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INCIDENTS THAT SUGGEST GREAT PICTURES.

It is one of the many curious and interesting facts in art that we qwe some of our greatest pictures to the most commonplace, and trivial accidents. 4

Many of Sir Luke Fides's most popular and beautiful pictures have been suggested by Incidents which would probably never have left any impression on a mind less artistic than his, writes W. G. In the Weekly Scotsman".

"THE MAN OF DAWN."

HOMAGE ΤΟ THE PILTDOWN SKULL.

WEDDING.

› SADICK-RUMJAHN.

A pretty wedding of interest to the Indian community of the

The High Wycombe correspon-Colony, was solemnised yesterday afternoon at Dar-le-Sa'a dat, the dent of the Daily News writes:

It's never too late to remember. residence of Mr, U. Rumjahn, when' After 100,000 years, or thereabouts, Mr. Ebraham Sadick, of the firm a solemn act of remembrance is to of Messrs. Chater & Mody, was accordance with performed at the last resting-place married in of the famous Piltdown man Mohammedan rites, to Miss Firdos whose skull was discovered in the Effiendie Rumjahn. The bride, Sussex Weald in 1912.

was given away by her father, Mr.. wood The idealistic sect of

U: Rumjahn. Her dress, made by änd nature craftsman known

Kindred. Madame Lily, was of white French as the Kibbo Kift

trimmed with silver whose new challenge to an satin,

and silver lace, effete civilisation is evidently embroidery "Lest we forget," intends to throw streamers of orange blossoms, and its retentive mind back so many finished off with pearl motif. The thousands of years in order to train was beautifully embroidered honour The Man of Dawn.

with silver, with silver cloth slippers to match.

There genesis of that most pathetic picture; "The Widow, is peculiarly interesting. A great gaunt miserable-looking man, a human wreck whom he had picked up in the streets, was sitting for him as a model for the "Casual

Some scientists have âgured it Ward," nursing a tiny mite of a baby. "As, the attitude was out that the Pildown man is the |firing, Sir Lake Fildes says, "it missing link an ape man who was necessary to give the man climbed trees, millions of years White Tiger," the druantic frequent rests. During one of ago Anyhow, says Kibbo Kift, Universal reen story starring these rests I chanced to look up it is time someone honoured his Priscilla Dean. is unique in one from my easel, and I saw this Pliocene menory, even if it is too respect in that it is concentrated to rough blackguard of a nian caress-late for a decent burial. " We have received from Messrs an action intensity by having ing and fondling the baby behind John Manners & Co. Ltd., agents altogether only four characters who the screen as tenderly as any mother. By Jove,' I thought, *If for the Sun Insurance Office, a count, at all in the plot is only I could only paint that what a copy of the report and accounts for the year 1923, from which it one of these characters is honest touching picture it would make! appears that, after setting aside The other three-including Sylvia did paint it: with what success, reserves for taxes, general fund Donoran acted with signal sucess and pensions, a credit of £702,529-aad charming sympathy by Miss over."" 05.-6d. was available for distribn Dean--are society thieves and they tion. After payment of dividend are converted us the result of 7,254-0s.-6. was credited to Sylvia's beauty having captured

the affection of the "honest man down a village street when he saw a beech wood I heard a voice l6lled by Mr. Guzdar of the

the Profit and Loss Account.

FLOUR HIGHER.

Reuter's Service)

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LONDON, July 17. The Flour Millers' Association has advanced the price of standard The grade four one "shilling.. quotation is now 445, 6d.

SILK SHIPMENT.

The silk shipped per 5,5. **President lefferson." which sailed from Hongkong for Seattle at 10 a.m., June 20, arrived at New York at 7. p.m. July 12 having been 22 calendar days and hours to

transit.

BASEBALL IN US.

LEAGUE RESULTS.

(Reuter's American Service.).

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The bride was attended by Miss North Leonard and Miss Eileen Leonard as bridesmaids, their" dresses being of 'canary georgette, trimmed with silver Ince and flowers with white' Miss satin shoes to match. THE COUNCIL CIRCLE.

Thelma Gonzales, daughter of There is to be a pilgrimage from Prof." and Mrs. 'Gonzales acted ag London to Uckfield, where the dower girl. Her dress was of pink remains of the Man of Dawn were georgette, trimmed with frills and snatched from their gravel bed to with ribbon streamers hanging you can judge from The Wid-be exhibited in the Natural History from the shoulders. Master Museum. I climbed to the top of "RETURN OF THE FENITENT." the Chiltern Hills this afternoon in Sydney Chow was page boy his On another occasion Mr. Fildes search of the Whitsuntide camp of costume was of blue crepe satin The duties of "best man" was (as he then was) was walking the Kibbo Kifters. Passing through with white collar and cuffs.

