality rate in that short period.

glass in a window is broken.

Like Abigail's husband, Jackson Thces Lacts were explained by chilled instead of frozen. An- the ninth magnitude every year, other paragraph that will be In the course of a few million

defended her manfully, and for Dr. Gifford, Deputy Medical read with universal agreement years there ought to be as many vinces are estimated to contain: 30.-in perfect condition for any one County Medical Hospital when he Manchuria's three eastern pro-thirty-seven years "kept his pistol Superintendent of the Lancashiro jexpresses the hope of the Advi-old--novae as there are visible000,000 tons bi-anthracite, 2,793 who dared to breathe her name ex-spoke, at a meeting of the Royal

sory Council that the protection stars. Dr. Balley unhesitatingly 000,000 tons of bituminous coal and now given to certain industries suggested that every star in the 128,000,000 tons of ligulte. will be regarded as an opportuni-heavens must at one time have

Sanitary Institute

cept in honour

The deaths of young children," Dreary.

[he declared," have fallen since this ty for putting themselves on a exploded and flared up. There

The wife of President Folk, beginning of this century, from 160... competitive level with Industries is thus a respectable background their knowledge of novae. Why though as exemplary spouse, must per 1,000 births to 65 per 1,000 in other parts of the world. It for the tidings from Sweden should a star suddenly blaze forth have seemed a dreary person to the In 1081, 44,000 babjes' lives would-be disastrous, as every one In the heavens, as in the stock and then die down 7 Collisions rest of the world. Neither dancing were saved over and above the realizes in these days, if tariffs market, statistics are often be have been suggested. The entry nor cards was allowed in the saving in 1910--which itself was a were used as a cover for ineffilled, Swedish statistica are no of a star into a dark, dense rooms where the portly Dolly's tur good year. And this unprecedentpå· ciency. But the report is able better and no worse than others nebula or mass of gas is another banned head had once ligged sound amazing saving of life ins to state that industry in general that deal with the glory of the explanation advanced by the joyously.

brought the curious dilemma that fully recognizes the importance heavens Dr. Doungriat gives famous German astrophysicist Far pleasanter is the picture of we are sving many of the wenkost of research. This is shown in himself, ample, elbdw. room when Seeliger: Mere guesses. No her successor, the wife of Pre-stamina and of the poorest blood prob-one nov why stars burst asun-sident Zachary Taylor with her that is, we are breeling from the

***** lowest physical, typos, are admit der. Until we do know, statle-eprncob pipel,

three tics seem little meaningless. It was a little schoolmar,

ter of President or Besides, why should we

the support, given by firms to the he deals with research associations,.- twenty, abilities.” His

seven in number, attached to the tedly

Department, The support hundred substantial enough to deter

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