SIGNOR VARE LAYS
A WREATH
TWILIGHT OF THE KINGS,
Daniele Vare (John Murray,
10s. 6d.). 180 pages.
IGNOR VARE lo a diplomat
with a long experience of court life In Europe and
BOOKS by
MARGARET LANE
Chinn. In his lifetime many crowned The next question was: Where Heads have disappeared, many should she go? The friend to whoso thrones,been hurriedly vacated. house she went at first for refuge Thore are hardly any reigning was out; so was the Court Chat- sovereigna left: so it has occurred to berlain, the next protector she him to plece together his own con- thought of; and when she decided tacts with royalty with a faw re- to appeal to the American Legation membered anecdotes and reflections she had forgotten its address. on court life, as a sort of garland to lay on the grave of the past.
Finally, sho remembered BA It is not a wreath which anyone American dentist, and sat, veiled, in uniil her turn can make single-handed. To try and his waiting-room
to reveal camo and she was able twilight of a shade in the whole
to cover the whole subject her identity in private. The dentist, regime.
and in a when he had got over the shock, in decline. of royalty
It drove her in his own carriage to personal and anecdotal way..
be done. Signor Vare's book Deauville, where she went on board canno
an English yacht and made her final is accordingly a patchwork.
saw the escape to Chislehurst and exile. Signor Vare's mother' fall of the Second Empire in Paris, and from Count Nigra, Itallan
A
NOTHER anecdote Is of King
Ambassador in Paris at Unt time, Edward VII. during his fost he later heard the story of the Empress Eugenle'a
fight from the Tuileries.
The story is second-hand, but at least this one is fascinating. The crowd was all round the palace and had forced the rates of the garden. It was impossible for the Empress to leave safely in her own carriage,
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IN THE ROOM
-(or maybe you're overworked)
|By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Difficulty in getting off to
IF you wake up suddenly and
think mistakenly that there sleep is a commoner type of in- is a burglar in the house, it la somnia than: short or broken probably because you are tired sleep, says the doctor.
If you And if you and overworked.. are a bad sleeper the important thing is not to worry about it. The anxiety will do you far more harm than loss of sleep.
Dr Macdonald Critchley, one of Britain's foremost nerve specialists, gives this advice in a "sleep" bulletin just issued to doctors by the Health Ministry, The doctor's main argument is this:-
The idea that every adult needs eight hours' sleep 1s Many people naturally wrong. need much less. Most of the others can cut sleep short in definitely without harm.
But worry over sleeplessness causes a great deal of ill-health and unhappiness.
visit to the Katser. The Kingt was old, stout, asthmatie and ill, and undertook the visit only because that social diplomacy he know
England and Germany FROM HERE AND THERE: between was important. Signor Vare quotes from a letter of Princess Raliziwill to General de Robilant.
that
So she wos persuaded lo pass "The King of England has got
and it appears through by the connecting gallery home safely to the Louvre, which the left by the he is feeling better. I belleve
doors, public
standing
the that he was very much bored and pavement in bonnet and vell untit it at case here. He wanted to be the Austrian Ambassador was able pleasant, but his nephew is to bring her a cab.
distasteful to him.. and he only made this visit because he is too Jin not to see that it was urgent. This did not help to make it a success.
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Unusual Organisation "They tell me that, on the day
fainting Al at the INDIANA-In Indiana a clergy that he had British Embassy, he had to go on man, Dr Howard Stone, kas an- A new organisation for to the ball against his wishes; our nounced Majesties took him there at half-people to join. It has no omcers, 119 past eight, whereas in England one dues, no meetings, no activities, no
begins to dance at eleven only
projects. To belong to people have ball,
ho o'clock... During the
only to declare they will not join any asked for some whisky and water
Stone: "Too many people are doing headed, light-skinned people who and they answered that none was other organisations. Says organiser mysterious, vanished race of red- belog
served... He suggested a game of cards, and was told that
them. Without them they would lived in southern Africa long before it was not customary at the Prussian
have more time for family life and the arrival of the present negroes, have been found by the eminent Finally ho asked for a Court
church duties."
French urchacologist,
Abbe H. Breuil, cigar, and was informed that one
Mothers To Mother In a six months tour of South-West does not smoke in the palace..
Africa, the Rhodesias, and the Bel- Then the King wont to bed."
Ile discovered ancient mothers Ar ROME. Forty Italian
dan Conga whose sons have been sentenced by rock paintings showing the original IT is stupid to pretend, as many British court martials or Allied milf invasion by these people, complete tary courts during the war have with wives and children, and rell- cabled to Princess Elizabeth asking glous ceremonies, indicating a
Crete, or Baby- Egypt, Crete ancient her to plead for royal pardon of with
Yaris Breull
I considers they were the original overlanders us he traced their progress as a complete telbe down Central Africa in a great trekk about the year 4000 B.C. They had their own kings, queens, military leaders, and priests, and worshipped a jackal-headed god.
people do nowndays,
royalties
аго nover
interesting.
A race of idols, H. G. Wells called them, and if there is truth in tho Jibe, still, idols are always in- teresting to the people who create them. That is why Signor Varo's book is so disappointing. The subject has enticing possibilties; but when, the attractive
their sons.
His Son Can See Again COPENHAGENA young Danish student who was totally blinded after explosion has had his sight an restored. The buy's father asked the famous Professer Ehlers to transplant
can relax comfortably during the waiting period-known to medical men as the predormitum- there is nothing to worry about. But if you feel irritable, or if ideas start crowding Into your mind, then your doctor can probably help you.
Some people get to fidgety in bed if they cannot sleep that they develop a deйnite complaint called jittery
ful legs. This can become very pain-
**
Dr Critchley deals with those un- pleasant starts-believed to be due to sudden changes in blood pressure which sometimes wake you just as you are sliding into unconsciousness. them occasionally, Everybody has but a few people get them so regu- they cause larly that somnia.
serious in-
"The patient may be thrown out of bed by the violence of these starts," he writes.
Men and women who work at high pressure-business, executives, doc- tors, journalists, for instance-often And it most difficult to sleep when they are most tired. The events of the past day and their plans for the next force themselves into conscious-
that tiredness ness so strongly neutralised,
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In bad cases-usually the result of overwork--- sudden un- severe accountable feeling of fear or horror may arise after a short period of wakefulness. These are the people- men and often women-who for no clear reason suddenly feel sure there is an intruder in the bedroom.
and hear even sec They may ghosts-hallucinations as real at the Such people are otherwise quite healthy: they see things" only during this, wakeful period,
moment as reality itself.
All cases of real Insomnia-some people only imagine they are awake half the night need careful scrutiny by a qualified physician, says Dr Critchley.
Some can be cured by a simple Thus cut- psychological treatment. Ling out a regular after-lunch nap may give several extra hours' sleep at night.
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