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ST. GEORGE'S BALL

Xmas And New Year Festivities Eclipsed

GOVERNOR AND LADY PEEL

· PRESENT

Following in the wake of the Christmas and New Year festivi- ties, St. George's Ball, which was held in the Roof Garden of the Peninsula Hotel last night, eclipa- ed even those eelebrations.

Dancing continued until 3 o'clock this morning, and even then most! of the guests were loath to leave. H.E: the Governor and, Ludy Peel attended and fully entered into the spirit of the occasion.

Sir William Hornell being the President of the Society this your. Miss Joan Hornell, Sir William's) niece, performed the duties of hostess.

The Rose Room and Roof Gar-i den wore beautifully decorated for the occasion and presented an ex quisite setting for the many coloured gowns of the ladies. Along the walls of both rooms hung th coats-of-arms of various township in England. At the top end of the Rose Room there "was effective flood-lit representation of

an

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935

She is an aristocrat, this Chimplon Lady la Ermine, winner of high honours at the annual show of the United Cat Clubs of Ameri en, in New York, but she loves to play with cofton, just like the olley breed,

St. George, and suspended in the CEREMONIAL THAT

centre of each room was a huge basket of red and white roses.

On their arrival at the Ball, H.E. the Governon and Lady Peel,'escort- ed by eight Beef-outers in picture sque costume, were met at the en- trance by the past Presidents off the Society, These were: Mr. G. C. Moxon, Mr. H. R. B. Hancock, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Col., D. G.) Bird, Sir William Shenton, Mr; T.

COULD NOT BE

Aeroplane-Naming Is Postponed

PEIPING CANNOT PRODUCE

ANY CENTENARIANS

SNAKE VENOMS

Investigations Into Their Natures

DIFFERING EFFECTS UPON THE BLOOD

To-day's Short Story.

The Hat Trick

By Colin Howard

E uncle Donald (said O'Brien, "and not a laugh did it raise. Apart

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the jarvey), like all the from which," he says, "'tis the only O'Briens, was a man uncommon-hat I have."

ly clever wid his brains.

"Twas

"Och, no offence, none in the

his boast that there wasn't a man world," says Donald, hasty. "So ye in the village ay Clone, near fought in the South African war, Carlow, where he lived, that he did ye, Mr.?" couldn't be getting the better av, "Me name, is Terance Doolan, and, sure, he ought to have offers the man. known, the way he was always "Well, Mr. Doolan," gives out trying.

Donald, "tis proud I am to be talk- Somehow me Uncle Donald wasn't ing wid'such on eminent soldier as a very popular man, and a good yerself, and it would give me great many people lost a good deal av pleasure' to, stand" yé a drink, or money proving to him that he maybe the two."

wasn't as smart as he thought he Mr. Doolan answers, and says he was. He had a way of making im-doubts that Donald wouldn't be get- possible bets, and then winning ting half the pleasure out av It that them, that was, nothing short av he would be himself. genius, though 'genius wasn't the

exact term applied to it by the men The betted wid.

Well, wan day he was passing through a village a mile or ap away when he saw a poor-looking man working in a field, and on his head he was wearing wan av them for eign pith helmet affairs. Donald pulls up and stares,

"Faith, that's a daft-like kind av a hat ye have to yer head,"

says he. "I do not sec it," says the other, lofty, as the ould church steeple. afore the March winds got to it. "It covers me head, and what more would ye be asking av a hat?”.

"That is so," allows Donald, wid At the Scientific Meeting of a bitteen laugh, as the O'Brien the Zoological Society of London, brains av him gets to work, "But Not so long ago it was reported held last month, Dr. Burgess ve'll admit 'tis unusual." E. Pearce, Mr. E. Cock, Lt. Col. H. that Peiping was in search of

"I wore it all through the B.-L. Dowbiggen, and Mr. C. Bulmer five men who had attained the Barnett, the Curator of Reptiles,

wisdom and veneration due them described the zoological features African war," declares the They then continued to the far'on passing their hundredth birth- of the joint investigation made end of the Rose room where they day. They would then be given by himself and Dr. R. G. Macfar- were received by Miss Hornell, the the duty of performing the rites hostess.

After the reception a at the naming ceremony, which lane on the properties of snake aquare dance, the Lancers, follow-was to have been held on New venoms. Naturally the only parf ed. The official party participated Year's Day, of the five aeroplanes of the work that could be done! had been bought with subscrip- at the Zoo was the collection and tions raised in Peiping and it was! Amongat the 700 people present thought that this would be a preliminary examination of the were His Excellency the Governor, fitting way of dedicating the venoms; the rest was carried out Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.F.machines before handing them at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. and Lady Peel, His Excellency the over to the Government. General Officer Commanding the

Johnson.

