THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY; JULY
1937.
Interested
Girl Pilgrims, Barefooted, Keep Vigil Everybody's
Night On Lonely Island
All
FUN? One hand on the brake lever and the other striving to twist the steering wheel, here is A. Esson-Scott having fun as he grimly tries to Jockey his racing car back to the track, at the Corona- tian Trophy race held recently in London. The speeding car hit the sand bank, but the driver escaped unhurt,
WOMEN
TAKING
OVER
HOUSING SCHEMES
CLUBS, LIFTS AND Missing Navy
MILLIONAIRESS
DESERTS GAIETY FOR A MISSION.
While the first large party of 1937 pilgrims are walking barefoot on Station Island, Lough Derg, Co. Donegal, with St. Patrick's Purgatory as their mission, an American millionairess is in Manchester with a luxury limousine, two secretaries, and two male attendants, with a desire to find a common basis for religion as her mission.
Two pilgrimages, vividly contrasted, as Daily Express staff reporters show in these messages from-
STATION ISLAND
A place of pilgrimage. Pop. 10
LITTLE tiln woman of Dun-
MANCHESTER
"Cottonopolis," Pop. 700,000
dalk found great comfort, MME
1
CLARENCE
GASQUE, golden-haired American million- retired Dublin man lost EL cold. airess widow of a secretary 112 400 other pilgrims, including director of Woolworths, Is Bring many girls, tell that a dozen and hanchester as a centre for her more
centurica had disappeared religious mission in the north. when they walked barefoot on
and
Station Island to-day.
rocks
песст-
Wearing a white satin gown for Darefoot, fasting, they keep vigli purity and flowing purple cape of all night at St. Patrick's basilica, tinted taffeta, a combination of blue
They come as pilgrims to grey for spirituality and red for strength
dominated
shining she leaves her sulte at the whinstone church lapped by the Hotel, Manchester she is waters of a lonely lough, to St. panied by two secretaries and Patrick's. Purgatory, ready to live male attendants-to spend from. for three days on one daily meal breakfast to midnight each Jay of out bread and black tea.
establishing new centres for the Rright girl typists foar of a world fellowship of falihs, cigarette, professional men who took
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NURSERY SCHOOLS Officer Resigns socks, old men with swollen anties chauffeur has driven her in different
(By Louise Morgan)
WOMEN are at last to have their chance of getting the
things they really need in their homes.
London, June 10.
off their dignity with their shoes and In the last few days her liveried
and praying eyes.
And among them Mr. Martin Dolphin, of Dublin, retired post Elcutenant W. L. Mayo, who dis-oficial-with a cold. appeared from the Rotilla leader Calro I Portland, Dorset, Inst
Thursday has resigned from the Royal Navy. It was announced last night.
The man for whom a torpedo, boat and a naval seaplane searched the
After two years of intensive experiment, the Women's Advisory Council has been formed to act as a national clearing house and to co-ordinate the results of research in housing from the woman's point of view.
Lady. Sanderson, chairman of the Council, described its pro-Channel during the week-end now gramme to me recently.
"We have direct access to the sent out a questionnaire Ministry of Health," she said, "and women to discover what they really Telgamouth, Devon. whenever we wish, may meet one wanted in their houses.. of the Ministry's sub-committees to present our ideas."
"Much good housing work is being done," Lady Sanderson said, "but many things are left undone because the woman who actually runs the home is never consulted.
to 15,000
ગ
The overwhelming demand for a bath.
was
lies seriously ill in a darkened room at his home at Kingsteignton, near
He reached home, It is learned, on Monday afternoon, drove, wrapped in "So sensible were the women's rugs, to Portland with his parents.
'MY COLD'S CONE' That cold was on Saturday,
Then middle-aged Mr. Dolphin landed here, took off socks and boots, and with fellow-pilgrims walked into the rain to say his prayers.
"And now my cold's gone and I teel altogether different," he told he That was this morning.
He looked down at his bare feet plastered with mud.-
h.p. black limousine to towns each day. Yesterday It Was Fleetwood. Two days ago it Was Blackpool, where her thirty-year-old son-in-law, J. Rowland Robinson, is
M.P.
Mrs. Gasque, who described her age to me as "eternal," is a grand- and sight, with mother, small bobbed hair and cold bright eyes.
I asked her why a woman of her wealth was giving up her social life in London, Paris, New York and Chicago for a spiritual mission.
looked at the jagged stones on She said: "Although I am inter- sioping ground where all pligrims national director of the fellowship places. We missed each other's must say appolated prayers at
slx I do not Anance the movement."
"But," she added, "I always pay and smiled.
my own expenses wherever I go.
she told me, "and so sound- The three went aboard the Cairo held Pilgrim Dolphin, "I
ideas," she
I couldn't walk barefect across the kitchen floor in my own home." has formed the basis of all that is Lieut. Mayo, the Daily Expresa
But the island is filled with men good in housing ever since." understands, put into Teignmouth; at
and women who are doing what Lady Sanderson is the wife of Lord 11 am. on Saturday after bringing an
they could never do anywhere else Sanderson of Ilunmanby, the Labour
the world. She is also known as a writer auxiliary motor-yacht single-handed
The
little woman vi Dundalk, down the Channel. He moored in black-gowned, knelt by a rusty Cross
ly economic that they were athen returned home. corporated in a White Paper which
peer,
THE MEN TO BLAME "By leaving it all to the men, dim-i culties are created which you would not have believed existed.
"For example, I found the other of mystery novels. day in a block of new fats shelves ised by the Council, will be opened Hook, who saw him, that he did not
A Women's Housing Wick, organ-the estuary, telling sherman w. In front of the white-faced baallica. to-morrow at the using Centre, need a tow inshe would be "off again Suffolk Street, S.W. Mr. Lansbury, M.P., will speak.
