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“AGENTS:

MIXED BATHING IN LONDON.

KEEPING SLIM.

AND KILLING THE TRADITION OF SLEEPY MEMBERS.

The cult of the slim figure is revolutionising some of London's well-known sports clubs. The young wife and her husband, instead of meeting in their drawing-room for ten, now put on bathing costumes and go for tea and a swim at a

aparts club.

There also their daughters meet their friends, all seeking health and the fashionable silhouette,

During the past year those clubs with awimming pools have been so swamped with applications for membership that it is only by the most rigid selection that their | membership can be kept within reasonable limits,

The new habit of mixed bathing by London Society was started at the International Sports Club when it was opened six months ago. Since then it has grown to be a very real problem for those clubs which have provided only limited periods for mixed bathing.

An official of the International Sports Club said:-

At first we had only a few hours a week set aside for mixed bathing in our pool.

We soon found that the pool was practically unused during the hours set aside for mert alone and for women alone, but the mixed bathing hour was so crowded all the time that we decided to extend this time until, now, we have only two hours in the day when the pool is reserved for men alone.

"It is really quite a delightful and healthful habit, and is a dis- tinct improvement over the draw- ing-room menners and habits of a previous generation.

Everyone So Busy.

"The traditional armchair club- man sleepily lolling before a fire with a paper over his face, is never found in this club. Everyone is rushing to do something or harry- ing away exhilarated and refresh- ed to do something somewhere else.

WOMAN MOTORIST FIANCEE MADE TO

TRIUMPHS.

FOUR DAYS AND NIGHTS

AT THE WHEEL.

Another triumph for British motoring was recorded recently.

The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, driving a straight-eight Hillman car, was the first woman driver to reach Monte Carlo in the great international motor rally.

Her achievement and that of the car is the more remarkable as she selected as her starting point Sands vall, on the fringe of Lapland.

More than 100 competitors from all nations, including famous women drivers from France and Germany, were compating. Mrs. Bruce select ed the farthest starting point allow ed under the rules, and the most difficult and dangerous route to Monte Carlo, d

First British Arrival. = Mrs. Bruce was the first of the British contingent to arrive and she was closely followed by Miss Kitty Brunell in her Talbot.

The two Englishwomen were heartily cheered by a crowd that had gathered outside the Prince of

Monaco's palace.

Cars for hours afterwards drove into the sunlit square from all parts of Europe.

Mrs. Bruce, on her arrival at Monte Cario, sent the following cable to London

First of the British entranta to arrive at Monte Carlo, also first woman and ärst of the Sundavall contingent.

I covered 2,140 miles, at an average speed of twenty-five miles an hour.

I cannot keep my eyes open. I am going to have a long sleep.

Some of the drivers were helped out of their cars owing to extreme fatigue.

WALK LIKE A DOG."

ARTIST TO PAY £20 FOR

"BREACH."

**TRAMLINES FACE."

A young woman who alleged that ber fiancé anddenly changed his st titude towards her and became systematically cruel to her, after his mother raised objections to his ass ciation with ber, was awarded £20 damages for breach of promise in the King's Bench Division recently, Mr. Justice Humphreys entered judgment accordingly.

Dulwich.

Promiso Admitted.

THE OIL MERGER IN AMERICA.

TARIFF POLICY INVOLVED,

SENATORS ON THE ANTI. TRUST LAW.

UNITED MIKES.]

Washington, February 93-The announcement of the morger of the 'Vacuum Oil with the Standard Oil coming on the heels of the re

cent approval of a rail merger; abruptly revived the discussion to- day on the rapid growth of great American industries through com- binations and purchases.

She was Miss Eilian Eleanor Rogers, of Grove-vale, East Dul

This growth is hailed by "big wich, who sued Mr. Horace Walter business men as a logical develop Sales Pitches, of Lytcott-grove, Eastment in efficiency and the cutting down of wasteful competition and overhead. Those committed to the: traditional American policy of tree competition and, individual enter- prise however, voice alarm at a trend which they declare makes for the creation of strangling octopi

which may in timbo achieve 'the. status of super-governments.

Mr. Pitches admitted that he had promised to marry Miss Rogers, but denied that he had broken off the engagement. He, maintained that the herself broke off the engagement, or consented, to that course being taken..

