THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY. 30, -1900:
JAK
London:
BACK in 1614, a chap called
and GEORGE
Camden came up with the cute observation that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
That observation has now been put out of date by another chap called Bill Delstanche, and if you do not believe it you should get out at Hammersmith and walk down Fulham Palace Road.
Take Fido with you, ask for St Clement's Hall, pay a shilling, and you're in. Thursday evening.
(Yes, Whiting).
SOMEONE WHY MEMO
Anty
FIRA-M
It was Shamus, cidest son of a nobleman named Stainbarndort Frohlich von Dom and to Mix a lady, named Nellie, who led me Delstanche, though I adinit that Jak is entitled to some of the credit which is commodity all cartoonists live very well on.
0
For a small sum
It all began when Jak, using exactly the Aume tone of voloo as that employed in business hours by promoter Jack Solomons, méhtloned that he had discovered a boxer who could lick any other boxer in the world.
For a small cash aum, he added. I could purchase a percentage of this redoubtable Budete.
Now, normally, the only bargains on offer on the pugilistic market are slightly ring salled specimens Town In the trade as bums, h-beeps and Layabouts.
But I once knew a man who missed 10 per cent of Rocky Marciano for the price of a jet hamburgers.
"Tell me more," I said.
"This boxer of mine," said Jalt, "is tho greatest of all time, and he's rarin' go.
to
Never been beaten. Doesn't mow the mean-
ing of the word fear--or any other word, if
it comes to that,"
A monocle ?
A familiar splel. 1 asked for
a more speciile account of the
champ's potential.
name is Felclgn,"
"His real
Bald Jack. but
"He's a German 'aristocrat, we call him Shamus so his re- lations won't find out."
An unbeaten German heavy weight with an Irish name! Maybe we had something here, "Does be wear a monocle?" Osked.
1
"Not yet," repiled Jak. "But he can swim like duck, retrieve, defend me against a
the milk, carry aggressor fetch a shopping basket, count up to sixpence, read a newspaper and change the baby."
with this
week's guest
SHAMUS
You can't make a big-headed
Here, said Jak, he would have Shanus show me his paces. He dild so. And the Fulham and District Dog Training Club are not likely to forget it in a hurry.
Shamus, who is red in colour
boxer lie down
and weighs nearly 90lbs., has an Some of those bitches do chatter "L"-shaped white blaze on the so. scruff of his neck. I now imow why. Nature sure knew Shamus when she dished out markings.
was
And I would like to state right Mr Delstanche's clients came to now. that Mr Delstanche, who that part of their training where was born in Belgium and sells they are supposed to lie down. Anyway Shamus decided to Comptometers, 18 an absolute be the life and soul of the party wow, not to mention a wonder rather too early, and Brutus, and a wizard, with any kind, very rightly, in my opinion, took breed, variety or specimen of a little unbrage. Even boxers dog you care to mention.
feelings. Mr have their
the
It was possibly a little unfor- tunate that the secretary,
So Shamus was a dog. A Alt Plumley, happened to be the boxer dog, admittedly. Pos- owner of Brutus, who turned out sibly the greatest boxer dog to be an even larger boxer than
Shamus. of all time, but a dog novor- theloss.
The introductions, 1 felt, were unnecessarily bolsterous and infurmat, possibly occasioned by Shamus arrived the fuct that just when Brutus was gossiping the amiably in the doorway with a indy dog named Stay--or maybe It was Bitsy.
In The clrcumstances, there was not much I could do but call Jake a liar and accuse him of
exaggeration ra
grusy animal's achievements,
There
the matter might have ended had
not Jak upped and Lazy dogs issued a sharp word
Looking
at
Jak,
of com- mand-an immediate signal for the
straight Shemus to start wrecking
that joint and to use language St Mr Delstonche announced Clement would never have lazy owners micant lazy dogs, understood. Mr Plumley Bald not mean owners meant man does to worry, but Immediately sent and that nobody should biome three members to guard the his dog if he couldn't get the grand plane.
best out of his dog. He should blame himself. And Me Deletan- che looked at Jak some more.
Fortunately, Mr Delstanche, the head trainer arrived in time And that was how we came to
and the meet Mr Deistanche
You know how it is when to save the Fulliam and District
In host introduces you and Dog Training Club winding up Fulham and District Dog Train- youT ing Club in St Clement's Hall, you don't quite catch the name, its affairs on the spot.
KENYA
TALKS
CYPRUS
**Hello, sir! Everything's all right. The babies are doing fine! Lord Salisbury wishes to be remembered, Dr. A. sends his love and I hope you,'
too, are having fun with Sir Roy
13.
Losken Kaprasd Berufen.
But
Shamus, being a boxer, plainly of the opinion that the only time to lie down to when you are being paid to lie down.
"Flat!" commanded Jak.
Shamus stayed upright. Whereupon a charming lady in charge of an adjacent Alsatian offered some timely advice from the corner.
"Knock his front legs from under him," she whispered.
1
Well-meant and a kindly plec of dog-lore,
icel sure. Unfortunately Shamus mis- interpreted Jak's shove under Inir's fair, Shamus the fore-parts. If the old man behaved
exemplary wants to play games, thought manner when Jak led him out Shamus, ket's play games. on the training parade. He walked, he stopped, he sat, and he came to heel..
an
Even the experts. liked the way Shamus did his stuff. Mre Julia Sayer's crossbred Labrador called Tim, Mrs Barbara Spry's pug named Percy, Mr K. Clifton-Jones's doberman named Volkh, and Miss Winifred Lawrence's red and white basenji bitch, known for and wide as Periwinkle of the Congo, all barked their approval.
