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EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

OBJECTION TO PROPOSAL TO ALTER HOURS

A deputation representing retail nowsɛgehts and dairykeepers was successful on May, 23 in presenting before the Education Committee of against proposed alterations in the by-laws in regard to the employ ment of children before and after school hours.

BANDITS DARING AT KASHING.

THREAT TO SLAUGHTER AT PUYUAN REPORTED.

ARE WE ENGLISH HUMAN?

SEIZURE MADE BY CUSTOMS.

CONTRABAND COIN FOUND

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IN SHANGHAI,

THE RETURN OF THE HORSE.

POPULARITY GROWING IN

ENGLAND.

The saddle horse is coming into,

National Boasting. about 100 lb. ench, and each con- fact that it would be equally easy its own again. After the lean years

A haul of 500 bage, weighing

To say nothing of the familiar. taining contraband in the form of to collect quotations declaring that when a hores and ridor was a rare copper cents, which wore about to

| Edinburgh Corporation a protest larger towns for personal safety, be amuggled out of Shanghai, was English weather and buns and all sight in all but the bunting dis

increase of banditry on all sides of Kashing, June 25-The gradual Kashing caused many of the large landowners to move into cities and says the CD.N. correspondent, The small groups of robbers com bined so as to be able to disarm local police in the small market The proposals were that children towns by superior numbers and loot under 18 years shall not be emat will Almost always successful played, the present minimum being twelve; and that they shall not be employed before joven nor after eight in the morning. Alterations were also proposed in the after school hours

in such raids, they bocamo bolder, better organized, and actually in vaded large, prosperous places like Fuyuan and Hainhuang.AN Local provincial and water police are usually dot-pobered and out manoeuvred In a general way, these larger bonds operate from the shores of Tai-bu (lake) or Hang chow Bay. Several arrests have been made, tracing the leaders or brains of the organization to Shanghai were much of the loot is distributed and the money spent.

Blaughter Threatened.

the rest of it are deplorable, there

lish, in this kind of boasting. I should have thought it not even dis tinctively human. All races of any individuality have from the begin ping made these claima to special excellence.

tricts and

the country roads, the Row, the en only in the season, London commons, and often the roads of the suburbs are carrying more and more of this traffic-which but a few years back was pronoun- cod as dead.

Brigadier-General T. H. S. Mar- chant, Secretary of the Institute of the Horse, discussed the situation with a representative of the London forning Post. The Institute may ftly he described as the horseman's equivalent of the "AA"

mands in a large and ingeniously in surely nothing distinctively Eng arranged "hide" by Customs sear chers on board the str. Yun On The ship was due to sail a few hours later, for the south.

The hiding place, to any searcher, would be most

difficult to find. Actually it formed one end of a bunker at the side of the engine To the Greek everybody else was room, and was entered from a stores savage, to the Roman everybody room. It was some seven feet in clso was a slave. Where in our own height and about six feet wide and time is the nation which does not six feet long.

believe its own ways the best in the world? Will a Frenchman" com At one side of the store: "room there was a large cupboard, with pare any other civilisation with Its membership, he said, had dou. shelves, on it, some six feet in that of France? What does the bled since last year, and he filt height. The top of the cupboard, normal American, think of the all-confident that by the close of the which is three feet deep, is occu- ciency of other nations? pied for half its length by a locker, the other half forming a shelf, on which pieces of rope and odds and

ends are kept

shelf,

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This does not, however, mean that we really believe everything we say of our superiority. Even your dog

Present year, it would have reached 1,000, At the same time the mem- junction with the Institute, had bere

of the Pony Club, run in con- 4. trebled, and now totalled 3,000,

or your cat enjoys itself making-a; To get into the place it was brag of powers it does not posseSS.

