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tempenmenc. to personate great captains of industry so that the gaping visitor would be as- sured that in placer: where the Goulds. the Astors and the Vanderbilts did their gambling. the games could be counted on Such ruses were not re- sorted to. of course. at such places as any it legend is that the Frencnman ucvcn law of averages speedily made him 3 rich man. Johnny Duncan's place at '..;‘n 7% mk” hiuéh 'mon' my sakes. Vtelatively to: luck pure and simple, or maybe not so pure either. In several countries gam- bling games are state monomlies. In others, cpen gaming is permitted. In Havana a visiting American school teacher risked a doll_ar at odds of 35 to __-__1LL-.I “no. winnings to WUII. ““u “IV "V. "â€"vvv.â€" to remain she would pfbbably have left the place financially for the rest of her life. have the right to prom marriage to her boy friend instead of trying to put over the idea with glancgs a_nd cgyness. was}; go; He right, hasn’t she? There’s no law that says a woman may “ vents her is her innate good sense. It’s all very well to give reasons as to why women should pop the question. but the real reason she doesn‘t is because she wants to get her man. The time may come when things will thus become topsy-turvy. But that will be after men have learnecl logio in love Woo out o! courtship. Can you imagine anything more un- romanticâ€"that is. from the feminine point of viewâ€"than to get a man nnmnmd and monose to him? It’s much more interesting and clever to get him cornered and make him pro- pose to you. For there is this distinct diflerence between men and womenâ€"o Men don’t like to be run after; women do. Men like to do the chasing; women1 like to be chased. : Besides, I leave it to any girl to settle if it wouldn’t be far easier to wheedle a proposal out of a man that it would be to make one yourself, es: pecially as long as you desire a success- ful outcome. .. .L 1A. w--1A A minister says that any girl -should Wh‘lfiufiere, I protest that it wouldl be decidedly unfeir to the menâ€"thls‘ new order of things. How could a gain lent gentleman rei use such a request of a fair lady? This would often leave fury like a woman scorned. Fancy his plight then. if he went to the length of rejecting an honorable pmposaLâ€" . Walter Ferguson. in New York Tele- decided t6 take the PROPOSING They are being ruined, we suppose, mainly because there are few immrtant its American playwrights and few good . American plays. The general reason given for their decay, namely, the com- petition of the movi , the radio and th other entertainments, is logical only if co the theatre itself is inherently weak. 34 If such plays as “Rain”, “A Texas p1 Nightingale", and “Strange Interlude” comes along every three or four years. ‘When it does arrive it is faced with the embarrassing circumstance that ut- â€"' heard of a man who walked up to a in theatre box office 'to buy tickets for .n a show which he had heard a good and buy a ticket or, if he was known. telephone to have tickets reserved for him, the custom of sending them to various hotels and other places scat- tered over the city where they could be more conveniently secured, was 'adopted. The theatres received their full price for the tickets but the re- distributors of them were allowed a commission, which is supposed to be 75c. and this the patrons were willing to pay. Crowding the Agents But when it was found that whereas the hotel and cigar store brokers were willing to buy in advance tickets for good shows. they were naturally reluc- tant to buy tickets for poor shows. In other words. while they co-Operated joyously in helping the theatres to dis- tribute tickets that could probably be. ‘sold at the theatre anyway, they were loath to buy tickes which were hard to dispose of . Then arose the secondary practice of the theatres insisting that the brokers should buy a certain num- ber of tickets for every show. This reduced seriously the net profits of the brokers, who, to recoup their losses on unpopular shows, were wil- ling enough to sell tickets tor the good shows to speculators at an in- creased price. The speculators in their turn,raisedthepricetothepublicand the vicious circle was complete. my WORLD wrm meow ELEVATOR Wheat Pool Terminal at Vancouver. 3.0., v capacity for 5,150,000 bushels of grain. and is ‘ The New Minions The new re tions will do away with this who esale distribution in ad- vance to legitimate brokers. If they are to have tickets the number will be I! a scalper get it, the show still gets its $4, the legitimate agent gets 75c.. the government gets 44C. 1! the sealper is honest in his returns, the scalper lhimself gets g4.o_1., or a cent more than the theatre itselt receives. The total cost to the customer for a ticket worth $4.44 is thus $920, which is an average price. Sometimes it is three times as muchâ€"J. V. McAree in Mail and Em- All!) lleVQQV“ vâ€" “.___, mobile licenses this year is based on the horsepower of the engine, and no long« er on the cylinder bore, number of cy- linders and the price of the car. 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