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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929.

THE OYSTER

THE "BING GIRLS"

PRAISED BY THE EPICUREŢIN (RAPID ADOPTION OF WESTERN

ALL AGES

MODERNISM

PECULIAR FLAVOUR

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SOME FACTS AND OTHERWISE

the 10

THE CHINA MAIL,

MALARIA AS A CURE SHADOWS BEFORE.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN "CHINA "MAIL”

Social Functions To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong

Entertainments

at

Hong

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED

Reply

To-day - Queen's Theatrey A. S. WATSON &∙CO., LIMITED, as now issued a valuable report The Lion and the Mouse," E. T. Meagher, RN., in which the "Girls Gone Wild." (Continuous written by Surgeon Rear-Admiral

NOTICE. results of this treatment have been performance from 1.15 to 11.150 bar, 1929, All Departments, To-day World. Theatre:

carefully collected and analysed. serious, malady, responsible for "Faust."

p.m.). General paralysis is a most Po-day some of the worst types of insanity

To-day

and 7.15 p.m.

- Star

www.

Oct. 14 and 15-Star Theatre; Warwick Revue Co. present "The Merry-Go-Round," 9.15 p.m.

Oct. 16 and 17-Star Theatre: Warwick Revue Co. present Airy Nothings,” 0.15 p.m.

Oct. 21-Nelson Day Concert at Lee Theatre, 9 p.m.

Home Mall

via Suez ("Macedonia").,

To-morrow-Inward from-Europe.

Sports Oct. 11-Steel Coulson's Billiard Somerset Sergts. Mess 6 p.m. League: Winners v. reat of league,

NOTICE.

the 10th OCTOBER, the

ONCHINES

we shall be "AT HOME" at the.. Chinese, Merchants Club, China Building, 5th floor, from 11 am. to 12.30 p.m. All friends arb cor- dially invited.

Dress: Lounge Suit.

SHOU-SON CHOW, R. H. KOTEWALL, S. W. TS'O.

RESULTS ACHIEVED: HOW TREATMENT IS GIVEN

ACTION ON ORGANISMS

The succulent virtues of the oyster If we had our "Bing Boys" a For some years many cases of Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, WANTED-Expert Typist. have been praised from time immem few years back. China has now it that terrible form of mental 8.30 p.m. orial. Dr. Johnson, it is true, was "Eing" girls, writes Jane Oliphant, derangement known as "general,

Secretary, P.O. Box 22. To-day--Tea Dance oysters, and Thackeray said that eating oysters was in the "Westminster Gazette." A paralysis of the insane" have been Kong Hotel, 4.30 p.m. like "swallowing a minket baby," states

woman from Shanghai, who has treated by infecting them with the London "Morning Post."

been introducing Western civilisa malaria, and the Board of Control Huxley, in his characteristic way, tion there in several directions, tells once indicatted his displeasure at. theme that the women of that city, and we make of so complicated a of some other Chinese cities, are structure of organism. "I suppose," pulling together for "equal rights."

N THURSDAY, the 10th Octo- he observed, "that when the sapid, which is the meaning of "Bing and slippery morset-which is, and Tang." This movement is making

gone like a flash of gustatory

Theatre; will be CLOSED. summer lightning-glides along the great strides, and has new sup

The Hong Kong Діврепнату, palate, few people imagine that they porters from week to week. It has and generally regarded prior to the A Thief in the Dark," at 5.20 and OPEN for dispensing Prescrip Majestic Theatre; Dispensing Department, will be Are swallowing a piece of machinery its women leaders, ita militant ways, introduction of malarial treatment 9.16 p.m.; (and going machinery too) greatly its well-defined objectives. Only as incurable.

"The Hermit's Owntions from 10a.m. to 1 ́p.m, and The particular in- more complicated than a watch.” when the privileges enjoyed by men fecting organiam responsible, at Wedding," (Chinese picture) at 2.30 from 6. p.m. to 7.30 p.m.

