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HAIR "AND SMOKE. DISCUSSING A STARTLING NEW THEORY.
From time to time prophets want "A POPULAR CHOICE.
make our desh ersen with the predict,un The interesting announcement was made that our posterity will have no hair. Fby Sir Ernest Entherford, st a meeting They assure us that when man was an of the Cunneil of the British Association ape in the days that were earlier he for the Advancement of Science recently, was like ather apes, or even more hirsute that the Prince of Wales had agreed to quite a furry creature. The rubust accept. if elected, the presidency of the thanksgiving nir. Belive that he was meeting of the Association to be held made a man instead of a beast whose hide is covered with hair," wakes no at Oxford in 1826. At a special meeting chord in the hearts of these votaries of of the General Committee, which was held immediately afterwards, Sir Ernestience who mournfully bid us mark that Rutherford proposed from the chair the man has been growing haider and balder. election of his Royal Highness, and the all down the ages, and must expect won to attain in that matter finality. But motion was unanimously adopted at once they are apt to be vague as to the with noclamation.
A UNANIMOrs CHOIC
causes of denudation. The more eagerly. As a rule the president is nominated therefore, do we welcome M:. H. S. at a meeting of the Council in March. Harper-Roberts. He knows, Ouly cirilised and formally appointed by the Central | men, he declares, are bald. We know of Committee, in the summer. In the pre instances to the contrary, but it might sent instance, however, it was thought libellous to produce them. Among proper to make the appointment earlier, the civilised, the townsman if incre de anil for the Council to inform the General ciduous than the peasant. Committee at once. Many of the Prince's
But most startling is the information engagements for 1926 have already been that tobacco, to binme.
Smoking, made, and in order to suit the conven-which introdaers poison in the blood, ime of his Royal Highness the meeting says our sage, is a cause of baldness." of the Association at Oxford has been This leaves King James I. strading still. arranged to take place either. from July Ha never thought of that, though he 23/h to August 4th or fron August 4th thought of a good deal, when he cursed to August 11th.
smoking: A custom loathsome to the eve, hateful to the nose, hurtful to the The Manchester Ginardian has suggest black, stinking fume thereof nearest te brain, dangerous to the hings, and in the ed has there is a feeling amongst a sibling the horrible Stygian smoke of tain number of scientike men that the
But what selection of the Prince of Wales as Pre the evidence for the baldness of
the pit that is bottomless." sident is inappropriate. The open- Mankers Europe has only known to ing speech of the President. states bacro for son for hundred years. the writer.has been established as an There were bald then before that. Cesar, important scientific event of the year-in for instance, and Eschylus, Have there some cases the event of the year hearing bren more bald men since! There is no anuouacements that have made scientific history. To go back now in the estabmeans of proof.are sinokers more prone to lose their hair than that sinali rem- Jished system would be, to deprive the
am of mankind which does not Amoke? British Association of some of its peculiar Have women become more deciduous prestige."
since they took up the cigarette? : is The London Uherzer makes the follow-| Impossible to and any conclusive evid- ing comments on this statement:
ence. One heavy sinaker, like Tennyson,
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Some inen there are who have it horror of buldi. A story is told of Tennyson travelling with Moxon, the publisher, and After falling into axinle of gloom.
No grounds can be discovered, howevirgo bald, Another, like tarlyle, keeps for the assertion that certain seientists his hair on. If is to be assumed in all WODWILLI nerer were apposed to the Priner's election, polite argument that a
jes hers. But if the thing were true we Du the contrary, the proposal was car- zied not only without a dissentient voice, doubt whether a hundred smokers in hut with manifest enthuxinsm. As re- England would give up smoking. garda ʼn departure from precedent, it may be pointed out that, in the earlier days of the Association, there were several instances in which noblemen were elected to the Presidential chair. in accordancespine days of silent mourning the port with the spirit of the times. On the Inst give tongue. • Moxon," said he, "you ocension that the meeting was held at made me very unhapps by what you said Oxford-in 1801-the late Lord Salisbury at Lucerne, In vain Moxon edgelled was the President, and although he was his brains to member what that was. man of considerable scientific attain You said," the poet reproached him, " Why, Alfred, your will soon be as halt ments, he was not a practising scientist.
The opinion held by men of sciences Speedling," whose bead was a beacon and a byword. But event Tennyson if generally is that the Prince of Wales, had been told to choose between the better than anybody else, could help to hyacinthine locks of a bard and his clay further one of the primary objects set Forth in 1833 in the original founders Pipe would have declared to win by the documents, namely To obtain inorelay-The Daily Telegraph.
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general attention for the objects" of science, and the removal of any disad yantages of a public kind which impede its progress. While it is true that cer-
Mr. 8. M. Brate, the Prime Minister, tain important scientific announcements when asked if there was any proposition. have been made in a presidential adresa, that the trade unious could make which the President has contented himself. "as would use the Government to retain
a rule.. with making a survey of his own | errtain ships of the Commonwealth Lind, particular feld of science, or forecasting for which tenders have been invited, re its possibilition: and there are many in-plied: statiers on record of a different type of andress in which a President has gui outside his own particular sphere of re search.
TORENTO TEMPLIMENTS.
Where is no juxtißention for to sup position that the offer of the Presidency would be distasteful to the Prince of Wales and would only be accepted by "On the con- him as a painful duty. trary, his personal interest in all the intellectual activities of his time is well- known, and when the British Association het at Toronte last year his Royal High- ness sent the members a letter of good wishes, it will be remembered, which Cured immense gratification throughout the whole of Canada. The letter was a follows:-
Dear Mr. PREMIDEST.--Will you he good enough to convey to the members of the British Association, at their in- augural meeting at Toronto, my cordial good wishes for a very successful ses- sion! My knowledge of Caanda as Bures me that your visit will be warmly welcomed, and that nothing but
ca come, of such a gathering, whe representatives of the most advanced thought from the old country will meet in disenssion the equally keen and netive jutheets of the younger land
My interest has been particularly arrested by one item that is to come up for discussion, namely, the dien. tioual training of boya and girls in this country for life overseas. The call of the Empire for a wider distribution. of the home population, for men and women to open up the vast uncultivat ed areas in the great oversens Domin. fons.is mora imperative' to-day than at any time in its history.
"I congratulate the Association on thus showing, in its deliberations such
a broad interest in these problems, and
I trust, and indeed am confident. that
the influence thus exercised may result
in great and extended benefits to the Empire-Yours truly,
"EDWARD P."
LOVE FOR OXFORD..
It may well be that the British Asso ciation welcomes the election of a Pre- sident for next year as furnishing that body with an opportunity for, paying his Royal Highness a graceful, compliment in return for his courteous interest last year, by asking him to honour the Asso ciation by presiding at the Oxford gathering. Apart from his interest in the work of the British Association, an additional reason that would be likely to weigh with the Prince in accepting the invitation, is his well-known love for Oxford, where his Royal Highness spent many happy days when at collega
The position is that the unious con- cerned have had the uppertunity for years to show that they wanted this fine to rus, and that they were prepar ed to treat it in a way that would. enable it to be" conducted without in- curring heavy losses The history of the shows that the unions have never given it" that traunent. It is only now when they see the result of their actions that any suggestion is ande, The Government's decision is Gual. We shall sell the ships if we get a fair offer for them. They certainly "will not be sacrifeed."
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