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[BY COLDER] Police courts are as variable as the When Madame Pavlova danced at weather. One day will see a kind of tidal Birmingham recently, objection was taken wave of crime, bringing in burglars, thieves, wife-boaters, and crooks On the to one of the principal ladies of her following day the most serious case may company performing with bare legs. be petty pilfering by an errand boy. But Although this dance has been a regular whatever the charge-list, the court never fails in interest.
part of the programme in London, and
1916
"A BRETON WEDDING.
COMPLICATIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
The marvel is that a Ereton girl ever succeeds in getting married at all (anys) Verchester Geardian writer). There
THE TRUTH ABOUT A HORSE. DEFINED IN FIVE PAGES. OF A DICTIONARY.
"
"PERISSODACTYL "
The dictionary finds room for the word honorificabilitudinity." It moans hon-"
Bailey, the maker of an early 18th are so many complications and superati-century dictionary, described the horse tions involved that a minor matter like succinctly as a beast." The great Ox the ceremony might well be overlooked. ford dictionary, which is approaching To begin with, the occasion necessitates complation after nearly 30 years of un- at least a hundred guests if the village ceasing research, discusses the horse over is of any size, even if the couple have ve pages, ( a solid-hoofed perissodactyl Mr. Hay Halkett, the magistrate sitting ao objection had been raised elsewhere the humblest social pretensions, and never that and comes to the conclusion st Marylebone Police Court recently, had in England or Scotland, the authorities may the bride's parents expect merely quadruped." low grave cases to consider, but he had at Birmingham apparently considered that to be happy to meet all friends at church," for each guest looks forward to a very diverting morning helping to com bat life's little worries. There was the either the lady must dance in tights or
a substantial two-hour meal later. In
These are two examples of the scope of wife who married a sailor last September that the item must be cut out. Madame vitations are issued in person, and the and found herself a graza widow in
on the bride and her godmother or the bride- the great word-book, which grew out of a She was not sure whether Pavlova bere gives her views December,
groom and his godfather make house-to-project to register all words not in the Tho taak is now her husband had deserted her after the question,
house visitations. This matter demands existing dictionaries. honeymoon or bad merely forgotten her.
| a nice discrimination, for a single finished with the exception of portions "Sailors are very erratic," remarked
offended neighbour might result in a of the letter U and W. the magistrate, in advising her to have
curse that would forever, blight the
patience
Then there was the barber whose children had a feud with the children of a woman who lived opposite and who, he said, made his life miserable by leaning out of her window and calling him names
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All Claims against the Steamer must be
It is astounding to find in these days that such strange objections can still be raised by people in authority as were put for
ourableness.
Mr. C. T. Uniors, the editor of the sections Su-St, Wh-Wi, X. Y, 2, and the present editor in charge of the staff, started working on the dictionary 30 years ago on the letter D.
ward when we were to dance in Birming ham recently. It was no case of a dance being banned because the action was wrong-in certain kinds of action there is sometimes early ground for complaint-bride. But they find her missing a signtains 11.004 pages: 401,047 words have but merely that the artist in question did
Ning volumes of the dictionary have ten pounds. So. far the dictionary con- been issued. Each volume weighs about brien dende a pass up as his
new to say, he complained, and please not wear tights for that particular dance change her state. After she is found the trated by 1,748,503 quotations.
would an officer go down and tell her to elose the window ?
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Fantastic though these figures seem, even more fantastic is the fact that in the first of the U section 30 pages, each with three columns of the smallest type, are devoted to the word Up," its deriva- tives, and their uses.
It is computed that there are more than seven miles of text in the dictionary's 41,200 columns, and about 8,000,000 lines of type which, if placed end to end, would
prospects of the newly wed.
On the wedding morning it would op pear as though the bride's family were reluctane. The bridesmaida arrive at a all engrossed in a charade featuring necessarily unearthly hour to dress the that she is in no unseemly hurry to dressing proceeds undisturbed until th It was not that there was the slightest bride has need of her foot-gear. This is thing in the whole of our performance to not to be found, having been confiscated are the chief which anyone but a pronounced Mrs. by her mother to show how unwilling she Next to children, cats
A cat Grundy could possibly object. I an is to lose her daughter. cause of trouble in tenements.