Dut many writers and poets, with regard

franchise, least in part, for the production of

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. ancient and modern have

Oct. 10 and 11-Star Theatre; praises of oysters and shown, in what the professions. and In fact all the disease is well known, and cer-

Hong Kong, 8th October, 1929. high favour they were, and are, heldcupation, the social amenties,tain drugs have a marked influence Warwick Revue Co. present "The among epicures "The Glorious

sartorial concessions, and so forth, upon this organism when it la Peep Show," 9.15 p.m.. Oyster" is the title of the latest book are granted to women, will "Bingeltuated in other parts of the body, .Oct. 12 and 18-Star Theatre; to deal with this quickly disappearing Tung" have fulfilled its purpose. but, when it digs itself into the Warwick Revue Co. present "High morsel of human diet.

In some parts of China "Bing orain, as it were, these drugs are Lights." 9.15 p.m. The author begning his interesting Tung" Is much more successful than almost without any effect. study of the oyster by recalling the in others, In Shanghat it has madeOn the other hand, during attacks fact that it was a great delicacy at the exceptional headway. In Feking of fever of whatever origin it had foasts of the Romans. Some of the; most aristocratic women of Rome, we and Nanking it has also met with been observed, many years ago, that are told, carried feathers to the success, while branches in other patient with general paralysia At frequent intervals centres are organised as fast as the showed some improvement, the they retired during the meal in order leaders are able to obtain a foothold. general processes concerned in to tickle their throats so that they.

fevor being able apparently to dis should love their meal, and return to:

Jaunegg, of Vienna, suggested the lodge and attack the organism. As far back as 1887 Professor Wagner.

Gourmet Shimmer

use of malaria for treating cases of general paralysis, but it was Through the long years that led up to the indulgent Georges the feather tells me that Sun Yat-sen "was pointment and fallure, that his suc- until 1917, after years of disap was improved upon, and while the more like an Old Testament leader,cessful results began to attract "Duchess of Kent" was guarding the Moses leading the people of general niedical interest, and in little Princess nt Kensington, calomel Israel, to whom the Chinese com- 1922 the Board of Control instituted Trophy") starting time, 4 pm. and bleeding had come into their own. pared him." It was not until the wicked Georges

Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, the wife were buried that well-bred English of the new nationalist President

Oct. 11-Extraordinary General people were forbidden to talk about food.

In this method of treatment Meeting at St. Andrew's Church .. Queen Victoria cante like and the sister of Mme, Sun Yat-sen a fiery evangelist into English Society, aic.) is carrying on the reforma malaria is conveyed to the patient Young Men's Club, 8.30 p.m. and, with her generation, she raised in respect of women which Sun by the sub-cutaneous or intravenous -Oct. 11-Hong Kong Cricket Club her eyebrows and her fun, and dis Yat-sen and his wife began when inoculation of the blood of a Meeting, 5.80 p.m. missed the vulgar topic of food and China was so strongly influenced malarial patient, or by exposure to

Miscellaneous stomachs from all polite conversation. by that famous General (sic.) and After a brief incubation period Day. "At Home," at Merchants the authorities at Shanghai to a mosquito- infected with malaria. To-morrow Chinese National Preparations are being made by So the gourmet of Queen Victoria's who at one time was so-well known bouts of fever begin at regular in- Club, China Bldg., 11 am. to 12.30 observe time became a sinner."

The author has collected many

the Double Tenth tervals and the infection can be p.m. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek is de-controlled and brought to an end. interesting stories about the popular

(October 10), which is China's hers d'acnyre. One of the most in

scribed as about 25 years old. as desired, by the administration of Y.M.C.A. Formal Opening, 4.30 foreign

To-morrow Kowloon Chinese National Day. A reception to teresting clubs deriving inspiration pretty, fascinating, a mistress of quinine. As with every new form p.m.

and Chinese friends, from the passive and palatable oyster diplomacy, her beautiful, shingled of treatment, especially for an al

as well as to members of the Con- is the Natives of des College, head a storehouse of knowledge. A must incurable malady, there is al-Men's Club

To-morrow-St. Andrew's Young sular Body; will be held at the Cambridge. During the October term woman missionary in the East who ways a tendency to take a far too season.

first ramble of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. of 1877 a barrel of oysters was sent knows this new power behind the optimistic outlook, but Admiral to an undergraduate at Jesus, and throne in Chinese affairs speaks of Mengher has scrutinised the results Somerset Sergts. Mess, 9 p.m.

