The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-03-17
EUROPEAN
NEWS AND VIEWS

NEWS AND VIEWS III
London March II. - Perhaps the |
largest volume of business being done |
in London just now is by the real es
tate agents and house furnishers and |
decorators. The dressmakers, too, |
have their hands full, but they have |
more time to prepare their orders than |
have the house renters and furnish. |
ers. Americans lead by far the for. |
eigners who are taking houses for the |
coronation. which will be followed by |
the height of the London season. The |
house OF the late Baroness Burdett |
Coutts in Piccadilly, which John Hays |
Hammond, special ambassador OF the |
United States to the coronation. has |
| rented, is one of the handsomest in |
London II is splendidly adapted FOE |
large entertainments The mansion |
was inherited from the duchess Of st. |
Adams by the late baroness and is |
| now the property of her husband. II |
| Is interesting to note that Mr. Burdett. |
| Coutts, who, by the way, has no title.
is mentioned as successful sutton for
| the hand of Mrs. Ava willing Astor.
the beautiful former wife of one of
! New Yorks leading multi.milionaires
! In France one of the chief causes for
regretting the downfall of the BRAND
ministry seems to be the encourage.
menl which the incident affords to
.!..I.
public Mr.. Brands chief battles
We're with the socialists. who have be-
come a far greater menace to the re-
! public, it is claimed, than the royal.
lists and the imperialists combined
ever were. The impression will pre-
vail that they drove the BRAND minis
try from Office That may not be cor
rect but entirely correct conceptions
of suchc matters are not always prev.
alent. Certainly the French nation
is passing through critical period in
its history.
David j. Hill, ambassador from the
United States to Germany, is sailing
for New York today, where Mr.. Hill
has an engagement to deliver a series
of lectures at Columbia university dur
ing the month of April They are the
ChaTpentier lectures and will be eight
in number, dealing with the general
topic of the political organization of
the world. The ambassador expects
TO return to Berlin in the middle of
May.
Thieving on Italian railroads is an
evil of which many travelling Ameri-
cans could tell sorrowful tales. Moth
ing that has been done so far by the
Italian authorities has been efficaciOus
in stamping out what seems to be
widely ramited system Of baggage pill
iering. Now the minister of the in
terror is going to see what women de.
tectives, for which recruiting has been
going on in Milan, Venice, Turin, &c.
noa, Florence and Bologna. There
have been more than 5000 applicants
for the 100 places offered
One of the features of the receptions
at King Georges court this year will
be the revival of the old fashioned
and graceful full courtesy. OF late
years, indeed all through King Ed
wards reign, the half courtesy was
practiced. King Edward himself let
il be understood that it was sufficient.
CuriOusly enough the people who
never availed themselves of the per-
mission were the Americans presented
at court. They always remained faith.
full TO the old deep courtesy. The full
courtesy is not the easiest thing to
manage, and a girl might almost be
said to be born with the ability to per
form it properly and gracefully. Dane
ing masters and teachers of deport-
ment are having busy time Of it this
season coaching pupils in this really
difficult accomplishment.
Nothing is sacred to the German
statistician. Presumably basing his
calculations upon information culled
from fiction, he calculates that In the
, case OF proposals of marriage Sc per
|, cent OF the suitors press the hand OF
\ their beloved, "a percent conclude
! their speech with an embrace, 4 per
!. cent kiss the hair. percent kiss the
hand, 2 percent fall on the knees, and
| ~ pcINehI SNallcW pClol {
-, they declare their passion. Ten per
. cent open and close their mouths with
, out being able to utter a single word
and percent make their proposals
q while standing on one foot.
, On the other hand. 60 percent Of the
. women sink helplessly into the arms
Of the lovers for whose propose
: they have been waiting 20 percen,
blush and hide their faces, l percen
swoon away, percent are genuinely
amazed, IA percent gaze silently into
t the suitor's eyes and l percent rur
J. away 10 tell girl friend.
d Experiments with submarine bells
l. at Cherbourg. and with wireless teleg
i raphy as applied to submarine boati
b have given excellent results. Fou
Il submarines were sent in different di
S rections from the coast guard cruise
l. Bouvines, which is fitted with n mi
n croscopic receiver, their commandin,
s officers carrying sealed instructions
s When seven miles away the subma