The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
SOCIETY AWAITS THRILLS
 OF YACHT WEEK
Festival Promises To Be Most Brilliant Since
 World War
(By Associated PreSs)

LONDON, Aug. 3.-Yachting week at COwes, opening Monday next. always society function and the final one before the elite migrate to Scotland for the shooting. will this year be the most brilliant since the war. The popular yachting festival seems more than ever a drawing card for society people, headed by the royal family, and the ex- elusive confines of the royal yacht squadron headquarters will entertain numerous as we'll as notable company. King George, as admiral of the squadron, arrived late in the week on the yacht Victoria and Albert, with Queen Mary, and will be joined by other members of the royal family. Many of the society high lights do their entertaining on board their sumptuous yachts and after sundOwn there IS a continuous round of visits from one Illuminated floating palace to another by means of motor boats and pinnaces. General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt have q party on board the yacht At lantic and other American and British folk are entertaining parties in the pretty villas and mansions that dot the vicinity of Cowes-
 Racing Taken Seriously
 The racing is quite a serious affair and particular interest has been aroused this year in the big yacht class because | of King GeOrge's decision to comm1s- sion the famous Britannia, which is racing against Sir Thomas Lipton's 23-metre Shamrock, Sir Charles Car rick AllOm's Whiteheather, and H. weldblunders LuIlwOrth, formerly the TerpischOre, all old racing rivals.
 Perhaps most interest is shown in the six-meter class yachts, which have grown in popularity since the establish ment of the races of the British American cup, and four of these yachts chosen to defend Great Britain, will be seen competing on the course during the week. The King will be out daily in ! the Britannia, but Queen Mary, who admits to a preference for terra firma, will watch the races from the club enclosure.
 Nature Needs Practice
 Defenders of pIimOgeniture, back bone of the English heridary principle received a formidable blow when Dr. Robert Hutchinson stated before the | British Medical association that two thirds of the mentally deficient chil- dren he had had to deal with in his practice had been first born children. Il looks, according to Dr. Hutchinson, as if nature had to acquire practice in the matter of birth.
 Thia of course, was a telling assault on the ancient heriditary principle upon | which the British political, social and economic fabric is built. Accordingly, arguments pro and con have been re viVed.
 Defenders of primOgeniture point to the efficiency of innumerable European mOnarchs which history reveals, while packers of Dr. HutehinsOn's conten. ton mention Benjamin Franklin, who was the fifteenth child of his. parents history being mute regarding thG achievements of the first 14 children Oi Josiah Franklin. Similarly, it is point ed ont that John Wesley was far from the eldest of Mrs. Susanna Wesley numerous family.
 fl Lnnser I.ife Promised
 Tnsthe midst of the dire predictions of what is going to happen to the worlC f the Dawes. report is not adopted comes the comfort in assurance from the British Medical association that babies born today have an expectation of 10 years more of life than had theiI grandparents. The assertion is con, firmed by insurance actuaries, one of whom said:
 "A great improvement in longevity has been noticed even in their last few years as was shown when the institute actUaRies revised the table about two years ago. Accurate statistics show that the improvement of mortality for men since 1890 is 20 per cent and for women 22 per cent"
 The editor of Whitaker's Almanac moreover, is recasting the tables relat- ing to the expectation of life which he calculates nov more than 10 years long CT than was the case 6 few years ago
 Revolution On Way
 The revolution" which conservative self-satisfied English folk feared would OVeKWhelm this ancient island with the advent of a labor government seems to be on the way at last. Miss Margaret BOndfield, Great Britain's first woman cabinet member, has advised domestic servants to put mistresses in their i proper place.
 The mistress is the unskilled person you are the skilled One," said Miss BOndfield to a class of young girls training at the government center in Liverpool for domestic servants. "DO- nestle service" she continued, 'be longs to the higher category of wOman's work and demands as much skill as tailoring or teaching. Teach mistresses by your efficiency to respect you, but ] don't so to extremes and have any silly ideas about what you may and may not do"
 Miss BOndfield said the English wom | -