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HERE, THERE
EVERYWHERE
THE EMPTY CONTINENT
A globe-trotter, recently arrived In England, after a European tour, states that,
In Paris he stayed in one of the largest hotels, with 500 bedrooms. Only-80-were occupied. There {were ́ practically no 'Americans, At
ENGLISH FACES ARE CHANGING
CONTRACTED FEATURES
MORE PREVALENT
Mans at the Madeleine on the Sun-| OST
DEFINITE MARK OF RACE ?
(By Sir Arthur Keith)
day the usual throng of foreigners Mm people, by
was absent.
London. sense they were not unlike. So now are far as concerne outward appear- familiar with the Englishman ances the inhabitants of the Bri- depicted by the caricaturists of tish Isles are more uniform than From Paris he went to Germany. the Continent. He is represented is the case in France, Germany, He was the only person occupy by long, projecting front teeth, a or Italy. We have a better right ing a sleeper in the coach in drawn-out, irregular face, wide to claim a unified racial type than which he travelled.
mouth, and loose jaws. If his wife have these countries. The train attendant told him or sweetheart is with him she is - Irregular Jaw Formation that there were only 18 passen-given equally repulsive features. However, it is not the racial geru, 11-on-the-Paris portion and Recent political moves and constitution of the English people two on the Calais portion.
counter-moves have apparently which concerns us at the present Germany was as empty of An given some of these foreign car-moment, but the rise and spread glo-American tourists as France. toonists a new, impulse in depict of the type which has caught the
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ing what seem to them to be our eye of the foreign caricaturist. BRITAIN'S FULL HOUSE
typical English features.
It is when we explore this sub- Is this English type merely a ject that he importance of the col-- figment of the foreign car-lections which are being formed
Crossing from Cherbourg to Southampton he found that only. 10 per cent, of the Americans now icaturist's imagination or does it in the museum of the Royal College disembark at Cherbourg, compared
actually exist? Is it in any sense of Surgeons becomes apparent. with the 90-per cent. of a few
peculiar to England?
When an orderly examination is
years ago.
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The unanimous opinion of those
In showing our English features made of these collection it is thus wo must admit, I think, that found that the peculiar English on board was that England was our enemy, the caricaturist, is not type we are is search of was prac the country to visit this year.
altogether at fault; there is a sub-tically unknown is pre-Roman
On arriving in London, he had stratum of truth in his exaggera-England. The jaws
are well- to ring up seven hotels before he tion. Such features are apt to developed, the features are regi could obtain suitable accommoda- appear in those who have suffered lar, the palate is expanded, and tion. His hotel, he states, was in their youth from imperfect the teeth are evenly spaced. packed with American and French growth of the jaws and, crowding However, when we turn to the visitors.
of the front teeth.
people buried in cemeteries of the He is now enjoying the Scottish
I do not mean that we in this eighteenth century, and particu mountain air at a Perthshire recountry all suffer from crowded arly of the nineteenth, we find silver standard has adopted the sort. There, too, he had great
teeth and contracted palates, but that the type has become very, system of making the value of difficulty in obtaining accom-the condition is more prevalent common. By the end, of the nine- its coins for transactions within modation because of the crowds of among us than among any other teenth century every fifth person
people in Europe. It has
showed this type to some degree; its own boundaries à question of foreign visitors. policy rather than of natural re-
than once caught the eye of that is to say, they suffered from sources and the mining industry.
The new policy may be beneficial
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harrowing of the palate, crowding Now the features which the of the teeth, and irregular forma to Chinese internal trade. The Einstein says space is limited. But foreign caricaturist has assigned tion of the jaws.
In the present generation It was of course a mere coing/tradition of the old tael, the mul- those who write rejection 'slips thought to the modern Englishman have
come into existence in recent cen- tracted palate, with its accom dence that while His Excellency tiple coins and paper monies in of the iden first.
turies; and those features are be-panying changes in the facial. use; the semi-independence of was laying the foundation stone the Provinces; all make Chine in
features, is more widely spread coming more common as time goes of the new Headquarters build-this respect morelike a Conting of an expense now that he's gradu-
than ever before. ing of the Hong Kong and Shang-ent than a homogeneous com-lated from college?”
