FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924.
CRICKET.
NEW B. I. "LINER.
TEAMS SELECTEE FOR S.S. "QUERIMBA" LAUNCHED
TO-MORROW.
C. R. C. v. K. Ú. C.
S..Jex, Geo. Tace, H. H. Benson
R. C. Witchell,
K. R. Maskili, J. Prasur, and
$1
past.
PREMPEH OF ASHANTI.
END OF TWENTY-EIGHT
THE CHINA MAIL.
THINGS MEN SAY.
SOME HISTORIC GIBES
WOMEN.
Mr. Arthur
general
4
compliment,
his female
CORONET THEATRE,
THE COVERED WAGON,
K. O. -B, Pelheram. (Copr.), Captain W. M. Isdale (superinten. home, and the Ashanti petitioned, difficult to indict a whole sex than little streak across the compliment | through in the face of impending
: WORLD THEATRE,
private "person.
and be told absolutely noth- ing but what they like to hear is AT and children are subtracted only scarcely logical, since if women AT SUNDERLAND."
YEARS' EXILE.
men are left. So it is ears all' round which require the oll of Sunderland, October 17.-The Prempeh, the last King of In one of her recently published pleasant speaking. Perhaps it was
Away from the beaten track of The undermentioned have been selaunch of the large steamer Ashanti, who was deposed by the letters Lady Ritchie, Thackeray's of such logic Mr. Shaw was think-cinema pictures, the Covered lected to play for the K. C. C... in["Querimba" at Messrs. Wm. Gray Bridah in 1896, and exiled, first to daughter, tells a the above Tangue Match, at pin and Co.'s Wear shipyard at Pallion, Elimina and subsequently to the that she had been out to dinner and ces us all to the same common document of immense value aside Jag when he said that woman Wagon proves itself an historical correspondent to-morrow at Causezvay Bay,
Sunderland, yesterday, was at Seychelles, is now on his way back at next to Sir William Harcourt,
denominator.' K. (C. 1st, X-P. Ovory, tonded by probably as many to Ashanti, A Reuter telegram who said "aggravating, thingsing than when he tried to pay a.
Goethe was never more annoy West was untamed and largely in from the thrilling days when the (Capt.), J. C Plotcher F. Good people as have ever witnessed a from Gibraltar announces the about women, as usual," writes, wing d. C. Lya, A. W. Ramsay,aunch on the river for many years arrival of Prempeh at that port on G.M.A. in the "Manchester
The builders invited the October 21 accompanied by two Guardian." Pin-pricks are notori dishes into which men put golden very word redskins is enough to "Women are silver the hands of the redskins, The New Zealand Rugby football team, sons and an official of the Goid ously harder to bear than the deep fruits, or when, having delight arouse the attention and to make who are visiting the town, and a Const Service. From Gibraltar wounds of abuse. large number of well-known ship- Prompeh will be taken to Liver Symons has had terrible momente characters, he bade them under- of the land they held was disputed
od his country-women with the charm. of marine pool, where he will tranship for in thinking "how many men of stand that "my idea of women is by the peaceful invasion of the set- the blood tingle. Their possession shipbuilders, B. C. G. "A" v. R. "E. owners,
engineers, and business men off the Gold Coast.
genius have dealt largely with To-morrow pom, on the K. C. C. the North-East Coast ware also Two or three years ago several the question" of the repulsive of abstracted from the phenomena tlers,and waknow what scenes were
of the Ashanti chiefs who were ness of women." A ground, the following have been present.
of actual life. They are all better enacted and blood shed in the selected to play for the K. C. C. "A"
The Hon. Kenneth Mackay, Mr.deported to the Seychelles with charge of repulsiveness can be
than could be found in reality." team in a friendly match.
G, F. Hotblack (directors), and Prempeh were allowed to return borne with equanimity. It is more court's "aggravating things the is, in this story, the intrepid leader In the realm of Sir William Har- conflicts that took place. There F. J. Fawards, O. B. Raxcident) represented the British India that the ex-King himself might a whole nation, and women do not
whose sterling qualities win Parnshaw, W. F. 1. Gorviu, A. A. Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., for also be allowed to come back. feel it incumbent to be apologetic takes high place, Sir Thomas Dand, R. d. 1. Musters, whom the vessel has been built, After much delay this request was and miserable for the sins of odd More once enshrined in a delightful disgrace, and bold the heart of the and the firm of Messrs. William granted. Prempeh returns to members of their community any poem the picture of the woman Ranton, d. 1. Top. E. J. Jordan Gray and Co., Ltd., was represent. Ashanti not as King, but as a more than men feel it a necessity whom he would have his friend rival to blacken his character. Te berolae in spite of the efforts of a and J. Hendle
ed by Mr. William Gray (vice years of exile he has become a Emily Bronte
During his 28 to wear blue spectacles because marry, and having endowed her story is a moving one and only chairman), F. C. Fyman (managing Christian. While at the Seychelles viitain and likened his evil over concludés." You will waste with to make the picture the great one
once created
with all virtue and knowledge he capable artists have been enrolled
Carthy, M. S. Gibb, J. H. Farmer among them; for a short time. The indictment of woman as a sex these " agravating things" is their others it has shown in popularity
it is. A. Jones (directors), O. Stephenson Ziglul Pasha.
