MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 718, 14 January 1903, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Berlin, Dec. 5. Two queens, sixty-nine Princesses and thirty-five women belonging to reigning families have formed an association to promote morality and to save fallen women. These ladies have pledged themselves to uso tboir influence with loading men whom tlioy meet in favor of their cause.

The association held its first mooting at Frankfort. Sixteen Princesses or their representatives were present. An appeal was issued to public men begging them to do their utmost to chango the lax views regarding women prevalent among men of the world. Certain pastors are using their mflueDce to prevent their flocks from visiting seaside places where promiscuous bathing of men, women and childen is permitted. At various church conferences lately resolutions have been adopted condemning the practice as immoral, immodest, and tending to sap the foundations of the family life.

One Btuall bathing place on the Baltic, w.hich in former years was visited by only 250 guests, this year had 8800, because the authorities extensively advertised family bathing,

London, Dec. 5.

Frederick Goodall, octogenarian, Royal Academician aud painter of Biblical sub jeets, which once had great vogue, has been sold out this week and still is left penniless. The money realised by the auction sale is barely enough to satisfy his creditors.

His famous picture, “ The Flight Into Egypt,” for which he onco refused £SOOO, fell under the hammer for £3lO. It is considered a scandal that the Boyal Academy, an extremely wealthy institution and one which enjoys many valuablo privileges, should permit one of its most respected members, overtaken by misfortune in his old age through no fault of his own, to be subjected to this indignity of a public sale

Paris, Dec. 5,

Leon Godefroy, having lost his nose, got a surgeon to replace it with a celluloid imitation. While he was lighting a cigarette on the boulevard the other evening his nose caught fire. Godefroy jumped about in pain and was carried through a horrified crowd to a drug store, where the extraordinary conflagration, which had involved his moustache, beard, eyelashes, and eyebrows, and had injured his eyes, was extinguished.

Paris, Dec. 5

After instituting cyclist police and police with white batons for regulating street traffic, Prefect Lepin has now established the “ Agent Chauffeur.” Sub-Brigadier Notele is the first Paris policeman to be provided with a motor car. His duty is to watch other motor cars and give chase to any driving at an excessive speed. It is not likely that the “ Agent Chauffeur” will be received with enthusiasm by the automobiling fraternity, but pedestrians will hail his advent with gratitude.