The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-10
Fashionable Places in London
Are As Particular About
This Feature as Is the King
of the Court Itself.
CONVENTION IN MATTERS
OF DRESS is ESSENTIAL.
Another English Shrine for Pa
triotic American Pilgrims
Discovered at PurIeigh, Es-
Sex-Other Gossip.
(By Richard Abercorn.)

London, Nov. 9-Sumptuary laws, as
rigid as those at King Edwards court,
are enforced at the fashionable res
taurants Of London. At the Savoy the
other night an earl and countess were
refused admission to the principal din
ing room because they were not in
evening dress.
This incident raised some discussion
as to whether diners should be allowed
to dress as they please, and the Savoy
management held a ballot among their
fashionable patrons, who were asked
for their opinion ON this important
question.
Among ninety replies only one was
against the evening dress rule, and the
management have therefore decided
to enforce the rule as rigidly as ever
Even princes will now be debarred
from dining at the Savoy unless they
wear the regulation evening dress.
The one voter against compulsory
evening dress wrote: 1T is certainly a
stupid rule which would prevent a
man in this democratic century from
ressing as he pleases. People are
more important than rulesSof fashion.
1t is just such conventional ideas
which keep up England's reputation of
being country enslaved to form"
But convention in matters of dress is
one of the bedrock principles of Brit
ish society, and will probably last as
long as society itself.
$50
Another English shrine for patriotic
American pilgrims has been discov-
ered-or rather authenticated-at the
picturesque country town of Purleigh,
Essex. 1t has been established, after
thorough investigation, that Law
renee Washington, rector of Purleigh
in the seventeenth century, was great
great-grandfather of the Father of
American Independence.
Armed with the fact of this rela-
tionship, the present rector of Pur-
leigh Is appealing to Americans for
money toward restoring the church
tower. a well-known landmark in the
district.
Three years ago a considerable sum
was contributed by Americans for this
object. and now that the connection
between George Washington and Pur-
leigh is finally established the rec
tor Is hopeful of getting enough to
complete the work of restoration.
Anaesthesia by hypnotic sugge stion
has been accomplished. accidentally in
London dental hospital, where a
young woman was made unconscious
by the idea of an anaesthetic, although
the gas was not actually applied.
Ethyl chloride was the anaesthetiC
intended for use in this case, and the
apparatus was fitted over the girls
mouth and nose. The sealed capsule
Of ethyl chloride was introduced, and
the screw to break the capsule and lib
crate the gas was turned. Apparently
the anaesthetic did its work, five teeth
were extracted, and the patient awoke
Grafton.
1t was afterward found that the cap
sule had never been broken. The CIR
must have passed into insensibilitS
from the mental impression that al
anaesthetic was about to be applied
In other words, she was hypnotizec
into Inconsistencies.
In another case of hypnotic anaes
thesia at the same hospital ethy
chloride was sprayed on to the gums
to freeze them into insensibility. The
tooth was extracted without pain, bu
II was afterward found that gas
placed in the mouth had screened the
gums from the anaesthetic.
King Edward is never so thorough!
at home anywhere as at Newmarket
where he has been spending the Octo
Der race week. In the metropolis o
racing he is regarded as a simpl,
sportsman, and royal state is entirel,
dispensed with. His Majesty Otter
strolls alone about the streets, free
from the kind of annoyance he sui
fered from at (for instance) Marien
bad where he was mobbed by inquisi
tive strangers.
Every morning the King rode out OF
his cab to the historic heath to watcl
the strings of horses exercising. TIL
afternoon was spent on the course
either in the Jockey Club stand or il
the paddock, and in the evening h
dined with some Of his sporting
friends. After a quiet rubber or tw