New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1924, Page 28

23 MODERN GIRL 15 POPULAR ABROAD England Finds Her Greatly to Its Liking s 24 London, Oct. 10.—The modern girl, whose ways not infrequently shock elders nowadays | defender in Edward (% poet and philosopher, ed wealth and position half tury ago te I ne a ploneer. Four score ycars have Carpenter ample opportunt serving the ways of women al now celebrates his eightieth birthday with & paen in praise the twentieth century. overwhelmed at the the average man, 1 hay admiration for the m said Mr. Carpenter lous product o “I remember the women last generation and their i Dabbling wit doing a little embr ing no opinions wha considered not only the only life for a girl days, if a girl had opinion thing more important than h es, she was considered a fr the other girls, and heavily sat on by the married women. “The war offered the at the for woman to find her freedom. Now all the problems t has to face arise from the obliged to conform to ¢ staunch the s a rpenter, who 1t 1 cen- cor socialisea for . of the girl of 4w inca of 1the limited water colors aml hav- cd to be a suitable, but In those opportunity psychological moment d\ffnrrnt c yesterday. “One of the most striking differ- ences between s generation and the last is the way in which women say what they mean with what used to be masculine di They once seemed to make a point of say- ing what they did not mean. I never knew why this was so. “Altogether this is Things are moving in the right di- rection, towards more freedom and a more sensible outlook. of the age is lack of seriousness, T belleve women will do much tow: putting the world straight agair Prosperous Haiti Is . Paying Off Its Debt Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. During the nine years in wlfich Americans have supervised the fi- nances of Haiti, the debt of the re- public has been reduced considered with pride by both cans who are assisting it. 31, 1915, the liabilities were 105,843, and on July 21, were $22,073,843. Dr. W. W. cial advisor to the republic. The famous sword blades forged at Toledo by the Saracens could be J and straightness coiled up like a clock spring would +resume perfect as soon as released. ne " | waste woman of | hopeful age. | The curse | 10— more than $9,000,000, a record which is the Haitian government and the Ameri- On Aug. $32,- 1924, they Cumberland is finan- END OF DAYLIGHT TIME BENEFITS THE THEATERS London Theatrical men Notes Larger Audiences as Time 1s Changed, London, Oct, 10,—Thera are happy s i London's theatre-land, West End Playhouses are experienc- ing the biggest boom in attendance in many months, “It’s partly due to what has come to be known as the ‘little social ses- alded and abetied by a spell weather which, if not fdeal, is at an jmprovement upon than rized the spring and least which characte ! summer mont boom s undonbtedly in the w rical producer, Traw WOVE vmnl ather,” Also Day- ls always a bhlow t the Now p haven't time [ to play tennis before it gets davk, and in consequence they go to the s are ng ople It is perhaps unfortunate, that standard of plays is not what was in pre-war days. There is a s, No aw along. Of course, 1y of those who write it, but thelr 1 on the general public. t men who can write 7| of playw m efforts are We ar |Queensland Would Gain By Meat Production Erisbane, Queensland, Oct An experiment loperative meat selling is being tried With the object of tter returns to meat pro- strong financial group in launched a company 1 capital of 85,000,000 to e the product from the produ- er to the consumer on a co-opera- tive One part of the plan i he establishment of a number of {retail shops in Great Britain to ch supplies would be shipped from Australia The author of the plan is Sir Hen- vy Jones of Tasmania, who expects that the producers will not only ob- ain higher prices, but will receive | additional money in the form of profits, which will be distributed by the company among the co-operative owners. 1= interesting in co- seeuring tdueers basis. Energetic Steps to Save Inland Fish New Orleans, Oct. 10—The Louisi- ana conservation commission, with the ass 1ce of the federal bureau fisheri death in St. n rv'mth alone from Aungust 6 to Septemher 6, ace cording to a report of the commis- |sion on its work in overflow pools which were drying up because of the irought. Game fish to the number of 157,- were transferrod to streams in st Carroll parish, in the north- astern part of the state and in Cal- asien parish, in the southwest. Commercial fish numbering 618,275 were planted in running streams in the vicinity where they were res- cned. The commissgion is continuing th scue work in other parts of the state Long, Short and Broad were the names litigants in a Lon- don court, of three N, T H due to' have business In the new ecapital, There s a splendor of uniforms and of side-arms, the Caucasian national ' costume dominating the picture, A very long, swagger over-garment of brown or gray, padded square at the shoulders, with wasp-like walst, and descending as a smartly flared skirt ~thls, together with high, heel- |1esa boots, a square astrakhan cap, a clanking sword, two magnificently chased daggers, a brace of pistols, and sixteen fountain pens strung across his chest represents what 1 would term the picturesque scenery [worn by your typleal Georgian in war, in peace, and In the bosom of his countrymen, “What I have called fountain pens turned out to be more eapons— hollow tubes, anciently designed to contain powder and shot, | “One looks