"The Promenade Concerts at the Queen's Hall commenced this week. They are like no other concerts, for they have an atmosphere all their own, and the opening night is a reunion of old friends. They are wot, of course, the same year by year, for if they were they would jose the living touch which is their most characteristic quality. The} Hall has been re-painted—which it} sadly needed—and a packed, enthusiastic, and quite undiseriminat-_ rg audience filled it on Saturday night when, under the baton of Sir Henry Wood, a programme of light and cheerful music was given. On Monday night, in memory of Siegfried Wagner who was buried only) 8 few days ago, the orchestra opened the Wagner programme by standing up to play Sicgfried's Funeral March from the Ring.
Where are the Donkeys?
In years gone by one of the: features most amusing to children paying a visit to the seaside was the donkeys on the sands, Now these seem to have disappeared, for at Boscombe' summer carnival which was held this week, the Committee, who wished to' introduce: new features, thought of the brightening effects of a donkey: Derby, but although the whole dis trict. "was searched, no donkeys: could be found. Perhaps the modern child has outgrown the desire for a slow donkey' ride, and requires something more frisky and venturesome! Shetland ponies, with thei pretty shagginess, are much more attractive to kiddies have ousted the childhood of twenty years axe.
A Water-Diviner in Hyde Park water-diviner, Abbe Gabriel Lambert, " doctor of divinity in the University of Toulouse, is paying a. visit to London on a water-divining mission, and this week he has been exhibiting his peculiar powers Hyde Park. Wherever he walked, fon the grass or on the footpath, found underground water everywhere, He used a little gaily-coloured pendulum rather like a fisherman's flont on the end of a short string, and as he walked clowly over the grass swinging this bobbin to and fro, it suddenly spun round and round with extraordinary speed, indicating that water was below, Abbe Lambert was success-al in finding water for the Country Club at Cannes, and he is now in' London at Lord Glenconner's tion to arrange further work of this kind. He is quite young, about 30, and lives at Nice.
lat the secret of water-divining is! probably psychic, and strangely enough he can find either water or minerals. Many communes in rance owe their present supplies to the Abbe, and he has also worked in Italy and Greece. Shortly he to go to Algiers and Tunisia to find water there for the French Government.
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