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JUDGE'S TIP TO TÍTLED LADY, A NORTH SEA MONTE CARLO,
Heligoland, the famous North Ben How a lady's treeace were reduced from, according to a witness, a beauti-island, is determined to be free and
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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Gorgeously coloured houses making their appearance is Vauxhall Bridge- road hid fair to remove the stigma that this is "London's gloomieat and meat sombre looking main thorough.
faro.
has had his large house finished in vivid blue.
A QUEER SORT OF WAR.
BY A FOREIGN RESIDENT
IN CHINA. '..
Bince the revolution of 1911. China
· THE DINNER TABLE.
WHO ARE THE BEST TALKERS!
The question arose at a dinner table the other day: "Which class of men talk beat "
has been at war with herself; the only difference to-day is that opera tions are on a bigger scale than usual.
That much is known to the average: It was a curious thing that literary reader in the West he also knows men and journaliste ware Instantly that the anticat barriam of the Far put out of the running, says Mr. Rad- East have gons down before the cliffe Martin in the Westminster surush of Weatern civilisation, but only those who have lived there can Gazette. It seemed to be the general begin to realise what a strange, tawdry opinion that it was rare for a man to blend of East and West, old and new, be ready with pen and tongue slike, modern China really is.
Some weeks ago the dull gray of the atroat was broken by the bright green of a newly-painted verandah; a terrace of houses became a rich
For instance, imagine the Chinese There was a feeling that writem kept shade of carmine; and now a doctor-minus his queue, of course, as befits their best things for the public and
a gogl. Bepublican-in a cheap khaki did not shine in small circles. naiform, with modern rifle and equip- The clergy and schoolmasters werD ment, and in many cases with goose- also batred na 'far too inclined to be step and all complete. The picture is dogmatic and to instruct instead of means attractive and the conversing. Besides, it was said that by no reality is ovan distressing.
the clergy never talked quite at their best before the laity. Their sense of their cloth kept them from letting too, both themselves go. Then. to possess to little knowledge of she clergy and schoolmasters were alleged world,
It may be imagination, but business people who have travelled the road daily for years say that window de corations are becoming brighter, and altogether the street is acquiring a gayer tons and aspect. Already the
finds the colours in the nature of a
fol soburn picture to something independent, and a committee xafaded homeward-bound City worker resembling a "doormat," was describ ed before Mr. Justice Darling, who, in the King's Benob Division, awarded Lady Violet Henrietta Williams £25 and costs against Masers. Tarlita's hair specialists, of
Oxford-street.
presenting all inhabitants recently ont the island's demand in the form of a petition to the German Govern- ment, writes George Renwick in the Daily Chronicle in mail week.
tonic.
War Offon Mystery.
Although biographics, memorie, sod interviews bave cleared up most That petition was before one of the of the secrets of the Great War, our Lady Williams said that, wishing to have some white hairs removed Reichstag Committees.
Though mystery remains. One autumn after from ber head, she went to the shop Heligoland has been part of Germany noon in 1914 a ton of toffee was and was sasured this could be done for 82 years the islanders have never delivered at the War Office. Who without injury to her hair. The fee grown very fond of their new coment it? The most careful inquirirs was three guineas. Some white stuff
have failed to provide an acawer. All was poured over her head which Patriots, but apart from that there War Offics oficials know is that the produced a burning sensation. Tho are strong reasons, so the Heligo- hairdresser said it was bound to ating landere argue, why their sea-girt a little. Some of her hair came off, home should break away politically and when she pointed this out she from the Fatherland. was told it was bound to come off. Little bits came off at the end of her
hair, just as if it had been cat. At lunch that day her hair came off in banches. She did not remember it she took her hat off.
Mr. Justice Darling: The only distinction between lunch and dinner in, you take your ha off at lunch and not at dinner. (Laughter.)
FATE SPOILED BY OIL
But when one remembers that in 1896 bone and arrows were still being served out tothe troops, it is astonish Today Chifuses seroplanes and ing: to sau the progress since then. modern artillery and her officers at least are highly intelligent and well- trained.
Ordinary business men ware put! out of the list because their outlook was generally too. narrow. Only it was remarked that business men in touch with many diverse businersta accountants, advertising agents, and the like-were often excellent talkers.
