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MAGISTRATE ON MARRIAGE

Mr. Mullins-Court Philosopher

ADVICE TO A YOUNG HUSBAND

London. Mr. Claud Mullins, the Metro- politan magistrate, whose scheme for providing medical advice in! certain types of matrimonial cases has aroused widespread in- terest, sat for the first time at the South-Western Court last month.

Following his plan at the North London Court, he intends to seek the assistance of a number of doctors-men and women-in dealing with matrimonial cases. especially those in which sexual matters are at the root of the! marital differences.

In North London the scheme has been carried on for the past three months, and several mar- ried couples have had the advan- It is, Lage of medical advice. however, as yet too early to say whether the experiment has proved a'success.

At his first sitting in thei South-Western Court Mr. Mul-i lins had before him 110 casus which actually fell within that] category, but he was called upon to deal with two applientions of

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1934.

A "Joan of Arc" of Spain's mine strikers (who must be name. Icas), marches proudly at the head of the column after she and 32 The others were arrested in the forest near Les Branaseras, Spain. village is in the heart of the mining centre in Asturias and was the last-sector to be brought under control in the recent uprising. Wear.. ing the barellas that have been part of their costume for ages, the Civil Guards are marching them to prison. The roadway, moitled by the moonday sun as the rays Alter through the leaves, makes the scene a picturesque one indeed, in spite of its sombre connotations.

a matrimonial nature.. Members INCULCATING LOVE of the public were excluded from

the Court while they were heard.

"Rather Silly Idea".

OF PEACE

In the first, a complaint by a Ramsay MacDonald On young wife that her husband had left her, the magistrate elicited that the husband accused her of

having gone for motor-bicycle rides with another man.

Teaching History

The Prime Minister, in & Imessage to the "Schoolmaster,"

Mr. Mullins refused to regard| the parting as definite, and grant-on the occasion of the issue by ed a temporary order only. "The that periodical

of a special "Armistice and Peace Supple- ment," writes:-

VIOLET CAPELL'S DANCING DISPLAY

To-day's Short Story.

The House Where

Something

Was Wrong

THE farmhouse where I' was

By W. A. Sweeney

"Pierro isn't out," replied the

staying was in a lonely spot woman. "He's in the byre."

"Then it must be Jean," said the away up in the French Alps. old man. Jean was her husband. There were mountains and ra- The woman was about to reply vines everywhere, but there was when something dramatic happened. good hunting there and I had a A boy had rushed into the room and was standing stammering breath- gun with me.

lessly,

The house in which I stayed was strange. I felt that as soon as I entered it. It was one of those houses that have a shadow hanging over them, the shadow of something! which has happened or is going to happen. I wondered which it was something of the past or something yot to come?

"Monsieur Is wounded-in the field over there! I've just seen him. He's lying bleeding to death."

The glass the woman was wiping fell from her hand with a crash.

"Mon Dieu!" she gasped. "What are you saying?"

The boy, now nearly incoherent,

MONDAY'S STORY

It was all a question of atmos-repeated his news, and then the phere, for there was nothing, after place was in an uproar. There were all, very unusual in the household. shouts, cries, general confusion, and The farmer was about thirty-eight. but his wife was much younger, In a corner by the fireside the old father of the husband sat all day. He was very, very old, in the whim- pering stage of senility, and it pro- duced an odd effect on me to bear this old man talking to himself about wolves in the gorge below, where the last wolf had been shot fifty years İbefore.

--Monday's-story-will-be "A Table For Six," by Alan Fox-Hutchinson.

On the third evening of my stay the men working outside appeared I was sitting in the big room that with scared faces in the doorway. served as the common dining room, "Where is he? Which field? jand the old man was in his corner, How did it happen? Grand Dieu!"

and the farmer's wife was wiping "Merciful heaven!" cried the Suddenly a woman, "are you going to stand shot rang out, some distance away. there asking questions while he The woman paused for an instant, dies?" jand then continued her work.

Usual High Standard some dishes silently.

Maintained

PEGGY STRINGER AND NORA WITCHELL IN LIMELIGHT

*

Led by the boy the men imme- diately set off at a run across the

"That will be Pierre," mumbled fields. the old man from his corner, with

4

The old man whimpered in his

ļa chuckle. Fierre was one of the corner, and the farmer's wife wept

Good for

idea of breaking up a marriage

An interesting display of dancing hired men. "He's got that fox he and prayed alternately. because your wife goes motor-

I am glad to hear of the special was given by the pupils of Miss was after at last. bike riding is rather silly," he told the husband. "You will pay supplement which you are pre-Violet Capell at the Queen's Theatre Pierre.”

