THE HONGKONG/TELEGRAPH MONDAY,
JULY
22, 1935.
WINDERMERE
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MOSCOW UNIVERSITY.
FRESHMEN DISAPPOINTED AFTER LONG JOURNEY
Moscow, July 19.
and
Sprightly young college freshmen grey haired post-graduates to-night milled about the lobby of the New Moscow Hotel.
They parleyed as to what to do after travelling 5,000 miles to at lend the summer session at Moscow University, only to find there was
no session.
THYMUS GLAND
MAY PRODUCE "SUPERMEN”
EXPERIMENTS
ON RATS
of
Atlantic City, NJ., June 14. Discovery of a gland extract which may produce a race "supermen" was reported when 12,000 physicians of the United States and Canada met for the opening of a joint convention of the American and Canadian Medical
Moro than 200 prospective Associations. students of Soviet learning and A colony of squeaking white rats culture wore lured by advertise-jin tiny cages demonstrated to the menta of Intouriv the Soviet gathering of scientists a develop- ment of thymus gland extract, travel organization; but on arrival from the sweetbreads of calves, here they were informed that the which speeds growth and maturity school term had been cancelled, the to an unprecedented degree. The professots having been drafted extract is being tried on humans.
Rowntree Dr. Leonard G. for other State services or being so Philadelphia Institute of Medical tired they were unable to work this Research and the Philadelphia summer.-United Press,
General Hospital, directing the
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The camp is a particularly good triking while the iron is hot several years as a private camp
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In the centre of an centre for a whole summer's rest characterislia of the for girls. West that has gained the admira-ideal vacation district, it is easily and exploration, bocaumo mRNY Are And reached by main mountain high- the aids trips that can be made Lion of the rest of Canada,
The famous Banff-Win by car, mountain-bred ponies, or no there is little surprizo in the ways. announcemeat that the Board of dermere road leads to it, a good on foot to adjaount spots of Trade at Invermere, B.O., has alternative route being through beauty or historie interest. Ten-
the mountains from Cranbrook. leased the bungalow camp at
The lake averages about 08 dois courts and motor launches are beautiful Lake Windermere for this summer, in anticipation of grees in the summer and is ideal avaliable for the Increased tourist traffic to the for swimming and boating. Ex-guests, Canadian Rockies, which has been collent trout fishing can ba had generally forecast in Europe, tho
rlent, and the United States.
The camp, which
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1280
of the
There is accommodation for 42
in several creeks, and smaller guests in the camp, which co- lakes near by and the lake itself piste of largo main building. has landlocked salmon of conaid with wide verandah, and of say- being erable size. Within a day's ride arate small bungalows, equipped taken over by small but ener is the celebrated Lake of the with single beds, stove, clothes golle lavermere, is one of the Hanging Glaciers, with six speeloset, nice furniture, running on delightfully situated in the tacular glaciers all concentrating Castalian Rockies.
Bullt
erlin one moraine with an foo wall water, and electric lights. Kinally by the Canadian Pacifto several hundred feet high which double bath-house, with hot and Rallway, this comp has been suc-dropa a continual succession of cold running water, contains se7-
arate bath rooms. cessfully operated for the past small icebergs into the lake.
ROCKEFELLER'S
DAUGHTER
MANSION MAY BECOME LUNCH ROOM
GOOD OLD DAYS RECALLED
Chicago, June 14. The $4,000,000 mansion where Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick -known as "the richest woman in the world"-reigned as the arbiter of Chicago Bociety and entertained queens and diplomats muy be turn- ed into a luxurious lunchroom.
Edward L. Brashears, appointed receiver for the property, has an- nounced that the home of John D. Rockefeller's daughter, who died in 1982, is a "white elephant" and that, with n!! Its onetime splendour, it's good for nothing more than a glorified eating place.
The home, encircled by a high, ornate iron fence, was the centre of the city's society for 35 years Queen Mario was entertained there, as were the Prince of Wales and Crown Prince William of Sweden.
days of his exile.
were! 5115
FOOD POISONING
The furnishings, now gone with the auctioneer's hammer, exquisite and costly. One alone, a rare old Persian that be| CUTTLEFISH BELIEVED TO BE longed to a Shah, cost $185,000.
The mansion, built a half cen- tury ago by the socially-minded Joseph Thatcher and citadel of lavish affairs during the World's 1893, Columbian Exposition lu might not have reached its ignoble end if Mrs, Rockefeller had carried out plans which she announced seven years before her death.
