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As to the problem of taen origins nud mixtures little is added to our present. knowledge. Even red hair furnishes no THE GATHERING OF THE OLANS,
clue. "The burly red-headed Caledon ian of the music hall stage and of Tacitus rnou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
seems still to exiao locally"-capecially EDINBURGH, September, 10th. among the "broad-heads" of the civilian Braemar Gathering is the most famous population of the North-East; but "when ad the most fashionable of all the the similar observations made on the sports meetings in the Highlands, Tradi-military recruits, who had a wider geo- tion dates it back to somewhere in the graphical distribution, are examined, dim past when a Scottish King chose as this phenomenon, though presont, is not bis courier the man who in a race first very evident.". The origin of red hair, reached the top of Craig Choinnach. In the like that of the Pict and the Scot, and old times the field was only reached by much else in the history, characteristics, hill paths;; then came broad highways and ingredients of the racs, must remain fit for horses and wheels; but the day of
meantime a mystery. the saddle and the stirrup cup belong to song and story, and the stage coach rat-
Mr. Eric H. Liddell, the well-known thed its way into the limbo of obsolete athletic, starts a campaign for the young things more
than twenty years ago. Now men and women of Glasgow. The meet- it is a great motor procession that moves,ings are to be held in Dundas Street Congregational Church, of which Mr. one branch by Deeside and the other by Liddell's father was a member before he Glenshee, to this wonderful place among went to China as a missionary. the bills. The pageantry of Braemar is Liddell intends to follow his facher's like a colourful Highland dream example and preach the Gospet in China.. true. Amid all the modern habbul of OBITUARY.
At 42, Harcourt, Drive, Dennistoun, motor transport, and in the presence of the guide-armed tourist, you see a coin Glasgow, on the 9th inst, Donald Me- pany of men striding along, tartan Lennan, aged 65, ex-inspector, Hongkong plaids swinging as they go, with the Police, beloved husband of Mary Mann. arms of an older Scotland carried proud- ly in their hands. The clans-menthe THE LATE MISS. GORDON CUMMING, Balmoral Highlanders, bearing their The death has taken place at College Lochaber axes and wearing the thistle in House, Crieff, of Miss C. F. Gordon their bonnets; the Duff Highlanders, Cumming, the distinguished traveller and carrying spears, and with their sprig of author in her 88th year. She had been holly and the Farquharsons, with firill for a considerable time. One of har and clälymore-meet within a few yards brothers was Ronaleyn Gordon Cumming, of the spot where the Stuart standard the mighty African lion Hunter," who was raised in 1915. The long-standing died in 1868. The deceased lady was an association of the Royal Family with the extensive traveller in Asia, Africa, Braemar Games was continued this year. South Sea Islands, America, and the The King and Queen, accompanied by Colonies, and her numerous books re Prince George, drove over from Balmoral, counting her experiences and impressions and their entry to the field was the cen- in many fands are highly popular. tral event of the day. His Majesty Among her works are "From the Heb- engaged for some time in conversation rides to the Himalayas." "A_Lady's with Miss Cornelia Sorabji, an Indian Cruise in French Man-of-War in lady. She is a barrister, educated in Samoa, Tonga, etc.," "Wanderings in the law in England. She was present China,At Home in Fiji," and in the party of the Marquis and Mar- Granite Crags of California." chioness of Aberdeen, and was a striking THE CELTIC GET108.” figure in her dress comprising an orange saree, with gold embroidery,
AN ARDENT JACOBITE.
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The
Where many Celts, of many different national strains, are gathered together, one might hope to come upon some as- The death has occurred in Australia curate definition, as well as exhibition, of Mr. Theodore Napier, F.S.A.. of of Celtic genius," a subject much dis- Magdala, Melbourne, and of Baimanno, cussed in the Highlands and Islands of West Castle Road, Edinburgh. Mr.Scotland. If the opening proceedings at Napier, was 79 years of age, and is re- the Celtic Conference, beld this year at membered in Edinburgh for the pictures-Quimper, in "Brittany, be scanned, they que attire which he favoured. He was will not be found to hold out much hope often seen in the streets of the city wear of illumination on the subject-at least ing the garb of a feudal Highlander. of a kind from which other races and He did not only adopt the kilt as an tongues can prófit. The President. Mr. article of everyday attire, but wore the E.. T. John, a Welshman, tells us that, courtier-like face of an earlier period, as represented by the Cymari, the Celtic and a cap decorated with a jaunty fea- genius is "grave, profound, and mystic" ther. He was a Jacobite, a believer in invincible," alan, because it in in- the Stuart claim to the Scottish Throne. ward." A notable Breton was quoted as On one occasion his presence on borse claiming gentleness of manners and 31 a traits of the hack in the Assembly procession om exquisite sensibility Holyrood Palace created considerable in- race, and a claim was put forward that terest. He had apparently joined the "the ideal of arbitration," in the settle- procession as the self-constituted repre-ment of the quarrels of nations, sprang sentative of the King over the water.""
