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JEWELS THAT ARE NEGLECTED.

1

To the Fast.

Another axiom of maritime inter- course is that its extension, both

CHARABANC BAN.

COMMITTED TO INVESTI

GATE THE PROBLEM..

in visitors and trade, adds to hypnotised by talk of the speed-anto epithet for the jewellers toef Transport, has appointed a

Motor-owners have been sa Semi-preciom" is an unfortu

limit abolition, compulsory insurbaro chosen. It is like an Order antional prosperity, In European

untries it may be a long time bence and physical fitness that the of Merit of the second cines, for it majority believe-now that these acoms to imply a vast gulf between fore this is true of nerin traffic:

things are practically settled-that the first rank and the second; and though the hope of its being so is!

they are out of danger except 18 when we chooro a jewel, especially certain not merely illusory, na Khools of thought are wont to regards their own acts on the road, if we are making a present, we are maintain. But in the great desert a correspondent in a Londonant, from a natural pride, to turn countries of Asia and Africa, whoso prosperity and place in the modern world are entirely dependent on improved communications,

air

paper.

I would like to draw attention to a part of the Road Traffic Act which has still to be considered and which, in the opinion of many, is full

our attention to the exclusively precious stones and choose even a very small diamond, ruby, emerald, or sapphire, rather than have our gift associated with the derogatory

Motor coaches ning be banned' trom the West End of London, ·

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister,

Committee of five, including te presentatives of Scotland Yard and the Home Office, to investigate the problem of motor-conthes in the London arta, and has asked

rade before Dec, 31, if possibilo, that recommendations should be

The special task of the committee

will be to inquire into the uso by

notor-coaches of roads within a

milo and a half of Charing Cross

rontes ate a factor of the greatest of possible irritation to owners and description "scini-precious. And and to consider if it would be in

Persia and in importance Jargo parts of Russia, thanks to German enterprise," acroplanes have

divers.

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a great many gemstones of the public interest, from the points of view of travel convenience and These regulations concern the exquisito and peculiar beauty are

the relief of streat congestion, to construction and use of motor most unworthily neglected and are heen the normal means of travel for vehicles, including privato cars. seldom given the chance of being prohibit the entry of such vehicles the last five years. India, on the and the first ocnfidential confer appreciated as they deserve. ! other hand, the flattest country in ence on this subject took place' re-

Ask the jeweller. to show you the world, has not even the hope of i

ently at the Ministry of Transport.some of these little-known beauties single internal air-service, Have The entire draign of motors came and sea whether they do not shim, vineed the Minister of the need of

the incidental transit from Karachi to Calcutta,

mer and glow in the sunshing as preciously as they do in poets pages. Now is the time to make their acquaintance, for their merits are beginning to be recognised, they are to be seen more aften in the

into a defined area.

It is understood that Scotland Yard and the Home Office are

strongly in favour of nation on these lines and that they have con- drastic regulations.

Y

cader review at this conferences.

On the List. The Red Tape Route.

The list of suggested alterations

In the talks that preceded the The route from Croydon to Ausand modifications, sent out by the tralia crosses more frontiers than Ministry, is scoret form, to all

appointment of the Committee Mr. motoring blies, would fill nearly

Morrison pointed out that in little

apt illustration of the existing ob- Suggestions include regulations stacles. Owing to the exorbitnuce concerning brakes, tyres, glass jewellers, and soon their prices will motor-coaches using road sites in of the Italian demands, the original! mudguards, running boards, and rise to a level commenterato with London for etabarking possengers

even the width of invalid chairs. Mediterraneau course has had to be The wording implies drastic in their beauty. And then the opithet had grown from 000 to more than "acmi-precious " will seem more 1,300, and that about 5,000 motor abandoned for one through Central Lerference with brakes, the on-

coaches were entering London Europe, over which the weather pulsory fitment of pneumatic tyres inappropriate than ever.

on all vehicles, the compulsory 180

daily. conditions in winter are difficult of unsplinterable glass on all There are at least three semi- and often impossible. But the vehicles, and a scropping of the precious stones that challenge the Italian demands were only a just present system of mudguards with new width, length and curve moa- retaliation for our own persistent

surements, refusal to allow an Italian service to Egypt.

any in the world and serves ns four, columes of this newspaper windows of fashionable, and eclectic more than a year the number of

Nationaliam Run Mad.

In Persia, our diplomacy could not prevent a two years' delay in the inauguration of the service; even now we have only received a one thres years' concession for flight each way a week, accom panied by disastrous stipulations for the Persian ground personnel at the aerodromes.

of, immunity from splintering, por manency of composition, and per manency of colour 1

more precious of all on its own BEAUTY--EVERY WOMAN'S ground, for they have that property

zircon,

Green Garnets.

to

of

this

JOB.

