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She hates being called
THE VERY IDEA"
The RICHEST GIRL BASHERS'
in the WORLD
F you wish to make Doris Duke, now Mrs. James Cromwell, angry, call her "The Richest Girl in the World," Although her father, James Buchanan Duke. left her a fortune of £12,600,000, carning £600,000 a year, or nearly £1,600 a day, the "Dollar Prin- cess" is a thrifty person.
Her vast fortune comes from tobacco, but Doris Duko's favourite smoke is the cheap Ame- rican cigarette selling at 7d, a packet of 20.
have Round her childhood fabulous stories been woven. She lived with her beloved father on his 3,000-acre estate near Somerville, New Jersey. It is her favourite residence to-day."
Here, we are told, she awoke each morning to the music of a grandfather clock made for her in Switzerland. The taps in the bathroom re- leased sprays of delicious scent.
Three maids assisted this "luxury child" to dress. Her meals were eaten of gold plates, and she sank to sleep between silken sheets.
HH Later he remarked: "She
is
Yet her father was fond of saying that nothing makes people unhappy than too much luxury. He adored his only child and named his £7,000 pri- The wedding between Mr. A. R. H.vate railway carriage after her, but it is safe to
Esmail
and
Miss
Cherito Guevarra of Manila will take presume that the gold plate is an invention. place on Saturday, February 26,
Not that Doris Duke despises H++++++÷|-|-| 1038, at 8 p.m. at No. 9 Village riches. She has no wish to be Road. No invitations are being
DORIS DUKE issued, but all friends will be poor girl. But she bemoans cordially welcomed at the the public attention that her ceremony and at the reception, great wealth brings. She would which follows immediately after-like to be able to walk into a other shop and buy just like girls. But this simple luxury is denied her.
wards.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1938.
A great fortune has put her in the spotlight, and however much she hates it she cannot escape this welcome distinction.
£1,600 a day Plays the harp. Swims like a fish "Fell in Love at First Sight"
SHE never reveals her charities, and made.
should a recipient do so that name is
good enough for a professional career. After only a few les- sons she is dancing as well as some girls in the shows."
Doris Duke enjoyed the ex- perience. She docu not like society life, but is never bored by informality. A large party in her honour was given by her mother when Doris emerged as a debutante into public life.
took place
in
THREAT TO HONGKONG SPORT
AUTHORITIES SHOULD STOP THESE. DANGEROUS GAMES
By Eddio "Free Kick" Kelly,
VO world's champion
TWO
table tennis players will give demonstrations in Hongkong on February 23.
Armed with little bats, they will stand one on each side of the stage of the King's Theatre and attempt to brain each other with a celluloid ball.
Such cruel practices should not be allowed in this British Colony.
Besides, it's not cricket,
Even the fact that a net will be stretched across the stage be- tween the two men does not provide sufficient protection, as the ball is almost certain to go over on some occasions.
THE WORLD WATCHES
The fact that several interuation- ally-famed journalists have arrived in Hongkong just before the match is scheduled to take place indicates that the world press is alive to the
farore likely to be created in sport- ing circles by this brutal
on-
counter.
Far better that the untarnished her namo of British
sportmanship should remain unsullied. Let us stick to our body-line in cricket, gouging out eyes and face-treading in loose scrums in rugger, and tear- ing handfuls of hair from nti opponent's chest in water polo.
If It She strives to do good with her money. Her own town house, where the furniture is valued social philosophy is: "Wealthy people should at more than £100,000. DO WE LACK spend money and their best efforts in bringing a Her marriage was a very different affair. measure of comfort, decency, and security into When she became the wife of wealthy James CHARITY?
the lives of the less fortunate."
Cromwell, she wore a simple blue dress. No Orchids Stolen
elaborate preparations for the ceremony were "What struck me most," said
Her husband said, "We fell in love at first visitor to Hongkong, "was
Doris was modern the remarkable, one might say struck off the list. Her husband says, "Doris is sight and just got married." appalling, class difference in always considering ways to spend her money for enough to leave the word "obey" out of the mar-
riage service. this Colony. I came from the benefit of others."
