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The second factor

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1931.

phasia on ludicrous experiences inkrots. It must be understood | MAINTENANCE AND

LEGAL CUSTODY.

(Continued from Page 1.)

tinued assocation with the "other wan" was a queston in point. She would do what she liked and he had ra control over her.

Just before his wife left him,

arranged to set

up a dancing

hool in the old You Sang Fat Building with

her as instructress

(which might enslly happen to any-hat these are no ordinary Inkpots. jone in any land. Most newspapers | The old-fashioned porcelain con- must deal with detached fragments tainers which used to stand in holes for prosule facts, somewhat local in in the Academicians' desks were ro- thefe application, and with no cently scrapped. Thoir place has Imemorable personality to give been taken by elegant objects sup- much tetha continuous dramatic ported on glass atands of which the Ivalue.

Immortals are very proud, for they The comic strip, on the other were paid for out of the personal Thund uses the art of repetition, budget of the Academie.

novelty and suspense. It keeps its No sooner had this revolution he jeharacters-villain, hero and hero-been achieved than someone remem- no-busy day after day, flinging bered that the chamber in which the them into situations which call for Academicians

meet on Thursdays resourcefulness and gaiety-not to to discuss the revision of their and with another man in partner- mention some credulity .on

Although he the dictionary serves as a meeting-place ship.. part of the render-only to plunge for the members of the Academy employed he had his superannua- tion in the Shanghai Municipal them into fresh adventures on thejof Moral and Political Sciences On Council morrow. "To be continued"--that | Saturdays. The Immortals had to Jalluring promise of the magnaine | decide whether their new and Ou going away at one of these novelis interwoven now into magnificent inkpots should be re-meetings, he anw a man enter his. most of the episodes pictured, by moved after their weekly meeting wife's flat and, intercepting him, the artist, so that the comic strip or whether the members of the less asked the latter if it was the right with its household pen-and-ink important section of the Institut de thing to do. The man did not ap. characters gathers and cultivates France should be allowed to use PERY to worry very much, about it, the interest and loyalty of devot-them.

so after going away and roturning After much discussion it

with a witness, he had a scrap out- side the house. He struck the man first

News in Brief.

ed followers over a succession of was generously decided that they years. The hero or the herojus) might.-Daily Telegraph. remain the same, undismayed by the pranks and buffetings of a whimsical world, always ready to meet the challenge of the next' chapter with courage and good [humour.

Comic strips in their far-flung telegraph companies. émpire muy not constitute the highest type of entertainment, particularly some which have not [outgrown a certain coarseness, but!

Normal telegraphic service with Shanghal and beyond has now been re-established, according to local

Personal Pars.

was not then

In February of last year, his wife agreed to take the children She kept them for nine days and then sent them back

On September 1 when she had gone into Hospital a third child be ing then expected, his father-in-law phoned him the first intimation he had of her condition being crit cal. On calling at the Kowloon at least they do not offend by their The name of Mr. Frank Waters Hospital he was informed by Dr. use of the salacious and the sen-Robinson, of Messrs. A. S. Watson Smalley of a difficult operation [sational, and generally they bring and Co., Ltd., has been added to the that had been performed, and he

the solvent of generous humour to] Register of Chemists and Druggists, was astounded at this news... many family circles where their

Mr. Evans: Sho says you were Hending characters have become as His Excellency the Governor has very cruel to her when she was in Cantiliar and as well thought-of as been pleased, under instructions Hospital?—I brought her flowera the neighbours next door.-Chris-from the Secretary of State for the and some booka. Itian Science Monitor.

Colonies, to appoint Mr. Timothy Mr. Gladstone spoke of his ob Murphy to be an Assistant Superinjecting to the other man continuing tendent of Police, with effect from his visits to his wife during her stay July 7, 1931.

at the Hospial, and continually he stopped the children from seeing

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| Peat and Power.

The world keeps on discovering The new fuels, but sometimes it unex-

fuel?

L

BARONET ON DOLE OFFERED WORK.

Sir Charles

her.

At about this time he again re- newed his proposal now modifed to an arrangement that while she, was to stay with the children in a flat that he would pravide in Hong Kong he would continue to live at the Hotel.

:

Kowloon,

He had continued to take care out of his salary, with the assist- of and provide for the children

anca of friends.

The case was adjourned until Wednesday.

cope with and release it. process, however, is necessarily pectedly falls back on an old one. hat would Connaught men say to slow, but sure.

hear that one of the biggest power differen-stations in Russia-at Shatura,

Buckworth-Herne- til furtility-and the third- Moscow-uses peat for its Soume, of Sheen lapse of natural selection and no huge peat bog, and consumed last who is said to be the only haronet Cottage; Cherry The station is close to 3 Tree-hill, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, substitute -may be considered year about 920,000 tons of turf.

In Great Britain receiving unem- together.

It is rather an ironic situation,ployment pay, stated recently that that?-She did not trouble to re- They bear directly

Mr. Evans: What did she say to What Sir Peat is the universal fuel in the he would like to relinquish the title, upon each other.

West of Ireland, and indeed over but does not think that he can do ply. She simply took a flat In Arthur says is perfectly true-most parts of the island. But when so. "I am told that must keep The China Mail

The different levels in the com- the Free State decided to build at," he added. munity are not multiplying at an great power station they chose

Sir Charles fell out of work the Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 17, 1931. equal rate. Those who contri-water, not peat, as the power-pro-day after he took the title, and ducing agent, and built the Shannon signed on at the Ironbridge Labour bute most to the race are contri-hydro-electric station at great cost. Exchange as "Charlie Soame." Re- buting least towards it us regards And now Russia has shown themcently he received 263. unemploy Arresting Human

offspring.

rational to make use of their own nament pay for Lady Soame and him- Progress.

tural fuel. Bul Russia does not self. Since publicity has been given methods of social selection are use the primitive Irish way of to his position he has received According to Professor Sir clearly wanted, but they will not gathering peat, with a spade and offers of work.

he forthcoming until we begin to un 28.

