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ASQUITH'S PLEDGÉ.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S FINE WILL NOT WRITE AN
BOOK.
Mr. Asquith, who was accome panied by Mrs. Asquith, presided There is a special reason why at the sixth of the series of lectures Mr. Rudyard Kipling should have and counter-lectures which are be written the story of the "Irishing given at the London School of Guards in the Great War" He Economics in aid of the hospitals could, indeed, write the story of of London. Any regiment better than any other living man; but in the Irish Guards is only son gave up his life, and one can see the father taking up his pious task, that the deeds of the men in whose ranks his boy had fought and fallen should be re- corded, as he says, "soberly, and with what truth is possible."
The subject of the lecture was Biographers and Their Victims," and the two disputants were Mr. A. G. Gardiner and Mr. Philip Guedalla.
At the close of the debate Mr. Asquith said:
SEA MONSTER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
UNIQUE
FLUB.
15 TONS BABY-FOUND OFF FLORIDA.
DREAM PSYCHOLOGY.
7
BERLIN'S "UNRECOGNISED MR. MANUK'S INTERESTING
· - GENIUSES.”
The "Club of Unrecognised Ganluses" is the latest manifesta---
LECTURE.
"The Psychology of Dreams”
evening.
A mysterious sea monster cap tured south of Miami, Florida, by Captain Charles H. Thompson, is exorcising the minds of American tion of the German passion for was the title of an interesting placatorial expert and naturalists. Joining" something, writes Caro lecture delivered by Mr. M. Manuk The seas round Florida are famous line V. Kerr, from Berlin to the at the Theosophical Lodge last for their huge tarpon, but this fish New York American, No German le thoroughly happy. unless makes the tarpon look like a sprat.
Mr. Manuk began by explaining The strange creature, of a species he is a member, of an or altogether unknown, has, after ganised hole, be it a bowling, the nervous system and the part great labour been preserved and club. a "skat" club (the national played by the etheric body, Sleep, mounted by Professor J. S. Wam-game of cards), a "Gesangverein
he said, was produced by the Ego beth, of Washington, the American or a trade union.
Every one wishes to be affiliated leaving the body but not entirely taxidermist..
with a band of kindred spirits disconnecting itself from it as in whether they be fools or geniuses, death. When in that condition we and thus it happens that every had dreams produced either by ex- category is organised.
ternal physical causes acting on the body, by the brain reproducing pleasurable or otherwise or by the Ego trying to Impress on the phy
Everybody who has seen it says the most remarkable feature about the monster is that it is very much like an ordinafy fish but thousands of times magnified.
33,600
..
There are societies of "rich men, A special feature is a large num-poor men, beggar men, thieves," ber of spots on for is notorious that even such as is found in many ordinary the beggars of Berlin have a highly fish. It is altogether unlike a whale, organised union with a constitution,
[sical brain experiences' gather- The following are a few facts by-laws, Anes and fees. about the sea giant:
Recognised genius can stand ed while away from the body. Length, 45 feet.
alone, but when unrecognised it Amongst physical causes Mr. Weight, 15 tons, or needs the props furnished by inter- Manuk mentioned indigestion course with follow sufferers to which produced a certain amount pounds.
Circumference, 33ft. gin.
whom they can air their grievances of blood pressure on the brain had thus find balm fortheir injured centres, disturbing the nervous Diameter, 8ft 3in.
Bouls.
system and producing nightmares. Mouth, 38in. wide, 43in. deep
THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR Even external incidents or pressure Tongue, 40in. long, several ||
MEMBERSHIP.
on the physical body produced thousand teeth
Pectoral fin, sft. long, 3ft. wide. has either not been granted a
Every person whose invention similar dreams.
After quoting some examples of Dorsal fin, 3ft. long, 2ft. gin. wide. patent, or has proved a drug upon prophetic dreams Mr. Manuk went *Hide,'yin, thick.
