"FIVE YEARS' SLANDERS'"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 November 1915, Page 5

"FIVE YEARS' SLANDERS'"

SUBSTITUTES FOR BUTTER

THE BIG EIRE IN PARIS

TOD SLOAN,EXPELLED PROM BRITAIN •'.■'■

DR. ARABELLA ■ KENEALY'6 .; PLEii. Bj Telegraph—Press Association—Oopjrisht London, November -23. "Dr. Arabella Kenealy has been remanded on a {barge of attempting to commit suioide. She explained that five years' slanders had been prejudicial to her books, and no course was left open to tier except to drown or poison herself. . ■':

[Miss Arabella Kenealy recently brught an action against Smith and v Son for placing her novel on the library black-list, thus characterising it -as immoral.- Miss, Kenealy is a hand- ••' some woman, and'conducted her own case, wearing a small cap, and loosefitting robe modelled on Portia's costume. She; made an impassioned • speech, defending the morality of : ' her novels "Poodle Woman" and "Thus Saith Mrs. Grundy." When Mr. Justice Coleman ruled that she had no' case, 6he stood 'jp in Court) drank from : ft small bottle containing a milky fluid, shrieked, "My Lord, I told you you iwere trying a woman for her life. I have taken enough poison to kill five people." She then collapsed. : Doctors carried her to a waiting-room, where she recovered consciousness in half an hour, and was afterwards taken to the hospital.]

MEASURE OF ECONOMY-SUG-GESTED. By Telegraph-Press Assoclation-Qopyriglit London* November 23. The Board of Agrioulturw has issued a leaflet ■recommending an increase in the reduotion ? production) of cheese because of the present high prices, as a contribution'to the national food supply. „■ „' .'-■',

The leafllet adds: "Under present conditions the use of large quantities of milk in the production of butter is wasteful. Wholesome, economical substitutes for butter, are available. Butter contains less than half the food in the milk which is required for its manufacture." ,- ■■

' The leaflet is causing comment among the trade, some regarding-it as an advertisement for margarine.

£40,000 DAMAGE. JJy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Paris, November 23. • The burning 'annexe to the >Bon Marche, on the fifth floor of which was a temporary hospital, for'wounded soldiers, who were rescued, was completely destroyed. The damage to" stock is estimated at half a million pounds sterlings and to the building at £40,000.

ONOB FAMOUS JOCKEY AN "UNDE. SIRABLE ALIEN." Br Telegraph—Press AGsociat-ioa-CopyriiM London, November 23. Tod Sloan, the once famous American, jockey, and Mademoiselle Dherlys, a French revue artist, were arrested at Romany's Restaurant, under the Defence of, the' Realm Act. Mdlle. Dherlys was deported to France and Sloan to .America. No charge was preferred against them; they were simply described as undesirable aliens. No appeal'is, allowed under the Act. Sloan had* lately been appearing at music halls in the suburbs. It is understood his recent autobiography sold well, but the results were inadequate, owing to his extravagant living.