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HUMAN APPEAL.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
LEPROSY CURE.
SUCCESSFUL TRIALS AT PENANG,
NOT A NEW DISCOVERY,
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOTÍ
"Your wife drives her own CAF, doesn't sho?"
..."Yes."
Midst the hectic descrițitive-mat» In connection with the recout
and flambouyant effusions reports concerning the
"And does she pay attention to use of through which the render has to Hydnocarpus oll the "Straits Echo" the "Stop, Look and Listen' sighs at wade in order to discover what a publishes the following interesting the railroad crossing?" film is about I saw, somewhere or article from a special correspon-thirds of the warning, but I can't. "Well, I believe the obeys two- other, 猜 paragraph describing dent.
“Drusilla with a Million” as having The news of a wonderful dia-magire anyone or anything making the greatest human appeal of any covery by which it is hoped that her listen," picture of recent years. For once leprosy will be stamped out with-
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the publicity word painter had get in the next decade, which was Handy Husband,"Hear about some truth in the mixture that flashed by Reuter at the beginning Jenka? He's a aoninambulist, you makes hie high-lights. "Drusilla of this week to all parts of the know."
with a Million" is all that and a lot world, ia very much belated, so "Well?"
more besides. It is a pity that it far, at any rate, as this part of "He woke this morning and dis- is only being shown at the World the Empire is concerned, because covered that he had been walking Theatre until Saturday and that treatment by Hydnocarpus oll the floor all night with the baby in there is the latest Charlie Chaplin which is the "discovery" announc-his arms,
-
Reggie What yo' in for, Porcie? Percie Life.
"Ah don't mean, how soon, but
comedy on view but a few hundred ed has been used in the Leper Hos- yards away, for every cine-goer|pital at Pulau Jerejak for about should see "Drusilla." The picture three or four years. There is no jis based upon a novel of the samej doubt that the oil extracted from
name. I have not read it, but it the dried fruit of the Hydnocarpus how come?" must be a really great novel. If tree is the most effective medicine | "Arsen. Eono knocked a coloured the film follows the story fairly, that has yet been discovered for boy so cold he fell on a cake of ice accurately and I am assured that treatment, of leprosy. It has been and burned hisself to death." it does there is more real por-proved conclusively by results at trayal of human nature in a chapter the Leper Asylum on Pulau Jerejak
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Customer (in, barber shop)-Cut
the hair and the
of it than in a couple of dozen or-Island. The method of treatment all three short. dinary works of fletion.
adopted by Dr. A. H. Wheatley, Barber-What three? I didn't cry at the World Theatre the Superintendent and Medical "The beard, loat night-hard-boiled newspaper Officer in charge at Pulau Jerejak conversation." men cannot find much to cry about Leper Camp, is that of injecting -but I know that some of the the oil into the sufferers, and spectators did. - And I do not blame | photographs which have been taken Have you any flesh-coloured stock- them. There is in the film so much eloquently show the progress madeings?
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Customer (on the telephone)—
to which the chords of emotion may by patients after each injection of Hosiery Clerk-Yes; whadda ya respond. Drusilla herself as the the oil. The oil of the Hydnocar-want, pink, yellow or black? "charity" Inmate in a home forpus tree is, as stated, responsive
aged ladies, deprived of the weekly in cases where the discnse is under "I wish to complain," asid the trent, a motor car ride, because of six months old, and several almost bride haughtily, "about the flour the dirty paws of a dog she be-permanent eures have been effect-you sold me. It was tough." friends; little Sally May's love for led. We use the word "almost"! "Tough, ma'am?" asked the the man she rescues after a road-Before permanent, because it is be grocer.
side accident, her pathetic effort to lieved that the disease is likely to "Yes, tough. I made pie with it,. keep a job in a cheap restaurant, occur again unless the patient ad-and my husband could hardly cut her loneliness and misery on the heres to a very rigid life of ab-it."
night her baby is born; Collin stinence and carefulness..
that Collin is already married and case was not advanced, the injec-
million (dollars, I presume) to a
he had a relanse.
various occa-
your symptoms?"
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"If I had my way, I would abolish the collar," says a doctor.
Well, what's the neck's best thing?
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He: What do you mean by saying this is a possumi car?
