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ABBEY'S WAXWORK.
ROOM BRINGS BACK THE PAST.
WONDER EFFIGIES.
THE RIVIERA.
A PIMLICO HOUSE OF SUNSHINE.
POOR PATIENTS TREATED.'
me
MORE PRAMS.
THE CHINA MAIL,
PUZZLED BUT PROSPEROUS MANUFACTURERS.
FEWER BABIES:
Those who have been lamenting
than ever.
BY A GERMAN.
VIGNETTES OF BRITISH POLITICIANS.
NO SCANDAL,
1
BIRD'S NEST.
STRAITS PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF SUPPLY.
LIKED IN SHANGHAL
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.
RACIAL DECAY,
DEAN 'INGE'S LATEST WARNING.
years.
STERILE PROFESSIONS.
Of the place in London, not far: Few people know that Westmin-
Dr. Rudolph Kircher, the German When the "Barbarians" living in
Qxford, Dec. 2. ster Abbey possesses a small show from the misty Thames, where it is the declining birth-rate in England journalist, publication of whose what is known to-day as the Straits "Wo are taking off the cream of
of the road! of waxworks that are more valu- Always Summer...
accurate, from which you can pass in a few have evidently been causing them-volume of pen pictures of British Settlements brought "birds" nesta" each generation and throwing it able, more historically
politicians has been postponed be- as tribute to the Court in Paking away, for when the best of the and more terribly lifelike than any moments into sunlight brighter selves unnecessary alarm.
So far as perambulator manufac- cause some of the author's com-in the Tang Dynasty period of working classes are absorbed by waxon model ever exhibited in the than the Riviera... a glimpse of
bas
meats are considered too outspoken, 1,100 years ago, little did they real- the professional classes. they he galleries of Madame Tussaud. The a new corner of Wonderful London. turers are concerned, trade
This is a procesn waxworks are in a low stone cham- While the fog hung grey and never been better than it is to-day.
A branch manageress of a large told a Press representative that he ise that this delicacy would become come sterile. ber, which is approached by a nar- damp outside the window I sat in
Impunity," said Dean Inge, address- row dark staircase. Each foot-step blazing sunshine a mile from Big multiple firm in London stated hoped a way would be found to get in the distant future a commercial which cannot be continued with
SAYS the on those worn stane stairs sounds Ben--in sunshine so brilliant that that they had found it necessary to over the difficulties that had arisen, commodity bringing wealth to theiring the members of the Oxford}
Chinese double the size of their factory and that they would not seriously posterity,
Luncheon Club to-day on "Broed like the deep boom of a tolling bell1 had to wear darkened goggles. sinca the war.
delay publication. Dr. Kircher is "Economic Journal". The value of and national tradition." Dean in the silence of that chamber of It bathed me in its radiance
"Statistics," she said, "may show London correspondent of the "birds' nests" imported into China Inge was alluding to differentiation the dead above.
(writes a representative of "The The low room is dimly lighted, Evening News"). It filled me with that fewer children are being born "Frankfurt Gazette," and the book in 1926 was HK. Tls. 967,365 while in the birth-rate among different
now than before the war, but is entitled "Powors and Pillars."
during recent the figures for each of the three classes and the waxen faces of the effigies new life and vigour. It set
nevertheless the demand for installed there, assume a sickly humming gladly.
"After all, there is no scandal in provious years exceeded one million Thero was a great danger, he said, I forgot the raw, fog-laden street Prams and baby carriages is greater the book," he said. "There are no Halkwan tools.
that the racial typo in this coun- paller that is almost repulsive in its realism..
through which I had walked-for-
"In addition to doubling the size spicy revelations. It is a straight-
This delicacy is now the premier try would deteriorate owing to
these differentiations. King Charles II. is there, clad in got the 'buses which had loomed of the factory, we have opened eight forward attempt to interpret the dish at Chinese dinner partles. A "It is a new danger, for until the scarlet silk and lace rules that up out of the mist and rolled past new branches in London, and will British character through the per- dinner with one course of birds the last two generations there is he wore ton days before his death. into the mist again-forgot the
sonalities of some of your best nosta costa a minimum of $16 to no reason to think that the birth- His face was modelled from the wet, slippery pavements. All I re-open another shortly.
