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“I have not heard of anything finer, or hrighter, or more natural, or more modest. or htaver, or more skilful, than the work of Lieutenant Flora Sandes.""

(HY AN, ENGINEERING CORRESPONDENT. We are often reminded, that the English "magunga" is being continuously enlargoni, j

With this tribute, "uttered amid loud ap. even if it is not being enriched, by the addition of new words. The war give as plause, the State Governor Sic Walter "Blighty and "Napoo.". The China Davidson, in a speech at the conchision. of const trade has brought into use cont Licatenant Sandes's lecture at King's Hall pradoreaid "praya.br they are still Sydney recently summed up a review of more or less restricted to the Far East in the part played by Serbia in the war, use. The latest wait froin London brings

The narrative of the lecturer is certainly us news of a word coined in Hongkong, told naturally and modestly, with a buoy and although it, is technical in its meaning ant sense of humour, and with " port of it is not without local interest. It appears in the Engineer, in the course of a scientific gentle Irish accent, as the Governor, put it.. Lieutenant Sandes has a thrilling story, contribution by Professors Middleton Smith and A. G. Warren Time alone will show and a great part of the thrill, comes from the very simplicity with which that story is if the word will survive, We are not

related. There is no effort at word-paint enamoured of the sound, but as, appar ently, no le famous a scholar than Siring, no striving after flamboyant oratory Charles Eliot bad a band in the misting Quietly and clearly she narrates an epic of it, we ought, perhaps to be diffident heroic of itself in its inexaggerated tones- about eriticising it. Especially as its the epic of Serbia, a small nation struggling menning is severely technical and, there with desperate heroism for its liberty. fore, it may seldom worry anyone who is Only now and then does she raise her voice not a trained engineer Sir, Charles Eliot by way of emphasis when, for instance, she speaks of the braveny and chivalry of was reputed to be able to converse Auently the Serts, their gallantry under fire, their in twenty-seven-languages, but that fact, if stoical endurance of pain. their courtesy to it is n fact, does not necessarily mean women (writes the Sydney Morning

Herald). that he has never, made a mistake in any ong of them. "Of Course it gives him the opportunity of using words of which arbody knows the exact meaning, and that is, or before the war was supposed to be a most valuable dret for anyen rupaul is intet nationai diplomacy or politics!

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Lieutenant Sandes, slight and tall in her military uniforma, divided her lecture into the parts-first, a mpid review of the history of Serbia; cond. the story of her own association with that country as nurse and a soldier: and third, a series of laatérn pictures mainly illustrating the ter. for at the goons seront through the snow. elad mountains of Albania, and the broken, In order that var renders may no longer and destitute ecadition of Serbia us the

result of the war. be in suspense we still at once let them experiences as

a nurse in Serbian into the secret of the first baby word horn hospitals at Kragujratz, and during an in Hongkong, (of course there may have, epidemic of typhus at Valjevo, were sketch- been others, the inspiration of which may ed. At Faljevo she and another nume, Miss Simmands, were obliged to perform - have been far less respectable, and of which operations, though neither was a surgeon. therefore we have nu cognisance. For It was a case of doing or letting the men “One day," * Lieut. Sandis | example; we car imagine that, in the carly die.

the inspector of hospitals walked in. days of this Colony, the vocabulary of when I tad just performed an operation. However, the Who is the surgeon here he inquired. expletives was enriched).

I am, sir 1 replied. He looked at me, As far as Wa

"Oh.. new word is Halotherm." caa direozer it bas something to do with then erosed himself three times. **heat and is therefore quit topical, well be said carry on-do your best! well as tropical which is very remini: There's no one else to do it. But we were scent of hongkong, Indeed Professors' very lucky in that hospital, she commenteil, Middleton Smith and 1. G. Warren I think we cured the patients more by possibly started off with the idea of Hong faith than by anything else," kong, but stopped short at the H-0. They might even have been thinking of Eastward Ho!" ar quen vi H2 0, which, for the bent of our redder who know far food, and fight their rearguard, actions pathing of chosei-tay. we will translite into barefooted in the now, and where hundreds the jargon of the sigelse For He O really died from starvation and exhaustion.

gans water, and, funnily enough, Hols the original.nemy of 500,000 only 120.000 therm has something to do with that remained when the forces were re-equipped fluid, so useful for cleansing purposes, at Balonies to meet the Bulgaridus again;

* drink, except 111 unpopular ax

and after the offensive: in 1916 there were G.S.A., just nów,

We Bad

difficult to coneratrale on only 18.000 left. The Serbs took 30.000 boys of between 2 and 18 with them from their" Holotherm, our readers must forgive

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the

The lecturer described the retreat through the hostile country of the Albanians, where men had to barter their boats and overcoats

Of

bell recited a "poem written by n. Serb in Before the lecture Mr. Lawrence Camp praise of Lieutenant Sandes.