EVEREST BARLEY IN SCOTLAND.
from a Celtic root. All this one is will ing and even anxious to believe; and more than anything else, perhaps the as- as the result of their In the Babrach, Upper Banffshire,surance that, tests are being carried out with a new happy endowment with powerful and in- the English- kind of barley, brought back from the fluential Celtic elements," Himalayas by the Mount Everest Expedi- speaking races of the world are all eager tion. This barley, of which there are two to establish peace on a durable and varieties-Kampe Dieng and Neamda-permanent basis." Yet it does not bring was found growing on Mount Everest at us far forward on the solid ground of an altitude of 14,200 feet, and samples actual fact. The "Celtic soul" has, like were brought home. Mr. Kemp, county the souls of other richly-endowed races, a organiser of the North of Scotland Col-high opinion of itself. But it has always lege of Agriculture, hail the seed planted been credited, even by Celtic panegyrists, in the Upper Cabrash at an altitude of with being more enamoured of the fanci over 1,100 feet, and while the weather ia ful than of the substantial, with love that district has been most unfavourable of the ideally beautiful rather than of and the general harvest will not be gather- the plain, unvarnished truth. The Celtic ed until Oct, the Mount Everest barley genius has an opportunity of showing, has come on so well that it will be ready unhindered by Saxon interference, the by the middle of the month. It may be superiority of its own spirit and methods that in time Mount Everest barley will in the Irish Free State, and this not in prove one of the chief crops of northern words but in works. The success of this demontration may be awaited before and-much exposed districts.
there are any bold experiments, such as AN ANALYSIE OF THE-SCẾT.
Mr. John hopes for, in setting up other "Know thyself" is counsel applicable Free States, on a like model, in Wales to the nation as well as to the in and in Scotland, to say nothing of the own formation of & Celtic Federal Union": dividual and in the case of our countrymen the inquiry may very well that would embrace France and other begin with questions of racial origin countries endowed with Celtic elements One can perceive in Southern and physical characteristics, including While complexion and stature, and especially Ireland no fervid enthusiasm for peace! the shape and capacity of the brain-pan or for the arbitration ideal," and no of the average Scot. This is part of the specially marked evidence of gentle.! investigations which the William Ramsay ness of manners" and courtesy of speech Henderson Trust have taken in hand and towards neighbour nations, the experi their second and third reports have just ment of the forced imposition, in the been issued. The facts ascertained as to schools and in other departments of the local distribution of prevailing races public life, of a tongue of which only a and types are interesting and suggestive, more fraction of the population have any Thus it is found that there is a ten-knowledge, is in full progress, and is ae- dency to the long-headedness in the excompanied by grave and admitted hard- treme North of Beotland, and to short ships, as well as by gross absurdities. Ac headedness in the Lothians and Border cording to the latest available language Counties and as regards bead-breadth, statistics those for 1911-less than 17,000 the population of the North is signi- persons in the island (including Ulster) Gaelic only, while 565,000 wers ficantly brand-headed, while that of the bilingual-"In spite of frenzied efforts Tothia Renfrew is distinctly narrow- to whip up Gaelic-speaking in the
Ayr.
the Border counties, Lanark,
headed, the other geographical groups schools and elsewhere, including the in- approximating to a mean between the ex-stitution at public expense of 250 agen- tremes. The popular belief in the cles for teaching the language to the long-headedness of the Aberdonian teachers, the propertions are probably thus receives some support from cranial not greatly changed. While the desire, measurements. Neither length nor breadth whether in Ireland or Scotland or slae of head, however, or even mean cubical where, to preserve the ancient language contents, can be taken as a sure index of of the people is laudable enough, the mental capacity; and the mean of the attempt to resuscitate it by compulsory more southern counties may be regarded means in a thoroughly Hibernian under- as a sign of recent and large admixtures taking. with other races from other lands. But when taken in connection with such facts as that low values" in head breadth and head-length are found among races in a low stage of civilisation, and among the general criminal and hospital popu- lations of England, while values are high Cambridge under-graduates and among British Association adults," the Northern Counties will feel that they have some reason to be pleased with their classifica- tion.
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