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NEED OF GOOD SEED FROM RELIABLE 'SOURCE
BY PROF. C. H. NISSLEY.
Shown above is a healthy tomato plant of good quality. Note the strong vine growth, which is sufficiently abundant to grow a good crop. Plants like this are not the result of accident; they are the result of careful attention to a few essential principles.
Good seed and well-drained
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soil are elementary requirements, The oil should be well supplied with plant nutrients,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1935.
HOME OFFICE
IN ERROR
STEPPED ON TOES OF PRESTON TOWN
London, Mar. 30.
Preston was surprised this week by an offlelal announcement that Mr. Hubert Hull, a London barris- ter, had been appointed Recorder of the town. For a month ago. Preston Town Council-appointed Mr. F.I.B. Hodgson, a loenl barris- ter, as Recorder. And three weeks! ngo this appointment was ap proved and confirmed by the King. The appointment was announced in The London Gazette on March 12.
The Town Clerk, Mr. H.E. Nut-¡ · for an explanation. An hour inter ter, telegraphed to the Home Office an official of the Home Office tele- manure, or lime and a 5-8-7 eam-
Application of a little time and phoned apologising for the mis
take. He said n statement would mercial fertilizer, will make up isaued immediately, correcting. for lack of plant nutrients. A the error. kood
The Town Clerk told tomato plant,
properly reporter that he was particularly grown, will be resistant to wilt.
distressed over the mistake e- cause it had been, arranged for Mir. Hodgson to take his oath as Re corder at this week's meeting of the Council. The Home Office: then issued " statement which said: "By an unfortunate mistake, the Home Ofee announced the appointment of Mr. Hubert Hull, in be recorder of Preston,” and pointing out that hy a charter granted by King Charles 11, the Town Council of Preston had elected Mr. Hodgson as recorder.j Mr. Hull is junior counsel to the Ministry of Agriculture And Fisheries and the Commissioners ( of Crown Lands. He goes on the! Northern Circuit and the Prenton Sessions. He was called to the. Bar in 1910. Mr. Hodgson prat- tised on the Northern Cirenit and the Lancashire Chancery Court. He was called to the Bar in 19. He has sugerrded Sir John Edward' Singleton as Revarder,
Carrot varieties, as is apparent plant nutrients are requisite, above, differ in shape and size. Fresh manare, however, should short varieties alould be not be applied previous to plant grown In heavy soils, and the Ing, although well-ratled manure is longer ones in lighter soil. Well-satisfactory. drained soil and an abundance of recommended.
A -8-7 fertilizer
The
Be
careful not
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Above are. whown differing to mature. varieties of radishes, some fat. plant tho seed too closely together, some round, and others of the long type. Radishes are a pop-crowding in the row.
as a spindly plant will result from lar crop to strow, since they re- Next Thursday: Annuals and quire-uly 24 to 28 days in which perennials.
SCHOOL OR HOME ?
INFLUENCES UPON CHILD MIND
MOTHER OR MISTRESS?
"heroine worship" I really un- healthy. It may foster a love of power on one side and too much emotionalism on the other; but it is the natural instinel of every young human being to adore somr thing, and the chilit will inevitably! find an outlet for this feeling, Wherever it may be, if it is re moved from the parents to whom it would normally give its devotion."
need competition if they are to do! It is true that all young things their best. Where there is only: important for the only child to one in a family it is particularly Eave the stimulus of working with others, to bring it out and breedi sense," I mean, of course, a sensei social sense in it. By "social:
I find it particularly hard to munity. No child has even start-
of responsibility towards the com-) understand the point of view of ed its education until it has learn. those who send their daughters to boarding school when they afford to educate them'al' home.
BOYS ARE DIFFERENT Boys, of course, are a different problem. They need discipline and the rough-and-tumble life, but
studied every day if it is to grow up in the right way.
more
ed to respect the feelings and the can property of other people.
