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MONACO.
HIS SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES.
Albert L., Prince of Monaco, whose death was recently announced, was eminent not only as a patron of science but an himself a savant of real dis- tinction.
LOVE PHILTRES.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE INSTEAD
OF WITCHES.
Christian Scienco is the very newest thing in love philtros,
That the twentieth century is as old as the first or the tenth B.C. for the love-sick is shown by the confessions
THE
THE KING ON CITIZENSHIP.
GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE,
LONDON'S NEW COUNTY HALL,
With a flourish of trumpets the
King, accompanied by the Casen, opened the London County Hall, on the south side of Westminster Bridge in mail week,
"This noble hall
In every respect the King, in his reply to an address from the London County Council, was exactly to the point.
should stimulate the development of that sense of citizenship so difficult and yet no imperative to cultivats."
"It is significant that the side chose should be on the southern side of the river," the King added. refer- ring.to the marsh lands that formerly existed hero. "But reconstruction is sure to come and will be accelerated by the erection of this new civic building.'
CHINA MAIL.”
THE PEOPLE AND THE PARSON.
EARL HAIG AS DIRECTOR.
1
"NO MERE FIGURE-HEAD, PLEASE."
:
"BISHOPS, BREWERS AND BOTTLEWASHERS."
That is a
Field-Marshal Earl Haig was elected "Who are they going to send to be a director of the Distillers' Company, our parson aka the Bishop of St. Ltd., at the annual meeting at Albans in a home paper. question which is common enough to Edinburgh, hear when a parish ia vacant; and Mr. W. P. Roes, the managing what it means is that the people who director, said that when approached are most concerned as to who their to join the board Earl Haig stipulated parson is have no voice in his appoint that he was to be no mere figure-head, ment. That is how things are man- but would expect to take his full share aged in the Church of England to of the work as well as of the re- day and a good many people think it *ponsibility attaching to the office. is about time they were altered. Referring to the future plans of the This is one of the questions which directors, Mr. Ross said they had had the lenders of the Life and Liberty under consideration proposals to Movement in the Church of England acquire the remaining shares in the are going to speak about at the mest-United Distillaries, Ltd., Belfast, of ing at Queen's Hall. They are out to which they already owned practically make people think and face facts. half. The other half was held by the It is a question which very closely Distillers' Finance Corporation, and a affects the laity as well as others. provisional agreement had been con- At the present time clergy are ap- oluded whereby they agreed to buy pointed as incumbents of parishes the whole of the Finance Corporation either by the Crown, the bishop of the at rather under £9,000,000, It was a glimpse into the falare diocese cathedral bodies, colleges at Earl Haig was formerly a director south bank of the Thames hereaboate individuals or groups of private in- absorbed by the Distillers' Company. will have given place to the same dividuale, who having formed them- agaificent vistas as are to be seen aelves into trusts," have bought on the north bank in the neigh-up" livings with the purpose of ap
The following summary.of bis.acti- of a number of young girls who claim when no doubt all the ugliness of the Oxford or Cambridge, or by private of John Baig und Co., which was
vities will supplement the brief account published some time ago.
Prince Albert Honoré Charles be longed to the House of Goyon de Matignon-Grimaldi, and was born on November 13th, 1848, son of Prince Charles III. and bis wife, Antoinette Comtesso de Mérode.
to have secured the affections of their wandering sweethearts through the thought healing" of a certain Christian Science practitioner, says the Sunday Exprean.
he points as proof of her "oures" to the fact the girls are now happy in the attainment of their heart's At an early age the Prince joined desire. The same method as is usual. the Spanish Navy, and he remained ly applied to physical ailments by for the rest of bis life a enilor; indeed. Christian science is applied to dietur in external appearance he had bances of the heart. The "patient a singular resemblance to the cap-is asked to believe that material of a battleship. His love nature is no illusion, that the ides left is the only reality, and that idea is all. for the Sca
tain
nover
bourhood.
