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The Corner Column i "Its 110 excuse to say thsfc you can) t afford to pay for a. licerme for the dog, oaid Mr. Strict to a defendant at POll- tandawe yesterday. # A writer ahows how the motor-car |*e effected modern life. Basing his gjguments on the increased death-rate, do doubt. tt When one of the Ystradgynlais CoocciNotrs suggested deferring a cer- tain matter until "B-udget Day, ) Mir. W. Waiters asked if they should invite Jdr. Lloyd George down for the occasion. 4fr Welsh amateur actors are coming wi But their make-up! In a photo- graph of a Llandilo cast, one of r* characters is shown wearing whiskers \hat look like raw wool. I dt The Difference. Wot so very long ago Women cut a flash Fashions change, as well we know- Now they dot a slash. :1= At London Sessions yesterday Counsel: Then prosecutor's is a fabn- tated siory. Mr. Lawrie: Call it a lie. (Laughter.) Prisoner: Yes, it's a lie. One of the saddest sight,, on Friday afternoon was to see a sweet thing attired in summer-like dress rushing, as well as her hpbble skirt would allow, down Oxford-street in the pouring rain. The signatures of t-o Swansea ser- vant maids, obtained for the Church- promoted Nonconformist protest un- der m have at t h eir t* e der misapprehension, have at their reo quest been taken off- In another case, the signatory met with a blank refusal. III: Mile. Marie Galtier, a French lady barrister, is retiring, on the ground that work as a. barrister is very tiring for a woman." This is a new light on the popular theory that a woman never .tires of talking. # "Man ir. 85 per cent, more sus- ceptible than wnnw.,n to hypnotic sug- gestion, and much more liable to faint," declared Professor Louis Kahlenberg, before the pathological facility of the Wisconsin University. But he cannot faint so gracefully. if; # An interes-ting commentary on the age of members of the Territorial force is contained in a recent Army order. In the list of articles to be provided are found-" razor and shaving-brush." It is now directed that against each of these words shall be inserted—"if re- i quired." # Mr. George Westing-liouse is dead, but a good many people who but for his inventions would have joined tho majority are still alive. The Westing- house brake was certainly one of the greatest life-savers of our time, and it is pleasant to think that its author is able to bequeath something more than i a name to his deecemdan ts. *:1(: A Saxon stranger to Swansea was patssing thro' the Market, when he hpard two Welsh waftjen talking "at" eaoJi other in a loud and gesticuhttivc manner in the vernacular. At first he thought there was a raw, but on mature refJOOtion ? came to the rather di.??- pointing conclusion that they were only bargaining. One of the members of one of the Gullane Golf Clubs played a round with an undertaker, who knew very little about golf, and at the end of the game was eighteen up. He began laughingly to console the other and remarked, Never mind you may have the bury- ing of me, and you'll be on top then." Oh, I don't know," replied the visitor Badly, "even that will be your hole." A muji convicted at one of the London police courts yesterday was asked, according to the usual custom, what he would like to eat before he went to prison. He sent out for 21bs. of raisins, lib. of biscuits, a.nd tIb. of cheese, and ate- them all before the I "Black Maria" was ready to take him awav. He will be in prison three months, by which time he may recover from the effects. # While some ancient legal docu- ments were being removed from Tre- degar Park to tho Trc-degar Estate Office at Newport yesterday a deed of convey,.tnro d,itcQ 1688 was discovered, which settle.s a dispute as to the owner- ship of the Kinc's Hill Estate. The suggestion has been made that the property belongs to the town of New- port, but the deed shows it to belong to ) a Tredegar family. Swansea will probably be visited this summer by a quaint representative of the simple life—Dr. Charles Fox, M.R.C.S., a gentleman not unknown in Swansea, though it is many years since he visited this town. Though an elderly gantleman, he cultivates grace of muscular movement by the expedient of pole-balancing, and photos of him, engaged in these exer- cises recently appeared in the "Dajjy Mirror." The doctor's ordinary cos- tume is excessively "simple." TO-DAY'S STORY. I It was the reading lesson, and one I. i poor schoolboy made but a feeble at- tempt to grapple with the mysteries of the English language. A turning a withering look, the ex- asperated master quoted from "The Merchant of Venice" (which the happened to be studying), "I am sorry for thee." Jugt to let him see that they re- memhered what they had been taught, the ooy6 almost unanimously con- tinued Thou art come to answer a stormy adversary, a Hiniiuman vrretch void and empty from any dram of I

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