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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
ARE FAIRY TALES HARMFUL? D.?
London Is Aeitated over Their Use by
the Youngest Readers and
Elementary Schools
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Dec. 9.--Are fairy books
mt reading for elementary scholars?
This question has been raised by
the duchess of Somerset, who, on Wis
iting the village school at Maiden
Bradley, found the children reading
fairy tales of the type of THE Sleep
ing Beauty" At meeting of the mere
board Of guardians, where the question
of education was discussed, the duch-
ess expressed the opinion that 1t would
be much more useful If, instead of fill
ing the children's minds with such non
sense, tales were read to them about
Julius Caesar and other great men.
1t appears. however. that the teach
ers at Maiden Bradley school sin in
good company. In the infant schools
of the London county council the fol-
lowing among other books of a similar
nature are read as class lessons:
"Aesops Fables" Daisy and Her
Dolly" Beauty and the Beast" "Gul-
liver's Travels and "A Book of Fairy
Tales"
An official of the London county coun-
ell, in defending this class of reading.
told me it was deliberately selected for
children of a certain age as being de-
cidedly useful, and on the whole more
beneficial than heavier and more in
forming books, or even an authentic
history of the great Julius Caesar
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
MOST LUXURIOUS TRAIN
FOR ROYAL TOUR OF INDIA
KINGS REPRESENTATIVE TO
TRAVEL IN STYLE
Coaches and Equipment Built for Trip
of Prince and Princess of Wales
Are Without Equal in the World.
Two Other "SpeciaIs"
Special Gable to The Herald,

