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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932.
NOSE CLOSED BY DICTATORSHIP OF CRICKET CLOSURE
ELECTRIC FIRE.
HOW RED RAYS AFFECT
BREATHING.
NOVEL DISCLOSURE. "Blazing open coal fires and the now gas fires open the nose; the old gas fires and electric fires shut the nose."
FASHION.
PARIS BEING SUPPLANTED BY LONDON.
FETISH OVERCOME.
LAW.
NO MORE “JUGGLERY.”
It is announced from Lord's that at the meeting of the Advisory County Cricket Committee on Apríl 7, two definito proposals will be made in connection with County Championship matches that can- The traditional cry of the dress- not begin until the third day.
The first of these lays down that maker: "Straight from Paris, madum," is not heard to-day, and, if there is no play on the first two shall be played if present conditions are any in-days the match come to by Professor Sir Leonard Ifill,leation; it will be a long time be- under the laws for one-day match
This was the conclusion
who demonarated the fact on him- self in the course of a lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
fore it is heard again.
The fashions of the future will pe designed in London and the label of two or three famous British houses will carry the cachet once exclusively reserved for the Rue de
He showed that by allowing the infra red raya from an electric la Paix. beater to fall on his face breath- Ing through his nose stopped.
it
"I can't get an atom through my nose," he exclaimed, "and if were not for my mouth. I should
«<l!."
on
"no aido shall es, except that declare its firat innings closed until it has batted for at least 60 Furrthermore, that minutes." when a match is decided by th first innings, the winners shall score 10 points and its opponents
three.
The alternative scheme is at fol-
one of the lowa: The manager of biggest English houses told a re- If a side wins on the first in- presentative of the Morning Post nings of an unfinished match in that British dress designing had the First Class County Champion- definitely come into its own. I ship in which no play has taken the past the Paris fetish, by means place on any two of the three days of clever propaganda and a typical it shall score 10 points, and. Its French thoroughness, had obtained opponents three points. If there
He showed how this effect
To obylated by a firm hold on English women. is no play on the first two daya bis breathing whs screening his face with a piece of a very large extent it was the fault the match shall be played under glass, by fanning his face, by of the British designers. They the laws for one-day matches, ex- covering it with cold water, and luckst initiative and found it easier rept as provided for in the first
tight from a to foster the French tradition and
proposal. by allowing the
models than to ordinary electric lamp to fall on copy the French
it.
air." he said.
1918
of
design their own.
With the rise of a few British "With these dark sirves beat there should be plenty of cool firms and the wave of home-buying "If your economise together with the demands of the use these ronomic position, British dress- your coal bill and sources of heat with all your win makers were at last nwnkened and
you are not only are either designing their
of the dows closed, making your nose congested, but models or copying thuse better-known home Arms. neon- You are producing these
in other fortable stuffy feelings people.
Or great assistance to this wave of British enterprise was the at- itude of the material manufac "We have almost discovered turers, who in the past had been in- which rays open and which shut clined to turn out their materials noses," added Sir Leopard, and the "take it or leave it" prin- Now they are co-operating I think this menus a step forward ciple. in explaining study conditions, whole-heartedly with the dress The quality of these red rays in makers, and almost every day are acting on the naked skin is very making new types of material to
remember that suit the new designs. important. and
net on your when you let rays naked skin it is different from the effect on the clothed body."
It is proposed by the Advisory the groundsman Committee that and umpires should have more dis cretionary power for getting the wicket fit for play after rain,
CINEMA BILLIONS.
AGRUMENT AGAINST
PENNY TAX.
Startling figures showing the slump in einema attendances since
were quoted were imposed the additional entertainment taxes
tora in London, national profext meeling of exhill-
at n
The total attendances at the 4,000 For the coming season Fight, line woven woollen materials and stock-cinemas in the country in one year inette will be used extensively for was from 1,300,000,000 to 1,400,- all types of clothing. Two in-1000,000.
lances of the new spirit in the in- dustry came to light recently. An
During 12 weeks when the new
BEAR MAULS MAN. English designer wished to repeat taxation was in operation there was
a model. It was discovered that a decrease
REVENGE FOR SUPPOSED ILLTREATMENT.
Berlin, Mar. 7.
A performing hear at a Berlin show-ground suddenly attacked a Chinese juggler, Tsching Kun, broke his skull and one arm with blows of ita paw and otherwise injured him so seriously that there is little hope of his recovery.
man of bear's owner, a The great strength, thrust his arm
throat
and down the animal's grasped its tongue, and with the forced the assistance of others bear back into its cage.
It is stated that the bear's anger, was directed against Kung bocaust it had been treated by him.
LAST TWO DAYS At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 p.m.'
at the rate of about
the original material had come from 150,000,000 a year. almost 12 per
showed the cent. France. Inquiries
The difference between the pre price to bo 428, a yard-a French costumier had evidently cornered vious year's profils and the eur the available stock. A Bradford rent year's would be £3,250.000, firm copied the material exactly in every detail within three days and offered it at 10s, a yard.
Mr. J. Potter, M.P., told the that the Chancellor, when he pro meeting: "I am not without hope The other instance concerns sents his Budget, will be able Tat mother-of-pearl buttons. In the only to take the penny off the lower past, these have come from Japan riced sents, but also give you fur- and Germany. A week or two ago ther concessions."
A resolution calling for the r a young man visited a London firms] and asked whether they would be in-moval of the tax on nil prices no to: terested in Australian mother-of- 6d, was carried unanimously. pearl if he could have it made up into buttons. They placed a small provisional order with him, and in two days he was able to sell them lotions better and cheaper than any they had used before.
The firm who took this "long shot" are now doing a vast busi- nesavin Australian mother-of-pear! products,
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