Oct. 11-Dance on tennis court, he invited seven or eight friends to her as very alive and alert, well with such care that his conclusions,

The Commissioner has been re- help him in eating them. The feast

Oct 12-Third Annual Garden Shanghal to take up very strongly. quested by the Mayor of Greater read, interested in international very cautiously drawn, are of con- Fate of St. Peter's Church, 2.30 p.m.with the Consular Body the removal was made an annual affair. ·

The author, Mr. Bolitho, includes a politics, and extremely up to date. siderable value.

by the Municipal Police of the num ber plates placed on the doors of houses in Hungjao Road by the

national Settlement but. Chinese ter- Chinese authorities, who daim that this road is not part of the Inter-

ritory. Two representatives of the Bureau of Public Safety are said to have called on Capt. R.M.J. Mar- tin and lodged a protest.

a further orgy. There was no shame about the ways of eating food or the ways of losing it.

A Difficult Business

regime to modern ways is, however, From the thraldom of the old

a far more difficult problem for Chinese women than it ever was for English women. My Informant

in London.

fascinating chapter of oyster recipes The Chinese Flapper"

from many countries.

a trial of his method.

Comparative Figures

not

The strong young figure in the of malarial treatment he followed a As a comparison for the result The "Native" is the highest priced life of China is said to have a very group of over 606 cases of general oyster in the world. A native oyster great influence over her husband,paralysis

admitted to various

ceived

་་་

for Ships Lifeboats, ("Trevessa Oct. 23-Twelfth bi-annual race

Meetings

IN OTHER PLACES

Mr. Shigemitsu, Japanese Consul According to the "Nichi Nichi,"

General has said that there is no truth in the report that the

1st October, 1920.

The Shantung provincial govern- ment has ordered the confiscation of the properties of Pan Fu, former Premier and Minister of Finance, who was a leading member of the Anfu clique, reports the Chinese

press.

The development of Whampoa as a port does not seem to be flourishing. The "Canton Gazette" says, that the building in which the

is one which has been bred on or near which makes, of course, for more mental hospitals in 1923, where the CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO the Thames estuary. For some un-rapid progress of "Bing Tung" than new treatment was not employed. explained reason, oysters bred on the would otherwise be possible. Young Of this group 90 per cent. had died London clay acquire a greater delicacy

JAVA of flavour than those bred elsewhere. Chinese women of the educated by 1927 and only 2 per cent. had

"The Sapid Mollusc"

classes are now many miles farther been discharged. Sipce 1922 "over Beginning on October 1, the Under the above heading, the on the road to moderniam than they 1,500 cases of this disease have re- Greater Shanghai Municipality's "Morning Post" also comments were ten years ago.

malarial treatment Infoffices reverted to their former office editorially, ps follows: "Poor Bri In the treaty ports they are various mental hospitals. Of these hours, viz., from 9 am to 12 noon tions, there is some good in them after widely read, all-they produce un oyster."

play tennis and less than 34 per cent. are dead and and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Was basket-ball, dance if not Sallust who first gave the true Western dances, too and go out

a good deal 25 per cent. have been discharged. It has been used as an argument reason for Julius Caesar'a conquest of with men friends without a cha-against the employment of malarial Safety Commissioner has notified Whampoa Development Company

The Greater Shanghai Public our country? The gourmets of an-- cient Rome swore by Rutupine peron, unheard-of even a few years treatment that it is futile to keep the public that they must inferm established its office had been leased Richborough-as modern epicures do ago, and still very bad form in alive patients who will only con- the police whenever they move their to the Government by a citizen by Whitstable or Colchester. Empires the interior of China. The women tinue to be a burden upon their replaces of abode. Those ignoring named Tao To-sang who is also its come and go, but the "aapid and slip of that country have

always latives, but on investigating the the order after October z will be owner. The said owner has how pery" mollase flourishes for ever, se-smoked, and mostly pipes, though sea who have been discharged it punished. A cure in his admirably contrived home now they are acquiring the cigarette is found that 321 are able to follow against all invaders save man. man only destroys him out of affet who follow the modern drift in the unfit for employment because of And habit, which is indulged in by all an occupation and only 42 are total- tion. Long before the Walrus and the Carpenter took their sorrowful stroll, the frail and pathetic beauty of the Perhaps the most surprising thing oyster had touched the poet's heart. is that Chinese women may, before When it is remembered that Diplomatie Body will send

