THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1936.
BRILLIANT WOMAN'S
She Turned Her Back on Romance
WANTED
"NOT
WHEN FAMOUS '
Burdened by fear of being no longer wanted, Miss Margery Homersham (44), a brilliant accountant, threw herself from a window in Boundary-road, St. John's Wood, London.
"Suicide while of unsound mind" was the inquest verdlet.. Friends and business associates told how Miss Homersham in the struggle for success forget how to live happily,.
At the close of the war she turned her back on romantee. Work was! her only interest.
She took her. M. A. degree with flratelass honours al Oxford. For a time she was a schoolmistress, Then | she was the first woman accountant, She founded the firm of Homersham and Co., of St. Clement's House, George-street, London.
No Recreations
She reached the top of her pro- fession and there was nothing left for which she thought slie could strive.
"She had no réerentions and no Interests outside her business,” sald one of her friends.
The Rev. Desmontl Morse- Boycott, the writer on human problems and a friend of Miss Homerslam. sald he helped to Alght her fears.
"She pondered over religious diff culties and her criticisms were often ruthless," he said.
"One day she wrote the following words which form the opening paru- graph of a book she made me write enlled 'God and Everyman'
A Bitter Draught
I am terribly interested in what people really think and believe, and why and what is the real; vital Inolive of their way of life.
"If you refer me to text-books or
SHOWING
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MARY POSTGATE
"MARY POSTGATE"; SHORT
STORY DATED 1915,
He
Mary was an old maid, a paid companion, who brought up Wynn, orphan nephew of her employer, She loved him. Joined Flylag Corps. crashed. died. A German plane bombed ber village, killed
child. German fell out of 'plane. She sal watching him until he died, Ifting no finger to help him and went so unmoved to tea.
Lloyd George
L.G.'S HORROR OF BOMBING
|mant"
TRAGIC SECRETS
Forgot How to Live
Land 'Planes For Trans-Pacific Service To N. Z.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICIAL FINDS BAKER, JARVIS AND HOWLAND NOT SUITED FOR SEAPLANE PORTS
.
Honolulu, Aug. 29. Fast land planes, instead of heavier and slower seaplanes may be used on America's proposed new air route from Honolulu to New Zealand and Australia, according to William T. Miller, superinten- dent of airways of the United States Department of Commerce.
Miller is aboard the coast guard | Manila, the planes are able to land References to the "nocturnal tor-cutter Itosen on a tour of the three and take, off in sheltered Ingoons, of military planes över "histle islands of Baker, Jarvis and forming á natural landing area when Surrey home are made by Mr. Llayd Howland which are to serve as bases the coral heads are blasted
out. George, replying to a correspondent and intermediary stops for the new This is true on Midway und Wake fron Criccieth, his
But Welsh home service. Before leaving, however, he part
particularly. unlike those two village, protesting against the set-indicated that there are three specific islands, Baker, Jarvis and Howland ting up of a bombing school in the reasons why it is likely that land have no lagoons whatever. The sea Lloya Peninsula, North Wales, planes rather than sea planes will beats booming and piling up at some 1 live in Surrey, in a neighbour-be used on the new 5,000 mile route seasons of the year until a landing hood where military neroplanes are to the Antipodes. These are! even by a boat is dangerous." hummit: night and day over my house," weites Mr. Lloyd George, The islands trendy have landing I should not join in a petition areas that could be used in from the inhabitants of the neigh emergency even in their present con- bourbood to rentove this mactural dition forment to some other part of the country where it would disturb the rest of others..
"If there is to be bombing there "My book did not solve her must be bombing school somie- problem, because she was by where. Where. would you put nature a critic. She could not slp My remedy would be lo abolish it life as a cocktail she had to drink altogether by international agree it as a bitter draught.
ment.
theology, or even to the Bible, I shall be greatly disappointed. 1 am seek Ing for grounds more relative than this."
"I wrote the book and sent her a
copy.
"I wish I had known in Ume. The nations very nearly came to
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Miller declared that the perma- nent
development and colonization Water surrounding the islands is of the islands is planned on a serious FOR too rough for seaplanes to make a scale. Washington officials are sule landing and tie up for refueling their way there on the present trip and inspection.
on
of the Itasen to erect an administrat- TO START GRADING FIELDS live and other permanent buildings. Materials for these were carried next trip of the Itasca will send a
The federal government on the laboard the Itasca.
