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Women surgeons are to gain equal privileges with men in re- gard to their membership of the The Royal College of Surgeons. secretary of the College stated in an interview that it is contem- plated at the next meeting of the Council of the College to consider the question of making applica- tion to the Privy Council for a supplementary charter to admit women on equal terms with men. Though women have previously become Fellows and members of the College by virtue of an Act of Parliament, they, have possessed no corporate rights. If the pro- posed request of the Council is granted, the present women Fellows and members will have full voting power and the right to be elected to the Council.

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Examinations have been pro ceeding in London schools, with the usual crop of howlers and oc- There are more vacancies casional answers that denote the £10,000 a year man than wisdom of a philosopher beneath for a

At there are for a £2 a week man, the guilelessness of a child.

one school the children were ask- because there are practically no vacancies for the latter," said Sired to explain the difference be- William Joynson-Hicks, British tween conscience and cowardice. Home Secretary of State, at this One child replied: "Conscience is year's prize distribution at Dean when you are afraid. Cowardice is

"But when the other fellow's afraid." : There is a "slump" on the Close School, Cheltenham. monocle market. A superstition the big jobs," he added, "are not At another school the history! is running round the West End for the man who will only work class were asked to write a brief that monceles are unlucky. In the ordinary hours, and is con-account of the life of Joan of Arc. view of the prominence given to tent with the ordinary trade One paper read: "Joan of Arc: Sir William put She was good, she was brave, she the recent arrest of the "monocle" union wages." man. "Our sale of monocles has his finger on Great Britain's main was honest, she was burnt." dwindled to almost nil," said the industrial difficulty at present. It. manager of a leading West End is a difficulty which depends on optician. "It is now confined the fact that labour efficiency In almost entirely to those men who Great Britain has not yet increas actually need them-r., those ed in the same ratio as wages. who suffer from astigmatism. It is not generally realised that at

That guidebooks are fallible least two-thirds of the monocles now being worn in society are is the reluctant conclusion of a made of plain glass, bevelled at member of the Royal Geogra- the edges. Even very promin-phical Society who writes as ent men wear monocles purely for follows to the editor of the "Daily Since the Mail:" "Sir: Nelson, we all 'monocle man case we have sold | agree, stands high in public practically

plain-glassed esteem, but how high does he monocles. They are supposed to stand in the sky? Desiring to bring bad luck,"

day to know the height of the column in Trafalgar Square, Says Truth: The Implica- referred to Baedeker's Guide to tions of "the traffic in. arms' London fedition of 1923), which should be brought home to the gave the total height as 170 public in this country by the case feet, of which the statue is 17 of Ching Sai Chai, the Chinese feet. Then I turned to Baedeker's cook of a British steamer, who at London for 1911. The column West Ham was fined £478 4s. (six (at that time certainly 12 years months' imprisonment in default) younger) was then declared to be "for knowingly harbouring and 145 feet. My curiosity now concealing" revolvers, Mauser thoroughly aroused, I fell upon

South Sea Islanders are soon pistols, and ammunition to that Muirhead's Guide to London, to have wireless communication value on his ship-not to mention edition 1922, which told me that with the outside world. When smuggling opium, for which he the column was then 142 feet the Rev. G. H. Eastman, of the got another six months without high Next, Cassell's Guide to London Missionary Society, leaves option. Ching had stowed these London (1921) gave the column's for the Gilbert Islands, he will precious goods in a tank for con- height as 145 feet. Cunningham's take with him a number of radio veyance to his native land, where Handbook for London, 1849, told sets for distribution among the a ready and active market doubt me the statue was not 17 But 18 natives, Coconut palme 80 to 90 less awaited them. A noteworthy feet high. Then I ascertained feet high are to be used for aerial feature in the case was that the when the Nelson colurer was poles, and it is hoped to be able munitions of war were put on erected. The statue was set up in to pick up the wireless concerts at board the ship at Hamburg 1843, said Cunningham.

