Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-01
The Graphic's Special
 Weekly London Letter

just now putting the finishing touches consists of q living room with kitth- en range, bedroom with fireplace, d scullery, lardcr, coalholc, and bath room. A water supply and electric light have also been put in by the youngsters.
 This little retreat when filled, as it shortly will be, with furniture made by the students of the councils schools of arts and crafts, will be used as club by the old boys of the school.
 ln similarly thorough fashion the young men of London are preparing 1 themselves for the world in other di- rcctlons. They recently established school ot waiting has come promi- nently before the public notice, and III the heart of Fleet street there is school of photo-engraving and lith- f ogfaphy, for the photo process and allied trades. the Shoredtch Institute provides chiefly for the furniture i trades, and the printing, book-pro= duction goldsmths, silversmiths, jew i elers and allied trades, and men $ tailoring trades are provided with thoroughly trained youngsters from different centers.
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 A National Roman Catholic Con gress will be held in Norwich from August ? to , inclusive, under the presidency of his Eminence Cardinal Bourne, supported by the Roman Cath ollc Archbshops and Bishops of the English and Welsh dioceses. The | h111- Ffxl.
 as chairman of the executive commit tee and during the Congress papers on religious, scientific, and social questions will be read, and the lead CTS of Roman Catholic thought and action will take part in the discus. i SionS.
 | While repairing an old fireplace and chimney at the Term Farm, near Mold, Elintshire, workmen nave discovered revolving stone, which, on beng moved, revealed secret chamber The farm was built in the early part of the sixteenth century, and was once manor house In the chanoer was antique oak furnlUure including a table on which law books.
 
 remains, reduced to dust, ot a reDast It is surmised that the room was used as hiding place by Royalist fugitiVes during the Civil War in the l reign of Charles l., and that since then it had remained undisturbed. All England is bemoaning the poor showing made by the English ath- letes during the Olympic games at Stockholm and trying to find a req son why their fine boys are being to a nation as self-satlsfed as the Eng lish the idea never occure that they must seek the reason within l themselves, they blame the Stockholrs climate, unfamiliar diet and hint ev- defeated. It goes without saying that en at unfair methods of judging. In the meantime the whole press prac- tically agrees that it is anything but pleasant to see the English athletes defeated, not only by Americans, for this England was prepared for, but by several other nations. The only decrepit old evening paper which sees no reason to deplore the defeats. The failure cannot be denied,' it writes, but it is a good thing that we lost sometime for nothing is more monotonous than a succession, of un- broken victories lleXcept perhaps succession of unbroken defeats), that is not sport, it is not hunting and so far as amateur sport is concern cd, there. are real advantages in the fact that some of our amateurs are not specialists. They may lose the day against those who .-confine them selves to one form or sport, in sea- son and out of season; but it is quite conceivable that the amateur who is beaten is the better all-round man. We like to win, but not to win always; and, on the whole, we get our full share of victories, as this years South African and Australian cricket teams will testify. And we are not convinced that the failure in the Olympic games means any real deterioration of fibro."
 The Globe is typicaliy English English in it's endeavOr to find con- solation and it is only strange to find that it does not add: "Well, you know our young fellows just went over wiyh the intention of giving those poor beggars 8 little encour- agement. Of course they could cas- fly win if they really wanted to-"
 In the meantime, diet may have had something to do with the English failures for l hear that the English boys have been the best customers the Stockholm cafes have had for years and that they broke all records ill regard to the number of cold bottles emptied.a But here again there is this to say to their excuse that they have never seen cafe in London.
 Some three hundred poor children of London, drawn largely from the