HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16625, 6 January 1922, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

THE J.OVE THIEF.

A Kir! was displaying her wonderful ItZ r a "V ian,o,,d ri "es «t teal \ -Berlin hotel. Sk< dropped her hnndkerchief, and a hand some yonng man at th ’ ° a n « The e youn ’’ P ; the r-irl nr" 50 cl '* r ming th») hlr'f to a wall r h , t\u. fV U ' y - S ° Ehe did . also on the following day. hind te thrmf, wt wnnde red hand is Gruidt d g Suddenly 6 " 'L°° ds ° ! ti .'h7’ t ' She wa? thankful t'rTescap. with her life at the cost of her diamond amWapphmo rings which the ruffiar She hurried for the police W brought them to tho hj, f d y ien - There was no trie, of the unhappy man. Next mornin, the police found him in a nurrinl home where he said he was beins treated for nerve shock. * feet he was quite well, and unde, pressure confessed that the wholl occurrence was a comedy of thieree Lhe ruffian m the wood was his con federate, and his weapon was a to' pistol loaded with, a percussion cap. ' MERRy XMAS” UNDERTAKER An undertaker’s Christmas thought! n.e disclosed the notice in the win dou of a shop m a North-East Eanca rads-l™’ SaTS the “ D * i, y Mail.” I' ** ORDERS FOR FUNER AT.S RE CEI\ ED HERE. JOIN OUR CHRIST mas ceub.” t reveals at once an incorrigibl* optimism m the undertaker, and ai anneal to tho pessimism of the valetud man an who ‘ will never see nnothe, Christmas. ’ And the idea of a Merr, Christmas Chib with a Yuletide distri but ion of coffins is doubtless irresistihl, to the thrift" and prudent northerner But it should be called the “ Cookinj the Goose Club.” hid for seven years. A Boston man named John Overton •n. who for seven years eluded justic. bv remaining , n his home in the da] time mid venturing out only at night uns sotitcnced to twelve months’ im nrisonment at Lincoln Assises for svs k7Y7 t n n y J ohb t n R -i Boston Lodge' 6 Oddfellows lor manv years Infea , r ° f Section'he fled to Amet icn m 1914, hut returned home th same vear. Only hij wife knew n Ins existence, and when she had fceei provided for he surrendered to il* nohee. He is now broken down ii health, and Mr Justice Swift in passin, sentence, commented o, his suffering. “ HEAD ” FOR SIX YEARS. M hat must for the present stand a the most extraordinary case of a wa[ “missing” man turning up ocuurrei on October 30 at Slough. Leading Stoker W. Lewington, age! 3to of Cippenham, near Slough, who hat been mourned as dead by his parent for six vears, and whose name is ol village war memorial® at Cippenhan and Burnham, arrived home- He re fused to give any particulars of wheri he had been, and appeared to t* suffering from loss of memory. Lowing ten, \iho is single, was in the prior \o the war and was twice wound ed. He was last heard of in the de stroyer Sandfly, and reported missini six years ago. ZANGWTLL. An excellent example of Israel Zanfl will’s ready wit is given fn the stor; told of how he once received from ai admirer a very poor photograph of him self with a request that he should auto graph it. The gifted author of “ Chil dren of the Ghetto ” returned it witi the following written under it: “ Caj this be I—Zangwill?” On another cx casion Andrew Lang wrote to hill about something, and this was his r* ply: “If you, Lang, will, I, Zang, will.” ALAS! POOR DAVID. Oklahoma Agricultural College is 1 wonderful institution with a wonderfii “ Home-Makers’ Cottage,” when home economics are the subject taught. In j-ears past there has been cons plaint that one thing lacking in th» Cottage was a baby. Now David ha nrrived, says the “ Central News,” am this defect is remedied. David has been adopted, or, rathe? borrowed, /from tl*e Oklahoma Chil dren’s 7 Hospital. He Is to be kepi at the school for a year. Plans are under way to make David whose mother died when he was tei days old. the most scientifically raise* child in the State. Half a dozen senior girls for sii weeks at a stretch will make th* Home-Makers' cottage their own, cool the meals, make the beds, prepay* David’s diet, made his clothes, il 6hort, play foster-mother to him Meanwhile an experienced matron wil keep an eye on the cottage and David SIX LIVE ON* £1 A WEEK. An old D.C.M. ex-soldier’s 6truggh to keep a wife and four young childrei on £1 a week was told at Brightot (England) when Thomas Scrase fifty seven, was charged with stealing tkre* pairs of shoes. A detective said he saw Scrase leav< the shop where he was employed witt a black hag. He took him to th« police station and found in the bail the shoes which Scrase admitted hav« ing stolen. Scrase told the Court he had been on short time, and hacf earned onl3 21s a week, of which Is had to be paid for insurance. On what was left h* had endeavoured to keep his wife and four young children. He paid 111 u week rent, but was behind with it, and the landlord had threatened td take action, so he took the shoes. H« had served twenty years in the Armyj but had no pension. Detective Taylor said Scrase had served through the South African Wai and received two medals, six clasps, and also the D.C.M. All his paperj were marked “ Very good.” Scrase was bound over. _