Barry Dock News

ROMILLY HALL, BARRY. I With a continuation of the best and I most up-to-date films, the programme to be shown at this popular picture- hall for the first three evenings of next week leaves nothing to be desired, the principal attraction being the splendid production, "Less than Dust," featur- ¡ ing the world renowned actress, Mary I Pickford. The many patrons will again be afforded a screaming comedy, i entitled Dad's Knockout," in which Billie Parsons, the inimitable come- dian, will be seen to much advantage, upholding his reputation as being one of the principal comedians who have ever appeared at the Romilly Hall. an excellent programme including the ) The bill for the concluding evenings j of next week is also exceptionally fine, great production The Lie," starring i Elsie Ferguson. This film, accom- j panied by the super-production drama, entitled "The Apostle of Vengeance," speak for themselves as to quality, but it is sufficient to mention that they will unquestionably be thoroughly appre- ciated.

VINT'S PALACE. BARRY At Yints this week Rosie and M. i Delvin, the wonderful singers from the I Queen's Hall, London, top the bill. Freda Pay is also well liked. The pic- tures for the end of the week will be Pathe's Gazette and Confessios," featuring Jewel Carmen, in five reels. Next week the artistes booked are Les Trois Cloches, in a musical act. and Harry and Emmie Newton in a comedy singing and dancing act, while the pictures will be the first half, ( h Giving" Mecky a Chance, a drama is five parts; for the second half The Black Butterfly," also in five parts.

"WITHOUT PAIN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE OCTOBER, 19,7." SERGEANT BENNETT'S WONDER- DERFrL RECOVERY. Sergeant J. Bennett, late of the 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, writing from 6, Charles-street, Porth, South Wales, says: Twelve months ago I was sent home from France with illness, I suffered such terrible pains all over my body that thought j I should die. Then I saw an ad- vertisement of Baker's Backache Pellets and determined to give them a trial. The J first box made me a new man. I can honestly say that I am now without pain for the first time since October, 1917. How I suffered no one knows, but thanks to Baker's Pellets I am entirely free from pain and dizziness." Baker's Backache Pellets are a positive cure for Backache, Rhematism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Gravel, j Dizziness, and all Kidney Troubles. They j only cost 1/3 per box from Boots, Tay- j lors, and all chemists, or post free per re- turn direct from Baker's Medicine Co., Ltd., 36, Whitefriars-street, London, jj .Ç.4,

HUMOUR OF THE WEEK. I I  1 "TO TIGHT THE DEVIL. i "You are told in the Bible to fight the I ievil," said the chairmas of the Nairn I TribumU to a conscientious objector, If and if the German Emperor is not worse than the devil I'm a Dutchman." 1 ■ I I A SAFB OFFEB. I A conscientious objector was asked at Rugby: Supposing someone burgled your house, would you not resist? Applicant: I should ask him what be was eearching for, and if he said "Wealth" I should say, "I am going to help you to find it, because I haven t got any." THS GENERAL UTILITY MAN. I A claimant at St. Pancras Tribunal said I that in the morning he went to Covent Garden and bought for three greengrocers. On returning home he went on a baker's round, and then, in the afternoon, took out coal. The Chairman: You don't happen to make by bricks? HARD ON EDMONTON. I "Did you ever send your boy to a place of religion?" the judge at Middlesex Seesiona asked a father. "No, sir, was the answer. "There are no religious people in Edmonton." TIB HIGHLANDER'S ANSWER. One of the officers of the Norfolks writes home the following from France: "There is a nice new Scotch tale of a raw Highlander from a northern depot who was put on guard at the commanding officer's tent. In the morning the colonel looked out, and though he prided himself on knowing all his men, the sentry's face was unfamiliar. 'Who are you?' he asked. 'A'm fine, thank ye,' was the Teply; 'an' hoo's yerself?'" TII. OTHER WAT. Aooording to Rotterdam, the German Fleet really came out, and "after asking the skipper of a Dutch fishing lugger whether he had seen the English Fleet, the flotilla went away in an N.N.E. direction." We gather (says the "Star") that the skippft ad seen the English Fleet in an S.S.W. •direction. LET'S HOPE SO. I Wife (reading newspaper): "What-evci -will be next! I see. among other war-time difficulties, there is likely to be a butter famine." Husband (absently): "Let's hope it won't spread I DYES. I "Ma wants a packet of dye, and she wants a fashionable colour," said the little girl. "A fashionable colour!" echoed the druggist. "What docs she want it for- eggs or clothes?" "Well," replied the girl, "the doctor says ma has stomach trouble and ought to diet. And ma says if she has to dye it she might as well dye it a fashionable colour." u. NOT TO BE TRUSTED. j The editor in cnarge 01 tne personal in- quiry column opened his seventieth letter II with a groan. "I have lost three husbands," a lady reader had written, confidentially, "and now have the offer of a fourth. Shall I accept himt" The editor dipped his pen in the ink. This was the last straw. "If lost three husbands," he wrote, ¡ "I should say you are much too careless to be trusted with a fourth." u- A MILD REBUTS. 001 never was rebutied in eo pleasant way as on my last journey," remarked a commercial traveller lately. "I was just I about to enter an office when I saw a stair- case with a sign. This way for commer- cial travellers.' I supposed the stairs led to the counting-house, so I went up and found myself in a long hall, with where pointing boards directed the way. I passed through the hall and came to a stair- case leading down as another board pointed. I descended, and opening the door at the lowest step, found I was in the street again