known public men to the people of $20 as compared with the sharks' rate of the more highly endowed death mask, and there is a kingly membered was that I had stepped
Germany, and I cannot believe that fins dinner costing $10 to $14. It and successful classes was lower expression on his face, as if he out of November into July-a real
any of the personalities who figure is also taken as a tonic by the rich than that of the slum dwellers, but were reluctant to die and relinquish July of eternal sunlight. his earthly throne.
in my book would be so thin-skinned in the mornings, much as milk is in three generations the change for as to rosent anything I have said taken in the West. It is an expen- the worse will be very great in- deed. At the present time the sivo luxury and the preparation re- about them."
is among higheat birth-rate
the quires infinite trouble.
feeble-minded women, who have an Bird's nests are of two qualities. average of seven or eight children. The better kind is known as Kuan Next come dwellers in the worst Yen or official nest. It is the nest slums of our large towna, places built in the warm months and is like Shoreditch. Next to them quite clean. The price of the best come the miners, who are an ex- grade is $4 per liang (37.301 cellent type, and quite desirable. grammes), of the medium $3, and parents., At the other end of the sente are the doctors, among whom of the inferior $1.50.
the birth-rate is lowest. Next The other kind is called Mao Yen come ministers of religion, and or hairy nest and is built in the the members of the teaching pro- cold months. As its name implies, fession. There is no class which it is covered with hair and not as is endowed better physically and clean as the Kuan Yen. Its price mentally than the professional
a $10 per catty for the best grade, classes, and there is $10 for the medium and $5 for the slightest doubt that if the state inferior grade. Each neat weighs of society favours the rapul in from 2 to 2:5 ch'ien (1 ch'ien equals crease of the alum dweller and the children of pro- decrease of the 3.7301 grammes), and two neata
fessional men it will be a very after cooking are sufficient to fill serious thing for the future of the one rice bowl.
Dominating.
Next to him stands the elligy of Queen Elizabeth, a regak, dominat ing Agure in royal scarlet and gold, wanring a crown on her reddish
gun-
No "Left-Overs" Now, "At one time the tendency among the working classes in particular was to make one perambulator do for the first and second child, but now each new arrival has one of
of course, may) its own. That, partly account for the increased The manager of another firm in the West End who enter exclusively for the opulent classes also stated that there was no falling-off in sales,
The joy can be tasted by any or dinary Londoner. For Humanity House-the big building in Rane lagh Road, Pimlico, which has been bought and equipped with 40 aun light lamps by a rich London buai-demand." ness man Mr. Campbell Johnston- hair. Bat now the ust of cens waiting to invigorate and heal turies clings to her sirts, and only the poorer people of the capital. cobwebs kiss her hands mul en-
1,000 A Day. circle the dainty feet at which gay courtiers once knelt. There is an You can walk straight into it expression of excruciating agony from the drab street. The en her lined fuce, an expression shine is waiting there for you.
It has already cost that 65-year that was caught and held for ever in death and finally reproduced in okl man much more than £30,000 wat. Queen Elizabeth died writhe gets no profit from it. His only ing in agony on the door at Wind-reward is the thanks of the people' sor Castle, for she lind not eaten we are being healed there and his for twenty-eight days.
only hope is that more people will Neisen, the greatest admiral go-for it can give sunlight to a stands next. to the greatest Queen, thousand people a day. He is dressed in the navy blue uni- form and white buckskins that are as familiar to us all in connection! me. with Nelson as the battle to Trafal This is the biggest place of its kind in the world," he said, "and gar itself,
King William 1. and his Queen) yet it is hardly known at all, really. "There are no rigid rules. If Mary stand in the shadows. They are both dressed in black velvet and you a Humanity House casually gold brocade. King William slands from the street, and thought to. on the velvet cushion on which he yourself, I should like a sunlight stood at his coronation, for he con-tonic,' you could walk straight in. sidered it undignified for a mon.
A Grent Work.
As I sat in the glow the secre- tary, Mr. A. E. Rowe, chatted with
arch to be shorter in slature than "Even if you were too poor to his wife. and Mary was a giantess pay anything we do not taku pao: Their expressions are pleasant. But ple who could afford Harley Street the King, would scowl as he so specialists-you could have a sun- often used to do, if he could see light tonic just the same. the unruly state of his chestnu But most of the hundred people
are too
curls, which have, not,been waved who come here every day come for or pomaded for more than two hun-treatment. Half of them dred years.
So He Once Plended.
