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ENGLAND MOURNS

NOTED FIGURES PASS AWAY

MEN IN EYE. OF PUBLIC

The deaths were announced last month of five famous people name-

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Mr. Charles Sargeant Jagger, A.R.A., one of Britain's most noted sculptors;

Mr. Dion Titheradge, the play. wright, producer, and actor;

Mrs. Alice Pkasance Hargreaves, the original Alice of "Allee in Wonderland";

Mr.

Brodie, John Alexander formerly city engineer of Liverpool who claimed to have invented the goal net used in Association foot. ball;

And Sir Robert McAlpine. 13 days after the death of his father.

Though Mr. Jagger's death came suddenly, it seemed to friends that he had been waging-and had won -a great race against time to com. plete a giant statue of the King. Mr. Jagger who was particularly notable

creator As the

of the

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INVALID

20.

FRANCE'S DIVORCES INCREASE

ONLY FELL OFF DURING WAR

INTERESTING FIGURES

1034.

Paris, Dec. 10. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the French Divorce Law, statistics were published liere showing that in the last half- century 722,866 divorcen Wore granted in France.

These figures, compiled from the records of the. Ministry of Justice reveal that:

1. The first five years are the hardest for a married couple;

2. Wives apply for divorce more than husbands:

3. Adultery ranks second to cruelty as the most frequent cause of divorce;

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4. Paris is no longer a divorce mill for Amerlenna and Engilsh; and

5. Divorce has been steadily growing in popularity in France, since its inception Bfty years ago, with the single exception of the World War period.

The French divorce law was Artillery Memorial at Hyde ParkINTS FOR VISITORS TO AN

promulgated officially In July, Corner a magnificent work which

1884, but did not become effective laid the foundations of his fame-

until September of that year. In was only 49. He was found dead

you are going to see a friend the few months that remained, In bed by his wife at their home.

who is ill, take palms over your however, there were 1,057 divorces in Albert Bridge Road, Battersea

appearance. and желг your granted. S.W having presumably passed Away in his sleep. His death was prettiest frock and hat. Be your

Jn 1883, the number increased to apparently due to a heart attack Hormal charming self. Don't try brought on by a common cold, 10 be unnaturally cheerful; on the 4,123; in 1887, to 6.797 until In total reached 16,723, which undermined his health at a other hand, don't be gloomy and 1912 the

!full of foreboding. Take some But during the World War time when he was suffering a great strain through worry and overwork, flowers with you. or fruit if it is divorces fell off and in 1916 there

allowed, or a magazine or little were only 1,952,

"I may be that Mr. Jagger felt gift. Leave something piensant that his end was near," a friend behind for your friend to enjoy immediately resumed, and

But in 1919 the progression was sald, "for latterly nothing could even if it is only a memory of number of divorces for that year

him from working for your smile. Don't enter the room

prevent

the

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Across

1 Even if very often longing for the invitation, "Drink, puppy, drink," the dog is hardly suffer. Ing from thin.

Always in season,

The guinea-fowl that has a spot of bother with its drink.

11 Regard-or treat with great

regard.

12 The small beginning of a foreign

many hours at a lime on the 60 on tiptoe and speak in lowered jumped to 19,465. Since then the ft, statue of King George, which he voice. Don't criticise the arrange- increase has been constant and in has crented for New Delhi. Itments of the sick-room unless you 1931, the last year for which seemed as though he was working have something practical to sug-statistics have been officially com- against time. Artistically and gest, or make reflections against piled, the total attalped 28,505. from a creative point of view, the her doctor or nurse. Don't recom- A survey of the figures for the statue is complete. So Mr. Jagger mend her a quack medicine that Inst fifty years also revenis that won his battle against ill-health." may clash with her doctor's pre- there were always more divorces Several circumstances combined stories you know of people who had than in the remainder of the Don't recall all the in the metropolitan area of Paris scription. to arki a poignant note to Mr.

that particular liness and were country. None of the foregoing Jagger's death. Besides his widow,

Don't shout, figures include divorces in the never well again. he leaves two little girls aged six laugh loudly, or aft on the bed. colonies which it is stated, have Take a chair near the bed where been very few in number although the invalid can see you. Don't they are beginning to show a 14 Destroy. overdo your sympathy and en-serious increase.--United Press. The death of Mr. Dion Tither-courage the invalid to self-pity. adge, the playwright producer, film but do show that you are genuinely scenarist, and actor, occurred at a sorry for her. Don't stay too London Nursing Home, following long. Do watch for the first signi an internal operation, at the age of (of fatigue, and go quickly..when 46. He was the brother of Misa you see it. Madge Titheradge one of the prin-

and four.

