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ODDS AND ENDS obbs
"White Gold,"
other pieces of furniture. From The Age for Chemistry.
with ribbons, hung a rack with
The urgent need for a hall-mark the rafters by cords, ornamented In an address to the Rotary Club, for platinum is so clearly re-wooden soup-plates and carved Montreal, Dr. Wilder B. Bancroft, cognised by the jewellery trade spoons, and a funny oval box in Professor of Chemistry at Cornell that the Government is to be which a baby slept. I mention the University, Ithaca, NY., said thus, asked to give facilities at an early ed to be the primary, purpose of when the present supplies of gaso- utensils first, because that appear-[anquestionably the time was coming date for a Bill authorising the the domestic trapeze. The infant stamping of all platinum articles suggested by its altitude the line would be exhausted, whether,
apocryphal baby who slept on the in ten, or fifty years. the assayer's guarantee
Then the tree-top. There was no chimney chemist would have to devise a sub- in the apartment, the smoke escap-stitute. He did not think it would ing through a hole in the roof.be alcohol, but whatever it might Another room was almost entirely it would probably be made in taken up by the hand-loom, the the tropics. By "enfalysis, Rasboii, at which the women and speeding up of processes, chemistry,
with
guarantee.
A Rumanian Interior,
A Waiter's Adventure,
now
he
or
Dr. Bancroft instanced rubber. Originally all rubber was wild, pro- daced from the native forests of South America. Then came the Fiden of producing rubber from plantations. But the rubber was
of quality and standard. So extensive has become the fraudulent description as platinum of "white gold" (a mixture of gold und silver) and "dental alloy" (a SHOEMAKERS worthless imitation of pewter and children do all the weaving, thus tad increased efficiency in many
silver) that several West End solving the problem of raiment diretions 8000 per cent. firms have agreed to inscribe the E. O. Hoppe, in "Gipsy Camps and word "platinum" upon rings and Royal Palaces." jewel mountings to which it applies. This cannot, however, be done with delicate platinum ware. which is at present much more in Even the life of a restaurant found to be inferior to the wild demand than gold and silver work.waiter has its moments of ennui article until the chemist came along The lack of a hall-mark for and disappointment. platinum has caused a loss of valu-ments, it is true, are attractive. The result was that today practi- The emolu-nd devised means to improve it, able trade to Britain, many orders but even the pourboires of foreign ally 85 per cent, of commercial ruh- having gone to France when tourists are capable of blinding her used came from phuntations. prospective buyers found that the garçon's realisation of the fact While he did not think that chemis jewellery set in platinum in that that there is a more spacious try would ever control the weather, country bears a stamp of existence far away from the Dr. Banerol's did shink that scien- rattling of plates and jingling of the unsanight he devised to cause glasses. A Paris waiter, tired of an agglomaciation of the fine water the renseless round of routine in parkers held in stspension in foga, On the threshold stood the which just householder and his pretty young l'anglais" plays so conspicuous arge drops, and fall, thus dissipating
"roab:f
so that they would come together in wife, whose white teeth flashed role, decided that his real vocation the g In the same way be re- from a winsome bronzed face was on the sen. So, having served marked that while rain could not The happy husband had inherited his final café and a "cordial Médos e produced from a clear sky, he did. the house from his father, who avec," he took the train for La think some time it might be possible was born in it. He and his bride Rochelle. He had no definite
to can similar agglomeration of j were thus saved the trouble of plans, so seeing a nice little sailing tiles in a clouds, and constructing a home. We had to vacht lying bend our heads, to save bumping, thought he could not do better
unoccupied.
low their precipitation.—"Mon- treal Witness.' while we stepped over the stone than inaugurate his maritime threshold and entered the main career in this trim craft. He fell room, the floor of which was of in love at first sight with the
A. description of new, scientific beaten rud, as smooth and clean "Luciole," as the yacht is called, methods employed to ensure the us scrubbed boards. Along the and, though he was really entirely night or in a fog was given by Mr. safety of aeroplanes landing ut wainscot ran a wide wooden shelf. ignorant of the sea and its ways. Philip Sassoon, the Under-Secre gaudily painted. On this were pegs he managed somehow or other tary for Air, in the course of a from which hung gaily painted to jugs and platters. Other wall de- about..
the "Luciole" debate in the Commons on the Air corations were pictures of saints vulsion from the old humerum feature is an electric cable charged
It was a thrilling re-inistry Estimates, The essential ■ painted on glass and strips of life, and the "Luciole woollen carpets of many colours careered jauntily
with high-power alternating enr along inwoven with gold thread. The skipper, gazing with ecstasy into aerotrone landing ground.
her front which is, laid right round the candela, burning the holy oil, the depths of the ocean, felt in- affects a magnetic needle carried on This memorialised the permanence of expressibly sorry for its denizens, an instrument in the aeroplane. home life; it is never extinguished. destined to become "soles frites" New methwals of illuminating an One side of the room was taken or "carps royales." He was indeed nerodrome provide an illuminated up with a handsome bed, on which ironically shouting, "Filets de surface up to 800 ft, in height in ay huge square pillows, very soles pour deux," and was asking fog. Once a machine gets within beautifully ornamented with a his imaginary clients what they his area it is within the guiding cross-stitch embroidery: they desired "comme boisson," when be age of eurent from the cable were piled up as high as the ceil- was rudely disturbed by the owner acting on the magnetic needle. By ing. On the topmost layer were of the yacht, who had set off in his means the pilot enn discover brightly embroidered panes. On the other side of the garçon is now in the prison of Le drop till he actually sees the lights counter-pursuit in a motor-boat. The poort he is within the cirunit of the aerodrome. Having done so, he can room stood a wooden chest. of Rochelle. but which the sides were decorated memories of, the shapely "Luciole" with delightful
of the nervxirome and so make a safe with a naively executed flower he comforts himself with the cement was that the helicopter Junding. Another interesting an- pattern. On the top of it were reflection that it is better to have experiments being carried on by piled up carpets, embroideries, and sailed for a brief glorious day. Air Ministry are making a "de. more pillows. A couple of stools even in a stolen yacht, than never finite limited advance."--"Daily and a small table were the only to have sailed at all.
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