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IDEAL WOMAN

ARTISTS QUESTS FOR BEAUTY

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ONLY IMAGINATION?

M. Gustave Brisgand, the Paris-

PASSING OF LONDON

THE OLD HOUSE NEAR BAKER STREET

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A poet may sing "I remember, I

The high tension wires which ian portrait painter, has just left remember, the house where I was in gearch of the born." But it is not evidence. As convey electric energy from the for America power stations to the consumer"canons of feminino beauty." This Shallow, J., said in Podgers' Case: are exposed to the Influence of the quest has not met with full apNo man may give evidened of the weather, and thus to breakdowns. preval of artists in Paris, M. van date and place of his birth. For In comparison, the working securi-Donghen,, the famous Dutch though the law of nature presumeth of the subter-modernist artist, for example, con his presence on the occasion, it de- ty and durability ranean cable is considerably siders the ideal beautiful woman as nieth him memory thereof. There- greater, In fact about three times likely to be found in London or fore the wisdom of our

Paris-If she is to be found at all Law denounceth his testimony as

as great.

Telephone and telegraph lines as in New York.

"There is no need to have of late been frequently laid

go.to under ground, but two clraums-America for the ideal woman," M. van Donghen said. to an Inter- viewer. "There is no need to go anywhere, for the ideal woman exists only in the imagination of a painter of genius, The model must Interest him--his art does the rast.)

"I have painted hundreds, of beautiful women--including ́many) British and Americans-and my opinion is that the most beautiful woman, and the one in painting whose picture you put moat, is the woman you love.

Lady Astor, on board the "Aqui- tanin." She is watching an aeroplane circle over the skip on arrival in New York..

tances have prevented high tension lines being treated in the same way. In the first place, until quite recently it was not found possible to construct cables which could be! used with safety for higher

tensions. This difficulty has. . NOW, been

trade overcome, for the has recently constructed excellent tables for a tension up to 30,000 volts and it will soon be possiblė to produce cable for far higher ten- sions. In the second place the cost of laying the cable, which consist principally of wages for trenching the ground, are very high.

The Artist's Secret "Beauty in a woman, as in any- thing else, depends far more upon the beholder than the object. Just ns her dress has no colour if you are colour-blind and her voice no music if you are deaf, so a woman has no beauty until you see it. Why you see it I cannot tell you.j That is the artist's secret.

"Broadly speaking, however, and in a conventional sense, American | ¡ women are among the most beauti-

Common

Hearsay."

Only by hearsay, then, have I President of League

Mr. Herluf Zahle, the Danish Minis- ter to Germany, who has been elected President of the ninth assembly of the League of Nations.

learned that I was born at 20 Up- per Gloucester-Place at the corner of Dorset Square. Family tradition adds that when Mrs. Bray, the nurse, introduced me to my elder: brother he shook his head and said:"Take it away, Bray"" But

I can give direct evidence that this! house was the home of my child- hood. When I come to London I pay a pious visit, to the neighbour- hood. You can imagine my chagrin when I discovered a few days ago that it was scheduled as a victim to the passing of London. It al ready stands alone; the last of its terrace race, waiting in patient dignity the coming of the wreck-

ora.

I cannot claim that it is architec- tural value. It is only a brick box with holes in it, but typically Vic- torian. Indeed, it is as ugly Waterloo Bridge, and probably as infirm, but it was never a publie nuisance or a dangerous structure, like the hoary impostor that stil cumbers the Thames.

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To meet the problem a new cable- laying machine has been called into being, constructed by the Weserhutte Iron Works in Bad Oeyhausen at the instigation of the Zeitz Electricity Society. This machine performs automatically all the labour connected with cable. laying and only requires five men to tend It. A trench-digger with a 45 H.P. Diesel motor excavates a trench up to 1.6 metres deep and 45 centimetres wide. The cable, which is brought on a cable waggon and upwound automatically. is

I had noticed of recent years that then laid in the trench. The soil

it was not as palatial as when I excavated is conveyed to the rear

first knew it. It had distinctly on a travelling band and, thrown. Lody Nancy Astor, M.P., who was shrunk in the last 70 years. It look- back into the trench behind the born in Virginis, as she appeared at ed melancholy and, with all affec- point where the cable is being laid. the Governor's Ball, wearing

tion and respect, shabby. In its The cable waggon weighs 11,000

second childhood it seemed to have kilograma. Field paths and ditches ful to-day. This is partly because lost touch with the mirth of the offer по obstruction to the America is a mixed race and part- Decembers and the warmth of the machine. An essential point is the ly because she is a young race Julys that it always recalls to my .....................0000000000 fact that the cable thus laid does The athletic, open-air life led by mind.

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many American women contributes I fancy it has the same distaste venience when the fields are tilled, to their physical beauty, so far as that I have for the selfish hustle of Between 60 and 90 metres of cable regularity of Agure and face con- modern traffic. It hankers for the can be told, ready for use, in the stitute it.

dawdling growlers, and the gay hour, the length Jaid depending.

"English women have this fresh-hansoms, and the glimpse of the upon the condition of the soll. ness, too, and for the same reason, green and gold St. John's Wood The cost per kilometre of cable though England is no longer a omnibus sauntering along the laying in this way is only about youthful nation, and youth is an Marylebone-road, just as I do. one-sixth of the cost of laying by important asset to beauty.

It has long worn a deserted nir. "If I were M. Briegand, I would I never see any little boys, on its The Weissenfels-Zeltz: Electricity have taken a good look round doorstep returning, with their sat- Society has employed the cable- Europe before I abandoned the Old chels, from Miss Woodman's laying machine with success for World for America. I am always "Morning Classes for the Sons of several months. On the 530 kilo-looking for feminine beauty-that Gentlemen," where in those ancient metre long transmission line, which is why I am going to London very days future judges and legislators was up to the present overhead, the shortly." laying of the cable in a straight line, rendered possible by the new machine, has affected a saving of Fabout 20 Miometres so that only 460 kilometres of cable have to be Jaid."

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which were piled up on the right hand and on the left.

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