WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.
THE
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DENTISTS.
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Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG YUK, Dentist.
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Just Arrived $9.00'per box.
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LITERATURE.
BOOKS for All
AWAY.
Claim on Follies Girl's
Estate.
Tudor Rose League's Success.
The formation of a new organ- isation to promote the sale of British goods was announced in the House of Commons lust). month by Sir Philip Cunliffe-
LOST OPERA BY MASCAGNI.
Composer's Story of Recovery.
Rome, Oct. 8..
The death in September, 1929, of Miss Cynthia Cambridge--at | Lister.
.A telephone conversation lone time a member of the Zieg Had he paid a visit to the which I have had with Signor feld Follies after being headquarters of the Tudor Rose Mascagni, at Leghorn, the fam- thrown from a horse which ran League of British Employment ous composer of "Cavalleria into a taxicab in Hyde Park, Providers at Buckingham Hall, Rusticana," enables me to give was recalled, at West London Buckingham Gate, S.W. 1, he the full particulars of the vory County Court last month. might have wondered whether human story of the recovery of Mr. John Stuckle, livery stable the new organisation was really the manuscript of "Pinotta," his keeper, of Wilton Crescent necessary, comments the Daily first opera, says the Daily Tele- Mews, S.W., the owner of the Telegraph, and adds that a re-graph's correspondent. horse, unsuccessfully claimed presentative of that paper found When a student of 19 in Milan £100 from the City Bank Farm-a band of voluntary workers, Mascagni ran up a bill of £5 with THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT.ers' Trust Company, Ltd., Water- headed by the honorary director, painter in whose house he
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books
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GENERAL PROVIDERS.
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HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers,
No. 12, D'Agullar Street. (opposite. Queen's Theatre).
LIANG YOU
LADIES & GENTS' HAIRDRESSERS.
Also
MR. ST. OUEN,
PERMANENT WAVING
gencé.
loo Place, S.W., as administrators Mr. L. St. Clare Grondona, hard lodged. Unable to pay and hav- of Miss Cambridge's estate, for at work replying to the morning's ing been offered a temporary post injury to the animal, or alterna-mail of over 1,000 applications in a touring' company, ho left tively for damages for negli for enrolment as wearers of the behind a trunk containing such
of Tudor rose emblem.
his belongings as he could Mr. B. M. Goodman, for Mr.
Among "This emblem." explained Mr. spare.
these was Stuckle, said that on September Grondona, "proclaims, constant- "Pinotta," for which he had 10, 1929, Miss Cambridge went ly and automatically, that its failed to find a producer. The to Mr. Stuckle's riding school to wearer on entering a shop painter died, and Signor Mas- buy a horse, stating that she was wishes to be shown home or cagni forgot his address.
good rider and wanted a keen overseas Empire goods first.. Traced by a Friend. animal. A grey mare was the There is also a shop-window Recently, however, a friend subject of the claim.
adge which announces that a arrived with a mysterious parcel The following day Mr. shopkeeper makes a practice of under his arm and opened it in Stuckle took four horses, to offering such goods first,
Signor Mascagni's presence. At Albert Gate, but the grey mare
started "The lengue
very first indifferent, he suddenly was not among them. Miss Cam- quietly ten weeks ago, and there recognised some musical scores bridge mounted a horse called are now over 20,000 wearers of which it contained. Ginger and rode him up and the Tudor rose.
"This is mine," he exclaimed. down. Mr. Stuckle noticed that On the committee are Sir It proved. to be a study for the she was riding the horse hard Gilbert. Vyle, formerly chair-prelude to "Ratcliff," produced in
She said that man of the Associated and hitting him.
British Milan in 1895, together with the Ginger was not keen enough. Chambers of Commerce, and Sir complete score of "Pinotta." While they were talking a Mrs. Benjamin Morgan, vice-president The maestro, who is now aged Andrews went past, riding the of the British Empire Producers' 68, laughed heartily at first, and jkrey mare.
then broke down and wept. His friend had scoured Milan for the forgotten address, and had finally discovered the children of the painter. In their house the More Light on Questions That trunk was carefully preserved in
Cannot Be Settled.
a cupboard.
"Isn't that the horse I saw last night in your yard?" asked Miss Cambridge, adding, "That' seems a better horse. I would like to ride it."
Crash Into Taxi,
Organisation.
THE AIM OF PHILOSOPHY.
