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A View of on Life Abroad Lady Astor Declares Politics Makes Her Appreciate Home Would Rather Have Rattlesnake Around Than Dis? gruntled Servant; Maids Would Not Be Comf ortable in Drawing Room LONDON, June 27. -mr ADY AST0R had decided opio fe ions on the servant vs. mis? te tress question. At a recent meeting of the domestic serv? ice branch of the National Alliance of Vmploycrs Employed she declared: "We are all some one's servant; hus? band and wiie, for instance, beeause one bosses the other. "I would rather have a rattlesnake than a disgruntled domestic 'servant" Iter butler helped more than aiiy else in the Plymouth election of when Lady Astor became the first woman member of Parliament.

He al jsaya seemed to put things right, how-! fever disagreeable every one else was. Be was a gentleman, as kind to the smallest kitchen maid as he was to her, 'which was the true test. "I don't believe in asking the maids int? the drawing-room," she continued. "I think the maids would be perfectly wretched if they were made to sit down and talk to me. Every one chooses her own friends.

"People say that when a woman goes into politics she gives up her home. I find it just the reverse. You begin to think what a blessed thing a home is, and Ions: to get back to it." The audience consisted of many mis tresses and domestics. LONDON, June in The London Evening News, E. M.

comments on the difference between the Englishman and the American in France. He says that it is rare to find Englishmen who speak French passing -well, and even when they do talk French they do so as though they dis? liked the language. "It is not necessary to know French fuently to get on exceedingly well in France. Much depends upon the way jou talk as on what you say. So many English people talk French ungracious? ly, and to talk French ungraciously is worse than not talking it at all.

A ready smile, a polite bow, makes all the difference. "That is why visitors from the United States get on so well. They have none of the Englishman's shyness or fear of making fools of themselves. They peg away at it and don't worry if their accent is Broadway or Boston. And thoy do it in such a polite and genial fashion that it endears them to the French." As a Frenchman remarked: "I can always distinguish American from p.n Englishman.

The American makes and laughs. The Englishman, he, too, makes mistakes, but he frowns and looks unhappy." Falkland Islands Most Lonely Port of British Empire LONDON, June loneliest liace in the British Empire is reported by Captain Galloway, of the Pacific liner Carcovado, to be Falkland Isles. The captain says that although before the war the inhabitants saw a ship at least once a fortnight, now the Panama Canal Is opened they rarely see a liner. "I called there for a cargo of wool at the end of April, and the people, eagerly seized on the January news? paper? I had on board. They had had no general news or any mail for months." Since the naval station in South America has been discontinued by the government no cruisers call at the islands and the big wireless station at Fort Station has been abandoned and the naval wireless is seldom used.

There is little in the way of distrac on there. The islands boast of one nine-hole golf course and one piano. This latter was left there by the Good Hope before she went out to meet Von Spee's squadron. There is also one movie film, which is shown in the town bal? now and then. The captain brought home with him the government printer, who had be? come mentally afflicted owing to the loneliness.

At What Age Is a Man Competent to Choose a Wife? PARKS, July what age does a man possess sufficient ability to be able to choose a wife? According to the present French laws he is not considered capablo he reaches thirty years, and should he marry before that time he must obtain the consent of his parents. In 1918 and again in 1919 the Chamber low? ered the age to twenty-five, but each time the bill was rejected by the Sen? ate. Soon another attempt to alter the law will be made by Abb? Lemire, Deputy for the Nord. The Abbe says that men who would make an unwise marriage at twenty five would be just as liable to do the same thing at thirty. He also thinks that more men and women who have supposedly reached the age of discre? tion make unhappy marriages than younger people.

"I certainly think a man is sufficient? ly matured by the time he is twenty five, or even twenty-one, to enter into marriage upon his own responsibility. It seems ridiculous for a man to have to ask his parents' consent until he is thirty." The Marchioness Townsend gives as her opinion that "by the time he is twenty-five if a man has bad tendencies they will have developed, or if he has good tendencies they will also have developed. It would certainly, in my opinion, be a good thing to lower the age at which a Frenchman attains his majority." Dr. Kallas, Member Everest Expedition, Dies LONDON, July Morning Post reports that Dr. Kellas, a member of the Everest expedition, has died of heart failure at Kempajong.

