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"Another enterprise that developing very much is flying.. When, for example, you can break-) fast in Cairo and dius in Bagdad there is a great temptation to many "The Observer" learned that Mr. people to make the trip.
As pec- Frank Cook, the head of the world-ple gain confidence flying is sure to famous firm of tourist agents,
develop." Thomas Cook and Soh, was retiring i at the end of last month:
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Berlin-A more than mere sensa- tional interest, is attached to the memoirs of Margarethe Luden- dorff, wife of General Ludendorff during the most important years of Germany's later history, 1909-1926 ("Als ich Ludendorffe Frau. War." Drei Masken Verlag. Munich).
The new prominence of women in politics and the reticence hitherto shown by German ladies of the old
Interviewed at Barnett Hill, his beautiful estate at Wonersh, in Surrey, Mr. Cook, whose tall figure ia familiar to many distinguished tourists, said that he has had it in The old-fashioned waltz is really mind for a long time to retire, and coming back into favour and we the amalgamation of the firm with hear that long flowing, evening regime to publish letters and diaries) the Wagons-Lits has now made it frocks naturally follow. This con- on the English model would make possible. "I have had just on fifty arms a pet theory of mine regarding the book outstanding, even if Gen-! years in the business," he remarked, manners and modes, and their re-eral Ludendorf himself had not "and that, I think, is long enough latfon one to the other!
issued a public protest against its for anyone to work."
The other day. I was looking appearance. But the world in gen-) through some really old volumes of eral, its eyes on the feminist move- It was Mr. Thomas Cook, Mr. Punch. In those days of bustles, ment, will gain more insight into Frank Cook's grandfather, who flounces, leg of mutton sleeves, etc., the paychology of the German established the business, eighty-a distinct style, walk and general woman from these pages than the eight years ago. Recalling its adaptation of themselves to their volumes of professorial analysis of origin, Mr. Cook said, "My grand-garments was necessary for com- "Das Weib" which fill the German father, who was by way of being fort's sake if nothing else, The booksellers' windows. rather a social reformer, was inter-dances, of the period included Here is the military lady speak- cuted in the teetotal movement in polkaa, barn-dancea, and mazurkasing, own sister to those dignified, Leicester. In the year 1841 there Now don't they somehowy fit in with slightly embittered, and more than was a big fete being arranged in the the women's dresses, and the men's pathetic figures who still run ex- park at Loughborough, and he was tail coats and whiskers,
clusive clubs and refuse to mingle wondering how he could help to To jump to the other extreme. with international women's move- make it a success.
The post-War period saw us in thement in Berlin. "It occurred to him to arrange thick of the ultra-jazz mania. Frocks She is speaking, too, with extra- with the Midland Railway a special shot up to knees-hair was Eton-ordinary restraint, train from Leicester to Loughbour-cropped. The wilder the dances terrible example for other wives to ough. That was the first special the more free and easy the costume write about their husbands after a train that was run for the use of of the dancera! And not only do long and certainly once happy mar the public. It led to others of a clothes change but types of facial riage has ended.
The world's women will rise in similar kind, and my grandfather expressions also alter. thought there might be a business In those same old Punchs the sympathy with the writer of "When in the idea, and he began to extend women all had long profiles, with was Ludendorff's Wife" on one Grecian noses, forehead, and nose in point. She was helpful and sym- "My father, Mr. J. M. Cook, was one line which gave them that look pathetic to her husband in his responsible for the great develop-of the Du Maurier illustrations in various political escapades after the ment of the business. Its success Peter Tbetson and Trilby Look War as long as she believed in them has been really due to the great back at the Panchs of the last ten herself. Her part was always pas- amount of hard work he put into it yeam. Gone is the long profile-sive: she. forwarded packets of in its early days.
the short skirts seem to have caused documents and letters to Ludendorf, the uplift of the nose and the pert fin temporary hiding. She did not discover till long afterwards that
it.
