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LONG TERMS AT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

(Continued from Pags 1.)

Under Parental Eyesi

Growth takes place the brain. rests and develops. The boy who returns at the end of September is always changed, from the boy who went away at the end of July. The long summer holiday ame by ac oidont, as it were, but it is too good an institution to loss,

Thirteen, weeks ja lao long period to be separated from one's children.

WHO OWNS THE EGYPT'S GOLD?

INSURERS' CLAIMS IN DOUBT

FRENCH LAW ON SEA

PHOTOGRAPHY IN TRAIN BEATEN BY

THE RAIL BUS

COLOURS

AUSTRIANS CLAIM FOR

13 MPH. FASTER ON

LONG RUN

Paris, Sopt 10-To-day a strik ing demonstration was given of the

NEW CAMERA,

PRINTS IN THREE MINUTES ON SECRET PAPER TREASURE TROVE,

Berlin-After having worked for posibilities of a Paris, Sept. 11.-The Italian sal

Joven years on his invention, Herr transport the Rail-Bus, vage Fesol, Artiglic 11, which is Alfred von Bariss, the Viennoso socking the treasure of the sunken

expert, who is well known in the P. and O liner Egypt, has return. London photographic world, claims ed to Brest, and will probably not to have perfected a camera and visit the scene of the wreck again

B process which make colour pho until Monday or Tuesday. Mean-tography a simple proposition for

conchatted with patumatic tyres specially adapted to run on railway

One of these Michelines"-a3 they are called-made the fourney from Paris to Deauville this morn

that it is cheap and rapid. In nay, which was made in 2hr, 3min.

Once again it must be said that while an interesting, question has professionals and amateurs alike. ing Parı, kimin, which all terms are not thirteen

een week been raised by the newspaper

The advantages claimed for twenty-one minutes faster than the that the wise parent will leave huurrese to the ownership Herr von Bariss's process, which fastest train. This record was boy or his girl alone at school, and of the sunken treasure he demonstrated recently, are notually beaton on the return jour. that if the cannot be in these It is known that when the Egyptian

when the posession of a sank she had in, hat strong room the inventor's opinion the reason The normal time for expresses days motor is universal and the week 5 tons of gold ingots £80,000 fo

why colour photograph enterprises, travelling between París and Deau end habit common, there is no reagold coins, and 43 tons of silver. son why the children should lan. It seems very likely that, all thin ve hitherto failed to attract the ville, in hrs. 47min. and guish unvisited by the parental syp, treneurs will be recovered within general public is that the ameteur - 67mín."

has no desire to spend about three M. Marcel Michelin himself was As a matter of fact, parental the next few days. The question

hours in preparing his printa the driver, and among the passun

dificulty by making the printing a matter of three minutes!

visits are no common in these days, as the 'Œuvre” asks, to whom Herr von Boriss has got over this gers were M. Raoul Dautry, Direc that the hair of our predecessors it will balong1 would have stood on end at their frequency, I have known boys whose mothers telephone to them avery day

|_ Law of 1543,

The Egypt, was aunk nine years ago in collision with a French steamer, and now lies off Brest in French territorial waters. French law governing treasure trove son dates from the year 1543, when Francis I, decreed that the owners of shipwrecked vessels held their rights of proprietorship for one year after the sinking of any ship.

Let us take the year as planned by Mr. Foot. A holiday from March 24 to April 21 loses half the benefit of Summer Timo, he week too much of March, a week too little of April. The term April 21 to June 23, begun with athletic sports, means a stultified cricket

In the year 1681 Richelieu issued auson No sooner is the team: formed than it is abandoned, for a decree confirming this, but add all the senior boys would then beed that after one year anything due to leave."

recovered from the wreck was to What an outcry this would raise, be divided into three parts, One and I must confess, though I do part belonged to the admiral.com- not place the claims of games first,manding the district, another one that the outery would be justified to the King of Fracee, and the Jane 23 to July 28 is a delightful, remaining third to the salvage But rather wet, period for holiday, workers who had recovered the but what will the doctors and mo-wreck or the treasure which it com thers say about keeping boys and

tained. girls up in school for August and September, the days of heat and

sinioness in the towns ? ME

The Latest Division.

There are other difficulties. If it. The law on the subject was chang is true tint the parents would payed through the Revolution, for in their fees in four fustalmerita in the year of the Revolutionars stead of three, they would also buy Calendar it, was ruled that the four railway return tickets instead senior naril officer of the district of three. They would not gain, should have complete charge of all The schools would lose in efficiency, property fecovered from any wreck

ar the beginning and end of each The shares of the admiral and at Lorm contain inevitably some days the King, were after the Revolu which are cut to waste by the buai- tion made over to the Invalides ness of starting and stopping, the (then a home for wounded soldi- complicated machine called, aerd), leaving one-third of the tren school. It is a pity to have eight sure to the salvage workers of these periods in the year rather

than six

Too Tired for Best Work,"

I do not believe that boys and masters sicken in the ninth week of a term, and I should want very full proof of the statement before accepted it. Sickmers is seasonal, and its heaviest incidence is in February and March, a period spent at school in the new as a the old-schoute. Otherwise, school health depends upon what the boys And girip bring back with them; the new scheme merely gives them four opportunities a year for col lecting now infections rather than three.

