It
Wednesday,
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 10, 1939.
The Table They Don't Have To Wait
Wait. At
COND
Takes Orders, Stands On One Leg, And Even Counts.
Neighbours Have
All Tried It
PEOPLE FROM various parts of Scotland are visit- ing a miner's home in Bowhill, Fife, to see a small table which, it is claimed, can balance itself on one leg, waltz about the floor, and correctly answer certain questions.
"We haven't had a minute's peaco since the antics of the table became known a week ago," sald William Dryburgh, the
owner.
"We shall have to turn away all knew how many cigarettes were in the visitors, or start a museum. I the packet. want to make I known that my wife and I are not spiritualista.
"A spiritunist came from Glasgow to carry out experiments with the; tuble, but we would not allow him in the house."
ON ONE LEC
Mrs. Dryburgh drew out the table, which she uses for holding a radio sel, and set it in the middle of the Bving-roon..
She placed her hands on it. her palms fightly touching the surface.
"Rise, table, rise on two legs," she repeated for eight minutes. The table creaked and rose slightly, "Faster, faster," said Mrs. Dry- burgh.
Two of the table's legs rose alx inches from the floor.
"On one leg now," she said. Slowly the table rose and balanced itself one leg.
"Down now," burgh.
sold Mrs. Dry-
And the table slowly resumed Its! normal position.
cume
into
the
Four neighbours houre. They succeeded in raising the table on one les
One of the neighbours succeeded alone in making the table balance on one leg.
"How many cigarettes are in the packet?" asked Mr. Dryburgh.
The table tapped seven times on the floor.
We opened the packet, and there were seven cigarettes in it.
A stranger, who had been watching the demonstration, took a bunch of keys from his pocket.
Ile placed them on the tabio, his hand covering them. No one in the house except the stranger knew how many keys there were.
The table tapped three times on the floor. Three keys were under the stranger's hand.
"Often the table gives A wrong answer, but it is seldom much out." sald Mr. Dryburgh.
He Barred Women From His Funeral
Mr. When the funeral cortege of
H. G. Vine, 74-years-old under- taker, arrived at All Saints' Church, mourners Hastings, recently, the were divided into two groups-men and women, The men will follow
"Move to the budgie's cage," the coffin into the church; the women
will return to their homes. shouted four times.
Slowly the table moved towards a
Mr. Vine's last wish was no women eage which stood near the living-should undergo the ordeal of room window,
Mr. Dryburgh then carried out funeral. another experiment. balanced itself on two legs.
table
The
A
SEVEN TAPS cigarette packet was on the table. No one in the
placed room
Mrs. A. Butcher, his
this
mother-in-
Back from their hurried wedding at Kingman, Arizi, and their 750-mile trip, here are Clark Gable and his bride, Carole Lotabard, both of the films, as they enjoyed a brief honeymoon at the bride's home at Bel-Air. Col. Later they will live al Clark's ranch in the San Fernando Valley.
Sister Of Peer Tells
taw, said: "My son-in-law had seen THE
Of £400 Bet
Glasgow. Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth so much sadness at funerals that he Finlay, 59-years-old sister of was anxious that his own should not Baron Glenarthur, and mother upset any woman.""
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of three children, told Glasgow's Sheriff Court recently.
"I have dealt with boolcmakers all my life. Some years I was a winner and sometimes a loser. During the past year I certainly was a winner, but did not get the money.
The only two I won from-10 the extent of £400-were warned off the Turf, and I got nothing. I was left with those who had not been warned Off."
£26,798 LIABILITIES
At her examination in bankruptcy, hier {lubilities were said to be £26,790 and her assets £174. But she said: "I have never bet heavily. and there, is no great loss to my creditors because of gambling transactions,"
And last night, sliting by a log Are In her Highland home. Loch Nell Lodge, Taynuili, Berwickshire, she told me:
"It is ridiculous to say that my assets are only £174. I have na eslate in Berwickshire worth at least £10,000, and there are also three trusts in which I am interested.
"I intend within the next two or three days to put a definite proposal before my creditors. My Bnancial position is very much better than would appear in the present circum- stances. I have never lived ex→ travagantly."
TOOK ON DEBTS
And in court she said that she attributed her bankruptcy to several causes.
"One of these is that I believed when my husband died I would be well off, and somewhat foolishly took his debts on my shoulders.
