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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10:

Miss Minna Hodges was crossing the line at Hoquiam, Washington, last July, when a passenger trala came roar. ing along.

She became confused,

Nick Mitchell, n crossing-j keeper, saw her plight, swept her out of harm's way.

To-day they were married.

Devotion To Father And Husband

Story of love and devotion told by Mr. William Edward Hughes at the inquest on his wife at Coleford, Gloucester- shire, this month.

"Since August 1933 my wife and I have lived with my wife's father at the Britannia Inn, Coalway (near Coleford). • "My father-in-law in bedridden. My own health le not good, and my wife has nursed us both, as well an looking after the business,

"For the past two years she has worked continuously from six in the morning until mid- -night.

"Her one fear was that seme- thing might happen to her and that there would be no one to look after her father and me."

Mrs. Hughes was discovered drowned. The coroner found that she had taken her life on a sudden impulso, when suffering from great strain.

The 'Devoted Love

Of My Nieces*

"I wish to express to all my nleces my deep appreciation of and gratitude for all their devoted love to me."-from the will of Mr. Thomas Sneyd Wallace, of Upper Icson-streel, Dublin.

He left the bulk of (£3,573) to his nieces,

LOVE

his

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1986.

OF LOVE-STORIES

Some Serious, Some Not-So-Serious, But All "Real-Life".

German Ex-Minister MOTHER-LOVE

Is Best Man At Jews Wedding

HERR TREVIRANUS,

who was Minister of Transport and Communi- cations in Dr. Bruening's Government in 1932, was best man at a London wedding this month.

The bridegroom was Mr. David Yaskiel, a German Jew, who left his native land in April 1933.

of

The bride was M188 Hannah Israel, daughter of Mr. Louis Israel, clothing manufacturer, Mile End-road. The wedding took place at Kilburn register office nt noon, and was celebrated by a luncheon. party at Grosvenor House, Park-lane..

Escaped In Tennis Kit Herr Treviranus was playing tennts in his garden Germany

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June 30, 1934-day of the Nazi "clean-up"—when his daughter warned him that there were men outside. He escaped in his tennla kit by a back way.

Jie came to England, and now lives quietly with his family at

Ashford, Middlesex,

"I am happy living in the country," he told me. "I try to keep out of the Hmelight.” And Mr. Yaskiel said to me: "I came to England because it was the nearest country where There Are big opportunities.”

Mr. Yaskiel is managing director of a literary agency.

GOLDEN LOVE Married fifty years this month: Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt, of Watchel, Somerset.

A dramatic meeting between Mrs. Elizabeth Hall and her son, Leo, was an interlude to the "mass murder" triul at Port Orchard, Wash. In in accused of slaying six persons in a cottage near Bremerton in 1934,

You Can't

Do That

There 'Ere, Now

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This is not a love story. Its "love' appeal" is to those who love things English

AT

T last! A new honest-to-goodness English catch-

phrase "You can't do that there 'ere."? Everybody's saying it. Everywhere.

Air."

Problem:

Can She Cook? WHEN

Mr. Aubrey Bateman was Mayor

of Bath he said, with some emphasis, that women are no cooks.

So when it was announced that Mr. Aubrey Bateman's eldest son-Aubrey Roland Ham- bury-Bateman-was to marry people wondered what about it:)

A newspaperman rang up the bride-to-be-Miss Frances Helen Adelaide Mulliner, 'younger daugh- ter of the late Colonel H. H. Mull- ner and of Mrs. Mulliner, of Clif- ton Court, near. Rugby. Miss Mulliner was not in. So he spoke to her mother, after he had ex- plained the object of ringing her up, and asked her: "Can your daughter Frances cook?"

"A bit

•

Mrs. Mulliner replied. 1 should say she could

Top Hits

TOP

HAT

Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman & His Orch.

.cook... well, ordinary food. | RL296.

Every-day food. Nothing ela- horate. No fancy sweets.”

"Good Actions”

He rend to her what her daugh- ter's future father-in-law said in 1929, when he welcomed the Na-

tional Federation of Meat Traders

to Bath

RL297.

RL298.

CHEEK TO CHEEK. F.T.

NO STRINGS.

TOP HAT, WHITE TIE AND TAILS. F.T.

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY, F.T;

THE PICCOLINO,

F.T..

Ginger Rogers with Victor Young & His Orch.

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY. NO STRINGS.

F5746.

