Evening star., 1907-09-02

way of business ordered an expensive motor
car some months ago, and this was to be
delivered on August 1. When that date had
almost arrived the makers of the car were,
as usual. not ready to deliver, and asked
for a weeks grace. The broker, who was
very hard up and could very doubtful1y
have spared fsO0 due, refused any grace
at all and told them that If the car was
not at his Office by pm. August he would
repud!ate the bargain.
During the whole of that Thursday ne
was in an agony of fear that after all the
car might be delivered and he would have
to pay. Luckily it was not and he intends
to remain caress till times improve.
In addition to stockbroker who has
taken a position barman In a public
house another has become the chauffeur OF
a taxicab. and a third is reporter on
Americans visiting London have many of
them visited the ancient city edifce known
as Crosby Hall in Bishopsgate street. The
great hall of the place has long been used
as restaurant. but the demand for space
for modern Offices pressed so hard that the
ancient carved oak has been in serious
danger Of being ANONYMOUSLY torn down.
The city corporation found Itself unable to
save the building, for 91O0.OOO was required
for the purpose. Now. however, the Lon
don guilds. those wealthy city associations
which are the modern successors of the
trade guilds of the middle ages, are to
unite, with the approval of the king, In an
endeavor to raise the 9100.OOO. If they
fail London city proper will be shorn OF
almost it's last historical building
The Franco-British Exhibition.
Next years Franco-British exhibition at
Shepherds Bush is to be an extraordinary
one in many respects. Social economy
seems difficult section for an exhibition,
but the attempt to make 1t an important
one there is being carefully prepared. 1t is
proposed to go fully into such subjects as
housing reforms. hygiene, state insurance,
rural depopulation, employers liability,
trade unions. emigration and legislation af-
fecting workmen, and to bring together the
most exhaustive collection of charts and
documents on these subjects ever exhibited.
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone has consented to be-
come honorary president of the social eco
nomic section. and the chairman of the
committee will be Mr. Percy Harris, the
chairman of the London county council.
There will also be dress exhibition, at
which the finest furs. the most gorgeous
dresses and the most beautiful lace will be
shown.
The exhibition has been taken up keenly
by many of the firms engaged in this par
ticular branch of trade. The best houses in
Paris, Vienna and other continental cities
will be represented at the exhibition and,
of course. the leading London firms will
take a prominent part in it. The show
rooms will be a spectacle In which women
will revel for hours. but whether the exh-
biton will possess any interest for the
mere male is another question.
A well-known missionary now in England
has been causing some surprise, and per-
haps indignation. by arguing in public as
we'll as in private that the widespread un-
rest in India Is one Of the results of mis-
sionary enterprise and ought to be welcomed
as a sign of personal discomfort with the
prevailing order of things. do not find that
this view is accepted by those who repre-
sent English missionary work. They point
out that the movement Is, If anything, anti
r;~tto %la$ =, So, i,,,xl
tive Christians, and that in India, as in
China and elsewhere, the tendency of the
converts is to side with their western teach
ers. In the Indian mutiny and In the at
tack on the legations in Peking this was
clearly brought out.
Tie fact that persons educated in mission
schools might be found favoring the move
ment is not against this view, for large
numbers of non-Christians educated in
Christian mission schools without receiving
any definite Christian instruction. If mis-
sons anywhere produce a feeling against
the British government, it will be found
that the missionaries in question do not
come from the British Isles. The Natal
government. in the case of the recent out
break might have had something to say on
this point
Smoking in Theaters.
The question of smoking in theaters is
still keenly discussed among the managers
of theaters. The competition of music
halls, where smoking is allowed, with the
aters where it is not, is very keen and the
atrlcal managers regard the right of smok-
ing as giving the music halls great ad-
vantage in the struggle. Many of them
think it should be permitted, but I believe
that there will be a strong opposition to
vitiating the atmosphere of a theater with
tobacco smoke. I feel confident that the
best West End theaters will never adopt the
practice and that, If allowed, smoking will
only take place in suburban theaters. It
could not Of course, be introduced in any
theater in London without the consent of
the county council.
this summer in the hope of finding a warmer
climate on the continent. The element of
gambling a little at the continental casinos
doubtless enters into the attraction of the
trip to the French or Belgian seaside places
But there is just now trouble In France
over the casinos 1t has been caused by NJ.
Clemenceau's new regulation of gambling in
France. Vichy, Aix-les- -Bains, Contrexe-
vile, Trouville, Biarritz, Dieppe, Dinard.
and a score of other fashionable resorts
have sent delegates to meet in congress in
Paris, a sort of parliament of the petits
chevaux. The present situation is typical
example Of aiming at the heron and
bringing down the goose. There is at Os-
tend NJ Marquet the owner of the great
gambling establishment in that Belgian
watering place. When the new law regulat-
Ing associations in France was passed M.