PERFUME.
BRINGS DEATH
MYSTERIES OF
MANDARINS
INDIAN LOVE
POTIONS
mandarins, who choose to ruin any who have thwarted them. They get their agents to neck out tho victim, and after having made his acquaintance, to offer him a small sample of their wonderful aromatic drug. None who have once taken a breath of it can rest contented unless he has it continually by his side, and 'men have risked their lives for as much as would all a thimble. But it is fatal, for thoughi its action is microscopic, it is sure and steady, and onts away brain till the victim turns an im beelle and ends his fo raving frantically Tor more." It is known in Mongolia as the "Smell of Death," and to this day has defled annlysis,
the
(By. A Correspondent) Musk and civet are widely used In aceret Eastern perfumen, the The rapid advance of selence and muak having an odour quite unlike the general progress of civilisation anything else, and the civet smell have been unable to give perfumes in evilly til combined with superior or more effective in their dicobolle fincture, when it takes on resulta than those already in plenaing odour. Apart from the common use in the East. The widely known scents that contain a wonderful blending of herbs and proportion of civet, there is a secret flowers, which combine to produce indian scent, which is in wide de- the intoxicating odours often smelt mand. This scent is used in the same. In the East, are all the secret of way as the love-philtre of old, those who so cunningly compounded though its influence on same men is
them,
The particular perfume must popular in the East in, as a matter of fact, distilled in must countries, but the secret preparation of the Indian equivalent, "golah," is still a mystery to those who attempt to, probe and analyse its constituents. It is
widely-used scent in the palaces and harems of maharajahs, most of whom have in their employ skilled perfumiers to whom secret liha. been handed down for many generations, and who are 80, jealous of their skill that they make Just a sufficient quantity for the use of their master's household, and favoured indeed is the minion. on whom they choose tu bestow a few precious drops.
the
Eastern perfumes generally have n heavy clinging odour, but that is because they have not been proper- ly prepared. Take, for example, the smell of anndalwoods. Here we have a perfonie, so delicious and yet so delightfully Eastern that n mere suggestion of it comjures up Visiens "I hanging draperies," marble arches, and evol sparkling), fountains. Here in the haven of seductive real, made particularly attractive with the knowledge of the burning sun outside.
A WONDERFUL RESTORATIVE·
THE HONGKONG
YEAR'S TOLL
BY FLOOD
AND STORM
RECORD HEAT WAVES
EUROPE BADLY INJURED
London, Dec. 11. Exceptionally heavy rainfalls, followed by devastating flouds, and the almost complete Inck of drought periods, wire the outstanding. weather feature in several castern hemisphere countries, during the first eight months of 1934.
the Poland suffered
heaviest damage, with shout 600 lives lost and $250,000,000 damages during a thousand times more powerful.villages were wiped out and 60 the great June floods, while two
Luigi' Pirandello, Italian dramatist who is best known in America for his "Six Charac ters in Search of an Author," is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature, it was an- nounced in Stockholm. He is the third alien writer lo
ceive the award.
people drowned in Norway, when thousands of tons of rock crashed in a narrow fjord causing 200 ft. high waves, in the most unusual Euro- pean disaster of the year.
Both the Northern and Southern regions of Africa were aho hit by torrential rains, which caused | record-breaking floods.
The highest Nile flood for over
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934.
Full of Herr Hitler's pratses wherever he goes, Herr Rudolf Hess, the Nazl Chieftain's 'deputy, 'is pictured gresting local leaders in Dresden.
40 years was experienced last terruptedly during July, August August In Egypt, where many and September, when terrifle floods towna and villages, and
some resulted in great loss of life and Catro suburbs were partly Inun- dated. In Bechuanaland, Southern
*****enormous damage, Africa, the Molopo River Kalsharl, which last bud water in 1896, was on April 7 in full floud.
INDIA'S SHARE
ware hit the Madras Presidency, while the moonsnon rain had not reached Burma by May 21. which constituies a record for nearly 50 years,
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nt Severe floods and excessive rains were experienced in British Guiana during January, while bush fires enused disastrous floods in parts Heavy rains in the Himalayna Decurred in South Australia early of Assam, In March. A hent wave struck Bihar inte in June, Many villages East Bengal and
11th, when thermometers registered destroyed. A great sandstorm that region from the 3rd to the were submerged, and crops
India, as usual, came in for the largest world's share of floods.
with Rangoon heading the Rat of damaged towns.
As a contrast, abnormally warm weather was experienced in many parts of Europe about the middle of April, In Switzerland snow melted rapidly on the mountains. and rivers were as much swollen as they usually are at the begin ning of June.
