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WHEN TO GET DRUNK | LITERARY ROMANCE SECRETS OF HEALTH

GREAT POTENTATE'S RULE OF │·

3 TIMES A MONTH.

Genghis Khan. By Harold Lamb. (Thornton Butterworth, 10s. 6d.)

Few

men

have

known

HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE AWARD.

"TARKA, THE OTTER."""

for

WE MUST HAVE SUNLIGHT.

IBy Sir W. Arbuthot Lane, Bart, C.B.] Baron Larrey, in his Memoirs of The Hawthornden Prize This excellent study of the most Literature for 1927 has been award-the Russian Campaign, was much original of the nomad chieftains of ed to Mr. Henry Williamson for impressed by the fact that those soldiers who were recruited from the Middle Ages Alls a notable his book, "Torka, the Otter."

The prize, instituted in 1919 by the nations of the South of Europe vacancy, for the life by R. K.: Douglas, being derived mainly from Misa Alice Warrender, is awarded bore the cold and hardships of those terrible marches very much Chinese sources, gives but a one- annually for a work of imagination sided view of a many-sided man. by a British author whose age does better, and with far less complaint, such not exceed 41. Its value is £100. than did those who came from the

northern countries. vicclsitudes as Genghis Khan, In conversation with a represen.

We are only commencing to whose career Mr Lamb traces from tative of "The Daily Telegraph realise the great part that sun- the time when the poisoning of his recently, Mr. Williamson, who is shine plays in the health of indi- father left him at thirteen a fugi- just over 30 years of age, told how ❘viduals, and, Indeed, of entire tive in the Gobi Desert, to the time he left London in 1921 with no nations, affecting them physically when, having won for himself the money or prospects. "I rented and morally. It gives to the life of the Southerner that joie de vivre largest dominion in the world, and cottage in a Devon village at £5 a

which la singularly inconspicuous having struck terror into the Em-year," he said, "and lived, there with us.

China, Constantinople for five years writing and hoping. perors of and Rome, the Khalif and the I slept out at nights studying the Pope, he held the great assembly habits of the animals. For most of all his vassal kings and poten- of the time I ranged up and down tates and delivered to them the between the two rivers Tor and simple lesson of his life: "I have | Torridge." gained great mastery by virtue of the Yassa live ye in obedience to the laws.”

The laws in question were broad- minded and kindly, as is shown by such a precept-as:

are

The New Health Society is work- ing in association with the mining magnates to bring sunshine to the bravest and most Industrious class in the community. Those rays of health, in the ordinary way, necessible only to the rich who are able to travel. Even they only Speaking of "Tarka, the Otter," avail themselves to a small extent Mr. Williamson said he had re- of the advantages sunshine offers. written the book seventeen times, While the Southerner will expose and in its final form every stick, his body to the sun for hours at a stone, and tree in the book could time, the Englishman wears a big

hat and carries an umbrella. actually be traced in the Devon

When those whose lives are spent

was

Get drunk only three times a country. His first book, "Beautiful in gloomy rooms, realise the enorm- can derive from month. It would be better not to Years." was published in 1921. "It ous gain they get drunk at all. But who can

one of the world's worst artificial sunlight they will insist abstain altogether?

sellers," he humorously commented. on lamps being installed in suitable places where they will be readily Since then be

has written "Sun accessible to the many, Brothers," "The Old Stag." both

FORGOTTEN POETESS animal studies, and later "Path-

WAS SHE POISONED:

L. E. L. A mystery of the thirties. By P. E Enfield. (Hogarth Press, 108. 6d.)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the

way the story of a soldier injured in the war who revolts against the whole set of ideals which he holds caused the great upheaval.

