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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
DUCHESS SITS ON FLOOR
TO HEAR DR.. EMIL REICH
HIS TALKS CAUSE MUCH INTER-
EST IN LONDON
Mrs. George KeppeI, Too, Hears Him
Discourse With Great Freedom on
Love-Some of the Doctrines He
Enumerates Are Very Startling

Srecial Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, April DIR. Emil Reich
has struck lie" with his series of Plato
lectures on Thursday afternoons at
Claridge's hotel
His fashionable and would-be fash
ionable audiences, composed in the
large majority of women, find that
luxurious luncheon in the stately dining
hall of this select hotel enables them
to approach the consideration OF the
problems of transcendental philosophy
in an eminently genial and Sympa-
thetiC frame of mind. 1t is almost too
easy to express a Contemptuous indif-
ference to matter and all the grossness
that it represents when you are fort-
fed by an admirably cooked meal and
are reclining in a comfortable arm
chair listening to the mellifluouS tones
of Dr. Reich.
At first the lectures were not crowded.
The audiences consisted of only few
elegant ladies. mostly of title, and a
coterie of Anglo Americans, headed ny
Mrs. James Macdonald, who vigorously
defended the American woman from
the slurs cast upon her by the lecturer.
But DR.. Reich insured the success
of the series by stating at hispext ap-
pearance that he could never feel any
intellectual affinity for the middle
classes" and that only aristocrats could
appreciate either himself or Plato.
Forthwith there was a rush for tick
cts, because, according to this classlh-
cation. appreciation of the lectures
became the badge of arstocracy. Now
the room is so crowded that it is i'm
possible to find seats for all his hearers,
and DR.. Reich at the last lecture en-
ioyed the exquisite pain of seeing the
duchess of Portland sitting on the floor
This lecture also drew among others
Mrs. George Keppel, and DR.. Reich
discoursed on the principal human pas
sions, including love, with great tree
dom.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
LACE UNDER DOGS HIDE
Man Shaves Hair Off His Pet, Winds
Contraband Around Body and
Smueeles 1t
necia1 Cable to The Herald.

special OaDle 10 llle Ilel dlu'
BRUSSELS, April THE ingenious
method of a Belgian lace smuggler has
been brought to light in the official
organ of the customs department. He
owned a large. rough coated dog,
which accompanied him on frequent
trips across the French frontier. When
the customs officers had become fa-
miiar with him and his dog on their
apparently innocent walks the mer-
chant in contraband put his plan into
execution.
He clipped and shaved his dog. and
around it's smooth body he wound yards
and yards of valuable Mechlin and
Brussels lace. over the lace he sewed
a skin which could not be distinguished
from the animals own coat.
The excursions into France continued
almost daily for five years, the dog
earning quite a fortune for his master
by the secret loads of contraband he
carried about his body. The trade was
put an end to by the betrayal of the
ingenious smuggler by an acquaintance,
which resulted in the dog being shot
by the customs authorities as he passed
them wearing his costly lace under
clothing.
Many Belgian smugglers use dogs to
carry dutiable goods over the frontier
by simpler means than that described.
They are trained to avoid the author
tiles by being frequently thrashed by
men dressed in the customs uniforms.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
TO MAKE "ABSALOM OF MICK
A German Professor Is Anxious to
Cure Loneworth's Badness
by New Method
Special Cable to The Herald.

SpeClaI cable TO Inc Herald.
BERLIN, April PROF. Kromeyer,
who turns bald heads into Paderewskis
for a consideration, hopes to have the
honor of treating President Roosevelt's
son-n-law on the latter's forthcoming
tour of the courts of Europe.
prince Nicholas" he says-the pro-
fessor wouldn't believe the Post cor
respondent when he told him that mis-
name is Longworth-"P Prince Nicholas
can have hair like Absalom for the ask
ing. He would be an excellent adver-
tisement for my method
Though the professors claims look
"fishy" he is not an ordinary fakir by
any means. He was a professor of
dermatology at the University of Halle
before he came to Berlin, and is
we'll known specialist of the Finsen
light method, on which he has i'm
proved in several ways. The Berlin
faculty recognizes thirty-three cures
of bald heads effected by him by legiti-
mate methods. His ultra violet rays
operate directly through the opening
of the cooled protective shield upon the
bald spots, which are subject to the
rays from half a minute to quarter
of an hour at time.
The reaction is: Reddening of the
skin and formation of painful blisters
At the same time the hair roots, SEEM
ingly dead, begin to regenerate. After
the second light bath one can see them
Sprout.
The professor introduced the corre-
spondent to a girl of 10, who lost every
bit of hair in a long sickness. The pro-
fessor gave her head forty-two light
baths within six months. Today
Gretchen could make a living as one
of the seven Sutherland sisters. man
"of Prince Nicholas age" was cured
after twenty-seven violet baths; an
other, somewhat older, after twenty
one. "All depends on the condition the
hair roots are in," says the professor.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
"MAN WILL NEVER BELIEVE"
Beauty Factory to Open and "Am-
brosia' Objects to Display of
Feminine Aids to Grace
Special Gable to The Herald,

