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cheon given by the American Chamber of Commerce in London, An American and a Briton, who had seen a good deal of ser- vice together in the war, were to be parted. One the British Consul-General very tactfully His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, now on a golfing holi-did not say which
other: day in France, has had, from
"Good-bye, old man, Thank time to time, many titles of affec-
Re-you for the friendly way in which tion conferred upon him. cently, on the occasion of his you have co-operated with me. visit to South America, he was We have teth been doing God's popularly styled as "Britain's work, you in your way and I in
Trade Envoy" and "Britain's Business Ambassador." He has confer- since qualified for the ment of yet another title- "Creator of Slogans." It is re- called, in this connection, that those familiar slogans - "Buy
His!"
A Fortune.
"
Telling Trick.
said to the
fore he rose, been reading a mes sage from Mr. Lloyd George in| relation to one of the amend
ments..
News in Brief.
Two years ago to-day a typhoon was experienced in the Colony.
The name of Mr. Leslie Blair has been added to the List of Authorized Architects.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931.
REVIVAL OF THE
OCCULT.
Wizards. Abound in New York.
RESORT TO MAGICIANS.
financial depression in New York! The most startling result of the
whose words multitudes hang quite
woman in the United States on
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so eagerly: She is the queen of all astrologers, at once the friend of the great and the confidant of the poor. She le as intimate as beauty parlour and "as public as the weather reports. She is tho high priestoss of the stars, who, after a lifetime spent in discreetly advising great financiers, now Ands herself a public figure of the first rank, borne upon the creat of this wave of interest in the occult t It is wireless that has projected Miss Adams on the screen of i national affairs, An astute tooth. paste company, sensing, the coun
has been the revival of the occult. Wizards to-day are as prosperous A new list of fees for trade
and as plentiful as bootleggers. marks is published in the Govern- Thousands, who have abandoned try's feeling, has engaged her to ment Gazette.
the churches
The lowest open air temperature yesterday waa 80 degrees. The humidity at 10 am, was 88 and at 4 p.m. 81.
The name of Mr. C. N. S. Burns, of Watson and Co. Ltd., has been added to the Register of Chemists and Druggists,
Mr. J. C. Lyan, of the Sarawak Oil Fields, Ltd, who has been here on a short holiday, la leaving for his station to-day by the s.s. Fushimi Maru.
at
The Rev. J. Pratt will preach the 11 o'clock service in St Andrew's Church to-morrow. The preacher at evensong will be the Vicar
Owing to delays in the mall we have had to go to press to-day without our Saturday feature, "Bringing Up Father." Our read ers may hope for better luck next
week.
are resorting to magicians. The fortune-teller listen to her, as devoutly as the. hangs out his sign as freely as the barber or the pawnbroker,
The
man
haggard business clamours to the remote and scorn- ful stars to tell him when a favour. able tide shall set in... Prophets and palmists flit like birds of strange omen through Wall Street, A crystal-gazer has rented a Broadway theatre, where hundreds gather nightly to see him gamble on futurity.
Eastern mystics, surrounded by admirers, fall into rigid trances in gilded Fifth Avenue apartments.
Racketeera consult the auper- natural before essaying whatever little piece of dirty work they have on hand.
The anxious bootlegger seeks wisdom of the planets before run- ning the blockade with his newest cargo of rum.
broadcast regularly. Myriads
Her talks faithful to a bishop. are compounded of the usual generalities about the Zodiac and the planets,. plus the shrewd good sense acquired by a woman of the world in mixing with all classes.
Evangeline's volco is lulling, motherly, kind, with a hypnotio quality that suggests she is croon ing a baby to sleep. Her advice
so blandly vague, it is unlikely. It would do anyone any harm. Yet there are listening multitudes who regard her as an angel of hope, a pillar of fire in these dark days, the favoured daughter of the celestial powers, to whom is reveal- ed the secrets of the future.
·are
all-
The aforesaid astute toothpasto company has an arrangement with Evangeline by which purchasers of its commodity may get their horo- scopes free. The wise Evangeline My favourite tabloid newspaper has a staff that does nothing but gives me thoughtfully each morn- prepare these horoscopes, and they ing an astrological prediction for are showered upon farmers, the day, advising me whether it is tisans, clerks, shopkeepers, propitious for love-making or for sorts and conditions of men. Mr. N. V. A. Croucher, broker, fluttering on the Stock Market,
Cult of Astrology. The cult of astrology used to be has reported to the Police that on (writes R. J. Cruickshank in the Thursday he
Then entrusted an office Newa Chronicle).
in the confined principally to big business boy, aged 28 years, with $876.60 to evening the wireless vibrates with men and Society women. To-day, pay various bills. The "boy" has the dulcet voices of soothsayers, through the marvellous medium of warning me against Neptune or wireless, it is spreading to all sec not been seen since.
commending me to Mercury. It fations of the population. The babe "The Four Feathers" a sound all very much like living in the is learning to lisp Gemim film, featuring William Powell, days of Merlin and Morgan le Fay,
Behind it all lies the get-rich- Richard Arlen, Clive Brook, Fay and the air pulses with enchant quick passion,, which disappointed" Wray and Noah Beery, will be ment screened at the Majestic Theatre to-day and to-morrow.
The fee to be paid for every Chin- esc undertaker's licence hereafter granted and issued under the Licon- sing Ordinance, 1887, has been al- tered to $25 in lieu of the Tee of $20 appearing in the schedule to the Ordinance.
