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Royalty and Tortoiseshell Glasses. Lady Patricia Ramsay is back her winter's stay in Bermuda. again at Clarence House after Her husband is chief of staff to Admiral Sir John Ferguson, who
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The behaviour of the crewd at Rider Haggard's career has a Wembley during the visit, of the King and Queen was & fine exam- moral you cannot succeed, in art It and literature unless you are ple of public good manners. is a pity that an enterprising business-like (writes "Whitehall American seized the occasion to in the "Sunday Chronicle.") is in charge of the West Indian thrust himself forward and insist Extremely familiar with South Station (says a "London Evening Lady Patricia on shaking hands with the King Africa and a fluent writer, he, News" writer.) (remarks a writer in the "London wrote three books about that is going after a while to Evening News.") When the country that had no success what Bagshot Park, her girlhood home, King appears among his people ever. Then he looked round for a of which she is very fond. When on informal occasions he is en- what the public wanted in Steven- Araguaya, Lady Patricia's small popular success to imitate, found they arrived in England on the abled to move about-freely be cause the public refrains from who desired to shake hands with tog. Thus he produced a most should be photographed waving (Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Hallway crowding upon him. If everyone
son's "Treasure Island," and son, Sandy, was proudly crying
wrote a book about lost treasure a Union Jack, and he suggested he
Patricia has
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Solomone Mines." Stevenson come a convert to tortoise-shell.
strong cordon of police would be needed a thing which nobody had been businesslike, too, and rimmed glasses when reading.
"Jekyll desires, his Majesty least of all. produced his first success, Our American visitors as a wholed Hyde" in imitation of that The Effect of Noise.
great shilling shocker, “The will have no good word
Mysteriof a Handsome. Gab." for thrusters who Яeems to
But Rider Haggard was toe bust consider that they are superior to nesslike. He at once wrote six the ordinary rules of decent novels In two years and spoilt behaviour.
both himself and his market. Stevenson was always too artistic to do this
Summer Delicacies.
All kinds of summer delicacies made their first appearance at the fashionable restaurants the other day. At the Savoy were the first of the Fraises de Bois-tiny wild
Limited Divorce Reports,
Addressing the Bishop Auck land Rotary Club on May 12, the Bishop of Durham referred to scandalous suits, mainly in the Divorce Court, and said that re ports published in extenso carried
Faris is notoriously one of the noisiest cities in the world, but there are others in which the dis- cordance of noise threatens to become intolerable. A famous. Paris specialist. Dr. Marcel Briand, has lately issued a warn- ing that the perpetually increas- ing din of modern cities is direct- ly injurious to public health. He declares that the uproar of the streets of Paris draws cries of pain from patients in the hospitals, and that infants and rendered debilitated through lack their mothers are agitated' and of proper sleep due to the curse.
of noise.
strawberries which are picked in the bois near Paris and brought by aeroplane to Londo in time for lunch, with the dew still on them (says a "Daily News" writer.) But it should be added into public knowledge and on to that champagne and sugar re- the lips of people a vast deal of place the dew; and no other matter which in any other con- strawberries have a flavour like nection would be called obscene The first of the ecriviises and would be prohibited by law. had arrived as well. These are The probability was that such crayfish that are brought over suits would increase as the liberty alike from France by air and of divorce became more accessi- cobked with recipes that are 300 bie. The constant publication of sleep, and often end by becoming opium, morphine,' or heroin
them.
was
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sewage It was Carême, Louis all, such moral XIV's great chef, who discover-defiling: and making society
further declares that the din of
This medical expert O traffic is the cause of much of the modern abuse of drug taking. People who cannot sleep, he says, get into the habit of going to the chemist for drugs to induce
addicts.
ed the hidden succulence of the worse than it would otherwise be. At Home at Hampstead. crayfish and won a Royal heart as Facilities for disseminating in- well,
formation had increased, for In a few days now Mr. Ramsay Somerset Maugham's New Play, instance by broadcasting, and MacDonald and his daughters
Mr. Maugham's new
was. Important play, it
that they hope to be "settled in" at Upper Rain." makes me think even should guard carefully and Frognal Lodge, and all the ex- to Premier's family are delighted by more than the short story on reasonably the material which it is founded how much he be put in circulation. In a de. the prospect of the new home owes to the French short story-mocratic tommunity dependent (saya. A Daily Chronicle" teller, De Maupassant (says "a on newspapers the question must writer;) It is Unnecessary "Sunday Chronicle" writer.)
the be faced how far that kind of to say anything about That writer who died insane-mutter should be distributed; it lovely old house with its rambling was very remarkable for treating was not fair to put the burden on garden, in which Miss Ishbel is "unpleasant" topics in a serious newspapers. He believed the going to keep bantama, and the way, instead of in the light and best editors and proprietors famous blue drawingroom, in humorous style of many of his would like to be free from serving which Mr. MacDonald is going to fellow countrymen. It is no
that sort of matter. He thought keep books. A friend of the doubt this that makes imitation Sir Evelyn Cecil's Bill contained MacDonalds Ptatex. however, possible, for the Lord Chamber very good proposals No public that they would not have moved lain's principle seems to be that interest would be lost in nause to Upper Frognal Lodge at all f you can deal with vice as much as ous trials publicity were limited their faithful friend and Dutch you like as long as you are not to the broad facts of guilty indi housekeeper, who has looked after gay, but that gaiety makes any
viduals and the Judge's decision. the family ever since Mrs. Mac sexual reference corrupting. He they had just an outline, so Donald died, had not approved: licenses "Rain," and has just that people knew what had hap. The last word lay with her, and, banned "The Punch Bowl," the pened and no more, he did not luckily for the desires of her most innocent of sketches, be- think the community would lose charges, she fell in love with the cause it is amusing..
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