"A female Baden-Powell should nrise and infuse the Girl Gulde F5747. movement with the same desire for good actions as the Boy Scouts, and teach the women really how to cook rather than merely cremate or to serve up raw, as in the days of our F298. forefathers.

"Women know very little about food."

Mrs. Mulliner coughed and then said in wonder. "Did he say all that? Well, Frances used to cook! for the Guides up to two years ago, She cooked well enough for them when she was a Guide mistress."

"When did she cook lust, Mra.

Mulliner?"

For years and years now country-and making those who

"Quite honestly, it was two years American films have supplied us say it and those who hear it laugh:

cook-a It follows' the tradition of age. But she really can with catch-phrases-"Oh yeah?”

"Not Art." Wot-ho, She Bumps," little. Not a lot: fer elder sister, "You're telling me," "Is that Ginger, You're Barmy," "There's Mrs. J. Savile, is the one who can so?" "Sez you!" "O.K. chief."

"How's Your Father 7 cook. She's a very good cook. I which were all-British..

can't answer to it that Frances is à good cook." Americanisms are unfashionable at the moment. It is no longer smart to quote Hollywood.

"You can't do that there 'ere"

Now, a very old Cockney remark, written up into the big pintomime song of the year. has caught on. Mr. and Mrs. Henry William Here, there, and everywhere you

of estate Cheshire, Winkfield House, can hear: "You can't do that there

North Marston, near Bletchley, 'ere." Bucks:

SERENADE

BY FIRE ALARM

Stone Walls Do--A Prison-Make In This Case

F. G. H. SALUSBURY

Looks Round The World

LET all young men in love salute Rene Jobin, of Montreal,

now serving three months in prison.

For Rene was a lover of great resource and magnificent daring. His adored one had cruel parents who kept her indoors at night. What, then, could he do to bridge the distance between two beating hearts?

He thought desperately. He looked about him. Ila! An idea

a flaming idea! There was that fire alarm outside his adored one's house. He would ring it.

men marry." protests the Father. "What do you expect me to do?"

"We expect you to pay up," snaps The Department. "AR for the object of the tax-pooh! --it is money. What else?" So Father Bernardino has gone to the Chillan Court of Appeals.

A Different Kind Of Love

And now we will turn from so

Eire engines would dash up. No much complication to a man with auer way than that of bringing a simpler love-a love of the earth people out of their houses. Among and ifs kindly frufts. those tumbling out would be his James Arthur Gyger, part-time adored one; and . the con-farmer, of Santa Rosa, California, fusion..

Silly! But it is sweeping the

LOVE MISSED

Dolores Costello, who guve up a film career to become the wife of John Barrymore, is returning to motion pictures. This is her latest portrait.

has come forward to confound WARDERS

agricultural science with his little

GIVE

The ruse worked perfectly shovel and his little hoo. eight times. Eight, times did As love laughs at locksmiths, so Rene and his love snatch modoes James laugh at tractors, fer- BLOOD

ments of united bliss while fire-tilisers, and all such balderdash,TO BOY men turned the hight crimson He laughs heartily. He has

But the winth time--a

eight to eighteen inches deep

had been sat-Renie WAS caught barren clay. It had a small, bar- and swept behind prison bara on ren apple-treo on it, and some

now.

.

Colonel

The he spoke to Miss Mulliner's fiance. He said he hoped his bride could cook, and also hoped she won't have to cock if she finds the cannot.

Reveals His

Love Secret In Will

Teignmouth, Devon, Jan. 15. WHEN Licut. Colonel Alexander Kempson Fletcher, left the Army he came to live in Teignmouth. He had two great friends his brother, Canon George Fletcher, with whom he lived, and Mrs. Edith Mary Oppenheim, a soldier's widow.

Often Colonel Fletcher would

visit Mrs. Oppenheim's home, a

flat

in Hermosa-road, Telgn-Eat More

mouth, and would chat to her of her twenty-year-old daughter,; Joan.

Most Teignmouth people knew of the friendship.

"Had She Desired" They did not. know-that there was a love story too. That was not revealed until today, when the will of Colonel Fletcher-who died on October 3 last, aged seventy was made public.

In this will he left £500 and the ultimate residue of a great part of his ctoto to

Raw Cabbage

ADELE ASTAIRE'S HEALTH HINT

Now York, Jan. 16.