Special cable to Inc Herald.
LONDON, April mo man must
enter here on pain of DEATH" is the
stern command which "Ambrosia,"
writing i'm the London Weekly World.
vehementy insists should be placed
over the beauty exhibition which she
understands is to be opened here soon
Hear her in her wrath:
1T will presumably consist of every
known means toward the Improvement
of the female form divine and of all the
aids that ones sex employs to enhance
her charms and improve upon nature.
The grievance which women have a
right to cherish against the exhibition
is that it tears aside the VEIL so to say,
which should always envelop my lady's
toilette. This should be a shrine sacred
to her alone. Mems prying eyes should
never be allowed to probe it's mysteries.
And what is to prevent him from
learning all at the beauty exhibition?
Apres, he Will never believe in lovely
woman again. This and thus does she,
he will say, as he sees her, thing of
beauty, before him. Her skin is made
up in this way, by such-and such
means is her figure prfected, so-and-so
explains here pretty curls, her sweeping
eyelashes, her rounded cheeks"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
ENA FAVoRs BIG HEADGEAR
All Her New Hats Are Big Gains
borouehs-Won't Look at Cute
Effects at All

LONDON, April THE Princess
Ena is buying most of her trousseau
in London. Court etiquette demands
that the bride of the king of Spain
must have her wedding dress woven
and made in Spain, so the rich white
brocade is being woven on Spanish
looms. and the dress will be embrold-
cred by the girls of Madrid.
After the wedding the dress VIII be
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, which
is also a traditional ceremony in the
court of Spain.
A few smart little frocks have been
ordered in Paris, but most of the we'd
ding outfit will be made in London.
The Irish Ladies' Industry assocl-
alton has secured almost monopoly
of the orders for lingerie, etc.
The brides hats are being made by
Gainsborough. the man milliner, who
has made the Princess Enas mats
since she put off baby bonnets. Ihey
are almost all made according to the
Spanish taste-big picture hats with
enormous ostrich feathers. The smart
little hat of the early COS, which is
the fad in this country now, is not at
all the thing in England or anywhere
on the continent except in Paris.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
SHAW'S PERFECT MAN
Is Different From Anybody Else's
Perfect Man and Is Not Like
Eugene SandoW
Special Gable to The Herald.