Special Gable TO The Herald
CALCUTTA, Dec. 9.-The Indian
government has built for the prince
and princess of Wales for their tour
of India a train in respect to size and
luxury without equal in the world. 1t
has been made from the designs of III.
Kelway- -Bamber, the carriage super
intendent of the East Indian railway
and has been built from raw materials
in India by native labor The best
Workmen of Bengal, Bombay Burmah
and the Punjaub shared in its con-
struction, so that the making of this
regal train was matter of imperial
interest.
The train is composed of nine enor-
nous saloon carriages, seven of which
are 70 feet long. about IL feet longer
than the main line sal, ons in use on
trunk railways, each of these car
riages being borne on twelve wheels.
Each coach weighs forty-flve tons. The
whole train is $50 feet long and weighs
approximately 375 tons.
Each carriage, whether ii be royal
day saloon, boudior. sleeping saloon or
staff dining or cooking carriage. is Il
model of perfection in its own line.
Each connects with the next by means
of a gangway, and it is possible to
walk from end to end Of the train.
The external sunshades-so common ON
Indian railways-haVe been abandoned
in this train, materials of great heat
resisting properties having been sub
stituted for the body side panels and
the roofs. the latter being of the domed
or "clerestory" patterns.
Everything that could he introduced
for relieving the tedium of long jour
ney in hot country is to be found
in this train. For the first time full
sized baths. in specially arranged bath
rooms, with shower baths and douches,
have been added to the rapidly increas-
ing list of travelling comforts. The
kitchens and refrigerating chambers
are elaborate. AS safeguard against
fire the kitchens are fitted with hy-
drants and tanks containing three tons
of water are situated on the roof of
the cars.
In addition to the royal train there
have been built two other Specials" +"
which, carrying the huge native staff
which will wait on the prince and
princess wherever they go, precede the
royal train.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
AMERICA is TOO
SWIFT FOR GAME
ISTlNGUlsHED AUTHOR CANNOT
HIT THE PACE
Dinners, suppers, Speeches, in Endless
Variety, Prove His Daily Experl-
ence, and He Nearly Succumbs to
the Rapidity of the Going
speeial Cable 10 INC Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON, Dec. 9.--"I am afraid that
I have not returned to England in the
best of health. The American goes fast,
but he makes his guests 90 still faster.
The pace by which the American kills
himself compares in velocity with the
pace by which he kills his foreign guest
only as the pace of a scent trolley car
compares with that of a siXty-horse-
power Mercedes automobile. Dinners,
suppers, speeches-every American a
born speechmaker. Such is the daily
experience OF a foreigner, so-called.
whom the American delights to honor.
1 think | have too many friends in the
United States to permit my ever going
to that hospitable country again." said
Hall Game
zone of the first things that one no.
tices is the obvious change I'm the eX
treme growth of New York. But the
physical changes are trivial compared
with the commercial, political and re-
ligious ones which confront the OBJ
server of American life. At this mo-
ment America is apparently going
through one of its periodical outbreaks
of commercial conscience. Commercial
morality IS under the X-rays, and the
result is a sense of shame and humilia-
tion which all the best Americans feel.
OF course nobody will go to the peni-
tentiary as the result of the shameful
disclosures that have been made. On
the other hand, the moral sense of the
old Puritan stock in America is so far
outraged that men long held in honor
probably will be heard Of no more.
Some names with which we are familiar
in England are rapidly disappearing
from the roles of American respectable
ity. Others viii follow in due course.
POLITICALLY the great changes which
l noticed were i'm the growth of Amer
lean imperialism. The old theory that
America must concern itself only with
its domestic affairs has given place to
the idea that 1t has its duties it's re-
sponsbilties, its rights and its privi-
leges I'm relation to the nations of the
world. The Spanish-American war was
no doubt partly responsible for this
change, but a still more important fac
tor has been the personality of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. / cannot sufficiently
extol the virility and at the same time
the Puritan simplicity of the principles
with which the president is inspiring
the American people, We want more
OF his kind everywhere. The worlds
greatest want today is men, and Roose-
welt Is a man, every inch Of him"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
BESTED BY WHITE CRAVAT
Young Alfonso Is Almost in Tears
After Struggle and Summons
lnfanta EuIaIie
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
PARIS, Dec. 9.-The indiscretion of a
member of a club which gave King
Alfonso of Spain what he called 1.-The
best dinner he had ever eaten" reveals
that Infanta Eulalse received that even-
ing sudden order to jump into IA
motor car and make all speed to the
king, who was in urgent need of her
presence.
The scared infanta found the king
almost i'm tears. He had wrestled
nearly half an hour with a recalcitrant
white cravat, and he was still too dis
tinctly a slave to the ancient royal
tradition of Spain to allow a hand in
which unroyal blood courses to touch
his sacred person.
"The infanta," the king related,
"calmed my merry es and tied my tie.
kissed her hand and so / am happily
here tonight. / think / must always
travel with a good-natured aunt hence
forth"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
RARE MALAOY
IS DISCOVERED
DISEASE Is CALLED "S0UL
BLINDNESS"
Educated Man So Afflicted Is Able to
Speak coherently, but Can
not Read Simple
Words
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special cable to The Herald.
BERLIN. Dec. 9.-"Soul blindness" is
the name given by Professor Schuster
to the latest discovered disease. An
elderly man who had received a good
education arrived recently from Russia
and placed himself under Schuster's
care. He was suffering from curious
lapses of memory and mental asso-
citation.
Professor Schuster put him under OBJ
servation and found that he could not
read, that the series of letters forming
words perfectly familiar to him, con-
veyed no meaning to his mind
He spoke quite coherently and showed
no other symptoms of disease. He was
asked to write the simple sentence, II
am hungry" but when Schuster asked
him to name the individual letters and
point them out he could not do so
His sight was normal and he recog
nized and named all things around him
but when the simplest objects were
sketched on paper he was utterly at
fault and unable to say whether a
boot was a tree or a house.
Professor Schuster explains the dis
ease by saying the connection between
visual organs and his powers of as
sociatng ideas have been sundered and
it is doubtful whether the connection
will ever again be made.
Equally singular is discovery
made by DIR. Herwig of Stuttgart, who
has woman under treatment who
while in a state of somnolency is in
possession of all her waking faculties
When addressed she answers clearly
and sensbly. In speaking to her it
is not necessary to raise the voice
above a whisper. Hey eyes are closed
as in ordinary sleep, but when spoken
to she sees everything around her with
which she is familiar stepped in a deep
blue atmosphere.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
STRANDED IN ALPINE PASS
Couple on Honeymoon Trip Narrowly
Escape Death-Without Food
Seventeen Hours
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
GENEVA, Dec. "a young German
couple on their honeymoon have mar
rowly escaped death in Grmsel pass in
the Alps. While at the top of the pass
violent snowstorm came on, and to
save their lives the couple was obliged
to take the horses and attempt to reach
the Grimself hospice. After great diff
ficulty they arrived there, and tele-
phoned to Handeck for assistance. a
band of workmen shoveled their way
through the deep snow as far as Rote-
richboden, where they met the young
couple and took them down to the
valley. The bride and groom were
exposed to intense cold and had Moth
ing to eat or drink for seventeen hours
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
BLESSES ACTRESS CLUB
London Bishop Tells Clever Women
He Hopes They viii Use Talent
to Help the Poor
neclnl Cable ID The Herald.

