The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], October 12, 1919, SOCIAL SECTION, Page THIRTEEN, Image 36

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LONDON LIMES HAS
Friend of Prince of Wales
“Pinched” for Speeding.
Lord Cunliffe Had
“Guests” Arrested
By LADY MARY
London, September 27.—Year in and !
year out there is one portion of my daily ;
round that I never shirk—and this is
carefully persuing the “personal” adver
tisements in the “Agony Column” of the
London Times. I daresay you have very
much the same sort of thing In your own j
local press, but the “personals” in “The |
Thunderer” (as this old London paper I
* used to be called), to me have a very
special piquancy and attraction about
them, and I turn to their own particular
column every day just as regularly as
f sip my tea before I feel the least like
getting out of bed.
Today the Times is well worth a glance,
if only for two advertisements. One ap
peals to the romantic senses, the other
to those with sporting proclivities. No.
1 runs thus:
“Will the vision In pink and
white standing on Mnidenhend
platform last Friday as ex
press train went throngh station
he so .kind as to communicate with
Box S, Hopeful, The Times.’*
Tt seems so easy to visualize the tan
talizing damsel who appealed to tl»e ad
vertiser and whom it was impossi&Ie to
do more than glimpse as his train passed
through the station. One wonders If the
‘pink and white” vision will respond.
The other advertisement is as follows:
“Larly with n weakness for
hacking horses is badly In the
««up through no one’s fanlt but
her own. Will someone with a
fMlow feeling lend 300, repayable
according to luck; minimum. fcS
monthly: no seenrity to offer.
Reply V, Box P. The Times.”
Concerning such a case as this com
ment seems needless, but one wonders if
someone with a “fellow feeling*’ will ar
rive and lend that despairing and plain
tive punter the requisite thousand dol
lars!
T see that the Hon. Herbert Edward
Eaton, younger son of Lord Cheylesmore,
fr
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WHEN YOU WAKE
UP DRINK GLASS
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Wash poisons and toxins from
system before putting
food into stomach.
Wash yourself on the inside before
breakfast like you do on the outside. This
is vastly more important because the skin
pores do not absorla impurities into the blood,
causing illness, while the bowel pores do.
For every ounce of food taken into the
stomach, nearly an ounce of waste material
must be carried out of the body. If this
waste is not eliminated day by V day it
quickly ferments and generates poisons,
.t'aees and toxins which are absorbed or
sucked into the blood stream, through the
lymph ducts which should suck only nour
ishment.
' A splendid health measure is to drink,
before breakfast emth day, a glass of hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone phos
phate in it, which is a harmless way to
'frash these poisons from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and bowels; thus eleansing, sweet
ening and freshening the alimentary canal
before eating more food.
A quarter pound of limestone phosphate
costs but very little at the drug store, but
is sufficient to make anyone an enthusiast
on inside bathing.
BEPREITY! TURN
1 GRAY HAIR DARK
Try Grandmother’s Old Fa
vorite Recipe of Sage Tea
and Sulphur
Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get thi3 mixture was to make it at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays._by asking at any
drug store for “Wyeth's Sage and Sul
phur Compound," you will get a large
bottle of this famous old recipe, im
proved by the addation of other in- !
gredieotg,at a small cost.
Don't stay gray! Try it! No one
ca|i possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does it so naturally
and evenly. You dampen a sponge o«
soft brush with it and draw this
thi
beautifully dark, glossy and atrective.
—Adv; *
has been retting into trouble about his
automobile. This Is the ninth time with
in a year that the Hon. Herbert has been
convicted of reckless driving, and now
he has had his license suspended for six
months.
Young Eaton, who is about 54 years
of age, and a subaltern in the Grenadier
Guards, is in that pleasant and irrespon
sible set of youths known in Oxford and
in London as "The Prince’s lot.” He is
very popular and full of “go,” and like
the Prince of Wales, a daring and rather
reckless motorist. This last exploit that
seems to hare put a stop upon his ener
gies for a few months at any rate, ap
pears to have been a little matter of
running his Rolls Royce jUong a country
road at 50,miles an hour, and coming
into contact with the off side front wheel
of a motor lorry. Both vehicles were
badly damaged, but by a miracle no one
was hurt. The motor lorry- driver said
he was only going at 20 miles an hour,
and that he was sounding his electric
hooter before he arrived at the comer
at which the collision took place. Mr.
Eaton, he said, as soon as he picked
himself out of the debris of his car, pro
ceeded to insult him (the lorry driver) by
telling him he was unfit to drive a per
ambulator. This seemed to affect the
soldier’s sense of right and wrong much
more than the mere matter of Impact. I
am told that no sooner was young Eaton
convicted than he sent telegrams to
all his friends and a cable to his royal
highness in Canada, announcing with no
little pride that he had “done It again.”
and he was now “hung up" for the rest
of the season.