LONDON April 7.-George Bernard
Shaw has been giving his ideal of
perfect man. and as one might expect
it is quite different from other people S,
and very far removed from that of
Eugene Sandow.
Il hVe great respect for Herr San
dow" Mr.. Shaw said at a meeting of
Vegetarians. But whenever | go to
hear him lecture he is ;lWays saying,
Why don't you get to be like me?' and
l look at him, and | see magnificent
man so muscular that he can hardly
walk. We'll. | want to walk. And per-
haps he points out another and says:
You're a wretched. etiOlated creature.
Look at this splendid fellow here and
then he hits him blow in the stomach,
and the man apparently does not mind
But" Mr. Shaw went on, with great
earnestness, Il don't want people to hit
me in the stomach. You will see this
man with a board on his chest contain
ing, say twenty people, three elephants,
a grand piano, a sofa and things of
that kind. Undoubtedly that is very
remarkable thing; but l don't want to
do things like that.
THE object of my life, instead of ac-
cumulatmg these things on me is to
keep them off me. Here is Herr San
dow going through life seeing how
many of these heavy things he can pile
on top OF himself so l go through life
seeing how many 1 can get rid of. AS
& matter of fact, l object to carrying
brown paper parcel. l contend that
the highly developed man does object to
brown paper parcels. l resent all these
attempts to make me a muscular per-
son. [ want to be a delicate person.
one of Mr.. Wells 'Martians,' for whom
everything physically energetic is done
by machinery-thats the sort of per-
son | want to be.
Daniel, we read. was favored by
God because he gave up meat. After
some time he became handsome. That
struck me very much indeed. Indeed
1 am not sure that it did not persuade
me to adopt a vegetarian diet. But
unfortunately the scriptures have
fallen into disrepute. and if you mem
tion Daniel nowadays people don't
know whom you are talking about. l,
as a literary person, am saturated with
the Bible. My style is very largely
formed on the Bible, but | find that if
L quote it nobody understands. 1 be-
licVe it is one of the rules that a
censor in this country shall not allow
long passages from the Bible to be
spoken on the stage. But in my plays
/ take whole chapters, word for word
ana the modern censor, never having
read the Bible dosnt know it,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
GIRL IN HER TEENS
BECOMES INVENT Or
DESIGNS PORTABLE TURNTABLE
FOR MOTOR CARS
Seeing the Difficulty in Handling
Trucks in Small Places She at
Once Designs a ContriVance Which
OVercomes the Evil Handily
Special Gable to The Herald

special cable 10 Inc Herald
BRUSSELS, April "A girl of this
town. not yet Is years old, has patented
a remarkable invention, consisting of
a turntable for reversing the direction
Of motor cars. The apparatus is fixed
ON the chassis. which has a driving
wheel at each end, and is worked by an
electric motor The invention was the
outcome of watching the difficulty of
maneuvring heavy motor wagons in
the Antwerp streets.
After watching the motor wagons for
some time one day, the girl went home
and by the next morning had a COM
plete scheme for the turntable. Two
motorists who We're visiting her father
fetched a designer and the plans were
at once drawn up at the child's di-
rections.
The patent for the invention has been
secured i'm the name of Esther de Susi
daughter of the Countess de Susi. To-
day the house was besieged by in
quirers and government engineers
Mile de Susi is a tall, we'll built girl,
with a bright face, fair hair and brown
eyes.
Experts declare that the new turn
table will be of enormous value and a
fortune is in prospect for the girl and
her mother.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
ENGTTSHMAN INVENTS AN
ENGINE TO RUN BY AlR

locomotive, propel a ship, work a mil
forge. etc, without using either gas,
water, coal, electricity or OIL ana 1t
will entirely prevent smoke.
The economic cylinder will be more
powerfu' than any other type OF
cylinder of equal diameter; it Will save
the use of large boilers and not n'ore
tban two will be required for large
works. With two or more boilers
filled with compressed air up to the
pressure required in each boiler me me
economic cylinder VIII keep up '''-
pressure of air if set to work.
In locomotives and other high pres
sure steam boilers the wear and tear
is considerable. 1t is caused by the
fires. the use of dirty water and th1
constant changing of temperature ana
pressure. all having a tendency to
null them to pieces and cause serious
rents around the rivet holes ana other
parts of the boilers. .,-,
This wear and tear will he avoided
nv the use of the air engine.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
QUEER LIBEL SUIT DUE TO "P"
Newspaper to Pay $3.50 for Mixing Up
Divorce Suit With Police
Court Case
Snecial Cable ID The Herald.


