The North Wales Weekly News

FASHION OF THE WEEK. I A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING GOWN. I' It would be difficult, I think, to imagine a more beautiful and original wedding gown than the delightful model pictured in our sketch. This charming dress is designed upon the newest and most up-to-date lines, and is quits an ideal garment for its special purpose. The bcdice is arranged with a deep V-shaped opening that comes down to the waist in front. The upper part of this opening is filled in by a chemisette of fine Brussels lace, the top. which is cut to come just to the base of the throat, being finished by a close row of small pearls. A. dainty vest of finely tucked chiffon fills the lower part of the opening. On each side of this opening comes a broad band of beautiful trimming, consisting of a lattice work of fine silver threads, spangled with crystal drops. I y This band of trimming is met on the shoulder by a similar band that is carried right up the back of the sleeve. The rest of the bodice is carried out in chiffon, which is gathered on to the edge of the trimming, the sleeves, which are cut in one with the bodice, being also carried out in the gathered chiffon. In front, the drapery of the bodice disappears at each s I' !e into a large, fan-shaped piece of most beautiful Venetian lace, the lower part of this lace being allowed to pouch very slightly over the draped waistband of satin. The skirt has a gathered tunic of chiffon, which covers the plain satin underskirt to within a few inches of the bottom. The tunic is finished at the bottom by a broad band of the silver and crystal em- broidery, simi'ar embroidery being inserte d ill 1an oblong in the middle of the front. The train, which is long and perfectly plain, is carried out inmoir6 of velvety surface, and with the watcr- ings so slightly marked as to be only visible in certain lights.

The Cymric Lion AN IMPRESSION OF THE CHANCELLOR. (By James Douglas in the Morning Leader, 'j A slight erect figure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer faces the electors of St. Fú,ncras. They arc standing packed closely together like sticks in a fagot, each stick a torch of passion. On the orator's right sits the Radical member, Sir William Collins, not "a son of nothing," but a man of in- tellectual achievement. While the cheers are dying down, let me sketch the man who is shaking England. As he stands there with his sir all shapely fingers nervously inter. laced behind his back, he tingles with vehement life. The while frame of the man is tensely electrical, fierily magnetic, fiercely vivid. Before he speaks he radi- ates flashing energy. It is like waiting for a shell to burst, tor a volcano to belch forth flame But the voice begins on a low sweet note, and the prelude is a clear stream of argu- ment flowing over a bed of facts. The art of the orator is skilful. He appeals to the reason before he appeals to the emotions, to the logical brain before the imagination, to commosense before the soul. Thus he avoids anti-climax. A hush settles on the hall. Men longing to be thrilled are content to be convinced. It is an error to suppose that Ir. Lloyd George is a pure rhetorician. The truth is that one of his most winning qualities is a gentle persuasiveness. Half of his eloquence is suasion aimed at the open mind. SALIENT ENERGIES. In repose his head is lion-like. His hair is a black lion's mane with thread's of silver in it. It recalls the lion's mane of Mirabeau. Not the close-cropped English head, this, but rather the head of a poet. A wholly unconventional head, with long Sam- son locks that toss in disorder when the storm of passion shakes the orator. Not an effeminate head, lor the features ofter harden into stern set lines, the eyebrows dart up into sudden wrimkles, and a furrow like a scimitar cuts like a quick sLash into the hollows of the pale face from cheekbone to chin. This furrow anct the lift of the eye- brows are the salient energies of the face. You see them in all Gould's caricatures. They express the daring swiftness of the man, the lean passion, the resilient steel of his nature. Between his eyebrows there are two vertical lines that time and toil are digging deeper every day. They mark his concen- trated will with its almost feverish directness in search of reality. They suggest a mind that has swallowed all the formulas," devoured all the shams. The nose is strong- ly modelled, but it is quiveringly sensitive with its full nostrils and its delicate sym- metry. The forehead is broadly massive, towering in solid serenity and calm strength, like an architrave of marble, over the burn- ing eyes and the pallid features. The chin is softly moulded