QUIPS FROM "LONDON OPINION." j Good news at last! Owing to the shortage of paper tradesmen's bills will be smaller. These are stirring times, but it is po^sibio that there will not be so much stirring pre- wntly-if tea and sugar go up again. Corset-malcorii have been refused exemp- tion—on the grounds, probably, that army figures are more important than ladies' ^gures. A kinema "effects operator who made noises like the falling of water has been i-c- fused exemption. If he could make a noiae like the fall of the mark he might usefully depress the Hun. Old German newspapers are now used to stuff mattresses. They used to stuff the German public. There ia nothing wrong with our national spirit. Our gallant boys are only matched bf our buoyant gals. A. firm of chemists claim exemption for an assistant on the ground that as they cannot dispones without him, they cannot dispense with him. An all-round increase in the price < f diamonds is advised at Johannesburg. And only the other day it was st-arcli that went up f How is the thrifty housewife to live?

PICKINGS FROM "PUNCH." Germany is declared to have built- :1 sub- marine that can go to the United State. ;1!:a back. Future insults therdorc will he de- livere-d by hand. Municipal fishshops are to he established in Germany. They will be closely associated, it is understood, with the Overseas N« \vrt Agency, and will make a speciality of plying a fish diet to sailors who are iinfor- tunately prevented by circumstance)) from visiting the high seas. All kinds of cleaning and washing are to be dearer, and a patriotic movement ia already on foot among the younger set to do away with these luxuries altogether in the interests of patriotic economy. The owners of certain proprietary whiskeys have decided to put them up sixpence a bottle. In response to thi" move the owners of certain proprietary sixpences hare de- cided not to put them down. BRITISH FRIO HTFULNESS. J -1 I A young woman WAA lried as a spy in J London the other day.—"Sunday Pic- I ten ,.at.

Dry all crusts of bread in the oven, roll them, and store in a tin for raspings To polish the steel podioJj;:j of a kitchen stove apply a mixture of whitening and st?v,3 a To cut butter in small even squares for the table, use a, coarse wet thread, as 1hi~ leaves no ragged edges. Before chopping suet, sprinkle it with a little ground rice or Hour. This prevents it from sticking to the knife. To remove a fish bone which has stuck in the throat suck a piece of lemon. The lemon juice will dislodge the bone immedi- ately. If starch, moistened with a little warm water, is applied to a bruise immediately after the accident, it will prevent the flesh from discolouring. To take spots off serges and similar fa brics put a teaspoonful of quillaia bark into a pint of boiling water and let it stand till next day. Pour off, strain, and bottle. A little of this applied with a clean rag to tweeds and serges acts like magic. If you find onions indigestible, put t.hem, after peel ing, into a basin of boiling water to which ordinary washing soda has been added in the proportion of one teaspoonful to a quart. Let stand for ten minutes, then drain, and cook in any way you like. When cane seats become slack, sponge both sides of the cane with hot soapsuds to which a handful of salt has been added, stand in the open air, and when nearly dry cover with a cloth and iron with a hot iron. The seats will be as good as new.