"Of shoes and ships

scaling-waz-****

and

Of cabbages-and kings—" "my dear friend". Edith Marle.

Asked to-day if she intended Oppenheim, widow, "in appre resuming her dancingn partner- clation of her sympathetic friendship and in recognition of ship with her brother, Fred Astaire, following his reported the fact that she might have been my wife had she so, de break with "Ginger" Rogers, Lady Charles Cavendish (the sired." The

of total value Colonel former Adele Astaire) waltzed Fletcher's estate (a £21,315. Among round the tople and talked of the residue is Greenbanks, the cabbage.

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house in Dawlish-road, Teignmouth, "Look at Charliei" she exclaimed, where the colonel lived. His indicating her husband as they landed with Imprecations and parents plot of ten acres: the soll is from Portland (Dorset), Jan. 14. and neighbours ran in circles.

their way to for life. Then it goes to Mrs. pross of Britain

Hollywood. watch above "hard-pan," a cement-like, SALUTE to Governor H. Scott brother is to have the use of that from the Canadian Pacific liner Em

and five of his officers at Oppenheim.

"llo's on cabbage.diet and ho's in Portland Borstal Institution.

the pink, as anyone can sec."

Explaining the virtues of raw cair bage, she said she frequently gave it to Lord Charles Cavendish for his liver condition. Ils lordship grinned broadly.

-after-

a flood of the adored one's tears.. vines. Then Gygor-a.

broom-

Frank Appleton, aged nineteen, ELEPHANT

My brave Rene, it is true you maker by trade got to work, and serving a sentence of one year,

are a convict, but--consider-in what a cause!

Tax Those Who

Love Not Must Pay Well, such considerations, it is universally admitted, can never worry Father Boranrdino Abar- aus, an army chaplain of Chill. Nevertheless the Revenue Depart- ment insists that he pay the bachelor's tax.

less than a year hin vines pro- lay dying in the institution hos- WHO FORGOT

He is going to tour the United States, telling his secret.. He Bays It Ja Just plain common sense. He says he can raise any crop from any soil..

"Oh yes," she added as an

duced the heaviest crop in the dispital. Blood was needed in a last

Berlin, Jan. 12. trict, and his apple-tree bore 130 despairing,effort to save the Ind's lbs. of fruit.

life.

POLAND, two-and-a-half ton thought, oat it too every day,

"Stand On Your Head" Volunteers for a transfusion sca elephant of the Berlin

"Cabbage is always on our menu- were called for.

Zoo, was this morning, found

at Lismore Castle," she said, "and it First to offer his blood was dead in his bath. Governor Scott, but he was not n

Post-mortem verdict-Stomach you reporters ate it regularly you'd

look better, tool" suitable subject for the operation. troubles due to consumption of al

Another good way to koop fit, she Then five officers of the in-foreign body at Christmas."

suggested, was to stand on one's head stitution came forward, and Roland had forgotten his fish every morning; but she admitted that she did not go in for this. She had each gave of his blood. The diet and changed his menu. secrifice was in vain. Appleton Roland, In the prime of life read about it.

"We have about 70 servants and "I am a bachelor," says Father do no better than hire the services

when he died, had two passions retainers at Lismore," she explained, Bernardino, "because, as a pricat, of Baron Waldemar von der Pah-

Evidence at the Inquest to-day during his five years' stay in the and I get all the exercise. I want I am pledged to life-long celibacy.len, newly appointed interpreter

showed that the lad died of septi-zoo-fish and protby Berlin girls. This is absurd, this demand of to the Wiesbaden Law Courts.

For the baron can speak Engenemin, following boils, which in- The fish he consumed at the rato looking after them." yours."

of a hundred-weight a day. fected his whole system.

And, if he wishes to say It so that all can understand, he could

"But you are a bachelor, eh?" lsh, French, Russian, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, replice The Department. "This Spanish, is not absurd: It is a question of Dutch, Cacch, Polish, Serbian, Bulgarian, and Gorman. He is revenue."

"But it is outrageous: This tax popularly known as The League of youra was designed to make of Exclamations.

died.

While the institution officers The girls he ogled with his Roland's successor, ordered by were fighting for Appleton's lie, watery eyes in a way which gave telephone to-day from the Ham- two other inmates escaped, but him the name of the "Biggest Flirt burg Zoo, will to-morrow be splash- ing round in the bath where were caught after a short spell of in Berlin," freedom.

But, with true German efficiency, Roland died,

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