Show BREAKING DOWN OLD TRADITIONS Froc C t Not N Nry c ry it Part Pea Q OPINION 1111 I LoDd London JI tiny tl 1 The Th ThAM TheAu Au AM ct Pre V are to state aid Id the uie Times on Thursday that the tall bt bat and nd frock cost coat which bad hitherto been recognised a the costume for Sandown Park Prk on OD YI te cc 00 colon Of the royal visit Ift may be 41 di penned with tomorrow and nd Saturday la In lafavor favor or of the Jut bat and other cos COl tome tume mort more lilted to t the pt present trop tropical cal weather A few days of ht hat hl have done more mort to break dova the established traditions tradition ot of England than would a dosen dC n reform bills bUl Lone established rul rules of tate stale buln business and pc O etiquette have e been swept ept to the winds wind or rather Into the humidity which the leek lack of win produce 1 In a where a fe few years ar ago 0 sunstroke wu wan almost the hospitals arc N now crowded with CUll cases of that des dell For the Int Aret time Ume In lh the hi his history tor tory of parliament on of the front frontbench bench members Herbert Gladstone hu has appeared at al St Stephens wearing a straw hat bat to the tIIe amassment ament ot of tb the members of th the house boWIe Royalty driven to desperation by the hottest weather gland has bat ever known obliged to appear at al public function hu has corn com drua pistil th the usual form forme ot of VOICES OPINION Lord Ronald Rould sowers annual letter to the Times against th the tall hat bal instead of being a useless ule protest this week voices voice pUblic opinion with remarkable unanimity Wen Well known men ot of fashion are frequently to be teen seen at the Wt End wearing white bUe duck or flannel trou trousers with immaculate late frock coe coat and silk aUk hats hat This latitude of d dress extends also alo to ar r vanes vant flunkies thick with gold lace 8 ma may be seen gravely sitting upon the boxes 1 wearing sailor hats hatt ot of varying pattern and fashionable nurses h have liven given up the hot veil and nd bonnet In favor ot of the light straw headgear In brief this metropolis ot of the world with It It countless arbitrary Corm forme ot of dress and proc procedure ure b has In the short ort space of a week been turned today t t Tb The or of Ute tie taw Is the al Idly increasing death rate ud sad led tO ot of the Ia hull we wave The papers never tire of at point Ina In out how utterly Inadequate are the prot to 10 4 deal with the present con cun Ice is a luxury obtainable by bythe bythe the rich only and by them In limited quantities For the poor there I is no not even the opportunity to The leS Idea ot of flooding the heated street treet hu bu not yet et dawned upon lInland municipality The supply ot of facilities at the London hospital to lest lIeal with Ith heat I is absurdly Inadequate Hence It Is Ia small mall wonder wunder that business II practically suspended and nd social functions see are cut short bort and aarl made mue u Informal u possible tu to say tay nothing of all Ute the man uve at t Alder Aldershot shot being postponed LONDoN A TROPICAL ZONE Even the ghastly news from China elicits but hf half hearted interest In a nation which finds itself suddenly transferred from trona a temperate to a tropical gone with Ith all n the disabilities ot of clothes cloth and Institutions Londo mth method d ot of transit under underground ground trains train inside bu buses etc tc never well ell ventilated can now only be II des described u sweat eal boxes boe What with the Christian Endeavor Endor thousands permeating London week the American invasion may mar be said Id to have bave reached Ita It smith Bearce caret 1 an any event connected with lIb American enterprise b bat created such general in interest terest in n England d at as the s at t Alexander Park lark The bishop ot of London Rt Hev Dr Mandell Creighton while facing the thousands that waited to hear him speak turned to one ot of the Americans that vu U on the platform and said Id How wonderfully you do these theBe things In America The trans bf such an immense contin contingent gent nl 10 o many thousands ot of mUM miles had bad tremendously Impressed all prominent who have come Into con coa contact tact with tit the delegate AMERICAN JACK TARS TARI Another cl clap of visitors to