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AMUSING ADVENTURES ON MANCHURIAN RAILWAY.

[BY STELLA BENSON.] Snow had interrupted the regular train service, such as it was. Really, of course, it wa't, ever. This particular Man churian railway is a perfect martyr to chronic irregularity. Saow, let us say,

had for over a week given the valetudina-

WHY LAMBS SKIP. NEW SECRETS OF OZONE DISCOVERED.

A new theory as to the reason why lambs bound, why a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and why everyone feels 50 per cent, brighter in Spring is suggested by the discovery that the ozone in the atmosphere is at its maximum in this season.

Dr. G. M. B. Dobson and Dr. D. N.

1926

Harrison have been measuring the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, and an account of their findings is given in the Proceedings of the Royal Society for this month.

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Observations were taken throughout last year. It was found that there was a marked tendency to a maximum of ozone in the Spring and a minimum in the Inter Autuma.

One of the most remarkable results was the establishment of a definite connection between the amount of ozone present and the atmosphere pressure. Cyclones, it was observed, were always followed by large increases in the amount of ozone.

The only agencies likely to produce ozone in large quantities in and electrical discharges in the atmosphere.

London tubes have a high percentage of ozone owing to the frequent electrical discharges.

minister Casette, that ezone could be A medical authority told the. West- manufactured artificially and infused into the contaminated air of rooms, tunnels, and kinemas, where it was a powderful agent for health.

a sigh, he sat back on the blue plush Beat, using his baby as a cushion. The quilted robe and a fur hood of its own. compressed baby, which had a white but no top-hat, breathed with difficulty, owing to the weight of its father, but looked about with a subdued, aly interest. From time to time it stretched out a little, dirty.chilblained band to stroke the fur shoulder of the Englishwoman. The protesting voice of the English- man's Chinese servant survived all the other first-class protests against the His proud imperial Korean invasion, talk so impressed the conductor that some of the Koreans who had dared to sit near the stove were abruptly removed that the Englishmän might be offered the seat of cindery honour, But the English passengers refused; they preferred air to honour. They were between the door and a broken window, and they would not relinquish that faint flavour of outer air which reached them in their present position through the stewing smoke and smell. They religiously breathed through cigarettes, turning their noses hopefully towards a crack between the gaping,door and its frame. But this crack was doomed loop-hole. The eyes of thirty in truding Koreans were upon it. Since we have, for ones, attained the seats of the mighty," they thought, let us for once, be comfortable. Let the consoling smell of hot relations and friends he, for once, undiluted by common air." The ed forward and shut the gaping door. Korean next to the Englishwoman lean-

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rinn train n excuse to stay tucked up in its siding like a real bedridden invalid. But snow melts, even in Manchuria, and coolies commanded to clear away drifts over a stretch of fifteen miles are some- tinies officious enough to do what they are told. So the train had to make a more, It mustored itself in the station, puffing and whooping to advertise its virtue. -

Passengers swarmed to it like bees. The third-class was full before the sun came up so full that the limbs of pas sengrra were sticking out of every door and window. The second-class overdow ed as the preliminary tootlings of de parture began. And a minute befare the train started, a surplus thirty or sc of unmistakable third-class passengers brim nied over into the Arst-class." The damned had burst the bounds of their outer darkness and trick's into Paradise, timidly at first, but presently bold with sheer accessity. They were all Koreans. Koreans are always damned. They may have their despicable reasons for reaching their despicable homes, but they must never be allowed to reached anything ex- cept" with great difficulty. Every where in Kores and worth-eastern Manchuria, Koreans may be seen travelling-against the grain. Nothing ever goes right on a Korean journey. Wherever there is water to cross, ferryboats frothing over with uncomplaining Korean, passangers may be seen stuck hopelessly on, sand- banks in the middle of the stream, the passengers obediently leaping up and down to try and jerk their craft out of the dilenium. Wherever there is ice to cross, the bullock cart containing a Ke rean house-moving is always the one to break through. On high roads the. Ko- rean family donkey or ox always haa.to draw aside into a snowdrift to let the Ford Car of the Japanese empire-builder 'go by. On railways nobody ever tells Ko reane when the train is going to start, and half the family is generally left be hind. If they finally manage to reach their destinations, Japanese or Chinese soldiers will most probably lock them in the ticket office for an hour or two while they search then for arms with rude, prodding hands. The Korean traveller must, it is clear, he always hours late everywhere. He travels like a beetle in a forest, over and round incredible ob stacles. Yet still he travels, unresisting yet unsurrendering, puzzled yet single hearted, always a little sad, often a little drunk, but always gentle.

