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THE THINGS WE
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Terms That Have Lost Their Original Meaning.
THE FIRST "TOPPER"
leather hose, whence developed "boot" in its true meaning, viz., top-boot. "Golosh" is not a pretty word, and many will be surprised to hear that it is a classical one,
THE CHINA MAIL.
PARADISE VILLA"
SENTENCED.
Woman's Attempt to Blackmail Millionaire.
MAJOR C.O.J. YOUNG.
Death of a Brilliant Army Doctor.
Capetown, June 20. The death ocean red at the Euro- Mrs. Gesuna Salmond and Arthur poan Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on the evening of July. 20 of Major Wolstenholme were each sentenced Charles Owen James Young, M.B., to a year's imprisonment with hard M.C., of the Royal Army Medieni labour to-day by Mr. Bovill, the Corps, stationed at Singapore.
Major Young, who had been magistrate before whom they ap spending a holides at Fraser Hill peared on a charge of attempting to was taken if about a week with export £10,000 from Sir Joseph what was thought to be dengue
He was brought Robinson, the millionaire son and 'tever.. hair of the late South African the European Hospital, Kunla Lumpur. where he died from cerebral malaria.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
IDEAS
SHIRT
AT THE
From
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TAJMAHAL SILK STORE
6. Wyndham St. Tel. 26136,
magnate.
Mrs. Salmond had accused Sir Aged 36 years, Major Young Joseph of an offence against her six-was the eldest son of Col. C.
Young, C.B, C.M.G., R.A.M.C. (re- teen-year-old sister, Heater Steen- tired), now living at Wokingham. kamp, in Paradise Villa, the house Berks, and was a grandson of the which Sir Joseph had taken for inte Col. "Tim" Young, of the her.
£8th Foot, of Portarlington, "One would have to travel round King's County. the world to collect as much filth as He was educated at Epsom Col- has emanated from that house," said lege, and Trinity College, Dublin, Mr. Bovill in his review of the case. where he took his M.B. degree in L
"Not a word of the girl Hester's 1915. Upon qualifying, he enter evidence is acceptable. Truth is ed the R.A.M.C., and went to not in her, and she is a self-confess-France in 1916. He won the Mill el liar."
Villa Orgica.
tary Cross in 1917, and was men- tioned in despatches.. During the 1918 campaign, in France, he was Sir Joseph Robinson, he con- A.D.C. to the inte General Sir Harry Thompson, K.C.M.G.,
tinued, had admitted that he had led;
a life of immorality. (Mrs. Salmond R.A.M.C. had declared in her evidence that;
In 1920, Major Young went to Paradise Villa had been the scene of Mesopotamia, where he served for orgies in which unclothed
women three years, returning to England danced to the-music of a grame-in 1923. In the same year, he phone while Sir Joseph looked on.) was posted to the Burma Com- "Nobody could have spoken more mand, and served in Rangoon for fairly or frankly," Mr. Bovill snid.'
two years, "I have no respect for persons, but I do say that Sir Joseph is the only witness in this case who has im pressed me. It is not because he has money or is a baronet that I say this."
.
On his return to England. In 1925 he was stationed at Woolwich, Preston, and again at Woolwich. In 1928, he took a post-graduate rourse at. Millbank Military Hos pital, was promoted to the rank Mrs. Salmond, with whom Sir of Major, and posted to the Singa- Joseph had lived at Paradise Villa, pore Command. He arrived in had collected the members of her Singapore in March last year. family round her, and eventually In 1923, Major Young was mar- Wolstenholme, he proceeded. When ried to Phyllis Fenwick Wilson, Wolstenholme was discovered by Sir daughter of the late Mr. W. n. Joseph and told to get out of the Wilson. He leaves a son, aged house the whole gang seemed like six years. The greatest sympathy valtures, ready to drop on him and will be felt with his widow and tear him to pleces.
family in their loss.
at
Mr. Bovill said that he disagreed
The funeral took place with the defending attorney's aug Cheras Road Cemetery the follow- gestion that Sir Joseph Robinson Ining evening-Malay Mail. duced Mrs. Salmond to lead an im noral life, and that he was entire- ly responsible for taking away a young woman who had previously led a respectable and innocent life.
