The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-11

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London, June 11.-Thanks to the pon
ularity and enormous sales OF a GER
tain kind of liver pill the people of
London are to receive a musical edu-
cation and this city is to possess the
largest and finest opera house in the
world, for Mr. Thomas Beecham, SON
Of the famous pill manufacturer has
decided to spend s. 800 600 of his faith
er's money in building an opera house
far superior in every way to the old
Covent Garden.
Opera is not popular in London"
said Mr.. Beecham to me today, 1T is
supported because it is a social func-
ton, and without that help would be
as Improbable as concert giving.
want to make the people realize that
if they go to hear opera they will get
something first class, something that
will satisfy them, something that is
worth the enormous expense attached
to its presentation.
The short season / promoted at Co
vent Garden last winter gave me a
personal experience of what it costs
to present grand opera. At His Ma
jesty's we have an orchestra of sixty
five instrumentalists. chorus of sixty,
and numerous first class principals.
The only way to conduct a season of
opera is to do it well. but do not an
ticipate being able to keep my losses
on this summer season much under
$4,000. and they might easily run dou-
BILE that amount.
"All the same I think our public
can be encouraged to support it, just
as the public on the continent is. To
that end 1 want, and am prepared to
build an opera house in London. l am
only waiting until l can find site in
a position at a fair valuation.
This is not merely a commercial
scheme. The making of money is not
the object. To do everything in the
best possible manner for the encour-
agement of opera, to attract the great
public to hear the works of the great
est masters will be it's purpose, and if
that can be done we are prepared to
carry it on even if there should be
some peculiarly losses attached to the
working of it,
Superstitious beliefs in charms to
ward off diseases-common enough in
some rural districts-are still to be met
with, it seems around London. DR.. E.
Lowry, reporting on the medical in
spection of children attending the ele-
mentary schools in Wimbledon. re-
marks that it is very common to find
concealed a string of beads concealed
around the neck, usually consisting OF
pale blue or coral. These are not re-
moved day or night, and are sometimes
stated to keep away Infection, colds.
and especially "quinsey." One person
attributed measles to a child having re-
moved the beads.
The custom appears to be a prehis-
toric one, and in some parts of Eng
land practically every baby brought
to hospital is wearing such beads. The
fact that older children do not wear
them points to spirit of modernism
or scepticism developing in them with
age.
Many curious domestic remedies are
also seen, adds DIR. Lowry, of which
two may be mentioned. A child liable
to colds is usually kept plastered over
the chest with melted tallow, and many
have to be examined in this condition
at school AS rule, only the front
of the chest is so treated, owing to
the popular idea that the lungs are all
IN front. Chronic ear disease is some
times treated by the insertion in the
affected ear of chewing tobacco in the
form of plug.
George Glover Flowers had terri
flying experience while fishing from
an anchored boat off Brighton, being
run down by a passengr steamer and
carried along under the ship.
He was about mile and quarter
off shore when he dropped anchor
and got his line out He was quietly
filling his pipe when he saw the pass
enger steamer Glen Rosa steaming
dead on to him at about 16 miles an
hour.
He shouted, but apparently they did
not notice, for the next moment the
stem OF the steamer cut right into
the small boat, smashing it to pieces.
Mr.. Flowers was drawn under the
water and rolled right along the YES
sells keep, the paint remaining on his