MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931.
ROUND THE
CLOCK
WITH
THE PRIME MINISTER
MR. RAMSAY, MACDONALD' AT
WORK AND PLAY.
"Seven o'clock sir!"
A gentle tap at the bedroom door: and this is the beginning of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's busy day in Downing Street.
1
work Parliamentary
continues
WOMEN'S FEET
LARGER.
Designs to Conceal Size.
MEN'S SPATS LOSING FAVOUR.
The female fool is getting larger, Spata continue to decline in favour among men.
THE
CHINA MAIL. BRITISH ARCHITECT | UPSIDE
BEATS THE WORLD.
Triumph in Columbus Memorial Contest.
£2,000 PRIZE
A British architect, Mr. J. L. Gleave, formerly of Nottingham, and now of Manchester, has won Boots represent only about 2 pera great triumph in open compoti- until 7.30, his regular dinner time. cent. of the present-day trade in tion with the best architects of This is invarinbly a "business" men's footwear. meal, for if it is not taken with his
Snakes and Crocodiles.
Europe and America.
Mr. Gleave was formerly in part nership with Mr. Cecil Howitt, of Nottingham, who won the competi- tion for the heat design for £500,000 Nottingham Exchange Building.
Mr. Gleave left his partner on tho |
strength of being in the final for the Columbus design, and is now in business on his own account in Manchester.
DOWN FOR BEAUTY.
'Chic Women Stand on Their Heads,
WHAT VANITY CAN DO.
The Beautiful London. Woman was standing on her hond.
The blood had rushed to her head, and she smiled with some difficulty as she motioned a looker-on to a
chair with her right foot.
Complexion.
a
One famous beauty parlour is ad- vising its clients to stand on their heads for five minutes every day. The blood runs to the head, and the result is a complexion.
Good carriage and a. svelte figurej are supposed to be the result.
Clients who find that they are their heads unable to stand upon without dislocating their necks are asked to loan themselves up against the wall and allow their minds to be
At the Fifth Pan-American Con-empty and tranquil. ference at Santiago de Chile in 1923, a resolution was passed providing
Those are among the opinions ex- It is announced by the Pan- "I shall stand up in five minutes," ahe gurgled. "If you do not mind colleagues, he uses it to entertainpressed by experts at the Interna-American Union that Mr. Gleave
been awarded the 10,000 waiting.", Before 7.30 the Prime Minister is friends, or visitors from overseas tional Shoe and Leather Fair, has
This is not an extract from striding through St. James' Park and always some phase of business, which opened at the Agricultural dollars (£2,000 at par), first prize
in the architectural competition for tour of an asylum; merely a descrip- for a brlek twenty-minute, pre-economica or politics is the main Hall, Islington, last month.
Shoe trade leaders are agreed the erection in Santo Domingo (the tion of the latest beauty treatment. topic of conversation. breakfast walk,
The beauty parlours have done During the season there are many that the tondency towards larger- Dominican Republic) of a Colum- Back in his study again, he starts
bus Memorial Lighthouse.
themselves proud! They have taken on his personal letters, and for ten public dinners and functions for the sized shoes on the part of women
The second prize has been award-woman in the past and plastered They have stretch- minutes to a quarter of an hour be- Prime Minister to attend, but he fajin chiefly due to the increased fore breakfast is served, sharply at always back in Parliament well be-vogue of sports and outdoor pured to the design of Donald Nelson her with mud.
suits. Not only is change manifest and Edgar D. Lynch, of Chicago, the ed her and kneaded her. They for eleven o'clock. eight o'clock, glances at the news-
On Pare occasions he visits in regard to size. It is apparent third prize to J. V. Palacios and have cut bits off her and atuck bits Porridge is a regular item
The Luis Moya Blanco (Spain), and the on. papers.
Now they have stood her on of his breakfast menu, but Mr. Mac- theatre, when he prefers a serious also in matters of design.
day One
he alipped round toe has largely displaced the fourth prize to T. Loscher, Paul her head. Donald is a moderate eater. Over drama.
Heels, except in "occa Andrion. Georges Defontaine, and for 3 couple of hours long toe. the meal he chats with some mem- | away" bers of his family--generally the to the private theatre of the Unit- sion" shoes, tend to be more prac- Maurice Gauthier (France).Bri-
tah United Press. hostesk of No. 10, his daughtered Artists in Wardour Street, and tical.
in "City "Petiteness," however. is not Charlie Chaplin saw Ishbel.