Mr. Kingham, for Miss Rogers; said that Mr. Pitches was a show- card designer and artist, and be be came engaged to Miss Rogers in December 1828, but repudiated the promise in January 1920. Mias Rogers played the piano well, and Mr. Pitches was a singer, who want- Fed an accompanist.

They saw cach other frequently until, at the end of 1998, Mr.

Pitches changed his attitude. His mother seemed to have some objec tions. She began to throw out hats that marriage would spoil his chances in life...

It has been a glorious adven- Mr. Pitches ceased to kiss Miss ture. The car has behaved splen-Regers when they left each other, didly in most severe conditions, and when they went to dances and has done credit to the British would not allow her to dance with anybody else. All she could do was industry.

to sit and talk to his mother,

This message little conveys the magnitude of the performance..

No Time for Rest.

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“Autocratic "! Ideas,

Mr. Piches seemed to have had some autocratic and ancient ideas as to the privileges of future hus

Ho

An average of twenty-five miles an hour over so long a distance and Women are taking sport very with no time for rest for the driver, seriously. Our squash racket couris

or adjustments to the machine, hands," said Mr. Kingham. are filled every day with women

would be a creditable performance suggested that Miss Rogers should players. Hundreds have enrolled in normal circumstances, but the not go out anywhere without him, for gymnasium.courges.”

driver encountered fog and ice that she should not play the piano The Royal Automobile Club has bound roads, and on one occasion, unless he were present, and that she also succumbed to the demands of when travelling at fifty miles anhold, only play the things he the women for a share in the swim- hour, the car jumped a parapet and

liked." ming pool. Next week the magni-ernshed into vine. Though: He treated her with the greatest- firent marble pool of this club will badly damaged it withstood the indifference as time went on. They be opened for mixed bathing.

"We are making this concession in response to the wishes of a large number of our members,” said an official of the clube

Bath Club Ban.

At the Bath Club mixed bathing. is not permitted. Alternate days in the week have been set aside for the use of women members, but, according to several members, it will not be long before mixed bath- ing will be a fact in this club also.

So far the matter has not been brought before the committee, and

shock:

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Mrs. Bruce, except for brief in- tervals, when a passenger relieved her at the wheel, drove for four daya and nights on end.:

DOCTOR WITH A "SMOKER'S HEART."

EXPOSURE DEATH IN A

"GARAGE.

A verdict of "Death from natural

Charles John Ernest Edmonds, aged fifty-two, of Lewin-road, Streatham, who was found dead in his locked garage.

I am unable to state what their causes! was returned at the resum attitude would be," said an officialed inquest in London on Dr.

One of the most popular features of the International Sports Club áwimming pool are the bathing sup- per parties. Here "many of Lon don's. "bright young people" gather Mr. Cowburn, the coroner, recall- after a theatre, put on bathinged the widow when the inquest was suite, and swim and dance.

re-opened.

"You told us on the last oc- casion," he said, “that you were

LLOYD GEORGE ON THE with your husband in the library

BENCH.

COURT HE ATTENDED 33 YEARS AGO.

Mr. Lloyd George recently sat for the first time as chairman of the Carnarvon Quarter Sessions, in the Bame Court where he made his

on the last evening of his life. Was he accustomed to go to the garage and lock himself in!

Oh, no," replied Mrs. Sdmonds. Did you have any quarrel that night-Not a quarrel. We had words-discussions about money.

Mrs. Edmonds said that the coa- versation was not exactly friendly.

Cheque Dispute.

"I wanted to draw a cheque,” speeches as an unknown young she added, "and he did not want lawyer thirty-three years ago.

The people of Carnarvon turned

trate.

me to have as much as I wanted.

just walked about the street, with Mr. Pitches neither speaking to her nor looking at her. Miss Rogers merely walked behind him like a dog.

She asked him why he was be having in his way, and he said that he was fed up" and wanted «a, holiday. She told him that his con- duct was breaking her heart, and he said that he would buy a tube of. stuff to mend it."

The marriage had been fixed, to take place in June Inst, but the pre- ceding Christmas he told her that it would be postponed for an in- definite number of years. He said that it was a pity to waste her time, and said that perhaps she could get somebody else.

..

