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WONDERFUL RED-
HAIRED GIRLS.
[BY OWEN M. GREEN, who has spent nearly a quarter of a century in the Far East.]·
London fog and Christmas shop-
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The drawing of the great Spanish Christmas-lottery took place inst month, and in every one of the 63ping have this in common, that both branch offices where lottery tickets inspire the same feeling of helpless were sold in Madrid, the card nese. To whom must one send pre- bearing the fatal words "No hay sonts! What do they want? billetes" (no tickets left) had been how much ean one decently get out?
One is ashamed at the last qurs TUESDAY, JAN. 20, 1991, exhibited beforo Novembor over, And the same eagerness ta. tion, but it intrudes, I saw a man try their luck must prevail among appeal to a lady, a 'total stranger, all Spaniards since the Central whether she thought his wife would Cuttery Office, whonco tickets åre like a net of Irish table linn. One supplied to the provinces, was al-ought at least to know what one's ready sold out on October 24, a wife wants. thing which has never before hap pened at such an early date..
My chief impression of a day's shopping is that red-haired girls The Lottery Remains.
are greatly on the inomase. Of six This record-breaking sale is the girls at the sweet counter of a big more remarkable this year beanuso department store, one was a rent the political turmoil and the laboured (with dead-white skin and green unrest, deep and wide though they certainly are, do not seem to affectes), two a rich auburn, one a seriously this most prompereous of blonde, the other two warm browns. State revenues. The Spanish Ex I got interrated, and searched the chequer has derived a large and
store for more redheads. They safe income from this source over since the year 1763, when the simply teemed, both among atten- National Lottery was instituted to dants and customers. assist a military orphanage.
England Looking Up. All over London I sein to notice
Kings may come and go; a re- public may replace the monarchy; the lottery remains and increases yearly, in spite even of bad trade, an increase of girls of the sun tint. Moreover, in this year's Christ-A few years ago scientists were mas lottery the odds against pros- pectivo winners have been much in creased. The number of tickets, in creased by 20,000 last year, bas been raised hy 10,000 more without a proportionate increase in the prize
money.
Yet, a full month before the draw, "no hay billetes."-no more tickets And in many thousands of homes throughout the peninsula and
lamenting the disappearance of blondes as a sign of declining vitality in the race. So perhaps
One
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Comprising ➡
Teak Hateland, *Chesterfield Couches and Chairs, Book Cases, Tablo, Silver Cabinet, Dining Sideboard, Tosk Wardrobe with Bovelled Mirror · Doors, Dressing Table, Chest of Drawers, ron and Toak Bods, Ornaments, Marble Clock, Mantle Piec Clock, Picturos, Qushions, Rugs, Fine English Carpet, Largo Marble Top Round Table. Crockery, Glass Ware, Wardrobe Trunk, Gramaphone, Marble Statu-
ettes, ats, etc.
Silver Ware Tea Beta Tea Kettle, Vasos, Bowls, Sweet Disbes Cutlery, etc., etc.
Blackwood Ware-Very Fine, Carved Eed, Curio Cabinet, Sideboard," Table, Armchairs, Tea Foys, Folding Screen with Porcelain Panels, Desks, Couches, Chairs, Divan, Marble Top Table and Stools, Jardinieres, etc.,
England is looking up. These red- haired girls are not only very nice. looking, but appear thoroughly vigorous, and self-reliant. should not take liberties with any
eic, in Indy, but with one of these tawny Londoners! To monkey with buzz-saw" were safer.
Spanish emigrants Europe and America who, through bankers or relatives, require a large number of tickets every year-hearts have been beating faster, looking forward to the fateful December 1 with rosy illusions and dreams of fortune.
The Balt,
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Next, the enormous variety of attractive trifles one can get in England for two or three shillings Even with the millions of customi ers, one wonders how such moun- tains of vanities can ever go off, Think of the scores of huge ein poriums all over London, hundreds.
The State Lottery is not by any means limited to this Christmas draw. It thrives all the year round. On the 1st, 11th and 21st day of each month Dame Fortune amiles on a few lucky ones, whose of high-class shops, thousands of the share in the State's booty serves smaller, stretching away, to the efficiently to entice others to gamreatest suburb. And throughout ble. The biggest winner, of course, the provinces much the same thing. is always the State,
Bloo
Ono Grandfather Clock. One Transposing Piano by George Russell.
One Herring Hall Marvin Combina- tion Bafe.
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But the Christmas Lottery is by How can these myriads of shops
exist! far the greatest. There were lost
English cookery is an old bone of year no less than 70,000 tickets (two contention, but there can be no sories of 35,000 numbers) as against i 50,000 in 1923, when General Prime question of the supremo quality of de Rivera saited power. The State's the material. With an experience clear profits in this draw alone of several countries born of several amount to some fifty-five million years' residence abroad, I am sure pesetas as a minimum. The tickets that nowhere can you get such beef. sum up 140 million pesetas, against mutton, gaino, poultry, fish and 65 millions in prizes, part of which vegetables as in England, if one
excepta a few specialities ruch as Undersigned have reccived is never claimed.
