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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1929.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

CHARLES DARWIN

NATIONAL SHRINE FOR ENGLAND

ON THE DOWNS.

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.

ON 360 METRES

Y.M.C.A.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR AUGUST IN KOWLOON

A FLANNEL DANCE

Down House, the home of The following programine will be The monthly "Bulletin" of the Darwin, is to be opened to broadcast to-day from the GovernY.M.C.A., Kowloon, gives the fol-: the public. Since the day when ment Broadcast Station Z.B.W. on lowing information: Mr. Buckston Browne reading in 850 metres.

Speakers: August 4, Mr. J. H. "The Times" Sir, Arthur Keith's 6.30-0.30 p.m.-Programme of Dance Hunt; August 11. Rev. C. H announcement to the British As- Music (Records supplied through the fewitt, M.A., R.N., Chaplain. sociation at Leeds that Darwin's courtesy of the Sincere. Co., Ltd.) H.M.S. "Tamar"; August 18, Mr. house was about to be sold; tele-

7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Report. y. H. Tsao, M.A., General Secre graphed to the President that be

p.mEvening Programme of tary, Chinese Y.M.C.A.; August Chinese Music relayed from the Sincere 25, Rev. G. Foster, M.A., Canton would buy Down House and present. it to the British Association in cus-music given by well-known girl singers The Association meeting is held Co., Ltd. Programme consists of

Theol. College. tody for the nation, the newest and the staff of Sincere Co. national shrine has seen many

in the lounge every Sunday even- changes. Down House has bee

ing at 9 o'clock. transformed,

10.30 p.m.-Close Down..

JAPANESE ART

WHAT IS OWED TO CHINA

Social and Sporting

After Mrs. Darwin's death, the house, though it remained in the possession of the family and indeed passed, with Mr. Browne's inter- vention, from their hands to the nation's, was occupied by two girls' thing to China. But it is in the

In a sense Japan owes every-1, double $1.50.

schools in succession, and

Open to all Y.M.C.A. members. Bathing picnics have been ar- ranged for Saturday, August 10, and Saturday, August 24. Leave Hong Kong at 3 p.m. Kowloon at 3.15 p.m.

Open to ladies. Tickets: $1.

A NEW PROBLEM

DISEASES THAT FOLLOW

IRRIGATION.

A flannel dance will be held at the rear of the Building on Thurs- day, August 29, at 9 p.m.

Open to ladies. Tickets: Single

Tennis Club. A knock-out tour- not same sense that the nations of the nament on the hard courts will be unnaturally the general arrange-West may be said to owe every-held on Thursday, August 15, at ments had in time been consider-thing to Judaea, Greece, and Rome. 5.15 p.m. ably modified. The donor has Only a race of the finest creative changed all that. Down House has gift as well as the finest suscep- become Victorian again.

tibility could have been able to do Victorian Atmosphere Retained what the Japanese have done; their The big dining room has been art, even when most closely follow furnished in a manner befitting the ing Chinese example, has always in period. Here are pictures by it something of native mood and Joseph Wright of Derby, who paint fibre. That they should have kept ed Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, so close to Chinese tradition for so Wright's portrait for instance of many centuries and yet have pro- Canon Seward, the friend of Eras-duced a variation so alive and so mus Darwin and the brother of the continuously and freshly inventive) famous Anne Seward. Another proves their originality as much notable piece is 2 plaque on which as it proves their unique docility. William Stubbs has painted a lion It is superficial view which sees in killing a horse, which is one of the a painter like Ingres only an in- Discussing the effects of irriga. famous plaque made for the artist ferior imitation of Raphael; and it tion on human health in a report by the firm of Wedgwood in a larger is a superficial view which sees in issued in mail week by the Empire size than such plaques had ever been the art of Japan only an inferior Marketing Board, Dr. J. F. C

imitation of the art of China. successfully made before and this

Haslam states that unfortunately A certain fastidiousness, & love the increase of fertility due to ir- too has its relevance, for Josiah of scrupulous and cleanly order, rigation has brought several un- Wedgwood was both Darwin's uncle belongs to the Japanese character; desirable factors in its wake. and his father-in-law. There is we find it in their manners, their also a painting of Erasmus Darwin's furniture, in all their workman spread of

"Irrigation is followed by the house.

With its family portraits, ship...

diseases: two serious Taste with them, as Schistosomiasis and malaria. The and old furniture, the atmosphere with artists like Velasquez and agents of these sicknesses pass cer- of the room is very much the at-Whistler, becomes no mere negative tain stages of their life-histories in mosphere of the eighteen-forties avoidance but a positive and water and they have increased and when the Darwins first arrived at vitalising factor. One might, per- multiplied in the new areas made Down; that is to say the pictures haps, compare the Japanese genius available for them by the conver are of a slightly earlier period, and in some aspects with the Latin sion of arif desert into well-water- the furniture too is of a slightly genius, as it is shown in certained fields and convenient canals. earlier period, as of course it would types of Latin and of French "Schistosomiasis is, caused by a be when a prosperous middle-class poetry, where a telling economy of worm, or fluke, which lives in the family set-up house.

worde and fineness of handling are small veins, and its eggs, which are made to compensate for a slight hard shelled. and (in the case of

The Old Study"

STANDARD TIME.

responsible for the serious effects

uf the disease. There is evidence

of the occurrence of schistoso- miasis in mummies of the period 1250-1000 B.C.

