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HUNGARIAN COUNT WHO WAS THE KINSHIP OF POLITICIANS

A GENERAL

AND GAS WORKS.

OLDEST BRITON.

AND MAN'S UNBENDING ONES:

SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

FREEDOM OF STOKE,

It is strange that great social re- Budapest. The oldest British in- The Prime Minister and Mrs. volutions are swiftly and silently habitant of Hungary is Count Baldwin paid their first visit to the accomplished without any attempt. Edgar do Guyon, now 82, whese City of Stoke-on-Trent and saw to understand their significance or father, Count Richard Debaufre

to predict their consequences, de-Guyon, was a general of the Hun something of the Potteries towns clares James Douglas, Editor of the garian Army in the fighting against during a crowded five hours.

Mr. Baldwin opened the new ma- "Sunday Express.” Nobody has Austria for Hungarian Independchinery section at the Corporation's Count Richard performed many centralised gas works at Etruria.

troubled to tell us what is the effect ence in 1848-49. on the human mind of the movies

or of the wireless, although theac heroic deeds in that war, later took He and Mrs. Baldwin wore enter- The Prime Minister after- two inventions are the most im-service with the Turks, and died tained to luncheon at the Town portant and most permanent fac-at the age of 44, in 1856, from Hall.

cholera. Ha is buried in the wards received the Freedom of the tors in our life since the discovery

Crimean-cemetery at Scutari. City, states the "Morning Post," of printing and gunpowder.

Count Edgar's grandfather was Great amusement was caused by Another revolution has taken us John de Gayon, Commander in the Mr. Baldwin's speech at the gas unawares, and hitherto it has been British Navy, and a ship-mate of works. treated with levity, as if it were a William IV. In his sailor days. "It seems to me." he said, "that jest. I mean the stupendous up- Their ancestor William de Guyen there is no one in the country more heaval in feminine attire.. There left Franco in 1686 with other suited to perform in gas works than has been nothing like it for cen- Huguenots, and became British, a politician, and if you must have turies, and yet we regard it as a trifle which does not require to be seriously.. analysed and carefully estimated,

The Bishop of Ely has written a witty quatiran on the subject, which Viscount Lascelles quoted at a dinner in London:

Half an inch, half an inch, half

an inch shorter,

The skirts are the same of

mother and daughter,

When the wind blows each of

them shows

Half an inch, half an inch, more than she oughter. When a bishop Indulges in epis- copal humour on the subject it is: high time to investigate the philo sophy of this sartorial apocalypse, and to determine, if we can, whe- ther higher skirts are likely to load to higher thinking and higher tiy- ing or to the reverse.

war.

War's Alarm!

Count Edgar, who in his old nage a politician, why not a Prime is alone in the world, has suffer! Minister? On this occasion, I have ad great hardships during and shown my faith in the great since the war. His proudest pos-democratic Institutions of our session is the slip of parchment country by doing exactly what I authorising him, nẹ a British sub-

WES told. ject, to use his title of "Comte," "I might have been going to blow inherited from his ancestor William.

up half Stoke, and then you would have seen & paragraph in the His mother, was 3 Baronesa Spleny, a daughter of the field-papers: Another of the Prime

Minister's blunders.'" marahal who commanded the Hun-

Mr. Baldwin's health at the

..

garian Lifeguards of the Habs- luncheon was proposed by Mr. Mac- burgs nearly a century ago.

Laren, the Socialist member for Burslem, who declared that whilst

TURKISH OFFICERS. he differed politically from the

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Constantinople.--According to aj

Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin was one of his greatest friends. He recalled an incident when he was

-in hospital two years' ago. "Mr. Baldwin," he said, "sent me draft law submitted by the Cabinet, a book, inside which was a note, to the National Assembly for dia- and the noto read as follow: 'Now- cussion, all Turkish naval and mili-ndnya, most people are jumpy and tary officers, irrespective of rank, on edge. Early bed, long nights, und officials of the national defence, and less whisky is my prescription." free-contracting marriages with foreign (Laughter.) It is one of those lit- ers will be dismissed and lose all tle acts of kindness I shall never claim to pensions.

forget."

There is no doubt that the dom of the knees is a legacy of the Feminism is only partly re- sponsible for the feminine kilt. Officers and officials who had

"I hope I shall not do Mr. There is no logical connection be contracted such marriages before MacLaren any harm in Burslem, if tween the gain of the vote and the the application of this law will be state publicly he in a friend of loss of the 'petticoat. The suffra-put on the retired list with a cer- mine, declared the Premier in getles never made the worship of (tain amount of compensation.

reply. the calf a plank in their platform. Those who are abroad studying! They may have tried to tear the or on missions who offend in the tanics off policemen, but they never above-mentioned manner will be the fame of the Potteries district.

held liable to repay all moneya nd-

Secrets of the Potteries, The Prime Minister then spoke of

tore off their own garments.