In five seconds flat, the train- ing session suspended itself, Jak and Shamus were in a tangled heap, on St Clement's floor; I was back in the night-reporting business; pugs, pups, poodles and pooches set up a canine equiva- lent of the noise they make at Shoreditch Town Hall ringside.
Even Mr Delstanche, who has taught and trained hundreds of be dogs, said there had to
He niso exceptions to the rule. mentioned that Jak need not
Correction: Periwinklo did pay his shilling-just leave them
in peace, that's all he asked. not bark. Buonjis novor bark. They yodel,
Unfortunately, all this hero worship went to Shamus's head, and the climax arrived when
hamus. Square,
But I'll say this for Ito beat Jak fair and and Jak, who once won a brown belt, has asked me not to men- on the affair at his Judo club.
-London Express Service).
Nagging pain—or is
it just all in your mind?
ARE you always complet shoffield University, you are
Professor E. Stongol, of Sheffield University, suggests
you may need a psychiatrist and not a doctor.
"The tendency of so many 100, he says, ofien tends to shift doctors to regard every patient from one part of the body to who complains about pain as another. Auffering from organic discaso is often doing great deal of harth," says the professor in The Medical Presa.
Nervous trouble
Can't be killed
The head, the heart, region and the abdomen, are particu. larly lable to neurotic pain.
Experiments have shown that analgesics (pain kiilers) havo no marked effort on neuroflą pain, the professor adda,
The fet is that a large pro- portion, probably the majority of neurofle patients, and many paycholies, complain about A more dangerous patient is
one who has an inexhaustible destru for painful surgical operations.
pain."
Profendor Stengel's subject la psychiatry,
Ho offers several clue to the nature of neurotic "pain, term "polyairgery "Tor*~* this
Most important is the absence of other : symptoms, such 44 tissue damage, and the presence of neurolie symptoma, such, 68: excessive anxiety. Neurotio pain,
"The Američane use the
abnormal predicction whichs haa boen, rogarded as due to un conscious self-destructivo tendencies,” mys lha professor,
---{London Haptors Mervier)..
FRITZ O'REILLY
LAK sold he had discovered a bowse who could lick any other base ka the world,
Page
JET GUN' TO
THE
CUT OUT
PAIN IN JABS
JET “gun," which injects anaesthetics or drugs PAINLESSLY into a patient, is being developed at the Eastman Dental Hospital, London. The "gun," which fires the drug in a fine stream, at high pressure, through the skin, may replace the hypodermic needle, painful and frightening to some patients.
A prototype has been built by Dr Richard Stephens, senior lecturer in children's dentistry. Although it is being developed. primarily for dental anaesthe- ilcs, it may prove to have very wide applications in medicino.
Dr Stephens gold; particularly interested in it for children, who are sometimes frightened or put off by a needle. A patient should feel virtually nothing-perhaps a slight sting- ing whereas a needle in the mouth is most unpleasant."
נחם · זיי
The World
of Science
By Peter Fairley
tho Moon's Benching and
Work on a similar Injector is freezing temperature variations. going on in America.
The technique was inycatt-
QUOTE from Russian pro-
of medicine, İvan rated when doctors noticed all fessor under the skin
of engineers Curavifch: working on diesel fuel injectors, "The Western campaign to It was found that the oll was reduce fats in the diet is a driven quite deep under the skin capitalist plot. It is advantageous without any pain,
to the ruling classes, who
ut The prototype works on a present are engaged in lowering of the spring system, like an air pistol. the living standards Anaesthetic or drug is placed in masses, in lowering their wages a cartridge attached the and in raising the price of food barrel.
-particularly fat. The masses in
to
Dr Stephens said: "Using a capitalist countries suffer from
I shortage, not an spring, there is some recall.
om anxious to contact experts to fat."
help design a neat hydraulle
cxcess
system, which would overcome?? IS IT TRUE ? ?
this and enable us to have one
no bigger than a fountain pen."
Lunar cavemen
THERE
two
Thoaries about
origin of the
Moon.
trus answor will not
of
it true that, even -in
arid desert areas, cacti can grow over 60 feet high?
Quite true. One 70 feet high main was recently measured.
And
the bamboo, which grown at the fans The tastic speed of 18 inches day! 100 feet high-in be can be seen
--London Express Service).
found until man, or possibly parts of Ceylon and India.
instruments, land on it.
One theory is that the Moon's Ipock-marked surface was the result of meteors or comets smacking into it. The other says it is due to volcanic eruption,
conling and shrinking.
If the latter the first astronaut
proves correct,
QUOTE
there may by the Bishop of Derby the terally turn cave-man. Ready- Right Rev. Geoffrey Allen in made caves, formed by lava bis Diocesan News!--- tubes, can be found near some
volcanoes on Earth.
TUTE evil of rambling lies
THE
These tubes are left when the rather in an Irresponsible erust hardens, leaving small, hot use of our time and of our streams of lava underneath, money and in looking for tho
cave rewards of: Iife in the watch Inter run out. A would be ideal protection against place.
BANGKOK
BY
SWISSAIR
And
When you By to Bangkok by Swingnir you'll the incomparable Swissair Service on added amenity that spells pleasure through- out the trip,
Fir to Bangkok by Swissale!
Swiss Quallly worldwidel
General Bales Agents for Ewinsirs mode
CATHAY PACIFID AIRWAYS Pamsges: 23416, 64072, 27 160 Freight: 41206; 64045
or your favourits travel agent,'
wrong