Perhaps the chief aggravation of that this film. will vie with (secretary), and W. B. Shaw (ma-Mwanga, the ex-King of Buganda Simonides who differentiated her persistence. Only a little while and will draw enthusiastic and
коле were has
on. merrily... from ager of the Wear Shipyard).
The vessel was christened by Kabarega, the warrior King of particles, the materials that enter the Church had their claim disposed
(who died at the Seychelles), tween women made up of canine ago a deputation of women who pleased crowds to the theatre. To have one's engagement Canded over a second week or to be William C. Gray, Bart, and the ed, died on his way back to Central the ingredients which compose an Women are hardly fit to treat ex-Miss K. I. Gray, daughter of Sir Bunyors who, eventually releas into the composition of a fox, and of by a quotation from Montaigne desire greater official influence in booked for repeater at the ship entered the water gracefully, Africa and Seyyid Khaled of ass-to Schopenhauer, who pro on matters of theology." And if sang house within a short perial to the accompaniment of cheers. is considered by vaudevillians of The visitors afterwards adjourn.
claimed women en misse to-day as marked evidenes of pop-ed to the shipyard canteen for tea became King of Ashanti after a tines," and Tolstoy, who is most itself, the persistence of un-
most Prempeh, then a young man, thorough. and incurable ularity. Perhaps the
persistence is an aggravating thing vaudeville EXCEPTIONALLY FINE BOAT. audiens of earlier days, when
long desolating civil war in March, sweeping of all:-'I shall one day Here, as might be expected, it is Mr. William Gray valevills was known as variety. "Success to the Querimba and Dua III. To put an end to mis- quite old and my digestion is Samuel Butler who has played the certainty is almost intolerable. proposed
1888, his title as King being Kwaka write about women.
When I am were more demonstrative in their the health of the guests He said approbation; perhaps the performers it was a great pleasure to him to Coast Prempeh was called upon in st looking out into the world of the same opinion about government and raids on the Gold completely out of order, and I am arch-tantaliser. "All sensible mon of that period were artistically of welcome on behalf of the directors 1895 to accept a British protec. through one eye, then I shall pop women, and no sensible man ever greater stature-latever ny have of Messrs. William Gray and ben ble reason, it is a master of Co. that large and, distinguish-rate, a force under Sir Francis my head out and tell them 'That's says what that opinion is.. recen 4 Tyth Year-Titans, ed gathering. It had been a dis- submission. Prempeh's exile fol-again or they would peck me to Scott being dispatched to compel what you are!' and then pop it in at present a pitient character appointment that Lord Inchcape.lowed. Wongun of tlay sereen, played aasen-whose life-long interest, in
death." gagcinema of swenty-one successivo the affairs
The golden stool, on, which at
For the best answer to general Wicks in Sau Francisco during one Australasia were so well known enstooled, was hidden by the not do better than turn to the pages and his coronation Prempeh had been denunciation perhaps women can- Sensen when she was in the hey-day found himsel unable of her popularity as an imitator and present. It had been a further cause of the revolt of 1900 and of "Like all rogues, he was a great Ashanti. The search for it was the of the. Heart of Midlothian:" singer of character songs in costume, disappointment that his daughter the siege of Coomassie Not till calumniator of the fair sex." Mr. Yerman-Titus may he seen on in-law, the Hon. Mrs. Kenarth 1921 was the stool discovered, and the screen as the World Theatre in Mackay, who was to have christen then the British authorities, having Ritchie are in a very different cate
The things which annoyed Lady the latest June Novak play, Theed the boat was also unable to be learned that it was regarded as the gory. Fatillaby."
Perhaps the most tiresome The "Querimba," when complet Ashanti, laid no claim to it. This
chief religious symbol of the of all was uttered by Willian Morris. ed, would be an exceptionally fine is believed to have dispelled the women know absolutely nothing- "There are two things about which carge liner of more than 500 feet last lagering resentment felt by dress and cookery. Their twist isn't in length, capable of carrying the Ashanti against the British that way. They have no sense of 12,000 tons of cargo. Her large and to have rendered possible the colour or grace in drapery, and quadruple machinery would drive return of Prempeh.