Ultra-violet rays are much more.

necessary to health and to the en- joyment of life than are baths, and the example set by the New Health Society and others in the mining community will now spread to every "My great ambition," he added, class of worker, who will insist on having what is an inestimable bene- "is to write the story of the war fit. It is cheap and can

from the human point of view,

be em-

this will repay expenditure on huge dividends in health,

subject of this biography, though which will be the story of every ployed with perfect safety. Any

man who was in the war." now forgotten, WAB a popular

Mr. John Galsworthy, in prèsent- poetess of a century ago. She was: the friend of many of the nota-ing the prize at the Eolian Hall, bilities of her day, and there was New Bond-street, recently, describ- she married ed. "Tarka, the Otter," as a truly some surprise when George Maclean, Governor of the remarkable creation. It was the Gold Coast, and in 1838 left Eng- result of stupendous imaginative land to share his life at Cape Coast concentration, fortified by endless Castle.

The biographer gives a most un- flattering account of him, declaring among other things, that he drank. If he drank he must have had a charmed life, for he spent 21 years in a climate which was then ac- counted pestilential, and displayed such vigour and capacity that he is regarded to this day as one of the ablest governors the, country has ever had.

Shortly after her arrival at Cape Coast Castle, she was found dead in her dressing room, early in the morning, and it was said that a battle of dilute prussic acid (which she was in the habit of taking in small doses as a remedy for

spasma) was in her hand. The pre- sumption at the time was that she

had taken an overdose.

suburban, satisfaction with human superiority.

"If you think of it, when we are interested in beasts and birds and

ly patient and loving observation their natural surroundings, it's of Nature. Henry Williamson had almost always not for themselves received as yet infinitely less credit and their good, but for ourselves as a writer than, he deserved. He and our good. We're interested in was the finest and most intimate them commercially; we like to make living interpreter of the drama of money out of their feathers or wild life, and he was, at his best, their skins; or aesthetically;

like to wear them in our hats or round our necks; or as sportsmen we're terribly fond of some crea-

a beautiful writer.

THE COMPLACENCY OF MAN.

we

"I always think," continued Mr.tures in order to do other creatures Galsworthy, "that the human being in; or as collectors we love to look has got an altogether too compla- upon their staffed, or pinned, or cent notion of his position in the bottled beauty; or as cooks we dote scheme of things that man first, on their flavours, and do our best second, and third, beast, bird, and to destroy them with sauces; or as not musicians, we like to hear them fish left at the post, doas adequately describe the scheme of singing on the Radio; or as, race creation. And I welcome with very heartfelt gratitude tho existence of any talent which will make any sort of hole in our urban, not to say

HOW TO AVOID INDIGESTION.

goers, we like them to win at.33 to I-when we've backed them; or as scientists and valetudinarians, we appreciate them as animals with extremely healthy glands which we can appropriate to ourselves. -

"Not many of us, I think, delight in them as creatures with a love of life as strong as or perhaps strong- er than our own; certainly in the mass more beautiful than ourselves. -I went to the Derby the other day and still living in a world of

which In most digestive troubles, excess ungarnished Nature

goes

An Easy Way to do it.

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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1928. ·

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE. (This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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A native of China 10-Turf 13-ExTet

14-Head covering 15-To put on, AU A

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VERTICAL (Conti) 23-Legendary bird 24-A postar

HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

55-To entice Into danger -

|87-Bachelor of

Bolangs (abbr)

|58-To glaze

|59-Obsolete spelling

"eraso"

Accountant (abbr.)}88-To improve the

.-garment

16-Certified Publie

17-Plaited grasa

21-Wesde

23-Combining form.

Straight

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27-Agama of dominoes [22-8. contrał Stats of (abbr.)

80-Dovotoem of the

wood

32-Task

10-A thin slice of ment 05-A European country 33-Tightly curled

24-The spectrum 28-To love (Latin) 28-Jobs

31-A girl's name 82-Attached

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(Latin-abbr.)

36-Permit

38-Buifix. Pertaining

to

40-Negative

41-Entire cordage

system of a VOBE 42-Like

44-Adult males 45-A small barre! 47-Pronoun

48-The mother of the

gede

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U. S., 1836

63-Wing-shaped

69-A garden too!

