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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MAY
16,
1938.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
MERRILY WE LIVE
PRECEDING CHAPTERS:
Wade awlins, roughing it on the Pacifo Qodst, is atranded when the rickety old our ho in At driving, falls in a ravine, the Kilbourne home, where he goca to make to phono, he ia mia. Taken for a trump. Mr. X- bourne Is a habit of taking ins tramps and as the chauffeur had disappeared that morning with all the sliver, Wade, before he can explain the situation, is on paged to fill the vacancy. He decides to stay na the family 12 sa refreshingly eccentric_le will get material for storion. The Jirst night he handles a numbor of embarassing altsations with auch delicacy that dir. Külbourne who objcola to "made-over trampa" is forced to let him stay. Mr. Kulbourne is anxious test a dinner party for Bonator Harlan shall not run smoothly.
Optik 18se by Loew's Ing.
Chapter Eight
IADAPTED FROM THE
Mauro Golluyn Maycs
MOTULE
LUCY HUFFAKER
bourne would sit, but there was something she couldn't quite say what but there was pertainly nome- thing-not exactly right in the way
Per Wade was playing his part. haps it would be better if Wnde played he was Mr. Kilbourne and she was the waiter.
All was going well until Men. Kilbourne, romamboring her hus band was so anxious for this din- ner party to be perfect and being carried away by this play, whis- pered in Wade.
"Is everything all right, doar?" She realized her error imag diately and explained she had really belloved for the minute he was Mr. Kilbourne, Bui
who Grosvenor
heard the whisper rather than the explanation, had backed through the door. IIe Announced to the servants in the kitchen that thi wha the end. If the family wished to demean itself by treating tramp. And lunatics and criminals as their equals, they could do it. He would nol.
"I'm leaving." he announced. And then glaring at the cook "and don't May I've said that before."
with this dinner "But, you can" party on," atd Eta.
"And your check-how will you
Jerry was a serious young woman that day. Just why this dinner acemed an important to her father asked Ilose.
That alone would probably have she did not know. It did and that
made him change his mind but was that. What concerned Bor wan that she had given her word that when he heard Jerry's exelled valer In the dining-roam, he knew he for once there should be nothing "Kilbourne-isir" at the party. There could not leave. In har presen mood, she would not beallate to She might was need to be serious. It was n high hurdle she had had set hero beyond blackmail.
really telegraph that first wife of netf, she knew, but there was bin. certain excitement as there always
Jerry and reason to be exalted, la in taking any hurdle to avo that
memage lind just she did not come a cropper. Tho A telephone
that Frank word house Itarif, nha know would be in brought the perfect condition. The house-malda, Thornton could not come. It would who had never been trumpa, word be necessary to remove two plates
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"I'm leaving,” he an- nounced, "and don't say I've said that before."
excellent. Be she could chook off and tell Marlan she must forget that responsibility. The agency the party or have thirteen at the would be counted on to send com- table. Which did her mother wish? "Neither" said Mrs. Kilbourne do- potent men and women for the
claively. "You know I am supor xtra help needed.
at table in Grosvenor was another matter.stitious, so thirteen
And I've promised He was a good tutior but he hated simply aut.
You go and phono Frank Thornton he can't treat us this way."
all tramps and be had been algb- Marlan, so removing two plates la ing over since he first saw Wade. equally out He didn't dare leave, because ho was "sort of a bigamist" an she reminded him when the necessity became great. But be might faint,
Sho "Well, li's nicer here than in n whlub would be even WORK. decided the way to win Grosvenor hospital and he ought to know it.""
"Eut. Molber. I told you he wa was to datter him. She could do
He has a broken
"I can't phone him, Mother. Ile's in the hospital."
It honestly that day, for when she in an accident.
Jerry, I'm surprised at your tak
I Believe In Moon Madness
OZENS of plain-clothes
D policemen have been patrol-
ling the railway line at Chelford, beautiful Cheshire village, in search of a moon maniac sus- pected of throwing boulders on the main Manchester-London rallway line,
SAYS
through glass we are paying tribute to a force which has puzzled the forbears who handed down superstition to us.
FOR PASSENGERS, MAIL & FREIGHT HONGKONG HANKOW EXPRESS EVERY
MONDAY, THURSDAY & SUNDAY
that
HONGKONG EVERY
In Essex they still refuse to collect
Godfrey Williams mushrooms after full moon.
Courting couples in the Orkneys have a preference for marriage when the moon is new, the new
Inoon
Dept. 07.00
and
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TUESDAY & FRIDAY
Dept. 07.00 WITH CONNECTION TO SIAN, CHENGTU, KUNMING
(Yunnan) HANOI
The dusky ́rices are not alone in being the symbol of all happy be
ginnings.
Devonshire folk warn their chil- EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION Hidden camera traps have been their use of the moon for feast days.
will take automatic Our own lovers do the same and dren against the cutting of hair or sel and these pictures of anyone trespassing on the romance has a better chance when nails unless the moon is past the linc.
fult. looked down upon by a, then, kindly
nan in the moon.
