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"G.K.C." ON AMERICANISA- TION.
PASSING OF THE ENGLISH "INNS,
DOCTORS KILL A CAT.
HOSPITAL MESSROOM 4-A.M. SCENE.
STORY OF STOLEN SANDWICHES:
UR OF THE CHALDEES.
HOW FASHIONS CHANGED- 5,400-YEARS AGO,
GIANT EAR RINGS.
There were fashions in-ear-rings
Dr. George Dunluce Eccles, deand hairdressing 5,100 years ag Duty medical superintendent of the That is one discovery made in the Bermondsey Hospital, Lower-road, past season by the expedition watchi Rotherhithe S.E., and Dr. Ken-is excavating Ur of the Childers, neth Noel Purkis were summoned the birth-place of Abraham.
by
cat
Speaking on "Americanisation" to the members of the Delphina Coteris at thevir dinner at ins Connon-street Hotel, Mr. G. K. Chestertop said he did not object to that process going on in America
*te R.SP.C.A. at Tower The expedition is the joint work itself, but he did most violently Bridge for cruelty to the hospital of the British Museum and the object to the Americanisation of
Museum of the University of England. At the same time we
Pennsylvania. should approach this sort of inter national criticism with a good deal of that virtue which our fathers called Christian Famility, but be did not know what the Americans called it, because they had probably no equivalent dem. (Laughter.) He was not sure that we English people had very much right to be Pharisaical about the present com. mercial soiener of America
Showing of.·
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Mr. Gordon Jones, prosecuting, said there was a very docile cat. which had been at the hospital for three years
There was a chest- room in which members of the staff coming home, lata might could find light refreshment laid out for them.
WAS
On November 27th the messroom
found in considerable dis order. The table had a castor off, the couch was disarranged, and the whole room bore evidence of a violent and prolonged struggle..
"
Bloodstained Wall.
Not only was the furniture die arranged and the cups and saucers broken, but also all over the room were bloodstains-on the wall, on the carpet, and on the wireless set
The fireirons were bant and the' hospital cat was masing,
The medical superintendent held an inquiry, and Dr. Purkis said he found some sandwiches eaten by the cat which had got underneath some furniture. It became very wild, and as he thought the best thing to do was to kill the animal he did so.
Criticisms of the manners of the Americans, their habi: of showing of their wealth, and of insulting poorer but much more civilised countries bore rather uncomfortable resemblance, he was afraid, to the reputation which the Englishman had in the early part of the nine- teenth century, when he travelled abroad. When our commercial criumph was at its height we were also Ettle bit inclined to inter- pret commercialism' in terms of caddishacs. (Laughter.) The Ame- rivan bad many noble and charm- ing qualities. He was not cynical. he retained a great fountain of simple enthusiasm, almost always turned to absurd objects, and Ee was very faithful to some traditions of his great, Republican experiment! The cat's body was found in It was one of the great men of the same shrubs outside the hospital, democratic America-5 distinct and an examination revealed ter from the modern plutocratic Amerible injuries, including a brokon rica-who said that God never { shoulder-blade. · A veterinary sur hade one nation good enough to geon said the animal died from rufe "another. What, however, we shock. were now threatened with was the dominion of a civilisation inferior to our own, and inferior beenuse; by the nature of things, it had been somewhat cut off from, the main centree of culture. What had come to the top in that country was not American any more than t English. It was largely a cosILG-
WIS
Lost Tempers."
Mr. Gordon Jones said he sub mmitted that what had happened was that these two doctors cumme home late at night, found the cat almost in the act of taking their sandwiches and chased it. The cat, in its fright turned and
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Women, it has been found, at one time wore a sort of hair net nade of gold ribbons that crossed on the chown of the head and came down. to a fillet made of two gold' ribbons between which can a double string of coloured beads, hung with gold mulberry leaves.
Ear-rings took the form of grotes quely large pendants in the form of
a crescent moon.
Gold Head-Plate.
