THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY
14, 1937.
BEST WAGE YEAR SINCE 1920
IS PROMISED 2,900,000 Get A Rise
ROYALTY — This interesting picture is of a royal athlete. She is Princess Yorl, youngest daughter of the Emperor and Empress of Japan, as she took part in a team race in Tokyo. The race was one of the events at the preresses' school meet at Meli Shrine stadium.
RECTOR STARTS A MARRIAGE SCHOOL
Birmingham, June 17.
PROSPECTIVE brides
and
bridegrooms in a large Bir- mingham parish are rallying to
a."marriage school."
The Rector of Handsworth,
THE rate at which wage in-
creases are being recorded promises that 1937 will be the best year for "raises" since the end of the post-war boom in
1920.
Childbirth
Free
From Pain
In the first five months of LIFE CAMPAIGN OF
this year, states the Minis-
try of Labour Gazette, changes of wages rates have resulted in a net in-
crease of about £367,000 a
COUNTESS BALDWIN
PAINLESS BIRTH IS NOW POS-
SIBLE IN NEARLY EVERY week to 2,900,000 workers. MATERNITY HOSPITAL IN BRI-
Last month Increnses totalled £82,000 21 week among 485,000 workers, mostly miners in the mid- lands, steel and tinplate warkers.
With applications for Increases for nearly 2,000,000 workers now
TAIN.
Analgesics (pain-deadeners) have been generally adopted throughout the country, as a result of a campaign for safer motherhood led by Countess Baldwin.
were
YOUNG KING DONS GUARD'S UNIFORM
KING IN UNIFORM-American youngsters like Wild West costumes. King Peter 11. boy monarch of Yugoslavia, wears R Royal Guard uniform as he shakes hands in Belgrade with Premier Milan
Stojadompvic, at a recent review,
As a vice-chairman of the National Birthday under discussion, it is likely that Trust Fund, she has appealed for years for the use the rising trend will be maintained)
of sufe anaesthetics in maternity cases. at least for the real of the year.
When opening the new Isolation Sill to be recorded is the increase block of the Salvation Army Mothers' to 230,000 workers in the wholesale Hospital, Clapton, London, last month was informed that analgesics talloring industry. The recent Trade she
eralis used in the hospital. Board decision granted advances to
a great joy to me," week, and to women men of 43. a
she replied. amounts ranging from 2s, to B5. a
Countess Baldwin's The staty of week,
fight for analgesles was told by Mr. C. S. Wentworth Stanley, chairman of the House Committee of the City of London Maternity Hospital.
"When I first joined the committee of this hospital in 1929," he sald, "annigesics for normal maternity cases were almost unknown.
necessary
STRIKES FEARED There has been some delay at the Ministry of Labour in posting the notices to the tailoring Arms. Workers, women particularly, jare becoming restive, and Mr. B.: Sullivan, Londen district secretary of the National Union of Tailors and] Garment Workers, fears stoppages at some works where the workers do is not properly understand the position
their employers and suspect withholding the new rates.
of
There was no change last month in the cost of living figure. On June 1 H stood at 52 per cent, above the July 1914 level, the same as on May 1, but eight points higher than a year. ngo.
RUSSIAN
CHURCH'S
Bishop J. H. Linton, said tq-] VITALITY
night:
"Bometimes 30 marriage banns aro read in our church, and tho clergy send personal letters to the couples inviting them to go to the rectory for a discussion. At times the response has been so large that
a school became necessary.
25,000 CLERGY AT WORK
"Now their use is ordinary rouline,
Won £72 For 2s.;
Lost All-Died
Alexandria, June 17.
IN EVERY VILLAGE "And what is true of this hospital.
SCHOOLMASTER MOHAMED NASR won a “double" true for almost all similar hospitals. "This important change in so due to the Inspira- short a time
with a two-shilling bet at Alexandria races to-day. tion, 1treless cfforts and encour-
Deciding on neck-or-nothing, he put his winning on one horse agement of Countess Baldwin. "She has inspired a movement in the third race. It won. whereby analgesics will be available in every village and hamlet in the land when midwives are trained in Yet
their use."
Analgesics take the form of an Inhalant which deadens pain without producing unconscious- ness.
