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OUR LONDON LETTER,

BOOM IN PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION.

THE RUSSIAN TRADE DELEGATION.

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Attention has been recently drawn to the fact that in spite of higher fees there iss long waiting list at English public schools.

Some of the schools have in creased their fees, but this, it is said, has not unde any difference. It seems that there is a

in public school education. I hear that in regard to Eton man must put down the name of his BOR as a prosperective pupil a son as the boy is born, and when the latter is old enough to enter the famous scut of dearning there will probably be a vacancy That a what, also, used to be done by members of certain London clubs like the Carlton on behalf of their sona. After being on the namination list for 21 years chance of election when they they stand

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Loxvox, September 10th. rarely interferes for the vindicution of its rights in this respect.

In 1901 the Court of Appeal heki that a schoolmaster was wrong in setting up coqunon law right for his pupils to bathe in the sea. But the authorities seem clear that there may be proved an immemorial local custom or usage of bathing off the share which the Courts must recognise. so there is a loophole in the law, after

all, if one cares to fight the matter out. A ROMANTIC RETREAT.

I visited the other day one of the most romantic places in London--the Charter house. Situated in Charterhouse Square it is also one of the quietest places in London. You are in another world when Aldersgate Street. Te lovers of Thack you have come from busy Smithfield or

came of age.

Of course, there is something in publiceray. Charterhouse, is "Greyfriars," the scapol education or parents would not be one of Colonel Newcome. so keen on it. Sir James Barrie, in his inimitable way, said the other day that he apolis the Something with a capital *S. and he expressed a mild cariosity as to what will happen when it is stab- mitted to a scientific examination to sons

when body somewhere. Probably what suitable

corps." house spirit," nud other un substantial things, it will be found that most parents send their fays to public

schools in order to obtain for them the Social advantages which are believed to attach to it in after life, or to secure for them the financial advantage of, well-paid mininistrative" positions.

THE SOVIET EMRASSN.

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When The Newcomes was running

Thackerus turned up at the Charterhouse one day and visited a blind easioner This pensioner took the novelist to his Thackeray, sitting very silent, listened to room and they had tea there while bis talking and heard the Chapel bell go for evening chapel. It was then possibly that, the beautiful "Adsum which few

Incident

men, Carthusians or

arthusians, care to read with anyone Thackeray's mind. cise sitting in the muta-took shape in

WIRELESS CELEBRATION.

VOGUE OF BLACK.

SOME NOTES ON EVENING

GOWNS...

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24cm, 1925

A USE FOR SPOIL HEAPS.

GOOD YIELD FROM REFUSE MOUNDS.

It was a philosopher of Brobdingnag who observed that " whoever could make the blades of corn, or two blades of grase, to grow upout a spos of ground where only one grow before, would de- serve letter of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together,"

There are indications that the be evening gown is to be popular once med | This is far from meaning that we all in for a reign of dull evening, gong On the contrary, a black backgrond merely serves to throw up the beauty exquisite embroidery and the low painted designs that are used for decoaswifts wise man would have delightest tion on many smart frocks.

Chiffon, with georgette, is a favount material for evening frocks, and in ble is used for an attractive modelat, London salon.

DIAMONDS AND BEADS. The material used for the dress black chiton. In addition to being ly sucked the tanic overdress is

broidered with diamond paillettes aide tiny steel-lined crystal beads, and a colour there is the long spray of pat uses with green and silver foliage that appears down ope side of the sking which, like its summer predecessors, comfortably short:

WIDER SKIRTS. ·

mule Cress to grow where nothing grew in the Lancashire coalowners who have hence, and have also removed a publi nuisance The mining district of South Lancashire, between. Wigan Warrington and Manchester, is dotted with great Large mounds of refuse from the pits. stretches of what might be arable land are occupied with these useless heaps. which are asplesiant alike to the eye and to the nose. It occurred to a public- spirited frm at Atherton that something might be done. Merely to level the heaps would not suffice it would only enlarge the desert area.

The firm, therefore, decided to remove A black velvet dinner gown in thread the pit refuse erealy to a good the top inyer of soil from certain fields, tame salons is noticeable alike for depth, and then replace the soil.

They graceful drapery and the painted dahls have dealt in this way with about Aft barder in tones of blue, pink, and pue aures of land, and they are well satis cu that is a striking feature of the material with the results. The land is now under bravelvet is so used that the coloured the plough, and is yielding good crops. horder forms a drapery from the let while the whole appearance of the shoulder neroes the back of the gowriet has been greatly improved Prob and falls in a pointed panel at one side bly the raising of the level of the land left of

similar panel appearing also on the has done good, as this particulas district the skirt. A golden Belt-likia marshy, The limestone in the "pit re- ornament appears across the front of the fuse has also been beneficial to the crops, model, in which beauty and practical for the value of lime on poor land is now widely recognised, and the success of qualities are most happily combined.

basic sing as a manure is due to its lime, as well as to its phosphate. Whatever The flared skirt is shown in many de the scientific reasons may be, the fact One of the deserves to be put on record. For this lightful dance dresses. prettiest of the evening frocks of this Atherton experiment proves that our type is of lime yellow georgette, below mining districts need not be hideous, and the long bodice of which the skirt dares only be levelled, but turned to good ac that the obnoxious waste heaps may not right and left, falling into deep, paint count. What has been done in Atherton at each side. embroider that decorates the gow other places, and the saddest spots in thi

The crystal and silver can be done, and should be done, in many follows the same lines.

