THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1936.
Bishop Defends Hatless Women
And Says It Is "Perverse" To Stop Them From Entering A Church
Kay Francis, is considered to be the best-dreasent womu on the
American stage. She is shown with
o medal she received for hur good Inste.
1,919 Coins To Pay A Speed Fine
And He Was A Farthing Short
of
A canvas bag containing 1,010 cop per coins was slapped in front Southend Police Court clerk recently by George William Smith, local "Wall of Death" rider, in payment of a £5 speeding fine,
Thinks The Bible Has Been Misinterpreted
TS it wrong for a woman not to wear a hat in church?
Some Churchmen think it is; others think it is not. The latest pronouncement is by the Bishop of Ely, who thinks that people who insist that a woman's head shall be covered have perversely misinterpreted St. Paul.
What The Bible | What The Bishop
Says-
TWO verses from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapter xi.:-
Says-
PE Bishop of Ely (Dr. B. O. F.
Heywood), writing in his diocesan Gazette, says:— 5. But every woman that prayeth "In a rather obscure passage in the or prophesieth with her head un- First Epistle to the Corinthians, In the
Interpretation covered dishonoureth her head,
which the of 13. Judge in
is ft
mentators are obviously ill at ease, comely that a wonian pray unto God the writer appears to rule that in the uncovered?
yourselves:
SCIENCE IN
THE LAUNDRY
com-
public assemblies of the Church wo- men should be veiled. (St. Paul wan not alluding to hats such as in our twentieth century may be displayed in milliners' shops.)
BORROWED CAP
"Now because St. Paul, in the first century, desired women to be 'veiled In the pubile assemblies of the Church in Corinth (a city with a sinister re- putation for immorality) some clergy
and verger (the latter peting no
doubt under Instructions) insist that
WASHING IS AN rls who may be on walicing or
ART TO-DAY · HARSH words often rise to
your lips when you put on a clean shirt: the material has shrunk, the collar pinches your throat, the buttons are broken, the cuffs are frayed--and you blame the laundry.
bicycling tours in the year 1930 and come into a church with bare heads to inspect the architecture should retire.
"It has even been reported to me that on occasion.. in order to avoid such a rebuЛ, a girl has borrowed
her boy felead's cap before entering the church.
"This curious and wild deduction from u few. verses in St. Paul's Epistle affords a notable example of perversity.
Hyrom Barnett Zaharoff, л €7 years old bootmaker, declares he is the son of the late Sir Basil Zaharoit and consequently legal heir to all his millions. He is seen repairing shoes in his Httle shop in London."
Army's Best Cook
RADIO BROADCAST
A Talk on World Affairs By Sir Frederick Whyte
PIANOFORTE RECITAL
Radio Programme Brondenst by Z. B. W. on it Wavelength of 335 metres (045 kg's.), 31.40 metres (9.52 megucycles),
4-7 p.. Chinese Programme.
p.m. Alfredo Campoll and ills Concert Orchestra.
Old Bohemian Town (Marsden unti Kennedy: Cara Mia (Dlevier and Prisiter); Teddy Bearn' Pienie (Brut- ton); Romance in moonlight-Selce- tion: Magyar Melodies (Vilmos, arr. Wedding Dance Wnitz An Old World Garden-
Plerey); Sked with the Classics" (ort.
Sidney Crook).
7.30 0.
p.m.
Closing Local Stock
Quotations and Hongkong Exeliange Market Report.
7.35
p.m.
Patricia Rossborough (Piano) and Kitty Masters (Vocal).
Plano "Rose Marie-Selcellon; "Poor Little Rich Girl"-Selection; Songs-When the swallows nest let's grow old again: Sweetheart, together: Plano-Sweement Joe, The Candy Man; A Cavalcade of Martial Tunes; Song-A melody from the sky: Plano--"Queen of Hearts"— Selection.
p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. Royal Opera Orches- tra. Covent Garden.
"Faust" Ballet Music (Gounod); The "Sleeping Beauty"--Waltz (Tchaikovsky).
À
8.25 p.m. From the Studio, Pianoforte Reeltal by Rupert
JOINED IN SEARCH OF Baldwin, A.T.C.L
ADVENTURE
(By A Correspondent.)