Arnold's vain search for the little In fact there is a case on record Kant-Surely you've heard of chief cause of France's fears. For wife who ran away from him, think-where a dresser of one of the Gov- Scott, the great- some years the British point of ing it was for his benefit; thwarted ernment hospitals was taken ill. Say-Oh, yes, surely, many view has been that France canDaphne Thornton when she finds with the foul disease and, as his times-great Scott. best secure her end by trusting will not dispute his father's will. tion of the Hydnocarpus oil had Doctor (to patient who claims to the British guarantee, and by co- These are but a few of the incidents such a marvellous effect on the be a nervous wreck): "What are operating with the Liberal and capable of inducing that choky feel-man that medical men held him to
ing.
be permanently cured. He was re- Dempcratic forces in Germany
Patient: "I jump when I hear a Clever Restraint.
leased from the Lener Hospital, telephone; the door bell sends mo which, on the whole, have been in
The story is simple but is por-and allowed to work again in into hysterics. Any stranger com- the ascendant since the war, and trayed with artistry and clever re- Government Department but, after ing to the house frightens me out though eclipsed during the constraint. A millionaire disinherits several years.
up a newspaper. Do you know flict, have been growing in his wild son, dies and leaves the It is therefore believed by medical of my life and I'm afraid to pick
men who have made A lifelong
what's wrong with me?" atrength for at least three gen-distant relative--the "charity" in-study of leprosy that the result of
Doctor: 'Yes; my wife drives a tool'Contact," in "The erations. Security, in our opinion, mate of the home for aged ladies. Hydnocarpus oil is to effect an ap
¡Motor." can only come through an end be. Whilst we see the dear old lady de-parently permanent cure. A per-r
voting her unexpectedly acquired manent cure is where a person has ing put to the Franco-German wealth to the rearing of abandoned been absolutely free of the dis- feud, which has lasted a hundred babies we also follow the carcer of for seven years, and there years. France is now by far the the cast-off son, who meets with a
has been no such case on record yet. greatest military Power in the motor accident, marries a servant
An Efficient Organisation. world, but she can ill afford the girl bred in an orphanage and gets and holds what is for a million-
The Leper Asylum on Pulau burden.
aire's son (on the films at any rate) Jerejak Island is one of the most These thoughts on security and a good position, that of an assist-efficient organisations of its kind She: Oh, it plays dead in the the price we have to pay for it, ant in a.country-aide garage. Also, in the world, and experts who most convenient places. prompted by a perusal of the sum whilst the old lady with all the have visited it on
money is turning the Fifth-avenuesions have unanimously pronounes Bewildered Young Man (to new mary concerning the Home army mansion into a baby farm we need it to have been developed on salesgiri): Where will I find silic estimates, equally apply to the the former fiancee of the motor me-lines only possible with a real ex- lingerie?
the head of affairs.
Salesgir: Search me. naval arm. The conferences at chanic, one-time heir to a cool mil-pert at Geneva and before then at Wash-wife to leave home so that her hus-tor in charge, have been paid by lion, persuading the servant-girl Tributes to Dr. Wheatley, the dog- ington amply illustrate this con-band may resume his position in men who are qualified, to express doesn't he?"
"Sure; nobody ever heard of him tention. Not one of the Powers, the world to which he belonge—an opinion, and there is no need except America, can at the pre-where cocktails reign in place of to attempt any praise of him in before she shot him."-
carburetors and smartness has this short article. The views of the Secretary of sent really afford to embark upon nothing to do with blowing up a
"And you know what happens to A very high degree of sanita- State for, War, on the army of the new naval construction, and tyre in record time. If there is aan is required in a place where the little boy who clings to his future, an army with but a skele America is only able to do so be- weak point in, the story it is here, lepers are congregated, and the mother's skirts in these days?"
Pulan "Yes. He becomes 2 trapeze ton force of actual, "footsloggers" cause she is enjoying a period of but if the little bride had not run sanitary conditions
away, though she did it at the com- Jerejak island and within the artist.". and mechanisation predomin-unprecedented prosperity which mand. of a solitary jealous female, camps are at a type and standard
"I will give you a shilling to help ating in every
branch, she cannot explain. Yet many of we would not have had those gra- that cannot be improved upon. are interesting and bid fair to be the larger, nations are building phically-drawn and poignant pic-Treatment is the other vital fae- my maid chop the wood." realised. But will mechanisation new ships of war. Even Germany happy one and in this kind of pic- Laper Camp at Pulsu Jerejak has tures that follow. The ending is a ter and; in this respect, too. the
decrease. the reservoir of man-is in the grip of the security ture it could not be otherwise. kept well to the forefront. power which our military chiefs bogey and the Reichstag has
Intelligence.
"great discovery," only, now an deem,advisable to maintain for authorised the construction of a It follows, from what has been nounced and broadcasted to the the Empire's protection? We gigantic battleship for the protec-written above, of course, that the world, has been actually, in use doubt it. The flair at
thetion of something or other. Thus picture has been produced and act for more than four years, and it ed with a degree of intelligence has become firmly established an moment is for bigger and big-does the obsession grow.
well above the average. level. The the main form of treatment. *Even programme confines the cast to six the most advanced cases respond persons. All, in their way, are stars. to these infections and, there are Intensive, and technically perfect lepers on the Island. to-day who, characterisation mark their efforts, apparently, are not lepers at all. |which would lead cné, to surmise, Good as the Town Band.
that the Sim was based upon an
Hong Kong. Friday, March 9. 1929,
THE PRICE OF SECURITY.