In November the "Tobacco Queen"-how she Caught for a brief interview while bathing quiet, comfortable, well-ordered
hates the title-accompanied Mrs. Roosevelt on at Miami, the world's richest girl described her- villa on the Peak down through a tour of housing projects in West Virginia. She self as "very poor copy, because I never do any the various strata of society. entered the squalid homes of unemployed families. thing."
"There are no ostrich feathers about me," and ended staring aghast at a She talked with the mothers and confided later [bundle of rags in Wanchat, that she was shocked-by-the-picture-of-so-much she explained, and confessed that her red wool
bathing suit was three years old, The bundle turned out to be an jaged woman and three children. The incredible thing to me was that it was alive."
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poverty.
We have been cognisant for some time of the deteriora- tion of sport in this Colony. At the Y.M.C.A., for. instance, ludo and anakes and Indders have become vices that will require the
careful attention of our authoritica if they are to be stamped out.
BLOOD FLOWS.FREELY.
2008
Manly instincts have been swept
of Hongkong have gathered boards, cheering fiendishly at every falso move- yelling for blood as a luckless parti- cipant throws a snake instead of a ladder.
of
Wo were invelgled into one these brutal exhibitions the other night.
While she was away orchids valued at £600 Under-Sea Dining Room were stolen from her lovely garden in Somerville. BUT Doris Duke has her splendours. aside as these once-respectable elti-
She is building a home at Honolulu that around the In person, Doris Duke is tall, lithe, blonde and good-looking, with a firm chin. Her accom, will cost £200,000. It has a dining-room built are many. She speaks perfect under the sea with walls of invisible glass. Enter Everyone who has lived for plishments any length of time in the Far French, plays the harp and the piano, is a great the room and you seem to be in the heart of tropi- East and who knows other cities reader, swims like a fish, and much enjoys winter cal sea vegetation through which swim fish of
resplendent lucs. The room is 40ft. square. sports. of China and India and Japan,
The young heiress is now 25. She has not Lately visiting the famous Cotton Club on or who has seen the slums of Broadway, she observed the tap-dancing of yet received all her fortune. Under her father's New York, or London or Paris "Bojangles" Bill Robinson, who has taught the will she enjoyed the first instalment at the age of 21, and last November received another £2,000,- or Berlin, is accustomed to the art to Fred Astaire and Shirley Temple.
contrasts rather ghastly
"My secret ambition is to dance like you," 000 on her 25th birthday. At the age of 30 sho these places. As a matter of said Doris to the world's most eloquent tapdancer. will inherit full control of her wealth.
Her husband, who is 39, hopes to become a "Some day I'll teach you," he replied. fact, experience and statistics
The club was locked against all intruders Senator for New Jersey. He writes on economics, show. that Hongkong, if little when the lessons were given after the daily lunch. and invented the word "privocrats" to describe
than other communities Doris, wearing everyday clothes with batter
a wide rich people such as his wife. But, like her, he
in
of a million souls or more, is skirt, dutifully obeyed Robinson's instructions. does not disparage the ownership of money. certainly no worse than average.
But there is the danger, it is submitted,
that because of
familiarity with tragedy and given the greater will be the poverty one is inclined to grow demand. It is quite true that callouses in self-defence. In this Hongkong, if it
blameless.
encourages
At our very first throw we went aliding down a snake:
"Addor boy!" we yelled getting somewhat rattled.-
They got us out of the room somehow.
WHAT IS THE RIDDLE OF DREAMS?
TYPICAL exemple of absurd
BY DR. NANDOR FODOR.
Research Officer, International Institute for Psychical Research.
may space.
transcend
It is quite possible to analyse such dreams and and thoughts in our dally pre-occupations, recollections, "GOING PLACES" and emotions from which, as from the bricks, the crazy
structure is raised.
Occasionally, however, dreama
touch
analytical technique has yet sound-
a feeling of oppression and fore- boding?.
