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LOWELL MELLET
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
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LONDON, Dec. 6.—On the train
coining from Southampton today was
a New Zealander, lieutenant in the
Royal naval reserve. He was in a
happy frame of mind, having a two
weeks leave on his hands after a year
and a half at a Mediterranean station.
His plans for spending the two weeks
included getting married and having
a week's honeymoon. The girl was
waiting in London, having come by
j way of the United States.
The lieutenant was nervous, but it
wasn't because he was about to be
married. Having been to war, mar
riage didn't appear to frighten him.
What worried him was the fact that
he had lost his cap. He was wearing
a civilian's cap, but it seems that a
j naval officer is absolutely nude in any
thing less than the regulation uniform
I headdress. When he got off the train
j at Waterloo station he put the civilian
cap in his pocket and started for the
gate and his bride-to-be’s arms bare
headed.
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The London papers give great promi
nence to the fact that Christmas ap
proaches. The stores advertise every
thing that could make a youngster
happy, and some of them announce
orchestral music during the pleasant
period of holiday buying.
But the prohibition against sending
printed matter out of the country still
stands. Can’t even send Christmas
cards. (Hope this reaches the right
eyes.)
Food queues are again to be seen.
Two or three hundred women stood in
line before a King’s road butter store
this evening, waiting for a chance to
buy margarine. There was also a
queue waiting before a liquor store to
buy whisky, but it wasn’t so long.
Ray Hay of Sunnyside, Wash.—he’s
now Corporal Hay, his friends at Pull
map college and elsewhere will be
gia^ to learn—came out for dinner on
the understanding that there would be
pumpkin pie. It was an erroneous un
derstanding. The maid had eaten all
the pumpkin, thinking it was jam!
Hay is a “Canadian” soldier, now
convalescing after an extended stay in
hospital, the result of an adventure
with a German bomb. He brought
from France the latest story about
"The Animal.” “The Animal” is one
name friends and admirers give Heavy
Trevor, a Jim Jeffries sort of young
ster who helps to keep life in one Ca
nadian contingent from becoming a
bore.
Heavy, it appears, is fond of ngnt
ing. As long as he Is in the front
trenches he is reasonably content, but
to be taken back to the rest billets
I irritates him. He has found various
ways of avoiding this irritation, the
commonest being to slip out into No
Man's Land just before the change is
made at night and to stay there until
all “danger” is over.”
With a companion named McMas
ters, who is of the same exceptional
disposition, he accomplished this ma
neuver on a recent night. They
slipped over the top and wriggled out
through the entanglements, looking
for a good place to sleep. Feeling
about in the dark with their hands and
feet, they found a tunnel, crawled in
for some distance, and went to sleep.
The break of day awoke them to make
the startling discovery that they had
been sleeping in the open end of the
tunnel that faced the German lines!
LONDON, Dec. 8.—There arose to
day the necessity to write a letter to
a member of parliament. I asked how
it was done. The man I asked placed
in my hands "The Correct Guide to
Letter Writing, by a Member of the
Aristocracy.”
It’s a wonderful book. A man with
this book in his hand could never go
wrong. It tells you how to do ’most
everything correctly. Listen to some
of the sub-titles:
“To a Young Lady Asking for Her
Photograph.”
“From a Gentleman Consenting to
Be a Godfather.”
“Applying for the Situation of Man
ager of an Hotel.”
“From a Lady Declining to Give a
Character.”
“To a Lady Indirectly Inquiring
After an Invalid.”
“From a Gentleman to a Lady Un
aware of His Matrimonial Intentions.”
“From a Gentleman to Lady He Has
Seen but Twice.”
"From a Gentleman Who is Doubt
ful of Being Accepted Because of His
Small Means."
“From the Father of a Young Lady
to the Father of a Young Gentleman
Disapproving of His Son’s Attentions
to His Daughter.”
“Favorable Answer from a Lady to
a Gentleman to Whom She Has Not!
Been Introduced."
“Unfavorable Answer from a Young
Lady to a Widower with Grown-up|
Daughters respecting a Proposal of
Marriage.”
“From a Gentleman to the Father
of a Young Lady, Declaring He Has
No Intentions Toward His Daughter.”
“A Lady’s First Letter to a Gentle
man to Whom She Has Become En
gaged.”
“From a Lady to a Gentleman Com
plaining of His Coldness.”
“From the Mother of a Young Lady
to Her Daughter’s Lover respecting a
Quarrel.”
“From a Gentleman to a Lady to
Whom He Is Engaged Telling Her She
Has No Cause for Jealousy.”
“From a Lady to a Gentleman
, Breaking Off Her Engagement Owing
| to a Change of Feeling.”
“From a Married Sister of a Gentle
man to the Lady to Whom He Is En
gaged.”
j "From a Young Man Excusing His
Extravagance.”
