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Thirty years ago Dr. Diarmid Noel Paton of Edinburgh noted that the undernourished mothers of Scotch slums bore undersized children. He concluded, and the idea still prevails generally, that the thinner a woman keeps herself during her term, the slimmer her child will...
...capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga on their atlases, finding it north of Edinburgh's latitude, refused to believe...
...were as plentiful as usual. As The Twelfth, the historic August opening of Britain's grouse season approached, the reports turned dismal again. ''Grouse disease" had thinned out the coveys. Day before The Twelfth the moors were reported soggy, dank. Consequently Scotsmen anxiously assembled at the Edinburgh and Glasgow railroad stations to note how many rich Englishmen and Americans were coming up from London for that most decorous of outdoor sports, grouse shooting from butts...
...lack of bags to report last week, newsgatherers reported on field costumes. Gillies, who could get no work from the rich visitors, and moor owners, who could get no renters, went grousing on their own. Grouse they killed were selling last week in Edinburgh at $5 per brace, in Glasgow at $7.50. Those were remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know...
Died. Rev. Latta Griswold. 55. of Lenox, Mass., author (Deering of Deal, Deering at Princeton, The Winds of Deal, Values of Catholic Faith ); of paralysis; in Edinburgh...