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Fifty years ago the grey little city of Paisley, seven miles outside of Glasgow, was world famed because beauties who could not afford real Cashmere shawls draped their drooping shoulders with "Paisley shawls" of soft wool, printed by Scots with Indian designs. Ladies no longer wear shawls. Paisley's Calvinist spinners make a modest living today spinning cotton thread...
Good Scotch Calvinists disapprove of Christmas, consider Christmas trees and Christmas presents to be popish and heathen things, savoring of idolatry. Scotch bairns wait for their toys till Hogmanay, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve last week, Paisley children were up with the dawn, shouting under housewives' windows...
...promised to be a specially good Hogmanay for Paisley bairns, for the manager of the Glen Motion Picture Theatre had advertised a holiday matinee for children. In deference to Scotch ethics it was not a free matinee, but the admission was only a penny. Just after lunch 800 children clutching grimy pennies trooped to the Glen Theatre and sat on hard wooden benches to watch the unreeling of The Crowd, a slightly morbid U. S. cinema depicting the struggles of a New York clerk and the distressing death of his little daughter. The only grownups in the audience were...
Died. William Hodge Coats, 62, famed English threadman, last of 12 related millionaires of the firm of J. & P. Coats (authorized capital over $100,000,000); in Paisley, England...
...Asquith, Liberal candiate for Paisley, had a rough time in his constituency, and was persistently shouted down. The anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation broke up one meeting, which Mr. Asquith was with difficulty addressing, by singing The Red Flag and booing. The ex-Premier did, however, manage to reaffirm Liberal support for the League of Nations...