LONDON, April Libel laws in
England are enforced with great sever
ity, and accidents of the kind that viii
happen in the best regulated neWspa-
pers occasionally have to be paid for
Just as though they were the products
of villainy and malice aforethought.
An instance of this occurred the other
day which has caused a Surren news
paper to be mulcted in $3.50 damages.
Going to press in hurry. two stories
got mixed up, one relating to a Woman's
suit for divorce and the other to a police
court case.
The transition from one to the other
must have baffled a good many readers.
'It had been held in a very old case"
ran the report, that when the donor
remained in possession, a deed of gift
that the persistent annoyance
and blackmail would not be allowed
to go on. Witness had her under OBJ
servation." But newspapers readers
are hurried people in these days, and
probably many gave up the sentence as
unintelligible. and saw nothing improb-
able in the eventual fact that she was
bound over in $50 to keep the peace.
But having failed to get a divorce, she
saw here a brilliant chance to obtain
financial solace for her disappointment.
Accordingly she brought suit for dam
ages, ana III vain IIe etllOI anu lllc
foreman of the composing room en-
deavored to make a stolid British jury
understand how easily such a blunder
might happen, and how impossible it
was under modern newspaper COndi-
tions to take such precautions as would
prevent it.
Meanwhile the French courts have
just decided that the use of geological
metaphor, rejecting on the mental ca
pacity of a student at school, is not
lbelous. A schOOlmaster in the depart
ment of the Ariege sent a boy home
with this inscription on his exercise
book. This pupil is an ass The in
dignant father promptly summoned
the schoolmaster before the "juge de
paix." He contended that the use of
the word ASS constituted a libel not
only upon the boy, but upon his rela-
tions, since if the pupil was donkey
his whole family must, logically and
zoOlogically, be donkeys too. In fact
the application of the term, counsel
argued, constituted a grave reflection
upon the genealOgy OF the recipient
The judge took that view of it, too, and
gave a verdict against the schOolmaster.
The schoolmaster, however, appealed
to the court of cessation, which re-
versed the verdict. holding that the
word "ass" applied by schoomaster
TO n duh pupil should be construed
metaphoricauy and not literally. The
decision has caused great rejoicing
among French pedagOgues, who already
suffer from the disadvantage of being
prohibited from using corpOrcal punish
ment.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
LID IS OFF THE
STAGE OF PARIS
EVERYTHING GOES WITH THE
GAY PARISIANS NOW
While Censorship Is in Abeyance Ac-
tors and Singers Set No Bounds
to Frivoities and Have High
Old Times
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, April 7.-Theaterdom has
become a sort of mo Mans Land"
since the chamber of deputies voted
to abolish "Anastasia."
There is no such person, but the
name is the popular designation of the
government force of censorship over
such matters.
The senate has not yet acted on
the bill, but aims to transfer "Anas-
tasia's" duties to the police, just as
they are in New York.
M. Gaune, chief of "Anastasia's"
bureau, complains that nobody now
takes the trouble to submit manu-
scripts of plays. Some songs are sent
to him, but when he expresses disap-
proval no heed is paid. M. Gaune is
a tolerant individual and Paris audi
ences have never been called prudish,
but the present go-as-far-aS-yo -you-like
situation has caused q sort of reaction.
In one of the music halls a girl who
sings with mOdesty and slight art two
songs that would not sound amiss in
a Sunday school gets the lions share
of applause, while the suggestiveness
of other performers provokes no
laughter.
Inc lnelne OF one O1 lne pays HOW
running can only be described as
physiological.
Another consequence of the inter-
regnum in the censorship is a freedom
of political comment on the stage OF
which the government is likely to take
cognizance The Socialists especially
are getting out songs against militar-
ism which go" very well in the cheap
est resorts frequented by workingmen.
These are aimed to produce disaffec-
tion among men liable to Conscription.
One of them is called THE Strike
of the Mothers" 1t represents the
women of France as determined to
renounCe motherhood if their sons are
to be considered as food for powder"
The chorus is denunciation of
"glory" from conqucsts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
TELLS THE KING
| AM BORED
DEBUTANTE ENDS C0NVERSA-
TION WITH EDWARD VII
Pretty Daughter of Lady Arthur But
er Takes King at His Word.
He Asked Her How Old
She Was
snecia1 Cable to The Herald.

