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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1931.
Medical Votes.
Five or six years ago the Government spokesman, in in troducing the Budget, was con- tent merely "to view with grave concern the question of the public health of the Colony." A year
In regard to the speedy recovery "home,"
"victorious," "trouba
Personal Pars.
and convalescence of children dour," "labourer."
If proper names be admitted to When compelled
to
share the contest, what musical symbols Gen. Chen Ming-ahu arrived in the same ward as adults, could be better fashioned for use Hong Kong by the afternoon train
in
surgical wards. of poetry than" "Shenandoah,"
"Singapore," "El Dorado," "Chip Messrs. Chen Tse-mu and Chong company, of yesterday in the
even
A spontaneous tribute *ig rown," "Williamsport," "Trinidad," Fu-kon.
deserving as far as the work of "Windermere," "Lafayetto"? Who doctors and nurses is concerned; will sing the songs of the names of
·After consulting a nerve special- but, in the case of accommoda-villages in New England, redolent ist in Athens, Air Commodore of quaint towns in the British Kingsford Smith has postponed tion being at a premium, they Isles?
ATC,
day, Reuter.
cannot help themselves they No particular language or coun-his departure for Rome until to-
in fact, unjustly handicapped try can claim exclusive ownership at every turn. It is, to say the to the treasury of beautiful words The forthcoming wedding is an- They belong to the common heritnounced of Leslie Woodward Tip- least without overlabouring the age of all peoples; they have been ple, of 1, Cornwall Street, Kowloon point at this juncture not pro- borrowed from many lands and Tong, and Dorothy Irene Aveneil, per that children of tender years sources, and adapted forthwith to of 2, Somerset Road, Kowloon
common tasks and familiar Tong should be placed in the same ward periences. With so many noble
as adults. Having exhibited its symbols available for speaking and www.R." writing in the current practical, and not merely theore-writing, it is to be regretted that issue of St. Andrew's Church states:-Tho tical, interest in general matters vocabularies have become so stuff Monthly Magazine,
ed with tawdry phrases, so laden Rev. E. A. Armstrong's two years" affecting the public health, the with unworthy substitutes. The term of service has all too quickly Government should not take it English language, in particular, is passed, and our friend leaves us on amisa if we now advance a strong rich in the romance and pageantry October 28, The writer does not of words, many of which have that wish here to eulogiso Mr. Arm- plea for a Children's Hospital or singing strength, that beguiling strong's work, but merely to an- Hospitals.
music found in poetry in its most nounce that he will prosch for the exalted mood.-Christian Science last time before his departure on Monitor.
the morning of Sunday, October 20. :.' We shall have an opportunity of saying good-bye to him as o congregation after the Evening
From Other Pens.
Savings Bank Clients.
News in Brief.
The Post Office Savings Bank, One case of typhoid fever and one Service on October 25, when a with its millions of depositors, gots of puerperal fever both Chinese Social Hour is being arranged in some queer correspondence. One were notified yesterday.
the Church Hall for that purpose. client who could not prodice her
the "Honeymoon
deposit-book wrote: "Just a few Yesterday a hawker met his death Known lines to say that my book has been when he was crushed between a Couple," Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Day, mislaid through getting married small river bant and the Ping On aviatore, arrived at the Kal Tack and being knocked about in differ-wharf.
aerodrome from: Taiping yesterday ent places."
afternoon on their last lap of a trip
a. burning hotel, and again when they went down with fever in
a The hearing of charges of larceny Calcutta. They plan to fly to
At
Another wrote: "My husband The lowest open air temperature) round the world. Thoy had and I would like our savings bank yesterday was 78 degrees. The many thrills and their live were book as a joint. Could you please humidity was 69 at 10 a.m. and 74 more than once in danger-onca în seo to this for us?" And a lady at 4 p.m. who had been asked to explain some discrepancy replied:
**I BM ment's intention to stamp out widow; sorry I forgot it."
of $7,000 and $3,000 against Guil- Shanghal to-morrow, stopping at nialaria from the Colony, both But what was the state' mind of herme d'A. Guimares has been fix-Amoy and possibly Foochow.. island and mainland. It répre- the depositor, who made the re-ed for Thursday afternoon before Shanghai they will take ship to and thence y to sents by far the greatest advance quest: "Will you kindly conceal Mr. Williams in the Central Police San Francisco
their home and starting point in my money as I find I am not in need Court. in policy of any Governmental of it?"--Manchester Guardian.
