"World's Most Artificial Man."

Press, Volume L, Issue 14977, 26 May 1914, Page 6

"World's Most Artificial Man."

"The most artificial man in ■vrorl-d," by his own admission, has left America for Holland on the Holland Anierika liner Niouw Amsterdam. Ho said ho was in expectation of niiirryin.s: the world's most natural jrirl- Tho bridogroom is Mr Ja:i van <Jer Blaasbalk, aijed forty, formerly tho owner of a glass factory in liauivi.i, Java. an<J to substantiate his claim to artificiality ho has a cork lei:, a cork arm, a rubber ear, a class ey«\ and wars a v.itC- 1 1, appears that -.yhi-'c he was experimenting with chomicaLs ;ta oxplosion occurred v/hich left him bu:. little of his natural self. Pampered Flowers. So rare have- those aristocrats of the flower world orchids become, that they have, many of them, to be exhibited behind a grilie the doors of which are hccurely

padlocked. At a recent exhibition ai Home an orchid was sho-.ru wmelr «. sconced in a. wicker work attache case Aeon horticu.tur.ns. like coUectoTT aometinios allow their zeal to ootmn thc:r honesty, and rases have oocSSS of prdiidi beiac robi.ed of their polkV Only the private exhibit, are pj? JJfc oi twnptation's reach in this maaaef Only wealtny people can afford to £!\ tivate orchitis. The nrices on this ooci* swn ranged from several hundreds apiece, and specimens Wo even changed hands at £1500 nSL One. a seedlin K . was priced SHineas and no oue quite know 8 wW colour it is. Crimson hut inadeqnaWv dcwntv.s its flaming hue * Wy

Black.Face Fashion. A youus woman appeared in a public port at Grosnyi. i a South Russia one day la*t month. Half her tace had been blackens. Tho colour was not duo to tho httle accident* of srate cleaning Tho woman v» not -the first woman chmmey-sweop." Neither had sho em bailed on the arduous career of a coaT heaver. The "black , '—btockine wi" haps, or blackload-had beet, JeuE* at r v a pP Moreover, it had X nohshwl. apparently with tender <W until it .shone like a »rato in a Welf regulated household or the bootTcf" an ofhror in ihe Guards. But tie « suit, was not "a joy for ever." Tho plebeians ni tlie. park were not imprest cd. They jeered. And before th«-" jeers the pioneer of tho new faehion k taces had to retreat. The explanation ot the matter is simple. Tho wotnan " it scorns, was a Futurist who wished to go one better than a and violet face powder. Wanted—A Castle. English papers are enquiring whether anyone has an historic castle or manor to soil in the home counties. It must bo famous for its architecture. It must bo liiryo (thirty or forty bedrooms at least). It mu.st. have plenty of laud about it For tho right place a fancy »no« will bp givoja. Money no object. ■Halt .1 million readj- waiting. A poor rich man J s homeless and pathetically anxious to find some placo ho can caii • Ins own. He has made an offer for \\ anvjek Castlo, but tho company which owns it is uirwilUtu: to sell, ilo.bas made an offer for lVn&hurst Place (Kent), with :ts Sir Philip Sidney associations, lie lias even approached tho Duke of Norfolk to see if Arundd Casfclo '(Sus-kos) could Lo piirchased. Xow he is honing that the Duke of Northumberland may negotiator ffhJi him for the .pie of Albury Park (Surrey). One of the aeonte who are acting for him d-escribed him as "probably tin.- richest man in England.' , "Why.' , he asked, "should any property be consi<ler<xl outside the market, when- we sco great landlords like tho Puko ofu Bedford and Lord-Howard de Wnldoa* partkir with their lands? You nev6r can teli. Tliore's no harm in askinc. anyway. That is my client's view. And I believe wo shall find what he watitt. , ' The Time for Meals. Professor Bergonie. of Bordeaux, according to tho '•Lancet," has inrentod nn electric bed in.which tho passago of the current through the body of the ■ subject sots u;> organic combustione siriiihir to Uioso brought on by muscular I exercise and leads to reduction of obey ity. l'rofessor d'Arsonval has recently coinmunioatxHj io the Academio <1«j Bcioncw tho result of M. Borgonie'.i .studies by means tbei-cof on the onerisj of tho orgaiiiun. In this way ho had fiecn able u> note- tho period/; "when, tho energy r«i»ired for digestion in at its . groatc&t. " lio has discovered that the least suitable hours'for meals ar© between noon and 1 p.m. nmi between 7 and 8 p.m.—that is to say, precisely thoiio hours which in JEuropc moder'i. usage has set apart to meals. Accenting to M. Bergonie tho meal hours {hat a rational hygiene would prescribe would be ns principal meal of tho day dioiild bo taken »t 7.3f> a.m. or as soon after as poseib!«», soas to obtain all the necessary «ncj-p' for. tho day's work and to restore the

iiror. omnticd by tho night's abstinence. A "second meal of 300 to 4CX3 calories, for which a luncheon of milk, eugar, and cakes would suffice. sbouW bo taken about J p.m. Finally, a third

light rcpnst of 700 to 800 calories at 8.30 or 9 p.m. would complete tho alimentary reginie. ■Iμ. Bergonie add*-' that in a family which has'accepted his views this regime has boeu followed * for si-x years, and has furnished excellent rnsnlts on regards the general, health nf all tbo" members.