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HOW TO LIVE LONG. MODERATION, EARLY RISING, AND HARD WORK.

[BY THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.] The London Evening Standard has bou printing a stoposium on How to Live Long" to which many well known men have been contributing. The following statement is by Sir William Pryke; the new Lord Mayor of Londob:

If I am to believe those who claim to be in tite position to know-and I see no reason for doubting them except that I feel about, half my accredited age-I was born in the year 1547, and conse quently become Lord Mayor at the age of seventy-eight. Possibly this disting tion would not have been mine had I not always believed in living moderately and taking plenty of exercise, and working hard.

I received the heritage of a good con- stitution, and have lived more or less quietly since that remote day, seventy eight years ago, when I am reputed to have been born. I have always had a natural liking for exercise and fresh air, Iwith the result, that, apart from those ailments which attack all children, I have lived a long and generally healthy life.

TURTLE SOUP'S VIRTUES.

A little under eight hours' sleep has always been sufficient for me, and 1 bave The con never suffered from insomnia. trol of n business in the City of London, even in pre-war times, when meney was plentiful and expenses were law, was not without its worries, but about fifteen years ago, when I was in my sixties, I began to feel a little out of sorts and as the local practitioner could not diag nowe my complaint to his satisfaction, he induced me to go to a Harley street specialist. The man I saw bad acted as special medical adviser to the late Mr. Gladstone, and was recognised as a great authority in the medical world.

I remember he told me, among other things which proved fery serviceable to me afterwards, that turtle soup was one of the most nourishing and easily digest ed of courses. Consequently I shall have no qualms as to this item reappearing on the menu at Guildhall and Mansion House banquets, as it has been doing for centuries past

I have my own personal scruples in the matter of other items which may, in the ordinary course of things, be served for the benefit of my guests. But no good host, be he Lord fayor or pri vate citizen, would allow his own rules of diet to be applied to the guests at his table.

Personally, I find rich meat, pork and so on, are better left untouched. I am very sparing with beef and matton; and am careful not to take oily fish, to avoid salmon, and, indeed, all cured th being unsuitable. My medical adviser told me to beware of the kipper, and take his advice.

WRITING HISTORY AT EIGHTY.

MR. HUMPHRY WARD'S BOOK" ON

THE ATHENÆUM CLUB. A history of the Athenaeum Club, and! therefore of many of the leading figures in English, history in contemporaneous times, is to be published by Mr. Humphry Ward in the New Year.

That was "the surprise announcement of Mr. Ward on his soth birthday. last

month.

Mr. Ward has been well known for the

the more serious literature of the day. last half-century for his contributions to

His wife, Mrs. Humphry Ward, was known to millions of. English-speaking people all over the world through the novels she wrote towards the end of last century.

BIRTH OF THE TANK.

KITCHENER'S PESSIMISM. CROWN FIGHTS CLAIM.

I'm sick of people telling me what cars will do. If it does what you Bay, it will revolutionise warfare."

According to dramatic evidence before the High Court last month by Captain Bede Bedtley, an inventor, these remarks

were made by the late Lord Kitchener when the famous tank" were first under discussion. **

Captain Bentley claims that he origin ated the idea of the tank," and wants compensation to the extent of £300,000

Captain Bentley, who is a son of the architect of Westminster Cathedral, gave evidenco that he first met Lord Kitchener during the Boer War. Later he fought in Somaliland and in Egypt, and was wound- ed seven times, a fact which prevented his active participation in the Great War 1914 INTERVIEW..

MORE CURES BY M. COUE.

STAMMERERS CEASE TO

STAMMER.

M Coué, that extraordinary little white-bearded, white-haired man" from ancy, with his curiously stressed English at times to a soothing falsetto, took some and his voice always persuasive and rising three thousand people into his confidence

the Albert Hall last month, much as a mother comforts a nervous child.

The most interesting part of his lec ture both for believers and infidels was that devoted to actual experiments on sufferers from the audience.

A man came forward;

This gentle; man tells me he stammers,? said M. Cotté. "It is probable that soon he will stammer no longer."

Then, Do you know why you stam mer?" asked the little Frenchman. Be cause you fear that you will. Say no

#1 have been + member of the Athenæum Club for forty years," Mr. Ward told an Evening Standard inter viewer, and as the history of the club has never been recorded I have Ho obtained an interview with Lora painfully, the sufferer followed the care- been entrusted with the task.

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"I took all the documents on the death of the librarian last year. have now completed the history, It will be issued for private circulation only 500n after Christmas, and no doubt will be issued to the public generally at some later date.

with me, syllable by syllable. I don't fear to stammer Any longer. Slowly,

Kitchener in October, 1914, offering netpally enunciated words.