Upon learning to whom it be- Mrs. Andrews made no objec-
Professor Gilbert Murray de-longed they at once handed it tion to Miss Cambridge riding livered a public lecture on "The over. As to the £5 long due to
it, and when Miss Cambridge beginnings of philosophy" in the their late father, they were will was mounting it Mr. Stuckle Assembly Hall of the University ing to forgo it. Signor Mag- said to her: "This is a much
Ex-cagni, however, insisted on pay- keener horse. You must not hit College, Hull, recently.
plaining the position of the ing his bill with interest, and photograph with a philosopher, Professor Murray added
it as you did Ginger." After
to go
STANDARD TIMES.
Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.
a little while Miss Cambridge said that in the "Golden Journey grateful dedication. hit. the mare with the whip.
to Samarcand" the Pilgrims ex- The mare broke into a sharp canter. "As far as we know "plained that they mean said Mr. Goodman, "Miss Cam-always a little farther" because bridge lost her head, the horse it might be that somewhere be- ran away, and crashed into a the next stretch of sea,
yond the next range of hills or taxi, and Miss Cambridge receiv- ed a fractured skull, from which she died. After the accident the animal became restive and use- less for Mr. Stuckle's purpose,
introductory Price $20. Cambridge left a large estate.
and was sold for £10. Miss
White on a throne or guard-
ed in a cave,
There lives a prophet who
can understand Why men were born.
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for November, 1931, Stan- dard time of the 120th Meridian, fol-
Bre да So the philosopher groped and East of Greenwich, The defendants denied that explored in the hope of getting lows:--
King's Theatre Bldg Tel. 20315.Miss Cambridge failed to take further into the heart of things
Ground Floor.
£60
LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
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OPTICIANS.
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proper care of the mare, or that and understanding ultimate pro-
blems. Almost every student 12 she rode it negligently. They urged that Mr. Stuckle had full who felt the philosophic impulse 13 knowledge of the nature of the driving him on into strange coun- 14 mare, which, they alleged, was try must wonder why, at Oxford, 15 he was nut set face to face with 16 nervous and restive and pre-
the great problems themselves 17 disposed to shy and bolt.
Judge Hargreaves said that instead of having to learn what 18 he was not satisfied that Miss various people in the distant past 15 Cambridge was warned not to hit had thought about them.
"The answer to this question 21
the mare with a whip, or that
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is two-fold," Professor. Murray 22 she struck the mare. He gave said. "In the first place, the 23 judgment for the City
main questions of philosophy are 24 Farmers' Trust Co., Ltd.
Inot for the most part meant to 25 be settled: they are meant to be 26 understood. Science is different. 27 Science can ask a definite ques- 28 tion and answer it. But there is 29 ino complete answer to Buch 30 Over 500,000 coloured electric questions as "Why men were lights illuminated Barking born," or "How we know things,"| during the ten days' Charter or "What is the difference be- It may be that if we advised peo- celebrations, which began on Oc-tween right and wrong?" just ple accustomed to the rhythm of tober 1 with the informal open-as there is no precise answer to modern life to withdraw into A ing of the industrial exhibition the question "What is the value quiet corner and do some con- and amusement fair in Barking of the ode to the nightingale or centrated thinking, it would be just Park. The Charter Mayor, Col. the tragedy of Hamlet?" You as ludicrous as it would be to take A. E. Martin, presided at a can get more and more light on gold fish out of a bowl and spread Black or Brown luncheon.
(such questions, you can see deep-them on the dining-room table to Bhoes from $6.00. Ninety per cent. of the ex-er and deeper into them, and give them a rest-Miss A. G. Philip. Black or Brownhibits were products of Barking (you can definitely reject various Boots from $8.00. industries, and the exhibition false and disastrous answers, Shoes from $2.00. building was built in fourteen But your real hope is to under- days by a firm of Barking con- stand more, not to settle the
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SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC
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AT
by
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An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast
a procession of decorated private not much good looking up the and commercial cars was watch-last text-book and seeing the ed by thousands.
answers there given. The only The chief event of the festi-(method is to go through the pro- vities was the visit of Prince cess of thinking the questions George, who brought the Royal [over more and more closely, with Charter proclaiming Barking a the help of the greatest minds municipal borough, '
who have thought about them The Prince also opened the in- before." dustrial exhibition and the his- The second reason, was quite torical pageant of the history of different. It was that, in order the town for many centuries. to see the problems clearly we
The Vicar of Barking, the must, as far as we could, try to BREWERS Rev. H. C. Robins, filled the role get outside the thick atmosphere Now on sale at,
PRICE $1.00.
of William the Conqueror in the of tradition and convention in WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW pageant, and the Hymn to the which all our thought was wrap- EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE,
We must get out of our and at the Publishers Virgin, composed by the nuns of ped..
THE LIANG YOU CO. Barking Abbey in the 7th cen- British twentieth-century blink-
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The
CHINA YEAR BOOK
1931
EDITED BY
H. G. W. WOODHEAD, O.B.E.
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