like a woman's, and the lips are carved in impassioned curves. The dark moustache, curling inward, follows the lines of the tipper Hp and veils the resolute but mobile mouth. "A FIRE-FLASHING FACE." In Carlyle's phrase, it is a fire-flashing face, with a flaire of vital force shining through its texture, and all its vigilant energy concentrated in the Lambent eyes. Their glance is swift. It swoops and sweeps in hawklike circles round the hall, seeming to search the multitude as a searchlight searches the midnight waves. In wrath and scorn and anger it is terrible. Its flame leaps out before the voice's thundering in- vective, echoing irony, slow-rolling and reverberating satire, muted ridicule, and gliding sarcasm. A Vesuvian orator this. Like Carlyle's I Mirabeau, he is a burning mountain that olazes heaven-high and pours out in flame and molten fire-torrents all that is in him, the Pharos and Wonder-sign of an amazed England. lIe is a man of instincts and eye- sights. A man with a strong living soul in him and sincerity there. A reality, not an artificiality, not a sham. A word-compeller, indomitable, sharp-cutting, the trumpet of inarticulate democracy, the tongue of dumb liberty, the cry of freedom's burning heart. His sentences are short like RomaS- sword;. Eac'i phrase is a bullet that finds a billet. His images light up the mind and illumine the imagination. There is a wild poetry in his metaphors, and often they flood the waste of poverty with compassion and the garden of luxury with rebuKe. HIS HYPNOTIC POWER. His eloquence is Cymric. The wind of the Welsh mountains blows through the Saxon syllables, making faint music like an .Eolian harp. There aie many modulations in his voice, but it is sweetest in the clear high note that rings like a bell in frosty air. The Welsh tongue betrays itself most racily in the sibilants. He does not lisp. His sibilants are almost as Cymric as Fluellen's. To take a striking example, he pronounces the sibilant in Landsdowne with a long hissing sound—" Iarice-dowlie." The Eng- lish, Scottish, and Irisli sibilant after, a consonant is often a Z. On Mr. George's tongue it ofteri becomes an S. Mr. Laurence Binvon has been lamenting the debasement of vowel sounds in English. Mr. George gives full value to all his vowels. His hollow oes and ahs wire orotund. He is very dramatic orator with a repertory of spontaneous and varied ges- tures. His features express the movement of his emotions, and their changes are very rapid. There is a quick play of humor in them, and in a second they will pass from set sombre fury to the dancing laughter of a hundred wrinkles. His arms and h :ds aie instinctively illustrative, and t leir ai tion is like a skilful accompaniment. Let mc: des- cribe one daring gesture. The pointed fore- finger and clenched right hand is levelled from the eye lik a pistol, .as if in a duel. It is a quick movement, over in the fraction of a second, but it seems to fire the phrase at the audience like a ball from a revolver. What is the secret of his hypnotic power over a popular assembly? It is will-force poured out in an emotional stream. It is the wireless telegraphy of the soul. You feel him tuning the mass of men into passionate sympathy, fusing the crowd into a white heat of consciousness. He makes three thousand men one solid man into whom he discharges his whole being. He empties his heart into the welded multitude. He electrifies it with his own nervous fluid. And when he sits down he is utterly drained and exhausted. All that is in him has gone out into the people. That is an epitome of the Chancellor's genius.

BLACK MONDAY. Facing the Week's Work. Are you sorry that Sunday is over, and a new week's work has to be faced? It is a question of taking the right food. Very likely a smaller amount, at a lower cost, would feed you better. For instance, if you had a cup of Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa with breakfast you will very likely find that you do not need so much other food, and yet you will be better fed for Vi-Cocoa is a food in itself, and helps to digest the other foods, too. The fact is, that while most things which we eat feed the body a good deal and the brain only a little, Vi- Cocoa is a brain food and a body food too. Starved brains aie what make men dread Monday morning. Dr. Tibbies' Vi-Cocoa makes Monday welcome. It makes work go like play. You are surprised when knocking-off time comes, for instead of being tired you feel fresh and full of life. You will enjov your leisure because you have not been worn out by your work. Do not ask your grocer for cocoa. Ask tor —it makes all the difference. Every grocer sells Vi-Cocoa in 6d. packets and 9d. and is. 6d. tins.

