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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ́29, 1930.
“NON-TALKING"
CARRIAGES.
DEAN INGE'S PLEA.
"I wish carringes in railway
A WOMAN CONDUCTS
APPEAL.
AND WINS.
Mrs. Dorothy Cordingley-Rieck,
trains were labelled, instead of of Queen's-road, Wernoth, Oldham, 'Amoking' and 'non-smoking, talk-made serious allegations against a ing' and 'nontalking." "
This statement was made by
liquidator when she conducted her own caso in the Court of Appeal Justice Dean Inge, when he was the guest against an order of Mr. of honour at a dinner given by the Acton in chambers at Manchester
Assizes on May 22 Inst. National Liberal Club's Literary Circle.
Lord Justice Scrution
It
Introducing him, Mc. J. A.appeared that Mr. Justice Acton had struck out Mrs. Cordingley- Spender, who presided, referred to Rieck's statement of claim on the him 红情 "the gadfly of the ground that it did not disclose any Athenians."
cause of action.
Discussing the art of reading, Mrs. Cordingley-Rleck said abo Dean Inge said: ""This, of course, had ten or more causes of action in a reading age. I am assured against the liquidator and that seventeen million persona inmittee of inspection. this country read on an average
twelve books a year. Then there Her statement showed
a com-
that one
are at least thirty million people of her complaints was that a house who rund newspapers-at least, the of which she and her son were betting news and perhaps a crime owners, Boothroyd, Bramhall.
or two.
"This reading is quite Stow thing. The ancients did not read much, but the Romans used to rend aloud a great deal.
"Now, some people read a great den loo much, Just as some people talk too much. Rapid reading in a] habit which one may fall into like] the habit of drinking. The worst of it is that nothing sticks.
Reading Aloud,
"1 want to put in a word for re atting led.
Ir
if you read to your ne$, you read much too fast. |you read alond, you go just the right pace. My wife and I read alom in each other every morning before we get up."
Cheshire, had been sold during her absence abroad. Her son's grand- Parents, she stated, were million-
She said she had suffered several Indignities at the hands of the liquidator and the Committee of Inspection, whom she described as
DETHOD
of bogus and disreputable
She also described what had taken place as "Star Chamber Des | polista." and asserted that as }} resit she had lost n gront deal nud her husband bad just a salary of
2000 a year. She claimed to be reinvested in Routhroyd and other property valued in all at £23,927, ad claimed £5,000 general damages and costN,
The court allowed the appeal and The choice of books, the Dean proceeded, gets harder and harder. aside the order of Mr. Justice Arion. Mrs. Cordingley-Rieck's and people cannot are the trees statement of claim was struck out the wood. "I think." he said “that thers are fewer really great books than formerly, Old books require
| mure education than now onva."
osations and embarrasing, and new statement was ordered to be given within 21 days. The costs of the appeal were made costs in
Erging that people should real the cause. what they enjoy, Dean Inge sail: "Rending against the grain simply; means that thing sticky. Our reading should be focussed rounlop, and others, These books are aur chief interests.
pire and wholesome--a quality
of many greatly miss tu
Our
"Of course, we ought not to read mofern novela," only English books. Then what foreign books? Certainly, the Speaking of Pouding newspapers, i
net. Bible. There is no book which the Dean said that the great
that loses so little in translation as the vantage of newspapera was New Testament.
people read them in trains and that prevented theta from taiking. "t "Of course, we want fiction, and wish carriages in railway in here put ir a strong claim for the were labelled, instead of smoking" old English classical novel-Walter and non-smoking,' 'talking' and Sent. Thackeray. Anthony Trol-on-tall;ing.” '
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