1939-03-21 — Page 3

When Rich Steal It Is Kleptomania

KLEPTOMANIA was defined by Mr. Chuter Ede, M.P., recently as "a disease 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 lady is suffering from it."

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Mr. Chuter

Ede was speaking meeting of a House of Communa Standing Committee which is con- sidering the Government's Criminal Justice 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.

"Don'ts" For Brides

Here are a few "don'ts" to be scek by those who reineinbered happy marriages, given recently by

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Eyeglasses Illuminated

Leipzig.

March 21 1939.

Breaks 30 Years Silence

VALET in the employ of

A C. Stannard, &. Penneyl

vania industrialist, has revealed himself as the one-time coach- man whose marriage to the Dowager Countess Ravensworth stirred Edwardian society $5 years ago.

The .countess died at her Hove (Surtex) homma recently at the age of 93.

Two years after her romantle wedding to her handsome couchman, James Wadsworth-then 20 and 30 years her junior-the couple separ- nied-necording to Wadsworth, be- cause of the eppestilen of his wife's fumy.

Wadsworth Inter went to Ameries, and in 1009 the countess received notice of his death. A report ap- peared in several English news- papers.

The Pennsylvanian valet states that the counters wanted to get him a peerage, but he would not accapl. He wanted her to keep her tlo.

"A WIDOW”

•

This view shows part of the car- dena and some of the buildings in Vatican City, Italy, home of the Popes and world, centre of the Roman Catholic church. Here Pope Pius XI died and here his successor Ingenious illuminated eyeglasses, was elected. In preparation. for the Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Under-Secre- Mrs. Henena Normanton, barrister, { enabling the wearer to rend or moves conclave two or three floors wore band's death, the countess never

have been de-walled off In the Vatican palace, tury, Home Office, sald the Bill pro- in a lunch-hour address to business about in the dark, vided that the expenses of treatment girls at Christ Church, Westminster:monstrated at the Leipzig Fair. The where the Cardinals were locked in Don't be afraid in the first pince lenses are surrounded by tiny cleetrie until the new head was chosen. Va could be met from public funds and

bulbs which act as a flashlight follow- tican City, in Rome, is more than 13 to get married.

neres in area, that rich people might be asked to

to

into ing the line of vision. Don't be afraid contribute,

marriage all that you can."

Don't ever make your husband! feel that he comes second to the children.

It would be wrong to deprive the court of the power tu urcure a con- tribution to. or the total expenses of the treatment of well-to-do per- i sons. Only those who could afford to pay would be asked to do so.

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

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And these things, she said, tend to break marriages:

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

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Wide disparily in age. The modern idea of putting off having children till late in marriage or avolding them altogether.

The wife peralsting in going 19

work.

criticised the Mrs. Normonton Questioned recently on allegations movement for husbands to pay their anti-aircraft wives wages, saying it would lower that American neeret devices had been sold to the British the status of the woman in marriage, Government, President Roosevelt re- vealed that there have been sales to Britain-but not of the latest type of apparatuss,

He sald the Sperry Gyroscope Company here, which manufactures anti-aircraft directors, has lately In- creased production, from one gun- director à month to one a day.

"Poker Friend” False

REDDING, Cal. Verne Carleton not only believes that there are such things as "poker faces," but that there are also "pokeri One of the latter induced) friends,"

Hymn Ms. Fetches £76

A friend of the countess sald: "After the report of her hus-

All her referred to him again. friends knew her as a widow."

Wadsworth, who is the son of an estate agent, had been conciman to the countess for only four months when they married early one morn- Ing at St. George's Church, Hanover-

quare.,

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

in the coaching mews without alter- in his style of living.

Concerning the wedding he once fold a friend, "Her ladyship wished it, and couldn't say no."

The countess was first married In

1072 to Captain Baker-Cresswell,

THE Englishman's favourite hynin, businesslike. He wears a dark suit "Abids With Me," set down inland a white collar above a striped the thin, slanting hand of Parson shirt. In his right hand he keeps a Lyto nearly 100 years ago, was sold fountain pen like a sixth finger,

Mr. Hodgson sold lots at the rate at a London book auction recently

He took Abide £78 to Lady Perry, wife of the of 120 an hour. for chairman of the Ford Motor Com-With Me" in his stritic. pany in England.

He offered the parson's notebook, Lady Perry, fair-haired, wearing and said that it contained the fulle round green hat, hurried outside 10 eight verses of "Abide With Me." who died in 1903. her car with the parson's notebook

Some of the audience nodded under her arm. Before she drove neatly. A pound or two each nod, away she had a word with Moxwell. Lyte, incat-granddaughter Lady Perry had the last word. of the author of the hymn."

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Miss Lyle said that she had not Kone there to bld. But she was interested to know where the par- son's notebook went to

on

Mr. John Edmund Hodgson, auctioneer, was perched rostrum above the "pound"--a shaped table for buyers.

the

Mr. Hodgson tapped his little

who died in 1886. Six yes Inter (as his second wife) she married

second Earl of Ravensworth, She was a granddaughter of the Brst Lord Denman, the famous Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

mullst on the top of his oak desk. Terriers Angry Over

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

A. Hodgson was selling books at that desk when Parson Lyte looked from This window over Brixham Harbour, U-and began to write his hymn.

'A BLUE FUNK' • This, he added, was largely as a

Thin on top, brisk, Mr. Hodgson' result of funds received from the sale to Britain of "anti-aircraft gun-

alm to enter a poker game on the in-ngered a Bite mailet in his left directors of an older type."

He made it clear that these orders side tip that a third man in the gume hand. His Arst auction was in 1807,

In three assisted the United States to Jerease had $38,000 which they emid esily

win by playing together. facilities for the manufacture of a new type of director for the Anteri-hands Carleton last $3,500. He told can Army.

pulice.

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

when he was only twenty-three.

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

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"And, above all, to the deter mination with which Mr. Chamber- lain has pursued his policy of pro- moting a better understanding with other States, whatever their form of government may be, and to the cool- ness und Armness 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, zaid in the House of Commons.

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"That shows there. Isinore con Adence about in the world. Evident- by a large number of prople abroad believe we are. In for a period of pence."

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MEMBERS of the Territorial Army

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

Colonel E. W. Pickering, chief of the "Terriers," said: "It is our duty to see that whenever our men appeur{

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

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