71-Expire

72-To mislead

73-8holtered alda 74-Developed teeth 76-Enanare

VERTICAL

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2-Raw metal

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30-Era

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New Zealand

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47-Existed

[49-A card game.

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prealdent

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easily

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hose 20-Dincolor 22-Rested

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

WATER SUPPLY.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.

The following Unclaimed Tole Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:- grams are lying in the E, E

Roskmather, from Manchester. Overchints, from Calcutta.

E. A. LEGGATT,

Superintendent]]

Hong Kong, 19th July, 1928.

Level and Storage of water in Re- servoirs on July 1, 1928;- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Tytam

Tytam Byewash

Tytam Intermediate

Tytam Tak

| Wong Net Chung

Pokfulum.

1027

1923

1'10"B 4' 6"B

8' 9"E € 10"B

L

78"B 13' 10"B

9'11" 14' 10"B

[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow":

A. denotes "Above Overflow: L. de- notes "Level with Overflow."

Storage in millions and. Decimals of gallons.

Tyłam

1927

389.40

1028

847,42

Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk

11.19 195,90

13.J3 195.90

1,410.00 1,419.00

Tytam Byewash

Wong Noi Chung Pokfulum

Total

21.08 14.84 44.48 84.34

....... 2,081.05 2,024.78 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of June.

1937 · 1925 Consumption....

808.38 810.22 Estimated population 412,780 423,100 Consumption per head.

per day...............

24.4 24.4 Constant Supply in all Rider Main Districts during June, 1927 and 1928. KOWLOON WATER WORKS

LEVEL

1927 1028 Kowloon Reservoir. IL

I Shek Lat Pul Resar-

voir

2' 7"B Do. Reception Reservoir

0' 11'"B Storage of millions and decimals

Malicious voices accused her hus- hand Maclean, of poisoning her and this biography gives a certain countenance to the charge by com- plaining that "he allowed his wife, who had admittedly met a violent | and mysterious end, to be buried within 12 hours of har death and without a post mortem." The au thor might have recollected that a swift burial is a and necessity of dency to remain in the stomach until When a man or woman succeeds in

The following unclaimed tele Kowloon Reservoir... 352.56 352.50 that sweltering heat and that the the next meal is eaten. That is why watching wild life just for the grams are lying at the office of the Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 9046 116.10

intense pain so often follows immedi doctor who examined the body, and ately after cating. In cases of this pleasure of watching it, and with Great Northern Telegraph Com Reception Reservoir .. THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. testifled at the inquest regarded a kind digestive disturbance can be about any thought of the benefit it Dany (Limited) of Danmark:-

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Shanghai powder or two or three tablets, in aj and the historic present (which is little water half an hour before eat which many people regard as a S. J. Burn, c/o King Edward Hotel, not an English idiom) is freely ing. This neutralises the acid, and in sign of mania, but which is really from Bradford. used. It should surely have been effect washes out the stomach, leav- the keystone of happiness. That stated that two of Mrs. Maclean's ing it clean and sweet for the next being so, when a writer can bring meal. Get a package of 'Bisurated' most intimate friends on the Gold Magnesia from your chemist to-day, to us some true and thrilling sense "THE CHINA MAIL," General Const "had absolutely no doubt Take it before your next meal and of the strange, vivid, and separate

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that her death was accidental and note the absence of the usual pain and in.portance of beasts, birds, and Indignantly repudiated the charges discomfort. In very bad cases take plants, shall we not be grateful another dose after meals, to make as- made against Maclean."

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of gallons. 4

1927 1028

Total

80.78

422.95 499.33 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of June, Consumption ****** 97.98 106.12 Estimated population 160,050 165,700 Consumption per hend

1927

1928

per day... 20.8 21.8 Full Supply in all districte during Juno 1927 and 1928,

The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.

Total rainfall to June 80, 1927, 53.45 Juno 80, 1928, 48.28.

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