Six weeks before the death The technique is interesting of his father Sir Charles left Sheen factors in modern life arresting think less sentimentally, less con-Powerful hydraulic hose jets play Cottages and want to lodgings in thable without their lacking down on the progress of mankind are:-yentionally and less idealistical- on the peat and wash it down, as village, He did not ace his father

1. The world is becoming too V, and more practically and more wet sludge, into an excavated pit again until he was on his death bed]

rationally about the fundamental From this it is pumped out on to a was unconscious,

the fields and left to dry. When it facts of life, many of which, even has dried, a slicer mounted on his father's home there was a will Sir Charles said that when he left

ing to lower the standard of} to-day, for a host of reasons, are) tractor runs over the Beld and cuts in existence drawn up by a Welling-

regarded as taboo.

the peat into sode. About 5,000 Factor four there is too low men are employed for half the year in this peat-mining.-Manchester i standard of positive health-Guardian.

Arthur Thomson, the four great

full.

2. Differential fertility is tend-¡

the race.

3. Natural selection has gone,}

without a sufficient substi tute being found for it.

4. There is too low a standard

of positive health.

In regard to the first

the

More.

•

may come as a surprise to many

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To-day's Thought.

You cannot look up to some peq-

you.

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "China Mai" of October 17, 1921.3

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ton solicitor, who has since died, leaving everything to him, but, he

To-day's dollar js worth 2/11. understands, a fortnight before his death, the late Sir Charles tnade a have sent to the China Mail cir -Several Hong Kong residents second will, in which the furniture culars received through the post of the cottage, heirlooms, and from August Klein, Hamburg in view of popular conceptions of Funeral Etiquette.

In Great Britain It is still com-money, if any, were left to a rela- health and hygiene and physical

|mon, though far from universal, to live.

lottery agent. Do not send this exercise in these supposedly see men walking in a street through

man your money. We are not feel- He does not know to whom Sheening any prejudies left over from remove their hats..

Just what this has been left under his father's will is an old band at this business,

world is becoming too full-Sir} ultra-modern days. Yet there is which a funeral procession passes Cottage belongs, but believes that it the war; the fact is that this man Arthur declares that the popu- much to be said for the contention signifies whether sympathy to another relative. The furniture and if there had never been a war lation of the world is increasing tion of those who have authority with bereavement or respect in the belonging to his father was moved we should have warned, you, just yearly by between 12 millions to sprak on the subject, that the presence of the Great Leveller, wenut of the cottage in the absence of the aams, that to send money in and 14 millions and, if this rate old enthusiasm for physical fit-do not know; nor do we know how the present Sir Charles, who then him is to waste it. He is not real-

of increase is maintained, a de-ness has not quite been maintain- ed in this generation, There is bacle too horrible to think of

yet too great a preponderance of may occur,

While Sir Arthur's figures of C3 humans, And not only Cg/will be content to let it pass away Sir Charles and Lady Soome weat prizes. If you waste a stamp on

far back this custom can be traced moved his own furniture In. He is entitled to call himself a bank- It is less and less observed to-day, staying there awaiting developer. He is a ticket tout. He says and no doubt the bright young ments. things of

that many of his clients, through the present generation After their marriage the present his agency have won the largest altogether.

The custom is not obto live with the late Sir Charles.him, ask him for a list of these. served In Malayan town's, and ng

From Other Pens.

many a new arrival from home has

wondered, on first meeting with a

| Chinesc funeral, what was the cor- rect and polite thing to do we re- produce the following reassuring

population increase may not be physically but mentally also. challenged, his assertion that the world is becoming too full will not go by without comment. There are equally eminenti This Comic-Strip Civilisalign.... passage from an address delivered authorities who maintain that!"

The American comic strip, cele-jin Kuala Lumpur by Mr. Khan Ahi the world is yet under-populated, brating the advantages and ex-Chong "In China when a parent, that there is room for twice to-plofts of an energetic cast of a brother, or a beloved relative dies day's world population, and that merry-making characters-reach it is not expected that other people.

ing all the way from mischievous! will be greatly moved. According the trouble is, as Sir Arthur youngsters to garrulous men of to classical prescriptions it is even Thomson also admits, there are affairs-is now shared with fifty indocent to take part bi mourning too many of us in particular eight different nations, according for a person who fa not of one's to a report issued by a newspaper family and no great commiseration That is, an over-conten- dyndicate.

is expected by the bereaved from tration of humans in selected True, the dialogue contained in outsiders. About all that one can areas. To this concentration is those "balloons," 60" gracefully at do is to send white cotton banners attributed, very rightly, a great tached by the artists to individual on which the virtues of the deceased speakers, has undergone .considerare set forth to be carried in the deal of the present misery and able, translation, to make at intelli-, funeral procession and walk in the depression. And, this concentra-gible, to various nationalities, but procession, when it takes place."-- tion is largely the legacy of our in every essential particular the Straits Times.

comic strip. goes industrial system, and largely way unchanged to add to the The Academy Condescends.

on ita waggish direct outcome of the herd in world's store of Amusement. A very delicate problem has been stinct in humans. The menace Humour speaks a universal langu- engaging the attention of the of this concentration has been reason for the comic strip's blem is whether any person who is Academie Francaise... The pro- realised, and efforts, not appar ability to overleap the barriers of not a member of this august body Tent to-day, are being made to time and place is probably, ita em should be allowed to make use of its

areas.

',

Soame acted as housekeeper to He will tell you he is pledged to the late baronet,

privacy.

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