Foreign News: Pocket Wildcat; Mother Hubbard

A pocket wildcat is 98 Ib. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson M. P.—not James Ramsay MacDonald's most potent hench-woman but without doubt the most intense person in the whole British Labor Party.— Last week Miss Wilkinson, just landed in Manhattan, set out to spend her British Parliamentary recess on a whirlwind U. S. lecture tour. First object of her wrath: apple selling.

"Don't you know that your breadlines are the worst kind of dole—except apple selling!" she shot at reporters. When they mumbled a weak defense "Wee Ellen"...

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