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MUSIC FROM LOS ANGELES

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6,000 MILES BROADCAST.

A rerent London paper says;--

The pilept by the British Brancasting Company to relay wireless concerta from the United States on Saturday night was not so sacerasful as the experiment a week hetore.

It was intended to give an hour's dance music from the General Election Com pany W.G.Y. station at Schenectady (4,300 miles away), New York State, but at 110 p.m., as the W.G.. signals were so very weak, it was decided to try the K.D.K.A. pagiem at Pittsburg (1.500 miles), as hail ben done on previous

This was cerkusioag.

only partially successful, the music bring mainly drown- ed by the atmospherics,

Another experiment was made a 2.31 yesterday awrting. Au announcement that B Brish-lutions had been switch- ed over to Los Angeles, California: 8,000 miles away, was "filiowed by" a burst of band musie nangled with som strident piace poter, thongh atmospheries were very buck

Conditions soon improved ä little, and a nurstep"tume could be picked aut. Ths caine the sound of a man sing- ing a rollicking gag, which could be heard! Very well,

HEARD IN POLAR REGION-

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At 50 the gineers at Biggin Hil stated that they were relaying the WGY. Station at Schenectady, and that that station was relying from Les Angeles, 2,500 mil right news the co- Hinent. The music came through fairly clearly on this whole, and "now and agai was to load that it might have been the Tandon station broadensting Maste from an hotel in New York was sent out be Eween 3.10 and 30 amp, and this was so clear that at guld be heard perfectly on. loud snork-m.

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Just beures the close a märge me sage, was reeriv d feast the staines Boudo nj iceboard in the-plar region north of Greenland, that they had been enjoying the relayed programine broadenst fra the Aberdown station.

CONCERNING ALMIRAHS.

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line use it is beyond dispute that women have taken kindly to it It can be had in dimensions, and of a style, to suit the wife's requirements as well as the bus- band's. It has changed in appearance and in size to suit the changing times, and yet the changes seem to have been more or less involuntary for it has not proved quite adaptable enough to suit the times. Loos as the vast mahogany structures in vogue at Home a hundred years ago or so, solid as they were moun. tainous, with tier on tie of movable shelves on which immaculate white shirts reposed and a capacious cavern adjoin ing in which coats could hang.in orderly arras on stout wooden pegs. Compare that with the gimcrack modern almirah which will not do much more than accom madate a skirt or two and a woman's turkopers. A queer nation has get abroad thus if you want to keep n coat or bodice in shape you must not hang it on a hook, but on an abbreviated shoulderpiece of wood or wire. That tho calls for another alterations, in almiah Coat hooks fixed around the interior will not serve the turn. A rod running from side to side is called for on which to hang the frames on which in turn the coat or jumper hans, and local almirah is not always deep enough to enable these to hang a right angles to the dour. So the owner has to arrange them diagonally with the consequence that the garment at the near end is apt to get. trapped in the hinges of the almirah door. By the time that has been adjust- ed probably some new vagary of fashion ar tousehold rule will call for modifien- tion in the almirah again. One of the almirah's glories, however, we fear has gone never to return. A small fat means of necessity a small almirah and thus the children of to-day can never know what a glorious biding place their grund- fathers and grandmothers had in the big! one in the old country.

FOOD FOR ATHLETES.

FRENCH PROFESSOR'S ADVICE TO

OLYMPIC ENTRANTS.

Ia the Erhu de Porta Profesor Jules Amur advis athletes préparing for th. Olympic Games upon the delicate question of the nutrition which enables the "bamar motor" to give the best results. Dividing! foudstuffs into albumers comprising meat, egas, cheese, fats, butter, and suet-and carbohydrates such as sugar, potatoes. bananas, etc.-

etc.-be

ays that the first cale ory, namely, albuminus

which are specially necessary in childhood, are less important in youth and that a young man who has passed his eighteenth year should content himself with from sixty to seventy, grammes of albuminous food a day. In other words, he may eat about ten ounces of meat or chees of, if be pre- fers it six hos' eggs a day.”

The role of these foods is to replace vantage of tisue, and one that tunk is accomplished the athlete can only harm himself, however great his activity, by con mming them in large quantities. Profes not Ainar allows an exception only in the case of wrestlers, but strictly forbids run- nera and others whose success depends upon speed to indulge in them beyond the alloi ted seventy gramines.

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