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The Air Mail At Last

At last at long last-Hong Kong is to be directly linked to

Here There and Dp Everywhere.

ITHAT is undoubtedly the FRANCE'S KINGSLEY WOOD

M. Georges Mandel, the French

known, is the birth of a child to finister for Posts and Telegraphe, Mrs. Alton L. Jourdan of Gulf, has decided to create a postal ma- NC, at the bottom of a well 32

feet deep containing 10 feet of seum in Paris. This is only one water. Mrs. Jourdan, who sends of the scores of innovations which me this Believe It or Not story has introduced in his depart- herself, says:

Parisians, like Londoners when

"On

22, the afternoon of October

to draw a bucket of water.

felt fine, but just as I poured the water and reached, over to cover

a while I found a hand-hold on

ment.

DENTISTRY'S LATEST INVENTION

BANISHING PAIN FROM OPERATIONS

REVOLUTIONARY DISCOVERY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

(By L. H. Robbins)

Sir Kingsley Wood was P.M.G.DENTIS moments recently. South america,

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the Columbia University School era there were no dentists,

as

ENTISTRY had one of its in Mediterranean lands and in 35 ancient are growing accustomed to expect when Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of jawbones show. But in our

new idea from him every day. The other day a Deputy 'phoned the well I fainted. I him at his Ministry in reference to of Dental and Oral Surgery such, until Fauchard, in France came to, to find myself swim- & conversation which they had had gave the world his formula for about 1725, pointed the way He desensitising the dentine for for turning the dental art from ming around to keep alost in there. some 24 hours earlier. the bottom of the well. After as switched through to the Min- painless drilling of teeth. Whe"a crude branch of mechanics" ister immediately. An hour or so ther the moment will go down to the beginning of the scienti- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Europe by an air service within a week or so, when the regular

the wall of the well, but could later he heard, to his astonish as historic, whether it repre- fic profession that it is to-day. weekly connection with Penang

not hold on for long.

Mment, that M. Mandel was at Bor-sents a new milestone in the "In Europe and in America for progress of the dental profes- a century after Fauchard den- deaux will be established by Imperial

shouts and screzors were not

sion, remains to be seen after tistry was little more than a Airways, using D. H 86

heard until 45 minxtes later.

the formula has had months of neglected stepchild of medicine. machines. General opinion,

The family doctor pulled teeth when my husband, my nephew BY RETURN OF AIR POST

{use.

Dental special- while welcoming the step, will

hands came to my For M. Mandel, when he travels.

It sent hundreds of dentists (as a side line. certainly agree that it has been

Just after my husband continues his work as if he were to the drug stores and the lists were few, and quacks prey- an unconscionably long time

tied a rope around my body to in Paris. At Bordeaux he has a chemical houses with the for-led at will on the agonised coming. We know all about

lift me out I became unconscious, special telephone line always open mula in their hands. It brought public.

American Practice and next thing I remember. I connecting his hotel room with the a rush of patients eager to have British thoroughness, efficiency and whatnot. In the matter of

was in the Lee County Hospital switchboard at the Ministry in their dental cavities buzzed American dentistry since lair mails we also know a great

painlessly. By the end of the 1880 has come along fast; these eight-pound boy that was born Similarly his mail, which con-week the formula had been hundred years have seen it lift- WHEN YOUR SKIN IS NATURALLY deal about the efficiency, thrust and initiative of some lines

while I was still in the water in tains somme 200 personal letters tried in great numbers of cases ed from a low estate and estab- HEALTHY IT WILL BE CLEAR & other than British-the KLM

every day, is forwarded immediate-in New York and vicinity, with lished as one of the high and FINE & SMOOTH

for example, who have operated After examination of the baby ly by train or air.

varying success. One clinic re-humane callings. Dr. Bernard and maintained a most efficient and mother they were found to be M. Mandel makes a point of reported that the Hartman pre-w. Weinberger, historian of the air service to the East for far in good health, except for minor plying at once to all his corres-scrition had worked perfectly profession, listed recently some longer than the British authori- bruises on the mother's body, and pondents. Letters leaving Paris in 80 per cent of its applica-of the notable steps in the ties have done. One can recall the shock suffered from the fall by the regular morning air mail tions.

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on the carriage of airmails by under water but did not breathe which arrive back in the capital by Dutch machines which the until it had been removed from the plane the same evening. authorities at home recently water, accounts for its being alive placed on Malaya, and the to-day. lunanimous how! from business interests in the Straits which had it removed very shortly. after. One can also remember the fact that Hong Kong would have had an air mail a matter

DIESEL TRAIN

PROJECT

Proposed Experiment In Australia

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Sydney, To-day.

season is over.

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Driving the Green

(With Apologies to Tennyson) Head down and follow through, And one sweet shot for me; And may there be no topping of the

ball When I drive of the tee.

the

jadvarce, beginning with Dentists. Hopeful

founding, in New York in 1834, Most dentists were hopeful of the first dental society. and open-minded about it. Within five years' came the first When failure resulted, they dental journal, then the first were disposed to think that dental college it opened in their first hastily-concocted Baltimore with one professor "Seals Becoming a Menace," says mixture might not have been and two students. la California paper. Husbands will chemically right; they would In 1944 occurred the event certainly be glad when the fur coat get a fresh supply and try most dramatic, perhaps, in den- again. Dentists and chemists tal history, and in surgical his- alike were a bit astonished to tory, too, when Dr. Horace of literally years ago if the

find that the only ingredients Wells of Hartford, Conn., dis foreign interests who were pre-

required were alcohol, ether covered that nitrous oxide bail pared to provide it had been

and thymol, which have been a more serious tise than allowed to do so. But perhaps

used in dentistry for years, entertain theatre audiences. it is advisable to forget these

though not, perhaps, in the pro-] The Hartford Courant of things in the general congra- It is reported that the Aus-

portions called for in the for-December 10 of that year print- tulations that the matter is at tralian Railways intend to make But such a low, true-simed and lusty mula-

ed the advertisement of “A last an accomplished fact an experiment that will affect Sack

