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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Son: Dad, what does 'a, 'better half' mean '

Father: Just what she says. "'

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"So you popped the question by starlight!"

"Yes, and she accepted a twinkl ing"

"Your daughter Helen takes after her mother, doesn't she?

"Yes, if there's anything left in iny pockets.

The omnibus stops. It is rain" ing hard. Old Indy: "Any sitting room "

Conductor: "No, Ma'am, but there is a bathroom upstairs." -

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Isn't it rather difficult to off. eiate at a double wedding?" asked the friend of the clergyman,

"Not at all. After all, it's only putting two and two together," re plied the parson:

the

Mrk. Youngwife: "John, maid has just put one of our wed- ding presents on the fire"

"Goodness. How careless? What is it?"

The copper kettle"

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Critic: By George, old chap, when I look as one of your paint ings I stand and wonder-"}

Artist: "How I do it ?" "No-why you do it."

Customer

was spoilt"

That veal you sent

came

Butcher: "Spoilt, ma'am ? I can't understand that, unless it" from a calf that was petted too much."

Wife (reading newspaper)? Scientists can multiply the sound of the human vele 18,000 times." have they done in the way of sub- Husband (thoughtlessly): "What

traction"

Disappointed Conrict (back on thrnek pile after several years): ""Taïn't altered a bit, has it! I thought after all these years they'd have introduced some labour. sAY- ing devices."

He thoughtfully): "Now, the girl that I narty must be in direct contrast to me."

-SheWell, don't get disenar- nged; there

are still plenty of right and intelligent girls

around:

Jackson. "The idea of letting your wit go about telling the mighturs that she made a man of you! You don't hear my wife any-

Nurse (suspiciously); "What have you be doing. Ellen ??

Ellen: Rover's eating my daling that ly's slippers, 20 I've just heer: punishing, him!

"How "

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Ive been to his kennel and drinked his milk.'

With an air of determination the woman walked into the photograph er's studio. "Good morning," ma- diam; what can I have the pleasure

"These photos of my husband," began the woman, banging a packet on the table. "They're simply dis graceful. Why, he looks just like an ape!"

"Indeed the photographer re plied, icily, "You should have, thought of that before you married | him."

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Johnson: No, but I heard her telling my wife that she had done her best

Sandy sent his son Andy to a university to be trained for a minister. In due time Andy graduated, was ordained and ap pointed to a church, Before ge ing to the scene of his labours bis father said to him one day. "Andy, now you are a parson I want to give you three pices of good ad- vice; one is preach long sermons- Scotchmen like plenty for their money; secondly, always verify

"your quotations-Scotchmen love necu rney thirdly, hastly but not Jenstly, dinna go on too much about the Devil. If there was no Devil there would be no parsonA,

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11. To renounce.

13. To stick.

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16.-Rug.

16. To merit.

10.--Domestic animal.

20-Piece of wood,

22-Musical note.,

93.-Article.

24-Pertaining to heat.

96-Six.

25. To pass without noticing.

30.-Germs.

30.—Wing-like parts.

23-Recompense.

34-Parts of body.

37.-Changes.

4-Negative.

41.-Clatters. 13-Butterfly..

44. To exist.

48.-Kind of ship (plural).

11.-Behold.

48-Jointed grass stem.

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31-Musical instrument.

53-To refer

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37-A beverage.

59.Bone.

6-Plural suffix.

60.-Wile.

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1.-Sheep's cry,

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3-Man who defied the lightning.

4.-Conjunction,

h.---Woman.

8.Performers.

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8.-Joint.

9. To reach destination.

10-Lair.

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21.-A shade. 25.-Garments.

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36. Looks steadily,

37. To charge.

38.-Roisterer.

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42-A number.

45.-A girl's name. 47.-Moon.

18. Domestic animal.

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51.-Symbol for lithium.

52. To consume.

54. To net.

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HUSBAND AND WIFE AND THE DOG.

PROBLEM OF A DIVORCE.

AVIATOR'S DARING

EXPERIMENT.

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FATAL ATTEMPT TO LOOP THE LOOP IN A GLIDER.

[United Press.)

ALANIDA, Cal., Jan. 26. While making what is believed to I have been, the first attempt to loop the loop in a motorless glider here to-day, Norman A. Goddard crash- Zotan. Sarkany, Budapested into the Alameda Estuary and wholesale merchant, recently filed a was killed. petition for divorce on the ground

A biplane had towed the motor- that both he and his wife had out-leas aeroplane in which Goddard grown their affection after two rode from Palo Alto, down the years of marriage. It appeared,

however, that neither the petitioner peninsula.

MARRIAGE BY POISON,"

WAN PRISONER'S BID FOR AERIDE.