Aldershot, Dec. 15. Sergeant Loveridge drew himself up to his full height and announced in parade-ground voice: "Liver and bacon!-as you were kidneys and
The Army Cookery Championships, Aldershot which have caused the Command one of the most strenuous weeks in its history, were coming to An cad.
1. Nocturne in D major (Chopin); Prelude In D fat (Chopin); 2. -Two movements from the Valse Suite, "Three-Fours," (Coleridge-Taylor); (a) in A flat major: (b) in C minor; in D. (Balfour-Gardiner). Govoite 3.
8.10 p.m.
A Recital by Miliza Korjus (Soprano),
Funicull-Funleula (Denza); La Danze Rossini); La Villonelle (Dell Acqua).
News and Announce-
8.55 p.m.
You are wrong. Modern lain- dries are conducted like scientific have been discovered at the labora- bacon!"
tories of the British Launderers' "You can't pay like that," the laboratories. Your shirt in sub-
Research Association, an extension clerk said. Smith was told to wait jected to treatment as carefully
ments. to which is to be opened in Hendon till the court closed.
Later he was directed to go lo anrehearsed and as thoroughly to-day by Sir Willani Dragt. pre-
9.15 p.ro. Light Violin Solus by adjoining room and count the cop- tested as if it were a patientsident of the Royal Society,
Albert Sandler. pers, two policemen neting as check-that had been sent to hospital.
It is washed in water just short of boiling point, but coloured goods du best in water at 112 degrees Fahren heft and woollens in water burely above blood-heat.
ora.
The count disclosed that the bag contained 260 pennies and 950 farthings—one farthing short of
£25.
012
When Smith returned to court his case was adjourned for a week.
Smith rode away
penny- farthing bleycle.
Cooper is legal tender for stims to one shilling and silver to £2.1
Army Giving Up
The Sword-
THE REASON WHY That yellow-bordered ten-cloth you liked so much came to pieces in your hand not because the laundry had used "chemicals," but because yellow dye set up chemical the nction fatal to the cloth while it wha being washed.
That bath-room curtain with Its gay red border faded because light acted on the red tint during the Inundering
These things and many others
CYCLE-WHEEL DEVICE
Under the direction of Mr. F. C. | Harwood, sonps, "washing" solutions, from conditions under which urticles are best cleaned are all in- various vestigated.
Algerian Scene (Ketelbey); Re- In an adjoining kitchen Ave teams membrance (Mario Melf); Extase
Territorial Regiments
were Reverle (Ganne); O Sole Mio (Di stoves in the Arints. of their Shield; bending carnestly over five smoking Capua),
9.30 p.nt. Light Orchestral farther oft in a Mess Rooh the prizes Music. The various solutions are tested by and diplomus for the whole Army. ir device like a cycle-wheel, on each were awaiting distribution;
Slavonic Dance No. 10 in E minor spoke of which is a bottle. Each while Sergeant Loveridge and others Miracle of Nichnow (Temple Ballet (Dvorak): "Careless Rapture"The bottle con
contains a different solution, were showing us what Army enoks Music), (Ivor Novello). Bridge of and a plece of material,
can do.
**
mean.
a
The wheel whirls round and the pieces of wool are then examined.. The results would have caused The best washed is noted and the West End chet to open his eyes and zolution responsible is recommended raise expressive hands. for that material.
Various manufacturers are think- ing of Issuing a certificate of "Inun- dernbility based on tests laid down by the Association.
FOR CEREMONIAL ONLY.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF By A Military Correspondent
PERHAPS NOTHING WILL SO MUCH. A stone-breaker, Lam Sang, was The days of the sword as a
HASTEN THE TIME WHEN BODY AND sent to the Kowloon Hospitol yester- weapon are numbered. The
MIND WILL BOTH BE ADEQUATELY CANED day, as a result of receiving injuries lance of the Lancers was with-FOR, AS A DIFFUSION OF THE BELIEF which some stones fell on her at the drawn from service eight years THAT PRESERVATION OF HEALTH Is A Foo Ling quarry, Tai Kok Teul, where ago. To-day the sword is losing DUTY. ALL UREACHES OF THE LAWS OF she was working its authority as
an effective HEALTH ARE PHYSICAL SINS.-Herbert
Ѕрепест. instrument of war.
