WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1931.
MATCH - BOX COLLECTORS
A
DELIGHTFUL SOLILOQUY.
By
"Londoner" in the Evening Standard.
thing by me so long. I may even have had the thought that I would make "a text of it, that some day I should take a pen and jeer at this gentleman in the picture.
though, as
'the
ed, one may KTOW even
LUBECK TRIAL DRAMA.
Doctor Admits His Error.
THE
BLAME FOR DEATH OF 76 BABIES
CHINA
MAIL.
TREE APE THAT "WENT HUMAN.”
18,000,000 Years to
Evolve a Foot.
but they recovered and saved the situation. "So are we all my boy, so are we all ... cheer up, we'll be over the top of that little hill and the war over in another month or so." Then they passed on hurriedly.
Two Lite Roys.. There arises an earlier mem- "Man is what he is because of his brain," was the theme of Sir Arthur ory of a small boy who suddenly An exceedingly dramatic incident Keith, the anthropolugiat, in a dis-arose in the middle of a lovely occurred in the Lubeck babies case, course on evolution to the British summer afternoon when the flies when Prof. Deyake, one of the three Association in the Hall of the Royal arithmetic had become a terrible were buzzing in the windows and dow and Geographical Society. Sir Arthur monster that sat on our should- accused doziom brokg with tears streaming down. his put the antiquity of the human stem
ers; "Here, where are you go checks, admitted that he had been at 20,000,000 years and declared
ing ?" asked the master as the xuilty of a scientific error in mak-that 18,000,000 years was needed to small figure, bandes under arm, It was not for the beauty of the Next Summer, the two collectorsing se of the Calmette anti-evolve the human foot.
reached the door. "I don't like which He stressed his view that the preparations, picture that 1, kad snipped those would be in Sweden, where they Lutherculosis
common ancestor of anthropoid apee came the reply, and the youngs- school and I'm going home," -few inches out of a newspaper. hoped to complete their Swedish casdd the deaths of 76 infants.
Now that I am lidying my tahle 1eries.
The accused dactor, who is diregand man was an arboreal, or tree!ter was the other side of the cannot say why I have kept this What could they do? Al-itor of that hospital and is out of climbing, animal. "It was on the door and away before justice princess add health, was allowed to sit in an arza-trees, not on the ground," he said, could overtake him for that weare chair. Suddenly he staggered to that man came by the initial stages day. Such gallant revolutionists of match-boxes. Once, his feet, and holding on to the table of his posture and carriage.”
are, alas, too soon broken under Sir Arthur contrasted, the ways the heel of ordered things; even said she, her share of troubles kept in front of him with trembling!
in which animals climb trees. Some home and the people who had her from being tired of things; hands, said:
beg that I may be allowed togetheir arms more than their legs hitherto backed him failed him For he shows himself to be one troubles are a great relief.
as I have something very ur legs more than their arms; and that time. What kind of a world of those foolish men who are call-1 No doubt but that she was right, stand,
then that drove you ed collectors, there you have him Our troubles help as to endure life serious to say. In 1920 it was my he said that it was in this way that was las
Calcetto tree-elimbing ape
first into sweaty surrounded by his trophies, gazing happily. And if you have none, or firm conviction that the
rooms when there can treatment was not only harmless but diverged from purely simian char-was sunlight, birds, and butter- I am not enough of them, you proudly at his collection. myself a collector; why should 1 imitate the princess and collect benoficial. I now caviess without acteristics in a humanward direc-ies to chase outside? A sour- reservation that this was a scienti-in by specialisation of spine, leg, ed and chastened philosopher sat Now I can think of him as a fie error, and I haz come to this and foot. He said:-
him down the next day and brother collector, even
"When we compare the brain old conclusion through the scientific,
thenceforward went
with Sylvestre Bonnard began to regard work I have done since the misfor-casts of early pleistocene repre- sentatives of man with their suc the Russian and his lady. M. Bon. Lune,
If the Court thinks this error seors in the latter third of the gard had the noble desire for noble
pleistocene period we see that in things, or for the things which he punishable, let it condemn 100. and I would take to be noble. He fear no one, as I have often shown this apparently short period the
"What's the matter, Jimmie?" loved old banks, manuscripts with to men before whom others nave human brain must have undergone the initiala painted and gilt: a trembled. I are not afraid of death. a great increase of size, complexity I asked a small hoy, who occa near the end of my life and inferentially in power, Sylvestre Bonnard would have look. I am
sionally took sanctuary in my I can see no way of accounting garden, when I found him hiding
not jtor at this one, who has col- match-boxes. lected things which are not at all in my way?
