Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1928 — Page 6

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REAL SHOWBOAT FOR THAMES IS PLAHIH LONDON By J. C. OKBTREICHKR International News Service Staff Correspondent London. —A real show boat, differing from the old time Mississippi variety only In that It will be steam-heat-ed and have a fixed mooring, will soon lie anchored in the Thames off Chelsea, If the plans of Miss Judith Wogan, well-known In theatrical circles, are carried to fruition. Application has been made to the municipal authorities to sanction tlie conversion of a river barge into a floating theater, and plans are all completed for the installation of 300 seats, a stage, steam heating, electricity, and all the other appurtenances of a modern theater. Floating Theater "1 orginally planned,” Miss Wogan said, ‘‘to have a floating ffeater exactly like those used in olden times on the Mississippi, and intended to visit villages' from one end of the Thames to the other. "However. 1 have been Informed that this would not he permitted, so instead the barge will he anchored in the river, with a gangplank stretching to the shot;e. “A Dutch steel barge will probably be used, for It would be most decorative and would mean less danger of fire. “I am forming a company to give one-act plays, pantomines, and vaudeville of the sort which seems to have almost entirely disappeared from the music-halls. The show boat will also he used as a visiting theater for permanent travelling companies" Miss Wogan has long been associated with travelling companies who have given performances in Jiarns and village halls in out-of-the-way places in England and Scotland. She hit upon the idea of a floating theater after the authorities had given permission to the British Motor Boat club to moor a Spanish Galleon in the Thames off Charing Cross, to be used as a club house. It is said here that only one other show boat at present exists anywhere in the world, and that one in the Gulf of Mexico. o — * Girl Steers Auto While Boy Friend Lights His Cigaret; Six Injured Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 23. —(INS) Six young persons were painfully hurt because the driver of the automobile in which they were riding let his girl companion steer the car while lie lighted a cigaret. The girl was blinded by the lights of an approaching machine and drove off into a ditch on the Aliisonvile road about a mile northeast of fall creek, the car turning over several times. Those injured were: Thomas Cassity 19 driver of the car, shaken up and bruised; Miss Maude Whallon, 19, his companion, cut and bruised; Robert Beinberg, 19, fractured skull; Miss Dora Keith, 19, cut and Bruised; August Collen, 19. cut and bruised; Miss Helen Edwards, 18. cut and bruised. Young Beinberg’s condition was still critical at the city hospital today. Laporte Man Gives City $200,000 Civic Auditorium And Gym Laporte, ind., Aug. 23. —(INS) —Maurice Fox, wealthy local resident, has presented the city of Laporte with a $200,000 civic auditorium and gymnasium. Fox has plans and designs for the building already prepared by a Chicago architect. Construction of the building awuits only the acceptance of the gift by the city council at its meeting next Monday night One of the specifications of the gift was that no rental is to be charged civic bodies or groups wishing to use the building for any non-profit purpose. Fox has created a $50,000 trust to provide income for the salary of a superintendent for the building. The new municipal center will be located on the vacant lot bounded by Ridge, Woodward, Plain and Tecumseh streets. — o Sixty Clerks To Distribute State Election Supplies Indianapolis, August 23.—(U.FODistribution of ballots and other election supplies to the 3,610 precincts in the state will necessitate employment of sixty Clerks. J. Otto Lee, clerk of the state printing board and secretary of tile elections board announced today. Joseph Seibert, of Alexandria, chief clerk will be in charge. Printing of the 2,000,000 ballots, mailing and wrapping will cost approximately $25,000, Lee said. Dirty Little Mary Elizabeth was eating dinner at her aunt’s house one day. The mashed potatoes were sprinkled with pepper. Mary, not being used to using pepper, leaned over to her mother and said, “I don’t want these potatoes, mother, they're dirty."