J
MURDERED 8 MEN.
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"TEXAS JIM" GETS A LIFE SENTENCE.
"Texas Jim," otherwise James larity, so there became less need was only with Sir Joseph for ten Baker, the modern Bargia, who for the protection of the under-minutes. She could not have learn-boasted to
the police that in-the coat. Gradually It became thinnered the ame it of immorality con- past four years he had poisoned and shorter (one can trace its tained in .er evidence in ten eight men in different parts of the evolution in the frock-coat and minutes; it would need at least ten world, was sentenced in New York morning coat) until eventually its months to learn all that immorality to life imprisonment. tails disappeared entirely and left I know that there are men in this
Baker, who is only 25 years old,
sack", or coat with long, full skirts, reaching below the knees and but toning in front. After that the
"I disagree with. that," he said. topcoat or overcont was invented, a "She had already been divorced, and fearsome garment of vast weight it appears that she lured Sir Joseph
away. being a conjunction of two Greek and size with many layers of words that meant wooden foot," capes, As this rained in popu.
"Mrs. Salmond says that Hester ie., the shoemaker's last. In Eng- land it was applied to the wooden elogs worn by the peasantry and is mentioned in Piers Plowman in the fourteenth century 28 being worn by a knight. Whence came the little perforated patterns on the toc-caps of our modern boots and shoes no one seems to know. The Saxons copied them from the Romane, and Chaucer's rather pre- clous young priest had his shoes adorned with them, but there seems no authority for tracing any useful purpose to this decoration, which is unusual. One thinks of the utilitarian explanation of the cowboy's spectacular dress--hia big hat that shields him from the sun, the handkerchief tied round his neck because it is the most con- venient place for a man with reins in one hand and a stock whip in the other, while his thick chaps of sheepskin protect his legs from the undergrowth scrubby
through
us with our lounge and reefer world who cannot conceive of the was formerly employed at a labora- jackets.
immorality that is alleged to have tory.
which he rides.
The Use Of Buttons. The buttons on our coats, now
Brighter Colours
If
You
"
occurred in Paradise Villa.
According to Baker's story, his can go through Paris, Egypt, Suez, eight victims were dispatched by Now we seem to have reached and China, and you will never get the method of the Borglas-poison the limit in. the number of gar auch immorality." ments we wear. One can hardly
Mr. Bovill säld he did not think and their homes were widely visualize an "over overcoat"
that Sir Joseph had committed the scattered from Bombay to Texas.
Was always interest- our dress undergoes further evolu- alleged offence on Hester Steen- tion, it is more likely to be in the kam as he knew that she wased in poisons," he told the police, as form of brighter colours, or in
urder age, and so would have no-he lolled back in a swivel chair, with abolishing our barbarous and un- thing to do with her. A coloured his hands in his pockets.
"I usually carried some hygienic fashion of tight collars, girl had stated that Sir Joseph had with me. In 1924 I was in Houston or our hideous trousers. The reapproached her, and asked her age, vival in wearing a pair of extra- but when she had told him that she (Texas), and, while eating in 2 restaurant, noticed sitting beside ordinary locking cylinders on our was fourteen he had told her to get me a man who had a cup of coffée legs, by the way, seems wrapt in away.
in front of him. mystery. Saxons and Normans
The only person,. It appeared, wore them occasionally, also ship who had told the truth was men and labourer in the fifteenth century; they exsted in the form Joseph Robinson himself.
of "trews" many years ago in
purely decorative, are an obvious Ireland and Scotland But accord- survival of the days when coat tails ing to Mr. Walter Skuat, who is a
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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impulses to polson, people.
Few people realize what an in tricate jumble of past conventions and customs we carry about On our backs in the clothes we wear. Some features in them have been preserved almost unchanged right down from Greece and Anglo- Saxon England, others are tradi- tions that have lost all meaning or the words themselves have had a new meaning given to them.