The Hartman announcement, Grand. Exhibition of the Effects although we have had to wait all dwellers in the bush, and in-, (Oft visioned in my dream)

by Inhaling Ex- for. in the circumstances, an tended to improve all trans. As cleaves the fairway till it comes backed by the prestige of a Produced

to rest

great college, served to remind hilarating or Laughing Gas." astonishingly long time for the continental services. -It has

Upon the green.

the world that dental surgery The gas would be administered provision.

been announced that the build- Firm grip, so upward look--

has come a long way since the to all in the audience who de- There can surely be littleling of the longest Diesel rail- Now let the do my stuf:

days when barbers were its sired to inhale it. Twelve doubt that the service was re-way in the world is now under And may there be an nasty slice or chief practitioners and when young men had volunteered to quired by business and private construction. Since the Indian T. land me in the rough.

"tooth-drawers" wore belts of lend off. interests in Hong Kong. In Government successfully inau-But fully shall my heart be satisfied teeth to advertise, their trade.

First Gas Tests public, private and in the press gurated a Diesel train for ser- If, ere life'e sands are run.

Early Dentistry

Dr. Wells saw the brave notably by a series of articles vice over a distance of 780 miles My ravished

Dentistry of a sort goes back twelve inhale this stuff and go in the Sunday Herald by Mr. A. of desert, Australia has decid-

to prehistoric times; it existed (Continued On Page 10) Eddy-the authorities have led to introduce such a service been cajoled, entreated and over a distance of 1,050 miles badgered to put this Colony on of desert

the air map of the world. That This will, of course, form an they have not done so before important part of the long-pro- this has not been for lack of jected west to east connection opportunity. The stumbling of the Australian continent. It block has simply been the suave is believed that the German jand polite discouragement of Diesel motors are specially suit- foreign interests because it has ed to draw trains across "vast [been felt that air connections, distances. Trans-Ocean Ser-

since this is a British colony, vice.

must be provided by British

interests. Finally, the "experi-NEW SMUGGLERS

mental flights" between Hang Kong and Penang were under- taken and found satisfactory, and now the air mail is to be an accomplished fact.

DEVICE

Portable Bridge To Cross River

* CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day.

Eut only one-half of the ques- tion has been settled by this decision. The Pacific mail ser- vices has one of its terminals in Manila It is presumably the A transportable six-metres dog-in-the-manger attitude of long bridge which was laid at the British authorities which night across the river Lys on still prevents that service from the Franco-Belgian border was being extended the compara-used by smugglers engaged in tively short distance to Hong the illicit tobacco traffic be Kong. In fact, as far as we can tween Belgium and France. gather, the real terminal point The ingenious device was dis to serve the China coast has covered by Customs officials not yet been decided. At only after a considerable quan- various times Macao, Cantontity of tobacco had found its and Hong Kong have been sug-way across into France in this gested. The last available manner. Trans-Ocean Service. news was that Macao had been

chosen, and that all the neces-thank whatever gods there be Europe at sary facilities were to be pro-for small mercies. vided there. Anybody with least will now be within ten half an eye can see that the days' distance of the Colony. logical terminus is Hong Kong. The next step is with business It is immeasurably the most interests here and the public. important of the three ports in When they have come to look world commerce; it is the tak-upon the air mail to Europe as ing-off point for all the com-an absolute necessity, perhaps. merce of South China; it pro- they will be able to |vídes - unrivalled facilities for enough : enthusiasm

the handling of air mail and those in authority for similar all the appurtenances which golprovisions on the other route with it. What exactly has been across the Pacific. The logical the stumbling block only the sequence, is to persuade the high. heavens and the author American service to extend its {ties know. But the business route to Hong Kong. Perhaps interests" can ́ make a shrewd in another ten years or 30--- guess, and they will probably who knows?--something may not be wrong. However, let us be done.

arouse among

book

caddie's cry,

"A hole in one."

catch my

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

PAINTER'S SIGN

IN

PAINT

CKMULGEE,

0.5 EGGIMANN

I. SAYE

SOMETHING

EULALIA Miscanthos Sinensis THE NOISY PLANT,

WHO HAS AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD SELLS EGGS, INCAFE GIRAKCIENI, MOLL

The

REMARKABLE

MOST

BIRTH ON RECORD

MRS. ALTON LJOURDAN -ɗÍ GULF, NC,

·FAINTED AND FELL INTO A WELL 32 FT DEER WHILE LIVRER WATER SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A BABY

THE INFANT REMAINED UNDER WATER 45 MINUTES WITHOUT BREATHING

·UNTIL BOTH WERE RESCUED!

Mother and Baby are Living and Well [SUBMITTED BY THE MOTHER HERSELF)

YOU CAN ACTUALLY HEAR IT GROW!

DUE TO THE FACT THAT NEW SHOUTS - PUSH THEIR WAY UP THRU THE OLD ONES CAUSING THE WOOD TO SHAP

∙A.L..

Portsłow

AGE 60

HAS RUM 116

MARATIONS. AND FINISHED STHEM ALL: