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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

EXPLANATIONS

OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong "Grandpa" John Davis

Telephone 20022.

London Office

7. Garrick Street, London, W.G2

66

GRANDPA" John Davis of

Bainbridge. Ohio. reach- Notice To Contributors,

ed his majority on May 23, 1846, All communications intended for and cast his first ballot in the publication showid be addressed to elections that autumn. Since then the Editor, and be accompanied by be- has roted in every the Writer's Name and Address election with the exception of 1935. not necessarily for insertion, but when only a justice of the peace us a guarantee of good faith.

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Care Of Mental Patients

Some very

¡ments

and a constable were elected in his home district, and in those 90 years. he has voted in 23 consecu- tive elections.

On

LET

US PRESERVE

THE DECENCIES

AUDACIOUS RING THEFT

Salesman Blinded By Pepper

SOME RULES FOR HAPPY, Tsoi Mui. salesman at the Po

MARRIED LIFE

Lo goldsmith shop. No. 97 Queen's Road

East. reports

to the Police that about 9.25 pm. yesterday he was behind

LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT IN the counter in the shop when

EVERY-DAY

ASSOCIATION

(By Naomi Jacob)

grows older, seerns,

May presidential artiGrandpa" A poble to add back and pleasant-looking

*

two men entered the store. One of them asked to be shown a ring from the showcase and when this was done, he examin- ed it and handed it over to the second man. This man looked

RE

NEW RAILWAY IN INDO-CHINA

They meet each other. two very at the ring and returned it to young people the first man, who placed it on passed his 111th birthday, and watch things go by" with greater content that they have each paid a finger of his left hand.

Then putting his right hand despite his age. be takes great ease than one did 20 years ago a very pretty compliment to the

into his pocket he took a quan- interest in world events and ab-when all one wanted was to take a other. Hong Kong. Thursday, Sept. 10, 1936 sorks the news of the world from plunge, and try everything person- And six months after marriage,tity of pepper and threw it into

eres. and aid of ally.

when let's face it-the novelty is the salesman's newspapers without the glasses His memory of events I am, and always have been. Iwearing off a little. and wise away towards Swatow Street. of over a century ago, such as the suppose, a romantic, and there are people would be on the look out The victim raised the alarm, first railroad train passing through still certain things which seem to for the first hint of that familiar but the men got away. Madison. Indians, when he was a me to be a pity, because they lity which breeds contempt, bow do what is outspoken com- bar of 10, is remarkable. "Grand- might have so easily been avoided. they behave? At least,

It's a pity to see a really pleas-perhaps worse. how does one of and pa" Davis has 177 living descen 022 public health welfare questions in the Colony dants- sons and 4 daughters, 19 ant flat ruined because the woman them behave, because generally it have recently

been voiced in grandchildren, an even 100 great-to whom it belongs can't curb her is one, not both, who begins this ithe editorial columns of the grandchildren, and 16 great-great-affection for a certain screaming terrible business of not observing

shade of pink: it is a pity to see the decencies. Chine Mail, and we have reason grandchildren.

a man's whole appearance ruined] Sheoh. I admit that they only Special Festivities. At

. Inauguration because he can't realise that a keep me maid. and that She must really admirable tie is one which spend a good deal of time super- does not call attention to itself. intending the dinner if it is to be! A great programme of festivi- eatable-calls from the kitchen:ties will take place at Saigon. ITTLE 3-year-old Frankie After The Honeymoon That you, George? Right. dinner from September 27 to October 4 propriate departments. notably Powell was in Cook Hospital, It is the greatest pity of all won't be long."

...to celebrate the completion of the that of the Medical and Sani-

Fairmont, West Virginia, from when two people marry and set George washes and generally trans-Indio-China main railway tary Services, and. while we

March 28, 1930 to September 12. out from the word "Go" to in-brushes up, dinner is served and line. In addition to special sport- claim no particular credit for

1932. In that time he was given sure against possible happiness she appears. Her hair is draggled.ing events, such as racing, foot- jaccomplishing this-the abuses

38 anesthetics, and underwent 114 And that is what a great many because the kitchen was hot, herball, tennis, aquatic competitions, we castigated have been there

Frankie was operations.

torchlight born people do, and are doing and will face is shiny or what is worse, etc., there will for all to see for years-it is with a peculiar throat trouble call-continue to do. In other words, she has powdered a hot and sticky procession, theatrical performan- gratifying to find that we are ed stenosis, or narrowing of not wasting all our sweetness larynx, which necessitated

to believe that they have not !all fallen on stony ground. There are indications that our. we hope. just criticisms have. set the ball rolling in the ap-

114 Operations In

2 Years

on the desert air. It is equally operation every Saturday until gratifying, also, to be able to

point to one direction in which was corrected.

grounds for strong criticisms

be a

the the moment they are married, they face so that the powder has only lees in which native actors and ac- an show a fixed determination to dis-stayed on in patches. She looks tresses will be seen, and several

it regard the decencies. By that rather as if she has dipped her performances of an historic alle. word I mean a those small face in a custard. The front of gory entitled “France in Asia.” politenesses. considerationS and her quite-pretty, cotton frock The festivities proper will be-

duly noted and acted on before general" appearance is far from when a salute of guns will. an- marriage, and thrown over with pleasing. such fierce determination after the honeymoon.

are in the process of being fore- HARBOUR RESCUE bits of thoughtfulness which are is spotted with grease, and her gin on the morning of October 2,

stalled: the material for criti-

cism is again there for all to

see, and the only wonder is that

disgraceful,

BY NIGHT

Take Part

he

Only Ten Minutes

The

**I

nounce the arrival of the official inaugural train, the Governor General will deliver a special the community at large has ac-Well-Known Europeans Now why? Let's take the young Now, believe me, and I am a speech and the various delega- quiesced so long in the primi- tive. not

woman who lives at home. is en cook and take a pride in cooking. tions will take part in a march- to say

has her young wan

official gaged, and

no dinner will be ruined by being past. There will be an conditions obtaining. We refer

eight Ball on the evening of Saturday, to the totally inadequate pro- Passengers on the 9.15 p.m. ferry visit her at this exceedingly nice kept back for seven

can be October 3. visions for the treatment and last night were afforded some ex-parental home three times a week. minutes; most dinners care of mental patients in the citement when Tsang Chi-kwong. He hurries back from the office delayed for 10 without serious Colony.

unemployed, living at No. 25 Hart and even if he does not struggle

damage resulting.

