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Eaton Hall.hich has been Is there such thing as colour that, as a result of the economies slightly damaged by fire, is served memory? (usiku un "Evening effected during the last four years by the smallest working railway Standard" wetter). In other words, under his Budget system, he will in Great Britain (says the if we shut our eyes, mat wa visualise propose a reduction of taxes. "Star"). Goods and material yolour? These questions and muay amounting to between 300,000,000 needed for the establishment at vihers of au ven more burtling and 400,000,000 _dollars." The the hall used to be carted from [ând nre, asked by Mr. Sidney detailed scheme has yet to be Chester until the late Duke of Cameron in a very interesting books decided upon The President Westminster's agent, the Hon. C. entitled More Light" which be expects a surplus this year of Parker, suggested the construc-be just published. Mr. Cameron about 200,000,000 dollars, and tion of a light railway which is that the brain is not the next year of 290,000,000 dollars, would connect Eaton Hall with organ of thinking," but that, if I Mr. Coolidge's finance proposals Balderton, on the Great Western.yo put it, our brains are dis- are criticised by Liberals because This toy railway runs across many idea has boon tentatively suggested | • Tol. Hewison

The tributed over our five seases. they contain no suggestions for of the park drives and over several before, but has not been elaborated the reduction of tariffs, while it small streams, and sometimes by any other worker as Mr. Cameron is pointed out that the National hsule 300 tons a month. There are aluborates it. Personally I am in- Debt stands at 20,000 million two miniature locomotives, the clined, to think that it is not dollars,

larger of which weighs 4 tons possible, in the dark, or with closed ewt., 44 goods waggons, two brake eyes to visualise any colour Colour vans, a passenger car a parcel memory is notoriously weak, us van, and a tool van. The passenger every งมงา discovers who car runs on to four-wheeled attempts to mate fubrics from hor bogies. Is 20 test long and has rollection of their hues. On the seating accorimodation for 18, fottier hund, if our eyes are open wo I can easily visualise a colour because, fanny, room or open space, it is The power to recall sounds in hound to be before our eyes." silent plus, is oqually, it appears, open to doubt.

A Dislike of Mechanisms.

I have, it is true, a. dislike of mechanisms. To speak over the telephone is an ordeal for which I have to brace myself almost by fasting and prayer. cannot explain the inhibition, The The Wakes. explanations which I give to my- Why are the holidays called self leave me quite unconvinced. It is not enough to put it down to Wakes in some parts of the count the utter incapability of underry? To find an answer one must. standing a mechanism with which when, at the annual festival held travel back into the dim past. I am afflicted. That is strange in commemoration of the dedica enough. I have a very small tion of the parish church, the motor-car which I have learned to

The Hair Psychically.

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From South Africa there reaches usa letter calling attention to the drive. Sometimes, quite often, it parishioners came at night to keep significance of the hair us an index stops when it is not required to vigil "with candellys brennyng." to psychic qualities (Light tells us. stop. That recurrent catastrophe Prayers were said and hymns The writer is a gentleman whose seems to me always like an act of were sung during the night. In profession as tonsorial expert God. Of my own self I can do that sense the word wake meant gives him the right to speak with nothing against it. I know that to watch, or wait, says & writerme authority, Referring to the "Bolton Journal and parties posscaped by human hair any other man would give a furthe with the spanner here and a touch Guardian." But ere long the point out that it is practically with the screwdriver there, and religious aspect of the festival was immune to day-a fact fairly well. the trouble would be över. That obscured by the social side. It known. It grows after death, and I should be able to apply such a became the custom for the people seems to be quits independent of remedy is inconceivable. Other assembled to indulge in "dances, the ordinary inconscious faculties men may do these things, but not harping, piping, and also to governing the rest of the body, such I. I have but two solutions: the gluttony and sinne, and so they tissie etc. When heated it emita digestion, the repair of damaged first is to walk resolutely away turned the holinesse to curyd- from the car as though it did not ness," writes an ancient chroni and a strong odour. In short, belong to me.

mr_correspondent's experiments After the space of cler. The result was that thed him to the belief that all hair, about an hour, I return to it, jumpvigils were discontinued but the fur, and feathers possess in with a show of confidence, pull festival days after the succeeding hitherto unsuspected etheric pre- up a handle with a sort of airy in- days were devoted to a parish parties, and that, if made the sub- souciance, and three times out of gathering in the rural pastures jeet of experiment in psychical re- four, it really does start again. and sports attended by eating and Rength, some interesting facts night It sounds incredible, but it really drinking, often to excess. Coming be brought to light. He believes is so. No doubt there are sound to Lancashire, we find a writer on that investigation of the hair of mechanical reasons for this ap-folk speech telling us that the fmedimms would reveal some minute parent miracle. To me it is just wakes were the annual fairs held difference, an compared with the hair, a miracle, for I am, in regard to in the towns and villages, and at for Mainary persons. He has cer- my motor-car, in the mental con- such times a state of festivity tainly, he says, found in the hair dition of the savage. I have approaching in some degree the trag indications of temperament, duffed the demon of machinery; carnival of the continental townsSome of our paychic" researchers prevailed, all the workshops and may like to turn their attention to mills closing, and those who could the matter. afford. went to seaports and places of amusement, while those who remained behind frequented the fairs and, the theatres. Feasting still played a big part in the re joicings, and "Wake beef" was an to do but to turn to my second important dish. To have a noble solution, which is to wait for the piece of beef for the occasion was other man. He is the medicine-a source of pride "for which a man man; I am the savage. The would save first and pinch after- Journeyman in the "Adelphi."

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