The Samoa Times. Editor G. P. Brown. FRIDAY, July 27,1923. Lesin and "the Mad Mullal."

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 23, Issue 30, 27 July 1923, Page 4

The Samoa Times. Editor G. P. Brown. FRIDAY, July 27,1923. Lesin and "the Mad Mullal."

We waited "in all June" — as the deep-sea sailors' phrase has it—ior a. wireless intimation that Lenin had died again. But the wireless novelist had taken warning, and no such "news" came. "When five times bitten 'tis time to be quitten!" runs modern version of "Once bitten twice shy," and the ** wireless" man in the Old Country, has acted upon it; wherefore Lenin seems safe. This penchant of his for killing Lenin ; is an inheritance from ifis ; cablegram predecessors. Their bete nbir (or stalking-horse) was "the Mad Mullah"—a gentleman in a long red robe who led fanatical dervishes against the French forces, somewhere in Africa, twentyodd years ago. This mullah was wont to stand disdain fully amidst a shower of bullets discharged at him by the French soldiers; then he would wave his red garment and slowly fade out of fiie forefront, while "ev!n the ranks of Tuscany could scarce for? bear'to cneer." Every two months'or so the cablegrams would announce, his death at some oasis or other amidst the* Sahifgrj and •about ttiree r months later there would ' be cabled to Australasta many details of another/ daring attack by him and' another • farewell waving of the red robe. These proced a res lasted . for ; r yeats—until about the time when the Greeks and Turks went to wa* r cablegram man got so excited about the Mara- . thon races which the Greeks were then running that he altogether dropped "tl»e Mad Mullah." But the example remains—and wireless men . and cable agencies emulate , each other in , up'» <j*kvalte£s;; known as "topical"

. from, freak parties to the regu , laiioa tHoyster pattie. As the, philosopher-dramatis; Baconshake -well', remarked, "The evil deeds men do live afterthemi",;Thus it has been with the mau who made and unmade "the Mad Mullah.' Meantime, however, Trotsky and Lenin are being rested, and ,the overseas news services are concerned about women s hats. A; sample from a cab! c gram sent out to Australasia last month:— ~ London, June 20. "Some Hats! Large as Cartwheels. "Thank goodness, racehorses don't. wear Ascot hats," exclaimed a backer after witnessing the close finish for the Ascot Gold Cup, when the official verdict of a win by a short head was an nounced. Some,hats, surprised all previous records, even for Ascot, It is .asserted that one ruea sure^uliy;three jfeet across, it.was as wide as a parjasc»r,V , Flaunting a tremendous red rose, Ascot never saw such an array of cartwheels, crinoiine straw being.' especially popular. Some hats were trimmed with massed fl owe rs, mammoth roses, nasturtium >, and lilies."