These are dreams of the telepathic type. There
Is a mysterious con- tact between the minds of those who and are tied in bonds of affection love. Normally we feel isolated and the limitations of independent, but, with the conscious mind at rest, we become aware of an impending or coacted tragedy.
TRICKS WITH TIME
Have you ever been to places in your dreams which you recognized afterwards when circumstances took
scen
a depth which no paycho- you there for the first time?
This is what psychologists call the ed. If you devoted more attention "lready
experience. i la to your dreams, trid to remember very common. In most cases you
them them and write
down on
had seen the plcture of the place on awakening, you would And that a forgotten postcard, on a painting, there is in them sometimes or in a book. In many other cases wonder the identification may not rest on mystery that makes you about the riddle of your exlalence sufficient grounds. and your future destiny.
respect Hongkong may not be a reputation for easy charity.A mental activity which goes un will attract to itself a most walle our conscious mind is at reat For that in sleep is my dream of three days undesirable element.
ugo that I was elected' Queen of It may not be significant that
the suggestion is ad- reason
Poland and that then I married residents, knowing how fre-vanced that, particularly in Harry Houdini. quently they' can be imposed times like these, some system of upon, are sparing with their control and supervision is ad- street charities and that new-visable, and to some extent comers and transients, uniniti-selection of deserving cases. A uted into the ways of the East, Community Chest plan, some go about with pockets full of thing on the lines of the co- small change for shoe-shine ordinated charities in American 00000 boya and other forms of beggar- and Canadian cities, might be life. It may be that these same found to work here most satis- residents who refuse the blind factorily. Contributions to such cona Cheat would be equitably man a ten-cent plece are tributing some tens of dollars divided among deserving causes, to an even more worthy quarter, and the whole community, from Or that the man who refuses the summit of the Peak to the flower from the little girl cam-limits of Kowloon would be can- vagyart conscientiously. The paigning for some cause has given liberally, and all he can next step would be to remove afford, to some other social im- from the streets the unfortun- provement endeavour. On the lates whose appearance and be- other hand there are probably ahaviour offend or disturb vlal- good many who shirk the reators and residents alike, and to ponsibility, however slight, they put them in the official care of owe to the community in caring the community. We should for its destitute, aged and in-have gone far towards making Hongkong a more attractive curables.
place to live for all classes, from Thoro is, of course, the the highest to the lowest, if this omobomow 'argument that the more that is could be achieved.
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Do you walk out of your body in your dreams?
Floating and flying dreams are common. It la possible to explain them on physiological and psycholo- gical basen, but in some cases prople see their own body lying on the bed. and are consalous of being outside it yet untied to it. It is as if you were in another body, a dream body which in capable of movements with the speed of thought,
These projection dreams are very mysterious, for occasionally; you. may bring back information about the place or people thus visited- which turns out to be as accurate, as if you had been there.
Do you have premonitions in your
..
Bul in some instances the ex- I shall put to you ʼn few questions.
perience presents a great mystery. which I would like you to answer.
As an explanation it might be sug Do you ever have impersonal grated to you that you projected drentas
ot disastrous accidents, your mind to the place, or that you carthquakes, aeroplano от train pnid it an actual visit in your) crashes, and find on awnkening that
"dream body," or that you recovered the dream was not a dream, as the
a memory of a previous existence, None of these suppositions can be dreams, warnings against a certain.
course or fourney? disproved or proven, and simpler
Such dreams may be quite norm suggestion is that you had a pre-mal and due to a sub-conscious rew phetic dream.
alstance to the plans of: the conscious Do you dream
mind. Occasionally, however, thereo someone dear to you is about to die in them a glimpse, of the future or unknown to you has just died?
for,ne combienly expressed, angels Do you waka from such dreams with
guard you,
Accident had happened during the
night?
This type of dreain is very ráre. Coincidence because of the wealth of, accurate detalls cannot explain it It appears as if the dream mind had actually witnessed the accident, Such experiences Bugdest thai" wd
of death
when