attracting attention Oft on the streets is II the Ibe themen men ot of the United State training ship Baralo Saratoga who bo have come up on leave from Southampton Commenting on th the gays y They go about In n twos to and nd threes and nel conduct themselves to the admira admiration Uon tion ot of an all although there Ie b no officer In charge ch This I a In striking with the ot of The Saratoga goes Ot to when hn lh the ap prentice will have ban II a chance to see elle Paris Pari English harbors are with American yachts A At Southampton moos ate Ile the Josephine e anI end are arp here In such uch large as a to 10 eras 1111 tn to at attract tract attention William t I spent Int I week sleek watching hl his run nt at Newmarket ne He will wll 10 ii to tn InNs Utter Andr Andrw HI gIe partner has taken rt 1 tl tip Lord Loval pier 1111 In t I land till 1111 October when lard tord J I it at who Is I In South t t I t re return turn II b noted a as on II f th h finest eer stalking grounds roun In the sited Kingdom With reference to 10 the hint that he Id had become on n II n subject ot of Great Mr hII said to tIN the correspondent of the A As rioted Press t ha have v not nol the least intention lot f b If ming a subject I simply nl 11 a 8 nl nice place f to stay ta until the Ihl end nd r f I the hi AR ARBITRATION I vi i w e of th the wars arll In which the I u engaged d a curious and nd pathetic interest alta attached to the mt meet meeting ing this wk week or of tb the I for the promotion tit of el AI Phil Philip II James Stanhope ut of parliament for Burnley pr std d Jort trA nr r the British 1 II I lii to toh tot t th h 1 r In 10 In h hell hIli r f th III E h July Il 31 too aced aad ot of various European Q menta ment will on that occasion bf be received by br President Loubet The Tb I English dele includes Lord Kinnaird and nd Sir I RollIS WAR IN APi AJl t aa j One tIe of tb m most t t Incident of the war in III South AfrIca occurred this I week It when Captain Towne received the first Cross bestowed b by the I queen for lor valor in n the veldt Captain Towle earned the distinction b by at al I tempting to lu carry ort off Col nl Dowl n who had bad been wounded under a hall bin ot of I bullet lie HI Wit was unable to do so ot and andI I lay beside him and nd kept 0 off the doers aU all night till help came Dr By that time Ume eol bl l Downman was II dead Captain Tow Towne was taken to Windsor and led Into the royal roal presence by hi his wife where he knelt at the feet ohl of hi who w was so 10 much overcome at a the eight hl ot of the bUnd blind hero bero that her aged td hands could rould pin nin on the mot most prized or of all British decorations The queens queen few words word ot of simple praise of hi his gallantry and thanks for hi devo devotion tion were so 10 10 low at as to be almost inaudible and nd when hn h he out there w wag scarcely a dl dry eye ee among the ur el present The marquis of minister ot of war referring In the house bOUM of lord to Lord Robert telegram announcing the death of two young oun Canadian cere cen Lieutenants Bodden end nd Birch In defending the British position la in tb the engagement on July I 18 paid a glowing tribute to the CanadIan volunteers say saying y yla la ing When w e think who ho writes tb the late gram and with what hat feeling he be must mUlti h have written It h J I think we may say no nomore more touching tribute could be paid to the memory or of the brats young rep ot of our colonial forces PATRIOTIC The earl erl of Carrington compared the patriotism ot of the colonies to an n Au Au underground river that thai petted Ired la In the tbt bowels or of the earth arth came cam up again n and rushed onward In a mighty torrent to the ocean It t would continued V oty bl be so 0 the earl Pari If per feet equality were preserved between the British and troops After a keen hen el election Uon for tor the membership In a y 11 t Jo soa t the vole ote bring In M IS to 10 toNO NO BIOGRAPHY OF RII It is announced that Charles Eliot Norton and the other literary executors of 01 John h ha deter determined mined d not to issue a biography of the great art critic that Mr hr Ruskin ta and Collin woods woodi biography art are How However ever the executors 11 will 11 Issue representative I selections from Mr r I diaries and letters |