Noble was the right word to describe the building-within as well as without. The Council Chamber itself will be a now sight for Londoners on the weekly meetings of the Council. If were 400 years old, people would talk about its beanty. The committee rooms and the offices of heads of departments and of the staffs are ali the last word in efficiency.
it
With the King and Queen were the
a
pointing clergymen who hold some particular ecclesiastical views." But the people who are most concerned the members of the church in the parish itself-bave, no voice in the matter at all; they are treated like lot of children; they have got to take whoever is sans to them whether he the sort of man they want or not.
is
"THE PARSON'S FREEHOLD."
a
And when they have got hit they obliged to keep him until h likes go of his own free will, or until
occasionally, at all events, it does till death us do part"! and sometimes
prove to be "for the worvs." If it does nobody can remove him, unless
him, and he spent most of his. spare powerful when consciously linked to Duke of York, Princess Mary and are time and much of his fortune in the divine force. Therefore, if the Viscount Lascelles. The Queen looked to oceanographical studies. The very queenly a of yacht which he devoted
to idea, and her lover also Be a disempalest gray, gold embroidered, and he is there "for better or for worse, was the bodied, spirit, she is all powerful and pale gold toque. The Princess wore practical research at sea "Hirodelle,' in which, in may wed whom she chooses. It dress of her favourite pale blue and a 1886-1886, be carried out investiga- sounds very simple.
It aboutd be mentioned, by the way. convolvuli.
hat of the same colour trimmed with tions in the Gulf Stream, and was the first to investigate its influence on the that the practitioner is well paid for French coast. Later on the Prince her love philtre." Still, the happy developed many new appliances for lovers should not object to paying for Good olinking money dredging at various depths, and began their bliss! to use his submarine electrical lamp has its uses even for the most spirit as a bait for fish. On a fourth trip ually mined of love-doctors. to the Azores be explored some 11 lakes in the islande, of which 13 had never been investigated before.
SUBMARINE PAUNA.
ARCHITECT PRESENTED.
After the opening ceremony, which took place on the steps of the Mem bers Terrace facing the river, a number of presentations were made, including Mr. Ralph Knott, the architect of the building, whom the
he can be provid (a d that is often a very difficult and always an extreme ly expensive process) to have been guilty of some more or less grase immorality.
So long as the parson just carrica on, takes his necessary services, and performa the bare "daties" of his
CIGARETTES IN BED.
(BY A PHYSICIAN.)
Tea taken in bed is said to introduce!
tannic acid into the system at the worst possible time, and cigarettes to
introduce nicotine,
Tea, properly made and not stewed or strong, should not introduce tannic acid at all. There is a very simple teat to show if it does.
in
If you find that a cup of tea, either
bed or at any other time, produces
then give it up. It is doing you harm. flatulenceor dyspepsia, however slight,
It is far wiser to leave our first
oigarette until you have had a meal.
Smoking has a far more harmful effect on the heart and nerves when the stomach is empty than when it is full; and more than one cigarette, and for some even one, is harmful if smok- ed in bed,
Christian Science, it seems, is also
There is up general cule as to how useful in business. Several very well
much anyone may smoke; half-a- known business men are treated by King warmly complimented; Misa office, he can snap his fingers at dozen cigarettes are excess to one ber whenever they go to board Henrietta Adler, deputy chairman of bishop, people, and everyone else. By man, twenty moderation to another. In 1891, the Prince made a trial celings. Instead of trying to par- the Council, one of the most important the "parson's freehold," as it is called, But Lere, again, nature soon-lets you trip in a new steam yacht, the unde refractory associates to do their municipal positions filled by a woman; he is there for life; he cannot be know if you are overdoing it. There "Princese Alice" specially designed for will by the cold force of logic, they and Mr. I. Stoor, head foreman, and removed. And even if he has grossly will be palpitation, there will be u marina investigation. In 1892 the ring up this practitioner and ask her Mr. F. E. Smith, e workmaz, to whom neglected his duties and the bishop rapid pulse and unsteady noives it Prince laid before the Academy of towork" for them, By means of the King and Queen gave a specially tries him in his court and he is found you are exceeding your allowance. If
thie absent treatment who knows how hearty handshake.
guilty and inhibited"-i.e., not al- these o cur, stop it. Bciences at Paris a project for -establishing high and low level mete many "big deals' have been put orological observations in the Atlantic through Perhaps some bave also Ocean on a large scale. Weather failed 1
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FASHIONS IN LAWN TENNIS.