When we came to medicine, |specialista were disqualified at once Bome of the fighting of recent years as usually unmitigated bores, but was sely interesting and zond words were put in for ordinary their gestive of much. Compared with the medical practitionere. As operations going on now, that was advocates pointed out, the G. Pa. see sectional affair; but enough men were a great deal of human nature and involved to provide a big sweeping can genersily be interesting. movement, threatening the great southern capital of Canton with its two millions of inhabitante.
"Here is what often happens in such cases as this: A neighbouring town with a population of, say, half & million, is captured en route; and we "foreigners," two or three in number, try to do what we can for the wound. ed, for their own Red Cross service, though pretty good in its way, is interesting the
breaking down in this sudden rush.
In the upper storey of the railway station, surrounded by his very modern-looking staff, is the command ing officer. A gentleman of the old echool, evidently, for he is in long silk
Economically the state of affairs on the island has, since the war, been very bad,
ton of toffee arrived in packing cases, addressed to the Queen for the use of the troops. Neither invoice nor con signment noto accompanied it. The toffte was sent to Deptford. S.E., and distributed to nearly 10,000 men, but the men did not know whom to thank destruction of The milway companies could throw fortifications-which was completed no light on who sent the toffee, and towards the end of last year has the matter remains as big a mystery laid waste a large portion of the as ever. Who sent the ton of toffee! island; the explosione did much The War Office is still anxious to know. damage to houses and property
generally, and the inhabitans declare £3,415 Fessert "ervios, they cannot make a living from
The total to date realised by the fishery alone.
mainland.
THE ONLY WAY,
amount realised
on
tho
Politicians were ruled out instantly. It was agreed they were generally, tor obsessed by the House to be really
Actors
EGOTISTIC AUTGES.
Wero
ret aside as
profession of egoists, Wen se enme tu lawyers opinions diff.d Fitially it was agreed to disqualify solicitors 83 robe and has a beautiful fan,
too discreet, and barristers with only a chamber The wounded, quiet and stoical, and with seemingly unlimited capacity for practica as too dull. Soldiers were launch to the mission hospital sloss by owu shop to be interesting, and naval men were too backward in talking of Here some of the wealthy mer- chants of the place are busy handing their own thrilling subject, the sea. for safe keeping; they dread the were all observere, and consequently inevitable looting that will come, interesting men, but it was agreed and have to mind to lose what has that artists noticed details more than been left ovar, as well as the military generalities, things more than people, taxes and forced loans already paid.and that their talk lacked knowledge
By subdown the tide of battle has of human nature. ralled on the badly wounded have ¡Finally we agreed that the been made as comfortable as possible, best talkers were two very different and we get a chance to talk to the types of men-barristers in good others, piecing together the various general practice who touch life at scraps of information as best we can. many points and have become What a cheery, comical, ugly set of practised talkers-and captains of braves they are something like big passenger steamers, who have good natured children playing with met on an equal footing interesting toys whose deadly nature they only folk of all kinds, who know the rough half understand..
as they are quite Burdett Coutts sale of ancient and Lady Violet said her hair went on unable to compete with moderaly modern paintings, porcelain and bearing pain, are rushed off by motor- Pronounced o talk too much of their falling out, and gradually became shorter and shorter, until it was caly equipped fish ng fleata from the objects of art is £127,703 6s. 68. The rale four inches on top. Fortwo months she could not go out without a hat,
was $14.22 38., and the catalogue She used hay rum and olive oil, and Their one hope, the petition included Continental porcelain-main-over their valuables to the foreigner An advocate of artists said that they the number of hate she spoiled in doing declares, is to make Heligoland any Dresden and Sovres of great beauty The greatest aft sale for many so was terrible. She could not go to | ap-to-inte hliday resort of world- any social function.
wide fame-a Monte Carlo in the years, it continues to attract daily all
the wellknown art dealer. North Sea.
That, the isla dem argue, can only The tense moment of the male- was be done if Heligoland is free and when Lot 264, a very beautiful Sevres independent. The Govermout re- dessert service, realised £2 415. presentative informed the Reichetox Among the Drosden groups there Committee that Heligoland has ech was a good deal of interest displayed treated in an accommodating spirit; when a pair of figures" of a lady and many of the financial burdens which gentleman, in Chinese costume, playing Germans had to carry had been the hurdy-gurdy and guitar" 12): remitted, and the Government was inches high, fetched £483. not averse from giving Heligoland Grant Dock Scheme. additional freedom.