Lesson for Misers in Chinese Legend An aged Chinese, noted far and I wide umnug Ids for Ills penurlousness, was one day discovered running frantically up nnd down In front of Ills small but, beating Ids breast and crying out In doleful liimentntlous. "Woe is me!" he cried, "woe Is rnel Some one Inst night stole away the treasure which I had burled In my garden, nnd left a stone In Us place." "And why do you weep!” asked a. neighbor. "You never used your treasure. Bring yourself to believe I that the stone is still your treasure, ; and you will be ns well oft us you ever were.” The neighbor was right. A buried treasure Is of no more value to the world than a burled stone. One of the pathetic truths of life Is Hint so fall to realize tills fact. Had f the old mlsei been generous enough to have shared Ids treasure with a needy world, lie could nt least have bad the comfort of knowing that many would have Joined him in bewailing his loss. But he had lost that which was of value to no one. Not even he himself had made use of it. Long Sentence Made Matter of Complaint What Is said to be one of the longest single sentences In English on record—a statement of 593 words, covering 50 typewritten lines—was the subject of complaint by counsel in the Court of Appeal, says the London correspondent of tlie New York Herald Tribune. Analysis of some of the phrases In the average income tax return form Is difficult enough, but in the protested instance of circumlocution nnd ambiguity it was set forth that a Chinese lawyer could not have supplied more redundant or roundabout language to convey ids meaning. The sentence, stretched word to word in one line, would reach approximately 35 feet, and to utter it would lie a breathing exercise almost equal to climbing the whispering gallery in old St. Paul's. The sentence, it was Stated to Lord Justices Atkin nnd Scrutton, appears in the finance act of 1927, and purports to explain "relief in respect of losses in business set up i after April 6, 1923.” A Veiled Criticism E. Berry Wall, whose portrait by , Tade Styka is a Idt of ttie i’aris salon, maintains in maturity that good taste in dress which won him in bis youth the title of “king of the dudes.” There is a story to the effect that Mr. Wall ran across a New York friend in n hotel the other day. The „N'ew Yorker wore vast Oxford bags of tiie new hois de rose tint, his coat was cinnamon brown with brass buttons, over liis brown shoes white spats were drawn, and ids sldrt collar, tie and handkerchief were in various shades of pink. Sir. Wall shook the New Yorker by the hand and said in a low and sympathetic voice: “Are you in mourning for some one, Bill!”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-graph. Old Sailing Vessel Perhaps the best account that has come down to us in writing, from which a description of a boat In Roman times can be had, is the account of St. Paul's Journey in a wheat sldp to Rome. During the storm on the way from Crete to Malta the sailors cast cargo i overboard; they nearly lost the ship's boat trailing behind; they undergirded the ship with a cable; they let go their four anchors; the crew tried un- | successfully to escape in the lifeboat, and finally they cast off their anchors, set a foresail nnd ran the boat onio the beach. \ The Price of Silence Tiie bill collector found that the family lie was about to dun hud skipped, taking tiie goods with them. After some inquiry lie managed to locate the van driver, but that worthy claimed to have no recollection of where lie had taken them. “Come now,” said the collector, producing a 55 bill, “this ought to rous-e your memory.” ‘‘lt ought to, sir,” tiie van driver admitted, “but you see mine ain’t no ordinary memory an’ it'll take a deal of rousing. Why, it cost $lO to put It to sleep.”—Boston Transcript. I Ham and Eggs A Hoosier wife was serving the ous toniary coffee and toast tor breakfast. The husband, who had recently returned from a trip to the old linmepkice in n neighboring state, was talking about the many changes tliut bud occurred. “I suppose you had so little in common with tiie folk back there it was dull,” said tiie wife. “Dull? N'nt by a long shot. We hiul a great time talking about tiie days of hum and eggs for breakfast,” replied the vivacious husband. Impressed A negro arrested on a banditry charge came before Judge Rosalsky in general sessions in New York nnd was held In bail of $25,000. Wlten statement was made from tiie bench to tiffs effect attaches were surprised that tiie negro was undismayed. Rather there was n look of admiration in Ills eyes. As he was led toward the bridge of sighs nnd Jail lie remarked: “I>at gc’tnan slio’ does talk in mngnificeot figures.”—The New Yorker.

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