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MAN TOO CLEVER? BLACK MAGIC IN BELGIUM.
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PROFESSOR'S NEW VIEW, ON- EVOLUTION.
NEW YORK.
New and strong proofs of the Evolution Theory that Man has ascended from the great apes—are being discovered by Dr. Frederick Tilney, Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, New York.
In his comparative study of the brains of apes and men, Prof. Tilney has been misted by Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of the American Museum of History
Their report is made public through the American Medical A- sociation.
Ancient Brains,
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Before a Liege court Mme. torine," 85, was charged with prac- tising the art of black magic.
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The principal witzzess was young woman who, suffering from koad and body pains, visited Vic torine twice a week during several months in 1923, paying sometimes threepence and sometimes six- pence a visit. Eventually in order to pay the fees she stole money and went to prison for four months.
Iron Bars No Cage. * Here Victorine visited her and told her, "Invoke my name in a loud voice and you will not know you are in prison. The price of this advice went down on the bill but prism life remained unaltered. Another witness was a married examined included specimens man whose wife had left him. He
Prehistoric fossils of human beings who lived hundreds of then sands of years ago have been examined.
Fossilised brains and brainpans
whose age was estimated variously paid Victorine a certain sum to at 1,000,000 to 15,000,000 years. learn that to bring his wife back, among them were some having the "You must go to Gouvy (some 50 characteristics of the gerilla ailes from Liege) and back in the Eamily.
company of three professors." He
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H.E. Baseball League: "Tigers" (S.C.A.A). Club de Recreio, Happy Valley Diamond, 2.30 p.m.
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One famous specimen inspected found the necessary three com-World." by Professor Tilney was that pre-panions, made the journey, and lo! sented to the London Geological his wife came back. Society in 1912-an example which was hailed at the time by followers of Charles Darwin as the Mise ing Link."
She, unhappily, soon disappear ed again and neither professor nor any of Victorine's other magic pro- cesses could induce her to return Professor Tilney came to the con- Victorine was sentenced to faue clusion that there was a definite pre-month imprisonment and fixed human stock which was capable of 320 frazer-Daily Mail." producing both the anthropoid and.
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He inferred, however, that, so far as instincts, go, present-day nap has not progressed beyond the Neanderthal man, who lived moze than 100,000 years ago, and who looked like a gorilla.
But the professor also inferred that man's inventive genius-
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H.K. Baseball League: H.K.B.C. Dragons" (S.C.A.A, Happy Valley Diamond, 230 p.m.
Baseball: Honolulu Chinese Hong Kong, Happy Valley Dia mond, 4" p.m.
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Open-Air Concert by Band at. the King's Own Scot Helen Wainwright, a girl swim-tish Borderers, Kowloon Dock, apart from instinct-has leaped
edmer, is seeking the annulment of Bathing Beach, 5 5.m.
ahead so rapidly that
unless his brain is developed her marriage to the organist of a to stand the prosperity of ita cinema theatre at Oklahoma City own ingenuity, such achieve on the curious ground that Miss ments as the recent trans-océan Gertrude Ederle, the Channel fights right easily lead to the
annihilation of our race, through swimmer, by playing a practical the use of airplanes among joke on her, forced her to aaanine peoples still possessed of an un- the bonds of matrimony. curbed warring instinct.
The girl's case is that, while Self-ControlTM Needed,
touring the country with Miss Ederle, the latter publicly tensed. "When the brains of all the pre- her for having been seen several bistoric men we know are placed times, with Mr. George Leonard side by side, there can be no ques-Holland, the young organist..
To turn the tables on Gertrude, tion or doubt about a progress in
abe bought at a sixpenny store, & development which must be suffi- wedding ring which she wore be cient to convince the most septi-hind the,, stage at the theatre. cal," says the professor, fo
There is a definite increase in the width of the brain, an expan sion of those cerebral regions which have to do with sensation and of that part of the brain which has to do with the higher faculties of reason and judgment.
"From one age to another, and from one race to the next, man has shown a steady gain in his power to control material, condi- tions.
"Where be has stood still, or perhaps fallen behind, is in learn- ing to control his own mature...
Today the human cerebrum certainly marks the advance of in- telligence step by step...
The manager of the theatre, as-
Evening Service Peak Church, 8:30 0.12
Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.&. :-- Men's Meetings: "Cheer O," 7.43 p.; "Beter 'Ole," p.m.
After dinner dance, Lee Gardens. Charles Chamier presents. Revue "Honi Soit, Star Theatre, 9.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Taxi Taxi !" World Theatre: The Clash of the Wolves."
Star Theatre: "Rose of the World" (matinees only).
Principal Mails:-Inward: America, etc. (Tenjo Maru),
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Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cate Parisien, 4.30 pm and King Edward Hotel, 6 p.m.
E.K. Baseball Association Meet- American Consulate, 5.30 p.: suring she had been married, in der Fele League: V.R.O. "A" promptly informed the audience who next evening when she appear. E.B.S.F.F.A. "B" 2nd Scota ed on the stage owered rice upon Guards v. Royal Navy. her.
Oklahoma
newspapers printed romantic stories of the "wed- ding," and to avoid gossip, Helen married the organist, leaving him two hours after the ceremony. The bridegroom returned to his music and Helen continued her tour with Gertrude..
LONDON'S TALLEST BRIDE.
Dinner Dansant at Cale Restaur ant-Parlaien.
Charles Chamier presents Revue "Hoai Soit, Star Theatre, 9.30 P.
Queen's Theatre: "Taxi Taxi World Theatre: "The Clash of the Wolves."
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"And yet, for the most part, the human cerobrum is looked upon as a finished product. But its evolu She was Miss Gilian Lubbock, tionary history does not bear out the daughter of Mr. Arthur this view. It rather makes is som Neville, Lubbock, chairman of the probable that the brain of moderni
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