There was a very pleasant cere- There is, we understand, be- Street, who was one of the pas- at top speed into a dinner jacket who can't wash her face and

hands, do her hair, slip into a mony at the Catholic Union Club, ing seriously considered by the sengers, jumped overboard in an and a white shirt, at least

changes the somewhat grimed

clean frock, powder her face and Kowloon, yesterday when Mr. Government a scheme for the attempt to commit suicide.. provision of an up-to-date men-

Mr. W. O'Neill, the well-known "city collar," washes, probably

and arms in 10 minutes doesn't Superintendent of the Government tal hospital in the New Terri-Reuter correspondent, and Messrs shaves, and generally makes him- pray a little scent on her neck Henry Dixon, IS.Q., J.P.. retired

know her job!-

Money Order Office, and a leading tories, to be run in accordance Desmond and Bryan Hynes, the self look his best.

The Girl's Part

George, for the first half-dozen member of the Catholic and Por with the latest teachings and local footballers, who were travel-

And the girl? She Sutters about times, says: "Poor little girl, that/tuguese community, was invested theories of the treatment and ling on the ferry at the time, were

by Bishop Valtorts, Vicar Aposto- cure of mental illnesses. Part amongst those who jumped into the in her room. and does her hair. kitchen must be beastly hot."

out All and her nails, she changes her! After a year of it, he looks at lic of Hong Kong, with the dign- of the modern treatment con- water to pull the man

the dress, and notes that her stockings her, and says: "Your hair is ity of Knight of St. Sylvester con- sists of what is known as "occu-the men were taken aboard

ferred on him by His Holiness pational therapeutics." that is, ferry and proceeded to Kowloon, are without. ladders; in short, she, damned untidy."

Pope Pius XI. the provision of facilities to oc-apparently none the worse for their too, makes the best of herself. cupy the minds of patients in experience.

more or less normal pursuits.

In these categories come simple DORADO LEAVING AT DAWN gardening and agriculture of all

kinds. handiwork, leather and

ON SATURDAY

wood crafts, and so on. It has The R.MA. Dorado arrived at been amply demonstrated in Kai Tak at 2.30 p.m. to-day and experimental institutions that will leave with the mail at daya the more the patient can occupy on Saturday. his mind in ordinary, congenial:

tasks. the better chance he has

of remaining his mental equili-

brium. A large proportion of leave periods, etc., nurses who mentally-affected persons are have been trained in this form to outward appearances normal of work, and a resident staff of most of the time, and it is by attendants with the necessary encouraging them to take an experience and humanity to be interest in simple tasks that able to give to the patients their periods of normality can something of the extraordinary be lengthened and in some care they need. In no class of cases restored to them in full medical work is better under- The proposed institution in standing. fuller sympathy and the New Territories will have closer devotion to the interests ample facilities of this kind.. It of the patients required. The is proposed to acquire a site medical, nursing and attendant sufficiently large to allow the staff do not need only to be inmates to occupy themselves fully trained automata; it is. primarily in agricultural pur-aleo their privilege to bring to suits. This is all to the good; their beneficent work of the but we hope that some other healing of diseased minds quite important aspects of the pro-rare qualities of understanding blem of mental disease will not and sympathy. In these days be excluded from the province of mental hygiene the care and of the new institution: The comfort of patients is not the first and most important of final requirement; medical these is undoubtedly the ques knowledge in this department tion of the medical staff to be of science is still woefully in- engaged Hitherto the only adequate, but theories and prac facilities for mental patients in tice relating to the cure of men- the Colony have been the pro-ital diseases are fuller and bet- vision of a single "Mental ter informed to-day than ever! Ward" at the Government Civil before, and medical science is Hospital, part of the main es- continually acquiring positive tablishment, served by the knowledge in the cure of men-] same staff of doctors and tal illnesses which must be use in the new nurses, and having few, if any, brought into special facilities for the care establishment, when it arrives. and certainly none for the cure, That is to say, the possibilities of mentally-affected patients. of the cure as well as the care The first requisite for the new of patients must always be institution, therefore, is a fully kept in mind. We expect great! qualified medical staff, consist-things from the proposed insti ing of a Director with thorough tution, which will not come a experience in this particular moment too soon This paris- line, at least one assistant with cular park of our medical ser sufficient qualifications and ex-vices has already been neglect- Iperience to relieve him on led far too long.

(Continued on Page 8)

"BELIEVE IT

OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

John

DAVIS AGENT

Bembridge, Ohio

VOTED IN EVERY ELECTION SINCE 1846 (Except 1935)

HE HAS CAST HIS BALLOT IN 23 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

∙HAS AN EVEK 100 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN

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DURING THE RECENT FLOCO THE WATER. RAISED THE BOWLTO THE CEILING WHERE IT REMAINZO

GROVELAND,

SHAVING BRUSH USED 53 YEARS

by EE.GRISTAPSON Redwood City

Calif

.FRANKIE POWELL

of Scott's Run, Java,

· UNDERWENT 114 OPERATIONS

IN 2 YEARS

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