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ON THE Move AGAIN

(In the war, the Bible statement
“We ‘have no continuing city,” was
certainly true. Our happy life. at
Warlus and its neightborhood came
to an end, On Friday, September
20th, Division moved to Achicourt,
near Arras, il took the opportunity

to visit some friends in the . 8rd,
Division who were taking our
places. Among them was Charlie

Stewart, Colonel of the P.P.C.L.1.
I had taught him as a boy at school
when T was curate at St, John's
Montreal, We talked over old times
and. the great changes that had
taken place in ‘Canada and the
world sincé we were young. He waa
killed not long afterwards before
Cambrai, I went on through Dain-
ville, where I met the 42nd, Battal-
ion and reached Achicourt in the
evening, My billet was in a very
dirty room Over a little shop. One
corner of the house had been — hic
by a shell, and a great.store | of
possessionns belonging to the
people was piled up on one side of
my room. We knew we were not
going’ to be there long, so we did
not worry about making ourselves
comfortable, I had a view out of
my window of green fields and a
peaceful country, but the town Iv
self had been badly knocked about

On Sunday morning, I got _ the
use of a small ‘Protestant Church
which stood by a stream in the
middle of the town. It was a
quaint place, and. instead... of aa
altar against the Bast wall, there
‘was a high pulpit entered by steps
on both sides. When I,stood up in
it I felt like a jack-in-the-box, }
had a queer feeling that I was
getting to the end of things, and a
note in my prayer book with — tho
place and date, gives evidence to
this. We had not many | commun-
icants, ‘but that was the last Cele-
bration of Holy Communion that:
held in France; on the following
Sunday I was to leave the war for
good. I remember walking away
from the church that day with my
sergeant and talking over the dif-
ferent places where we had _ held
services. Now we were on the eve
of great events, an the old war
days had gone forever, After ~ the
service I started off in my side car
on a missionary journey to the bat-
talions that had now gone __ for-

_ ward, I went off up the road to the

ruined town of Beaurains. Here 1

. found the headquarters of the 16th

Battalion in the cellar of a broken
house. The officers’ mess was a
little shack by the roadside, and
among those present was the scec-
ond-in-command, Major Bell Irving,
who had crossed with me on the
“Andania’. Alas, this was the last
time Iwas to see him, He was kill-
ed in the battle of Cambrai,

THE BITTER CUP

After lunch 1 continued up’ the
long pave road which leads to
Croisilles.:On the way I saw. the
8th, Battalion in an open field,
Near them were a number of Im
perial offices and men of the Brit-
ish Division which was on our
tight, We made our way through
Bulecourt, to Hendecourt, near
which, in trenches, were the | ba-
talions of the ist, Brigade, and
there too Colonel MacPhail had his
headquarters, There was a great
concentation of men in this area,
and the roads were crowded wi:
lorries an limbers as well as toops.
I stayed that night with the engin-
eers, as the weather oloked throat-
ening, The sky grew black ani
Tain began to fall, When one stood
in tht open and Jooked all round ai
the inky darkness everywhere, with
the rain pelting down and knev,
that our men had to carry on as
usual, one realized the bitterness
of the cup which they had to drink
to the very dregs. Rain and = dark-
nes all round them, hardly a mo-
ment’s respite from some irksome
task, the ache In’ the heirt for
home and the loved ones tiere, the
iron discipline of the war machine
Cf wheh they formed a par, tie
chance of wounds and the myster-

fouh crisis called death—these
weer the clements which made
up the blurred vision in their

souls,
The next morning the weather
had cleared and] went on towurds
Cagnicourt. On the journey t was
‘stayed by a lurry which had gone
into the diteh an completely block-
ed the road. There in a fleld the 1st
Ambulance had established tham-
Selves, Later on I managed to get
to Cagnicourt and found my son's
battery in the cellars ef the Chat-
eau. The;
forward if

ee

Being the Reminiscences
Recollections of the Veteran
Chaplain, Canon F. G. Scott

(CopYrighted In Can ada by F. G@, Scott;
Book righte reserved).