When opened, the mysterious the market, is eligible for member on to discuss the meaning of creature was found to have dined ship in this "Club of Unrecognised dreams, pointing out that unless "I have never written a bio on an octopus weighing 400 pounds Geniuses. These rejected invon- the working of the physical brain in and the hallucination created by He sees-none better the light,graphy myself, and I do not proa black fish-weighing 1,500 pounds tions are submitted to an
pose to write an autobiography. I and 500 pounds of coral.
whose the etheric counterpart of the brain committee, As a yestigating lity to error. A battalion field is leave that to other members of my witty. American journalist who business it is to test their merit and were inder absolute control. the bounded by its ongion. Wit-family:" (Laughter and cheers.)
viewed the monster wrote: "It if found worthy to undertake an images emanating from the two hence the There nesses die, or at dispersed;
was, continued
could have swallowed 40 Jonahs active propaganda in their behalf, became confused, survivors confuse dates and places. Asquith, a great distinction be without the slightest pangs of in-
The club now has a membership meaningless and absurd dreams
sometimes bad.. of sixty, who may be considered we
Vary But here is a book that will livetween a biography and an epitaph. digestion." for it is a good and faithful book, A real biography ought to be a Scientific authorities are inclined fairly representative of the great often people, who attached cer written by master hand.
picture a picture by an artist who to believe that the creature lived aggregate of unrecognised genius tain meanings, to certain dreams, subconsciously accepted these as LIS WITH A PURPOSE. had studied and loved his subject, more than 1,500 feet below throughout Germany.
and brought to the writing of isot the surface, and that it
The members remind one of code words for certain incidents. only accuracy of memory, not only blown up by some subterranean passive heroes in a tragi-comedy, In such cases the Ego frequently truth, but also the presentation of upheaval, possibly volcanic. Its appearing from the side wins of the tried to impress upon the brain its whom this might be written:-
that imaginative insight which diving fins had been injured so that stage of life, attired in fantastic experiences on the higher plane They lied persistently, and with distinguished a more chronicle or it was unable to return to its usual costumes and makeups, and acting during sleep and utilised these intent, in their home letters, con record from a living biography haunts The thickness of its hide the part written for them by fate very code words for conveying
They wear the ceming their discomforts and and representation of the person enabled it to stand enormous water" plastrons and adjustable cuffs of Often, too, our detached experi
so-called aimşampg to the dreams. posure, and lent themselves to the It was for that reason that Bosvel pressure. Its eyes are very small, impresion, cultivated hy sen stood in a supreme, position from have no lids, and never closed, in a past generation, and affect the sechalus newspapers, that the which he would never be displac-dicating, according to authorities long hair which once stood for a treiches were electrically lighted ed among the biographers of the in natural history, that it lived at a peculiar brand of genius and in- abbdes of comfort and jollity, world. (Cheers.)
depth where eyes were of little or varied with concerts and sports.
And this is a reflection that any man who has gone through it all
In sonte ways, it may be said to
be the history of every regiment.
It
was dot only the Irish Guards of
might make
Mr.
Autobiography was, he would not say vitiated, but subject to the limitation that the man who wrote
no use.
.
PRINCESS MAUD.
WHE
tellectualism.
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ences during our waking-con- sciousness and impressed on the brain were responsible for repro- ducing in sleep associated ideas, thus creating complete: "dream SOME OF THE INVENTIONS, The fish is the largest ever cap. They consider themselves the pictures or incidents. Dreams of tured but American naturalists are before which they have cast their another often arose from the fact unpaid creditors. of a century transportation from one country to his own autobiography was liable not content with this, and claim Some say that, whatever future as in a looking-glass to get a that it is only a baby of its kind precious pearls. These pearls are that whereas in the waking state war may bring forth, never again portraiture of his own features, and and that, had it lived, it would have of the most heterogeneous-sort, we are able to analyse our thoughts can men be brought to endure therefore liable to be egotistical: become at least twice the size. Some are harmless, some around imaginations, in sleep these what armed mankind faced in the Also, in autobiography, it was
complicated, but all are grotesque, thoughts as une actual realities. trenches in those years. Certain extremely difficult to tell the truth,
and the majority of them futile. Vicious habits to children might, it is that men, nowadays, thinking or, at any rate, to tell the whole
One man upon whom, by some Mr. Mark suggested, be cured it upon that past, marvel to them truth and nothing but the truth.
trick of fate was bestowed the parents: would only realise the selves that they could by any
pacifistic name of Gottfried, powerof suggestion by stroking the means have overcome it at the
God's Peace"), is the inventor head of the child when asleep for time, or, later, have put it behind
of a powder warranted not a few seconds and quietly suggest- to kill, but only to place ing the habits and qualities they the victim hors da concours, would like to see culminated in the The Court Circular contained the Thereby, battlegrounds would be child, care being taken not to men- turned into playgrounds, and the tion or refer to the habits they des following
high-sounding field of honour" sired to cure the child of. Such It is with great pleasure that would have to be thrown into the suggestions evoked dream pictures the King announces the betrothal discard, as it is a question as to in the child and inspressed the NOTED SPANISH NOVELIST'S of his niece, Princess Maud, whether this terni could be applied ideas on the sub-conscious mind second daughter of the Princess to a battle in which there were no which in time effected the desired Royal and the late Duke of Fife, dead.
