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BOOKS OUT OF SCHOOL
WHAT BOYS AND GIRLS READ
Im- 'Bisurated Magnesia
At the Library Association Con- mediately after eating or whenever ference at Bournemouth a discus- pain is felt. This fustantly neutralises
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1932.
MOTORS OF THE FUTURE
SUCCESS OF HEAVY OIL EXPERIMENTS
tho acid that causes all the trouble, sion took place on the reading CHEAPER & SAFER stops the fermentation, heals and habits of children. soothes the inflamed stomach lining, and restores painless, norrmal diges:
Mr. E. Osborne, Derbyshire | County Librarian, sald that a re-
THAN PETROL
DEAD MAN'S ARSENIC
ENOUGH TO KILL 624 PEOPLE
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
The Motorship,
"FELIX ROUSSEL" Arrived Hongkong on Tuesday, the 11th October, 1032. From MARSEILLES &c. Consignces of Cargo by the above named steamer aro hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are boing landed and placed at their risk in the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., obtained as the goods are innded.
Goods not cleared within 7 days Including date of arrival, will ba subject to rent.
All claims must be sent to the
the undersigned before the Friday. 21st October, 1932, or they will not bo recognized,
tion. Got a packago of "Bisuarted' cent questionnaire sent to 1,200 the Diesel type, run on heavy oil, mingham, who was found dead on Ltd., Kowloon, whenco delivery can be Blaguesia powder or tableta of your chemist to-day; use as directed, and you wiil soon be telling your friends how you get rid of indigestion.
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DANCE MUSIC
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Selection at TSANG FOOK PIANO
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elementary school children be tween the ages of 10 and 14 in Derbyshire revealed that "Oliver Twist," "Allce In Wonderland," "Little Women," and "The Jungle Books" were the girls' order of preference. Adventure Atorica
in
Tho discovery in the clothing of a dead man of a packet contain ing enough arsenic to kill 624 people was described at the resum ed Inquest at Minchead, Somerset, on Arthur James Haros, aged 82 of West years, shop manager
Bir The development of engines of bourne-avenue, Ward End, in which many engineers see the Porlock Hill
on August 16. The future of road transport, is seri- inquest was opened on August 19. ously Jeopardised England and was adjourned for an analysis by the prevailing uncertainty ra on certain organs. of locomotion. garding the taxation of this class The Coroner referred to a letter which he had received. Ho ᎥᏆ .
such as "Treasure Island" and ed, it is claimed, when mainten-jany notice of anonymous letters, The stage has now been reach-marked: "I do not, as a rule, tako "Robinson Crusoe" were high up on the boys' list.
ance and depreciation charges are but it seems to me, in view of this and the facts which Dickens had a greater appeal to
no more than those for petrol- letter the girls than to the boys, Scott driven engines; acceleration and have come to light, we ought to was relegated to ninth in both running qualities are satisfactory make some further inquiries." lista. "The Pilgrim's Progress" for heavy vehicles, and fuel costa and "Westward Hol" all secmod have been reduced by more than to find little favour. Girls had 60 per cont.
Yet plans for any extensive contents, the Coroner then adjourn the goods have left the Godowns, long since dispulled the idea that such an exelting book na "Tren-change-over have been held up ined the inquest until September 20 sure Island" was exclusively for view of the recent report of the boys. More than 20 per cent, of Conference on Rail and Road the girls' reading was in the field Transport which proposed in- of boys' literature.
creases of taxation on vehicles petrol, uning fucks other than
Stating that he had shown the letter to the widow and warnod her that she must not disclose its
for further inquiries.
The widow stated in her evidence that on July 14 her husband fell down stairs and fractured two of the lumbar vertebre. After being treated in the Birmingham General Hospital he was advised to remain for some days. He was in bed able to get downstairs on August 9, and on August 12, when she re- turned from going shopping, she was surprised to find him missing.
after the accident and lost weight.
was also very quiet.
The analysis further revealed that school stories appealed more ranging from £7 in the case of strongly to the girls and adven-vehicles under 12 cwt. to £340 in ture stories to the boys. Giris the case of a 10-ton vehicle run on preferred fairy stories and works solid tyres. on handicraft, while boys wanted "For more than three years we to know how to make things and have undertaken extensive experi- to read also ruystery and detectivements with compression ignition er husband went off his food engines," Mr. G. J. Shave, Chief Engineer of the London GeneralHe Omnibus Company atated, "and large sums have also been spent by other companies on similar re- search.
stories.
The Child's Outlook. There was ample advice to chil- tiren of what they should read. It Was written by adults, perhaps from their own point of view, and the importance of the child's opin ion was too frequently overlooked. The reading of children should be to them a joy, and never a task, and the aim of librarians should be to give them books which would arouse their interest, rather than to give them the most edifying and instructive volumes, which would waken no desire to read them. Children rend primarily for the story interest.
"One of the most illuminating things the inquiry revealed." Mr. Osborne added. "was the extent to which cheap stories anti mnga are bought by children. There is a considerable amount of canting denunciation of the
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'Buffalo Bill'
"Thick-Ear Donovan' type of rending, but I do nut think there is anything either unhealthy or unnatural in children's devotion to it, provided that the girl or boy is a healthy
normal being.
"It is a phase through which children pass, and will pass if they are led to better books. It is a Sold Age disease which they catch as inevit ably as measles, and which should MITSUI vanish leaving as little trace. The BUSSAN of 14 has a craving for adven ture which demands an outlet and KAISHA Ads it where it can."''