One of woman's chief functions

ECZEMA ON HANDS FOR 4 YEARS

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"I had esema en my honds for four years. It broke out on one of my wrists in wet eruptions and then dried-up-and scaled aver. After a while the males peeled off and the original eruptions were still there. It was very hating and I could not belp scratching. Shortly after my other hand broke out. I wer ashamed to go anywhere where I had to taka my gloves off.

"I went for a free sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and purchased more and in two months I was completely healed." (Signed) Mias F. Crossland, on-Tyne, Northumberland, Eng., April 156, Balingbroke 6., Heaton, Newcastle- 4,1930.

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If you get INDIGESTION

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tincomfortable fulness after meals or other forms of indigestion, don't just wait for it to pass off." Digestiva trouble is nearly always due to excess ald which notonly interrupts digestion but ferment food, attacks the stomach. lining and, if unchecked, may eventu- ally cause ulcers. Avoid this danger and promptly rellenodiscomfort by taking ». little Biscrated' Magnesia alter meals. Excess acid is instantly neutralised; fermentation, stops; gas is disperièd; pain disappears and, your faßumed stomach lining is soothed and healed. When buying: Bisurated Magnesia always see the oval Bismay' sign on the carton.

So far, the Minister of Transport of flashing out sparkles of coloured has been ressonable in dealing with fire which is generally supposed to According to a fainous Ameri. Part L of the Act, and he recently In Egypt, had Mr. Henderson's stated that he had no intention of be uniquely a quality of the dia- can beauty specialist, women are

with recent negotiations been successful, dealing larily existing mand. They are the green garnet voinest between the ages of thirty the proposed extension to the Cape vobicles, but later he eased wides or demantoid), the sphene, and the and fifty. But surely he is, mistak

pread uneasiness by talking of

ing vanity for a perfectly natural would have been obstructed by a animated ironmongery."

desire to retain the attractiveness demand that all pilots should be Most people would say that the

It seems a contradiction in terins of youth as long as possible 1) Egyptians. According to present compulsory fitment of pneumatic

Most women of forty-five who' arrangements, the extension will tyres would not affect the car

owner. There are, however, thou to speak of a green gardict, for wo have been completed by the end of sands of farmers and small trades naturally think of a garact as a take pains with their appearance, next year. Even so, its inainten- men using a light car fitted with bright red stone, of a shade that even going to the extent of some

solid tyres who would be affected

specialist's "beauty" ance and personnel will necessarily by euch a regulation, for the solid suggested some granate seeds be the subject of further dispute tyred vehicle they use is the best the ancients, but would more im clients and spending £100 a year mediately recall the best red-cur.in his salon, are not seeking indis-" during the next attempt to restore for the job.

riminate admiration, which is tho The unsplinterable ginsa sugges Egypt's independence."

tion as a safety move could not be rent jelly nowadays. However, a opposed, but before such a regula-green stone was found in the Ural essence of sanity, but are endea tion. ia adopted would it be un-Mountains about the end of the last vouring to keep beautiful as a duży reasonable to ask the Minister in appoint an independent committee century and, as it turned out to to themselves to other members of to report on unsplinterable glass be mineralogically a garnet, it is their sex, and to the men they with the object of fixing a standard entitled to the name.

Jewellers meet. prefer to call it an olivine, perhaps because the word "

garnet"

sug. The brakes draft regulatin mergents cheapness and the green ed

sumably is another iden for greater road safety, Imt is there any neces garnet does not share this quality decided that beauty culture was sity for the regulation! Has any with the rest of its family, but vanity and was to be condemned thing in the car a higher standard" olivine" is properly a second us such, what novelists' call the In India the nationalist demands of constructional progress than

glory, of womanhood" would lon are similar to those of Egypt, and brakes The confidential draft ro

The stone is a vivid but delicate most of its significance. have been temporarily overcome by gulation as explained to me will

green, which varies from the sunlit, Beauty culture should be the further harass motor owners. the fiction, of an "Indian State Under the Act a force of inspice slightly yellow-green of spring to woman's interpretation of esprit Air Service," But even this device tors can be appointed to test and pure emerald green. But, uulike de corps. A woman who lets her! has only succeeded in extending inspect any motor vehicle on the the velvety emerald, it scintillates beauty disappear before she has roid, or-with the consent of the with little, flashes of coloured fire tried prolonging it with the aid the route as far as Delhi. Further owner in any garage, and, for when it catches the light and in of modern science is betraying her progress appears to be indefinitely, ther, the police could stop any this quality is absolutely distinet, rex.

Men-most men, at least-look-up VISITORS TO LONDON obstructed by the Indian Govern motor vehiclo and call for a test Unfortunately it usually occurs in

small pieces, and large, flawless to women, not beenuse of their of brakes. ment's refusal to contribute to the

specimens, of good colour are rare brains, but because of their beauty, The Pedestrian.

and expensive. But even the

in its varying degrees... expenses of any service but one that. is actually its own.

