Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-28

England.
Bad weather has checked Miss
Richards tour, but she will resume
it next spring. When she sold her
country home in 1929 she took up
walking to agnuse herself.
Miss Richards always lunched on
cheese and biscuits while on her
tour and had her other meals in
inns. She says she never experienced
the slightest lonliness and always
knitted or embroidered while she
was resting by the roadside at
lunch time
Having achieved what they con-
slider something near perfection in
the art of bobbing and shingling
women's hair mainly through technl-
cal classes in most of the large CEN
ters, Lancashire hair dressers are
turning their attention to mere man.
They consider that man has been
more neglected during the recent
shingling craze for the women and
suggested a remedy by institutng
classes in Blackburn and other towns
for higher learning in connection
with tonsorial service for men.
PARTS, Jan 27-President~ Dou-
mergue-"the prisoner of the Elysee"
as the chief magistrate of France
is known-has at last broken through
the barriers of his rigid social cal,
endar and obtained two private
luncheon dates a week for himself,
with no questions to be asked or
admonitions by his official social
advisers.
He repairs to his old bachlor apart
ment in the Avenue Wagram, which
he occupied during the many years
he sat in the chamber and senate, to
meet a few intimate friends and Of
fer them simple luncheon in NOM
ory of the days when he was merely
"Doumergue" or Castor and not
Monsieur LIE President"
The president takes a good more
hour and more for these luncheons
sitting over the coffee, liquors and
cigars as long as his official schedule
will allow him. Then with a sign
of regret, he descends the six flights
of stairs and climbs sedately into
waiting limousine to be whirled back
again to his round of official cere-
monies.
The French smoker, as represented
by .the national league for the de-
fense of smokers began the new
year with a resolution, a determine
ton not to submit mildly to the de-
signs of each successive finance
minister to make him the gold mine
for replenishing the treasury's empty
Golfers.
The council of the league had a
meeting to consider. the governments
proposal to raise tobacco prices to
five times the pre-war level.
A resolution was voted, warning
the government that these prohibit
tive rates" would defeat their own
ends and pointing that the last in
crease in the price Of tobacco sup
piled by the state monopoly which
was made in May 1925. had resulted
in diminishing receipts to 100000
francs below the budget estimates
kline. Carnival the 48th of his line
makes state entry into Nice on Feb.
A. His majesty's tastes are so ex-
acting that workmen have been kept
busy for weeks preparing for the
event The decorations this year
are so elaborate that the three weeks
allotted for the work will hardly be
sufficient to complete them and
erect the grand stands along the line
of march.
BATTLES of flowers talke place
on Feb. II and 1S and March II. The
biggest night of the fete will be
Roman in character and will be
called an evening wifi "Petronius.
only costumes of the Roman era
will be worn.
All night sittings of the chamber
of deputies, which have been quite
usual in recent months are ham
and cheese" nights to the chamber
attendants. AS soon as it is known
that a, session is to go on, the re-
freshment manager sends out Tor
extra provision and between 8 and
9 in the evening great baskets OF
bread, butter, red and white wine,
and above all "ham and cheese" make
their appearance.
There used to be a restaurant In
the chamber but the proprietor lost
so nuch money InetI llC IAANAAJ 49,
/ it UP.
The Paris press has been generous
with tributes to the memory OF
! Sergei Yessinin, the young RUSSIAN
poet who was the husband OF lsa-
dora Duncan and who committed sui
! eide in Moscow recently He was
long one of the most familiar flg-
ures in Paris where his death is re"
| garded as the trigic ending of ca
reer which, but for the ruin wrough'
| bv drink and drugs, might have been
! a brilliant one. He is characterized
as one who might have been the
Russian virgil and written slaVs
| ..Georgics" had his life been turned
into different channels.
one of his last poems has just
been published here showing now
bitterly he was disillusioned when
he returned to his native land:
IT no longer understand the Ian