At the matinee, when Lieutenant Sundes "delivered-hee return for the first time.

there was a large representation of the Soldiers Mothers, Wives, and Widows Association and on behalf of that associn. ion she was presented with a pocket wallet. Mrs. Campbell-Rong, the president, intro duced Mrs. Witheradgy and Mrs, Benbrook, each of whom has lost three sons in the war, and by these ladies the presentation was madu.

Lest we should appear to be carping at the reforming efforts, entirely praise- orthy no doubt, of our local word.coiners,. we will add a few words of praise for the main purpose of the Hongkong researchen explained in the Engineer "Some of tho men of greatest genius, it is explained, " either have a difficulty, or are without

us for these few tigressidas, it we have a country, so that these might not full done our best, despite the beat of the into the hands of the Bulgarians, but the Amosphere and the thirst, which the word sufferings on the way were so great that provokes, to go at the meaning. Our Pro only 7.000 of these boys reached Corfi

Sir Walter Davidser, in kis speech, spoke trays, in their technical contribution, a the Engineer, use all sorts of west discon- in high terms of the bravery of the Serbs, certing mathematical symbol puzzling and said it was an honour to be associated, fargou about strans turbines and refrigerat as Lieut. Flora Sandes was, with the Iron ing machines; as well as using new symbols Regiment of Serbia, which had taken its and nomenclature, they als monke refer part in the stupendous suffering and for- ences, in a most tamilar manner, te titude of the retreat, and was the picked individuals of whom previously we had division in the forefront of the advance in that we can 1018, and in the victory which had megat never even heard. Fur understand the main purpose of their much in the final collapse of the enemy. thest. They don't like the confusion of words that exists in technical literature We are about to quote their own words, which we can reassure our readers, are La the quotations quite envy of compra benston by the non-scientifically educated individin Helatherm simply means total beat" But apparently a gentle man named Regnault did not know that a Buid has all of the total heut in it that our moxiera scientists have discovered, and therefore there is a new total heat and an old total heat.' Pruissors Middle tha Suith and A. G. Warren say, in effect when you think of Regnault and the old total heat," just call it "total heat." When you think of Callendar, Ewing, Mollier and other modern workers, and the дет total beat: use the new word "Holotherm." Dr. Grindley and Mr. Wiemy Anderson-Institution of Mechani the word cal Engineerhave used

enthalphy," but suy our local critic ""before following their lead the writers consulted their colleagues, and the word does not seem to be suitable; apparently mean "warming in After ny desire, to make the results of their work clear to engineers of ordinary intel some discussion, Sir Charles Eliot has sag. lectual attainments. A most interesting

It mears gested the word" Holothera."

the whole of the heat" and is therefore ample, once again, of how genius shelters

itself: suitable. Engineers know quite well that

In conclusion we may mention that the any word-containing

must have therm do

beat." Which less article in the Engineer relates that some with something to

researches were madio and published in us into the secret of why it always, see England in 1900, but that a foreign engi much hotter when we look at, or even think neer, one Mollier of Dresden, was the first about, the thermometer. But to continue person to appreciate their

importance. the justification of the new word. Halo He brought the matter to the notion of is used in holophane, bolocaust, and hol engineers in Europe by a Germas publics.. phote. Murray's "Standard English Diction in 1906. In the interval between 1900 tionary "states that "bolo" means whole and 1200 there seems to have been so alls or entire and points out that it occurs in sion to it in any of the English literature. various scientific and technical term devoted to, technology. Thus it was six

Hoines

is English

Englah-speaking engineers *wholeness."..

". Thus we see how they made up were aware of the fact that Callendar had the word. It is of interest to read that the made obsolete the steam tables in use for ward tropic""bas nothing to do with. beat, although we often spent of creepient language in talking about words which would burn our tongue if we used them

It may be worth noting,may the fessors, entropy and tropics as words Sassothing with her but are derived from the Greek word which literally means turning." But there seems so have been some confusion by the scientists about the exact meaning of the first of the two words. We don't prop to say anything about "estropy, a don't know what-it-means, except that, at different times, it seems to have been used ta, describe two exactly opposite things That is often the fate of new words.

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