change. to Lord Carnegie, captain, Scots An inventor of "illusions" has
Finally, in order to control the "When the name Ibanez ism Guards, eldest son of the Fari perfected an artificial "Fata Mor dream condition Mr. Manuk bug- tioned people who go to the movies and Countess of Southesk, to gane," in the shape of a mirror desgested that we should have a de- but don't exercise their brains much the poor. About the time that which union His Majesty gladly signed to reflect proceedings in an finite thought in mind before going over the printed page, murmur, after Mussolini was tramping, penniless, gives his consent.
Ah" The adjoining room; in other words, an lo sleep, the consciousness being reflection:
Four
KING'S NIECE TO MARRY LORD CARNEGIE..
44
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20, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong.
BLASCO IBANEZ
CAREER.
"As it was, he forsook politics and took to journāliem. He wan- dered over half Europe, and found the strange dives, and haunts of Paris, Berlin, Vianna, Rome, which he describes so vividly in many of
his books. He observed the ways of life of rich cosmopolitans, and probed into the Twes of
and the bewildered troops stum-moving to a gap in the parapet, the Duke of Connaught. She has OLD TESTAMENT OSTRICH.", Morning Post and The Scataimas) ] too, that millions of people, In this in a fireless room by the light of
of wire.
who Was
A RICH MAN:
them. But the wonder above all but exercising their muscles ja wonders is that, while they lived]"rowling it a piece along the that life, it seemed to them sane pavé") bred a cropful of forceful and normal, and they met it with regimental characters: Many, very .even temper and cool heads. many, of these have perlied and This is not a volume of "purple left no record save the echo of patches." But when he sets him-amazing or quaint sayings passed self to it, Kipling is able, with vivid from mouth to mouth through the phrases of nervous English, to long years, or a blurred record of 'bring before us a scene real and some desperately heroic deed,
memorable
light-heartedly conceived. and By night, fantastic traceries of cunningly carried through its crossing fire-lines ran along the triumphant end and dismissed shoulder of a ridge-shrapnel, with a jest.
GRIM STORIES. bursting high, jetted a trail of swift sparks, as it might be steel striking Here is a grimly humorous story Princess Maud was born on April instrument of espionage; another engrossed with thought only. Sleep Horsemen of the Apocalypse. in Switzerland, Blasco Ibanez was flint; dropping flares outlined some of a little Welshman of the Welsh 3 1893. Her mother, Princess a man in the shape of a handker would then either be dreamless or People who read and go to the play tramping. penniless, in Italy.
"In Valencia he earned his liveli tortured tannhouse among its Fusiliers, who were up the line with Louise, Princess Royal, oldest of chief, which enables the owner to the dream would be almost entirelyned and remark: Oh, yed hood on a newspaper. But that willow-stumps, or the intolerable the Irish Guards for a while under the King's three sisters, married la combine a cold in the head with associated with the subject thought "Blood and Sand,""" says Time work finished, he exercised glare of a big shell framed itself instruction:
July 1889 the late Duke of Fife, the instructive study of geography,, about. :
and Tide.
the creative cells of his brain. He behind a naked doorway; and And how often does one go who died in January 1912, Her!
For those are the two great would sit up far into the night, -coloured lights dyed the bellies of over the top?" asked the Welsh sister is Alexandra Victoria,
stories which have spread the cometimes, until the dawn hour, the low clouds till all sense of man. "Fll show you: come with Duchess of Fife, who married in
The Director of Immigration (ac. fame of Ibanez over most of the writing furiously at a battered tabla distance and direction was lost, me," replied the other Celt, and, October 1913 Prince Arthur, son of
civilised world. And it is certain, cording to a correspondent of the
a single flickering candle. These bled and crawled from pave to lifted the Welshman in his arms two aunts, Princess Victoria Alex-
Bim early efforts of his have not sone. pot-hole, treading upon their old that he might the better see what re-andra, and Princess Maud Charlotte
states that the co-ordinated Com-casual, short-memoried,
enchanted age, have followed those The old original ostrich of the "monwealth immigration arrange-
vived. Many he; has forgotten. dead.
