THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1928.
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·IRATE VILLAGERS, FINED.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
"RANTANNING" AGAINST A
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE THE WATCHWORD,
NEIGHBOUR.
Seventh villagers of Quadring "DON'T OFTEN DANGEROUS, (Lincolnshire), who reverted to the old custom, known as "ran-
The human being something tanning to express their indigna- tion against a woman whose more than an ordinary mechanism, writes a well known onstern tanimie," they said, "was apt to physician, and It might be well to run away with her," word at Boston Police Court fined Gs, each stop and consider the importance of the recognition and prevention for discorderly conduct. Twenty-of madness. three people were summoned.
The villagers' fre was sold to have been roused by a letter in which, they alleged, the victim of their demonstration made state ments regarding a young woman in the village.
Between 30 and 40 men and wo- men assembled in the garden next to the woman's house and, accord- ing to the police, made "a terrible noise by beating sticks upon tins and cans, buckets, and kettles, playing mouth organs, booing, shouting and singing."
Survival of Mob Law. Mr. Harold Page, of Lincoln, defending, said that the villagers went to the garden for a definito purpose to carry out what was perhaps, the only survival of mob law which existed in this country It was described in an English as ""rantan- dialect dictionary ning," and Lincolnshire wae rather notorious for the survival of this old-fashioned method of indignation. There expressing was distinct justification for It in this case, he said.
In the "Old Days."
Preventive medicino is the watchword of the hour, ho reminds u8, and innumerable schemes are being developed for putting into effect the knowledge of disease and control that is now available and prolonging human life.. But-
"We are obsessed," he asserts, with an insane desire to prohibit, to forbid the ownership of private property, the teaching of evolution, the right to be sane and temperate, or be considerato of the opinions the actions of other people. This obsession is distorting our mental fo as individuals and as a nation." The suggestion that our hygiene in the past has been a moral rather than a scientific hygiene is not new. A survey of the books used in the schools for the last 15 or 20 years reveals them as a constant series
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The warnings have been given, 23 Not any.. moreover, with little reference to 24 Suite. the scientific evidence available or 26 Shivering. to the pharmacology of the sub-28 Balm. stances concerned or to their actual 30 High mountains.
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It was a form of expression peculiar to Lincolnshire. In the old days they used the ducking stool and village horsepond, but "rantanning" had now taken the Ita place of these methods, and
The doctor believes that the only dying days were in Lincolnshire.
Captain R. Gleed, the Chairman way out of our present trend to- of the Bench, said that the magis-ward madness is a systematic study trates regarded the conduct of the of the human personality, and of its disorders, involving the special defendants as most disgraceful.
The man who allowed the de- monstrators to use his garden was
fined 10s.
CHURCH CONCERT.
A PLEASING PROGRAMME LAST NIGHT.
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biologic difficultica in adjusting 19 Bowsprit life that are formally designated as nervous and mental disorders.
"The time has come," he says, "for phystelans to lay before the public a constructive programme for living that will appeal to the imagination and the higher emu- tions of struggling humanity more than do statistical reminders of success in preventing disease and prolonging life,
There was a large attendance at
"Physicians should let bo the Union Church, Kowloon, last known that they wish to assist in right when an excellent egncert finding out what the conditions are was given by prominent local ar-that are necessary to produce great
entertainment Itists. Tho
was men and great societies, and then organised by Mr. F. White and a see what can, be accomplished to committee for the purpose of aug- make real progross in the direc
tion of race improvement." menting the Church plano fund.
The programme.commenced with an enjoyablo pianoforte solo by Mrs. Longyear, after which Mrs.. Minney scored a great success with the solo "The Dancing Lee- son."
A violin solo entitled "On Wings of Song" (Mendelssohn) by Mr. Braga was sympathetically rendered, while Mrs. Watt re- ceived sustained applause for her: rendering of "Land of Hope and Glory" which she sang by request. Another popular contributor was Mrs. Jenner, who recited "Eliku." Mr. Gardner was heard to advan- tago in a selected item. Messra. Gardner and White were warmly received in their offering of the duet "Watchman, what of the Night."
A word must be said for the excellent singing of the male party, who harmonised with do- lightful effect and pleased the au- dience immensely.
The same artists also contri- buted different numbers to the second part of the programme, which was equally well sustained.
had visited the complainant's ouse at Peel Street when confront-
who very next day, the child was re- woman will way that her faith incovered, and three young women ed with the charges, blamed cach him. has not been shaken, whom she knew, were in police other. Mr. E. 1. Williams watch- When kidnappers abducted her hands, on the serious charge of fed the case for the Secretariat of WHEN THE FORTUNE TELLER five-year-old child last Saturday, kidnapping and harbouring the Chinese Affairs.
All three defendants were con- the first person from whom she girl sought advice was a fortune-tel- The story was detalled at the victed. The first and third were The disbelief in the
or in the street. He assured her Central Magistracy yesterday to sentenced to three months' hard of a native fortune-teller not that the child was taken away by Mr. R. E. Lindsell. Three young labour cach, and the second to withstanding, there is at least people whom she knew, and, the women who at one time or other six months' hard labour.
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