Mothers all over the country cover Moon madness, subject of con Forte and song-writers throughout up their windows for fear the bale- troversy for centuries, still has the the ages would have been lost if it ful influence of the moon's rays experts and the laymen guessing. had not been for moon madness, reach their babies, while fishermen catches swear that their best of lives lived How many times have the lovelorn, will Old wives' tales under a sinister speil that can turn since disillusioned, looked uskance are Late
of us into criminals at a full moon which promised much moon.
the stendiest still give us qualms. And we are not all superstitious enough to Angers when passing under ladders.
Cross
Moon men will admit that a full moon may make some people giddy,
in the light of the full
JUDGES KNOW
and let them down?
According to an old sailor, the
The harvest moon is known to all. explanation is simple.
pass it on for what it is worth. Its pale golden glory seems to be He says the moon orders the tides. the invincible seal of Nature to the It also controls the fdes of human fulfilment of her promise made in
the spring.
und others, that effects of the moon's emotion. rays are deûnito factors in the grow. So it la all Ing of garden produce.
Plants put in the ground at full take twelve days extra to Ktow. Beans planted two days be-
muon
a question of the influence of the moon on water.
RAY CONTROL
When the records of mental hos- pitals show that inmates of homi- eidal tendencies give full play to their savage impulses every month; Chemically, we are mostly water, when books of travel tell of the un- went into the dining-room to make leg."
fore the full moon yield twice as big For every stone of weight we can civilised orgies of savages under the sure the table was perfectly, laid,
a crop. It is a rule in some market count a gallon. On this reckoning I light of the full moon; when I have every piece of the beautiful new ing that for an excuse, Why my
gardens to plant all dowering vege- ura fluid enough to fill a sixteen- seen many nations, both sides of the sailor Atlantic, dance their national dances silver--and there were many pieces grandfather-that makes him your
crescendo of light-hearted was laid in mathematical proci-great-grandfather, doesn't it? -
tables and plants which produce fruit gallon, ask, and my old word crutches for years and bo slun,
above the ground on the increase of affirms the moon can and docs in- into a
Buence my tides of
madness beneath the same old moon, emotion. "Ob Grosvonor," he said, "it never missed dinner once. And ho
The
periodical emotional rhythm I must belleve in moon madness. looks just like pictures of how nate na much as anyone, too."
There are many institutions work- tablo for a formal dintor should
of each of us is influenced by outside Jook-cxcopt that it is better. You said patiently, an if speaking to a
rays, making us alternately cheerful lng on the problem with the object and morose. aro a genius."
In some of us the of putting the modern Jekylls and amlic, did not Grosvenor
rhythm is so marked as to make us Hydes back into their right minds. Course. But he did stop sighing. also.
In the opinion of eminent judges temperamental. Then we are most So Jerry did the smiling.
moon the Influenced by
proportion of persons In the animal kingdom veterinary likely to be
major Kane, she knew, would be
who come before them on serious surgeons and others have noticed madness. right. It wasn't just that he had Seen so anxious to have Wade stay
That the light of the moon has charges are, in certain senses, not that horses, dogs and cats behave and so grateful to his father for
peculiarly at the full moon, Then stimulated people must be true when responsible for what they have done finally agroning. He was junt at
the animals become very moody, and we look back upon the rural super- at the time they crred. sometimes anvoge.
"Frank can't come, Mother" Jerry
beloved but rather backward child,
of "and it's too late to get anyone So it's either thirteen with Marian or Marian dosen't—”
"What?" came a cry of anguish "Marian Wad from the doorway. standing there.
#
"It's too bad, dear," Jerry said gently, "but Frank can't come
the age where he would get a thrill we all promised Father to be good out of acting as a sophisticated for once we'll make it up to you young man of the world.
Marian? Usually she would have
domoway-".
Kann who had heard Marlan's
worried about her. But Marian seran ran in and put his arm would be, avea more thrilled than around her.
Kane, to fit into the picture of a "Bo a sport, Marian. I'd let you have my place, but that wouldn't Any four- perfect dinner party. teen-year-old, allowed to dine with do you know the number of men guests for the first time, could be and women must be the same."
weeping Marian was not the depended on auraly-even when she
kind, so she began to scream, She was Marian Kilbourne.
Her mother was a different mat- had been promised! she was going tor. No one could ever tell what to be so good; it wasn't fair; no she might or might not do, but body cared anything for her; abo she was so beautiful, so charming would not ont in her room; if they didn't let her come to the table, that it nover geomed to matter.
the moon.
Root crops are sown on the wane, when the moon is in an earthly sign and below the earth.
ANIMALS, TOO
atitions still surviving.
Although the disease may never When we turn our money over or be mentioned at those trials, many
now moon are the victims of moon madness.
So it is with some tely refuse to look at
The
word "lunacy,"
now discarded for the terms “un- sound mind" or "mental disorder" under the kinder descriptions of New Mental Treatment Act, was de-¦
""Luna"-+-+- rived from the Latin
moon.
It was the ancients' definition of moon madness.