I laugh at the poor fellow. See with what follies he has secupied himself! Had he nothing better to de than to collect empty match- boxes? But this was his fancy; 1 read that he has a collection am bering thousands of mate-boxes." So harshly I could have spoken
of this silly gentleman; you will
38
ed kindly upon my brass candle. During the year and a half that
evercome.
וי
had
startling
on
arithmetic, but nursing a hatred of all "grown-ups" and only de siring manhood to come swiftly that he might flout the shackles and the petty tyrants.
have remarked that I have never sticks which are such as you may have elapsed since the catastrophe Ifor man's structure, his posture, and in a corner by the evergreens. come to exilecting such trash as see in ancient Flemish pictures have often wished that night would manner of progression, except by "They're going out in the car,
supposing that in his evolution he he said disgustedly (referring to these hoxes which he has lovingly But he considered pitifully the de. swallow me up."
At this point Professor Deyekaj has passed through a small an his father and mother). "If I go set out over all the walls of his "ire for rare nutch-boxes which
und then a large with them I'll have to sit there smoking room. But now I am in a possessed that sad Russian prince broke down completely, and literallythropoid stage
anthropoid stage. These we know all day wasting my time, when I kindlier humour. I am remember-| And 1 100. If the gentleman sobbed out:
"I did not wish it because I want of." ing the Russian prince who, in the Whinge portrait was in the news)
could be enjoying myself at Too Many Incompetents,
home." His enjoyment consist- novel called Sylvestre Bonnard, was paper would let me into his study,ed to evade responsibility, but-andį
During a discussion in the Zoologyed of drawing and reading; so also a alch-box seeker,
I could gaze for
a while at his let the happy parents note this-
beruse the thought of this calamity section on population, Professor much for one modern child and -Once upon a time 1 beard M. boxes. At least they would please
mo. 1 deplore most E. W. MacBride, the marine bio- the motor-car! Anatole France describe this novel
more than omnibus-tickets, tormented
We are, of course, a grumbling as the most blameless of his books. more than dog-collars, more than deeply that I co-operated in it. But logist of the Imperial College of
Science, advanced the could at the time I acted on conviction " old postage-stamps. As immoveat book. Rending it, you
nation, as any foreigner will A Struggle for Speech, theory that in 30 years Great Bri-tell you. There is a spice of grim feel good and benevolent as did Me, meditate comfortably enough over
Here the accused was absolutely Lain will have a stationary popula-humour in our grumbles, it is Scrooge in Dickens's Christmas the urge penny box of matches
He stood struggling for lian and be overcrowded. He said: true, as in that of the old Scots- Carol after he had awakened on
which was the penny box of my
"Every legislative step in recent man farmer who had prayed Christinas morning. That Russian vhildhood; it are the head of Sir speech, but no word crossed his lips.
For half R minute
a death-like years has made it possible for more more loudly than the rest in the prince was indeed foolish as any
Garnet Wolseley until General
silence pervaded the court. Then, incompetent people to live in these kirk for rain. On reaching the collector can be, not collecting the Gordon pushed Sir Garnet out of
with sunken. head, he murmured: islands and less people to seek their
door he was confronted by a pieces which are to my own taste, that popularity.
"May I sit down for a moment?" fortunes abroad. I should say the glorious deluge. "Well, Jamie, But I forgive him his folly.
