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Show ALL LONDON ON FLOWER RAIDS New Phonograph Records of Usual Size Play One Hour Each By NORMAN H MATSOX. Special Correapondrnt of The Stind-I Stind-I ard-Elxumlnrr 'Copyright, 1S22 by The Standard-ExamlnT Standard-ExamlnT i LONDON June it AutoSue wim-flower wim-flower raldn1 Is the quaint nm given a new London outdoor sport that Is j Slvlnr conservationist a gr.ori c1.t o worry about. Big double decKed biiHse? run out r,r London in all dl-1 rectlons and Saturday and Sunday 'he;, take many thoueandy of cltv folic 10 green fields, woods and quiet Ullage Ul-lage street? Londoners ht ',nv'er-ato ',nv'er-ato week-enders, thev stubbornly ln-let ln-let on taking frequent flights from the smoky town. As Oie bus com-panlts com-panlts extend their services, ndding this old world village, which considered consid-ered itself secure from urban Invasion Inva-sion because of Its distance from the railroad, and that historic old hea'h or forest, a very clever and even artistic artis-tic advertising campaign Is cr-rrld on Almost dally subway travel en are advised ad-vised of some new village to he reached by bus J rider an IntrlffUlnf sketch of a slnteentfT oearnrv street is i paragraph of hlstorv VILLAGES ROUSED. The bus companies, ln a word, are a great boon to city dwellers But what they are doing to th peaceful countryside in somethlnc for trnd'.-tion-lovers to weep over The otner day one company ad ' seised a special blue bell Sunday." Blue bells were Just beginning to bloom and special correspondents o? the dallies were, In wie peasant English custom, telo-eraphlng telo-eraphlng columns Of Uric descriptions. descrip-tions. I don't know how man thousands thou-sands that bus company took out to the blue bell fields, hut it was a hordo and the loot was huge. Before that there had been a primrose Sunday and another for daffodils New raids" are projected for flowers blooming later. The practice if continued con-tinued may very well entirely destroy certain species Ft, klnx flowers in amall parties S quite a different thin? from this new system of mopping em up." Farmera protest that bus parties roam through their growing -crops as If they owned them, and villagers de-claro de-claro that they cannot sleep for the noise of the big cars and the merrymaking merry-making of visitors There L a. veritable verit-able feud between city and country Town councils are thinking up new and more annoying road regulations and farmers are drawing up lists of damage done, but the bus lines grow steadily. see NOVEL ON KEJOORDfl W h i lo a convention of educators ln Paris was listening to a publisher's prophecy of that near future when every ev-ery family will have Its ' library" of noels in motion plcturos. In London the first gramophone novel was being produced. Using a recording machine invented by a Mr. Pemberton Billings, Bill-ings, which makes It possible to record re-cord an hour s mualc 01 reading on one disc of the usual size, a popular novel was read Into tho receiver It proved to be 'six hours long six1 discs ln one neat, small album taking tak-ing up little moro space than th printed version. Some will remember the chapter In li. O Wells nonl the time machine" telling how the peoplo of a distant future stocked their libraries li-braries with volumes which cornblntd print, motion pictures and speech. That time does not now seem so far off. The "spoken novel' Is. however, nrlmnrlly being made for the use of tho blind. Tho prlco of gramophone hooks" is chcapor than BruIlK and 20 or more can listen to a book at l he same time LIQUOR FOR BREAKFAST. Th. Handle) -Paige p.:.pi advise me that neither tea nor coffee Is part of the breakfast served to passengers on thoir London-Purls flights. One haa a choice of whiskey and brandy. The said :tlr passengers prefer whiskey whis-key or brandy Tho majority of passengers pas-sengers are Amerkans, incidentally, hut that may have nothing to do with it, STAGE BEDS l OfCSIDmSK. The lord chancellor has turned thumbs down on stage beds. It Isn't. one may Infer, what Is done ln d bed I or said about a bed that makes It an Immoral spectacle for Londoners, it Is the bed per se that Is Immoral Monckton Hoofe's new comed. Pomp and Circumstance." was hanned because in one scone there was a bed It Just stood there, taking no part in tho action an artlclo of furniture lo a set that purportod to be bedroom Hoofo mentioned hr.lf doren recent plays with beds The Man In Dress Clothes.' "I'p In Mabel's Boom." and "Othello," in the latter of which, of course, they literally liter-ally get away with murder ln the bedroom bed-room '. But tho lord chancellor evidently has decided to forbid thorn all, beginning be-ginning with cradles, perhaps and extending to Morris chairs My suggestion sug-gestion to Hoofe was that he borrow from the book of Chinese drama and place a .iiw horse on the st-gr labelling label-ling It "this represents that piece of furniture from which the sleeping chamber derives a term commonly applied to It." That ought to satisfy everybody. |