The same gold ribbon was used Inter in a different way. It was twisted in a spiral round two long tresses that hung from above the cars, and these braided locks were then, brought, one above the other, across the front of the head so as just to overlap an oblong plate of gold set over the "forehead.
Ear-rings inter became quite small spirals of gold and silver interlaced.
The burial, absolutely undisturb- eth of a royal prince who lived some hundreds of years before the firat dynasty of the Kings of Ur, perhaps as early as 3,500 B.C., was found.
His name, Wes-Kalam-Dug, was written on the gold vessels which be took with him to the grave. The most remarkable of his possessions was a head-dress of beaten gold padded inside with cloth. It fitted over the whole head, covering the neck and cheeks. His elaborately dicased hair, and wtriskers are re- presented on in repoussé work | and engraving.
"Good Haro."!
found before in Mesopotamia Nothing of the kind has ever been Close to the head were two bowls and a lamp of gold, each inscribed with the name of the owner, Mes-
land."
politan commercial muss and aeratched one of them, and they Kalam-Deg, "The good hero of the
end of night, without any inter- lost their tempers and then, in the ference, whatover, they beat the wretched animat
A battle-axe of electrum lay by the shoulder, and by the side an other-axe-head, also of electrum. A dagger with golden blade and hilt of liver and gold hung from a silver belt. Heaps of beads in gold and lapis lazuli lay on either side of the body, gold and silver ear- Dr. Robert Hartley, medical rings, a gold pin with lapis head. superintendent of the hospital, a pin with a gold bend in the shape for over three years. said he had known the ginger ent of a gitting monkey, finger rings It was a and other small objects of parsona! timid animal, and after he had waar were in the grace. seen the messroom he held an in- quiry. Dr. Purkis said that when the cat attacked. Dr. Eccles they killed it as mercifully as they could..
After & Dancé.
Spears were struck upright in the earth against the ends of the pit, one of them with its shaf mounted with gold.
MUSICAL GENIUS OF A BLIND BOY.
"COMPOSER OF BEST OF 1,000 SONGS.
CHARWOMAN'S SON....
Dr. Eccles, giving evidence, said he had been assistant medical superintendent at the hospital for 13 years. He had been to a dance at Knightsbridge that evening with his wife and Dr. and Mrs. Purkis, leaving there about 3.15 O.ID, When he tried to pick up the enndwiches on the floor of the missroom at 4 am the cat sprang out from underneath a sofa and
There is a most interesting attacked bis hand. The cat looked mad, and for the sake of the in-romance behind the new valse-song mates he made up his mind that it must be killed. The cat had torn eff one of his finger-nails and had scratched his hand so severely
that the bad it wrapped in surgical dressings for a fortnight.
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Dr. Purkis gave similar evidence.
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mixture of innumerable races that bad resulted in chaos. (Laughter.) Bribes Worse Than Conquest. Wheo, asked Mr. Chesterton, had'
It might be said that their i been the effect on ourselves? In tention was to kill the cat, but the ordinary sense one race govern-intention was not a defence, If ed another through military con- there was cruelty it did not matter quest. But those who were always. what the motive might be. trumpeting to us about their com merical triumphs, asserting that they were advanced and up-to-date, and telling us that we were reduced to the role of somnambulists, did not realise the other side of the argument. There was such a thing 4s an invasion and conquest nat necessarily undertaken by armed men or soldiers. Would to God were undertaken by anyone so decent and respectable! (Laughter.) Que had more sympathy with a soldier, who was only serving his own flag, than one could have for the gradual penetration of one's land by an alien corruption, which called on the fort to surrender, not to battle, but a bribe. It was the old English habits of life, the look of the old English towns, even the whole tone of existence, which was being altered by the economic and commercial triumph of Amories. In confrmation of this he could give hundreds of examples.. II ever there was a"precious thing on this earth it was the old English inn. (Laughter.) Entirely peculiar to ourselves, it was great that out of its own glory it produced great figures of fiction which seem- ed designed for it, like Pickwick, and the great characters of Eng- lizi comedy. Now the transforma- tion of the English inn into the American hotel was going on all over this country and nobody stop ped it. (Laughter.) If the officer of a foreign army came and dictat ed.terms to us everone would turn out and fight him in the streets. (Laughter.) But all this was done simply by the power of money, and because people with more money than was good for them, or he was in New York, he thought Life, came and ordered these changes. it great fun to see the idiotic signs enter for the competition, and her while driving them towards the Macdonald took the verdict calm- Nowadays Englishmen had to be and the advertisements wrigging son's friend, D. A. Mackie, who United States border in July last. turned into exquisite orchids be like dancing devils in Broadway. had been a poor fellow studen
ly, but the woman threw her arms cause of a system of central beating He considered that at all events he with him, wrote the words.