T WAR

and

the attack. They gave me a very
pressing invitation to sleep there
and J accepted it. We had a pleas-
ant evening, listsn..% to som: re
mrkably good violin records on
the gramophone. Good mus'e a
such times had a special cnarm
about it, It rine.ded one of tro
old days of concerts and entertsin-
ments, but, at the same time, as
in the background of a dream,
one seemed to Lear beneath the
melodies~the tramp of mighty bat-
talions marching forward into but-
tle, and the struggles of strony
men in the — fierce contests af

war,

GOODBYE TO DANDY

On the following day I went on to
the quarry which was to be our
Battle Headquarters) near Inchiy
Station, from which the 2nd, Diy
ision were moving. I had a view
of the smiling country over whicn
we were to charge. Between us
and that promised land lay the
calan, the crossing of which wis
necessarily a matter of great an-
xiety. It was late at night before
got back to my home at Achicourt
where I had my last war dinner
with my friend, General Thacker,
who with his staff was up to his
eyes in work, The next’ day was
taken up with arranging for the
disposition of our chaplains during
the engagement and about six
o'clock I told ‘Ross to saddle Dan-
dy, and on the dear old — horse,
who was fresh and lively as ever, I
galloped off into the fields.. The

Famous Sign
On Ypres Hall
Goes To McGill

LONDON, June 19.—The famous
British notice board affixed to the
cloth hall and cathedral in the
euins of Ypres “this is holy ground”
has ‘been taken down by the bur-
gomaster and sold to a Canadian
whose name has not been revealed,
according to a Reuter despatch,
It will be presented to (McGill Uni-
versity museum,

Doctors In Dumps
Days Of Big: Fees
Seem Gone Forever

(LONDON, June 19.—“What’s the
matter with Harley Street?” is a
question which, long debated in
Britsh medical circles, has now
slopped. over into the correspond-
ence columns of the London press.

The world-famous London street
of doctors is ina bad way. Its
roms echo to the comlaints of con-
sultants that they are gradually be:
coming empty. Every day in every
way, as ‘Monsieur Coue is made to
say in the jingle to which:his cult
is reduced here, patients are get-
ting fewer and fewer. Harley Street
which has delivered so many gsen-
tences of death itself, appears to be
ir a decline,

‘The most obvious explanation of
the crisis is that consulting physi-
cians and surgeons charge too high
fees, It is declared that the present
fees are higher than.the conditions
warrant; that, while the expenses
of a Harley Street practice are ad-
mittedly great they are less - than
they were two years ago. Pees on
the contrary have remained sation
ary while money is now very much
tighter than it was-and the pubne
cannot afford to pay them,

But at the same time it is. sug-
gested that the trouble really goes

sun had set and the fresh air of

the ride as much asi did and
cleared some trenches -: in good!
style. For nearly three years and i
half we had been companions, He;
had always been full of life ana;
very willing, the envy of those why|
knew . a good horse. when they!
saw him, When I returned in the
twilight and gavo him back tc’
Ross, I said; “You know Ross, Ij
am going into this battle and may,

to have my last ride on dear old
Dandy.” It was my last ride on him
and he was never ridden by any-
one again. After I was wounded ne|

order to avoid his being sold with
other horses .to the Belgians ous
kind A.D.V.S. ordered him to be
shot, He was one of the best friends
IT had in the war and Iam glad
he entered the horses’ heaven as a
soldier, without the humiliation of
a purgatory in some civilian drud
gery.

That night some dombs were
dropped near the station at Arras
on units of the 38rd, Division, which
passed through Achicourt in the
afternoon, causing many casualties
and we felt that the Germans knew
anothér attack was at hand, It was
the last night
France. On the next morning
moved forward to some
on the way to dnchy and T parted
from Headquarters there. Thi
was really the most primitive homs
that Division had ever had. We had
in fact no home at all. We foun
our stuff dumped out in a field
in the general pile. A few tents
work. In a wide trench little shacks
were being run up, and I
be quartered in the same hut as
the field cassier, which was
to be a kind of unton temple for the