A great economist once said that any scheme of taxation was good, if it was old; it has always die tributed itself so as to be easily hoine. The school yster is much the same; it is part of the social life of the country. But I have no time to go into this. I will only say that the reformers will be surprised, when they put their scheme into operation, at the num. ber of settled social arrangements which they will unsit

SOVIET BUILDING NEW AIRSHIPS.

CRAFT INTENDED FOR SERVICE TO FAR NORTHERN PORTS.

The new colour photography camera is the size of an ordinary Presa apparatus, and its cost, in cluding a good lens, is about 25. On the top it has a yellow plate, at the back a rod plate, and bonbath a blue piste. By the sid of mirrors the light coming through. the Jens is divorted, evenly on to oach of these plates.

You may use ordinary paucho romatic roll film, Alm packs, or plates, Herr von Baries told a reporter 7 am using ordinary British Alms because I find them the best."

Three Negatives.

The photograph is taken in the ordinary way either by snapshot

tor-General of the French State Hailways, and Vice-President of the French Line M. André Citroën, motor-ear manufacturer, and Mme. Citron, and the Mayor of Deau ville.

87 Miles An Hour.

The vehicle used for this test

was one which several weeka“ ran.

It

on a branch line near Chartres. At has the fine lines of a high- speed aeroplano, and is fitted with a 46 h.p. (French racing) Hispano engine.." Capable “ of in speed on a straight stretch of about eighty- seven miles per hour, its average on an ordinary railway line is asvonty-right miles per hour,

The speed attained on the return

journey in to-day's trial companes or time exposure--and the three as follows with that of the fastest negatives are exposed simultane train on this route ously. These negatives arethen.

Timo, Speed. developed in a dark room by the Rail-bus ... 123 min. 6 m.p.h.. usual process," and a transfer of Train em: 167 main. Bộ ra ph cach is made on specially prepar-All along the route to Deauville od gelatine sheets, costing 2d, each and back people gathered at

Herr von Bariss produced a neat stations and level Crossings little apparatus in which these catch a glimpse of the flying care sheets were placed one on the other over a chemically prepared paper. It is this paper," ho said, "which is my secret, and on which I have worked so long. With it you are, able to do a way point of some imperiance is

with washing and fixing, and can whether the owners of the Tryp, print your coloured photograpns after the Tous of their vessel al

in ordinary light in thras "minu“ andoned their claims upon it. I

tes they did so, then it would appear would be entitled to claim, in ad that the Italian anlage compass dition to its expenses, one third of the treasure recovered, the other two-thirds going to the Invalides.. ⠀⠀⠀

There will certainly he claims upon the gold by the underwriters and the Italian saltage company, But the great question seems to be to what extent the insurance of the vessel provided against these old French laws.

English Lav

A Marine Insurance expert says The possibility that the French Government may lay claim to any portion of the salvage from the Egypt in. I believe, ong which has not hitherto been contemplated by either the underwriters or the salvors

Artistic effects can be obtained in this way by care in developing and by placing the blue, red, or yellow gelatine shoots in various orders. Any number o of coloured prints can be made from those negatives on the "seoret paper," which, Herr von Bariks stated, costs id, a sheet.

Herr von Baries expects that his camera will shortly be put on the market, since the whole pro cedure of manufacture is similar to that of the ordinary apparatus and no costly new machinery is required. Ho le going to. England shortly to demonstrate his inven tion.

ENGLISH ESTATE UNDER HAMMER

NO BIDS FOR LATE MR.

JOEL'S HOME

Even in the cass of the frigate Lutino, sunk off the Dutch const in 1700 with a vast treasure in- sured at Lloyd's, in board, the claim of the Dutch Government vo the salvaga was then based largely on the fact that Holinad was at London, Sept. 28-One of the war with England In 1823 Wil finest English country estates, the liam I of Holland volucrily original cost of which was £200,000, surrendered his clann to one half went under the hammer to day; of the salvage, the right to any but it was withdrawn after: savan treasure ssived from the Lutine minutes because not a single bid being now (yested in the Carrawns forthcoming

E

tion of Lloyd's by Act of faria- It was the Berkshire home of the mont,

Flats Mr Solly B. Joel, the famous Two adrabips are under construc

As for

Or the question of the owner. South African millionaire and in- tion in Soviet Russia, according to ship of e. Egynt a treasura included an elaborate Roman swim- reports received in Berlin from English lay there can be

ming bath in its grounds Moscow. They are of the semi-rigid tion that it is vested in the ine tyre, one of them having a capacity derwriters who paid for the loss 2,200 cubic metres, and the when the vessel sank in 1922 The atlier of 7,500 cubic metres. The share to which the underwriters collection for theso airships, which will be entitled in bubject to a began a year ago, has resulted in contract with the anlyurs mi which

voluntary contributions of roughly fixed at a substantial, percentage, the remuneration of the latter is afteen million roubles

CONSULAR SERVICE

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The Association of British Gham-

the intention of the Soviet Leaving the balance to go toobers of Commerce announce that authoritic to establish afrahip unda

linca from central Russia to the ex treme north, to the deserts, central Alls, and to the coast of the Pacific The construction of an air alip station zear Moscow has been) begun, Thore, are to be sheds to accommodate airships up to a capa #city of 10,000 walie WERK AS WELL AS ot authoring manta, ngse works workshop add a training school for the technical staff.

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