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Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

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A side light on the Home elections: Lloyd George: "I want land reform; I want housing reform ; I want labor reform-; I want educational reform; I want ■■' " Voice: "Chloroform!" They WilU Mr' Punch's famous "Don't," on the subject of matrimony, uttered to the world at large, is apparently not being heatkened to in tine teaching profesiiion. M a recent meeting of the Board' a member, rose with some concern, and suggested that the Board had ibetter look to its interests

ia this matter. It was a serious thing to have teachers coming into the ser rice for a year~or so and then leaving to get married. "You can't step them/ said the chairman. Mr Hogg said ,that> they shouldn't get so many prjetlx.gjrfs" into- ■ tile service, " ni.d added that the .Board might consider th> question *of' giving' wedding presents to the;happy couples. Wheveat everybody, smiled indulgently.

Worse than New Zealand. We sometimes protest against the grandmotherly attentions of New Zealand legislators; but tluir utmost efforts are puerile cinpared with achievements of the Au.eiicans. Of the State of Oklahoma, for example, Mr. Roosevelt .has said that its legislation providei for everything except the j regulation of the planets and the weather. One of its laws compels hotels to supply bed sheets not less than nine fee- in length. This law also holds in Texas. Another of the Western States makes it an offence for hotels and eating-houses to use cracked crockery on the table, or to employ a, roller towel more than two days consecutively. In a neighbour.* ing State passengers on street cars who cross their legs when their shoes are soiled with dust are liable to a fiae There have been introduced into Congress Bills to regulate "international marriages" between the fair daughters of America and effete European nobles. One statoman proposed to tax the dowries of brides who deserted their native land, but he failed to secure support-. A Cheap Husband. A New-York newspaper a few^wefltfs ago contained an advertisemSnTwhi h attracted a very large amount of attention. A lady, it stated, required a husband and wouid pay two hundred dollars to a suitable man on condition that he consented to leave her immediatdly the ceremony had been performed and to place no obstacle in the way of an early, divorce. Miss "Eugenic Adams had been left a legacy by a late relative in Germany, but the will contained a proviso to the effeot that sho should not receive,the money until she got married. She*satisfied one,:a shop assistant, and is now going to sue for divorce after she grabs the legacy. Bachelor Reflections. The hand that cooks the' meal rules the world. When a girl reading a novel wets her lips it is a sign the heroine is about to meet the hero. i Once there was a woman who couldn't be flattered, but she isn't alive any longer. Loving a womaiTnever satisfies her ; you've got to make'love to her. - All is not blonde that bleaches. ; The giggly vife makes a weeping husband. Two of anything but childreu make a pair; two of them make a mob. It takes nine tailors to make a man, and one woman to bieak him.