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TRAGEDIES OF THE THE KALAHARI NOT
WORKLESS.
INGENIOUS WIVES WHO KEEP HOMES TOGETHER.
HOPE SUSTAINED BY THE
"DOLE."
London, after the north, seems incredibly vitalised. The general industrial depression that lies o heavily on the people of the min- ing and the cotton districts is not in London, writes Mrs. Cecil Chesterton.
A DESERT.
A DEFINITE PRONOUNCE- MENT BY SCIENTISTS.
GIGANTIC GRASSY PLAIN,
The great Kalahari Desert is not a desert, and it is time for this century-old mistake, endorsed by modern geographers, to be refuted once and for all.
This definite pronouncement. is
STEWARD BEATEN BY A CAPTAIN.
CABIN SCENE ON THE HIGH SEAS,
at
Alexander Kane, master of the steamship Bradaron, lying Greewhich Buoys, was fined £5, with £ costs, at Greenwich Police Court for assaulting George" Yor ston a steward, on the high seas. Yorston said that the vessel was at. Preston, West Indies, on May 16,| when the captain went into his cabin, accused him of drinking, hit him, kicked him, and beat him on the back until he was "blue all"
over,"
Mr. Peregrins, defending: Does not your record show you to be a thorough scoundrel
Forston disagreed, but admitted that he had three bad discharges. He joined the Discovery, but did not go to the South Pole.
the first to reach civilisation from the Vernay-Lang expedition "ot Unemployment is sporadie rather
fourteen scientists who are now eng: than settled, hope still lurkaround
aged on the most exhaustive survey the corner, there is yet the chance of the Kalahari ever undertaken. of a job; but within narrower, (They have made the complete limits there is the same struggle.crossing from Gaberones, on the
Mr. Peregrine: No, because by The London woman, with husband Mafeking Rhodesia main line,
the time you got to Cardiff you out of work, like her sister of the Ghanzi, on the western fringe, and were thrown out for drunkenness. are now pushing further north
Yorstan: No, I refused to go be Tyneside, Eas to keep the family Among other tasks they are en-
cause the voyage was too long. fed and shod and housed on a week.deavouring to compile a complete
Kane denied that he struck Yor- ly sum that calls for unending in collection of every living thing en-ston with a sugar-cane, and said caused by countered in the Kalahari for the that his injuries were genurity and patience.
British Museum and other world his falling down the hold. institutions,
A Grassy Plain.
to
QUICK RELIEF FROM INDIGESTION
You and them everywhere; these heroines of unemployment, facing the daily grind, the never-ending On the route so far traversed, problem of how to make one shill the Kalahari, instead of the com ing do the work of two. It is for monly accepted idea of a desert, them to keep their husbands' flag-Presents chiefly a grassy plain, in
which busbes and trees are often No matter which of the many ging courage to sticking point, to
more or less thickly scattered. The forms of indigestion you may have hold against the heaped-up disap pointment of hope continually de- excessively porous nature of the-beartburn, acidity, flatulence, gas- sandy soil allows the entire rainfall, tritis, or cld-fashioned dyspepsia, ferred an even keel of sympathy which is probably greater than is you can get quick relief by taking generally assumed, to be so rapid- ly absorbed that extensive accumu. lation of water is only possible in a few isolated pans. The rain ab Forbed in the fine, sandy soil s thus retained for a considerauin time.
and courage.
Few know the story of their lives, their struggles and endurance. 1 bavo, learned something of what it means to manage on the dele.
Hanger for a Garden,
I found husband, wife, and five children, from two to eight years, old, living in one room-i typical home in Queensland-road, Holle way that district of wide thor- oughfares, mean streets, and con- geries of teeming stima.
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CHURCH NOTICES.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Howo Kong.
JULY 20, 19330, 3th Sunday "after
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Holy Communion at 8 .m." Children' Sevice at Jù am. Mattias and Sermin at 11 am.
Preacher:Rev. A. D. Stewart. Holy Communien at 1.5 p.m. Evensong 6.40 p,0."
Preacher:-Rev. R
Brougham, Chaplain Missions to Seamen. FRIDAY, July 25, St. James Day i-
Holy Communion at 7.45 am.
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Subject -LIFE.