She engaged architects to draw n million dollar up plans for museum on the apot, a grandfose castle-like affair housing objects d'art.
GENEROUS EFFORT
But her interest was sidetracked to a plan to develop great sub- division tracts where the children of the less wealthy familles might grow up amid flowers and trees. She organised the Edith Rockefel- ler Trust and into it went a large purt of her $50,000,000 fortune. depression set in in 1929 and the reigning queen of society, who had not spent a night away from her feudal home in 11 years, moved to hotel suite. She said she had had heavy financial setbacks.
AT "1880"
The scheme collapsed when the
THE CAUSE
After finishing their evening meal un Friday last, three Chinese, Ng Lam-kee, Ng Yin and Ng Yiu sud- denly fell ill and were taken to the Kowloon Hospital where it was found they were suffering from food-poison- ing
According to one of the men, they bought a cuttlefish a few months ago. and on. Friday they cooked some of it with the melon they usually eat with their meal.
It is believed the fish was responsi- ble for their sudden illness.
The three men are reported to be recovering.
the old mansion was kept in mo mentary readiness for his return-- even after his marriage and divorce from Ganna Walana, the singer.
opern
The home was referred to among
society folk simply as "1880," its street number, and an invitation to
seven o'clock dinner there meant seven o'clock; if one arrived at 7.10 he missed soup-and perhaps the fish.
Dinner guesta ate from the same
Now the home of society's queen service used by Napoleon and brought from the Island of St. Although she charged desertion-democracy was only a word to Helena by General Montholon, when she divorced Harold Fowler her-may become a beachside ent- friend of the Emperor in the last McCormick in 1921, his room in ing place with service at all hours. }
Here is pictured the fourth.
est End through Sloans Brake
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t of the Jahilas prosessions of Their Majesties through
mith and Falkam veletra tks aboye plėture was tak li typical of that sound Ali OVO LAKE
Nothing wrong with this dog's life. He's old, and can't walk far, so his mistress, at Margate, wheels him about when she's shopplog.
Making visible ●forts to control their emotions, King George and Queen Mary frequently showed their pleasure over the demonstrations of loyalty attending the Silver Jubilee of their reign. Here the monarchs are pictured in their car-King George
■ bit restrained, Queen Mary ongerly attentive to the chearing crowd-as they started their homeward journey after taking part in the levee for the diplomatic corps at St. James' Palace.
On this oncasion they visited
thmolaam- of the crowds in
experiments, reported that rats treated with the extruct reproduced in one-eighteenth of normal time and lived longer than others their species.
of
Rats in his cages have attained six days after birth the physical and mental development of other rats at the end of 72 days.. Their eyes opened in 36 hours, contrasted with the normal period of 16 days and they reached maturity in four daya.
The first generation of animals that Dr. Rowntree treated with the extract is 27 months old, equivalent to 75 years in human life.. Rats normally live about 24 months.
Dr. Rowntree refused to com ment on the possible effect of nd- ministration of thymus extract to his human "Guinea Pigs." The experiment has not progressed to a point where conclusions can be drawn, he said. Ife is being nasist- ed in his work by Drs. Jefferson H. Clark and Arthur Steinberg, Phi- ladelphia, and A: M. Hanson, Fair- baul, Minn.
Dr. Martin G. Vorhaus of New York reported successful treatment: of 92 of 100 neuritis sufferers by oral administration of a newly isolated crystalline form of vitamin B-1 the "nervo" vitamin. The crystal is so potent that a granule, the size of a pinhead, in equal in vitamin content to 100 cakes of yeast,
The cancer proventive, developed by Dr. J. R. Davidson of Winnipeg, Canada, le a highly concentration In diet of vitamin E, found parti- cularly in the wheat gorm.
Dr. Davidson applied a cancer Irritant to 12 white mice. Bix of the rodents were fed a diet high in vitamin E, the other six normally, All of the six on normal diet con- tracted cancer and died. None of
the others was affected--United. Priss.
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Refreshment Rooms. (near summit station) Private Cars for Excursions "Anywhere.
Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.
Mmals are interchangeable, ne estas cont whatever you have your breakfast, Tuncheon, te or dinner,
Roems of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Runnymede "esch room has its own publia telephone,
The Bonnymede Restaurant bes undeniably pride of pince song hotele of the Enes with its mainlon, and fuelly slain by Ste ammoniations to offer the traveller sosh me fa not to be tossá eloewhere.
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