TALKS ON HEALTH. Br A FAMILY DOCTOR. THE REST DOES IT. Every year hundreds of people whose systems are run down from a ^strenuous round of work or amusements leave the country to undergo a course of treatment at a foreign spa. They all come back feeling much better, and they foolishly attribute their improved health to the waters, and the waters alone. A great authority on medi- cine has lately declared that there has been more humbug about mineral waters than any other branch of the curative art, and he is quite right. The benefit derived from the stay abroad is such as could easily be ob- tained at home if only the patient would con- sent to undergo the same regime. Early to bed, regular meals, sufficient exercise, free- dom from business worry, fresh air, con- genial society, and the pervading spirit of gaiety, the substitution of water for alcoholic drinks-all these conduce to good health, and they are all within reach of any- one staying at home in England. If salts are to be given Carlsbad salts are readily pro- curable at a very low cost. A holiday does everyone good, but if the waters were left out the benefit would be the same. -0: A PAINFUL DISTINCTION. The liver manufactures a secretion called the bile, which is stored up in the gall- bladder, situated just below the liver, until it is wanted during the process of digestion. It is in this gall-bladder that gall-stones are found. These stones are very common in- deed, and, in the majority of cases, the patient is quite unaware of their presence. So long as the stones remain in the bladder, all is well, but as soon as they begin to move along the duct which leads from the gall- bladder to the intestine, they cause pain. The pain produced by the passage of a gall- stone enjoys the distinction of being about the worst pain there is; it is excruciating agony. It is not always posoible to say that the pain is due to gall-stones, but if the attack of colic is associated with jaundice the diagnosis is practically certain. It is, of course, of the highest importance to the patient that a correct diagnosis should be made, and if it is on the cards that the pain might have been caused by a gall-stone, the 11 t 01'e' t stone should be sought for in what comes from the patient. If one is found, the case is cleared up, and a useless operation may be avoided. There is no possible way of dispers- ing gall-stones. It used to be thought that drinking olive oil would dissolve them, but that is an exploded theory. -0:- ONE OR MORE? The shape of the stone is interesting to the doctor: if it is pyramidal with flat sides, or facetted, as we call it, that shows that there must have been other stones for the one shown to rub against, but if the stone is rounded like a pebble it was a single stone, and there are no more to come away. An operation to remove gall-stones is often per- formed with excellent results; I have seen hundreds removed at one operation. When once a gall-stone has formed, the harm is done. and, if it gives rise to any trouble at all, it generally means an operation. But, here comes in the old story that prevention is better than cure. Gall-stones are commoner in women than in men, and it has been thought that this was due in some measure to tight corsets. The liver requires free play —plenty of elbow room, as it were. It is dangerous to compress the liver. Sometimes it is found that the ribs have been pressed so tightly against the liver that the impression of the ribs has been found indelibly marked on the side of the liver after death. That is almost certain to produce gall-stones sooner or later. The type of person who suffers from gall-stones is the one who eats heartily, perhap6 too heartily, takes no exercise, and is of constipated habit; this gives the indi- cation how to avoid this malady. Often the subject is of a melancholy disposition; whether the melancholy disposition producoj the gall-stones or the call-stones produce the melancholy, I am ioi"(Iiiit,- ure- better be on the safe side and keep cheerful. The slight yellowish tint of jaundice is first seen in the white; of the eye. o: A WARNING NOTE. Young men are in the fortunate position of knowing everything, but if I were to pre- sume to suggest, with all due deference, that there is one subject about which they are ignorant, I hope I should not give offence. The importance of the study of the force known as hereditary is completely ignored by the rising generation. How few there are who say to themselves, "One day I shall be the father of a family, as my father was, and his father before that, and I must take care of myself, so that in the future my children will enjoy the good health which I shall hand on to them." My profession is a very realistic