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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935.
BRAVEST WOMEN No Need To Be "Broke"
ENGLISH BEAT SCOTTISH, In Tientsin
IRISH AND WELSH
GIRLS IN 'FEAR' TEST WHICH part of the British Isles produces the
bravest women?
Judge Crawford, discussing temperament in Bow County Court, declared that Irish girls were not able to bear so much pain as their more/stubborn English sisters.
The next test was to strike a match and pretend to burn the girl's hair. Again the Indicator jeaped in response.
HARD-UP HÜBBÏES CAN NOW PAWN THEIR WIVES
Tientsin, Aug. 19.
A unique kind of Chinese pawnshop where the master of the house can hock his wife or wives was to-day occupying the attention of the police in Tientsin.
Recently an English girl, an!-- Irish girl, a Scottish girl, and a registered, a lttle light on the Welsh girl were invited to sub-wildly in response.
scale of the indicator leaping
mit to "pain" tests in the psychological laboratory at Uni- versity College, London, to see If Judge Crawford was right.
The four girls are similar in height, colouring and appearance. They work in the same office; they are all between the ages of sixteen and twenty; none of them has ever experienced suf fering or pain.
Their were Bory! Young (Eng. land), Elizabeth Murphy (Ire- land), Elleen Bell (Scotland), and Winlfred Evans (Wales). Identical tesis were made with ench one. Mr. J.
Suppose, for example, that Wang, the bean-curd Beller, needs a few pieces of silver to jingle in his pockets or he wants to call upon his favourite sing- The third and fourth tests con- song girl but finds himself un- tained no element of surprise, able to do so because of financial They were straightforward in-embarrassment; all he need do flictions of physical pain—a pin fis place Madame Wang in pawn prick and a hard, squeezing pinch, at one of the several such pawn- Here are the results of the tests: shops which recently sprang into existence in this metropolis on England Ireland Scotland Wales
the Hai Ho.
namca
The amount which he can borrow depends upon such things Jas Madame's age, beauty, health
and disposition..
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1. FEAR OF PAIN:
"Will you .... (No fear scream it 1 regia- burn you?" bered.) Sight of a.
100
220
200
match near
the hair
20
100
190
90
2. ACTUAL PAIN:
Pin prick
30
10
HO
100
Hard pluch
40 140
45
190
calls with the cash to redeemer, her.
00 360
536
580:
Total
The Indy stays "on the shelf"
Juntil Wang, once more flush, Ice House Street,
perhaps from a fan-lan killing,
She has been well fed and pro- tected so long as Mr. Wang' hus paid the interest charges, and is returned in good condition. But if Wang has been careless about the interest, his "tal tai" may be
F. Raper, who has charge of ex-| So Judge Crawford was right. perimental work in the laboratory, The English girl registered no used a psycho-galvanometer, au emotion whatever when she was electric instrument which regis-asked, "Will you scream if I burn fers emotions such as excitement, you?" Her actual pals registra-returned to him as slightly pain and fear,
tion was surprisingly small.
damaged goods.
Wouldn't Be Redeemed
The existence of these unique pawnshops came to the pained attention of police when two of the wives refused to return to their husbands after a month in bock,
First he rubbed the right hand But if the Irish girl is inferior of his patient with salt and water to the English girl in her capacity to facilitate the passing of the to bear pain, Ireland is superior to electric current into the body. Scotland and Wales..
Then he slammed the lid of nị Outwardly Miss Wales-appeured desk to startle her with the first stoic and calm. But the instrø- shock. This was only a pre-ment showed that she was the liminary move, like a sighting; most sensitive to pain.
The outraged husbands sought shot at Bisley. Holding a box of matches in his desk the nerves of the Welsh girl police aid to secure justice. The hand, he asked her. "Will you jumped so violently that the in-police raided the establishment scream if I have to burn you?** dicating light leaped beyond the
The fear of the girl was at once! scale limit, off the screen!
Thousands
Now Living
When Mr. Raper banged his
A Million
Fat Folk
Should Be Dead Are Warned
HOW SCIENCE HAS
HELPED US TO
LIVE LONGER
BAB
ABIES born this year will
SLIMMING DRUG
.HAS BLINDED
women
pro-
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 One of the earliest mariners
turns into an open space. Murderers are not usually got up to this.
9 Loan or rise.
and found eight wives in pawn ut that one place. Three others, the books showed, had not been redeemed by their husbands and had been loaned out to others. The recalcitrant wives who precipitated the trouble by re- fusing to return to their homes after the principal had been duly and regularly paid, explained that their husbands were narco- tic addicts and frequently beat and starved them. They also feared being sold to "maisons de tolerance" in Manchukuo. 12 WOMEN
Police were in a quandary San Francisco, Aug: 4. about the charges to be placed 11 No food for a strong man with the pawnshop Twelve
in
regret at heart. the against live, on the average, to
prietors and others involved. So 12 Very liable to notice. the age of sixty-seven yeara neighbourhood of San Fran- far as they can figure, no crime 13 Cross-road? more than those born twenty cisco have been stricken with was committed by some of the operators whose years ago. And 1944 babies temporary blindness during pawnshop
reach expect to
an recent months as a result of clientele were of the better class average age of sixty-five.
taking a fat-reducing drug and paid interest payments Dr. E. Starr Judd, surgeon of the dinitrophenol group, sullied. No sale was involved regularly. The wives were un- the world-famous Mayo Clinic, recently surprised dele- whose use has lately become and no criminal statute was gates at the California Medical Widespread. Association with this disclosure, This disclosure is made in the The question has been put based on the steady increase journal of the American Medical to the Ministry of Justice in shown by longevity figures.
Association, which adds that Nanking-United Press. Most of us can expect to live 'clinical investigations are being six and a half years longer than conducted to determine whether SOVIET RECOGNISED 36 You can't lower this without a people could twenty-Ave years their blindness was actually due ago, according to Sir Frank to the drug or caused by the Smith, secretary of the Depart malnutrition of the patients in ment of Scientific and Industrial their quest for stream-lined Research.
figures.
can
of
not to
violated.
14
17 The woman who made America Sounds downright in Surrey. atretch from pole to pole.
20 All over when he loses his head. A seaman fuddled with foreign
liqueur.
24 The more you alter it, the more 20 Presume (anagram),
it must be proved.
26 For
For the mise en scene, make a noise about the closing speech. 27 Of doubtful propriety and dis-
tinctly blue at the end.
28 A permanent finish.
31 See & Down.
34 Frozen sheet (two words 3 and
cap. Paris, Aug. 8. 30 Not scared off the bat. Letters were exchanged this 37 A blazer for example. afternoon between M. Potemkin, 38 It depends on you whether you make yourself a master of this. Soviet Ambassador in Paris, and 39 In Stead's day, had a column to
Counsellor to the hinwelf in the Pall Mall. Belgian Embassy in Paris (in
"Tens of thousands of people
M. Heery, Warning to Fat 1,000,000 who saw this year's Jubilee cele. Meanwhile, until the inquiry the absence of the Bolgian Ambas- brations," he declares, "would have been dead if it had not is concluded, Stanford Univernador, M. de Gaiffter d'Hestroy), been for the application of sity Medical School is advising which provide for the early re- knowledge gained in the spheres atout persons
use the sumption of diplomatic relations between Belgium -And Soviet Russia. in Europe still refuse to extend From to-day only four countries
diplomatic recognition to Soviet Russia - Portugal, Jugoslavin, Holland, and Switzerland..
of medicine, engineering and drug. chemistry.
"he
"The increase in the average supplies, better hygiene and I expectancy, of life is not due to creased skill in surgery." taking better care of ourselves. Indded. Modern science, in other It is the result of better water words, is increasing life.
SALESMAN SAM
Whiskers Are Deceiving
DOWN
2 Avoid being caught. 3. What I despair of doing with
Cotton.
4 A note by way of the hill for the
man who'll take it quickest. 5 Sunrise (anagram).
6 Catherine's become poctical after
cutting up 31 Acrosa.
7 Vegetables for the roof-garden? We often say we have been walt-
Ing for them. 10 Part of a skeleton.
Tel. 24048.
10
16 With a bipod, one of the earlier races becomes neither Christian, Jew or Mohammedan.
16 You can do it to the street with- out incurring a charge of man- slaughter (two words 8 and 4). 18 Not
Not prone to sin. No, not at all. pronel 10 A colourless gas.
20 If you moet this unhappy man,
you
might reasonably reversa him,
21 Out of practice and irritable.
26 Sa stingy that, if he lost fifty,
he'd be wretchedness itself.
26 A 4 Down might almost be in it
(hyphen 3 and 4).
28 Gains weight in Taunton. 29 Anxious to do something. 30 Part of a Shakespeare title. 31 Not fit.
32 Stage direction.
33 A Derby winner?
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