SpeCIaI NdDIc 10 TIC IIVIdIu,
LONDON, Dec. 9.-"With all my heart
/ come TO give the sanction of the
church to the Lyceum club" said the
bishop of London at the luncheon in the
club the other day
"As this is club founded by
actresses only, don't be afraid of
little breeze at your general meeting.
"In fact, do have a breeze. 1t will
have a purifying effect, and / hope and
flow sometimes into the poorer part Of
my diocese"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
"LITTLE MAC" TRUE TO LIFE
Statue of Gen. George 3. Mcclellan
Completed in Paris by Frederick
Macmonnies Declared Perfect
Special Gable to The Herald.

PARIS, Dec. 9.-The life-size eques-
trian statue of Gen, Mcclellan ordered
by congress and Just completed by
Frederick Macmonnies, was shown to-
day in the sculptor's studio. where ii
was viewed by Frank H. Mason, the
American consul general. i'm behalf of
the state department and by Macmon-
MES friends. The statue is exception.
ally vigorous, the horse and rider hav-
ing the animation of the battlefield.
Mr.. Mason, who knew Mcclellan in
the field says the generals likeness is
striking and that the details are exact.
even to the old fashioned square toed
boots, buging sleeves and military
slouch hat. The casting OF the bronze
will now begin here, and thereafter
the statue will be exhibited in the ma
tional salon. 1t is expected il will be
shipped to the United States in time
TO be unveiled i'm January, 1907. on the
reservation fronting the British em-
bassy at Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
DUCHESS CoNSUELo HELD UP
Her Ready Wit and Goodness FoiIed a
Man Who Eyed and Coveted
Her Jewels
Special Cable to The Herald.

LONDON, Dec. 9.-When Consuelo,
duchess Of Manchester arrived at AL
fred de Rothschild's dinner to the San
Carlo opera stars, on Tuesday night,
she thrilled the company with her ac-
count of an adventure she had had on
the way. When turning out of Park
Lane a rough looking man ran into the
road and held up his hand telling the
coachman something was wrong with
the harness. simultaneously another
desperate looking character appeared
at the open window and demanded
aims. menacingly fixing his eye ON the
duchess diamond and emerald necklace.
The duchess instantly opened her
purse ana gave the man a sovereign,
saying: Take this; ! hope you will
have good dinner; tell the coachman
to drive on, as I am rather late for
mine" The man obeyed, but the
duchess felt certain II was plan TO
snatch her jewels.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
TNFAMT PRODIGY" REvoLTS
Misoha EIman, Declares He Is Now
Done With kniekerbockers
and Kisses
Special Cable TO The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald
LONDON. Dec. 9.-There is one in
FAINT prodigy the less in the world, now
that Mischa Elman, the boy violinist,
has grown tired of being an infant and
sick of being, as such, fondled and
kissed by the women admirers of his
playing. He determined to end it, SC
yesterday he appeared on the platform
OF Queens hall with close cropped hair
and dlscarding the knickerbockers and
sailor jacket of infancy, he was ar
rayed instead in long black dress
trousers white waistcoat. smoking
Jacket and a mans ordinary turndown
collar,
ut was simply absurd" he said. "for
me to go on wearing knickerboclxers
and sailor suit. II was simply pos
ing. l hate posing"
See display in windows of The Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
GREAT SUMS FOR FLOWERS
Noted American Woman Buys Hun
dreds of Dollars Worth of
Decorations
Special Cable TO The Herald

PARIS, Dec. 9.-Mrs. John Jacob Hoff
has the distinction of paying the high
est floral bills I'm Paris. Her literary
teas" consume hundreds of dollars
worth of orchids and roses and what
ever else is rare and out Of season.
Wherefore every one knew who was
indicted when "A cynic spoke in "a cer-
tain salon of exotic hostesses who
asked their guests admiration for $5
bills stuck singly in single japanese
vases" In point of fact many single
blossoms that appear in her salon cost
more than that.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
KING CARLOS IS
RULED BY PALATE
"HUNeRIEST OF MoNARCHS"
HAS MANY QUEER TRAITS
Meals Frequent and 5ig-To BE Enter
tanned During Visit in France by
Count eoni de csstelIsne and
Wife, nee Anna Gould

