THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18,
1938.
Refused To Marry Again At 91 Promised Second Wife On Deathbed Not To Take A Third
Still Works Six Days A Week
Side-Whiskered, nut-brown, ninety-one-year-old Mr. Harry Baker, a prosperous fruit merchant and property owner in Waltham Cross, Herts, has been married twice, survived both his wives, and been the father of twenty children, of whom eleven are still alive-the eldest is sixty- eight.
Mr. Baker is also a great-grandfather. In spite of his age, his eyes are clear dark blue, he has perfect hearing, and works an active six-day week.
He told a reporter that he recently woman of sixty-five proposed to him. riage. A women of sixty-five pro- posed to him. He refused.
"WONDERFUL WIVES"
Mr. Baker
Motorist Gaoled
in cheerful, upright, For "Accidental
and handsome. He would still
make a gay explained:-
he bridegroom. But
"On the evening of my second wife's death, six years SED, promised I would never marry again.
"I had had two wonderful wives,
No man could have had better.
"The woman who-offered me mar- ringe this year has been μ dear friend of mine for many years. Bul a dear friend does not always make a good wife.
"Local people still think I am go- ing
married. to get
They are wrong."
Left an orphan in his native Honiton, Devonshire, at the age of
five, young Harry came to slay with an uncle in Waltham Cross and started work Us a cobbler when seven years old.
TWENTY CHILDREN
Be was paid sixpence a week, Two years later his wages went up
Death"
Maidenhead.
Although Gerald Anthony Stedall, of Shiplake-on-Thames, is serving four months' impri- sonment for dangerous driving, the jury at the inquest on a man killed in the crash in which he was involved returned a verdict of "Accidental death."
Stedall's counsel, Mr. Rodger Winn, said this virtually absolved hint from blame. The position. thought, was unique in British legal history.
The inquest was on Bernard Richard Spracking, aged thirty-one, an ac- countant, of Tulse Hill, London, S.W. The crash in which he died was in Windror Road, Maidenhead, on May
1.
Arrow indicates General Queipo de Llano, Insurgent commander, who presents to a widow left with
11 children the deed of one of the 124 model homes built in Seville, Spain, for poor families and wounded.
JUST
DUNCES MAY BE "WORD-BLIND" Tearing 'Phone Book
Good at Figures, But Cannot Read
THERE
are highly intelligent and even clever people who cannot read. They are "word-blind." Word-blindness has come into the news through the case of a 16-year-old cyclist who was fined at Crown Hill, Devon, for disobeying a halt sign.
"IN GRAVE PERIL" When the inquest was first opened to a shilling a week. But this pro- the corner adjourned it to avoid a gress was not good enough for Har-verdiet which might prejudice police:
His father explained that, although the boy was a clever ry, so he branched out into the fish court proceedings. These resulted in business, then acquired orchards, Stedall being sentenced and a similar mathematician and could copy writing well, he was unable to rend. and became a fruit merchant, charge against the other motorist con-
"I am just the same," added He married his first wife in 1800 Serned. Willam John Jones, of Rend-
ing, being diamissed.
the father. "I can read figures The police allegation that Jones but not words."
and they had seven children. His thirteen other children wore
when she died.
born:
FIGURE BLIND
to his second wife, whom he mair-was guilty of contributory negligence ried in 1880. She was seventy-two In emerging on the main road from
a draw-in failed, and five guineas Such people, an authority at the Institute of Child Psychology ex- His youngest child is thirty. Most costs were awarded against them.
reporter are "word- Stedall appealed against his sen-plained to a tence on June 13, but failed to have blind." it reversed. He attended the inquest
accompanid by two warders from Ox-a word, but ford Guol, and gave evidence.
of his children help him to run his
business and manage the property he has bought.
"My children have been a bless ing to me, but also a worry," said Mr. Baker, "I lost опе daughter
The jury in their verdiet found that
and her two children in 1914 when Jones's action placed him "in gravej the Empress of Ireland sank in the perils."
St. Lawrence River. She was her way to England to visit me.
Another daughter
on
1
died of broken heart through this tragedy.
"I don't blame modern couples
for having small families.
Life
to-day is too expensive for large ones."
Mr. Baker often
serves In
bis
fruft shop, sometimes helps to sweep
it out. He goes to Covent Garden market three times # week, and has worn the same little bowler hat and carried the same thorn walk- ing stick for years.
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He is reputed to be worth about £20,000, is only luxury Ja Jecting antiques.
ANOTHER GOLFING
BISHOP FOR LONDON
Scientists' Bid To Finger-Print Blood
They can spell out the letters of the letters convey nothing to them and they cannot[ Pronounce the word.
One theory is that for some reason
Is 'Easy'
For a het of 25 Count von Luckner, German wartime air Sydney telephone are, tore a directory (653 pages) in two. Afterwards - It WILS explained that the feat was a strick. If the book is torn from the back the binding snaps. The rest is
cany.
tele- Now so many Sydney phone directories are being torn up by budding Samsons that a shortage of books Is feared, says Reuter.
(Each half of the London telephone directory has more than 1,300 pages.)
WOMAN KILLED BY POLICE CAR, CARRIED 80ft.
A county police car which killed Mrs. Edith Mary
the normal nervous pathways fail to Coleman (66), widow of a former Leicester city councillor,
connect the speech area in the brain)
the centres which govern
Į with Įvision,
been
as she was on her way to church, carried her along for 80 feet and went on another 190 feet before stopping.
