Wuen the Berengaria comes into dock twenty-four hours late it calls for an explanation of some sort and une of the New York newspapers: recently made one, explaining that the "Cunard Liner had Turban Trouble Near Coast." Turbans, of course, are the' proper thing to wear this season but one would have thought that the Berengaria would have' waited until ip got to New York for the shopping expedition Jand not hold things up by trying fo do something about it off a dinky little coast town, Discouraging these days when small nations are endeavouring to revive their own languages through legislation and all sorts of things, it is discouraging to read of the experiences of a patriotic Irishman in a Dublin Hotel. His name in English was Bolger. 'This may have been one reason' why he registered at the hotel in his Trish name, The AN international nasal conference may be the unique result of the anti-unblown, nose, drive which, is being carried on in Japan at the present time, Already a grand total of 6,815 yen has been con~ tributed to the cause, including a yen from Harry W, Nelson of Canton, Ohio, and 4 yen from Luis Walter, of Monterey, Califo The campaign is under the direction of Mr. Hideo Takahasi and was inaugurated for the purpose of teaich~ ing Japanese children to blow their Tittle noses. It is Mr. Takahasi's quaint habit to go around passing ut paper handkerchiefs to all the children with un-blown noses which meets and the affair is meeting with international interest, if the American reaction is any indication, There have been letters from numer ous quarters of the earth including Advice and donations to help along the clean nose campaign, Can-openers and Corkscrews Tue state of Alabama is reported to possess a "withering dry law." Which is, of course, only as it should be when the federal law sets the example, And "Collier's" pub-Hishes an article from which the following is an extract. "Alabama one of those states where large bodies of citizens stagger to the polls and vote dry. If you can drink corn whiskey you have no cause to complain of prohibition in Alabama, You can get it in hotels, cigar stores, drug stores, gener stores, haberdasheries, jaundr joms, and on street corn Scotch whiskey comes in cans, four bottles to a can, and would be more popular if it did not necessitate ership of a can opener as well as a corkscrew."
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