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Mrs. Milton Gets Ten Guineas For Saving The 7.10

MAY BUY SAUSAGES WITH IT

Ten guineas is the value the LN.E.R. place on the action of Mrs. Ada Milton, the Broxbourne (Herts) mother who saved an ex- press train from crashing into a fallen telegraph post.

One hundred and fifty people were travelling in the train, which, but for her, would have struck the post at sixty miles an hour.

In front of a film camera recently In his offer. Calonel H. H. Mauldin, eastern section superintendent, hand- ed Mrs. Milton a cheque and thanked her on behalf of the company.

It was in the teeth of a gale, that the forty-eight-year-old woman ran a quarter of a mile along the line from her cottage to give the alarm at) Broxbourne Station. The telegraph | post had crashed across the rails, and] she knew that in five minutes the 7.10 express from Liverpool-street to Norwich was due.

GREAT ADVENTURE

As a result of her warning the train was pulled up safely.

Recently, with her husband, who is unemployed, she timidly left her cot- tage~("I've only bein out once zince: people pointed at me in the street and said: "That's her "to go to London.

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It was a greal adventure for them both. For twenty years they have lived in the Litle house by the rali- way line. In it they have brought up their four children-boys aged seventeen, Afteen and eleven, and a girl of nine.

Ronald George, three month's old son of L/Sgt. G. R. Grant, of the Seaforth Highlanders, and Mrs. Grant, photographed with friends after his recent christening at the Union Church. Kennedy Road, King's

Studio,

Axe Head Clue to

Early

Man

Canterbury.

A piece of polished flint, six inches by two inches, anearthed near Canterbury recently, proves that Scan- dinavians crossed the North Sea to Britain 1,000 or 2,000 The rent is 3s. 74. n week. years before the Vikings made their raids on the Kentish

has no gas, no water, no light laid:

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In a year since they went coast. to the pletures.

'Girls Like Clowns'

New York. There was some opposition to wo- inen magistrates when they were first. appointed In New York, but most people now agree that they are better than men at one thing-telling wo- men defendants what they think of them.

told a woman before her:

This is what one woman magistrate "You have too much dye on your mon should make herself as pretty eyebrows. I believe that every wo- as she can, bih judgment must be exercised in the use of cosmetics.

"When rouge, lipstick and eye- shade are used without skill they

her look like a palated clowns."

The flint, a cream-coloured, sharp, exquisitely-ground piece of make a woman look cheap; they make

With free third-class passes they stone, is a ritual-axe found in a long barrow at Chilham. travelled to Liverpool-street, where

they were photographed and inter- It was discovered between 4ft. į viewed. But Mrs. Milton kept her and 5ft. below the surface by Mr. hend, and before she left asked R. F. Jessup, who is making an

Colonel Mauldin If he would see if

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he could find a job for her husband, archaeological excavation of the barrow, under the auspices of 'MY AMBITION"

Sir Edmund Davis, who After the speeches and the alm-the neighbouring land. ing Mra. Milton said, "I would rather have done what I did than go through The barrow is 150ft. long, and all that again. We shall save the of it has not been excavated. money. We can do with it,

"My ambition has always been to get a nice house for us all. I don't mind about anything but to have my | children well and healthy.

CULTURED CANNIBALS

City Girls Queue up to

Join Women "Terriers

More wonnen "Terriers" are want- ecl.

In spite of the queues and recruits as Jullberry Hill er Julaber's Graye. fals that continued everyday during Traditionally Roman. It is known for the Women's Auxiliary Territor Some have ascribed the name to a the crisis at Home, more motor "We must go back to Broxbourne Roman tribune, Julius Liberius, who drivers, cooks, clerical workers. lin- to be there when my girl gets home salled with Julius Caesar, but this is guists, canteen workers, and orderlies from school. I may buy something in Mr. Jessup's

doubtful are required. for supper-sausages and mash, per- legend, haps--but that's all the money we shall spend."

BRADFORD

BREEKS

Man, the dichard of fashion, who views with suspicion even the new placing of a button by his tallor, will greet with mingled feelings the appeal made recently by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Alderman Henry Hudson.