In a drawer of a table now next For I can remember so will the loan is a match-bus which I and sank back on his armchair. But day of judgment will approach your prayers are answered," said
he did not remain long sented. With within a reasonable time.
the minister. "Aye," said excusés made by the French wife of¦ lected for myself. A beautiful bus an effort he struggled once more to If a man goes on pradoucing Jamie, glancing down at his the Russian prince who collected of brown oak carved with, flowers his feet, and continued:
children with utter indifference, clothes, "If I'd had mair faith match-boxes like the gentleman in in the seventeenth century. It has "The tragedy that has happened relying on Poor Law and various I'd ha brought an umbrella wi' the picture. Dimitri, said she a place for the flint and the steel torments me, especially because pre-doles to support them, I think in Dimitri WBH the husband-hadi but beside that place is one whichjeisely 1 to whom this disaster has such a case economie sterilisation.me, an' if the Lord had had mair tried all kinds of collections-dog- i must surely be for those matches happened have tried all my life to which can be painlessly effected is ellars-uniform buttons-postage which were slips of wood, the ends cure the tuberculous. Perhaps the the only ultimate remedy." stamps. At last the only things dipped in sulphur. So you can callaaappy parents will at least giv Sir O. Lodge's Hair on End. which interested him were the
me eredit for this intention."
Sir Oliver Lodge made his hair little cardboard match-boxes with
With a voice gaining in vigour, stand on end to the amazement of the coloured chromos 171 their paper picture, like the Russian the professor went on:
his audience during his address on prince. Yet we are all living out "I repeat my belief in the wireless · communications at the our lives and need not scold one Calmette preparation was an error. Royal College of Music. another for any taste which is not the Court thinks it must be Ile took a rod and rubbed it humidity was 87 at 10 am, and 88 common to each one of us; it may punishable, good. But I demand briskly with a flannel take the place of those troubles that I alone shall be condemned and "I am transferring electrons from of certain popular fenders; the which had once comforted the nut my assistants. Dr. Altstaedt the flannel to the rod," he explained An interesting description of the police had seized the rest of those princess.-The Londoner in Even has trusted me absolutely. Also as he placed the rod against his growth and present work of Tai boxes, imprisoning their maker,ing News.
Anna Sebutze, who has served me domelike head and snow white hair Kam leper island, about 90 miles faithfully for seventeen years with and pointed to the effect of the south of Canton, was given by the out committing the slightest slip. electricity.
covers.
Dimitri and his princess were in Sicily to buy, for a hundred frames.
one of the very rare match-hoxes
of the type which had the portraits
is a match-box and me a maten-box collector like the man in the a wa
the same double call on the same It will be terrible and unbearable note
· Some Triumphant
Grumblers.
MIDDAY STROLL IN VIENNA.
with a conscientious ardour for me if my assistants were to be THE GOOD, GROUSE. To see something of the Viennese, that slackens only when they ac condemned and I perhaps set free." let us take a midday stroll along the celerate on approaching a corner During the further hearing Pro Karntner-ring in front of the two | Now the crowd across the way fesser Deycke went into the possi- big hotels, and up the Karnt-beginning to change; the illers are bility of the original Calmette cul- norstrasse to the Graien. The disappearing, and in their place ture being exchanged for another or promenade is still a social institu- come the workers from shops, office polluted in the Lubeck laboratory. ten, and perhaps we shall see sotno and banks to enjoy the sun in their He said that the Calmette culture elegant members of the old imperial lunch-hour, the men mostly bare and the Deycke Schuch culture were different days, in two cele headed and remarkably British in dealt with on
aristocracy and one or
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at 4 p.m.
Rev. John Lake in the Kowloon Union Church last night.
We are informed by the Secretary of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society that according to present arrangements, the Committee have decided to hold the Annual Show of Flowers and Vegetables on Thurs- day, March 3.
[By P. H. J.J The child in a Blackpool tram
was overheard by a friend HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
who
brities of the theatre and the opern. appearance, the girls dressed with different rooms and with different/Gf mine would be hard to beat as There will be a song recital by Miss!
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an example of the perfect grum Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, composer. blor. He sat, sourly, between ginger and pianist, on Thursday, the fond father and mother and December 17, at 5.30 p.m. This ended a long dintribe with a will take the place of the Children's statement that "He'd traipsed.
