THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, · 1937.
Widow Hears 4d. Slander IF YOUR
Over Garden Fence
"A JOLLY PLACE,"
JUDGE SAYS
Mrs. Emily Annie Wilson, a widow, was awarded one farthing damages in the King's Bench Division re- cently against Mrs. Sarah Ann Gray, a seventy-eight- year-old neighbour, who was said to have called her a
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cat burglar."
Carnarvon-road, Barnett (Herts) was Mrs. Wilson's address. "A Jolly place to live," sir Mr. Justice Charles as he listened to her story.
Mrs. Wilson explained that sho had her garden fence heightened because neighbours talked over the gardens about her daughter who had been ordered by the doclor to get all the sunshine she could in the garden. Among the neighbours was Mrs. Gray who lived two gardens away in Stapylton-road.
Mrs. Wilson said she heard Mrs. Gray shout: "I had a cat burglar last night, It
that Airs. Was She broke Into
Eny
Viikon.
house."
Mr. Wilson, referring to another occasion, said: "Mrs. Gray held up a pair of trousers on a pole as high as she could so that every one could see, and mail to my chauthier. Thi
is what is the matter with you. This Is what you want."
APOLOGY REFUSED Cross-examined by. Mr. Aslell Burt, for Mrs. Gray, Mr. Wiston denied that she had suggested that Mrs. Gray had called her daughter uitle cal and that her daughter haet guffawed at Mrs. Gray.
Stic also denied that she put her foot in the duor to prevent Mrs. Gray closing it. Drs. Gray sale to her: "Go away, you beast."
Mrs. Wilson did not accept the Buzgestion that the whole of the trouble was caused through her "Istening over the garden fences and hearing only ball the tate,"
It was stated that Mrs. Gray had refused to apologise and that If an apology was offered Mrs. Wilson would take a different view of the Inatter.
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Sir Samuel Learned This Dartmoor
At
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, recently described his visit to Dartmoor Prison. He said he had she had no doubt about the words noticed case after case of men who had first appeared in
court at an early age for comparatively trivial offences.
Emily Wilson, the daughter, said
Mrs. Gray used,
Mr. Hurt: But you know a cut- burglar is a person who climbs to the top of a stack-pipe?
Mr. Justice Charies: Can you ge
your mother doing that?
Mrs, Gray, said that Miss Emily
Wilson Jeered at her while she was planting roses in the garden and she said to her "Go in you masty little thing."
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IN A TEMPER'
Mrs, Gay denied the "trousers" Incident. She said the trousers were washed and hung up in the garden She also eighteen months before. denied having called Mrs. Wilson, at
kny
time, a cat-burglar.
She added: When Mrs. Wilson called round st my house she was in a temper and I asked her to go."
Cross-caamined, Mrs, Gray denied that she had ever been insulting to Mrs. Wilson.
After an absence of iwe hours the jury relurned # verdiet for Airs, Wilson and assessed damages at one farthing.
Mr. Justice Charles entered judg ment for this amount. He said the jury's verdici confirmed his view that the case ought never to have been brought and he refused to grant costs.
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Sir Samuel, speaking at the opening of a new remand home at Hull for children and young people, disclosed that he was engaged with his advisers in working out a plan for a scientific investigation of juvenile crime.
A special object will be to obtain earliest stages, any further information about "dull" or crime." "backward" children.
Regarding Dartmoor Sir Samuel said:
There was one man, how aged 41, with 11 previous convictions, who was first before the courts at the age of 12 for scaling goods to the value of 993 another, aged 12, with 28 previous con. vicilons, was first convicted ot the age of 17 for stealing ber- rings.
"Another, aged 43, with 13 previous convictions, was sent to a reforma- tory at the age of 14 for stealing
bottles.
WIFE SPENDS TO BE LOVELY
It Is NOT
Vanity
(By A Correspondent)
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YEAR by year the women of Britain spend, millions on the search for beauty and on the upkeep of beauty.
Hundreds of thousands of people carn their livings tend- ing the craving for beauty. Fortunes are being made.
What is the urge behind it all? Is it vanity?
Or is it something deeper?
Dr. Louis Sunshine, New York plastic surgeon, on holiday in London, cussed the subject with me in the Savoy Hotel.
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"Der Rosenkavalier," By Rey C. B. R. Sargent
LONDON RELAYS
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on wavelength of 355 metres (045 kic's.) 31,59 metres (0.52 m.c'r.).
12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral..
12.30 London Symphony Orches- tra and Richard Tauber (Tenor).
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1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press;
140 Variety,
Stocky, curly-haired, cheerful, weather and Announcements. he fed me on candy and cigaret- tes as he talked,
He straightens notes and eye-brows. removes wrinkles, freckles, double chins. He claims he can take twenty years off n face. And he said:—
"It is necessity, nat
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I have more men Patients than women.
Vocal Tumbling Tumble Weeds (Nolan); Going Home...Jack Snynge und His Cowboys; Vocal-River Mün I'm (Cavanaugh-Simon-Mysels); Pixilated Over You (fin Mr. Deeds Goes To Town')...Dinah Miller; Songa Plantation Orchestral (Powell); By The Swance River- Fantasy (Myddleton). Edith Lorand and Her Viennese Orchestra; Comc- dians-Flenngan And Allen Memo- A ries....Flanagan and Allen; Piano- Blue Again (McHugh); Parade Or The Minutes (tees and Myers)....
