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conferred with Secretary of Labor Malene Tuttle. Miss Tuttle, although
comparatively new to the world of politics, has already achieved several projects, notably the reduction of child labor. Her campaign for short­ ening the working hours for students in schools and for restricting the now
prevalent custom of forcing children to work far into the night, has aroused
much sympathy throughout the coun­ try.
“I feel,^^ said Miss Tuttle, “that un­ limited amounts of study and unregu­ lated hours are ruining the health of the rising generation.’^
JOCKEY CLUB PRESENTS
CUPS AT ANNUAL BANQUET
Lexington, Ky.—At its annual din­ ner last evening, the Jockey Club, rep­ resented by its President, Miss Bar­ bara Godley, presented Miss Pudgy
Fargo with the trophy awarded in its national endurance contest, from which Miss Fargo emerged victorious after remaining in the saddle for one
hundred and twenty-nine hours, eight minutes, and sixteen seconds.
Miss Fargo, although apparently suffering slightly from fatigue, was otherwise her usual spruce self, ap­ pearing in a smart scarlet riding habit with a kerchief around her neck. “I feel mighty grateful to the whole Jockey Club for this wonderful tro­ phy,” she said, posing for cameramen, “and I can only say that I owe this
luck to my early training in New Jersey.”
MACBETH SCORES AGAIN
New York.—Tweedy and Trosdal returned triumphantly to Broadway last evening in their classic starring vehicle, “Macbeth.” Crowds thronged
Radio City’s Music Hall to cheer this famous pair, who have but added to their genius during their period of re­ tirement from the stage. Miss Tweedy has been building up her health on her Texas ranch, while Miss Trosdal has been abroad in Paris for the past two years.
FIRE BRIGADE
ORGANIZED AT SMITH
Northampton, Mass.—A course in fire-fighting, open to all classes, has been organized at Smith College. Led by President Helen Stevens herself, and equipped with helmets, fire-buck­ ets, and hatchets, the student body de­ votes forty minutes a day to climb­ ing ladders, chopping through doors, and carrying out comrades supposedly overcome by smoke. President Stevens feels that the present generation is too
dependent on outside assistance at moments of stress and danger. “I
want my girls to leave college fully prepared to meet any emergency,” she says. “They must be able to cope with a house on fire with perfect ease, relying on no one but themselves. I have also instituted courses in xdfie- shooting, in case of burglars. The young woman of today must be ready for anything.”
SORBONNE PROFESSOR ELECTED TO ACADEMIE
Paris (AP).—Miss Pamela Ander­ son, distinguished professor of Amer­ ican Slang at the Sorbonne University, has just been elected as a member of the Academic Francaise, in recogni­ tion of her outstanding treatise, “L’ai’got D’aujourd’ hui.” Miss Ander­ son is the first foreigner who has ever been received into that august body.
She is a woman of great genius and one of our foremost authorities on slang. Her work on the colloquial ex­ pressions of the ancient Cretan civil­ ization is particularly well known.
KNITTER AT HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood, Calif. Miss Barbara Craig, world’s knitting champion, and holder of the international record, is
now in Hollywood preparing for a series of short pictures in which she will demonstrate the proper technique in knitting. Her record at present, which she herself hopes to break in the near futm*e, is two and a half Brook’s
sweaters an hour.
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