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When Rich Steal It Is Kleptomania

KLEPTOMANIA was defined by Mr. Chuter Ede, M.P., recently as “a discase which only affects the wealthy classes."

"Why," he asked, "should a very wealthy woman who finds her visit to one of the West End stores an irresistible temptation to theft be provided with treatment which is usually asked for at the expense of the community?

"This particular disease only apparently affects the wealthy classes and doctors cheerfully come forward and assert that the. Indy is suffering from it."

Mr. Chuter Ede was speaking; at a meeting of a House of Commons Standing Committee which in con- sidering the Government's Criminal JusticeTM Bill,

RICH SHOULD PAY Several other M.P.s urged that well- to-do offenders should pay for part of their treatment advised by the courts so that the cost did not all fall on the taxpayer.

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Under Seero tury, Home Oilco, said the Bill pro- vided that the expenses of treatment could be met from pubile funds and that rich people might be asked to contribute.

It would be wrong to deprive the court of the power to secure a con- tribution to, or the total expenses of the treatment of well-to-do per- |

Only those who could afford 5013. to pay would be asked to do so.

He gave on assurance that the Home Office would consider whether there might be some slightly dif ferent placing of the onus for the responsibility for payment.

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"Don'ts" For

Brides

Tuesday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Eyeglasses Illuminated

Leipzig.

Here are a few "don'ts" to be remembered by 1030 who seek happy marriages, given recently by Ingenious illuminated eyeglasses, Mra. Ilenena Normanton, barrister, enabling the wearer to read or move in a lunch-hour address to business about in the dark, have been, de- girls at Christ Church, Westminster: monstrated at the Leipzig Fair. The Don't be afraid in the first place lenses are surrounded by tiny electric to married.

bulbs which act as a Bushlight follow- Don't be afraid to put into, Ing the line of vision. marriage all that you can.

Don't ever make your husband

feel that he comes second to the children.

And these things, aho sald, tend to break marriages:

race and

Wide disparities of tastes. (Look for a partner one's own rank in life as far possible.)

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March 21 1939.

Breaks 30 Years Silence

AVALET in the employ of

C. E. Stannard, a Pennsyl- vania industrialist, has revealed himself as 'the one-time coach- man whose marriage to the Dowager Countess Ravensworth stirred Edwardian society 55 years ago.

The Countess died at her love (Sussex). home recently at the age of $3.

Two years after her romanc wedding to lier handsome coachman, James Wadsworth-then 28 and 30 years her junior-the couple separ- ated according to Wadsworth, be- cause of the opposition of his wife's family.

Wadsworth later went to America, and In 1909 the countess, received notice of his death. A report op peared in several English now- papers.

The Pennsylvanian valci sintes that the countess wanted to get him a peerage, but he would not necept. He wanted her to keep her title.

"A WIDOW":

This vlow shows part of the gar- dens and some of the buildings in Vatican City, Italy, home of the Popes and world contro of the Roman Catholic. church. Here Pope Plus XI died and here his successor was elected. In preparation for the

A friend of the countess sald: conclave two or three floors were "Afier the report of her hus- walled off in the Vatican palace, band's death. the counters never where the Cardinals were locked in referred to him again. All her until the new head was chosen. Vo-friends knew her as a widow." tican City, in Rome, is more than 13

Wadsworth, who is the son of an acres in area.

estate agent, had been coachman to the countess for only four months when they married early one morn- ing at St. George's Church, Hanover- Equere.

Hymn Ms. Fetches £76

![UE 'Englishman's favourite hymn,į businesslike. He wears a dark suit "Abide With Mc," set down Inland a white collar above a striped in the thin, slanting hand of Parson shirt. In his right hand he keeps a Lyte nearly 100 years ago, was sold fountain pen like a sixth finger. at a London book auction recently Mr. Hodgson sold lots at the rate for 270 to Lady Perry, wife of the of 120 an hour. chairman of the Ford Motor Com-With Me" in his stride,

He took "Abide an pany-in England.

Wide disparity in nge. The modem idea of putting off having children till late in marriage or avolding them altogether,

The wife persisting in going to

work,

Lady Perry, fair-liaired, wearing & He offered the parson's notebook, round green hat, hurried outside to and said that it contained the full her car with the parson's notebook eight verses of "Abide With Me,"

Some of the audience nodded Mrs. Normanton criticised the under her arm. Before she drove Questioned recently on allegations movement for husbands to pay their away she had a word with Mently. A pound or two each nod that American secret anti-aircraft wives wages, saying it would lower Maxwell Lyte, great-granddaughter Lady Perry had the last word." devlees had been sold to the British the status of the woman in marriage.) of the author of the hymn.