at these magnificiently accoutered swaggerers, with their | tiff mustaches and close-shaven | kulls, and thinks of comic opera and of the dear old kingdom of | |Zenda; also one trembles for the |l.eague of Nations, fearing that the Georgian will never consent to & re- duction of his armament, TLounging Hour Important “Mecre militarism has no gage on uniforms at Tifiis, Every- body wears one, including school children and their teachers, accord- ing to Russian custom; and hun-| dreds upon hundreds of civillans| are thus attired because, clothes | being scarce and expensive, they prefer buying some officer's cast-oft outf . “Y he 'lounging hour' is Xnmor(unh |in Georgia. In fact, there are some sixteen of these to the Georgian's day ,and ryerhaps it would be |simpler to speak of the working “Here stroll Russians, Georgians, (hour. Between 2 and 3 o'clock in Armenians, and the representatives |the afternoon, down go the steel lat- of a score of mountain tribes whnitk‘cs which guard the shop windows ASIA'S GEORGIA HAVING REVOLT {Seeking fo Throw O Yoke ol Russians Oct. 10.—With nearly Republic of Georgla In the hands of insurgents sceking to throw oft Soviet Russian that country, save in the | capital, Tiflis, and the Black Sea port, Batum, Is in much the con- dition that it was in its independent days following the World War. What the country was like before it succumbed to Soviet influence is told in a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic socic.y, quoting a com- munication from Melville Chater, “Though one has penctrated fairly far into the East at Tiflis,” says the hulletin, “if one expects vistas of Caravans, camels, and Rebekahs-at- the-well, he will suffer disfllusion- ment in his first impressions. The Golovinsky Prospekt, which runs through the heart of the Georgian capital, is as handsome a bit of modern metropolitanism as can be found anywhere, With its restaur- Yants and cafes, its jewelers, art shops and opera, its vice-regal n the Prospekt, especially when seen in the lounging hour, 1is un- deniably chie. Wasp-Wasted Males Washington, D, C., all of the control, mort- HARMLESS LAXATIVE All Children Love Its Pleasant Taste MOTHER! When Child is Sick, Bilious, Constipated Give “California Fig Syrup” Mother! “California Fig Syrup” Hurry A teaspoonful of | gentle, harmless laxative. It never now will | cramps or overacts. 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Manufacturers In Conn. its national until 6 —then Tiflls resumes pastime of jole de vivre o'clock of the following morning; for that Is the hour when the Georglans' all night partics break up ~break up, 1 mean, with qmu ox~ changed across the table, “T'he Georglan s renowned for his hospitality, His customary greet- ing is: ‘While in Tifls you will con- sider my home yours,'—an offer which was tendered us so regularly that we suffered, T may almost say, from an embarrassment of homes, Dinner Parties All Night Affairs “The Georgian dinner party, a mighty matter of courses and wines, begins at 2:30 in the afternoon and lasts until 5, Then there will be |a dance in the evening, refreshments commencing at 9 o'clock and con- tinuing between dance numbers un- !til the Sompany reels homeward at the dawn, “Occasionally the floor is cleared for a dagger dance, a picturesque and barbaric business performed to a rhythmie accompaniment murder- ously about with from five to seven duggers held between his teeth, he Georglan public function s a superb affair of uniforms, healths drunk, huzzahs, celebrities carrled shoulder-high about the room, and a chorus of liveried trumpeters who sound fanfares at the close of every toast. Once agaln one realizes that, though the Georglans have gone red republican, Zend: dear old comic opera kingdom still lles deep in thelr heart. BELFAST HEARS “AMERICA" Beifast, Oct. 10.—For the first time in the history of Belfast "My Country 'Tls of Thee” was sung publicly here, The occasion was a luncheon tendered by the City Har- bor Board in honor of the officers of the United States destroyer Bil- lingsley in connection with that ves- sgl's first visit to Belfast, th original bulid built & new barn and when he enjolned his heirs never to close the building’s doors to tramps The heire have done his bldding. Every night from two or three to a dozen hoboes stop there. Meals are cooked nearby. Frequently the visitors do their laundry and string the clothes in ropes near'the barn, A resldent of this oity, traveling in the wast this summer, was asked by a man from Californla it he knew where Hagerty's Barn was located. The Altoonan: replied in the affirm- ative, and the western man sald he and many “travellng friends” had stopped at the place. FUND 18 LOW. Dublin, Oct, 10.~In a recent ad- dress Eamonn de Valera stated that the fund for the assistance of the de- pendents of prisonera put In jall by the Free State had recelved $276,- 000 from America and $125,000 fromn otber sources. At present, he sald, the fund has only $100. HOBOBS AT ALTOONA ALWAYS FIND SHELTER “Hagerty's Barn” Still Welcomes the Weary Knights pf The Road In Penn, Altoona, Pa, Oct. 10.~Althoiugh it's only an old barn, it has a repu- tation throughout the United States. It 1s known as Hagerty's Barn and it is located on the outekirts of Al- toona. \ Years ago a man named Hagerty, who lived just outside the limits of this city, owned the barn, which be- came a favorite stoppping place for the knights of the road travellng along the route of, the present Lin- coln Highway. 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