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MATA HARI.
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SCOTS HUSBAND. F
That the last of the long series of lovers of Mata Hari, the beautiful, dancer and spy for the Geruans, who met her death facing a firing party at Vincennes, Dear Parle, is now expatiating his love intrigue under the guise of a Carthusian monk in monastery at Cartuja de Mirafiores, in Spain.. is the statement made with con- siderable corroborative details in the well- known political Mercare de France, says a Paris message of July 10th.
The paper gives a remarkable new version of the romantic and tragic life of the beautiful spy from the age of 14 to her meeting with her last lover, who, before the death of Mata Hari, was a well-known man in Parisian society and whose use is given as M-
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EX-SERVICE MEN'S TESTS. CIVIL SERVICE CONUNDRUMS.
During the debate in the House of Commons, on August 2nd, Mr. Hogge and Lient. Colonel W. Guinness called atten-| 01 tion to the examination papers that had been set for ex-Service man temporarily employed in Government departments who applied for permanent appointments at, a commencing salary of £80 a year. Mr. Rogge gare the following samples of
conundrums set;
Write bere the name of the first drink in the following list, if it is only drink, but if it is not put a cross instead, and. if it is an under it. Underline what- ever you have put. The list was; House, bean, sugar, parafin, coffee, milk, cheese.
If five multiplied by six equals thirty- five, write down right here, if eight multiplied by nine equals 72, write down wrong here. If you have written down right cross it out. If you have written down wrong alter the figures preceding the words so as to make them really areng..
Mata Hari, whose real name VILK Marguerite Gertrude Zell, was a daughter ot a rich "Dutch planter in Java and of Javanese woman. Her father died when she was a child and her mother, knowing Earth, the, the warm sun." Then tho the unfortunate fate of so many Eurasian discharged soldier was asked to rewrite Igitis, placed her at the age of 14 as a sacred this sentence so that the word that would dancer in a Buddhist temple. She was only be the middle word, if it were rearranged 15 years old when u Seattish officer, visiting as to be true now comes inst, whilst the the island and falling desperately in love remaining words are in the right order, with the beautiful sacred dancer, carried but the one now first is spelled back- her off to India and married her. Matn wards," Hari had two childrm in India.. Th The list of questions was supplemented eldest, a boy, fell suddenly, ill and died, by Light-Colonel Guinness as follows: Mats Hari was convinced that he had been Add together the first three old num- poisoned by a native servant, and, taking ters and if the sum is not an exact multi- the law into her own hands, shot the supple of three draw a line through every three in this instruction except the second. posed murderer while he lay asleep.
but otherwise draw the fine under instead
through the same words.
is to..
Then, fearful of the consequence of her crime, she fit the country and came to
If the line A, B represents a length of Europe, where she settled down in Paris. Her bustand, after many months of painfularest square foot of the room, D, E, F 10tr find the length and breadth to the searching, located her there. He came to Paris, bringing with him his surviving club, the hotel is to the
The public house is to the barmas as The body is to and found his wife" living in a suspinous the heart as the clock is to the
Thr fat nader the protection of a Carman og ble is to temporary as the universe of high rank who, under civilian guise, was really working for the German secret syrvice. Mata Hari refused to return to her husband, who finally returned, broken hearted, to Scotland shortly before the war. In the course of her intrusion into society unpolitical circles the beautiful dancer made the acquaintance of her last | lover. + M', ther af the height of social brilliance. When her intrigues were revealed during the war and she was sentenced to death her lover did everything possible to save her from execution.
A week later, after her death, her lover disappeared, and it is only now that The his. Lein unsed to the monastery, Efforts have Leen mude to get in touch with him at the monastery, but the superior ss at the idea that such a min is a member of his order and says he has never heard of Mata Hari or of
tier lover.
Once a man joins the Carthusian Or. der however, and makes sincere vows of repentance and of a desire to expiate his sins he is lost to the world. His name is neither asked nor revealed and be pastes his life in prayer and fasting, never' again to look back on the past.
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LEADER OF A GANG OF BOUGHS.
The last conundrum was described by Lint Colonel Guinness na the missing word competition.
Mr. H. Young (Financial Secretary to the Treasury), replying later, said that in the interests of the efficiency of pablic servien it was necessary to have some simple educational test before passing temporary men on for permanent employ
nient.