New York.

Government, President Roosevelt re- venlod that there have been sales to Britain but not of the latest.typel of apparatus.

"Poker Friend" False

He said the Sperry Gyroscope Company here, which manufactures anti-aircraft directors, has lately In- creased production, from one gun-

REDDING, Cal. Verne Carleton not only belleves director à month to one a day.

This, he added, was largely as a that there are such things as "poker result of funds received from the faces," but that there are also "poker sale to Britain of "unti-aircraft gun-friends." One of the latter induced directors of on older type."

tilm to enter a poker game on the In- He made it clear that these orders side tip that a third man in the game assisted the United States to increase had $30,000 which they could easily facilities for the manufacture of awia by playing together. In three new type of director for the Ameri-handa Carleton lost $3,500. Ele told can Army.

police.

Miss Lyte said that she had not gone there to bid. But she was interested to know where the pur- son's notebook went to.

Mr. Hodgson tapped his little

There is a dent where he and his father before him have sold 120 lots an hour.

mattet on the top of his oak desk.

Mr. John Edmund Hodgson, the desk when Parson Lyte looked from A. Hodgson was selling books at that nuclloneer, Was perched on

Uhis window over Brixham Harbour

rostrum above the "pound"- shaped table for buyers.

'A BLUE FUNK'

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Thin on top, brisk, Mr. Hodgson fingered a little mallet in his left hand. His first auction was in 1897, when he was only twenty-three.

"I was in a blue funk' then- terribly nervous," he said. To-day Mr. Hodgson is calm and

Finest cream

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and began to write his hymn.

The 1-2-3 Of Peace

Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, ut a dinner of the British Iron and Steel Federation at Grosvenor House, | London, recentlys, said:~~

THERE is an increasing feeling all over the country that the prospects of peace are becoming more

secure.

"You feel this growing confidence-in-the-atmos- phere. It is influencing the City. It is giving more en- couragement to traders."

Sir John said that the feeling was due:-

1. "To the knowledge that Britain is growing stronger every day and that we are prepared to shoulder any and every burden necessary to make ug securo;

2. "To the close and warm under- standing existing between this coun- try and France;

3. "To our good relations with America

4. To the prospects of an early ending of the Spanish war without its having spread beyond the con- fines of Spain;

5.

"And, above all, to the deter- mination with which Mr. Chamber- Jain has pursued his policy of pro- moting 4 better understanding with other States, whatever their form of government may be, and to the cool- ness and firmness with which he has. held to his course during recent months of anxiety."

THE TENSION HAS LIGHTENED

Mr. Oliver Stanley. President of the Board of Trade, said in the House of Commons.

"Certainly in the last few weeks thero has been a lightening of ten- sion which has been reflected almost 'Instantaneously in the reports which I get on trade from various centres.” THEY WANT TO BUY IN BRITAIN Mr. R. S. Hudson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, in a broudcost, said:

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"I have come across several signs lately which encourage me to bellëve. that the relback buchness was suffer- Ing from most of last year is over.

"Nearly 35 per cent, more buyers have already told us that they are coming to the British Industries Fair this year than last year...

That shows there is more con- fidence about in the world. Evident- ly a large number of people abroad bellove we are in for a period of peasc.!!

AND WAGES ARE STILL GOING, UP

Wages, after Ave consecutive years

After the ceremony he went back to his duties, and continued to live

in the conching mews without alter-

told a friend, "Her ladyship wished Concerning the wedding he once

and I couldn't say no." it, and I

in his style of living.

1872

The countess was first married in to Captain Baker-Cresswell. who died in 1880. Six years later she married (as his second wife) the second Earl of Ravensworth, who died in 1003.

She was a granddaughter of the first Lord Derrman, the famous Chief Justice of the King's Bench,

Terriers Angry Over

"Prison' Khaki

in West Riding want smarter EMBERS of the Territorial Army uniforms.

They claim that the khaki used for uniforms would be making their more suitable for Sing-Sing.

Colonel E. W. Plekering, chief of "said: "It is our duty the "Terriers,"

to see that whenever our men appear

in public they should look smart und

feel proud of what they wear.

"Men ought not to be turned out! in the sort of forage caps which are now being issued."

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