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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.

"He replied, promptly. For To Clear Away Pimples. Heaven's sake, stay where you are,' Pimples, spots and sallow skin so I came up, next week.

arise from internal causes, chief| "Gradually I made my only'

aro sluggishi liver, noteworthy discovery-that I my of which self had no mind, but that I could intestinal inactivity, imperfect To accelerato the enter for the space of a column digestion. into the minds of other people. digestive processes and to restore

a medlen datly regularity Pinkettes "My experiences as man-I can still smell the dispen- perfection. These dainty littlo sary I was never in;. I have been a laxative liver regulators quickly member of the House of Commons clear the system of its polsonous and a policeman at its doors-sec

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Sir James Barrie was in a char-my articles about how I was locked waste materials, banish billosa acteristically whimsical mood, in up in the Clock Tower I have beenness and sick headaches, clear his speech at the Newspaper Press the last blacksmith of Gretna Green, the skin, purify the breath.

Of chemists everywhere, at 80 Fund dinner in London last night. and deans and bishops, so that it

Using his wineglass as tele-is a wondor galters did not grow cents the vial.

phone receiver, Sir James carried on my legs.

on an imaginary conversation with "I noticed to-night, gentlemen,

Lord Bylng at Scotland Yard. that quite a number of you, when

"They want to know if the. Pre-offered succulent dishes, waved mfer (who was one of the guests them aside. How now, sirs, what at the dinner) has got a gun," sald has come over you? the author of "Peter Pan" to a con- vulsed audience. "The streets are seething with men in masks they have broken out of every detective story the Premier has ever read, and are after him!"

S.O.S. From the "Yard," Sir James, who responded to the toast of "Journalism," said:--

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"Have you forgotten certain) cookings by a lodging fire-and an uljacent shop?

"That shop used, as if the scene woro Verona, to open its casements to the dewy night, so that its

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Juliets, the chops, might more allur-RIGHT TO CANE A BOY ingly address 18.

"Those tremulous anys, wore they

na happy as they seem seen through

SMOKER.

the smoke of this banqueting hall? HEADMASTER'S AUTHORITY

the smoke were to clear away too much, which of us would not be the first to shiver?

UPHELD.

The decision of the magistrates

come to "If Shakespeare had London

nowadays I suppose would have become a journalist.

"You know I don't think he would "The street of lodgings that wo at Newport, Salon, that a head- have written plays; he would have used to pace waiting hungrily for master had the right to cane a boy Lurned them into novels, thrillers the postman with the roofs, which pupil for smoking in the street. for which Mr. Baldwin admits are editors' love-letters--would we, after school hours was upheld dark partiality.

even for the prize of living our lives in a King's Bench Divisional "Hamlet, if written in these differently, writing our works dif-Court.

The court discharged a rule nist days, would probably be called "The ferently, would we if we could re-

sume those pacings on fingstones for mandamus granted to Mr. Strange Affair at Elsinore. How that are perhaps still indented with Ernest James Wright, of Newport, hard on me to have to make a speech when I know that the Prime our shoes? Yes, for that prize I Salop, calling on the local Bench to show cause why they should Minister would far rather I told him know one of us who would.

"Undimmed hours! Yes, let us not state a case for appeal in con- a detective story.

hope so. And vet, could memory so sequence of their dismissal of a beguile, if in the present that summons for assault on his shivering ft were on us?

Frank Douglas Wright, aged' "It is on a good many in Fleet-fifteen, by Mr. Brooks, headmas street to-night. That is why we ter of the Adams Grammar School. The boy was a day popil at the

"At that moment the telephone bell rang," anid Sir James, picking up his wineglass and listening..

"Most Astounding Case," "Hallo, hallo. Yes, I'm here. I'm speaking, who are you?--It's Scot land Yard the Yard asks you as

| favour, Indies and gentlemen, not to wipe your glasses, as the waiters ure plainclothes men taking finger: prints.

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are here.

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"But so comfortably here. Per-school, and he was caned by the haps the gifts we give are just dope headmaster for smoking in the to ourselves so that we may not street out of school hours. The shiver."

ense raised the point of how far the authority of the headmaster) extended.

Mr. Baldwin's Tilt.

Law and G-15.

Mr. J. L. Pratt, o pehalf of Mr.

Mr. Baldwin, who proposed the "Who? No. 17 Oh!" (Looking Loast of "Journalism," said, "Until at Mr. Baldwin.)

I was nearly 60 I never knew a Wright, said that it had been con- journalist except my cousin, Kip-tended by the other side that un- "Yes, he is here. He is in greatne who left that great profession der the Children's Act a police- danger. They want to know if he early, being assured by his pro-man could confiscate any has a gun. They say it is the most prietor that in no circumstances cigarettes or cigarette papers| astounding case the Yard has ever and in no profession could he ever found on a boy discovered smok- hope to earn more than £400 a year: Ing. That apparently did not ap

had.

"A complete change has come "Conceive with, what pleasure 1 ply to a girl under sixteen, as only over Landon since we sat down to come here feeling that if I am the cigaretto which she was sinak- dinner. The streets are seething able to draw on my overdraft to ing was liable to confiscation. with men in masks and princesses help your Fund I may be helping The Lord Chief Justice, Lord with daggers in their stockings. Mr. Lloyd George in his old age.

"If I can feel I have made it They have broken out of every de- tective atory No. 1 has ever read, Possible for him in years to come and all of them are after lim. to have a little broccoli for his sup

per, I shall feel I have not loved in vain." (Laughter.)

"He will never return to Down ing Street alive unless I can bring him. He and I must leave the hotel first and alone, and, as soon as wel two leave, it to be blown up. End of Chapter I. of "The Strange Affair at Chequers."

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The Lord' Chief Justice, giving judgment, said that there was a rule of the school prohibiting smoking on the school premises or Major Astor, who presided at then the street, and the boy knew of dinner, announced a gift of £10,000 that rule. to the Newspaper Press Fund from Lord Rothermere,

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"London in My Eye."

The original manuscript of Sir James Barrie's "The Twelve Pound "When I was interrupted-by Look" was sold during the evening Lord Byng" continued Sir Jamen, for 2,300 guineus *to Mr. Gabriel "I was about to say that some Wells. Pressmen have discovered that I A blank canvas, presented by Mr.j um an old-timer, and, asked me to Philip de Laszlo, on which he offer- spunk about my own journalistic ed to paint a portrait of the pur- days.

chaser, was sold to the Hon. Peter The romance of travel would be

"Of course, 'London was in my Canada, for 1,100 gulneas. dulled without well polished | eye. I had sent a few articles to

A letter addressed to the Ad-

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the most glorious editor I have miralty by Oliver Cromwell in 1656 THERAPION NO.3 ever known, Frederick Greenwood was purchased by Sir James Barrie A drawing by if it had not been for him and, for 150 guineas. later, Robertson Nicoll, I suppose Sir William Orpen fell to Lord I would have had to go back and Derby for 200 guinons.

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