Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-04
BR|T|SHPASS|NG SHOW
Events Of the Week in an About
London. ltz.
HOP CROP Is ON THE WANE
Awful Liquor Drunk by the Polish
Emigrants.
MASCULINE BEAUTY CONTEST
Promise Of Mr.. Asquith About the
oId-Age Pension Scheme Meets
With skeptietsm.
BEAUTY CONTEST


lament is to ring with the demands the
people will authorize the party to make on
these subjects, and, presumably, II any
thing is done, all the credit will be claimed.
But it Is pointed out that the government
are already deeply pledged. Mr.. Burns
has big unemployment scheme to be pro-
duced at the first opportune moment, and
Mr.. Asquith stated in his budget speech
that it Is his intention. before the close Of
next session. to deal with the old-age pen
sion problem. In the eyes Of the labor men
Mr.. Burns and all his works are suspected.
and as for the chancellor OF the excheauer
they do not believe that without compul-
sion he will propose any pension scheme
worth accepting.
Some extraordinary statements were
made at Dalziel parish council the other
evening In regard to the drinking habit OF
the Polish emigrants who are In such
numbers IN Lanarkshfre. 1t seems that an
abominable mixture Of nethylated spirits,
parafin and ether Is being hawked about
and sold without the possibility OF legal
interference, with naturally the most dis
astrous results among those who drink It,
The difficulty Is that the liquor Is not ex-
disable, the legislature having never
imagined the possibility of human beings
drinking such stuff. So that the authori-
ties have no power to interfere with the
sale of liquor of which 1t has been said
that one thimbleful is more injurious than
a whole bottle of brandy. Apparently,
there Is urgent need Of some alteration In
the law which will enable the authorities
to prevent the sale Of this kind of poison.
After Adonis.
Free imports are killing the hop indus
try of England. as they have many other
industries" This significant statement is
made by Messrs. LIE May in their annual
report on the English hop crop. The report
says that there are l. 7S4 acres less IN Gull
tivation than there were last year. Thirty
one years ago the acreage was more than
T2,OOO; now there are only A. SS acres AS
far back as 1919 when the consumption
of beer was not more than one-fifth OF what
it is today the acreage was 51O14. Owing
to the low temperature Of the summer. the
report adds the cones Of the hops have
that they are small. but they are full Of
Iupuln, and the quality generally Will be
the richest in brewing properties that has
been dealt with for many years.
No event which has occurred recently at
Folkestone has attracted SO much attention
as the male beauty show, which took place
there last week. Long before the time for
the opening crowds began to assemble at
the Victoria pier, and 1900 people were
turned away. The entries passed all ex-
pectation, fifty-eight men offering them
selves as rivals of Adonis. Types OF male
beauty from all parts OF Engiana were
premacy in manly beauty was not LETT I'M
challenged, for a Frenchman, SWISS,
Hungarian, a Greek a Turk, a japanese
and a negro were among the competitors
AS II was thought that dress should not
enter into the question, the competitors mad
10 come forward and look through frame.
Additional interest was lent to the event
by the announcement that a young woman
who competed in the recent beauty show
had offered to marry the first prize winner.
There was a great majority for the first
prize winner, Sergt- Hodgetts or the oth
Eussars stationed at the School OF Mus
kerry, Hythe. He obtained 2'D votes
against 62 and Al for the second and third;
respectively These were Bernard Richard
Fadge of Elm Terrace Constantlne roau,
HAMPSTEAD, and Herbert Suden OF Lupus
street Pimlico. All three had curly nalr.
but the first prize winner was dark anu
the others fair.
Titled Nuns.
An English newspaper calls attention
to the number of ladies Of high birth
who have entered on the religious LIE.
The Ladies Minna and Etheldreda HOW
ard, sisters of the Duke of Norfolk are
both nuns, the one belonging 10 tne
ancient Carmelite order and me 1tnes
being Sister of Charity. Lady Edith
Fielding, sister of Lord Denbigh. Is also
q Sister of Charity and works IN Catho-
lie medical school in China. -FOUR siSlels
of Lord Herries are nuns. While three
sisters of Lord Petrie are nuns Lazy
Frances BERTHE is in a convent at Harrow:
Lady Leopoldina Keppel. sister 70 Loio
AlbemarIe; the Hon. Ellen ana MARIA
Ffrench, sisters Of Lord Fire 'ch, are
nuns. 49,, ,s
everywhere in Paris. has crossed the
thousand in London. The game Is cen
turtles old. and the revival mas Deen
brought about by an Improvement IN the
diabolo 1t consists of twirling the d.
Al 81 tyxynn
together-on q cord between two sticks,
hurting 1t into the air and catching IL
on the cord 1--WE are selling thousands.
said Mr. Henley OF Regent 'treet the
other day 1T was known before as the
devil of two sticks I have 100000 sets
ON order, and the Paris factories cannot
turn them out fast enough. am arrans-
ing for two professional alaDoliSss ~
come from Paris to give lessons In the
art for. in a way, the throwing or the
diabolo is an art. Some OF the 1eats
which can be performed with the dlaboio
are marvellous. 1t can be thrown up 10
y height of fifty feet, caught behind the
back and jerked up to another nifty leet'
British Horse Breeding.
The eleventh report of the royal commits
sion Amounted to dispose Of the money
granted by parliament for the encourage,
ment of horse breeding, of which the Earl
of Seton is president, is published. Inc
commissioners express satisfaction that the
order to secure the twenty-eight KING
premiums of $50 each the animals eXhlb-
tied must be of very good quality. That the
Young stock is turning out well Is proved
by the fact that during 1908 446 awards
were gained by animals sired by premium
stations. while in 1906 429 similar awards
were secured. At the hunter shows held In
London in March. 1906. and March, 1907,
twenty five awards were gained by young
stock of premium stations at the former
and twenty-five at the latter. The present
method of awarding premiums, say the
commissioners, Is the best way of dealing
with the small sum granted by parliament
for horse breeding in Great Britain, but
the grant is quite insufficient.
Liberation under the home secretary's
new order has been too much for Patrick
Donovan, a man of fifty, who was re-
manded at Slough this week preparatory to
being sent to a lunatic asylum. Donovan's
first action on his release from prison
was to go to Windsor Castle and claim the
castle as his property. An unsympathetic
sentry turned him away. and he proceeded
hatless to Elton. There he told policeman
that he had interviewed King Edward In
the Long Walk. and his majesty had in
structed him to come to the castle to re-
ceive the keys. The constable took him to
Slough police station. where he twice tried