SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928.-
"MASTER'S” GROWL.
temporary:
CURE BY DIET.
LAST OF THE MEDICINE *BOTTLE.
TALES OF THE EAST END.
Years ago,
faith in the bottle of medicine. I
me,
THE
CHINA MAIL,
The Sister glanced across at A LONDON “MYTH.”. me. Oh I know well enough what
sha wanted. I hold that no hos
+
"OLD ODELL.”
ON CHURCHES.
C. DOYLE ON “ABSURDITY· AND BLASPHEMY."
BITTER TIRADE,
30-YEAR TERM.
PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT
CLERK.
FOR FRAUD.
Manila, March 28. For having defrauded the Gov-
pital can possibly afford to give | REMARKABLE VETERAN OF AVERAGE BACHELOR'S KIT-
THE SAVAGE CLUE. insulin to patients. They may CHEN "A MENAGERIE.".
have to use it for years. We will let them have it at cost, and we were the first hospital in the coun- KITCHENS, POTS & PANS.
try to make it, but we cannot give
There are cortain man who What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when I was in it. The committee had allowed Under the heading. "wanted- & Cook," the following amusing charge of the dispensary of the mo. £200 once for approved and even in their lifetime have the describes as the "fantastic, out- letter appears in a Shanghai con- London Hospital. I hud implicit destitute cases." It had all gone. faculty of appropriating to them-of-date doctrines" of the Chris- ernment of P12,519.09, Julic. S. "How many other children selves the quality of a myth. tian Churches and the "organised Herrera, former stenographer of "Sir, Should any of your read-considered that the whole work of have you?" I asked. There were Their personality becomes charg-materialism" and "systematic in the Philippine Health Service ers imagine I am a grillin let him the hospital revolved around it, three, and they were fed on breaded with astounding attributes, sanity" of present-day. Christian-will have to serve 30 years and forget it. I set foot in Shanghai and every out-patient agreed with and sugar. The sister said that Amazing stories concerning them ity form the subject of a violent three days in inil for the three No self-respecting patient thousands of East-end children accumulate. One is at a loss to attack in a brochure written by estafa cases through falsification for the first time 28 years ago.
Too know how much is true and how Sir Arthur and published by the of treasury warrants, according Let me begin by annoying (in-would dream of getting well with lived or bread and sugar.
court to-day through Justice sulting, they may call it) the vast out it, writes E. W. Morris, House much carbohydrate, of course. much is the creation of a herd Psychic Press. The brochure is to a decision of the supreme
ly fragments of a broken story This tirade against organised Romualdez. majority of ladies in Shanghai by Governor of the London Hospital. And the bread was white bread, mind anxious to dovetail the like entitled "A Word of Warning."
But I once heard-two ladies at too!
The court of first instance of asserting that their kitchens aré
"But," I said, "I thought the with the reputed character of its Christianity and the formalities ispensary window arguing
of the established churches nl-Manila only sentenced Herrera to a dirty mess and their pots and the pans, worse. One has only to visit about the respective merits of the doctors were saying that it did particular idol.
Sometimes the myth is created ready has had a bombshell effect 6 years and one day to each of
A good in- in religious eircles.
the three cases against him. the kitchens of houses where an contents of their bottles, and not matter whether our brand was
His principal attack is levelled However, the high tribunal is of auction is being hekl to obtain they ended their discussion by white or wholemeal, because we before your eyes, abundant evidence of what I say, exchanging their bottles for the all made up the deficiency of the stance of this occurs to me in the You simply cannot be down town week. They reported on the fol- white bread in the other things person of "Old Odell." Hundreds, against the Sacraments and the the opinion that the accused de-
or rather thousands, of London-ritual of Church services and he serves a more stiff penalty. But my "Maybe.
children ers know all about Old Odell who asks. bridge and mahjongg in the after- better, and always, after that don't eat 'the other In the morning and out playing towing visit, and were both much we ate?"
things.'" have never known the Savage Has any heathen tribe anything said mother.
Club or the Yorick or even the more fantastic than this In its noon and have it otherwise. No exchanged their bottles every
"Who's the wage earner?" I Charterhouse.
ritual, and can we ever expect the wonder our hospitals are chock-week until both were well. That shook my faith in
I met Old Odell for the first affairs of this world to be normal a-block. The kitchen in the aver
And now I asked. age bachelors' mess must be a god rather badly.
