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patches out of Mayne Reade, and

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1930,

less things. Only coal miners can "OUR LADY OF THE

afford to have aeroplanes as a [hobby in America, although a few low-salary men in Hong Kong can

enjoy the amenities of the Fly-

SNOWS."

ing Club for a few dollars, How Mr. Rudyard Kipling.

few records, ຕ

about Summers?

Mr.

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Now that the

How We Lost

America.

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Impenitent.

-DOCTORS

AND

PATENTS.

Plan for Protecting Discoveries.

British medical men are hopeful

Mr. Rudyard Kipling is finally respective feel-impenitent ragarding his famous that in the near future they will be ings of pride phrase, "Our Lady of the Snowa," free in obtain patents like any

which caused a considerable amount; other Inventors

and chagrin

Kipling had this allusion brought before him.

to protect their

The British Medical Association

Their attitude has always been that "any monopoly in respect of medical inventions or discoveries restricts the area over which they

have died down, we are able, per- of criticism in Canada as damaging medical discoveries. haps, to say a few frank things to the Dominion's reputation. about the Fourth of July without looking well and

On his arrival from Bermuda, has taken the matter up (writes an causing "umbrage" (as we jour-]

tanned, Mr. Evening News correspondent), and nalists say).

put the case for medical patents. before the Patents Committee of First of all, let us say that this great occasion has nothing to do

"You don't say so?" he said with the Board of Trade. amusement, when it was suggested with Prohibition. The trouble all that his poetic phrase was not liked. started, you will remember, over Then, when he was told stories of tea, which some of the "gold Americans arriving there in August darned" bands of pilgrims, dis- with aleighs and skis tied to their guised as Indians, threw into motor-cars, his amusement increas Boston Harbour. (All this is "How perfectly charming," he prejudicial to the public interest." from memo;v; first year Primer). retorted.. "But your snow starts on So that's how we lost America, November 15 and Anishes and every year we go to the vari- mid-April, doesn't it? Also, how do pus Ameriran Consulates and cele-you transport your fumber? Isn't cal men in other countries have

it over the snow?" brate the event over-no, not over] "The Widow of Windsor." cups of ten. Not that we

Mr. Kipling was then questioned, taken out in this country by them sensitive, but,tec, no-that would about his reference to Queen Vic and by foreign commercial organi

torin as "The Widow of Windsor". antions which have seriously ham- be too much.

Laughing heartily, he said. "That pered British research work be- was thirty or forty years ago, be cause of the danger of intringing fore you were born." He then ex- patent rights.

nTe

There was little or no friction, The worst that was said was a remark by an inebriated Britons to h ellizer of "God's own country."

ed.

about

Į

may be applied to the roller of suf- fering and cure of disease and is

か

Research Handicapped.

In recent years, however, medi-

shown no desire to respect these scruples, and patents have been

pirined that it was the manner of j "It is quite possible by the the soldier to refer to the Queen in patenting of some that way, just as Americans use the cess;**

"to

simple pro- sald an authority, term Uncle Sam.

secure to the patentee 'all conceiva- "Had that affected his chances of ble results of further research by the Laureateship?" he was asked. others in the same fields." Ignoring the question, but taking up ¦ Cheilen firms in this country the theme, he said: "Mr. Masefield, are also suffering from the effects is a very good choice. I don't say of the English patent rights en- that as a judge, but I think so." joyed by foreigners, and the Asso-

"You Americans are not 100 per cent. efficient," he drawled. "You Jare 101 per cent. efficient."

This was really rather brilliant, even has the graphic touches of wasn't it? And, do you know, all Edgar Allan Poe. The author of that the American did was to The verses "Our Lady of the ciation of British Chemical Manu- this astonishing testimony saw examine his glass critically and apropos of the thea Canadian Pre- the medical profession in their Snowa" were written In 1897 facturers are strongly supporting the water in the Yaumati anchor- murmur drily, "Is that so?" ferential Tariff, and contained the

age behaving as though it were Well! Well!

inebriated. (This was on the

| Fourth of July). "The water be-

gan to rise," he says, "spraying up as if there were about ty fountains underneath."

News in Brief.

of

The hearing of the appeal Tsang Chuen against a judgment of This probably means. the end of Sir Henry Gollan, was concluded be- fore. the Full Court yesterday. the World, so often predicted in Judgment was reserved. The Full the Press. It must indeed have Court will sit to hear a second been a wonderful sight, rather case on Monday..

akin to the wonders observed by

The current issue of the Govern-

lines:

A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: "Daughter I am in my mother's

house.