clay pit and saw the men working
at my home, but knew that 1
should probably not occupy it. 1
determined to’ go forward to our

a missionary journey, and find out
when the attack was

made, I putinto my pac
ly beef, hard tack, tinned milk and
other forms of nourishment, as well
as a razor, a towel and variow
toilet necessries. On the other side
of the road the signallers had their
horse-lines and our transports were
nearby. I got my side car and bid-
ding good bye to my friends,
for Inchy. We passed down the
road to Queant, where we saw tha
wounded in the field ambulance,
and from there started off through
Pronville to Inchy Station, The
roads as usual were crowded and
the dust from passing lorries was
very unpleasant. We were going

when we suddenlyy heard .a loud
crash behind us which made my
driver stop, I asked him what he
was about and said, “That was
one of our guns, there is nothing
to be alarmed’ at.” “Guns!” he said.
“1 know the sound of a shell when
I hear it. You may like shells but

I don’t, I’m going back.” I said,

{ iver
were getting their guns “You go ahead, if I had a revo
y night in preparation forwith me, 1 would shoot you for Ie

the evening was like a draught of'iHarley Street,” says the
champagne. Dandy seemed to enjoy, earrespondent of a leading English

I had a billet in}a year—his fees also must be high.
we|‘‘In spite of this,” he adds, “every
trenches| hospital surgeon is willing to ac.
cept a reduced fee if he knows that

sultants of both branches

and had to hunt for our possessions] eceive his officers with the great:
est consideration inthe matter of

were pitched and the elprks got to|/Payment,and by the

was tu) Situated,
thus|tant aspect of the question when
he says that types of surgeons are

arvic God nd the service of|{nsufficiently differentiated in this
idtnmon, 1 ‘Tooked down into the|country. There is nothing here com-

ly granted to those who, in addition

‘Hea arte: repared for|Present full notes of a large series
Bare ae eager tere onan of their cases and are attached ‘to

oing to be|% leading hospital. Here after three
some bul-|to six months’ coaching any medi
cal man can obtaina Felolwship of

men who, by dint of years of hard
left|ters of special branches

a sound and unanswerable one, Just

his position. It is not only a quest-

deeper than this. “The crisis in
medical

paper, “‘is temporary insofar as it
has been occasioned by financial
difficulties. But those who under.
stand the gradual evolotion of medi-

cal thought perceive under the ter ‘

porary crisis a more perma
movement, The permanent
to Harley Street can be summed up
in a sentence—wide diffusion’ of
medical and surgical knowledge,
To some extent, the correspondent

lose my leg jn it, and so I wanted! points out, the way is responsible!approximately the game thing.
hundreds ;
efficientithat Mr. Churche’s point was well
physicians.‘taken and that
(vas out of order,
was kept at headquarters until in,carried on the work they had begun,"leave to discuss ‘the point of order

for this .for in the war

of young men ‘became
surgeons and capable
On return to genera) practice they

“There can be no reasonable dou
the correspondent concludes boldi
“that future of medicine belongs;
to the general practitioner,” i
This statement as might be ex-
pected, has put the fat in the fire,
and Harley Street in serrted ranks
advances to justify its existence,
On the question of fees, one con-
sulting surgeon pleads in defense
that a hospital surgeon in London
wilh often work for six hours a day
for no financial reward, and since
his expenses are very high—the
cost of living in Harley Street is
reckoned at a minimum of $20,000

the patient can afford but little.
This latter claim is borne out by
W. Bramwell Booth, head of the
Salvation Army, who says that con
always

rector of the
parish in which Harley street 1s

This consultant raises one impor-

parable with the American system
whereby a fellowship degree is on-
examination,

to passing the can

Royal College of Surgeons and then
it is open to him to stick up his
plate, and his fees as a consultant.

