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X unexpected conclusion last TORTUNATE indeed are the to walk and talk earlier than usual. month.
parents who have a child). The first difficulty that will strike" An Amendment to the Annual gifted with talents beyond the or- anxious parents is how they are Holiday Bill, which had strong dinary.
to tell whether their young pro- Government hacking, proved un- But if they are also possessed of digs has the makings of a genius If the year 1957 can continue as popular among Government back a sense of responsibility they will in him.
Lt Col Muirhead ponder anxiously over the problem | To begin with they will have it started things will definitely be benchers, and
did not help matters by his inter-of his proper education, so as to noticed that he has given evidence looking up.
make the most of his gifts, and of talent before the commence At the Hong Kong Hotel, therevention from the Front Bench.
In consequence the closure was at times they may even wish that ment of his school career by the was dancing in the Grill Room tarried and the amendment nega- their child had been born just an extent of his vocabulary and the the music of Art Carneiro's Boya'
average one rather than a badding ease with which he overcame his jand Maurice Dufour, the accordion
Cheered by this. the Socialists genius.
little problems of development. player, while variety items were]
Just imagine for instance the Once at school we do not always given by Vera Love and her Fol eagerly anticipated a victory over!
the Government in the lobby on pride as well as the anxious care find the most gifted child at the and Bob Barnett, The engagement is announced lies. Eula Hoff
with which the parents of Karl top of the class, because between Heary Wolfe, third son of and Bob and Bertie Hellman. The the second reading.
But when the Speaker put the Witte must have followed his factors enter too, such as whether the late Mr. & Mrs. Talbot Baines, artistes also. "gave shows
the So-career. where Norman question the Ayes from
Born in 1800 he showed he gets on well with his teacher. of Leeds, and Joan Enid, eldest Roof Garden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brookes's Band kept dancing pa-cialist beaches had the Chamber such amazing talent that he was or whether the methods of instruc- to themselves. Not a sound came able to enter college at nine, and tion are suitable. But you will Flex of Letchworth, Hertford-trons busy tatil 4 am.
distinction never End that he scores marks The Gloucester Hotel also had from the Government side of the graduated Ph.D. with shire.
House until shouts of laughter. 13. At 16 he obtained the below those normal for his age in an all-star programme with the
announce LL.D. at Berlin University and any subject, and usually the gift- Hong Kong, Saturday, January 2, 1937 Cossack Band. and cabaret turns reeted the Speaker's
became a lecturer in the law de-led child is the youngest in his by the Dixie Sisters, the Doo Ar- ment that the Ayes had it.
Socialist private members were partment there, eventually living class. tinellis, Fina Roz and Rinaldo, and
There is no type of work at Nina and Visdimir. Though the astonished at the skilful retreat to the ripe old age of 33.
Those gifted children who most which such a child may be weak. Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels of the Government Whips, did not approach the city centres admitted their own Whips would commonly appear in the public eye namely, those subjects requiring In his Presidential Address in regard to members-there were never have been such adroit Par have usually sprung from humble manual dexterity, ex carpentry, etc. Motor to the British Association three 800 at the Hong Kong Hotel-- liamentarians.
origins, but the very fact that such woodwork, drawing, months ago Sir Josiah Stamp artistes
It was bad luck on a very junior from the Horg Kong
child is regarded as "news" in-jskill apparently has no correlation not pleaded for an advance in the Hotel crossed the harbour to as member of the Government Ltdicates that such an event is a with intelligence. and it is
the brightest child science of man which might sist Isles Band in the Rose Room. Col. Muirhead, to find himself the rarity, and facts and figures bear unusual to fin
spokesman of the Ministry in an this out.
quite hopeless when handing tools save society from the recurrent
- 500 At Hotel Cecil
for instruments. On the other impacts of invention and dis-
unpopular cause.
Starting Ahead The gifted child usually comes hand the prize idiot of the school and the Minister of Labour spoke as from gifted parents, and his bro-may show patience and skill
thers and sisters are usually clever, mechanical tasks.
Intelligence Tests too, though they may not reach his
The only accurate method of high standard. Moreover. his parents as often as not come from judging a child's intellect is by Your Daily Smile!
the professional or higher business means of an intelligence test by classes. This is merely another which his intelligence is express- Steady Light
way of stating that his gifts are ed as a figure called the "intelli- results of a new invention, so Other entertainments were the
The mistress asked her maid what
in quotient of the average child is that industry does not suffer New Year dance at the Garrison she thought of the new electric range, inherited from parents who have gence quotient." The intelligence
"I think it's wonderful, ma'am." used their talents to get on
bright and exceptionally 100. the dislocation which a new Lecture Hall for Warrant Officers process is apt to cause, would and Senior Non-Commissioned Of-replied the girl. "It hasn't gone out the world.
