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NOTES OF THE DAY WIVES WHO DREAD THE The Very Idea!

ANTIPIRACY MEASURES

Berlous piracy in South waters has been dealt a succession of blows in recent months. The acason has passed-with few incidents and for this happy state of affairs, thanks are entirely due to the co-oporation

local authorities. At least two

from secret

WILDERNESS

By RUSHTON "HILL,

Formerly A.D.C. to Various Colonial Governors

charm7 This clarion summone, from the to or about the wives of the junior

GIRLS, PRESERVE YOUR FIGURE

By Eddie Kelly, Sylph.

Do you want to preserve your figure? Would of the Canton Government with tha tho call of the East loving its The wives of the higher ometals (

have little to say that is Idndly you like to get rid of that planned attempts on ocean-going lands of the deserts and sun, officials. Everyone has an order corporation? ships word frustrated by timely which by tradition holds an of precedence to stick to. Wee People in all walks of life,

service irresistible appeal for the mon betido a newcomer who oversteps warnings agents while Bias Bay was robbed and women of our country, seems the mark.

and some who find it hard to of the fruits of a third and more to be falling now on less respon- Have I painted too grim a ple- successful attempt by military in sive cars,

ture of the East, the East of walk at all, keep pestering A girl has in the last few days the story-books that glamorous us for information on how tervention.. Now a campaign is in fall swing aiming at a thorough dealt the tradition another blow bourne whenco no travller in sup- clean-up in the Blas Bay area. Thia in tackling the problem at the roots.. If there is no safe landing placo, pirney will soon be brought

to an end.

FREEING FROZEN ASSETS

President Roosevelt is spending

by breaking off her engagement to posed to wish to return? I won-we preserve our sylph-like a young man because marriage | der.

figure. In spite of it all, I am going would mean bor having to go to

could not faed it.

Annce lives and works in the for

live in a tropical country. She to any this to any girl whose We will explain it here, places of the earth. Take the once and for all. After this, chance. Go out with him; try to we don't want to be bothered any stick the life.

In the course of a not uneventful life I have lived and worked, in many Eastern lands. In Egypt,

Africa, India, and the Sudan I After all, your daye there will more on the subject. ous Governors, and have seen at tling down at home. You will have With us, we suppose it's a gift.

have served on the staff of vari-ba fuller than any humdrum sot-

another thousand million dollars close quarters women who have dificulties to contend, with, hate. We can reduce our bust measure- in order to pay the debts of closed come from home either newly ful things to put up with. But ment by about two inches simply banks to their worst hit depositors: married or intending to marry marriage can survive all kinds of by talding all the things out of In addition, the Reconstruction when they land,

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Finance Corporation is to finance Many girls who sall from Eng- the banks themselves up to fifty land to marry mon out East chan- per cent. of their depositors, Inge their minds a day or two be volving probably, another thou-fore the ship arrives in port. sand millions. if the aim of the It is a strange thing this pante this fear of the East. Administration is complete control of banking policy, the programme Wait, though; Is it so strange, must be well under way. The after all? mystery is where the money is coming from, although the de positors who will benefit will not be expected to enquire too closely, Meanwhile, there is much talk of a return to a sound money policy in the United States. It would be rather interesting to know what would be accepted as constituting monetary inflation.

SHIFTING POPULATION

CERMANY AND JAPAN

There is the thrill to the now comer in the deep blue of the the constant round of sens; galety; the hospitality; the soft pad of the native servants whose feat make no noise; the blood-red sunsets that write across the sky in letters of fame, "This is the Enet; fall down, you, and wor- ship."

You are held in delicious bond- age until you scream to be set

free,

You realise that there is no more glamour, for example, in the bazaars of an Eastern town than there is in any village street in England.

shoals.

But no

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So go, my Ntle friend. Go, and our vest pockets. Exercise and maybe you will find that the waters diet are the main things. of the East are quite drinkablo

As regards dlet, Marlene Rich- after all.

one who knows could diet recommends stoned raisins honestly blame you if your heart soaked overnight in lemon juice. begins to fail you as your ship Wo have not tried this, but we nears those palm-fringed frontiers think it should be good. Ladice beyond which life is so mysterious who are bad shots should get somic- even when it is most boring.

