The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
FISHER LASSIES GUESTS AT TEA
 WITH PREMIER
Mediterranean Tourists Buy Native Trinkets
 Made In England
tBr Asseeiatsd Press.l )

A. tBy Ass0ciatsa fress.t x
 LONDON, Oct. 11.-Conservativ old St. Andrews, whence the game of golf spread around the world. does not approve of the new ball which it is proposed to standardize in the United States -et
 There is no quarrel with the Amer ican attitude that the balls now in use are little too lively and carry too far when hit by powerful drivers; on that the British players who compose the golf balls subcommittee of the Royal and Ancient Golf club agree with their brethren across the Atlantic, but 1t is their opinion that the bigger and lighter ball proposed in America is so small change from those now in use that it doesn't really make much difference. The committee intends however. to go ahead with its own tests designed to bring about new standard in golf balls. af
 Meanwhile, should the change take place. British golfers visiting America will have to play with the American standard ball and when Americans in- wade England in quest of titles and trophies of the game they must use the smaller, heavier and longer carrying British ball.
 's - Fish Girls Honored Three fisher lassies from Lassies mouth had the time of their lives last week when, after visiting the British empire exhibition at Wembley, they took tea with Premier Macdonald and his daughters at the famous official residence of the prime minister, No. 10 Downing street.
 One of them said lady had in- vited them to London to see the exhi- bition as her guests. Wembley was just great, but they wanted also to see the inside of the prime minister's town house.
 ri When the girls arrived at No. 10 Miss Ishbel Macdonald heard of their presence and invited them to tea, which was just being served to the premier and his daughters.
 That was the greatest honor fish girls have ever had," said one of them afterward, land we shall never forget 1t as long as we live"
 Parision Airs Spread
 Tourists who while away the coming winter months on Mediterranean cruises will find almost every seaport putting on Parisian airs, with Casinos, dance halls, restaurants, cabarets and saxo- phonic syncopation>
 The Mediterranean winter crusises which have been elaborated since the war were so popular last year that there were not sufficient ships sailing from England and America to satisfy the demand. In consequence, the stop
 ping places, particularly the ports in northern Africa, experienced prosperity hitherto unknown to them. In fact they
 sold out their stocks of native trinkets,
 rugs and souvenirs.
 This year-Gthey are providing against running short by importing from Eng land and continental vast amounts of
 goods which they will sell from their bazaars to unsuspecting z, tourists in
 search of articles of nattve manufac- ] ture.
 Far more lucrative than the trinket trade in these ports Is the operation of
 gambling rooms. These sprang up. in
 mushroom fashion last year, but now
 many have been turned into richly deco rated and furnished casinos. In some cases these have been built right on
 the docks where the steamers berth,
 while others line the streets most ire
 quently by tourists.
 The British steamship companies are doubling the number and capacity of their Mediterranean cruises this year. Such voyages, they say, are proving more popular with the English than
 visitssto the confidential winter resorts.
 Sx Judges Arc Huffy Considerable controversy is proceed ing in msgisterial circles regarding the intDxIcated motor car drikersi It has Fpenalties inflicted in many courts on
 recently been the practice of a stip- endiary magistrate to pass sentences of two, four or six months imprisonment
 when it was proved that the driver of an automobile was under the influence
 of drink when an accident occurred in- volying injury to a pedestrian or the occupant of another vehicle. It was found, however, that these delinquents invariably appealed to the
 quarter sessions presided over by the
 sheriffs and that in many instances the sentences were quashed or reduced to a nominal fine. This created strong feel ing among the magistrates, who com plained that persons knowing nothing sbout the law should not be in q posi- tion to revise decisions by professional judges.
 So strong has this feeling become
 that the question of the punishment
 of those found guilty of being 1ntoxi-
 eated while in charge of automobiles
 
 tn the near future, with a view to hav- ,mg a bill. framed for presentation to parliament.
 Americans Outnumbered ,i The hotel authorities declare that for the first time in many years, visitors to London from the continent have out
 numbered Americans arriving here.
 Many of these continental guests are business men. who bring their managers i and secretaries with them and spehd 2 an hour or two daily on the telephones conversing with their business head- quarters back home. These visits are believed to be due z very largely to the laying of plans for trade expansion now that the postwar problems are being ameliarated but they } are also partly. due to he British em- pire exhibition at Wefhley As exhibition dFasss to close it ! apps8 to;be attracffng type of vis-
 itor which has been little. in evidence
 heret6foee. Observers state that fully
 90 per cent of these, yisitors are indus
 trial gnates taking final look
 | aroHad for. business opportunities, the
 buIk Of then coming from Scandinavia
 CT Ehe feighbofihg continental coun-
 tries.