NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

CORSETS AT DANCES

NEW YORK, Dec .2»

Because voting men refuse to dance with girls wearing corsets, who they call “old ironsides,” the young woman of Indianapolis, Indiana, are diseasing tlie unpopular garmets in cloakrooms before beginning to dance.

This fact was revealed at a meeting yesterday of the Indianapolis Women’s •Club, at which perturbed mothers discussed what action they should take in face of this situation. A mother described how she h;..l chaperoned her daughter to a dance the previous night. On visiting the dicsc-ing-room during the evening she. found every chair piled high with .corsets. GIRL HIGHWAYMAN. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The ranks of Chicago highwayman have been depleted by the arrest of a young and pretty girl who has lu'tn identified by three men ns having l eld them up with a pistol. The girl, it appears, stopped men ax the street to ask her way to an add’ess polite victims usually showed her the way to the block of flats she professed to be looking for. On arrival there H e pretty criminal produced a dainty pearl-handled pistol and commanded the victim to accompany her upstars.

He would he forced into a flat whore two men hound him, relieved him of tiis valuables, and then departed. When the police arrived at the flat they found three men tied to beds.

WIFE CARRIED OFF. ALLAHABAD, Dec. 21 The full story of the murder by Pat-lmi raiders of Colonel Foulkes, Assistant Director of Medical Services at Kohat, on the north-west, frontier of India, on the night of November 14 reveals what an ordeal the raid was for his wife, who has since succumbed to her wounds, their little girl, and her

governess. The raiders opened fire at 1 a.m. on the bungalow in which the colonel, his wife, and child were sleeping on the back verandah, while the governess was in her room. Colonel Foulkes rose to get revolvers. Mrs Foulkes whispered to the child to hide under the bed. Husband and wife went into the house and came face to face with five of the raiders. One fired his rifle at Mrs Foulkes, but the dolonel struck the weapon aside and the bullet passed through the woman’s chest and right arm. Two Pathans then shot the colonel dead. After looting the place the raiders carried Mrs Foulkes away. Covered with blood, she was dragged across the fields until she collapsed, and the Pathans left her. She crawled hack alone to the bungalow. . During the raid the governess locked herself in the bathroom and then, finding the house full of raiders, hid in a thick bush in the garden. The little girl crept from under the bed and wandered through tho deserted house. By the rays of a lamp she

saw- the body of her father. Then she made her way to the next bungalow and met friends. age limit for actors: PARIS, December 21. The Comedie-Francaise, the principal j French State theatre, is divided on the j Question when - actors should retire, i The younger members, of th e company think there should be a compulsory age limit, for at present, in their opinion the oldest members cling to their privileges. This is not only bad for art, they say, it also prevents new blood and new talent from invigorating the company. They demand that actors should retire at 70 and actresses at 65 but such a measure would cause the Franchise to lose such eminent players as M. Silvain anrl M Paid Monnet.