In this.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be. "The Problem Picture," by Cyril James.

"Och, but look at the time!" says Donald, all regretful. getting on me way. I cannot be "I must be

topping, even to drink wid a gal lant veteran the like av yerself.".

""Tis always the way," says Doolan, philosophic. "I never yet got near to a drink but what it vanished."

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"I'll tell ye what," says Donald. "Maybe ye'd walk over to Clone this evening and take a drink wid me at Barney's Bar?"

"I would walk over to America for such a purpose," answers Doolan, hearty,

"Right" cries Donald.

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He pauses, doubtful.

"But I doubt ye'll be late," says Mr. Frederick Zimmern, the In-he. "I never met a soldier who torport cricketer, was yesterday ad- could kape to time. mitted by the Chief Justice (Mr. A. late, for eure."

Collecting The Venom Unfortunately centenarians are Troops in China, Major General a rarity even in Peiping, and the Poisonous snakes, if handled O. C. Borrett C.B., C.M.G.. C.B.E., authorities were only able to find gently, can easily be persuaded D.S.Q., and Mrs. Borrett, and His Messrs. Yu Tsu-heng, Feng Chu- Excellency the Commander in Chief, hauan, Wang Hsi-chen, Tung to bite through a thin sheet of Admiral Sir Frederic C. Dreyer, Sheng-kung and Tai, aged 82, 80, oiled silk or parchment tied over distinguished scholastic successes. K.C.B., C.B.E.

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At an interview, Mr. Yu Tsu-

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Ay, ye'll be

D. A. MacGregor) as a practising] "What, me,late for a drink?" says Bolleitor in the Hong Kong courts. Doolan, quite indignant at the way Mr. Zimmern was introduced to Donald was running down his good the Bench by the Attorney General rame. "I'll be there on the stroke

Hon. Mr. O. G Alabaster), who av nine, right enough," Imade reference to Mr. Zimmern's "I'll bet ye five shillings ye'll be late," says Donald, shaking av his head regretful. "Late, or early, maybe, but never punctual”....

"I'll take yer bet," says Doolan,

are. Ye'd never lose five shillinge Eo aisy,"

President's Dinners Party His Excellency the Governor and heng said he did not know from then, if the glands, which Lady Peel were guests of honour, what part of Shantung his family modified salivary glands, be gent- RAMADHAN, MONTH eager. "But, sure, it's codding ye of the President Sir William originally came,, but his grand-ly massaged with the fingers, the Hornell, CIE, LL.D., M.A. and father would have. His family

OF FASTING Miss Joan Hornell, by whom they had lived five generations in liquid vénom is discharged into

""Tis in earnest I am," replies were entertained to an informal Pelping and Mr. Yu himself for the vessel. A healthy snake re-

Donald "And here is me own five dinner prior to the commencement 40 years ending in the Boxer news its store of venom in about

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shillings to prove it I'll allow ye to of the Ball.

year, had conducted a successful

He had Amongst the other guests of the pawnshop.

a fortnight. The liquid venom in

The stumps of two date-palms hold the stakes. If ye enter Bar- President to dinner were His Ex- travelled very far and only twice the vessel is allowed to evaporate support the axles of the "giant boy's Bar to-night exactly as the cellency the G. O. C. Major Gen-been in a train, to Tientsin and under gentle heat, and becomes wheela Heath-Robinson contrap clock is striking nine, ye kape it. If

tion of wood which is turned on ye don't, ye pay me ten shillings."

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His Excellency the Commander-in- Very emphatically the aged Chief, Admiral Sir Frederic C. man said he would not travel in crystals, which retain their pro-of his minions. On the circum- Dreyer, and Miss R. Hancock, His the aeroplane he would name as perties for long if kept dry, Honour the Chief Justice, Mr. A. he had callers at his home every

yellowish its axle by the proprietor or one a Well, Donald was in Barney's Bar

D. A. MacGregor and Mrs. Mac-day and had to be there to re- Gregor, Commodore F. N. Attwood, ceive them.

R.N., and Mrs. Griffin, Lieut. Cmdr.

