BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 February 1935, Page 4

BREEZES

The. Only One. A teacher asked his pupils if anyone could give him an example of a ‘‘stabilised ‘ndustry. ” “Horse racing, sir,” replied a boy. * * * * Monument to Levy. Cohen appeared in the city one morning wearing a magnificent diamond pin. His associates were impressed, and one asked him: “I say, Cohen, where did you get that wonderful diamond?” “You remember Levy?” replied Cohen. “Yes, but he didn’t leave you any money, did ho?” “No, he didn’t. But I’m his executor, and he left £SOO for a memorial stone to be put up to him. This,is it.” * * * * Not His Loss.

Mrs Smith was particularly fond of reminding her husband that the silver was hers, the piano was hers, and the furniture was liers. Smith was getting tired of her continual claims.

In the middle of the night Mrs Smith was awakened by noises downstairs. “Henry” she said, in a hoarse whisper, “Henry, get up; there are burglars downstairs.”

“Burglars?” echoed Smith wearily, but not making the least effort to get out of bed. “Well, let ’em burgle. There’s nothing of mine down there.”

Bridegroom’s Exciting Day.

A young bridegroom at Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, spent his wedding morning recently in fighting a fire. He was Leonard Fugett, of Spring Cottage, Milford. - Fire broke out in the thatched roof of the cottage where he lived with his 70-year-old widowed mother.

Together mother and son held the flames in check until the brigade arrived, after doing the four miles in sJmin. The fire was subdued in half an hour.

When the brigade took charge the bridegroom went across to a friend’s house and there donned his wedding clothes. He was married in the afternoon.

“Occult Circles.”

Four active “occult magic circles” are at present operating in London, according to a “Daily Express” writer. Each has an initiated membership of thirty or forty men and women. One of the “circles” is run in a studio in Chelsea, and it attended chiefly by artists.

Those facts I was able to establish yesterday from various sources, says the investigator. A number of people told me that they knew of the existence of magic circles. But no one would give me any hint as to the identity of members of the circles, nor the exact places where magic ceremonies take place. There is a simple reason—they were afraid.

A friend of one “practising magician ” did, however, show me one of a series of four books which contain definite proof of the existence of “magic” practices. These books are printed in Paris, are simply called “Magick,” and are in the possession of various people in London. The books do not mention “black” magic, but they give full details for the performance of masses, magic litanies, services, and ceremonial blood sacrifices on an altar.

One book says that “the blood sacrifice is the critical point of the World Ceremony of the Proclamation of Ilorus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon.”

An official in a bookshop in Charing Cross Road, where there is a department for books on the occult and magic, said to me yesterday: — “In the past twenty years two of the assistants in our occult book department have committed suicide. We only allow assistants to stay in that department for three months.”