* Hail, friend of the Kindred!** a wretched, forton-looking young woman, walking toward him. The and I was guided by the smell University and Mr. Andrew Zim- street was full of small knots of burning incense to an open-mern was usher,

After the ceremony a réception of villagers. gossiping together and meadow. There in the middle of

held which was largely glancing at the young woman as the council circle, set on a carved was she approached them. Without totem, was a plaster model of the attended. Mr. Tanner proposed once raising her downcast eyes skull, with grinning teeth. It bore the health of the happy couple, she avoided them all and looking a Latin inscription saying that the the bridegroom making suitable THE MOON AS TARGET.neither to the right nor to the left, original skull was discovered in reply.

pursued her way silently and 1912 by Professor Charles Dawson. PROFESSOR TO TEST HIS

alone.

The picture also shows an auto- matic chess wizard, It is to be presented at the Queen's Theatre to-night and at all performances

to-morrow,

PROJECTILE.

".

Prof. R. H. Goddard, the Ameri- can scientist who hopes to shoot rocket to the moon this summer, perfected his laboratory has experiments and is confident he will succeed in hitting his lunar target, nearly a quarter of a mil.

lion miles from the earth.

"I inquired who she was," he says, in telling the story, and the reason for her sadness, and learned that she had just been released from jail, where she had been serving a term of imprison ment for killing her child.. I was so struck by the sadness and pathos of the scene that I set to work to paint "The Return of the Penitent."

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD."

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The bride's going away dress There is nothing gruesome, but everything, it is claimed, that is was of Saxe blue Parisienne inspiring and vitalising, about this brocaded velvet on silk net,

Mr. and Mrs. Sadick will leave skull worship. The Kindred's love of symbols will not reach the level by the s.s. "Empress of Canada” of laying a wreath or etecting a on their honeymoon for Europe, cenotaph over the gravel bed. via America. They have thought of something

Moscow, July 17. Three even simpler than that, and more

people were killed and many in accord with their primitive dreams.

Carrying their symbolic totems housca destroyed by an earthquake. and dressed in their picturesque at Fashkeut on Wednesday last. clothes, they will go on foot, pro- Reuter. bably from Trafalgar Square, to the Sussex Weald. It will be one of the strangest pilgrimages ever known, with many wayside halts through Surrey and Sussex.

TOKEN TO BE 'BURIÈD.

·TO-DAY'S' ADVERTISEMENTS.

But the success of his project

Mr. Marcus Stone was reading depends very largely on the Dombey and Son" one day, and behaviour of the rocket in the was so struck by Mr. Dombey's lower regions of the earth's atmos-pride and delight at the birth of a phere, before it enters free apace, son and heir, and his consequent where it can make a bee-line for indifference to the claims of his the moon. To obtain some idea as other child, that he decided to put to how far friction with the air the incident on canvas, giving it,

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB, and currents may cause the rocket if possible, an historical setting.

I was told that the act of remem- to deviate from its trajectory, the

AUGUST MEETING 1924, It was while reading the New brance will take the form of light- professor intends to fire a similar Testament that Mr. Holman Hunting a fire and chanting, and, a rocket to an altitude of ten or a conceived the idea of his beautiful simple token, probably of carved FULL Details are posted in Club "The Lightwood, in memory of The Man of Houses. Events include Captain's Philadelphia S-2 Chicako..... - determine its path through the air and touching picture," Tad been Dawa, will be buried on the spot Cup (August) Championship of

of the World." Boston....... 4 Detroit by telescopic observations from re-reading the Testament," he with the symbolic ritual of the Happy Valley, Bogey. Ladies and New York...... 3 Cleveland..... 4 various points, its path being says and had read as far as Kindred. At least one well-known Pittsburg 7 New York...... 8 marked by successive explosions Revelation, when anxious to finish man of science is expected to take of the brilliant "flash" powder by the book one evening I took my part in the ceremony. The "K" means of which it is hoped to see Bible up to my bedroom, and symbol of worship is one of the ...11 the impact on the moon of the suddenly came upon a passage signs of the Kindred, and it may actual rocket that will subse-whith, as by a flash, impressed the be that, the fire will be lighted.by

"The Kindler of the Spark.". 6quently be fired, at our satellite. picture on my brain."

The Man of Dawn, a Kibbo Kifter said to me,

AMERICAN LEAGUE,

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AMERICAN LEAGUE" Boston ......................3. Detroit

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BUILDING STRIKE.

dozen miles above the earth, and

3 Though the atmosphere of the Mr. Goodall'a memorable picture 4 earth extends probably 350 miles of Christ Healing the Blind and 3 above the surface, the greater the Lame" was suggested by the part of it is packed into the region sight of a man carrying a child between the ground and the 10-wrapped up in a blanket to the mile level, and if Prof. Goddard hospital.

