A man who could not see in the light of the sun, spent eighty years in the dark, turning his nights into days. And in the darkness he died in the shuttered manner of Combe Hay, near Bath, states the "Daily Mirror."
Mr. George Edward Smart was eighty-nine years old. As a child he injured an eye while at play. The other eye became affected. He found he could see only in the darkness. So he adjusted his life to his eyesight He breakfasted at dusk, ate lunch at midnight, and went to bed at dawn. After breakfast he would order his car and drive through the night, But the break of day found him home in his shuttered manor house, and when the world was getting up he was going to bed.
He was rich, educated, intelligent. He knew many languages and was a keen music lover.
Mr. Smart, despite his strange night life, took a lively interest in local "The Traveller's Gazette"
Freshly clothed for the spring and with the new picture on its cover full of sunlight and colour, "Cook's Far Eastern Traveller's Gazette" suggests all sorts of pleasures for those who are setting out on the trail this year. The frontispiece, "Hirosaki Castle near Aomori," shows a fairy palace on the edge of a ravine, seen through bows of blossom.
At Prestatyn last month was turned the first sod a new "Chalet. Village by the Sea." sponsored jointly by the IMS, Railway and Thos. Cook Son. Lid. and designed io accommodate two thousand visitors at one And the same time during the summer months Mr. Lincoln Green in "At the Gate of North Wales" describes Prestatyn and the new project. "Old and New in Morocco" gives some impressions by a recent visitor, and as Poland is now very much in the picture it is interesting to: learn something of the Cracow Pageant and Festival, for the festivities include a 50 po cent. reduction in Polish railway fares and free transport visas. If all Kees well, three weeks in Cracow for the festival would be an unusual holiday. In two pages Mr. Cherry Kearton describes Southern Rhodesia. and says at the end: from 1872 to 1884 we fud that Mr.
Cook had become Cook Son by the latter date. In that year also the firm were so well entrenched in Egypt that the British Government commissioned them to take over the entire transportation of a military expedition for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum.
We turn again to these troubled times and things do not seem quite so hopeless...it has never been a bed Of roses, so why be pessimistic today?
"The Traveller's Gazette" is a most interesting magazine, full of authoritative information on how to travel comfortably and well. ds Mission to Discuss Relations in Morocco
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