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BY MRS. LANGTEY,
Mrs. Langtry (Lady de "Bathe); contributes the following articled to_the_Weekly Dispatch -----
Luck! The word does not érikt), in my vocabulary. As far as I am concerned there is no such thing As Lück.
Luck may exist, but not alongside judgment, Luck is eliminated directly judgment comes into play. Good Luck becomes merely good judgment and Bad Luck bad judgment Of course, if you have no judgment -well that, I suppose, is really why so many people make such a fuss about Luck.
What you have to do is always to have so much in hand. That is judgment, and once you set up that rule Luck does not stand much chance of getting in your scheme of affairs. Fancy having such a wild-goose, will-o-the-wisp, scatterbrain thing as Luck inter- fering in one's businesses! Would any sensible being tolerate it? Luck is not judgment except, perhaps, when it is a judgment
on you.
But I can hear a little voice saying, "How about racing?" It may surprise the owner of that little voice to know that my theories hold good most especial- ly with regard to racing. Luck in racing means that the person who boasts about or deplores- his Luck on the racecourse does not know his job. He should Know what will happen. He should, as I said before, always have something in hand. I have never won a race yet without my friends and myself reaping the advantage.
A "lucky" race is the most uninteresting thing possible. If you place your horse correctly it will win. And to place your horse correctly your judgment must be good. If your judgment is bad, do not blame Luck.
NOT LUCK BUT JUDGMENT.
The best guide to your judg- ment in this repect. is perhaps Captain
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Machell's famous
But yourself in the best com- pany and your horse in the worst. There is a lot of wisdom in that saying if you only come to think
it out.
Once, and only once, have I been nearly induced to believe in Luck. It was my habit, more or less, to lay out my racing win nings on my house. I would build a wing here, or plant a garden there, or make a pleasance some where else. When Yentoi won the Cesarewitch for me I thought it would be only appropriate if I set up a Chinese room in honour of the event. So I did so. It was a really remarkable room. In my travels in the East I have collected many curios. These I got together, and, with other things I brought, I really think I managed to bring the Orient into Suffolk. There were: Chinese decorations and lacquer- ed screens, but the gems were some Buddhas in shrines. One was 500 years old if a day, and was seated on an onyx pedestal.
Now, no sooner was that room finished than I had quite a run of Bad-I mean a period in which my horses could du nothing right. So impressed did I become with this coincidence that I actually had those Buddhas packed up in sold at Christie's. But before they cases ready for despatch to be went I grew ashamed of myself and my lapse into weakness, and I had them taken out and set up again. And I found that there was nothing in it really after all, for I soon started winning races again.
Bad Luck, you see, had nothing: to do with it. The explanation was that the horses' were not, running in bad enough company or, more probably, that the stable was out of form, for stables get out of form in the same way as athletes do.
CAUSES OF SUCCESS.
I have often had people tell me, I have been lucky on the turf. That is not true..I have been. on the whole, quite successful, but I will not have it that I have: been lucky. I won the Ascot Gold, Cup, with Merman-I am the only women who has ever won the Ascot Gold Cup-but I did not put that down to Luck. It was the good horse that wor, and as I chose the horse it all comes back to judgment again. Merman is an Australian horse.) I bought him without seeing Bim. What I went by his form and his pedigree. Appearances do not matter in a racehorse. Form ie the thing that really matters. Buy good horses and; you will win races- or you will be lucky, as some people have it.
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BRITAIN'S CHILD PRODIGIES.
INFANT MARVELS DUE TO WAR
London, June 28-Infant pro- digies are being discovered in England almost daily, Some con- nect this with the psychology of war. One of the youthful marvels is Pamela Bianco, a thirteen- year-old girl artist, whose draw- ings were given theplace of hon- our in an exhibition at one of the principal London galleries. Critics dealt with them quite seriously and said that the work was sug- gestive of Botticelli and some of the other old masters. Pamela is an Italian girl who was born in England and never had taken any drawing lessons.
