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THE HỌNGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1936.

PAGE OF LOVE-STORIES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.

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

She became cnnlysed.

Nick Mitchell, a crossing- 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

-Some Serious, Somo Not-So-Serious, But All "Real-Lifo".

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 în 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. The bride was

Miss Hannah

told-by Mr. William Edward Israel,, daughter of Mr. Louis of Hughes at the inquest on his Israel, clothing manufacturer, wife at Coleford, Gloucester-Mile End-road. The wedding took shire, this month.

plnee at Kilburn register office at noon, and was my luncheon

party House, Park-Inne.

"Sinco August 1933 my wife and I have lived with wife's father at the Britannia Inn, Coalway (near Coleford).

"My father-in-law is bedridden. My own health is not good, and my wife has nursed us both, as well na looking after the business,

celebrated by

Grosvenor at

Escaped In Tennis Kit

Herr Treviranus was playing

tennis in his garden in Germany "For the past two years she on June 30, 1934-day of the Nazl "clean-up"--when his daughter has worked continuously from six in the morning until mid-warned him that there were men night.

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

Mrs. Hughes

WAR discovered drowned. The coroner found that she had taken her life on a sudden Buffering from impulse, when great strain.

The Devoted Love

Of My Nieces"

"I wish to express to all my nieces my deep appreciation of and gratitude for all their devoted lave to me."-from the will of Mr. Thomas Sneyd Wallace, of Upper Leeson-street, Dubļin.

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

outside. He escaped in his tenni kit by a back way.

He came to England, and now;

family ves quietly with his

at Ashford, Middlesex.

"I am happy living in' the country," he told me "I try to keep out of the limelight" And Mr. Yuskiet sald to me: "I came to England because it was the

there nearest country where

ure |blg opportunities,"

Mr. Yaskiel is managing director of a literary agency.

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

You Can't Do That There 'Ere, Now

This is not is love story. Its "love appeu?" is to those who love thing English:--

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

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

Problem:

Can She

Cook?

XHEN Mr. Aubrey

Bateman was Mayor

of Bath he said, with some jemphasis, 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, youngor daugh- ter of the Inte Colonel H. H. Mulli- nor and of Mrs. Mulliner, of Clif- ton Court, near Rugby. Misa 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 cook well, ordinary food. Every-day food. Nothing ela- borate. No fancy sweets.'

"Good Actions"

He read to her what her daugh ter's future father-in-law sald In 1929, when he welcomed the Na tional Federation of Ment Traders to Bath:

Top Hits

Promi

TOP

HAT

Fred Astaire with Loo Reisman & His Orch.

NO STRINGS.

F.T.

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

RL296,

CHEEK TO CHEEK.

RL297.

RL298.

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

THE PICCOLINO. FIT:

Ginger Rogers with Victor Young & His Orch.

·F5746.

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

Mrs. "When did she cook last, Mulliner?"

"Quite honestly, it was two years For years and years now country-und making those who

cook-a American films have supplied us say it and those whe hear it laugh, ago. But she really can

It follows in the tradition of little. Net a lot. Her elder sister, with catch-phrases-"Oh yeah?" "Not Arf." "Wot-ho, She Bumps," Mrs. J. Savile, is the one who can "You're telling me," "Is that "Ginger, You're Barmy." "There's cook. She's a very good cook. I so?" "Scz you!" "O.K. chief." Air" "How's Your Father?"can't answer to it that Frances-le a

Now, a very old Cockney remark, which were all-British.

good cook." Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt, of written up into the big pantomime Watchel, Somerset.

song of the year, has caught on. Mr. and Mrs. Henry William itere, there, and everywhere you Cheshire, of

Winkfield House, can hear: "You can't do that there North Marsion, near Bletchley, j'ere."

Silly But it is sweeping the

GOLDEN LOVE

Married fifty years this month;

Bucks.

LOVE. SERENADE

BY FIRE ALARM

Stone Walls Do A Prison Make In

This Case

F. G. H. SALUSBURY

Looks Round The World

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

LE

now serving three months in prison.

For Rene was a lover of great |

resource and magnificent daring. men marry," protests the Father.

His adored one had cruel parents "What do you expect me to do?". who kept her indoors at night. What, then, could he do to bridge the distance between two beating hearts?

"We expect you to pay up," snaps The Department. "As 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.

He thought desperately. He looked about him. Hal An idea A flaming idea! There was that fire alarm outside his adored one's house. He would ring it. And now, we will turn from 90° Fire engines would dash up. No much complication to a man with surer way than that of bringing a simpler love-a love of the earth people out of their houses. Among and its kindly fruits. thoso tumbling out would be his James Arthur Gygor, part-time adored one; and in the con- farmer, of Santa Rosa, California,

fusion..

what a cause! Tax Those Who

LOVE MISSED

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

has come forward to confound WARDERS .

agricultural science with his little

GIVE

TO BOY

The he spoke to Miss Mulliner's. Americanisms are unfashionable

fance, He said he hoped his It is at the moment. no longer brie could cook, and also hoped amart to quote Hollywood.

she won't have to cook if she finds "You can't do that there 'ere" sho cannot.

now.

