Emile Loubet, ex-President of the Republic, who has just pass ed away at the age of 91, was excellent representative "of tha middle class of his country. Ha had its sound common sense, indus try, devotion to family and absence fof pretence. His steadiness carried him fly through the stormy, period at the beginning of his term of office, when passions were great ly stirred by the Dreyfus case, and may be said % have been the first of a series of Presidents whd huave devoted themselves to holding tun oven balance between parties and have thereby increased the moral influence of the Elysee. Ho was never vindictive, When one of his friends made a savage allusion to the Nationalist who knocked Loubet's hat over his eyes on that celebrated occasion at the races, DIN.
Loubet smiled and turned the cons versation to another subject, President and Prefect!
During his presidency, he show= ed that he could sacrifice his own even any considerable part of ths) evenings of their working days, unless there was some attraction provided, such or music, Such entertainments a3 dances and cinemas possessed greater attractions for the young and when they were over the public-houses usually were closed. The spread of education and knowledge had contributed to the same result, Moreover police court missionaries throughout Staffordshire and chief officers of police agreed that cas of the breaking off of marital lations for which drink was a large factor, occurred among older couples—say over—40 rather than among younger couples.
Mr, Baldwin on Sir Walter Scott Mr. Baldwin proposed the immortal memory of the poet and novelist at a dinner of the Edinburgh it Walter Scott Club this week. personal inclinations for what he considered to be his duty. On one occasion, when he was" informed that the opposition intended ty create a disturbance during some official ceremony, he said to the Prefect of Police: "Tell your mem exactly what they have to do, and if necessary, let them use their fists freely." The duty he dislikodt most was that of deciding the fatal of a man sentenced to death. "What frightful present for any man it is," he once said, "to give him the ight to say that another man shalt Perhaps the man ined cell is guilty, but may not the other man who de" cides his fate become guilty he liked best was to vi hospital with his wife, talk to thd patients and put. heart into them. Me used to say that this was ona the President's first duties.
M.. Loubet was frankly a: how Barry will come over Indi absolutely reliable aut! y that There be a unanimous report on the accused is the youngest. Of ese four two only ate alive, the! cused and the eldest son who is The Simon Commission, which wil ill now 2 hospital attendant at Cosham.
Pertainly not go as far as Dominion At one time Mrs. Fox was admit-fed to St Mary's Infirmary Portsmouth in 1928 as a sick and desti:- the collection in preparation for the annual audit in February. Last year the collection was valued £35,916. but only animals actually owned by the Society are included. 'Many valuable creations. are' deposit aad remain the property of fe recalled his boyhood acquaint-jane. with the Waverley novels. If, he said, he had to choose a handful.to. be his companions. ju prison or on a, desert island, he..would unhesitatingly -select the Scottish volumes, Give him "Guy Mannecing, vivant. He was endowed with robust constitution and. an excellonl appetite. He continued heartily. long after. he hed reached an..age at which most men ard obliged to diet themselves careful ly, He seemed. actually to enjoy,
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