a Dowry A popular Paris evening newspaper and a well-known cinema company have combined together to create a modern version of old fairy tales. The newspaper offered a dowry of 40,000 francs in money and the cinema company obtained promises from various big Paris establishments for a trousseau and furniture worth 100,- 000 francs, the whole to be presented to the most deserving French girl in Paris earning her own living. A selection of candidates nominated by the Paris workshops and offices was afterwards shown in Paris cinemas, and the audience were asked to vote for their choice.
The winner, designated by a large majority, is Mile. Germaine Chalandre, a shorthand typist in an American bank in Paris. Mile. Chalandre went through some of the worst horrors of the war, remaining of her home in the battle region and at one time courageously giving shelter to ten British soldiers. For this act of valour she was given a British—decoration. and her mother died li captivity. Her father was shot by the Germans for sheltering British, officers Mile Chalandre herself was for two years a prisoner in Germany. Since the war she has been the breadwinner for an invalid sister gad two young brothers.—Reu-
Taw Philippine Islands are being swept by a plague of locusts. The local authorities and planters are using every available means to prevent the locust swarms from alighting, by means of pounding en sheets of iron and tin cans and the waving of red flags, Sheet iron is being shipped to the areas likely to be infested for the purpose of making traps for the "hoppers"—the non-flying stage of the pest.
Mr. Baldwin said that there wae no greater difficulty to our country than the cost of inland transport, and anything that would facilitate the carriage of goods from the centre to the circumference of England would be an effective contribution to our competitive power in the world's markets, But more important than all was the enormous problem of congestion inside these islands, and it was to transport they must look for the relief so necessary in our congested. towns and districts.
It was only by development on broad and radical lines that they could get that movement among the working population that would enable the people engaged in factory and workshop to live in decent surroundings in decent homes. It was the only way in which they would be able to relieve the people from the horrible conditions in which so many of our urban popula. tion lived.
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