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"LYING" MIRRORS OF MAYFAIR.
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Mirrors are now being made which dis- tort the truth and disprove the old say
BERLIN, October 3rd. The greybeard von Tirpitz, implacable in his vendetta, is making a fresh ating that a mirror cannot tell a lie." tempt to torpedo his former Kaiser.
Women who go to buy new dresses in some up-to-date dress salons should take care not to be duped by a " lying" mirror..
A volume of political documents en- titled Germany's Pusillanimous Mari- time Policy" will be published text week, and in is Grand Admiral von
A woman who went to buy a new dress Tirpitz, supplementing his volume pub in Mayfair sighed with religi as she took lished in 1919, ferociously denounces the ad at herself in the mirror that was placed ex-Kaiser's milk-and-water methods as in the centre of the softly-furnished the real cause of the failure of the Ger-fashion-room. man fleet to annihilate British sea power
Sensational.
A Berlin Nationalist newspaper to-day publishes advance extracts from this sensational work. In a series of State document. hitherto unpublished von Tirpitz portrays a dramatic quarrel bes tween himself and the Kaiser in June 1915, when men around the Emperor were trembling lest the sinking of the Lusitania should lead America to come into the war.
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I really am getting thinner," she re- marked, and this dress does give me the right alim lines. I think I'll take it with me. It is so nice to find something that does make one look fashionably slim."
quin.
Quite, modem," said the manne
You are not at all too plump." What Had Happened? "Medom" returned to her home with the box.
She eagerly lifted the dress from its tissue paper wrappings and tried Von Tirpitz describes how, to his great it on. Those slim, easy lines the gar chagrin,, after the sinking of the
ment had given her when she looked at, Lusitanin, the weak-kneed Kaiser, Dreherself in the stop mirror!
What had presentations from the Chancellor, Herr happened to them? Now, as she stared von Bethmann-Hollweg, Admiral von
at her image in her own looking glass she Müller, and General von Falkenhayn, aw unsightly lines and creases which she Chief of the General Staff, issued to the had not observed in the fashion salon. fleet on June 1st the following order:
The new dress did not make her look any thinner, but, on the contrary, gave her the plump effect she was trying to avoid.
His Majesty the Kaiser urges the necessity of sparing neutral shipping as far as possible in the submarine warfare, a further attacks on neutral 'veisels
might involve serious political complica- tions which, under present circumstances, must at all costs be avoided."
When on June 5th von Tirpitz received | notification that the Kaiser had extended the prohibition and had forbidden the torpedoing of passenger liners, including those of the enemy, at least until the negotiations with America, then in pro gress, should have been concluded, the pot boiled, over, von Tirpitz penned bitter letter to the Kaiser protesting that this latest ukase was tantamount to the abandonment of the submarine war, and would mean that Germany threw away her only effective weapon against Eng-
land.
Exasperated.
When the order was issued to the fleet. von Tirpitz, exasperated beyond measure, immediately sent in his resignation, "but the Kaiser, would have none of it, and scrawled on the margin of the document, now published by von Tirpitz, a curt No. In such a moment resignation. is nothing short of a crime. He is to atay where he is and obey orders."
In the margin of Admiral Bachmann's resignation, sent in with that of von Tirpitz, the Kaiser wrote: "No. This is downright mutiny, and Tirpitz is the ringleader."
The Kaiser then wrote to von Tirpitz refusing to accept his resignation. Von Tirpitz, sorely against his will, decided to carry on, deferring his reckoning with the Kaiser until a later day. That day
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What had blinded her in the shop! why had she been deluded i icdom" was frankly pazzled, just as scores of women are worried by the same mystery every day.
The answer to the riddle was simply this: In the North of England there exists a glass factory which makes special mirrors for fashion salons. They are slightly convex, and give a delightful illusion of slimness to the woman who is tying on a new frock in the salon where they are used.
"Lying" mirrors have been placed in any dress houses in London recently, following the example of some Paris
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MEN OF DESTINY.
[SY MAX PEMBERTON.]
Signor Mussolini bids his friends not to despair. It has been prophesied that he will die a natural death, and in that Prophecy he believes profoundly.
Herein he resembles Napoleon, who adhered firmly to a faith in his own star and never feared assassination to the end" of his days. The plots against his life were low and futile and the vigilance of about him. the redoubtable Fouché was a sure shield
His nephew, Napoleon III, was, on the other hand, the elusive target for many would-be assassins, and some of the inferal machines, by which it was hoped. to remove him to another and better world, undoubtedly were made in Bir- mingham. Yet he seems to have borne
AN "INVESTMENT" ON PARTH. charmed life, and when a bomb shatter-
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At Ealing Police Court, William Robinson (63), of Queca's-road, Ealing, bookmaker, was charged with conspiring with Roy Douglas, between May 19th and June 30th, 1918, to obtain from William Watling, of Harrington-square, N. W., by false pretences and intent to defraud, the sum of £1,000; also, being entrusted by Watling with £1,000 for investment, he converted the same to his own use, and, being entrusted by Dr. Rex. Godfrey Blake Marsh with a security of £350 for investment, did, on March 13th, 1925, fraudulently convert the same to his own
cd his carriage at the very door of the Opera and wounded many unhappy peo ple on the pavement both Emperor and Empress passed on to their box as though nothing had happeried to distúrb their smiling serenity.
Looking back to the history of the civilised, world, it is not always easy to believe in the charmed life; or to un derstand that destiny which doth rough hew our ends." Lincoln was assassinated at the height of his fame and America was to lose another great President, a victim to a madman and to vanity.
On the other side of the picture is the story of our great Queen Victoria and of the many attempts to kill her; happily all of them in vain. Pistols, were fired at her she was struck at with sticks; but never did she seem in imminent danger, and there was no case in which her courage was really troubled. Indeed, the Henry Raymond Brownlow (55), of St. story of this precious isle is not the story "George's-road, Victoria, a commission
of assassination during our civilised agent, was charged with Robinson for years. Kinge burned Kings with hot conspiring to obtain from Dr. Marsharons and put them into batts of malmsey £200.
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On March th Robinson approached witacas in the lounge, and said he would like to speak to him, as he had taken an interest in him.
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100 Per Cent Proft. Robinson then said that if he wanted country is done. to increase his capital he might be able to
There are rarely assassins for the real- help him, adding that he had a businessly great, for the Bismarcks, the Disraelis, deal on hand by which he hoped to make should be none for so great a man as the Cecil Rhodes, the Roosevelts. There
a profit of anything up to 100 per cent. Mussolini, the saviour of his county-it in a few days.
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Probably nothing has a more adverss effect Robinson then said that the horse was the health thao lots of sleep caused by Parth, and that the deal was one on the stomach disturbance, and nothing is more sure price of the horse in the betting market Magresia & onetime sufferer writes: "Belote of putting this right than Biurated before the face. He could buy bets at I started taking "Bisurated Magnesis Tablets 10, to one, and when the price shortened I always suffered from indigestion and could he, Robinson, could sell.
At this point Sir Travers Humphreys, feel they have done me the world of good, and sleep at night, but since taking them I who appeared for Robinson, was sudden my wife, who is also taking them, says the ly called away, and the Bench adjourned same as the harmful seid that causes all the *Biurated Magnesis instantly the case until Thursday,
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