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HOW LANCASHIRE GOES ON HOLIDAY

THE "CONEY ISLAND OF BRITAIN.

NO "CLOGS AND SHAWLS ON BLACKPOOL'S BEACHES.

Most holiday articles appearing in the home newspapers are about places where swagger people go to, the expensiveness of the hotels, the jewels worn by scmen queens, and the price of caviare, the naughty ladies of fashion in pretty bathing thingamyjigs, and wonderful luck in the casinos. I've never been to Lej Touquet (writes Sir John Foster Fraser in the Sunday Times), but I wonder if as much fun can be got there as at Blackpool-where

I happen to be at the moment.

Blackpool! Nobody goes to Blackpool; at least nobody who is anybody!" Blackpool; isn't that a town somewhere in the north where the cotton operatives go in their clogs and shawls and say, "By gum, it's champion!" Well, it is holiday haunt för some two million folk a year, with Sir Walter de Frace as ita M.P., and his wife, Vesta Tilley that was, its idol.

There is some society or other with the function to get foreigners, particularly Americans, to come and see England. Americans are always rather home-sick. So it bad anything to do with that British boosting propaganda I'd rush all Americans to Blackpool and de- macd," Doesn't this knock your Atlantic City and Coney Island into what you call a frazzie'? "

Sure!" They would yell,

Full Value for a Shilling, It is the most America-like sea- side town in Europe. It isn't a place for a rest cure. But as most of its visitors work fifty or fifty one weeks a year, they do not want rest; they want distraction, noise, whirling amusement, bands, dane ing, hip-pip-razzle-dazzling and they want it cheap. They get it. Sir," said a Black pudlina to me, You'll get more pleasure here for a shilling than any place on earth.” Maybe he was right.

In the Ballrooms.

American-like Blackpool has set | now and then in Blackpool-though itself out to lick creation," and the authorities in the trumpet- has spent millions of money. Ita toned circulars refer only to the seafront promenade is over five sunshine-there is room and" fare miles long, in some places built up for a quarter of a million of people. in four wide stories, as wide as an ordinary roadway, with miles of free seating, and there is one stretch of a mile and a-half or so that is covered in: the biggest chunk of concrete work there is i the world, I suppose; and in one place, where the low cliff is earth, it has been faced with rugged rock all concrete, though you wouldn't

know it..

Bowling-Greens for Women,

Talk about your picturesque ball- room scenes in London! You ought to be here on a Saturday night when one of these enormous stretches of ballroom floor is oc- cupied by nearly a couple of thou sand dancers-with another couple of thousand of mothers and others upstairs seeing how their Sally and our Jim are getting on-with a great band crashing waltzes and A great sandy beach, too, with blues and not too much jazz, ünd, the customary crowds; but twice when the lights are lowered, harle a day the Atlantic rushes up and quin colours twirling upon the cleans the whole area. There is sedately undulating throng.

Yes, a park which cost £250,000, and sedately. The girls are in their nice many bowling-greens, for the riper frocks and some of them in those lads of Lancashire are great on new long trailing skirts too-bat no bowls-and, by the way, there are lada are in evering clothes, though ten bowling-greens reserved for the robust M.C. is whilst he stands women.

in the centre and sees that the There are five eighteen-route is always left-wards. hole golf-links within the borough-there is no frolicking, hardly any. and fifty public tennis courts-all mirth. Radiant though the scene busy Charges trifling..

is, demureness is the characteristic of the dancers. How do these folk get partners ? Well, friends intro- be alone and you see a nice little dute friends; but if you happen to thing from Preston evidently also alone and you inquire whether she would care for a dance it is unlike. ly she will take offence at not hav ing been properly introduced. At half-past ten the band stops, and everybody is expected to go home.

Blackpool's. Fool"

All the Fun of the Fair.