Although Neill is only twenty, around her husband's neck and in the hotels that was entirely, un- had not got to live there, and it
was always interesting to see what he is a Fellow of the Royal College wept and moaned as the judge as- suitable for our English weather. (Laughter.) It was because rich strange tribes did in the days of ef. Organiste and a Bachelor of Bumed the black cap. She went Americans cane and asked for it absurd and fantastic witchcraft. Music of Edinburgh University; he limp in her husband's arms, almost to be done, and it was done. (Laughter.) If he had come back is now studying for the degrees pulling him to the floor of the dock (Laughter.) Englishmen used to and found London like that he master of arts and doctor of music, when sentence was pronounced. A be fond of free air, and make would, as an aged and now decrepit. His early education was paid for third persoU Comed, & mau named Fred Paimer, alias.. Vance, themselves offensive
it optimist, have contemplated sui- by a blind school, and he is now about abroad, (Laughter.) They either side (Laughter.) Yet that had meeting the cost of his classes by is in gaol at Butte, Montana,
awaiting extradition.
Macdonald, who posed is a com opened the windows or broke the now happened, and London, a city working as an organist and chor panes. (Laughter.) He hoped to had been Americanised He did
as national as Paris or. Florence, muster.
On tight the prize song was ander in the American Navy, see somebody breaking the windowe
not know what mone the Kaizer or played at the Edinburgh Empire engaged Bouchard at Montreal to "of one of the American hotels in Prussiana could have done, if the lond choring which followed drive him and his wife across the
England. (Laughter.)
they had occupied the City accord-it was heard by a music publishe borders, picking up Palmer on the Invasion By Idiotle-Street Bigna ing to their expectations. It was a who accepted the work immediate way Nean Huntingdon one of
Changes
were being brought horrible thought that even a single ly. Tens of thousands of copies them shot the driver and his body was thrown into a roadside ditch. about, by political arrangements, street in London should Tave been were sold, within three days, and
Assuming the chauffeurs cap, The Dance arranged for which might well be lett to the Prussianised, trut even if the Gerin less than three weeks at had been politicians, but in the actual modes an Emperor had arrived here and recorded by many-of-the-leading Macdonald drove the party across
the frontier. Detectives traced FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 32D, of living which belonged to us all carried out his well-known taste dance hands of the country
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Mr. Tassel, the magistrate, said the story was very, very extra ordinary one. It was urged that the cat began it. What he had to consider was whether the doctors had taken the most merciful way of killing the cat. He dismissed
the summon.
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prize for the "best | original song. A thousand songs of various kinds were sent in, and the one chosen was Why did you WEEPS ON HUSBAND'S NECK say " which turned out to be the composition of William Neill a poor student of Edinburgh Univer sity, who bad been blind sine birth, and is distantly related t Sir. Harry Lauder.
Yellow-Student. Neill's mother, who is a char. woman living in a poor quarter of Edinburgh, persuaded her son to
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MONTREAL George Macdonald, aged 26, an American confidence man, and his pretty young actress wife, Doris Palmer Macdonald, 21, have been! sentenced to death for the murder of Adelard Bouchard, a taxicab 66 driver, whom they a robbed
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