"My "usband. Riverside work time about fifteen years ago, and while we profess to hold views in hear that his glory has departed menagerie.
He made out the cheques in settle- "All this is the fault of the mis- entirely. You cannot spot a hos-cr. Has to have the meat to keep I was told that he was about religion which no sane mind could
him working. Has it twice a ninety. He looks just the same justify? week."
to-day, and they still say he is If such things have come from ment of an equally fictitious tress of the house and the cook ispital out-patient in the street, as not to be blamed entirely.
Aabout ninety. He thus shows the the priesthood, then it is time obligation of the Philippine health The once you could do, by his wine-
So that was the "lay-out." average cook will not scrub more bottles-a wine-bottle of medicine than he can get away with and it will last you a week if you take sick child, and every available essential character of the myth that all priesthood should be service for P12,519.09. By imitat is wholly the fault of the mistress two tablespoonfuls three times a penny speat on its expensive diet, in that nothing about him is swept away, ind that the coming the signature of Dr. Jacobo with the other children living on verifiable. I have heard the most manity should take their religious Fajardo, director of the bureau of
The engine wonderful stories about Old affairs into their own hands. if her kitchen and utensils are not day, and give none to the baby.
But do patients go uncured? bread and sugar. spotless and entirely free from
"Trappings" cockroaches. But what I would Apparently not, but I felt that the worked up twice a week. I sup- Odell. Some of them I believe to wish to impress upon your read-thing should be looked into, and pose if I do not give the insulin be true, some of them partly
"Mankind must learn once for ers is the fact that hundreds of that's how I came to spend the engine will only be stoked founded on truth, some of them self-styled cooks and cook-boys whole afternoon in the Out- once a week. All wrong. And probably entirely untrue. And a all that religion has nothing that's where logic and principles strange fact is that of all these whatever to do with theological
there are are impusing themselves upon the Patient Department, where, as a
invariably beliefs, or forms, or ceremonies, community who know next to young man, I had spent so much and sound opinion let you down stories
I disobeyed several versions. What can you do?
Yet I have or priesthoods, or vestments, or mihing of cooking and still less of my time.
the committee and my principles. never yet been able to trace any sacraments, or any of the other how to serve up the food after
An East-End Angel.
who actually witnessed or trappings and adornments which they have done their worst with
Mrs. Hanbury comes in next. took part in these stories.
have so covered it that we can no it. The applicant for the job
The uetor's notes say she is
longer.sec it," Sir Arthur asserto. "It depends upon two things vchemently asserts that he "sav-
"sugar free," but that she was
only, and they are conduct and losing weight. Sister glances
character." "What about two more the diet scale.
have in the past week thrown out day. I asked him, assuming the one for breakfast and one for ing memory, and undoubted gift Speaking of "that august lady
rumour were true, to show me the tea?" people who dared to get well with-
How They Get Well.
my
1 do not know how many sick vies" No. 1. He was umpteen folk come to that Out-Patient De- years in his last place but, un-partment every day, but the fortunately, his late missy just superintendent tells me it is 1,971 now have go back America." on an average on every working
four cooks (?) and not very long ago I had a dozen in one month.
In the past week one cook pro duced three written testimonials,
"Afraid we couldn't out the bottle. He did. They that, Sister."
at
eggs,
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An Image of Perpetuity. No one can deny that the old man is a marvel. With his fine head, picturesque figure, astound-
He attacks the Virgin Birth.
On January 17, 1927, the ac- cused, who is only about 22 years old, mado a false step in his young life, when he prepared three trea- sury warrants against the Philip pine Government and in favour of a fictitious person, A. Sin Jose.
health, on the forged checks, he succeeded in withdrawing from the Philippine treasury the differ ent amounts called for in the three forged cheques. Officials of the bureau of audits and the trea- sury identified Herrera as the same individual who cashed the He was also spurious cheques.
