CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 689, 2 December 1921, Page 5

CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

According to an American paper, clothes are coming down so in price that perhaps |the ladies will begin wearing them again.

“Two of a Kind, v is ’the title of this (dialogue found in the London “Mail.” ; “How’# your cold, Donald ?” “Verra obstinate.” “And‘ how’s your wife‘About the same.”

: Elinor Glyn, who is the authoress of some lively books, is to appear on the vaudeville sjtage in New York. She’s announced to deliver a 30-min-ute monologue on the subject of “Love."

She was telling an acquaintance about her girl! friend. “Yes ” she said “my friend Maud! is only twentyfive, and she’s been married three timajs, Antd all her husbands have been named William.” “You don’t say!” replied he. “Why, she must be a regular Bill collector!”

A well-known Congressman went to a political meeting in New Jetsey. The triain was very slow—so sltow that he complained to the conaductor. But the conductor did not care for anybody on earjth. “If you don’t like the train, mister, you can get ou!t and walk,” he grunted. “I would,” replied) the Congressman, “but they don’t expect me till the train arrives.”

. ! What is believed to be the longest continuous canoe voyage ever made was recently completed by a man wbo (travelled 8000 miles in that manner. Using the paddles alone in a 17-foot canoe, he left Chicaga llth October, 1919, followed the mississippi to New Orlteans, then the Gulf Coast around Floida, and the A|tlaiit.ic Coast north to New York, arriving 25th June.

; Fontainebleau, the scene of many historic events among them the encounter between Pius VII. and Napoleon 1., is to be the seat of a music school for Americans. A hundred American students recently began their firqt term there.? ’Hie principal courses are in composition, fugue, counterpoint, and harmony; organ, piano,, violin, violoncello, the harp; the history of music, acoustics, ana lectures by leading composers and conductors.

A hundred years ago a wealthy bachelor named Paige, who lived near Albion, Rhode Island, gave a par.ty; one of the young ladles left a glove. Mr Paige returned itwlth the following no*-'“lf from your glove you take the letter G. that glove is love and (that I have for ’thee.” The young Dady replied“lf from your name you take the letter F, that Paige is age, and that won’t do for me, ’ The Btorv iis vouched for by a friend of the '“Outlook.” whose grandmother had it at first hand

Alt charity bazaars it is possible to buy a kiss for a dollar. Cleopatra is said to have made admirers pay with their lives for a kiss. In between these two figures is, a happy medium. Mrs Phoebe L. Bhshek, No. 432 West 104th Street, alleges to have been forcibly kissed llasft April by one Emanuel SiKver, asking 10 000 idiolbiris for the stolen sweet. Mr Silver liked fhe first smack so well, her papers allege,, that he returned a week .Hater and tried to get an encore hut was repulsed.

Disraeli in his dressing gown at Hughenden recaptured the pleasures of a man of letters, which had been bis dream in earlier days. Canipbel - Bannerman. though few susqec».euf it, perhaps, was an accomplished Greek scholar as well as a great expert in the lighter French literature. Josepn Chamberlain, again, was more a man of letters than (the world suspected, and men like Lord MorHey, Lord Bryce, Mr Bfrrell, Mr Asquikh, Loru Crewe, Lord Curzon and the Balfour,s renew the tradition. Even Mr Lloyd George, as we have been assured ,atelv bv one of bis adorers has claims, to the membership of 'the great fellowship of bookmen.

Mrs Asquith is the only fashionable society leader who has flaunted' the temptation of acting m the movies; “Not if you paid me a mibion a mi ute would I go through the monotonous drudgery of acting for tn film? ” she said whie watching ■ e filming of a big scene from Stephen M'Kenna’s Sonia. What a dreadlul life, hanging about here all day. W.-j don’t they hurry—speed up-get on with it ? What a curse these i.u. t s are—killing art Imagine Duse murdered by them! All good actm 0 spoiled by the cinema. Only advantage is that it’s cheap. Brings new ideas ito the very poor. Provides .n----tertainment at reasonable pn.-es. ,

th fvs? <«* «* ESS "the ‘"“blsS Guardian,” that the traditional association between letters and pohtrcs in this country has (survived ma > changes There have been few tods when even the of faction have not yielded to -..e charms of literal; discussione and «- erarv pursuits. It is well known Gladstone could be Weaned y poli/tica! discussion by . ence -to Homer or Dante, ancl that u i letters ’’the’chances were that the two would hastenif-■ P°se d from the policy of Pitt ana tni pnnrnr'Aies of Warren Hastings to the similes of Virgil- and (the style of Cicere Fox was never so happy as when°he could torn from tarv discussion to the Loft-in ] - > Melbourne’s real pleasures lay amo g hooks and he had a curious and extensive knowledge of the “Fathers. Wefibsley’s Latin verses were remarkable even for an Etonian. and the Latin quotations which so often adorned the orations of statesmen down from the time when a uaoom member asked Mr Balfour for a “translation” were not .(ragged m they were the natural outcome ot a favourite pursuit.