To CLEAN PAINT AND VARNISH. I Add one tablespoonful of salts of tartar to half a bucketful of warm water. Wash the paint with a clean rag dipped in this, using no soup, and it will remove every speck of dirt. Rinse in clean warm water and dry with a chamois. This is. a painter's recipe, j and a very good one. To CLEAN CURTAINS. I Before putting away heavy winter curtains or hangings of any kind, clean them hy rubbing thorn thoroughly all over with bran made hot in he oven and applied with a dry cloth. It is a splendid way of cleaning, and most economical. FLOORBOARDS. It is not always necessary to re-stain floor- boards round a room. Paraffin will freshen them and darken them. Try that. And the cheapest stain is permanganate crystals dis- solved in water. Threepennyworth would do a whole room. Any shade can be obtained, from very light brown up to dark mahogany, according to the dilution of the stain. MENDING GLASS. Dissolve half an ounce of isinglass in a small wineglassful of spirits of wine, melting it by gentle heat. Paint the clean broken edges with this mixture, aad, after joining them, put them to dry in a cool place. White enamel, carefully and sparingly used, maket3 a satisfactory joining GAS MANTLES. j When an inverted mantle geta black, re- move it carefully and rub all the black off the ring with a spent match. Wipe all the black from the burner and replace the mantle. Reduce the gas slightly at the regu- lator; you will get a better light and save your mantle. ECONOMY IN COAL. .L-.L- I 1 I I ?-1- I r-rocure some nreciay in tne moist eiaw, I then npread it over the lower bars of the grate upon which the coal rests. The clay will then form a solid mass as hard as stone, and when thoroughly heated will throw a great heat into the room. If there is a tolerably good draught in the fireplace it will not be very much interfered with, and a mass of clay may be introduced sufficiently large to fill half the grate; if kept away from the front bars, so as to allow coals to fall down in front, the clay cannot be been when the fire is lighted. For this reason it is a contrivance far superior to "cheeks," false bottoms, etc., which are so unsightly, and diminish the heat of the fire. This clay contrivance, on the contrary, reduces the con- sumption of coals to about one-half without any loss of heat. Combustion goes on more slowly from the draught being checked. and one-half of the fire is a heated mass which I cannot burn away. This will be found a good mode of dealing with large and old- fashioned grates.

I SOME USEFUL RECIPES. I BOSTON WONDERS.—Mix together four ounces of flour and a saltspoonful of salt Beat an egg till it is very frothy, and then slowly stir into it sufficient flour to make a stiff but not crumbling paste. Turn the paste on a floured board, and knead it for a few minutes. Then roll out as thin as a sheet of notepaper, stamp into rounds the size of the top of a tumbler, and fry these. a few at a time, in smoking hot fat, then j lift out, drain on paper, dust with sugar, and serve. QUAKER QATB PUDDING.—Thia pudding is generally a great* favourite with children. ut a good layer of Quaker oatR, or rolled oats will do equally well, at the bottom of a dish. The proportion to the milk will be about four handfuls to about one aiul a half pinte. Sweeten according to taste, pour in the inilk, and place in a moderate oven for about one hour. Oats that have been cookec before will take rather less time. If k." sugar is u;"cd in the cookiug, it can U served with treacle or sugar at table. A CHEAP CAKE.—Put one cupful of water, one cupful of Demerara sugar, one-thirf) of a cupful cf I a rd, two cupfuls of stoned raiigiiis, a pinch each of ground cloves. | cinnamon and nutmeg, a teaspoonful of vinegar, and a pinch of salt, into a R.iiiec- pan, and boil for three minutes, then leave to cool. When cold, stir in a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, dissolved in a little warm water, add two cupfuls of flour and half a teaspoonful of I'Ml-ing powder. Form j'l a loaf and bake in a clow* over. SAVOURY BATTER.—Take one and a half pints of milk, half a pint of water. <.n» pound of l!our, two eggs, half a pound of meat, tvo onions, a few sweet h-erK' or sage, two ounces of dripping, n .••iN|.ooi>ful of (1)-1 the egjrs one at n tii-n(,, an(! 1¡;¡] f the i,iii and. walv-r, -•••.wlilv. T>e:>t v •• ihc-n add the remainder of the milk and v ator, and ;p( it and for one hour. Cut the moat in pieces, the onion, and put both into a pan vis t.i a pr-t of cold water and a little salt: bring <sl owly- to th-e boil, and < ook geiiliy for 11:11f an Ft'-aki off 'f' gravy, and add the rural and onive 1" J1. batter, •with t1", 10 1 r th" nik'-K'. into a baking-tip or oi-in dripping has 1 an 1 bake in a hot for s of an hour.

