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Our London Letter.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A-M. Noo

... AFT, 7.431 10.13 11.98 12.20 12.58

Kowlook...

...Dep. 8,40 9.13 10.30 11.40 19.00

Yaumati...

...Dep. 8.50 9.24 10.39

12,09

2.00 4.35 5.39 710 231 444 638 719

Shatin ..

...Dep. 7,92 9.38 10.31

19.01

Taipa

Talpa Markat

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Dep. 731 9.59 11.08

Dep. 7.18 9.49 11.04

12,34

19.38

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Fanling... Sheungahni

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Dep

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12.48

Dep. 7,38 10,07 11.00

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...Dap. 7,49

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Dep. 7,46

8.50 11.04

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7.59 8,12

8,43 11.17

8.55

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6.03 3.07

615 6.20 8.11 4.99 5.24

6.19 8.18 10.49 11.51

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LONDON,August 14th, In recent years one of the most significant of the many changes that have been tände in London is the invasion of the West End by big business houses, time Belgravia was the Once upoa centre of London's fashions, and it is only a few years ago when Belgrave Square the Great square from which that quarter derives its name-could point with pride to nearly eighty titled residents, this number including no fewer than thirty earls.

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DEDUCTION OF SCIENTISTS.

ENERGY LOST IN GROWING HAIR.

OXFORD, August 9th. Where did modern man originate? The scientists assembled for the annual meet-

ly said he had heard speakers in thing of the British Association were at House of Commons with startling phy.variance to-day Professor H. J. Fletre, sical disadvantages, with very imperfect the president of the anthropology section, education, with a considerable amount of uncertainty as to when and when not to declared that he spread over the world sound the letter H. who had not achieved from a North African zone between the access as speakers.

That was because the substance of their peeches was good. It was always deces- say in considering oratory to try to and out how much was dependent on the matter and how much on the voice.

Mr. Churchill.

A good voice was a gift of Nature: but the use of the voice could be largely taught, and largely improved. It was very necessary that a public speaker should be trained in elocution.

Now, however, the once exclusive neigh hourhood is becoming commercialised. The latest invader is the Institution of Structural Engineers, which body has taken over the Earl of Harrowby's house, 19, Upper Belgrave Street, and will make the mansion its headquarters. The in stitution moves in June next, and this will be another big step towards the ever-stammered, and had various other had changing aspects of the West End. defects. Now, through sheer hard work;

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A friend who has been touring in the West of England tells me that the num- ber of motorists is so great that even in the tiniest of coast villages one finds cars parked in the open for lack of accom- medation He himself, on arrival in one small town, was assured that no garage room for his car could be found for five miles around, and he had to leave it in the open all night.

Lawmaking Under Dificulties. The first part of the Parliamentary session of 1926, which has come to an end, left important legislative work to be completed when the two Houses re- assemble in the Autumn. But good work was done between the opening day and the recess. It was done under obvious difficulties; and among the many disad- vantages brought on the nation by the disastrous doggedness of the industrial

iserief-makers was the postponement of Parliament activities that the Govern ment could have brought to fruition if they had not been under the necessity of alloting time to debates on the coal stop ange, and on the measures which in their judgment it rendered necessary.

The recommendations of the Coal Com mission which required legislation, have, with two exceptions of no urgency, heen bodied in the Mining industry Act. which received the Royal Assent on August 4th. This was, the subject of detailed consideration and fall discus sion. And a great deal of Parliamentary attention had to be"given to the Bill which gave miners the option of working eight hours' shift if they preferred that alternative to a temporary reduction of the wages of the more highly-paid colliery workers.

Bills Passed.

"When Mr. Winston Churchill first started in the House be was early in possible." said Mr. O'Connor.

He

Atlantic edge of the Sahara and Persic.

Professor, H. F. Osborne. in a lecture on the work of the American Museoa expedition to the Gobi desert, claimed that man came originally from the bish plateau region of Asia, and there are older professors who say that the dawn age of man was in the traditional low- lands of southern and western Asia, the Garden of Eden.

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Early modern men, said Professor Fleure, were more or less brown-skinned, dark-haired, and dark-eyed, so that they probably lived where there was a good 15, Qo' BOAD CENTRAL. TIL CHItral 75", deal of summer sunshine."

The earliest forms of culture, including cultivation of crops, stone grinding, and the dawn of metallurgy, spread" into' Europe vid Hungary about 4,000 B.C.

The discovery of fire, observed this professor, brought about a change in the work of the sexes, since, with its advent, woman would tend more to stay at home

Lord Rosebery was one of the greatest orators of his day, he continued, but he had known speech by Lord Rosebery destroyed by want of elocutionary skill Lord Rosebery shouted ad much that his peroration, which should have been the to mind the fire while her husband went culmination of his effort, and of the ap-out to huat. lause of the audience, was received in deadly and terrible silence.

Mr. Gladstone should be taken as the great example of oratory. His voice was like a great gamut of music. During an hour's speech he would scarcely ever re-

peat the same tone. Even his legs moved in rhythm and emphasis.

The golden rule was never to stout. A man should speak standing as if he were seated, and should speak to ten thousand people as if he were speaking to one seated by his side.

The object of a public spanker was to get the thoughts of his brain into the brains of his hearera, and to do that he should use simple language in the lowest tone of voice that was audible.