First Office in London
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"The first office we had in Lon-chin profile. I wish I were don was at 98, Fleet Street, opposite artist and then I could show you in the old Ludgate Circus office. Then two strokes what I mean! my father took a building lease of the Ludgate Circus site and built
the offices there.
"I remember as a boy sitting on the stands my father put up for the public to see the procession to St.
Paul's Cathedral for the thanks.
giving service that was held for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward, from typhoid fever."
By that time the business was fairly started with France and Switzerland, and gradually it has extended all over the world.
Mr.
as she sets the
those handed her by a "stately wo- man, dressed in deep mourning, So I say again that there is a purporting to come from a certain certain consistency in regard to politician, were not political at all. the why and wherefore of certain Hence this book is understandable
matmers, and, to most women, excusable, phases of fashions and
noticeable A Die-Hard's Desperation which is particularly where dancing
concerned. Much light is thrown on the Kapp Clothes influence the dancing of the and the Hitler dispatches, and period-or is it vice versa ? Any-confidential Erzberger appears, in a way the two seem to change simul-drawing-room, telling his plan to taneously. It was quite possible to convey Lenia and Trotsky in-sealed
carriages to create dance in a crinoline. It was even ralway
Later Frau easier to dance gracefully in it than Russian revolution. in dresses of recent perioda.
But Ludendorff states that her husband
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the dancing then was undulating offered his services to Crown Prince and graceful. Try to imagine the Rupprecht of Bavaria to establish a Cook recalled his journey through incongruity of a minuet in a new Catholic monarchy, and shows Palestine and Syria with the pre-i
modern everyday ballroom toilette, at the same time that this was done sent King, when he was Prince and then reverse the process and out of disappointment with the George, and the late Duke of Clar vision a foxtrot en crinoline! Hohenzollerns
On the conclusion of that Without being a cynic, one cannot tour he went back to Haifa to super watch the passing couples in a vise the arrangements for a pilgrim modern ball-room without being age of just over a thousand French impressed hy the general blase at Pilgrims who landed there and titude and expression of the dancers. One can not more attach this ex went up to Jerusalem.
ence.
The ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm, when at Wieringen, disapproved of Ludendorff's colouring his official reports from the Front too optimis tically. Ludendorff, who thought that this had to be done to keep up
In the late 'eighties he supervised pression to the presumably demure, public enthusiasm, took the re- another memorable tour-that made but nevertheless joyful, debutante Froof bitterly to heart.
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by the Emperor of Germany through of our great-grandmother's day, dis of the Crown Prince was never men Palestine.
"On that tour," he re-playing on her countenance every tioned in his house again.. called, "we had about one hundred passing emotion, and blushing to learns not only of how Ludendorf and twenty Germans, including the order, frankly, showing her enjoy refused Erzberger's friendly over. Emperor and Empress and their ment of the treading of a measure, tures, but that he expected General suites, about one hundred Turkish than we can imagine the modern von Seeckt, with the Reichswehr Pashan and their suites, sent by the maiden (smoking a cigarette, pow- from Berlin, to march on Munich Sultan to do honour to the Emperor, dering her nose, using her lipstick and help him restore the German BOOKBINDING.
It would appear from and about twenty-five journalists, in public, and using language that monarchy. mostly English...
would literally cause her ancestors this book that only wives are in a "I rode into Jerusalem in front to turn in their graves) clad in a position to gauge the measure of of the State procession when the hooped and frilled dress and gar their husbands' confidence in the
fress and ga ex-Kaiser entered the city, much to landed with flowers, wrong people and distrust of the the annoyance of the German Is it true, then, to follow up this right, of their real secret hopes and tourists who were there and did idea, that in the near future we are terrible private disappointments.
