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THURRDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925.

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The Queen was thoughtfulneA The Telephone Development As- of the Athentic seven miles off itself," a visitor told me when Herexintion, at hom, announces that, Atlantic City were received by for Women at Soho Square (saysPress to the success of underhinda Majesty wont round the Hospital following the ableity given by the 5,000,000 biondentchers in the London Evening News writer scheme for providing its police with United States. They came from twoAll the time she was in the build talephone box on ench beat, divers working in 30 feet of water, ing she herself carried the bouquet several other towns, including and equipped with a newly-designed given her by the nursing staff in Doncaster, Exeter, Middlesbrough, submorine Bushlight and a tiny waiting. She stopped for a word Wolverhampton, and Torquay, are stead of handing it to her lady Rochdale, Tynemouth, Plymouth, microphone within their helmets.with encli patient, and always ad considering the advability of fol They sent out a vivid description of the bouquet on the bed while she flowing their example. Sunderland the sea jungle, the wreckage of lost talked. You know how that would saved £15.000 last year by closing: ships, and the finoy denizens of the please the patiante, and how much division police drep. It is stated to be the first they will, quite naturally like to demonstration of the kind under-my that the Queen Inid her lovely taken. Daily News.

A New Devil's Dyke Theory.

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A new theory that the Devil's Dr. E. R. Dudding. reformed Dyke, neur. Brighton, is really the criminal and head of the Prisoners remains of a giant prehistoric for- Relief Society, Hasbeen told by tress originally constructed about physicians that be will die within a the first century B.C. has been put soar of heart trouble, and is offering forward by Mr. H. S. Toms, cura-his body for £4,X) for wientific for of the Brighton Museum and a vestigation. Believing that be well-known archaeologist. Mir was cured of criminality by an over- Toms traces a marked similarity dose of strychnipe while in the between the Dyke and Cissbury State Penitentiary of West Virginia, Hill, which lead to the inference Dr. Pudding wishes his mins that both forts were made by the used for research work. Dr. Dadding sume race, and defended against was convicted of a major crime and common foes. He asperts also thuit sunt to prison in 1901. His theory remaina of practically all the pre-

is that criminaly, even degenerntos, historic human periods have been cun he made over by a careful use of discovered in the vicinity of the Dyke, and there me many indica-

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Prince Philip of Hesse, who is to mony Princess Mafalda of Italy, in the sin of the favourite daughter of the lab. Empress Frederick, who "was also a granddaughter of Queen

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The Historic Buttonhole.

Give of an artificial flower as o buttonhole or a 6nishing touch to the costume is finding great favour among women at the present time observes the Daily Telegraph.") This fashion has considerably his- turie associations, even if one eun- not aim for it direct descent from.

custom which prevailed in the days of the Starts. In those trebleaus times many great ladies either carried in the hand or wore pirned to the dras & posy repre- Senting one of the numerous Royal embleme. The custom was pre- valent in other Europes countries, many of which possess paintings of ladies holding such a favour in the hand. It is Httle realised, however. tling even in those days artificial flowers: ware not makrown, and that many of these posies owed their existance to the embroiderer's crift., With the heirlooms of some old British families there are still pre-

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The Last of the Strand.

Of all London's streets the Strand halds the tenderest memories (writes Marie Harrison in the "Daily Chmiele." It is the most fumons, the most widely-loved street in the world. and it is changing so rapidly that very soon it will be almost in- found entirely satisfactory, envis-trychnine. This is Dr. Dudding's knew every inch of its dear, in

recognisable by those who once i ages the day when with six crown story-While serving my term timate shabbiness. The Strand en eight engines in the central engine-in the West Virginia Penitentiary denred itself to men and women of room it will be possible to hold one I became ill and was ordered to take all races and of all classes because in reserve for use it any of the re- mainder should break down. There mad, a mistake, and instead gave neither Fist-end nor West-end, n-dose of enlomel. The attendant it was everyone's street. It was is no doubt that the neroplans deme i large qmatity of strychnine. but a highway where the foreign finitely marks a new era in a com- Instantly I was confidsed for thres visitor, the poor provincial tripper, marcia nirent design."Westiny, and immaturely thereafter the Londoner born and the aris minster Gazette.**

War by Chemistry,

all my criminel-nstincts disappear- tocmit, were equally at home. In ed. I was cured, and um convinedd | the Mall ang might be in Berlin'; it was the strychnine.. I went tha Kingsway suggests a Paris boule-

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its face will be altered for ever.

All these points are strong argi-scientists to take a chance in meyard; but the Strud was essentially | ment» against highly civilised declared Dr. Dudding. If they do London, i street, of flower-girls, | peoples fighting one another at all. Free neeapt my offer when Congress great hotels.. hurrying, eager so suid General Sir Ian Hamilton mets T'shall ng that a Bill be crowde, stions where all the world. in commenting upon statements passed to have the Government take made by Captein B.H. Liddell Flagt over the endaver for experimental in his book Paris, or the Future of purposes. 'World.”

Tt is wistful pleasure to later in War," Chemistry, Captain Liddell The Mechanism of the Eye.

the Strand in these days of rapid Hurt mid, afforded as non-lethal

changes, looking at the old familiar guses which could overgame hostile The most important existing bit thut still remain, The resistance and spread panic for a theories of the mechanism of the quirun cannot regret the passing period long enough to relip the fruits | strommodation of the eye are of some historical building more of victory but without "the lasting directly opposed in that they assign keenly than the Fondoner who evils of mass killing or destruction differently the effect of the ciliary wills, the docm of the list of the of property, be expressed the view muscle in the production of the old strec which must disappear in that gas might well prove the salva-change in the form of the crystal- the melancholy businca of the tion, of civilisation From the 'other-five lenk The theory of Helm,["Strand widening, wise inevitable collapse in mec of heltz, which is the more universally Research in South Seas. unother world war. The author recepta, states that the lens swells Arthur James, a member of the states that it would be easily possible and increases in eonvexity during crew of the research yacht Bt. for a greater weight of bombs to be accommodation because the tension George, has arrived in England. dropped in London in one day then upon it is reloxed when the ciliary He mys that he and four others in the whole of the Great War, and muscle contracts. In order to ex- complained of short rations, and suggests that in the use of two plain the change, of the anterior they, obtained their discharge at centralised industrial nations at war surface of the lens to the hyperbolic Bulbo by means of an application there would be no reón, pro form in ccommodation Therning to the British Consol. The St vided, the blow was sufficiently is profounded a theory in which Georgs ran on it reef in a date of swift, and, powerful, why, within the tension of tire lens is maintain Rapr, but was refloated Al Master fow hours, or it most days, the when the muscle contents, und Taland the ship was blown to sea nervsystem of the country inferior be forms of the surfaces are alters with the Chilean Governor and a in air power should not be paralyseded by w pressing by the vitreous wealthy ranch owner aboard; aid | Sir Tan Hamilton is doubtful immour exerted upon the periphery was unable to return for these days. whether the use of gas might prove of the pot wide lens surface. In Die yoruge from Eusler, Irland, to the salvation of civilisation in antan selected enser of mon of the Palmo took 108 days Food and other world war. It was true, ha same age and having the aim to vol become exhausted, and then the Buid, that there would not be triktive error, considerable differ shinws towed to Panama by a tug many people tolled, but the pointnew in the behaviour of the lens which was summoned by wireless. Fong had to bear in mind was whether incommodation were found: On April 0, 1924 the 1,000 tam the gus would spable m ople of 11e resulte siow, thit, for given youlit-St. Onorge emiled from Dart- lower class of i

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