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JIU JITSU

how's surrender has materially altered the course of the war it Is difficult to fathom.

Waggery

Those who believe that man was made all in one piece, so to speak, will be greatly dishearten- ed by the statement of Mr. T. H. Hawkins, of Northampton Col- lege, that the ability to flap the human ears goes far in support- ing the theory of evolution; for there are many men and women in whom this curious survival of primordial life exists.

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Jiu jitsu is a form of wrestling, what uses, other than the purely Off-hand, we cannot imagine to the essential of which is to give scientific, this peculiar legacy way before the adversary's viol could be put, although in the days ence in order that he may over- of the silent films at least reach himself and eventually col-comedian made a comfortable liv- lapse because of his own muscuing through close-up exhibitions lar effort. The Japanese are said " of his ears in spasmodic, move- to have discovered it. Observation ment. As an after-dinner enter- of the Sino-Japanese conflict tainment, a pair of flapping ears might lead to the conclusion that, is likely to pall on the most easily like many other Japanese things pleased audience; and as a means Jiu jitsu, too, was invented in of keeping the children quiet on China. For to-day it is the Chinese wet Sunday afternoons the ac- who are applying the principle of complishment might become a giving way and straining the Japanese who are its somewhat extremely impressionable and the two-edged sword. Children are bewildered victims. In spite of border-line between a pleasurable their almost uninterrupted series thrill and a fit of convulsions. is of "victories," and the uncontest-distressingly narrow. ed fact that a Japanese mechan ised column of troops can, with something of a field-day when he Mr. Hawkins must have had in a certain radius, go anywhere delivered his speech for in addi- it chooses, provided there is road or a railway, and the gensities of certain humans he was ation to the ear-wagging propen- eral is willing to pay the price in able to quote cases, of children human lives, the Japanese seem being born with actual tails. no nearer victory than at the beginning of their invasion of tions to the theory of evolution These two unusual contribu- Chine.

In fact, they seem much far reward to persons on whom such should, in all justice, bear, some ther from it than immediately a distinction has been conferred. after the capture of Nanking It is not everybody who is singl- when, for the first and only time ed out to become a living exam- during the war, China was ple of Darwin's great theory, and groggy. Had the Japanese follow we feel that a suggestion for- ed up their Nanking victory with warded to the right quarters another swift blow at Hankow, might result in a linking-up with they might have broken China the Tail Waggers Club; the completely. But they hesitated, children born with visible ap- dallied, and China's moment of pendages to be members in their weakness passed.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to be granted auxiliary, or coun- own right, and the ear-flappers then desired to create a complete try, membership. void before his adversaries by

retiring with all his forces for Herring Bar into the west, but the German. advisers, under General von Fal-

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Fleet Street having had the kenhausen, persuaded the Mar honour of launching London's shal not to go too fast or too far, first milk-bar has now been chosen but to establish himself pro-as the site for the capital's first visionally in the Wu-han area. Herring Bar. Nobody would have Hankow and Hanyang are north dared to prophesy that the hab- of the Yangtse, but Wuchang itues. of the Street of Ink would lies south. Here the Yangtse is take to milk as a duck to water, well over a mile wide, with a but they now support three ever- volume of water of 1,000,000 open bars in Fleet Street alone cubic feet a second, and from and have, so to speak, lit a can- the sea to a point 1,600 miles up-dle which it takes millions of stream it is spanned by not one gallons of milk a year to keep single bridge.

going. The promoters of Herring

A more formidable obstacle to Bars, Limited, are convinced that invasion could hardly be imagin- we journalists can be made to eat ed, for the occupation of the Wu-herrings no less readily than we han cities (generally lumped to-drink milk. Captain Eshelby and gether 88 "Hankow") leaves Miss Anne Jamieson, a London them with this great barrier in Scot, are the two people chiefly their midst, while the Chinese, concerned, and they have aroused continuing their practice of jiu-the interest of a number of itsu, have retired south and M.P.s and also of the Herring west where already vast supplies Industry Board. The Fleet Street of war material have been stored Herring Bar will open 180on and in almost inaccessible places in Miss Jamieson has already work- ion of the continued war ed out over a hundred ways of cooking, boning, and presenting

the Hankow area herrings. If the venture meets than provisional. with the success that its backers

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four expect nobody will be more de- and lighted thần Generál Sir Ian have Hamilton, who not long ago was reciate advocating's that November - 1, stined when the fish is most plentiful, stage should be observed as National #doubt Herring Day': Herrings för break- in bas fast as the rule h the Hamilton eneral household and hostesses who Why entertain Sir Ian know that they aumption inj'cännät Please him better than by

that Hanhaving herrings on the menu.