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From
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1934.
Destination
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934
Building one of the Zuyder Zue dykes.
**SOUDAN
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RANPURA CORFU **BURDWAN
RANCHI NALDERA
8th Doc. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. DO - bay, Mara, Havre, London H'burg Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hul. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
- DONN Bombay, Mars., Havre, London, Ham- burg, R'dam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles und London.
-DO-
17,000 15th Dec. 15,000 29th Dec 0.000 5th Jan.
17,000 12th Jan. 16.000 24:1 Jan. SOMALI
7,000
2nd Feb.
RAWALPINDI ··17,000 9th Feb. RAJPUTANA
17,000 23rd Feb, **BANGALORE
6,000 2nd Mar Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marselles & Lantion
DO-
CHITRAL CARTHAGE
15,000 0th Mar. 15,000 23rd Mar.
• Cargo only.
+ Calle Casablanca.
Draining the former sa bottom.
A Dutch Sharman and his son. One of the greatest engineering feats in human history is proceeding toward completion in the reclamation of more than 800 square miles of arable land from the bottom of the North sea. Tiny Holland, whose teeming millions find it too crowded in their ocean battered land, has push- ed back old man Neptune by means of dykes and pumpa to reduce the Zuyder Zee to one-half its former size; and uncover additional farm land. More than $500,000,000 will have been expended by 1938 to make rool.. for 250,000 sturdy Holland formers to till the ancient seabeds.
NEW WORLD FOR What's In A Name?
THE DEAF
Instrument Perfected In Aid Of Bad Cases
MIRACLES OF SCIENCE
Continued from Page 91.
-post office is almost next door-- simply homely comfort, two people and there may be a reply soon after woth each other, and possibly, later we reach home."
"Oh, do send it at once, John- "Oh, don't be sentimental, dear! now!I don't mind waiting here." Imagine, The Nest at the top of our
"Alf right!" said John, and left) boy,note-paper. It would be a ther.
pure
Before long a London aged nine, who has been "deaf-mute". since birth, is going
"It wouldn't! There's nothing John prepaid a reply, which ar to the Zoo to listen to the noises funny in the name of a real place-rived at their home that night: of the animals-and to imitate I take it that Darjeeling is one. But them for his own amusement.
How is this possible?
a scream to every friend I've got!" So Daphne got her bun, at any
"So would Darjeeling or--": rate.
"Well, that's that!" said John. imagine yourself having to tell the "Now we know just where we are.” Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-
"We don't! I won't have the The men in your office that your new ad- *tantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and pther Levent Ports by steamers of the answer is to be found in a work-dress was The Nest. How they name!" Khedival Mali Steamship Co.
would boot!"
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
.1934..
*TAKADA †TILAWA
7,000 7th Dec S'pore, Penang and Calcutta. 10,000 21st Dec.
DO
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t Call Port Sweetenham
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"Very well, that ends it. Fare- well to The Nest! Let's forget about it, old girl."
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THE
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shop in Islington. Here, during
"Why should they hoot?" the last year, craftsmen have
"John, listen to me! The Nest been gradually perfecting amay have been all right forty years
"Never!" She flung her arms "wireless deaf-aid" which may ago, long before the days of motors, about him, "John, darling. you open up a new world for the deaf aeroplanes, talkies, and so on; when must buy the cottage!"
Surgeon and stewardess carried. Electric Laundry and barber shop on board. and dumb, and which is teaching people had nothing to do bat-but
"Not me!" John replied, stoutly as deaf-mute children to speak and wallow in their homes"
well as ungrammatically, “My mind 'First sailings from Hongkong: MS. "NEPTUN" 31st Dec., 1984.
Interesting route via Philippines, Sandakan, and New Guinea. to hear the sounds of everyday *Wallow' is rather good!" John is quite definitely made up on that life.
smiled.
point. Suppose that in two or three
MS. "MERKUR" 2nd Feb., 1985.". The Education Committee of
"Well, I'm glad you're beginning years' time they want to send me to the London County Council is to not sneering at the old buck; who
at last to see my point of view. I'm the London office" ·
"That would be lovely! You B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for eight of these instruments in for the sloppy age he lived in. I
vote a sum of $496 for providing owns the house. He wasn't to blame could just sell the cottage." 1st and 2nd class passengers.
"No, thank you, my dear! Not schools for the deaf and partially ¡deaf.
daresay he was quite happy in that taking any chances that way. After house, with his wife and family, and all, The Nest is not the only cottage because he has never got rid of the in the country." Mr. A. Poliakoff, the son of the sentimental associations he doesn't wasn't The inventor, told a reporter that hisant to have the old Billy name re- 7,000 28th Dec. Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney & father, a Russian, had been moved from the gate. But to-day,
Melbourne, and Hobart
working on sound all his life. John, everything is different. People He came to England eleven years are sane. and practical-young jago, and, devoting himself to the people, I mean-and so and so
problem of-the-deaf and dumb,
"Have another bun, dear," saidį finally evolved this receiver, John, passing the dish. which has enabled them to reach
"No, thank you! stlmly replied Monday, midday, Mr. Binger sat in his office, grinning at a Daphne, who had been about to help telegram just received. herself. "If you must keep on in- This instrument hus
The office-boy announced Mr. Jor the torupting me” appearance of an ordinary wire-
dan, and there entered an untidily; less receiver with loudspeaker, the air, as the saying is? The situa- noticeable features wore a bushy "Sorry, but aren't we just beating attired elderly man, whose most No Additional Charge for Deck Cabins Bun-Deck-Swimming Pool transformer, by virtue of which cottage-I want it quite as much as He brought with him a
and has a specially designed tion is quite plain. We want the whitish-beard-and-a-reddish-nose-- Orchestra carried-Laundry-Surgeon—Stewardens.