Dawn brought dirty white des- of a private of some ancient fightt Charles, Prince of Denmark, now herself on high; the acorneth the Australian absorption of British caring much who
mained, hung up in German wire, who was married in July 1896 to Bible." What time she lifteth up ments aim at gradually increasing stories without knowing or even A complete Ibanez bibliography
it was that does not yet exist. - olation across yellow mud pitted withered wreckage, perhaps, of King Haakon VII. of Norway. with state-coloured water-holes, Neuve Chapelle.
"He takes much of his material 'He went overt "Lord Carnegie,
horse and his rider" has only people till the 100,000 mark is rught them.
A FIERY FIGURE, fast been properly named, and is reached in 1925. and confused by senseless grey wanst," said the Irishman.
born in the same year
And yet Viconte Ibanez is a from books. He devoure tomes of Wherever he is, and black lines and curled tangles Here is another of the same sort. is bride-to-be, is the eldest for the first time represented
fiery figure, as strong-coloured, abstruse lore. It tells of a half-platoon, among son and heir of the 10th Earl the London Zoo by a young
robust, and picturesque as his tales he is surrounded by oceans of There was nothing to see, except whom a gas-shell dropped-- of Southesk. His father owns about specimen,
"Blood and Sand' OF The old scientists, in a very
a title ex-volumes. HAVE YOU ANY -almost pearl-coloured under their Their platoon commander bur-22,700 acres of land, and Kinnaird
And
pressive of the man; fust as the nud-dyed helmets-the tense, pre-ried to them, followed by the Castle, Brochin, Forfarshire, the casual kind of way, said,
THESE SYMPTOMS ?
short pungent title he gave his "Ibanez, once poor, is rich now -occupied faces of men moving with sergeant, calling out to know the family seat, is noted for its valuable, then there is the ostrich which is to
works were expressive of the as rich as any living writer. The wide spaces between their platoons extent of the damage. No one re library and art treasures. Lord be found in Africa, Syria, Arabia,
sturdy Jack London.
Spanish public applauded him. to water floored cellars and shelters plied. The question was repeated. Carnegie was educated at Eton and
comparatively early. But the Lord Rothschild, who is a lead- chililer even than the grave-like. Then: "Speak up when the officer's Sandhurst. In 1914 he obtained trenches they had left, always with askin' cried the scandalised ser- his captaincy in the Scots Guards, ing expert on the point, was not thartions ont of breath on light framed, massive, with bull-like Spanish public does not make its 1. | shoulders and a great head fronted beloved authors wealthy. It was and has definitely thes consciousness that they were geant. But even that appeal failed. and from 1912-19 he served as A. established the fact that the Syrian terbed, to that ezab doon po refresh with a square strong face. His in America, South America, that
Are you nervous, is your sleep dis watched, by invisible eyes which They were all dead where they lay. D. C. to the Viceroy of India.
smile is jovial; his "dark eye, con- Ibanez found his big public, and la -presently would choose certain of There wa a time, just whop' It was learned that neither Asiatic ostrich is a different you?
Te your appetite poos, your divortion timaally alert, is sometimes brood Hollywood later that, he found. them to be killed.
fighting was at its worst, when the the date nor the place of the species from the African bird and
work and do you have palus after ing, sometimes benign, often that world public which is the B has given it the name "Syricus". Those who came through it say whole army was urged to collect wedding of Princess Mand god-In honour of the bird's new tie have all of these twinkling with laughter. He is Dorado
eating i
of the contemporary that the sense of this brooding death solder from bully beef tins. It was Lord Carnegie has yet been fixed dignity, Sir Percy Cox, the former symptoms you need tonic. Hand what energetic, lively, forceful, gesticu writer. more affected every phase of life in just one of those absurd pieces of The engagement is not likely High Commissioner for Mesopot the tools trestorent will do
lating, restless, leaving solidly: on He lives a simple life, in his the Salient than in any other officialdom which made civilians to be a prolonged one, and it la amia, was good enough to "Ay", norge Finkle, of No. 310 Spring a large and generont plenci
Mentone home, the Villa Fontana portion of the great war-field. so angry when they got to know of proable that a date towards the end couple of gas to the Zoo some Troy, U.8.4-11-11 became He was born in Valencia fifty- Rosa. His workroom looks on a them. Sometimes they made of July will be selected for the amo ano, he low temperature ad mask and run down that all I wanted six years ago. His father's name tropical garden of palms and soldiers even more expressively | marriage.
| was to go to bed. I was deprons, my was Blasco, his mother's Ibanez. He orange trees a long, lavender- encountered by the seroplane, digation was out of order sod 1. had no from the diaries and orderly nagra- angry. But soldiers, especially -tive, he lauds them as first-class Irish, were ready to see the huineir BRIDESMAIDS ROMANCES. perhaps the vibration, very appetites had no strength of and studied at the University, took a grey room, with a divan or two,
fighting men, with something in in such an ordeal.