The very word "garment," for instance, means "garnishment" or adornment, rather than a useful necessity, and the fashionable lady who chooses her latest "robe" little dreams that the word is directly derived through the German from "rob" and once referred only to the spoils stripped from a dead enemy. Her "two-place" sports costume is only one of the many modes, which abe has stolen from
from, the ladies of Greece and
even as the French Infantry in Crete, who wore, a body "coralet"
1914 buttoned back thair blue coat and skirt. Others she has stolen tails. Like the nick in our coat from men, for men were the first lapels is merely a survival of the to wear gowns, robes, frocks, Georgian fashion of a permanently blouses, and even petticoats turned up coat collar. "Cuff" used
Once when travelling to Venezuel Gowns were originally made of for not to mean the end of the sleeve,
London July 16.
on board ship, he said, he put poison and were worn by moaks, as also but a fingerless glove, or mitten, or
It is interesting to note that past The discovery of a method of in a large brew of coffee, causing were frocks, as the extant phrase "bag-glove," still in use in cold pioneers of new fashions in male experimentally producing in mice the whole of the crew to be ill. "anfrocking" a priest still be countries and in the English coun-
attire received as hostile a rece cancer of the skin and breast bas tokens. "Blouse" is a French word tryside, where they are called tion: in their day as now King made available an immense mass of Three of them died. that referred to the smock or "hedger's gloves." The strips of Charles II. ever, came in for some new material for the use of cancer overall worn by pessanta, although braid on the backs of ordinary severe criticism in this respect, research workers, according to the In the beginning it was a allken gloves are a testimony to the and a Strand haberdasher, John annual report of the Grand Council overall that knights wore to pré-natural vanity of man, for they Hetherington, who first publicly of the British Empire Cancer Two lorry drivere came to the vent the rain from spotting their have been added to make the hand French development of the The report says that some causes them together, and was going to kil
sported in 1797 a silk "topper" (a Campaign.
laboratory. ... I held them up, tied armour. Petticoat, of course, and fingers appear long and "beaver") caused such a disture of cancer which formerly were them, but one said he had a wife and merely a "petit" or "little", coat, Alendor one that he was charged with scarcely suspected have now been three small children, so I took, their first applied to a man's short.
⠀⠀ One of the "most"-" peculiar jacket, szafy fan features in the development of our inciting to riot and bound over to discovered.
money and left," he concluded...” The results of radium treatment dress la the manner in which keep the peace in the sum of fashion has been plled upon 500 Eastbrook in John are Improving steadily and in thres fashion, each new garment, being worn over the former one that was
the earliest days-in this case and coat cuffs were buttoned back, great authority on these things, CANCER RESEARCH experience of poisoning he had other
they were only re-introduced into England as a general feature of dress some time about the date of Waterloo, when the trousers of General Platoff's Cossacks aroused universal enthusiasm when their wearers visited London.
O London's Weekly.
GIRL'S 500 MILE RIDE.
What is a Jacket? "Jacket," by the way, is a diminutive of Jack, a coat made of many folds of cloth and a stag's ekin, which became so hardened once customary Starting with that it could affectually resist the the shirt, originally the short or point of an arrow or dagger. They ancient tunic, the waistcoat was must have been exceedingly un devised in Tudor times to be comfortable, and were, in fact, re worn over it, and this tradition la ferred to as the great villainous still preserved in the white jackets English Jacks." Jack is evident worn by the Guards in undress, Heath ly connected with the loather, as called waistcoata. Originally vitnessack boots," and the old women wore them also, There
eather flagons. that name, young followed, the coat,, imposed upon
zvatly speaking, the waistcoat for added half boots, which with long, talls looped
Our
convenience in riding
Mies
areas, namely, the womb, the skin and the door of the mouth, radium treatment is proving better than an operation.
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"No one in particular," he drawled, "but anyone who happen- ed to be near,”
The crime for which he was sentenced was the poisoning of a watchman at the laboratory where he worked. **
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