The drawing-room has been fur-ness or an almost complete absence two varieties) spiked, are mainly nished with a great deal of the of matter.-L. Binyon. original furniture which has been gathered from various branches of the family. The couch is here! on which Darwin used to lie while his wife read novels aloud or played to him, in the intervals between his] working periods. The plane itself

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY

worm

"When the eggs of the reach the water, they immediately.

Sunrise and Sunset in Hong hatch out into swimming embryos, has been found in London and is Kong for August. (Standard time of which, if they are to survive, must presently to return to Down. the 120th Meridian, East of Green-find a suitable water snail to act

Of all the room the most im-wich), are as follow:-- portant is what is known as "the old

corner.

as au Intermediate host within about twenty-four hours. They de- velop in the body of the snail and are presently discharged in great numbers into the water. They must then, within forty-eight hours. gain entry into man. cercariae, 25 they are culled, can penetrate their human

host by burrowing through any part of his skin which is immersed in the water or through the mucous membrane of the mouth during drinking."

THE INTERNATIONAL BYNDICATE.

83-Personal servant

study." Here "The Origin of the August Species" was written; the chair and writing board which Darwin used are standing in the accustomed Here is his working table, brought in great triumph from Cam- | bridge, the dissecting table with its curious stool on whoels, the paper knife, the ruler, the pistols Darwin took with him on the Beagle (one is missing from the case stolen by a Gaucho) and a whole armoury of naturalist tools in a revolving case with curiously devised drawers, which standa beside the dissecting table.

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in his occupation of Down House. Darwin added a wing on the west side, and here he had a new study. The old room in which his most famous work was done was put to other uses. Fortunately in Major Darwin's photograph the large mirror over the fireplace givce a clear reflection of the other side of the room and thus it has been pos- sible to put up the bookshelves ac- cording to the original plan. Even the wall paper has been reproduced.. Domestic Life

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The solution of the apocc cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

LAKE VILLAGES

BEFORE AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE REARING

As a recent examination of its banks has shown, the Lake of Constance must have been greatly in favour with the lake-dwellers. The remains of no fewer than forty-eight different villages have been discovered, in the water as well as in the adjoining fields. Ten thousand years ago the surface of the water must have been a dozen

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION SPASMERETACIT

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fect higher than it is to-day. HONG KONG HEIGHTS

One of these villages has been reconstructed for some years and

Uhlensdorf on the German, bank,

Mr. Henry Robinson, the care- taker, by whose courtesy (writes a

representative of "The Observer") passed the table in the hall, there

I was allowed to make a tour of the would be the rattle as of a snuff-rot house, told me with what pains they lid. Ke

SUNDAY IN RUSSIA

PLANS FOR SEVEN DAY WORKING WEEK.

The Supreme Council of National Industry has ordered all the main State trusts to have their plans ready within three weeks at the latest for abolishing the Sunday stoppage of work in their factories, mines, brickyards, etc., so that plant may be kept working con tinuously and

The workers will be employed in six day shifts, such as have already been adopted at the Dnieper- petrovsk (Yekaterinoslav) steel- works and elsewhere. Various ex- ceptions are made for industries with an inadequate supply of raw materiala, but, as a general rule,

it is hoped to abolish the Sunday had stripped off wall paper after His day was made up of several cessation of labour soon enough for wall-paper fill they came to what periods of about two hours work in the result of increased output to be they thought was the original. This the study followed by a short rest apparent in the autumn trade re-

turns. was copied, and when at last it was in the drawing-room. He lived a

The machinery will coase run- found that there was still living life of almost complete seclusion, ning only on major Red feast days an old servant of the Darwin house-seeing few visitors and hardly ever two days for the First of May. hold and she came to see the re-leaving Down. It was the quiet of two days for the anniversary cele storations it was heard with great the place that had originally attract brations of the October Revolution, rejoicing that she said she aped him. "Its chief merit is it and one day for the Paris Commune proved The wall-paper was right extreme rurality, he wrote. "I celebrations.

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HARRY FONG, Dentist,

In the drawing-room there hang re-think I was never in more perfectly It is estimated that another DENTIST. plicas painted by the Hon John|quiet country.”” Even now his 2,500 engineers will be immediate Collier of his own portraits of Dar words are at altogether inapplily required for the non-stop run- and Huxley, cable. Though the German perioding of industrial mining plant

can be visited. It is situated near the following list of some of the is possible now, walking ual which announced that Down

For the information of visitors Another, near Sipplingen, is being highest points on the Island and through these rooms, to have a vivid could only be approached by dug out and reconstructed now Mainland is published:

It dates back to a time when man 12 Island. was unacquainted with agriculture

and cattle-rearing. The finds are exceptionally rich

Owing to the projected regula tion of the lake, which will render research work much more difficult, the next three years will see the spalneologists very busy at work all

ound the lake.

khas order,

Victoria Peak

Signal Station Mt Parker

Mountain Lodge The Eyrie Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sana

Mt. Davis

impression of the life the eclentist maletrack was inaccurate, the

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M Beauchamp, formerly Clerk of dals of the hall, Down House, a sturdy eighteenth-

the Crown, Limerick snuff Jars He hoped century building,

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table in the

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