He lost, himself in the being abandoned. Eve will not The real work of the day begins Lights."" at 8.30, when he starts to receive antics of the famous clown, and readily admit that her feet are larger. So shoe designers are find- his secretaries and to deal with as laughed like a schoolboy..
Midnight Despatches. ing ways of preserving the distinc- enormous correspondence, all of
A half-hour before midnight sees tion of the pretty foot by the skilful which is sorted and 'departmentalis- wed. There are three permanent Mr. MacDonald crossing palace-yard employment of "decorated" loathers secretaries, and each brings in the in the shadow of Big Ben to White-to produce an offect of foreshorten
Downing Street. Onceling which suggest smallness. letters referring to different sub hall and
again at No. 10, reports must be jecta.
In the matter of materials for! Then come the political secre-read, and this is done from 11.30
women's shoes, the Fair presents a taries, and Mr. MacDonald's per until nearly bedtime.
In the business and politics of The red despatch boxes have collection worthy of a well-stocked sonal secretary, the capable Miss
There are python skina and for the erection of a memorial light- Great Britain the virtues of youth Rose Rosenberg. In all, there are arrived from the different depart zoo.
They boa constrictor skins, the skins of house to Columbus in Santo Domin-have become the vice of maturity.----|
Mr. Edward A. Filene." nine secretaries, and they keep Mr.ments and offices of State, MacDonald busy until 10.30, when have to be gone through, and mal-lanacondas and water-snakes, of go.
455 Entries. his appointments start with Cabinetters of extreme urgency dealt with crocodiles, lizards, and chameleons, Imany of them of exceeding beauty
Architects in many parts of the Ministers, industrialists, and others at once.
So ends the business day, at half both in texture and marking. Even world entered for the competition of all shades of opinion.
an hour or more after midnight. A the skins of frogs, sharks, and which was to decide the form of the glass of milk and a biscuit, a few rayfish are to be seen in the form memorial, and prizes of a value of faney. $41,000 (£8,200 at par) were offer. minutes' browsing among the essaye of prepared fabrics for
to bed-helshoes.
ed. An exhibition of designs was of Hazlitt, and then
The balance of trade in favour of held at Madrid and a selection com- sleeps well, as a rule-with a tele
Such is a the shoe, so far as men are con- mittoe reduced the number of archi- phone within reach. typical day in the life of the Prime cerned, is not to be explained solely tecta competing for the prize i
In the final ten on grounds of mere "fashion." In from 455 to ten. He is fond of the gramophone, Minister.
Week-ends spent at Chequers are the cities and towns the better- the United States, France, Germany, and, whenever possible, has it play.
Classical music not all rest. The rising hour on made roads and streets of modern Italy, Spain and Great Britain were ing during lunch. is his choice, and Bach is one of his Sundays is half an hour later-7.30. times render the extra protection | presented. Mr. Gleave was the only favourite composers.
But while There is always a walk before of the boot in bad weather less British architect to survive this he generally lunches at No. 10, he breakfast; and sometimes the Prime necessary than was the case a few great tost.
the park to Minister takes an axe and spends years ago. prefers a stroll across-
Shoes Preferred. or United Service half an hour in a copplee on the the Atheneum Club for a change of atmosphere.
For a quarter of an hour after lunch Mr. MacDonald tries to get s little rest-not "forty winks," but just diversion. from the day's busi,and weeds. ness, the reading of an article on art, for example.
Music at Lunch,
Appointments or Cabinet, incet ings last until lunch time, one o'clock. The Premier makes the occasion one for informal discus- sion with a Cabinet colleague or a friend.
begin At 2.15 appointments again, and the House of Commons will soon be sitting. If his pre- sunce is not required on the front bench, he will be receiving Minis- ters and officials in his room and considering parliamentary business with them, or receiving deputations.
LESSON SERMON.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.
All the plans of the Analists pro- vide for the erection of a great bea- con which will serve to guide air- as mariners. The men as well memorial lighthouse and an adja- cent airport are to be erected on a plot of 2,500 acres in area, to be de- dicated in perpetuity by the Govern- ment of the Dominican Republic as the site of a great Pan-American } Pork.