Black Country need not he regarded as

It will cost money, reclaimable.

but the money would be well spent, and there is an abun be turned on to the task. The problem dance of unemployed labeer that might would have been grappled with long ago in front of the skirt are two gathered if anyone had devised a practical method godet panels hemmed with chinchilla fur. of utilising the spoil heaps, and, now that and silver and pearl embroidery, which the way has been found, the Atherton and below the armholes, and appears the near future, when factories are outlines the decolletage, is carried round conlowners should have many imitators. ven by electricity from central power also on the main body of dress.

fallness into the skirt is illustrated in Another method of introducing greater

an evening frock of silver-grey georgette in front, is roundied and rather high the neek of which, though cut to a deep at the back.

The 20th anniversary of the birth of wireless telegraphy is being celebrated by an exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in The Russian Trade Delegation sees Loudon organised by unnufacturers and to have settled down in their traders interested in wireless equipment, headquarters, Chesham House, which was When one considers the place that wir formerly the home of the Russian Eles fils in the modern world it is bassy in the old Turist days, when Coutaitnost incredible that such a position Benckendorf was Ambassador in London has been reached in the tief space of Then it was an imposing place, indeed, three decades.

In 105, when Signor with a suggestion of mystery is the great thuglielmo Murroni was 21 years old. bey hall, which was dimly lit and in the made the first wireless signal in his father's spacions reonus furnished in the Empire villa at Pontecchio, near Beluga, neruss style. A portrait of the Tsar looked down

a distance, of a few yards from room t on you in the wide lobby and you had room. Then he removed his apparatus to the feeling of visiting grand house the garden and after repented trials he rather withdrawn from the life of tő-day sad resting immutably on the foundations entire length. It was these simple experi. was able to send messages the garden's of privilega

Now, with the Soviets in possession thements which, in about a dozen years, were wireless" across the Atlan house has been painted and everything furnished up to look as smart as possible. | In the entrance hall is a leg photograph REFORM OF THE LORDS. of Lenin barangking a crowd, leaning over The Cabinet Committee appointed to barrier with his cap ernshed in his hand, advise the Government as to the best his mouth wide opta, and on expression steps to be taken to give effect to the of furions determination on his face. Reform of the Second Chamber will meet The furniture is the same. In the large again in a few weeks to continue its in- waiting room are placed bronze bursts of vestigations. The Second Chamber Com the leading Bolsheviks,

Lie.

But straight skirts are also modish.tations and the smoke-cloud is

lifted and a dance dress of bright parn violet-rom the industrial districts, even the tinted soft satin has a slender jupe that Mack Country may he green once more. is hidden beneath a tunic deeply inged with mauve silk and wooden beils to match.

DRESS DESIGNS.

POPULARITY.

The tunst con-mittee of the Conservative Party, which TWO-PIECE SUIT MAINTAINS ITS spicuous fentare is a "brifiant coloured is unofficially cotísidering both this reform oil painting of a Russian market place, an exctic scene with herole figures of Ar peasants and workers fraternising. air of business pervades the whole place,

KUURT TO THE BEACH.

and the consequent revision of the Parlia ment Act, will also at once meet again when Parliament reassembles. I am in.. formed on authority that M.Ps are join. ing the Committee in corsiderable um hers, and it is hoped that by Christmas at fast half the total strength of the Conservative Party will have become inengrs.

MOTHER'S FINE COURAGE.

HOW DACOITS WERE FOILED. 泄

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listrict Police of a daring attempt at dcbity which was averted by the placky

Information has reached the Alipore

interest in the two-piece suit isation of a woman,

On the night of September 16th, just renewed this autumn by the latest de-ster dusk the wife of Girish Chandra signs. Most women will be pleased to know that this practical ensemble-long coat and frock-are continuing to be fashionable. A more useful mode was never designed."

The law stems always lurking to trip the unwary. One is reminded of this by an application in the High Court before Mr. Justice Fiulay, sitting as a Viuntion

Opinion varies as to the propused con The differenes between the summer Judge, by the private owner of a forestitution of the Upper House, but Lord two-piece and the latest version is that ahore to restrain a comedian from playing Younger's leclaration a few days ago at there is now no deliberate attempt made on the banjo and singing on the sands Poltalluch, in Ayrshire. to the effect that to match the coat with the dress over meat, a watering place. A temporary, in

a men should have the right to sit in which it is worn. Some amall point, junction was granted in favour of the any House having legislative functions perhaps, the two garments will have in Lord of the Manor, and consequently the unless he was elected by sugieuse refects common; probably the bindings, buttons bech troulndour has been pat out of the virtually unanimous view. business. It seems a bit drastic, for the ease; of course, there would be a group the tent is of quite a different colour In that or other trimmings will match, but often dovisinu runs counter to our notions that of Hereditary Peers elected by their col- from that shown in the dress. by the sad sea waves," if nowhere else, leagues. It is the composition of the rest it was possible to escape from the wor of the Upper House on which there is ries of legal interference with individuat very ensiderall difference of opinion. ...liberty.