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image of perpetuity. If he ever If we wish to have an ideal of were patients who were being "Well, we'll increase the cheese dies--probably not in our genera-womanhood, why not Mary, the ht inquiry elicited the fact that treated by one or other of the fol-for supper a little. And could you tion, but some generations hence wife of Joseph, the hard-working salary cheques-after they die.
lowing: Light; heat, skilf diet-manage two surdines for tea?his place among the gods is as-partner of a carpenter? But why ing, electricity, massage, inceula-Drain them free of oil on a piece sured, and the odd thing is that tion, radium, X-rays, and even by of blotting-paper.
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And we'll in none of us knows why!
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Millions of dollars have been as references, they were of little
in the name of sanity should we call her "The Virgin"? Are net pledged by leading members of the use. Two of them were word for
The same cannot be said of any the names of her children known? celluloid colony to the Motion Pic- ture Relief Fund. But the money word the same and the caligraphy
too." Mrs. Hanbury goes away modern genius. There is nothing Holy Communion, Baptism, the would seem to indicate that they
.But were they seriously ill? cheered.
of the myth, for instance, about Old Testament Theology, Confes- isa't to be pald over until the donor
to the next world. had been copied from the original
Louisa comes in, a pretty Mr. Shaw. His work is clean-cut, sion, and the priesthood all come by a friendly office boy. In any There was no doubt about it, and
She had been his private life an open book for under his lash. He speaks of the other words, the movie leaders event a written testimonial means poor, too, by their appearance; child of 17. nothing because it may conceiv- but at hospitals you do not judge brought to the hospital originally anyone to read. Modern science, "folly of the Eucharist, and the have altered their wills, adding the ably be from a lady who has one paverty by clothes for the "Song in a comatose condition and had indeed, plays the deuce with blasphemous absurdity" and "per Motion Picture Relief Fund as a of the dirty kitchens aforemen- of the Shirt" folle will hire clothes recovered. She now attended the myth. What with photography, verseness" of imagining "that we i Honed and whose idea of a cook for the day to come to the hos-out-patient department weekly to radio, the movies and the Press, eat and drink (and presumably may not be mine. The only possi-pital respectably. You judge by be watched. The father was a la- all the mysterious automata that digest) the actual flesh and blood
bourer. His wife had left him, go to the creation of the myth of God." ble solution is to try them and faces.
I walked up to the Dietary De- and the father paid £1 a week to are exposed, and consequently
Confession Attacked.. throw them out after u day or
partment. The Out-Patient De-a woman to keep the child.
destroyed. It is as though some two.
The Sister had called on her to sardonic personis had forced their
Confession is the subject of The ladies of Shanghai are not partment is in charge of Miss to blame because these birds can- Simmonds, and expert who has see how she could supply the ex-way through the stage door of the the most bitter attack. not cuck and the main object of studied the question of dietary in pensive dietary for £1 a week, and dark temple and suddenly turned Arthur characterises as sensible my letter is to suggest a way out. relation to disease in America une found her to be one of the East the spot light on the Delphie and laudable the action of taking Joseph Schenck, who has headed in confidence an elder of one's the movement, will. insure ample I remember when I was ader and by the courtesy of the end angels, and this disreputable oracles
The And between ourselves we are! youngster the local Gas Company Rockefeller Foundation. When I East-end is full of them. engaged a first-rate lady chef who arrived she was dealing with child got her dietary, and the apt and I think quite rightly own sex for advice in trouble,
to resent this intrusion. Our held daily session at the Gas cases suffering from diabetes, of angel went hungry at times.
The insulin was, as usual, the education is largely dependent natural transaction, there should colony. In addition, there will be But that out of this perfectly ally for the needy of the picture Company's offices and taught which she had 304 on her books.
The machinery appeared to trouble"80 units twice a day." practical cooking. The lady was
if not more, than upon what is practice that a young
wemani really deserve it. also prepared, for a consideration, work like this. In the case of a The child bought it herself from on mythology, just as much as, be so perverse and dangerous a surprise for charity to those who Headed by Joe Schenck, Mary tive private lessons at the "new" patient the doctor sets to the chemist out of the foster-known as history. There comes a should tell her secret thoughts to
mother's pound, and tampered point, of course, when history
Douglas Fairbanks, komes of any ladies desiring to work to find the "tolerance,
surely stark lunacy. It is dif- Dolores Del Rio, D. W. Grits, little more than they that is, the limit of food the pa- with the dosage, cutting it down, merges into mythology, but the a celibate of the opposite sex'is Pickford, already knew. The Shanghai Gas tient can take before the "blood for the insulin in that dosage line of demarcation is quite inficult to say whether it is the max Nerma Talmadge, Cecil B. DeMille or the woman whose delicney and other big figures in the film Company might do worse than en-sugar" increases; but, it may be, could hardly be bought under 93. distinguishable and unimportant,
and the essential truths which suffers most.
world, the entire cylluloid colony is gage a chef who would, for a when the "tolerance" is reached it a week.