Brought, on remand, before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning, Mak Woo was further remanded for 24 hours to see if he is fit for caning for having snatched n handbag froin Mrs. Mann of No. 2 Kennedy Road, "E" Block, on Christ-
inas Eve.
"Swords will be carried on active service and in marching order by officers serving in cavalry regiments only."
My authority for that state- ment la the latest edition of "Dress Regulations."
Subject to that proviso, swords will be carried on parades and duties un- Swords will less otherwise directed. contioue in use for ceremonial ec casions, but the "competent authority"
While the ferry launch Man Young staly that swords will not be worn was under way from Hongkong to on board ship, at mess, or at stables, the Jordan Road Pier at 9.45 last except by the Worcestershire night, the alarm was given that a Regimen
where the orderly officer man had fallen overboard. The ferry and captain of the week may wear
was put about, and a search made of the locality, but no trace of anyone swords with mess dress,
was found,
ཟ་
A man surnamed Chung was ren dered, unconscious when he jumped off motor bus No. 807 whilst in motion in Prince Edward Road yes terday. He was removed to the Kowloon Hospital for treatment.
ment.
On a long sideboard, lay every conceivable dish from soup to savoury, together with many others peculiar to the Army, such 9 "Partridge Surprise" and "Crinoline Lady adorned with Sweetmeats"— all done by men who had, for the most part, never touched a ladle in their lives before they passed through the intensive course of the School of Cookery.
Army
700 COOKS A YEAR
Alded, however, by large "maps" of the cargases of animals hung on the walls, by enthusiastic instructors and numerous books, over 700 cooks fare being turned out each year to ensure that the Forces are better fed than they have ever been.
Lovers (Ivor Novello); Entry of the Boyards March (Halvorsen); Jen- lousy Tango Tzigane (Jacob Godel.
10 p.m. Big Den. "World Affairs by Sir Frederick Whyte, K.c.S.I., L.
10.15 p.m. Dance Music. 11 pm: Close Down.
Start On Great New Cunarder
NO
FUSS, NO CEREMONY
an
Even the grimmer side of food- the "emergency rations" issued in along Des Voeux Road West near Hill which tastes like cocoa, and is go con- beside
While travelling on lorry No. 2788 time of war has been transformed AT 10 o'clock one morning re.
Inte pleasant looking "chocolate"
cently 40 workmen stood berth in empty Road yesterday, Ng Lin, aged 20, a centrated that one plece is the Brown's shipyard, Clydebank. coolie, fell off and received injuries to his head. He was taken to the equivalent of a meal. Government Civil Hospital for treat-
Orders to begin work were Champlon cook of the whole, Army was young Robert Hollings- given by Mr. Donald M. Skiffing- worth, of the 2nd Battalion, Lelces-ton, yard manager, and two fore- For unlawful possession of 50_cat- ter Regiment, who has been in the tles of tree wood at Conduit Road
Army for two years and joined, hemen superintend the work. yesterday, Chan Kam, 25, unem- told me, "in search of adventure."
A steam crane lifted a steel plate ployed, was bound over in $50 for a By amalgamation and conversion
300 feet long; carried it a few The Army Challenge Shield was year by Mr. K. Keen when he apwon for the first time by the Royal
yards, and laid it on red pine our horsed Cavalry Regiments of the
The Management of the Hongkong peared at the Central Magistracy Army Service Corps, and the Ter Line have been reduced, since the
blocks at the bottom of the herih. this morning. Great War, to ten. There are two Hotel advises that there will be no
ritorial Shield by the 4th battollen, the Prince of Wales's Volunteers,
Men levered the plate with great Armoured Car Regiments designated tea dance in the Roof Garden of that "cavalry," and eight other regiments establishment on December 31, but a The return of notifiable diseases with a team consisting in private bars into the exact position marked have been converted or are in the special tea dance will take place on for last week
out for it. shows 14 cases of life, of an unemployed miner, a post- course of conversion to Light Tank Friday, January 1, when entertain- | diphtheris (eight deaths), four of man, a lorry driver, a hod carrier,
ment will be provided. The charge typhoid fever (two deaths) and one and a wire drawer.
