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THE 'XMAS SEASON WITH THE HELP OF

INVERTED LAMPS

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blam of nationalism in a way impossible, to experience in Eng- The lady from Paris, amply land. The absurdity of making filling her corner of the railway these people French of German carriage, was cracking the shell by statutory proclamation was of her third hard-boiled egg: patent. Many of them were pro- Monsieur, having achieved his bably French by predilection: fourth egg, was seeking poara, many of them German; but mast A debonair young poitu.charming of them were Alsatian and re- THEY PROTECT YOUR EYES FROM THE DIRECT OLARING in his light blue uniform, garded the question of nationality was insisting on my bay with indifference. They chiods RAYS OF THE ORDINARY LAMPS AND RESULT IN A MOST ing another BRIK of the wanted to be left in peace to vin rouge which, he declared, anjog the added culture which PLEASING AND HARMONIOUS LIGHTING ARRANGEMENT. accompanied him on all train bilingüaliam gives them." journeys. I saw his amasament It was rather distressing to find at my moderation fade from his in some quarters the kind of eres and give way to a lively ¦ furtiveness which fear engenders. expression of excitement. Into the carriage of a local train Madame abandoned her half-jumped a young Teuton flaunting jeaten egg, Monsieur his half- a tricolour rosette in his button- | peeled pear,,and all three French bal. He gave a surreptitious

SINCERE Co..

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Sitizens hurried to the carriage gante at me and my compatrios W. S. BAILEY

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halt. I beheli a station the ir roofs of which were pitted with

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"Qu'est ce temand, wiping my lips.

c'est ?

C'est l'ancienne' beamed Madame.

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13th January,

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Nothing out of the common happened in the fourth stage,

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would wait to be addressed before canwitting Fitf to language or another. seemed sa ilty. flere people who had lived in perfect concord with one another for filty Evnicourt the old frontier. We years, accepting the linguistic

natural about

in a to enter Alsace, Peculiarities 2 France's new territory.

borderland folk, and now, for no For sama timy my travelling. other reason than a change of and easign, they were companians remained standing at the window. Easing silently

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unfamiliar land, der ant Presently the mountains of the Vosges rase up before us, their pine-covered slapes gleaming in the the warm light of the Septem- bar sun.

It is beautiful, hein?" said Madame. And we agreed.

At Saarburg the soldier took his leave, bidding me keep an open for the fine German barracks in which he was to spend the next six months of his service.

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"Yes." I agreed, "that at least And then I realised family who kept a hostel halfway bad mistaken the direction of up the Hobrodberg. s host her band. In the middle distance KANGEAN knew no French; his wife was equally tuen: in French and there stretched before us a forest German: the children spake both when tree-trunks, without BORNEO

branches, stiff and leafless, ghostly languages, but their French was

in-the-fading light-- be thickly tainted with a German

"They were gassed." the girl accent that it was difficult to

eaid. They are quite dead.

bat perturbed at the dhow. Among themselves the Ther will never be green again.",

Lee's Great Fight.

beyonda little sly holding by the Tancy Les made an attack challenger, but the Gfth showed upon the feather-weight chan Lee up to splendid advantage. Madame pionship held by the Southern, Besides putting up Mike Honeyman. of Canning defense he brought into play Towo, at the National Sporting maz alracking strokes notably Club, London, 1st month. The records of the two rivals are such eman dit not care about. an ugly but telling upper cut that common property that it mustand at this stage the elder man suffice here to say that Lee, a hat the leal, nearly all the proaching bis 39th birth lay, won Southerner's blows being blanket outright

second Lonsdale by Lee's gloves. I put up for this particular poundage and be gave away By the tim the ninth round everything except weight twas signalled Honeyman had Honeyman, who is almost young fallen into Lar's strle of fighing. nough to be the Scotsman's son, and little else happened, except besides being inches taller and {jabbing at indbody at half-arm's longer in the reach than the length.

the

seals, Monsieur

natel between the a superb mouthful of their interminable repast that the names of the Al-atian stations had boen daly Callieland+thie was it should e. They noted also, and were party, that the German "ja" was common among the porters and incoming passengers as the French "out" Dur destination

Tarre were nxt twa opinions was Strasburg, and here we part-

The solid and imposing on one point; that under French structure of Strasburg Stacian government they were freer than station excited Madame's astop-thay hd heen under German

H WEYMAS TAKES THE LEAD.

ishment.

"It is a nestation." I ventured in my best French.

Abatian patois was chiefly cur- fent, and this Elsasser Deutsch, Shelly Galli-ised German.

I am mil tends to become a

Nay, it must be acknowledged.

was there any doubt on another point: that culture is deterior. ation was complained that the French influence. WAS negative, no! constructive. In

FROM THE COURTS.

"He came to the house deter-

mined to fight and handed his false teeth to his father.Detail

at Acton,

Counsel to "witness in Bow

County Court-"Will you swear?"- The Man-"There's nothing to

wear about or I would."

Bargee's preface to his evidence in Bow County Court-"It was a dark, dirty, dreary, windless, watery night"

I don't sit here to be bawled

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Description ak Shoreditch County Court-"My premises are as clean as a whistle." Judge Cluer-"What is there remark- ably clean about a whistle?

there

were no

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"I have had eighteen months

veteran champion. At the weighe Honeyman Boxed prettily but he ing in early in the afternoon Lee Lucket pas maing power, and a "Colesale," declared. My fam -sealed & st. 13 1h and Honeg-} had distance, the points favoured

"romme tout et qui est bothe!% man only just got inside 9 st.) Lo», wins had a good tenth round.

"Like everything German... after being stripped. There was

Yes, it was still Germany. I had future children would be com- no betting then on the result, but at the ring-side-half-past ten at Ilonezman improved and about com from Paris and hat hatpulsorily taught one language Under the night, When the theatre was levelled up in the twetish, and fourns on the way at towns only French.

on the Meuse and the Marne. German regime not only French" packed from Boor to ceilings only Tany's wonderful defence Serators had little in common and German were taught but slight shade of olla wa- laid on save him from damaging blows with the. The architecture was English also. At Strasburg and Honeyman, varying between 11 on the rhin from the quicker two- to 8 and 5 to 4. Mr. A. F. Bettin-handed execution of the Lendoner. French: the new buildings at the neighbouring town of University, the Imperial Colmar were excellent municipal son was refere, aul Mesara E.

Lee's right eye betrayed signs Palace, and the Library-were theatres. Here, three or foor Corri and C. II. Douglas judges. [of frequent visitation in The handsome in the solid modern times a week, performances were

TASCY'S GOOD START.

thirteenth, and this certainly was German fashion and bore no re-given of good playa, modern and Honeginan's best round up to semblance to the flamboyance of classical — when Alsace was The men presented a great code, while in the nex: the veteran the French. French names were German,

Now! Ten times a trast when they farel each other. Le bull and grey, and Honey-Parel to be tiring. Honeyman attached to all the streets, but the rear a tenth-rate travelling com man lithe atel young dooking, ha: Kuins to his cother the fresher German ones remained side by pang descends upon the harmless se with them; French flags, citizens and offers them some in disconcerting Profusion, pro-rubbish from the lesser Paris

town was theatres. limef that "the French, but the German hinzuage, which preponderated assertively in me of this sighed. It was

eye, and threatened to run a in the conversation of the com- not that her sympathies were

screwdriver through hìm. mon folk, seemed to give the with the German rather than

Tottenham Magistrates, to a lie to the proclamation. The with the French; the equilibrium

Fined at Uxbridge for tres-woman-"Is your husband still- architecture of the old houses, of her neutrality was almost per too reminded one that although fectly sustained.

PSIG 03 private property in alive? I don't know. But I The war killed so many other

search, of conies, an ex-soldier, know he's still at work." alsace was French in the latter

displaying his Mons Star to the part of the seventeenth century. things besides men," she said."

Magistrates, exclaimed-" Look! Thoughts of dead ideals, dead those quaint old houses which reputations, dead ambitions...at Feltham for exceeding the Germans, but I get locked up for A man named Scail was foed This is what I got for shooting seemed so redolent of the old dead hopes... Bocked into my speed limit. Southerner slung a couple of Lee fought a losing battle German romantic spirit. had mied. I tried right-handers to the chin in the grandly. I was just a question quite probably been witness to up

of "Sometimes when people come A wife at West Hartlepool he was expression some third round, bat Lee took not the of youth being served. Moreover, two rebounds of the pendulum. In sincere optimism, but my to borrow they tell wonderful My husband is not a bad one, but

lightest heed, and coaticued floneyman is clever, if lacking this beautiful old city this Ger- well-meaning effort was stillborn. stories of their wealth or business he is not religious, wading in for the body, when he sting in hitting,

man-named capital of a French The girl pointed across the valley prospecte."-Judge Sir Alfred

mar.

rather finely drawn compared with the stock Srots.na Tar Hon yman forged ahead steadi boxing styles also contrasted, ly in the fifteenth, and the next Honeyman leading for the face found the Canning Town min with the left hand and jumping showing the greater speed. Lee away, while Lee worked for the being freely punched about the inside position, when be eventual- head Honeyman making a target

of Lee's damaged eye. ly scored on the body.

Tancy did very well for two Lee gradually weakened and in rounds, for although Honeyman the nineteenth round he was quick, his blows did not hurt upse: twice. The old man was Northerner, who besten now, and the towel was sturdy carried on with his harassing at-thrown in to save him further tentions 10 the ribs. The punishment.

the

W*3

it was German before that, and

}

Question at Bow County Court -"Was a police-constable there, and did he see the accident?" Reply-No. miracles that day."

When a woman gets into her; An elderly man, married to a bead the idea that a garment war widow, complained at Mary The Alsatian girl who was tell- does not fit, it never will."The lubone Police Court that his wife may be an Archimedes without

Registrar at Bloomsbury Counts had baten bis arm, scratched his Court.

to conjure

A man who went about London crying "Lovely milk! Can't you hear me calling?" was foed £20 for selling what was stated to be a mixture of starch and water.

shooting rabbits,

|

in the engineering trade, and know all about it,” said a man at Shoreditch County Court. "He knowing it," remarked Judge

Cluer.

Mas summoned at Willesden

tax-1 am a housebreaker, and for non-payment of his Income-

things are very quiet in my line.". When it had been explained that a housebreaker of the legitimate kind be was allowed a month in which to pay.

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