Play,
Members are reminded to
The enfe is perhaps the least changed of all the traditional Vien- nese institutions; it is still the club, obsessed with the idea that he is coconut, and been on nowt." At book tables for teas.--Advt.
"UNKNOWN SOLDIER.”
• There is a man at Wiesbaden
all ower the fairground, had no
this point, apparently thinking
he
that a present and concrete ex- ample would be forceful he
reading-room, writing-room, busi- the Unknown Soldier.
Carrying a board on which
Personal Pars.
The number of people who appear to know each other on the Karntner- strasse between twelve and one is astonishing: there is a constant raising of hats, a succession of en- thusiastic greetings, little groups stopping in earnest discussion or frivolous chatter, girls waiting at one or the other of the recognised ness conference room, and the place had written "Here rests in peace pointed through the window at rendezvous for the young men who for talking, thinking and dreaming, the Unknown Soldier" and wear- hurry up and put into action the that it has always been. Except the ing a white skirt, he made his way look at you woman gettin' yesterday by the 5.5.
a stout woman entering a cab. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Biggar salled universal Viennese salutation, "Jusa' fortunate few who can afford a
to a newly-dug grave in one of the die Hand."
"cottage" in the Wahring or Hict local cemeteries and there made in a cab, an' aw've ne'er been in The Graben, which connects the zing districts, almost everyone in
Mr. Wallence Harper and Dr. and relapsed into triumphant c. C. We left for Shanghai by the Karntnerstrasse with the quieter Vienna lives in a flat. And, though a long oration in both German and cab in my life," he finished, but equally fashionable Kohlmarkt, nowadays one is allowed a key and
suiks.
6.5. President Coolidge. is a short street, but broad enough so suffers no longer the inquisitive fully planted his board in the soll
The most delightful example to have room for a cafe in its cen-scrutiny of a Hausmeister on com at the head of the grave and therever encountered was the soldier Dr. E. C. Humphreys, son of Mr. tre. We will rest here for a while ing home after ten in the evening stepped into the latter, and laid in Gallipoli trench who, with
t
•
Latin.
His oration completed, he care-
and look out at the life of the pave- the flat is still limited in its rehimself down. ment bot woon flowerpots and sources, and the cafe still the com- shrubs, for the cafes make their pensating resort contribution to the profusion of Viennese courtesy is instinctive
who thought something must be
Coolidge,
President
the rest of us, was standing rigid-Henry Humphreys, Just recently arrived in Hong Kong, intends ly to attention while a general Called by members of the public and staff made a hurried inspec./to practisé dental surgery early In tion of the "line," pausing now the New Year. Dr. Humphreys flowers, which is part of Vienna's and transparently sincere. Evan in wrong, caretakere pulled the "Un: and then to speak a cheery word was born in Hong Kong, but has
of the grave to various men. "Well, my man,
been in England.for a number of beautylowers in parks and garthe shops it is seemingly quite dis-known Soldier" out dens, flowers in grass plots besida interested almost everyone who and removed him to a hospital.
and how are you feeling now? years. the Ring, flower-girls within call at serves you can speak English, and
The retort was 'unexpected, al- most unprecedented.
"Fed up,
and private hounes, even baskets of
A
*
the restaurants and cafes, Howers in the bargaining which as a matter
One thing. that has impressed me window-boxes of offices and, shops of course is expected to precede ser-by you are made to feel that sir," said my neighbour in Is the growth of the spirit of gord-
each purchase is conducted so de- you are genuinely giving pleasure voice suitable to the phrase. Our will among European natione, Hightfully that you will soon come instead of begging a favour. Their colonel looked daggers, a ser- Mr. Stimson. to look upon shopping as one of characteristic friendliness, too well-geant automatically palled out): the most attractive of the city's bred over to be offensive, betrays his book to jot down the name. Graben, save for the ceaseless chirp entertainments. And when in the these people wherever they may be. For a moment the red-tabs and seem to be work-tired-Sir Henry of the taxis, whose drivers keep up atreet you ask your way of a per- From "Austria," by J. D. Newth. the general were taken aback, E. Armstrong:
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