Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 17, 1939.
Ulizare Supreme Coert
YAWN YOUR WAY TO HAPPINESS
A YAWN, instead of another
drink, will make you the E
life and soul of the party, Shove
your head out of the window,
Had Hair Dyed,
yawn mightily two or three Can't Go To Films
times, and return to delight -
your guests, or your host. A WOMAN, who cannot remain
This is the advice of Mrs. Evelyn | in a cinema since she had her Verschoyle.
hair dyed was awarded £108
So impressed was the B.B.C. when
Mrs. Verschoyle yawns repeatedly. damages against a hairdresser she demonstrated, in ar television recently at Southend County programine, the value of yawning Court. 1 that it has given her a test as a television announcer.
"IF ONLY **
The plaintiff, Mrs. Louisa Murtha Cayton, of Southchurch-road, South- end-on-Sea, sold ahe had her hair
Mra. Verschoyle takes yawning tinted by the defendant, Barnet seriously. She is convinced that if Goodman, also of Southchurch-cond she can teach others to yawn proper-Southend, In November, 1936. ly, there will be more alert and happy people in the world,
Other defendants were C. Nestle jond Co. Ltd., and Golden, Lid, both "If only," she explained, "If only of Hollywood-road, London, N., but people would realise that when they these were dismissed from the 'nction are bored at a party it is much bet- by Judge Davies, who found that' ter to go outside, yawn a few times, Candman had been negligent because and come tnck, then they'd become he had ignored a warming
the the success of the party mstead of bottles in which the dye was sup- Just taking another drink and grow-plied; and that he was not satisfied ing killer."
that the dye had been supplied by Messrs. Nestle,
Mrs. Verschoyle is tall, dark, and ball Irish. Her figure in English and her face in Irish, Both banish 31 idea of yawning.
But Mrs. Verschoule keeps on talking about yawning. She can not only patos herself awake. She can yawn herself to sleep. "Five years ago, before I began to practise," she old. "I suffered very? Undly from insomnia. Now I can always go to sleep when I want to.
"LIKE ANIMALS"
"I'm really just copying animals. Did you ever know an afilmul that suffered from insomniu?"
It is all part of the Hindu cult of Yogu, but Mrs Verschoyle does not. siress Yoga. She has no guru or Hindu teacher.
on
Mr. Cayton stated that about two hours after her hair had been tinteri by Goodman her head felt as though. it would burst, and continued to swell until she could not wear a hat. Her face puffed nut until both her eyes) were closed,
When she went to a cinema even now she had to leave when it became
worm.
Annie's Big Ideas
She just started learning animal yawns and stretches with Sir Paul DORTLAND'S crazy hen, Dol-and- Dukes, former chlet of the British Carry Two, which lays a double- Secret Service in Russia, who also yolked egg every other day, an 'a believes in yawning and stretching. rival in Annie, a fowl belonging to "Yesterday, for instance," said Mrs. Mr. E. Pearce, of Weston-street, In Verschoyle, "I was rushed off my the same town. A bird with Jarge feel. Had my television test and all ideas, Anule recently lald the rehearsals before it. If I hadn't welgling 64 ounces. had ten minutes in n dark dressing-
an
ege
Three people shared it for break-
have got two yolks and another egg of normal
size.
room to yawn and stretch and relax fast. Inside the enormous shell were completely,
thought.
I'd never
Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor, 48, tries to hide from photographers, as he is taken from London' police station for arraignment. Police say he shot at the Duchess of Kent in Belgrave Square, although he was held on a technical charge of possession of firearms.
Army Loses
Bren Gun
THE Army have lost a machine gun,
A
A number of Bren type machine guns were loaded on to
an Army lorry at the Tower recently, and taken to Folk- stone to be used in Army manoeuvres there.
But when the guns were checked over at ́ Folkstune, they were found to be one short,
A special message was immediately circulated to all police stations in London and Kent, reporting the loss.
Special inquiries were made all along the route taken by the lorry, which is known to have passed through Lewis- ham, Sevenoaks, and Ashford.
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EMPIRE NEWS
FOLICE INJURED IN JAMAICA.
KINGSTON, Jamaica.
A clash between police and the hooligan element In Kingston recently resulted four policemen being injured with stones and beleks.
The police fred over the heads of the crowd to force it disperse.
The cause of the clash was an al- tempt made by about 500 men at breaking into the headquarters of tho Ex-Servicemen's Union to bent up its members. These members continue to work on Kingston wharves. An attempt was made to set fire to their building.
For a couple of days the Govern- ment mobilised specfi! constables to help the ordinary police.
Attacks were made 01 Ught #tandards in the City and a number were destroyed.
NEW ZEALAND
HOSPITAL BENEFITS
ON JULY 1
AUCKLAND.
The Government started tree hos- pital services under the Social Security Act on July 1
The honorary medical stuffs will continue unpaid, being unwilling to consider piccc-neal remuneration until the major question of the generat practitioner servies is settled. The New Zealand Branch of the British Medical Association has found the scheme of medient bencats under the Social Securlly Ac to be totally uncceptable to the medical pro- fession, which is unable to co-operate -in-ils-adininistration:-
KENYA
ELECTRIC LIGHTING
MONOPOLY
MOMBASA. The Electric Light Bill, granting a monopoly in the Colony to one com- pany for 25 years, has been carried through the Legislative Council after
ellizens meeting of protest,
The Press and public are urging a protest to London against the grant of the monopoly,
AUSTRALIA
NATIONAL REGISTER
OF INDUSTRY
CANDERRA.
As a supplement to the National Register the Minister for Supply, Mr. R. G. Casoy, has decided on a com- pulsory register of the productive capacity and resources of industries of defence significance,
This stop has been taken because Australian factory managements and industrial organisations have shown little disposition to co-operate volun- tarily with the Government in pre- paring a register of the material resources of the nation,
Only about a third of the industries approached by questionnaire some time ago have yet supplied returns.
Cast of Defence,~~Australia's de- fence expenditure, which amounted to £1 Bs. 6d. n hend of papulation in 1937-38, will be £1 a head heavier during the current Bnancial year as the result of the enlarged pro- Kromme. This sum compares with
EB 4s. 18. in the United Kingdom, £1 0s. 4d. In Now Zealand, and 18s.
Ed. In Canada.
Naval Sloop Launched-A new xloup for the Royal Australia Navy, H.M.A.S. Parramatts, has just been launched from the Cockatoo Naval Dockyard, Sydney.
She is built specially for duties in the tropics, and is constructed largely, of Australian inaterials.
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