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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921.

DICK TURPINS OF THE DIVIDENDS FOR NOTHING. THE RIVAL IN THE HOME.

RAILROAD.

Archibald

present month,

Railways a National Burden. Virtues of the Elder Sister. Some Methods of Extortion. It is understood (says the Daily Edmund Yare writes in a Home

Writing in a Homo paper, Mr. Express) that Lord Colwyn's puper:-I have been

reading which committee, Taylor

has been rather a clever tow novel about saya-In China, when one goes to board a investigating the war-time agree- the tragedy of the eldest sister. train at a terminus it is usual, Iments between the Government who sees her younger sister am told, to find every seat occupi and the railway companies, will growing up and becoming a ed by a native soldier. These issue its report at the end of the formidable rival forthe affections warriors are not travelling, and

of possible suitors bofore the elder Secret evidence on behalf of has succeeded in getting a bus- have no desire to move outside the railway managers was given band and when the elder's charms the station. They are there merely to extort money from the by Sir Alexander Butterworth are on the wane.. passonger. You select the sost work is drawing towards a close spectacle to see an elder sister last week, and the committee's' It is undoubtedly a tragic you desire, and pay the soldier Its findings will probably be ousted in the hats of love by the to vacate it. And if, before the train starts, you leave your unpleasant reading for the tax fresher beauty of a younger sister. newly purchased seat for a payer. The railway companies, The worst of it is that the younger moment, another soldier will slip

in fact, hold the public in a triple girl, unless she is very aweet- into it, and another bribe must

grip: → Dividend agreements; natured, is invariably unscrupul- Six Brown Brothers be paid when you wish to occupy high charges.

maintenance agreements; and ous about it. it again.

The younger actually profits by Six Brown Brothers

Those who travel in dining!

GUARANTEED DIVIDENDS. the experience of the elder, for cars have to deal not only with Under a war-time arrangement, the older is expected to give ber the seat-occupants, but have which has long since been of no sister tips in the art of making Smith's Orchestra also to pay off two lusty knaves value to the country, the pre-war the best of herself, and she sees who sprawl across the table dividends of railway shareholders these useful binte turned into a Such is the information given to aro guaranteed by the Govern deadly weapon against herself Smith's Orchestra me in all seriousness by a man ment.

Could anything be more galling? recently returned from China.

Those dividends have to ho I once knew a family of three The reason of this curious pro- paid whatever the financial result daughters whom I will call Mary. cedure he says, is that the of the working of the railways. Elizabeth, and Phyllis, in the Ferera & Franchini Government, being always in The full amount for which the order of seniority. Mary was debt to the soldier, is obliged to taxpayer is annually liable ap-about 28, Elizabeth 23, and Phyllis | My Isle of Golden Dreams Waltz—

allow him some means of making proaches £50,000,000, and the 18. So far as looks were con- Blue & White Marimba Band a little money, and this is one of financial year 1919-20 a sum of cerned there was very little in it.

the methods he has adopted.

£45,000,000 was actually paid out They were all pretty, but the I was reminded of this stato

of the Exchequer. All Star Trio of affairs the other day when

eldest had by far the most inter- I went to board a dining-car et All Star Trio an English terminus. Every soat in the carriage had a label upon it alleging that some person had reserved it.

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In the first eight months of the esting personality, and the mostSHIRLEY present financial year the tax unselfish and agreeable nature of payers' liability under the guar- the three. She realised that she antee comes to £25,500,000.

Thus, in a year and eight the day when she would be re- was getting dangerously near months, during which peace has garded aa being "on the shelf." reigned and trade, on the whole,j

was no has been good, railway share- AN EVERYDAY TRAGEDY..

The holdera have received out of the!

public purse no less a sum than her sisters, although I doubt Mary was kindness itself to

has their business earned.

