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BLIND.
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At The Age of Sixty-Two.
Lamp Invention by Once-Blind Man.
Comedy Silent Bridegroom.
Mr. Justice McCardie, thei M. Thomas, a French engineer, The tale of a tangled wedding, inį |"bachelor judge," and Mr. Justice has invented an appliance by means which the best man had the nar- | Rowlatt, his colleague in the King's of which blind people may read rowest of escapes from marrying | Bench Division of the High Court, ordinary books and newspapers. the bride, la told by a Gloucester- |are to retire this month.
Losing his sight in the war, he shire clergyman..
Their resignations will mean amade a vow that if ever he could! He had performed the wedding revision of the Bench of Judges see again he would consecrate his ceremony. He was not previously this year and probable promotions life to improving the lot of the acquainted with the bride or the to fill their places.
{bridegroom or any of their friends.
Mr. Justice Rowlatt, who is 69
a former Recorder of Windsor and Junior Counsel to the Treasury, har been a High Court Judge since 1912.
blind.
He had the good fortune to re-At the end of the service the party cover his sight. The carrying out went to the Vestry as usual to sign of his vow. has resulted in the per- the register. fection of an instrument called the "Now the bridegroom," said the "Photoelectrographe."
clergyman when the bride hadĺ
The appliance consists of a disk signed, and a man stepped forward. Mr. Justice McCardie, aged 62, on which is fixed a powerful} The clergyman looked at him per- has been a High Court judge since electric lamp, with a projector re-plexed. "No, the bridegroom, 1916. He was called to the Bar insembling the one-inch lens of a please," he insisted. 1894.
Dress And Birth Control,
:
He is the judge,whose commenta on the Frankau case in November, concerning the amount of money a woman should spend on dress, arouaed nation-wide interest,
His strong views on the necessity of birth control have, also caused controversy.
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Our Sports Diary.
"But I am the bridegroom," said the man.
His. Job.
The clergyman felt that life was becoming altogether, too puzzling.|| "You did not answer the ques- tions in the service,” he said.
"Oh," said bride and bridegroom Meet-together, "we thought the best man
To-day. FENCING Hong Kong Fenc- ing Club meet at 5.15 p.m. TENNIS Championships.
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RACING Sale of Race Fonies at Happy Valley at 5.15 p.m.
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TENNIS Championships. RUGBY Seven-A-Side Tourns- ment First Round.
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had to do that!"
The tangle was straightened out by the party returning to the church, where the ceremony was repeated, with the bridegroom tak- Ing his proper part, and then the register was duly signed.
THE NEW EARL RUSSELL.
Lecture tours in the United States: no longer offer the profitable source of income that they once yielded to British authors and politicians, es Mr. Bertrand Russell (as he at pre- sent prefers to be known) has dis- covered, says A London paza- graphist.
Mr. Russell, who will take his seat in the House of Lords when | his family patent of nobility can be found among the late Earl's papers, has returned from America. Ho found 'audiences there more meagre than in pre-depression days.
There is less eagerness to hear the latest views од
marriage, divorce, birth-control, and the stata of the world in 2,000 A.D.
The average. American is much more interested In verifying the
100 microscope. Below this lamp is a accuracy of Mr. Hoover's prediction 100 carriage on which a book is placed. that "prosperity is just around the 100 The blind person, by turning a corner."
100 screw with his left hand, moves
100 the printed lines under the lens, 70 YEARS TRUE TO HER LOVER. 100 while the first Anger of his right 100 hand rests on a disc which regis- 100ters in relief each letter as it passes
50 under the light.
50 The eightless reader must, of 50] course, rely upon his
sense
Binghampton (New York). "She'll get over it soon. These young love affairs never last."
These were the words spoken 70.
of years ago by the father of Miss
50 touch. But it is claimed that Fanny Read, who has died at Bing-
50 ordinary books can be read quite hampton, aged 89, after remaining
50 rapidly by those who accustom true to the memory of her dead
sweetheart since 1861, -`
50 themselves to the system.
50 Advantage Over Braille.
50
In that year Miss Read's flance,
Should it prove successful. In of whom her father disapproved, 25 practice and not too expensiva, the marched away to fight in the Ameri 25 system" will present an enormous can Civil War and was killed. Miss 25 advantage over Brallie, as books Read went into esclusion in her 20 will not have to be specially print father's hotel at Hancock, and since Jed. The only essential is that the then has left the room only three 18 letters shall be in black on white times, to attend the funerals of near 10 paper, as the majority of books relatives.
18 are, gde
When brought to Binghampton
10 Blind children will be able by hospital with a broken hip, Miss 2 this method to use the sama books Read saw electric lights for the first Dr. Ma Luk.......One operation table, as their more fortunate colleagues, time."
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