Special Gable TO The Herald.
PARIS. Dec 9.--The King Of Portu-
gel is TO be the guest of Count and
Countess Boni de Castellane at the
Chateau de Marias, when he is to hunt
the famous coverts of their estate.
They have invited several hundred per-
sons to meet him and are going to en-
tertain him with truly feudal splendor-
There are some heartburnings In the
American colony in consequence. for.
because of the cold shoulder Jay
Gould's daughter received from her
conpatriots on first coming here as a
bride. she has not invited one American
to meet King Carlos, except, OF course
Ambassador and Mrs. Mccormick, with
whom the De Castellanes are on friend
" terms. In fact, they were at the
ambassadors gala dinner.
Kings Habits Strange
King Carlos is not easy to entertain,
as President Loubet has discovered. He
has one royal trick which is not exactly
becoming to philosopher; once his lip
has touched a glass that glass must
be replaced. Twenty sips means twenty
glasses. whence much waste of good
liquor and twenty-fold for the walters.
This singular trait had been overlooked
at the first dinner at the Elysee, anu
King Carlos, who is a mighty man or
CUBS, showed an ominously black coun-
tenance until the servitors slowly real
lied what was expected of them.
A guest tells that never was the presi-
dents smile of good-natured cynicism
more in evidence than when he watched
this comedy of royal rage. He, how
ever. took King Carlos seriously and
in his zeal to satisfy the royal palate
made a morning visit to the kitchen of
the Elysee, where the famous M. Tesch
presides over pots and pans.
Chef Is Annoyed
1t was the first time since the presi-
dency of NJ. Grevy that a chief of state
had descended to those regions, and
Tesch was annoyed, as his cold cour-
tesy showed. and the president had the
air of regretting his temerity in hint
ing the slightest lack of confidence.
King Carlos has earned the reputa-
ton of being the hungriest of mon
arcfs His three chief meals are colos-
sal and he cannot exist without a
snack and pull every two hours. Now
that he is theoretically incognito he
strolls into bars and tea rooms when
his hour strikes, and it is even limited
that he was once seen in an auto
mobile luncheon room on the boulevard,
guIping scent sandwiches, too hungry
to endure the delay of chic restau-
rants
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
JUST LIKE IT IS AT HOME
Because Of Its New Subway Paris Is
All Torn Up--New Workers
Happy
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to Inc Herald
PARIS. Dec. 9.-The weather in Paris
has been such as AL old Parisians OK
pect ct this time Of tho year-a medley
of rain fog mist. warm winds and
dirty streets.
There was Just one fine day when he
sun shone brilliantly and as If by magic
the Champ Elysees and parks soon
filled with rolickuS children and their
beribboned nurses
Old-timers say they never saw the
city SO torn UP and desolate since 1900,
so the New York visitors here feel
quite at home. The subway is still
building, but now the excavators have
struck and the dirt piles encumberng
the streets remain untouched.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
AUTO NOT NEMESIS OF HORSE
Omnibus Director Quotes Statistics to-
Show Motor Machines Enoour-
ace Use of Equines
'nocloI CahIo 10 The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS Dec. An. Lavallard, one of
the directors Of the great Paris com
pany controlling omnibus traffic de-
clares that the more automobiles manu-
factured the greater will be the num-
Der of horses. lie contends that auto
mobilism accustoms men to rapid
travelling. with the consequence that
purchasers Of horses seek swift animals.
He also says that successive inven-
tions. such as railways, have led TO the
Transformation of the horse, not to its
disappearance. He shows that since the
advent of tho Paris subway the Com
pagnie General des Omnibus has pur-
chased 5000 more horses.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10
LONDON FOES
NEW DISGUISE
COMES IN FORM OF NEURALGIA
THIS YEAR
Promotes the Drug Habit--llls Result
ing From Dampness Said to
Move in Cycle Under
Several Forms
Special Gable to The Herald.