The case for the specialists—the

work, have made themselves mas-
If of their
difficult art, is in many respects
the same, it is hard to see how the
consultant, as he has been = knowr
in England hitherto, can maintain

ion of his own fees, which, while
they may he economically defensi-

the majority of purses today.

sertion from the front line, ‘That
was only one of our guns.” He
looked round and sald, “You — call
that a gun? ‘Look there.” I turned
and gure enough, about a hundred

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threat; Church

H
next year’

overseas federation will consent to

gaining several converts and a
through the valloy by Inchy Copse|!ble are ‘still beyond the reach ‘of)iivey tight! is anticipated when the

~AADIOPHONE

Stones and Appen

PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—Two
recent inventions, one surgical and
the other electrical, enabled a girl
at Samaritan Hospital to undergo
two dangerous operations today
and remain smiling throughout;

‘One wag a spinal anaesthesia.
which numbed the girl's body from
her shoulders — downward, making
her oblivious to physical agony. The
other was the radiophone through
which she heard McCormack, Pad-
crewski and other artists execute
their masterpieces,

The experiment was conducted
‘by Dr, John Howard Frick, in an
effort :o alleviate the mental tor-

endure under the knife,
During the first

GIRL HEARS. IM

Spinal Anaesthesia is Used and While Gall

ient Criticizes Execution of Pianist.

ture which hig patieut, a natyrally\forty-five minutes. Her pulse re-
nervous person, would have had to}

i
operation, for! periment,

oI Bl
UNDERGOING
“OPERATIONS

} amare

mm |

dix are Removed Pat-

remained
With

appendicitis, the girl
oblivious of the surgeons,
the radio receiver strapped over
her ears her only comment was
that. she could hear perfectly the
strains of music coming through
space,

The second operation was for the
removal of gall stones, Through it
ithe patient entertained the nurses
with laughing comment on the
food execution of the artist: who
Was transmitting Chopin for her
She even offered occasional critic-
isms when, she gaid, the pedaling
Was at fault.

‘She was on: the operating table

ned constant
k as

throughout, Dr.
erted at the end of the ex-

To Make Betting
Criminal Offence

OTTAWA, June 19.—An_ amend:
ment to the criminal code design-
ed to make the business of betting
book-making and pool-selling crim-
inal offences was introducer into
the House of Commong when crim.
inal code ammendments: were un-
der consideration. W. C. Good,
(Arogressive |miember: for (Brant,
introduced ‘the ammendment. — It
was applicable not only to those
who actually engaged in betting
book-making pool-selling or wa
ing ‘but also to persons advertis-
jing, printing exhibiting, selling or
ssupplying any information to
anyone engaged in the business
of betting ete., on horse races or
other similar amusements,
Immediately after Mr. Good
moved his ammendment, T. L:
conservative member for
North Toronto rose and protested
that the ammendment twas out of
order because Mr. Good had a mo-
tion on the order paper calling for

Deputy speaker Gordon ruled
the ‘amendment

iMr. Good asked

but the Deputy Speaker told him
that he regretted there could be no
discussion. on a ruling by the chair
‘There were cries of “Bring it up
The bill to amend the
Criminal ‘Code was then given
third reading.
a

AMERICAN FADEIRATION OF
seobaly LABOR IS OPPOSED TO...
INTERNATIONALISM

OINCINNATI, June 17.—Internats
ionalism is coming more and more
to be a vital question before the
American Federation of Labor 3n
annual convention here.

British and Canadian fraternal
delegates are doing all in their
power to get American labor jnto
the fold of the International Feder-
ation of ‘Trade Unions, to whica
European unions belong.

‘They are not only doing personal
work among American delegates,
but they presented all the flowery
advantages of such an affiliation
before the convention in their mes-
sages df greeting today. ;

But the governing heads of
American labor are opposed to af:
filiation under the terms suggest-
ed by Europe,

First, they will not
the automomy of the
Federation.

Second, they object to the high
pér capita tax of the Buropeans

Third, they want to keep out of
Huropean disputes at least unt)
Burope becomes stabilized. g

Fourth, Europe is to far away
to send enough American delegates
to conventions there. to defend
American labor interests.