Sydney, Australia. The Gilbert Hitherto the only known export-column was begun in 1840, said Islands probably are the most ers of munitions for China have Baedeker (1923), but not cor- lonely and primitive of all the been French and American. Now pleted until 1867. The monument British possessions in the South the Germans are competing in the was erected in 1843, Baid Seas and communication with nefarious trade, and before our Baedeker (1911). The Nelson Sydney, more than 2,000 miles eyes in China are the results that column was erected in 1840,' said from the islands, is only possible HONGKONG & TERRITORIAL ESTATES, LTD. come of it. When shall we know Cassell. The monument was by means of steamers, which the outcome of all the talk recent-erected, said Muirhead,' in 1840-sometimes are seven and eight ly devoted to this subject at 43. I begin to distrust guide- months apart, and food, supplies Geneva?

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The Rev. P. B. Clayton, M.C. of Toc H. fame, arrives in Singa- pore on Saturday, October 3, and leaves on Monday, October 5.

The

sometimes dwindle.

PERSONAL.

Miss C. O. Frost and Mr. A. J. The Bombay Municipal Cor-

Hall Pilgrim returned to the Colony byporation

presented an the "Siberia Maru" yesterday, animated scene recently, when Joseph Baptista was elected pre- Signorina Edda, the 16-year-sident of the corporation amidst old daughter of Signor Mussolini, the cheers of his supporters.

According to a report publish- ed by the "Morning Post," Ad-is reported to have rescued at This is the first time for two de- Catolica, a health resort on the cades that a native Christian has Adriatic, a young girl who got occupied the presidential chair. into difficulties while swimming, and was on the point of drowning,

miral Beatty is about to resign command of the British Fleet. Admiral Sir John de Roebeck and Admiral Sir Charles Madden are I mentioned as successors.

King George has become more A man who was at school with Kipling to whom, therefore, of an outdoor enthusiast than "Stalky & Co.," is an open book, aver Early in the spring he had passes on the somewhat surpris specially fitted summer house ing fact that "young Kipling was placed in the gardens of Bucking- ham Palace, where he carried on

Mr. W. M. E. Martin, assistant conservator of forests, Tampin, shot a fully grown male tiger 71% feet in length, at Johol, on the Negri Sembilan boundary. The not very popular among his his routine work in the unusually animal was driven out of the schoolmates, because he was warm weather which London ex- jungle. by local Malays and shot always getting himself excused

| by Mr. Martin on foot.

from games on the ground of deli-perienced all through June and cateness. Strange (isn't it?) that early July this year. the apostle of Jingoism should have started life as a "milksop." But such is the way of the world.

Cyril Tolley, the former golf champion, has entered for tennis tournaments under the name of

There is a distinct possibility “A. Birdie.” · Golféra facetiously

that London will shortly experi- applaud his modesty, remarking Nothing under the sun is new, ence the pleasure of seeing Mrs. that he might, for instance, have not even the present mode in Patrick Campbell in the West chosen "A. N. Eagle" Tolley Oxford trousers. In the 80's of End. Off the stage, she is one of made a successful first appear last century one of the most the world's champion leg-pullere. ance in the Buxton tennis tourna popular and best known figures in When she was introduced to Mr. ment

the_University was Dr. John H. G.. Wells, she lustantly began Richard - Magrath, Provost of to ply him with questions about "I know from experience that Queen's College. He was a short, boxing. He apologised for his housewives would find it better to handsome man, with a long white inability to answer them, saying ask for Empire goode," said the beard, and always wore immense that he was comparatively ignor- Queen, during her Wembley visit.ly, wide trousers Sir Arthur unt of the art Oh!" exclaimed When told that the housewives Griffith Boscawen, who was a Mrs. Pat disappointedly, "T did not ask for Empire goods, member of Queen's in those days, thought you were Her Majesty said: "I'm afraid says, in his recent book of Bombardier Wells!" that is the real trouble they take "Memories, that they had a what is offered." During the College song about him. He visit the Queen sympathetically glo one verse, most of the | asked a lost boy whether he were, other not being couched int-Par

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Austen Chamberlain, presiding over a dinner of the Gardeners" Royal Benevolent Institution, told a good story about himself. After #Fstrenuions Sweek's work, in the Chtmail of the Imagus.

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