Dr. Kel? las had been on many expeditions to tne Himalayas, and had made a special study of the effects of Tarification of the atmosphere on the human system. With Major Morshead, of the Indian Survey, he ascended Mount to a height of 23,000 feet and engaged in experiments in the use of oxygen. His work in the Himalayas on the physio? logical effects of climbing at high alti? tudes formed the subject of a report to the Everest Committee, and was re? garded as a valuable contribution to the scientific side of mountaineering. It was owing to the experience and knowledge he had gained during his many years of Himalayan exploration that he was invited to join the Everest expedition.

i Says President's Eyes Are Chief Attraction of Tall and Friendly Personality PARIS, July RENE VIVIANI, former French Premier, who recently re? turned from the mission ambassador extraordinary to the United States, sums up his im? pressions of President Harding, Secre? tary of State Hughes, Senator Lodge and others in a long article in the cur? rent number of Je Sais Tout, the French monthly magazine. "Harding does not need to spoal French; he speaks with his eyes," says Viviani, commenting on his Whit? House interview. The former Frencl war Premier sees even a firmer bone between the United Statc3 and Fran? following his mission. He writes ii part: "I have often been asked if the igno ranee of most Frenchmen of the Americai language does not hamper one extreme ly when coming in contact with Ameri cans. Yes and no.

In large assemblie of men, the word and the phrase ar not really of such great importance a the action itself, the attitude, the ge? ture, the look. And then there ar words which are common to both lar guages. And since the war almost a those Americans who visited Franci though they may not all speak Frencl understand it well enough to follow speech or conversation. "Mr. Harding has that rare qunlit of dispensing with your inability speak his language; he speaks, indeei with his look.

Those large eyes, shii ing with loyalty and kindnees, whic look at you steadily and which yc feel are seeing into your soul, see to penetrate with the power of his ov? great soul. His good humor shines his face and his eyes are the grcate attraction of his tall, friendly pe sonality. "Our first interview was cordial, b' the last, on the eve of my was quite touching. I feel moved evi now at the remembrance of how told me of his first to Paris in young days, with Mrs. Harding and 1 family; of how they walked oft under the statue of Strassbourg, and the strong desire he has as soon as 1 term of office is over to make the grimage again to see this noble syml of oppression and liberty unveiled, cannot forget his tone of sincerity a nobility.

Method Shown By Word and Message Harding is not only a good a kind-hearted man; he has shown tl fie can act by the formidable campa: he went through; his numen speeches made to millions of peoj both men and women, in this coun where the President can seek for ereignty at its source. Like his ii mato friend Mr. Harvey, the new i brilliant United States Ambassador London, an old friend of France, has put his hand to the plough and will not turn His words and message show his strong and cerl method. "Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of St has a more severe, legal look.

I him for the first time in 1917 in York at a banquet which the world gave in my honor, and who time have done me the honor me a member of their society. His had just joined up to go and figh France. I remember well his imper Viviani Writes of American Notables Rene Viviani words, vivid, full of anger, which de? nounced the crime of history. He seemed to be lashing an invisible face with an invisible whip. Formerly a jus? tice in the Supreme Court and then one of the most illustrious and busiest law? yers at the New York Bar, he has the perfected method of one who 'has a thorough knowledge of his art.

We have seen evidence of this for some time. It is not often that a firmer tone and briefer formula ara found in diplo? matic notes than in those he composed. "No cautious sentences or literary rigmarole woven around fact, but a clear statement: 'The American gov? ernment is in agreement with the Allied governments in holding Germany responsible for the That is all; just a sentence. And after that Ger? many, whom defeat has not cured of psychological error, asks his advice about reparations. Berlin wanted to go to Paris by way of Washington.

Mr. Hughes taught them geography anew. Sees Hughes as Lawyer Who Is Guided by the Facts "Mr. Hughes is a lawyer. But, con? trary to generally received opinion, the lawyer does not lose himself in formu? las-he must have facts.

