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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19,

1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY WORLD'S WEIRD WEDDING The Very Idea!

BUYING PROSPERITY

SUPERSTITIONS

By HELEN SIMPSON

A HEART CRY By George

DEAR George,

I am writing to ap-

There may be some things money cannot buy, but five members of the United States Cabinet and a good number of advisers of one Bort and another, believe that the country can purchase prosperity- Few brides or bridegrooms ap-¡ we may, suppose that the English at the trifling cost of U.S.$105,000,-proach the wedding ceremony com are trying to give their brides apeal to you to give us the rest of the serial of the plately free from the superstitions chance of sun.

How can they reconcile this with Piratess of Bias Bay which which in the course of centuries have gathered round marriage. the notion, very widely held, that you began in your column a

grant Many of them, date from

small daughter it is lucky for a bride to cry at fortnight ago. antiquity. My said to me the other day, turning her wedding?. In the Tyrol they

ring round and wedding

my

Our Hilda says that you left

000,000, or £21,000,000,000. The proposal, according to reports from New York, in that the United States, through a vast programme of public works expenditure spread over a period of twenty-five years, shall put every able-bodied man in every stato in the Union back to Iroynd: "But why do you only wear Ho ho far'an to have a special | ciadys on an empty barrel of

handkerchief ready, blessed for answer my mother gave me to the tho purpose. I believe that this she was just going to behend same question, and which has been comes from the days when a belief talpan in shorts and top hat. given thus for a couple of thou-in witchcraft included the certain- sand years. People thought that

will applaud. The difficulty will be raising the necessary dollars from a community which already con sidera itself over-taxed. Or is possible that the Cabinet has in mind some reform by which it will draw more money in the federal treasury that the wealth of the nation may be redistributed? There have been hints of a ten dency toward a new socialism at Washington; nothing radical, mark you, but a mere modernizing. of Marxian methods. This may be the Arst intimation of the national administration'e alm.

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a vein ran from the third finger that no witch could weep more direct to the heart, and thus heart than three tears, and those from and hand were both embraced by her left eye. the ring. An old writer says that the thumb is too busy, the little finger not sufficiently honourable, the forefinger too little protected, the middle finger la uned for scratching; therefore the third finger bears the ring,

For myself I never read your rotten column but as one gentle- man to another I appeal to you to put us out of the suspense which is threatening to cause a break in

A tearful bride, though her appearance might suffer, did at our family.

We havo never had such trouble least afford her husband proof that she was not in league within our home since Hilda caught menalen and Tommy had to go to Satan.

school while sho stayed at home.

Yours, etc..

From that period and earlier, from a time when even in church

Hamstrung Husband. Bomen had to be prepared against

P.S. If you are tied up for the sudden danger, comes the custom of the bride standing at her hus- next movement my wife suggests band's left hand, and taking his that you put some clothes on the the taipan and make him marry Gladys left arm as she goes down church from the after. His righi, who then returns home to the

on the mid levels. the sword hand, was thus left free Colony and lives happy ever after to defend her.

Why wear a ring at all? cause, without beginning or ending. It is the symbol of eternity and so of married love. To lose it is, for a woman, horribly unlucky, since it means losing at the same time her husband's affection; to break it means death. But as for wear- ing thin, there is a pretty proverb of Queen Elizabeth's day which I hope is true, for it tells Us!

As your ring wears. So pass your cares.

I came across a new superstition that other day. Bubbles in water ar tea, said my informant, kisses when

mean

a married woman

pours out. Does this explain the astonishing popularity of cham pagne at wedding? I recommend soda water to the teetotal bride.

There are home who will smile at the American's tossing about of fantastic figures. But there is nothing very far-fetched in thin billion-billion dollar recovery pro- The cost

would be gramme, stretched over a quarter of

сал find thu century. America money. The British peoples spent more than one-third as much in lesa than a quarter that time, but for different purpose-war. Up to the

These ring questions started an- other train of thought in my head. Spring of 1919 Great Britain and ne Dominions had paid £7,600,-

Where do our white ribbona and

Once in a bride's bouquet I 000,000 into the War account,

We found, tucked away favours come from; why do

among the which is to any they were spending

have them at all? And why that orange blossom, a sprig of rose at a rate of approximately £2,000,-

uld shoe which even the most mary. I asked her about it; she 000.000 a year. America proposes vigilant departing bridegroom laughed and would not anawer, to spend less than £1,000,000,000 a

Both these figures are in the cannot always prevent being hung and for a long time I could find and of Mrs. Edward Rogers, year.

