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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1936.
ENGLISHWOMAN
BECOMES A PRIESTESS
Life Given To Buddha
"UTMOST PERFECTION IN WOMANLY VIRTUE”
Tacoma (Washington State), May 18.
WHILE the clanging of temple bells drowned the traffic roar of this thriving American city, Mr. San Yan Pratt, for- merly of Croydon, Surrey, to-day changed her name to Tei Un, or the “utmost perfection in womanly virtue,"
She became Upasika, Or priestess to Buddha, in a room filled with the heavy odour of
Death-bed Drama
Oriental incense, writes a Daily In London Express correspondent.
Mrs. Pratt, thirty-eight-year- Priest WasTM
old mother of two children, for-
got she was within a few yards Rushed
[of motor-cars, fire engines, and
other symbols of modernity, and To Marconi's
took the ancient vow of her faith,
YELLOW GOWN
She wore a brilliant yellow gown which she will never wear again until she is buried.
"I take my refuge in Buddhin,"
Brother
Picture shows an Abyssinian war- rior burnt by gas which the Nalians are alleged to have used during the Just Intensive fights for Addis Ababa.
"BRILLIANT
EDDIE CANTOR'S ESSAY" WINS.
A MAN raced down the PRIZE
steps of the Hotel
she moaned over and over again. Splendide, Piccadilly,
"I take my refuge in Dharma, take my refuge in Sangka."
When she was fourteen Mrs. Pratt
was given the scriptures of all rell gions and advised by her father to atudy all and take her choice.
In 1019 she met another white | Buddhist priest who Influenced her to become more active in the cause, "I turned to Buddhism," explain- ed Mrs. Pruit to-day after the cere muny "because It is so logical,"
Mrs. Pratt met her husband in England, married him, and came to America In 1934. Her husband, too, is a Buddhist.
PARIS SUBWAYS
ond
night, hailed a taxicab and asked the driver, to hurry him to the Roman Catholic church in Farm-street, May- fair.
"What's wrong?" the driver naked.
"Signor Marconi is dying," he was told. "We must fetch a priest."
The cab sped to the church. There the passenger interview- ed the priest.
Together they returned to the hotel.
ARE WAR HAVEN The priest was just in time.
Paris, May 18. What is believed to be the largest-and the safest gas- proof, bomb-proof shelter in)
Signor Alfonso Marconi, brother of Marchese Marconi, whom hel once assisted in his radio experi- ments, died shortly after the last rites had been administered.
the world has been completed at Window
Paris, and is ready to shelter 8,000) persons against any future air raid.
..
It is the first of a series of shelters which it is planned to make out of those sections of thef subways which tend themselves to conversion into shelters.
In The Milky Way
COSMIC PEEP-HOLE INTO OUTER SPACE-
During the last war, Parisinna! mechanically Look shelter from
New York, May 18. barby In the subways, but then the danger from gas was slight. The discovery of a "window" The
new shelter is arranged within the Milky Way through which particular, attention to gas.
man is able for the first time to In ease of an alarm, the subway look through vast clouds of chaos censes functioning as a roadway for into the great beyond on the other machines compress the air in the
Lo
enclosed space to a pressure of an side of the universe was an. atmosphere and a half, thus making nounced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, it passihis for those seeking escape director of Harvard Observatory,
enter through the three amall entrances provided, without danger at the closing session of the of gas entering with them, for the American Philosophical Society at air under pressure blows it out.
Philadelphia.
The air in the tunnel la derived
The Milky Way is filled with great from outside. altered through ma dark clouds of cosmic dust forming chines whose secret is guarded care an impenetrable curtain between the fully, but which are said to provide earth and the reat of the solar perfect protection against all known system. It had been belloved Chai gases, which can purify some 8,000 these clouds would forever obscure to 10,000 cubic metres of air an hour the "hinterlands of the cosmos" fram
the gaze of inan.
AT 75 FOOT DEPTH
The discovery of the "window" This first shelter of the Metzn seen from the Southern Hemisphere system has been installed at the toward the west, and therefore station of the Place des Fetes, prin- | named by Dr. Shipley the "south- cipally because of its depth-75 feet west window in the Milky Way," underground and its size, both of provides man for the first time with which properties are the result of a "cosmic peep hole" through which the station's location in the American he can see part of what is beyond. Quarries (Carrieren d'Amerique) Dr. Shapley reported that through quarter, whose long unused galleries the window astronomers have already! provide part of the space for the scen 147 new variable atazu, which by shelter.
the perlodie fluctuation of their lumlaosity furnish a yardstick into There are plenty of other posal space for measuring distances hun- bilities for shelters In the subway Idreds of millions of light years away. system. Studies of tho defence ile and there were fully 100 new possibilities have led to the markt- cosmic measuring rods beyond the ing of 130 subway stations for centre of the galaxy, or considerably almllur treatment. Thirty them further than 30,000 light years. window, Dr. are 3 feet underground, about 60 Looking through the are 21 feet below the surface, and Sbapley continued, one saw a normal of the outer galaxies the rest are 15 feet underground, distribution If, when all these points have been alcar beyond the confines of the rim converted into shelters, it is felt of the Milky Way. This might be that
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO. there still in need of more, taken as evidence that the window is
ayatema have been worked out for truly transparent, for if it were marc- protecting shallower tunnels and con-ly translucent the distribution of the vorting them also into refuges outer galaxies should be less than
normal.
This week, A Conjuring Set is the Senior Prize in the Telegraph's | against attack from the air. Children's Competition.
New York, May 18. EDDIE CANTOR, the stage #110] Im comedian. has
awarded £1,000 to 1 young
student from Missouri for
writing Like
most brilliant
essay on World Pence in a con- text which the comedian ducted.
מרי
After the student. had been brought. all the way to New York, paraded around The city, and introduced to a
national audi- Eddie Cantor ence by Eddle Cantor on the wire- less, it transpired that his prize- winning essay was based upon a treatise by Dr. Frank Kingdon, president of the Newark Univer- sity.
Mr. Cantor has announced that he does not attach serious blame to the boy, Lloyd Lewis, aged 17, because he was engaged on research work in English at the time and thought thai it was legitimate for him to use the material,
Mr. Cantor must, however, select another winner for his prize, which consists of a scholarship of £1,000 to be applied to a course at auy Américan univeralty,
The judges, most of them unlver- sity professors, who chose Lewis's contribution, declared that they judged the work purely on its merit, und did not seek to apply a test for plagiarism.
cetve iç comedian's cheque-but his Some other young essayist will re-
work Willi frst have to survive
microscopic examination by as many literary experts as the actor can loy hands on-Reuter,
Preferred Jail To Scotland
London, May 12. When Thomas Lyon, aged 19, a machinist, appeared at London Sessions for sentence for steal. ing a watch, It was stated that last May he was given the option of doing one month's hard labour for begging or returning to Scot land.
He declined to go back to Scotland, and did the month in- stead," said a detective.
Lyon. a native of Glasgow, was sent to Borstal for a period not exceeding three years."
ARMY NURSES TO HAVE NUMBERS
"All Army nurses are: to be given Identification numbers on the linca of the plan adopted by the War Office in 1929 for officers.
The War Office Informed a Press representative
that rocently
tho scheme was a domestic matter, which would avoid confusion and secure
of the 'simplification identifying nurses.
system
of
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