THE TEST SENSATION. HOW CARR ACCEPTED HIS

DISMISSAL."

"I AM BRUKEN HEARTED."

Next to England's brilliant victory in the last Test Match, the biggest sens. tion was certainly caused when A. W. Carr was called upon to resign the cap- taining of the English XI. Moreover, Carr was not chosen to play.

A meeting of the English Cricket Test Selection Committee was held in London on August 7th, all the members of the Committee being present.

A Hairless Man.

the discovery of fire is the cause of the Later Dr. R. T. Gunther suggested that hairlessness of mas as compared with his nearest relatives, the apes. This has long puzzled anthropologists.

"No mas could play about with fire and keep his hair on, he obscured. Close singes would become the fashion; a singed community would have an ad.. vantage over others, and so in time the process of natural selection would evolve!

hairless man.

Both Professor Floure and Dr. Gunther gave great encouragement to bald men, for they declared that lack of hair tended to growth of brain.

Professor Fleure said, that growth of hair absorbed large quantities of energy, and that thyroid secretion was closely associated with this growth. It would not be far wrong therefore to say that, with diminished hair growth, the influence of thyroid secretion has been Sherated to exert itself elsewhere. Since its rela- tions with brain growth were understood. to be close, this might be an accessory factor of brain growth in man..

Association With Fire.

Dr. Gunther went further and quoted.

Shakespeare's ines: "What he (Time) hath seanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit."

The association of men with fire, which It was statd that Mr. A. "W. Carr, he had described as the original cause of who has not been in good health recently, hairlessness, produced a situation in generously offered to resign his place in which a hairy man was at a disadvantage the eleven, and, after due consideration, as compared with the hairless man, so this unselfish action on the part of Mr. that hairlessness became the outward and Carr was accepted by the Selection Com-visible sign of the attainment of a cer. mittee with the greatest possible regret. tain standard of intellect.

Contact with fire produced three types

"A Terrible Shock."...

Secondly came the man unable to make fire, bus dependent on natural resources for fre, which he knew how to carry from place to place. This man became hairless by necessity.

On being interviewed by a Press repre- of man. First carpe the man who took Notwithstanding these cbstacles the sentative Mr. Carf said I attended the refuge from wild beasts among the Government was able to give effect to meeting of the Selection Committee, and natural ares of volcanic regions. There undertakings to which it was committed when I found I had been dropped it came he probably learned the value of food,

I am broken-accidentally cooked. by the forecast contained in the King's as terrible shock to me. speech at the opening of the 1920 session.hearted. It knocked the steam completely The principal legislation then promised out of me. 1 felt as if I had been struck, consisted of the Bill to secure greater I felt at the moment that I wanted to economy and efficiency in the generation give up the whole game of cricket, "and and transmission of electrical energy, the never to play again. Economy Bill, the Small Holdings and Coltage Holdings Bill, the Merchandise Marks Bill, the Rural Housing Bill, and the Scottish Rating Bill, and a Bill to raise the Secretary of Scotland to the status of a Secretary of State. All this legislation has been introduced and, in so iar as it has not been already pasted." will be on the Statute Book by the end of the year.

"It is true that I told the selectors that if they thought it best for England they could have accepted my resignation at any moment, but I never asked to be left out of the team. I placed my resignation in their hands, to be accepted if they thought fit, but I never asked per- mission to resign because of ill-health.

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Lastly came the man able to make fire T for himself.

The most striking feature of a joint discussion by several sections on heredity was the conclusion that its principles are the same in men as in the lower animals and in plants.

Professor Julian Huxley, specially em

of his phasised this point, and one analogies suggested that possibly there may be a similarity also in the Jaws of chemical reactions. An interesting new avenue of inquiry is thus opeced for the scientist, but all the speakers agreed that

**I am as fit be a fiddle physically to day. I am in perfect health, would have gone in with the team to play all out. Another Washington Conference?

I have given up a lot this summer to In the inner circles one hears rumours captain the England team. It is not an just now about the holding of an easy thing. It is so much different from other naval disarmament conference at being leader of a county side. Washington in the near future. All that

I have done my best for my term. It the study of heredity.in man is yet in its is known definitely is that communica-may be that I have not scored very infancy, largely on account of the difficulty tions are passing between London, Paris, heavily, but I do feel that I have saved of making controlled experimente. Rome, and Washington, as well as Tokio.

many runs. It is quite true that I have But nothing definite has yet been the not been in the beat of batting form outcome, and a good deal will probably throughout the season, and just before depend upon France, and Italy. It is the Leeds match I.again offered to re- understood that both the British Govern sign, but the offer was not accepted then. ment and the Japanese Government It the official announcement states would be willing to attend, such a con- that ill-health was the reason, it is wrong. ference, so that really the whole thing I am fit perfectly fit."

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SUPERFLUOUS BRAINS.

A French scientist has discovered that when butterflies are decapitated they live from one to two weeks longer than their ordinary span. In every case they were found to act normally, which is more than can be said of human beings who have completely lost their heads.

It seems a curious arrangement of nature that beheading should act as a reprieve. Doubtless it is relatively large sub-stations on the nervous systems of some insects which permit them to carry on. We of the higher creation are victims of a centralisation which forbids any hope of achieving longevity by such drastic

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