LTO. The "school story" stage of girls, he continued, resembled the HONGKONG "blond story" stage of boys, and
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your know-
ledge any arsenic in your house?
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N.Y.K. LINE (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA). From EUROPE and STRAITS. The Steamship
"We have now 100 omnibuses of this type on the streets and can-No, I had no knowledge whatso-will be subject to rent. definitely state that the cost of ever of any arsenic in his posses-
aintenance and depreciation is
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Goods not cleared by the 20th Inst. Damaged packages must be jeft in the Godowns for examination by the Buckingham Consignee's and the Co.'s representa- no more than for a petrol engine, Mileage per gallon has been in-stated that on searching the body tives on any Tuesday and Friday, at
hc found
packet labelled 2.30 p.m. within the free storage
For the examination period. creased from 5 to 8, and an in- crease of 100 per cent, is claimed "arsenic" in the dead man's pocket.utiable goods, the consignees must by some makers. The cost of fuel The packet had not been purchased arrange for a Revenue Officer to be
locally. per gallon is about one half of the
Reading the report furnished by All claims must be presented within the Somerset County Analyst, Dr. present price of petrol.
ten days of the steamer's arrival here, *SOMALI Godfrey Carter, the Coroner, said that this showed that Mr. Hares recognized.
after which date they cannot bo must have taken a very large dose
sion.
Police-constable
"Acceleration is excellent and there is greater eflciency at slow speeds because the pressure in the cylinders is the same at all of arsenic.
The fumes contain
Dr. Replying to the Coroner. gine speeds. less carbon monoxide and nre therefore less likely to be harm-tained 3.9 ounces of white arsenic, Clarke said that the packet con-
enough to poison 624 people.
ful than those of petrol.
"Risk of
fire
is
virtually
eliminated and from a national inquest, stated that it was most The Coroner in adjourning the Point of view there is much difficult to trace the sale of this eater probability of heavy oil arsenic. From the pubile point of being produced on a commercial view it was most unsatisfactory sale from coal than is the case if people could get this amount of with petrol. A great deal of arsenic which would poison all this money has been sunk in research number of people without signing and there is real danger that tax-for it. tion on the scale suggested would cripple development.
The question of fire risk would be of special value in the future development of aircraft, and there is the further consideration that much less weight of fuel would have to be carried.
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No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fre insurance has been effected.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISA. liongkong, 13th October 1931.
LINER PRISONER DISAPPEARS
Ho was last seen when the liner was some hours out of Marseilles. Police are now following up the theory that he hid himself in a trunk and was taken ashore as It is also possible that
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POSSIBLY HIDDEN AS "LUGGAGE"
Mystery surrounds the strange placed separately.
disappearance of Louis Leitzel- mann, a Marseilles_cashier, from TALMA satisfactory
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have already produced the French liner, General Metzin SANTHIA
engines for omni- buses, but there is admittedly back to France from Egypt to ger, in which he was being brought need for still more work to be answer a charge of embezzling 1- done before such engines are suit-100,000 francs from his employers, it would piss in similar fashion.
able for private cars. The ques- Marseilles oil company. "I think that much longer itte tion at issue is whether this work, Because of a boy's natural love of adventure it should be possible will be nbtained from such en- which may be claimed to be of gines. Running at not more than national importance. is to be en- to arouse his deepest interest in true narratives of exploration and 2,000 evolutions per minute incouraged or held up."
What did real harm place of, say, 4,000 for a petrol "Where practical results have discovery. was the shoddy style of the stories engine, there most inevitably be been already obtained the position "luggage." and the small type in which theyless wear and tear. More durable is that even with taxation equivahe dived into the sea through the were printed upon badly-coloured compression pumps are needed, lent to the petrol tax there would porthole of one of the ship's bath- hut in 70,000 miles we have not still be a saving, but the incen-rooms and tried to swim ashore. Good Books Rare,
worn out a pump, and there is tive to a general change-over is Another theory is that he left the not sufficient to justify the capital steamer when it arrived at Mar- It was not the librarian's job, nothing to prevent a pump as n
sellles dressed as a stevedore. however, to show superior disap-whole or any part of it being re-expenditure involved." proval of "blood" stuff, unless he could provide instead something better in writing and conception, but still attractive to the young. Libraries must cater for this do- minating passion for adventure by providing stories which dealt with the same elements of crime and adventure, but in a more finished and cultured form.
Children were self-contained and Intensely individual. Hiked to imagine themselves the centre of things, and almost in- themselves variably identified
paper.
They
with the heroes of the stories they wrote. Good books for children were rare, and it was a cult
from
that was bad among the mass
pouring from continually
the
Press.
Mias M. Gilbert said that girls seemed to prefer very much niore than boys fantastic and humorous stories. This suggested that girls had a much keener sense of hum- our than boys, were more roman- tle, and, in a sense, more witty.
A CUT HAND.. HOOVER'S ORDEAL OF HAND-SHAKING
Washington, Oct. 14. President Hoover slightly cut hig right hand at a reception hero.
There were four thousand guesta, Including Lord Reading. The Pro- sident had greeted two thirds of the guests when this hand began to bleed. The White House doctor therefore advised him to retire for the night. It is presumed that the cut was caused by a ring.
now
The occasion was the Inying, of the corner stone of the Suprema Court building-Router.
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