George in a minute. He rowed ashore, did
so high that no woman could reach them."
Among amenities which she be loves will be incorporated in every housing scheme when women have made their demanda clear are:
Nursery schools; community cen- tres; social clubs; gardens for babies and old people; hot water fald on; central heating; scientif- cally-constructed larders, and lifts. Lady Sanderson won the "balle of the bath" for the working class,
OVERWHELMING While associated with the Ministry of Reconstruction after the war, she
14 GLAD I MET YOU.
FOR YOUR ADVICE"
NUEST. TO THANK YOU
"Not at all, Mrs. Hill. I can't bear to see kiddies
poorly and miserable when I know that all they need is a dose of, "Cali-
not return.
Jack Tar Tries It On
YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR GROG AND THE MONEY
Jack Tar is very particular, and if he wants anything he's always ready to try for it.
H
Rising, she kissed it. Afterwards, over a cigarette on the basilica stups, she told me that she lost her boy. A great grief, but there is
much peace here, She has found some.
PAINFUL STEPS
In turn each pilgrim goes to the edge of the lake. Straight-backed still, they pruy before the shivering waters.
DEATH DURING
AN OPERATION
CHILD VICTIM OF RARE DISEASE NERVES SEVERED AS LAST HOPE
A surgeon's allempt, by severing certain nerves, to save the life of an 11-year-old girl, suffering, from a rare disease was described at a First-day pilgrims AFC easily Southwark inquest recently. picked out by their uneasy walk- Ing. They to gingerly as though The child,, Patricia Alexandra the stones are licated.
buxy with agatust pleep.
prayers,
Moring, daughter of a postman, of A few have cul toes. Tired eyes Westbrook-road, Sidcup, Kent, had give away the second-day pligrlins, a blood pressure of 240. She was Night-long they stay in church, undergoing an operation at Guy's struseller Hospital for its reduction when she Prior of the Istund, Monsignor
collapsed. vicar-general and departing pilgrims burn, who recorded mainland,
These are a few of his hundreds of enterprising Patrick Keown, requests as listed in the "Review of Service Conditions, helps now 1936." But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty weren't born yesterday.
A.
--That a man on leave or in hospital may receive grog-money in
⚫ lieu of grog.
--A rating who elects to receive the spirit ration should abide
by the consequences. He cannot draw the money whenever!
(N.B. The actual value of the spirit is Grog-money is 3d.)
it is to his advantage.
fornia Syrup of Figs to relieve their. bowels and clear their systems.
"Whal a load off your mind it must be to see them so full of fun and energy again, and with such a lovely color in their cheeks. Always hungry too, aren't they?
"That's the beauty of 'California
d.
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four coolts to be available for every -New concessions in, travelling two ships.
passes.
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A.Travel Basta canners or other to the
---Travel passes cannot be grant-Q-White caps should be worn all the year round and the blue cap
dependents of ratings.
.
Syrup of Figs. it not only keeps the(a) Half a pound more tobacco bowels regular but it tones up the
* allowance; (b) better quality digestion and creates a healthy
for pipes. appetite.
**California Syrup of Figs" is never harab, never gripes and never weak- cas, like concentrated purgatives. I always feel there's a risk in taking them, whereas Californin Syrup of Figs being a natural laxativò is absolutely safe.
"I strongly recommend you to get the children into the routine of taking a weekly dose of "California Syrup of Figs. It will ward off colds and in- fections and act as a splendid tonis for the system. Spanking from experi- enes, California Syrup of Figy" is Just as good for adults, especially Those who are not too robust."
California Syrup of Fiqs”
NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE
-No consensus of opinion against abolition of the blue cap. Men may wear shore scarves, but they must be plain whije.
He is taking them from the fifth century to the twentieth, and with centuries-old courtesy he salutes them.
P.C. Dives 7 Times To
Save Boy
The cotoner, Mr. A. Douglas Cow- verdict of accidental death, sald that the opera- tion was performed as u lost chance.
Mr. William Heneage Ogilvie, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, said that for a child aged 11 to have such a terribly high blood pressure excessively rare. The normal blood pressure for her age was 100.
was
On the morning of the operation her blood pressure had risen to 270; and he took the view that she might dle if she were not immediately operated on,
The only way to decrease the tension was to sever certain nerves Going off duty one night last governing the blood pressure. To do month, Police Constable Alexander this he had to cut into two ribs. He Kirkpatrick heard cries for help from cut three nerves, and the blood pres- the canal at Paddington, W.
sure Immediately dropped to 180, After diving in seven times, he Soon afterwards the girl suddenly was able to save a boy who had collapsed and died. fallen into the canal while play- lag on the bank.
Mr.
Replying to the coroner, The boy was Peter Wilson. of Ogilvie said that similar operations The Marines' wants ore simpler. Fourth-avenue, Paddington, the had been performed with success in
And geant.
A(a) No change is proposed; (b) Their chi the folding-tron sort. In seven-years-old son of a police ser-America and once at St. Bartholo
Cigarette tobacco is available stead of the for mixing.
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-Counterpases for bedn,
Not considered necessary, and
the cost cannot be justified.
*
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-Better quality towels,
The present towel cannot be
A. bettered at the price.
•
A
~~(0) A hot supper always in cold
weather; (b) more cooks needed. { A question for Internal organ- isation in "Tactr ship; (b) one leading cook, extra to be allowed.cach flotilla for replacement purposes and:
the answer is: "These are already under trial”
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mew's Hospital. He did not think He was able to go home after being that if the operation had not been treated nt hospital for shock.
done the child could have lived.
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