Now, as a phrase!" by reason of his wide knowledge of and machinery and mechanics,

The man spoke the sentence slowly, Lord Kitchener, crossing to a window but without hesitation. Now say, I overlooking a quadrangle, said, "Bent. am sure that I shall not stammer any ley, you know something about cars. I'm longer." He did so.

And now," said M. Coué, say I tick of people telling me what cars will do. I want someone to tell what they am cured,Again, loader, shout it. The After all, the Atheneum Club does won't do. I've got a sort of car here. patient faced the audience and shouted ara cured! Emotion gripped the not take an active part in butside affairs Study it, and give me your opinion."

Bentley went to the quadrangle, where onlookers by the throat for a second; as so many clube do nowadays. It re he saw a tarpaulin-sheathed, sentry then they burst into applause. presents the original conception of guarded meter bus with armour plating club in which men may meet, exchange instead of the usual advertisements and treatment, with the same result. their views, and require friendship.

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"It is non-political and bolongs to no particular class. We try to get the leading man of the day in letters, the aqts, the Services, and other worthy spheres."

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Mr. Ward received many congratula tions to-day, on his 30th birthday.

IMPORTANT - RUGGER EXPERIMENT.

NEW ZEALAND FORMATION IN

IRISH TRIAL.“,

The international rugger pinyer, Ker. shaw, writing to the Evening Standard, states that he understands that as an ex periment the New Zealand formation of eight backs and even forwards will bo tried in one team in the Irish trial, while the other will be composed of the orthodox eight in the pack.

It is an open secret that clubs in South Ireland were deeply influenced by the theories so attractively put into practice during the last visit of the All Blacks.

windows,

Another stammerer followed the same

A FUNERAL, COMEDY.

PUNISHMENT FOR DELAY IN

· SHAVING, ORDER.

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Bentley's hostile view evidently annoy ed Colonel Fitzgerald. Lord Kitchener's secretary, hut Lot Kitchener abruptly agreed, saying: "Exactly what I've been saying. I want a vehicle able to cross country and play the part of an armoured car independently of roads."

Bentley the same evening wrote to There is a remarkable sequel to the Colonel Fitzgerald, saying: The bus drastic shaving order issued on will be ineffective unless you invite the demise of the late Maharaja of Kashmir Germans to come on to the roads to meet as a sign of national mouring by Colonel you. I suggest putting an armoured body Janaksing, the senior member of the on a caterpillar, enabling it to cross State Council. country to the enemy's trenches.!?

The dearth of the barbers was so great Lord Kitchener then took Bentley home on the day of burial that one subordinate to dinner, and talked with him for three official of the Palher could not ges shaved hours, while Bentley elaborated his idea, before the funeral procession had started. With rubber kazds and pins he sketched That was ao serious are offence that im on Lord Kitchener's blotting-pad aquat mediate cognisance was taken of it, by sort of mobile pyramid, with guns under the highest executive officer of Jammu neath. They actually used the significant The poor man was just in the middle cf word "tanks.

being shaved when three orders were 7 served on him: (1) Suspension from ser- vice, (2) expulsion from the compound the Palace, and (3) notice of a criminal prosecution. The military and the police authorities came on the scene, the culprit was asked to get up. half-shaved as be was, with the rest of his face lathered, and physically forced to quit the pre eincts of the Palace. Disgusted with the treatment so meted out to him, he has sent in his resignation after eighteen

When leaving, Bentley said he intended to go to the Patent Office to take out provisional patent, but Lord Kitchener, who was enthusiastic at the idea, replied, Oh, no, Bentley, that would never do. Above everything, it must be secret. Don't take out. a patent. You can trust me. I'll protect your interests."

CLAIMS £300,000....

The Irish internationals, Crawford und Lieutenant Browne, took pains to

Captain Bentley is claiming £300,000. get Erst-hand information from Porter, He said that he suggested that tanks

The Mohammedans escaped all this White foods, however, appeal to me:planation of the New Zealanders' Lord Kitchener, he declared, was aware trouble as their religion forbade the

Richardson and Nicholls, and an ex- should carry cylinders of poison gas years of service, strategy, and there was striking evidence that the Germans in 1813 had manufacto shave. But others had to undergo at Oxford last week, when Dublia ture poison gas and were experimenting this discipline, and the Barbers in Kash- University, playing in the New Zealand against sheep, but that gas had not been mir had the time of their lives. Some de-, formation, heavily defented the 'Varsity tried as an effective war weapon.

manded exorbitant amounts, the charges:

game of various descriptions, chicken, and so on. My breakfast is of the usual English order porridge, bacon, eggs, poached and fried and treated in a variety of other ways, toast and marmalade

I shall not be known as a teetotal Lord Mayor, for I have never been one of the abstainers, though I think I am a temperate man. My indulgences are confined to a little whisky, well diluted.

