HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
CHARACTER FROM
HANDWRITING
Rotarian Forrest Addresses Members After Luncheon
"The Judgment of Character from Handwriting" was the sub- ject of an entertaining talk given by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the "weekly fifflu of the Hongkong Rotary Club held in the Roof Gar-
den of the Hongkong Hotel yesterday.
The President of the Club, the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fare; was in the chatr, and introduced visiting Retarianis Chaucer Wo (Chung- king), Percy Kwok (Shanghai). Paul Dietz (Shanghai), P. K. Z. Loch (Nanking), E. L. Pan (Tsinan). J. C. Hutchison (Peiping)," J. J. Wierink (Canton) and Ngim Woo-shlow (Malacca) and the. following guests: P. E. Whitham. F. M. Harden, Rev. J. E. Sand- bach, H. F. Sommers, Jnr. Dr. L. Little, Dr. K. C. Yeo and W. Zimmern.
some
GENERAL
Time-Honoured Hakka
Custom:
Contention
By Defence Accepted
Mas Phyllis Harrop. Insp. E. C. Post, and Insp. II. W. Fraser, were among the several S.C.A. offeinks who testified for the pro- secation in a case before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Court yesterday in which Lau Ho, 46, widow, and Cheung Ki-Ung, 40, married woman, were charged with taking part in the transac- tion of a minor.
It was stated that the first ac- cused had sold her three-year-old daughter to the second accused for $14.
had adopted the girl as a san po tsal for her five-year-old son.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, appearing for the second defendant, contended that the document relative to the sale of the child made clear the defendant question to
of my very fact that the second candid friends they confirmed the correctness of the diagnosis with emphasis on the shortcomings re- vealed which I should expected from the more cultured the let my enemies. pre-
Rotarian Forrest" sald
chairman When your
secured talk to my promise to deliver a the Rotary Club, and later press ed me for the title of my lecture. I might have chosen to tell him
talk on that I proposed to
I graphology. sclence of ferred the less pretentious des cription by which it has been an- nounced, tur various reasons, writing. some more obvious
for
The document stated that the not have $14 was "mlik money." The trans- fer of the child from one woman
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Tung Wah Hospital Question
At the meeting of the Legisla Live Council to-morrow at 230 to the other was in accordance Pm. The Hon. Sir Henry Edward
the tollowing question- with time-honoured Hakka cus-Pollock, pursuant to notice, will ask
It is time to give a tew details of the things which one looks for tom. when studying specimen of
3
Has the Government any stake Both defendants were discharged The points with which on Mr. Himsworth accepting Mr. mert to make as to the financial position of the Tung Wah and allied Hospitals? than others I shall deal are introduced simply Lo's contention.
describe In a talk such as this, and not at all as being the most important.
being those caslest to
In particular, I did not wish to for the purpose of illustration, as appear before you propounding a dogmatic scheme
your ac- ceptance, but rather to tell a few interesting facts from my personal experience which may entice others towards investigation or the possible betrayal of one's "ruental traits in one's penmanship-
ANGLE OF WRITING One of them, however, is im- portant because it is one in which the "Britannica" article already quoted allows real significance: 1 The current edition of the "Bri-refer to the angle, of the writing. tannica" is inadequate and upe that is to say, the angle between: couraging on this subject. It
the alignment and the top of the tells us ittle except that exces-
One has only to reflect page. claims unsubstantiated sive and
natural without bias to see how have been made for this sciente.
NOT FLATTERING
I first became interested in this matter when, simply for the sake of killing time. I paid
a protes sional exponent of the science to make what she could bf a scribble which I produced specially for the purpose.
it is that mental energy will show Itself in an upward slope, and de- pression, exhaustion, lack of am- Elion. In a falling angle,
PROF. BUCK'S ADDRESS
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How To Help
The Farmer
Prof. J. Lossing Back, author of "Land UtUization in China," will be an adviser of the Shurichun Rural Welfare Centre. He gave an important lecture to the workers of the Centre on Sunday and 30- Agri- companied part of the cultural Brigade Into the Deld.
MOTIONS
The Colonial Secretary will move that the Report of the Finance Committée (No. 111, dated 22nd December, 1938, be adopted
The Attorney General will move that the order dated the 12th day of January. 1939, made by the Chief Justice under" section 32 of
Court the Supreme
Ordinance,
1873. Ordinance. No. 3 of 1873. be approved.
The Attorney General will move the First reading of:-
"A Bill to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935."
"A Bill for the repeal of the Government House and City Deve- lopment Scheme Ordinance. 1934, "A CASE TO ANSWER" No subject is of so much in
and for the appropriation to the Prof. Buck pointed out that this general revenue of the Colony of what 15. tellectual interest for
was the first time that work was any balance standing to the credi. known of it as for what we do
know but, may yet discover. being.organized in Kwangtung for of the Fund at the Treasury es The answer of the not
He said, "There tablished under section 4 of that oracle, now locked away among | Mysteries are the food on which the peasants.
many rural organizations Ordinance. my most secret, personal achives. science feeds and which it
I hope I have throughout China. And gradually I verts into truths. was not over-flattering, and
are becoming that there certain principles could not repress the suspicion said enough to show
be Indispensable to understood to case that the graphologist had same-is. in legal jargon a
farmers. how overlooked some of my better answer: let those who agree that when dealing with the points; but when I put the direct it is interesting enough to delve The psychological approach is most Important. You are all graduates of universities.
NEW TRANSPARENT COLOUR FOR LIPS
This method of up colouring, stolen from the glomerous South Sex Maiden, makwe lipe positively irmalesiblel
Instead of costing your lips with an opaque lipstick that's more likely to repel than attract... TATTOO them with a transparent
South Sea red that is com- pletely irresistible! It's mar- welaut. Looks just like a pact of your lips and stays on like mad. Softens -lips too
...makes them doubly adorable. Try it
See the five luscious shades of TATTOO
at your favourite store. There ATE TRZİ- ous sizes et prices fit every purse. TATTOO your lips!
CORAL..EXOTIC. MAIGRAL PASTEL.. KAYALAM
TATTOO
con-are
into further now put their own and their friends' writings through the mlly and see, for themselves whether the writing benrs cut their previous estimate of friend's temperamer.t
"A Bill to amend the Prevention of Eviction Ordinance. 1938."
"A B to, amend the Evidence Ordinance. 1889."
"A Bill to amend section 45A of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance, 1865. as enacted by the ENCOURAGE THE FARMER Offences Against the Person "In speaking with the farmer. Amendment Ordinance, 1938. the you must speak with him as on The Attorney General will also equal-as man to man. In some move the Second and Third read-
workers organizations, the SPEAKER THANKED =
have ings of :- coine to the farmer and have tried "A Bill to, amend further the The speaker was thanked by Ro-to force him to do things before Astatic Emigration Ordinance. tarian Dr. G. D. R. Black, after he understood them. They have 1915." which the President "extended his tried to work for the peasant. "A Bill to amend the Criminal hearty welcome to Rotarian T. C. You will get
quicker and more Procedure Ordinance, 1899." Yu. a new member of the Hong-lasting results you work with kong Club transferred from Then the farmer. Encourage him to tsin, and Rotarian Prof. L. Forster. follow your advice on oze recently returned from leave. On of his own land, whether behalf of members, the President with seed or fertilizer or imple- also wished Rotarian Dr. J. H.
ments. Let him do the entire Montgomery bon voyage on his im- pending departure on leave. '„
Rotarian Chaucer Wu. president of the Changking Club, conveyed a message of good wishes to Hong- kang Rotarians.
URBAN COUNCIL
MEETING
piece IN THE POLICE
It is
COURTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1939.-PAGE. T
LAST FEW DAYS
OF OUR
WINTER SALE
* BARGAINS IN THE JEWELLERY SECTION
4
3 piece CONDIMENT SET in Case ...
3 piece CRUET on STAND
s.750
12.00
3 piece E.P. & CRYSTAL CONDIMENT SETS
E.P. SWEET DISHES
7.60
3.00
E.P. HORS D'OEUVRE DISHES
16.00
H.P. PASTRY FORKS and Server
8.50
*
E.P. FRUIT SETS consisting of 6 Spoons, 6 Forks,
und Servor
12.50
E.P. PYREX DISHES
14.00
E.P. BREA". BOARDS
8.60
SETS of GRAPE FRUIT SPOON and KNIFE
8.60
E.P. CARE BASKETS...
8.50
1.P. COFFEE SPOONS in Case,
3.50
STAINLESS STEEL TEA KNIVES
per doz.
12.00
E.P. BUTTER DISHES....
3.00
E.. HONEY and JAM JARS..
