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written ten books since his seventieth birthday, and he 

 has others in the making. 



Yet it must not be supposed that Sir Oliver's life is all 

 work and no play. That may have been so during his 

 early years when it was all that he could do to make ends 

 meet, but later he learned to play golf and croquet. 

 Later still he took up dancing, which, as he rightly says, 

 1 refreshes the machine ' after a day's work and induces 

 sleep. He is keen also on music and on art. The late 

 Lady Lodge was a painter of more than ordinary merit. 

 Sir Oliver's eldest son too is an artist, and also a sculptor, 

 poet, and critic. 



Two of his sons, F. B. and Alec Lodge, are known to 

 every motorist as the inventors of the celebrated Lodge 

 plug, while Lionel and Noel Lodge are at the head of the 

 Lodge-Cottrell Company, which does business in Birming- 

 ham. They extract large quantities of zinc, tin, and 

 other valuable material from the smoke of furnaces and 

 factories, and the origin of the process which they use is 

 none other than that mentioned at the beginning of this 

 chapter — their father's invention for precipitating fog by 

 electricity. 