Mrs. Ransom-Kehler, Interna- tional teacher of the Bahai Move-
£20,000,000 A Year.
on the by successive reverses
ex- material plane, now seeks to Miss Miriam Rooney, of Loyola press Itself on a higher level. Catholic University, said the other Impatient with the traditional day' that, Americans are now pay, creeds, it seeks a speedier happi ing £20,000,000 yearly to fortune-ness in another revival of these tellers, numerologists, astrologers, ancient magics that have Intermit palmists and those gifted ladies tontly allured humanity through who can see coming, events in the the ages. pattern of the humble-tea-leaf. A
It might be added there is no New Yorker suggested to me, that fear of police interference with the of this sum about £7,000,000 was majority of these cults, in spite of There is to-day
spent in New York.
the laws against them which are not The fortune-tellers are certainly unlike those on the British Statute in Paris a sad-ment, at present on a world tour, building fortunes for themselves, Book The reason for this toler der but wiser sails from here to-day on board the The more fashionable astrologers ance may be found in the number femme de 5.8., Kitano Maru for Sydney. The are making incomes of £10,000, a of persons of prominence and dis-
movement is to encourage the res- year, which is not bad in these lean tinction who chambre. She used to consult a toration of goodwill and confidence times. Their traffic with the stars patronage. British," "British and Best" and fortune-teller 'with the regularity | throughout the world. Mrs. Rantis vastly more profitable than that| "Buy from those who purchase some people consult their doctor.aon-Kehler has received a great of the great American astronomers, our products," were contained An impending windfall, to which welcome at all the countries she has Michelson and Shapley.
visited during her tour... in speeches actually delivered by vague hints had been made at the Prince. He seems to have a many interviews, at last took on!
more definite shape. flaire for coining catchy phrases, and it is now said that his every speech is sedulously combed for phrases which can be used as pulling slogans.
*
give them their
Ten Years Ago.
I asked a woman astrologer re Miss Marion Howlett, known as cently how much, she charged for "My fee is £20
(From the "China Mall" of "The Ambassadress of Good-Will," a consultation.
August 22, 1921.] will be passing through Hong an hour," she replied crisply. This "The portents tell ine," said Kong on her world tour from prophetess has a considerable re The President and putation for forecasting the rise
To-day's dollar is worth 2/3 5/8. the fortune-teller at the last sit America. ting, "that you are about to be Council of the Helens May Institute and fall, of the market, and so she
case as trivial left a big legacy which will en propose to invite Miss Howlett to is consulted by big speculators and
a reception at the Helena May on brokers. It is even said that the Describing the able you to live a life of ease, in- Friday, September 4, from 11.30 stars hinted to her the amazing rise Magistrato Lindsell on Saturday summons against a It used to be a deed of luxury. This is your de- to 12.30 p.m. No invitations ara in Auburn motor shares. Such missed a
being issued, but all woman inter- gossip, carried in the feverish at Portuguese schoolboy named M. Wedding:
familiar thing, stiny. But for its accomplish-ested in social work will be cordial mosphere of Wall Street, adds to Remedios charged with having 28- Anniversary. at one time, to ment it is essential that, as an ly welcome. Any alteration of the prestige of these soothsayers, caulted a rikisha coolie and set his across act of faith, you should leave the above time and date due to the That some of them cadge tips from dogs. on him. The coolle aald that
movaments
was playing. football In one broker to pass on to another Remedios will happily or otherwise married your savings in my charge for steamer's
notified in the China Mail,
carries no weight with the credu-Nathan Road, Kowloon, when the lous.
ball fell into the witness's rikisha.. couples celebrating either their three days,
Does the name of Evangeline He remonstrated with Remedios, Tin Wedding, Silver Wedding or £200 were duly handed over.
Adams strike a spark in London who then struck him. Remedios even Gold Wedding. There are Three days later the clairvoyante
Here, at least, it is a name of did not deny that he struck the few who have not attended one had taken on the wings of a dove
power. There is no man and no coolie. or all three celebrations. Either and flown. In her absence she married couples do not mark has been condemned by a Paris these eventful occasions as used court to 18 months' imprisonment to be the custom,
come
M.P'S FLYING DAUGHTER.
be
Qualifies As Passenger Carrying
Pine Pilot
or there are and is ordered to refund the £200.gies to dr
few, if any, couples who stay married nowadays long enough to do so, for it is rather more the exception than the rule to hear
Tongue
Mias Pauline Gower, the 20-year- old daughter of Sir Robert Gower, The House of MP has been awarded the "B"
A Slip of the Commons was aviation licence by the Minister
In sesalon: Dr. |for. Aira, pada SMALARIN Addison (Min-Only two other, women in Great of such celebrations. It is in
Britain have this licence-Miss teresting, therefore, to note, that later of Agriculture) rose to ex-Amy Johnson and Miss Winifred Jose and Maria Pacifice of Curili plain his attitude towards the
Spooner.
after having flown only fourteen corticate about three months ago,
bia, Brazil, only very recently Lords' amendments to a certain Miss Gower obtained her "A" celebrated their Platinum Wed- Bill In addressing the Chair, ding: »The age of the husband, la he commenced by saying. Mr: hour dévelop
stated to be 123 and that of the youngest child in 66 and still go
Wife: 125.
good
Lloyd Georgeval
There was a prolonged out. burst of laughter in which Mr. Lloyd George bined heartily Your master shouted: Conserva Finember
The "B" certificate entitles the
holder to carry passengers "for hire. or reward. For ordinary private
#A! certif Is all that
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