"A man's life is his career. woman's is her benuty. Some men's fures hinder their careers. A -wo- man's beauty is apt to fade at forty,Rale Da Costa; Orchestral-Romantic Now she fights the tendency to let Waltz, Medley....Eddie Carroll and It fade. And the men try to elimin- His Music. ate the obstacle to their success.
"It is not vanity that kupires a woman to have her face fted. 1 can assure you it is painful operation. Something deeper than vanity makes her undergo it,
"The craving to look her best is part of her mental make-up. Her whole happiness depends on That's not vanity.
it.
2.15 Close Down.
4.00-7.09 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7.00 Two Scottish Songs, Land O' The Leal (Folk Songs Of Scolland'-arr. Steven); Wee Cooper
Fife (Traditional). Watson (Baritone).
7.05
.Robert
London Kelay-rostian Golfers: Andrew Kirkałdy,
The story of the best golfer who The never won a championship, programme devised by A. H. Symon. Production by John Gough.
From the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews,
7.35
"Neither is it vanity with the men, While a man has been making money,
Closing local Stock Quota- he probably hasn't scared how he tons and Hongkong Exchange Mar-
looked. But when he has made
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naugh, he usually turns to public ket Report.
life.
"Then he finds himself on strange
confidently. platforms, expected to speak easily, but
Maybe he can,
laugh or think what a tough he is.
"Those are the men who come to me. They want noses straightened, chins to jut instead of droop, check flower cara... smoothed out. bagginess tightened up, maybe caull- "It can all be done. A simple hose can be straightened five minutes, looks can be made Roman, "bumps
saddles beautifully und aquiline. lendency
"Not all the men are elderly. Some are young, at the beginning of their
anybe he looks sa queer that people
One of the zust striking teatures of the criminal statisties was the steady increase whleh had taken place in the number of Juvenile offender during thë fast few years, while the number of older effenters had remained nearly stallonary,
to
Provisional Agures for 1938 were more
and suggested encouragin that the tendency of the figures to in- crease was being arrested,
Lareers.
In
They and they forge ahead better If they don't look odd. So I fix them up with commonplace faces.
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"Age may be beautiful. A man at sixty or sevenly, upright, hair grey- ng may look more handsome than at any other time of his life. A woman growing gracious with years his beauty beyond art.
"When uge disfigures, when skin goes parchment coloured, hangs In "I am satished from my own obispleasing foids and wrinkles, then
something should be done. servation that some of our older pri-
"My best clients are public men son bulldings are not hharmatIY and socially ambitious women. with modern conceptions of prison |
"They don't feel old. They ministration," he added,
mand that they don't look old."
BETTER GAOLS
"Though it is dile, to speculate whether the course of these men's, lives might have been allerer if they A great deal has been done to had been differently treated on first, improve them in recent years, and conviction, the cases to serve to Blup- the process is continuing as rupidly
de-
trate the importance of attempting as possible with due regard to the Girl Trapped 3 Days In
by suitable treatment to check, in its' interests of the taxpayer."
Parties Prepare For General Election
A General Election is expected to be held next
the front edge of the 11ft wing. October. All political parties are, making preparations of the four engines, and a slinger for it.
propeller hub "overshoes" for each
ring" to keep ice from forming on Parliamentary candidates are being adopted at the
the propeller blades,
The "overshoes" are flat rubber rate of 20 a week. tubes which can be made lo pulsate. this breaking up the fee.
This la merely a precautionary measure, for it is not intended to ily in ice-forming conditions when
be they con
nvolded. During the winter the Clipper will be used on the New York-Bermuda service,
Old Gaelic Book Lost
Sydney, N. S. W. For 15 months Father Fogarty, of Ireland, as searched without suc- cess in Victoria and New South Wales for the 7th century vellum manuscript in Gaelle of the Book of Cloneungh. lio was commissioned by the National Library of Dublin.
Manoeuvres to ninalgamate the, present-Parliament, has decided Liberal and Labour parties into a stay on and necept another term United People's Front are again be- Premier.
to
as
ing made. They are not likely to succeed.
The Liberals are willing to co-operate, but the Labour lead- ers want to go on fighting inde- pendently until they get clear Labour majority In Farilament.
He does not want to interrupt the continued Improvement in home and foreign affairs by handing over Cho relus of Government to another leader. The Conservatives, Liberal Na- Since the Labour party* la not tionals, and National Labour will strong enough to win the rural con-again fight as one organisation under stituencies, it in almost certain that the banner of the National Govern- the General Election will give the ment. National Govertinent another lense of power.
PREMIER TO STAY
Mr. Noville Chamberlain, who had thought of retiring at the end of the1
Quarry
7.37 Scottish Music.
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0.00 Time,
and Weather nouncements.
An-
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8.10 London Relay—A Visit To Daventry.
The
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8.30 Stadio-Series of talks 'Ama- teur Experts.
8.45 Studio Rev. C. B. R. Sar- gent 23rd of a series of Opera: 'Der Rosenkavalier,"
0.30 London Relay The News. 9.50 Mendelssohn--Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64.
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