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Patriotically Slim
A CARTOONIST in a Canadian paper showa a lady of ampla or super-putsize proportions before the mirror, anxiously asking her maid. "Do you think I'll ever come in style, again?" Tactfully the maid does not answer; for, indeed, now that war has come, with its rationing the outsize figure seems doomed to fall still more out of favour.
It will not be a penal offence to be stout, for many of the stout ones have placed it on record
Asorge Whitha
STALIN :-"Never mind, my sons. You have died to bring the blessings of Peace to the obstinate_Finns.”
One
(The Russian casually ists were issued by M. Molotoff last week).
man
has gone
this
from
"Sure by Tummel and Loch Rannoch
and Lochaber I will go,
By heather tracks w licaven in their
wiles:
If it's thinkin' in your inner heart,
braggart's in my step, You've never smelt the tangle of the
Isics."
TORNOWAY, Isle of Lewis... The steamer me up through the turbulent
S Lewis... The
waters of the Minch into this northerly port of the Scottish Hebrides was crowded with big-boned Gaelic-speaking men from
They were all homing to Lewis on
As the steamer slipped past the of called The Beasts promontory
that their Goering-like propor- the Royal Navy. tions are a perpetual mystery to them in that they eat less than leave. people only half their size. Experts may say there is a Holm and the stark contours glandular explanation. In any
Lewis loomed through the moonlight case, it has been recognised for the saliors began to crowd the fore- a long time that the reasonably lean man or woman generally has the best of it, at a longevity table or any other,
deck,
This
blunt
arrowhead of
the
school for the Royal Navy. Hebrides Is like a big training
No other part of the Empire has
in
to
Every time a British
fighting ship meets with disaster there are mourn- ers in Lewis.....
And there are only 770 square miles of Lewis, which lies in the Outer Hebrides.
• No other part of the Empire has had a larger proportion of casualties in the fighting at sea_than_ this "Island of Sorrows."
-By-
JOHN HERRIES McCULLOCH
ten A Look Through
war
island
HARRIS
WAY
Arrow-
"Lewis
This blunt head of the Hebrides ta like a big training school for the Navy."
2015.
The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
April 6, 100G. The following reliable information re- garding the waist measurements of some of the leading London actresses. will. Interest our numerous Indy readers:. Ellen Terry, 23 inches; Mary Anderson, 20 inches; Mrs. Bernard Beele, 27 inches. (no atays); Dorothy Deno 23 Inches; Mias - itorke. 23 inches: Kate Vaughan, 214. Inches (the smallest).
London contains at the present time close upon one hundred thousand pau pers, exclusive of vagrants and lunatics...
The viall of the Royal party to Canton was not marked by anything special. The usual ions were visited and receptions held. They returned yesterday, morning beit did not land, embarking directly on the launch Vietoria and steaming over to the Ancona, which had dressed ship for the occasion. There they said good- bye to H. E, the Administrator and the few others who were in attendance and at 12.23 the Ancona left her buoy for the north. No salutes were fired it being Good Friday but the yards of the war- ships were manried and the ensign dipped.. 25 YEARS ACO
-------April-4.-1919;~~-~ His Majesty the King has directed that. from to-morrow, no wines, spirits or beer shall be consumed in any of Ills Majesty's. houses,
Yesterday; a Trubo was brought down- near Solssons, making the third one in 24 hours. The Allies' aircraft dropped 13- |shels on Vigneulles Blation.
*
Our sport-loving readers will hear with
who lead sedentary lives, a little of them were lost is men, Eight Holm and slipped back into the deep could drive his bits of these Lewis there was under consideration an_sug-
ment should be made to go a long way.
those
means.
•
The Bower soilers who were recently
Reuter's Havana correspondent · zlates- Six weeks ago John Macdonald, that a while pugilist, named Jesso WII- sent such a large proportion of its struck Lewis such 1 staggering driver of the Sheshader bus, was weight championship of the world in the lard, beat Jrek Johnson, for the heavy- young men into fighting ships; cer- blow that the whole world was working in a naval dockyard for 20th round. The leading British medical tainly no other part of the Empire moved by it.
from Lewis. Had been there since weekly comments that though rating.
has produced a finer type of naval
On the last night of 1010, the naval the outbreak of war. Suddenly, and vessel Iolaire was carrying Britons shall have to eat less of
more mysteriously he was ordered back. ND no other part of the than 200 Lewis naval ratings back He puzzled about it all the way to profound regret of the death of Mr. A. E. Stoddart, the Middlesex cricketer, to the rationed foods, that will be
A Empire, it has to be added, to their villages and their nets. Stornoway.
whom the term world-renowned la car. Their relatives and friends walted "Lewis has suffered so severely from munes no dietotic tragedy. Meat has und torpedoes.
This blunt arrowhead of tainly not inapplicable. Next to "Dr. W. for them on the pier at Stornoway. the Hebrides is like a big training British cricketers and he could lay claim G." he was probably the most popular of not yet come within the restric- Already many of the homes of its It was good to have the boys home school for the Navy simple. The record. This was on August 4, 1880, when to having made the biggest score on tions, but those who keep a sharp telegrams from the Admiralty which
remote fishing villages have received at last and the terrible war over. The explanation was
Ceud Mille Failte! "A hundred people of Sheshader had signed a playing for Hampstead against the Stoles,.
"he made 485 runs, thousand welcomes!" eye on national health think that bring down the blinds of sorrow.
pcution to bring him back to his bus. the sooner it does so the better.
