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THE CHINA

MAIL.

SEX OF

UNBORN INFANTS.

SUIT BY EARL'S DAUGHTER.

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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

Money Lost in Share Deals.

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Photographic Method Explained to Scientists.

NEW X-RAY.

Cleveland Jan. 4 Whether to trim the baby baskot in pink or blue, always a vita: problem to young married couples can now be determined as early as three months before the birth of the expected child through the use of a new X-ray photographic method developed by Dr. Thomas 0. Mences, of the Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids Mich., who exhibited his photo graphs to the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Selence at its annual meeting here

This new method of ascertain- ing sex of the unborn baby many weeks before birth is expected to relieve the anxiety of prospective parents who under present cir cumstances are impatient to know whether their off-spring is a boy or giri.

But No Choice.

No hope is held out that the new method developed by Dr. Menees. or any other known method, can be used to assure the mother giving birth to a child of the sex that is most desired by the parents. The sex of the child is determined at the very beginning of Its prenatal life and seems to be dependent upon chance.

Dr Mences has made several ruccessful diagnoses of the sex of unborn babies.

The method consists of injecting in the surroundings of the unborn baby a small amount of concentrat- ed solution of strontium iodide, This relatively harmless chemical has the property of being relative ly opaque to the X-rays and the fleshy parts of the baby as well as its tiny bones can be identified on the X-ray photograph. The effect of the infection fades after two or three hours and entirely disappears in a day. Dr. Mences calls the method "amlography."

INCOME "FLUTTER.”

The dealinga of an earl's daugh- tor on the Stock Exchange word mentioned in the King's Bench Division

during recently

the hearing of an action which came batore Mr. Justice Horridge and a special jury.

Bank, on demand ... 11 Bank, 4 months' night 11 1/16 Credits, 4 months'

Theodora sight The plaintiff, Lady

of Davidson,

Hampton Court Palace, and Queen Street, Mayfair Wire claimed 2680 moneys received, or, On demand alternatively, the same amount for alleged breach of contract by the Wire defendants, Mr. Franek Schwab, Mr. N. G. Fowler Snelling, Mr. T. C. Gibson, Mr. R. W. Coit, and Mr. A. R. Daniels, trading as Schwab and Snelling stockbrokers, On demand......... 44% Throgmorton Street, E.C.

Defendants denied liability. Sir Patrick Hastings K.C., and Mr. T. Mathew appeared for plain-† tiff; Mr. A. T. Milled. K.C., Sir Albion H. Richardson, and Mr. F. van den Berg represented the defendants.

Sir Patrick Hastings said that the plaintiff, a daughter of the Earl of Albemarle, was suing by reason of the fact that defendants undertook to advise her properly with regard to investments in stock, but they failed to do so.

She alleged that she was re- commended by a lady friend to a Captain Seeley, who was connected with the defendant irm. In Junc 1926, plaintiff telephoned to Schwab and Snelling and asked for Cap- She was told that he tain Seeley. was out. She explained that she wanted Captain Seeley to help har in dealing with her investments. and she was told that any orders ahe gave would be carried out.

Transactions in Dispute.

The only two transaction in dis- pute concerned deals in shares ot. the Decca Gramophone Company and Continental Waste Food Pro- ducts,

After the telephone con- versation plaintiff received from Captain Seeley a letter, written on the firm's notepaper, saying "We

specialists in are

our particular line and are able, through rather unique system, to give more cliente' personal attention to our business than others."

our

More important to the physicians and the mother is the fact that amiography can be used to ascer- tain in doubtful cases whether a caeaarian section will be necessary in order that the child may be safely born. It will probably be used much more frequently for this purpose than for ascertaining sex. Human Voice Photographed. A photograph of the human voice is produced in one minute by a new

From this letter Lady Theodors | rapid record usclllograph exhibited concluded that Captain Seeley

by the Bell Telephone Laboratories an authorized employee of the de- of New York. This machine can defendant firm. Eelying upon his invest- be plugged into a telephone line judgment · plaintiff made or connected to a microphone and ments and lost her money. The out of it will some a wavy line re- defendants, now denied that Cap- cord that gives the exact charactain Seeley was in their employ or teristics of any voice, music or had their authority to act for them. sound from zero to 3,000 cycles per Yet in a letter the firra wrote to second.

alim Duraliumin wires of very diameter cast a shadow on the photographic papor and their vibrations set in motion by the voice current makes the record.