In this manner, without fuss on this occasion will be $2 per person of measles. One further
ceremony, the first plate of the keel case of diphtheria and two of typhold were
BEST FED ARMY
of the Cunarder, Number 552, sister notified
yesterday.
ship of the Queen Mary and the Sergeant Rodgers, the miner, never greatest liner the world has known, As a result of injuries, received, cooks in private life, he assured mo was laid. difficult to decide what exactly is fectious diseases: Plague-Bassein 1 when a piece of wood fell from the its out."
earnestly, "except when the missus
PROBABLE CHANGES · meant by "officers serving in cavalry reghments." The elimination of the Tuticorin 3 cases; Chittagong 3 cases; on to her head, Chung Hol, a 47-year- Tavlor, who distributed the prizes, three months on the high-tensile-
casca; second floor of No. 84 Saikung Rond Case: Cholera.-Calcutta 16
Declared Major-General M. G. Platers and drillers worked for horse for the petrol machine will, Small-pox.-Bombay cases, Cal-old woman, living at No. 37 Tai amid loud applause: "We are now steel plates, boring thousands of in any event, reduce very consider cutta I case, Karachi 5 cases, Moul- Street, has been admitted to the the best fed Army in the ably the personnel armed with emein 6 cases, Chittagong 8 cases, and Kowloon Hospital.
world. rivet holes and shaping the plates. sabre. As for the ten horsed regi-
Shanghal
The cook in the Army is doing as ments remaining, they will be em-
much as, or even more than, the man. A coloured view of Piccadilly who fires the gun." ployed in futuro either as divisional
For snatching a money box from an Circus, London, adorns the wall or army troopa ne circumstances.
If it is a true saying that an Army old woman store-keeper three days calendar issued by the P. & O. and marches on its stomach, then require.
You, aged 24, was sen- B. 1. company. A handy pocket diary, British Army must be marching as ago, Chan Shock action cavalry is an opera-tenced to three months' hard labour with useful shipping information, a no force has ever done in history. tion of tho past. Close connaissance will be their principal Mr. K. Kren at the Central Magla-issued by the P.
is also to land, when he appeared on remini login issued by the P. & D. Co. role. Hence the passing of the sword tracy this morning. Defendant, who as a general arm for mounted troops has a very bad police record, is to be when employed in the active field: kept under police supervision for
The sword is also a "back number" two years after his prison term.
But the sword will
or other type of mechanised unit.
AGE OF ANACHRONISMS There are so many anachronisms in the Army to-day as to make 19 shows the following cases of in-
in the Infonial uses in peace In
have lis
The health bulletin of the Eastern Ports for the week ended December
42
Pleading tho they had intended to use the sand to repair a house, monk and a widow were charged before Mr. Himsworth at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning with removing sand from a stream course near Sheung Yuen Ling village on December 26, without a permit
Franco to Issue
Own Stamps
the
Talavera de La Reina, Dec. 21.
TAMPS are becoming scarce. General Franco will coon issue
his own
wit
A woman named Liu Wong and a much the same way as the wearing man named Ho Mon were brought of spurs by officers of the Tank Corps, before Mr. K. Keen at the Central armoured car regiments, mechanised Magisfracy this morning on charges artillery, and Educational Corps, 25. of (a) possession of 24 incis of pre- Mr. T. S. Fraser, of the P.W.D.
The Admiralty last month decided pared oplum-nt No. 12 Wyndham sald defendants, Sik Wil-lun, 40, and that the cutlass was no longer to form Street and. (b) possession of an inels L Ching-yule, 44, had been arrested
A new five centimos stamp will be part of the equipment of men landed of raw opium at the above address. In the act of removing the, sand. in sepia bearing the deaim of Burgos for service. Its employment at The case was remanded for 24 hours. The monk was fined $20, or three Cathedral. The 30 centinios stamp ceremonial parades and at funerals Mr. M. A, da Silva is appearing for weeks' hard labour, while his com- will be red, illustrating Castille, and will, however, -continue..unchanged..] both defendanta,
panion, on $150 ball, was fined $50; Nazarre-Router.
The bow and stern parts of the keel will be laid Inter, as changes will probably be made in their de- sign" as tho` result of continuous experiments carried out by the designers in a tank.
The keel will be built on a gradual curve, calculated so that it will as- sume a level horizontal line when the weight of engines and boilers has been added.
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