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SWISS CHEESE.
produces bubbles of different sizes. As the mass cools these gradually evaporate, leaving the cheese pit-
THE MYSTERY OF THE HOLES. ted with holes..
[By H. Challinor James.]
How do they put the holes into Swiss cheese?
Everybody, of course, knows the music-hall, joke about the old
woman with one tooth who is sup-
Switzerland produces. about £5,000,000 worth of cheese every year, her chief rival being the
LATE
EMPEROR OF JAPAN.
The late Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, whose death occurred
early on Christmas morning.
NEW EMPEROR
"&
EMPRESS.
Above are seen Emperor Hiruhito, the new Mikado, and the Empress, who were married in January, 1924. They now succeed to the Throne in consequence of the death of Emperor Yoshihito. The new Emperor was born: on April 29th, 1901, and was appointed Regent on November 25th, 1021. The Empress is a daughter of Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, and there is one daughter by the marriage.
PENNY DREADFUL.
INVENTED BY A GENIUS, SAYS LIBRARIAN,
4.
WORKHOUSE CURFEW.
#6 O'CLOCK TO BED" ORDER.
More West Ham workhouse Virtue has been found in the troubles engaged the attention of the West Ham Police Court, when three men were charged with re- (fractory conduct.
United States, where the mana-Penny Dreadful” facture of Emmenthaler is said to have reached a high standard.
The man who invented it was After years of research Michigan one of the greatest of literary experts claim to have discovered geniuses, declares Mr. W. C. Ber-
It was stated that the master
A relieving officer said the order
n process whereby it is now pos- wick Sayers, chier librarian of had ordered the casual ward in- posed to work overtime at the job; Bible to control the size of the Croydon Public Libraries, who has mates to go to bed at 6 o'clock be- but not two persons in a hundred holes and market high-grade Em-opened a series of lecturers under cause they annoyed the old men. the auspices of the National Book On Saturday night the men now have heard, the truth about this menthaler at 10d. a pound.
This threat to one of their staple Council on "Reading for the charged refused to do so. little mystery.
Some people have a vague idea industries has not unduly per- Young." that the holes are delibrately turbed the Swiss. Anyone ca
To a representative of The Daily was a matter of disciplinary.
punishment. created to fill up space; others put holes in cheese, they reply, but
Two of the men, who had" pre maintain that they are only insert- not all the dollars ever printed Chronicle he confessed that he was ed for purposes of decoration can produce the aromatie Alpine inclined to think that the Penny Both, however, are a very long fodder on which Swiss cattle are Dreadful was the main agency in vious convictions, were sent to producing the boys' book of adven-prison for one 'month's hard la
bour, and the other to seven days. way from the truth.
A good story is told about a disture which we appreciate to-day. Gruyere cheese, or, to be more
The inventor--an anonymous accurate, Emmenthaler, would be tinguished foreigner who was be- Just about as palatable without ing shown over one of the largest benefactor of the human race-preciation and of beauty itself in holes as, say, lager beer without dairy farms in the Emmenthal, destroyed verblage, wiped out the the child; but they have led to froth. Holes are the hallmark of For a time he watched the bubble convention that a novel is neces- fine things. quality, and the bigger the holes cauldrons in silence; then, sarily a work of topography or a the better the cheese. In fact, turning to the dairyman, he asked, disguised sermon, and concentra- these mysterious constellations are "And how do you put the big holested the attention upon a rapidly
moving series of adventures. so much in demand for the Amer in the cheese afterwards?".
"Oh, that's very aimple." laugh- can market that experts are hard
fod.
at work "trying to find a formula,"ed the farmer. "You just take a as they say at the League of Na-hole and put a lot of cheese round tions, for making the holes larger
1. and oftener.
.
cemetery
It has been said that Swiss On the slope of Mount Scopus, cheese is preferred in America facing the Mount of Olives and because it is so largely used for Jerusalem, the final reating-place making sandwiches, and the holes of 2,400 English soldiers will be sell just as well as the cheese for dedicated by the Prince of Wales this purpose. But every cheese next April, The war eater in America knowa perfectly has been established there by the well that it is not the holes they Imperial, War Graves Commission. buy, but the rich, nutty flavour More than half the soldiers buried which their presence denotes and there were members of the London which has made Emmenthaler fa-regiments. mous all over the world..
Courage And Virtue.
R. L. S.'s Penny Dreadful.
"It was because he. Ikail this sort of book that John Buchan wrote his masterly Penny Dread- ful, The Thirty-nine Steps. There "I often hear with amusement," is no Penny Dreadful in the world thrilling as Bram Stoker's said Mr. Sayers, "that venerable so enagistrates ascribe deeds which 'Dracula,' and the same, love led bring boys under their notice as Stevenson to write the greatest of being the result of reading Penny alt Penny Dreadfuls, the immor- Dreadfals. These men have surely tal Treasure Island."
Mr. Sayers produced his 12 boat forgotten their own youth-for- gotten the day when they themsel-books for children. They are: ves read every Penny Dreadful} they could lay their hands on.
Defor.
"Little Women," L.-M. Alcott.. "Fairy Tales," II. C. Anderson.. "Arabian Nights Entertain- The Penny Dreadful has, action,
ments",
John Progress," a hero of marvellous courage and
"Pilgrim's gifts, a villain who is most obvi-
Bunyan. ously a villain, while virtue always
Daniel "Robinson Crusoe," New York, Nov. 1-The Muscum triumphs and vice falls ignomini- of the City of New York to-day ously, I believe the Penny Dread-
"Water Babies," Charlos Kings- The merit of Emmenthaler le oponed the "Old New York Ex ful has been, on the whole, a
ley.. The exhibite ·were 100.00 of Olives and Jerusalem, the final due to a very small cause with a position."
sound, moral influence.
"Jungle Book," Rudyard Kipl- 100.00 resting place of 2,400 English sol- very big effect: a tiny microbe opened to the public. for one wook.
"This does not mean," added Mr. ing. 100.00 diers will be dedicated by the which is responsible for the fer-Included in the show are old pain-
"Ivanhoo," Sir Walter Scott. 100.00 Prince of Wales next April. The mantation of the milk before Ittings of George Washington, Aaron Sayers, that I would encourage the
Penny Dreadfulsj "Treasure Island," R. L. Stoven- 100.00 war cemetery has been establish turns into choose. With the aid Burr and many other prominent reading of 100.00 ed thero by the Imperial War of this benevolent germ tho aefd Americana of an carlier day. to-day. They lack stylo, somoy son. 100.40 Graves Commission. More than salts in the milk are convorted Family heirlooms have been collectimes even English; they are badly Masterman Ready," Marryat.
half the soldiers buried there were into carbonic acid gas, which durted for the show that depict the printed and illustrated: they may
damage the sense of literary ap-Glibert White. .8,100.00 members of the London regimente. ing the process of manufacture period following the Revolution,
"Natural History of Selborne,"
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