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Sometimes he gains inspiration
ANIMALS KNOW VALUE OF THRIFT
NATURE'S OWN METHOD OF STORAGE
CAMEL CARRIES SUSTENANCE IN HIS HUMP
(By Craven Hill)
E learn many useful things at his best; but they also tell a when we are young-among story. They show that the animal
That the rules dated the 4th day of November, 1936, made by the from developments not directly Chief Justice under section 32 of connected with League of Nations them the virtue of saving. "Here" is well fed and well cared for
ys the head of the family, "is Could you see him after he had the Supreme Court Ordinance, Degotiations.
His newest cocktail is called the your pocket-money. Don't spend it made a lengthy cross-desert jour ney, however, you would find the 1873, Ordinance No. 3 of 1873, be
“Deralue," and was first shaken all. Put something by." ¡approved.
on the night when Switzerland Those, or similar words, are humps in a very different condi countless homes tion, for when the animal has been devalued her currency to align it still repeated in with that of the three bis moneto the rising generation of to-day obliged to draw on his inner sup are thin and tary Powers.
and it behaves us to take note of plies, his humps
are wise words flabby, and may even droop over Here is the recipe:
them, for they Gin. French vermouth. 4Unfortunately, we
do not always his flank
Excess Liquid drops of Angostura bitters, and 4. drops of Berger (Absinthe). Shake see the wisdom of the advice at
Nature does nothing by halves, well and strain into a very cold any rate when we are young;
wherein lies just one more of those and since it would have been little cocktail glass. Carlo maintains that even those countless ways in which we differ use to give the camel a food re- Iserve without a similar reserve of
S. J. a Requiem Mass will be cele-move the following resolutions: brated in the Catholic Cathedral on Thursday, 26th, at 9.00 am
1. Resolved pursuant to section 21 (4) of the Hong Kong Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordia-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1938. ance, 1936, that after deduction of
A Munificent Gift
Medicine
are
the levy, if any, and of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Contribu- Totion, if any, or of either, the re-
mainder of the salaries of all pub-who choose a sweet or medium from many of the animals.
In the animal world the instinct water, she has made it possible lie officers in the Hong Kong Gov. Martini in preference to a dry one
x-will find this cocktail to their to save when times are good is an for it to store up excess liquid- jernment Service, which
inborn one, and animal mothers do quite a big supply. The Arabs One is inclined to agree with not have to drum the advice into who use these animals as beasts of of this the ears of their offspring, for the burden, are well aware practice of thrift among the more and, before starting off on a long intelligent animals, is nothing less trek, invariably see that their than
an instinctive rule to be camels have had ample opportunity igidly observed.
to drink freely.
If the camel is known as the What is so amazing, however, is
Lord Nuffield's gift of pressed in terms of sterling, what-taste. £1,350,000 to the University of ever their amount, shall be co- Oxford was mumificent upon soverted at the rate of one shilling him grand a scale that expressions and three pence three farthings to
and December,
policies
*
about in
of gratitude or admiration must the dollar for the months of Octo "HARK, HARK? THE LARE?”
It was not only ber. November
Mr. Ormsby-Gore's colleagues seem feeble. the amount of the benefaction 1936.
2. Resolved pursuant to section in the Senior Common Room at; but the plan which made its power for good greater than 6 of the Hong Kong Government New College are said to be shak-
estimate can forecast. Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordin-ing their heads over the oratorical the extraordinary variety of ways animal that "lives on its hump," lapse of their recently elected in which the different species fol- there is another, though less weil- any
low this rule. Some board their known creature, which lives equal- Oxford will be endowed with ance, 1936, that with effect from
In a speech at Stafford the food in one large dump; some well on its tail" He is the resources ample for the estab-the 1st day of September, 1936, the Honorary Fellow. lishment of a Post-Graduate salary of John Williams Walkien, Colonial Secretary is reported to like the squirrels-prefer to put it Gila monster of Mexico -- that in a thousand different hiding-large, rather sluggish lizard, whose Medical School upon such a Temporary Gymnastic Instructor,
have said:
We want a sane, steady, demo, places, while others store up their body is covered with beady scales scale that the medical services shall be exempt from the operation
their owa per-of salmon-pink and black, remind cratic Government, based on Bri-excess food upor of the country will be raised to of section 3 of the said, Ordinance.