In the meantime the bridegroom, best seeking adventure found itself in a room meticulously careful with regard to all the occupied by a woman who did not like work in my programmes not so much man, and spokesman (a man of experi cats. According to the cat's mistress, the because people would take objection, per-ence with a gift for repartee) have st cat came down the stairs "ring" bike aaps, as because I will not have bad out to claim the bride. They arrive at motor car on every whisker, followed by taste; it is an offence to all the artistic an apparently empty house with a bolt
ed door, and after repeated knockings reach for 100 miles. The cost to sub- the neighbour, who threw a bucket full instincts |
NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF.
are interviewed through a latticeworkscribers, is a penny”a page. There is not D of carbolic water over me sad then hit me over the head with one of my own
single person in the hole, through which the Breton house- chairs," she said. "I struck her in the whole of my present company, who would holder surveys suspicious visitors. They face with a broom, but didn't hurt her, tolerate such a thing there is not a true state their errand, and are informed that county. But the death-rate is particu
object to having his or her display spoil living here will not leave her parents. the insanitary conditions in which ed by the inartistic, the improper For Now comes the spokesman's opportunity, great part of the rural population live. this reason I was quite hurt, as well as In flowery language, more reminiscent of In many parts of France even well-to-do astonished, to
hear of Birmingham's the East than at dour Brittany, he peasants hardly ever fully undress, and objections.
dwells on the charms of this maid of sleep in most of their day clothes. Brit tany takes the palm for dirtiness. A Do they then object to the Greck maids whom they have come to carry off. statues in the British Museum and else. Her father suggests that the old granny Breton girl aged 18, who is now a servant where I think that all will agree that should take her place. Here the spokes in Paris, told her employer the other this is a case where prudish objections do man show his mettle, for without dis day that she had never had more than more harm than good. Nothing is more paraging the old dame, the baby, or the her face and neck, washed until the made contemptible to the man or woman with alderly widow, each offered in turn, h her first Communion at the age of 14, a clean, healthy mind that fripperies and persists in his claim to the bride and that nobody in the village where she suggestions of covering for our limbs Finally the door is unbolted and the lived ever washed his or her head.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGIJAL which latter are certainly not things to party rushes in for the unfortunate be ashamed of...
bride, whom custom one more insists
REGISTER. “ shall be in hiding. Then the entire household-all carefully dressed in pre- paration-form into
a procession to church, headed by a blind piper playing his "biniou," and his attendant with a
a vessel bring on Cargo from Persian presented to the Undersigned on or before the and I had to have my head bandaged artist in the whole world who does not there is some slight mistake as the girilarly high in rural districts, thanks to Galf ex B.IS.N. and B. & P.S.N. Co. 18th June, 1926, or they will not be recognised. i and I want a summons."
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"CITY OF SALISBURY?
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Failing to get rid of her tenants by a county court action, a landlady, weeping copiously, declared: "Last Sunday they brought a gang of hooligans from a low quarter and broke my china service. I
live out of doors."
have had months of hell, and I have to The magistrate tried to find a remedy, bus the landlady, launched on her griev- ance, could not stop talking long enough to hear his suggestion of a summons for wilful damage.
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The ordeal by water was endured by a young wife who, having offended a fel low-tenant, found her room fooded out. The enemy had stopped up the sink, turned on the cap, and left the rest to fate and the Metropolitan Water Board.
Everything was Boating when I got home," wailed the young wife, drying her eyes with a summons
It is generally admitted nowadays, I believe, that we have two arms and two lege apiece Well, what possible harm can there be, then, in classical, beautiful dances-poems in rhythmic movement when the dancer is clad with perfect pro priety, and moves with all the purity of action of the true artist ?
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be
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From time to time the various hürches
'bombard."
Old George, who will be 74 next birth-have raved against dancing. Scarcely FRANCE'S LEAKAGE OF LIVES. I have more than once pointed out day, has-on the word of a constable one of them but has at some time object- ed to our great art in much the same way
natality crisis" in led a decent, sober, industrious life, but as this English city has tiene now. What that the so-called last week be began to sow his wild oats, is perhaps the most pure and perfect, of France is really a mortality crisis, and and for the first time saw a police cops all forms of emotional expression has the statistics of French births and deaths from the inside of the dock
devil's for last year, just issued, show this to be Considering that he had never been been called by the church the
The French birth-rate, which, in 1994 has replaced bigotry, it has been realised
was 19.2 per thousand of the population, drunk before, he made a good job of it, Procession," but now that enlightenment so (says an Evening Standard writer). and when found by the shocked con- by all who study religion that melodions stable he was dancing down the street, action is not more damned than perfect rose in 1925 to 19.8, a higher rate tha
the English, but the death-rate increased waving his arms, and gambolling like a melodies of music. It can be quite as lamb in the early spring sunshine. The
expressive, as sweet, and as pure. Thus still more. It was 17.3 per thousand in magistrate told him to go away and be the church now sees no wrong in rhythm 1924 and 181 per thousand last year. have himself, and Old George promised of motion, but in a few places the old that he would resist the call of spring.
dogmatic ideas still exist.
