BUSINESS PALACE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14221, 11 June 1910, Page 2

BUSINESS PALACE.

.C 100..000 MANSIOX AS AN OFFICE. Now Zealand consumers of kerosene should road the following with carp. '>•■< msr evry tin of lamp oil thev buv helps to heap up tin- "profits o'f the "il kings, out of which they can spend thousands in the way here described. An ideal business office is uprising; in London. It s a jjreat white buildin London, it is a great white buildin tenor, ami it overlooks one of London's beauty spots. This eoimnercia! palace, which marks a new era. in the business life of London, is in Queen Anne's Gate, and will be occupied by ihe English directors and staff of the Anglo-American Oil Company. As a contrast to dingy Blitlev street, where the staff now work, the clerks wUI ga/.e out from their windows over the beauties of St. James's Park. There will be no indication at all upon the building that it is an office. A grand staircase, decorated with a new rose pink marble brought specially from Spain, will lead into lofty, rooms, the walls of which will be decorated with mahogany. With great wealth at its disposal, the world-famous company decided not long ago that it would have an office which would be a model to the world. Two old mansions hare been demolished t»

make uav lor ihe new premises. Tiir •• will stand on -I5(li.l sonar- :.-■■! oi •iromui. ,l, r freehold of which has been bought by the company. An idea of what i bey paid for the tret-hold mflv bo gained from Ibo I'ad, that the laud ill this exclusive neighbourhood is worth from XMO to .£ls a. foot.

"So far as design is concerned," said Air Ernest ' Kuntz, the architect, 'This office might be a- nobleman's mansion. Everywhere will be marble and mahogany. Instead of being cooped up in a stiiliy City office, the lucky heads of departments and clerical staff will tint! themselves in a suxierbly furnished building, light and airy, and with one of tho most beautiful views in London stretching away before their windows. "Each director —there are about half-a-dozen —has been personally consulted as regards the decorative scheme of his own room. Tho great- oval-shaped board-room will be a magnificent apartment. Indeed, this extraordinary building will open up an entirely new era in offices." The business mansion will be ready in August, just when the view over the park will be most to the eye. The cost of its erection will approach ill 10,000.

Some extraordinary ideas were propounded by the Rev. J. Morton Barnes to an audience of twenty-live in the Opera House at Wellington last Sunday night. One of them was a claim to the discoverv of a real "elixir of life." Alcohol", he said, caused exhilaration with subsequent- depression, hut if this reaction could lie prevented and the exhilaration applied to the bodyas well as the brain, here was the means of prolonging life. He- had,, by means of a. committee of doctors "in the spirit" or "on the other side," been given the idea which was to work this wonder. That antidote to alcohol was radium. By the kindness of a professor of Victoria College he had been able to swallow in alcohol and water, a minute quantity of that substance j and he believed it was giving him a renewal of life, lie honed to further investigate this remarkable action of radium. If it iunied out as he believed, the coming race would pass to the higher life without seeing corruption, and in this way Sir Joseph Ward need have no fear of losing office, because his progressive government need only take enough of the alcohol-radium solution, and they would never "run down."

RHEUMATISM: ITS CAUSE AND CURE. Rheumatism is a most painful disease. Many are boTit and physiea.llv disabled by the torture it inflicts. The disoa-e m;iy .settle in the liiry of the back, neck, or tbijili, or in the joints of the arms or le;is: the pain mav dart from one muscle to another, and may be constant or occasional, but all are produced by the same cause, excess uric acid in the blood. Tthoumo is the best, the only sure remedy. It neutralises and drives out the poisonous acid, relieves the pain, removes (he swelling and effects a speedy and permanent cure. From all chemists and stores at 2s 6d and 4s 6d a bottle. ... Croup is most prevalent during he dry, cold weather of the early winter months. Parents of young "children should be prepared for it. All that is needed is a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough 'Remedy. Many mothers are never without it in their homes, and it has never disappointed them.