"FÀIR AND WARMER." 1 SUPER-FARCE AT NEW THEATRE, CARDIFF, NEXT WEEK. The rise of the house of Butt has, of recent years, constituted the sen- sation of the theatrical world. But the cause of this rise is not far be- neath the surface. It is due to two things—a perfect study of the public taste and the staging of plays that please-this with the finest artistes

Miss ETHEL WARD, Who enacts the part of fl Blanny in Fair and Warmer at the New Theatre. Cardiff, next week. Mr. STANLEY COOKE, Who plays Billy in Fair and Warmer, at the New Theatre, Car- diff, next week.

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DEMOBILISATION NOTES. I l THE SITUATION TO-DAY. I I Some definite and very notable conclusions I are to be drawn from the latest statistics on demobilisation and resettlement. First and foremost, we again have evidence, in spite of strikes, low production, and credit dangers, of the extraordinary* powers of absorption s hown by the industry of the country. Over 3,500,000 officers, men, and women have now been discharged- from the fighting services on to a labour market which could, at best, only be described as uncertain. Yet the number of persons receiving out-of-work donation has shrunk to round about 500,000 (it was well over the million), and the percentage of unemploy- ment is slowly but surely declining. It is interesting to note that pivotal men asked for before January 31st, when the new order of demobilisation came into force, are still being released by the Army authorities, but there are still a number whom it is necessary to retain. I THE WORK WELL IN HAND. The figures show also that ground is being gained by the Ministry of Labour in its diffi- cult task of dealing with the resettlement of those who have fought. Well over 19,000 dis- abled sailors and' soldiers are now under training in various workshops, learning jobs that will fit them, in spite of physical handi- caps, to take their proper place in civil life. There i9 progress, too, in the scheme for com- pleting the training of apprentices who left their jobs to go to fight. The advantages of the Government scheme for agisting these lads who have become men are becoming more widely known. To-day the scheme has been applied to twenty-three trades, with the con- sent of both sides, and over 7,500 individual agreements between employer and apprentice have now been concluded. Inquiries at the Employment Exchanges, where the scheme is administered, are increasing every day. I REABSORPTION'S STILL INCREASING r PACE. So far as out-of-work donation is concerned, the decrease in the number of applicants and ^recipients is general among both sexes and in sll grades—with one exception. That excep- tion is among women who have served with the Forces, and here there is a very small in- crease. The Exchanges show increases in the number of placings, which indicates further co-operation of emplorerfl of labour with the official machinery for resettlement. It is quite obvious that with the great improvement an the work of the Exchanges now that the first great rush is over there is an increasing demand for their services by employers. That was bound to come as poon as employers found (time to realise that the Exchange are at their disposal without fee, and that, conse- quently, they can be saved expense, time, and trouble in dealing with questions of staff. One more point out of the figures, and it brings me back to the place at which I started. Afbsorption of labour h&s now reached 92-4 per cent. so far as civilians are concerned, and 87'8 per cent. in the case of the Force?. When the new Government scheme to increase the employment of dis- I abled men is made k".own, we may expect to I a c.cfnsideraible increase in the percentage fiojire relating to our sailors and soiuiers. I STRIKING FIGURES. I The effects of the Y^rl-shire coal strikes are.plainly visible from the out-of-work dona- I tion statistics down to August 8th. A month previously, on July 4th, there were only, 87 persons in receipt of donation in every 10,000 head of population in the Yorkshire and Ea.st Midland Division of England. On July 18t,h the number was 92 in 10,000; oa the 25th, 106; on August 1st, 143; and on August 8th, 145'5-more than 58 extra per- sons per 1,000 drawing donation in tho course of five weeks And it must be remem- bered that these were not strikers, but people thrown out of work, against their will, by the strikes of others. On July 4th the Yorkshire and East Midland Division stood best of all the English divisions as regards unemploy- ment, and was second only to Wales in the United Kingdom. On August 8th YorkBhire was worst off of all except the North-Western Division. Again, on the earlier date, York- shire was 17'5 below the average unemploy- ment figure per 10,000 for the whole of the United Kingdom. On August 8th Yorkshire was 29 above the average figure. Such haa been the fruit of aectiomal action in a key industry. TInAINING FOR EX-SEHVECE MEN. The training scheme for ex-Service men of higher education, administered by the Ap- I pointmenta Department, is making steady progress, and the holiday season is not al- lowed to interfere with the work of the vari- (jus committees. The total number of train- ing grants sanctioned is now 3,094, the propor- tions of the total for officers and other ranke tive l y., T he being 44 and 56 per cent. respectively. The applications for training are still mainly io regard to accountancy, engineering, law, chemistry, and commerce; but it is interest- ing to note that recently three additional can- didates have been given grants to enable them to study for the Church. Since the Interview- ing Boards were set up, no fewer than 1,000 meetings have taken place, during which about 9,000 applicants have been interviewed, and 4,000 training vacancies considered. This is a. striking testimonial to the work wha:h is being done on behalf of the ex-Service nianby the professional and business men who volun- tarily give their time to sitting on these (Boards. It may be added that two recent ad- ditions to the Central Grants Committee are Mr. Charles Sims, R.A., and Mr. Sydney Valentine, the actor, who is chairman of the Actors' Association. DEMOBILISED WAR NURSES. 1 near of a noteworthy instance of the use- ful work done toy the Nurses' Demobilisation and Reeettlement Committee, about which I wrote in this column recently. The matron of a hospital in an important Far Eastern Colony had been in England two months, try- ing in vai.d n to find suitable nurses to go out East in Decemberio fill vacancies in the hos- pital. Then she came across a mention of the Committee, decided to give it a trial, and soon obtained the nurses she wanted. The Committee gladly welcomes such applications as this-and can "deliver the goods." What it does not profess to do, though it is evident that a section of the public still fails to appre- ciate this, is to supply domestic helpers. The demobilised nurees are not looking for posi- tions of that kind, and have not been trained for them. RELEASlBS BY INDUSTRIES. According to the official figures, I see that 1,100 men known to have been previously en- ga.g.ed in agriculture, a similar number who had been employed by public authorities, and 1,300 from the brick and building trade were i released from the Forces during the week end- ing August 14th. In the same period 2,500 from the engineering and metal trades, 2,600 from railways and trft/nsport work, and 3,600 from commercial and clerical occupations were demobilised. Both in the ease of men from the engineering and metal trade and in that .of men from commercial and clerical occupations, the irujii'nftT of releages is rapidly approaching 400,000, showing what big con- tribution's these two groups of industries made to the Forces originally. Of the other groups the biggest totals of releases are shown by railways and I, ansport, 302,000; coal and simile mining, 271.000; agriculture, 255,000; and the brick and building trade, 253,000. DEMOBIC US, I j