It is only in recent years that this; This was the evidence at the inquest at Leicester recently
has form of blindness
dis- when a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. ¡covered,
many unfortunate people who suffer the disability have
und
Mrs. Coleman had just left her home apparently to walk to
in the past been chastised as dunces church. She changed her mind and was crossing the road to a
ns
at school und later branded tram stop when she was knocked down,
literales, although many of them Constable Boocock, a passenger
can pass psychological Intelligence in the car, said they had received tests with honours.
Doctors, psychologists and educa- tion experts are now trying to find Scientists searching for a means of an effective method of treatment for "Anger-printing" blood, of making "word-blindness." blood-tests infallible, may soon ane Bounce sensational discoveries.
a wireless message to go to county police headquarters in Leicester and were nearly there.
"DRIVER UNNERVED" The woman had stepped off the Experts agree that word-blindness pavement and there was not time for The tests referred to recently in does not apply to those people who the driver to pull up.
"When the accident cecurred," he disputed paternity cases are of a apparently cannot read "Keep olf
Krass," "Trespassers will be sald, "Constable England, who was negative kind only. They can show the
nne 13 not the prosecuted" and "No canvassers."
driving, slumped in his seat and was positively that a Iather of a child, but they cannot Cases of intelligent people who so unnerved he did not know what demonstrate that he is.
are brilliant classical scholars, but he was doing." The scientists concerned do not who are virtually mathematically England wald his speed was not
them said that "progress is being There are even otherwise In- car would have collided with Mrs.
who are dumb- telligent people
nake definite promises, but one of blind are far more common,
made."
more than 35 miles an hour. The
Coleman even if he had attempted
They believe that there may be founded by the question: "If a her-to pass on the near side. "paternal properties" in blood which, ing and
and u half cost 11⁄2d., how when microscopically discoverable much would a herring cost?" and isolated, would proof of paternity.
He explained the distance covered
yield positive A similiar disability is "high-after the impact by the fact that he frequency deafness," which means had to get back on to the near slde When that problem is solved tests lack of ability to distinguish beof the road: When eighty year-old Dr. would probably be made compulsory Iween a large number of vibrations at the request of either party in in speech which are required for the like "," Winnington Ingram, Bishoppaternity dispute, and the results or pronunciation of sounds
jeepled as conclusive.
"y." and "t},"
of London, retires next year,
he will most probably be
succeeded by the sixty-year- Love Lessons For Men
old Bishop of Lichfield, the
Rt. Rev. Edward Sydney
Woods, formerly Bishop Suffragan of Croydon.
Golf, which is probably the
Are Suggested
Fan Dancer
In Theatre
Chase
New York.
While doing her act at a Holly- world- Rand, wood theatre, Sally fameux fon-dancer, was so enraged Lessons in the technique of love-making should be given to by two cameras in the auditorium favourite recreation of the Bishop of all men, urged Dr. Edward Griffith, a delegate to the National unt she put on her dressing-gown
of the Bishop of Lichfeld,
London, is among the recreations also Conference on Maternity and Child Welfare, at Bristol. Clergy.and chased the owners of the com-
men and doctors, he suggested, should co-operate in the work of crus down the aisle. tuition.
CINEMA CHAMPION
His other recreations Include tennis and shooting.
While he was Bishop of Croydon ho became the champlon of the (10 Sunday opening of cinemas which he had at first been opposed) and helped in the poll which was Laken to secure a majority of 10,000 in favour of Sunday opening.
"There is only one business or profession which you can enter without any kind of preparation whatever, and that is marriage,' he declared. "It is ludicrous, and yet we cheerfully allow any nil- wit to marry and to have as many children as he desires.
She does not like candid cameras, she explained.
Ray Stanford and Hazel Drain, ห man "In my opinion every woman should be made to realise whom Sally accuses of photograph- that they cannot get married unting her "grotesque angles," brought they have had some indviidun! ad- an action against her alleging that they were attacked from behind. vice and preparation for marriage.
beaten and bllten." "We must also today emphasize the, They are asking for £622 dum- Importance of having children early ages. after marriage."
the assault, explain- Sally denies'
my nails
"I is extraordinary when one con- In his opinion modern marriages ing to Judge Landreth in court, "I Dr. Woods, who In of Quaker ancestry (Elizabeth Fry was his great-siders the number of hours that start very much later in life than could not have scratched them be grandmother) has preached at the people spend buying a annual "sawdust ring" service in Bertram Mills's circus at Olymplu.
His brother Theodore was Bishop of Winchester.
choosing a house and arranging the
keep enuse I have to trousseau, they should.
Speaking on the question of mat-clipped to avoid tearing my balloon hire-purchase terms, yet they won'ting, he said that because two people when bubble-dancing."
But she admits that she wanted spend one hour considering how they loved one another 1 did not mean
candid snip- are to adjust themselves physically that they would make successful to secure the "too
Juvers.
shots." to marriage.
Wife Sees Doomed
Kidnapper in Prison
Mrs. Claudine McCall, above, little-photographed wize of Franklin Pierce McCall, doomed kidnap-elayer of James B. Cash,
of Princeton, Fla., JI, O her hus
who shunned her husband from the moment he made his confession, came out of her seclusion and, Just before McCall was tenced, visited him In his Miami jail cell. Later, the convicted killer was removed to the state prison at Raiford to await exe- cution.
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