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NOW

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By Eddle “Heart-Breaker" Kolls. once the new mystery play, ful but brainy women-and once OR

was a well-knit piece of work, that fortress has falan, women who

OW that the swimming and the participators in the trial have bartered their charms for

season is over, and scene looked and apoke like Hfe brains will have nowhere to lay and not like Hollywood. Meeting their unwaved heads.

Study the older generation of herring can float lazily on the author afterwards, I found my self saying something which at nauccessful women, and you see how his back without the fear of feminist gathering would cause me easy was the ancient order.

Women of Intelligence wore, being kicked in the neck, we to be rent limb from limb. " ke your play," I said. "No one would twenty guess that it had been written by from the others of their sex. More might ask ourselves whether often than not, they sacrificed some- it is worth while for people thing or their physical charm in the

years ago, a race apart

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THE LANCASHIRE

PROBLEM

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A DISAPPOINTMENT

But it might just, as well be pointed out that this time expect tions of this kind are likely to be disappointed very sharply. Euro would want to purchase supplies just as much as in the last war: but Europe might have a very diflicult time discovering what to use aer money. In 1014, Europe held vast quantities of American securities. American railways had used enor mous amounts of foreign capital. in their construction; so had Amer- ican mines. American "factories. American tramcur systems, and so on. When the war broke nut, Europe hurried to turn these securi- ties into cash; and with the money, huge purchases of munitions and other commodities' were financed. When it was used up, the Alifed nations borrowed heavily in the American market to buy more.

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DIFFERENT SITUATION

to

we need men's brains if we are succeed in any profitable business, from thriller-writing to stockoro ing. Me author friend admitted it candidly.

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Interests of their work. Their to swim the Channel in any clothes wore hardly up to the minuts case. in fashion: their faces were Juno- cent of make-up.

housewite, But the moment I got rest.

old

to work I have to think like man."

A man may detect a slight hard-publicity, you've got to be dif It is a difficult role, because now-ness round the mouth: he will cer-ferent. You can't be the first adaya the world will not tolerate tainly dislike that "Hard-faced" is your running all to masculine brain about the most damning epithet a person to swim the Channel. and paying no attention to your man can apply to a woman.

but you might be the first. feminine appearance. At Uxiord

mother of twins to do it, or the first red-haired grandfather, the fattest Channel swimmer or

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ten years ago. to judge from the But is it any wonder that the women undergraduates, the world successful woman of these days tolerated it quite happily. You shows some small sign of the tough could go all out flat-heeled, shiny-ness that is necessarily concealed what not.

# rosed, and bespectacled for by the fem nine concerns of dress First in Greata, and people merely and beauty?

Besides, who wants to swim the thought you were "clever."

For, like my dramatist friend. | Channel? If

You start from Now, according to that ogregious she "thinks like a man." If hor England you land in France, and undergraduate journal the Jais, mind were not as precise and effl-If you go the other way you reinforcing their intellectual claims ing vaguenees and woollinean arrive in England, which is just with powder and lipstick,

which, one has to admit, is typical as bad. Why can't people set up That is by way of showing how of the female, she would not be records at doing something use- deeply, this Iden of hiding your the success she is.

ful? For instance, we have had masculine brain beneath an ultra- So, woman-who-would-be-succes. feminin axterior has penetrated ful, put on volvat gloves over thoảo our imagination. For if Oxford is mailed fists of yours! the home of lost causcs, it has cer- Luckily, velvet is tremendously in tainly been the fortress of unbeauti- fashion this winter.

women at Oxford are not above; cient as a man's, without the charm-

But things are different to-day. THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB

סתט

that,

of

Винят

:

By Capt. Cunningham Reid,

a man who pushed a wheelbarrow round the world, but has any. body over pushed a perambulator up the Peak.

If you consider the matter, we may all hold,records of sorts. Wo wero not the heaviest baby ever born, but the doctor said we were the ugliest.

in

Later we were the first batsmen pearance for the school team, and to score a duck on our first ap oven now we can claim to indulge in the warmest cold baths of any man in Hongkong..