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was good for the average tip, and allotted me a seat whose label bore the name of Brown. Whether Mr Mrs, or Miss Brown ever intended to occupy that seat I do not know, but as I aequired it half an hour before the train was due to start, I am inclined to think that the label proclaimed a lie.

ner advice. She was able to hold examined by Lord Colwyn's Elizabeth, who was selfish and The agreements are now being her own easily with her sister committee, with the object of rather silly. By the time the giving them an interpretation youngest had reached a marriage- which shall be fair to both sides, able age neither of her sisters had national liability created by the with the freshness of the flapper In the meantime, the beavy found a husband. In compétition agreemente continues, and cannot neither sister had a chance. Their And what an awkward lie, too! be terminated before August 15 parents were hospitable people, Had the name been Montmorency, next. The railway companies are and young men were welcomed Higginbottom, or Satterthwaite doing their utmost to postpone in the home. it might have been more credible, the date of termination to January but Brown is the sort of name 1, 1924. that springs at once to the school- boy's mind when he must invent an imaginary person to lend colour to his first falsehood.

SIGNIFICANT ACTION.

I was convinced that if Mary had the opportunity and the enterprise, and went resolutely The demand was made in the out for her own ends, she would) letter sent by Lord Churchill to the have triumphed. But she was Minister of Transport, on behalf too loyal.. When the "possible" of the railway companies, on young man came Phyllis indicat- This kind of thing I have ex- December 8 of last year, anded plainly to her sisters that she poriented for many years, and, every railway shareholder has was giving no quarter. The no doubt, have others. How many been asked to support it, ap-second girl, Elizabeth, had not the dining-cars I have seen complete-parently by

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continuance.

ly reserved from one door to the pressure.

using political wit to combat her effectively. Mary had reached the age when other, I cannot remember, but This action is unless all the seats were actually While 'industry, generally, is forward, for fear that people significant. a woman shirks pushing herself occupied I have rarely known the demanding the abolition of Gov-might think that she is desperate- 24OTOUUUUUTIS colour of silver fail to make aernment control, the railway ly anxious to "get off," and is

prospective traveller dissolve into companies are clamouring for its neglecting no chance. nothingness,

So the Chinese railways are not

Mary faded more and more into | Obviously, control suits the the back-ground. She has never very different from our own, after railway companies. They are married, although it was obvious all, except that the soldier of making a good thing out of it. that she would have made by far China is very impecuuious, and Fhair dividends are paid whether the best wife of the three. If tha must needs extort money, whereas they are earned or not; their young men who came to that the British railway servant is property is kept in first-class home had panetrated her reserve, fairly well remunerated indeed, condition at the public expense, they would have discovered her he rarely fails to let us know un- and all the while the Government real charm, and would have mistakeably the moment he feels have no real power to interfere wasted no time on the sisters. dissatisfied with his pay.

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the journey itself does not end at from the traveller by ingenuity, the heat wife. the booking office, it merely obstinacy, or abuse. begins there. Practically every

When there are several in the littlo service, which, technically, way companies an entirely hon-all, she is often found to be the Yet I would not give the rail family, and she is the eldest of the Company provides gratis, ourable acquittal. One remembers, must unselfish member of it, and must be paid for by the traveller.of course, that they have suffered the least spoilt, especially in a We have grown accustomed to much under the paralysing hand middle-class family, when her this, of course, but is it just?

At a time when the railway they seem to blame the war for when she was a child, and there of Government control, but really parents would not be so well off workers are demanding a share too much inefficiency and neglect. was less money about, She is in the management of the rail. ways, this is a question they lavatories, lampe whose feeble and, because of hor experience Cold carriages, unequipped likely to be very fond of children, would do well to ponder. Can light would ruin the eyes if one in helping in the home with her they who expect extra remunera attempted to read, unannounced younger brother and sisters, & tion from the traveller for the tricks with the time-table, result sensibie manager of children. performance of their ordinary duties be trusted to do anything of the faults common to all lines. versed in the duties of house-

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