3.50
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The House of Quality & Service
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OFFICER FINED FOR SPEEDING
KOWLOON TRAFFIC COURT CASES
Major Murray, of 377, The Peak, was fined $30 by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on three summonses for speeding in the controlled area at Sha Tin, speeding at 40 m.p.h. along the built-up area in Tal Po Road and speeding along the con- trolled area in Nathan Road on January 5, between 8,p.m. and 6.30
mui
p.m.
WINTER
Tel. 28151.
CLOTHES
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Women's, Men's & Children's WANTED URGENTLY
HONGKONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
day in
work himself. Merely supervise Keeping an unregistered him. When he gets a better yield tsal was the charge preferred Traffic Sub-Inspector Brittain, from that piece of land he him- against Mak Mul-ying 21. married said that defendant's car overtook self will come the next time for woman when she appeared before the car he
was driving in Sha more seed and advice. And then Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Cen-Tin at 6.05 p.m. on the his neighbour will come. You will tral Magistracy yesterday. In- question Defendant's Car Was have won his confidence."
spector Fraser, who was in charge followed but could not be over- EXPERIMENTAL FARMS of the case, could not appear as taken owing to the narrowner, of Prof. Buck pointed out that a result of which the case was the road and the width of Inspec- A yesterday's meeting of the sometimes rural welfare workers adjourned till to-day. Defendant tor Brittain's car. Urban Council it was announced try to demonstrate to the farmers was allowed ball in the sum f that the appointment of Dr. T. W. by having their own farm.
velling at the time was about 40 miles per hour. Defendant was Ware to serve on the Select Com-farmers react in this way. mittee for cubicles in place of Dr. say, these people have a
Mak Chuen, 20, unemployed, followed all the way through. Tai G., W., Pope, who has gone on leave, money for new fangled ideas, was charged at the Central Court, Po Road, his speed still being in
ad been confirmed.
and naturally get a better yield, before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest yes- excess of the limit. With reference to the proposed So the farmer remains sceptical terday, with breaking into and erection of a public latrine on the and, if anything, a little embitter- entering No: 100 Gloucester Road site north of and adjoining Newed. An experimental farm for ground foor, with intent to steal
"The $20
They lot of
The speed defendant was tra-
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ILLEGAL PARKING
Dr. N. K. Law, of 19 Hillwood
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2041, Nam improving_seed or stock; however, a typewriter valued at $30.00 Road, Kowloon, was fined $3 when he admitted a summons for leav- Kok Road, it was decided that the was a different thing. the profes- Defendant denied the charge, the thig his car unattended outside the matter be left in abeyanice pending Sor concluded.
being adjourned till to-
Majestic Theatre on January 4 at| 11.15 p.m.
case
the drawing-up of plans for a Inspection of the Delds reveal-morrow. better site.
ed that
were about 90 per cent.
*
Three applications for eating-not ploughed, last year. They are Sentence of three weeks hard YOUR LIPS for romance! house Licences, one for food fac- dry and hard and the farmers are labour was passed on Wong Man. For your complete beauty treat-tory, one for laundry and one for waiting for water with which to 20, at the Central Magistracy ment, use Tattoo" Powder, Rouge food shop (fruit) were refused.
Those present were Mr. R. P. and Mascara (cream with brush),
Todd (Chairman), Hon. Dr. P. S. Safe Distributor:
Selwyn-Clarke, Hon Mr. W, J.
ADW PIT SENG'S TRADING
CO., LTD.
Hanr Kony.
flood preparatory to ploughing.
FOUND HANGED yesterday for the theft of a pair A patient of the Kwong" Wah of riding boots. On January 20, Hospital, Kwal Öhu, 60 years of The condition of Hiyoshi Sagara, cight shoes and two riding boots age, was found hanged early yes- removed from Jacks, terday morning in a lavatory. In Carrie, Mr. F. C. Hall, Dr. R. A. victim of a savage attack with a were de Castro Bisto, Mr. L. C. F. Bel-chopper in a restaurant in Hen-shoemaker shop. Only the riding the Hospital.
The man was known to be men- iamy. Mr. A. el Arcull, Mr. W. N. nessy Road on Saturday night, was boots have been recovered from Thomas Tam and Mr. B. Wong stated to be unchanged late last the accused who was sentenced Lally depressed owing to
health and poverty. night.
as above stated. Tape.
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