THE NEWEST DISEASE

By a HEALTH SPECIALIST,

one else to stone the raisins for tirem.

stones Moderate sized should be used.

Oranges and tomons were used in days gone by by the belles of St. Clement's, who Found them very beneficial. Exercise should be taken in THERE American scientists have moderation. Here is a good one volunteered, in the cause of re- for reducing the hips: Stand orect search on sleepy sickness, to be with the hands on top of the head, bitten by mosquitoes, belleved to and slowly raise the left leg to the

Sleepy alckness is recognised as being contagious, but only feebly

Tho research assumes importanço I once saw a girl, the wife of for medical men overywhere he D young district commissioner cause at the present time the mode stationed at the back of the world, by which the disease is propagated rush out into her compound, lift is entirely unknown. her eyes to the sky, and scream, "Rain, damn you, rain! Oh, this oternal sum

Once the East gets you down, direct infection from one case

to`another being a rarity, you stay down. Boats sail home

Up to now there has been, no every day from Eastern ports evidence at all for its transmission carrying young wives whose

by non-human agencies. affection for the marriage tle has wilted under the strain of living a life for which they were never intended.

time. If the system can stand It, one should fast from then unti

supper.

After supper to bed. A little exercise may be had by getting up a couple of hours after retiring and wandering around the house wondering if there was any of the rice pudding left over.

It is only natural that some critics in America should be 'ask- ing whether Mr. Roosevelt is It will ha interesting to seo going too fast; at the same time, whether the end of the depression critics in England are complain- will bring any change to the strik ing that the British Governing new shifts in American We are told that those who harbour the causal virus. The level of the shoulder. Keep it ment is going too slow. Both population growth. Figures com- drink of the waters of the Nile experiment is provoking widespread there for five or ten minutes, then countries have been suffering piled by the Scripps Foundation must always rotura to drink. Interest in medical circles. There gently lower it to the ground. De

street.

ten times with the right leg. Then from the fall in commodity for Population Research show that But, belleve me, the waters are was much talk about it in Harley- this ten times with the left leg and

The herole nature of the experi.do it with both legs at once. pirces, the drying up of markets, during 1932 American cities as a not so potent as they may once

Women howly out from home, ment becomes more apparent when Now for some more dieting. We trade slackness and unemploy whole decreased in population by have been..

more than 400,000 persons. Farm

strenuously. ourself. ment. In both, the supreme population, on the other hand, in- after the first excitement of an It is explained that, should the men diet very task of government is to remedy creased in that year by 1,000,000. entirely freah order of living is concerned become infected, they First our breakfast, then diet: this situation. Yet the methods a great part of this was an over, begin to find that the soft will not only face the risk of death timin, followed by a fairly light diet adopted seem to be utterly dif-doubtedly due to the depression. footed native servants can be very but, in the event of recovery, are in order to prepare for afternoon and deceitful. They likely to be severely and porman tea, which should be followed by a ferent. It is to be concluded The cityward migration of farm obstinate that one government is right youth was checked; and vast num- discover that house-keeping in a ently disabled, mentally and phy- fair amount of dieting until dinner and the other wrong, or thut a hers who lost city jobs retreated to language one does not know is sically. method which may be food in their parents' farm homes for the an "awful nervous strain." one country may be unsuitable duration of hard times. Should prosperity return the old tendency în the other? In both cases probably will be resumed. the Government had to deal with a crisis in which public morale was temporarily shaken. The first step toward recovery under auch conditions is to in-

The Notation of the rumoar that spire confidence. It made a big Germany consulted Tokyo before difference in methods taken to withdrawing from the League was, attain this end-that-the-peak-in-a-world atmosphere of sus of the crisis was reached in picion, almost as cortain as it was Britain under the conditions of unlikely. It may seem strange