And so, one after another, they are of value to us are common to Sir Arthur prefaces his on-lining up behind this movement, small fee, teach Chinese how to is far too low to make the patient
on with his work. came in, each with a little com- either. I have heard people say: slaught by characteristic hints "I believe that more than $26,- cook and how to serve up the food able to carry took something different from In terms of fuel, his "tolerance" monplace history, and the com- "Why should a healthy Puncte that, through spiritualism, he 000,000 will be pledged by our the olla-podrida with which we of food may only amount to 1,200 monplace grit of the Cockney. schoolboy have to memorise facts knows a great deal more than he legacy plan, declares Senenck.
lot of imaginary When pro-calories, while his work at the But diabetes is not the only trou concerning a
is allowed to say, and that unless Practically all of the production are daily inflicted.
There are also caves of gods who were supposed to have the world undergoes "some swerp-hiefs in Hollywood already have ficient, the Gas Company could lowest, looking upon him as an ble issue a certificate to that effect engine, may require 1,800 or 2,000 epilepsy, heart disease, pernicious existed in Greece thousands of change of heart." It is to go pledged a whare of their estates and anaenria"mammalian liver and years ago?". One's best reply to with the photo of the cook attach-calories,
Yet perhaps he must continuorange juice"-and obesity. this question is to ask another: through a thoroughly unpleasant we are confident that the players ed, much the same as a chauf-
With regard to the obesity "Why should a healthy public time before long-hence the title who have not already done so will feur's licence. These men would to work. His "tolerance" may be undoubtedly secure the best posi- increased by taking insulin, but cases, genuine disease, involving schoolboy have to memorise the of his astonishing outburst. tions and in a very short time a insulin is expensive and might no question of over eating, one of names and dates of Henry the cook without this certificate easily cost him 108, a week. And the Sister's patients collected as Eighth's wives?"
many of the other patients' diet would be on his beam ends. It then he could eat more.
The sister may be able to coax charts as she could, and blossom-
Lord Askwith, referring to the has been one of the closest inter- the Shanghai Gas Company can- not see its way to adopt this idea, up his calories by a careful selec-ed out as a tout for an East-end
In facing any ordeal, such as danger of a tin shorage in 20 or 30 ests of Mary Pickford and Dolores there surely must be in Shanghai tion of foods without upsetting eating-house, where, whatever a number of ladies among whom his "tolerance." She has a chart, your ailment, you could be served having to earn his own living, or years time, at a Royal Colonial Del Rio for some months. Despite one or two might do worse than and in carbohydrates, 8oz of with exactly that food which the death of someone he loves Institute luncheon on Feb. 21, said their activities before grinding earn pin-money by starting & cabbage equals 707. asparages, would do you most good, as "re dearly, can you say it helps a boy that America was effectually sealing cameras, both having just finished School of Cookery. In order to equals 6oz. turnips, equals Goz commended by the London Hospi- more potently to remember the itself up in a tin can. Quite half their latest films, they have work names of Henry the Eighth's the food Americans ate was tinned, ed hard to establish the fund. Both dispose of the food cooked in class watercress, equals 5oz. cucumber, tal"
tomatoes, equals Only recently a lady was on wives rather than to remember and if anything happened to the tin of them could often be seen visiting they could run a small dining equals 402. room in conjunction and. make 24oz. radishes, equals 220z her way down Whitechapel-road the names of the Muses? This supplies it was estimated that 25 high executives of sival studios- the would-be cooks act as boys fresh peaches, equals 2oz. of to visit the hospital, and noticed healthy public school boy has te per cent. of American husbands with the idea of changing their LONDON DIRECTORY
strawberries, equals 14oz. of a costume in one of the shop win-be educated somehow, and what would go hungry, for the wives had wils. but without payment.
dows at a price much lower than is of value to him is not a know- lost the culinary art. (oranges, equals 21/2oz. milk.
I sit at a table and listen. Each the West-end would charge. She ledge of historical records, but of historical It was too small, an appreciation
values. To this end an unveri- patient is, seen separately and, called in. but for me, privately, Each had "Could it be altered?"
fiable fact is (or maybe) as im- been attending the hospital for "Quite unnecessary.
You go
This is a matter which vitally concerns the health of the com- munity and calls to mind the words of the immortal Wam Shakespeare.
1 am, etc.,
Master.
Shanghai, Mar, 28, 1928,
Henry the Eighth's Wives.
•
follow their executives within a very short time. "
Mary And Dalores. The Motion Picture Relief Fund
These actresses were wise in one rexpect. They approached the pro ducers first, knowing that if they fell in line, the players would fol- low.
Minister Is Chairman.
some time, and at each weekly down to the London, and ask for. portant as a verifiable fact. genius of the first great poet,
An eminent historian in a let-himself something of a myth. "It is the sinsere endeavour of Let good digestion wait on ap-visit saw the doctor before seeing a card for the Out-Patient Depart ter to the Times" recently Through him we begin to sense the Fund to obtain the novel will
Miss Simmonds, who thus had ment. Then you see Mias Sim- petite
the doctor's notes before her. monds; ste'll knook four stone off asserted that too much was made the dawn of a new era of spiritual clause from every person. in the And health on both.
A mother came in with a little you as easy as winking."Daily of the novel these days I should values. Our sympathies become industry who can afford to make
not like to be so rude as to ex-quitkened in favour of mytholog girl patient. The sister had Telegraph.
claim: "Sour grapes!" to an his- cal men rather than mythological such a specification," says Rev. worked out the dietary for her
torian, but that is rather what gods. But it is not until Milton Neal Dodd, chairman of the Holly. on her last visit. The allowance
drawback. There is only one for breakfast, dinner, tea, and February this year, says a con- this suggests. People are begin that the story begins to reveal ite wood branch of the organisation. supper was an egg, 202. of bacon, temporary, had thirty days for some ning to realise that a work of fic self in the true scale of its man- There are a lot of hungry actors green vegetables, steamed fish, people who happened to be going tion may contain a greater essen fold significances, and become su-and butter the size of a walnut. eastward across the 180th meridian tial truth than any history. The familiar to us as the eternal epic in town and the life insurance rates the
The sister glanced at the doc- somewhere, near the midway point metaphysical teachings of Christ of man's hereditary struggle are quite apt to be raised on those tor's notes, Sugar was up. "No between Japan and America The are increased tenfold because against nature, History tells of who change their wills. thing to worry about, mother. date actually occurred in 1904, when they are presented in the form of the past, that is to say of what is At the Ministry of Labour's In-She'll be better again next week, the Pacife Mall Company's steamer the parable, that is to say in dead. It remains dead dead, The alleged inscrutability of the structional Centre in Farming at It's the cold, I expect. She did "Siberia" was on a voyage from what the historian would describe cold, and imresponsive. The his Chinese is not to be compared with Brandon, Norfolk, dummy udders not give way at all at Christinas? Yokohama to Francisco. Upon as a series of unverifiable state torian may preserve its embalmed that of the police and Immigration body, bit only the artist can give officials who have been attending supplied by the North British No! Well done! I think, we shall that fraginary day a baby was born ments, e
I have no particular use for it life. In this respect myth to them lately in England. It is Rubber Co., Ltd., are being used for have to tighten up a little, just a on the "Siberia" and will never teaching milking. It is said that little, on the diet, and I see the have another birthday except the the Greek Gods. The whole story logy has an advantage over his said that the papers of suspects are there is no learning without pains doctor has increased the insulin recongly Improbable ovent that of Greek Mythology is one of tory, in that by the very nature of marked so as to betray their ownECTS -but by this method the poor cow "I'm afraid we'll have to let the he or she should happen to be on crude passions, violence and ob its creation it is already quicken- undesirable proclivities, and in so 3some scenity. It on becomes valued by the breath of the poet secret and inscrutable a manner as
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