His Lordship: You could go out in the evening. Bome people wear wigs. (Laughter.}
Lady Williams explained that she did not buy a wig.
Cross examined, the said she had used only pure henna on her bair. At the shop she never said her hair was in a very bad condition, nor did it bave black and golden patches.
Dr. Muriel Elsie Landau, of Wel- beck-street, for the detence, said she examined Lady Williams' hair. It was rather brittle, but it was growing, and not permanently damaged.
Mr. Joseph Kotowski, the assistant who dressed Lady Williams' həir, said when he saw it at firat it was "all colours," and was short. He used, first of all, a cleansing liquid to remove the black patches and bair dye to make the bair a aniform colour. When Lady Williams com- plained later, "You have spoilt my hair," he examined it and said.. "Your hair is exactly the same as it was before." No cther complaints had been made after the use of this
liquid.
DEFENDANT RKBUKED,
His Lordship (sterly): If you conduct yourself in that manner, and Ara rade to counsel, I will commit vou to prion for cou.empt of Cour, unt you will be there before many minutes
The petition was referred back to the Government, which will bring forward a scheme for giving the island a degree of Home Role. Ex.
MISS ETHEL DELL.
The London and South-Western Railway have submitted to Scutbamp to Corporation plans of a big echecle of dock construction and extension to make Southampton one of the finest ports in the world.
Their chief grievance-spart, of course, from the main one of their gay being nearly 12 months in arrear appears to be that the other side did nut play the game; they actually They propose to build a line of piers kept on blazing away long after their (as in New Yew) and one or two dry opponents had stopped, as usual for docks on the town side of the River their mid-day "rice” I. Tent from a point off the Royal Pier Upon the hole, they seemed fairly EARLY-MORNING WEDDING. towards Millbrook, a distance of about well satisfied with their leaders and two miles. To carry out the scheme, with their lot. But they had a very which it is estimated will take anveral Lazy idea, most of them, as to what Miss Ethel M. Dell, the novelist, years to complete. cost several million it was all about. was married by special licence in mail pounds, and provide work for thou
life of the sailor and the easy life of the idle rich; and, above all, have at their command all the world of romance that centres round the sea.
A cynie remarked after the decision was taken that it was curious that! shipa' captains and barristers were almost the only classes discussed not present. If we had a specimen of each the vets might have bren different," he alleged.
To-day's operations show a great ARTIST'S £75 A YEAR
AND DOWNS:
week to Major. Gerald Tahaurdin sands of men, it will be necessary to advance on those of yesterday, and Savage at Holy Trinity Church, reclaim 640 acres of mud land which one wonders what will happen to- Guildford, Surrey.
The vicar. Canon E. C. Kirwan, and and residential purposes.
will mainly be available for businesmorrow, when perhaps all of them MR. NEVINSON ON HIS UPS four hundred millions, in fact-are the churchwarden, Mr. Parker, were
The dry dock will be capable of w.deawake and on the move. Daily not told of the date fixed for the accommodating the largest vessels Mail. ceremony until
late the previous aliost. night.
No one except the charchwarden Shop Window Psychology,
BREAKFAST HABIT.
CHANGING MANNERS OF
LONDON'S VISITORS.
than 25 per cent. of what he earns.
Dr. T. P. Beddoes, of Cavendish- square, aud Dr. Thomas Dutton, of New Cavendish street, said there were no ingrediente either in the liquid or
One of the best known artists of the the dye to injure or destroy the hair.
modern school, Mr. C. H. W. Nevinson Mr. G. Bailey (defendant), who
is not ashamed to admit that he has traded a Tarlita, said the prepara-saw the bride and bridegroom arrive Some interesting tests have been
earned only £300 by his art during the tions he used were perfectly harmless. and no one saw them leave. Shortly carried out by an institute of business
last four years, an average of £75 a He made up 800 gallons at a time. after nine o'clock, Miss Dell, beavily science at Mannheim, Germany, in
year, and that at present ho painte His Lordship: How long does 800 veiled and with the cont collar of her order to discover what sort of shop
water colours as he cannot afford the gallons last you 7—About six months, costume turned up arrived at the window display proves - most
expensive materials for oil painting. His Lordship: I wonder there is a back entrance of the church with the attractive (relates Everyday Science.) After taking a census of the number He told a reporter that he has spent bair left in London. (Laughter) bridegroom.
