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THE CHAUFFEUR BEING

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studying slides of London's strecta

screen,

THURSDAY,

A ZOO MYSTERY.

BRAIN STORM OF THE

+

BISON.

It happened without warning

SEPTEMBER 22, 1927.

BRINGING THE SPAS TO TOWN.

NEW RED CROSS SCHEME.

FOR LONDON.

In a little darkened room off the (writes the Press Association. A scheme to enable Londoners. Edgware Road, London,, ten of Zoological Correspondent:) At to have medicated baths, and to. twenty men may be seen almost one moment the bison was merely farther than Regent's Park, has "take the waters," without going any afternoon and evening closely philosophising-he Is-the philoso- reached a stage when its promo- projected on A magic lantern pher of the Zoo. The next he was ters have their eye on a site, and going peli-mell, head down, for the their plans were explained recent. well of his stall. He struck.

ly by the hon. accretary of the It is a sort of still-life com-

British Committeo on Rheuma- panion picture of "Quo Vadis?" The building shook, the wood- tism, International Society of for the audience is vitally in-work splintered, the atout fron Medical Hydrology, to a press re- terested in "Whither Goest Thou?" bars bent like candles in the sun.

presentative: and even more in getting you through by the shortest and most convenient route.

They are taxi-men, van drivers, lorry drivers, and private chau- ffeurs, who have come to complete their education at the Central Knowledge "of London School, where they can learn all about the highways and byways of the Metropolis.

The "spa" will be part of an. combat rheumatism, which was described recently officer to the Ministry of Health, as one of the most inst- dious and mortal of all. great diseases." Every year (accord- Usually the bison is a placid, he Lancet" by Dr. Matthew B.

ing to figures given recently in 1 dreamy-eyed fellow who is never Ray) 370,999 insured persons so happy as when he can sit or lie seek advice for rheumatism, one- and meditate. On what he medi-sixth of insured benefit is paid Hero, by means of 3000 alides projected on the screen, they can, tates, no one knows.

annually for invalidity through rheumatism, and over 2,000,000 study 81 square miles of London's

His keepers, a different type of weeks of work are lost in con- thoroughfares, railway stations, philosopher, is quite sure he does sequence. hospitals, theatres, elubs, im-not think deeply at all, but merely portant buildings, and public in-cats and sleeps and tries to look "Spa hospitals have not ac- stitutions, and in brief, everything imposing and learned while dream-commodation for all those rc- and everywhere fare is likely to ing of his next meal. He does, quiring treatment," said the se fask a taxi to drive to.

however, give, the bison credit for cretary. Even if they an intense and natural dislike of most working-class patients could noise, and a strong objection to not afford to go. What we want being hustled" about.

to do is to establish a clinic where

But the barriers against which he so violently rebelled refused to international effort to yield. Still they had" "given" to such an extent that the house had to be closed and carpenters hastily summoned to repair the damage.

The elites are-made from aerial photographs, and the set cost over

*£500.

had,

сап

a man may go as soon as he feels he

touch of lumbago. He n quiet work in the day and go to the move like baths in the evening.

Taxi-drivers have to pass a

You can't be too careful, London knowledge test at Scotland said. He may look very Yard before they can get their and lazy, but he can licence, an offein! of the School lightning when he wants to. tald a Daily Chronicle representa. tive. I have known a man fail in this twenty times.

Sometimes we get men coming to us in desperation to study our course, explaining that they have bought a taxi, but cannot pass the test, and face ruin unless we bring them" up to the scratch.

"What is known as hydrological

When I go in to clean his stall, treatment, or the use of baths and I always more very gently, and waters and various physical never try to hustle him. Gener-methods, has been regarded from ally he moves over instinctively time immemorial

to a cleaned portion of the stall. effective

15 the most leans of combating

it is not necessary for me to say rheumatism. Other methods are anything to him.

fashionable for a time only, but

..

One morning an inexperienced the fact that for centuries suffer- man went in to clean out anders from rheumatism seek relief to Bpas is A common type of question in started bustling the bison with by regular visits these tests is "What is the best his brush. I warned him, but he sufficient proof of the efficacy of

notice. Suddenly the this form of treatment. route between Paddington and took no Charing Cross?" It sounds very bison charged, and the man only "People go to spas because they simple, but". there is only one just managed to get out of the cannot get this treatment else- official route, the police will allow door in time.

where. It is now known. how- Perhaps it was, the memory of over, that as far as bathing facili that unsuccessful attempt at corties are concerned, the ordinary The police insist on taxi-men rection maybe it was a noise madewater supply of any town can be knowing all the small cut-outs by a visitor, or it might have been made, effectual." that save time and money-of-well, who knows what it was course, whether taxi-men, use them that enused the bison's sudden" in practice is another matter." charge. It is a Zoo mystery.

in theory, and the taxi-man has to know every detail of it.

MR. FRANK LLOYD LEAVES £679,000.

FORTUNE FROM PAPER

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80TM

The British Red Cross Soceity

promoting the

Its "spa." interest has been secured by the approval health insurance cieties, which for a long time have for such public or charitable par-been dubious of the expenditure on dental poses as she, in her absolute and of £2,000,000 a year uncontrolled discretion, may think treatment, mostly for the cure of

rheumatism.

fit,

Money For Charities.

Ed- At Tottenham last month The following legacies for chari-{

win Doggett, Silver-street, Ed- excess of Mr Frank Lloyd, of Coomboties, less any sum in House, near Croydon, and Salis-4500 which he may have given to monton, N., was fined 20s. for sell- bury-court. Fleet-street, B.C., and any of these institutions in his ing beef sausages containing boric of Sittingbourne, Kent, chairman Ilfetime: and governing director of Edward Lloyd, Ltd., paper makers, and until their sale in 1918 in control of the Daily Chronicle... and and Llyods News, left unsettled property of the groas value of £679,923, with net personalty, £618,051.

acid. The prosecution said the proportion was small. Doggett $12,000 to the Lloyd Memorial said he was unaware that the (Caxton) Home at Deal.

preservative he used to dust the meat had boric acid. in it. Mr £8,000 to the Instituta of Journ-Robinson, for the County Council, alists' Orphan Fund.

said he was prosecuting hundreds £0,000 to the Newspaper Press of traders in various parts of the

county for the offence.

Fand

Mr. Lloyd left £10,000 to the £6,000 to the Newsvendors directors of Edward Lloyd, Ltd.. Benevolent and Provident. Institu upon trust for the benefit of the tion. Sick Benefit Society of the Sitting- bourne Paper Mills of the com pany and the recreation ground.

£1,000 to the Lord Mayor Tre- loar's Cripples' Hospital and College, Alfon.

£5,500 to the Printers Pension Corporation.

Mr. Lloyd also left £600 to his head gardener, Mark E. Mills, if still in his service, and smaller sums to other servants, and £2,000 to his co-director, Mr. Herbert

£1,000 to Mrs. J. A. Spender, of Chantrey Place, Marden; Kent, William Clarke.

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