Ho puts for? ward principles, but facts appear, and in the name of principles he deduce? the guiding rules from them. It wa? on facts, interpreted by means of rigorous method, that he and Mr. Har cing founded America's new policy The fact is the resistance of Germany; any Imprudent formula encouraged it It mu3t not be, for America, now before and during the war, takes he: stand on the idealism which brough her into the fray. Not only will Mr Hughes say nothing, but he will creat an opposing fact which he will main? tain as long as it is necessary. He will cause the Knox motion to be adjourned one which would keep up a state of war with Germany.

Personally, I am proud of having strengthened the links of friendship and esteem which bind me to this wonderful man, who gave me the opportunity of seeing once again my country seconded by his. "It gave me great pleasuro to see Senator Lodge again, the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who was such a staunch friend to us in those terrible hours. This noble mind is imbued with the Latin spirit. He is a son of the highest cultivation of the country, a representative of Boston, where the first rumors of the Revolu? tion were heard. The thought of suf? fering France has been constantly in his mind in his charming, artistic house and in his immense library, so full of books that they seem to occupy the room entirely.

On July 14, 1918, at that memorable moment when his? tory was in the making, he made speech in favor of continuing the until Alsace and Lorraine had returnee to France. The Senate cannot but greatly influenced by his moral and in tellectual force. "I like to remember all those showed their nobility of soul and whos? hearts turned in sympathy toward th? country of man's rights, and their atti tuda of respect and admiration for th? bleeding Calvary which for four year our people ascended without a murmur We shall very shortly spo Ambassado Herriek succeed to Ambassador Wal lace, who has the sincerest good wishe of all the French nation. It was Am bassador Herriek who, in 1914, told unofficially of the declaration of war, Calls Hughes a Wonderful Man, With a More Legal Look Than Harding I moments before he brought me the official announcement, his voice 3haken with emotion. After his arrival, per? haps at the same time, other old friends of ours will come.

There are those unknown anonymous friends who come every yenr to make their (. to heroism and death, those who have loft their children in French soil, which proudly rctr.in3 its treasure. Tells of Pilgrimage To Roosevelt's Gnivo "I myself wished to make this pil? grimage to death before leaving Amer? ica, and after having taken leave the living I went to kneel at Roose? velt's grave. Two hours' journey awa; from New York, under sojitar; mound surrounded by many oth? graves, is the tomb of this illustriou! son of America. Nothing diatinguishe: it from the others in its tragic sim plicity.

We stood motionless end gravi before the narrow iron casket. Ther were present Mrs. Jusscrand, Mr. Jua serand, our dear and eminent amba3 sador, a worthy representative France; a justice, my friend and bril liant colleague, Stephene Lausanne, an a few officers. We afterward entered th quiet house where nis life ebbed awn; still under the effects of the deep emc tion called forth by the memory of thi f.ghter for human liberty.

"Mrs. Roosevelt received us on th threshold, proud though sad with tl thought of her two ever-present men cries, for before the loss of her hu; band her sen had fallen. The house itse seems made for quiet happiness ar work, simple and unostentatious, fu of trophies of the chase. One can pi ture the courageous President livir out his life here. The man's charact is apparent on every Eide, in th cheery setting.

It was there that the month of August, 1914, Rooseve received the visit of a German office sent from Washington to bear a speci message from his "master" the Emp ror of Germany. I am charged by Emperor to have the honor of declf ing to you that war declared. He do not think you will forget that you we once his "Roosevelt replied: 'I have a go memory, sir. I remember well that have indeed been the guest of the peror of Germany. But at the sai time I remember that I have also be the guest of the King of the Belgians "The officer turned on his heel, the time when, following the impet given by Roosevelt, his country entei the war, he fastened to his front the following notice: 'I am a free ci zen of America.

I consider that country has done well to join the Allies in defending right and tice. Those who do not share opinion cannot cross this threshr If they have crossed it, they leave. And above all they must The Weather Man Blasts Some Superstitions By James A. Buchanan WASHINGTON, July 9. THE fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of December appear to be universally pop? ular dates on which the goose bone, moon ring, star gazers and other weather prophets give to the their prophecies as to what the 'weather will be for the ensuing season.

A majority of these predictions are tased upon oldtime superstitions and tiave no foundation in fact. There is 'yet to be discovered a method by which a coming season may be foretold with accuracy. These self-styled prophet? clay upon the credulity of the people, and also upon the fact that there are few signs which are indicative of t-arly coming climatic conditions. These signs, however, are indicative only of conditions of from a few hours tc two or throe days at the most. The United States posse; ses to-day of the best weather bureau serv Vea in service that ef? fects yearly a saving of many millions dollars, a service that is, as far is humanly possible to make it, ac? curate, and a service that has played most important part, not only in the of the country, but alsc has.

been the means of saving million! fit dollars' worth of shipping, to snj nothing of the numerous lives thai have been lost if warnings tic bureau had not been heeded. to what extent the possessed truth is a mat ter for a specialist to decide, so th visited Professor Charles Fred crick Marvin, chief of the United State Weather Bureau. In discussing th tho head of the service said: Weather Superstitions Have Little? Scientific Basis "Numerous superstitions regarding th v.eather have been handed down fror gene-ration to generation, but few have any scientific basis. are but a very few that are dependable f.Thtrc is r.o scientific foundatioi tho great majority of them. is true that there are sign: luye boon observed by.

scientist! end others for years which give a pointing finger as to what the weather of a few hours or day or so will be. "There is nothing as yet discovered that will erjable us to tell with any de? gree of accuracy what a coming seasor will bring. Goose bones do not conned up with weather sequences. The ring around the moon is due to the condi tion of the atmosphere in the sky ant is an indication, but not a definite in of rain. "All of us who are connected witl the bureau would be happy if we coulc learn of some plan to forecast weathei for in advance.

Just think what i would mean for the crop season! Jus think what it would mean to know hov much coal would be needed for rigors of winter! Just think of hov I much benefit it would be if we able to tell the street cleaning depart ments in the different cities just much snow they must expect, durin, the winter! Every year the groundho, superstition is a matter of genera comment, but you cannot place dfpendence upon that animal. Take hi last appearance, for instance. He wa out long before the time in which he 1 annually slated to appear, but he doc I not seem to have affeeted condition very materially. "Then, again, if ws were able to fort cast? the fall of snow, just thin I what it would mean to the rancher in the middle and far West to able to tell them how much wat( they would have for irrigation pu poses during the season! We do pretend to be long-range forecaster Wo indulge in cold, scientific dedui tions, loaving nothing to luck. Oi work is along conservative, sa and sound lines and we have endea ored to win the respect and con dence of the public.

"Returning for a moment to the Ion range forecaster, we find that his pr dictions are very general in charact? He refuses to predict specific-all if, for instance, he hurps on the su ject of a wet moon, he fails to speci whether it is a wot. moon for tl whole of the United States or only limited Beet ion country, man in Portland, Maine, may look gravely up at the sky, sagely nod and state that the moon is a wet moon, but he fails to state that the weather may be wet in Portland and dry as a tinder box in the wheat fields of Kansas." Touching upon the subject of rain making, Professor Marvin said: I Rain-Making'Is Little Short of Charlatanism "The so-called rain-making is little short of charlatanism. It is a fake It is impracticable. While it is true that in a few instances small clouds I have appeared shortly after the work I of the so-called we fine looking over our charts that rain i fall was due in or near that locality i i few hours or so after these self-stylet I sky wizards had performed their per sonal magic. A Storni occurred recent lv down the Gulf of Mexico.

W' have arrangements with numerous ves sels plying those waters to keep informed as to conditions, and this, ir conjunction with our other observa i tions, enabled us to send out a warn I ing which resulted in numerous ves sels scurrying from the danger This warning saved hundreds of thou sands of dollars of shipping. "I do not think that a pet corn, goose bone, a sunflower plant fir herd of groundhogs with their bined services totaled would have bee of as much benefit as our service wai It caused these vessels to shun th danger spot. At the present time have an interchange of reports wit Mexico and Canada. Colombia is als installing an up-to-date system. Professor Marvin statetfc that th beautiful permanent waves of milad of the present day and generatio would be affetted by approachin storms, but only at the time near the atmospheric disturbance, and the miss or matron who had her hai marcelled in order that she may proj nosticate weather conditions for a approaching outing it having wei done for naught, provided, of cours that is her object.