There is quite a romantic interest effectively, addled the eggs, mi so distrowed lifter, ossing that i legal degree, but never practised and full of books, curios and them of the Mulvaney of whom he Naturally, the thing became a in the succession of engagements and Incaltation was in vain, thought I should dierkega ole law. Instead, he plunged into ancient pottery figures, cushions *I Înd wand Dr. William's Pink Pille politica -He wanted, like many pictured with Egyptian-bas-relief wrote years ago, and who has be- game with betting on results be of Pilis Mary's bridesmaids. Then he generaly scut two living
Princess Mary was married on birds, one of which survived the as a tonio sono years ago and I dan other young students of the time to figures. He has libraries in Paris, tween corps; but when a dark, The Celt's national poise and elderly, brooding private of the 28th February 1922 There were journey and has most arrived at the toy them for this Goblity change, the existing Constitution Valencia, and Madrid, in addition
better after, taking the pille for a low from a monarchy into a føderated to the Mentone one,” manner, his gift of courtesy and Irish spent three hours stalking a eight bridesmaids at the wadding, Zoo.
days widhen I had taken for republic sympathy, and, above all, the Coldstrean cooker with intent to and two of them-Lady Elizabeth It is also nice to think that the while toeger I was mach stronger and curious and incommunicable hum- convey and melt it down, everyons Bowes Loon and Lady Doris Britich taxpayer is getting little could keep well, something that had Possibly, bera into a Republic, our of his outlook made it possible | felt it had gone far enough, i
Gordon pan-are already dividend for his investment in beeg fmpowable owing by my Berrons he would have become an ardent
Mespots."
Don't Keglect Tony Family. condition. 12, pould also ess well without Roysilit. He suffered imprison for him and his officers to consort Mr. Kipling is not one of those married. R
way after dilatrem hiMy him and and 1ment for his political activities not Three other is now angaged --
When you fail to provide your family together upon termis perfuaps de whose hate of the German hag
KWAYA KAREN DES, WHILa Pink, Purifiers but several times, and
with a httle of Chamberinian, Callan manch was wer's rum dlówki wand we think they do elevad some measure of faine as Diarrhes Homedy at this man ek bho barred to other races. When the opoled. We get an Indication Princess Made Lady-Miry Cam-
more for us than any other media pblic figure. He was elected year, you are neglecting Bowal men practised "crime" they were It In the description of the boredom-ddge, andy Rachel Caven- thorough and, inventive in the act of Cologne, when he mysz tu
drazadas mella the mam Pilla - doputy for Valencis no less than complaint is sure to be prevalent, and is and unequalled in the defence." Tho, prisonge at the bar," si But the same spirit that prompted men then styled Genaany, being
Endcard Max Fiske" De Williams Feevensilines, and might have bew is too dangerous a malady to be triided. comer notable figure in the politic"" "with" This la especially true if Abare ass apherd had that sphere offered carda fo the fami'y.& down of Ba | talpelenedy.will place the troob a with the pecular conditions necessary in control and portape-lava a life; oir m to satisfy a man with a powerful-lambert tilly. For man by mi creative mind and the urge to write. Chemist Mid Skorakovo nesa
MORE MULVANEYS.
When Mr. Kipling turns aside
come soreal to us :---
+
and Mesopotamia.”
Are you pala and weak, tired most
Can Ven &ded the Blake? “Wore you ever toland wiki ainenen | could. other bridesmaidant | atbiak pencamp calls or fiart ess Mary's, wedding were out a bottle of Chamber a
„you befors
the large and imaginative sin, and fentirely at home, was saving hims * Diana Bridgeman, daughter Dierboes Bady to the homony its tinexpected excuse or Justifiche Leef; to continus the war unde earl of Bradford Lady May take sind tion (as, for example, that thred round whine, occasion, and Cambridge, and tdy Mary gumers detected in removing dissemión, among his conquefortynne daughter of the Marquis of
Bath large cask of beer were should show him fila chance.
of "Ibanez is big-cot fat, but large