Between the heart and the palatea great while, sit in a Chinese under existing legislation cases are presentatives to Nanking to dia there is often sweet accord, and the Parliament. If that reminds one of only, admitted to mental hospitals, cusa the rendition of the Provisional epicure of all ages has shown a ten- the famous recipe for an appetising where the bulk of malarial treat-Court. dency grow sentimental on the stew, which begins with "First ment has been carried out, after slightest provocation. Could anything catch your hare," it must be borne being definitely certified as insane, be more provocative of poetic fervour, in mind that China is moving more and that the series reported Tong have announced In Tien-of a traffic block. The Japari a morsel? "The Glorious Oyster," an quickly towards "Westernism" than cannot be said to include early tain papers the engagement of Chronicle" says Japan must be at anthology of praise studiously compiled is generally understood in Europe. cases, then the results are truly their daughter, Ruth, to Mr. Ben-the other end of the scale, because by Mr. Hetter Bolitho, has appeared To that end the "Bing. Tung" move- remarkable. There are many prac- famin Chishen Chen, Professor of there the driver who has to stop just in time to whet our appetites-itment plays an important part.

tical difficulties in the way of secur| Architecture In ing early treatment, but these will University, Mukden. Miss Tong is him, hoots all the time, and, North-easternwhile the traffic clears in front of ho gradually overcome, and there fa now studying music in the Boston when it begins to move, goes hope for even better results in the Conservatory in America. Mr. on hooting. It cannot be ac future.

Chen is an American returned quainted with motorists in Shang- As to how malaria acts in curing student and took the degrées of hal both. Chinese and some foreign- general paralysis, great uncertainty bachelor and master of architecers. For sheer stupid, purposeless exists. Some maintain that it is ture at the University of Penney noise-making one would back them merely a convenient way of giving vania.

against the world.

than the deglutination of so delicious

Orlent.

..

METHUSELA IN US.

that is necessary for the new season's feast. Whether that feast will be - beral (and inexpensive) has not yet been announced. Last year, oysters were CATCG. But we can always find a certain comfort in the old saying that "stars and poverty always go NEW PLAN TO BANISH OLD togother,"

DUTCH EXPLORER

DISCOVERS SOURCE OF SHYOK RIVER

AGE

their mental state.

Future Prospects

a patient regularly, recurring bouts

Dr. Casimir Funk, who has a of fever, while others hold that the world-wide reputation as the dismalarial poison has a destructive coverer of vitamins, announced to action in the organlam causing the International Physiological general paralyals. Whatever the Congress at Harvard Medical process there can now be little School, Boston, that his new-method doubt, zfter Admiral Meagher's re The expedition to the Karakorum of rejuvenation, which applies to port, that malaria does offer a Mountains, led by the Dutch explorer malea only, will soon ha demonstrat chance of a cure for a hitherto in Vieser, arrived safely in the middle of ed in clinical tests in New York curable malady. September at Suget, Karani, China, City,

Bombay, "Yesterday.

after battling with storms for 67 days. Dr. Funk's method, which Ignores

The expedition mapped several un-monkey glands, is based upon the

explored mountain ranges and dislaolation of the male-hormone,

covered the source of the Bhyok River which he regards as the vital pris VISCOUNT'S ESCAPE

also several lakes and glaciers. Reuciple of masculinity. He told the

·ter..

congress that he had prepared an extract which, injected hypodermi

Canton, Yesterday Mr. Ng Kacally, or even taken in the ferm sing, the manager of the Hong Kong of tabloids and pille under medical branch of the Central Bank, tender prescription, has the effect of

ed his resign,

was dplyusceptedy and

Ya basinden yap

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Dr Harry Benjami

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