It should serve a very yesterday afternoon, and the usuall paring. week for a your wife 15s a month. In the meantime the useful purpose. One of the most high standard of talent was shown

probation officer will try to drive disagreeable features of the pre- by the young artistes, in a variety FIRE AT JARDINE'S

sent age is the development of of dances. some sense into you."

Husband and wife left the the science of propaganda, by

Special mention must be made of means of which children in many the clever eccentric dancing of

BAZAAR

"Wait!" she cried. "Wait for mel Robert, come back and take the lantern. Oh, mon Dieu! My poor Jean! What a catastrophe! Wait for me!"

The men halted and turned round.. and when she was nearly up with them went on again. Once again

court together.

In the second case a father, countries are being brought up Peggy Stringer and Nora Witchell Medicine Leaves Ignited he called for help, for in her dis- separated from his wife, objected with a false view of history and in College Days', and of the grate to their 1714-year-old daughter their minds full of glorifications ful sole dancing of Violet, Bradbury getting married-on-the-ground, of war. If our teachers wish, as

In the second half of the pro-

In Kitchen

Fire raged for half an hour at No. 48 Jardine's Bazaar in

the early hours of this mor-

ning.

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tracted running, she had caught her: foot in a furrow. Again they turn-i ed, but I waved to them to go on while. I went back myself to assist Madame Celeste to her feet.

in 'Moonlight Sonata', I know they do, to inculcate a as he alleged, that the young'

love of peace, they will not need man who unable to provide to use propagandist methods. Kramme Dorothy Craig charmed the

"Oh," she moaned, "I have hurt home for the girl.

myself. Tell them not to go so fast. The girl told the magistrate All that they will need to do is audience with a graceful pas seul, that she was to become a mother!to present the truth, which and the two delightful ensembles,

The Police report states that the We shall never find them if it gets in January, but denied that this should always be the first princi-Top Shop' and the colourful 'Gyp-fire started in the kitchen of the darker. Oh, my poor Jean. Pray

first floor, which was also used for heaven he is not far away." plé of a teacher, and to ensure sies,' were especially appreciated. was the reason they wanted to that their pupila know the past The babies made a charming and storing Chinese medicine leaves, at Soon, in the growing darkness, I arry, "We were going to he for what it has really been and happy picture in their two numbers, 3,45 a.m. The flames were quelled could make out the group of men married at Christmas in any jare equipped to draw their own 'Mischief' and 'Jazz'.

by the Fire Brigade at 4.15 a.m. standing round something on the conclusions. Peacemakers need The the conclusion of the per- The damage is unknown,' but the ground. The girl's mother said the never fear the truth. It is only formance Misa Violet Capell gave a property is believed to be insured couple were proposing to live warmongers who need to pervert short exhibition of faultless danc- for $3,000. with her until the girl "was over The

case," she declared.

"It Seldom Works"

her trouble"

it.

ing. which grent service

Half of the proceeds of the ex- teachers on their part can ren-hibition are to be devoted to the "Oh," observed Mr. Mullins, "it der is not to inculcate conclu-funds of London Hospitals. seldom works, you know." sions of a propaganda type but| The prospective husband said so to train the intelligence and

his age was 23, and that he was character of their pupils as to

in employment, earning £2 a endow them with the power to PONIES FOR HUNAN'S

week and upwards.

exercise sound judgment upon

Mr. Mullins spoke of the dan-historical facts and present-day ger of hurrying into matrimony problems.

in the circumstances. He would

adjourn the matter for three ren-

sons:

WIRELESS

(1) As the law now stood GERMAN'S the baby could be made legiti- TO CONTINENT. mate after marriage, so there

was no need for hurry.

had

(2) The young man £5 Fine And Powerful been in work only three Set Confiscated months, and a little delayj

might help him; and

MILITIA

500 Transported To

Hankow

No one was injured.

I

AUSTRALIA'S BAN ON NOVELIST

Revolutionary Activity Feared

"He is dead?" gasped the woman,

as we came up. "Oh, don't say my poor Jean is dead!"