Colonel Reveals His

-

Love Secret In Will

-Teignmouth, Devon, Jan, 15.

WHEN Lieut.-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

fat

in

Hermosa-road, Teign-Eat More

mouth, and would chat to her of her

Joan.

twenty-year-old daughter,

Most Teignmouth people knew

of the friendship.

"Had She Dosirad"

They did not know that there was a love story too. That was not revealed unt!! to-day, when the will of Colonel Fletchor-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 late to

"my dear friend" Edith Maric Oppenheim, widow, "In appre ciation of her sympathetic

Raw Cabbage

ADELE ASTAIRE'S HEALTH HINT

New York, Jan, 15.

"Of shoes and ships

scaling-wax-

and

Of cabbages-and kings—” Asked to-day if she intended resuming her dancingn partner-

friendship and in recognition of ship with her brother, Fred the fact that she might have Astaire, following his reported been my wife had she so de- break with "Ginger" Rogers, Lady Charles Cavendish (the

sired."

of Colonel former Adele Astaire) waltzed The total value Fletcher's estate is £21,315. Among round the topic and talked of the residue is Greenbanks, the cabbage. house in Dawlish-road, Teignmouth, i where the colonel lived,

"Oh yes," she added as an 'after-

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 mos jos lahat tractora, fer- BLOOD ments of united bliss while Bre-tilisers, and all such balderdash,

"Look at Charlie!" she exclaimed, men turned the hight crimson He laughs heartily. He has a

His Indicating her husband as they landed with imprecations and parents

Tlot of ten acres: the soil is from

Portland (Dorset), Jan. 14.

to and neighbours ran in circles,

eight to eighteen Inches deep

for life. Then It goes to Mra, press of Britain on their way

Hollywood: But the winth time watch above "hard-pan," a coment-lilee, 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.

"He's on cabbage diet and he's in had been aet--Rene was caught barren clay. It had a small, bar-

Portland Boratal Institution.

the pink, as anyone can see." apple-tree on it, and some and swept behind prison bars on ren

Frank Appleton, aged nineteen, ELEPHANT

Explaining the virtues of raw cab broom- vines. Then, Gyger-n a flood of the adored one's tears.

bage, she said she frequently gave it to Lord Charles Cavendish for hin My brave Rene, it is true you maker by trade-got to work, and serving a sentence of one year,

liver condition. His lordship grinned are a convict, but consider-in in less than a year his vines pro- lay dying in the institution hos- WHO FORGOT

duced the heaviest crop in the din-pital. Blood was needed in a last

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

life.

POLAND, two-and-a-half ton Volunteers for a transfusion sen elephant of the Berlin were called for,

Zoo, was this morning found First to offer his blood was dead in his bath. Governor Scott, but he was not a Post-mortem verdict-"Stomach suitable subject for the operation. troubles due to consumption of a

Another good way to keep 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. Sho 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.

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

died.

when he died, had two passions. Burpurdino, because, no a priest, of Baron Waldomar von der Pah-

Evidence at the Inquest to-day during his five years' stay in the retainers at Lismore," she explained, I am pledged to life-long celibacy.len, newly appointed interpreter

looking after them.". showed that the lad died of septi-zoo-fish and pretty. Berlin girls. "and I get all the exercise I This is absurd, thin demand of to the Wiesbaden Law Couris.

For the baron can speak Eng-caomla, following boils, which in-The fish he consumed at the rate yours."

of a hundred-weight a day. "But you are a bachelor, eh?"lish, French, Russian, Italian, fected his whole system.

'Danish. Norwegian,

girls he ogled with his Roland's successor, ordered by Tho: institution officers- While the roplies The Department. "This Spanish,

were fighting for Appleton's life, watery eyes in a way which gave telephone to-day from the Ham is not absurd: it is a question of Dutch, Czech, Polish, Serbian,

Bulgarian, and German: He is 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 revenue."

"But, it, is outrageous: This tax popularly known as The League were caught after a short spell of in Berlin,"

But, with true Gorman efficiency, Roland died. of yours was designed to make of Exclamations.

Love Not Must Pay' Well, such considerations, it is universally admitted, can never worry, Father Bernardino Abar zus, an army chaplain of Chili.. Nevertheless the Revenue Depart- ment inslate that he pay tho bachelor's tax,

He la going to tour the United States, telling his secret. He Bays it just plain common sense. He says he can raise any crop from any soll.

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

freedom.

thought, cab it too--every day.

Stand On Your Hooad" "Cabbage is always on our menu- at Lismore Castle," she said, "and if you reporters ate it regularly you'd look better, tool"

want

F298.

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY DAY..

NO STRINGS.

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