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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1928.

THE PASSING OF THE SCIENCE OF A HOLIDAY

VENETIAN SHAWL..

A TRIUMPH FOR “SPORTS" DRESS,

Venice, Aug. 15.

CHEERFULNESS FROM FRESH

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"Lot your holidays be a gradus- ted revolt from civilisation, start-

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Venice, Aug. 23..

English visitors to Venice are ating plano and ending forto." Thanks to a happy initiative on

This is the moral of the Preal- the part of the Government, word one with the Venetians in deplor

ing the passing of the graceful dential address on the Science and went out all over the country somo time ago that an exhibition of the Venetian shawl. The shops are Art of Holidays delivered to the still selling gally coloured ones, at East Yorkshire and North Lincoln- ancient costumes onco Worn in

the British every town and village, should be prices which would keep the average sbire Branch of

Venetian working class family, for Medical Association by Dr. FaC. held in Venice, and that there the best past of the dull season, Eve, of Hull, published in the should be a revival of the old when tourists are not; but these British Medical Journal. songs and dances.

aro bought and worn by tourists, This news led to much search-mostly from the Now World, who Dr. Eve explains that he has ing in old chests and boxes, and have broken the tradition as to wasted so much time and money the grandparents of the present colour, and, it is hinted, do not over holidays that he may now bo generation wore called in to tell know how to put them on to ad- able to help others in mapping out what they know of almost forget-vantage. The real Venetian shaw, what he calls their annual casOL ten costumes.

black, with handsome fringes, is in the wilderness of work. These efforts have brought to passing away. The war dealt it a Venice a throng of persons, some death blow; bobbed hair, "sporta": "The Englishman has still a lot of them from far away Sardinia clothes, and the standardisation of to learn about the art of holidays," and Sicily, from the islands of feminino fashions is giving it a he says; "richly has he earned Istria, and Lagosta, and from all hasty and deplorable burial.". the taunt that he takes his plea- the little mountain and sen const

sures sadly. A Society for the Preservation of towns of the Veneto and the Alto

"Let us get clearly in our minda 1 Loath, Adige. The groups are mostly the Shawl does at various times

Song thrush. made up of young people, but organise competitions and award that healthy holidays for the

10 Imbocilo. among them are a few older folk prizes to the wearers of the most sedentary city dwellor" are, noiz A cwo-handed animal.

shawls, Then, every longer a semi-luxury," he states. who have enjoyed the opportunity graceful

necessary antidote 16 Positive terminal of an electric

18 Fragrant smolis. of wearing once more the dress Venetian working girl who can pro-aphor are

customary in their duce or borrow a to speclinen to the body-wrecking civilised life,

parades in it for one day, and again and they should be spent with 16 Knowledge. Venice looks like the city of tradi- that end in view, preferably in an 18 You. tion. But the moment the prizes Variegatul Procession.

are awarded the shawl is put away approximation to that state of ma-19 Opposite of to win,

Lure of savagery for which our 120 Tolerates. The Plazza of San Marco was in the family obert and there it re- bodies were evolved, and in which 21 Part of most common verb. the scene of the first evening remains till the next competition is presentation, and the Public Gar-announced. dens the second, yesterday after-

The

newspapers, the pussed procesalon noon. The round the Plazza, afterwards fil-classes, many employers of labour ing through the Piazzetta. The lament the passing away of this procession was Interspersed with dainty garment, which gives: grace bands, that from the little Re-lu every woman who has mastered public of San Marina being one of the art of draping it as it should be draped. But the tradition is the best.

dead; the "sports" dress has Wonderful interesting represen: triumphed; lamentations are in fations were given of many the cities, with their standards vain. The once universal shawl and their "valletti," the men who has transferred itself to foreign keep up the tradition of the an-shoulders and lost much in the cient times, wearing the old cos- tume of the officers of the Com-

which was young days.

mune.

I

of

Hero was Florence, brave in hes white and scarlet, and long- folded head coverings, and men with silver trumpets which they sounded as they walked,

Assisi Loo, her men in blue and red, had trumpets, and during the trip to the Gardens by boat, their notes floated over the water.

Rome was stately; Genoa full of and Ferrarra dignity, Modena

wore white perruques, and carried heavy maces dating back to the period of Ducal sovereignty; and ever loyal Trieste was most im- prensive.

Sardinia's contribution included the representation of a wedding party which rode on horseback

There were 'dugs in the show, sheep and the shepherd, and a car laden with fruit and drawn by

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LETTER GOLF.

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1-The idea of letter golf into A little girl, aged five, from Macerata, gave 21 astonishing change one word to another and performance in an old folk dance, do it in par, a given number of Thus to change COW to than strokes. with a young twice her height. The girls and Hen, in three strokes, COW. young men in their brilliant cos- HOW HEW HEN.

2-You can change only one tumes, with flowers in their hair, and wearing earrings and gold letter at time.

3-You, must have a complete chains made a wonderful picture.

Most unusual of all were the word, of common naage, for each jump. Slang words and abbrevia- dresses of the men from Lagostations don't count.