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obtainable. Both these features per- tain to Fair and Warmer," which Sir Alfred Butt will present,- for six evenings and a matinee, at the New Theatre, Cardiff, next week. As a record. of its appeal to playgoers, it ran for over three years in New York, and followed this up with a fourteen months' stay at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. It has been one of the greatest West End suc- cesses of any kind of recent years, while as a farce it probably stands alone. That is what it is-a farce; a farce brimful of good, clean, side- splitting comedy, yet, studied thor- oughly it will be discovered that there is a deal to be learnt from it and its sparkling situations. The temper- ance question enters into the argu- ment to a degree, but it matters not whether you are for Pussyfoot or anti-him, the temperance side of the piece will hold your attention like a vice. However, even so big a suc- cess of a play is to be presented at Cardiff by artistes with equally sound reputations. There is Mr. Stanley Cooke, for instance. He has visited the town something like a score of times, and includes in his history nearly 3,000 performances in the title role of Charley's Aunt," and over k tint, and over 250 as Billy, the part he will portray in Fair and Warmer." In addi- tion, Mr. Cooke is a playwright of proven ability and is one of the few actors who are members of the Authors' Society. Miss Ethel Ward is cast for Blanny, the part Miss Renee Kelly created In London, and one for which Miss Ward's great Kis- trionic gifts peculiarly fit her; while M iss Mabel Twemlow is to be "Laura," the playing of which she vastly delights in. Other roles are equally well cast, and the advance booking is already unusually brisk.