THE
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937.
Girl Pilgrims, Barefooted, Keep Vigil Everybody's
All Night On Lonely Island
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- tion Trophy race held recently in London. The speeding car hit the sand bonk, but the driver escaped unhurt,
WOMEN TAKING OVER
HOUSING
SCHEMES
LIFTS AND Missing Navy
CLUBS, NURSERY
WOM
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
MANCHESTER
A place of pilgrimage. Pop. 10
LITTLE
thin, woman of
"Cottonopolis," Pop, 700,000
GASQUE,
CLARENCE Dun-MME. A dalk found great comfort, a ↑ V golden-haired American million- retired Dabiln man lost a cold, atress widow of a
Д secretary and 400 other pilgrims, including director of Woolworths, is ring many girls, felt that a dozen and Manchester as a centro for her
centuries had disappeared religious mission in the norib. when they walked barefoot on Station Island to-day.
more
Barefoot, fasting, they keep vigil
Wearing a while salin gown purity and flowing purple cape
fur
of
Patrick's,
all night at St. Patrick's basilien. tinted taffeta, a combination of blue They come as pligrims to grey for spirituality and red for strength,
tet by rocks dominated
shining she leaves her sulte at the Midland whinstone church lapped by the Hotel, Manchester-she is accom- waters of a lonely lough, to St.panied by two secretaries and two Purgatory, ready to live male attendants-to spend from for three days, on one daily meal breakfast to midnight cach day of oat bread and black tea.
establishing new centres for the Bright girl typists fond of world fellowship of faiths.. citarette, professional men who took off their dignity with their shoes and socks, old women with swollen ankles
eyes,
SCHOOLS Officer Resigns, we get
(By Louise Morgan)
JOMEN are at last to have their chance of getting
things they really need in their homes.
the
a
And among them Mr. Martin London, June 10. Dolphin, of Dublin, retired post Lieutenant W. L. Mayo, who dis-oficial-with a cold,
leader appeared from the flotilla Calro al Portland, Dorset, last from the
Thursday has resigned Royal Navy. It was announced last
night.
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
The man for, whom a torpedo bont research in housing from the woman's point of view. and a naval seaplane searched the Lady Sanderson, chairman of the Council, described its pro-Channel during the week-end now gramme to me recently.
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lies seriously it in a darkened room
"We have direct access
to the sent out a questionnaire to 15,000 at his home at Kingsteignton, near Ministry of Health," she said, "and women to discover what they really Teignmouth, Devon, whenever we wish, may meet one wanted in their houses. of the Ministry's sub-committees to The overwhelming demand present our ideas."
for bath.
"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,
'MY COLD'S GONE'
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 feel altogether different," he told ane.
He looked down at his bare feet plastered with mud.
That was this morning.
on
In the last few days her liveried chauffeur has driven her in her 30 h.p. black limousine to different towns ench 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.
her
Mrs. Garque, who described age to me as "eternal," is a grand-
small and mother,
slight, with 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.
I looked at the jagged stones
She said: "Although I am inter- fellowship sloping ground where all pligrims national director of the must say appointed prayers at six I do not finance the movement." places. We guessed cach other's "But," she added, "I always pay thoughts and smiled. sensible were the women's rugs, to Portland with his parents, "Yes," said Pilgrim Dolphin.my own expenses wherever I go."
was
He reached home, It is learned, on Monday afternoon, drové, wrapped in
barefoot
Ideas," she told me, and so sound-The three went aboard the Cairo, know. I couldn't walk ly economie that they were n- then returned home.
across the kitchen four in my own home." corporated in a White Paper which
has formed the basis of all that is
Lieut. Mayo, the Daily Express
Hut the land is filled with men and women who are doing what good in housing ever since." understands, put into Teignmouth at Lady Sanderson is the wife of Lord 11 aan. on Saturday after bringing an
they could never do anywhere else In the world, Sanderson of Hunmanby, the Labour
of Dundalk, The little woman peer. She is also known as a writer auxillary motor-yacht single-inded
down the Channel, He moored in black-gowned, knelt by a rusty Cross
THE MEN TO BLAME "By leaving it all to the men, diff- culties are created which you would not have belleved existed.
"For example, I found the other of mystery novels. day in a block of new flats shelves | A Women's Housing Week, organ- the estuary telling fisherman W. in front of the white-fuced basilica. so high that no woman could retched by the Counell, will be opened Hook, who saw him, that he did not¦ Bisigarette on the busillea steps, she kissed it. Afterwards, them."
tu-morrow at the Housing Centre, need a tow in; he would be "off again over a
Among amenilles which she be- Suffolk Street, S.W. Mr. George in n minute." He rowed ashore, did she told me that she lost her buy.
lleves will be incorporated in every Lansbury, M.P., will speak. housing scheme when women have! made their demands clear are:
Nursery schools; cornmunity cen- tres; social clubs; gardens for babies and old people; hot water. Iald on; central heating; scientifi- | cally-constructed larders, and Bits. Lady Sanderson won the "battle of the bath" for the working class,
OVERWHELMING
While associated with the Ministry of Reconstruction after the war, she
"I'M GLAD MIT YOU, HURST, TO THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ADVICE '
"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- fornia Syrup of Figs to relieve their bowels and clear their systems.