Another Chance Plen,

He wrote, however, on December 27, 1928-

My own Darling,-It is with sincere regret that I now see the wretched unhappiness. I have caused youL I have suddenly realised, as it in a dream, the cruel fellow I am.

Will you promise me, dearest, to start once again? Let's make life a pleasure once again, Will you allow me another chance, to make a fresh sweep of overy. thing!....

He wrote in another letter:-

The realism of our love has be come sublime.... When I pause to think of our most happy union, something strikes me that, apart from the human instinct, there is a divine influence acting for our happiness for the future....

out in thousands to welcome thee was not excited when he left me. little lawyer," as they still call him He never got like that. We had there. They packed the Court to disputes about money from time to time. Our nations. were quite overflowing, and they found a new friendly. My husband was a heavy man-Mr. Lloyd George, the magis

smoker "

Mr. Kingham said that later Mr. Dr. John Henry Ryffel, Home Pitches changed again, repudiated The first prisoner 123 K Office analyst, said that in conse the promise, and the writ was THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. small, sadlocking old man, nocused

of stealing a barometer worth 158. fed that Dr. Edmonds had not died quence of his analysis he was satis-

served. The chairman listened attentively from poisoning of any kind. In Miss Rogers, giving evidence, said while evidence was given and the the case of a man who was a heary that towards the end of 1823 Mr. pathetic tale was told of the smoker, smoking many cigarettes in Pitches became extremely rude and seventy-year-old fragment of bu- manity

a cold garage might be followed by called her "Old tramlines face."!..

"World Sometimes a smile lit up fr.heart failure..

The coroner: Especially if a man Lloyd George's face; sometimes he was stern. Always attending to the was agitated, annoyed, or worried1 business in hand-the question of Sfteen shillings.

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Dr. Thomas Henry Brown, divi- sional police surgeon, said that he found Dr. Edmonds lying in a post- There was a long list of conviction that suggested a sudden col- tions, and Mr. Lloyd George took lapec.:

notes The Chief Constable suggest- There was evidence of a great ed that the man should be bound. deal of tobacco having been smoked aver for twelve months on condi- in the car," said Dr. Brown. tion, that he went to the workhouse.

The chairman showed himself to be understaning. He talked gently

to the little man in the dock.

"Will you make the most of an other chance if I give it to you? Will you try to make good 1

"Promise me," he pleaded, "that you will do no mischief if we let

you go.'

There was a moment's pause while a constable whispered to the bewil dered prisoner.

(Continued af foot of nézt column),

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The garage as cald. I suspect be had a sumoker's heart. died from syncope accelerated by The jury found that Dr. Edmond

exposure to cold."

Then, "Three cheere for you, Mr. Lloyd George!" "eried the little man, faving his arms. "You are a clever man, sis. Thank you."

The Court dissolved in laughter, and the chairman leaned back in his seat, laughing aloud.

ld of our Own," Miss Rogers, cross-examined by Mr. E. Jellinek (for Mr. Pitches), denied that she had ever offered Mr. Pitches his freedom or that she had plenty of chances with other boys. He asked me to live in a little world of our own," she added, and not to have conversation with anybody about our love affaira.".

Mr. Pitches, giving evidence, said that on one occasion, Miss Rogers offered him his freedom and Baid toys. she had plenty of chances with other

He saw her father, and told him that he could not " carry on" with Miss Rogers, as they could not go on quarrelling like they had been. fler father said, "If you break off- the engagement I'll breach you."

Mr. Justice Humphreys: That did not mean what it would have meant to a younger boy.

Officidis of the Department of Justice refused to bomment on the Vacuum-Socony mérgez, saying that for the present it is impossible to give out any statement.

Meduwhile it appears probablé that the merger question will be linked with the fight for a crude oil tariff designed to oppose what independent oil-producers term "a food of foreign oil competing in a market where, contrary to general belief, there is no ever production."

This fight has been gaining mo mentum since the recent visit to Washington of a large delegation, of the independent producers who presented their case direct to legis- lators and administration leaders. Forty votes in favour of such a tariff are now claimed in the Senate.

It appears certain that importa tion of oil by the Royal Dutch, which comes at the head of the in- dependents' list, will be used as an argument against the Socony mer- ger, since Standard Oil imports rank second.

Senators Walsh and Wheeler de- clare that if the merger does not violate the anti-trust law, then "that Act will селяе to be of value."

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