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Aleman's Experience.
While Emile Vedrines wea flying a monop'aus at Rheims, on. November 22, at a height of 1,500 yards, his motor caught fire. He volplaned to the earth with his machino ablazo and narrowly Encarod death,
THE SURVIVAL
WITCH
Potent Superations in Town
and Country.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913,
in quantities to girls se a love philtre, sud tormentil root, burnt at midnight on a Friday by a jilted maiden, is credited with power to restore to fidelity and devotion the most careless lover. One custom curiously cropping Witchcraft isn't dead. In up in very different quarters was view of the re-assuring result of mentioned by Mr. Wright, who inquiries made by a Daily No stated that, to his personal know- Hueffer and Mr. Ghosterion may check of a sheep is constantly representative, Mr. Oliver Madox ledge, a certain "bone from the
take heart of grace again, secure carried by London gas stokora to Eugenics Classes.” in the knowledge that the saper-ward off rheumatism and by The first New York churob to stition that is the salt of this Yorkshire fishermen ne s kafe- start regular classes in eugenics material age still flourishes in its guard against drowning. Her is tho Mount Morris Baptist, Hr-traditional potency in spots much balism cannot fairly be associated lem, which has begun its class less remoto tbra 6ren the most with ragio
crres, but one with 40 young mou. A secondi credulous commonly imagine. proscription quote by Mr. It is true," said Mr. A. R. Wright from an ancient Herbal clost has been started a week later for young women. The Wright, editor of Folk-Lora to doserves to be perpetuated, it oburso approximates a regular whom witches of all clases and only for its felicity of phrasing: collage one, and runs for forty colours are familiar spirita," that "Solomon's sel," it rang, "is works. The prospectus says:—
the black or evil with has largely good for bruises occasioned by "If the church is to assume au- disappeared, but the white witch, women's wilfulness in falling thority over the marriage con- to whom villagers resort for the against their hasty husbands. tract it has a much greater dus
cure of, all manner of diseases, uste. to its young people in educating still survives in Yorkshire and in them on the significance of the many other parts of England. propagation of the race, and to. the ultimate happiness of the home. The course covers the meaning of eugenics, the origin of specios, influences of heredity, and the rearing of a family. None aro adinitted under 18 years of
ago.
Between Meals.
··
pre.
A Cure for Jaundice. "Here, for example, is the eoription of a cure for jaundice, practised quite recently by a white witch, whose, deputy told the secret to me, thus breaking the spell for ever.
"THE EXCHANGE PROFESSOR FROM JAPAN.
The death of Dr. Okakuro, who had been appointed exchange professor from Japan to the Un- ited States on the Carnegie Take a small piece of cheese; Foundation, and who was 10 cat it into three portions, and deliver a series of lectures in the oach of the threa into two. Write American universities and col-; Nowadaya a great many mea on the pieces the words Pater, leges during the coming winter, who are in the habit of aking Filius, Spiritus, put thein together involves the loss of a presenta moderate amount of alcoholic with the writing inside, and give tion of Japanese at which would stimulant daily do so on a com-
to the patient to eat.
have been illuminating and deep- paratively omply stomach, wh no form of drinking could be ad, "auch cures are unquestion- greater expert in knowledge of "Of course," Mr. Wright ndd-ly interesting, for there was no nord injurious, writes a contri-ably effective sometimes by sug the subject and in ability to deal butor to Health. „One" gless of beer, with no food taken with it, as infallible."
they are regarded with it by definition and descrip- gestion, and o
tion than the author. of "The does more harm to the system Mr. Wright quoted caso crop. Ideals of the Far East." The than three or four glasses with] ping up from time to time in the vacancy in the professorship has food. organs are excited to action with cattle have ailed have stabbed ar. Shosuko Sato, President of Without the fron with press in which farmers whose heen filled by the appointment to nothing to work on, and the con- woman with a pitchfork to evict the Northeastern University, a sequence is the system is made the evil spirit by the traditions! man of high character, to pay for it. Liquor in any form drawing of blood.
thorough education, well qualified is more intoxicating on an empty 11. Heio,
added Mr. Wright, to juterpret the spirit and life of stomach than at any other time, and that is why drinking between picking up a sheet from his desk. his esuntry to Americans. The is a letter I received only last ten of the north are exceptional- meals is more likely to end dis week, telling ofa rnoted belief inly vigorous and capable and bave astrously. Ever the conventionel witchcraft in a southern county in furnished some of the strongest und time honoured before-dinner the twentieth century. The writer, lundere of modern Japan. Dr. gin and bitters is injurious unless | a Somersetaliire farmer's wife, Sato bas the characteristics of has followed immediately by the tells of a carter in her employ who section. As a school boy he was repast. It arouses the gastric incurred the suspicion and dielike notable for high spirits and dar- juices, and there must be son thing soon to satisfy them. Of course the same argument applies to the man who drinks before breakfast. Only it is worse.
