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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1938.

Ten Guineas

7.10

Milton Gets For Saving The

MAY BUY SAUSAGES

WITH

IT

Ten guineas is the value the L.N.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 waln, which, but for her, would have struck the post at sixty miles an hour...

in front of a film semern recently in his office. Colonel 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 ra a quarter of a mile along the line from her cottage to give the alarm at Broxbourne Station, The telegraph post had crushed across the rails, and she knew that in Ave minutes the! 7.10 cxpress from Liverpool-street to Norwich wns 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 cut- tage ("I've only been out one since; people pointed at me in the street and said: That's her" ")—to go to London,

It was a great adventure far them both. For twenty years they have lived in the little house by the rail- way line. In it they have brought

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 RoadKing's

•Studio,

Axe Head Clue to

Early Man

Canterbury.

A piece of polished flint, six inches by two inches,

up their four children-boys aged unearthed near Canterbury recently, proves that Scan- dinavians crossed the North Sea to Britain 1,000 or 2,000

seventeen, fifteen and eleven, and a girl of nine.

The rent is 3s. 70. a week. years before the Vikings made their raids on the Kentish has no gas, no water, no light fald)

It is a year since they went to the pictures.

017.

Coast.

'Girls Like Clowns'

New York. There was some opposition to wo- men magistrates when they were frat 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.

This is what one woman magistrate lold woman before her:

"You have too much dye on your eyebrows. I believe that every wo-

man should make herself as pretty she can, but judgment must be

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exercised in the use of cosmetics, A

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

her look like a painted clown."

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

It was discovered batween 4ft.

With free third-class pusses they stone, is a ritual-axe found in a long barrow at Chilham. travelled to Liverpool-street, where they were photographed and inter- viewed. But Mrs. Milton kept her and 5ft, below the surface by Mr. and before he left asked R. F. Jessup, who is making an Colonel Mauldin if he would see if

head,

he could find a job for her husband. archaeological excavation of the barrow, under the auspices of

'MY AMBITION'

After the specches and the filin- ing Mrs. Milton said, "I would rather have done what I did than go through |

Sir Edmund Davis, who owns the neighbouring land.

The barrow is 150ft. long, and all

that again. We shall $3VC the of it has not been excavated, money. We can do with it,

CULTURED CANNIBALS

City Girls

Queue up to

Join Women "Terriers

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

More women."Terriers" are want- ed.

In spite of the queues and recruits "My ambition has always been to get a nice house for us all. I don't

Traditionally Roman. It is known for the Women's Auxiliary Territor- Girls from West End and May- mind about anything but to have my as fullberry till or Julaber's Grave, fals that continued everyday during fair stores, secretaries, shop assist- children well and healthy.

Some have ascribed the name to a the crisis at Home, more motor nuts, ali joined in the queues. "We must go back to Broxbourne Roman tribune, Julius Liberius, who drivers, cooks, clerical workers, lin- to be there when my girl gets home sale with Julius Caesar, but this is, guists, canteen workers, and orderfles

doubtful from school. I may buy something, in Mr. Jessup's view for supper-sausages and mush, per- legend.

At the luncheon hour the, girls hapa-but that's all the mancy we

This axe is neolithic." he said. burrted to the nearest depot to enrol. shall spend."

The neolithic folk, although vanni- They had no time for a meal. One bals at least some were--had a high culture of their own and traded with young girl had just begun her first clerical job, She signed the form the Scandinavians and the peoples on

eagerly. the Baltic Sea.

BRADFORD BREEKS

Man, the diehard of fashion.. who views with suspicion even the new placing of a button by

greet his tailor, will

with mingled feelings the appeal made recently by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Aldermau Henry Hudson.

comes

"It is probable that in 2,000 B.C. the North Sea was much narrower

than now, and it is possible, also, that Dover and Calais were joined by a narrow tongue of land.

RITUAL INSTRUMENT

are required.

Glancing through, it เก official noticed that she was 15. She had to

disappointed, as the minimum age

is 16.

At Londonerry House, the library where Ministers and diplomats are received was turned Into a recruiting bureau for transport workers. Lady Londonderry, was assisted by Lady Hindlip and six others.

"Although the response has been wonderful, we want people to go on enfisting, sald Miss B. Ward, deputy- commandant.

The Women's Auxillary Service and the Women's Transport Service

(F.A.NY,) were overrun with in- Many others were disappointed quiries and applications. when they were told that the maxi- The "Wala," or wonen "Terriers,” mum age was 43, unless they were will be divided into regiments and "We know this axe is Scandinavian ex-Service women. They wanted to battalions exactly the same as the in origin because it is made of a be cooks or canteen workers. They men. They will be named in com-

stone like none to be found in South-were advised to help at hospitals.

Women who had booked pas- East Britain. I shall not be able taj

sages to Canada, Australia, and place it in its exact Scandinavian area until I have a chance to go through all the published material on Scandinavian archacology.

The axe is probably only a ritual

Ald. Hudson pleads, with an eye frankly on the prosperity of instrument; the shaft has long since the wool and clothing industry gone. It is too delicate for ordinary -Bradford is the place where work. the cloth

from-that "There was probably an axe cult] trousers should be made wider in neolithic days, for we have found and the turnupa bigger. Yesterday axes made of senu-precious stones. "Oxford bags"; to-morrow "Bradford such a fadeite, which is too thin and

100 soft for ordinary use,

"Near the axe we found a human tooth."

breeks."

Since the days when men aban- doned knee breeches and his lega found modest refuge in trousers con- has raged each year on troversy SPEEE whether a quarter inch should be

odded or taken off.

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

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- THE LAST RAMPART · The Fil Islander may laugh and the Eskimo chortle, but trousers are the last rampart over which man stubbornly fights.

The dress reformer may clain that trousers lack nobility, that

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Me. 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 F1103-HEAR MY SONG VIOLETTA, TANGO. circles the barrow.

ONE WAS A NOTABLE "One of them is of a notable," he said, "and six pots were found among

the bones.

"But I think a tribune would have been given more of a state burlat. I do not bellove this is the grave of the legendary Julius Liberias."

(The Vikings first vislied the Eng- than tawdryish coast about the end of the eighth elongations which express ser- vitude; but no Horatius ever do- century, but their serious attacks did fended a bridge more atoutly than not begin until 838.) man defends the cut of his "extra pair."

Have

it up. "Anyhow,” he added, Ask any small boy struggling to "it would mean a tremendous lot." emerge from the chrysalis of shorta But the Lord Mayor's dream of what in his dearest wish in the world wider-trousered теп meets

with and he will answer, "Trousers!" little support from the fallor, "Trou- Perhaps the Lord Mayor of Brad-sers," said one, are actually a Uttle ford is right. Bradford, would be narrower. What men should have is bankrupt if we ware briefs.

an extra suit a year."

And what if we do ylold to the Lord Mayor and bring a boom to Bradford with bell bottoms? Luton

"If only we could persuade men to add a little to their trousers, trade would certainly benefit. What help that inch or so would bet

"Now, it 20,000,000 mér added may follow up the appeal with big- three inches of cloth to their trousers ger and wider hats, Leicester with it would mean

thicker shoes, and Lancashire ́im- Ile took out paper and pencil, and plare us to hack back to nightgowns. plunged into higher mathematics. But perhaps Bradford la just pull- He bit the end of the penell andling the wool over our øyes.

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