one; disease, viee,. and -birutal wickedness in all its nakedness are exposed to us from our earli'. t student days, and there is no chapter in th" study of vice and diseaNC more liorrr-L than that of hereditary disease. The Devil j \j' wily. He does not ask for promp; payini ll, but runs up the bill when his victim i- NiliitiQ and calls for payment when lie has forgotten his youthful follies and has settled down to a happy mar- riage. -0: THE FATHER'S PRESENT. There i/3 no need to exaggerate or grow dramatic over this wretched subject of hereditary disease; the simple, unvarnished truth is as harrowing as it can be. When a man learns that his dear little girl is blind for life in consequence of some taint he had in his blood when he married, his anguish is scarcely to be borne. And vet, one third of all the cases of blindness in a blind asylum are directly attributable to.this cause. When all is joy in the "house because a baby has been born and the relatives are giving pre- sents to the little one, the father's present is blindness for life. I know it is useless to preach, but it does not seem too much to ask that young men should look ahead and study their health and habits in view of their pro- spective fatherhood. What an immense amount of human suffering would be saved if only young men would IK* true to their wives before ever they met them and love their children years before they are born. 0. ABOUT BABIES. I often have had babies brought to see me with the anxious mother telling me that the child is tongue-tied. I have never seen a baby that was tongue-tied. The condition is practically unknown, and it is unnecessary and sometimes dangerous to tamper with the tongues of little children. The real reason why people think that babies are suffering from this condition is, that babies' tongues and small and undeveloped before they learn to talk, and the little piece of skin beneath the tongue comets very nearly to the tip of the tongue. But when the child begins to us? the tongue to babble childish talk, it grows larger and longer, and then the leader under the tongue appears to recede. Never have your baby operated on for tongue-tie. While on the subject of babies I might men- tion that the breasts of babies arc often swollen at or just after birth, and it used to 1w a practice of ignorant midwives to press the breasts.to remove the secretion which caused, the swelling. Nothing could be more dangerous, however. Leave them alone and aB will be well, In due course the swelling will disappear, but if tne breasts of new-born babies are interfered with inflammation may result.

8'"C Missing for Twelve Months. In order to try to solve the mystery sur- rounding the disappearance of a Carnarvon, farmer named William Davies in January last a well-known detective has been assist- ing the local police during the past few days. All along the police have suspected foul play, and additional evidence now obtained has strengthened that suspicion.

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Abergele Police Court. Sir J. Herbert Roberts presided at the above Court on Saturday. The following justices were also present:—Dr. H. O. Hughes, Li sat.-Col. Hughes and Mr. W. W. Ibmbley j together with the Clerk (Mr. E. Cra-b), and Superintendent T. Beres- ford. TRANSFER OF LICENCE. An application for the temporary "trans- fer of the lies i~e oi the Cambrian Hotel, Pensarn, from Joel Wild Carrington to Nor- man Taylor, was adjourned for a month owing to statutory notice not being served upon the overseers. VIOLENT CONDUCT. Joseph Owen Evans, Market-place, Aber- gele, chalfeur, and Robert Elias Jones, Gwern Cilia, Llanfaix Talhaiain, cowman, were charged by Inspector Jones-Rees with violent conduct on November 26th in Aber- gele. A fine of 5s. and costs each was imposed, the Cliairman stating that the smallness of the fine was due to the fact that it was de- fendants first .appearance, and he hoped he would not see them there again. DRUNK IN CHARGE OF A HORSE. David Roberts, Capel-y-'Rofft, Llanfair Talhalarn, horsebreaker, was charged with being drunk in charge of Ii horse on the 16th f Novellbei" m Abergele. Defendant did not put in an appijarance. j P.C. Manuel Da\ ies stated that the defend- åût vcr\ uruDk in charge of the hoise, nril ^ad to take the horse from him pna V uidss x e x and Out it in a stable e A W of 105. and 6s. 6d. v^sts W€re im' posed. NOT ATTENDING SCHOOL. Upon the application of the School Attend. ance Officer [Mr. E. Bithell) an attendance order was granted for Arthur Hughes, son of Mr Robert Hugliei, Tai Farm, Trofarth. PROTECTION ORDER GRANTED. An application ior a Protection Order until next transfer day of the licence of the Bee Hotel, Abergele, was granted to Mrs. Feather v tone.