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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 2

Arrangements for the Garden Fete to be held in the Hospital Grounds'tomorrow are almost completed, and the function should be a great success. The Commercial Travellers have novelty items which should prove amusing. The various stalls contributed by the patients should give proof to visitore of the value of vocational training. The committee of the Hospital Ladies' Visitors' Association will be grateful for contributions of sweets, produce and cake, which can be sent to the Hospital to-morrow morning. Napoleon, like, many other famous men, wrote an illegible hand. His valet at St. Helena wa9 also his amanuensis, and in a posthumous book just published tells this story of his troubles: —"Many a time when I went to ask the Emperor what he had written, I would get, by way of answer, Hiat,imbecile, don't you know how to read?' 'No, sire.' 'Yet it is written as clearly as though it were printed. Look.' 'Sire,l have looked with all my eyes. I can't make out the word which your Majesty has written.' The Emperor would look, too, but he would not prove more skilful than I. After trying in vain for a minute or two he would say to me, 'Sit down there and write,' and he would go to work to dictate to me a ' few phrases of a paragraph to take the place of the part where there were illegible words."

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