The revolt against the trailingvanced by the Government for It has produced men of rare skill skirt was healthy and hygienic, their education, plus a like amount and courage, some of them native Shorter skirts were the natural as compensation to the Govern- and some imported.

ment. consequence of the athletic cultus. Women needed them in order to play golf and tenais, to scale omni- bus stand to dance the new negrold epilepsies.

But nobody foresaw that skirts would rise higher and higher until the more audacious maidens and matrons resembled a Highland re- giment on the march, Nor did the It is difficult for an adoring lover the district, I am told that part: unsuspecting male imagine that the to kneel before a pointed lady who of that speaking tube is still pre- croppy's garb succinct was more looks like a ballet dancer or a served in the British Museum. than B temporary caprice of columbine. Perhaps that is why

Then there were two local pot- fashion. He assumed that it would romance is demoded and sentiment ters who were Englishmen, and in reach its anatomical zenith and is obsolete. Your cross-legged the Englishman's way they pretend- then decline.

hoyden with ber lipstick and her ell ca to bo vory stupid, and they Unfortunately, the eccentricity of a cigarette holder arouses nal- obtained employment with these was stabilized by the mass producther reverence nor respect.

brothers and discovered their tion of artificial silk stockings The vain effort to maintain the secrets. They were Astbury and. which upholstered the shins of the semblance of dignity in undignified Twyford." multitude with a cheap sheen. The clothing has hardened the feminine. The Prime Minister added that shingled head also played its part eye and the feminine mouth. There secrecy was not good for commerce, in the coquetry of the calf and the is fierce pathos in the bleak atare and that one of the biggest and naturalization of the knee-cap.

"There were two Dutch silver- smiths many years ago," he said, "who worked in Mr. MacLaren's constituency. They made a rare risters, and our clergy owe their red porcelain, and they guarded Imposing air to their flowing robes their secrets so jealously that one and surplices. If man increases of the brothers employed a speak his dignity by hiding his legs, we ing tube from his house, to the may be sure that woman decreases works, nearly a mile away, to warn her dignity by revealing hers. them of the advent of strangers in

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with which self-conscious virtue most prosperous employers of la- SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' HOME | Long hair and long skirts went to confronts the masculine spectator, bour in the world recently told him their death together. The boyish Adam may be weary of stubbled he had no secrets from his neigh- nape became the concomitant of necks and bared flesh and bone, but bours. "When the brains of the the brandished knee,

his long suffering ennui la castigat-business and the hands of the Gradually womanhood has retin-ed by habitual scowls and frozen workers are both at their bast I be- quished its dignity in order to as- frowns. Small wonder that the lieve there is no country in the sert its liberty. It is impossible to hard-faced woman produces the world which can compare with this look stately in a truncated frock. hard-faced man,

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Some of the short-skirted peereases There are too many women who

"Institution of Wives” In the House of Lords at the open-look 1e savages on the warpath in

The Prime Minister, after he re- ing of Parliament shocked the disorder to counteract their innocent ceived the Freedom of the City, criminating eye which contrasted ly wanton appearance. The iron spoke of the achievements of Eng- their raiment with the long robes woman is a dreadful phenomenon,lish local Government.

of the peers and the law lords. The and she petrifies her heart as well Mrs. Baldwin made 's humorous men were gravely austere in the as her features. Medusa walks reply in acknowledging the gift of ample garments, which concealed along every street, defying the un-a china dessert service from the their trousered legs. The wilder comfortable male with her Gorgon British Pottery Manufacturers' matrons were grotesquely trivol-glare.

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Poor Medusa! She is the dupe "If I belonged to any institution The Sartorial Dignity of Men. of a foolish mode, the victim of a at all," she said, "my claim would When men desire to appear silly fashion, She may bring, man be to belong to the Institution of majestic they wear long skirts and to his reluctant knees again if she Wives. If there is such an institu- huge wigs. Our judges, our bar-will only cover her own.

tion, then I claim to belong to an older community even than the House of Commons. I am impress- ed by your intuition in getting right to a housewife's heart.

"I am old-fashioned enough to re- gard înyself as a housewife, and the straight way to a housewife's heart fs through her china cupboard and linen chest.":

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