Floods were reported in Rumania during January and navigation was held up by ice at Bralla on January 10, No snow or rain fell for nearly three weeks in parts of Switzerland,
Belgium came in for its share of unusual weather in March and April. A violent storm, accom. panied by hail, swept the Province of Brabant in Murch. Rain fell unceasingly for three days. On April 17, during thunder-
passenger train struck by lightning near Namur.
storm,
WIS
It was while on a visit to a rulo- tive in one of the native States in India that I was given a taste of what could really be done by the wizarda that concoct these per- fumes. It is midsummer and twenty hours on A
back was not calculated to increase my com fort materially, With aching limbs and infinite physical discomfort, I dismounted outside my
One taste of it is calculated to All "maakaam" at Raitpere. I
is the imagination with physical burning with fever, and my tired thoughts, and it has an unpleasant bones could obtain no eaxe, till the sensuality about it from which it is family "haking" approached and, exceedingly difficult to escape. It unscrewing a wooden case, extract-
used exclusively by certain ed a little metal phish, Taking wealthy natives in the East, who care that not a drup was spilt, he those who captivate them. What keep it to lure on to destruction applied the bottle to my nostrils.chance-has-a poor caged girl, when I had barely taken a snill when he once in the clutches of a nefarious withdrew his hand hastily. I knew captor? Ostensibly he is the very no more till the light of morning essence of courtliness, and her awakened me, ft and well, free humble slave, but added from racking pain.
to the The worst weather in Poland droning languorous bent of the Ukrain, Jugo-Slavin. Humanla and I cajoled the old man in vain for sensual musfe that is played, the Switzerland occurred almost unfn- the secret of his drug; for-sold inhushed atmosphere, and the dim-
med lighting, In the introxicating
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havoc among the vineyards of To
While a hailstorm wrought great
crops in the southern regions of kay. Hungary, drought destroyed Russia during May.
SUMMER FLOODS
the market place, it would have effect of this mystic drug that clear thinking is impossible, the Assured the fortune of those who assails his helpless prey. There is compounded it,
reason gives way to inclination. 1 for him to command, he can bend her to his will as he
When in the gay, had city of Another such scent is the secret under the diabolical influence of quarter, to see for myself if the pleases. The pity of it all la that Chitpore, in the heart of the native Calcutta, I paid frequent visits to of certain unscrupulous Mong Siam (this drug, the sensen are numbed,
THE SMELL OF DEATH
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Rare are photographs of Mr. Geoffrey, George Knox, chairs man of the Langue of Nations Commission governing the Saar "Territory. Here you see him: souted at his desk in his official residence (inset) in Saurbruncken, capital of the troubled region.
K-USA
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith will have rivala for distance flying In Pangbourn and Turner, the Americans, who plan to circle the Globe, non alap. Here is Sir Charles having a look at Melbourne in the plane with which he spanned the Pacific, the Shrine of Ro membrance below.
in swept over the Khartoum district,
degrees Farenheit. Adelaide on the 9th-the highest |
March.
stories of the sweet-smelling drug. "bhuнoo," were true. The drug haa n sickly scent and is not unlike wet atraw and anwdust. It is rather pungent, and if inhaled | 110.5 deeply sends the inhaler off into a deep sleep. Men of the "goonda" temperature ever recorded in Egypt, on June 7, and was follow- class (upaches), lavicgle victims into their dens and give them quantities of this scent. When they go off into a sleep they are robbed of every penny, and taken and 25 people were killed. An embankments of the Ganges gave inches of rain fell in 45 minutes, province. Wost of Rajshaly the out and left in the street or in a other cloudburst on a similar stitch of clothing they possess is At the end of the month, a heat were flooded, during September. clump of jungle. Very often every scule occurred the following day, way and hundreds of villages! taken. and they are left naked and
unashamed.
WONDERFUL DREAMS
All the while they are dreaming the most wonderful dreams, and are living a life of imaginary plen sure. They naturally get a rude shock when they awake in the cold grey morning, and are compelled to beg from passers-by.
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Certain poisonous und also several medicated scents are com mon in the East. There is. famous bouquet, which is often given to victims of mild insect or snake poisoning. It cures, but in an indirect manner, causing violent eruption of the skin, through which the
accumulated poisons eject them- selves. I have often seen "yogia" administering A sweet-smelling herb to patients bitten by anaken whose stings were not fatal. Once I examined a patient, and, was astounded to see the eruptions coming out under my eyes.
The effect on the poor man, was, terrible, for he kept leaping about in agony as the poison worked its way out through his skin, and I beliove it was some time before he could lie down in comfort.
ed by heavy rain. Similar floods Severo gales were experienced occurred in August in Bombay at Karachi, on May 9. Two
The cornerstones of the Shanghai City Goverment's projected Jibrary and museum buildings were laid recently by Mayor Wa Teh-then with appropriate ceremonies and before a large audiance, The Mayor shown here as he placed's broses cankat into the
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