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A story of
GREAT COURAGE
by Sidney Rodin
THE THE sixth form at Blyth Grammar School for Girls, Norwich. rearranghay is curriculum so that when the Alna ambalance arrives with Ransome in her spinal earring she won't have to be wheeled classrooms, I to too many will be hur first day as a sixth- form girl.
Next to her was Barhorn, who hail years, stricken with in three rheumatote arthritis and unable even to feed herself, Estelle, ther been crippled for other side, d three yearn from infantile paralysis. Nellie and wasted away and was
pending yet another year frame.
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ENDLESS LAUGHTER That in the ward Alma heard un- ending taughter-more cheerfuluess, it seemed to her, than' she emuld re- member amten her own gay school
pintores.
Alma's cheeks Are rusy will be apples, and her hair tied in two bright bows. Under
So she twisted the upper part of herself on her the black and red school blazer her handy, paruppumi
sum vilow, and began she will wear a Rawrred
Metol books, just like all Blyth nier frock,
girls,
It beneath the fear told her body in her right leg wall the field anmot right in a phentere Cost She wear the school's smart lit. beret
her head meal test on it.
Alma Ransome
to turn over the
The f November, because the
DARWIN Wræ not satisfied with her prostresta They
strapped her to a frame, her leather-covered
And steuer av
lets spreadeagled
bandages, her head drooping on
defert d
After there months she was torpest
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face Gundaged by a [! up to like
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When Blyth
sembled is September
1917, the with formi zea
Butubered
Buch
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provveder
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1948.:
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by
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50 Years Of Motor Buses
By ALBAN FORD
Frente of Multi, Lincolnshire rushed
TMPTY years ago, on September 19, 1898, the
into the street to see a contraption on wheels clang through the town.
The first regular motor bus service in England had begun.
The route was from the sea-front to the Cross public house; distance, one mile; fare, 6d. Today Britain has 60,800 buses, trams, and trolleybuses. Three out of every five people lako a bus ride every day.
Before the Mablethorpe venture experiments had been made in several places-the first bus to be licensed was tried out in Edinburgh in 1896. but the Mablethorpe service is generally regarded as the first to run to a timetable.
Britains did not take ensily to the motor bus. Only towards the end of the century was the re- gulation withdrawn which required all mechanically propelled vehicles of over three tons to be preceded by a man carrying a red flog,
made against the early Frivolous charges were pioneers. The owner of the Mablethorpe bun once had 17 summonses in a day,
London saw its desi bus driven by an internal com- busting, engine in 1809. That operated between Ken- nington and Victoria
Within the next ten years several thousand motor buses were being run by companies und private Arms in the Metropolia and the provinces,
How to raise your hat;
when
THOSE Indies and gentles
T
men among its who have been shocked by what
Somehow, however, he will go ly ta the hospitat for the little they regard as a decline in our
up her books and setnwl her notes for she has English. history, Kes Kraphy, baul Latiga examinations l quest to win her Cambridge Bigher Sehands Certificate and go forward, erhaps to die univetzaly
in
Every school amiring the ace will fetch her, and on two after JURORS & Weck.
Intest
LIFE STOPPED This is the
ebapler is th of a determined 16-year-old Mory
Whest sehoodgirl
turn-bagash, full- blooded the stopped abruptly un June 26, 1047.
It was the day the King and Quvel went 10 Norwich. It was the day Alma had Arrang to go to the dentist.
OR
They never seered to ge
Title" they canar limes
beyou! Alina stuck best she could to her French and Latin, her equations In debra and problems tu geometry.
The a week she stopped to join
the children its their partsson
Out of school hours she unseentes! the post of monitur, and often shout- est to the younger children to quiet- en their laughter and stop throw in apple cotes on the four-for naugh t was pnished by having the radio switched off, or their toys were faken from then.
Before Christinas she was moved for a spell in a nursing home. Face downwards again, she gazed for long prix at the garden,
She
the watched
Last flowers wither, and saw the condng of the
For some months Almus had com- plained of a pain in ler right thigh. Thea
she had snow. Came proof that anftened bone.