New York. Their "trip" is not regime for decades. It shines
Summoned for tapping the mains an attempt at record breaking but of the Hong Kong Electric Com-lo a demonstration of the practi- out as the brightest ray of the Better Weak.
thus securing electric cability of light plane touring. Professional strong men are not pany and whole Budget speech. For this intensive
a numerous class, but they have a current without a meter, a' Chin against
proper pride in themselves and inese consumer of 10, Eastern Street malaria, a vote of $150,000 for the muscular superiority that links appeared before Mr. Schofield at 1932 can be confirmed with the them with Samson and Hercules the Central Police Court yester
and other more or utmost possible gratification and heroes of the past. It is to be fear-
less mythical day and was fined $30.
At the offices of the P.W.D. ed, however, that their pride will
or two later one of the medica! | pleasure.
campaign
Wa
product in the Colony of many of the tropical fruits which grow
THE VISIT
PARIS
To-day.
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To-day's Thought.
Ten Years Ago,
From the “China Mail”. October 6, 1921)
and
officers criticised Government's In other phases of medical suffer a serious setback if it is a yesterday two lots of Crown land Lord Reading Leaving policy which, in the case of work there are also signs that fact that their strength is due to were sold by publie auction
definite over-functioning of followe:--Kowicon Inland Lot No. malaria fever, amounted only to the present regime is determined gland secretions that makes for 2004, Tai Street, 1,972 square feet, "a formidable array of annual to do something more than ex-muscular devolopment." The state annual Crown rent of $22, was sold
Rugby, Yesterday. statistics" of the toll. Last week press in empty words "the grave ment is made on the authority of to Mr. Liu Wal-chan, 27, Hiller Upect price
The Foreign. Secretary, Lord the Government spokesman dis-concern of the Government on the experts after examining a ten-year- Street for $2,800.
old prodigy who has been giving in was $1,479. Inland Lot No. 8210, closed the much more progress question of public
health."
Berlin exhibitions of chain-break-Wongnelchong, 980 square feet, Reading, will leave London to- ive policy obtaining to-day when Hitherto there has been no sys-ing, twisting bars of iron in annual Crown rent of 56, was sold morrow for Patis, where he had been he stated that "anti-malarial tematic infant welfare work spiral with his hands and with his to Mr. Ng Chee-yat, 81, Main Street Invited to meet M. Laval and other French Ministers. He is expect teeth, and bearing heavy weights for $3,600.
ed to return to London on Thurs- work is expensive, but it is of done locally. The Government
on his chest. the greatest importance to the proposes that a small beginning
Sidelights regarding the local day night-British Wireless Ser- The world's strongest man is Colony, and it is the intention | should be made. Provision has believed to have been "Sigismund form of "white slavery" are al- vite. of the Government, so far as its been made in the Estimates for Breitbart, a Polish Jew, who could leged in a case which came before do all these astonishing things, but Mr. E. H. Williams at the Central resources permit, systematically 1932 for one lady Health Officer his great strength did not save him Magistracy, yesterday, concerning to stamp out malaria from the at $7.600, one nurso at $1,140, from an early death.
England's a Chinsce married couple, and a second woman. The man was Colony, both island and main- and rent of premises at $1,500 bost-known strong man, Thomas charged with living on the proceeds?