PECULIAR HOSPITALITY
Another rather amusing case in which
a peer was involved was that of Lord
Cunliffe. who had two men arrested for
doing damage to his plum trees jn his
orchard at Epson. His lordship sai<l that
the men were beating the tree and steal
ing the fruit, and that they had no busi
ness to be in the orchard, anyhow. The
prisoners, on the other hand, declared
that they had been invited by Lord Cun
liffe to his residence on a certain day.
As it rained on that occasion, however,^
they postponed their visit for a week,
when they thought that an invitation to
his house included the freedom of his
orchard, and they considered themselves
very hardly used by an accusation of
stealing plums being made against iheip.
They realized, however, now that they
had spent a night in the cells, that
they were presuming on his hosp’taiit \
and thev hoped his lordship would lvt
them off.
ACTRESS A RECLUSE
T heard the ether day for the lira* t;*r»e
in several years something concerning
Mrs. Brown Potter, the famous Am»rrsn
x.ct?esr and beauty, who has made Eng
land her home for more than a decade.
The last time I saw Mrs. Potter she uas
living in a lovely eld-fashumed h«.usc
called "Ye Olde Fft-idge House” at
Staines, and at that time she was tak
ing a deep interest in all matters con
cerning Buddha and the religious be
liefs of that sect. She wore strange ori
ental draperies and was seldom seen out
side dhe boundary of her own house and
grounds. At the beginning of the war,
however, her mother, who had lived with
her for 12 or 14 years, died, and Mrs.
Potter who was most devotedly attached
to this wonderful and interesting old
lady, found she could no longer live in
the home which was so closely associated
with Mrs. Urqubart and her home life.
She therefore found an interesting and
very beautiful house in the Island cf
dvernsev. which she has enrfehel with
ler rare talent for furnishing and equlp
urg a residence.
She has now made her home perma
nently on this charming channel island.
*nd says that she will never leave it.
^er house is near to that in which Vic- '■
or TTuero lived and died, and she has a <
rnrden that is said to be one of the love- 1
iest in the whole island. She^has taken
o playing the violin recently, and I am
old is quite a creditable performer. Her
lair is now silvery ■white, and she says
:lie last thing she ever ^ants to dn is
o enter a theatre or live in a city again.
Fler only recreation is visiting the one
hotel on the Island, where an admir
able orchestra of Snanish musicians dis
courses the very latest music by De
bussy, Stravinsky and other modem com
posers. She says she has mo regrets
or lons?lngs concerning the world.
H seems a strange ending to a life
that was so full of amazin»r romance and
adventure. Cora Brown Potter was at
nne time the most beautiful as well as
the most talked-of woman of her dav.
She has always been a law unto herself
and has pursued her own line of life. To
think of her now in the autumn of her
clave living almost a solitary life In the
midst of an island quite cut off fnom
t^e every-day world of fashion and ex
citement seems almost an anomaly. But,
like everything she does, it is picturesque
and just a little sensational.
(Copyright, 1919.)
What Germany Wants
Harry A. Franck, In Harper's Magazine.
At Pfaffenhofcn, still posing as a
"food controller,” X dropped In on a
general merchant. The ruse served as
an opening to extend conversation here
even better than it had in the smaller
town behind. The Kaufmann was al-'
most too eager to impress me, and
through me America, with the necessity
of replenishing his shrunken stock. He
reasserted that fats, soap. rice, soup ma
terials, milk, Cocoa, and sugar were,
most lacking and in order named. Then
there was tobacco, more scarce than any
of these, except perhaps fats. If only
America would send them tobacco! In
other lines? Well, all sorts of clothing
materials were lacking, of coarse:
they had been hoping ever since the
armistice that America would send
them cotton. People were wearing all
from his show-window what looked
like a very coarse cotton shirt, but
which had a brittle feel, and spread ,
it out before me. It made of net- ,
ties, (sometimes the lengthwise threads ,
were cotton and the cross threads net- !
tie. which made a bit more durable
stuff, but he could not say much even
for that. As to the nettle shirt before
me, he sold it for fourteen marks be
cause he fefuesed to accept on
such stuff. But what good was such
a shirt to the peasants? They wear It
a few days, wash it once and—kaput,
finished, it crumples together like
burned paper. Many children can no
longer go to school: their clothes have
been patched out of existence. During
the war there wer% few marriages in
the rural districts, because, the boys
being away to war, a fair division of
the inheritances could not be made even
when the girls found matches. Now
many of them want to marry, but most
of them find it impossible because they
cannot get any bed-linen or many of
the other things that are necessary to
astablish a household. ,
Indigestible Securities
“Jasper," In I-esile's.