The experiments were made at a of people who appear each morning con iderably more than this £75 a Defendant, a Frenchman, exci edly Thres quick knocks were given and large shop catering specially for or breakfast at a West End hot a year. "The artist's life is a roulette," shouted at Mr. Giveen in answer to a sbe oburchwarden let them into the women. The shop had 15 windows Daily Ma correpondent acle who he said. "I bave earned money off question, "You are a liar.”
charch through the vestry.
for the display of its goods, and there ther the ment is going out of favour.. and on in sparta. When I have earn- They were in the church five were arranged in different ways la "Whether it is the hot weather ored money I have saved 75 per cent. of minutes before the four guests arrived one window the articles bore price the general inability to eat a breakfast it, and it is on these formex savings in a closed car at the front and quick-labels, in another they were not before 10 o'clock i do bet know," he that I have kept going the last four ly passed into the church,
prised; in some windows one colour writes, "but breakfasts are certainly years. No artist should spend more The service, conducted by Canod alone was used, in others there was a on the decline, Kirwan, lasted 10 minutes and the variety of shades; some windows "The manager of the restaurant of "I have only enough money to last party then went into the vestry, to were severely practical, containing my hotel told me that not more than me a year-and-then-well-- Defendant I am sorry, my lud, sign the register. The witnesses were nothing except the goods for anle; 25 per cent of the people staying in We have muraged to krep on by His lordship said he was satisfied Colonel and Mrs. Savage, parents of others were dressed with picturesque the hotel have, breakfast nowadays, making things ourselves. My wife that something was done he really the bridegroom, and Captain R. V. J. settings and accessories. A means A few order, the meal to be served in has made some of my clothes and did not know what-to' plaintiff's Dell, brother of the bride..
was dovised of checking the number bed, but the majority sem to content many of her own... head which made her hair fall out The licence described the couple as of actual purchasers that each window themselves with a 'snack' batween 11} Discussing the uncertainty of an and break. He came to the conclusion "Ethel Mary Dell, spinster, age 21 or each different scheme of display and noon..
artist's life, Mr. Nevinson mid that at that it was untrue to say that and rpwards,” and Major Gerald attracted. Some of the results were "I have known men and even 17, when a student, he was carning plaintiff' linir was in the awin. con- Tahuurdin Savage, bachelor, age 31 unexpected. The sales of articles women go out at 7 am, to a round of £2,000 a year. "Now I am well dition defendant alleged when Lady and upwards."
bearing price labels greatly exceeded golf and not return till the same hour known, but I am rejected by every Williams first visited their shop. To maintain the secray which those of articles unmarked. Window at night ready for their dinner. All society which has artists on its hanging Lady Williams's low was mainly characterised the wedding the bride's with varied coloured articles were they have eaten during the day has committee, I am accepted in France, that she missed certain social motor-car was driven to a quiet more popular than those in which cue been a "anack at the club house. Italy, and the United States--but not amenities, but he could not help eam road some distance from the church, colour only was shown, and usually. "Medical opinion seems to be in England. ing to the conclusion that she might and after the registar had been signed | but not always, a large variety of divided on the value of the breakfast, .........“ Artists are in a peculier position. bave gone to the parties if she bad the bride and bridegroom: left by articles draw better than a few. The Some doctors Bay emphatically that The works of a novelist are not only thought of getting a wig. He did a back door and walked by result least expected was that the stl is well with him who lays a good chosen by another" novelist but by s not my why any prom, who used footpath through a field to the car elaborately dressed window, with de foundation for the day, mhile others : pabllaher. :. An autor is not chosen by hair des zhanldi abject to a mig and drova la Lyndhurst on thecorative acobssories, proved a much are equally strong in their opinion, an actor and by a manageria Fialufiff would have judgment for borders of the New, Forest, where the less effective saloman than the un- that too hearly a meal in the morning works of an artist, however, are £25 damages and coste,
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