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LAMBETH

WALK

The mast conservative ball- room in England-the Bath Assembly Rooms-has banned the Lambeth Walk.

The Bath Spa Committee have issued an instruction that “In or- der to avoid excessive vibration,of the building. the Lambeth Walk and similar dances may not be

|danced."

In October, when the restored Assembly Rooms, costing the rate- payers £50,000, were reopened by the Duchess of Kent, the Lambeth Walk was danced with tremendous enthusiasm.

SOCIAL

THURSDAY'S MENU

The noors of the ballroom were strengthened with steel girders Ginger during the restoration. It is as- sumed that the Palais Glide and the Chestnut Tree are also banned. Bath dancers are indignant. "It is plain snobbery." they say,

Round About

There was great confusion on one of the steamers in port, from the galley to the bridge all were in a dither.

And only a missing, string" of pearls was the cause of such ex- citement.

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Duchess To Be Season Behind

NAMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN

A collection of the strange names given to Negro children in the United States has been

· made by Dr. A. P. Hudson, the etymologist, and published all- der the name "The Science of Naming Negro Bables." ""Petty Larceny" was one of the names." It indicated, according to Dr. Hudson, '"a weakness of the child's father.” Other strange names were:-----

Futhy MeNasty, Big Apple, Lucy Never Seen Joe Smith, Sunday May The Ninth. Dollar, Methodist Conference South, and Free Press. Many Negroes favour Biblical names. Among these were:

I will Arise and Go unto Father Smith and Seven Times Shalt Thou Walk Around. Jericho. The -latter was called Thou for short.

Dr. Hudson states in his survey that he found that special talent was often shown for naming twins. He mentions the following pairs of names-Bootjack and Nicknack, Matters (tomatoes) and Taters (potatoes), Kerosene.

and Gasoline and

ELEANOR HOLM

NEW YORK, Feb. 15 →It will be several days before. Eleanor Holm and three other bathing beauties will wear bathing suits in public because their legs are Hberally daubed with lodine. This was the result of Miss Holm's latest encounter with champagne- in dedication of the aquacade of the World's Fair.

"The last time you broke a cham- pagne bottle the nose was, heard all over the world," World's Fair Director. Grover Whalen said to Miss Holm" as she got ready "to swing the bottle., Whalen referred to the

swimmer's champion

due to Mrs. Fuss-Budget was disembark in Hongkong, -- That : morning her luggage had been packed, but a string of pearls. which she "Just knew" were around her throat the pre- .vious evening, were milssing. The Duchess of Kent. to whom The Captain down to the room feminine eyes have hitherto turn- steward were on the hunt. The led for a lead in fashions, will soon. lady's baggage was unpacked and be a

season behind the best-disqualification immediately prior to searched, her cabin was thorough- dressed women in England. ly inspected.

the last Olymples on account of When she goes to Australia in In the ship's office the agent of November, accompanying her hus-

her champagne-drinking.

the line and the Purser made a band Governor-General, she report of this incident and were with take" with her the English sure this blast will be heard Just about to call the police. As the summer fashions for the Austra agent lifted the telephone from lan season which follows it. its stand, he stared, as if in a

In the same way this autumn's

"Yes," said Eleanor, "and I'm

as far."

She smashed the bottle against the filing with tremendous force.

trance, at the owner of the miss-models will now go out to Mel-lying glass slightly cut her legs ing pearls sitting in the Quiety he returned the telephone

office.bourne.

Leading fashion houses of Lon-

to the stand and leaning across don. Paris and New York will con- the desk he said to the lady. "Mrs tinue to send out their models. - So So those are beautifully matched pearls in your necklace about your throat!"

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DANCE MACABRE

Dancing, with a smile on her lips, beautiful young Reable Childs drew "everyone's attention at а dance down Huntsville. Texas (U.B.) way. She was enjoying SOCIALISM—You have two cows; every minute of it, yet-the dance you give one to your neigh-was held in the Goree State Farm, bour

a prison in which Reable is ser- have two ving a twenty-five-year, sentence cows and give both to the for complicity in the murder of government and the govern- her husband. ment gives you the milk. Some American gaols for long- FASCISM-You keep both cows and term prisoners are run not so give the milk to the govern-much as places of punishment as ment and the government of detention. Prisoners have got sells part of it back to you to spend a large portion of their NAZISM-The government shoots lives there "explating" their crimes, you and takes both cowB. so efforts are directed towards NEW DEALEM-The government making those lives as normal as

shoots one cow, milks the possible. other and pottrs the l But can you imagine it at Hollo- down the sewer,

way or Aylesbury?

and those of three others dressed in bathing sulta.

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NEWSETTES

Mr. D. Cuthbertson, architect,

Public Works Department, cele-tendent of Police, will be con-

brates his 42nd birthday to-day.

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Mr. W. A. Johnson, engineer, Public Works Department. will be

28 years of age to-day.

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Mr. W. la B. Sparrow, Superin-

İgratulated ́ on the attainment of

his 35th birthday to-day.

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Mr. Bob Charles, Manager of the the United States on leave.

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Mr. Arthur J. Goodman, of But- ying-yu who was relieved of his

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The annual general meeting of

his new assignment on February the Ladies Recreation Club will

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be held on Friday, February 24′ at

5.30 p.m. at the Clubhouse,

The

Mr. C. 3. Chancellor, Renter's nasis of the Ladies Doubles will

General Manager for the Far East, be played off at 3 p.m. that after- and Mrs. Chancellor, who have noon, and the finals of the Men's been in Japan for the past two singles at 4.30 p.m. weeks, salled from Kobe on Feb

18 for Shanghai,

The education for refugee child- ren is being promoted by the The City of Birmingham is to Kwangtung Provincial Govern spend £12,500,000 on the erection ment, who have noticed that large. of 25,000 houses during the next numbers of children have been de five years. It is estimated that prived of education as a result of at the end of the period the Japanese invasion of Kwangtung municipality will have built 75,000 As a relief measure, special schools houses.

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