In the spring of 1918, according to the Budapest Magyarug, Yolan Kovecay, a pretty young nurse in the suburban asylum of Angyalfold, cube to the city and requested the military authorities to send her to the Italian iront. She was echt to Zombor, where the Italian prisoners were interned, and there she was received in the absence of the army doctor-by an Italian prisoner called Ricardo Lupinacei, who fell in love with her at sight. Lupi-. nacci, who owned a house and a factory in Salerno, determined to make Yolan his bride, but discover- ed that the law forbade the mar ringe of persons who were not Hun garian subjects.

Only on one condition, he dis. covered, could the marriage of a war prisoner take place, and that was that the bridegroom should be on his death-bed. Lupinacci was found some days later with an open vein and foam on his lips from a dose of poison. But Erst aid was

how

3 promptly rendered 'that he was unable to signify his desire to be married before he was pronounced out of danger. A second attempt to reach the threshold of death with vitriol proved equally unsuccessful.

The commanding officer, thoroughly interested in the love- story, decided to send Lupinacei to Ostffyasszonyla as an invalid, in the hope that he would be ex changed for a Hungarian prisoner. He could thus take. Yolan to Italy. Some days after Lupinacci's depar ture, a telegram, "Come at once, condition fulalled." summoned. Yolan to his bedside, But after the marriage had been celebrated, seven days before the Armistice, Lupinacci, died of pleurisy caught on the journey to Ostffyasszonyfa.

After Lupinacci's death a letter from his mother in Salerno invited his wife to take possession of the home and property which was law- fully her own. But the Hungarian girl, who had been deeply attached to the enemy soldier, feared that mercenary motives might be im- puted to her, and decided to remain in Hungary. It is only now, after years of hard work and poverty Budapest, that she has decided, on the advice of a lawyer patient. to" claim her rights as the wife of Lupinacci.

HAUPTMANN'S "GHOSTS."

NEW PLAYS PRODUCED IN

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When the two crafts were near lose. His glider was travelling at warmly received in Vienon. the Alameda airport, Goddard cut Gerhart Hauptmann has been very

He

nor his wife had outgrown their affection for a Dobermann dog to which both were equally devoted. 6 p.m.-European programme, As the Sarkany's were unable to

a high rate of speed because of went to attend the final rehearen's tinued.

decide on the fate of the dog, which momentum imparted by the towing of the Burgtheater's first production "Old Time Songs," Jack Hylton they desired to be legally includ- plane, and Coddard sent the nose of his two new one act plays, “Die

and His Orchestra.

cd in the verdict, they were oblig.pward in the belief that he could Schwarze Maske" und Hexen- That's How I Feel About You,rd to postpone the making absolute

"coast" through a loop.

ritt, performed under the title of Sweetheart" (Davis and Got the divorce until some argee-

"Spuk." The first work is a kind tler) and Thoughts Of You "sent could be arrived at.

of tragedy, and was well received. (Novello), Gracie Fields.

The second work had a rather mix- "Brooklet" and "Turkish March,"

Sergei Rachmaninoff. Early Ragtime Memories," Jack

Hylton and His Orchestra, "In A Japanese Garden "-(Higgs)

and "The Sacred Hour," Re-, cinald Foort. "The Song Is Ended" and "Just

A Memory," Winnie Melville the husband for several hours at a and Derek Oldham,

time on several days of the week. "William Tell-Overture," At And on this arrangement the

(Rossini) and "William divorce was finally concluded. " mer of 1927,

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The citation of a similar problem na Berlin newspaper eventually caused the husband to propose that the dog should remain his properly, and be lent to the wife for an hour on one day of each week. The wife retorted with the cointer-pro- position that the dog should remain in her possession, and be lent to

While the glider was still point ing upward, however, and before it End reached the apex, it "whip- stalled and started to fall tailed reception. first. Goddard · did not have In the Schwarze Maske " we enough altitude to pull out of this are taken to a little Silesian town, dangerous position since, without an in the year 1652, after the termina. engine, he was solely dependent tion of the Thirty Years' War. upon manipulation of rudder and Things are still in a turmoil, and"; ailerons and these were of little plague is threatening. The burgo effect.

master's beautiful wife is haunted by several ghosts during a feast, and we are left to surmise whether she finally kills herself or is killed by her negre lover. The Burgthea ter gave an impressive performance of the play.

Goddard was one of the entrants in the Dole Contest flight from Oakland to Honolulu in the aum-

THE WOMAN'S CORNER.

MAKE A SUCCESS OF MARRIAGE!

[BY BETTY ASHMORË.]

There are times when the moau- ings and groanings of the unbap- pily married irritate me beyond all bearing.

What do people expect of mar. riage, anyway a haven of rest, eure for all ills, an earthly paradise- heyond the dreams of man?