"These included debts to a number of moneylenders, and I have tried my best to pay them off. In addition. when my father, Baron Glenarthur, died in 1928. instead of receiving They from his estate, I actually lost.
in
This WDS because sharca Messrs. Arthur and Co., Glasgow, were overdrawn. I expected to be left about £3,000 to £4,000 a year."
TOWN'S PRIDE NOW COOP
Bolton Notch, Conn. Tine marches ont Once the pride of the community, the one and one- half story building that once housed the railroad slation and postoffice has been dismantled and converted into n chickencoop and garage.
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EMPIRE Giving children harsh laxatives
is unkind and harmful
NEWS
'BOYCOTT.CONGRESS' CRY IN BOMBAY
BOMBAY,
Thousands of Parals demonstrated In Bombay streets recently to pro- test against the Prohibition policy of the Provincial Congress Government. ; The demonstrators carried large Union Jacks and shouted "Boycott) Congress,"
The procession resembled those formerly organised by Congress, Women participated. The boycott call is reminiscent of the civil dis- obedience movement.
Before the procession à mass meet- ing, convened by the Parsi commu- nity, was held.
....
"
The community is hard hit by the Horo's a Special Child's Proparation-PLEASANT and MILD
Prohibition policy, as it holds the majority of licences for toddy palmabviously fa need of a thorough in- When your youngster is out-of-norts lands, The Parsi Press daily contestinal cleansing and still fights"
tains threats of foreign Gandhian weapons against Congress, such as
•fasts and non-co-operation.
The Government intends to start Prohibition on August 1.
RIOT AT A MEETING
CALCUTTA.
at
Rioters broke up a meeting Lucknow recently convened by non- Congressmen to protest against the financial, pelley of the United Pro- vinces Government. There were a number of injured, including Sir Jwala Prosad Srivastava and a Euro- pean, Mr. E. M. Souter, members of the Provincial Legislative
Assembly. demonstrators ther. took
of the hall and passed
taking a laxative, don't set it down as stubbornness. Maybe you are guilty ---- of thoughtlessness. For when a child objects to such medicine, there's often good cause. The taste may be offensive or the action harsh and unpleasant.
So is it ever fair, or even kind, to force such remelies on your youngster, thus taxing his upset condition still further? Fortunately, there's no need to resort to such measures. You can get a real child's laxative, "California Syrup of and thoroughly pleasant both in taste Figs," made primarily for children →→→
and action.
In favour, California Syrup of
*
Figs Califig ' -- is as delicious na
pure fruit syrup. And, because of its gestio vegetable Ingredients, is milld and agrecablo in effect. Doctors recommend it. And in thousands of homes where *California Syrup of it is used, Figs has proved an equally suitable laxativo for others in the family — either young or old, especially for women with whom it fi important to avoid the shock of stronger, harsher drugs.
"California Syrup of Figa" is sold by chemists and stores everywhere. Be sure to emphasize the name 'California' and 'look for "Celifig" on the package.
'CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FICS'
tutions supporting the Government, NATURES OWN » LAXATIVĒRSITY
Five Europeans held them at bay for
a quarter of an hour, enabling those
who had called the meeting to dis- perse.
South Africa
GEN. SMUTS DEFENDS POLICE
CAPE TOWN. The coloured rioting in Cape Town against segregation had a sequel in the House of Assembly yesterday when Dr. Malan, Nationalist leader, moved the adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public impor. tance.
Dr. Malan alleged that the leaders. of the mass meeting which preceded the morch on Parliament were Com- munists.
In replying, Gen. Smuts, Minister of Justice, declared that the meeting was orderly. Subsequently criminal, elements had started disorders. denied that the poller had cruelly attacked innocent people
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that legislation is absolutely neces sary to
to prohibit mixed marriages and to enforce separate
areas
for European and non-Europeany."
Baitallon
lon for Semi-Fit-A balta- lion on the lines of the Special Ser- vice Battalion has been formed for semi-flt youths by the Department of Social Welfare, The battalion will be administered by the Defence Department.
Police in the South-West.—Nego- tiations Bre proceeding for the umalgamation of the police of South-
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It took U. S. customs officials here! two weeks to decide whether a pur- ported "petrified man" should be admitted free of duty from Australia exhibition purpose. Both sculp- tors and geologists were called in to establish whether it was a marble statue of a fossilized human being. No one could agree, so customs offi- cfals marked it "of no commercial value."
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