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chum. Idaho, for very little cost. The record for 12 bells, set up The house contains about 4,200 in 1930 by the Ancient Society of plates, is of double construction, Painswick Youths,

(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.) 17,697 has built-in kitchen equipment, changes in 11 honrs, and for 10 hot and cold water and all other bells 21,363 changes rung at Ach admiration for the elegance of a journeyman tailor, UTHORS must, I think, feel jweight of a barrow, and the conveniences, The license-plates Appleton, Berkshire, in 1920, is 12 are placed reverse side inward, hours 25 minutes.

gentlemen who set up the type A geologist described a valley giving the place a ready-made Change-ringing is a comparative of their books and articles as "full of erratic blocks." This ly late invention and is confined Even if they do not try their appeared as "erotic blacks.” The Female Freemason to English-speaking countries. It patience by the atrocious hand-suggesting one of the scenes in

writing which Elizabeth Aldworth,. (died 1773) (was made possible by the inven-

some bookmen (the "Arabian Nights" which are Airport Development daughter of Arthur St Leger, tion of the full pulley wheel, are not ashamed to cultivate, withdrawn from the perusal of

they must be grateful for the the young. Lord Doneraile of Ireland, is the which permitted the bells to make

small amount. of work which Од the a complete revolution.

Other gems of misreporting In the early days of railways only woman admitted

proof-correcting imposes upon jare, "Those terrible ald Greek many towns and districts ob- fraternity of the Masonic order. Continent there is only chiming Pho

goddesses the humanities" (the jected to them and paid dearly When a young girl, she concealed and tolling.

'I was once editing a book of Eumenides). "We have broken for this lack of foresight It herself in a large grandfather's

essays, and one of my collabora-[cur breeches (bridges), we have was shown at the conference clock during an initiation meeting. THE GOLDEN AGE

By the end of the seventeenth tors had his essay returned burnt our boots (boats); hon- and exhibition of the Aerodrome Her presence became known when

with apologies. The publisher four, no less than other can- Owners Association in London the clock stopped, and one of the century changes were being rung

said such a thing had never (siderations, forbids us to re- last month that the extension members opened the door to ex on eight bells, and the eighteenth

regarded bell happened to his firm since he treat" The girl century is

"A little learning is a of air transport is being ob-amine the machinery.

brought out Dean Stanley's dangerous thing; drink deep, or structed in the same way. Sir was sentenced to die. but one of ringing circles as the golden books. I could not read it my-taste not the aperient (Pierian) Philip Sassoon appealed for the the members, falling in love with of the art, or, to use the correct

self. A man owes it to his spring." construction of more municipal her beauty, saved her by propos-term, "exercise."

neighbours to write legibly. All over the country ringers"

"Party Of Fiends”- aerodromes and insisted that ing that she take the oath and be

But we are none of us in- which admitted as a member of the order, societies came into existence. one fallible. Fowler, in his excellent scribed how "Sir Robert Feel A well-known misprint de- those municipalities

being the Ancient book on Modern English Usage and a party of fiends had good studied the matter would be She is the only Freemason of the of the first stuvinced of the value of an air feminine sex, and later married Society of College Youths, which gives a list of "misprints to be sport shooting peasants on Sir

only 39 municipalities her saviour, Richard Aldworth of in 1637 set up a record by riasias guarded against" e. depre- Robert's estate."

(2,160 changes on six bells at St. cate for depreciate. inculcate dashed against the cow, and "The engine Saviour's. Southwark.

for inoculate. principal for literally cut it into two calves." Refreshment was provided. To principle. This is all very this day many belfries contain well; but when a reviewer calls books

When the Oxford prayer- "ingers jugs." from which ale attention to what he politely some mischievous undergrad- pere being printed ased to be consumed on the spot calls a misprint, he knows that dates changed "as long as ye it is probably the author who both shall live" in the marriage has made & howler in spelling service into "as long as ye both or grammar.

shall like." Even Thomas Hardy confuses

Not long ago, in a report of a

port. were represented.

Some of the civil aerodromes: which England does possess are; ill-equipped. Sir Philip Sassoon on the need rightly laid stress

Newmarket, near Cork. }

CORRESPONDENCE Anglican Church At Kowloon Tong

for caution in the selection of sites and lay-out and the em- ployment, of pooled experience. It is understood that the Ad-| [To The Editor, "China Mail"} visory Committee on British

Sir, His Excellency the Gover- civil aviation is likely to recom-nor has graciously consented to mend the extension over the

perform the whole country of a signalling Laying of the Foundation Stone!

ceremony of the system by which aeroplanes of the new Anglican Church at would be kept in "zones" at dif-Waterloo Road. Howloon Tong, ferent altitudes. This method!

is already in operation round (opposite the Kowloon Tong Gar

in

Your Daily Smile!

NO TUNE

Composer: "What do you think of predict and predicate, and one sermon by the late Bishop might make a long list of sole Burge. I was surprised to read:

song?"

Critic: "It needs ventilating." Composer: "What do you mean? Critic: "The air's bad."

