NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 13 August 1921, Page 7

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS.

THE PRINCESS. The celebration by Princess Mary of her twenty-fourth birthday has caused many a matron to wonder when we aro to hear of a royal marriage in England. It is well known that she and her brothers are great observers, and when they meet of an evening after she, the Prince, and the Duke of York have perhaps all been opening some separate functions, they exchange all the titbits of humour and pathos they’ve noticed at their respective meetings. The Princess, by the way, is a thorough little business woman, and one of the men she talked to when opening the Dockland Settlement Housing Scheme down in the East End, was impressed with her knowledge. Not the queenlike knowledge of how kitchens should be planned merely, but of business difficulties. “ I know a good deal about the wages troubles,” she said. “ How difficult it is to build with the high cost of labour, and what a very little way those high wages go in keeping a family.” * IF . *

OVER THE EDGE. There is an amusing story going the rounds in picture-play circles concerning a rather smart retort made by Stuart Payton, a film producer. While engaged in superintending the final rehearsals of “ The Torrent,” he came to the scene where the heroine, Miss Eva Novak, is supposed to jump from a cliff into the sea two hundred feet below. She “took her call ’ ’all right, but delayed the filming of the scene while she rearranged her hat, smoothed her hair, and brushed sundry imaginary specks of dust from her clothing. The director threw up his hands impatiently, and, noting his displeasure, Miss Novak suavely asktfd, “Have you anv objection to my improving my personal appearance?” “My dear girl,’’ replied Payton, “ your appearance has nothing to do with the case. It is your disappearance we are waiting for.”

QUITE RIGHT! Lord Headly, the veteran civil engineer, tells how he was once completely “ stumped ” by a small boy whom he chanced to meet on one of his country rambles: I was standing near a hedge watching -a spider industriously spinning its web, and the urchin, no doubt wondering what was the attraction, came up, top in hand, and stared intently in his turn. Thinking to read him a Nature lesson, I said: “ See that spider, my lad, spinning his web. Is it not wonderful ? Do you realise that no man could spin that web no matter how hard he tried?” “Well, what of it?” asked the boy. “ Watch mo spin this top. No spider could do that no matter how hard he might try.” SOMETHING DOING. A Scotsman had been walking out with a girl for ten years, and felt that it was time he made a proposal. He began with characteristic caution. “ Who was it took ye to the kinema on Monday night, Jennie?” “You, Donald,” was the answer. “And who took ye to the dance on Tuesday?” “It was you, Donald.” “And who went with ye to the music-hall on Wednesday?” “ You, Donald.” “ Well Jennie, do ye no smell a rat?” MEN MUST MARRY. An Anti-Bachelor Bill introduced into the Turkish Nationalist Parliament at Angora makes marriage compulsory for men over twenty-five. Defaulters will be fined a quarter of their earnings, which will be deposited in agricultural banks to help peasants to marry. No adult Civil Servant may be a bachelor. Gifts of land, loans and State education for children are held out as rewards for marriage with a penalty of hard labour for a confirmed bachelor. For repopulation purposes well-to-do Turks under fifty are encouraged to keep two wives.