Siberian rabchick, Chinese bamboo. artridge and Virginian nutfed
The Lure.
But people do not give much heed odds and chances. They are fascinated by the eight figures of CONDEMNATION BY PARIS the first prize: fifteen million
ACADEMY.
The Academy of Medicine, the leading professional organisation in France, has passed a resolution recommending the authorities to impose a ban on public seances in
The tragic relics of the Carpnotism, which are considered to have a very injurious effect on the Nicholas, the Czarina, the Crapsychological and nervous system. witch, and the young grand duchesses lie in the family vault of
General Maurice Janin, the French soldier who represented the Allied Armies with Koltchak's forces in Siberia
ham.
Last and most abiding impres sion, the unapproached courtesy of the attendants. Long hours, with the endless dressing" and tidying pesetas and by the galaxy of con- up, standing all through them, and solation prizes-9,440 prime in all, the crush of Christmas customare, ranging from six million to ten vet never a trace of impatience or thousand peatas. And you may incivility. Again looking back to as a peseta, of which at the nomment shop assistants to touch London'. 8t a share of a ticket for as little those years abroad, there are to
·45 or 48 go to the pound.
1 watched young girl serving an old lady, who knew only that she wanted nothing that was offered
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So practically everyone tries his elranco, Clubs are formed, with a
treasurer in charge of the ticket; benevolent societies sell low-priced shares in the streets, through old Attention has been focused on thear blind folk who otherwise would possibilities of hypnotism by recent be begging, charging a trifle over reports of remarkable cures in Eng the price in aid of their charitable funds; shopkopers distribute oue- land and Germany,
"participations" peseta
It was in October that Dr. Wil liam Brown told. the Church Con- Dr. Kress of his experiences.
among
their patrons, and husincat món or office managers tip their staffs with
This revelation is made in a book! by General Japin, "The Downfall of Czarism," which was published; Brown is Wilde Reader in Mental share in a ticket. At no other recently.
The writer tells a remarkable story of the events which followed
the tragedy at Ekaterinburg on July 18, 1918. After the execution of the Emperor and bie family ver- i
Musician Who Lost Power:
"It would be a mistake to, look
tais relics were smuggled to the upon bypnosis ns something un Manchurian frontier, where they canby, mysterious and cucult," said were handed to General Diterich, Dr. Brown. chief of Staff to General Koltebak lar proper disposal.
Communist Pursuers. General Diterich proposed to give them reverent interment, but Cam- munist agents were bot on his berla, and be deposited the relies with General Janin.
"I carried the remains constantly with me," writes General Janin, "and oventually took them. to France by way of China.
"On my arrival in Paris I ap. prondied the Grand Duke Nicholas, and asked him to arrange for the disposition of the relics, but he de- clared that such a procedure would embarrass him. My suggestion that, I should hand them to the French and protests from other members of the x-Imperial family, and finally Moretly buried them in my family Vault.
He then told the delegates about
Philosophy at Oxford and Faycho-time in the year are thus built so therapist to King's College Hosmany castles in Spain"; no date in the whole calendar is so an. pital, London, E
xiously awaited by the whole nation as this 21st day of December.
The Gambling Virus. True, it sometimes bappens that some wealthy person who could risk two big noter" on a whole ticket is favoured by blind chance and a leading musician who had lost sweeps off the coveted "Gordo" fat power of concentration and the one, as the first prize is commonly. power to compose. Under the innumed. This unpopular freak was fluence of suggestion, he recovered played by Dame Fortune two years He fell ago, when the Marquis of San the power to corpore. away again, but the treatment work Miguel, Spanish, grandee who lives in Paris a good part of the Fed' a second time...
year, bought a whole ticket through his bankers and reaped, tho 15,000,000 aft
Dr. Brown added that hypnotism was used only in special cases, and that a patient could not be hypno tited against his will
Dr. Brown's work has been in private.
In Germany, on the other hand, mass hypnotism is being practised
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Moraliste, home and foreign, angus that, by trusting to Pro vidence in the form of a lottery, Spansh people are losing their traditional grit. It is 80 much easier to buy a ticket and wait for AND A SMALL QUANTITY At the Gricanitz Hospital, at luck to turn round than to work
OF COCOANUT OIL. Mahlow, near Berlin, men and hard and count upon nothing but women with mental, repressions are one's own steady, effort! They will The even go as far as to say that the treated in open-air classer.
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The treatment is gaining in popu-
General Janin's family home is in the Dauphiné, in south-west France. Ilarity in Germany,
the political indifersüce un pas sivity of this nation; and that Spaniards are wont to leave their civio redemption in charge of some political saviour, instead of win- ning it by hardy personal notion.
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