Topham, an Islington carpenter, land." Provision has been made a total expenditure in the first also came to an untimely end on of prostitution, while the two wo Thera la a vast difference be in the Estimates for 1982 for year of 10,400, which most August 10, 1749, and altogether the men were charged with exercising tween having the last word
control over four young girls in having a word that lests. $150,000 for much needed anti-people will agree with the Gov- lot of these muscular prodigles malarial work. The Malariolog-ernment spokesman when he as- does not seem to be a happy one such a manner as to show that they Better an ordinary set of muscles were aiding, abetting, and com- ist has by no means completedserts that this cannot be con- and health than disease and an ab pelling the prostitution of these girls: The hearing was adjourned, his investigations into the malarsidered extravagant in view of normal development leading to an ial districts of the Colony, but the importance of the work. In early grave-Manchester Guardian. The possibilities ahead for the he has made certain recommen- addition to the rent for the in-
Is "Cellar-Door”. Mualcal?. dations, the cost of which so far fant welfare centre provision has
An instructor in modern postry around us, but have to be imported To-day's dollar is worth 2/11%. as the Public Works Department been made for a V.D. clinic in told his class the other day that into Hong Kong with the con is concerned, is three lakhs. As | Kowloon. The most useful situa-in his opinion one of the most cequent loss of much of their de
A public meeting will be held in was stated at the last meeting of tion for such a clinic, in the opin- musical words in the English licious flavour, were outlined yester
In the Chamber of Commerce Rooin, language is "cellar-door” when in- dag by Dr. G. A. C. Herklots in the Legislative Council, it was ion of the Government, is in the toned properly,
In the City Hall, on Wednesday, broadcast talk. How Hong Kong only with considerable difficulty vicinity of the docks and wharves The Image back of the word is might be made the centre of a pro-October 19, at noon for the purpose of appointing a committee to make and after a long delay that the rather than at the Kowloon Hosnot very important," added the sperous pineapple Industry If the Government was able to obtain pital. With this view unanimity instructor. "In fact, the meaning fruit were properly cultivated here arrangements for the forthcoming should be forgotten, and attention with the same care as is taken with visits of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales the services of an experienced is most likely to be secured. The given to the flowing, cadences and it in Hawaii and the Philippine to the Colony in April 1922. His Malariologist; now that we have Government, is to be commended soft undertones of cellar-door as Islands was specially emphasised. Excellency the Governor will pre- got him it is essential in the In- for its progressive ideas in rela- a combination of pleasing Many other possibilities were dealt terest of the Colony's health that tion to this most dreadful dis syllabics.
Perhaps this reader of enchant- we should implement the result ease.
ing verse was not unmindful of Complementary to the comments of his work.
Having been on the side of the other musical words of similar, tone on "I Take This Man," the talkie These official statements will authorities in what we have writ-quality, many of them used with now being screened at the King's magic effectiveness by the post Theatre, It may "ba" stated that receive the unqualified endorse ten above, we may venture to Edgar Allan Poe. The Instructor's Carole Lombard and Gary Cooper ment and approval net alone of close on a slightly critical, or first choice may not be that of other contrive to make an undoubted the Unofficial members of the rather suggestive, note. Being folk, but "cellar-door" Is sufficient-success of what otherwise, might Legislative Council, but of the concerned, as it obviously is, with ly alluring to suggest other be a trifle commonplace theme. claimants for Inclusion in a list of Carole may not be so well known entire community. Until it is, the question of infant welfare, picturesque words...
as other feminino stars, but wo possible to reduce substantially cannot the Government take into Steam-kettle" conveys the hiss would like to see and hear her in the present appalling toll of early consideration the feasibility and busyness of words and an iron other roles. She is a distinct c malaria, eliminating the former of erecting a Children's Hospi- pot bubbling over the fire, but aside quisition to Paramount's alm from the picture of domesticity studio. Incidentally in the brief "formidable array of annualiste tal? Under the present system here presented, the word does not speeches on disarmament by the tistica, that toll will remain a of inadequate hospital accommo- captivate the ear as does "samovar" three Party leaders at Home blot on the Government's medi-dation in Government hospitals from the steppes of Russia. Poetry given in the news real, every syl- teen finde its best expression In such table was distinctly heard, thus cal administration of the Colony, it is not always possible to serre rhythmic commonplaces as moon," demonstrating once more the efl- It is most heartening to be told gate children from adults. The dawnwillow, murmuring," cloney of the sound apparatus at
rlight," the King's Theatra officially that it is the Govern-outcome cannot be satisfactory"roverie,"
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