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TEST CRICKET.

ENGLAND'S BIO TASK.

In

Sydney, Don 24.

PTO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PERSIAN CARPETS,

Dr. Bernard Hollander, in his Child Labour in Their Making. opening address as chairman of the annual congross of the

Although mado in a primitivo the firet Tont matol, British Phronological Society at method, the carpet-weaving" of} Australia's bocond innings closed sex Hali recently said that Porin is the only manufacturo for 452 rupe, Tato taking five phrenology coased to exist about that deserves a first-class place wickets for 98 runs, England in fifty years ago, with the advent in the industries of the country. their second vonture had scared of the illiterate character reader. In the Sultanabad district--the 42 for none whon stumps were It was therefore a most significant home of Persian carpet-making- drawn, and thus need 563 to win. Jovent that Edinburgh University almost every household posnoRNEN had recently admitted a sorías of a loom for spare-timo use, though The weather was cold and un: lectures

on the subject by naturally it is in the factories goasonable, and most of the 5,000 Profossor Elliot Smith, Sir James hat the finest carpots aro pro- spectatore prosant wore wearing Crichton Browne, and Professor Juced. From the gorgeous colour- ovorcoals. The wicket was in Sir Arthur Koith: Dr. Hollander, ing and intricate design of the good condition. Collins was outpointed out that these authorities factory products, оло would when the score stood 260 for sixdeclared that the size and form imagine hat they wore the work whilst the lunch score was 281 of the skull do depend on the size of skilled and vetoran artisans. for seven.

and form of the brain, and the But this is not so, Taylor took forty-seven minutes skull adapts itself like a giovo to to roach double figuras, but when the configuration of the brain he joined Mailey the last wicket within. But mental power was pair hit out morrily adding 127 not necessarily intellectual power, in ninety minutes which is aand a large head did not always rocord Australian tenth wickst imply a large intellect.

tand in Test matches against England, boating Armstrong's and Duff's 120 at Melbourne in 1902. Tato was the bost of the bowlers, and the folding was

gond,

Australia.

2nd Innings.

Bardsley, b Tato Arthur Richardson, cand b

Frooman

TE

Kolloway, b Gilligan Collins, Chapman, b Tate Ponsford, c Woolley, Froo-

2731213

Victor Richardson,c Hendrou,

blato

Hendry, e Strudwick, b Tale Taylor, Tate

Grogory, Woolley; b free-

1114 1

Oldfield, c Strudwick, h Gil.

·ligan ...

Mailoy, not out

Extras

Total

Bowling Analysis.

+1

Tato

wickets for

Freeman

3

Gilligan

2

Heurng

0

0

Chapman

England.

2nd Innings.

Hobbs, not out Sutcliffe, not out

Extras ...

....

worso

The visitor squeezes through | the law, narrow doorway of the typical carpet factory, and omorges at onco into the badly lighted and

ventilated oporativo room. The eyos do not at once adjust thomsolves to the few semi-gloom, but after a seconds, one does make out the workmen." Children they aro- an mora toddlers, six to ten years of

The L. C. C. proposen to invoke, the aid of men eininont in the world of art to net H

an

advisory committee to deal with age, and they work with pruposals to decorate the County ease and dexterity that grown- Hall The Council states that ups cannot but envy. Thoy sit the great work of municipal | porched in long rows on benches government well commands the at various altitudes from the 24 display at the Bounty Hall of ground, according

to the pro-

appropriato decorations of liighgrossion and size of the carpot, artistic morit. The Establish the wob of which is spread 23mont Committee points out that | vertically in front of them. A 60throughout the building there row of coloured balls of the

are a number of plain plastor variou8 coloured throads em- 27 and plain gilt canvan Junettes or ployed in the design hang from friezes, every one of which in- the loom, within easy reach of

18 dicatus the desirableness of the boys' hands.

docorative treatment by menus The process of carpol-making | 108 of frescoes or paintings, while is extremely simple, consisting the ambalatory and marblo lob merely of a series of twisted bies of the Council Chamber coloured worsted threads, cach; lend themselves to statuary, passing round one of the main