1954.
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7,000 1st Fab.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan the worst deaf cases. and Hong Kong to Australia.
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Frequent connections from Australia with the following-
name"
name!"
"It's the only one I want-If it Nest -oh, sickening|
On Saturday night John wrote to the agent, saying he had abandoned the idea of renting The Nest
*
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MONTHLY SERVICE
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EXPRESS SAILING
M.V. “TRICOLOR"
it is claimed to be super-sensitive you do--but you to a wide range of sound fre quencies. By changing over a becomes a microphone,
Attached to the instrument
distinct don't like. the aroma of whisky.
Without giving the agent time to "I loathe and despise it!" speak, he said: "Got your message, "Quite so! On the other hand, Binger, I seem to have slipper, for the owner wants us to have the cot once. However, if you wire the!
Hong Kong
DEC. 18
San Francisco
JAN. 10
Los Angeles
JAN. 12
New York
JAN. 27
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom v New switch in the circuit, the loud- Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. O. Royal Mall Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez,
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton
London via Panamon Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
SANTHIA RANCHI TALMA
B: SOMALI ANALDERA
1934.
8,000 18th Dec. 17,000 14th Dec. 10,000 27th Dec. 7,000 26th Dec. 10.000 28th Dec. 7,000
3rd Jan. 8.000 10th Jan RAWALPINDI 17.000 11th Jan.
NELLORE
SIRDHANA
*BANGALORE
6,000 24th Jan.
Cargo only.
"A bit drastle, you think?".
DODWELL & CO., LTD
Queen's Buildings
Agents
Telephone 28021
ASIATIC WOMEN'S CONGRESS
and are twelve pairs of headphones, tage, but he refuses to let us give it young man to the effect that he can each of which has an independent another name. So what's to be call the house what he dashed well volume control.
!done?"
pleases-" "Ring up the agent now, and tell Experiments with the appar him we have definitely decided not said Mr. Binger. "You weren't "No need to do that, Mr. Jordan," ratus have been remarkably suc-to take the cottage unless the name wrong. His letter was written on cessful, and it is felt that it may can be changed." have an important influence up.
Saturday, but I fancy the wife got NOTORIOUS WOMAN methods of teaching the deaf
busy on Sunday. Anyway, he's buy- who have any residual hearing.down," said Daphne, her heart on
"I believe in putting my footing! There's his wire!"
OF WEST END Mr. Jordan grinned. Lip-reading
the cottage, her eye on the bun. “Dhi "Just so! Prove once more my normallit now, John!" method of teaching a deaf-mute "No! We may not be the only day, for all her freedom, is-even End of London, Beatrice Ross, Described by the police as the theory that the young woman of to- most notorious woman in the West at presént is a slow process, pebbles on the beach. We may lose more self-conscious and it follows that the voicca of the chance of the cottage
about some deaf children who are taught to
things than her grandmother was. Bailey to 20 months' imprisonment: aged 29, was sentenced at the Old speak in this way are completely people would take it with its pre-price. Got any more young folks on a wallet containing 218 · froma
"I'm perfectly certain that no Twelve hundred's a pretty good She had pleaded guilty to stealing been received by the women circle tonėless. Now, however, the children can actually hear the ent name no young people, any- your books?"
Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka. Shai, Kobe, and Yokohama. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka," S'hai Kobe and Yokohams. S'hai, Moji, Kobo and Yokohama, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, S'hai Kobe and Yokohama.
DO
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion,
as Offca up to Noon on the day previous to sailing
For further information, Passage, Freigel, Hanabooks, etc, apply to
Hearing For First Time
the
voice of their teacher, and mimic way.
"That's just the point, my dear.
"Several-some lately married; others about to be."
the
To Be Held In China Next Year
Nanking.
It is learned that a letter has
BALAN
drunken man in a taxicab. in China from Mrs. Naidu, a pro- When she heard the sentence minent Indian woman leader, Ross turned to the Common Ser through Mr. Tan Yun-shan who
it, and with the aid of their sets you seem sometimes to forget that “Well, go ahead and Fuy the cojeant, Mr. Holman Gregory, K.C. has just returned from that coun they can "pick up" all manner of noises which they might never there are people who matter besides tage that's for sale in the Lowdan and said: have known.
try, with the request that * Road, furbish it up, and stick the young ones, A month ago à London woman something, John ! who had been accepted as deaf
"Well, anyway, you've got to do usual name on the gate-ha, he!'!..
“You are a hard, unjust old man." Second. Sedaton" of the Asiatic-Wo- A men's Congress be held in China "The Nest-ha, hal laughed the the il-lighted stair Mr. Jordan, in 1985, for the whole of her life, and who
agent. What a brain you have, to who, though he rambled in houses, Chinese, women circle be sure, Mr. Jordan"
are said believed persons "Come and have lunch," said Mr. took his
enthusis
support Jordan. Still a total abstainer
this
brand, will ask the
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australiati Lines are fitted with Laundries, Parcels measuring not more than 5 eu, will be received at the Com-conducts her conversation TLL tell you what I do, I'll finger-spelling and signs, used a wire the agent now I don't set for the first time. She was want any argument on the phone able to hear music, and then, simply requesting him seriously to when her son bad mouthed I reconsider the question of the name to her the word "Mother."
send the wire when we go out
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.,
O. Bulding Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong
Agents
the moment?
They went yout
mpanion's arm, saying It's the paychology that does
The perchology, my lad
the psychology
STHELEND.
the ex- Congress(Chekiâi