But

For threepence I had an enjoy able hour and a half the other morning. I was one of nearly 6,000 spectators at "The Bath "when some 600 bathers, who, I believe, had to pay sixpence, were having a great time. Blackpool must have a publicity man worth his weight in gold to judge from the alluring, coloured photographic literature" that is sent forth. This bath is as gorgeous ash Roman amphi- I don't want to catalogue the theatre," the inest open-air en- sights of Blackpool—and I daresay closed swimming pool in the world," I missed a good many-but anyway, with a terraced amphitheatre, for there is the Pleasure Beach describ such as I to watch the gaudy cosed in the photographic folder as tumed bathers in gleeful revelry, yes, and some," as the Coney- the Coney Island of Europe." for there is no objection to mixed

Terrific bathing at any time or anywhere in Islanders would remark. It doca take one's breath away, Blackpool, and (I quote), "The switchbacks, water-chutes, all the Behind it are some six million folk depth of the water varies from 18 blatant, blaring fun of the fair, in Lancashire, and never mind in. in the paddling section to 15 hectic side shows, sellers of Black that question of unemployment-aft, near the high-diving stages. The pool rock and tellers of fortunes mass of them at present I think I big pool, holds over one and a half and games of skill; with one chance was told 400,000-surge in hundreds million gallons of filtered sea in thirty you may win a vanity bag of trains and scores of charabanes water, constantly changed and puri and be in the running for a mangle on Blackpool. It is a. sight when Bed The bath attracted nearly or a fur coat; it all depends on half a dozen trains disgorge at the three-quarters of a million patrons your luck. same time...

last year, and on busy days as many It's as near gambling as nost," us 5,000 people entered the water. as they say up here, and there are Though it cost £80,000 to make, it moba hazarding their pennies all But where do southerners get the is already a profit-making enter- day long. These cotton operatives. idea Lancashire people go about inprise.". That is the Blackpool are as keen on taking a chance clogs and shawls Tut! There is spirit: everything on the big scale, as folk who go in Blue trains to no accentuation of fashion, no bored everything with a vim and a bang, the Riviera and get a good deal aristocrats, no talk suggesting Ox- every place cheap, and every place more hilarity. Mem.: there is no exhilarating beverage to be obtain. ford, no monocles-just a few hun- crowded.. dred thousand folk well dressed,

ed in or near the Pleasure Beach; for twopence an hour; there is a cpecial miniature fair ground for the youngsters, and there are enough screeching hilarious kiddies to make the heart of the Malthusian and

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about laughing loudly when happy, the young fellows in natty lounge auite, and the lassics bare-headed, bare-armed, but jaunty in costume and silk hose and newly-bought shoes.

There are three piers, orchestras, tinuously; two theatres, a dozen cinemas, and then those three con eerns-the Tower, the Palace, and the Winter Gardens, of which I've never seen the like on earth. When the weather is bad, for it does rain

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (September16.) Queen's Theatre: Children of

Pleasure"

Central Theatre; Fast Com- pany."

World Theatre: "Fighting Love." Star Theatre: "Red Mill" Majestic Theatre : "The Last Command.

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15

Lecture by Miss Martha L. Root on the Bahai Movement at the University, 8.30 p.m.

Wednesday, (September-17.).

Thursday, (September 18.) Queen's Theatre: Children of "Children of Pleasure."" Queen's Theatre:

World

Theatre

Deceptive Pleasure."

Potion" World Theatre: "Fighting Love,"

Star Theatre:Love Trap." Central Theatre Rio Ritn." European Mail-Inward: Europe. Star Theatre: Red Mill" Central Theatre:"Fast Comid Negapatam (Antenor). Cut pany."

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Tides: High, 4.28 am and 8.30 Meeting of Hockey Representap.m.; Low, 1:10 am, and 1.14 p.m.

Friday. tives at Volunteer Headquarters, 3.20 p.m..

(September 19.)

Meeting of members of Reel Club at Lane Crawford's, 5.15

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, pim. 8:30 P

Sa Pablic Band Concert, Kowloon European. Mails:-Ontward: Football Club ground, 9.15 p.m. Europe vid Marseilles (Megelaus),

Dinner Dance Hong Kong Hotel 2.30 p.m.; Europe vid Marseilles (Sphinz), 2. p.m...

8.30p.m.

Tidea: High; a.m.; Low, 10.47 || Tides High, 3.17 a.m.; Low, 12.11

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World Theatre: "Deceptive Queen's Theatre: Divorcee."

Potion."

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Tides: High, 6.01 am and 6:42. Ip.m.; Low, 1:58 p.m.,

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