“From a Little Girl to Her Mamma.”
“From a Parlor Maid to a Lady Ex
1 cusing Herself from Taking a Posi
tion.”
“From a Lady's Maid to Her Lover
Breaking Off Her Engagement."
“From a Lady to a Dressmaker
Postponing Payment.”
I never did get to the section telling
how to write to an M. P, for I started
reading the section devoted to Corre
| spondence Between Jealous Y'oung
! Couples. Dearest Edith, for example,
got a letter like this:
“You must be aware that you are
j making me very unhappy by the line
i of conduct you are pursuing. At th
i ball last night you seemed tp prefer
I every man in the room to myself as a
j partner. If you acted this way with
! the idea of arousing my jealousy, le
j me tell you it is a very dangerou
! game to play at,” etc.
I Intend to learn how to write to th
1 M. P., but I’ve got to finish the book
first.
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(By Associated Press)
i EL PASO, Tex., Peb. 14.—Many in
| genious schemes are devised for get
I ting contraband articles across the
Mexican border and despite the vigil
ance of the war trade board and cus
toms officials often succeed. Men in
the employ of the smugglers will con
ceal themselves behind the bullet-proof
adobe houses on the Mexican side and
fire shots across the border into the
United States. This is intended to at
tract the border patrols to that par
ticular point to invesigate the cause of
the shooting. The smugglers will then
rush their contraband articles across
the border at other points distant from
the scene of the firing.
Another plan is to have a chain of
small Mexican grocery stores estab
lished in the Mexican quarter near
the border. Contraband goods are
sent from wholesale houses to these
grocery stores apparently in the course
of legitimate business. But the small
stores in reality are only blinds for
the smugglers who slip out of the
back doors of these stores and wade
the river with the sacks of sugar, flour
or lard on their backs. To stop this
practice licenses of several wholesale
houses were revoked here recently.
Women and children are also em
ployed in smuggling.
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Between the dates of March 18 and
23 all alien enemies who are natives
of Germany and Austria who have not
taken out their naturalization papers
must register with the government
The registration officers will be the
postmasters of the towns. The regu
lations are very strict about this regis
tration, and all who come under this
classification should register promptly.
The offices will be kept open in the
evenings for the last two days of the
registration for the benefit of those
who are unable to get there during
office hours.
LITTLE STORIES FROM
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS
Steps to Increase the Shoe Output
I he Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger says:
"The supervisory committee of the
shoe trade has made representations
to the authorities regarding the seri
ous scarcity of leather and all kinds
of materials for the manufacture of
shoes for civilians.
The result of the proceedings is
that larger quantities of substitute
materials, such as old ships’ sails, tent
awnings and cuttings of cloth are to
be used for shoe uppers. The supply
of thread is to be increased as much
as possible, but no greater supply of
upper and sole leather can be applied
to civilian needs.
“The supervisory committee has
been assured that no more workmen
shall be withdrawn from the factories,
and men of military age already occu
pied in the factories shall be released
from army service as long as they are
fit only for labor or garrison duty.
“As regards food, it is probable that
men doing heavy work may be allowed
the same privileges as munitions work
ers. With respect to coal, the commit
tee has arranged that the supply to
factories doing extra work shall not
be curtailed.”
Insurance on Eugenic Basis
The following taken from an article
by Dr. Fritz Lenz in the Munchner
Medzinische Wochenschrift:
"During the last few months the
idea of family insurance on a eugenic
basis for the Bavarian civil service
has taken tangible shape. The plan
originated with the Bavarian ministry
for communications, and was at first
confined to the officials of this depart
ment, i. e., the postal, telegraph and
railway servants. The scheme, how
ever, seems then to have met with
well-merited approbation from the
other government departments, so that
now the foundation of an insurance
institution for the whole of the Ba
varian civil service is already counted
upon.”
The pivot of the scheme is the ob
ligatory insurance of additional bo
nuses for the children of all govern
ment officials (Kinderzulagenversiche
rung). Families with at least three
living children are to receive a bonus
for each child out of the insurance,
which is for the ny>st part provided for »
out of state funds.
Scarcity of Underclothing for Soldiers
In a communication to the Vienna
Zeit Dr. Paul Von Myrdacz of Graz
makes an earnest appeal for public
help in providing underclothing for
soldiers.
“All other sources of supply," he
says, “seem to have given out. and it
will soon be quite impossible to supply
the needs of the fighting men.
“In these circumstances the war
supply bureau calls upon the people
to overhaul their stocks of undercloth
ing and textile materials and lay them
upon the altar of the fatherland for
the use of troops. For these brave
defenders no sacrifice can be too great
to be offered by those who live in
safety as the result of their labors.
No less urgent is the appeal for body
and table linen for the many thou
sands of sick and wounded in the hos
pitals at home and in the field."
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