special 0aDlG 10 j he Itelald.
LONDON. April LADY Arthur
Buffers dubutante daughter is greatly
admired. She bears a striking re-
semblance to her beautiful cousin
Lady Beatrice Pole Carew, who, ever
since her debut, has reigned as one of
the loveliest women here or in Ireland.
Not only is Miss Butler pretty, but
she is wonderfully smart and cheeky
for so young a girl. owing to the be-
lated courts consequent on the king
and queens mourning, she will not
make her official bow until the end
of May or the first of June. She has
had a good preliminary canter, how
ever. at country house dances and also
i'm town, and besides she has had the
almost unique distinction of having
been presented in private to their
majesties. The king was especially
taken" by this sprightly daughter of
am American mother, her conversation
and views" amusing him immensely.
After he had been talking to her for
little time he said But l must not
keep you too long. | am only an old
fogie and the boys will be veXed. Tell
me when you are bored
"Oh, it's boys who bore me-" she
said: they are so much in earnest.
And they will try to make iove-it's so
stupid"
The conVersati tion continued for some
time, and King Edward, amazed at
the girls exceedingly matured re-
marks. turned suddenly and said to
her: In the name of all that is Won
derful. how old are yOu?"
We'll your majesty she answered
with an aggrieved air, Now l am
bored, if you like
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
RIVIERA GAMING A CRAZE
PaIatiaI Casinos All Along Coast to
Meet Demand of Rich
Americans
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
NICE, April 7-Never before has the
mania for gambling reached such
pitch on the Riviera. The nightly play
at baccarat at the Grand Circle here is
for stakes as high as those at Monte
Carlo.
To such proportions has the fever
risen that extensive arrangements are
in progress for affording the hosts of
players vastly enlarged facilities next
season.
A magnificent new casino is building
at Monte Carlo, just inside French ter
ritory, beside the Turbiafunicular rail-
way terminal.
The opposition of NJ. Blanc, the man
ager of the present casino, is suspected
of being a mere blind, as it is said he
also has controlling interest in the
new venture.
Another splendid new gaming casino
is to he erected here on the Avenue
Massena, and a syndicate has also
bought the beautiful Pare Chambrun,
outside of Nice, where it is proposed to
erect still another huge gambling house
to rival that at Monte Carlo.
At Cannes, too, a syndicate is busy
constructing a palatial casino. which
is to be paid for out of the losses of
those who gamble there.
Rich Americans are contributing
largely, though involuntarily, to the
building funds of the new casinos.
Their losses i'm the aggregate annually
reach enormous proportions.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
HANDSOME MEN ARE
VERY SHY IN ENGLAND
ONLY ONE SENDS HIS PHOTO
GRAPH FOR BEAUTY SHOW
Bald=Headed Men the Only Ones
Barred, Yet but Single Picture
Is the Result of Persistent Efforts
for Them
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, April Handsome men in
England appear to be extremely diff
fident.
Mrs. Ada Ballin, the health and
beauty specialist, is offering three
guineas for the photograph of the
handsomest man i'm the country, to be
exhibited in the health, beauty and
toilet exhibition in the Grafton galleries
next month, but only one man has as
yet forwarded his portrait and there
is still room for Improvement.
"Only one restriction is made said
Mrs Ballin yesterday. 'Bald-headed
men need not apply.
"They haven't got the remotest
chance of winning, however handsome
they may otherwise be- she said. II
a bald-headed man wishes to enter, he
must purchase a wig and be photo
graphed in that. 1t would be difficult
to detect in photograph and L shall
not be as strict as all that"
The beauty competition is divided into
three sections and prizes will be award
ed for the photographs of the most
beautiful women, the handsomest man
and the lovelest child. Mrs. Ballin has
already received a good many photo
graphs. the majority being of children.
Mrs. Rallin described the salient fea-
lures in handsome man as consisting
of the conformation of his head, the
position of his ears, the shape of his
nose. chin and mouth, the distance be-
tween his eyes and the shape of his
eyebrows.
q judge his appearance she said
candidly, Just as I should judge the
points of a horse. Under ordinary cir
cumstances l should pay great atten-
ton to his complexion, but unfortunate
ly this cannot be taken into account IN
a photograph
The entries will close on Monday ana
the result will be announced at the
oy11ihitinn
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08
BEER IN OLD DICKENS CHURCH
Crypt to Be a Storage VauIt-orig-
inaI of Little Dorrit Still Lives
at Southgate
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable TO Inc f1eralu'
LONDON, April THE crypt of the
interesting old Church of St. George the
Martyr in Southwark is to be rented
and. according to a real estate agent
who has the matter in hand, will prob
ably become a storage place for beer
and Wine This announcement aroused
interest among the lovers of Dickens
from the fact that the original of the
character of Little Dorrit. with whom
the church is associated. is stlll awe
and has resided for more than half
century at Southgate.
Mary Ann Hilton, now Mrs. Cooper
was born at Hatton Gardens and is to-
day a white-haired little woman more
than 90 years old. She is in full pos
session of her faculties and in wonder
full health and vigor. She loves moth
ing better than to talk about her girl
hood. When young the novelist USED
to bring his manuscripts to be crlt1-
cised by her and her brother before
taking them to the publishers.