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New Zealand cancelled them so that they could join up and be of some service.

fair stores, secretaries, shop assist- Girls from West End and May-

unts, all joined in the queues,

where Ministers and diplomats are At Londonerry House, the library

received was turned into a recruiting

At the luncheon.. hour the girls bureau for transport workers. Lady "This axe is neolithic." he said. hurried to the nearest depot to enrol. Londonderry was assisted by Lady "The neolithic folk, although canni- They had no time for a meal, One Hindlip and six others. bals--at least some were had a high young girl had just begun her first culture of their own and traded with clericnl job. She signed the form wanderful, we want people to go on "Although the response has been the Scandinaviens and the peoples on the Baltic Sea,

enlisting" sald Miss B. Ward, deputy- official commandant,

cagerly.

Glancing through it

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"It is probable that in 2,000 B.C. the North Sea was much narrower uticed that she was 15. She had to than now, and it is possible, also, be disappointed, as the minimum age that Dover and Caluis were joined is 10. by a narrow tungue of land.

RITUAL INSTRUMENT

The Women's Auxillary Service and the Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.) were overrun with in-

Many others were disappointed quiries and applications. when they were told that the mux).

The "Wats," or women "Terriers," mum age was 43. unless they were wilf be divided into regiments and "We know this axe is Scandinavian ex-Service women. They wanted to battalions exactly the same as the be cooks or canteen workers. They men. They will he named In com-

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Women who had booked pas- sages to Canada, Australia, and

in origin because it is made to like none to be found in South-were advised to help at hospitals. East Britain. I shall not be able to place it in its exact Scandinavian area until I have a chance. 10 through all the published material on Scandinavian archaeology.

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"The axe is probably only a ritual instrument; the shaft has long since gone. It is too delicate for ordinary work.

Ald, Hudson plends, with un eye frankly on the prosperity of the wool and clothing industry -Bradford is the place where the cloth comes from-that "There was probably an axe cult trousers should be made wider in neolithic days, for we have found and the turnups bigger. Yesterday axes made of semi-precious stones, "Oxford bags; to-morrow "Bradford such us jadeite, which is too thin and

too soft for ordinary use. breeks."

Since the days when men nban- doned knee breeches and his legs, tooth." found modest refuge in trousers can- troversy has raged each year whether a quarter inch should be added or taken off.

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Only the sailor, safely entrenched in his own cascading bell-bottoms, cares not a hoot about the woes of trousered humanliy.

THE LAST RAMPART

"Near the axe we found a humun

Mr. Jessup, who is working here with his wife and five labourers from Sir Edmund Davis's estate, has found Roman graves in the ditch that en- clrcles the barrow.

ONE WAS A NOTABLE

"One of them is of a notable," ho

The Fiji Islander may laugh and said, "and six pots were found among

the Eskimo chorile, but trousers are the last rampart over which mon stubbornly fights.

the bones.

"But I think a tribuno would have been given more of a state burini. I do not belleve this is the grave of the thatgendary Julius. Liberius."

The dress reformer may claim that trousers tack riobility. they

than tawdry are no more clongations which exprem

DET- vitude; but no Horatius over de fended a bridge more stoutly than man defends the cut of his "extra pair."

(The Vikings first visited the Eng- lial coast about the end of the eighth century, but their serious attacks did not begin until 838)

gave it up. "Anyhow," he added, Ask any small boy struggling to "It would mean a tremendous lot." emerge from the chrysolls of shorts But the Lord Mayor's dream of what la his dearest wish in the world wider-trousered

men meets with and he will answer, "Trousers!” little support from the tailor. "Trou- Perhaps the Lord Mayor of Brad-sers," said one, "are actually a little ford is right. Bradford would be narrower. What men should have is)

| bankrupt if we wore belefs.

"If only wo could persuade men to add a little to their trousera trudo would certainly benefit. What help that inch or so would bel me

"Now, if 20,000,000 men added three inches of cloth to their trousers it would mean

an extra suit a year."

And what if we do yield to the Lord Mayor and bring a boom to Bradford with bell bottoms? Luton may follow up the appeal with big- gar and wider hats, Leicester with thicker shoes, and Lancashire Im- He took out paper and pencil, and plore us to hark back to nightgowns. plunged into higher mathematica. But perhaps Bradford is just pull- Ife bit, the end of the pencil andling the wool over our eyes,

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