GENERAL NEWS.
[WHY DO THE BOYS DIES
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914,
BOY SCOUTS OF
SHANGHAI.
Standardization Of : Proficiency Badges,
The Real Sex Problem,"
Miss Marie Hall's Escape.
In the United Kingdom ten Misa Marie Hall, the violinst, hundred and forty males are born who was returning to England against every thousand females, from the Riviera, had a narrow If the male death-rate were the escape in the Paris to Calais train same as the female death-rate
For a long time past the need smash recently, Miss Hail and there would be more men than her party had, just
training the dining car to return to their country we have no experience of standardization of carriage when the dining ear was the social and economical aspects between the respective troops of smashed to pieces and the attend- of that condition it is mere the Boy Scouts in Shanghai, and it ant killed.....
orising to dwell upon it. But we seems as if Colonel Bray's remarks have enough present experience on the occasion of the Scouts Black Plague in France. of the social and economical evile Rally at Ungazs last month were The Matin reports that the of a surplus of women to wish that likely
to produce some Foreign Pathological Society, the census figures could be alter results in this direction in which meets at the Pasteur In-nd to show at least an equal future. Whether or no en am stitute, is much alarmed by the division of the sexes. Some of algamation of all forces under one discovery on some dogs at Mare of theso, evils are so pressing that central governing body either in eilles of symptoms of the Kala-I ask if is not time for a wide and London or Shanghai be desirable azar, or black plague of India, an authoritative inquiry into one of or even possible at the present illness which has novor bofore the ohief causes of this discrepjuncture, at any rate, the long been found in France, either in aney. We are possessed of a fover standing question of uniformity of human beings or dogs. The for Royal Commissions upon all proficiency badge training which disease is easily transmissible to sorts of problems, real or artifici-has certainly been advocated by
left women. Inasmuch as in this has been felt for a more genera
'
Prepaid Advertisements
ONE CENT PER WORD
FOR EACH INSERTION. *
TO LET.
ROGATE, Austin Road, Kow-I
unfurnished.
No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett Church Mission Society Bunga-
0
HOUS
TO LET,
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSES in Granville Kowloon, Cheap rentals. Avenue, and Salisbury Avenue,
SHOP with GODOWN attach
low) from 1st October, 1913, tiled, Nathan Road, ROWLOON 30th May, 1914, partly furnished. Cheap rent.
No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59 Peak to let furnished for one year from 1st May, 1914,"
Kellett Crest No. 66 The Peak, from 1st March, 1914, part- ly furnished.
No. 19, Shelley Street. One small Godown in. Duddel! Street,
FOR SALE
Kowloon Marine Lot No. 48 with Wharf.
A flat in Humphreys Buildings. Windsor Lodge, Kimberley Tennis Court. Road, Kowloon, 6 rooms and
Apply to
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LTD.
Alexandra Balldings.
children, for whom it is attended sl. What delays a Royal com- both the Shanghai and Badep part of Kowloon Inland Lot 11540 LET.- OFFICES in King'
enter France.
די
the
scope
by terrible consequences. The mission to discover why the boy Powell Scout Councils seems like. Society is demanding that a strict habice die seke Brex in the Daily ly to become at last a fajt inquiry should be made into the Mail?
accompli. matter, and that doga coming i am not forgetting that it is The common basis for exam- from places where the illness is not only in infancy that females instion in the fifty odd pró- endemic should not be allowed to have greater expectation of life ficiency hadges open to the than males. The greater ar scout has always been taken from duousness of a Byron Relles.