To-day. expert psychiatrists pay great attention to moon madness. They know that patients in mental homes are moro iroublesome at the It is then rise and full of the moon. the dangerous and restless need more careful watching.
Bo everything and everyone they'd regret it as long as they seemed accounted for. But Jerry's lived; whatever she did would bo Anything their own fault; aho had promised mind was not at onEG. could happen in the Kilbourne to be good as a guost, not as a house and usually did All sho banished child; they treated her could do now was to go to her like a red-headed step-child! Sud- room," put on her prettiest gown donly the tirade stopped.** "Of course we can get some one,** and huge-og should she pray 7.........
auch n she said firmly, "I read an ad for the best
Mrs. Kilbourne, too was planning this morning. A young man who to do her bit toward pleasing her has a tuxedo-I'll bet l'a a brand- husband. She knew the dinner new one-will, for a considera would be perfect-there wasn't a tion--"
Xlibourns.
Jerry saw she must be firm.
Great-detectives and criminal in- vestigators do not reject the idea of
disease.
They have many times turned it to good account. In bringing mad criminals to justice,
the cases of Particularly so in cattle malmers and persons guilty, unnecessary assaults of seemingly
cook in the state, who could aur- "Do you know where the paper pass theirs. But after a meal was is so we can phone--" asked Mrs. cooked. It must be served. That was where aho must take a band. Her aforte almost undid the good work which Jerry had done, so far as Grosvotior" was concerned. Ho didn't faint, but he did have to hold on to the door for support, when he entered the dining-room and saw and heard what might be called a robertsal,
on lonely "Btop being foolish, both of you." she said.
"Oh no, Rawlins," Mrs. Kilbourne was saying, "you must always-not Just now and then, you know werve from the left"
Rawlins bad nothing in his handa but they were hold as if he were carrying a trap,
"But, madam" he said, "this i# your left hand."
"So it. I am always geiting mixed up. I suppose it is because I'm naturally right-handed and I've nover taken the trouble to change. Now, serve Mr. Kilbourne, plonas. I can watch batter when I am not doing Anything but watching
She Indianted the chair at the sad of the table where Mr. Kil-
Marian scroámed again. "You don't belong at a dinner party, but in a Dursory" said Jarry, "acting like thin
If only her mother would not sponk! But of course stie did,
"Your dear little alster is right, Jerry" she said. "She was promised, and be should be allowed to E- prose her ogo."
Hano bad run, out of the room,
· Ha but no one had notlood-it. returned to say he had called thres friends to try to get and of them to fill in. They were all out.
Marian opened her mouth again. Kane clapped his hand over it.
"Thera's the doorbell," he said, ""The guests are arriving."
(To be continued)
wayfarers, Think back. If you have,
over, suffered from
you sleepictincas, can
remember
when. Most likely you were “im- restful" at the full of the moon?
I have noticed that I cannot sleep when the moon shines into my room My windows are only covered by the blinds when it is full moon.
Yat-the moonhümulating. effect on tie. I work faster and scol less tired. 1.sloop less and am happy to start work at 6 am. Instead of 7.30.
There is little doubt that the effect
of the rays of the moon is something
thore than "moonshine."
Those rayb evoko mental
rations.
abor-
That is why the tribal celebrations of our forbears took place accord- ing to the moon,
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1 Does this film star offer advice
on the choice of a car? (8).
3 Does a blow from this have
shocking results? (0),
8 Advice to paterfamilies who has difcully in making the Joint go round without assist- ance (8).
11 This drink comes from a still
(4).
The pangs of despised love,
No creditable inhabitant
of
13
Australia perhaps (8).
the
10 Equine colour (0),
(3).
12 Myriad (9).
14 The sort of water in which to
find plenty of fish (5).
15 This begins to tempt in a tee-
tataler (3).
10 Pacific island or islands (0).
18 A-stout mixture (5).
21 Working time perhaps (0).
would
22 Of course a museum
invest money in buying this' relle of past punishment (0), 24 River of Wales (3),
27 Three pronouns can be seen in
this oficial (5).
28 A kind of contract... In a kind
of plate? (9).
31 The cleric to get four in to have
a meal (8),
32 No, this flower does not grow in underground railways (8). 33 No this officer is not necessarily
more coarse (6).
34 is this corly hero calling one under his guardianship? (8).
DOWN
1 Tactics that might be a docu-
ment of 17 down (6).
2 'Varsity College (0).
3 Did early man get his weapons from this port of Wales? (6).
4 Were magiciano who wished to do this to the devil trying to re- form him? (5).
4. Only an Oxfordshire village but- Important to timber merchants 7 This wolmal put the wrong
before the river (8).
deiny" ("Hamlet").
17 Conadence (0).
10 Hostesses should not give this
joint cold to guests (8).·
20 German port (8).
22 Hide unnecessary advice to
member of one Livery Company: (4)-
23 Hint (3)..
25 This atmospheric phenomenon
appeared not long ago (G).
26 Execute an order to take com-
mand (0).
29 Commonly extinguish (5),
30 The loss of o letter might, im-
prove this relation (8).
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