Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
WE EVENING TIMES, Glasgow
A lock Of Nelson's hair to /

TINE EVENING TIMES. Glasgow
lock of Nelson's hair to Be
sold at auction in London in
n likely TO provoke a fair amount
Of bidding, for, of all such relics
those of the great admiral command
the highest prices.
A wiSp of his hair sold some years
ago realized no less than 81 SITS, or $500
more than the highest price ever paid
for similar n1enento of Napoleon. and
higher than the highest bid on. record
Tor sample Of Wellington's grizzled
locks.
The vagaries of the hair relic mar
ket are curious. One of Byron's clrls
sold not long since for s65, and lock
Of Goldsn1ith's brought $50, which
would have been a Godsend to the
owner in his lifetime. but clippings of
Sir Walter SCOTS fine thatch have
| never risen above $40 in the open
market.
Lecturer Holds L. S.
Education Standards Low.
Manchester Guardian.-Mr. Ernest
Young, the B. B. c. lecturer to schools,
declared at meeting of the Middlesex
County Head Teachers Association at
the Guildhall Westminster, recently
that so far as education was concerned
England had nothing to learn from
America. II think the standard of
education In America is deplorably
low" ne said. ANY elementary pupil
in MiddleSex could get a degree in an
American university in three months,
and there is hardly B. A. in America
who could pass the matriculation.
If were the minister of labor" pro-
ceeded MIR. Young, Il would concen-
trate for the next five years in trying
10 bring about Mr. Bernard Shaws
ideal education. Mr.. Shaw has said
! that the only three things a child
+, needed to learn were how to get of a
moving bus backward, how TO find your
way about in Bradshaw, and so to be-
have like duchess when you went to
Brighton that everybody thought you
we're a duchess" Mr.. Young said that
there were three things which made
| for material success in life-mind,
! morals and nannerS-and of these
three he puts manners first at the
start of boys career.
| n \
France and Belgium
War Over Beauty's Nationality.
lie Soir. Brussels. -Ouf! It makes
us gasps War between France and Bel
| gium-apropoS the Hoover note-is
quite possible--even probablel AS to
| the cause assigned, some will say, as
the easiest thing TO say, the American
| proposal; others the French II serve:
still others, the very thought Of sus-
| pending German reparation payments.
which will bring TO the Belgian ex-
! chequer a deficit of 40,000,000 francs.
But none Of these will really be the
| cause. It is something far more Seri-
GUS and important than any of these
considerations 1t is a matter Of birthz
rights and traditions. We have another
subject of disquietude between our two
| countries The Petit Parisien has de-
elarsd that Miss Universe is a French
( girl and not a Belgian. We Indignantly
1 repudiate to the echo this unwarranted
assumption. And why not, when M.
| Duchateau, who claims to be the father
Of the pretty young woman crowned at
Galveston, writes us thus:
1T Is not strange that Mile Ducha-
| teau. my daughter, who has accom-
| panied me on visits to many foreign
| countries, and who lately conquered ali
| the other claimants to feminine beauty
| by winning the title Miss Universe
| should be asserted of the nationality OF
whatever country she happened to be
: in. For all OF that, our longest stay
was in the south Of France, where We
always defended our Belgian national
itg Now we have returned ~ Belgium