Ronnie Routledge, four years old, little more than a baby, whose parents know nothing of music. has enjoyed six months of tuition on the violin. At the Grimsby College of Violinists recently he outranked forty-three competitors, most of them in the twenties. and scored 119 points in a possible 120. Professer Danton describes him as a miracle.
Little Bobbie Day, aged seven, of Brighton, son of a motor mechanic, had wonderful powers of clairvoyance, according to the Weekly Dispatch. "Blindfolded he described a num- ber of articles. These included a treasury note (giving its colour, numbers and writing on the back), the colour and texture of a piece of fabric he had never seen, the correct answer to a complicated sum in mental arithmetic, and figures written down at random.
After five minutes' test he com- plained of feeling icy cold. “T just see little pictures and I just say them, is Bobbie's explana-
rails-even then I did not rail at Luck. There might have been several explanations, but Luck was not among them. Anyway. he won the Australian Leger for me, but when he came over heretion. he developed "a leg" and never ran. Robinson. my trainer, said he was the best borse he had over had. I know you will say I was unlucky, but I should not have bought a horse that was likely to turn out that way.
should I?
One might argue that surely the man who has gone unscathed. through the battlefields of the Great War has had luck! But is it Luck! I might argue that it is Chance--which would only lead me into a never-ending dis- cussion on the difference between Luck and Chance. There is a difference. But I myself think that the man who has Won through the hail-and Heli-of shells in France was fated so to
do, and, the poor fellows who have. gone west" were but, fulfilling their Destiny.
There is more than some people think in the idea of our men that only that particular shell with their naine and number on it could get them. Is not Luck too trivial a word to apply in such cases? Destiny if you like, but not Luck.
Once I remember thinking my- self lucky to be alive. When I came back to Europe from Amer- ica eighteen months ago I crossed the Atlantic in a Spanish ship which landed me at Vigo. While there I was invited by the Belgian Consul to go for a motor run in (Continued on Page 3)
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THE AUSTRIAN 'TREATY.
Paris, Sept. 3.
The Austrian delegates have received, the treaty and" they must send a reply within ve uys. The document is in Frenen, English and itam, comprising 451 prticles. The French text only is binding-tisvas.
Paris, Sept. 4
The Allies have granted the Austrians two days exten- sion to reply to the Peace Terms.
Vienna, Sept. 4.
The newspapers indicate that the Austrian Treaty will be signed although the majority for signature in the National Assembly will be small.
Dr. Rencer arrives on Sept. 5 when the Cabinet "and the prmetpal committee of the National Assembly will be considering the Treaty.
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Dr. Kenner has made a statement acknowledging that every page of the Treaty exhibits careful endeavour on the part of the Peace Conference to put the confused situation in tolerable order. He enlarges on the sacrifices exacted by the Treaty and says the Austrians are subjected to complete economic dominion by the Allied Powers. He opined this would be bearable if they knew whether the League of Nations would exist and be so organised that it would be. in a position to be just. The existence and working of the League of Nations was for German-Austrin an essential condition of the Treaty.
Masaryk, President of Czecho Slovakia, interviewed, re-emphasised the utter impossibility of any uniod with the Austrians and Magyars, but the new States must come to economic agreement. The best, relations existed with. Rumania, Jugo-Slavia and Poland, but as regards the Aus- trians and Magyars friendly relations were hoped for but de- pended exclusively upon them.
Vienna, Sept 6.
Dr. Renner, interviewed, said he was returning to St. Germain on Sunday to sign the Treaty later. This shows that Dr. Benner is convinced the Austrian Assembly will accept the Treaty...
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London, Sept.
The members of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Societe Asiatique, the American Oriental Society and the Scuola Orientale (Rome) are holding a four days' joint session in London to discuss Oriental research.
Sir Charles Lyall welcomed the visitors. Numerous papers necessitated the formation of separate Sections for the Near East, India and the Far East,
On this subject Sir Charles Lyall said they aimed at concerting plans for the advancement of archaeological research among the Allies. The changes wrought by the war would enable scientific research to pursue its work in large tracts of territory hitherto closed. He referred to the entry of India as a nation into the field of politics and it was essential that a thorough endeavour be made to un- derstand the Indian mind, thought and inspiration/
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