Cornwall, Ruskear, Camborne,

nature of emergency expenditures at the back of his car? The nobody who know what its signi- Present Address: and are

addition to the ordinary favours are easy to interpret; their ficance might be. England.

At last an old lady in a cottage Repulse Bay Hotel, Hongkong.

cost of government, of course, and colour signifies virginity, and the America would be painfully strain-true lovers' knots are tied to recall enlightened me. "Why," said she, the knot in which Roman brides where rosemary grows thick, the ed to meet auch A commitment.

woman wears the breeches." 1 But, we repeat, it can be done, and tied their girdles, It is quite possible that it would As for the shoe, it is an old wonder if the husband of that

a long bride understood the omen of her: be sound economics, and the solu custom twisted. Once. tion of the American unemployment while ago, the bridegroom's shoe sweet-scented bouquet?

was laid on the bride's head as a problem. To some it may sound

Union Church, Ilongkong, on December 19, 1909, by the Rev. C. It.

third on Hickling. Alfred, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Hicks, Truro, Cornwall, England, May, elder daughter of the Mr. Thomas Trevarthen

The

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Inte

Pearce,

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1934,

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In response to this heart-rending cry from the pen of an admirer, we are obliged to take up our cutlass again to how a way through the enigma of the Hollywood Girl Turned Pirate.

Chapter 6

As the taipan turned the corner and came upon us sitting on the barrel of shamshu he seemed to become conscious of his grotesque attire.

After all shorts and a top hat

are not in the best taste at Blas Bay this season where the fashions of Swatow and Amoy are beginn

the ing to have their offect on Pirate mode.

"Hallo, Theo!" called Gladys cracking her knees as she rose.

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Theo blushed and fled, and no blandishments could recall him There is a legend not very differ- until he had raked out an old and like a remedy for desperate ills, sign that she should be subject to ent from this in Cornwall, con- faded school tlo with which to

thrown to be and while the United States cannot him, and then

cerning the Well of St. Keyne. cover up his nudity. Then we be looked upon as a nation facing scrambled for by the guests. The whichever one of the pair first sat down for half an hour at crit bankruptcy and revolution, never-

got ready boy or girl who caught it would be

drank its watera, said tradition, while Gladys gave orders for a within the year. In

should reign in the house. I was sampan to be theless, her condition is such that married the Administration may not hesit-Yorkshire they used, once, to get told of a bridegroom once, who mediately. ate to use a desperate remedy. the bride and bridegroom with old

ungallantly left his wife at the shoes, an uncomfortable custom,

(Don't miss the end of this Ilistory does not relate if the church door and legged it for the

well.

serial which is beginning to get Shall we MATTI TALK OF SECESSION

shoes were picked up afterwards

She watched unmoved, and when out of hand, and kept for luck, but probably, i

her reintives urged her to join the Gladys ourself or leave her to Theo! having touched the married pair. race took from her bosom a tiny Anyway what would he do with a they retained something of wedded bottle of the water of St. Keyne girl like that? There will be action happiness.

which she had brought with her and romance, love and hate în our to church, and drank it at her next soul slavering instalment so case while he panted out of sight. watch out!} She deserved, It seems to me, to urder that household.

Now for that most popular superstition of all:

"There is no end-to-the-super- marriage. stitions in regard to

A VITAL BALLOT Despite the fact that there is a reluctance in some quarters to approve of the Peace Ballot which is being conducted in England with a view to ascer- taining what the public thinks on questions nimed at the preven- A Western Australian deputation tion of war, strong hopes are en-which is now in London has stirred tertained that the outcome willp British Empire problema of Western Australia's be such a strong expression of consequence.

demand to-day, like that of the popular opinion that the Govern Confederate States in 1861, is to ment will be forced to take notice be allowed to secede from a duly

Marry in May, of it. There are five simply constituted federation. Britain is

You rue the day. phrased questions in the ballot, concerned in two-ways. King

That is left over from Roman and one to which special atten- George V ta just as much King of tion is being directed is whether the Australian Federated Common-times. In May were held in Rome if one nation attacks another, wealth, which Western Australia the great feasts of the dead, and The fact is, it is one of those wants to leave, as he is of England. I suppose it went against ordinary events in which nobody can help other nations should combine to He cannot regard with indifferefice goou letting to rejoice at such a bring interested. It is difficult, always, to put such excitement or compel it to stop by means of the commonwealth dispute that has, time.