18 bronze, and marble. They do not threads of the foundation wob:

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46 feel, however, that under present the children work with extrema LADIES

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IN ALL

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the Council to expend money soklom toes than twelve or four

THE the directions,

in

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are teen hours a day,--but the labour 45% they prepared to accept any and involved

IO

in this primitive

every offer of statuary, paint-seaving is so enormous that ings and the like which may some carpets take several years 98 be made to, the Council. but to manufacture.

they express the hopes that many LEARNING THE PATTERN, who have enjoyed the privileges | The batter-known designs are) of London citizenship may seo learnt by heart by the childron, their way to express their apicis quite a feat of memory, when¦ preciation of the work of the one considers the intricacies of | Council by gifts of suitable oven the plainest pattern: Usually objects, or by donations to be so that the workers may not go expended in decorative work to wrong, there is a superintendent, 19" beautify and dignify build an older boy, who sings out the 27 big pussersing a claim to first siches in a monotonous cadence. 2 rank in tho municipal work. When the most difficult patterns aro executed, however, a coloured drawing is hung above the loom. -The ancient and picturesque) In the dim light of the factories, ceremony of admitting the new the strain on children's eyes in Lord Mayor to the City of Lon- following the pattern and picking NEWdon Mayerally was performed at up the right thread is enormous.

Total (for no wicket)... 47

CHRISTMAS IN

YORK.

SOME STRIKING FEATURES.

New York, Dec, 24.

Christmas,

A

white.

with intenso cold, is predicted in the United States.

*An unusual feature of this

t

the Guidhall last month. Many Most of them are soro-eyed withị ladies, including the Lady the tension. And coupled to this, Mayoross-Elect, word present. in plane of the soft vegetable The rotiring Lord Mayor, Sir dyes which were formerly usod Louis Newton, vat with Sir Alfred in Porvia, ghastly anitine-dyed Louis Bower, who is succeeding threads-raw and hurtful to the him. On his left, and, infeyo--are commonly employ od accordance with custom, each now, especially in those factories

officer with

courtly which cater for the export trade. civic bows surrendered the civic in-

The manufacture of ancient| signia to Sir Louis Newton carpets is one of the most lucra- New York is the busiest since who in turn transferred to Sir live branches of modern Porsian pre-war days. Crowds lacen Alfred Bower, by whom carpet-making. The new carpeta with parcels are bustling about it W 18 then formally returnare spread in the bazaar, where the streets, and the department | ed to its old time custody.it is inest crowded, and trampodi atores are swamped with business. What imported unusual interest for days or weeks according The post offico-majls are fikely to to this ceremony WOR the to the oku required, pades. be a racord.

fact that for the first time since trians and thair donkeys, Protestantism was restored to mulos, and caniels making Christmas eve is the visit of the England by Queen Elizabeth the a point of treading on it in order "add age to the manufac- giant ex-Gorman airship Los Lord Mayor Elect and his Sheriffs to Angeles, which will be brilliantly are all Roman Catholics, Sirturer's goods. Whon sufficiently illuminated and will fly over the Alfred Bower took the oath, and worn. the carpet is removed,

wirelessing

after signing the rol ko Christmas)

was brushed, and eventually sold for greetings and carols to hundreds formally presented with the in-double or treble its netual price, signia of office-first the sceptre, owing to its antiquity"}→ which goos buck to Saxon times,IN C.W. in Manchester Guardian. Contrasting with the general the City Purse, said to havo beon! marrimon! the movement the gift of Queen Elizabeth, the started by the so-called Mr. Zoro, 500-year-old soal, and, finally, tho who has takon possession of emblazoned sword and gold maen. various churches in the city as At the close of the ceremony Sir The shelters for homeless wandorors, Alfred Rowor left, proceded by whom the church officials are four trumpeters, who sounded a roluctant

No mother can expect that hor] to ovlet.-Reuter's fanfara at intervals. The chief American Service.

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