Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-03
HighIights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Land.

TINE BULLETIN, sydney.-The
average Australian gymnastic
girl is sun-browned, bony,
i bouncing, voluble creature with
short skirts and large boots and
a muscle like unto that of q male
cricketer in q suburban eleven. She
is rather nice to look at and she is
handy when some one is wanted to
lift the heavy end of log, but she
is not the sort of creature whom any
sane man wants to marry. She is too
straight a shot with the f1reirons to
suit the peaceful joys Of domestic life,
and when she starts to clean out the
house with a chair leg even a child
of Anak has got to go and sleep in
the woodshed. There are several
scores of these young ladies loose In
Australia just now, and some of them
held q gymnaStic corroboree at Mel
bourne the other day, which the pa
pers report was attended by hun
dred rosy, well developed girls" who
wore white cotton shirts and blouses."
We protest against these exhibitions,
and all their consequences. cotton shirts
and blouses included. Man wants but
little here below, but he wants to get
that little quietly, and when he comes
home tired and disguised and has to
box 16 rounds to decide whether or
not he must take his wife to che show,
chances are he'll take to drink.
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Oxford Suffers From
Traffic and Women.
lie Matin, Paris--The students Of
the University of oxford have q jour-
nal which appears under the name Of
Isis. The readers and readeresses OF
Isis lately had the opportunity to read
the following:
oxford suffers from two evils-trafflc
inconvenience and women. The women
who have come here to be educated
would have done far better had they
stayed at home. In the first place they
are not agreeable to look at. In the
streets they ride bicycles and permit
this mode of locomotion to display
frightful expanses of wooden hose. In
the lecture rooms they nibble at choco-
late and biscuits. They possess, in
general, neither charm, dignity nor
grace. Is there not somebody who will
head q campaign against them with
insistent appeals Of 'Chassez les
femmes?'"
And now, is there a single French
student of the feminine sex who de-
sires to complete her education at
oxford?
Thieves Find 1t More
Difficult to Make Living.
FL Universal, Mexico, D. FAN in
cident which shows that the contem-
porary decline in emoluments is not
alone q manifestation of commercial
pursuits was evidenced in peculiar
crime. It seems that thieves also are
finding it more dfncult to make
living, while In a condition superfn-
vedro, while in q condition superin-
duced by a number OF unwise pota-
lions, was set upon by four ruf1ans who
desired to rob him as he lay in door
way of the Avenida Brasil. Finding
no pocketbook, nor any money in his
clothing, but, observing some gold
shining within the recesSes of his
mouth, the bandits distracted his arti-
fetal teeth and departed with them.
Senior Alvedro asseverates loudly,
"Jamas otra vezl"-"Never again!"
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King Alfonso Rides
Tramcar to Victoria Theater.
A B C, Madrid-A story exem-
plifying the simplicity and friendliness
Of King Alfonso is told of one of his
earlier visits to London. Desiring to
attend a performance at the Victoria
Theater, prominent peer recommend
ed in jest, that his majesty journey
there by tramcar. The King, believing
this the quickest method, did so, and
was jolted about among the people who
crowded the plebeian vehicle. Arriving
near the theater, he dismounted, and a
metropolitan day laborer, on being
asked further directions, accompanied
the King 70 the door without the least
suspicion for whom he was rendering
the service. The King, always cordial
and democratic, thanked his guide and
found the show as good as his obli9ing
friend FfednRPe AZ