You will naturally ask: How do hai Bank the silver dollar should,
munity, and the Nanking Govern- Executive: "Well, yes. I don't have you know that? have been falling into complete ment has for some years tried in to put a three-tent stamp on his pay confusion; but it is none the less vain to bring in some order and envelope any more.
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A Saving Friend: "I suppose your son is less
on.
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REPORTED
One 1,000 Miles Away Heading This Way
a history of the British people,
some error in our modern way of Perhaps it would be more accurate living? to say that the conservators have
The more severe degrees of con- assembled the materials for such a tracted palate can be prevented by history. Whenever ancient burial proper treatment, but apparently. places were discovered, they, ac-not the alighter degrees. "One quired representative skulle and notices that certain families skeletons, and preserved them in develop the contracted face, no the museum. Excavations now matter what steps are taken; while going on will probably add much others do not acquire it, no mat- interesting material to these collecter what errors may be made in tions.
feeding and Ilving. When Sir Richard Owen Wag
Civilisation Is not the cause; the Conservator, a century ago now, Egyptians, ancient and modern are
were gathered. from free from it.
This modern change in facial type is bpt confined to any class; it appears in the familles of Opinion Of Surgeons
the rich more frequently than in Let me explain how the discovery the families of the poor. I have a coincidence full of interest and uniformity. It would be a great Camera Club Comment
came to be made. It was made in seen it in men who have won "the instruction. The solid confidence reform, and would make Bank Ford Mother: "Will the photograph London, at the Royal College of Victoria Cross and in record- in the future felt by the Direc-ing on & much wider scale possibe anything like him?"
Surgeons. The council of that breaking long-distance runners. tors, who are in the best position ble, it would also go further than Photographer: "Yes, madam, but we college has never taken a narrow to judge and who indicate their any military operation to unify can easily alter that."
Is, then this contracted type of view of its dutles-to-the-nation. It face to become a permanent mark sentiment by so magnificent athe whole territory of the Repu construction in the most durable blic. The main difficulty is that Mistress: "Mary, when you wait at servators to build up in ita museum ly a disorder of growth caused by Friendly Warning
has encouraged a long line of con-of the Englishman? Or is it mere- steel and other materials, is a to a far greater degree than electable to-night for my guests, please very vivid contrast and commen- where transactions are done by don't wear any jewelry." tary on the puzzled anxieties of actually handing
Maid: over metal
"I have nothing valuable, the Bank's clients.
coins. Endless dislocation is ma'am, but I thank you for the warn
ing" We are not of those who ex-caused when the value of those pect that the world will be con-coine fluctuates, and a very large tent to flounder about for ever quantity of metal must be kept in the whirlpools and typhoons in circulation. The triumph of a TWO TYPHOONS ARE started by the Governments that few representatives of the blow hot and cold with. so much Western American states has vigour, and so little direction, but caused about a third of the na- neither are we of those who ex- tional supply already to leave pect to see things drift back to the country, and the building up the old system. The world's trade of some large credits in Ameri- is gradually developing towards can dollars by a few rich men ia Another typhoon is reported by remains very much more conscious con- poor consolation for millions of the Royal Observatory this morn trol. Each country wishes to be peasants who are unable to get ing to be situated in the Pacificaves of all periods of England's Whether we like the prospect or able to plan its own production, the usual price for their rice and about 500 miles east-south-east of
past-representing Englishmen of not, I am afraid that we shall have The only healthy Manila, moving west-north-west or the Norman, Danish, and as far as possible to be self-their labour.