Day schools and classes, how to this problem. Here the child ever, provide an adequate solution can work and play all day with companions of its own age, return-
a girl nearly always loses muching in the evening to a home at-
at school than she can possibly gain, anyhow until she thig to be found nowhere else.
mosphere which will give it some- reaches the age of Tourteen. After that the right kind of finish- ing school can have excellent re- Hults.
Testifying the had lived with the fate Sir Robart Peel, husband of the netres, Beatrice Lillie, for five years before his death last April, Mrs. Doris Drape took the stand in action in a London court to recover two ermine coats. She told of being introduced as Lady Peel wherever she went with Sir Robert. Lady Peel (the famous actress, Beatrice Lillie) is pictured above with the late Sir Robert. Mrs. Drape is supposed to be a double" of Lady Peel.
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AN AMAZINGLY REALISTIC PLAY BECOMES A TERRIFIC MOTION PICTURE I
The London Fire Department has just been equipped with a new type streamlined fire-fighting engine, which is a new departure in fire-fighting apparatus. The body of this machine is entirely enclosed to that the driver and crew have full protection in case of bad weather. The above shows the high-pressure pump outs leta in the back of the engine. The pumps are enclosed in the body. Part of the light extension ladder, which the truck also carries, can be sean poking over the top.
ANTI-ILLITERACY
VICLAUDE ADINS
THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED
HIS HEAD
a series of speeches delivered by a number of noted literary men at various school gatherings. A pub. le meeting will be held to-morrow CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. AND, in the heart of the city, which all
CAMPAIGN
classes of citizens, are urged to attend, Peiping, April 15,
As she watches every small shadow that passes across her child's face, a mother who really loves will know, by some deep instinct, exactly where the trouble ping Oiler of the Chinese Cultural have invariably offered their stocks During the period of the cam- Under the auspices of the Pei- palgn all book sellers in the city Hes, and will be able to smooth Construction Association an anti- at exceptionally reducal prices, ger, no matter how well-trained or was started to-day and will con- have published special supplements it away far better than any stran- illiteracy
propaganda campaign while the vernacular newspapers how well meaning that stranger tinue until Friday.
entirely devoted to this cause.- To-day's programme consisted of Central News Agency.
The little girl should begin her By Mrs. Robert D'Erlanger
education in her mother's house. under her mother's eye. She will Turecisely how many children atte siccordingly. THERE is no census to tell us individual attention in this way, receive far greater care and more are now celebrating half-term ou holiday from the hoarding, schools standardise every thought and
The average school tends to may be, of this country. But, the figure avery emation. We all dislike the would involve some tens of thou-child who tells us a thing "isn't! -sands.
done," but who cannot tell us why
home
How many of them are really it isn't done. Such lazy minded. better off, spiritually, mentally. nesa can only result in mediocrity, physically, eduentionally, for he and those who cannot work out a ing out of reach of home and problem of conduct for themselves parents for something like eight generally go through life slavishly months of the year,
TL is obvious tha at
repeating the thoughts of others. children will develop in a freer to impose on its scholars. The Every school has a code it secks and more natural way, under the intelligent members of the small guidance of parents who have community will probably grasp more intensive understanding of this code, with all its implications. their characters and habits than but the slower child tends more any school teacher can possibly and more to absorb Its ideas and hope to gain.
in some homes it would be in only one of the many disadvant-
ideals in a half-baked state. possible to carry on
That elder children were sent to board-es of the ranss-production sys-
tem.
.though
unless the
ing school. But where such cond-Schoolgirl "erushes," tions do not obtain, how is it that irritating, are less harmful, in one so many parents are willing to let way, than this casting of minds in their children go from them at ala common mould. If a child's time when their minds and charac-adoration for some kindly mistress ters are beginning to form, and ftonchos it to observe and study the when every day brings sone new object of its worship, it will nt. crisis that they themselves should lenst learn something about the be able to handle, far better than mind, character and habits of the anyone else?
Parenthood is a whole-time job, learns a little more about another adored one, and every time it even for those who are able to human being something is gained, afford nurses and governesses to hulp them bring up their families.) A, child must be watched and
HEROINE WORSHIP.
I do not bellevo that this form of
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