This was the first train for a week, and probably the last for a week, and pas- sengers, humble though they might be. would not be denied. The Koreans fill- ed the train as a herd of kind, white cows might have filled it. The barhed snarls and clamourings of the real first class passengers glanced without effect from their patient, immobile determina tion, from their white, padded hide.

The first-class had only their honour to defend, so to speak. There was little actual superiority in their, Paradise. Their windows were broken, their stove belched smoke without heat, their cushions, though a luscious blue plush, were full of fleas. Half the passengers, too, were ticketless and travelled Erst class only by virtue of being relations or friends of the trainmen. Still Paradise is Paradise and the first-class passen gers were none of them native to the but everyone felt convinced that the "I don't know how they knew about me,' country they were in-a fact' which gives Korean had done something wrong. Miss Kidd continued, having told me any sinner a free pass into an imperial Everyone had known all along that the that half-an-hour after she reached the Paradiso. Before the avalanche of na Koreans would do something wrong. The House, a reporter was seeking an inter- tive Koreans buried the first-class pas. Korean exchanged a sombre glance of view. The following day she was almost public speaking, of which she has had u sengers, they were seen to consist of a intelligence with a Korean friend. "Look besieged by daimants for her attention good deal of practice in connection with large Chinese in blue, padded silk, with what comes of associating with foreign in the room placed at her disposal by the her father's constituency. In publis a flapped fur cap like a great four-lenvedere," the glance said.

Solicitor-General for Scotland in the speaking. she appreciates that inde clover his shivering wile in unpadded Was there a faint smell of burning, or House of Commons buildings for the finable something which enables brocade, unbatted except for an artificial was it only the Englishwoman's heated donning of her wig and gown. In the speaker to get across " and hold the daisy in her back halt- Japanese in imagination! She imagined the cigarette, House of Lords, Miss Kidd did not on attention of the audience. There are skin-tight corduroy, his bloated expres wickedly active in dark, involuted ways this occasion have to address their lord fewer women who have this gift than sion spangled with gold-rimmed glasses beyond calculation, guawing at the vitals ships, so that it was her mere appearance there are men. Dress, Miss Kidd holds,

of her gentle neighbour. She made and gold teeth, reading aloud to himself final effort, Seizing the sufferer desfer- there, creating a precedent which Eng matters very considerably to a woman in a harab, charting voice his wife, with a face like a camelia petal under the ately by his cushioned arm to pin bis lish women can only fellow, that aroused speaker. It should be plain and dignifi- ed, otherwise it is apt to interfere with great varnished, looped globe of her hair of shaking her own

attention, she made an exaggerated show interest.

THE WIG AND GOWN,

the effect of her speech, and distract at her body folded in a dark steel-blue Such enthusiasm did she show that the kimono, humped at the back where her whole plush seat quaked and several little women advocates should wear on their

Time was when the question of what tention from it. thick silk sash was tied-their child in Korean, top-hats were joggled crooked. heads was a momentous question Miss a magenta kimono splashed violently with All the Koreans watched her for a Kidd's wig covers a head of neatly holds that one can learn most from the As regards méthods of elocution, she mustard-coloured and green chrysan- moment, probably thinking, "She has a shingled hair. As regards her dress at themums, its face extinguished by a dirty fea. What of it" Then they sighed, Parliament House" I had a plain black London she went to sea Miss Iren Van-

actress. On the occasion of ber visit to.. pink plush hat, as worn in the Mile End and began talking in low voices ode to frock at first," she told me, until it brugh's performance, principally for the Road, London. There were, too, another about something else, as well wore out." Then she adopted a black pleasure of hearing her speak. an Englishmen and his wife, the English bred poople talk to discourage the offen costume, the coat of which covers a plain man's Chinese servant, and a Russian in sive advances of a vulgar stranger.

On the subject of the alleged lack of white over-blouse, with a white tie In logic, in women, Mich Kidd has strong a tattered, grey, military coat and high At the next station they all got ouf Parliament House she replaces her coat views A, trained woman, the holds, can fur. cap.

with the customary Korean manner of with a dinner jacket, severe and mascu-be even more logical than a trained man Next to the Englishwoman sat a Korean hopeful blundering Perhaps this was line-looking, and over that, of course, her The most logically-minded person father with his little son strapped on to their station, perhaps it wasn't. They gown is worn. Having appeared in the that I know is a woman." As regards his lower back. His sitting down was would know all in good time.,

THE SCOTTISH WOMAN ADVOCATE.