Saxon, to accept the contracted face as, a Roman, Celtic, sufficient That implies that ex-foreign credits are those obtain north-west.
and pre-definite mark of our race." change with other countries shall ed by the sale of the products ofį
Celtic times. Additions flowed in A report from the Manila Obser during the conservatorship of Sir be effected by means of a man- the soil and the factory. aged currency. It is quite a
But exchange regulation has can Consulate, gives the position of during the period 1 was in charre vatory, issued by the local Ameri-William Flower; they continued realisable ideal, but there is not certain inevitable results. It in- this typhoon to be in about Long of the museum and I have "nu at present either the knowledge troduces uncertainty, which is 128, East and Lat. 18, north, moving doubt this national record will be or the organisation or the trust adverse to sound business, in the good faith of other nations through divorcing the foreign
maintained under my gifted suc On its present track the typhoon cessor, Professor John Beattie. that are needed to make the sys-price of the currency from the Item work smoothly. A little price of the metal. It is at this which is over 1,000 miles away,
should hit Swatow.
Skeleton Generations clear thinking is needed before point that Hong Kong becomes
Thus if the museum of the Royal even our rulers can decide what closely interested. We cut adrift The position of the previous College of Surgeons there have in Bonham Road near the Univer- to aim and how to set about it. from gold and then from sterl-`
Discussions of the amount of ing because the leaders of our typhoon, as reported by the Royal been assembled specimens of the sity without due care and caution, silver likely to be smuggled into commerce considered that it Observatory, is given as about 40 succession of peoples who have Mr. H. N. Williamson, of Queen's miles north-east of Tourane (Indo-lived in these islands for many College, was cautioned by Mr. E. or out of a country with so large would be better to anchor on sil·
AW, Hamilton at the Central Magia- a seaboard as China may be set ver and let our dollar rise and China) and moving west by north thousands of years..
The object which the Royal tracy. this morning. on one side. Nobody will ever fall with the Chinese collages.
College of Surgeons had in view Lt. J C. Richardson, of the know, and it is the official policy Those coinages will not now rise
when it began to collect skulls and South Wales' Borderers, was fined of a country that merits theore and fall with silver, to which we
skeletons of the past inhabitants $10 for obstruction with his car tical discussion. First it is need are still-anchored. Anyone with ¡ful to make clear what a metal- a stock of silver can send it to
of England, was a simple one. It in Pedder. Street, was to study the various races Jic standard means. It cannot the mint and get back its full mean less than (1) a free mar value, less a small seigniorage, His Honour the Chief Justice, which have contibuted to the ket in the standard metal, solin Hong Kong dollars. The Mr. A. D. MacGregor, accom formation of the English people, In this it has succeeded. We that the current price is a genuine Chinese export duty, will have panied by Mrs. MacGregor, return-
i international standard of value; the effect of lowering the price ed to the Colony this morning by know much more now concerning (2) free coinage into money, so of silver in the open market by the ss. Comorin from a holiday in the outward appearance of Jutes. that anyone who has the metal decreasing the amount offered, North China,
north-west.
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NORTH OF TOURANE
or west-north-west..
las bullion can turn it into coins, for sale, while it raises the price} -
and (8) free import and export of commodities in China, by re- Any departure from anyone of taining quantities of silver that
Personal Par
Angles, Saxona, Danes and Nor mans than was known a generation ago, we are now familiar with the people of the Roman occupation";
the three conditions means that would otherwise be shipped ever. No wonder our brokers we know, too, the features of the the country under consideration abroad. Opinions differ as to wear a worried look, and the ex-races who inhabited England in the has abondoned the metallic stan- the amount of effect that the change rate varies by penny in conturies which proceded the dard and become a managed cur- new duty will have, but there a single day. We have passed coming of the legions of Rome rency. It is not necessarily any can be no doubt that It must out of the region of economic The statement is often made that worse for that, but it is neces have some effect. The dumber theory into the empirical prac-the English area mongrel peo ry to words In a clearly intelli, of markets that can influence our tice of watching actual transac-ple, compounded out of a diversity gible sense dollar, is increased, the fixtions, and in effect only the of races. Briton and Baxon were That is what China has done. Jing of its probable at any Banks have the necessary in different in speech, in tradition |The last_great adherent to the future date is more plex than formation at their disposi
and in ideali; but in a phys
SCHOOLMASTER CAUTIONED
Army Officcer Fined For Obstruction
Summoned, for driving his car
"Doen (your baby brother talk yet?!!!
"Ha doesn't need to talk.
all he wants without talking.
He gets