WAIST - REDUCING MARATHON
Three Women Start 30-Day Diet.
NOVEL CHICAGO CONTEST
Chicago,
A waist-reducing marathon, in which the goal is a loss of two pounds daily, has been begun hy three local women, under the su- pervision of the City Health Commissioner, Mr. Herman N. Bundesen.
The entrants, who have been subjected to thorough medical
tests are:-
Miss Deon Craddock-10 stone net.
Miss Alice Joy-10 stone 4 lbs. Miss Felicia Terry-11 stone
Divorce is ahead for Marshall Field III, master of 180 millions, and his second wife, the former Mrs. Dudley Costs of London, New York society commentators announce. The two are shown. The first Mrs. Field received 1,000,000 alimony.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1934
GARRISON WHIST To-day's Short Story.
DRIVE
Large Attendance At
Lecture Hall,
CIVILIAN GUESTS PRESENT
WIMPOLE'S WOE
By Louis Golding.
An enjoyable drive, or LBERT WIMPOLE was the It was a volume of verses an 85- ganised by the Whitson. Inter. A sort of little man concern tonishing amaigram of the jejune,
tainments Committee, was held at ing
whom
women nudge the lawd, the preposterous. No
the Garrison Lecture Hall, last each other in omnibuses and say, book had ever affected Wimpole in night Twenty-seven tables were "What a nice kind face he's got!" this desperate fashion before. It {occupied, a
burned number of civilian He was too kind to be a success made him blink, his cars guenta being among those present. as a business man, too. industri-with shame, his gorge, rose.
In view of the excellent suppert, ous to be a success as a brick- And he sat down and wrote about. it has been decided to make the layer, too tiny to make a good it. All the ferocity he had sup drives a fortnightly function, the thing out of odd jobs in Covent pressed for years blazed into one next one being scheduled for Garden. So he became, because
tempest of denunciation. (la not even editors could not resist his the nicest and kindest little man in Tuesday, August 14, ·
Prize-winners last night were: nice kind face, a literary critic. Ladles: First, Mrs. A. Kirman;
He became the nicest and kindest the world fundamentally a shrieking He ape from the primordial jungles?) accond, Miss G. Kroutakayer; literary critic in London. third, Mrs.
Medina; consolation, found something of novelty in the Whatever in the past he might have said about all the authors he had (Mrs. Arbon,
most laboriously stereotyped novel, Gents: First, Mr. 8. F. Cory; a certain lightness of touch in the been nice and kind to, he now heap- ed upon Eustace Chasuble. And second. Mr. E. Kirman; third, Mr. most thunderous of sermonn. Even lots more. The sheets of paper flew Robinson; consolation; Mr. Bad-about minor poetry 'ho could not from his pen like sparks from a bring himself to be unkind. As he Two travelling prizes were won wrote his criticism he had a feeling knife-grinder's wheel. Wimpole by Mr. N. Stone.
that the author he was treating grunted. Wimpole sweated. Then Mr. Carter officiated as M. C., stood by his elbow with clasped ter to the post with the completed The sent his landlady's small daugh-
He Sentence of one month's hard la-and the prizes were presented by hands and beseeching even..
Jeremiad, and lay back on his chair laries), 2 slices of toast (100 cabour was imposed on Mak Kan, un-the Garrison Adjutant
could no more bring himself to say
and wept. lories), one half tablespoon of
'an unkind word about the book be- employed, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton butter (50 calories) and 6 ounces of milk (125 calories): For lunch at the Central Magistracy the THREE_DOG-OWNERS fore him that he could have pushed he will have vegetable bouillon morning, for the theft of $45.16
11 lbs.
Their diets are each different. but the principal components of are bagunas and
two
menus
skimmed milk.
For Miss Craddock, the light-
est of the trio, breakfast will
consist of orange juice (100 ca-
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
from Shea Kam, a kept woman, of (15 calories), lettuce & tomato Halad (100 calories) and 6 ounces Spring Garden Lane, yesterday.
Sergeant Fitchie said that none of
the money had been recovered.
For the larceny of a brown cat,
don.
FINED.
University Lecturer's Dog Strays.
+
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be. "Black Ulysses,” by R. Hernekin Baptist.
I assure you it was not the last time that Eustace Chasuble dis
its author into a vat of hot oll..