"That the federal government is tractor and grading equipment to takin
of this long range view would have rushed to her side and real effort?
terms once; why not make another level of the areas and prepare them work, is indicated, Miller declared; told her that a thousand
Bombing experiments for landing fields. business before worries
war are bad, but the real "Even in their present condition," "by the fiet that part of the Itasca's need not make her doubt horror is the use to which it is con- Miller declared, "I would not hesitate trees and thousands of seeds. These of hundreds of small. cargo consisted that, if only she would shelve her templated they should be put if war to land a plane on any one of the trees and seeds will be planted on worries until she was stronger, they unfortunately would not seem so farge."
breaks out amongst three islands. The possible and each of the three islands where the the nation."
Acids are a mile long, facing directly colonies will have such plants
ore a Into the prevailing winds, and are burp
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oranges. "So for as seaplanes busing there, cashew nuts and ironwoods. These one important factor must be con- orchards in themselves will furnishi sidered. Along the Pan-American a certain native food supply to the Airway route from Honolulu to colonists."
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Washington, Aug. 30, THERE is a brave man in the army to-day; a hero with chin up and stomach in, who acts-yes--who is forced to act as a fashion model for the fall and winter styles of 1936.
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Miller pointed out that the federal government's colonisation project an the three Islands will be opernted on a continuing books.
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"The project is permanent," he said. "It is a vanguard of mercial aviation Inking America with the Antipodes, Just as the pre- sent air route of Pan-American from Honolulu to Mantu links America and the Orient.
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ready. Complete weather stations are being established this trip on Jarvis and Howland with instruments for both ground and upper-air observations. Baker Island, being but a short dis- tanec south of Howland, will have in- struments for surface observation only.
This unhappy man pirouettes with a wan smile while tailors fuss around him with pins and the Department of "When, the full story of this co- War ponders the flare of his coat. Ionization of the ny mid-Pacific He strolls dejectedly down the door islands is told in years to come, the with hand in pocket and even with young American schoolboys of Hono hand on hip as the staff generals con-lulu will take their place along with sider the hang of his pants, the beauty the heroes of the American migration of his gold braid and the artistry of to the west." his brass buttons.
He, poor devil, is the victim of the army's decision to show the nation something fancy in the way of full dress uniforms, which soldiers have! not worn since the world war.
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For the past 19 years an army
It was the Itasca, that took to the officer hasn't had to dress up for anything, not even a shindig at the islands the first groups of Hawaiian White House. All he's done has been youths who established the weather wash his hands and put on the same observation stations there necessary olivedrab suit he wore all day. This for a knowledge of Pacific weather has given the army an inferiority conditions for trans-Pacific air lines complex
els and began the first work of coloniza- and down-at-the-heels and
a feeling. As a colonel who didn't tion.
It also was the Itasca that main- want his name used explained, there has been
for utained constant contact with the lille: growing demand lay out nifty in full dress uniforms, groups and eventually replaced them That's why Gen. Malin Craig, chief, with, fresh colonizers from Hawaii. of staff, has requisitioned our hero "You may be interested in know- for some plain and faney modelling that already the appearance of those declures Commander Brown, in the lucked. barred, and guarded ateliers of the war department, We little sandy spots on the equator is
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mards his secret closely as it does san
udded
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is new super-guns. The war de-In the meantime, constructions, tents, partment's not going to have any weather service slations and body snickering at its bravest man; additions of civilization are rapidly it swears never to let his wife tearn changing what was formerly mere. the truth.
sand specks into the appearance of To date he had modelled a dozen or an advance guard of civilization;”.
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Alexander Korda
so uniforms, the brain-chlidren of the United Press. country's leading military tailors. None of these caught the eye of Gen. Craig: they're too splendid." What he wants for his soldiers is a nice, dark blue suit, neat, but not too gandy; a uniform which will make the army throw out fis chest and look prond When It says; "May I have, this dance?"
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Wishes
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He takes off suits and puts 'em on, naturalisation, with the speed of a: Parisian man-:
Mr. Korda is now producing bly nequin. He struts and he stalks; he films at Denham, the London Film brow. when he gets n crouches and he hends. He mops his Productions studio, for one of the concert, suffers silently.
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He achieved a triumph with the and at last our hero's bravery plays Charles Laughton Blm, "The Private out on him. He cannot tell the truth, Life of Henry VIII, and followed It is too much, So he anys: Another this with "Catherine the Great," "The tough day at the war department, Scarlet Pimpernel," H. G. Wells's darling, and where nro my overalls? Things to Come, and another Wells
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