K TALK WITH MISS KIDD.

TRAINED WOMAN MORE LOGICAL

THAN A TRAINED MAN."

I don't know what they made all the

the lighted cigarette. The Englishwoman fuss about," said Miss. Margaret Kidd, looked at him in alarm, remembering the the young Scottish advocate, in a little

jufammable nature of cotton wadding.

NOVELIST'S OUTBURST. ATTACK ON FUNDAMENTALISTS.

New YORK, April 10th.

In a force attack upon the Fundament alists, delivered at the Linwood Boule. vard Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri, Mr., Sinclair Lewis, the well- known author, publicly dared God to strike him dead within ten minutes to prove His power.

Mr. Sinclair Lewis's remarkable utter-

My cigarette has gone up your sleeve,"

Excuse me," she said, in English. talk which I had with her the other day over the tea cups, in her rooms in Edin- The Korean and his attached babyburgh, writes a correspondent to а ance was made in defence of the turned a blank benevolent double gaze Scottish paper. Miss Kidd was reler late Luther Burbank, America's greatest upon her.

My cigarette," persisted the English ring, of course, to her reception and horticulturalist, whose recent death was woman, making a gesture intended, to **bombardment "to quote a contem declared by the Fundamentalista, to be represent an explosion, has gone up porary-by reporters and Presa photo-Divine punishment because Burbank said your sleeve. You will burst into fames."

The Korean's this grey, beard, stillgraphers, when she made her appearance He did not believe there was a God. Mr. slightly bedewed with hear-frost, wagged in the House of Lords the first woman Sinclair Lewis claimed that Burbank httle as he followed conscientiously the advocate to appear there in a profes- gave back to God all that God gave to. expúnsive movements of her hands. Hesional capacity. In the case in question him, and wanted to know why God had looked gently surprised. Ile was abso-

(Adair. Colville) she appeared with stricken down Bryan, a Fundamentalist," Intely convinced that he and the English Mr. M. P. Fraser, K.C., and Mr. Neil when he was fifteen years younger than woman could have nothing in common. MacLean as senior counsel for the ap- Burbank.

Is there no joy, no greatness, in nothing to say to one another.

pellants the Dean of Faculty (Mr.: A chorus arose from the other passen- Concie Sandeman, K.C.) and Mr. Albert living?" Mr. Lewis asked the Christian gerin Japanese, Chinese, aral Russian. Russell were the, counsel for the respon makes us good? If this theory is part congregation. Is it fear of hell that Sabody, kaew quite what had happened, dents:

of your Christian religion, then damn your Christian religion."

arm downwards.

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ACTRESS TEACHERS.

like the collapse of a white elephant. He The Englishwoman watched her Korean House of Lords, she is now privileged intuition Miss Kidd is less assured, but was padded to about twice his original as he stood on the snowy platform hitch to have a black pocket added to her gown. she added laughingly, that perhaps, after Miss Kidd, who is the daughter of Mr. all, the best mind that one could have size with layers of quilted white robes. ing up bis baby by means of a bucking And he was heightened to half his eri- movement of the lower spine. Oat of the James Kidd, M.P. for Linlithgowshire, would be an amalgam of logic and

was called to the Scottish Bar three years intuition. ginal height again by his multiplied back of his neck she could distinctly see ago, at the age of 23. Having taken her These are early days yet to prophesy, steepling beaddresses-a fur hood with a thin thread of smoke rising. The a little hole in the top through which baby's pose, immediately above the crater MA degree, including in it some law but judging from the evidences that I st saared a six-inch high dome. On the of this unsuspected volcano, was wrinkled classes, she completed her LLB. degree around her, I should imagine that when summit of the dome wobbied the tiny in surprise. The Korean himself put his When I asked her what made her think the compiler of "Who's Who takes Miss of becoming an advocate, I just seemed Kidd under his protecting pen, he will black top-hat, the senseless and heroic little hat straight on its steeple with a badge of the Korean race. It was tied dignified hand and turned away, leaving to drift into it," was all the explanation write down her chief interest as English under his chin with black ribbons. With a thin curling wire of smoke behind him he could give. Miss. Kidd is fond of literature Journalinio is a strong rival

(Continued on next Oolumn)."

on the cold air-The Nation.

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