F. B. Tours, R.N., and Miss Wolfe,

Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson and Missi

Luscombe-Newman, Mr. H. R. B ROYAL BABY ROBE

Hancock and Mrs. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Shields, Lieut. Cmdr. E. R. Wilson, R.N. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. A. S. MacKlehan and Mrs. MacKichan, Professor F. A. Redmond and Mrs. Redmond, Major J. A. A. Griffin and Mrs. G. D. R. Black, Dr. G. D. R. Black, O.B.E..! and, Miss H. Hancock, Major H. St. G. Thoyts, M.C., and Miss Hunting- ford, Professor W. I. Gerrard and

DISCOVERED

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Differing Effects

ference of this wheel are suspend-in good time that evening, a-swell- ed baskets into which two or three ing and a-bouncing round until there children can be packed. For a wasn't a man in the room but long- It has long been known that fraction of, a penny the children ed to, take him down a peg....:

venoms

of different enjoy the delight of being swung "Why, Rafferty," says Donald, through the air for a few min-cunning, to wan av them, "surprised kinds of snakes exercise their utes. The merry-go-round is" aI am to see you wearing a bowlers poisonous effect in various ways similar one-man power wheel turn hat" and that some of them are much ng on a vertical axis.

"There is no need for ye to be more active than others in clot Desert-dwellers come in near surprised," says Rafferty, "A. hat ting blood. This property of clof-the towns and villages in order to is a handy-like thing to have on yer ting was found to be distributed

enjoy the delights of this Moslem bead." very irregularly among different Bank Holiday. The bazaars are But a bowler hat!" says Donald, species, but two extremes appear busy, all restraints are removed. to be. Rusell's viper, one of the and life returns to normal until most common and most dangerous Ramadhan comes round again. of Indian snakes, which has al powerful clotting effect even on juoda, letter received from Dr the blood of patients with haemo

TREASURY BILLS ISSUE, Mrs. G. Maclean, Professor R. K Milner Moore, of Eastbourne, philia, and African puff-adders. M. Simpson and Miss Tarry Cmdr. who recently completed his 95th the venom of which even pre-

London, to-day.. The total R. W. Reeves, R.N. and Mrs. year, states that his father was vents or postpones clotting. The Reeves, Mr. and Mrs. C. Drage, in practice in London during the venoms, however, appear to have amount applied for in tenders for bowler-hats" strikes in a man: av

was the name av Cassidy) Capt. G. Maclean and Miss G. reign of William IV: and was mixed properties, and also are £25,000,000 Treasury bills

48orts a wan! Donald tells him. Gerrard, Mr. A. Sommerfelt and appointed Apothecary to the far from sterile, so that much £58,675,000. The maximum am Miss H. Gerrard, Lieut. M: F. H. Household in 1885. He attend work requires to be done in the was allotted in bills at three months. "Most unfashionable, they are, now." Was Well, sorr, ye don't need me to be Rogers and Mra, Sommerfelt, Capt. ed Queen Adelaide in her con way of separating out the conati The average rate per cent y R. F. Walter and Mrs. Finquet, Mr. finements and became possessed tuents and discovering modes of 6/17.04., as compared with 6/1.64 a telling ye that the bowler hat is, as J. G. Pilcher and Miss M. Read of a beautifully embroidered sterilisation which do not destroy week ago British Wireless Serve might say the national bat av head, Mr. G. Stabb and Mrs. baby's robe.

QUEEN MARY ACCEPTS AGED DOCTOR'S GIFT

Gerrard, Mr. G. RA, Knyvett, This robe Dr. Moore recently Mr. Muspratt Williams and Miss discovered among his family pos Jane Boothby, Capt. B. LE Hebert sessions, and, feeling that Afeit and Mrs. Carruthers.

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belonged to the Royal family Armed

Others who held dinner parties they should have it, he wrote to prior to the dance were Sir William the Mistress of the Robes Shenton, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster Th

This brought a reply from Mr. G. D, Moron, Mr. E. Cock, one of the Ladies-in-Waiting V. M. Grayburn, M. G. G., Nindicating that the Queen would Tinson, S. Cassidy, Me like to see the robe. It was sent Archbutt, Pol.L. G. Bird and Mrs in consequence to Buckingh LC. F

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Robbery Frustrated

Five robbers made an attempt to had the door ope

a house at No. 161, Tung Chol entered and

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inmates

Woman

"And haven't I been wearing a bowler hat for years, now, ever alace me poor father died on me and left it to me?” says Rafferty,

Ye have, the more shame to ye," says Donald. The way nobody at all wears bowler hate," these days."- =\"What's that? -Nobody wears

Ireland. To look at some ay them,

you wouldn't mow right off, maybe that they was bowler hats, but that's only because av, the passing av the

They years,

all started off as bowler hats

Tis the first time I people was wearing

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