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the past or fears of the future?

in who knows what memories of eighteen months; that he had have travelled 2nd or 3rd class been a Hamburg merchant in a and have a few dollars for em- modest way; had, of course, barcation! Verboten! 1

WITH THE POLITE been ejected, with only the

NESS of their race clothes they wore.

So the arrival in Shanghai will Even the little lady's wrist- will they next get "chicken all be virtually penniless. When

(outside Germany, at least) or possibly born of recollected watch had been confiscated, tyranny, they commenced en- Ten marks of their own money quiries of the Chinese police were they graciously permitted man with: "Excuse-where Jew to take on their world-wide

search for sanctuary.

day?"

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NAMING the KING'S SHIPS

CERTAINLY AT PART- Committee?"

ing I was the The little couple wanted "Jew But Joseph says cheerily depressed than they. shops," which, being beyond the "Travel first-class beautiful Or have this virilo people. gave no outward sign of their orbit of the constable, I en- ship. Food. Chicken all day." greater capacities for courageous forlorn plight. Very

deavoured to assist, regretting I wondered. His wife seemed dissemblance? children. Here and there the dearth (as far as I was to read my thoughts.

A brave and uncomplaining

Never "Yes, that permit; use money people.

one word of cotton-frocked, handkerchiefed aware) of anything of the kind. woman or a cloth-capped man.

This polite, pleasant-manner- passugé. Not permit take money query, of anger or of condent- Almost all, and particularly ed, rotund little man and his from Germany."

nation did they utter, but stend- So these unfortunates suffer fastly faced the future, dark as the women, were anxious-eyed, anxious-featured wife told me

that they had been married additional mental torture. To it is. But a brave and entirely un- Footprints

complaining little throng, the majority ready to smile, and even laugh amidst their troubles. CHISELERS of as

Two oldish women, possibly 300,000 years ago have been sisters, of the small shopkeeper playing a well-sustained hoax on type, garbed in colton gown and modern archaeologists and geo-bananas, carefully depositing

shabby cardigan

munched "MALTA: H.MS. Queen Elizabeth in Whitehall, and, funnily enough, only has the power of making re- I arrived." The statement is Whitehall is reluctant to reveal the commendations us regards the names logists. The assumption arises the debris into the sea.

often seen in the daily Press. But processes whereby a chip's name is of new ships. The next step within

the Admiralty is for these why should the ship be H.M.S. Queen decided.

recom- because of some footprints. It

One little family of cloth- Elizabeth? So the question arises:

mendations to be forwarded by the capped father, thin ns a rail Who gives the King's ships the names But, shon of official mystery, the Third Sea Lord and Controller to the seems that footprints do not (his Grecian nose should have by which they shall be known process is as follows. There is in the Board of Admiralty. The Board of

throughout their careers?

Admiralty "Naming Committee," Admiralty can veto certain names. always have to be connected | saved him), tired-eyed, worried-

When Sir Samuel Hoare, the First whilch, ulthough it does not remain in and substitute others if it so desires, the but finally the names ot ali with a murder mystery in order looking mother with handker Lord of the Admiralty, announced being, is available whenever

chiefed head, and a pale and that the two first battleships to be question of naming new ships is to

fighting

to be sub- ships have to excite curiosity and even tiny boy, warmly clad; hc, it is built under the naval rearmament the fore. The Committee has at its mitted to the King. No fighting ship programme were to be named II.M.S. disposal all manner of historical and of the Royal Navy can bo named hoped, childishly ignorant of the "ing George V and H.M.S. "Prince traditional data. The influence of without the permission and approval real calamities of life.

of Wales," he spoke of those numes this is easy to see in the names given of the King. • Father and Mother gazed having been chosen by the King. For to new ships, More often than not! such important units of the future the names allotted are those which steadily before them, wrapped

argument.

All manner of things have to be

fleet one can imagine that the King have figured in the Navy List off and taken into account when selecting a would choose the ратся, But on for centuries.

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naturally In the case of small cruft, Among the names just announced name for a new warship. Tradition. such as river gunboats, submarines or for ships to be built, three are notable must always be consulted, and tus, the hames, having been chosen, for

must the well-known superstitions of their historical associations the would be submitted to his Majesty 11.M.S. Edinburgh is to be one of the particularly important in two ways.

Brush sailor. The latter ➜ for final approval,

new large cruisers. The first Edin-No sailor Ekes to serve in a ship burgh was a ship belonging to the

Blondes Bad Chess Players?

is.

Some which were found in a sandstone formation in a south ern state in America recently led to the hypothesis that they had been made by some large prehistoric creatures of the am-

If one looks through the Navy List Scots Navy, launched in 1707, and bearing the name of a vessel which phiblan family-in other words,

one finds that certain classes of ships entering service on the very day of a recently come to grief, particular- a toad that walked like a man. blondes make good chess bear names which are in some way the Union between Scotland and never been fully enginesteras established, and no similar to one another. For instance, England. The Smithsonian Institute scouts

players?