[ur het
paddie Trespaltul, Birmingham,
TEARS OF PRIDE
behind."
to stop eating
The 'right things' for ladies and gentlemen
social behaviour in recent years
Metus should accompany the real, will ponnee with gratitude and
custinetina artet
The main joy on a bunk just published,
between having romething to el It is a reprint of "The Burk
Hae former is amb ding is that done in English and the latter in (The World's French, the ments should never be of Etiquetle," "compiled," say
168) pented in English, Ltd.. authoritative 11 the bristess is not
the publisher: Work (1914).
tnost "Trom the zources and brought up to date sast by Lady Troubridge,"
light-heartedly shus Vernacular of the lower
shoull
rioti with
Where one into the classes
discretion.
Kris
teni development dates from the years immediately after the 1914 WIL Then lorry could be had for a few pounds; a small deposit secured a motor coach of a sort.
By 1921 mang hundreds of one- one-bus undertakhys had
Qas
- p. In the first two or Bree years of the 19200 anything with four wheels
was called a "“bus,"
and an engine
In fact, many of these "buses" were little more than lorries with
few seats nailed in them.
Long-distance travel by bus did 11422 become
until popular
the "Constant references to '05
(† introduction of the pneumalle tyre swoman' instead of, to my wife, In 1926-27, The clanking, solill- Pere Are with many mothers says Landy Troubridge.
by red "chara" and those who rode in it were thought "not quite the who would resent their daughters boring when overdone." belzu; asked to parties at a brushtor's house or rooms with no one there to play chaperon. Many girls would resent and consider a nek of respect,"
..
So that the chaperon real not with Fretch," says Lady
with reane disapproved, feel she is there solely as virlur's
Tr procure a conkery-bou, defendant she "should be asked to
15
wothes
social SR
if
"become
Nor, she goes on, the well-bred | thinit" jample say "Hight-o, Emily." to a servant, or "Cheerio, old thing to an ecclesiastical dignitary.
Should incline head and smile
world of
trou- Lady bridge is not enough for a mati merely to raise his hat to a
IN the
WOLRDIN,
A 1904 double decker.
Some towns
barused
molor
French name of pour out the tra which giver the Aspirants after a social life she whose careers were blasted the rach dish,"
buts
the
She should also remember those lay they work
a who,
although not till, Hre tennis court, or asked for
Cune, "Chauffrum second helping of pheasant en compelled to
iting about LEX the old would le the better for a hot sirink and casserole will find in these: 175 pages a complete catalogue of sandwich
The custom of paying catls the right things,
punctilious. The "Book" lays down that a lady should set aside a day
the theatre "at home" vach week to receive her
These should be announced bachelor may rest assured that "brilge.
for Jaitia guests. tall-coat, binck waistcoat, white feare
the inclicyy during by the butler (in a "black evealing is quite permissible shirt, black bow or large tie, and actes
not 7411
Lady Troubridges
She says, "There Darrow-miorted.
She says: "While lifting the hat match more: camaraderie between young meu and young one should Incline the head slightly
that
cle N and smile" hut to stand with head chapers are uncovered in the street while talking actually broken
what may he is an excess of polite manners. dispensed with at called prisilie entertaining
Once and for all the problem of coaches, bachelors."
whether men should remove their hals
In 11fts in which women ore the travelling is settled by Lady Trot-
635778
of first importance among And so on that June day, on the eve of going into the Aith form at
In spring a girl student from Bir-these is knowing one's Blyth to study
General kingham University went to coach position in life. The second is Schools Certificate, au ambatloner Alma in Latin and English, She said: knowing other people's. The tack her away to Woodlands ortho- to late. Yeter Latin is too far Book of Etiquette's advice is
uncompromising. I quote:
"The only purpose the desig- between une's nation 'esquire' serves now is to differentiate friends and one's tradespeople.' "On no account should a lady visitor ask a housemaid in dos
In her bome at College Road stood the bicycle, bought only a fort- night before.
was a ratched with
Faudu
In her roo The history funkts thel literature she loved to study,
STRAPPED TO BED
At the hospital they strapped her to an
bed 2xpendit
which helti art of her immingvable the body while her right leg was under constant stretch.