The American leaders will not
agree to an offiliation unless tha

surrender
American

pass No aws.except by unanimous
vote, instead of the two thirds ma-
jority rule now in effect, which
would place American labor in
minority in deliberations.
iAtheanylsge CONDa Efi ahlokde
But, while the leaders thus op-
pose the plan, the foreigners are

matter comes before the convention
for action,

The foreign proposal was present-
ed in open convention today by
Herbert H. Smith of Mngland, and
Ernest Robertson of Canada. There
was no response at the time, as
the speakers worked {t into their
greetings from the Buropean bod

‘Livingston (Ala.) ifive cent mlues

Women In Politics
An Old Story

NAPLDS, June 19—The women’
vote, the new element in politics
So proclaim the sages. But 2,00
years ago the women in politics
was an.old, old story, That is only
one of the old, old stories that have
been found by recent excavations

To Paint Clouds
And Even Gibraltar
With Lurid “Ads”

LONDON, June 19.: furope’s
“airways” may soon pe “pestered”
with as many advertising signs as
the railway route from New York
to Washington, some ifertile-minded
advertisers predict.

It has ‘boen suggested that ag a
start the air buses between London
and Paris should be decorated with
“ads”, like the London buses. It
the suggestion is adonted the air
liners to Paris and — Brussels will
have a camouflage far more gtrik-
ing than anything develcved during
the war,

As the airways gain in favor
throughout Europe, it is hinted
the clouds should be used for. ad-
vertising purposes go night-flying
passengers may see favorite brands
of pills or shoe polish or dentifrice
emblazoned above or around them
on accommodating cloud masses,

The plan to plaster — tre rock of
Gibraltar | with big “ads”, which
of course, fell through, has nothing
on the present airways advertising
suggestion so far as concerns im-
agination,

Sir John Simon To
Be Taft’s Mentor

LONDON, June 19.—Sir John
Simon, who was attornéy general
who served as one of the British
counsel in the ‘Alaska arbitration
case, is to ibe Chief Justice Taft's
mentor while he is. here.’ He «will
put him in the way of getting that
insight into the working of British
legal procedure which he desires,
and it is‘by no means unlikely
that the unprecedented. sight will
be seen of the head of the highest
American court, accompanied by
a leader of the British Bar, sitting
on 2 ‘bench ,in London magistrate’s
Court an d watching how cases are
disposed of there, )

Taft is expected to go through
all the (British courts from the low-

at Pompeii. Others, old when
that ancient city was young, but
hailed as original every time
the metropolis of the new world
holds a municipal election, have
also been unearthed,

Pompeii’s
anti-vice societies and her health|
organizations, are: dead; t 4
posters and propaganda live after
them. The woman press ag¢nt was
not unknown. The manifesto of
Asellina, apparently one of the
chiefs of Pompeii League of Wo:
men Voters, still shine red on the
walla: “A os with her © friend
Z7myrina, recommends. the canus|
dature of Cajus Lollius Fuseus for
inayor because he will look after

the streets, buildings and amus:
ments for sacred feasts.”
But, even then women could

change her mind, Beneath the ap-
peal of Asellina traces of whose|
electioneering abound on the walls;
of the dead city, the diggers found:!
“Zmyrina objects to her name
ing used and instead recommends:
the candidature of Cajus Julius Po-
lidius.” The only traces of Pom-
pelian writings hitherto found have
been of a political oy obscene na-
ture, bug now the works of the uni-
versal, age old reformers have
been found where they hurled their
sanctimonious warnings and: exhcr
tations at the wicked.
a 2-

$666,000 For Stamps

PARIS, June 19.— Philatelists
paid 400,000 francs for stamps,
most. of them American Confeder-
ato ‘States and local provisional

fourth installment of the auction of
the famous collection of Ferrari du
la Renotiere. The highest price
Wag 25,850 francs. for a
on a letter. !The collection which
half disposed of, already has fetch-
ed ‘$666,000. The collection is said
to have cost: about $1,000,000.
Probably the rarest stamp in the
present sale is @ Hawaiian first
issue two cent blue, Two other

centiy respectively for $9,000 and
$15,000,

——— 2 oe
DOES ARCTIC CURRENT KEEP
CANADA COOL? DRIFT BOT-

TLES SENT OUT TO GET
NSWER

gical board thegan in 1919 a series
of experiments with drift bottles
for the purpose of detecting the
slow consant currents of the Bay

picked up at ‘Azores, around
British Isles and within the Arctic
circle at the north of Norway. The
international committee on
sea fishery investigations has ar-
ranged for an extension of these

lantic coast, Newfoundland, Can-
ada and the United States will co-
operate in a common plan which
involves the setting adrift this sum
mer of over 3,000 bottles along
seven lines,