They are mostly mixtures of gas and air and are completely odourless.
Mhamed now had £72—vast sum to an Egyptian schoolmaster. Jubilee, in the next race, had been his best-thing-of-the-day. Mohamed put £72 on Jubilee to win-to win him £200.
7 The horse led easily until the last few yards. Then another came up fast to win by a short head.
"Neck-or-nothing" Nasr never knew the result of the race.
The apparatus necessary for ad- As the horses passed the post he fell dead from heart failure.
ministering analgesics is small and portable. It can even be carried on the back of a bicycle for urgent cases in the country.
DREAM CAME TRUE
Countess Baldwin has devoted life-time in working for safer mother- hood.
The Lucy Baldwin Maternity Hos- pital near Stourport is one of the re- sults of her efforts,
When Sir Jullen Cahn asked her one day what she would like best in
"It is an experiment in tnckling The fact that to-day, twenty years the world, she replied: "A maternity; the problem of marriage at the be-after the Russian Revolution, there hospital." ginning instead of at the wrong end are between 21,000 and 25,000 parish Sir Julien made her dream come
the divorce.court."...
clergy at work in the Soviet Union true, and over the door. of the hos- is given as an
illustration the pital is the inscription: "The Lucy Baldwin Maternity Hospital. What Mr. Chan Kee-yau, High Adviser vitality and resilience of the Russian she wanted mast in the world. Given and Special Delegate of Generalissimo Orthodox Church
Burvey her by Sir Julien Calın."
in
of
Chiang Kai-shek, will present the published recently for the Church prizes at the Annual Speech Day of of England Council on Foreign Re- the Mui Fong College, to be held on|lations. Friday, July 16, at 10 am. in the
Central Theatre.
"I CANT ALWAYS #1 WATCHING THEM NOW, HUMI. HOW CAN 1 KEEP THEM HEALTHY 3*
"You're
very wise to ask
that, Mrs. Bartlett. And I'll tell you the way in which you can help them most.
"Make sure of Internal cleanliness by giving them a regular weekly dose of California Syrup of Figs. This is specially important with children at critical age, like yours, who are The working hard for their exams. There's nothing pulls them down more than polson fa the system-it affects their general health making them Hable to catch any Infection that's going about.
Quiply
"In my experience 'California of Figs" "does far more than Syfy cleanse the system. It acts naturally, and gently and keeps the digestion healthy and active.
"I find 'California Syrup of Pigs" equally good for adulla, especially for women. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Bartlett, I use it myself and recom mend you to adapt it for the whole family
Be sure to get the genuine "California Syrup of Figs.”
California Syrup of Figs"
"NATURE'S OWN" LAXANVE
"The Russian Church since the revolution is a Church of rejuvenated survey. spiritual power," says the
KEEPER PULLS LEOPARD'S
TAIL AND IS MAULED
TO DEATH
44TT was a case of 'famili-
arity breeds contempt"," said Mr. George Wardle, manager of the Mossley Hill Zoo, Liverpool, at the in- quest on John Frederick Ashworth, aged 31, the keeper who died after being mauled by a leopard.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
Ashworth, he said had reared the were leopards from the day they born, and was so fond of them that he would not let anyone else deal
ang with them. They were kept in two-compartment cage. When the cage was cleaned, the animals were driven into one section and a sliding door between the two compartments closed so that the keeper could work In the empty portion. Ashworth, however, had locked himself in.
"Probably he never expected treachery, but you cannot trust leopards or other members of the cat family," said Mr. Wardle.
JUMPED ON BACK John Taylor, another attendant, had finished said that Ashworth cleaning one part of the cage when the male leopard entered through the sliding door and walked round him. The leopard was about to go back through the door when quietly pulled it back by the tail..
