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{Continued from Pagë 2J ; the Pyrenees. I went. There was an Austrian chauffeur at the wheel, and everything was com- fortable until we came to the.

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mountains. After that it was a series of nightmare rushes down roads with a precipice on one side and a mountain on the other, and round corners at fifty miles an hour, taking every conceivable chance. We met several cars on the way, and I was eternally expecting to meet one

idea did corner. That

to occur to our driver, who took everything at the This went on for same speed. hours, until I was nearly grey. The last hill was taken with the emergency brake out of gear. My friends would have said I was unlucky if I had been thrown over a precipice. I am sure that in falling I should have been accusing the Austrian chauffeur! of enmity towards me.

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The day before I left Sebastian: at that time there was strain smash, and there was another one the day afterwards.

Fate No.

had Lucky? booked my ticket that journey. that's all

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MASCOTS FOR SAVAGES. As for my "Luck" in the the" atrical world. that certainly is a sure and definite case of bad judg- ment. I have never had a really successful original modern play in my life. Why? Not because of bad luck, but because I am not a good judge of a play. All my successes have been in Shakespe are or in old comedies which have been proved before. A play that pleases me does not please the public. When I am reading it I am thinking to much of the liter ary style. But a play that reads well does not necesarily act well. Therefore, you see. I have been

'unlucky."

I believe in mascots as I believe in Luck. Mascots cannot bring anyone good Luck. Can anyone with common sense really believe that a little bit of fluff called a gollywog is going to bring good fortune? What can a senseless piece of wool effec:?

I suppose this-cold, matter-of- fact way of looking at the question of Luck is due to the fact that I have no Scottish or Irish blood in me. I have none of the mist of the North floating about in my -consciousness. I did not originate in the blue hills. My bedroom window

opened moors

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Luck, White Heather.

out where

Good keeps

its shrine. I was born in a sunny island in the south, far away from a Celtic glamour..

You cannot be superstitious in the south. The sun will not let you. I was always rather sur- prised that in the play "The Thirteenth Chair" the weman who in the United States was represented quite rightly as being Irish in London.was portrayed as a Spaniard. I think I am right in saying that Spaniards, like all southern races, are.. not super- stitious, except those perhaps who live in the bills.

SUPERSTITIONS WHEN ILL Luck is like clothes-largely a matter of climate. Which is a. reason why people of the stage are such believers in Luck.

I never worry if there are thir. Such a port- teen at my table. ent never troables me. If I find I have walked under a ladder I do not go about anticipating Bad Luck. If, as a result, I experience any Bad Luck, such as having a paint-pot dropped on my latest Paris bat, I do not rail against Luck-1 merely consider my judgment has been at fault in allowing myself to pass under "such a danger.

I certainly never go to the opposite extreme, however, and plim to have thirteen at table. That is bravado, and there is no bravade about me.

I was born on the thirteenth- the thirteenth of October. They say, you know; that:

October's child is born to woe And the vicissitudes of life

to know.

October's children stand by them- selves in the world,. If I take suddenly to a person I almost always find that he or she is an October child.

ones.

Now, perhaps, you will ask: "Who was it who was arguing: just now that they were not I must confess superstitious? to having my own pet personal superstitions quite little you know superstitions which are probably no one else's. If I am in a nervous state" of mind I "give way to them. If not I defy them. Which is really another: way of saying that my judgment is at fault owing to ill-health.

You cannot get away from the fact that Luck has to vacate possession, when judgment takes up the least.

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THE NAVY.

London, Sept. 5. Lord Fisher, in another letter to the Times headed Nero Eddling while Rome is burning." replies to his critics and reiterates that the present Navy is obsolete for a war few years lence. He says it is the time to kick and stop the money. The recalls his reforms in the Navy and asks if ie cannot be trusted.

Loadion, Sept. 6.

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Speaking at Pontefract on the eve of the polling at the bye-election. Dr. Macnamara said that the active strength of the Navy had been reduced from 400,000 on Armiis- tice Day to 170.000 to-day. 354 naval eraft which were to

country. be constructed have been cancelled. saving the

nearly £45,000,000; 95 older ships have been sold, 1,500 traw- lers and drifters have heen repaired, reconditioned and returned to their proper vocations. The daily expenditure from the naval votes to-day was just half what it was on Armistice Day; but the improved pay and pensions of officers and men would always and tightly be a permanent charge.

THE SYRIAN QUESTION,

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Paris, Sept. 5.

The "Temps" says that Mr. Lloyd George is coming to Paris next week to confer with M. Clemenceau on the ques- tion of Syria

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The Triple Alliance has agreed to postpone the ballot on direct action and adjourn the whole question till after the Trade Union Congress in Glasgow next week.

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London, Sept. 8i For August the imports were £145,000,000, an in- crease compared with August of last year of £38,000,000. The exports were £75,000,000, an increase of £31,000,000. For the eight months of the year imports were £1,000,000,000, an increase of £147,000,000, and exports £475,000,000, an in- crease of £141,000,000.

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