Specia Gable to The Herald
LONDON. Dec AT the beginning
Of every winter, when fogs descend
over the city and when the air be-
comes charged with that chilly damp
ness peculiar to this country. which
even the warmest ana thickest cloth
ing seems powcrless to withstand
everyone begins talking about inhu-
cnza and wonders what form 1t will
take this year, for every winter It
never fails to come along in a differ
eut disguise.
Influenza has made it's appearance
this year IN the shape of violent neu-
ralgia, accompanied by high temper
ature. 1t began some years ago, as
its victims have cause to remember
with the rheumatic type which affected
the lungs in later stages. This was the
most fatal form the disease took.
Next the digestive system was at
tackled, and this year the nerves. es-
pecially those of the head and face.
are sought out and tortured.
Drugs Are Used
Chemists report a large sale of drugs
directed toward relieving these attacks
of neuralgia and headache Facial
pains are almost universal at the pres
ent moment.
DellcNG we are III lOr a repetition
of the headaches and neuralgia of the
Cos" said a Harley street specialist to
an interviewer. These also were fol-
lowed by the outbreak of influenza in
1S49 and 1850.
so far as I have been able to re-
trace it, the disease pursued the same
cycle and finished with an epidemic
Of neuralgia and headaches 1t was
in the COS that every woman carried
vinaigrettes and smelling salts. owing
to the universal and fashionable
headaches"
Another medical man with large
general practice said: mo doubt eX-
lists in my own mind that influenza
is at the bottom of the prevalent neu-
ralgia. Many patients have come to
me after a sleepless night. and in one
case. | had visit from a solicitor in
the middle of the day.
Left Unfit for Work
"He explained that he was unfit to do
any work | treated the neuralgia To-
cally by spraying a volatile fluid upon
the parts affected. This causes in
tense cold and immediate relief. The
solicitor, exhausted by sleeplessness
end pain, fell asleep in my consulting
room
"The curious part about these recur..
ing PHASES VI llliluellNd is IlldI eaCn
is accompanied by different tempera-
lures, the first by 105 degrees, the sec
ond, a stomachic variety. by 103 de-
grees, and the latest or neuralgia by
101 degrees
I'VE are becoming imune to attacks
of Influenza said a third authority
About 90 per cent of the population
of the country must have had it at one
time or another, for it is the most
infectious disease imaginable. Our
blood has gradually formed a tocsin
or fluid which kills the germs and
this is so far perfect in it's efficiency
that manifestations of the disease are
becoming less and less severe.
lnflu-neuralgia. accompanied by a
relatively low temperature. is it's lat
est form. After persisting for a season
or two, Influenza probably will dis
appear, to return when the immune
population have died out, thirty, forty
OF fifty years hence"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-10

See display IN windows OF The Herald
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-04-01
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uno Sobn M. Sbau.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-04-01
Die Sageaobilouer.

Die ieben nimmer tpie Sdunebrer
aus. iaste Der 2aufiunae i'm @ranb
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bent Seremiab &obinion bon Der Wiar.
tinsbiae 59ule fib ausorhfte. Sas
S9lagen in Der Shule III auber Wooe
9etommen. fubr er fort, udbreno ei
feline Slide iiber bic geriammlung bon
uoblgetleioeten 9erren uno Samen
elsiten IieB. Die 6ffentlide Weinuna
ift ba9eeen einsenommen uno bic 2eh.
rer baben fi9 benz su fisen.
Die 2e5rsr Weriammlung tpurb.
gsffsrn 8ormittas er6ffnet uno wirh
morsen Nbsno sei6lofen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-04-01
9nr9 vSribiins" bersiut.

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ftd sefsrn Gran3 &all, Der ieBt bier in
Der Staot po6nt, uno iein bor mebre-
rem Saeen aus Whrttemberg bier ans
gelan9ter Bruoergusen &aa imPrince-
ton 6otel. Die Greuoe oes Wieoerie.
bsns mar nod faft 12idbriger Sren.
nuns natfrIid eipe 9roBe.
Der ioeben @elanoete wubte naitir.
LID ieinem bief9en Bruper biel aus
Der alten trautsn 5simatb su ersdblen,
iooaB es fsin Wunber nabm. bab beioe
nod 5u ipdter Stunoe in trauli6em
@erfebr suiammen iaBen. Ser Sri-
btine" wurbe bon 9errn eugene Raa
Der Snut. ibm ieinen 8ruoer bur6 ben
in ieinen Spalten berbfentli9ten 4uf-
ruf 5usefiibrt 5u baben, tibermittelt.