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said his second appearance, and as he ded for seems to be a friendly fellow, with a taste for the mackerel dressed to that the fishermen threw to him,

the Editor, and be accompanied by he may become quite a frequent

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spectacle, and compensate the public for the growing coyness of the Loch Ness Monster.

Yet he must beware of be- coming too familiar, for in that se he is liable, after the pro- verinal nine days, to find himself forsaken merman, bereft, not indeed of his mermaid as in Mat-

Arnold's poem, but of tion, and, consequently, of mackerel. He would become that neglected phenomenon, an ever day sight.

The faculty of wonder

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Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov, 6, 1937 valuable quality in the human

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make-up, and the poet takes full advantage of it; but it is a reflec- ồn vpon the generality of man

at they allow it to lapse

so readily in face of the famili They are willing to speculate on been these tales of monsters and mer-

the men, of

The Anthropophagi and men

whose heads Do grow beneath

shoulders,

their

Chemists, it has often said, are expected to win next war, and forecasts of the way in which they are likely to do so have up to the present been far from pleasant. To read that three New York chemists have but strangely prone to resemble laid before the American Chemi Feter Bell, to whom cal Society a humane formula for victory is therefore encourag-

ng. Tear gas in its day

A primrose by a river's b

A yellow primrose

him,

was

And it was nothing more.

To wonder at the fabulous,

reckoned a comparatively mild weapon, but now science goes further and conjures up visions the grotesque, or the incredible of war without tears. By ad- may be natural, but there ministering

infinitesimal vision, and satisfaction, to be ob- quantity of acetyl chloride to tained by applying the process to each musket-learer in the ranks a more homely range of objects of the enemy a sort of painless

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distraction from the alarms of Everyday Beauty

war is to be induced. Instantly they are to pass from martial

The movement to improve the ardour into unconscious oblivion. Swooning by platoons will be-design of manufactured goods is come a new military manoeuvre. going steadily ahead in Britain. And it is hoped that, when the A conference with this object was methods of application have been recently held by the Design and perfected, the happy victims will Industries Association; and the op British Broadcasting Corporation le quiescent while their ponents apply the principle of has commenced a series of talks

on the same subject. "bring em back alive.**

There is, of rse, some little

in deciding

how

Efforts rescue objects” of everyday use from the ugliness that overt

from

K. M. A

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CLINKER

PAVING

BUILDING

STONE-

WARE

PIPES

GLAZED

Jone

which

neous fainting

as 10 far failed to

lately,

It is a fact shell which can be relied do not now look upon to inflict no more than a consequence, do scratch. The drug itself is said in a multitude to de no permanent harm, but things. In their lits humane anaesthesia will be cept without

only a passing boon if the hypo- dermic injection involves the loss of a limb The possibility internal application should be

the hope

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