Strawberries for Christmas?
Hardly less remarkable than the persistence of belief in witches is the faith placed in charms, not merely in country districts, but in the metropolis itself.
of
of a neighbouring keeper on ing. Dr. Sato and Dr. Noble, his account of his invariable habit of predecesor in the exchange pro- going about with a dog at his fessorship, were students at the heels. The two pen were on the Jolins Hopkins University at the worst of teima, and each suspect, time when President Wilson was od the other of having overlooked there. Dr. Sata supplemented his In spite of the frequent and him a belief which hardened work in Baltimore by further furious downponra which have into certainty when one want work in Gorm sny, and on his drenched Londoners, fresh rasp
tacked with Theumatism and the euro to Japan, in 1886, was berries and red currants have other with consumption. Within appointed to a professorship in been grown at Heston, Middlesex, year or two the carler lost two fortheastern University, and be.. and were on sale at Covent sous and a daughter, and nothing cans its Dana in 1894. His ideale, Garden Market to-day, enye the could persuade him that their is good judgment, and bie por- Globe of November 12 The death was not due to his enemy's xistence have been of great service
evil arts."
to the institution of which he is a raspberries were sold at 24. per
bend. He has steadily advanced handle basket of about 31bs, and the red currants for 2s. 6d.
its standards until he was put it solidly on the University "basis. Second crops of raspberries, straw-
He lacks the brilliant qualities berries, and plems have all grown and ripened in the open at
and the literary charm which, Dr. Okakora would have brought to Histon, Cambridge. Strawberry The Craze for Mascots. fields are white with blossom, "The growing rage for mascots,
"the lectureship; but he will bring thousands of strawberrice have Mr. Wright declared, "though, of clear intelligence, steady jadg formed, and many have come to course, 'n great deal of it is merely mant, and on open mind in hin maturity and are ripening. The a fashion, conceale an unquestion- presentations of Japan to Ameri- raspberry canes are loaded with ed survival of genuine supersti- CB S. He has the qualities which, fruit, much of which is ripe and tion. Men who take risks carried win respect and confidence, equal in size to the fruit obtained amulots in old days' and they lestures will not begin until at the best season of the year. carry mascots now. It is interes- January, and if Americans are as Thousands of ripe plums are to ting to notice the examples that brosdmined and eager to learn as be seen in the orcharda and aviation contributes Lieut Parke the Japanese, he will receive not quantities have been gathered used to carry a lion's tooth. only a very cordial welcome, but and sent to market. A Globe Moisant brought a kitten with appreciative hearing. representative was informed that him on his fight soross the chan strawberries are expected at nal. The winner in a recent ball- Covent Garden shortly. We may con race pinned his faith to thus find plum padding and golliwog. Burglara regularly strawberries at our Christmas carry a lump of cost, which, by year King George has chosen a dianer tables. In Kent and Sus- the way, depends for its efficacy card bearing a reproduction of sex, poppies and nasturteams are on being honestly acquired, mall painting of "The Meeting still flowering with increasing Chauffeurs constantly preserve a of Richard Coeur de Lion with regularity, while dahlias and nail that has panotared their Saladin," the original of which is obrysanthemums aro actually tyres as a asfeguard against in the Royal collection, On the suffering from the best, Subur-further disaster.”
inner page is the quotation from
Royal Christmas Cards.
His
For his Christmas cards for this
ban residents tell of rcees, violas, In one direction, nevertheless, Shakespeare Salutation and and pansies in bloom, while the blighting influences felvilis- greeting to you," and a space for couple of Red Admiral butter-ation are betrayed by the earest the Royal signature. The "First flies were recently soon flattering of all tests a fall in the market Meeting of the Prince of Orange over one of the metropolitan golf value of nonce high-priced charm. and Princess Mary," painted by courses. In the north the gardens als "I was born with a cual," John Bioon, A.R.A. is the picture are filled with violeta, and the wrote David Copperfield on an on the front of the Queen's card. primroses in the woode and fields early page of his autobiography) No sooner met but they looked: equalled in number those which have dropped from. between £5 no sooner looked but they loved appeared in the early spring, and £3 to not more than aboat is the Shakespearian quotation. Nature seems to have let her 10s but their importance in the Neleon's Victory," painted by memory, and all over Eagland oyas of the discerning was reveal. Barnard Gibble, is the piolare the faoling in that she has overed in a recont police court case of chosen by the Prince of Wales, stopped her mark. The heat, desertion, in which the aggrieved with Nelson's Trafalgar sigoni the showers, and the blooming woman reached the climax of her moderneath. Queen Alexandra's of spring flowers all tend to show complaint in the allegation that card has the picture of a girl in that we should really be in the her husband had sold not merely reverie, violin in band, painted months of spring instead of in all the household furniture, but by Howard Davio,QE ANY wintry November. Apples at 18. even a baby's capl.a
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