‘Rach bottle contains a postcard,
for the return of which a reward
is given. IIt is expected that evi-
cence Will be obained for or against
the belief in there being along our

jes. But a response will come and
it will Be vigorous, 4 -

shores an Arctic current that keeps
the climate cool,

|there to represent British

helen and Bar in the Middle. Temple

In Half Collection |*tt*:'4 to, 4 parachue

break, are several of the mere de-
tailg related today by Captain A, W
Stevens,
the world’s parachute jumping re-
issues, at the opening day of the/eord when he

Steven's first “drop” tends to make
pair Of!nig feat one of the nmiost remark-
able in the history of aviation.
suffered no ill
up to the present has been hardly|pazardous trip.

win motored Martin bomber, pilot-
ed by Lieutenant L
the world’s altilude record for thig
particular type of
three passengers, when it attained
copies of this stamp were sold re-|q ceiling of 24,206 feet.

jump.
Bidding my pals goodbye I jumped.
OTTAWA, June 19.— The biolo}toose from its
front of my clothing. Grasping it
with both hands
retain it.

of Fundy, Some of these bottles|at a speed of 120

went across the Atlantic and were}shipped ghe parachute around like
thela

deep}fort to check

experiments up and down the At-l{ think

est to the highest as far as time
will permit, and also will have
conferences with British judges

He is anxious to se how the
administration of justice can be

Most Beautiful Colleg
volved in Court Ca

NEW YORK, June 19.—An arrest
in a ‘breach of jpromise action for
$50,000 has disclosed that Miss Ali-
zon Frances McBain, formerly of
Sherbrooke, Que., who not long ago
was adjudged the most beautiful
college girl in New York, had won
over Mille, Catherine de Cathelin-
eau, daughter of a French papal
count, in a contest for a husband,

John L, Fenny, a lawyer and a
inajor with the United States ex.
pedidionary force in France inar-
ried Miss. McBain — last month.
Yesterday he was arrested on an
order obtained by Mlle. de Cathe-
lineau. -He was released on bond.

In her petition Mile. de Cathell-

CANADIAN GIRL

IS INTERESTED

6 Girl in New York In-
se.

t
$

neau alleges Fenny promised to
marry her in Nice, in December,
1918. A year later at his request
she gays, she came to the Uniteé
‘States, In Apri! last, she alleges,
Feeny told her h« no longer loved
her and advised her to return to
France, Feeny will contest the
suit.

IMirs. Feeny was selected by Coles
Phillips, in April, 1921, as “the
most beautiful debutante” at a con-
test organized by he New York
University Music Club. Her. por-
trait, painted ‘by ‘Mr. Phillps, was
“The New. York University Girl’.
She had come trom _ her home im
Sherbrooke, to attend college here,

Women With Gems
Listed By Crooks
In Robbery Plans

LONDON, June 20..-For a short
time after the armistice most | ot
the noted detectives of Europe
believed that the war had broken
up the notorious gangs of internat-
ional crogks, who through smuggl-
ing and robbery, had cleaned up
handsomely in the five years’ pre-
ceding hostilities. They thought
also that passport obstacles would
militate against the forming again
of such rings. But ‘they are now
convinced that the international
crook survived even a world war.