(By a well-known Player.) I do not mean fashions in matters
of dress, though there is plenty to be said about that. I was thinking rather of strokes. Which, atter all, are the really important things in the
game.
In fact, the whole ceremony was lowed to continue a clergyman of the There is a vast amount of D. A. H. truly democratic, for representatives parish, he can still draw the major (disordered action of the beart)-du-very ready to follow-the successful-in- of the rank in nearly every section of portion of the stipend attached to the to excessive smoking of cinarettes. living till bo dies The bishop can only take a small part of it to pay the man who is put in to do the work.
There are also vast numbers of vigor ous, athletic people on whom the habit bas, no harmful effect at all. You should know to which class you belong. So much depends on how It is an old way of trying to run a you work and how you play as well. serious business and do God's work:
The best way of all to wakan up
THE BISHOP'S HELPLESSNESS.
This a me absent treatment saved the county's activities were given stations on the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, Bermuda, and the Peak of no fewer than Gfteen English soldiers places of honour.
during the war, if we are to believa Resounding cheers were given the Teneriffe were proposed: and it was the practitioner. Precisely how the royal party by large crowds which #aggested that Monaco sbould act as the centre for the collection and ballete of the enemy were deflected lined the route capecially at Westinin- was not very clearly explained to the ster Bridge, from which many with distribution of the information obtained. During the period of his representative of the Sunday Express glasses were able to ase the ceremony but there it is, and there it will be hody and mind in the morning, better |
who interviewed her.
itself. investigation of the Atlantic the Prince used his intimate knowledge of overy technical detail connected with the sea and its investigation, and by the use of the machinery he bad per fected he was able to add largely to our knowledge of the distribution of the deep sea fauna. He added many new species to the Atlantic fauna.
THE KING'S REPLY.
To fact, after several attempts to follow her giddy leaps from the mat
In his reply to the address the King erial to the psychic and back again. said: he gave it up and was obliged to leave that miraculous saving of the lucky eatiefaction in seeing the completion "I feel a particular interest an' English youth in the realm of enigma. of this splendid building, the founds
Or coincidence.
until some new method is agreed than a cup of tea, is to copy baby apon and passed into law. And it and lie on the back and twist and strikes you as particularly odd if you stretch and kick repeatedly. This happen to be the bishop of a diocese. fills the lungs, gets the circulation way supposed to be the "masuaging and se. Whatever else a bishop is, he is any going an lawakens the braia. Try it director of the Church organization This form of waking up is now tion atone of which I laid more then in his diocese. By the existing being taught to soldiers and sailore ten years ago.
law a "patron" can nominate and airmen. "It is universally recognised that whom he likes to the "cure 麵 parish but
man
after
There is a lot in the fashion of the moment, and lawn tennis players are
novator. Almost every year brings its modification of accepted methods. Some new genius arrives on the centre court, or some brilliant theorist begins to air his views in the Press box. And at the next Wimbledon the acute observer detects a change.
There are of course, the base-liners and the volleyers. I was not think ing so much of this ancient rivalry. The two, indeed, are not so distinctly separated as they used to be in the old days.
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. Our modern base-liners, even among the ladies have le med to volley on occasion with some effect. There are not many left who will take a volley if they find it on their A special method which the Prince pear in 1889, followed by the "Bul the root of all good government is a of soute" in
racketbut not otherwise. And adopted for investigating the fauna of latin de l'Institute Oceanographique"
there are many more than there used the intermediate depths, especially sucia 1904, and later by the Annales de live and active civic spirit. It is ne-the # nominated cannot
to be who are wall armed at both cessful in the case of some of the Institute Oceanogaphique. The cessary to appeal to the imagination become vicar or rector of the parish Well something has got to be dous
points--who combine the two games larger squids. was to examine the "Annales" were not stopped by the a public authority meanly housed may in question until he is instituted and and the Life and Liberty folk are
skilfully and reap their just reward. stomachs of whales which feed at war. One of the latest personal con be meanly esteemed. This noble hall, censed thereto by the bishop. That making certain suggestions both with
But there are also a good many who those depths. One of the Prince's tribations of the Prince was a paper
the seat of the government of the looks at first sight as if the bishop-regard to the appointment of incum-
cbviously prefer one method to the discoveries, Lepidoteuthis grimaldi, is with a map of ocean currents on the County of London, will be typical of who is ultimately responsible for the beats and to the appointment of
other. Gerald Patterson, for example, the type of a new family. This was drift of Bosting mines in the North the importance of their duties and re-work in the diocese as a whole--had bishops; for that is another thing that
charly relies chiefly on bis serve and vomited during the dying struggles of Atlantic and the Arctic ocean during the development of that sense of citi-fact, he has practically none. He is
sponsibilities, and should stimulate some voice in the appointment; as a needs tackling.
