London's "heat, waves," with 80° worth fat type in a, headline, ways seem comic in Shangl day we touched 7° (shade mixture of oil and pulverized coal which she was testing in her boilers Jon the voyage over from Liver-col.
For several years experiments have been made to find a stable course) the highest of the year, and it really burdensome. ¢|mixture of crude oil and powdered course the explanation is that coal, and at last the Cunard Com-tone, at least no men, wear light pany's chemists and engineers enough clothes. And the high pear to have solved the problem. buildings reflect the heat and shut The test in the Seythia is stated off the breeze. So we stew. But have shown that the new fuel can be handled exactly in the same fa the country outside London it is. delicious. After last. summer and way a5 ordinary oil, taken into the one before I had begun to think bunkers and passed through the that the summers of my youth when Sumers without any, alteration one could be out on the river withthe equipment. At present the out extra wraps ti' midnight were mixture is 40 per cent, pulverized myth. But no, only the midges coal and 60 per cent. oil, but it is this year, perhaps because the Fhoped that further experiment will winter was so mild, are worse than Head to these proportions being the old ""French-side" mosquitoes of exactly reversed. the un-oiled days, "The present "cost, of all fuel is But strawberries are plentiful G0s, a ton and of pit-bead coal 128; it is. estimated that the cost of again and we need not dip them in boiling syrup (nor wash the production all in should not be more than 2s, a ton, So the saving all lettuces in Condy's), There is really round would be immense, fruit to equal rrawberry.
These statements are made with see in the "Daily Telegraph" that strawberries were so much authority and seriousness mally a voek fruit, Who I that one is justified in believing that very great discovery has been that they must see upon straw—Just as Who first discovered that a made, which will not only. reduce the costs of running ships by most Doached egg must sit on hot stated, But it is that welcome economies on fuel, but will foo much' trouble has be taken sive a sadly-needed impetus to coal-mining. The tragedies of South to invent new varieties Derry and that flavour has " been Wales in particular—where there rifeed to size, Much the same are thousands of miners who have been out of work for, months, and might be said about daffodils. Hav. ing. arrived at the "Royal Sovereign" where the problem of what to do to eat and the "King Alfred' to look With the rising generation has seem-Jed almost insoluble—are hardly to at, what man need go. further?
"Why can't you let it alone?" be exaggerated. Apart from the, fworld-wide- industrial depression, Haymakers have been. having a the lowering of the quota of British fine: time, if they want the hay f coal Imports in France and Ger~ themselves, If they wish to many has been a bitter blow, It it, they must accept 5s t0 205 a than last year. In low-lying not to think that this reduction ha: quite impossible, on all the fact, nete the floods seemed likely to been aimed deliberately at Gre do much damage, but then the sun Britain—for other coal-producing ame out in the' nick of time and countries have not been made to has been blazing ever since, You suffer in the same way..G could almost hear the grass growing.
'And the weeds, At a recent din: }B\ yre' is a strong det ner in aid of the Royal Gardeners'
Neither method, how-han Fund, Mr, Lionel de Roths-ever, would have half the value that child said that. gardening was. like permanent results from the Scycigarette-smoking or Rotus-eating, thia's tests would bring, a luxury which when once tasted The back-benchers whose economy people continued to crave for. I campaign I have recently described eatinot help wondering whether he will find. plenty of powder and shot has ever done any weeding himself in the Estimates Committee's re-or Whether his gardening Is just port presented to-day to the House. to walk about and superintend an Ht shows in a really astounding of gardeners, But he is right manner how public expenditure in-bout the lure of, gardening.
Jereases not merely without the spend a Sunday afternoon m" sanction, bat without the knowledge the lawn in full glare of the Jof Parliament and even of the Toast. a we is to feel righteously elated for of
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