"The only difference with our customers," he said, "is that they are now less inclined to purchase such expensive ones as they did formerly. They attribute that to the heavy burden of taxation.
"Otherwise the falling birth-rate has not affected our output in any way. And you can take it as cer- tain," he added, "that no one buys perambulator unless there is a special reason for it!"
RECONCILED.
BY BURGLARY IN LONDON
FLAT..
"In any cas, the book has been in circulation or over a year In Germany. It has been widely re- viewed in that country, and no one has suggested that there is any thing in it to object to."
Mr. Baldwin. Following are a few of Dr. Kircher's commenta
on British public men, translated from "Der Englander," the German edition of
the book:-
Mr. Baldwin.-"It is evident that, like St. John, Baldwin has a mission in which he firmly believes. filled with religious fervours, he bears the banner of England aloft, a St. Joan alive to the prevailing Stock Exchange, tendency of the and conscious of what is practicable in England."
country."
not the
Mr. Lloyd George.--"Mr. Lloyd
The preparation of Kuan Yen is
One Explanation. George can bring forth in a minute to saak in hot water until spongy, more statesmanlike idens than most whereafter it is cleaned of any for-portant explanatory factor the pay- Dean Inge offered as one im. of his eritles could do during their sign substance. It is then bolled
ment of professional men. "Young whole lives. His instinct is un- for some 24 hours and sweetened men in the professions are grossly MUSICAL HALL DUO.
rivalled in England. He is certain-with sugar. The nest itself at the underpaid and old men like myself" The favourite music hall pair, y the greatest and most captivating final stage has been dissolved into overpaid," he said amidst laugh. Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney, speaker in the House of Commons." gelatinous particles which are ter. "Whether it is desirable to have been reconciled by a burglary.) Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.-"He caten with the soup. The prepara-have elderly parents is a question They disagreed in America, dis- has a sacrot liking for many things tion of the Mao Yon is the same, which has not been solved. Many solved the famous partnership and which are an abomination to mil- but the soup is filtered through distinguished people have been sons parted hearly three years ago. lions of his present allies. He is a piece of cloth to keep out the of fathers well advanced in middle
Norah returned to her London flat Conservative
life, whereas on the othor hand, In practice. Hia gelatinous particles holding hairs.
the famous discoverer of logarithms in the early hours poor to pay anything. The others the show and found the furniture consistent with his speeches,"
after statesmanship is not altogether The name of bird's nest seems to was the son of a boy of sixteen. pay as much as they can--they give smashed and jewellery and plate,
be a misnomer. The Chirése name We must attach more importance Lord Birkenhead.-"To men of is literally "swallow's next." Ac-to national tradition than we have Pitt, Eart of Chatham, stands up-us anything from sixpence to three etc, to the value of £1,000 stolen. right in flowing robet of crimson. and-sixpence."
Norah's husband was at Wembleytast and nobility he often appears cording to the dealers in Shanghai, done. The theory of Nordic super- The amp was switched off. I
than a clever the nest is built by a swallow as iority has been done to death, but his raised land. So he once plead with Mr. Rowe around this place of with him. and purple, a document clasped in took off the goggles and walked watching the greyhound racing, so as nothing more
unable to communicate analphabele. Still, he is a political large as a crow. It inhabits the at the same time I am far from ed, bullied; and coerced his listen eternal sanlight.
power. He torrarises."
cliffs in the Straits Settlements Agreeing with those who minimise ers in the House of Lords. Queen)
She telephoned to her old partner,
"An Eternal Boy."
and lives on whitebait. The nest the importance of heredity. Breed "One man of sixty-a workman-
Mr. Winston Churchill. He is is made of the bird's own salivary vironment. It is a matter of enor Anne fs near him, wearing the blacki
must be more important than en- a taxi-cab. and geld geminden dress that she came to us with a disease which had Gwen, who immediately arrived in
an eternal boy. He plays with en-secretions. Natives .collect the The pair went into the drawing-thusiasm, preferably polo, about nests with knives attached to long the country that increased know- mous importance to the future of wore before she died. Her face is left his hend as bald as a billiard-
ball-had ever stripped off his calm and dignified and her glance brows." Mr. Rowe said "We treatem, amid the wreckage, and play- which he understands least. That, bamboo poles; as they cannot be ledge of the
facts about these imperious even in death. Queen
ed and sang the old songs, for which
things should influence our atti- Anne was buried in her robes of the place is open until eight they were famed before the quarrel, so people say, is his fault; he will reached otherwise.