During the past two months, and espe
cially the past six weeks, an enormous
amount of new securities has' been
created, covering all kinds of Industrial
enterprises. Some of these have been
promoted by those who expect to un
load on a protable basis, on an eager,
expectant, excited public. Some of this
unloading has been done, and the pro
moters have reaped large profits.- One
concern that bought a candy business at
a fair price immediately capitalised it
at twice the purchase figure, and pro
ceeded to boost the stock and is now
selling it to the public at a handsome
figure. The business may justify it but
it is too early to say.
After every great rise, manipulation
of this kind occurs, and when the de
cline sets in, the public finds itself
loaded with a mass of what the late
J. P. Morgan once properly designated
as "indigestible securities." This is a
good time to keep away from securi
ties of this character, to take a profit
and put the proceeds in the well estab
lished dividend payers, the kind of stocks
least likely to be afTected by any serious
disturbance. *
/ In Real Life
From the Louisville Gourier-Joumal.
“Some times there isn't much romance
m uf*"
“First time I ever laid eyes on' my
husband I thought he was the biggant
chump I had ever seen.”
On Way to See Other Half of World
cWBtSo
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MW HERALD .
LINOSAy
Miss Herald Lindsay, amateur globe trotter, wild game hunter, actress
and twenty-year-old beauty, of Johannesburg, South Africa, stumbled across
the United States and New York city in her world travels and is now on her
way to Egypt via Paris. While at the coast she played a leading part in
one of the big movie productions at Los Angeles. She is the owner of a
leopard skin the former wearer of which she shot in the wilds of India.
Miss Lindsay’s father is a wealthy diamond merchant of South Africa and
can indulge his daughter’s every whim.
Tires and Hills
W. Slauson, M. E., in Leslie’s.
It is hills which tell the story of tiro
vear, and it is only necessary to bring
simple engineering mathematics to hear j
© discover that the resident of a hilly
country subjects his tires to harder
vork, day in and day out, than the
peed fiend of the level roads. It is difTl
ult for the latter to average more than
0 miles per hour, and in so doing 20 I
horsepower is required to force his car
through the resistance of the air, with
the top and windshield up. But let that
same 4000-pound car maintain this speed
on a & per cent grade (or a 6-foot rise
for slightly more than every 100 trav
eled), and the horsepower required more
than doubles, and becomes 41 for the
same speed.
But 5 per cent grades are down hill
compared with fome of the hills found
in many sections of the country. The
man living: in a section whero 15 per
cent grades abound uses 45 horsepower
at his rear wheels every second of the
time that^he travels up them at 25 miles
per hour—or nearly 10 times the power
required to travel on the level at that
speed. And if we consider the man who
rushes a 30 per cent grade (or a 30-foot
rise for every K4 feet traveled!, we find
that his rear tires are called upon to
transmit 82 horsepower in the case of a
4000-pound car, or 43 horsepower if the
car is half of that weight.
Even no relief is offered the tires when
the car is traveling down hill, for then
the brakes must retard the speed, and
the fabric is reversed. The power is ab
sorbed by the brakes, but must first be
transmitted from the road through the
tires, and the latter, therefore, still act
as a belt under these changed condi
tions.
In likening the reaT tires of a car to
a belt transmitting from 5 to 50 horse
power continuuosly, whenever the car
is run, we must consider the more fa
vorable conditions under which the lat
ter operates. In the latter case the
power is applied smoothly with no
great variations, the pulley or flywheel
r
surface over which It moves Is polished
smooth, and there are no stones, bumps
or ruts to cut the fabric. Verily, even
the poorest tire appears as a marvel of
scientific manufacturing skill when the
abuse to which it is subjected is con
sidered.
The frequency of spontaneous combus
tion in bales of cotton was explained to
the French Academy of Sciences by G.
Le Roy as due to the iron bands with
which they are bound. A shock may
break one of the bands, when it becomes
at once a perfect Hertzian resonator, and
ttie contact of metallic circles produces
self-induction to help to cause a circuit
of sufficient capacity and spark in the
presence of much atmospheric electricity.
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Worse Than the Lover
"What worse,’' demanded the lovely
girl, disgustedly, “than a man who
will make love to you, in spite of all
you can doT’
It seemed to demand a reply, so the
other lovely girl said:
“One who won’t."
Widow Preferred to Meet
Death at Home
“For many years T suffered from stom
ach trouble. All the doctors I tried helped
me but little. All said I would have to go
to hospital and be operated on for gall
stones or I would not live mueh longer. 1
told them I preferred to meet death at
home. One day I picked up an advertise
ment of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and since
taking a course of it more than a year age
have not had a single pain in my stomach,
have good appetite and can eat anything."
It is a simple, harmless preparation that re
moves the catarrhal mucus from the intes
tinal tract and atlays the inflammation
which causes practically all stomach, liver
and intestinal ailments, including appendi
citis. One dose will convince or money re
funded.
Greene Drug Co., Hagan-Dunlap Drug ©o
and druggists everywhere.—Adv.
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