Even her eyes seemed imprisoned, for at frat she could see little but
with the eetlust.
a glimpse of the beds eller side.
For two
bewildering werks the ance ramping schoolgirl could think of nothing. For
months, at visit frust, she knew she would be there. her body helpless,
A man went for two weeks to help on her thematics. He shook his head; "If I had come nine months age, you might have stood a chance."
Alma When
sister Dorothy she told her: "I feel I know nothing. tons this year."
When
;l་་་*
I can't take the exizaina Dorothy said: "You are spineless, Abua knew she must carry
her hair."
dark striped trousers") of the mid- servant.
On the custom
of paying calls ALLERS who are informed that She Is not at home" should "not be very angry.". It is a "civil expression of not being able receive callers as well as an presion of fuel,"
mother.”
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Visit to
ودا
to the
Should he be compelled to take passage in a tax with a lady, whe on the far side of the should sit duer. This obviates any diffleulty for the men in having to step bernss her feel to reach his sent."
A taxi drive
with a
every allowance
TAKING
man
fur.
Mchanged point of view, warns
Lady Troubridge.
If the lift is small the polite an will keep his head uncovered unless he is susceptible to colds, when he uny "lift his hat on entering the lift and replace it immediately."
By the way, it is rank bud form to indulge in loud laughter while travelling.
Runner Compusure of and calm distinguish the well-bred passenter.
The air-illed tyre alterkt all that. It made conch travel much more comfortable.
By 1030 there were 6,000 rond passenger transport undertakings operating over 45,000 buses, and it road possible to travel by was between almost any two points in the United Kingdom.
Britain's road passenger transport industry is now at lie crossroad.
The
undertakings cutside still in private municipal ownership, but the British
bus
Q tempora! Q mores! which means, London are
the Troubridge. Oh, sys Larty thes! Oh, the manners!
In any arEZ.
от
scheme CAT
John PrebbleTransport Commission is charged by the Transport Act. 1947 with the FOOTNOTE: Lady (Laura) Trou- preparation of "arca schemes" to "no women or bridge, who died in 1946, was the co-ordinate" the passenger services girl who has made the sequaintance as a young man at the house of Iriends to ask him to call upon her girl should drive in u taxleat with tridow of Sir Thomas Troubridge,
She was the But before arly who is not her escort, unless a died in 1938.
effective mot
pubile local Nobody has to be more careful she has a very good reason for doing author of many novels, short stories, become
the home. and articles on
Her inquiry must hear objections. "Home
በህ of Today" was of etiquette than the unfortoriate
gentleman of cyclopedia of the household. Site If the schemes are permitted, is not only generally short book.
The book says the industry, it is feared that mebelor, He, one gathers from this of money, but is also the subject of breeding with knowledge of the was also a playwright. ngly
of work does not ask a Indy to drive reviewed above was firm published co-ordination will mean an increase suspicions on the part
in 1926.
in fures in some areas - with him." countless mothers
"A woman muy call on a mun Often she worked till 10 p.m.only for business purposes." It is quite permissible for a
the hotel On July 5, her body strapped fare "Since the war downwards on the frame, smal table beneath her
head, Alt sat visitors' book has become af far in the ward greater importance than it was for her examination
invigilator from the formerly as a registration of identity. For this reason it is university by her side.
By July 15 her strange test was
essential that guests should Hnished.
Then they put her in her plaster enter their social status before east and a few days ago, after 14their names."
she had Booths in hospital, she went home by ambulance to hear of Blyth, took over. She sent her
passed the
Schools with General all the books she weded to start
fnur credits and one ristinction. paring for her examination.
