1933-12-30 — Page 9

SATURDAY,

DECEMBER 30, 1933.

ED FOR

Insulted Parliament

DECODED"

RELIGION

war of Baroda's'

Address.

TAJA IN CHICAGO

Chicago.

needs "decoding" 80 bdern man may under- till "debunking" so that espect; it, the Maharaja

Baroda told leaders of ught from five con- o' are attending

Parliament of Rell-

the

More than 100 sects of 11 great; creeds were represented at the opening session of the Congress. Ite principal theme will be to em* phasize the likeness of all the great faiths in addresses by 200 leaders, including His Holiness; Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya, head of the Hindu religion, who as the first primate of India to leave that country broke a precedent of 1,100 years.

the

The Maharaja Gnekwar is first sovereign ruler to visit the! Century of Progress.

"We are in an age of ferment! transition!

and chaos, but also of

and awakening," the

idealists of India.

Maharas

Mr. John McGovern, Labour member of the House of Com mons, who made an unprecedent- ed verbal assault on His Majesty the King at the opening of Par liament As His Majesty con-- cluded his speech in the House of Lords, Mr. McGovern shouted from the gallery, "You are a gang of lazy, Idle parasites."

STRENGTH OF US. NAVY

THE CHINA MAIL

FOURTH MARRIAGE-To-day's Short Blory.

AT 20

Youth Takes New Wife On 14 Days' Trial.

old.

WIDOWED AND DIVORCED

Belgrade.

Young Rada Topitch, of Jamaria,

THE

MUMMY'S By Theophile

FOOT

Gautier

HAD entered, in an idle mood, contrived for the blood to run along the shop of one of those it is a fine character of ferocious has just married for the fourth curiosity-venders who are called arm, and will look well in your col- time,, although he is only 20 years chands de bric-a-brac in that lection: this two-handed swordf

Parisian argot which is so per-very beautiful-It is the work of this He was married first, as is the fectly unintelligible elsewhere in Josepe de la Hera; and

colichemards, with its fenestrated custom of his district at 14, to France. girl of 21 who brought him a dowry

The warehouse of my bric-a-brac guard what a superb specimen of of eight sheep and a heifer. After dealer was a veritable Capharnaum: handicraft!"

"No; I have quite enough weapons year she ran away with a grown-all ages and all nations seemed to up man.

have made their rendezvous there; and instruments of carnage;-J A few months later Rada married

An Etruscan lamp of red clay stood want a small figure, something again, this time a girl of his own upon a Boule cabinet, with ebony which will suit me as a paper age. He divorced her after a few panels, brightly striped by lines of weight; for I cannot endure those weeks.

inlaid brass; a duchess of the court trumpery bronzes which the sta Then for some years he remained of Louis XV. nonchalantly extended tioners' sell, and which may be found single, but married once more at 18-her fawn-like feet under a massive on everybody's desk." Two months later his bride died.

table of the time of Louis XIII with The old gnome foraged among his His fourth marriage has just heavy spiral supports of oak, and ancient wares, and finally arranged taken place. The new Mrs. Topitch carven designs of chimeras and before me some antique bronzes—~40-

called, at least: lis a rich village girl 16 years old follage intermingled.

fragments of but Rada declares he has only taken From disembowelled cabinets es-malachite; little Hindoo or Chinese her for "14 days on trial."-Reuter. caped cascades of silver-lustrous idols-a kind of poussah toys in Chinese silks and waves of tinsel. Jade-stone, representing the incar 1which oblique sunbeam shot nations of Brahmaser Vishnoo, and through with luminous beads; while wonderfully appropriate to the very portraits of every era, in framea undivine office of holding papers and more or less tarnished, smiled letters in place.. through their yellow varnish.

The dealer followed me closely through the tortuous way contrived between the piles of furniture.

"INFLATION" HITS GUM COMPANY. Dishonest Use For "Play Money"

VICTIMISED WITH OWN. GIFTS

an

TUESDAY'S STORY

Tuesday's story will be "Goose-Murder At Tutz” by Hans Fallada.

