THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
29, .1936.
A Page Mostly About Pride, Of-
MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN & BRITAIN
How England's
Tennis Children
Are Keeping The Flag Flying
ENGLAND'S girls are determined to keep
the old flag flying. If you doubt it, con- sider the remarkable array of juvenilej tennis talent that performed at Dulwich this. month.
Putney High School seems to be bent on pre- senting Wimbledon with talent. First Miss Evelyn Dearman, then Miss Mary Hardwick (both) in the team now somewhere south of Madeira on the way to South Africa).
The third gift to the bigher ranks from Putnoy seems likely to be a jolly young girl with a black mop of hair, a ferocious service, and an impeccable drive on either hand, Mollic Lincoln.
She is among the last eight at Dulwich and hasj a sporting chance of being among many other last elghts. Mollie has just the personality to fit her name; she will be popular.
STUFFED DOG MASCOT
St. Paul's has a couple of fine girls in the lists, Miss A. P. Cardinall and Miss J.. L. Mac- lachlan.
"Miss Cardinall carries a woolly stuffed dog as a mascot. When she is not handling a rocket she clings tightly to Carlo.
Her schoolmate, Miss Maclachlan, f.
is not of sturdy a build, but is
They don't honour the owl as a symbol of wisdom along the Columbia River In Lincolu County, Wash., because bly anca like Mra: Emily Johnson is holding carry away chickens. This one has a wing spread of '5 feet 1 inch--which is getting close to the eagle rize...
clever at the net, and makes her One Man Sets Up
forceful strokes by excellent timing.
Then there is Miss Rosemary Thomas, a little girl, one of the priden of Wallington. She is only fourteen, and beat an experienced girl, Misa M. S. Mathias. She has
n thoughtful tennis head on young shoulders. Rosemary-for rêmem- brance. Watch her progress.
A Fire Speed Record, First
Of 1936 Moseley-rond fire station, in
John Archer is only fourteen- Birmingham, holds a record that tall lad. He has been playing at
its members will probably tournaments, for three years more. He is an extremely promis-cherish with pride. ing star-to-be. Went down to J. B.
or
It concerns their first call of the
Daniel, of Bedford, 7-9, 7-5, New Year. This is the official re-
63.
Daniel is seventeen.
D. R. Bocquet is the stylist of the tournament, and Derek Hardwick) (Mary Hardwick's brother), four- teen only has a drive that at times! would do credit to a Davis Cup player:
Pride Of Children
One Age At
Which Man
Is Perfect NOW about pride of chil-
'dren.
Said Mr. James Fairgrieve, in his presidential address to the Geographical Association in Lon- don:-
"The normal pre-adolescent boy or girl has no desire for perfection, attainable or unattainable.
"He 19 perfect. He is about as self-suflicient a mortal as you can find in the world."
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ND, talking about porfection, Robert Impex, aged two and three-quarters, is to-day an exceed- ingly proud small boy because his perfect problem picture has a place of honour in the exhibition of Amateur Art of All Ages.
Robert's picture is an effort in yellow water-colour with a profu. sion of pencil lines. He calls it
"A Elephant or Only a Duck." and-hus thus set up two conflicting schools of thought on his master- piece.
Much depends on the angle from which the picture le viowed..
BURGLARS
NIGHT OUT
IN HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood..
fim While Alice White, a actress, was sleeping burglars broke into her house at Holly- wood.
They stola::.
Clothes valued at £1,000:
A fur coat.
Rare perfumea,
Joven pocket-books.
A-negliget,,
That was the inventory Miss White gave the police next morn- Ing-Reuter::
port:-
11.13. Brigade receives call. 11.13 Brigade turns out. 11.13.-Fire extinguished. 11.13.-Brigade returns. -And-the-explanation:
The Bre occurred in the ntation building. One man ran to the spot and put it out at once.
Here Is Something To Be Proud Of -OR IS IT?
ner,
club
America's Most
Popular
Dramatist Is
A
-By F. G. II. SALUSBURY
LITTLE national pride is pardonable so early in
the New Year that is, before anything can have happened to lower it-and I am profoundly tickled to learn that a "Shakespeare boom" is on, in the United States.
Shakespeare, thou shouldst ( I will withdraw behind a proud an- have been living at this hour:nouncement of interest to Beher- thou wouldst have garnered a fat men. meed of royalties.
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17T concerns trout. There are some Katherine things from which the far- As it is, Mins Cornell has just played Juliet flung Briton is inseparable. A A trout 232 times in forty cities, travel-dinner-jacket is one. led 24,000 miles about America seems to be another: for the hill tribesmen of North Malaya bave to do it, and garnered £135,000, promised the loen! Fisheries De For one performance in the partment not to destroy the British town of Des Moines, lown-you trout that have been put into the
local streams. remember H. B. Irving's warning' to his famous father: "Don't go down Des Moines, daddy"?-she Look E1.615.