man's life, the that excellent compendium of At Sotheby's recently a number greater risks he takes by his general knowledge "Boy Scout of Byron relics wein sold in the greater adventurousness, his Tests and How to Pass Them". library of Mr John Pearson. "A losser resistance to the tempta- his book gives minute instrap. fifth edition" copy of "English tione of the flesh, the perils of tions on every badge and anbject of the Barda and Scotch Reviewern" ploneering, the toll of war, the within was sold for £15. It was printed ses, and emigration, dangerous Scout Training, but the prob. by Jamen Cawthorn in 1816, and sad exhausting, industries-all lem which has arisen out of four in the only copy, known. It was of these help to swell that yedrá successful working of the rigedly suppressed by Lord discrepancy whose terms, in plain Scout Movement in Shanghai is Byron, and every, copy ordered to mathematics, are eighteen we that while the Baden Powell be burnt. Another relic was an
London Headquarters admit the 18-carat gold ring, set with a Bus Nature, who forgete no flexibility of their badge examina- portrait of Lord Byron, which was thing, remembers these drains on tion standards to suit particular presented by Byron to John Hob- the male population. She gives environment and individual house with the first canto of us a send-off birth-rate of 1,040 capacity of troops of different "Childe Harold." This was sold boys to every 1,000 girls, a standing and experience, and the for 10 guineas.
reserve that should cover all Baden Powell organization here those extra bazards of the male hiss adhered close by to this Post Office Robbery,
as laid down, their existence and ensure an equipoise standard A daring barglary of a large of the male and female popula- brother organization in Shanghai, sum of money is reported to have tion in adult life. But all the the Shanghai Boy Scouts, not taken place at Coventry post- surplus is lost before the boys coming within the jurisdictiotalt office. So far as the facts
come to adolescence-it is wiped | Hea Iquarters in London, bas felt are available, about £1,800 f by the mortality of male itself free to follow its own dictates in gold and silver wa infants.
in the matter of making a badge Does Nature intend all that extraiuation, harder or easier
taken from a locked drawer in the
mon to aaventeen men,
HARTING and ROGATE, on
Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram "GLENSHIEL 124 Barker
Station.
Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alandra Building. Hongkong, 2nd Oct., 1913 (211
ΤΟ
LET. Two room. Flate în Kowloon. Suitable for Eur- opens, in good airy locality.
All Modern Conveniences. Terms
Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON JEE. Royal George Hotel. Hongkong, 17th Oct., 1913.
[967
TO LET.-No. 2 Park Road,
·་
Breezy Villa," Airy and Comfortable. Garden and Tennis Court.-Apply to No. 4, Ripon Terrace. Hongkong, 13th Jan, 1914. (1199
Furnished, TO LET
**MODREENAGH,” No. 21 East, The Peak, from 1st April. Des Voeux Road. Apply to GILMAN & Co., 8a,
}
Building. Apply to
THE HONGKONG” LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.
WANTED.
To take charge of 2 children a1
the end of March,temporary
(possible permanent) European nurse. Good salary to suitable applicant.-Apply "8" care of
Hongkong Telegraph.""
WANTED House or flat, un-
furnished-Three bed- c/o rooms 1st March-" K"
Hongkong Telegraph."
FOR SALE.
particulars apply to FOR SALE ALTADENA"
To The Peak, furnish:
LET.-from 1st May, 1914, 1. ed. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co.. Prince's Buildings.
No. 130, The Peak.
For
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
closed front office while the night mortality? Is she so purposeless than that required by the B. P.
Alpine Record, Advices from Zurich state staff were on duty in the sorting as to indulge in futile creation Standard to suit its own peculiar that two Englishmen, whose
New Steamers. room. The suggestion is that doomed to fruitless extinction? requirements and taste.
The two new steamers Haku- somebody hid himself on the Does she not rather step aside,
names are given as Rolph and shin Maru and Ishin Maru, which boy for instance in one troop Legard, have just established an are at present building for the premises before they were closed; but how so lange a weight of gold ging, in effect, to the world is required to pass an examination Alpine record by being the first South Manchuria Railway at the "I appoint and decree the pro- for signalling Badge of twenty to ascend and descend the Jung- Mitsubishi Iron Works, Kobe and portions of your birth rate and words a minute. The number of frau Mountain during winter in the Osaka Iron Works, will on that is my mystery that you may another troop, perhaps, ie called single day. They were equipped their completion about June next nat solve; but I leave it to you to upon to do only twenty-five letters with snowshoes, and had one ran under charter to the Dairen maintain those proportions and a minuts yet the same Signaller's guide. that is for your intelligence and Badge is conferred on both. care to achieve...