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CONTRASTING-COLOURS:

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Adak of Rajarampur, was sitting in the verandah of her house with her children paying by her side, when she saw a num her of men trespassing in her compound., As the hasband was then away the woman naturally grew apprehensive and she thrise her children inside the room and followed them. In the meantime some of the dacoits ran up to the verandah | and obstructed her,

and the dacoits on either side of the 4 vigorous struggle began between her

her might to shut the door from inside. sing door-the woman trying with all

Suddenly one of the dacuits threw a cracker through the opening and it burst! buming the face of the housewife. She aloud her hold a little and one of the dacoits put in his band between the doors

A. beige cashmere cout may complete The Second Chamber Committee is A lesa) friend tells me, however, that however first considering the best out woollen fabric, the only matching point suit that has a frock made of green a hundred years ago it was laid down by me of any deadlock on a vital issue being the black and gold braiding on the the Courta that no person has any right between the eformed House of Lords to truss the foreshore, to undress and and the House of Comunees, and its hathe, or even walk there, let alone Executive Committee has unanimously re- to preach sermons or give entertainments. commended resort to the Referendum. The same applies to the beach between Las recoulinendation will in November low and high water marks, which is the come before the Committee us a whole property of the Crown, though the Crown H.R

RUBBER MARKET.

Messrs. Carroll Bros. are in receipt of a cable from Singapore stating that frubber is now quoted at $1.00 per lb., and giving the following prices" (all Straits dollars) : «

Alor Gajahs

Amal... Mainy

Ayer Moleks

Balgownies

MEDAL FOR DOG.

DRAGGED MAN TO SAVE

CHILD.

Tony, young half-breed whippet owned by Mr. Harr Anson, of Elf Hale Farm, Selby Green, Selby, has been awarded the medal of the National Canine Defence League for saving the life of his master's two-years-old daughter.

Walter Cawthorne,

farm labouret

employed by Mr, Anson, was walking home at dusk when Tony rushed up to him and sized him by the trousers. Tony would not be shaken of and tried to drag Cawthorne away.

So persistent were the dog's efforts that the man went, Ear a quarter of a mile the dog dragged the man, until they tame to a pond. There Tony burked,

*2.80

4.10 3.10

Ayer Panas

13.23

5.00

Bassetts...

1.00

Bukit Jelotongs

1.53

Bukit Katils

1.75

Changkat Serdangs

8.50

Glenculys

2.03

Indragiri

11-10

Jecams

1:50

Jizanky"

2.35

Kedals

4.20

Kempas

9.25

Kuale Sidims

1.05

Lusas kop

14.25

·Malaka Pindas ...

1.50

Malakoffs

5.10

Mandai Tekongs....

1.15

Mayfields....

New Screndabs

Pajamą... Parit Peraks

Perak Rivers

Punggara..... Sandycrofte

Scubais

19.30

4.85

14.95

4.00

2.45

Cawthorne then saw the child strug- gling in mad and water up to her waist, and rescued her. The girl's clothing was nearly all torn off, showing that Tony had himself. tried to reseve her, only go- ing for other help when he found that the child was too heavy for him:

1.55

3,00

The medal is inscribed with the dog's

4.00

nanie and the date of the rescue.

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Sungei Bagans

4.20

Tapahs

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Tambainks

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Telak. Ansons

13,50

1.00

3,60

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In this desperate situation she slam- med the door, jamming the hand of the dacnit. The dacoits then tried their utmost to free their comrade and at last A decided preference, however, is still managed to escape leaving the four im-Batu, 24 evident for a frock which matches the prisoned fingers of their companion lining of the two-piece cont

Autumn there.

Divisional Inspector Sikdar took up collections contain delightful suits, with the coat of tweed-like silk lined with and he was surprised to find one Bankim

the enquiry with the fingers as clues Mon. 253 23 cashmere and the frock underneath com- Chuadra Dass, son of Jagendra Nath Tees. 27 m

Dass of Kalipur, a neighbouring village with four of his fingers missing, This fod. and son of a rich and respectable bas. Ther. 29 m. young man is a student of the 3rd class Bankim was produced before the S.D,O., Alipere, where he made a full contes

posed of the cashmere to match.

The writer saw a charming design of coffee-brown velours, lined with crepe recently. The smart reddingote was maile de Chine patterned in black and dull silver. This coat opened to show a frock of the crêpe.

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