Apparently all this and more be sides, and if they don't get it they complain so loud and so long that they frighten every one else away,

too.

No wonder the marriage rate is falling, and people are talking of

a tax on bachelors; no wonder there without sticks, suspended in mid- are two million superfluous women air, aimless and thwarted.

it is all the fault of these feckless

impulse of spineless sentimentality very mean and the very cruel. But and throw up the sponge the mo-

the average man, the stuff of which ordinary husbands are made, is ment this begins to wear ofL

The truth is, marriage is not an

none of these things, any more than earthly paradise, nor is it remotely he is the paragon of strength, vir near to being ane but it is the tue, wisdom and kindness that his 'nearest approach to that state we wife expects him to be. are likely to reach. Therefore it is worth while to make the best it and at least keep up the appearance of

a successful marriage.

Leaving Well Alone,

It is specially up to women to make a great effort to achieve suc- cess, because they cannot do without marriage so easily as men. The male animal is usually like Kip- ling's cat who walks by himself and feels none of this feminine urge to have somebody to look after.

He doesn't even think of marriage till he falls in love and the idea is forced upon him, and he is usually perfectly happy living in his club, jor in a flat by himself, or travelling

about the world with other men.

"Hexenrit," a dream-play, is in sharp contrast with the preceding nightmare ballad. The author pre- sents it in a somewhat trifling spirit, intended to cheer the audi- ence after the horrors of the first play The audience, however, con Ridered "Hexenritt "inferior to the

Schwarze Maske," an opinion shared by some of the crities.

The technique of "The Rose of Pa Chi" is crude, the lighting variable. But the most important things, the movement and the spirit revealed, are lovely. horoine's maid has a grace of ges- ture that should put Anna May- Wong to shame, and every member of the east, because he is restrain-

The

But women are housekeepers and ed, is significant. The hero makes sick nurses by nature, and are com-

our Europesa faces seem fussy by pletely lost unless they have a man contrast. We roll our

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of their own to fuss over, to put are our teeth, lift eyebrows, and to bed when he is ill, and scold jerk our heads, and none of it when he is late for meals.

meads as much 13 the gradual They actually enjoy doing a great widening of an eye by these Chin- cse actors, They have depth, a many tiresome household jobs mere-

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it shows, and, though it is a simple Of course, there are exceptions toy because they are working for depth of culture and tradition and cowardly couples who marry on an the rule-lunatics, drunkards, the their own house and husband-and story, one is held. The hero is not are therefore in their element, fish very heroie; when a bandit storms in the water, queens of the castle. contented and happy, even if their

the monastery in which he is study husband is not all they would have he does not rush out to engage chosen !

scale walls and leap impossible (and their numbers are increasing) a letter to a general he knows, Happier certainly than those girls heighte. He sits down and writes

IN TENDERLOIN who remain single from choice, and Someone else takes it, and be waits. make frenzied (and usually futile) The general arrives with troops, with CONRAD NAGEL efforts to persuade themselves that and the bandit ja put to flight. they are better off because they are The hero is then able to win MITCHELL LEWIS ~ DAN WOLHEIM free. Who wants to be free, any the hand of the girl who had caus- how?

ed the bandit's evil intentions. It

JOHN MILJAN - ► GEORGIE STONE) is a naive story, but we watch it

But the sang by MÉLYCLE CHOR → Barts by E.T.LOWE when perhaps we would not watch

Directed by MICHAEL CURTIZ Fairbanks, The story of "Finis Terrae is as simple, but both

A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION films present us with something liv- ing and real They show us men living, and they enlarga our know ledge of how men live. The grace or the splendour with which men respond to circumstances has al- ways been the inspiration of art, and in these films it is not so much shown as caught.

? The Homting Instinct.

The trouble with women is that they are never satisfied. They can't leave well (or moderately well) alone, but insist on trying to alter And I do not hesitate to say their husband's nature to suit their (though many people will not agree own ideals. When he rebels, as he with me) that in nearly all case, a usually does in course of time, they had marriage is better than no mar-rush off and write pathetic letters Finge at all.

to the papers, describing the heart breaking miseries and humilitations of the married atale.

This is particularly true about women, because they are one and all born with a deep-rooted instinet to look after some one-and preferably a man to comfort him, bully him, advise all round his life.

And if they don't possers one they are like sweet peas trying to grow

It never seems to occur to them that it is a good deal more humi- litiating to give up the ghost with out the smallest struggle and then to publish your failure for the whole world to see!

It's only another name for lone liness!

Far better to trust your luck and jump into the stream among all the other people, even if it does look à trifle dangerous.

You've got as good a chance as any one else. And better if you don't expect miracles to happen!

Anything rather than shiver all alone on the brink because you are too much of a coward to take the plunge!

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