Similar anomalies characterize |
and silver could be carried away
is a mystery. Paper money was
left behind.
Dogs and Hygiene. Berlin boasts of a peculiar as- sociation known as the "Society for Opposing Animals Harmful to There is a dictum that boy the awarding of other badges, and the Community.' Its principal babies are more difficult to rear from a standpoint of fairness to purpose is to prevent dogs being than girls. It is taken for grant all scouts irrespective of troop, allowed in the neighbourhood of ad with a sort of fatalism. Yat one standard of examination is restaurants and shops selling the boy baby is surely no lusty at manifestly desirable. foodstuffs. The society has already birth as the girl, he has surely The Chinese Scouts are" con- induced the police, says the within him the germ of that virility fronted with the same difficulty, Berliner Tageblatt, to issue that will some day make him the and a meeting was held last night regulation forbidding dogs to be stronger, animal, the seat of that to put the question on a satis- brought into such shops; but at stamina that will make him factory basis to all. ita recent annual meeting it was beavier in bone and muscle, more. At a meeting held by the cour pointed out that there was still stubborn in physical endurance, tesy of the Shanghai Boy Scouts more to be accomplished in this more proof against wear and at their clubroom at Range Road, direction, as the shopkeepers weather than bis male? What the following were present: themselves often kept dogs. The real weakness is inherent to him Chief Scoutmaster G, R. Welcb, society is about to sane lists of that should put oprn him this Shanghai Boy Scouts. restaurants and cafes where dogs handicap? How in it to be account- Asst. Eo atmester J. 8. Agün- are not allowed.
elihat the extra mortality of aiz, Baden Powell Scouts, male infants only commences Asst. Scoutmaster Macdonald, after they are weaned and up to Baden Powell Scouts, The advent of a new comet the age f four or five-dating, Scoutmaster E. Evans, Jun. 1st which may rival in brilliance the in fact, from the time when they
New Comet Expected.
!
Shanghai Troop Chinese Scouts,
famous Halley's Comet is swaited commence to be fed, clothed, and Scoutmaster JC. Clarke, 2nd by astronomical observers at cared for according to the hard- Greenwich Observatory. This and-fast immemorial tradition
Shanghai Trop. Chinese Scrute,
IRI
Toothache!
To those who have experienced it, the | mere thought_al the word brings fear and anxiety. The tonnenting, lightning Wke paiga following the wightest touch of the decayed tooth, and the dull, agonize ing pain which robs one of sleep and femers the capacity' for mental and physical tion are sufficient to drive one to despair.
The best remedy for the relief of toothache
of all other pains due to the nerves. is;
Bayer's Tablels of Aspirin (original packing)
{B1, Quaes's}
Road
Central.
fact was revealed by the Rev. R. that treats both sexes in this mat-Asst. Scoutmaster. A. H. Swan Fermor, Rendell, formerly of the ter alike 7.
