THINGS TO NOTE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 16 September 1911, Page 8

THINGS TO NOTE.

EDISON AND THE YORKSHIRE-

MEN. ‘‘Tiie ciiiof impression left on me,” .siiys one of the interviewers of Ellison on his arrival in England, ‘‘is of a celebrated wonder-worker of science taking his first holiday for fifteen years, because he wanted to hear again in its own homo the Yorkshire dialect that pleased him when lie started life as a railway newsboy.” “I started life as a train newspaper boy on the Grand Trunk Railway, and there were lots of Yorkshiremen travelling that line,” ho said. “J never forgot the way they talked, and I want to see those people where they are at home.” IDEAL HOLIDAYS. Mr Walter Crane and Father Hugh Denson have told the “Evening News” what they consider to be ideal holidays. . Mr Walter Crane says:— “As modern civilised life in cities appears to bo only endurable in proportion to “the number and facility of the means of escape from it, the ideal holiday would bo that in which a simple, natural life could bo enjoyed, in pure air, in a beautiful country, and with congenial companionship.” Father Hugh Benson says:-—-“The ideal holiday seems to me that which reverses most completely one's ordinary occupation. For a brainworker there is nothing so good as comparative solitude in the fresh air with some really interesting manual sport or amusement; for a manual worker, the company of friends and the recreation of theatres or music or reading; for a family man the society of his friends; for a bachelor, friendliness with some family. Ido not believe at all in sheer idleness, hut I do believe in ‘loafing,’ that is, in following the instincts of the moment and the avoidance of elaborate planmaking, since it seems to me that the principal reason of so much nervestrain at the present day lies in excessive organisation of duties. “To feel that one need not do anything one does not want is in itself the backbone of a rest-cure.” THE CITY OF NOISE. “London had once the reputation of being one of tiio quietest of cities,” says the “Times.” ' “Strangers noted with surprise how, at an early hour as compared with Paris or Berlin habits, the huge monster coiled itself up and sank into slumber for several hours. It was one of -the many good points of our hospitals that, thougii they were situated in the busiest parts, patients might rest undisturbed. Now all is changed. London has become a city of dreadful night by reason of diverse noises, hideous and intense. Hooters, sirens, whistles, motor-bicycles in all conditions of repair, processions of traction engines, carts, heavier and more noisy than over, motor-cars with driving gears omitting stango sounds, all combine to harass the weary and to make up ‘a perfect medley of grunts, whoops, shrieks, squeals, snorts, snarls’, and hollows.’ ” SUMMER BEVERAGES. “There has recently been a considerable advance in the price of essence of lemon, mainly owing to an anticipated small crop of lemons in Sicily,” says the “Times.”. “This season’s consumption of mineral waters and non-alcoholic beverages generally has been unprecedented, and aerated water manufacturers have found it extemely difficult to cope with the demand. Hundreds of thousands of empty bottles that have been stored away for years have been brought, into use, and still there are hardly enough to go round. “The demand for citric acid which is one of the principal ingredients of lemonade, has been very large, but in spite of this fact the price has not appreciably advanced. Tartaric acid has also been in large request, but there has boon no further advance in the price of this product since the substantial rise in value which took place sonic time ago as the result of the failure of the wine crop. Sugar, ,on the other hand, has advanced in price during the last two months by about 4s per cwt, and this has naturally increased the cost of thd production of summer beverages.”