As things are at present, bishops before the war. The brothers Lings Hongkong Football League and smash, as did M. E. McLoughlin a sperm whale, but unfortunately it and alter the war.
August 28.-Annual general meet. had lost its head and arms. The The Prince's devotion to the ad-zenship, so difficult and yet so im-bound by law to institute the man so are appointed by the King on the
prefer to rely on their ground strokes. He grung Football Association. fragment was about 1 yard lung, and vancement of science was recognised perative to cultivate.
nominated, unless he can prove in a advice of the Prime Minister, without
The base liners, however, bave al the complete body of the animal by many high scientific honour. "The completion of this County court of law-again at considerable neco zarily any reference to anybody tered their motheds much more than ral meeting of Hongkong. Jockey September 4.-Extraordinary gene- must have been at least 7ft. in length. Form time to time be lectured in Hail is one more proof that the exponse, which he has got to meet else. The clergy of the diocese, who
the volleyes. Since I first began to all, probably most With the arms added it must have v rious European capitale, including energies, diverted to carrying on the himself that the man in question are,
take an interest in the gang I have been a monster of colossal strength. London and Edinburgh, and became war of four long years' duration, are morally or ecclesiastically unfit, and immediately concerned, have no voice
at least four different styles Another immense cuttio fi-h, a well known in the world of internati- turning to their old channels, as he has got to be pretty bad for that; in the matter, nor have the laity of
come into fashion. Cucioteuthis has arms as Alroup as a cal ecience. Personally be bad a the same determination and persever mere unsuitability or slackness or the diocese. They have just got to man's and carries suckers furnished grave but real charm of manner and ance displayed by the citizens of past inefficiency are no ground for take anyone who is dumped upon them, and when they've got him they with laws as powerful as those of a liked nothing better than to conduct. London in the attainment of victory refusal on the part of the bishop.
have to keep bim for life, or until he ** tiger.
scientific visitors from other countries will equally be exerted in the no less A queer business, isn't it f In ister years the Prince made over his museum and to discuss with difficult task of rebuilding our pro-
likes to retire; nobody can make him many investigations in the Arctic them the problems on which he was sperity in peace.
retire, and if he likes to go on long 1 very important parish in regions. For instance, he recorde engaged.
"It would be difficult to emphasise diocese was vacant recently. The after be is past work he can do so. in 1907, when the "Princess Alice"
The Prince married first, in 1889, too strongly the importance of appointment layi the hands of one was much hindered by quantities of Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton, a efficient local governme).t to of these "trusts," which exists to Any real and adequate reforms in ine and by fog, that the autochrome distant consin of the present Dako of the genera! well-being of plant men of certain ecclesiastical these matters must, I believe, include p'ates of the Lumiere Company Hamilton. This marriage having this country. Signal advances have views on the parishioners, willy willy, at least two vital principles:- developed a blue vil over their bean annulled at Rome, Lady Mary been made; the improvements in One of the members of the "trust" 1. The pemuas or groups involved surface at about latituds 69deg, 10 married Count, now Prince de sanitation and in the amenitier of told me one day that they were sp-in any incumbent'e jurisdiction should N., which increased in intersity up to Tolmu: pho died at Budapest communal life have been enormous pointing a very good man-which, in have a voice in his appointment a the highest point he attained 791eg not long ago. The Prines of In the reduced death rates, and, most deed, hu bas proved to be. I told very real veies, too--but not the only N. On returning eonth this blue veil Monaco married, in 1839, Alice, significant and far reaching of all, in him I was very much interested to one, We don't want parsons having faded away as slowly re it had arisen. Duchess Dowager of Richalieu a the reduced infantile mortality, in hear it; and then proceeded to ask to come "on appro" and be tested The Prince has left permanent pisca of Heinrich Heine; this marriage which respect our Capital City holds him how he would like to have his by the sermon they proach; and so memorials of bis work in the Oceano. | was dissolved in 1902.