2nd Shanghai Troop Chinese Royal Observatory, and Chief
Scouta. A suggestion has recently Assistant in the National Govern-renched me as to the greater in- Mr. Fei Chia-leu, Secretary, Chi- ment Observatory, Durban, incidence upon boys of infantile peas Boy Scouts Association. the course of a lecture at Sion mortality. My correspondent de- An independent Board of Ex- College on A Day and a Night lines to believe that boys are in aminers was decided upon and it in the Royal Observatory." The herently more delicate thau girls was agreed to invite certain new comet, the lecturer said, may Alternatively be urges that, if it sproialists in ons particular form possibly become a very bright be true that they are more delicate, of badge subjects to take an inter- objeot within a few months. a systematic and scrientific est in the Movement and hold A Lucky Owner. iuquiry is urgent to discover monthly examinations for which Mr. August Belmont, the Pre how shat extra vulnerability scouts of all troops would com
Bio sident of the Meadow Brook Club can be guarded: own pete. Certain Bidge subjects and Chairman of the Jockey Club, theory startling by disturbing which could be of no practical ass had an enviable racing experience to the custom of centuries is that to scouts in Shanghai will ha ex. last year. His total winnings on there may be something smies included and an attempt will be the turf aggregate over £24,000, the routine of feeding, clothing, made to formulate & definite which his horees eained on the and rearing boy infepts in ex-standard of requirments for each principal racecourses of England, Acily the same way na girl infante of the remaining badges agreeable France and Amerios, placing Mr. He argues that such custom is, to all parties.-N.C. Daily News. Belmont in the front rank of after all, purely empirical-an winning owners in each of these inheritance from days when countries. It comes to few men,olence and bygiene were says the Folo Monthly, to win the known. He asks, in face of that St Leger, sell one thoroughbred unchanging waste of boy life- for £30,000, refuse $40,000 for wastage of workers"... another, to say nothing of sending fighters in the divison of the TF you have lost your appetite,
4 one of the big Varietytojas to England a stallion bred in sexes of the manifold evils of an Amerios that commands a fee of increasing majority of women, dainty dishes at the ALEXAN
why should we accept as a ruling DRA. CAFE is Surejo tempt pver $100.
of Providence, that the boy bahion you. maet die R
un-
ond
Steamship Company with the steamers Tencho Mara and Saitsu Maru.
$otice.
N. LAZARUS.
Opalasimia OpticÉALA.
Nothing is more worthy of your con- sideration than the welfare of your eyes. The trouble that to-day is small and sasi- ly remediad, if neglected may get beyond single measures. Be on the safe side and if your eyes are giving trouble call on us and have them examined. No charge for sight testing.
LAZARUS
OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN, Tel. 1292, 1A, D'águilar
QUEEN'S DISPENSARY
13 ́ THE DISPENSARY THAT IS ALWAYS
AT YOUR SERVICE.
Telephone
Number
ADZ.
No Weekly, Monthly or Yearly Subscriptions Required.
Only 1, and You are at once a subscriber to our Circulating Library.
This Department leaves us no profit. We keep it open for the Special Benefit of Customs
A LIST OF NEW BOOKS WILL APPEAR IN THIS SPACE TO-MORROW.
Notices
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS
LONDON CUTTERS BEST MATERIALS
FLANNEL SUITS
(FROM) $35.00
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
THE MEDICAL HALL.
Deutsche Apotheke,
Pharmacie Internationale THE IDEAL WASH FOR MOUTH & TEETH
IS
#
THE HYDHROGEN MOUTHWASH
Cleaning, bleaching, disinfecting & refreshing. Can be used as a gargle against all throat troubles, The best preventative against infectious diseases. PRICE PER BOTTLE $0.80
OSRAM
THE
DRAWN WIRE LAMPS
STAND PRE-EMINENT
10 to 50 GANDLE-POWER.
65 CENTS EACH.
SOLD BY ALL CONTRACTORS
AND BY
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
OF CHINA LIMITED.
Telephone: 518. 1ST FLOOR, 16, DES Vœux RD.
HEAD OFFICE 7, Jinkee Rd.,
SHANGHAI.
HONGKONG.
MAPPIN & WEBB, LIMITED.
NEW CONSIGNMENTS STERLING SILVER WARE PRINCE'S PLATE (Guaranteed for 30 Years).
CUTLERY. From the Sole Agents le
LOOK OUT FOR OUR NEW BOOK LIST ON
CO.
CHS. J. GAUPP & C
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, (CHATER" "ROAD
NESTLES
܂܂
NUT MILK
CHOCOLATE
NESTLÉS
NUT-MILY
THE SUMMIT OF PERFECTION/
SALE AT ALL STORES