"But Mistress in my own.

"The gates are mine to open. "As the gates are mine to close. "And I abide by my Mother's,

House,"

Said our Lady of the Snows..

Brood

ODE TO A BOOKWORM.

the Baron Munchausen. Adverment Gazette announces that the fol sarian has personally seen large flowing Companies have been struck green snakes, about forty or fifty off the Register: The United Fertilizer Company, The Yan Yee fect in length, writhing in front of Tug and Lighter Company, Limited, I know the Hong Kong Club. Their The Ying Wah Lighter and Trans- favourite hour, from close obser-|portation Company, Limited. vation, appears to be in the region

of 3 a.m. But, of course, that is nothing to the snakes with lega|

Hong Kong, Saturday, July 26, 1938. and fingers so frequently seen in

this remarkable fairy-land Hong Kong.

ADVERSARIA.

"Without fear, favour or malice."'

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Let's Be

of

The

TRAIN SMASH.

Christchurch.

DZ

Avaunt, malignant mite,

of Anthrenus,

Ptinua

Anobium

scheme.

Indeed, it was this association which urged upon the B. M. A. the need for protective measures,

Not A Monopoly But-

The scheme is not intended to give doctors, a monopoly in the profits of their discoveries, which would be contrary to the principles and practice of the profession.

What it proposes is to create a governing body of Medical Patent Trustees to whom medical patents can be "dedicated" for the public service.

The funds accruing from royal- ties or other rights are to be ap- or plied to the promotion of further research, or may be used to reward

of which, but all deserve op- probrium

Vile parasite,

Go, find some other home. Not in rich vellum or in calf-band

tome,

Where 'tis a sin for thes and thine

to roam,

And where thy dopredations no man

can gauge

Six people were killed when a And holes cause bookmen to forgel mixed train struck a motor

their language, Sockburn level crossing. Four wo Sons pomographle work

But choose for thy' retreat

or trashy men and one man in the car and the

fiction, Where thou mayst burzow with our

benediction,

"Let's be Com engine-driver lost their lives. mon," 8 ang The fireman jumped out before The "silly sed-

Respectable. Tupino Lane in the collision and was not injured. The engine, which, was travelling The The Sharks son" is. with us.

Love tender. first, was derailed and over- "Parade," "Let's be Respectable," turned. A gay time, a of Taipo.

The goods vans were tele- mad time. People seems to be the plea of our young scoped and piled on top of each

other to a height of 20 ft. often get married in July, or offenders at the Courts..

The wreckage caught Bre, and the commit suicide. Journalists get Malaprops are usually suspect. blaze had to be extinguished by the livelier imaginations than ever. The smug, the sanctimonious, brigade.

The occupants of the car wore They come to the Editor with and the respectable (in the snob-members of the staff of the Temple- stories of broken romance, sea bish sense of the word), it is ton Farm colony.. serpents, and haunted houses. better to distrust and avoid..

The engine driver was trapped This aparently is also the opin- under the engine, and had to be Even in Hong Kong we are not

dug out. Immune. This time it is sharks.lon of Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the The crossing is guarded by a "Considerable excitement pre Darling of the local Bench, who man, who wared a red light in front vails" among the local fisherfolk, dealt with a case of larceny re of the motor. Apparently the driver did not see it, and when it

And bore and eat Till thou'rt replete Like bloated hookworm,

Oh bookworm!

Unbiased flea, Naver invidious, Rarely fastidious,

Most catholle of taste, it seems that

booka

Belles Lettres, Metaphysics, Yurns of

Grooks

Ars all altke to thon:

Volumes of Travel,

Pages

Spooks

Trentises

Biography, Biology, Polemics, Anthropology, The Calculus. Old History, An Edgar Wallace Mystery. Anatomy Divinity. And Series to Infinity,

wrangler scarce.

through

the inventors; and the trustees are also given a discretion, in control- ling the profits of manufactures from patented substances.

scheme," said an official of the "The whole object of the

British Medical Association, "is to safeguard by patent the discoveries of British medical men, in order to prevent the results of their re- search work being patented by for eign applicants, and also to leave the way unhampered for the future development of British research.".

Ten Years Ago.

From the "Chinn Mall.” July 26, 1926.]

To-day's dollar is worth 3/8/1

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If the Post Ofee wants to keep the local people in a good humour, there is one easy way in which to avoid irritating them.

