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6d. a Week Pocket Money For Man of 50 TREATED LIKE CHILD BY MOTHER, BUT HELD BIG POSTS A man who held many public appointments, but was stated to have received only sixpence a week pocket money from his wealthy mother until he was 50 years of age, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey, London, to offences against three boys. Ten other cases were taken into consideration and the man was put on probation for three vears on condition that he entered a home. He was Francis Edward Norris (51), independent, and it was stated that he lived in a large house on the outskirts of Guildford. For some time he had been running Bible and other classes for boys in the neighbourhood. Detective-Sergeant H. E. Stone, of Guildford, stated that Norris was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, leaving Oxford in 1910. He then travelled the world and in 1914 began work with the British Red Cross Society. Tn .1919 he became county director for Surrey. Ho then had the supervision of 54 auxiliary hospitals with a personnel of about 3,000. He was awarded the C.B.E. Norris was a diocesan lay reader at Emmanuel Church, Guildford, vicar’s warden, and a member of the Parochial Church Council. He had been separated from his wife for about 16 years. Mr Roland Oliver, K.C., defending, said that Norris from some points of view was like a child. “He was the only child of a mother who was over forty before he was born,” added Mr Oliver. “His mother was 91 when she died last May, and she gave him sixpence a week pocket-money until he was 50, apparently without any resentment on his part. ‘Cottonwool Atmosphere’ A personal friend of Mr Norris said to the Daily Sketch: “Francis Norris was not only * church-warden, not only ” member of many committees, but also was a man, who, because of his upbringing, had an innato sense of responsibility regarding youth. “Whatever experts may think of the tragedy of this ease, the fact remains that, through the fact that he had always been borught up in a cotton wool sort of atmosphere until he reached the age of 50, he looked upon life from that exclusive point of view,”

Laugh This One Off! SMILE THAT TIEED FEELING AWAY . Do you know how to get rid of that tired feeling? Laugh it off. That was tho advice given ■ to his audience at the Caxton Hall, London, by Swami Yogainanda, president of the International Self Realisation Fellowship. ‘‘Every day for a few minutes,” he said, “retire into a room. Close yourself in and think of the funny things in your life and laugh until you cannot laugh any more. ‘lf you do your best and smile, a Divine Foyer will come to your aid.” He said that when he was presented to President Coolidge in America he saw that Mr Coolidge was very healthy, but that he needed a smile. “I told him how to smile,” he said, “and the next day the papers had headlines about me as the man who had made the President smile.”

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