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THE FAMILY ALBUM-DOING UP THE WASH

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

GWYRS

INILLIENTS

CALLS TO FAMILY SHE'S GOING TO GET THE WASH READY NOW, HAS ANY- BODY GUT ANYTHING - ELSE TO SEND

·SETS NUMBER DOWN ON LIST AND CALLS THERE ISN'T ANY BIE SHIRT HANGING IN HIS CLOSET ·

-7-30

SKELETONS IN THE STREET.

STARTS COUNTING HANDKERCHIEFS

IS JUST READY TO SET DOWN, NUMBER OF HAND- *KERCHIEFS ON LIST WHEN. HUSBAND CALLS BLUE SHIRT

•IN HIS CLOSET OUGHT TO SO

A

-TRIES TO 60 ON COUNT ING CLOTHES WHILE' ARGUNG WITH HUSBAND WHO CLAIMS BLUE SHIRT MUST BE THERE

THEY LURKED ROUND THE CORNER,

ومي عيد

Human skeletons in the aircéts startled the respectable citizens of Scuicostes recently.

„Passers-by found first then a row of ribs, nod further on a skull, the bones of a limb lying on the ground."

Round the corner there

WDS

HUSBAND REMEMBERS AT LAST BLUE SHIRT WAS SENT LAST WEEK.

• COMPLETES LIST AND TIES UP WASHING

(Copyright, 1910, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

MAN WHO SCARED ENGLAND.

WHEN ST. PAUL'S WAS "FALLING DOWN."

one

A man who leaped into fame by of the most startling an- nouncements that London over

month.. hoard died in Staines Hospital last

·

FORGETS NUMBERS AND HAS TO COUNT

HANDKERCHIEFS OVER AGAIN.

TEN MINUTES LATER HUSBAND, FINDS HANDKERCHIEF IN HIS POCKET WHICH HE THINKS]

HAD BETTER 60

SISTERS GIFTS IN SECRET.

ALL OUR MONEY."

A pathetic message read at `a, Nottingham inquest last month re- vealed that two sisters gave all their money, anonymously to chari- ties and were then themselves pen- nilėsa,

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY 2.B.W.ON 235 METRES,

LOCAL ENTERTAINERS AT: THE STUDIO..

11 to 11.80 m, Commercial news.

11.30 am to 10:30 p.m.-Chinone

programme.

12.30 p.m.-Europian programme.. 1.30 p.n.Weather report.

p.m.-Close down.

p.n-Chiness programme.. 7.tn. European programms of Victor and H.M.V. regards selected and supplied by Messrs, Montris, & Co, g Tomp and Circunstance?-March (Elgar), London Symphony Orchestra.

Forza del Destini Overture:

(Verdi),Victor Symphony Or thestra, BANK

Prelude in G Minor" (Depro) and Fugue in G, Minor

(Dupre).-Marcel Dupre, Or ganist. Pirates of Penzance"-Selection

(Sullivan), and "Iolanthe Selection. The Band of H., Coldstream Guarda,

"

Praeludium (Jarnefelt) and "Borceuse" (Jarnefelt)-Vio- tor Concert Orchestra.

* Gavotte" (Moxart), and

Gavot-

to" (Gretrey).- William F. Reitz, Bell Boloist. Minuct" (Gluck) and * Minuet "

(Mozart).*.

The Sweelest Flower That Blows"

(Hawley) and "On the Banks of Allan Water” (Horn).- Edna, Thornton, Contralto. DN The Daughter of the Regiment " (Donizetti).-La Senta Orch. "Rosorn" (Palmoren) and "Lo

Petit A Blanc (Ibert).- Benno Maisoivitch, Pianoforte. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1-Parts 3 and 4 (Grieg)-Victor Sym- phony Orchestra.

tone.