so proud a meord, the valas of this local bank managars (be was a banker with the appointment of bishops. graphical Museums which be built The Prince leaves & son by his first work has been show.L
himself) appoin ed by a committee 2. Tenure of office must be limited. and endowed both at Monaco and in marriage, the Hereditary Princa Louis Great ad have been the achieve composed of bishops, brewers, and whether in the case of bishops or in
Ho-ord Charles Antonio, who was mente of the past, results equally bottle washers, and be forced to take cumbents; you can have too much SOME .PUBLICATIONS. born at Baden Baden on July 12th, remarkable can be confidently looked whom they appointed. As he didn't even of a good thing. It sounda Mention must also be made of the 1870, and is à lieatenant colonel in for in the future,"
seem to take to the ides, I told him simple enough as a fact, the whole series of publications in which the re the French Army. The Prince also
he would, perhaps then have some business is every difficult; that the salts of the Prince's researches have leaves an adopted daughter, Charlotte
sympathy with me as a bishop who difficulties can be overcome, and, I been recorded Under his auspices, Louise Juliette, born 1833 401 KEFP_IT_HANDY. found that 76 per cent of my local believe, will be once church folk will and" at his expense, the Résultats discreated Duchesse de Valentinole who Immediate relief is necessary in agents were appointed by somebody do a little hard thinking, and refore Campagnes Scientifiques accomplice married at Monaco on March 19th,ttacks of diarrhoea Chamborhin's eleo without any reference to me. I to be any longer treated as people Colic and Diarrhosa Reinody should Fur son Yacht par Albert ler Prince 1520, Count Pierre de Polignac, a always be on hand. For sale by all do not think he had ever looked at it who cannot be trusted to manage Souverain de Manaco" begun to rp kinsman of the Due de Polignac. Chemists and Storokopars."
from that point of view,
their own affairs,
Paris.
A FOSER FOR THE BANKED.
VITAL PRINCIPLES OF REFORM.
In the very early days, when camo more and more difficult to get players were still under the influence room for the mancurze. With underband eut... - of real tennis, most of them employed hard serve, for example, it would be impossible to wait until the ball be- This is admirable for the purpose of gan to drop. You would have to stand bringing the ball sharply down from behind the back netting. Also, it the back wall in an enclosed court, became highly important to return the but on grass it has the effect of slow-ball before the server could get into ing down the pace of the ball. It position rt the net. makes it "bang" after pitching Hince the ground-stroke player be thereby giving the defender mora time san to take the ball earlier and earlier, to recover himself. Corsequently, by with a straight-arm swing at the top the time I first began to play in open of the board. Out of that developed tournaments (which was, I regret to the rising swing that gave the ball say, in the early 'eighties), there were topapir. Some players (like M. de no many underhand cut "mor-Borman, of Belgium) became so chants" still surviving.
hebitusted to this stroke that they The practice had then come in of were practically unable to play say the "lifting" drive.
sther. The late Apthony Wilding took almost all his forehand shots in this way
This method of playing ground strokes had quite a long innings. The player waited un'il the ball had near- ly reached the ground after its fist bounce, and then took it with an al most vertical racket, imparting certain amount of over-spin to the ball, which was much quicker off the pich than when played with out in the old style,
The objections to this method were that, as balls were hit hsider, it bỏ. Important.-D.'y Mail,
And finally, to-day, we have the cut or "chop" stroke, and the "alice" (which is sideways spin) coming back into favour after a log period of stracism from the best circles. filden proved that they were still useful, combined with the other
troker
But it lo the combination that is