IN PRIME OF LIFE

cipals in "Theatre Royal" the new

comedy at the Lyric Theatre. Mr. as the basis for his famous wood- Titheradge had not been in good cuts. health for some time.

Mr.

John

The 92 page book was many years afterwards to realise the record price of £16,400 when it Alexander Brodie, formerly joint engineer of the was put up for sale at Sotheby's. At the time when he gave the work £8,000,000 Mersey Tunnel, and a man who completely altered the to Alice Liddell, Mr. Dodgson had face of Liverpool, during his 27 thought of publication but he years as a city engineer, died at was later persuaded to submit it his home Algburth Hall Aigburth, to Messrs. Macmillan, who publish aged 76. One of Mr. Brodie's edit in 1865. claims was that he invented the

MISSIONARY SERVICE

BROKEN LAWS

OF CHINA

Speaking at Bolton under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society The Rev. J. W. Duddington of West China gave an account of

a school where he is the chaplain and a teacher. "The Government saya to us." he said, "that we must Death duties will have to be paid not tench Christianity In goal net used in Association foot-twice on the estate of the first Sir school-but nobody keeps Inwa in ball.

Robert McAlpine as the result of Chinn anyway

Our

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country.

The friend of the best man to do

it to horses,

17 Runs off with a sailor close to

where the Tubes start,

19 A bit of bone found in old Troy, 20 Another pone. You find 'em in

Iur.

21 is a pear a plant? Certainly.

Ripe-as-a-plaint, too..

23 Look out for the girl; ahe's lost

in the wood.

24 Mensure for fish or birds. 26 It takes time to put out,

20 Exonerated-at the Customs? 130 Understanding with Frenchmen. 31 The gal who made a jocular end. 32 Belittling.

2 Set aside.

Down

3 A little wood for the author. 4 Composers of car tonics, & As well

$ Annther bone which must be put

back, first.

7 Prayer for the Sovereign (two

words).

Short and to the point, and, for

the most part, as a grammarian would have it.

10 A boat's propeller.

15 Good for nothing except a clue.. 18 What! Another? A buccaneer

would think its position in regard to 10 perfect. Please don't be cross.

18 A good place to give up if you

think this puzzle difficult.

20 He strolls about and spreads gossip, but not in the Lane: Oh,

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22 Ile gives largesse.

26 Here's a tip" it has one.

27 Well, this dogs come of good

stock.

28 An animal that adds up.

Yesterday's Solution.

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CHILDREN:

OF

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY.

Mrs. Alice Pleasance Hargreaves the audden death of his son, Robert, There were 400 to 500 children -the original Alice of "Alice the second baronet, 13 days after in that school hearing the Gospel in Wonderland" died at her home the death of his father. He had every day. "We didn't get that fin at Westerham. Kent. She was 82, left Southampton in the Warwick our schools in England. But in and had been seriously ill for some Castle for a trip to South Africa, the same city there were four weeks. Mrs. Hargreaves was a and h mid-Channel, while dressing Government schools where anti- daughter of the inte Dr. Liddell, for dinner, he had an apoplectic Christian and anti-foreign propa- Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and seizure, died, and was buried at ganda was taught." when she was 20 she and her two sua. He was 66. sisters often went boating with their

Missionary work, he said, was father's friend the Rev. Charles The health of the new baronet, not just a matter of going out to Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematical Sir Alfred Robert McAlpine, who be a leader-that was not enough. tutor at Christchurch. The origin is 27, has been affected by the The Chinese Church did not need al manuscript of "Alice's Adven shock, first of his grandfather's Britons with imperialism domin- turen Underground" as the book death, and then that of his father, ant in their nature, but with the Hon. Treasurers: was first called, was written in and he is lying ill at the home of spirit of Jesus Christ. plain, script and illustrated by the his family at Lingfield, Surrey, "I am among you as he that author with 37 pen and ink sketches The death duty now payable will ¦ verveth," should be their text. which were later, used by Tennielbe 50 per cent.

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