4-The order of letters cannot They wore long red robes belled.

at the waist and their heads were be changed. crowned with a sort of turban, in One solution is printed on another which were inserted pieces of re-page. flecting glass.

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The Middle-aged.

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It is the middle-aged men and women of the cities who most need expert guidance in the selection of their holidays, he believes.

"Our over-civilised middle-aged degenerates pride themselves on being the final flower of evolution clares. "In reality they have lost and the heir of all ages," he de sight of some of the main objects. of life and have forgotten their sense of true values in their chase after money and knowledge.

"Their natural feeling of joy in life and love and laughter has died of inanition. Some evoke it artificially by the aid of alcohol, but, excopt on a small scale, this policy proves disastrous in the long run. Fresh air alone pro- duces cheerfulness."

And then, when a holiday has become urgently necessary to such a man, his first and only im- pulse and inspiration, is the sea- side.

"Here," anys Dr. Eve," he is pro- lected from his own company by masses of fellow creatures, and the whole place specialises in providing amusementa-or rather pastimes for those who have no minds or interests by which amuse themselves,"

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He explains that the seaside is the worst place for sluggish livers, and that it is necessary on arrival to eat sparingly for the fat few days and to graduate exercise.

Heather-clad Moors.

Here are a few extracts from his prescriptions for men of dif- ferent types:

23 Cured thigh of a bog, 25 Undraped figures. 20 Robust

27 Abbreviation for "company," 20 Poretoken.

80 Grammatical mark represented

by two dota.

a1 To obliterato.

33 Three-legged stand for support.

ing a,ten kettle. 34 Central part of an amphitheatre. 34 Antal an

noon in its first quarter.

Vortical

37 Figures of the shape of the

1 Branchod." 2 To cludo.

3 Any long mark. 4 Custom,

Sovonth note in scalo. d Loves exceedingly.

7 Broods of pheasants.

# Also,

9 Person under age.

11 To attempt.

12 Equilibrium,

Ia A section,

10 Oloth made of flax.

17 Types of poetry,

20 Commanded.

22 A colourless, oily hydrocarbon.

23 One of two equal parts into

which an object may be divid od (pk).

24 Bittor drugs.

25 A head wind.

20 To lift.

28 English coin,

30 Measure for fresh herring.

32 Portion of a circle. 183 Tiny golf device.

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"I fancy it is a good plan to ten change one's hobbies every years or so," he adds, "for they all involve skilled muscular "The middle-aged sedentary, ons executed by the nerve cells very person should take no of the brain, so that each alcohol unless he has earned it hobby develops new paths and handsomely by exercise. His un-reflexes in the brain. nual holidays should be spont among the heather of the high

The engine and four carriages left the track, but no one was in-moors. jured.

Good Characters.

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It is stated that the Home Secretary's recommendation Aa an "act of pure clemency" made after considering (with the the Home Secretary has recon- judge who tried the case) all the mended the reduction of sentences circumstances and the previous passed on eight young. Northum-good characters, of the miners.

Wan. Muckle, Wm. Baker and berland miners who were found guilty of attempting to wreck the Oliver Sanderson, who were sen tenced to four yeura penal ser Flying Scoleman.

The men were charged with mall-vitude, will be released on license on ciously displacing a rail at Cram-September 1, 1928; the sentences lington on May 10, 1926, during the of Jas. Ellison and Wm. Gordon general strike. But for a warning Stephenson will be reduced from conveyed to the driver of the Fly six years to four years, and the ing Scotsman by a patrol the lives sentences of Arthur Wilson, Thos. of 270 passengers would have been Roberts and Robert Harbottle from endangered.

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· FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WE NOW KNOKI WAT CHICLE HARRY AND AIR. HIGGINS

ARE HELD CAPTIVES BY A SAVAGE TRIBE OF HEADHUNTERS 2007 WHAT THEIR FATE WILL BE, [TIME ALONE WILL TELL-HOWEVER, UNCLE HARRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF AIMSELF IN SITUATIONS SEEMINGLY: WORSE THAN ・THIS. ··

BETTY! BETTY!

DON'T RUN

LIKE THAT.

STAND STILL!!

SAU-SH-NEVER DO ANYTHING

LIKE THAT WHEN YOU SEE A BIG

ELEPHANT COMING

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For those who have grown stout, "short, sharp, exercise, such as badminton and tennis are the best, with plenty of cloud-gazing or reading on their backs on the heather moors."

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"I speak from decades of perience of golf, of cruising and racing small yachts on our south- west coast, of winter sports in the Alps, and of fly-fishing: now these seem likely to be eclipsed by the fascination of the rational study Not only, my health but my work of the habits of our common trees. has been the better for these varied The delightful Mediterranean muscle-brain activities, and Norwegian cruises in large, luxurious liners provido rest and "By cultivating many hobbies ever-changing scenes, as well as there is less danger of drifting that excellent prescription, the into that distressful state of being society of congenial strangers, cut off from work and having no which brings the best out of hobby."" neurasthenics and others."

Boat sailing is described as a

"I did not marry her-I married}" healthy training for those who can stand wet and exposure. But the the family," said a husband at Injunction follows: "Do not take a Lambath Police Court.

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