One of the bitterest moments in DENTIST. not like to see an Englishman taking to be less inconsistent than usual? the lead and having all the arrange-Our jazz dances have gradually a long list of such disappointments ments in hand,
toned down to rhythmic blues, and was Hindenburg's unexpected letter "But the biggest thing we ever gliding tangoes. The music bas of refusal countermanding his ac- did--it was my father who was re-altered in the same way: From ceptance of an invitation in 1925. sponsible was the transport of mad jazz tunes of the immediate Ludendorff, furious then, had al- British troops from railhead to post-War period we now have what ready expressed the view more than Wadi Halfa for the relief of might almost at times be termed once that he would have done better Khartoum and General Gordon.
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Clothes have never been more to have established a dietatorship over supreme military "During the Great War we also sensible and fascinating than the and taken
for commatid. "The biggest stupidity rendered many services of a more new fashions-particularly general kind, and were publicly evening wear. Long gracefal lines, of the revolution was that the re- thanked in the House of Commons and yet freedom for movement with volutionaries were not all killed off. for the assistance we were able to subtly inverted flares. Certainly if ever I come into power there'll With the greatest give to English travellers to ges fashions are not extreme just now, be no pardon.
and really seem for once to have of satisfaction I could have watch home when the War broke out."
The next great event in the his-kept to the middle road attaining ed Ebert. Scheidemann, and the tory of the company was the amal charm and comfort without bizarre rest of them hang" gamation with the Wagons-Lits extremes-N M
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out by the hand of destiny. Ger bodied men about to sweep the "I always address him as Dirty man love letters, always beautiful, streets of the piled masses. The Pig" said the Engilshman drily, Bentley fall, near Walsall, where People Travelling More Charles II is said to have hid dur-have not changed; even those from landlady fixed a notice on the board and he appears extremely satis Do you find," Mr. Cook was Worcester is to be demolished and tionate note. The wife in re their joy in the submaring war they story of another German's tatal mic ing his flight after the battle of the Front have the name affec"If anybody wishes to demonstrate fied. And there is the very good asked, "that people are travelling a colliery will be developed on the trospect recalls with enthusiasm the might like to show it by sweeping take when he reviewed his local much more than they did site. Already a test shaft has been days when national enthusiasm was the show. Out went the generals chiefs in war paint, and complained Yes, much more. Travelling is sunk in the now long-deserted gar at its height, and the dejection of wives in the twilight, no longer afterwards that he did not like the growing all the time, and the reden, the days when she in particular as young, no longer particularly attitude of the females of the tribe With the temperature sitting on the ground and taking ceipts are increasing every year 1 Once a beautiful and stately wife of the best-lated man in Ger-strong. don't see anything to stop it. Ever mansion in Restoration style, Bent many had to hide herself in an several degrees below zero, they to notice He nearly caused a re- since the War people have been loy Hall has long since fallen into obscure corner of Berlin for safety's scraped a Berlin street clean. They volution, since the warriors were travelling more and more. disrepair. Ringed around with enke
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But before that we are given steaming punch and cakes inferior beings at all. In their ever the cruising business by cruis expected that roat existed in the glimpse of the German England is treated for the most the ladies were simply not present. from Ing steamers, to the Medi- grounds me kladies in 1914, 1916, and part objectively. The skill of the terranean, to the West Indies Local offorts to save the old 1916, gathered together for English in their dealings with mon Schmidt Grane Expedition, Care in winter, to the Scandinavian coun-house from its inevitable fate were company's sake in a Berlin West and matters outside their country of United States Consul, from trice in summer, and all round the abandoned after the fiscovery that End pension kept by one of their is praised. There is more than Chicago, fl
world Motoring, too, has brought nearby mining operations had own kind. All are feverish with delightful anecdote. A new S. LACK,
enormous amount of new affected the foldations, and that tension, hopes, and fears. Once, man Governor in one of the Superintendent business, both by motor coaches and the hall was on the verge of col-news of the unrestricted sub-possessions on his way to the chiet Hong Kong1st August, 1929. by private or hired cam, and now la
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