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Tribute to George Moore: Lord Lugard's 75th Birthday Mr. Ruttledge to Lead Everest Expedition: Those Abbey Monumenst: New Foundling Hospitals The late Mrs. Meyrick and

her daughters

In her 'clubs aho know better than apy baaker the standing and finün. cial capacity of her guests.

Generals and Ambassadors.

Her clubs were as numerous 03 mushrooms, Thero was the ans bitious Paris veature, which failext. There, the famous

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thread which, survived all changes of name. There was, too, a long selection of more fashionable elubs, graced by débutantes, dowagers and demi-mondaines alike.

Ex-cavalry, officers were among

cluding an Act of Parliament clock Mrs. Meyrick's managers, former still in good working order.

Abbey Monuments,

|-{Special Air-Mail Service) Loadpa, January 26, George Moore, That George Moore is dead deans more to the english-speaking world

The Dean of Westminster, in his Co-day than any portedi" event. zita trionds had been long prepared address to the Architectural Asso- for the last parting any moment, cition on the Abbey monuments, but, now that it has come, to bo had a most encouraging audience reconciled to the void is not easy. when suggested that a drastic clear The marvellous Old Man of Ebury-ance of monuments was very much Street lived to be over eighty. He overdue. Everybody present "wai

at one with him in his sentiments. never outlived his genius, nor be came the survivor of former age, Elastic within himself, and capable to ceaseless self-development, his successive phases were independent of passing influences. His own mind was his kingdom of many provinces. That he will be remembered as one of the greatest men of leftëra in the language is not doubted by exaeting, judges.

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Rugby · Football Internationals among her chuckers out. Gilded youth and old age sat at her tables.

Within the last month I have seen an Ambassador and a General of

the Brigade of Guards competing for the honour of dancing with one of her daughters

Parle to Gerrard-street.

As in mother "Ma "Meyrick was So enthusiastic, and unanimous was the company--which included believer in discipline. From a men of distinction as well as stufashionable school in England and dents that I believe the Dean would have carried all with bun had he propounded a scheme of wholesale clearance.

fishing school in Paris her, daughters were sent immediately" street, where they sat up all night into the hard, school of Gerrard-

managing the waiters, checking the accounts, and subasitting the guests. to the closest scrutiny..

Dr. Foxley Norris has made" beginning, and he intends to go on." Que monument which cries out for transplantation is the Mansfield tere married peers. May, the wife The two eldest of the six daugh- group). It stands opposite the palpit, and the Dean declares that of Lord Kinnoull, is related by if it were removed it would pro-murringe to President Hindenburg. vida room for eighty more seats in The beautiful Kathicon and Nancy a position, where they are much and dining until midnight strikes, are to be seen everywhere lunching needed.

when, like Cinderella, they rush away to attend to their business.

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As a stylist he became unequalled for austerity and beauty, Ho at tained to "logical exactness." Fastidiously measured and search ing as a worker, he never yielded to haste. Yet his range, when wo look back upon it, is astonishing Nearly half a century ago he led the real revolt against. Victorian complacency in proso action.

Because of ill-health Mrs. Mey- "Esther Waters" was a novel of

rick had recently left the Kathlson, magnificent scope and veracity.

Nancy and Bobbie." The latest Then long afterwards-following

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Lord Lugard.

Fow men have performed greater or more varied service in the causo of Empire than Lord Lugard of Abinger, who is 75 to-morrow.

Ile went to Nigeria in 1877, fought Arab slave-denters, played a big part in founding British Last Africa incidentally thwarting Bis marek's determined efforts to fore- stall him-put in some yenre of hard work in Rhodesia in its early days, nad saw nutive service in Afghanis tun, Burma, and, the Sudan.

Then, after a spell as Governor of Hong Kong, he returned to Africa to act as Governor of Nigeria throughout the war.

His vleration to the peerage five years ago was a recognition of ser- vices to which Britain owes a large part of her East African Colonies.

Mr. Hugh Ruttledge. Mr. Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the cousing attack on the hitherto unsurmountable summit of Mount Everest will have one great advan- tage in his taak; he has an exten- sive knowledge of the country which the expedition will have: to traverse:

A fine tribute was paid to Mr. Ruttledge by Brig. General C. G. Bruce, who led the last two expedi tions to Everest. "He is just the man for the job," he said. Mr. Rutledge has served a considerable period in the Indian Civil Service, and has done a great deal of climb. ing.

He is 48 years of age and very fit. Training, knowledge, physique, and temperament combine in him to make a leader who, with ordinary luck, should this time complete the Conquest of the world's highest. peak

· France's Edgar Wallace, M. Simonon, the French counter Fart of. Edgar Wallace, hos sarived. in London CAt the age of 3o he has no fewer than 250 books to his credit.

He lives on a yacht, gets up 5.30 each morning, and writes, at the spanking pace of a chapter an hour.

His hero, "Inspector-Maigret, is as famous in France as Sherlock Holmes, and is abortly to make an appearance in an English version

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run than the Japanese Empire! YOU ARE ONLY A SHORT TIME IN HONG KONG, Tho city's budget for 1933 is esti- For two francs one may be con❘mated at £119,000,000 (at par) while dusted on a cushioned seat from Nice to Cannes, and four franes will carry a passenger from Cannes to Monte Carlo.

Foundlings New Home. Substantial progress has already been made with the new buildings of the Foundling Hospital on the Ashlyns Hall estate, situated on a

of the Chilterns, above the Hertfordshire town of Borklainated The Foundlings are likely to bo able to take possession of their new home somewhere in the summer of next year.

In that event the children will hava been in their temporary quar- ters at Redhill, formerly the or phauage of the Royal Asylum of St. Anne's Society, for almost exactly oight, yoare.

The home of the Foundlings at Berkhamsted is to have nothing of In "institutional ?! character in appearance. The buildings, of red brick, will be in the Georgian style, and are to rise to two storeys only in height.

The main frontage to the Berk- hamsted Chesham road will consist | of two long, low blocks connected by cloisters with a chapel in the centro.

An Umbrella Hínt,

The man (or woman) who can devisen simple means whereby ond masculine umbrella. can be distin- guished readily from another will be counted a benefactor.

Most men nowadays carry um brellas of similar type, with orook handle of malacus cane. It is not deliberate dishonesty that leads to club members being left with a much worn gomp in place of their own elegant possession.

Perhaps, like the Swiss cigarette boxes and cake dishes, they could be made to play a little tune when lifted. But then not everyone is gifted with an ear for music.

Mayrick. The Late Mrs. Kate Meyrick was proud of ther title of " Night Club Queen."

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She was equally proud of the fact that, her name onde figured in a House of Lords dobate, Dow

It was mentioned by the late Lord Birkenhead, who mid:-" It has doubtless been brought to the notice. of your lordships that the mother

It is good to leara, that the in-law of two of the members of George Southwark, which is the your lordships house has recently only survivor among the old, coach-sncurred the displeasure of the ing is of London,, is to be pre-courts." served by the railway company who

own it. It is intended as far as Mrs. Meyrick's name was as possible to preserve the original familiar abroad, as in England, structure and maintain the old-time Her exploits were "front page atmosphere of the place,

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for the railway companies and lost papers

their identity in the proccas, A plauded

section of the George is actually Br

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main part of the building silfan 'tious as an

pen house for her daughters friends.

the new Japanese budget amounts! to £90,000,000 for the government, and defense of sixty-five million! citizens, including a formidable Army and Navy. New York's net funded debt is now approximately 306,000,000 (at par) which means that the City's seven million in- habitants are mortgaged to

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