he knows do things about which
The bird's nest is an important tude towards social reform. state with many jewels. It is re.at night, so that people can come
after their day's work, corded that ten strong men
nothing, and chiefly a. states- item on the Chinese menu. Every with us that the remedy must lie, needed to lift her coffin.
man."
good restaurant in a large city is for we shall get no help from the able to serve this delicacy at short politicians. They realise that the (Laugh- notice. China's import of this unborn have no vote." article over a period of 10 years 'steady increase, with a in percentage consumed
were
New Eyebrown.
she was
new disused Army warehouse. A
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La Belle Stuart, the Duchess of "And at the end of ithe had as sunlight clinic last January-a Viscount Grey. "His personality Richmond, is also there among the grown new eyebrows and
We is a living proof that an encircling great dead. She is still beautiful, head of hair-a bristling mass of walked into the yard, now roofed policy, such as the people in Ger-
ter). although the white satin of her white hair, just like a golly-wog." | over with glass.
Dean Inge expressed his entire never shows a dress is almost black with age, and "I expect he's had it out since!"} You see this big space?" said many believed they saw,
approval of the American' quota: the fine cream hice swather around
existed." We saw little kiddies, the chil- Mr. Rowe. "We are thinking of fix-
large
system in immigration. "There Is her shoulders is the colour of tea. dren of poor parents, lying on white) ing more lamps high up, and so
Mr. J. II. Thomas."Thomas Shanghai.
school in America' which has By her side is her pet parrot, aleats under the glare of the lamps. flooding it with sunlight. The rays personifies the highest wisdom of
developed the Nordle theory, small, grey-feathered bird with a Their bodies were bronzed with would be diluted, so that the people this land. Cheer up, old man."
though, I am afraid, to 'excess. red tail and a weary expression. sunburn.
could walk about in comfort for a Lady Astor.-"A fine type of the.
They pointed out the very great La Belle Stuart is holding in her "A little girl was carried into long time.
fearless Anglo-Saxon. Quite woman- from the stand-point of the woman. danger of that stock being sub- band two carnations, that are faded Humanity House in her mother's) "Air. Johnston is now in Ham-ly, but unfailingly keen in thought Without rhetoric, almost without merged in America. Whereis in almost beyond recognition. Carna-arms, rigid with infantife paraly- burg, getting expert advice on it and act. No man-woman; no the gift of public speaking. But the middle of the nineteenth cen tions were her favourite flowers. ais," said Mr. Rowe. "After five The plase is his hobby...
The Duke and Duchess of Buck-visits she was able to walk, and wa
Wonderfully uncom with a ready wit.. And she always tury the large number of Americans imitation. "He is a rich man, and the laws
were descended from British, ingham are there. The duchess are confident that we shall cure her of Humanity House forbid any pro- plicated. No diplomat, but no blue has the last word." was an illegitimate Stuart. She is absolutely."
Messrs. William Collins and Song German, or Scandinavian fit. His happiness is to bring this stocking. Not tremendously intel-
tora, in the second decade of the proudly holding her Bon by the Humanity House Was until a healing sunlight into the lives of lectual, not even specially cultured. are the publishers of "Powers and hand, for whom he lived and little while ago-it was only opened Londoners."
Feminine common sense. Wisdom Pillare."
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and other races, which do not and death has recorded a lock of)
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pride on
her perfect features.] Near her the Duke of Buckingham] lles asleep in a glass Case, one white satin shoe half off and
his
curled peruke awry.
In that chamber of the dead, who seem almost alive, the nir is still in the presence of such great men
4 and women. Eyes that atare out of the dimness seem to command silence, and the respect is duly se corded them, leat those lifelike waxen lips should be forced to utter a rebuke.
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The birth-rate for the first nine months of last year is calculated by the Reichstag committee at 15 per 1,000 inhabitants, against 16.7" in 1920, and 16.4 in 1925, th
A slight increase in the death- rate is shown; it amounted to. 118] per 1,000 inhabitants in the period covered; against 11.5 during the same period of the two preceding years. Infant mortality shows, a Blight decline.
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knowledge requires.”
21Dean Inge cited Ireland aš n atriking example of the power of tradition.Racially they are very much akin to ourselves, but some- how or other, they have a racial tradition which – in very differént from our own. They are a nation because the believe themselves to be one, and that is about the bal reason one can give,
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