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LEAGUE OF PEAK CHURCH'S YEAR
HEALTH
Miss Ming Talks On Important Task
Displaying suppleness and grace In every movement of the exercises she went through, Miss Mavis Ming, teacher and organiser of the Women's League of Health in Hongkong, won the admiration of a large number of people who went to the Helena May Institute yesterday to see a demon "stralion" and hear a lecture on health exercises based on the Bagot-Stack system.
The Imuncase beneft that women derive from this form of exercises was stressed by Miss Ming. Doc- tors, she said have recommended the Bagot-Stack system na safe and scientine for women of all ages,
Bishop Presides at The
Annual Meeting
The Bishop of Hongkong. Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall, presided as Chairman at the annual meeting of worshippers of The Peak Church in the St. John's Cathedral Hail, yesterday.
A report on the Church's activities was given by the Hon. Secretary, Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, while the Hon. Treasurer, Mr, M. F. L. Haymen, reported a credit balance of $004.35 on the year's working accounts.
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May 26, 1939.
Russian Parliament Meets To-day
Moscow, May 25. The Supreme Counell, probably the most colourful parliament In Europe, begins its first sesalon in 1930 in the former Czarist Throne Room of the Kremlin to-night.
Twelve-hundred deputies will re- present over a hundred races and Russians in khaldi tunles will mingle with re-shnwied peasant women and The following grants were decided turbaned Uzbeks, Turcomans from upon at the meeting: St. John's Central Asin and Siberian Möngols, Cathedral ($200), Christ Church, Cossack Horsemen and Eskimos Kowloon Tong ($150). New Terri-wearing reindeer goals. torles Evangelization Society ($50), Street Silpeers' Shelter Society ($50), and the Society for the Protection of Children ($50).
The meeting also decided to nik Dr. K. L. Reichelt and the Rev.
The signal for the proceeding to begin will be the entry of M. Stalin and the Inner Cabinet, but M. Stalin n unlikely to participate in the de- bates. An interesting point made by Miss
The most important item on the Ming was that the exerciser were D. N. Richards to join the Com-agenda will be the foreign policy, and Joined with musle, which had the mittee,
M. Molotoff is expected to make a effect of not only refreshing the Dean Wilkon ald: With the statement, after which there will be body but also the mind. Miss Ming} exception of three Sundays in August a general debate on the international ulso made reference to the promin- when no clergy were available and situation. M. Molotof may indicate ence of the League in other parts one Sunday where there was no the cause of M. Litvinov's resignation. of the world.
congregation present, the Service of] Other subjects to be debated in- The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo introduc- | Holy Communion was held through-] elude national defence and the third ed Miss Ming in few words, out the year. The total number of five-year plan. The session will last
1 enumerating in part the thorough| Communicants being 622, an average a week or ten days-Reuter. training Miss Ming
of 7.1. Christmas Day Communicants 75, Easter Day Com-
in Australia.
had undergone attendance
In charge of Miss Ming, seven municants 60. pupils of the League performed ele- Out of a total of 33 Tuesdays when THREE FOR SESSIONS mentary exercises, the object of the priest attended for the Service
which is to prepare the pupil for the more dificult exercises to come. Mrs. Renald Ching was the plan-
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In her address Miss Ming said in part:
"Everywhere in the world to-day where women are allowed to, they are surging forward to help relieve
Forged Notes
of Holy Communion, only 20 services Allegedly in Possession Of were held, the remaining five had no Communicants present. This service has been discontinued since Febru ary
seven
2DAYS TO DAY • TO MORROW everything, but the necessary begin- voluntary service of the Rev. D. M. similar forged notes; and the man,
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Clergy on ed by Anglican
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Ilo Snu-mui, 30, was charged with freedom and space, and it must of Pollock whose work is very much possession of 126 forged $10 bank- necensity be based on health. Health Is only fundamental, It not appreciated.
notes of the Central Bank of China; We acknowledge gratefully the Au Yim, 28, with possession of 122 ning for the certainty
of develop Richards who has been responsible Ng Hak-sing, 34, unemployed, If we could all realize this for most of the Anglican Services. Individually, and base our being on
gether with the women, with hav- ing conspired to have in their cus- H1, a consciousness of purpose would orise and bring into usefulness many to 160,000 with centres all over the
tody forged bank notes. people who are to-day just filling British Isles, Canada, New Zealand, outside the Nam King Boarding Defendants were stopped by Police up space In the world.
house about p.m. The Women's League of Health: Australlu and Hongkong.
on April 10, "In order to bring the League when the banknotes were found in exists in Hongkong to try to put within the reach of as many women their possession. this particular purpose Into the foundation of the building
of this as possible, the price, for each class Det-Inspector A. L. Hopkins pro-
at one shilling. Here in fixed new culture, The work of the Was
Hongkong
in the It is fifty cents until elght years ago Lengue
evening and $1 in the day. As the only available
to the leisured and League grows it will become curres- monted women in London who were pondingly possible for it to reach a alive to its importance. Then in 1930 Mrs. Bagot Stack, after muca larger number of women, experience and research in health are confident that it will grow as it
been doing already "Thờ League Is for women, not because we underestimate importance of men. It is the women who have been neglected in the past, so that
was
has
and we
but the
work starled the Women's Lengue of Health and Beauty. Mrs. Stack de vised the exercises herself, adding to Mrs. Conn's work, placed them in sequences and set them to musle In this way the Bagot-Stack system and they must be trained was particularly adapted to mass they may take their place with the teaching, which is the method
of future.
inen in deciding the destiny of the the Longue.
To be
"In certain countries physical cul- We all have within us potential ture has become an accepted part of powers which modern ways of liv the national life, but there is stilling have kept dormant, and It resty
to develop them. svith us hardly any attention given to the able to do so the mind will have needs of the older people, even to the mothers of the next generation not beef the body is neglected.
to be very much awake, and it will Women of all ages can join the Lengue, The exercises gently stretch and relax the muscles, and are effortless even for women who have never exercised before.
"An increasing amount of women re realizing this and they are com
to the fore, whatever their o
in their determination cupation,
to more abundant ite. Ac- up n tually the League is only at the be ginning of this enormous task which lies ahead."
"In the League classes the exer- cises are done to music. Stretching and swinging movements are taught by the teacher from the platform. The exercises tench correct posture- and central control. They aim at the ancient Greek co-ordination be tween mind and body.
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The exercises serve purpose in that they are preventive as well Gs remedial, They
advanced stages. In the advance classes the exercises are learned in sequences..and after the sequences are known they give the fullest en- Joyment of the exercises
that is possible. The musle makes the members forget that they are exer- cising, and gives them a complete mental relaxation, so that both mind. and body are refreshed.
"Doctors have recommended The Bagot-Stack system as safe and scientific for women of all ages, and often have sent along their patients to train their bodles for sale and healthy motherhood.
"The aim of the Lengue is health leading to pence. It grow out of Mrs. Stack's determination to give up chronic illness for health, and out of her desire to throw herself heart and soul into work for peace, after she realized the tragedy, mil- lions suffered through purposeless destruction. The first members to Join In Loridon numbered 10. Since then the membership has increased
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