The disciple of golf who that his clubs are sensitive a week I or more before a storm either pos i sesses the imagination of a Jules Verne or a candidate for the club whose members declare that they al I ways go around the course jn par. Professor W. J. Humphreys, Ph. professor of pi teorologieal physics of the United States Weather Bureau, probably has given more attention to weather proverbs and their justifica? tion than any other scientist in this country.

In touching upon weather superstitions he declared that some of the signs used to a greater or less extent are those which have been ob? served for many years, and that' they are viewed by old-timers with fin un? derstanding of their significance. He pointed out how fishermen will weigh anchor end prepare for flight when, to the unobservant, there be naught to indicate anything but fair weather; how the man of the woods will notice changes and comprehend the messages of warning. In specking of proverbs relating to the winds, Professor Humphreys said: "There are numerous proverbs based on the directions and changes of the wind, but their value, in the main, is only local, except when taken in con? nection with the height and rate oi change of the barometer. However, in middle latitudes the direction of ordi? nary undisturbed winds is from west tc east. Therefore, a radically different direction commonly indicates an ap? proaching, or, at any rate, not verj distant, storm.

is, then, some justification for such proverbs as th? following; "When the smoke goes west, gudi weather is past; "When the smoke goes east, gud? weather comes neist; "When the wind's in the south, rain's in its mouth; "The wind in the west suits ever; one best." The saying which reads, "The far ther the sight the nearer the rain" i explained by the fact that the homo geneity of the ntmo.phere is und it is tnet travels bette; en ce.asiem h-' priced a stormy day. In speaking of the power of animals to prophesy Professor Humphreys said: 'Grumphje smells the weather, An' grumphie sees the wun'; He when clouds will gather, An' smoor the blinkin' "This extravagant tribute to the pig as a weather prophet is typical of a i large number of proverbs, though per 1 hapa no other animal has been credited with actually seeing the wind. "Doubtless the dampness and change in temperature that commonly precede storms somewhat modifiy the behavior of many animals, but of the numerous proverbs based upon their actions evei the few that have any truth to support them have far greater physiologies than meteorological interest. Believes Trained Esperta Can Render Best Service "Despite the fact that there are eome signs which are quite accurate, I an still of the opinion that humanity ii best served by having a trained corp: of men who work through scientifi ''Changing the subject for a mo mont, I would like to call your atten tion to the kite meteorgraph, an instru ment attached to kites, which is use? to record pressure, temperature, hu midity and wind velocity. It is reall a remarkable instrument.

"That even animal life is sometime mistaken is shown by the fact tha or. a farm of a friend of mine i Virginia were fooled by the op prarance of the warm days of this ver etily spring. The process of breedin lied taken place during the warm? dsys, then came the cold snap, whic rendered it impossible for the bees secure their food from the flower Thousands and thousands of them die because there had been but a little foe gathered and stored. The groundlu Is very much like Germany was in i conception of the world's mind; he not accurate. While I hate to co: rdict the old saying so often used 1 tnese who cited it as an example 1,1.

if faet.1 compel me to state th i as a rule, Ho not hoard r.i ts." Women Detectives of London Threaten to Dim Fame Feminine Head of Agency and Achievements of 1" Year-old Girl Start Discussion as to Relative Ability of the Sexes LONDON, July P. JK stnnd how you discov? ered the murderer." "Really, Watson, at times you make me despair," the great detective re? plied, as she wisked on her evening gloves. "The murderer is one my best friends. She told me everything, at tea." The detective story of the future will read like this, according to the predictions of of one of Lon? don's noted private detective whose success in employing women detectives has raised the following questions: Are women cleverer detectives than men? Although every hero cf a detective story from Sherlock Holmes and M. Dupin to Craig Kennedy has been a man, is it that this attribute of the male, like so many others, is to be unceremoniously snatched from him Is the legendary Holmes, smoking bis pipe in the firelight of a Baker Street, flat, in temper a misogynist and in? exorably following out the cold, dry processes of his reasoning, to the dismav of the underworld, to bo supplanted by the figure of a brisk, attractive young lady who detects a criminal as she would a bad dancer? London, home of Sherlock calmly faces these questions the present moment, owing to the recent achievements of the agency which has unraveled a number of enigmas which had baffled some of the leading crimin ologists of Europe.