Mr. A. E. Molhouse of the laboratories also demonstrated high speed relay that can switch o current in three thousandths of a second. One vae for this relay will be to allence a telephone line botween pauses in the conversa tion. Less efficient kinds of simi-

was

On demand

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Malabon Sugars... 39 plaintiff they said: "We have known that Capt. Seeley was not a

Cald: Macg. Ord....The. summarily dismissed Captain Seeley partner?-Yes, I knew that from our service for highly un- Mr. James Arthur Wright, Cantón les catisfactory conduct."

managing clerk to Lewis and Co.,

"Cements (com.) Plaintiff, giving evidence, salda City firm of stock brokers, said

(old)...... 11 that she had had no business ex- that in his opinion the Waste Food

(new) perience.

Products shares were of a highly | H. K. Ropes ................ speculative nature. When the

Stores, &c. Gramophone Decca

shares first came out he regarded them as an Dairy Farm (old) ...5 (new)....$ Investment, although, about 1928.

Watsons people began to speculate in them.

Der A Wingumasā "Lock-ups," Mr. Wright added, Lane Crawfords ......$

Mr. Miller: Your were entering into speculation' at this time?- Not at all. I was going by the defendants" memorandum, which distinctly laid down that they did not go in for speculation.

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lar relays have been used on the turn-over and you gave me lock- was a well-known Stock Exchange | Mackintoshs .........................

trans-Atlantic telephone cireults. -United Press.

ups." What did you mean by that?-Captain Seeley told me that he could invest my money in such a way, perfectly safely, that it HONG KONG HEIGHTS would bring in bigger dividends

than I had been receiving.

"Lock-Ups."

For the information of visitors highest paints on the Island ann the following list of Mainland is, published:-

Island. Victoria Pask

expression, and meant shares for Sinceres permanent holding.

Opening the defence, Mr. Miller said that Capt, Seeley had been an officer in the Guards, and became half-commission man to Schwab and Snelling, with a seat in their He had no authority to act

he "held out" to have authority, Capt. Seeley was new abroad, and not available to give evklence.

Plaintiff added that by "lock-office. some of theupe," a term she invented, she on behalf of the firm, neither was

meant that the investments. Capt. Scoley made for her were not well- founded investments, but things of the future, which meant specula. tion..

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Mr. T. C. Gibson, a member of | •Speculative sharan. "Sales to Shanghai. the firm of Schwab and Snalling.

With regard to one of plaintiff's and one of the defendants, said he investments, Mr Justice Horridge knew of nodirect communica- remarked that it was *

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littletion between plaintiff and the firm

Yes.

Flaintiff (with a smile): She added that as a rule she never had a flutter out of income. The "utter" referred to was made with # Aum sha received un expectedly..

THE FAT-HEAD THAT DROPPED AT THE FLOWER-POT ON MY

'FOOT- KNOW WHAT

LTHINK OF HIM-

from the time when she first rang up and naked for Capt. Seeley till the date when the latter's services were dispensed with:

Solicitors:

Goddard and Co.; Leighton and Savory.

The hearing was adjourned.

BRINGING

OH DEAR » HE MIGHT BILLting in HE HAS NO CONTROL OF HIS TEMPER

· LATELY- ('M AFRAID TO SAY ANYTHING TO HIM: VNO ONE CAN HANDLE- |WIM-

UP FATHER

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