"What 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 checks. Always hungry too, aren't they?
not return.
Jack Tar Tries It On
YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR GROG AND THE MONEY
Jack Tur is very particular, and if he wanta anything he's ! always ready to try for it.
These are a few of his hundreds of enterprising requests as listed in the "Review of Service Conditions 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.
much
A great grief, but there peace here. She has found some.
PAINFUL STEPS
waters.
DEATH DURING AN OPERATION
CHILD VICTIM OF RARE DISEASE NERVES SEVERED AS LAST HOPE
A surgeon's attempt, by severing
a
In turn each pilgrim goes to the edge of the lake. Straight-backed certain nerves, to save the life of an still, they pray before the shivering 11-year-old girl, suffering from rare disease was described at First-day plirrims are easily Southwark inquest recently, pleked out by their uneasy walk- ing. They go glogerly as though the stones are heated.
The
child, Patricia Alexandra Moring, daughter of a postman, of A few have cul toes. Tired eyes Westbrook-road, Sidcup, Kent, had rive away the second-day pilgrims.a blood pressure of 240. She was Night-long they stay
nt Guy's in church, undergoing an operation busy wilh prayers, struggling Hospital for its. reduction when she
collapsed
Monsignor
against sleep. Prior of the Island, Patrick Keown, vidar-general alld The coroner, Mr. A. Douglas Cow- dean, helps now deporting pilgrims burn, who recorded a verdict of to the mainland.
accidental death, said that the opera- He is taking them from the thion was performed as a last chance. century to the twentieth, and with centuries-old
Mr. William Hencago Ogilvie, a courtesy he salutes them.
surgeon at Guy's Hospital, suld that for a child aged 11 to have such a terribly high blood pressure was excessively rare. The normal blood pressure for her age was 100,
A rating who elects to receive the spirit ration should abide.P.C.. Dives
by the consequences, He cannot draw the money whenever
it is to his advantage. (N.B.-The actual value of the spirit is
d. Grog-money is 3d.)
-Now concessions in travelling two s ips.
passes,
~~Travel passes cannot be grant- |
four cooks to be available for every
-
-White caps should
7 Times To
Save Boy
On the morning of the operation her blood pressure had risen to 270, and he took the view that she might die if she were not immediately operated on.
The only way to decrease the tension was to saver certain nerves
Q. haye abandonld be worn all Going off duty one night Inst governing the blood pressure. To de
• ed for use by wives or other abolished. dependents of ratings.
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"That's the beauty of California Syrup of Figs, it not only keeps the(n) Half a pound more inbzero bowels regular but it tanes up the
*** allowance; (b) better quality digestion and creates healthy
for pipes. appetite.
""California Syrup of Figs' is nover harsh, never gripes and never weak- ens. Bike concentrated purgatives. I always.fed there's a risk in taking them, whereas 'Californin Syrup of Figs being natural laxative Is absolutely safe.
***I strongly recommend you to get the children into the routing of taking a weekly dose of 'California Syrup of Figs. 11 will ward off colds and in- fections and act 'us'a splendid tonic for the system. Speaking from experi- enco, California Syrup of Figs is just as good for adults, especially those who are not too robust."
California Syrup of Figs"
"NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE
A-(n) No change is proposed; (b) Cigarette tobacco is avaliable
for mixing.
Counterpanes for beds.
--Not considered necessary, and
the cost cannot be justified,
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-Better quality towels.
The present towel cannot be
A. Dette er at the price.
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~(α) A hot supper always in cold weather; (b) more cooks needed. -A question for internal organ- Le isation in tacir ship; (b)"one leading cook extru to be allowed each Botilla for replacement 'purposes and
A-No consensus of opinion against may wear shore scarves, but they must be plain while.
abolition of the blue cap. Men
Kirkpatrick heard erles for help from the canal at Paddington, W.
After diving in seven times, he was able to save a boy who had fallen into the canal while, play- Ing on the bank.
cut three nerves, and the blood pres- aure Immediately dropped to 100. Soon afterwards the girl suddenly collapsed and died.
Replying to the coroner, Mr. The boy was Peter Wilson, of Ogilvie said that similar operations The Marines' wants are simpler.Fourth-avenue, Paddington, the had been performed with success in Their chief desire is-spring bets in seven-years-old son of a police ser-America and once at St. Bartholo
mew's Hospital. He did not think stead of the folding-iron sort, And geant. the answer is: "These are already He was able to go homo after being | that if the operation had not been under trial."
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