The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-30

the staff is not large, the Americans
have To receive great many more
visitors than do the Ambassadors and
ministers of the European powers.
In the first place there have to be
separate rooms for the Ambassador
and his three secretaries and two at
tachos and a couple of extra rooms for
I the use of visiting officials. Then
there are the clerks and. still more
difficult to find, large reception room
y where the hundreds of Americans who
visit the embassy during the summer
can be received.
In addition TO the Offices the Ambas-
sador must have a very large. conve-
nient house where he can entertain on
behalf of his country.
1t has been rather difficult to find the
right house, but one has been offered
to the government which would be
eminently suited for the purpose. The
cost of the necessary land and resi-
dence has been estimated at anywhere
| from $500 600 to 81 ,OOO, 600.
Revival OF Great Fair.
ipdi AlloAolltN WHICH WAS DelO ~
West Smthfield. in London, from 1888
to 1855, will be revived at the Shakes
peares England" exhibition which will
he held under the management OF Mrs
George CORVALLIS West. daughter of
the late Leonard Jerome, of New York
at Earls Court this summer
The charter for the original fair was
granted by Henry !. to the famous
monk, Rahers. who for years had been
| Henry's jester and who founded the
Priory of st. Bartholomew as well as
the famous st. Bartholomew hospital
| The fair opened annually on the feast
Of St Bartholomew and lasted fourteen
days. When it was first established
it was one of the great annual markets
of the kingdom and the chief cloth
fair OF the times. Smithheld as il ex-
isted in the early days Of the fair will
be reproduced and some of the brutal
pastimes which grew to mark the fes-
tival will be initiated.
25Cent Dinner at Stake.
Home Rule, Welsh is-establishment
and the suffrage question All promise to |
be eclipsed in the House of Commons !
by the danger to the members shilling |
or 25-cent dinner. There has been
great strain upon the finances of the |
Kitchen Committee Of the House and |
Colonel Lockwood. it's chairman
threatened to make up the 81 900 de- /
felt by raising the price of the din
ner. Now that each member of the /
House is receiving n salary of two |
thousand dollars year the legislators
may be compelled to pay at least the
actual cost of the dinners they con-
sumo
Colonel Lockwood declares that the
receipts of the kitchen have not in
creased since the members began to
draw pay, but he intends 10 get some
of this money, even II it means the
upsetting of one of the most cherished
perquistes Of Parliament. The dinner
was originally established for the ben
eft of the Labor members, but when
the other Commoners saw what their
Labor colleagues were getting for their
money they deserted the a-la-carte ta-
ble until at the present time fully two
thirds OF the House partakes of the
cheap dinner.
Fighting tuberculosis.
Mr.. Waldorf Astor. member of Par
lament for Plymouth. the eldest son
of Mr.. William Waldorf Astor. has
made another step forward in his poll
tical career, which commenced only at
the last general election a year ago.
He has been appointed chairman Of a
to report upon the prob
lem of tuberculosis i'm the United
i'm its preventive, curative
and other aspects.
Mr.. Astor has made a special study
of the subject. and his first speech in
the House of Commons was i'm sup
port Of the Governments Insurance
Rin, in which provision was made for
dealing with patients suffering from
Mr.. lloyd George, the Chancellor Of
the EXchequer, who appointed Mr..
Astor, although a political opponent.
10 the charmanship of the committee
had intended that the funds raised
under the act should be employed for
but many medical men are
absolutely opposed TO sanatoria treat
nent and Il will be the work of the
committee to investigate and report on
he best way of using the money.
The mortality from tuberculosis has /
steadily decreased in England and
Wales. being less than half what IL
vas in 1860 The death rate. however, ,
$ stin very heavy, and in 1909 54,425 I
PERSONS succumbed in England and :
Wales The disease is even more dead ,
y in Ireland but there an active cam |
'aign. inaugurated by the Countess OF I
Aberdeen. has been going on for some ,
ears and conditions are improving