such interest into words; and so (a) economic and non-military arisen. The British Parliament

we put it into deeds. It la casier measures, or (b), if necessary, comes in because it passed the

A good many English people to throw an old shoe than to say by military action. In effect, Constitutional Act of 1900 which this is merely asking the public treated this commonwealth. The will not be married on a Friday, good-bye face to face,

It is pleasant to think that sun- Western Australian deputation has just as sailors do not care to But to state whether it approves of arrived at an awkward moment for out to sen on that day; yet in shine will bring happiness, or that the use of existing machinery, the British Government. This is Scotland it is, or was, a favourite by the single expedient of refus devised by the League of

because that authority is trying day for weddings. The Englishing to be married In May bliss Who knows? The Nations, but never yet brought just

persunde its by proverb says that a Friday moon must into force, for dealing with no means altogether complaisant brings foul weather, and, taking will to be happy is much; and if unjustifical aggression. When followers to agree to set up in India this with that best known saying these small symbolic actions serve

a federation comparable to that of all:

to atrengthen, that will, then there the question is dispassionately which Western Australia says has

is still something to be said for viewed, it must be conceded that failed in its own case. The British

their continuance. the drive towards war can only Government might like, in these be checked in one way. The circumstances, to tell the Austra- alternative of international an- tians to settle their archy is the collective system But Western Australia has a case established by the Covenant of that is not easily dismissed. It the League of Nations and the claims to be legally entitled to a hearing in England on the ground | Briand-Kellogg Pact. This not that as matters stand the British only outlaws war and provides Parliament is alone competent to for all-round disarmament, but change the constitution of the Aus- furnishes machinery for the tralian Commonwealth. Some legal pacific settlement of all inter-authorities hold that this compet- ence would be transferred to the national disputes. Moreover, it

Australian Parliament at Canberra enjoins common action for the if Australla ratified-as it has not restraint of aggression. The vet done--what is known as the urgent need of the present time Statute of Westminster, is to re-establish general con-passed by the British Parliament in fidence that the principles of this 1931 to implement its declared in- tention of giving complete in- collective system will be observed dependence to such federations ns and carried out by Governments that created by the Act of 1900. and peoples in their relations But it is not expected that a way with one another. Nothing is out will be found by Australia's more likely to contribute power-agreeing to such ratification now. fully towards this end than a

now to

own affairs.

an act

definite demonstration that the co-operating in the work involved British people, having considered in the ballot, which, incidentally, and faced the issue, had con- has received the warm endorse- sciously and deliberately decided ment of the Archbishops of Can- against the old system of terbury and York, of the Roman alliances, competition in war pre- Catholic Archbishop of Liver- paration, profiteering in arma-pool, of the President of the an-National Free Church Council, of ments, and international archy, and were determined to the Chief Rabbi, and of virtually insist on Government adherence every other religious leader, to to these principles. The ques-say nothing of prominent public tions contained in the peace men in all aphores of life." The ballot raiae in a simple and result of the ballot will be practical form the fundamental awaited everywhere with the principles of a constructive peace keenest interest and concern, and policy, in which everyone has a it will assuredly represent a moet

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Happy the bride the sun shines

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ensue.

"It's only 12 o'clock. I don't see why we always have to be the first to go home.”

DUMB BELLES LETTRES By Jullet Lowell The Nerve Of Some People

WE CULS FOOTBALL JEST ANT

GAME!

I have been reading in the papers about your pame with the Trojans.

Pop Warner, Football Coach Standford University

I am an old rancher and I have always been a great admirer of Herbert Hoover, Stanford and Pop, Warner. I have never seen a football game and don't know any thing about it but I have been reading in the San Francisco papers about your game with the Trojana and I have come to the conclusion that you do not under- stand the game. Since we all learn by our experience I suggest that you make a thorough and intensive study of football

Yours truly

Leonard Stop. (Signed)

The Ideal Applicant

Dec. 1, 1934. Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawall Dear 'Sire:

I'm very glad either to except a position of not in the Hotel But if I had the pleasure to got in touch with you as personal, It's all the better.

If their's any position at the prosent is vacant, its just the thing I'm wanting.

If it is impossible for me to have any position in the Hotel I guess it's time to close."

I'll extent it to the future.

Yours truly,

Crisanto D. Comme.

(Signed)