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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Äugust 14, 1939.

Elmers, Sintonë

WIDOW TOOK CASTLE FOR SON'S SAKE Bringing Him Up To Suit "Expectations"

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WIDOW who took a castle in the North of England in order to bring up her son "in circumstances com- patible with his expectations" appeared in London Bank- ruptcy Court recently.

She was Mrs. Agnes Mary Hills (widow), lately residing at Circus Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.

Her statement of affairs showed liabilities of £3,608 against assets £21.

Replying to Mr. H. H. Gaine, Offcial Receiver, Mrs. Hills said that she was married in October 1914 and lost her husband in the War'.

She had since been receiving allying beyond her income from 1932 widow's war pension of £140 a year. tó 1830. principally due to the ex- Her husband had a reversionary pense incurred in bringing up her interest in a family trust under son. which she became entitled to an-

other £300 a year.

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In 1923 the Was also lett annuity of £100 under the will of her father-in-law.

Mr. Galuc: In addition to that money, from 1923 to 1932 a certain relativ assisted you with

amounting to about £2,000 a year?--

Yes, but promiscuously.

And when he died, you received

a legacy of £400 and an annuity of

£300 a year did you not?-Yes, from | 1932,

You later took a castle In the North

and did a considerable nount of entertaining of your friends?--Not

friends. They were my son's. Why was that?-1 was Atting him and bringing him up in circumstances compatible with his expectations.

my

"I realise it was very wrong of me

to be so extravagant," she said.

The examinalon was concluded,

"POOR CHILD"

When 1,200 of Acton's "poor children" returned from a trip by motor-conches to Littlehampton there was a car waiting for one of the youngsters 08 he left the couch.

This was the report of an official of the Fund which arranged the trip at a meet- ing of the helpers.

He said the outing was abused by some parents, and

it was decided that special steps should be taken to pre- vent mis-use of the outing in future.

2,000 WORDS IN A BOOK THIS SIZE

MR. C. A. LUSTED, 21-year-old clerk, of St. Paul's Road, St. Leonards, has been commissioned by Mr. A. K. Grant, a wealthy American collector of curios on holiday in England, to copy a 2,000-word history of Sussex into a book measuring a quar- ter of an inch square.

This will be nothing to Mr. | than 100 books less than one Lusted, who has written more inch square.

Clock Kills Alligator

Some can only be read with a mugnifying-glass. The smallest is a tenth of an inch.

TOO MUCH STRAIN

In 1933 and 1934 you were living| at the rate of £3,000 a year?--Yes. "VERY WRONG OF ME" Mr. Gaine When your income dropped to £240 a year, you found it; impossible to Hye within your means,} did you not?- am afraid so.

Mr. Lusted said: "This history of Your son became entitled to an

Sussex will be about 60 pages, but estate under his grandfather's will?- ASHLAND, Wis. (V.P.)—John C. I cannot go on for long at a stretch. Chapple lost his pet alligator in a "It So too much strain on the hand Does he intend to help you in the strange way. An alarm clock slipped and the eyes." bankruptcy?--Yes, he is prepared to from his hands while he was winding Mr Lusted is writing pay everybody in full.

it and struck the alligator in the mid-history, which he hopes Mrs. Hills attributed her failure todle. Both stopped going.

Yes.

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Here's a New York Fair plature without Grover Whalen, J. Cornelius Rathborne, society pólo player, and his wife Nancy were stranded five hours, 159 feet up, in Parachute Jump. Me- chanle untangled cable.

Antiques "Dog Fight" Won By A Woman

LADY (JOAN) DUFF-ASSHETON-SMITH successfully resist- ed a claim made in Westminster County Court by John A. Pearson, Lid,, antique dealers, of Knightsbridge, for £173 in respect of furniture said to have been supplied to her new house in Norfolk Street, W.

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Mr. Alban Gordon, for Pear-jarmchairs and couches on sale son, Ltd., stated that as Lady or return from other dealers, Duff-Assheton-Smith wanted and sent them for approval.- will be valuable pieces of period Lady Duff-Assheton-Smith selected furniture they secured stools, pieces priced at £173 and the articles were taken back to Pearson's to be redecorated.

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Lady Duff-Assheton-Smith

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at Pearson's shop and saw the furni- ture with a Mr. Ayscough, a con- noisseur in turniture, und later wrote complaining of the price.

Pearson, Lid. wrote asking for payment and she replied: "I con- lier your letter is impertinent. It is not my dog fight anyhow as the

matter passed out of my hands some

line ago.

Through Mr. E. C. Lehmann, who introduced Ludly Duff-Asaleton- Smith to Pearson Ltd. £75 was paid for twelve chalrs,

Lady Dufl-Assheton-Stnih, in evi- dence, said she was horrified when told she had bought the pieces of furniture,

You are said

Judge Austin-Jones:

to have bought all the pieces. What

do you say?I only said they were

pretty.

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The Judge held that the goods in question' were merely sent on uppro- val and gave Judginent for Lady

Duff-Assheton-Smith with costs.

The Rolling Pin Test

DR. TWISTON DAVIES, der- matologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brigh- ton, said at the Medico- Psychological Association con- ference at Haywards Heath, Sussex, recently:

"Where I suspect a neurosis, I ask the patient suddenly: "Do you hit your husband over the head with a rolling pin or does he hit you?"

"If she laughs, all well and good; but it she looks annoyed, bursts into tears or perhaps replies, "Well, as a matter of fact, my mother-in-law comes along and hits us both on the head with the rolling pin, then 1. send her to the psychiatric clinic." (Laughter.)

Ferdinand Goes To Show

SALT LAKE CITY (U.P.)-Ferdi nand was the first entry for the inter- mountain junior tat live-stock show. to be held here in June. Ferdinand is owned by Grant Bleazard of Tooele, Utah.

Schoolhouse Bought

For $1

Brunswick, Mc. (U. P.)--Robert P. Tristram Coffin, poet and educator, paid only $1 to become owner of the little brick school-house on Prince's Point road which he attended as a boy.

Africa Has Arms Factory

South

Pretoria, South Africa (U. P.)— Africa's Aral ammunition factory in Pretoria is working to capacity and is producing one million rounds a month at cost of 3 Tents each.

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