The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05
pfessrvs suHlcisnt momentum to glide
safety TO the ground.

Non-eonfOrnlst churches and chApsla Ia
london sesm 10 he passing through a
perlod OF depresaiOn. The rich support
ere are getting fewer and fewer and the
poorer members o. the congregations are
Snan'e 70 keep the Chapels going without
hnancial aid from outuide
Rowland Hlll's Old chapel on Black-
ir'ars road h nov q boxing hall. and the
sutherland Chapel on WAlWorth road has
oeen turned into q cinematOgraph theatre.
nov the announcement comes that owing
70 financial straits the communion plate
OF the Pilgrim Fathers Chapel on Old
Went road 10 to he sold by auction.
For years past times have been hal
with this old chapel. and the communion
plate i huing sold 10 enable the trustees
10 meet mortgage payments. The plate
said 10 have hesn presented 70 the
chapel by jonathan Owen. a ConRrsea-
tional piOneer. The old chapel dates
from lsIs
An unexpected result 81 the naaNina
Of the finance hin Il 70 increase the charge
Tor hotel lodgings. The Manchester Hossll
Association si its last meeting decided that
TO meet the increase In charges. the rails
ING Of the cost % license and the in
creased duties on beer aud apirita, bed
rooms are IN cost an extra sixpencs "a
centsl q night IN all hotels belonRinR 20
the association On aud after Nav n.
The hotel managers explain that thsy
could not put any q the extra ooas on
food and they had learned Nv experience
that any increase In the Rauor brieaa
would only have the effect Of decreasing
the consumption 20 there was nothing
20 do but 20 raise the bedroom tari6
Tho present increase. Il was limited. l.
only by way Of q beginning and an advance
Of shilling l3s oental may soon he en-
pectrd. at least for higher priced bed
rooms
The revised tariff ia expected 10 be
adopted throughout the country EeneF-
ally.
Nine. Cecil SOrel. the actress who 10
described a. the best dressed woman in
Paris she holds that szO.OoO a year lsI
the lowest sum on which a woman con
clOthe herself without a los 81 salf-re-
spect has adopted a new hobby A. hcr
hat In the Avsnue des Champs Elysaea
she keeps two lion cubs and from oontem-
plation Of her green eyed pete abe has
evolved a scheme Of philosophy. which
ne the following extracts show n tinged
with misanthropy
Lions arr animals and that is already
reaeon WHY their society appears 20 me
superior 10 that ~ the company % men. +
Washed out. nerve wrecked By civiliza- .
ton man has lost tn sense ~ instinct:
and II 10 FROM instisct that comes all true
nobility. Il IL because u the loss Of Il
that men possess no longer the heroic
virtues. thons which make breasts n heat
and lre the spirit.
The greatest among men nowadays.
tn artists and thinkers give by ne Hash I
Of their genius the illusion 81 temporary
sovereignty. hut thsir matsrialism and
the attitude 20 which civilization has re-
duced them. civilization which levela
down al middle sized people. 10 a de-
oeption.
Lions keep me promise which their
aspect gives. Nine have the serenity of
strong natures Their carriage 10 natur.
ally naughty and through their half
closed eyes they she'd a sovereign content
On thinEs which surround them. No
human events can alter the calm serenity
% animals.
Men who command others either by
instinct or their functions. are the only
0nss who have preserved a scrap of
instinct. o. al men. kings arr most like
lions. They have learned the art 20
live among men and yet not be of them
They let thrm approach but draw a line
past WhiSh they must not 60 4
Much iubilatiOn marks the announce