The amount of sound American securities held to-day in Europe are almost negligible. The shells that Whether the best interests of could be bought with the money

We did not take our, first step the Lancashire textile industry not last a week. After

these securities would bring would

life earlier than any other TN pro-war times the House of Personal friendships may, and do, baby, but we took it farther. would be served by placing it Europe would have to borrow, And Commons was often referred to exist between the bitterest political | We found a gap in the banisters, under public ownership, as ad- anyone who looks at the present

as "The Best Club in the World." opponents (they are incomprehen- and fortunately or unfortunately, state of foreign loans in the United vocated in Parliament by Labour States kriowa without being told This description could still be ap- sible to foreigners) who respect the if you like-landed in a linen spokesmen, la much open to that there would be a different plied to the Mother of Parliaments, other man's convictions, if not his basket..

|point of view, and realise that cach question. There can be no two story this time "There are ways to-day, but in a different sense,

The "Best Club in the World" one is striving for what he con opinions, however, as to the might be restored. A new Europ of Parliament had no other busineas These are some of the things which in which American prosperity epithet presupposed that members coives to be the good of the nation. need of thorough reorganisa-ean war, however, la not

beyond their membership except justify the old proud boast of the them. Uon of the industry. If not all,

possibly the administration of their Best Club. certainly much of the trouble AND THE FAR EAST

A very definito Instance of the estates. From this It teliowed that the pleasant social and intellectual strange and attractive. jumble of which the cotton trade is at pre-

Now you can go and be the first amenities of the House were at Parliament la afforded by the case sent experiencing arises from in England. Talk of a

There is the same sort of feeling least of equal importance with its of Mr. Maxton. There are only person to fly from here to Aun.

legislative duties.

three, or it may be four, members tralia if you like. We don't care. the failure of the industry to re- Japanese war may worry Whitchal!

The general election of 1906 first who share his political views, yet ard itself as a unit. As we and the Admiralty, but in Lan-shook this complacent point of view, on a referendum he would probably

cashire, notably, no alarm ня and the giant have before had occasion to ra- seriously felt. The attitude gen- Socialist Party has made since the member of Parliament, for no one

strides which thejbe found to be the most popular Why I Wouldn't Change Places,

With Captain Campbell mark, there is far too much erally is that with Japan's resources war have altogether destroyed the can help liking the man himself. duplication. overlanning and concentrated upon military supplies old-fashioned conception of the There is another reasonably close "Why, Captain, I feel rather un- for her armies in Blanchuria, the House of Commons as an extra comparison between the ordinaryensy with you. You're supposed waste. Mr. Burgin, the Govern-intensive competition with Lan club for gentlemen of lolsure. club and the one at Westminster to be so fast, you know!" ment spokesman, is therefore on cashire's products in the com But clubs, as well as politics, have both possess a club committee. rond ground when he contends mercial fick would fade out and a

changed in the last fificen years, Our club committee consists of the business revival would set in, with and what may originally have been! Cabinet Ministers. Like all club that Lancashire can do a great a general rush to size Japan's intended in a sense of social ex- committees, there is a tendency for deal to help herself by seeing present markets, And undoubled-clusiveness may have remained true them to get rather out of touch that the industry is put on an ly, the arguments adduced are true as a measure of the wide range of with the rank-and-fle members ain-up to a point. There would be a knowledge, interesta, and personal-whose views they are supposed to up-to-date basis. For

chance for trade to flourish, for a

When they do it is Itics which any member will find represent, dustry so highly localised, thera while. The reckoning would come among his 614 fellows.

thousand pities, for the ordinary should be no insuperable diffi- later. There are faw neutrala to-

Once elected, the new member intercourse of lobby and smoking- culty in instituting beneficial re-ed the disastrous economic con- with the limited nature of club life Some Cabinet Ministers do not day who would enim to have escap will find that almost any comparison room gives them every opportunity. forms. Production costs are sequences of the last war.

breaks down. Clubs may consistecem to see quite how necessary admittedly too high at present,

entirely of enthusiastic scientists these contacts aro and how much or fly fishermen-the equivalent in they are appreciated. Parliament are the ties of party. But beyond and for transcending these are the contacts of the lobby, the smoking-room, and the library.