So he went on from seaSON to season, finding somehow, somewhere, a little extenuation for the jejune, of milk (125 culories). Dinner
the lewd, the preposterous. A split} will consist of a small portion of
Infinitive might perhaps earn a gen- lean roust beef (100 calories),
Summoned for allowing his brown the rebuke, but he would promptly one portion of peas (50 calories);} one slice of whole-wheat bread the property of Kwok Yung, of No. and white terrier dog to go abroad apologise for his temerity by draw in Cadogan in a public thoroughfare without ing attention to the author's delicacy (50 calories), half tablespoon of 151 Hau Wa Street, butter (50 calories), one half Street, yesterday, Lai Lai, a street either a muzzle or a lead, Mr. M. A. or profundity. A nice kind critle. And then one morning a volume baked apple with one half tea-coolie, was sentenced to one month's Cooper, of Lugard Hall, of the Hong
on Wimpole's table en- spoon of sugar (100 calories) and hard labour, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton Kong University, was fined $10 by titled "Gangrene and Lilles," the solved little Wimpole into a pool of at the Central Magistracy this Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Cen-nuthor being Mr. Eustace Chasuble. tears. It was not the last time that tral Magistracy this morning. I want to insist on this-Wimpole Chasuble's large-eyed phantom came For being in possession of 48 at large without a muzzle, Mr. J. Flof bed the wrong side that morning, stood beside Wimpole and
For allowing his chow dog to be had not, as the saying is, got out reproachfully into the wrung The diet of Miss Joy. the mid-po piu lottery tickets at No.
Grose, of No. 55 Condult Road, was His landlady had not scorched the its hands and moaned. Poor little dleweight will consist for the Lower Rutter Street, ground floor. fined $10 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at
bacon. six bananas Tang Chau, a shop foki, was fined the Central Magistracy this morn-from gumboils, but he was free at a more consummate blackguard If first two weeks of
He suffered occasionally Wimpole! He could not have felt and three or four glasses of $25 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at ling. Mr. Grose, pleading guilty that time from that minor but un- he had murdered his grandmother.
6 ounces of milk.
Bananas And Milk.
morning.
skimmed milk a day, with a little the Central Magistracy this morn-aaid that the muzzle had slipped. coffee and ten. but no cream oring. sugar. After that he will be put on a more liberal diet.
"
an offensive odour. It stank.
room and
And now.......And now.......He beat his bosom.
pleasing affliction. Yet the fact re-Waves of repentance surged over On a similar summons, for allow-mains that even as he unwrapped him and drowned him. Not a single Sentence of one month's hard la-Cheung Wing-kaf, of No. 69 Robin- that "Gangrene and Lilies" gave off so much as troubled a fly's wing. ing his dog on Repulse Bay beach, the book from the parcel, he felt word he had ever written could have The diet planned for Miss Ter bour was imposed on L! Cheung, a son Road, was fined $25 by Mr. ry, the heavyweight, gives her coolie, by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen Hamilton. at first two bananas and a glass at the Central Magistracy this morn- of skimmed milk for breakfast;ing, for the attempted theft of a two bananas, a glass of skimmed gold bangle from a Chinese woman milk and a small portion of spin-named Leung Yik,, at No. 46, Sal ach for lunch and two bananas, Street. a glass of skimmed milk and 2
small portion of liver for dinner.
The experiment will continue for 30 days. during which each woman will be weighed and ex- amined daily at the Board of Health laboratories-Reutet.
UNMANIFESTED SACCARINE.
Complicated Ordinance
As Excuse.
CONTRACT BREACH
Judgment With Costs For Moses & Co.
Judgment with cost was granted by the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor at the Supreme Court this morning in a claim for $88,719.20 by Messrs. S. N. Moses and Com- pany Ltd., of No. 17 Queen's Road
CHINESE BITTEN
After having been bitten by a dog belonging to Chan Chung, Wu Chan kan: of. No. 14 Yuk Ming Street, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday for treat- The dog has been sent to Kennedy Town for observation.
ment.
POLICE OFFICER VICTIMISED.
Radiator Cap Stolen From His Car.
Lam Hing, a 28-year-old unem-
.
PETITION GRANTED
FOR WINDING UP.
Order Made For British
Film Distribution Co.
He sometimes wondered whether suble to commit his review had caused Eustace Cha- suicide. He paraded various methods of suicide
in grisly pageantry before him. Chasuble hanging from a beam, his lips and tongue purple.....Chasuble contorted in the unspeakable anguish A petition for the winding up of of strychnine......Chasuble a dis- the British Film Distribution Com-membered corpse in the wake of the pany was granted by the Chief Jus-great North express. But always tice, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor at the the original picture asserted Itself Supreme Court this morning with an In the end, the large-eyed phantom order for the appointment of the that came reproachfully into the official receiver as liquidator of the room and stood beside him and firm:
wrung its hands and moaned.
He developed in his mind an ex-
The application was made by Mr.
Marton, of Messrs, Deacons,
MUI TSAI RUNS AWAY.
Central, against the Sheung Ip ployed, was sentenced to two months' D. McNeill, instructed by Mr. O. E. traordinary precise picture of Eus- and Company and Lo Tse Leung, hard labour by Mr. J. B. H. Lee at C. of 27 Wing Lok Street, for breach the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- jof contract.
ing for stealing a radiator cap, Ngau Sze, a married woman, was Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by valued at $25, from a Morris car charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton Messrs. Woo and Nash, appeared belonging to Sub-Inspector Ritchie. The car was outside No. 44 Han- at the Central Magistracy this for, the plaintiffs, the defendants morning, with importing 100 tins of failing to make an appearance in kow Road when Lam stole the cap saccarine into the Colony without Court.
and he was arrested In Nanking
Chow on July 25.
being manifested on the s.s. Chuen The claim was in respect of a Road by a Chinese detective, who contract between the parties dat-saw him carrying it in his jacket Mr. F. H. Loseby pleaded noted August 31, 1931, for the sale pocket. gulity on behalf on defendant, say-and purchase of 400 bales of blan-
The
HAUL.
ing that it is very difficult to under-kets each bale containing 100 COUNTERFEIT COIN stand the ordinance. After evidence pieces valued at $1.65 each. by a Chinese revenue-officer and by defendants failed to take delivery Revenue-Officer A. W. Grimmitt, the and the plaintiffs disposed of the case was adjourned until August 18, goods by auction, suffering a loas
of $38,719.20.