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Wednesday Evening Meeting 5.50
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many hospitals and Far from being" the cradle of and why so the cheery little woman. "You sec, it's what they call furnished. The mankind, as has been sometimes nurses use it too. Make a point of landlord puts in a bed and a chair suggested, the Kalahari constitutes getting a package of Bisurated
However chronic For two. There's not an unfurnish an enormous basin of abous 600,000 Magnesia powder or tablets from ed room to be had, though we've square miles, forming the greatest your, chemist. still enough of our own things to accumulation of wind blown "sand your indigestion may be, Bisur in the world. Flora and fauna now ated Magnesia will bring a speedy can eat, drink and smoke without was covered with existing in the Kalahari are, defend to your troubles so that you linoleum also the landlord's. Mo-nitely immigrants of comparative fear of pain or discomfort to follow. Teleg.: Roy: London." Est. 1844. ther, father, and two children slept by recent times and are closely re- in one bed, and three children in lated to those living in adjacent
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The husband, a tall, sturdy chap, draws 178." week unemployment pay, with 9. a week for his wife and 2. for each child. To feed and clothe and generally look after a family of seven on 36s. a week needs The husbandry and hard work. menu is largely tea and "bread and "with a suet pudding for marge, the children, potatoes, and occa gional stews.
Few have more than one room in Queensland-road, but though terrib
overcrowded they are all clean. Flowers bloom in the windows and
Man also, it is concluded, has in- vaded the Kalahari in relatively re cent times, having taken "to the place as an excellent refuge...
LAWSUIT AGAINST
TROTSKY.
MAY BE ALLOWED INTO GERMANY AS WITNESS.
"
An interesting literary action brought by a German publishing
German
in the pathetic little front yards house against Trotsky has resulted runner beans flourish with ger-in до uppeal to the aniums, and marigolds all "a-blow-authorities to permit the exile a ing from a pennorth of seeds"-
few weeks' stay in that country. the symbol of the Londoner's The well-known publishers of romantic hunger for a garden.
Clothes by Instalments.
A widow and four daughters exist on the unemployment pay of 12s, weekly of the eldest daughter, aged eighteen, per child from the Public Assistance Committee which has taken the place of the Poor Law guardians-and what the woman can earn by daily charing. They re in one room at 3s a week, with their own furniture and gas cooker. The groceries are bought at a general shop which al lows a shilling discount in the 2. The instalment clothing plan keeps 'them dressed.
historical memoirs, Carl Reissner, of Dresden, claim that a year ago Trotsky promised them the manu- script of a work entitled Lenin and his followers," to be ready this, spring, and signed a contract to that effect. When the representa tive of the firm appeared in Stam- boul at the time this agreement vas signed. Trotsky inquired whe ther the political opinions of this house were such as warranted a man of his views permitting them to handle his work. He received books deliberately against Soviet Russia, nor had it any intention of engaging upon any such publica
tion.
No mention was made of the fact "It's very difficult sometimes,"
work by Kerensky, contain- said the mother, but it's bad for that the girl to go shabbier than bering sharp criticism of Lenin and friends. It puts wrong ideas into the Soviet régime, had appeared her head. She must look smart on among Raissner's books. Trotsky a Sunday, but week days don't mat. heard of this later, and raised on- ter. Eo I pawn her best dress and jections, to which he received the the kiddies' shoes dad my coat when reply that had the publishers, been we're hard up, and get them out fully aware of what Kerensky pro posed to write they would doubtless again at wek-ends..
The family wardrobe is the house. not have handled the book. In any hold capital. drawn out and paid case, to antisfy Trotsky, the firm ex in as necessity demands through pressed themselves willing to let Kerensky vanish from the market Pthe poor man's bank."...
as soon as the present edition was exhausted. This did not satisfy Trotsky, who declared that he con Bidered his contract. no longer valid.
So long as there is something, however little coming in regular like, it gives you hope," said an elderly woman. "It was different before the war. My husband fell out of work for three years and dur home and his saving had to go to find the children, food.
His presence as witness is urgent- ly desired by the Court and his friends are hoping that this may be It
broke his heart. Ho's never been the means of obtaining him permis
the same since. The dole does help at any rate, to keep your spirit up. You aren't quite ground into the dust."
The Master Man.
What this sense of security-means. I realised a little further down the
same street, an old-fashioned turn-
medical advice. Criticism of poli 5101 to enter Germany and obtain- tical enemies, to the effect that this is what he has doubtless been try ing to accomplish, is met by the reply that not hs but his pub- lishers have brought the action.
WE U HONEST to bad, ta épend thei
No, my husband doesn't get the money the boys bis slechte employment pay. He's what theyhey have lived up to the pre
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sells fruit on his own. We've got bit by bit bey will not apply to the barrow and the board, but we the Publie Assistance Committee. haven't got the fruit and there's Man and wife are indomitably no chance of getting any. He was proud, and they will manage sumc. (Continued of foot of next column.) [ how until the bitter end.
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