In the let of mails expected. there will appear the name of a can pore steamer dus (say) from Shanghai

and a Taipo shell-back will, no cently' at Lfa Court, The nauseat was too late tried to swerve the Thou wilt, most nonchalantly born on the day. She is due, the nam

BOOK EXCHANGE!

through.

A most recondita filen.

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is deleted from the list, withouz Methinks that thou must sure- comment.

ly ba

The expectant public says to it- self"no letters arrived by that boat," It begins to wonder and Thou wast not born or death, into worry, Later it finds, ад

mortal bug:

it did this week, that the boat ar.. rived some days late, with malls. Instead of deleting the name on the date, whether it has arrived or not, the post office people "overdue" or "late," so that the night nut a note. In brickats.

position would be clear. This would also save the postal staff trouble and time wasted on an swering telephonic enquiries.

At antiseptics, beetle-polson, lotions, Insecticides, bug-powders and strong

potions, And horrid lethal sprays, Advertisementa all praise,

Thou dost not shrug.

Our office boy. Yew Kan-pun, informs us that he is willing to exchange books with our readers. flere are some ci. his favourites. Full "The Pokfulam Goldmine," by: Adair E. Farmer.

doubt, live to be eighty to tell the ing plea given by the defendant's car to avoid the engine, which tale of the seven-footer he caught mother (or by the Police), for the struck the vehicle in the centre, in his net.; Shoals of sharks, it ap- offence of breaking into a matshed carrying it against the cattle stops. These offered sufficient resistange pears, have arrived and given the was that he came from respect to overturn the locomotive. fishing population quite a shock.able parents." So do quite a good Taipo will soon be known as the many criminals and people who land of legend-a sort of palace of appear not to know the difference Grimm. The Taipo Tiger," once between right and wrong. the solitary tale that gripped the "There are too many larcenies by imagination, must now take respectable persons, and I do not second rank. ""The Taipo Shark" feel inclined to bind him over. He gives the district Just that little is a grown man." Thus Mr. South Sea Island touch to attract Lindsell. the visitors in their thousands. How Carlyle, with his dyspeptic No doubt the residents will soo hatred of gigs and sham "genteel" be complaining about the "trip ways, would have reared and pera" who come in their cars and raved had he heard of a case like leave banana skins on the lawns of this. Respectable, indeed!

their gardens. But the worst sharks of all (of the Home Sapiens species) may be found in Ice House Street. The only net that. attracts them is net profit.

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well. alas, I know thy constitu-

tion's

At dead of night extracting starch,

1com.covers,

Past all surmisal, The Porpoise," by Doll Fhinn, That thous doat thrive on alkalin

solutions, "The Eton Crop," by Bob Dare.

Acids and Lysol:" """The Fugitive," by Owen Bolt So different from that cockroach one

"The Best People," by Dinah Tate, A

"Autumn Leaves," Wither..

Peeping Tom," Luke..

The Miner by Digby Neath. "Outward Bound" by, M. E Grant

discovera 2

by C. M.

Mustapha

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For whose nocturnal tarnishes

:

"Knock Knees, by Evan Mee,

Tai Yat" by 0. Kay, "The Blind Beggar," by Esnu

Two brothers in "A Life in Chicago, both of the Rolling whom are said to Air," be coal miners

have remained in More......... remarkable the air for 558 hours, thus beat The Blind Beggar, by Ivan Water Spout story is told in ing the 20 days record by 28 The Darkle's Serenade," by

Yule Egge. EK the pages of hours. Soon we shall be living in Isaac Allin. Hong Kong. a contemporary the air, if there is any advantage Wet Weather," by Don

BicIntosh In that. The idea, nowadays "Kowloon's Blinking Lights wspaper. reads like some of the purp seems to be to do perfectly use Nina Clark,

by

The best thing Chinese varnish is, He, poor degenerate, at the merest

whil

Of the aforesaid, terror shows, Turns on his back, and in Death's

threes Wriggles and twists a bit, and then

les atif.

Thou microscopje ispock; Whosomiasion is to wreck,

Alom mysterious, From my Moroccos, Foots, Prints and

Immortal imperious,

Oleos,

Eizivirls and priceleri,

Bare Alimen

Foilos However hug To then, O Bug

Desine,

Ten Years Hence.

[From the "China Mall" of July 25, 1940]

Notice of motion has been given": for the next meeting of the Sanitary Board that a census of rats be taken in view of the reported number of absentions. From the new Rat Catchers Cultural Association,

During the next Long Vaction s

number of the younger members of the legal fraternity are starting a Boxing Club, the First Court having been Icindly placed at their disposal whilst the Judges are on holiday.

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