THE LULLABY.***
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
SATURDAY NIGHT."
present.
of
India
to be
her through the seas at 12, knots or more. She followed other big- If you an ambitinis to appear in steamers they had built for the the movies, here's a word of advice: British India Company, and" he Talle ta Tentrice Joy first. hoped she might prove a worthy Togetiner with a large proportion example of British shipbuilding. the rest of the world, Miss Joy and workmanship of the River once had arab tions for action the Wear. He believed that her serven.. Dulike the majority of owners would have a long life of hopeful aspiants, she was promptly profitable service, and in her given ut opportunity to gratify her journeyings she would find her way to the great countries of
ambition.
forming another link binding together our great Empire..
TH
Zanzibar.
1
Others
SLEEPY SICKNESS.
DISEASE DATES BACK MANY YEARS.
One was a woman of twenty-
philis-
THE CHILD PIANIST. MASTER EMIL DANENBERG.
1
(7 years old)
will give a Recital THURSDAY, 8th Jan 1925 at. 5.30 p.m. ST. ANDREW'S HALL
City Hall
(vocalist) and Prof. Danen- Assisted by Mrs. D. Brown
berg in Two Plano works.
Tickets $3, $2 & $1. At ANDERSON'S.
they never invented a new dish or failed to half spoil an old one To understanding of elothes and cookery, women have always laid claim to a special knowledge of XXXXX children and skill in their treats It is annoying to find Jeremy Taylor pooh-poohing the claim, and insisting to Mrs.
ment.
The mysterious "sleepy sick- Jeremy Taylor that he can be ness," which is again on the in-uch the better mother of the two Almost the first thing she did in Australia and New Zealand, thus but there are numerous records, in children with kisses and im-, | crease in England is generally re-n general as well as on particular
documents of a couple of hundred perfect noises, with the breast- garded as a very modern affliction rounds: Mothers soften their
years ago, that describe what milk of soft
endearments. appear to have been cases of that They rescue them from tutors and disease.
snatch them from discipline. They seven, living at St. Maurice-sur- and their feet dry and their bellles desire to keep them fat and warm, Laurou, near Toulouse. Hitherto full; and then the children govern, in good health, she fell into a troublesome, and this shall happen three-day sleep on July 20, 1751. so long as the feminine republic
and cry, and prove fools andx bread, but fell asleep five minutes chivalry, Mr. Gosse has suggested later while eating it. This second that if Jeremy Taylor had not Awakening, she asked for some does endure." With his usual
thought wet feet negligible and a asleep again for nine days. This dreadful mortality which presently Anely masculine condition the not a great success throughout her sort of thing went on for the rest i pursued his little children might|
of the year. Her three longest have been averted. awakenings were for twenty-four
the fluing of "Saturday Night, Ci 13. DeMille's Paruinout pic tan in which she plays one of the WONDERFUL WORKMANSHIP prominent roles and which comes to the Queen's Theatre to-day was replying on behalf of the owners, The Hon. Mr. Kenneth Mackay, to drive a roadster into a danger said the "Querimba" would be eng skie, run it out on a railroad frostlaged in trade throughout the British a Landreat feet above the ground. Empire, and he hoped she would alansion the end an approaching soon become a familiar sight in the electric train menaend it and with various bir felles player: dark Mower. Dominions. (Hear hear.) He had ports of our overseas string suspended below the trestle to congratulate the builders for the s the train rushed tverhead, rrosh wonderful workmanship which had ing the car to junkealve them? been put into the vessel, and he
sleep lasted thirteen days. Then All of which proved to be a rather was certain it would not be the she made a brief meat and fell
severe initiation into Deville fault of the builders if the ship was
methods of realism.
CHINA COMMAND.
MAJOR-GENERAL LUARD. APPOINTED.
career. (Applause).
Mr. F. C. Pyaan proposed the health of the New Zealanders, and hoped they would cherish happy
ነኑ
hours, three hours, and half an about women's" looks, and their The things that have been said hour respectively. recollections of their visit to the teen-year-old girl at Newcastle, an additional harshness because so The following summer a, nine-preoccupation with them, acquire Wear shipyard. He wished they Staffordshire; went to sleep for many of them have come from could have seen it when it was fourteen weeks, during which time men from whom one would least busy, and not in a time of depres- her father used to take her out for expect vexation.