A girl detective, rged seventeen, has far surpassed the feats of the detective story heroes or, for that matter, of Scotland Yard. In a recent divorce case she knew more of the complication than either re? spondent or co-respondent. In les- than a fortnight she solved th? problem of a series of thefts in a London college, which had stumped a male investigator for three months. Disguised as a she ferreted out the thief and the hiding place of the stolen goods. In every stage of the case she was aided by a team of women detectives.

Girl Detectives Do AH Except Task of Shadowing i The agency for she works em- ploys men, but the bulk of the work all- of it except the unpleasant task of I performed by the girl detectives. Maud West, chief of the agency and one of London's best known crim- inal investigation experts, is an advo cate of the theory that woman, gifted with intuition, endowed with a liner sort of detective ability than man. Seated at her desk and adjusting a yellow chrysanthemum in a tall vase, iji an office whose inch-deep carpet, Prus- blue papered wails and New Art statuettes would conspire to disarm the I too clever criminal who visited it in pursuit of Poe's Purloined Letter theory of hiding, Miss West stated the hypothesis on which she has down of criminals. "1 employ women," said Mis? yH. "in eiy-y investigation ty, craft, guesswork, diplomatic vrrsatlon or plain common font? jB rnsfi demanding ritedowia strict adherence to tradition, I un run.

"For the finer and more delate I invariably find that a woman ii to clear up a case in mucb me than a She more tec' perception and an equi'-J imagination. Of course they not able to shadow a criminal A woman cannot stand in one cut attracting attention to herself, the hasn't the same physical endar arce." Miss told of a recvr.t cz.se is which a wife had run away from I husband. A woman detective I tr.ined that she had a confidential friend who lived or. the Continent, Coing abroad, she this woman's bosr.m Ore day she led th? c( nversation to the disappearance of I Mrs. and obtained the address at which she was living in England, a private hotel.

Another woman detective went as guest to the hotel and amused the i company by telling fortunes with cards. When Mrs. Smith's turn came she lif. toned in amazement to secrets which I only one woman knew fresh from til agency's card-filing index stem. Man Would Have Used i Different Method in Chase Qui'c obviously no man could proceeded by this simple and direct r'itita.

Instead, acting en i principles, and proceeding by h3 have had to follow Mrs. Smith from hotel to hotel, city to city, em? ploying an army of watcher? and spies who would have been constantly ex? posed to physical danger, heat and cold. As to the other type of detec? tive, the deductive type who sits bj the and, nonchalantly inhalinj the sn from his meerschaum, solve; finds precious necklace? I Miss We $1 inclined to think ht doesn't exist, mA that he is the tion of highly romantic minds outiidi the detective business. "Do you never read detectiv? stories?" I esked. "Never," she replied.

"No does. It never is the reflective, fire side type of detective who does any thing really, while the one who em ploys unromantic common meth ods is successful. Not a girl in thi agency would solve a case if she fol lowed fiction methods." The truth is, according to Miss that theories are of little value in detective's business, while comino! Sfnfee is valuable. And the Be man Shaw theory, if any, applied to the tective profession, for wcai an's success in she Ja tuitively adheivs to common sense In stead cf plodding after romantic ch: meras. Here Is the Solution to the Rent Problem! Buy an Owen Daven-o An Owen Daven-o will save you the expense of furnishing a give you addcd conveniencc anri MSALE of All Owen Daven-os mm if t-1? Reduced to Their Very Lowest An Owen Daven-o, including a full-size Bed in many designs, may be purchased on Liberal Credit Terms for up.

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