LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1930, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

SECRET OF LONGEVITY

LONDON, March. 10

“Every man and . woman born of healthy parents ought to live to be 109 years old,” is the dictum of Professor Alexandre. Gueniot, aged 98, France’s oldest doctor..

According to the. Paris correspondent qf the Daily Mail ,one. might easily mistake the professor lor a man of 55 or CM. lie has wonderful eyesight and his hearing is almost perfect. He claims that physical exercise, ensuring proper breathing, is the best guarantee of longevity. The average man, says Professor Gueniot, should inhale from three to four litres of air at every breath, whereas many inhale only half that.

LOSS OF GALLIPOLI

LONDON, March 10. “The chief handicap from which the English suffer in the race of life is their tendency to crab themselves. That is why we lost Gallipoli,” said General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at Edmonton. The lurks-did not drive us out,” lie continued. “The troops did ' not dream of a Turkish victory, but tm> press and the War Office combined ti> A eep an agent out there who made it kiiS business to tell everyone authoritatively that the game was up and that all was doomed to destruction.

“The commander vainly cabled mm .wrote, explaining the evil thus wrought and begging that the agent ue withdrawn, but the people at Home, being English, enjoyed that sort of “self-depreciation. “It cost ilk Gallipoli: Seine day, it, we do not take care, it may lose the Empire for us.”

DUCHESS OF YORK

LONDON, March 11. The kindness of the Duchess of York and the Strathmore family to wounded Australian soldiers at the time of tlie Grteat War, notably to those from Castlemaine,. Victoria, who were nursed at Glamiis Castle, will he commemorated by a portrait of the Duchess, whi h Mr James Quinn will paint in tlie autumn.

Returned wounded soldiers have long lelt that their art gallery, devoted solely to Australian artists, was incomplete without a commemoration portrait of the Duchess, whose nursing achievements during the war are well known.

The director of the art gallery', through the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr J.' Scull in, and the High Commissioner, Sir Granville Ryrie, has approached the Duchess, who has consented to give six. sittings.

Mr Quinn was chosen to paint the portrait because he is from C-astle-maine. - The portrait will be threequarterlength, .but whether-.in day or evening dress has not yet been decided. A PERFECT PEARL. LONDON, March. 12. ;; The finest pearl ,in. the world,- as big as a hazel nut,; entirely unblemished and with a value estimated- at £l5O r 000, has arrived in London from the Persian Guff.

Experts declare that it is the biggest absolutely perfect pearl they have ever seen—one of Nature’s miracles. There ere three bigger pearls in England, hut not of equal quality.