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catate. When he first went there The great increase in mechanical he found the coppice wild and over means of transport has also played grown, but his weekly attacks have its part in ousting the boot. Many almost cleared it of undergrowth men who spend the greater part of their day moving about the city in After a more leisurely break motor-cars nowadays wear shoes. fast with his family he gives Their fathers, when they walked thought to the next week's busi- from one business house to another, ness, the study of documents, re-most wore boots.
are becoming Men, moreover, ports of commissions and his own
Croquet on the lawn wiser about their footwear. They researches. sometimes takes the place of are finding that care for the shape Afterwards alof shoes tends to lengthen their walk before lunch, rest, reading, thinking, walking, tea, wear. More "trees" are being sold and another game or two of croquet. to-day than ever beore.
A special exhibit containing more
The exhibitors, include, besides than thirty different specimens of footgear for the "hiker" points the all the well-known British manufac paradox that, although there are turera, firms in Germany, France, more motor-cara on the roads than | Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, ever, there are, outside the towns,and, Canada.
DO YOU KNOW
THAT
An octopus is not an eight-egged kitten',
When Greek, meets Greek in Newi York, the result is a new restaur-
"God the only Cause and Croutor"ant. was the subject of the
Lesson-
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Samisen music is no longer heard
Sermon in all Churches of Christ, over Chinese radio stations.
Scientist, on Sunday, December 6.
The Golden Text was.-"Hear, O Israel. The Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might." (Deuteronomy 6; 4, 5.)
and
A riverbank pays no interest on deposits.
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Ab
uno
diace
omnes
means
Among the citations which com- nothing to an African chimpanzee,
The
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Business inefficiency amounts al- most to a crime against the com- munity-Sir Francis Goodenough.
more walkers also. Here real leather comes into its own.
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A.O.F.C. Average of Shanghai Stocks
prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible.-"Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of
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Ple-crust makes poor wall-paper.
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Guns are necessary in a Japanese
Israel and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons,
and concerning the work of my bridge game.
hands command ye me.
I have
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my call.
hands, have stretched out the
heavens, and all their host have I When bigger and better com- commanded." (Isaiah 45; 11, 12.) muniques are Issued. Geneva will
The Lesson-Sermon also included read them. the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Sclente
thoughts are spiritual realties. 3:
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A somewhat better tone has Cotton and Land shares were jections of the Japanese to a "This is evidently part of a cur-developed on the Shanghai Stock particularly buoyant while the plan for sending foreign obser and Health, with Key to the Scrip tailment plan," said the fox as he Exchange during the last several market was recovering some of vers to Manchuria. But a slight its recent losses. Shanghai gain was registered according to tures," by Mary Baker Eddy.-"God left his tail behind in the trap.
days due to a decided turn for Lands for December delivery the measurement of the market creates all forms of reality. Hia
The Tientsin municipal council the better in the political aitua-rallied from 20.80, last official' afforded by the A.O.F.C. Aver- After Monday's advance! tion. A display of strength took business Saturday, to 82.00 when age. called mortal mind-being non-belleves in retrenchment.
place on Monday that changed the advance was at its height of 18 from the low for the year existent and consequently not within
The corresponding established Saturday, another Monday. A sharp rise in Chinese Gov movement of Shanghai Cotton small increase of .04 was made ernment bonds relieved a situs was from 84 to 90. Better prices on Tuesday.
also The statistical record of the tion that was putting a serious in the yarn market were
on finance in Shanghai. beneficial to the firming ten A.O.F.C.. Average follows:-',
Jan. 6 24.10 There was also some diminution dencies of cotton shares..
High for year Sept. 19 28.68 of the problem of money scarcity
Low for year
Nov. 28 28.68 "Bull in a China shop"--Man- that became a matter Tequiring
Dec.1 24.00 churian propaganda.
special attention last week.
the range of immortal existence- "I must raise the price of bread," the whole aspect of the market. could not by afmulating delfic sald the baker. "I knead the power invert divine creation, and dough,” afterwards recreate persons or things upon its own plane, since no. thing exists beyond the range of all-Inclusive infinity, in which 'and of which God is the sole creator."
(p. 519.)
Definition of close-flated economy strain
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