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BOXING IN INDIA.
A CHALLENGE TO GUNBOAT JACK.
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"Her husband owes a lot to her,
The
"May I see " "The wood?" "No; the maid."
"I say, Joan, it's a dead stymie.” "Oh, Jack, dear, don't say I killed the poor little thing."
"Know anything about cars?” Been mixed up with 'em a bit.” "Mechanic?"
"No, pedestrian."
ger armies, and the counter-blast to the critics is always "secur- [Ity." In this connection the speech of Dr. Stresemann, the German Chancellor, regarding the
extraordinarily well constructed! A visit to the island will be as this fact, that is, that the death occupation, of the Rhineland will.
short story rather, than on a full revelation to anybody. Lepers can rate, which used to be, some years evoke some sympathy. AL
length novel. Even, our most ar-
be seen who appear to be as nor-jago, as high as thirty per cent, has. Locarno Britain undertook the
dent-picture palace enthusiasts will mal as anybody, and for that mat how come down to about 10 per To this excellent result, ter, as happy as the proverbial cent. Roy Wells, the Ceylon boxer, has recognise few of the names. There very serious obligation of guarap expressed himself willing to ne le Mary Carr as Drumle, the old bird. But for all that they are lydnocarpus oll has played a large teeing the Franco-German fron-cept the challenge, thrown out by lady who gets the million: Priscilla tinge to live under the best sanitary tributed in no small mexeure;
still lepers, and, unless, they con-part, but other conditions have con- tier in order to meet France's Gunboat Jack, the unbeaten cham-Bonner as Sally May, the orphan conditions, copsime, special diet Although Hydnocarpus oll has insistence on security, which is, plon of India, and it is expected age-girl: Kenneth Harlen, an the and enjoy regular hours of sleep, been acclaimed as a remedy that
that match will be arranged. Mr. | millionaire's. - diuinherited Bon; not unnaturally, an obsession of Wells, father of Roy. Weils, sald: Herry, Barrows as the millionaire
a relapse is almost inevitable,will eradicate this monstrous dis- The large majority of the lepers case in time to come, the medical French policy, But ft. leads her "Roy Wells gladly and willingly (we only see him at the opening); on the island, have resigned them world, that is those who know to break the Treaty of Versailles accepts Gunboat Jack's challenge Williard Humphreys as a real stage selves to their fate, and contrive to their subject, are in patient hope by, delaying the evacuation of the and will meet him in the ring for (and we have met 'em in real life) enjoy life as best they could. The that an even more permanent cure ten, to aftten rounde all'out, not lawyer; and Claire Du Bray as the men are practically allowed a free will be found and in this connec- | Rhineland beyond the time agreed for an exhibition bout, provided lawyer's daughter, once engaged hand, and they undertake all sorts tion, it is said that the name of upon, and by ignoring the obliga-| half of the gate gous to the Ceylon to the millionaire's son--and the of employment to keep themselves Dr. Muir, of the Institute for Re tion to proceed with disarmament Rugger Football Club for their potential million-who, induces the occupied.
search Work of the Tropical School new ground. The boxing must be young wife to run away. That, is according to Article Fight of the under the Amathur, Boxing Assora all, but they get everything. there institution, in itself, and actually, socisted as one of the great The Pulan Jerejak Bard is an of Medicine, Calcutta must be as- Treaty, it seems she is going the tion rates as az to avoid the kidney is to be got out of a film plece that it allowed to play an evening on pioneers who has done much to wrong way to secure it.
and rabbli porch. \ In the event of will be remembered, when many of the Esplanade, would, it is stated. Improve the lot of the unhappy Ghostek Winning, Roy Wells nur "super,productions" rest among put our local Town Band, Into the leper, of to-day,
Looking on the other side of this rattlular, picture we see that the disarmament of Germany has proved a powerful aid to her Cconomic recovery. The German
a week or so later meet in the things forgaten.
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abade. Quite a number of lads Sir, Leonard Rogers, who was fr have shown real musical talen,terviewed in London on the new and the band does not lack for cura" is, of course, the other and Hicces as the very latest are in recognised authority on leprosy,
over ten or fifteen rounds for, a light to the Hush, if Gunboat Jack will consent to terms of s
Gunboat. Jack in a Kehtweight. Three young then gated from forted for them from Burope matters and was for many years lurning the scale at 195 gnatuuri Anoland at the endvåf;February, in |" Great: Reinbllah, in Death: Rete || co-worker; with: Dr.) Mule, in the
this fact kë paunde the last line be boxed.
'W 842-LON" BEHosher With the object lot crossing the Atl
But the greatest tribute that can research Search or theropte be paid to the work on the faul School of Medicine in Calcutta,