Millions in Gems Stolen

‘Millions of dollars’ worth of. dia-
monds and other precious stones
are said -to have — been stolen by
members of the different gangs in
the last three years, Some of the
richest hauls have been: made on
express trains between Paris and
the Riviera and Italy, The latest
sensational exploit was the rifling
of forty or'more’ mailbags on an
express out of Paris

speeded up and will probably ann-
ounce the results of his obseryat-,
ions in an address he iwill deliver]
‘hefor the American. Bar Associat-;
ion in California in the fall, Lord}
Shaw of Dunfermling distinguish-|
ed ‘Scottish judge, will algo be!
juris-]
prudence,

In addition to his legal jinvestig-?
ations a, formidable programme of
addresses. has been arranged for
Taft including a speech at Pilg-
rims Dinner, a fourth of July orat-
ion before the American Society,
and an adress to the British Ben-

Hall, Oxford and Aberdeen uniy-
ersities will confer honorary deg-
rees upon him '

LEAPS IN PARACHUTE FROM
PLANE IN TERRIFIC GALT.
DAYTON, Ohio, June 19.—Lash
ed and whipped about by a 120
mile an hour gale more than four
and a half miles | above earth on
the verge of suffocation, caused by
loss of his oxygen tank, and com-
pelled to cling to ropes and straps
for fear
that a whirling cross current
might weaken and cause them to

aerial photographer,
McCook Field, who yesterday broke

descended 24,206
feet.
‘The fact

that it was Captain

He
effects from his

The plane in
which Captain Stevens ascended to

Wade, broke

ship, carrying

‘Captain Stevens was reluctant
to discuss details of his experience.
“When the plane ~ reached the
eciling’ he said“ I made ready to
‘As near as I could judge
we were over’ Springfield, Ohio.
“The ‘opening of — the parachute
caused the oxygen tank to ‘become
fastenings in the

I endeavored te

“The wind which was travelling
miles an hour,

jackstraw, I was forced to use
both hands on the ropes and straps
whic held me to the chute in an ef-
oscillation, which
threatened to weaken the supports
It was then that I lost the tank,
it fell somewhere near
Springfield, Ot was an experience
I sall never forget, Before settling
down to a lower altitude i thought
my time had come as I was nearly
suffocated due to the rareness of
the atmosphere, Dropping out of
the gale into calmer atmosphere
below, I quickly recovered, how-
ever,

“Tlanded nat Jamestown, approry-
imately 25 miles from where I left

{mail sacks have

said, erroneously to have carried
several British diplomatic pouches.
The Foreign Office. here dentus
that any such mail was
train,
The greatest care is always tak-
en in Sending abroad official malls.
During the war and since offical
been carefully
guarded by couriers who never
leave the compartment (always
first class and sealed to ordinary
pasengers) in which the | official
mail is carried, These particular
mail sacks are porous to let water
in, so that they will sink if the
vessel on which they are carried
ig wrecked or is raided by pirates.
‘An American woman js said to
have helped a British crourier throw
several sacks overboard © when a
certain liner was. captured by
German submarine in Greek wat-
ers. 4 >
The record of robberies. on the
famous expresses of Paris. in the
last few years shows that most of
them are carried out to seize the
jewels of wealthy women journey-
ing to the South of France,

Sod e“y News Scanned

The crooks ur their stoo) pigeons
keep careful. tabs on all reputedly
wealthy women travelling during
the ‘Riviera season. They watch the
society announcements in the daily
press to see when. the reputed pos-
sessors of a famous necklace or dia-
monds are about to travel and they
easily spot the sleeping compart-
ments of such persons. In a care-
less moment the dowager or the
society queen {s divested of her
necklaces and brooches. Severa’
times iately on French ‘expresses
they have been held up at the point
of revolvers while their jewels were
taken, ‘

Of the robberies in London in re-
recent months, the biggest —hauis
have been in diamonds and other

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5 a
McCORMACK NEARLY WELLL,

BALTIMORE, June 19.—In_ dis-
cussing plans for his trip to Bur-
ope ‘this summer Archbishop Mich-
ael J. Curley said that while ab.
road he ‘would pay his respects to
the Pope and that he jwould also
call upon Cardinal Mercier in Mal-
ines, Belgium. The Archbishop
will start from’ Baltimore for hig
voyage abroad on June 28,

‘Archbishop Curley expects to
meet John, McCormack, the cele-
brated Irish tenor, one of his clos.
ests friends, while he is abroad.