The name Jupiter is to be borne by sailor will willingly serve in a ship Mr. A. Ridèr, director of the the names of the two aircraft carriers

which

are to be built havo the one of the new destroyers. The first bearing the name of a reptile. this theory, however, and as- Hastings Chess Congress, now termination "pus," which has become Jupiter was captured from the Dutch In the piping times of peace, when

associated with aircraft

carriers at the battle of Schooneveld in May, comparatively few ships have to be serts the apparent footprints are taking place, says they do not.

And in support of his assertion, he through the Glorious,, Furious, and 1073. The career of this ship in the nouned, the task of the "Naming Com- not impressions of any foot but pointed out that of the 130 players Courageous. In the same way the English Navy was shortlived, for she mittee is comparatively simple, for

destroyers of the ordinary type are to was recaptured by the Dutch the same tradition will provide names rather are skillful Indian car only one fair hand is to be seen.

Fair-haired people," he

added, have names beginning with "J"; the day. The second Jupiter was also times over. But when there is great vings. They occur

In rocks "do not seem to have the powers of minelaying submarine is to be named a prize, being a French privateer war-time expansion it is another matter. During the Great War the concentration necessary for the after a denizen of the deep; and the captured by the British in 1762. from the James River of game. They become nervous and larger destroyers of the "Tribal" There is a hint of poetic justice not British Navy acquired a large num- Virginia to the foothills of the reckless under the strain of the com-class are obviously, to be named usually associated with Whitehall in ber of anti-submarine sloops. The

afler tribes be found in the Bellish the naming vf new submarine after Adauraity were at a loss, to petition atmosphere,

decide Empire.

the old cruiser Thetis, used as one of upon a classified series of names for Rocky Mountains and have been brunettes are at their case."

Even If one concedes a Mr. Rider's statement was quickly whereby ships of a certain class are of Zeebrugge to the German submaton keen gardener in Whitehall.

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be it alphabetical racial there George's Day, 1018,"

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nonsense."

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"There are plenty of blondes able is no reason to think they are more

GRIN AND BEAR IT to concentrate," he declared. "There

pervous

for competitions

or unfit

than others,

The only thing that beare on that question is a paper, read recently. are less suited to conditions of city showing that fall fair-haired people open-nir, adventurous life than are small dark people.

Even the fact they are nearly jalways found close to water does not persuade the ethnologists that the imprints were made by human feet in the pleistocene "It has not been proved that you can associale certain mental quali- slime or that they were pre-es with the colour of the hair or cursors of the urge which impels type of the face. a modern parent to press the baby's foot into the soft concrete of a new sidewalk. Not having the advantages of working with "There is no reason to suppose that # person inherits a particular colour artificial stone or plastics, the of hair or eye together with a men- linked aborigine was obliged pains.tal quality. They are not

together." takingly to wield a mallet and perhaps a flint chisel until he A "Blonde Chess Player" (malo) had laboriously sculptured out a champion, Dr. Alexandre Alekhine points out that the present world sufficiently accurate likeness of now 45, was in his youth blondest the human foot to fool amateur explorers of centuries afterward.

CHAMPION WAS BLONDE

of the blonda.

"I agree that a mere blonde (ho continues) cannot scowl and frown

they do blondes will be at a disad vantage.

at his opponent with the same captclty lo strike feurs possessing The Impulse was moro like fierce black eyebrows, and chess masters have not yet reached the that which is responsible for ange boxing champions who go the carving of initials on so

unshaved to their contest, but when

many of our friendly troca. But why should the primitive man put so much energy into leaving his footprints on the sandstone of time? Well, most of us will go to great lengths to leave our mark on the world.

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"Miss Vera Menchik, the woman's world chess champion. Is brunette and has yet to find a dark-haired woman who can beat her.

"Stahlberg, the Swedish champion, is as faiz ́ths and may expect a Scan- dinavian to be. Reshevsky, cham- pian of the United States, is going bald, although he is only 27, but what hair he possesses in definitely

RE BEAUTY

ALURA

BEAUTA TREATM

By Lichty

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And even Whitehall is not infallible. More than one ship of the Royal Navy has gone through life with a name which wus bestowed upon it in crrut.

The destroyer Whitley, for instance, was never intended to bear that name. The name allocated to the ship was Whitby, but a Upist in the Admiruity, thinking obviously of he Whitley Council, which was to ameliorate conditions for Civil Servante, inadvertently typed. WhR- of ley for Whitby, All manner papers were made out before the mlatake was discovered, and then it was decided to let the name Whitley stand, in honour of the Chairman of the Whitley Council, who afterwards became Speaker of the House of Commons.

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Another fomous error was the case of the destroyer Sterling. The ship had been named after the Scottlah town Stirling, but typists error, which was not discovered until too inte, substituted, an "e" for the first "J.” The name stood, and instead of bearing the arms of the town et Stirling as a badge, the ship's badge | became a replica of a sovereign.

In several respects one must com- pilment Whitehall upon its choice of names for clauses of ships. For instance, what could be more appro➡. I priate than lo call the new submarine- mincloyers atter monsters of the | deep? And again, what could have

bem 19970 sporopriate for the fames. of the liver mmboats employed on the Yangtae Flang than the names Inpect and when these had to be replaced the use of the narden of wild fowl, most of which are to be losind upon the beats of these vorm Sa