JAG BOARD OF
LONDON HITS
SNAG PRONTO
MORE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN
ENGLAND THAN IN VICTOR
IAN TIMES
LONDON, Jan. 29. (#>)—'The “jagg
Ijoard” of the British Medical associa
tion. which started to find a puncture
proof test for drunkenness, has already
struck a snag.
Some of the younger members are
for scrapping all of the old time tests
such as walking a straight line, pro
nouncing difficult words and the like,
contending that these are unsatisfac
tory. Some persons, they say, get
drunk in the legs before the liquor
affects their heads, and although un
able to walk without a wabble, they
are perhaps capable of driving an au
tomobile. The conservatives are for
clinging to some of the old tests on
the ground of their proved worth.
The “jag board” has eighteen mem
bers—physicians, surgeons, profes
sors and police court magistrates. Its
is to standardize drunkenness exami
nations as conducted by the police so
that cases brought into court may
stand up against all legal bombard
ments.
There are many more beautiful wo
men in England today than in Victor
ian times, and one reason is the num
ber of American beauties who have
married British titles. The authority
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E. F. JESSEN,
SEWARD, ALASKA
for this judgment Is the court photo
grapher, whose opinion is almost uni
versally respected. He says that the
new styles of hair dressing, the shin
gle and bob, have nothing to do with
it. “I would say that there are fifty
classic beauties in London society to
day,” he said, “and at least a dozen of
these are American girls married to
Englishmen. Twenty years ago there
were two or three women in London
who could be called beautiful.
“Today one sees hundreds of wo
men who, although not exactly beau
ties, are pretty. Women nowadays
have more character and character
frequently means beauty according to
modern standards.”
Bananas have become popular as a
training food with British football
players. Professional trainers of
athletes have come out in favor of the
banana on account of the readiness
with which it is digested and the fact
that it contains a higher per cent of
calories than most other fruits.
Football players wrant to avoid any
risk of “stuffing” but during cold wea
ther they want to be sure that what
ever they eat will contain as many
heat units as possible.
The trainers maintain that before
a football match, for instance, when
the players are pressed for time, or
between periods of the game, when
they are more or less exhausted, the
banana is the most suitable fruit, es
pecially as it carries a guarantee that
until its natural germ-proof wrapper
is peeled away it is free from contam
ination.
Alexander Schriabin, one of the cel
ebrated Russian composers, is leading
the orchestra at Holland Hall, where
many Russians who held considerable
rank under the old regime are putting
I on a Cossack show.
; He is attracting much attention by
| his unusual methods; he uses no baton
j but indicates his desires with his fing
j ers.
“Some say I literally pull notes out
! of the players with my fingers,” he re
marked laughingly in discussing his
methods. “A baton is in my way. I
never use one.”
; Schriabin is a composer like his fa
| ther. He is about forty years old, and
became a professional musician only
after the Russian revolution.
In these days of small houses and
j cramped flats tall men are not as much
j in demand as husbands as in the more
spacious days of the Victorian era.
At least Ellaliine Terriss, among the
leading English actresses, says she has
made this discovery and contends that
the short, compact husband is better
t suited to the new scheme of things in
’which brevity and compactness are so
desirable. She feels she is compe
i tent to deliver an opinion on this sub
ject since her husband, Seymour
Hicks, also well known on the London
| stage, is “betwixt and between.”
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Miss Terriss says that the tall man
—the type of well over aix feet, reach
ed the heyday of his popularity in the
decorative days of the Eighteenth cen
tury. “A fine fellow he looked in
peruke, ruffles and a sword,” she com
ments. ‘‘But in this democratic era,
man is shorn of his plumage and has
but one sombre uniform left to fall
back on—dress clothes.”
London theatres are rapidly aban
doning the ban against smoking. The
latest to discard the prohibition is the
famous old Gaiety, whose name is now
linked with the histories of several of
the brightest luminaries of English
theatricals and whose choruses have
produced many brides for the British
nobility and aristocracy.
This is the first time in its history
that the Gaety has permitted smok
ing and even now it draws the line at
pipes. The Gaiety announces on its
programs that smoking must be con
fined to cigars and pipes. In many
London theatres in general the audi
ence, even the women, indulge freely.
MOVIES NOW MAKE OWN COB
WEBS AND DRIPPING ICICLES
NEW YORK, Jan. 29. (,/p)—Motion
pictures, like necessity, have be
come the mothers of invnetion.
