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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935

Hong Kong will soon have an opportunity of seeing some of the graceful and mystic dances lea tured in the island of Bali when these are demonstrated at the Queen's Theatre by some of the leading native dancers next Wednesday. Above are a few of the more stri.ing posen,

BOY THAT BECAME

GEOLOGIST

Interest Excited By Peculiar Stone

TO-DAY WORLD'S LEADING

PALEONTOLOGIST

ROYAL BALINESE DANCERS

"The Vengeance Of The Holy Batur"

COLOURFUL RENDERING OF LEGEND

One of the interesting numbers

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To-day's Short Story,

The Shut Door

Sir

By Phyllis Bottome

Kenzie glanced about the the whole of his successful career hotel bedroom with critical hos-she had gone wherever he wanted, tity. His hostility was always and done what would best serve his roused by what he could not con- interests. She had adjusted her trol, and his critical faculties whole existence to suit Malcolm's. were so highly trained that he He couldn't-thinking of the was unlikely to overlook any fourteen years they had spent to possible flaw but whatever the gether have chosen a better wife. room was like he would have to She had made no social blunders, put up with it for the night, besho had a good sent on a horse, she cause it was the best room in the had never so much as looked at an- best hotel on the lake. It was other man. She knew just as much the height of the season, and the about public affairs as most women Bmali Italian town was over did, and never spoke as if she knew crowded."

According to the standards of the hotel the room was dazzlingly clean; according to Sir Malcolm's it was just clean.

There were two wash-basios and two small, hard white beds with mesquito nettings.

There was a hole in the mos- quito netting which covered the bed Sir Malcolm had decided to sleep in. He had given the choice of bede to his wife, but she had known better than to take it.

more.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The Devil And Dan Tyre." by Oliver Gossman..

Sir Malcolm was determined to! let her have her innings. She should manage their house on her own They were both loo well bred to lines-which were mercifully not show annoyance, but they had not unlike his own, and bring up their share a room with each other for only child in the way they both years, and neither of them liked it. thought children should be brought There was a balcony 'from which up. Now that his career was over Sir Malcolm saw-without paying it was obviously her turn to do. much attention to it a small island what she liked. floating on a sea of transparent She had wantd to come to this rose-colour. The Bun was setting. queer little hole on the Italian lakes, The mountains behind the island where she had been as a girl. Per were a deep delphinium blue. haps she had had some kind of little

Small rowing boats with terra- love affair there. Malcolm hadn't | cotta awnings crawled lazily, like asked her. He never asked her any burnished beetles, over the glassy personal questions. There was no stillness of the lake. The oara ris intimacy between them. They were Ing and falling cut the smooth sur-only man and wife.

face into sudden ripples of bright] It would be better to tell her] gold. It was not the kind of place about the hole in the mosquito net-] Sir Malcolm liked.

ting before they went to bed. 'Sho There was no golf and no tennis spoke Italian, and he didn't. Usual- courts. The town drained into the ly, If there was any fault to find, lake, which you were supposed to Sir found fault extremely well. bathe in. From the look of the For many years he had been in a people in the hotel, a game of position where his word was- In'w, bridge-If there were any-would and this had made him both con- be bad.

siderate and courteous, unless he suspected cheek.

Nothing but his inveterate sense

Malcolm to come to such a place.

ANTARCTIC PEAKS of fair play would have Induced Sir

HAVE PLANT LIFE

Mosses And Lichens Discovered

́SOME VARIETIES MAY BE

NEW TO SCIENCE

Discovery of a wealth of an- tarctic flora on the ice-covered

He did not suspect cheek from Clara, On the contrary, if he had said, "By the way, Clara, there is a hole in the mosquito netting of my Had I wish yould speak

BLOOD PRESSURE IS about it," he knew perfectly well

DEADLY ENEMY

Worse Than Cancer As Killer

that in her voice of cultured eager. ness, Clara would have exclaimed: Oh, is there, Malcolm? Yes, of fcourse I will

Then it woud have been mende, and Malcolm could have slept in peace. And yet he could not speak{ to her about It-not to save his [life!

He knew every tone of her flat,

A labourer who was digging a of the programme to be given by ditch in Cincinnati 68 years ago the Royal Balinese Dancers at slopes of the mountains on Marie

TOLL OF LIFE AMONGST · and threw a peculiar piece of

CIVILISED PEOPLES rock which his pick struck to athe, Queen's from Wednesday is Byrd Land has been reported to

He did not dislike her. He sim- eight-year old boy watching him undoubtedly "The Vengeance of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd

Death from high blood pres ply felt that as long as he lived was responsible for the presents-the Holy Batur", executed by Marie Byrd Land sledging party,

by Paul A. Siple, leader of the sure in civilised countries is there would be nothing that he tion of geology's highest honour on December 80 to Dr. Charles Ratu Idja, Dewi Ratna. Dewi which returned to Little America roughly twice that from cancer, cared to ask her; or that she cared

according to Dr. Isaac Harris, the to tell him: Schuchert, Yale professor-emeri Wara, Dewi Wani, Mas Tadjab from the first scientific penetra Liverpool heart spécialist. tus of paleontology.

and a Chorus. It is a dramatic tion into this new land. Thus Dr. Schuchert described interpretation of a Balinese To the eastward on exposed Following an announcement cheerful voice and every expression the birth of his interest in legend.

peaks thrusting up through an that Liverpool Heart Hospital is of her controlled, and not very or- paleontology as he received the Dewi Nadre, the holy temple ice carapace of great thickness, to launch a campaign for build-pressive, face.

He was going to be bottled up Penrose Medal from his firat virgin of Sukawati whose love is Mr. Siple and his companions- ing a £20,000 research institute pupil, Dr. Percy E. Raymond, dedicated to the Gods and who is Messrs. Wade, Corey and Stan- to study the disease, Dr. Harris with her for the rest of his life, retiring president of the forbidden, under penalty of death, cliff-found and collected no less stated: "In many respects high and there was going to be a good Paleontological Society of Ameri-to look with love upon ordinary than two dozen separate species blood pressure is more terrible deal of it, for he was only fifty-two

He was chosen after a care mortals, has fallen in love with awhich he believes may be un- it has been established, and some

of mosses and lichens, some of than war. No certain cure for and remarkably fit for his age.

Clara sat with her back to him, ful canvass of prominent geolo-foreigner. Her life is forfeited, gists of the whole world.

treatments do more harm than doing her hair, with placid, accus- The scene represents a ceremony

{known."

tomed fingers.^^.^ Dr. Schuchert never went to preceding the execution, whereby in antarctic zoo-geography, Mr. "It frequently attacks captains

Perhaps of equal importance 'good..

They could have afforded a maid, college as a student, yet as pro-Dewi Nadre, as part of her punis-Siple found the thawing pools of of industry and men who with but she liked the save unnecessary fessor at Yale he has been the ment, must execute her last dance ice on the mountainside teeming their brains at high pressure Malcolm looked over her head In-

expense. principal teacher. of men who before the high priest and temple with microscopic life, with my getting a lot of exitement and have themselves become pro-maidens. Dewi Nadre implores riads of tiny living things.

to the looking-glass. minent professors of geology and with the high priest to forgive her

little exercise, and meat-eaters, It was a bitter. relief to see his paleontology. He is noted for his erring sister, but he puts his duty Byrd remarked, "that the world make its victim feel well at first, curly brown hair was greying at the I rather imagine," Admiral "High blood pressure may young, spare figure. His close-cut work on the geography of the before his more human feelings will be more interested in Wade's but danger is in its effects on the temples and the lines in his well- earth of eons: ago.

She then in vain tries to soften the discovery of potential mineral heart, brain, or kidneys. Some-shaped, decisive face were deep; hearts of the other priests. A low, wealth in these new mountains, times it kills outright and some rumbling sound comes from the but to me the finding of life on times it maima a man for life." but he didn't look, perceptibly older Holy Batur. The Gods are truly this glaciated coast not merely

than he had looked at forty displeased, which bodes ill for Dewi existing but, flourishing in the Nadre, her sister, knows that the face of the most vigorous cond!- soul of the temple dancer is hidden tions that nature imposes upon in the kris of her father, the high life anywhere on earth is equally Conservancy Expert On print In her desperation, she challenging."

Inspection Tour.. pulls it from sheath, not realising

YELLOW RIVER FLOODS

that by doing so she commits an

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Sealed tenders in triplicate "Summer Clothing for the

Colonial Secretary's Office hoon, on Friday, March 15.

Mr. J. Coodo, conservancy expert unpardonable sin, for the soul will from the League of Nations, accom- only remain hidden in the karls anil TITLE OF DOCTOR IN Staff will be received panted by Mr. Chang Hsin-yuan, the blade leaves its covering and special deputy of the National then, as it is written, the soul must Economie Council, returned to Nan travel to far Nirvana. Dewi holds king on Sunday following an in- the kris towards the Batur, invok spection of the Yellow River and ing the forgiveness of the engaged the Sinoching River in northern God. The • rumbling・ (ceases), In- Shantung

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Nor did he feel any older, though his country, after covering him with second-class honours and giving him a title, had dispensed with his further services.

** He had ruled a province as large for as a kingdom for twelve years," "All Prison its interests, its defects and its the capacities were as close to him as until his blood. But he would never see his kingdom again, nor use his hard-won knowledge,

One In 400 Has RightIt is notified that at the expira. Sir Malcolm was not without the To Use It To-day tion of three months, from yester-physical resou of his typed. He

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