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When the Nazi Cabinet proposed that legal sanction be given to the killing of persons afflicted with in-

due partially to the overlapping | DANGEROUS GROUND of which we have spoken. It is true that great difficulty would be experienced in attempting to bring down costs to anything of the most tragic and perplexing curable disease. it touched on one

like the Japanese level, since of all modern problems. Every British workers would never doctor has seen, over and over consent to a standard of living to death as a relief; persons who again, patients who looked forward such as that under which the knew that they could not possibly Japanese labour. None the less, recover, and who were condemned it should be possible, by sound while they waited for their malantes to a painful and lingering :torment reorganisation methods, to do to reach a climax And everyona something at least to lessen the who has thought about such tragic gap between British and.. Jap least some Instances, it would be a cases must have folt that, in at

aneso prices. Tariffs would also great kindness to hasten death's be helpful, but only partially so. tardy footsteps. But that is stat Not altogether without reason, abuses that could arles under such ing only half the case. The hideous the British Government is bo- a philosophy are too obvious to need coming a little impatient over comment; and the religious objec the frequency with which this equally apparent.

tions to certain aspects of it are cotton problem is being raised through with this proposal, they If the Nazis. go in Parliament. The suggestion will be attempting something that no modern society yet has had the underlying Mr. Burgin's observa temerity to try. tions in this connexion is that no good is likely to result from these recurring arguments, and actually some harm may be done. would have any meaning in Ger Whether such ́al consideration at a't.me when the matter is un- many it is difficult to estimate. der activo consideration. The The provision for the sterlilantion Government has made it clear of the unfit is to be enforced on January 1, according to an on- that it has no intention of inter-nouncement mada yesterday and it vening unless conversations bo- is not a for stride from sterillan- tween the Industrialists of the tion of four hundred thousand two countries prove inconclusive.

suffering from hereditary disease to the painless extermination of the That being so, the next move hopelessly incurable. In

both les with the leaders of the in- caces, there is dangerous possibility dustry. It will be time enough

of abuse, while the effect upon thom

STERILISATION

to be adjudicated upon ils well.

to talk of other measures if and Illustrated in the case of the man when the industrialists. fall to who committed suicide rather than Ireach an understanding.

submit to the operation designed for him,

ow, here's an

"Well, what are you going to do, now that you've set another speed record, Captain? Get a job as a taxi driver?" Where ya goin' to, a bloomin' fire? "Hey, pull over to the kerb there! You know you afty!"

wuz doin over

ly revised the old slogan. It's "The "Oh, I say, Captain-you certain- Campbells are going, now!"

"Oh, Captain Campbell, I think what you did was perfectly ador Government Whips who are in-able. Won't you come over and timately concerned with these tick-teach me to drive some time?”.

(Continued on Next Column.)

thing about the Unoleum busin258.**.

"Sir, I'm the Campbell Soup Com- pany's representative in England, and I'm authorized to offer vou five hundred pounds if you will myke a short speech over the radio saying that you are not the only Campbell to break records,"

"Oh, by the way, Captain, did thom American hikers bother you much?"

GREETINGS!

The Editor has wowo across the. road for a spot. While he is away Eddie Kelly takes this suportunity of allpplag a paragraph down to the lino-typists, wishing his readers very, very, very Merry Christmas. And that's that!

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lish mattors do not always realise that the numbers in the “Ayo" and "No" lobbies may bear a

very direct relationship to the fact that: ona Minister is accustomed to stalk through the lobby wrapped in great thoughts, while another will stop on his way for a cheerful word hera and there,

The House of Commons, by rea- son of its university, its reflection of every aspect of the nation's life, its brond humanity, still mir- rors the spirit of this country as no Fasclet or Soviet assembly could. In that sense--and it is tainly the sense which has made our Parliament admired and Imitate od froni China to Perthe Hanta of Commons is and remains tha "Best Club In the World." thought In a very different soñwi from Vikt Intended by the originators of the phrase;