Every time one of our Aghting Somebody on the bridge of the I had been standing idle all the time
10 YEARS AGO ships meets with disaster the crowded fölnire made an error of he was away. The community were Particularly for those who are messages are flashed to Lewis.. Judgment. The ship Bruck the
Their key man completely isolated.
Apeti, 4, 1930. Presiding at the annual meeting of the Into or beyond middle age, and
When the Rawalpindi was sunk rocky shoulder of The Beasts of was with the
Navy
Nobody else Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd. this she carried twelve
morning, Mr. J. Scott Terutan stated that, and the other four sea.
The long scrolls Two hundred men were drowned. peutions follow the Navy to far ports. during the coming summer and the estab
mented bus servien in Repulse Bay beach. are now prisoners of war in Germany.
When the Exmouth went down six Some of the victims of the mid- Macolm Maclennan, who pilots the Ushment of pavilion offering dresing Lewis men and one man from night tragedy were cast up almost Arnol bus, was called up and sent room and refreshment facilities at Tries Harris lost their lives.
at their own doors. It was as if the to Capetown, South Africa, when within the scope of those of moderate It is noteworthy that
One of the Lewis men was John sea had struck at these brave island- war broke out. It was no use. A animal sidelines which, almost Morrison of Melbost. His sister had ers in their hour Jubilation to petition found him. Back to Lewis
married Malcolm Graham, who was humble them for ever.
Io came. Young contemptuously, are described as lost in the James Ladford.
I EWIS men have been used
saw him leaving Stornoway moved to On Lan Street from the foot. L offals, receive much more praise brother within a month.
of Wyndham Street, where they had. Graham lost husband Mrs,
and
yesterday with 21 load of crofters. pifed their business for 50 years, are again from the dieticians than meat
handling boats in dangerous waters. He had shed his uniform, but he la to shift their plich. So it goes a lengthening list of It
was this hereditary background Arnol is no longer cut off from the very bad, and we learn that a new site a man of importance again, and Business at On Lon Street has been itself. \Oitals, moreover, are not Lewis leases as the struggle on the which enabled young Malcolm
has been decided on, as a further experie to be rationed. As for sugar,
Morrison, hero
outside, of the Arlington
ment When the Lochavon was torpedoed Court, to bring his boatload of
this being at the junction most English people
alto carried a deck crew of sixteen, exhausted shipmates back to Lewis kcop
STORNOWAY depends to a D'Agullar and Wellington Birset. Ten of them were men of Lewis and after steering by the wind through gossip and war news on their consumption of it down three of the remaining six were six wintry days and nights,
The clanging silhouette hax cast ite: drivers. without the slightest detriment Gaelic-speaking Inda from Uist. Malcolm Morrison deserved the When the Admiralty send a tele-Presto! Every one at the new gowns now-
shadow on fatimale apparet. to health. Those who need more
Barra and Lochcarron
congratulations the Admiralty gave gram to Portnaguran or any other has its counterpart in lingerie. There are Wo employ experienced Specialists to under-
The Courageous and the Royal him, for his exploit epitomised the fishing village on the coast of Lewis, princess slips and nited panties. Empice will be able to get it in the con- tako Developing, Printing and Enlarg-fectionery shops as usual.
Oak and the gallant little ships that toughness and courage of the breed the news it brings is carried back were mauled by the cornered Graf to which he belongs. ing work.
Spec have all added to the proud
to Stornoway by the bus driver. I said that some of the men who Six thousand men of Lewis served its delicacy to much of the new lingerie, The comparatively small allow grief of Lewis,
left Lewis to Join the Navy at the in the Great War. But only about Tucks, fine hand work, lace and embroid
ory all decorate 11. Law.watated slips ance of butter is widely re-
No wonder the falis of this outbreak of this war have been sent 4.000 are serving in this one. are out.princess lines and wrap-arounds
barren island follow the home.
And this is why.
are in. Bups do not belt the walet-line grotted. According to report,progress of Germany's murderous To
ID man coostal defence guns? At the end of the Great War 3,000 but as it up that the gown that goCE OVER No-to man the fleet of small motor- young Lewis men emigrated because very chic woman now has a lingerie met them has the advantage of evoliness. The Germans are at the present a warfare with troubled eyes. moment getting slightly more.
Eighteen hundred of their. stal- busca which cruise the narrow and there were no prospects for them at for each ensemble and dress, wart young fishermen and crafters tortuous roads of the bland.
home. butter than
They were allowed to go to for
5 YEARS AGO then Germans get no milk, some of them had to be brought back, back-roads of Lewis. They are of vigour of their blood and the steady the country lost the
April 4, 1035, except on a doctor's certificate.
Mr. Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of In every part of the seven seas, vital importance to the life of the warmth of their patriotism.
the famous Taon stories, married Mrs. wherever The abundance of the British these men of Lewis will be found.
the ships keep watch, Island. They link Its scattered fish-
Florence. Dextholt wish was the wife of ing hamlets with Stornoway carrying IT must never happen again. Mr. Ashton hotally Industrialist milk supply is ample compensa- torty Lewis men aboard.
Mrs, Dencholt divorced One armed merchant cruiser has passengers, goods and news. They
Never again must wo recently. Mr. Burroughs was divorced by aro as vital to Lewis as Die Dover break faith with this Island of Sot his wife same time on rounds tion for the restriction of butter.
At the end of the last war the sea Patrol is to England.
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sea goes on.
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Theo are scores of these "sailor- went into the Navy when war broke the Briton. But out such a paralysing exodus that driven vehicles plying the rocky places and
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