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can get accurate data as to how its The world is indebted to similar rocket will be affected by the trivial incidents for several of Mr. atmosphere it passes through in G. A. Storey's most successful

· LITTLE CHANGE SEEN IN the first ten miles of its upward paintings. One day, when he was

SITUATION.

(Reuter'e Service.).

London, July 17.

Mixed Medal counds, Driving and Approaching Competitions.

Hongkong. 17th July, 1924.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

E have removed our Hong-

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of remembrance.

Will not some zoologist kindly remember the plesiosaurus ?

According to the Herald, the

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fight, and can utilise this informa- travelling to Spain, he saw a poor tion to correct his aim when he priest pointing out a servant the fires at the moon-or rather at the dilapidated condition of his collar; point in space where the moon will and the humour of the spectacle Federal naval engineering staff be thirty-six hours after the so impressed him that he made a bave submitted to the Cabinet rocket starts, as it will take that rough sketch of it is his notebook; plans for a floating dock 860 feet The Underaged by omitid There Im's been little change in time to cover the distance he with the noto. "What is a poor long and 180 feet wide capable of Anction

need not worry about the rest of padre with à torn collar to do?" the building strike, situution during |

the journey, as the atmosphere Thirty years later this sketch receiving vessels drawing up to 40 the past week. The Court of above ten miles is so rarefied that suggested the clever and humor- feet as an alternative to the build- Enquiry has insuril à report, re-it will have practically no effect ons picture known as "The Padre." ing of a cruiser locally. If the at No. & Godown Lower The Hongkong fraining from making any on the projectile passing through

"After You.”

plans are accepted, both of Aus- recommendation, but finding that it on its way into space.

On another occasion Mr. Storey the main cause of the stoppage was Any day now

Professor was the guest of Mr. Yeames, the tralia's new cruisers will be built the refusal of Liverpool operatives Goddard will begin bis ten-mile- Royal Academician, at Hever in England and the money thus

to accept the special terms offered altitude tests, and, once these Castle, and they were on the point waved will cover the cost of the them on June 10 and their failure have been satisfactorily carried of entering the dining room. Each dock-Reute

Reuter. to submit to the decisions of the through he will probably range held back and, with a bow, said National Wages, Council: The

on the moon without delay. to the other, "After you." After Court thinks that neither side What will happen if he gets a long exchange of bows and cour- understood the other's position, bull's-eye is doubtful, but the man tesies they solved the difficulty by and declares that a resumption of in the moon would be well advised linking arms and marching in negotiations offers the only means to keep a keen look-out for "shoot-together. This humorous incident of-a-speedy termination of the ing atare," and have a dug-out suggested Mr Storey's popular quarrol

ready should an unusually hefty picture known as "After You." meteor come his way.

HOUSING PROBLEM,

MAY CAUSE GENERAL ELECTION?

(Reuter's Servicé.)

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Colony's Health Visiting London Obituary Cake Scare. Court Martial American in Court Frand Charge Court' Clock Colony's Finances: New Consuls. Durian Walks ne

Beamen in Court Hongkong's Housing Seven Corpe Concert Shamden Laws. Opium Seade The Widow Canton's 1

Our Food Supply The feature of the golf in the ton (the Coroner) at the inquiry at The mual dough instant were blod

Bhorthand Thousand Guinens Tournament at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday but found aselous, so I obtained botan at Godown No 20, The China Provident, Witnice... Gleneagles was an exceptionally London, July 17.

good round by W. G. Oke, of Fule afternoon into the circumstances of Baby's Own Tablete & change for Loan & Mortgags Co., Lad, (nar the Hongkong 1 New

attending the death of a coolie who the better au poticable in to bid Tramway terminus at Whitty Street) plation Com wall, with a score of 69.

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144 Bag country in a General Election is the Bar at the opening of the Irish June 16. The car was driven by the quiet night be enjoys and for being being canvassed in political circles. Free State's new Courts of Justice, Madame Lily, the French cross-relieved of all be anxious for we had

his health. A Owing to Opposition activity in the Chief Justice (Mr. Kennedy, nİRKƏT.

Chanted absolutely the course of a debata on Mr.Kid spoke first in Irish and then se

Idit] Baby! Own Lableta Wheatley's Housing Bill in the in English

All Evary. Uper is a Friend for such allisenth of whildhood as almopl House of Commons last night all odds with amendments were rejected, but mid noisy scenes in the Chame The personi, recommendations of favors, Indiration, collar constientists ber and the customary, quietude in people who have been mured by Cham They check diarrhoes" make 5 ruan frequent criticisms.provoked Mr the Senate, McMillonnd's bristelain Cough Bobody, have done morna Tercepat Patrick Hastings ti declare that letter Orinally Peligning the Press Jaimed elas to intense the sale and use colde, presoner beamh facing wees The Government would only be too sidenes of the French Republic of Lala euch year, than

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