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RIGHT HAND & LEFT HAND.

Interesting Artiola by Mr

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Mr Andrew Lang contributes an ing toruating article asitled "Right Hand and Loft Hand" to the London Daily

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MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA Telegraph road lately that left-handed

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batsmen should be excluded from first- class cricket, think this wild suggestion amanated from a celebrated golfer. The

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left-handed bat wasted time; he said, by You will

COAL-DEPARTMENT.uring the positions of the haldamento ba changed porpetually, which is true, but who would excluda left-handed hitters like OLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-MT. Hill, and Me A. 3. Ford? II SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO, | have foragottan the initials, none who saw

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No. 184.

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ten that graceful and severe player. For some reason left-handed golfers are much more rare than left-handed bate, and than left-handed bats_left-handed bowlers are more common.

A Huxley Lectura on left-handed per- formera was delivered some years ago, and was a very interesting study of the physiology of left-handedness. M. R. Hartz now studies the religious pelarity" of the topic (in Rarui Philosophique Do- camber), and though I do not quite "religions polarity" understand what aretly means, he is latolligible when he complaice of the "crying inequality ".

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between our way of considering the two binds. The left is "anir haddon dour."- I think that Mr Ure, in his little dis- cussion on Truth with Mr Baliohr. selected! "a man's own right hand as the old- 1 fashioned defender of his claims to be RETAIL DISTRIBUTORS: Messrs LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.

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veracions. Would a left-hander use the

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gucher hims if, merely in obedience to custom. Man has been used to speak of! the natural inferiority of woman, and she Loes not like it. Still, in a struggle with ists, or even with swords, woman would certainly have the worse of it; nor could a woman champion boat a good man at a mile race. She is not built that way," she is conspicuously and undeniably bandicapped 816 by Nature. But the left band is act conepi

cuously bandicapped; a good left-handeris at least as good as a right-hander, whereas at physical fests (it were individous to speak of the intellect), women are certain ly no match for men. Then why is the left hand usually the woras? M. Hertz

ALTERATION IN CHARACTER or Foo Gus mentions the guess that the left is inferior,

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I, The SEZ ZUP STEAMSHIP COM PÁNY, LIMITED, hereby give notice that said Company desiring that the name of the S.8. TAK HING be changed to HING in consequence of the opinion of the above

LEE hiva

1718 Trade, under-8ed to the Board of

Pizléct Preservative Stain for Wood, Stone and Brickwork. It protests against because the left hemisphere of the brain, A, decay, fanges, dry rot, the ravages of insects and vermin (especially white bitter than the right kentiepbere of the way as seen freas the testimonials of the Governments of India, the Sudan, eto, which works the right side of the body, is) and the action of the weather: Soligsam really does what is claimed for it.

bmin. "Our bodies are right-handed, be- cause our brains are left-handed," saya Broca. Bat, as M. Hertz replies: "Wo might as well say" (and hetter) "our brains

of the responding to gon signals from ligitatations will be altered sa coscribed in the flowing instructions to lightkeepers: The keepor on hearing a bell, fog horn, stram whistle'or gyren, or any other sound, during fog: or thick weather, which shall Indicate the proximity of a vessel, will efters Gauchers) because our hands immediately fire ONE gun, and after a lapse of FIVE minutes will fire TWO guns

with tra station's distinguishing interval

between them; and this distinguishing aigual of two guns will be reported every five minutes, if the vessel's Fog-sigual- showing that she is under waycantiques to be beard."

The disciugulabing intervals of the savor lightetstions and tho.dater from which the change will be efected are:

From the 15th April, 1910. Steep Island ......... 2 Mizuter West Vlcano.

1 Minu's 10 Seconda .....30 Secorde 23inutes 30 Sec nda

1 Minu

Bonham Island........... South West Horn ................................. Gatzia. North Saddle. Shawelshan

North East Shantung Pro- montory (in the event

et the fog syren boins disabled)

Kungtungtow

Howki.........

1 Minute

* Minutes .....1 Minato

From the 1st July, 1910.

Linate Brosker Poinharmeren Cape of Good Hopa 10 Seconda Lamocimas kemes

9 Minates Obapet Teland...

1 Minute

Tsingsed...... Dodd.IIand Ockaeu....... Threabout

Middle Dog...... Tang Yung

2. Minutes .10 Seconds 2 Minates 1 Minute ...10 Seconds ..... 2 Minuten

It should be noted that the first signal made by all stations will be ONE gun

are righters" (droitiers). Mankind for some reason has exercised the right hand

most, and exercise lows in proportion streng

thened the left side of the brain. The two sides of the brain start equal or nearly equal, but mau kas cultivated the powers of the left side of the brain by cultivating the right side of the body.

The real question is, why has man done that? The highest spée, it seems, draw no invidious distinction, and aro.ambidexter. like fieldsmen who can throw in equally | well with whichever hand the ball comes to. Everyuno muxt notice that many children, if not all, are naturally leftora." They put out the left hands in shaking hards; they take the knife in the left hand, the fork in the right; they use the spoon in the left hand; they throw a stone with the left hand, as all the tribe of Benjamin, throw so straight with the left hand; and the Border clan of Ker may haro heen letters, na "Ker-handed" areans left-handed in Scote. The loft-handed" child, when taught to write, often write in piegel-schrift, that is, from right to loft, Whatever we may think of atomatic writing" it is certain that with right-handed #riters, it often runs from right to left, though, in their conscious writing, it does the reverse. Mr Frederic Myers had, at one time, a theory that the unconscious

self-whatever it may be uses, in rightors,

Moderate Prices. that FIVE miuntos ister signal of TWO

guns will be made, the interval between the right hemisphere of the brain. He, by which will enable the mariner to determine letter, asked a total stranger, a celobrated from which of the group of lightstations in

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were not ambidexter? The calculator an

of the question, but ambidexter he was

M. Herta thinks that about two men out

The establishment of First Order Fogewered that he could not quoes the motive Syren Stations at Steep Inland and Turn about will be camenced during the year, By Order of the Inspector General of

Customa,

W. FERD. TYLER,

Coast Inapester Imperial, Martino Customs,

Coast Inspector's Office, Shanghai, 31st March. 1910.

NOTICE.

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of a hundred are irreclaimably after, a larger proportion are as obstinately rightera but the vast majority are naturally ambid- extrous, with a slight preference for the right hand (and foot, of course; set many

it

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NOTICE; IS HEREBY GIVEN that the wider that from savagery upwards the right Partnemhip heretofora zabalating hapid has always been given the preferance. between us tile Underaigned carrying on In the Dutch Indius the loft hands of

business & BHARE and GENERAL

(Continued on Page 8.)

BROKERS at No. 5, Queen's Road Cen-babies are tied up th'teach them to use the tral, Victoria, ander the style or firm of right hand. Yet the left hand, naturally, has been die is as good as the right, say, at playing the VERNON & SMYTH solved and the interest and responsibility of the Undersigned JOHN YARDLEY VERNON VERNON in the said firm has cossed as from the 31st March, 1910.-

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