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1919. A. C.U. Sis day Reliability Trial R 8. A. won the chist award,

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1921. Paris-Pyrenees 1250 Miles Beliability Trial, B. S. A. won the chief wward, the Team Prize, two gold modiala, Pyrenees Cup, Lot & Garonne M.C.C. Cap and Borileaux M.O.C. Cup for best Side-car performance in Pyrenees.

1921. Scottish Bir days Reliability Trial Telegram received stating that vi

B. 5. &. won fire Gold Medals and tied for Teams Prize.

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THE MERMAID OF BLOOMS-

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DOCTORS PUZZLED BY AN

AFRICAN MASCOT. ANA

VA: mérmait “is” to be seen "in~Blooms- bury. She sits on her tail, as all that vary best mermaida do beneath a glam: „elge, goggling with stark, fishy, oyen að the many visitors who pilgrimage to sco:

The story of the mermaid is a romance. Her birthplace was the Hess Couth † 05: Africa, but nobody knows how long che has been in Landon er who took her there. Two doctors who examined, her were completely posled The figure, wizened dry like A mummy, is about six- teen inches long; with's female form from "the waist up," and bolów an ́Excellent fish The baby skull is grinning grotesquely, disclosing twenty-five tinys

teeth.

G

Au inscription on the pedestal_renda:-

Lisa. Fat, Presented by Mr. Gra ham, Surgeon-General at Sierra Leone.” (Lur. Fat, translated broadly, means

(of nature."")

Originally the mermaid was picked up by the proprietor of Gray'

shop at sale et goods in a West don house He kept it as his mascot, and prepared in businem. Then be died, and the curio came on the market Ance again.

Bir Arthur Keith, conservator of the museum of the Royal College of Surd BODAS, who knows more, about monstrosi- ties than say man living, as, working amid akulla and skeletons when he told

Daily &zpeers

that mermaids, rosi,, Were frequently offered to the mummin. They are fakes," he said, made by drying [the body of monkey and half, a fiaby and grafting, the twautogather by wind. ing akin around them.

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SINGING AS A CUBE-ALL.

PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE HEARS OF ITS WONDERS.

"Sing yourself better" may become a doctor's prescription in the future if the professian adopts the theories" of M. Frossart of the Sorbonne. At the Academy redently his method and its results were described.

As a former, children's doctor, M. Frossart had noticed that singing mot only had a great effect on the general health and development of children by making them breathe deeply, but it seem- ed to have an inexplicable effect in soothing their nerves.

Later, when treating nervous patients, M. Frossart recommended to them that! they sing, and the results, it is declared, have been remarkable.

All sorts of nervous äilments have been treated, such as insomnia, heart, lung and stomach troubles,

M. Fromart declares that singing, which entails deep breathing, has the effect of regularizing the functioning of the sympathetic nerves. His cures for various troubles took several weeks under "phonotherapathic treatment, "sing ing doses being taken at frequent intervals.

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COCKTAILS.

THE REAL MISCHIEF.

[BY THE TIMES” MEDICAL CORRESPONDÉNT,]

The letter which was published in The Times recently on the subject of the drinking of cocktails is regarded in medi- cal circles as a warning which is peces- sary. It is the number of the cocktails which certain people drink which is looked on as the chief mischief.

There is no doubt that a a growing num- ber of people do not content themselves with one or two, but drink four or five, or even as many as eight before they, sit down to luncheon or dinner. It

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easy enough process, and the habit is acquired rather rapidly. Some men cam- plain that they have these drinks posi tively forced upon them, and that, good meals are spoiled by the necessity of afanding in a bar and imbibing cock-taila before one is

to eat. permitted The habit is

expensive, and in excess certainly detrimental. It is, moreover, à foolish habit, since no one can pretend on its behalf the slightest necessity, or even a very high quality of enjoyment.

The war is usually blamed for having introduced cocktails to the English pub lic; there may be some truth in this, but cocktails were drunk in London in large numbers before the war began. Ons medical man said he regarded them as a of the restlessness and nervous ex- gn of haustion which the war has left behind it. Our fathers drank with dignity, not with discretion, exercising nice dis crimination and appreciating subtleties of flavour and bouquet. We match at strong liquors, highly favo

flavoured and of jaded sensibili

bizarra appearance. ties crave over new stimuli

In any case, immoderation in this drink is likely to be punished more severely than immoderation in simpler beverages. Digestion becomes upset, nezvous symptoms make their appearance, and the cocktail drinker, man or woman deteriorates

LADY MOND'S PEARL. OBTAINS £1,500 DAMAGES. FOR ITS BEING BURNT.

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Estimates ranging from as low as $150 to 21,500 were given is the market value of an Oriental drop pearl little break in the skin-that is not due by experis called as witnesses in the to burning. It is in a bad state of. King's Bench Division on July 2nd at wear, and there is a discoloration that the resumed, hearing of the action for is quite natural. I have treated a great £1,500 damagez brought by Lady Mond, many pearls suffering from this blemish wife of the Minister of Health, against which is very common with drop pearls." Messrs London and Byder, jewellers, and Mr. William Carrington-Smith, the silversmiths of New Bond Street, Wfamous proprietor of Messrs. Carrington Lady Mond alleged that the pearl was & Co., the King's jewellers, who de irretrievably damaged by being burned clared that the yearly turnover of his in bran while, it was being cleaned by farm was about £200,000, said that the one of Messrs. London and Ryder's pearl would have cost about £500 to buy adsistante.

but if one wished to sell it that price. Dramatic evidence was given by Mr. could not have been obtained. Robert Brockman, described in court If it had been perfect," he exclaim as a pearl "doctor"

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