The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16

November he came to London and started everyone saying, Day by day and in every way l am getting better and better" Now he is back and his vogue gets better and better. He tries hard and sincerely to prevent the circulation of miracle stories about him, but with little success. People and women, particularly = are plainly determined to make a ma gician of him. They crowd his meet ings and though he talks in French, which at least half of them do not understand, they listen attentively and with awe.
 1 saw one old woman in a pathetic quandary. She had an ear trumpet and French dictionary. When she looked for a word she had to use both her hands, putting the trumpet down, and efforts to turn the pages with her nose failed completely.
 One meets Coue enthusiasts every where. One of them told me that all l needed to win health and wealth and happiness was to drink glass of warm water in the morning, saying over and over again Gust thinking the word while swallowing) This water is an essential of life" while eating breakfast say, My appetite is growing better and better. I am eating like a healthy man. l can digest my food perfectly and the organs of my body convert it into good red, rich blood which gives me health" and on the way to work good air is necessary; this is ex- cellent air; I'm getting plenty of it."
 A dyspeptic leader writer sourly suggests that Lloyd lead the chorus of the impoverished nations at Genoa ', axyiv al fac we get better and better exchange is rising in our favor; every day our factories run faster and faster and foreign trade grows better and better and better" Even one-legged be- medaled sellers of matches standing on the curb. have an intent express sion on their young faces and their young faces and their lips move 'every day I grow better and better"
 Chnmpaigne and Sport.
 On the heels of the courageous statement of e Sir Arthur Quiller Couch that those who do not take or have never taken alcohol are incapable of appreciating much of the greatest of English literature, comes the announcement that the harassed wine producers and distrib- utors of France are planning to follow their wine week" in France with similar undertaking in Eng land. If they are prepared to reduce prices they will be met with a most touching reception. Whisky Is hign and so is beer. Experts in these mat ters declare that the country is in the mood to change it's brand but not so long as champagne and even the lesser wines cost a handful of silver the small bottle.
 "O'sn stat e5neut earpad o 1at ~ indignant refutation, particularly from lifelong -totslers. What ne meant was that one who has never tasted alcohol lacks an important per cent and was therefore unable to appreciate fully any literature in which that experience plays a con siderable part. Simple. The sensa- tional victory of the Preston North End football team and the Spurs is apropos The Prestons won't was a semifinal game-because during the interval they drank champagne. Be- fore they took it they looked and felt beaten. Afterwards-they rushed the Spurs off their feet. In fact in the woods of a well known sporting writer. from being slow and irreso- lute, easily dominated. they became a totally different side and treated the oaOO0 spectators to the sight of one of the most dramatic hurricane attacks witnessed this season."
 This does not mean that British athletes hereafter are going to train on the product of Mrs. Cliquot. It was one of those special cases when there Is need for a quick, supreme effort and the men are discouraged, It is explained; and nobody Is criticising the manager who popped the corks. But in general trainers and mana CTS agree that stimulants are a dar- gerous gamble. A drink in certain circumstances, they point out, is quite as likely to 1t the men In a frame of mind to be less unhappy at the idea of losing