They were not the only Irishmen im- pressed by the New Zealand strategy.

Captain. Bentley went to Russia as liaison oficer, and later, to German East being two shillings per head, while or- Africa He did not return until after dinarily it would be even less than a Lord Kitchener's death He regarded Penny for a clean shave. Lord Kitchener as having made a solemn promise to protect his interests.

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I don't take champagne and very little morning usually half-past ten-when I

Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C., the Solicitor to the Cabinet. in January, 1915, em- now reach the City. of any other wing. In fact, my tastes areMy advice, therefore, to anyone who General, in opening the Treasury's case, phasising the powerful effect of armoured

Eut very simple.

as with the food would live a long and healthy life is to said that several people before the war tractors, able to smash. obstructions and "courses, no with beverages, the tradi

vehicle capable of sweep the trenches with machine-guns and tional customs of the Mansion House will rise early, take as much country air se had suggested be continued during our year of offre possible, eat wisely, drink sparingly, and traversing rough country. H. G. Wells bombs, and announced that be had order. Wines will be served to suit the taste of concentrate on work, which is the best wrote an ingenious tale in 1908, embody ed 20. The initial tank, which was nick- individual and national exercise. ing the jdes, and Colonel Swinton, who named "Little Willie." could not do the all who honour, us as our guests.

became the official Eye-Witness," sug Many persons at some time of their This is the first of a series of articles gested in July, 1914, the development of job, and as a consequence Lord Kitchener

war pessimistic, life make an attack on the smoking habit.

Mr. Churchill persisted, and produced Cigarettes, pipes, and cigars are put the subject written for the Evening the Holt tractor, with a view to penetrat-

Standard by

notable people including ing the enemy's trenches.

a second type, which was called "Big Inside for a time, in some instances for The Aga Khan, Sir William Orpen, Six Mercifully for Britain, the problem was Willie," or Mother," which was the good. Some decide to smoke only after Gérald du Maurier, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, not left to a group of offients, but Mr. forerunner of the successful tank. Lord dinner. I am seventy-eight, and I enjoy P., Mr. B. Cirnes, M.P. Miss Winston Churchill, on the outbreak of the Kitchener stil, was not, enthusiastic, say a good strong Havana cigar immediately Beila Kaye-Smith, Sir Harry Lander, war, ordered immediate experiments to ing that it would be an easy target, and after breakfast. After lunch 'I take" na

Pachmann, the famous pianist, Jack be made. He presented a memorandum would be demolished by the first shell the other cigar and smoke several daring

"(Continued on next Column). day without feeling my health prejudiced Hobbs, the cricketer

in any way.

My predecessor in office was a good athlete, and has many rycling exploits to his credit. I am afraid I have never been a great success in the sports field. Tennis I have played, and I have made two honest attempts over a period of several years to enjoy and excel at golf. Each time I have been unsuccessful. goit About fifteen years ago I joined a club at Wanstead, but did not distinguish myself on the local licks, and gave it up. A little later, stimulated by the slogan of Seaside golf," I made another at tempt to like the game, and to play it well by joining the club at Kingsdown, near Deal. But I could not catch the gcouine golf fever. It is ten years since I played a round, and I feel that without it I am quite as healthy as I should be were I one of the great multitude who live for the game.

AN EARLY MORNING STROLL Some years ago 1 was in luck. I bap pened on a little estate, then in the market at a reasonable figure, laid out according to my liking, and plentifully supplied with flowering shrubs, in which I am more interested when I am off duty than in Aoy sport, ancient or modern. In my little,establishment at Wanstead we have numerous. varieties of flowering shraba-rhododendrons, azaleas and the like which, though requiring a little at tention, are an inexhaustible, source of

"In my younger days I used to ring, early; 'now-a-days I am rarely up befors 7.4.m. That allows me just an hour, for. an early-morning stroll on or around Epping Forest, where there are some six or seven thousand acres of land open to the public, and I can stili do my six or seven miles walk without resting or undue fatigue. After breakdast, instead of hurrying into town, as I used to do, I go into the garden and superintend the work there. Another pleasant bour passes enjoyable, and it is well into the (Continued on next column)

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