There is a curious idea prevalent children may go up to 150 or 160. indeed be a social gain.
ficers; the School of Accountancy since it was put in two weeks ago."
that intelligence goes with a feeble while even cases of 180 and 190 If in the long run, the won-reunion dance; the Craigengower] ·
Short Rationa
body, and the average person's pic have been recorded. ders of science improve the Cricket Club President's Ball; and
(Continued on Page 7) We're going to ture of a brainy child is a stunted conditions of human life their the annual fancy Dress Ball of have a feast to-night I heard Mrs. earlier effects are certainly dis-the Kowloon Cricket Club, where Sprat telephoning for an extra slice sallow specimen, peering from be hind thick lenses. Nothing could ruptive. The hand-loom wear the band of EMS. Medway ren-
be further from the truth, and ers whom Cartwright's power dered excellent service.
statistics show that in general in loom. put out of work in the
The KCC. prize-winners were:
telligence goes together with good Services will be continued at eighteenth century have their Best Dressed Lady Mrs. J. S. parallels to-day among cotton-Smith (Spanish lady).
The little girl had been to a concert physical development and the old St. Paul Church Social Hall Street, near Dairy saying "a sound mind in a sound Wyndham workers and woollen operatives | Best Dressed Gentleman-Mr. fer the first time.
Farm, every Sunday at 8 pm. body" is perfectly true. "And what did you English supplanted by the triumphs of . L. Anderson (old
Mary?" asked her mother.
An investigation of a large On Sunday, January 3rd., 1937: artificial silk. The unemployed gentleman).
"I didn't like the organ very well," number of talented children show--The Speaker will be The Et. coalminer Owes his plight Most Original Lady-Mirs F-declared the youngster.
ed that their height, weight, nutri-Rev. R. O. Hall, Bishop of Vie
• Goodwin (Charwoman).
"Why not?"
'Cause there wasn't any monkey tion and strength were all above toria.
All are welcome. (the average, and that they began! with it."
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covery. Lord Rutherford in al At the Botel Cecil over lecture last month dealt briefly couples. including officers with the same point and sug-members of the Junior N.CO.'s man with a bad case--nowhere gested that a Government "Pre of the Royal Welch Fusiliers were more fatal thing than in the vision Committee" might be present at an excellent dinner and House of Commons. set up as a practical step to-dance which they held as a wel- wards what may be called the come to Lt Col D. Barchård. The domesticating of a new scienti-hotel was specially decorated and fic discovery. To control the illuminated.
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velopment of the internal com- Most Original Gentleman-Mr. bastion engine. In a generation Sinton (Sanitary Coolie). mankind transfers its energies | and ย new industry absorbs! those who would have gone into
old occupations 20 years ear. hier. But to foresee the change, to direct human energies at once where human invention is leading them would prevent the waste and the shattered hopes. Who would not welcome Lord Rutherford's "Prevision Com- mittee if only its foresight could be guaranteed?
Electricity
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
Prayer Wheel To
Boulder Dam
RAYER wheels are mechanical
Privaces used by Budd-
hist lamas for the rapid repetition A Uniform Charge For of the prayer formula Om Mani
Padme Hum, which represents long fervid supplication to God. These wheels are driven by hand Great as was the growth in
or wind. The gigantic wheels at the use of electricity in Britain Soonum are driven by water pow- in the year ending in Marcher. The huge cylinders bearing an last, the report of the Elec endless repetition of prayers are tricity Commissioners shows attacked to horizontal. paddies, on that there is a vast field yet to which the water dashes causing a be served. Something more circular motion. Each revolution
than a half of the scheduled premises in the whole country but were using electricity,
constitutes a prayer of such pow- er as to equal the combined. devo- tional powers of all the earth's there remain nearly six million inhabitants, in the belief of the premises unconnected to the
lamas. The water driven prayer supply, and of these over five wheels have inspired one of man- million are dwelling-houses.
kind's greatest inventions, Current is now available to mechanical utilisation of water something like forty millions of
the population, but is not being power in modern industry. used by anything like that number. Yet progress is being'
the
made at an accelerated pace, throughout the kingdom. That for 2,525 millions more units is of special importance to in- were consumed than in the year dustries using electricity, since 1934-5, which itself showed a with differing power costs there record advance in the amount must be a tendency for new of current taken.
factories to establish them-
In their report the Coramis-selves where the cheapness of sioners make the point that as current outweighs other con bulk supplies are now generally siderations, thus giving rise to available conditions are favour one-sided development. In parti- able for more uniform charges, cular, low charges are import and particularly for the generallant to the agricultural areas. introduction of what is known As has been insisted in previous as the two-part domestic tariff. reports. varying scales of Though loads and demands charges, differences in voltages, vary in different areas, the land a multitude of standarda in ideal to be aimed at as a corol-electrical apparatus are handi- lary to a national generating caps that electricity has yet to system is a uniform charge overcome.
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THE CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
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OM
PRAYERS
MANI
PADME HUM"
FOR ALL THE WORLD!
SOONCIM-TIBET. CYLINDERS FILLED WITH PRAYERS REVOLVED BY WATER EACH TURN ESCUALS PRAYERS SAID BY ENTIRE WORLD,
THESE PRAYER WHEELS INSPIRED ONE OF MANIKINO'S GREATEST INVENTIONS THE DRIVING OF MACHINERY
BY WATER POWER
TIBETAN TRUMPET MADE OF HUMAN BONE BELIEVE IT OR NOT COLLECTION.
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DRAWN IN
DARJEELING Bengal
LAMA
WEARING THE
"RUGEN"
~AN APRON
CARVED OF
HUMAN
BONES
at