The examination was set by the Civil Service Commissioners in their wis dom. (Laughter.) He was not sure that it would not be possible to nuke fun of. any examination paper. He thought that in one way it was a good paper, in that there was a certain gradation in the diff- culty of the questions asked. He was sure he could answer the first question. Then there was one which he thought he might be able to answer and another which he
certain be could not
As
(aughter.)
GAMES FOR GIRLS.
anewer.
The conclusions reached by the special committee formed at the instance of the College of Preceptors last October to inquire into the safety of games for girls will com- mend themselves to all reasonable persona. (writes The Times). The committee wILY a distinguished one and appear to have. The astonishing career of a twenty-approached its task in a broad and com- five-year girl. Florence Gray, who lived non-sense spirit. Generally speaking, ita for nearly eight years as a man, is des guiding idea seus to have leen" that cribed in dispatches from Philadelphia. measures tending to increase a girl's phy
The girl, who is the daughter of a sical fitness cannot he detrimental to lawyer, adopted male attire after she had her. Physical fitness in this sense in- worn trousers on a summer yachting trip. cludes mental Etneas, and so affords a As John McConnel" she obtained a reliable criterion. For the essence of a suc-. situation as driver of A five-ton motor cessful game is that it shall engage and. Jotry. After she had been promoted to hold the minds of the players. Games the position of foreman" she became mest run according to and not against the leader of a gang of roughs known as nature, whether masculite or fecinine, the Iron Gang," and she kept the mem- Here is the fundamental objection to foot. bers of the gang in order with her fists,
SPECTATOR'S DEBUT IN THE
BULLRING.
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earning the sobriquet of Battling Kid ball, which the committee condemus, and McConnel Later she became a breaker possibly also to the more strenuous forms of hearts, and was engaged" to var of gymnastic exercise. For tenuis, net- ious girls in quick succession. She also ball, lacrosse, golf, swimming, and even earned fame by swimming the Delaware cricket there is nothing but praise. These, River, and for some time she added games are mental and bodily tonics, and variety to her existence by joining some consequently "ast be helpful to their women in a trapeze act-still in the guise players. The medical members of the com- of a mant On August 8th she was met mittce, in an important additional report, on the street by a former member of the deal with the relationship of exercise to "Iron Gang" who, catching her un- the peculiar functions of woman awares, knocked her senseless with a blow the mother of the race Their views in the face. The police,then discovered are expressed with admirable moderation that "Battling Kid' was a girl-Times and deserve the very careful study of parents and schoolresses. If in some respects they appear to be of a rather revolutionary bareter, it should be borne in mind that they have been arrived at only after prolonged and creful study. The Madrid correspondent of the Times They are conclusions on the evidence, not says the goddess of chance makes and unpriori theories adapted to suit the temper makes heroes of the bullring, where the of the bour, The report as a whole, indeed, crowds are infected with something of the is, distinguished by its exientific honesty, spirit of Roman gladiatorial days. This It constitutes a remarkable verdict for the was shown recently. when the first, four advocates of the healthy girl. Nor does it bylls invalided three matadors from the stand alone, in this respect. Converging ring. Ons was seriously hurt. Two bulls streams of evidence are now available reained to be despatched. There was to prove that the Early Victorian bealthy woman nobody to do the job, but at the critical conception motnent a youth jumped the barrier, and was simply grotesque. Everything in those with straw hatin hand begged permission days seems to have been sacrificed to the to carry on. This being granted he took production" of an ultra-feminine type, a off his cost, donned a red cape and freed woman so weakened in health as to be in the bulls in his shirt sleeves amid thunder capable of any sustained effort. Possibly jug ovations. He played and killed the behind that conception lurked idee sinuilar two bulls. He was escorted homewards at to those which during centuries had expres the head of a procession of thousands of sion in the bound and distorted fect ef admirers. The man whose name is Emilio Chinese noblewomen. In any case, it is Mendez may achieve faint or have the fate obsolete; nor have the gloomy forebodings of the poor wretch whom the crowd shout of its adherents been realized. Good health ed down for want of skill and daring finds its earliest. manifestation in good although he received a terrible wound. A temper and breadth of outlook. These are few people, pitying, followed the stretcher the distinguishing characteristics of the to hospital after an urgent and dangerous energetic women who play so large and so operation at the ringside."
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