There was a time, and not so
long ago, when if a picture called
lor cobwebs and icicles it was ne
cessary to find a diligent spider and
wait for freezing weather. But no
more.
While “Dancing Mothers” was be
ing filmed here, Clara Bow saw four
men tapping pieces of wood togeth
er and passing them slowly past
corners, beams and other protrud
ing things of a set.
“What are you doing?” she asked.
“Draping cobwebs,” came the re
ply, and thinking it all a joke she
walked away.
But after two hours’ work, cob
webs were draped profusely over the
set. A mixture of glue, glycerine
and powdered chalk between two
board provided the webs, as the
boards were rubbed together and
then separated suddenly.
Buckets of paraffin wax and heat
will manufacture icicles and skat
ing rinks. With a ladle, the “prop”
men drip the melted paraffin about
the sets and as it cools the icicles
appear. A little whitening is added
when the paraffin is poured on the
floor to form skating rinks.
Much of the snow seen in movies
is flaked wheat* which could be eat
en if properly prepared.
FOOTBALL PROWESS REWARDED
WITH RECORD SIZE SANDWICH
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 29. (£>)—
members of the football teams of
two Spokane high schols were prom
ised that the first to make a touch
down in the annual game between
i the institution would be rewarded
with the “world’s largest sandwich.”
The rooters made good by present
ing the fortunate player, Fred Hunt
er, fullback on the Lewis and Clark
team, a sandwieh five and a half
feet in diameter. It contained 150
pounds of hamburger, a gallon and
a half of oysters, 10 dozen eggs and
25 pounds of butter, the last used
to fry the meat and spread the
“bun.”
Hunter divided it with other mem
bers of the student body assembled
in a special convocation to witness
the presentation and to celebrate
the victory.
RURAL MAIL CARRIERS ADD
GRAIN FOR QUAIL TO PACK
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 29.
(JP)—The rural mail carrier, dispen
ser of joy and sorrow from his daily
pack, has added Bob White and fam
ily to his list of patrons for the win
ter.
Through cooperation of the state
game department and government
postal officials, the rural carriers
will be supplied with grain for Miss
ouri’s thousands of quail, to help the
feathery residents thru the bitter
winter times. The food will be dis
tributed in the rural districts as part
of the daily routine.
Boss of life was heavy among the
flocks last year when four weeks of
heavy ice covered the berries and
other foods consumed by hte quail.
MARRIAGE INDUSTRY OF
CROWN POINT THRIVING
CROWN POrNT, Ind., Jan. 29. (^>)
—The marriage industry of this na
tionally renowned Mecca of quick
and easy weddings is experincing
a gradually increasing growth.
Chief of the Hoosier Gretna Green
is Justice of the Peace H. H. Kemp,
an affable, smiling, rather short,
heavy-set first assistant to Dan Cu
pid.
His office is just across the street
from the county building. It is one
flight up, and signs direct the way to
the marriage parlors. There is more
than one, for sometimes business
presses ana one couple waits while
Judge Kemp performs the finishing
touches of the ceremony immediately
in hand.
He has been in office as a magi:
trate for elever or twelve years and
says he has performed 30,000 marri.
ags dunng that time.
This year alone has witnessed him
officiating at 4,000.
The news that a former European
prince is wanted for counterfeiting is
at least encouraging evidence that he
has found something to occupy his
hands.
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If you were the only person in town that traded with
mail order concerns—it would hurt some— but it wouldn't paralyze the
prosperity of the community. *
The greatest injury would be in the influence your out
of-town-trading exerted over others. Other people might follow in your
foot-steps of foreign trading and that following would prove detrimental to
home business development and betterment of public welfare.
Set a good example. Be a home buyer. Take pride in
your community. Feel that money spent here at home is playing an
important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods
you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the
efficiency of schools—puts down better street crossings—erects better
libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays
for better police protection, etc.
Instead of fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly.
Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail
order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it.
Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan
dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper
price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers.
They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality
with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable
lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You
can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their
places of business—give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered
straight to your home—all in a few minutes time.
They willingly accommodate you. They take particular
pains to give you just what you wrant right when you want it. You
don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can
spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the
great saving of time and trouble.
Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a
good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying—liven
up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress.
Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for
local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and
better conditions of other communities. Support the community that supports you.
The Caiumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.