There is, for
pronouncement" upon women:
A Reuter message, received to-sion. Mr. S. S. Dean, manager of drives and to be inspected by instance, Charles Lamb's famous day, announces that Major-General the team, in replying, thanked Charles Camac Luard, C.B., CM G.; Messrs: Gray for having invited doctors. Nothing could awaken God bless them, and when Hel
J
has been appointed to succeed them to be present. To most of General Sir John Fowler as GO.C. them It was a sight they had not China command.
witnessed before, and probably Major-General Luard was horn might not witness again. in 1867 and was educated at Clifton College and the R. M. C., Canada.
TO KEEP YOUNG, ・・
He served in the South African war 1900-1902 (Queen's medal and AMERICAN EXPERIMENT OF
FASTING.
her meanwhile. Then she did awaken at last,
makes any more, and 5000
make 'em recovered.
prettier," and. when William In 1738 the parish priest of St Cowper turns aside from his cats Gilian, near Mons, had a servant and his sofas to discourse upon named Elizabeth Orian. In August a subject, so unsuited to his that year at the age of thirty-six genius as face painting, and rea- she fell into a sound sleep that sons that a painted face is virtuous managed to get on with her duties he adds a rider to the effect that lasted four days. Awakening, she
in France and immoral in England, for another week. Then she slept ven in Englaud "if à husband for eighteen hours in one spell. Choose that his wife should paint New York, November 21:-The For some years thereafter she it might be her duty to comply, In 1909 Major-General Luurd discovery of a sovereign specific used to sleep from 3 am until In no other case, however, can I married Miss Catherine Hammond. against old age is claimed by 8 or 9 p.m., except about four imagine the practice in this country daughter of the late Mr. HR.Professor A. J. Carlson, of the months in the year 1745, when she ventent." It is hard to imagide a Salley, Serge Hill, King's Langley department of physiology in the was well again, and about twenty more annoying theory than that a to be either expedient or con- The family consists of one son University of Chicago. and one daughter
After 3 one days in 1748, when she suffered husband should be the arbiter of years' investigation he has reach from ague. Pins were stuck into the powder-bowl and the rouge- ed the conclusion that fästing is her during her sleep, surgeons
beat her across the shoulders until pot...
4 clasps, King's medal and 2 class) and in the European war 1914-1918 (despatches C.B., CMG)
the key to renewed youth..
Mr. E. J. Powell, who has served the Smithfield Club for more than dose of this rejuvenating process to the stings of angered bees in an in, children, and complexions, According to him the proper she bled and even exposed her After taunts about clothes, cook- half a century and has been its is 15-daya fast. At the end of this attempt to awaken her, but all I perhaps the next most "aggravating secretary and historian for 37 period three adults in his laboratory vain. years, is to retire on December 31. found their metabolic rate amazing- There is a record, too, of one required for a woman she must be thing is the insinuation that if the He is 73.
highest possible compliment is ly increased. Their tissues when William Foxley, a maker of meit- they resumed ting consumed as ing pots in the London Mint, in the labelled a man-as in the epitaph much as those of youths of 15. In time of Henry VIII, who also ap of Maria Theresa of Austria, "In Lord Plunker, Gloucester-square, terms of basal metabolism their pears to have been stricken with sex a woman, in abilities a man," Bayswater, was at Marlborough- age was nearer 12 than 40.
sleepy sickness." One of his French DuchessShe has all the street fined a total of £2 for
and the famous panegyric of the Professor Carlson, who subject periods of slumber lasted fourteen qualities of a exceeding the speed limit of 20 ed. himself to this process, declares daya, during which time he could discreet, enemy to all fitopy miles an hour and driving a motor- that his experiments prove that not be awakened either by burning considered by bar without a licence in Hyde Park prolonged fasting increases the or pinching."
on October 14.
secretion of gastric juice after eat- Ang has been resumed and that bodlos regain their normal weight.
-Helps-Those, Kara-CagAG
man, generous,
all the Royal Family-but that her true approximation was fixed in France by La Rochefoucauld, with his ́eterdal les femmes et les jeunes gens
After 12 years the ball at the We have established, he says, Mansion House given by the Lord that fasting brings the tissues to develop fato pluerley sad poarmonis field. Women are below men and Mayor of London, to which the back to more youthful conditions, top your cold before it reeches this above children, but nearer to The danger of indigenas lite tendency and in England by Lord Chestor ford mayors, mayors, ford provasta, though the precise mechanisin by danger point and for the ough and the fatter. Goethe's little- and provosts of the United Kingwhich the changes in the gastric painful wheezy breathing, fake ham ribe that the public must be dom are invited, lede be revived, secretions are induced as yet Seriale's Cough Remody is for sale treated like women and children next October..
unknown.
wvorywhere.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
HE public are hereby notified THE
that Private Jinrickshas, Chairs and their drivers are due. for relicensing on January' Ist, 1925.
EDG WOLFE
Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong, 24th December, 1924:
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