STIFF SENTENCE FOR BANISHEE
For returning from banishment
CROP CONTROL CONTINUES
(Continued From Page 1)
Paducah, Kentucky, To-day.
Alleged Beaten By Mistress.
tace Chasuble. He was about five feet four inches in height, his head was pear-shaped and rather too big for his body. The hair was long. and jet-black, the lips vivid acarlet The finger upon a sallow face, nails were long and (if the truth were told) a little dirty. He was knick-kneed. He had a fluting, high-pitched voice. But his one eyes, his reproachful, melancholy eyes......Wimpole lay back in his
A fine of $50, Ingdefault month's imprisonment, was imposed
on Chiu Suk-wah, a married woman, chair and sobbed. of No. 63, Third Street, by Mr. E.
Many years passed. Never again W. Hamilton at the Central Magis did Wimpole utter a word of criti- tracy this morning, for keeping an unregistered mui tsai, 17-year-old cism which was not in the last de- gree nice and kind. But he could: Leung Kul, alias Leung Po-kam. not ever exercise the phantom of Detective Sergeant Fraser stated Eustace Chasuble-the knock-kneed, that the girl ran away from her long-haired, sad-eyed phantom of A fine of $50, in default of one mistress on July 18, and reported to little Eustace Chasuble. month's hard labour, was imposed the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs
Behold him at this moment in the
Chinese From Macão Arrested.
•
on Chíu Cheung, unemployed, by that she wanted to make her own tiny market town of Bugmarsh, Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Cen- living, and that she had been beaten where he has a couple of hours to on July 80 without an authorised In a speech here yesterday, the tral Magistracy this morning, for by accused. permit, Lam Lai-yin, a 58-year-old United States Secretary of Agricul-being in possession of 100 counter- unemployed, was sentenced to nins ture, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, said feit Hong Kong coins. months' hard labour by Mr. J. B. H. that crop control' would.`continue, Sergeant Fowlie said that accused. Lee at the Kowloon Magistracy this but it must be supplemented by ef- came here from Macao," and "was morning.
forts to re-open foreign markets for arrested yesterday with two rolls of It was stated that the defendant American farm products-United counterfelt coins on his person, was banished on July 28 for a period Press. per 5. E. Levy and Company.
of 10 years. When asked why he returned so soon, he said that there] was neither work nor food in the country.
WINDOW-BREAKING AT
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
ROAD TRAFFIC BILL PASSED
IN ENGLAND
COMMUNIST ONSLAUGHT IN
WEST FUKIEN
idle away before catching his con- nection for town. He has been spending his annual fortnight's holi- day, in the heart of the country. But now the call of duty has gone (Continued From: Page 1): forth and he must return to his To speed up the campaign labours. It is dusk. He is rather! against the Beds, General Chiang short-sighted. He is peering at the Kai-shek, Chairman of the Mill-posters pasted up outside the parish
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No Valid Passport.
conference in Kuling, Northern there is to be an auction sale. of Klangal, with the ranking com- farm, implements and effects next manders. Besides high military Tuesday, that to-morrow night an officers, Mr. Wang Ching-wel, Pre-illustrious pianist from the Metro- sident of the Executive Yuan, and polls is actually going to honour
(Continued from Page 1 Details of the driving tests for new motorists also remain to bo Anally settled, and the organisa- An order for the expulsion of Dr. H. H. Kung Minister of Fin Bügmarsh with his presence, that tion has to be set up to administer Kehar Singh, an unemployed Indian ance, are now on their way from to-night that to-night? 0 Hea these tests. The new legislation watchman, was ordered to be jasued Nanking to take part in the Kal ven
«A report was made to the Police also given power to make regula. by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen-Ing. parler 17
by Gurdal Singh, watchman No, 508 tons about the hours during which tral Magistracy, this morning, when It to learned that
of Messrs. Lane, Crawford's that horns may not be sounded.
while he was on duty at 4:80 o'clock One part of the bill likel
this morning, he heard a noise in the brought into force imme
front of the shop. On investigation ables the doctor of any
he found that a pane of glass:
Broken in the jewellery.depart
No person has been arrested.
where eme ¿been
Servisn
he was charged with entering the ist proble
Colony without a valid passport.
eant Russell (stated that
fendant came to Hong Kong acao after having been die
Is to be
scalp froze H hafr As if to make that there tace Chasubles were informed in der, his name that
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