Riding schools are springing up necessary first of all to clear away The game is quite well understood, all round the fringes of London, the rope and other items on the and thongh I cannot blame Dr. and in the main are doing good The entrance was in the Renier for pointing out that in work, and an interesting repercus- corner near the locker. One of the dust-carts we do not really lead the plates has been hinged at the top, world, I think he orrs in sup and by pressing on the bottom it posing that any considerable num- casual eye it would not appear as Sultan of Zanzibar declared Eng could be swung right up. To the ber of the poople who read that the anything was out of order. Even lishmen the wonder of the world

Mr. W. F. Forrester, on behalf of the newsagents, contended that to reduce the period of work from one hour and a half to one hour in the morning would make it al most impossible for newsagents to carry on their business. It was said that the early hour was de trimental to the children with r gard to their studies and their

A citizen of Puyuan reports that health. Experience was that the in order to revenge the death of a contrary was the case. The most leader (killed in the last raid there alert and bright children in the and head hung up by soldiers) his schools were very often those who followers are threatering to come went with messages in the morn-again, not for plunder, but to burn ing. The light exercise was bone houses and slaughter the people, fteinl to the children The dairy. This is bad for business. The keepers usually gave the children Kashing hospitals are constantly a drink of milk in the morning, taking in the people wounded in The newsagents did not give them these raids. There are occasional milk, but they gave them an appe-evidence of torture. tito-(laughter)-and the means of Local papers report a mutiny of appeasing that appetite. ...the Provincial police at Hain-rivets on its surface and its coat of odd paint exactly in keeping with It was much more, difficult to get Tsang on the Hungchow Bay. children to begin at 13 than at 12. Claiming back-pay, they bound the rest of the plates, would not be There were at present nearly two their officers, demanded money from noticed. Only by pressing on it thousand children employed in the gentry, and then looted the would it be found that it was not Edinburgh delivering papers, and town, retiring towards Chapu along solid. The door was about two feet they earned ou an average 4 a the seu-well. week, which meant that £24,000 n year was going into the homes.

After the deputation had left the committee agreed by a large Jurity that the minimum age of employment should be retained at twelve. It was further agreed, however, that the maximum weekly

hours and employment should be reduced from 25 to 211, and that the principle of dicerent hours for different trades should be observed,

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to the practised eye the plate in the edraer, complete with the ends of

square,+

Inquiry fails to discover any Inside the recess it could be seen connection with communism; there that it formed part of a fuel bunk may be secret understandings, but. One end of it had been closed the opinion most expressed is that off from the bunker with stoel account of hard times and poli. plates,, all of which were obviously

now, and newly riveted intentartica banditry in the easiest, and sometimes the only, why that a living for the unemployed, can be found.

From the fact that poor farmers and ordinary labourers are not much disturbed by bandits, it would seem that loot is the main objectivo of these assorted robbers. The city merchants and landowners deplore the increase of lawlessness.

The rice-planters are now very busy, market places les active.

A NEW TYPE OF GIRL.

WHO IS NEITHER BLONDE NOIL BRUNETTE,

Forty-seven per cent of the girls and women of the United States are neither blonde, brunettes nor redbands....*

They are of that hitherto unclas sified group, whose hair is one of the many various shades of brown, whose eyes are gray or blue, and whose skin is approximately white. They outnumber the red-hoads nearly eight to one. They are near ly two and one half times 88 nu merous as blondes, and there are a

1

third more of them than there are brunettes.N

Meet Brownsšten," They are brownettes." The name has been coined for

CONDUCTED TOUR OF

ARCTICA

SOVIET ICE-BREAKER TO

TAKE PARTY.

sion of the "boom" is the campaign which the Institute has found it necessary to undertake against

sary

past years, as the paths were used closed bridle paths. During the

less and less, and finally not at all, there has been

en a tendency by

took it to heart

But Dr. Rodier is very arch about owners to fence them in. our English humour.

"The Englishman, who proclaims his sense of Humour," says he, insisting on the capital letter "I never met one who did not, and often he qualified it as exquisite is to me as a member of a secret society, making a subtle sign which is full of meaning to his associates but passes my uninitiated under standing."

Of All the Ages,

Now the need for the paths has grown so urgent that every County Council in the country has been approached, and the majority have already agreed, to take every step to ensure that these legal rights of way are made again available for saddle horses,

Stringent Teats,

With the mushroom-like, growth of now riding schools the Institute.

aminations, and now grant their have inaugurated a system of ex-

certificate to properly qualified

As was only to be expected,"