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ORATORY

Addressing a political, gathering, a

cisms. by famous authors. including Byron's "there let him lay"

Typographical Blunders

Mr. Punch week by week

Perhaps my God, though He be

far before.

May burn and bake me by the

hand-

London for the coast lines. It den City Club) on Tuesday, Marca speaker gave his hearers a touch of makes great fun of the typo-take."

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An envoy WAS

What

He no doubt said "turn" and the pathetic. "I miss," he said. would enable the domestic ser-31, at 6 pm.

In view of the impending de brushing away a not manly tear. graphical blunders of provincial

There is a very queer exam- vices to run in almost any wea-

the I miss many of the old faces I used and colonial newspapers. Some ple in Chaucer. ther. The need for more aero-parture on home leave of

He speaks of to shake hands with.”

of them are almost too good to "shippes hoppesteres." dromes is urgent, but they Bishop of Hong Kong. this cere must be so constructed that ad- has been arranged at short During recent military operations have collected myself some of ships? His Latin model spoke be true. Here are a few that I could he mean by dancing İvantage can be taken of the notice, and consequently it

has in the Far East, one side captured them misprints, others mise of "naves bellatrices" - war developments which the future not been possible to send out in-the other's general will swiftly offer.

dividual invitations. Will, there-rent to negotiate his exchange. "We portings:

ships; the poet read "balla- fore, all those interested kindly will give you four colonels for him," In praising the pulpit style of trices," ballet ships instead of

said the officer. accept this as a cordial invitation

a deceased divine, the speaker battle ships. The offer was declined. to attend the Ceremony.

said that he spoke with the: "Eight majors?"—","

Unfortunate Mistake Bus No. 7 from Star Ferry "What then 7"We have given the weight of a Barrow, and the ele

A few years ago a distin- passes. the new site.

matter most careful consideration. zance of a Jeremy Taylor. The guished general was opening a Thanking you for the hospit-and the least we can accept is two report ascribed

to him the show of some kind at a provin- dozen tins of condensed milk.”

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THE PASTORAL COMMITTEE

cial town. The local paper

"Well, Bobby's aunt said, "you'll have been so kind to me that I hard-meant to describe him 28 2

to put

my head battle-scarred warrint" Un- Kowloon Tong-Anglican Church, simply have to learn to concentrate." ly know where ·

"Oh! Aunt Mary, we haven't taken without running into somebody fortunately it appeared as “a R. Ashton Hill (Chairman) that up yet; we're only reviewing." bas lent me money at some time or Daisy Booker

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Ruby Mow Fung George She

James C. L Wong

found in giving them freedom, LAURA KNIGHTS

Dr. Maria Montessori's work has been, in the main, responsible. She has a right to careful con- sideration of those opinions on the mind of the child which she gave recently to the Mental Health Conference.

BOOK

Mistake Delays Publication

Witness, at a police court: People other.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L.

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Owned by MRS.HT, PENICK

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However strangely it may A request has been made for sound, there is much truth in the return of review copies [her parabie that a small child Dame Laura Knight's book, “Oil Įscrubs a table not to get it clean Faint and Grease Paint.”

but for the sake of scrubbing. A member of the publishing firm The real object of that and of of Ivor Nicholson and Watson, much tiresome persistence injLtd, said:

childhood is to master an action. "We have taken this action in We cannot, however, accept the order to correct a mistake in the inference that a child should be text.

allowed to do, over and over "The book is an antobiography, again, whatever has taken its and is illustrated with much of fancy.

Many people have suf-Dame Laura Knight's work. fered from their uncontrolled "It was to have been published frittering away of time in child-shortly, but the correction of the hood. A child must have direc-mistake will make it necessary to tion to make the best of itself. postpone the date for about a

fortnight."

Too Old At Thirty

MORE MILES AND MORE SAFETY

J

In gaining a very much larger measure of economic freedom women have not finally solved) Miscellaneous aircraft opera- the problem of their lives. Re-tors in America few more miles in cently a conference of women in the first half of 1935 than in any London discussed as an urgent previous January-June period matter the difficulty of the since 1931. trained woman worker in find-

ing employment after she suggested. The one cure would reaches the age of thirty or be a change in the attitude of thirty-five. The demand is for employers as a body, and that! young women, rather than for is no more easy to bring about those who, in gaining experi-than any other discarding of a ence, have lost their youth.

prejudice. Nobody will deny The stories told at the con-that a woman who has trained ference are moving in the ex- herself for a particular caréer treme, but for a condition of should be as reasonably secure affairs that all deplored little in of continuing employment as a the nature of a remedy wasiman.

HEDRICK

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FIRM OF BANKERS,

IN JACKSONVILLE

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Ripley

Katy

ONLY FEMALE FREEMASON!

Elizabeth Aldworth -DAUGHTER OF VISCOUNT DONERBIL

CONCEALED HERSELF IN A LARGE GRANDFATHERS CLOCK AND HEARD THE BISONS" AT AN INITIATION MEETING! They wonted to kill her-bul she ins too

Good Looking-SO THEY

GAVE HER THE FIRST

TWO DEGREES or

CORK, Ireland, 1712

MASONRY!

TIM INN

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