‘McCormack is now recuperating
at his country place in England,
and in a letter to the archbichop,
received a few days ago he said
that he was recovering rapidly
from the illness that threatened
to destroy his voice,

“John iwrites me,” the archbish-
op said “that he consulted a fam-
ous London throat specialist and
that after a careful examination
he was told that his voice was in
perfect shape and that the disease!
had not touched his vocal cords,

the plane, The descent took juet
uhirty. iniuutes,

He is getting well fast and ts
waiting for me,”

idiudey iad «

on the}tinner she wisheg to give.

Women Winsome
And Pretty, Life
Of Dinner Party

LONDON, June 19—‘Women
who enjoy entertaining know how
often the best-thought-out dinner
partieg fall unaccountably © flat.
On the other hand a little circle
of peope who meet more iby chance
than by careful arrangement may
create that atmosphere” of good
talk and goodfellowship which
means that every one enjoys him-
self and that the dinner party hag
been a successful one.’’.

So writes a woman correspond-
ent of the London Times, and she
adds:

“It is safe to say that one ele-
ment for a successful dinner party
isthe presence ofa _ beautifu,
woman, and, that with her present
no party can prove an absolute fail.
ure; so it is always advisable to
have a sprinkling of decidedly
pretty and well-dressed women. If
the dinner party is to prodtce
good and amusing talk tha women
invited ‘should not only be pretty

which was|ibut had better be witty and tactful

ag ‘well.

“The hostess must make up her.
mind beforehand what kind of
if she
is aiming at general conversation,
six is the perfect number, and eight
the limit for good general talk,
Once outside these numbers, con-
versation will be carried’ on in
cowples and each guest will turn to
his neighbor automatically. The
number fourteen should be care-
fully avoided, as in the event of
htere being an absentee tha fatal
thirteen may cost a gloom on the
superstituous,

“For the small dinner party, if
the sexeg are not equally divided,
a proportion of four men and two
women will be found a good one,
of five men and three women if the
number ig to be eight. The balt
of conversation will be easily kept
up on all sides, At the small din-
ner it is advisable that all shoulg
know each other well. The pre-
sence of one stranger, unless he be
particularly distinguished . and
therefore can be treated as a guest
of honor, may result in hie feeling
outside the talk.

“On the question of age it is dit.
ficult to dogmatize. ‘Some old
people are extremely agreenble.
They contribute greatly from their
stores of experience and memory
and wit. On the. other hand, very
young ones, who have not yet
found their feet socially are apt te
a distinct drawback ata _ small
party and to cramp the style of
conversation. Generally the most
successful dinners are composed of
contemporaries and friends whose
circle of acquaintance is more or
less the same. :

“Por the small dinner. it 13 e8-
sential that the hostess should ask
‘people who are known to be agree-
able to each other. For the large
one he need only avoid seating un-
sympathetic giests together. In
thig matter she must go to a con-
siderable amount of trouble.

“At any large dinner party there
are certain to be some _ people
whom every one would like to sit
next to; there are equally certain
to be one or two who are less agree.
able as neighbors. Unless hus-
hand and wife are known to dine
out separately, it is unpardonable
to ask one without the other. The
hostesg should always try to place
her most difficult guests next to
some one of sufficient good nature
and breeding to insure that an at-
tempt a pleasant ‘conversation is
made, A

To compensate for a difficult
neighbor on one side she should
place one of her more attractive
and delightful guests on thé other,
Generally speaking, she must try to
but people together ‘who are known
to be friends or who are likely to
‘bd’. congenial. Hnowkxh trouble ta
not taken on his head as a rule.
“But however carefully shé has
laid héy plans or mada otit her
party, the real secret of success
ful entertaining Mes in the hostess
herself, A woman of perseverince

social success by the people site
collects for her dinners. Thay ard
prod

not likely, however, to nee
| Spontaneous and easv convérsation
unless she herself {s a woman of
natural charm and of ome b

Nancy of ming” gy

) *

May, no doubt, achieve a certain .