临
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A wife separated from her husband, who was behind in his payments, was prepared to forgive him everything ex- cept his extravagance in paying 18 pence for his breakfast.
"Nice thing, for a man who gets 133. week to pay is pence for his breakfast," ahe jeered, giving her husband an 18- penny look.
..
LOOKING FOR WRONG.
Let us abandon this attitude of looking for wrong and put in its place an earnest desire to look for the right in things. Instead of poking about trying hard to discover faults, let us discover the grace and beauty around us
This applies not to dancing alone but to all life. A sweeter outlook." eleansed of our own evil fancies, is what we need. All whine and whiskers, a middle-aged No extremes, no indelicacy, no impurity, an accused of begging believed in get-is necessary-only frankness, cleanness, That ohter is tellir leg" he said, and truth. Besides making possible an before the constable had taken the cath. appreciation of true art, it will make for a better world all round!-The Sunday Chronicle.
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All Claims against the Steamer must be pre santed to the Undersigned on or before 11th une, 1926, or they will not be recognised
broken, chafed and damaged Goods are where they will be
As he persistently refused to have his finger-prints taken, he was put back to make way for two gipsies, a man and a woman, also charged with begging. Both took a strong dislike to the officer who arrested them, the man putting the gipsies curse on bir, and the woman expressing the hope that every rib in his body would be forcibly removed. The man for three months and the woman for Took The officer continued to
are hereby notified that the Targo will to be left in the Cream Fridays, between pleasant pair were sent to prison, the
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Сладо has been given prior to Steemer's arrival.
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in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesday and Fridays between the
hours of
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within the Fres Storage period.
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All Clame against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 20th June, or they will not be recognisel.
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THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL
of
Bags, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, -Morquitoes,
all killed
two.
healthy
An object-lesson in how young thieves are made was given when three boys, aged respectively 17, 15, and 14, wera. charged with stealing old iron
The eldest boy had been in an institu. tion for mental defectives and had been allowed out on licence and trial to see if he could earn his living. He promptly. acquired a barrow; persuaded the younger boys to join him, and set forth to pick up a living when nobody was looking,
The 15-years-old boy was not very bright, but the youngest one, who had brought his mother with him, was excep tionally intelligent. Despite his mother's offarts to stop him be prompted the 15 years-old boy, who was asked by the magistrate if he wanted to give evidence.
Say Yes," hissed the youngest. "You shut up!" whispered the mother. "I want to go into that box," insisted
KEATING'S the youngest
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You wait till I get you home," pro- mised the mother softly.
I'm going in that box," declared the into the box he went. He youngest, read the oath loudly and defiantly, and declared in a rush of tears and eloquence that he thought the eldest boy had bought the iron. He was the most “in- dignant small boy I have seen in court, and on being discharged with the 15- years-old, he took his mother's band and triumphantly remarked, "I got in that boz,.anyhor "
You wait till I get you" home!" re- plied the mother darkly,
The eldest boy was returned to the institution.
Whereas the birth-rate has enormously decreased in England and Germany, in France it has been nearly stable since the beginning of this century (except, of course, during the war, when it fell heavily), and it is considerably higher now than it was forty years ago.
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Hengtone Observatory, May 31st.
Previous On Date On Date
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Baromster Temperature Fumidity
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HONGKONG TIDE TABER,
-- From Jung Ist to 7th, 1926,
• HIGH WATER.
Days of
louth.
Days of
Tres
Wed
Height
Hong-
Standani
Time.
b. m. ft. in.
1 2 18
0 7
3 36
14
40
38
Thar 3 m
Fri.
One wonders when French opinion will cease to concern itself with futile efforts to increase the birth-rate, and turn its attention to the danger of the heavy and increasing death-rate. It is the innate conservation of. France that is to blame. France is in everything relating to hygiene, both public and private, far be hind any other great Western country.
On the whole, France has probably the most healthy climate of any European Men.
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San.
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Lime.
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