I feel almost sure he is being sarcastic there. That's whera de come blooming onjenew, as Mr. Pyecroft said, he knows a lot real-structors. ly. But in rarely intellectual cir cles of our countrymen, did Dra Renier move With shame I con- General Marchant said, "a sumber fems it, sover did I hear any man, of young

en and women have set English or any other, say that he up as instructors with little or no bad an exquisite sense of humour, knowledge of their job. In fact, Moscow, June 28.-The first The usual English approach to the tourist expedition into the Arctic. subject is to remark that somebody under the auspices of the Soviet clse has none. Travel Bureau, Inturist, will leave! Archangel on board the ice-breaker There are a number of other Malygin early next month. The things about us which Dr. Renier party, consisting of American, Bri- finds absurd. How can we engage tish and German tourists, is to be in field sports and yet object to conducted by Professor Weise, the cruelty to animals? How could we famous Russian explorer. The go to war with Germany for her Malygin will 'frat proceed to Fran- threat to the independence, of na- eis Joseph Land where her passen- tions and be content that France gars will be put ashore at Hubker should become the chief military Island on which the Soviet govern power on the Continent? ment two years ago erected the most

As the Dutch have no juries, what Northern meteorological atation. nonsense it is for the English to which maintains communications pretend that a jury can do justice In my young days it used to be with the outside by means of a As Dr. Renier thinks that "enlight the opposite. The women are gen- powerful radio station.

enment is the last gift required of

some of them can hardly ride them- elves. Our examinations are con ducted by fully qualified experts, generally instructors from the Weadon School of Equitation. At we passed

the Inst examination three out of eleven entrants.

Children," he said, "are riding better than over before-and so are

women.

"At every meet nowadays, you will find four women to every man.

With Hubker Island as their base, the tourists will make carefully con ducted excursions until the time ar rives for the meeting of the Maly- gin and the Graf. Zeppelin, which will bring mail to the touriste and receive some in exchange. After could add many equally forcible. I

think Dr. Renier is mistaken when try, and Masters everywhere had this meeting, the Malygin, with her he takes for granted that the Eng-expressed approval of the scheme. passengere still aboard, will pakelish incapacity to appreciate them Whatever else an attempt to reach Crown Prince

does," he said, Rudolf Land, in response to an amanity. There is another alterna

100proves us unlike the rest of hu- it will ensure the future of hunt-

in officy, when Arnold trained crally good riders and always feor publio school boys to be leaders he leas gave them "a ritualistic conception of life,"

The children, he added, were re- markably good. The Pony Club To such arguments na these Ihed centres in every hunting coun

them by Max Factor, make-up au thority for Hollywood screen stars. "Realizing they were neiter blonde, brunette apr red-head,” Factor anid, these girls have repeal to the Soviet government from tive, that it may be Dr Renier who ing in this country." sorted to various means of chang the American polar explorer Fiala, is singular, and whose information ing their appearance.

The resulting effect frequently

who believes that, Amundson reach

is grotesque, WA Red that part of the Arctic and is

It is not unusual for a natural: still living there although four. brownotta. to become a redhead on Tuesday and discovering her error, to change to a blonde on Wednes day, bude day and

Natural Tints Best

Yours have passed since he went out in search of the lost group of the Nobile expedition.

ienot quite adequate to his con- clusions.

For a neat summary of the modern Englishman I would rather, go to a study written 600 years ago.

Where, not many years

agoj children were content to jog along on Shetland and moorland ponies, today they rode small hunters, and rodo them well Most shows could

The famous Norwegian explorer, These men, to put it into more provide examples of this. Every Fiala stated, had been informed by modern language, “ba able to all one of the 3,000 members. him that several provision caches manner of sleight and wity but Pony Club were xide and desperation, and had been established on that island

**Their inferiority complexes fr. quently drive brownettes to pero

They should, realize they are at and would probably have tried to before the deed blundering and rode regularly. their best in their natural tinta,rench it when his scapluce failed

Let them rally to their colours," him." The Soviet authorities are hasty and leave oft lightly what they An encouraging feature was that Outstanding specimens af brown somewhat optical regarding have begun these men, despise their all sorts and ranks of people, many ettes among film stars, Factor anid, Amundsen chances of having ren are Mary Brian, Betty Branson, ched the island and passed several own and prize other men's and of whom had never been astride Lois Wilson, Among the blondes are winters there, but have nevertheless Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff and expressed their willingness, to da

|hardly be satisfied): their own horse, wer taking up ridic Thelma Todd. Among the brunettes what they can towards clearing up estate? Is hot this the English, are Lena. Maleno, Lupe Velez and the mystery of the great explorer Bue Carol.""

Tate.

Litli man of all the ages 1

exercise, and were enjoying better health in consequence

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