Of all the impressive remarks have heard none stands out with ns that in such insistent charm which a film magnate once profess- ed to me his faith in Shakespeare.
"Mark you," he said, during a pause in the Malvern Festival, "I don't say Shakespeare could write dialogue, but I do say he was a born
scenarist."
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Well, now it has been proved that he can write dialogue. Hence my outburst of national pride.
Several years ago the University' of Alberta started a Woman-Haters' men. Club. Members flocked to its ban-
and the mightily.
Then Time and Woman got to members work. One by one the faded away.
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Good News For Wives:
The idea is to have good fishing there in a year or two, but the tribesmen, who live largely by trap ping any old sort of fish, had been regarded as potential spoil-sports,
Indeed, a messago describes them as "simple, uncivilised folk."
Now, I suppose, they will develop into people content to cast bien for hours, as much to the delight of the
This is another- trout as their own. great advance.
Pride Of Women
WOUNDED IN THIS CASE BY MAN THE INFERIOR
The pride of women teachers, PRIDE should also inflate the SOMETIMES pride is wounded.
bosom of New South Welsh- for instance.
At the Conference of Women Prosperity is returning to the senior State in the Common- Teachera at Weyfouth recently, Miss Clark, of London, demanded to are women being flourished wenith, as is evidenced by a
know, "Why pushed out of the schools?
"Is It," she asked, "because women won't put over military training in the schools? If this is so, then it seems to me we must have more and more women in responsible positions,"
Five still survive, determined to die (still single) in the last ditch.
82-MILE SHOUT
Munich, Jan. 24.
A shout that carried more than eight and a half miles under the surface of Lake Constance has been recorded by Bavarlan scientists.- Reuter.
Bill to allow married women the schoolteachers to resume positions from which they were dismissed during the black de- pression in favour of a thousand waiting student-teachers.
The Bill would also absolve mar-1
Said another delegate, "There are ried women teachers from an an- nual declaration that their financial far more posts going than there are position is such as to necessitate able men to All them, and inferior men are being appointed while are unable to their employment.
japply." Now, the question of the employ-superior women ment of married women is an irri tuting one, na Whitehail knows, sa
Amarica le proud of this, first of the new DST (Douglas slaaper transport) planes, built by the Dolgles company at Santa Monica, Calif., shown Just before it took its first test fight. With awing span of 15 fest, an overall length of 65 fast and a gross weight of 24,000 pounds, it is one of the largest passenger planes, in' operation in America. It is a low wing monoplane powered
with twin motors,
SUICIDE IN CELL AS PROTEST
AGAINST DISCIPLINE
Lawes, Jan. 3.
PRISONER at Lewes Gaol made a dramatic protest here to-day because a fellow prisoner had banged himself in his cell
He was giving evidence ph Minall, aged 32, of Kingston at the inquest on Frederick Jose on-Thames
Major F. LR Munn, the prison governor, said Minati, who was serving a 12 months' sentence, was reprimanded by the Roman Catholle Chaplain for talking during Mass. On the same day a glass gas globo In his coll was found broken,
Minall said he did not know anything about this, but, after Inquiry, he was given two days' solitary confmoment and two days on bread and water. He also fofeited remission marka, s
Major Munn added that Minall seemed undisciplined and anti-social. This was his first experience,
of prison, but he had been at Borstal. The rope used was similar to that used for mail-bage.
A prison officer, Frederick Gupwell, said Minail was scon pacing backwards and forwards in his coll. An hour.fator he was found hanging.
Intelligence
DOG IS HERE YOU
HAVE CLEVER, BUT
BRAINS Here pride takes a tumbic. Dog is British; other fellow, an orang outang, comes from cast of Suez. You may think the dog is clever. So he is, in a way. But- SAID Professor David Katz to a juvenile audience at the
of. Society
Arts, Adelphi,
W.C.-
"Scientists have come to the con- clusion that three different types of intelligent
behaviour exist in
animals. One is due to instinct,
two
la learned from experience, three is that in which an animal uses a sort of reasoning power.
Reasoning
"Many insects, birds, and mam mals are able to learn from their experience.
"But only very few, such us the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orang outang, have climbed. the ladder of evolution to the paint at which reason or insight comes into play.
Clover performances by horses and other animals are generally Itaught by mera tricks. The hores:
which fa said to understand lan-" gunge and to solve arithmetic prob. lems; is in reality given the clue by some movement of his master.”...
Village
Catches
15,000 Rats
The Tendring (Essex) Coun ell recently tried to exterminate the large number of rats in the village
They offered to pay 24. for evory rat tall they received.
The result was that almost everyone. beenine proud of their city and at the same time a rat- catcher.
Fifteen thousand tails were Isept: In.
Mr. H. Campling oxpressed the feelings of the council when he said: "I don't see why we should bear the expense for the benefit of people outside our dis trict
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