Ashworth
the Church has For some years seemed to be barely holding on. Now
"Her Husband Lice" · (Queen's) sea of trouble that makes for much there come reports of numerous applications to the authorities to re- Theatre, to-day). The powerfully hilarity in the First National comedy dramatic story of a love that was drama, "The Captain's Kid," which open closed churches.
shattered by a lle is brought to the comes to the King's Theatre to-day. "There are other evidences as well screen in "Her Husband Lies", which The picture, largely a swift moving of the persistence of falth. This is contrary to the frer uent characteri- opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day, frolle of fun, also combines melo- sallon of the Orthodox Church as With Gall Patrick and Ricardo Cor-dramatic thrills, romance and touches petrined; it makes one look deeper tez in the leading roles, and with of pathos. "The Captain's Kid" is Into the currents of life of this com- Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown, Louis enacted by a talented cast with May in the Robson, famous for a half a century munion. Perhaps, in the past, ex- Calhern and June Martel,
"And death was accidental," said ternal. phenomena have drawn saj
supporting cast, "Her Husband. Lies" on the stage, in the leading role, that much attention, that more vital
emerges as one of the finest dramas of a crabbed old maid who tries in the Coroner. It was brought about features have been overlooked."
vain to bring up her two nieces, one by Ashworth's lack of caution in not of the season.
seven and the other twenty, accord-closing the silding door before 30,000" RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES"
"Three Men on a Horse" (Oriental ing to her straight laced New England entered the cage."
and Fred standards, Jane Bryan
year the Soviet Press called attention
The animal went to a corner and
the other part of the enge it jumped an his buck. It had given no Indi-
as Ashworth was stooping to enter
cation of being vexed.
he
During the early months of this Theatre, to-day), Frank McHugh, Lawrence play the roles of young The forthcoming wedding is on- to the existence of 30,000 "religious whose predictions on winning ponies lovers, Sybil Jason sings a rollicking
Men Of these, never fall in "Three
On A song, "I'm the Captain's Kid," while nounced societies" in the Union. about 20,000 probably belonged to Hórse" showing at Oriental Fred Lawrence
the
of
Mr. Angel Dixon, warbles "Drifting veterinarian, residing at the Kowloon M. K.Hotel, and Miss Carlotta Perafel, of the Orthodox faith. This compared Theatre on Wednesday and Thurs-Along" both written by with 50,000 Orthodox parishes at the day is a rollicking comedy based on Jerome and Jack Scholl especially the same address.
the famous stage play. Besides Mc-
outbreak of war.
No figures' have been published Hugh, the cast includes Joan Blon- giving the present number of clergy; dell, Guy Kibbee, but there must be at least one priest
for every parish, and some of the Allen Jenkins, Sam
city parishes are known to have two. Teddy Hart.
three or even ten or more. Reports
are also curtent of wandering priests
or friars, but it is Impossible to judge their number.
Carol
Hughes,
Levene ant
"The Captain's Kid” (King's Theatre, to-day)
A mischievous little girl with
It is reported that there are eight vivid imagination, a lovable old liar
pro- and a crotchety spinster get into metropolitan provinces, with bably as many as 150 blahops. A reliable report gives the number of Orthodox clergy in prison or prison camps in May, 1930, as slightly over 7,000, excluding those in exile.
"It is possible thus to account for about 30,000 to 35,000 clergy," the aurvey odds. The pre-War number was about 150 Bishops and 54,000 prleats.
"A few priests have been ordained since the revolution, but in the absence of theological schools, these must be numbered in scores.
"Lists of priests renouncing orders have often been publlahed. "A great number must have died during twenty years, and many more have been killed or died of starvation.".
for the picture.
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"Mad Love" (Majestle Theatre, to-day)
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he slays and in time is duly de capitated. He and Ted Healy, play- To Edward Brophy has fallen the ing an American reporter, wisecrack toughest
comedian before the gullotine and Brophy assignment
get insists that "we all get it in the neck ever had. He's had to try to
is one of the Brophy, sometimes." This laughs out of a guillotinc who in the course of dozens of suc-amazing roles in Metro-Goldwyn- cessful comedy roles has played Mayer's fantastic new horror drama, currently everything from inebriates to wrest-"Mad Love," which is
cost as a giving chilis and shivers to audiences lers, now ands himself sinister knife-thrower who jokes as at the Majestic Theatre.
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9036-Brokenhearted Clown
My Heart is in Old Killarney.
9034 Coronation Waltz
Daughter of Mother Machrea.
9031-Dolyao. Waltx
Thero's "You-hoo" in Your Eyos. 9032—In the Swaat Long Ago
Swing is in the Air. 9033-Goodnight, My Love
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All Alone in Vienna. 9010 Goodnight, My Love.
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