·

(Continued from Page 11. Lamenting the lack of funds avail- Bald. "Science hus united the

able, Rear Admiral Land stated in world but it is divided socially his report that the general condition

It was a singular face, that of the economically and politically. Man

of the navy had been satisfactory,

incrchant. An immense skull, po- can weigh and analyze the farthest both in foreign and home waters,

itsbed like a knee, and surrounded planet. Can he organize the one throughout the year. He added that he lives on?

by a thin aureole of white hair: all repairs had not been made, bow-f

New York City.

which brought out the clear salmon I was hesitating between a porce-] "I assure you that we are not all ever, owing to the insufficiency of Inflation of a totally unexpected tint of his complexion all the more lain dragon, all constellated with Shankaras and mystics in India. the Bureau's budget.

kind has descended upon a New strikingly, lent him a false aspect waris-its mouth formidable with We have our materialists and many

Under the present naval building York chewing gum company which of patriarchal bonhomie, counteract-bristling tusks and ranges of teeth realists. If we have no Woolworth programme, which is part of the recently provided gifts of metal ed, however, by the scintillation of and an abominable little Mexican Towers, we have our Delhi mos public works expenditures of the re-discs, or "play monoy" with each two little yellow eyes which trem- fetish, representing the god Zitzili- ques, Kabir, Tukaram and Tulsi covery movement, the Navy is still packet of its product, as an ad-bled in their orbits like two louis putzi on naturel, when I caught dos have given us what I believe continuing work on the four cruisers,

vertisement.

d'or upon quicksilver,

aight of a charming foot, 'which 1} you call horse sense and called us of 10,000 tons displacement, armed The discs were a huge success The curve of his nose presented at first took for a fragment of some] back to reality and to human with six-inch guns, which were the until the company discovered that an aquiline silhouette, which sug-antique Venus. values. They Arc the practical subject of recent conversations be the public was "spending" them in gested the Oriental or Jewish type. It had those beautiful ruddy and

tween British naval experts and Mr. "The men of science, the doc-Norman 11. Davis, United States the company's own slot machines His handa-thin, slender, full of tawny tints that lend to Florentine and those of its competitors. nerves which projected like atrings bronze that warn living look so much! tors, the engineers, the social re- Ambassador-at-Large. At that

They were the, more surprised upon the finger-board of a violin, and preferable to the gray-green aspect formers, the religious seers, Lhose time, Mr. Davis explained that are making things new, but selfish America could not see its way to al- that they had taken pains to make armed with claws like those on the of common bronzes, which might the discs less than nickel size, but terminations of bats' wings-shook easily be mistaken for statues in a nesa, race hatred, narrow nationa-İter or delay their construction.

they should be used dishonestly in with senile trembling but those state of putrefaction: satiny gleams telephone boxes, But one stare convulsively agitated hands became played over its rounded forms, reported finding 50 of these discs firmer than steel pincers or lobsters doubtless polished by the amorous in one gum slot machine in one claws when they liftediany precious kisses of twenty centuries.

article--an day.

"That foot will be my choice," I onyx cup, a Venetian Now the company is making the glass, or a dish of Bohemian cry-tald to the merchant, who regarded discs much smaller, so that the end etal. This strange old man had an me with an ironical and saturnine of the "inflationary" period is in aspect so thoroughly rabbinical and air, and held out the object desired sight-Reuter,

cabalistic that he would have been that I might examine it more fully. I was surprised at its lightness; burnt on the 'mere testimony of his

it was not a foot of metal, but in face three centuries ago,

"Will you not buy something sooth a foot of flesh-an embalmed from me to-day, sir?- Here is a foot--a mummy's foot: on examin- Malay kreese with blade undulatinging it still more closely, the very like flame; look at those grooves grain of the skin, and the almost Imperceptible lines impressed upon It by the texture of the bandages, became perceptible.

to chaos.