Tears of pride were still bright Mrs. Whitaker knew her as among
Baw her
when I over the first four girls in the form. She
with her school secently. could not let her ruin
Hair lying on a bed right leg thick in its plaster, an inn
on her left shoe, she said: "You should really no to see my Peck. She got nine friend Jean
Then Mrs. Whitaker, headmistress
carort.
learned
Alma suon
there were children in the ward with greater 15cables than her own. Some bad heen there years, aloost from birth, their bodies misshapen, only lowly
responding to treatment.
in
'Will you sit on the couch?' her ALTHOUGH Lady Troubridge does not suggest it herself. il might be as, well to include among the "sunt civilities" ratch-question based on the know- ledge gained from her book.
her
distinctions. She did all the work, yot get all the fuss."
The Professor Is Worried:
ARE WE TOO BIG
FOR OUR BRAINS?
RE
A
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
mammals
ever did.
Try asking, "Will you sit on the catch? If the answ) is, "Yes, 1 The nequain- wit sit on the sufa.
without develop tance HUBAN restraint.
it the answer is "Don't mind if
1 do, then tes7mate conversation quickly.
No lady or gentleman would say "couch" for solu
Hemember as
Latly Troubridge
says, "It may he difficult for all te! possess a knowledge of the days et fashionable society."
that
No matter how much you any be enjoying this dinner remember social function. that you are primarily attending a
EL is probably at dinner breeding, is subjected to the greatest Ladies, says "The Book ni strain.
remuve should!
thear Etiquette." sudden came to a we becoming a race of again they li
gloves and call a napkin u napkin and not a servlette. result en giants and as
Fact No. 3 is that man is in- the fister than extinction creusing a size Inwards speeding
the reptiles and along the path taken by mammoth and the brontosau- And his brain is NOT increasing in
proportion. rus?
Professor Gates says: "The role of and in human stature Increase
more rapid in weight is much modern man thun in any known animal series."
You can prove this for yourself FACT NO. 1 is that after dorninal- by visiting any museum where suits for ages the giant of armour are on show-the Tower In the earth
example. Medieval the reptiles, like the Hoft. long diplodia of London for cus, suddenly became extinct about armour would not fit even
average 16-year-old boy of today. 60 milion years ago,
Corison of Egyptian mummies
One of the world's leading anthro- pologists. Professor Reginald Ruggles Gates, F.R.S., thinks that we are..
He bases his theory on three main facts.
No one knows why this happened, with modern Egyptians gives further
but it seems to be tied up with fact that their
big for their brains,
ago.
the proof of man's rapid growth
few
thousand
To continue cathiga say's Lady "when others have Troubridge,
A guest finished delays the service. who finds he is doing this should put down his knife and fork and allow the servants to remove his pinte."
The guest who leaves early
GUEST leaving early is - nilvised to draw too much allen- tion to the fact. "He would probably say "Good-bye, I so much regret that I am obliged to go on to the
Is no greater thm that of the An- 1 king or romething polite of the
bodies became too during the
years. The brain of the 40-ton diplodo- Yet the brain-size of nuderii man cus welghed only four ounces.
FACT NO. 2 is that almost exactly cient Britons who lived 10,000 years
agnin ago. the same thing happened
million years
This If Professor Gates in correct-and about a time i was the mummals which had he probably is-there is one consola- reached colossal proportions. Warm- tion: man's brain is still so big In
110 the
body that megü proportion to his
he blouled beasts
double therfum, the giant ground-sloth, had should be able to grow to replaced the great reptiles. But his present size before he begins to And again their brains were very nall feel the evolutionary pinch.
their bodies. And that will take time.... compared with
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No doubt he will be able irlento himself from the Jays' with equal tact.
Dinner need not be elaborate: Grapefruit, clear soup, ash, fillets of beef, cold sweet, chess, dessert, coffee. Claret should be taken port at dessert, during dinner, home-made lemonaste afterwards.
and whisky
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