Largo numbers of people still journey to see the waxworks at Madame Tussaud’s in London. This is but one of the many cases of attempts on the part of the interested to see things which no longer are. Thousands of visitors to Canterbury enter the cathedral expecting t.o see the shrine of Thomas a’Becket, and,'on being led to the spot, find themselves confronted with an empty space 1 Far more pathetic is the case of the lady who, atter reading a novel dealing with incidents connected with the Bastille, took a special journey to Paris to gaze on the fortress, only to find a tablet on which was an account of its destruction, .
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Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 18
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113Page 18 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 18
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