Ilem and greed have-thrown all in- Big navy advocates here state that they would like to see the necessary Religion Challenged

appropriations for the maintenance "Yet a new cosmos is emerging. of an American navy second to none God is at work. He is a demoers made before the next naval confer- tic king and asks our help. Halence, is held in 1934.—United Press. alg INQUIRIES INTO GAOL DEATHS

recognizes no hlerarchy but that of service. Democracy means the

the emergence of

common

In the circumstances it is

con-

RICKSHAW STRUCK BY LORRY. European Lady Hurt.

The toes were slender and dell-

man and his rights, the demand of (Continued from Column 1). the backward peoples for a place was subsequently modified by a sec- in the sun. And alike in East and lon of the Schedule to the Law West, tyranny and humbug are chal- Revision Ordinance No. 8 of 1924, lenged for they deny these rights.

"We in

sidered desirable to add to section 8 Asia see that race pre

words judice may yel destroy the com-

of the principal Ordinance

A European lady, Mrs. E. G. afternoon. monwealth, that casts has been so which will make it clear that at in-

Mrs. Banson was thrown out and perverted that it has brought Inquiries under the section the magis Banson, of the Claremont Hotel,

a narrow escape considerably hurt, réceiving num, dia low.

trate shall view the body but that Kowloon, had "All over the world religion is

a view by the jury shall not be neces-hen the rickshaw in which she crous cruises and abrasions, while Cate, and terminated by perfectly formed nails, pura and transparent, rickshaw was completely being challenged by the developing aury unless it appears to the magis-was riding was struck by a lorry the

trate or to the greater number of at the corner of Nathan and Hal-emashed. Mrs. Benson was taken as gates; the great toe, slightly The accident oc- to her home by a passing motorist separated from the rest, afforded a the jurors expedient for the jury to phong Ronds,

happy contrast, in the antique style, curred about 1 o'clock yesterday who witnessed the accident. do 20.

to the position of the other toes, and Sent it an aerial lightness-the grace of a bird's foot-the sole, scarcely streaked by a few almost inpercepti- ble cross lines, afforded evidence that it had never touched.. the bare ground, and had only come, fn.com tact with the finest matting of Nile] rushes, and the softest carpets of panther skin..

ethical ideals of mankind. Religion that is unethical is a curse, not a boon. Yet religion is needed and will survive for man is incurably religious. If there were no God he would invent one.

"Religion is a cry for life,

B

yearning for reality, a demand for 赭 simple,

loyalty. Man needs

alrong, sincere and strene faith.

"Christianity calls men to crucify

the lower self. But it is paralyz-

ed by the snobbery and colour bar of Christians. It can do much if It recovers its true fundamentais -love of a loving God and love of men who are brothers.

"We in India affirm that al creatures are one, but we have lost our sense of proportion. We spare malarial mosquitoes and plague- bearing rats, but we bear heavily on the human family and do harm to millions of our fellow-men," Reuter.

News In Brief.

The Sincere Co., Ltd, announce that on January:1 and 2 all their stores will be closed, reopening on Wednesday, January 8, 1984.

The Consulate of Chile at Hong Kong has been closed until further notice. Enquiries, and communica- tions should be addressed to the Consul-General for Chile at Shang-

Two Hoklos,Tong Ping and Chan Shun, dye-house,workers, ed cused of the manslaughter of Wong Bung-Cantonese

On December.

Hard-Working Dictator.

"Ha hal you want the foot of the Princess Hermonthis,"~~ex-| claimed the merchant, with a strange giggle," fixing: his owlish eyes upon meha, ha, hal for a paper- ||weight!—in original Idea!——artistic idea Old Pharaoh would certainly have been surprised had some one told him that the foot of his, adored daughter would be used for a paper- weight after he had had a mountain of granite hollowed out as a recep- tacle for the triple coffin, painted | and gilded—covered with hierogly- phics and beautiful 'palatings of the Judgment of Souls,”—continued the queer little merchant, half audibly, as though talking to himself! - A "How much will you charge: me for this mummy fragment"

“Ah, the highest price I can get;

for it is a superb piece.

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