Respecting mudguards and run- tiniest stones show their peculiar

A middle aged woman can help character and wonderfully

ATO sing boards the confidential sus brilliant when they are not sparkling her husband enormoutly by keep gealed regulations are far-reaching.

white snping as youthful in appearance as possible. Beauty is a great mental There are three points of view to round a diamond or a

phiro. consider those of the pedestrian,

tonic. A froway, prematurely and the motor-user and the car-maker.

wilfully aged woman can make a The pedestian unquestionably bas

F

name for the peridot,

The Sphene.

in life is to be attractive in appear ance. If all women over thirty

The sphene is a yellow, greenish-man feel that he has all the cares a right to be protected from brawn ar bottle-green stone which of the world on his shoulders.

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as a sparkler. It is not nonzly, so defnite purposes than the manag in Dute and English, during the a motor vehicle.

But does the Ministry know hard as the diamond, and if it is set ing homes and the bearing of child- greater part of the present rear sufficient of one of the most difficult in a ring for everyday use it may ren. One of these is to put beauty the British authorities have de points is car construction to be shown signs of wear. On the other into what might otherwire be a In doing this, and in prolonging liberately prevented them from main considered competent to frames hand, fairly large specimens are dreary landscape. taining their East Indies service regulation which will protect the easily obtainable, and a fine golden across India, on the rien that the walker, and, at the mma time, not yellow specimen will stand out it as long as possibly by every rain. They are just perforraing a put kankers and users of moter inntly in a brooch, or pendant, known musna, they are not being Indian nerodromes were under vehicles to inconvenience and loss? dispersing its own peculiar going, repairs. Recently, permis- The trade itself does not know, in ita faurel-deaf and bottle-green natural and laudable action. sion has been granted them to re for udguarding of ears as a dins shades it is a striking gem with which to match a fashionable sume But even so, they are not has been comparatively neglected colour.

been denied to the zircon) of ne allowed to fetch or deliver letters by maker. Most syalems have been.

The zircon is one of the most in India, and aro this prevented adopted with an eye is "line"""

undeservedly acglected of this semi- quiring a beautiful name Jacinth in the Greek word "hyacinth," an from giving British business the mud-slinging prevention,

precious sonca; but there are signs it came to us through the old much needed assistance which is

Not so simpla,

that its beauty is beginning to French, but no one seems to know denied it by the estructionist.ot-

be

generally appreciated. why the stone, which the Greeks titude of the Indian Government. The subject is for from simple

musical name' By pursuing a policy similar to The shape of the wings, the shape Several magnificent tireon rings knew by the oure in their colonies, the Dutch of the body, the shape and size of were recently to be seen in the curion should have been call could effectually prevent the Eng- the tyres-oven the mould of the window of a well-known jewellered after the friend of Apollo. Iti London. One was a fine claret colour, a clear brown with warm, land-Australia-route from ever tread pattern-the shape of a coloured stone, set in diamonde, reddish lights, suggests the most materialising. Fortunately for us thing about the car, as well as their intention is to refrain from spoed at which the car is driven, with a tiny exclamation mark of glorious shade of auburn hair, and so doing For they see, if our ex-all have an affect on the wind astminuts emeralds on the shoulder it is the jewel of jewels for thos0

of the ring; another was a light who can' match it. porta

not, that the economic ing on the mid aplochés.

golden brown. All-of them showed future of flying depends on the confess that I like most users their characteristic fire where the classified as jacinths are some the Hotel dardens, Verandah, Tablic

The zircons which cannot freedom of the air. If England is who drive in all weathers, would

1J times known indieriminately as much ainnod against an sinning reclcome interference by the Minis light struck them, she ought at least to imitate the try forging alterations and mod:- The zitton ta, found in nearlyjrgeons-and-whether the word, Parable. The Bivor View in Admittedly

Unexcelled in Burepor—

The Hotel is "Well Furnished “and Dutch by setting an example to the fications to the present general sys every colour, including a curious, which comes from Persia," * mosni world. For it is she that has most tem of motor-car mudguarding, but rather metallic blue, but the red gold" or fire," it is very ap, enjoys Happy Home-like Atmosphere. at stake And unless the advan only after the most careful scien: digh brown variety, known as the propriate to the fine orange-red All Publis Rooms are Spacious Gas tages of warestricted Buing up to life instigation of the effect of jacinth is the most familiar, part-varieties, which seem to gather all Fires in Bedrooms Cullas claimed to

potaste, becuing at the wightersund lysine & Foot be quite Exspilonal,

Termom From VILLAS, SIngre demonstrated to the countries. of suggested new regulations. As 1210, A, the world, her Imperial services are there is a possibility of our och the good fortune (which is common of flame and burn with a fiercer

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