Bills To Be Read
none of this sons, and the ways of this lasting one forcibly of oriental bead- tish principles, with a higher efficiency. Lord Nuf-
larking
adventurous group are perhaps the most inter-work. field has a long record of splen The Attorney General will move
Heavy Tail did generosity to many worthy the first reading of
Except when used to signify the esting of all.
notable But perhaps the most "Shio Of The Desert" causes, especially to hospitals "A Bill to give effect to the
process of catching larks, larking!
thing about him is his large, and to Oxford University. He change in name and style of the is a colloquialism alien to the
Consider, for instance, that heavy-looking tail. Not a hand- has been working on a definite offices heretofore known as those classical atmosphere
well-known animal. the camel some appendage, that tail of the policy, and this last gift proof Director of Medical and Sani- College.
desert," as we la monster's, but one that is vides for its consummation in tary Services and Deputy Director
Mr. Ormsby-Gore can do much The Ship of the the development of a scheme of Medical and Sanitary Services.”
Here, for in-sometimes call him, stores up in extraordinarily useful to him in better than that. of national and even more than "A Bill to amend the Merchant stance, is a quotation from his side his humps a supply of nourish his native Mexican deserta, for in- national importance. The need Shipping Ordinance, 1899."
the fierce of larger provision for post-"A Bill to provide for the revis speech earlier this month at the ment so that each hump becomes side it herstores up fat on which rations.""" On this Mexican drought sets in. At such on the influences of films, wireless; "emergency graduate medical courses has tration and inspection of nursing Institute Colonial dinner. Talking a sort of haversack filed become urgent. Such has been homes and maternity homes for and headline journalism in Colonial supply the camel draws when, as times conditions become hard for the development of science that purposes connected therewith." special schools are now required "A Bill to amend further the to give men and women, already Midwives Ordinance, 1910." - qualified practitioners, further courses in modern methods and new discoveries and to provide training for those who will de vote themselves to research and teaching. -
"A Bill to amend the Defences (Firing Areas) Ordinance, 1936.”
"A Bill to provide for a revised edition of the Ordinances, and for revised edition of the Begula tions, of the Colony,"
The Attorney General will move
The scheme which Lord Nuf fiek suggested to Oxford is the second reading of -
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"A-BI to amend further the school of the university. Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865.” "A Bit to armend the Currency There are to be four depart- ments in the post-graduate Ordinance, 1935.” school medicine, surgery, "A Bill to amend the obstetrics combined with gyn-Duties Management jaecology, and anaesthetics-1911." jeach under a professor who will to the give his whole time
work, undertaking no private practice, though he may have the care of some hospital pati-i ents. It is generally recog- nised by the medical profession that more appointments of The this kind are required. Medical Besearch Council has urged the establishment of
G
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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Belgian Chess Marvel
teaching posts without the tiesEORGE Koltanowski. of Ant- of private practice. Thanks towers, Belgium, played 160 the preparations which Lard simultaneous games of chess at the Nuffield has already made by Flemish Chess Clab in Antwerp, enlarging the hospital accom-Belgium, on November 20. 1931. modation of Oxford and estab-He won 135 games, lost 7, drew 18, lishing an institute of medical finishing in 11-1/2 hours. research, the university now affords an ideal opportunity for the study of the higher pro- blems of medicine in conjunc- tion with practice. Lord Nuf
field has wisely laid stress on
Your Daily Smile!
Possibly
Slight bumps and hollows develop jon even the most carefully tended
the correlation of the advance wn, and it will pay you to run your ment of knowledge and the eye over it now and again-Weekly treatment of the sick. There paper.
is already in London the British
Post-Graduate Medical School, be more effective
which was opened by King
Although a roller would probably
Good-by
George last year, with much Son (entering cfice): "Well, daá, the same plan as that intend I just ran up to my bello. ed at Oxford. But the harvest Dad: "Too stay boy.
Your
to be reaped is far greater than mother ran up to say hello, and got the existing opportunities for all my change
training could deal with."
The
Oxford Post-Graduate School should give England an
and most efficient staff college {for medicine, an inst
which will tend kno
est skill
That Man Is In Agnin!
hear the head of the Dia
mining interests is going to
he can afford to rest
of New
with
he can draw when
often happens in his native land. territories, he said:
prudent Gila www.caster comes The new media were capable of he has to make a long journey any a desert animal; but the being used for really valuable across the bot and barren sands of through the severest famine with visual, intellectual and oral educa-the desert.
flying colours, though hardly with tion, but equally were capable of
The conventional picture of a his tall well up, for the end of a *****re abuse. No summary could be more camel invariably portrays the famine finds him with a sadly academically precise and embrac-animal with well-developed hamps depleted rear appendage!
Such pictures certainly depict him (Continued on Page 57
ling.
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