"The Yeoman's Wedding "Ponia- towski) and "Out of the Night" (Lidgey)-Percy Heming, Bari- L'Arlesienie-Adagietto" (Bizet). and "Farandole—Royal Opera Ourchestra. Pastolale E Caproccioso" (Scar- latti). Benne Moiseivitch, Piano,

He was Mr. John Todd, the sur

The inquest was on Miss Minnie veyor in the City of London under Trindes (51) and Miss Leah Trinder the London Building Act, who in. (48), who were found gassed at their formed the world fivo years ago that rooms in Tennyson-street. T sprawied neross the pavement and in the St. Paul's Cathedral was falling A letter written by the younger 7.30 .8 .m.-The Rev. H. R.

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Norse.

Complete

skeletons

roadway, as if a whale raw of -country house ghosts had Inid down to rest after a night of capers in the best romantic manner.

Startled women and puzzled men gazed at the bones, rubbed their eyes and sent for the police.

Then the riddle of the bones was solved,

1

down,

Mr. Todd afirmed that to make St. Paul's safe was a thek that would occupy twelve years and cost. £9,000,000.

People laughed, and Mr. Todd answered them by revealing that two months before, he had served a dangarous structure notice on the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, calling upon them to make the

structure safo,

The chapter called in other ex pert, who suggested that certain repair work should be done to the defective picrs.

structural repairs would be done, An underaking was given that

sister referred to their loneliness since the death of their parents, and added

Bells of Killarney, "The Silver

Masked Tenor.

Wells will give the fourth lesson in Cantonese for Everyone." 9p.m.-Weather report, local time

, and news.

STUDIO CONCERT, p.m.-*

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FEROCIOUS

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Fill Dorady El Brendel,

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She was the

Queen of the

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she

craved

only love!

mary NOLAN

4. Hilo Harmony Boys ( YOUNG

Minnie's nerves are giving- fway again, so we thought this

would be better than Hinnie hav ing to go to a mental home and 1.95 leave me hero alone. Give our love to sister, We shall soon meet again in the Kingdom. We drew all our money a long time ngo and have since given it to different charities as anonymous donors, and have now come to our last resources."

William Harry Trinder, a brother, said he could offer, no explanation

A gang of youths, playing in a disused cemetery attached to St. Mary's Church, had broken one of the mouldering tombs. Bones that had lain there for generations were exposed, and the boys, reckless in their play, had carried off the bones na a trophy. Their example excited the other boys, and before long and the City Corporation suspend of his sisters" act, unices financial savoral graves had been brokened the dangerous structure notice.ficulties had arisen suddenly open and the skeletons removed.

The boys carried these out into anid Mr. Todd. The same trouble unsound mind was returned.

It is not an adequate remedy," A verdict of "Suicide while of. the street, where their sisters were playing, seared the little girle away, and then, with the fickleness of-children, thought of a new game. So they dropped the bones and

ran away.

will recur in twenty-five years time."

veyor.

J

He thereupon resigned his posi tion as dangorous structure sur

But Sculecates is to have no more

The completion of the restoration skulls in the street. Police are now of St. Paul's was celebrated in on duty round the graveyard.

(Continued on next Column.)

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Glorious Devon," Edward German and (b) "House of

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Peora" (from Iolantho"), Interpreter at All Performances Gilbert and Sullivan,

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0." Mr. True at the Piano,

Accompanist: Mr. C. Dudley

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10.30 p.m.-Close down

TALKIE PRODUCTION.

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL'S GOOD YEAR."

The favourable

British talkice is commented on by outlook for

national Pictures," Ltd in their the directors of British Inter- annual report issued recently. The profit for the year was £177,948 and the directora recommend dividend on the ordianry shares of 8 percent. per annum lesa tax

"The directors are pleased to report," it was stated, that dur

ing the year the company's pro ductions of talking pictures, have met with much success. The technical difficultius of the Ttransi- tion from silent to talking pictures have been successfully overcome. Production costs have been sub- stantially reduced, and the com- pany's income from the hire of films - which generally is now based upon creased as compared with the im a percentage of drawings; has in-

como previously derived from lat rates of film hiro.

Owing largely rel

the

of British voices and forias of ex- pression, British pictures are now. moeting with a measure of public favour unknown in the days of silent pictures.140-directors, therefore, look forward with con fidude to a steady increase in the prosperity of the company

direntage of thank manaing.

Bubsidury

company, also recommended dividend of 8 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares less tax.

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