"Not yet," said one of the men. They made way for her.

"Jean, do you hear me?" cried his wife, bending over her husband ten- derly. "Can you hear me, my dear?"

I looked at the prostrate man and noticed a nasty-looking gunshot wound in his side. He had been hunting, evidently, and his piece) the had gone off accidentally in his hand. Federal Attorney-General adheres As I watched he opened his eyes and

Melbourne.

Despite many protests

to his decision to ban the admission half-opened his mouth. The Hunan provincial army's to Australia of Herr Kisch, a "Don't speak, cheri", his wife recent purchase of 600-of-the Czecho-Slovákian-novelist.

begged him."Don't talk, my darl finest Mongolian ponies is being The Attorney-General declares ing, you will tire yourself.”. transported by special freight that while the Commonwealth Gov- "Perhaps if we carried him to trains to Hankow shortly from ernment is in the fullest sympathy the farm?" somebody suggested. Peiping. Another batch of 500 with legitimate movements directed "No, no, no! cried Madame ponies are now being selected and against war it is determined to Celeste. "He is better to rest here (3 If he was unable to make. Frank Korhumel, aged nine- will shortly be brought down to protect itself against revolutionary for a while. He cannot be moved a happy home, they had far teen, said to be a German sub- Hankow. better not marry. Therefore, he would adjourn sington, was fined £5 at West the application for six weeks, London Police Court for working "and if at the end of that time a transmitting wireless get with- you can convince me that you out a licence. The set was for- both still genuinely want to be feited. married, I will give my consent."

REINDEER SNOWED UP IN LAPLAND

Unusually Violent Snowstorms

Stockholm.

ject.of St. Albans Road, Ken-

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FOR U.S. ISSUE

an-

[activities.

BRITISH COMMAND IN

SAAR REGION?

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'EARLY CONSIDERATION

at the moment."

"She's right," said another man, "the wound may stop bleeding-it is stopping."

"We can carry him to the house then," said the woman, rising.

"Quickly, quickly, for God's sakel Oh, Let us get him to the house. my poor Jean."

New York, to-day.-Mr. Henry Mr. G. H. Wigglesworth, pro- secuting for the Postmaster United States Treasury, has

Morgenthau, Secretary of the General, said that complaints were made by people living Innounced bids of over U.S.36,800,- the district and it was found that 000,000 for the Treasury's U.S. Korhumel's set was capable of $900,000,000 bond and note offering: transmitting signals which could --United Press per S. E. Levy and method of ensuring the mainten- which be, received in almost any part] Company.

of the world. D

Korhumel had produced a fog book, he said; which showed that

he had been sending messages to the Continent. When he applied

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The four men picked up the farmer and began to follow, as fest It is now revealed that this as they could, the bobbing lantern!

throw strange

dancing ance of order in the Saar, which shadows on the slipping, uneven has been received with such gen-ground. They had not gone two [eral acclaim, had been under the yards when I saw that this bumping consideration of the British Gov-motion was going to be very dan- ernment since it became clear gerous for the wounded man. that the French would prefer to Had you not better bring a doc- stand aside.

tor here?" I suggested.

Snowstorms of violence seldom for a licence he could not comply

Sh Erié Drummond British "No, no,” cried Madame Celeste. experienced are reported from the with the condition that an appli. Two cases of diphtheria, one case Ambassador in Rome, visited Please, please bring him into the Lapp district of Sorsele. Reindeer cant must be a British subject, of meningitia and one case of Signor Mussolini yesterday and house as quickly as possible." which had been herded for counting but he continued to transmit puerperal fever were reported in, thanked him for Italy's co-opera-Every step of the way she watch were driven before the storm and messagen er

the Colony during the 24 hours tion in the Star Plebiscite ar-ed his face with anguished eyes. large numbers are buried in the Sir Gervais Rentoul, KC, the ended December 6.

rangements The appreciation of "Jean, she cried constantly, "Jean, drifts, many of which are six feet magistrate, said that he had rece

Italy's action has also been for my poor Jean, do you hear me?" but deep.

treated the youth a good deal The name of the Malaguna Man,mally expressed to Il Duce by there was no sign of recognition Some say the storms are the lighter than he would have been alons, Limited, has been struck of both Germany and France-Bri-from the husband, worst for 50 years.

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