The possibility that the mosquito 1981, whereas it was not reached that Japan should feel it necessary

to issue a donlal of the rumour, The East takes its toll, Heaven may play a role as carrior of the in the United States till early but such denini can well be knowe, of the men. How much disease-virus has no doubt been this year. In Britain it occurred

accepted without reservation. more, then, of the woman,

auggested by the unusual time of at a moment following a long There might be some value in tho There is on allure in the prin-year at which the prevailing epi- results do not come immediately. period of government expendi consultation suggested if Japan cipal social centres of far-off demic has made its appearance. ture which in 1931 had to be and Germany were not at opposite countries, say, in Bombay in India. Sleepy sickness is, no a rule, a denounced as extravagant and ends of the earth. As it is, Cairo in Egypt, Khartum In- the malady of cold weather and the reckless. The world-wide alarm Japan's support to-day would be Sudan, or Entebbe in Uganda; winter, Its incidence being most have heavy during the first quarter of which led to a run on the Bank totally valueless to Germany. And girl in any of those can of England and a grave menace Germany can be of assistance to quite a good time. to the national credit was Japan only indirectly, by diverting places, which boast the comforts In spite of the tromendous

attention from developments in attributed to the extravagance the Far East. This is a thin basis of civilisation, including, tennis amount of research, both clinical and cocktail parties, there hides and experimental, that has been the Labour Government for a dark plot against the rest the most cruel, the most appalling carried out in every country to the Australian cricketers have and its unbalanced budget. of the world such as the rumour snobbishacas, and social pottiness elucidate the nature of his queer The problem of

restor would obviously imply. Japan write of what I know.

(Continued on Page 4) ing confidence in Great Britain and Gormany may very well and took, therefore, a special form. themselves in sympathy one with It demanded the balancing of the other as comrades in isolation, the budget, heavy taxation, the but the bogey of active cooperation cutting down of public expendi-can lightly be dismissed. ture, the restriction of imports,

of

and a cautious policy of what

WIS called "sound finance." be suited to the peculiar needs Retrenchment, economy, sacrifice of England. But they do in- became the watchwords of the sistently urge that the time has day. The measures which, it now come, with credit standing was felt, were necessarily taken high, to apply with great energy at that time in Britain to the stimulus of public works restore national credit were in financed by public loans. The character the exact opposites of later stages of a trade depres- those which are now being sion afford a most favourable taken by the United States. But moment, it is argued, for they succeeded in achieving the stimulating the upward move- Immediate aim. It does not fol-ment by an expansion of ap low, however, that the planpropriate works-by making up which was right for England arrears, by anticipating future. two years ago is right now. needs, by accelerating works The Government, indeed, has already in progress. Those who bean compelled to modify its take this view are not a few attitude. It has felt it neces- solitary voices crying in the sary to remove some of its wilderness. The main trend of economy restrictions, and to vocal public opinion in England give more freedom to local is in favour of a vigorous for authorities to use funds on ward polley of public expendi public work. There is a growing ture, not on so-called "rellof body of opinion which is urging works," but on constructive re- the Government toward a more equipment-expenditure which employment, enterprising policy, asserting would increase that it ought to reverse the pro-create purchasing power, and cedure of 1931 and take a few permanently enrich the country. leaves out of the book of Presl British opinion does not ask the dent Roosevelt. It is truc, few British Government to copy British stateamen or economiste Mr. Roosevelt, but it would wel urge their Government to go all come a policy animated by the way with the President. His his boldness, enterprise and programme, they feel, would not optimism.

Yet I know that in these same

SCIENTISTS BAFFLED.

the year.

"I wish you would stop referring to me as the little woman."

Don't be mlaled by weighing machines. Weighing machines are the most lying things on earth, and should botrested accordingly:- When you see "280 lbs." on the dial, think of the number you .first- thought of and stick to it.

And don't be disheartened if

Slim women may look slick. but a fat woman stays. Ask any corset denter,

"S.S. CRICKET"

We notice in a Router cable that

booked their passages for the 1984 tour to England.

Presumably they are tra velling by one of the widely, publicised vessels of the Body Line.

SCOTS JOKE NO. 57,931

And, of course, you've heard of the Scotsman who saved all his toys so that he'd have them to play with

in his second childhood?

MUSSED

They met upon the stair;

She reached his shoulder, just. The light-switch happened whore His ready hand was thrust." "Please don't,"`aho cried,

hair

“You'll "muas in

fussed.***

·She unis

He went on kissing her;

For if he mused ka must.

HANDICAPPED

Poor Gertle! We received the following letter from her yesterday, but, unfortunately, sho omitted her address.

Dear Eddio. What shall I do?.. I have the most innocent-looking- суса.

Mon got to within an inch of my lipe, and then draw back, saying, "You look so' Innocent 1”

Dash my eyes! I want to livet?