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WHY DOCTORS GET INFLUENZA.

ALLOTMENTS OR GREY- { LOSE THE STIFF UPPER LIP. SIX YEARS FOR A SUPER-

NEW YORK SEEKS YOUTH:

AGAIN

HOUNDS?

FORGER.

LONG-LIVED" PARSONS AND BAILIFFS..

MHR, SNOWDEN'S ATTACK.

CAREER OF THREE FINGER JACK.".

* DEMORALISING" THE

PEOPLE."

CONTORTIONS IN A BATHING SUIT.

APPENDICTIS PERIL OF

BARRISTERS..

Clergymen are exceptionally healthy.

Barristers have the highest death- rate from appendicitis, the

Infirenzo is an occupational

risk for doctors,"

The facts emerge in the second part of the Registrar-General's De- echmal Supplement for England and Wales.

Le covers the period 1921-23, and deals with the incidence of the main diseases in the five social groups into which the male work ing population is divided, and the mortality of men in different oc cupations.

M Philip Snowden, P., speaking at Leeds, strongly can damped any attempt to convert al-

·lopment Jands into greyhound race-

New York,

GANG IN THE DOCK.

Middle-aged men and women in this city have found a new method among the thieving fraternity na Owen Seymour, who is known of combating the strees of life. By Three Finger Jackor americs of exercises performedlingers," the cleverest forger in under guidance twice a week they England, was sentenced at the Old Presiding at the half-yearly are obliterating the lines of care Bailey on February 3rd to aix meeting of the Yorkshire County about their foreheads, losing the years penal servitude,

courses,

treatment is that the muses of the STOW-up are always taut because met by compression of the lips sad the first of life's difficulties was increasing tightness throughout the body. The mind was alert to mis- chief and held the body prepared to meet it. Within a few years this first precaution has become a babit: the muscles of the body stiffen, and

With him in the dock were two forty-three, painter, and Robert men, named Goonga Sinelair, äged George Dores, aged twenty-six, painter, who were sentenced to uttering aheques forged by Sey three years' pemal servitude for

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Allotment Federation, which at its | tension of strained muscles, and last meeting passed a resolution of smoothing away obesity, protest on the subject, Mr. Stow-The theory underlying the new den said, I could imagine noth- ing more criminal. I think it i perfectly "scandalous that land should be taken away and devoted to-I was going to say a sport, but It is not even worthy of being dig nified by the name of a spur the purpose of not elevating, but de- A moralisas the habits and character Higher mortality from high liv. of the pople, "No one can read ing and excessive drinking wong

the fiwith regard to the dewe begin to grow old. the more well-to-do is shown in the line the agricultural popula

tion and figures of agricultural deaths from appendicitis, diabetes and alcoholism, and highest rates output without feeling a very grave from tuberculosis are among the concern to the future of the coun- in physien) scaration is the object Travers Humphreys, who prosecut

floor,

Healthy Farm Bailies." Respiratory tuberculosis met tality varies greatly and regularly from 49 per cent. of average in Class I. (Upper and Midale) to 140 per cent. in Class V. (Unskilled workers), while cancer mortality same type of social dis-

try."

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Seymour, whose real name is Jennings, is called Three Fänger Jock because the little and ring fingurs of his left band have been amputated, and be is also known Fingers" because of his won- derful skill in using a pea

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The exercises are designed to Counsel mentioned that the men bring into play every muscle of the victimised the Midland Bank on a from the toes to the crown of the had been three gangs of forgers, head. Only the essential muscles who had victimised different. are strained to action; the others branches of the bank to an extra- must be loose a jelly.

ordinary extent last year.

To bring back the childhood joy of these exercises. Clad in the On the other hand, said Mr. simplest of raiment preferably a Snowdeny there was a revival of bathing suit the middle-aged New interest in the land question. ItYorker enters a large studio free was calculated that the value of the produce grown by allotment holders was between ten million and twelve million pounds. There were something like three million

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·Being à refined berka) balen and free from animal fats and mineral drags, Zam-Buk can be depended upon ra de goed is" cases where fatty dintments would be absolutely useless,

The first effect of Zam-Buk parts are soon covered with naw herbal balen is to take all beat skin and made strong again." and pain out of the sore.or ulcerated places." At the same time it allays the tormenting irritation and inflammation.

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tions are:-

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BusTders' Foremen

Farm Bailiffs and Foremea. Barristers.

Ministers.

Bank and Insurance Officials.

.HIGHEST.

Tin and Copper Miners. Cutlery Grinders.. Deck Labourers." Costermongers.

Is a stated, however, that it scias to be the social, rather than occupational circumstances which are responsible for the mortality among porters, dock labourers, and costermongers.

The upper and middle class figure is 78.8 per cent of average for cancer, increasing to 193.8 per cept. for unskilled workers, In les connection it is stated: “It thus appears that a large propor- tion, at least, of cancer mortality is of a highly preventable nature, far we must suppose that if the conditions of life of all sections of society could be assimilated to those of its upper rank mortality from Ze would

cancer, fall fad vill Classes to be: Class I.

The extremes in the cancer mor" tality st by occupations are:-

LOWEST

Ministers.

Bank Officials.

Machine Compositors. Leather Goods. Makers.

·HIGHEST."

Waiters.

Cutlery Grinders.

Ti and Copper Miners. Cellarmen.

Barmen.

Diabetes is stated to affect chiefly the classes" provided with the financial means of over-eating” and under-exercising.

Disasses Which Cost Money." The appendicitis death-rate, ac• cording to the statistics, is nearly two and a-half times as great for the upper and middle classes as for unskilled workers, the lowest class.

Cirrhosis of the liver is described as follows: Broadly speaking, this disease costs money, and is incurred in proportion 10 financial resources,"

Doctors and auctioneers had the highest inflacaza rates in Class I

Plainly, influenza is a very de finite occupational risk for the doc. tor," states the supplement.

Allotments provided a healthy oc- cupation and a most active change, and they brought the atmosphere of the country into the lives of those who dwelt in congested towns and cities.

Bating Problems.

This is a difficult accomplishment for elderly people accustomed for years to meet every crisis with a stiff upper lip and taut muscular control. Nevertheless, it must be learnt, and with the help of music the task becomes easier with each

In 1996 the loans raised by local. Not all the exercists are simple, some require the expert authorities for allotment purposes balance of the dancer. You roll were 60 per cent, more than in the previous year, and a very satisface on the hard floor, double up the tory feature was the increase in the untwist again, and sink down in body, legs, and arms into a knot, number of acres acquired by pur- full abandonment of relaxation on chase.

the mattress.

The urgent need was to give the allotment cultivators security of tenure, and that could only be effectively and permanently done by the local authorities acquiring the lant themselves

It must be confessed that the

Bensation Of Conquest.

exertions of a middle-aged woman

Ons of these gangs, the head of which was said to have been Jose phine O'Dare, had been dealt with. at the Old Briley by the Recorder. The actual forger in that case was a man named Davis.

Later at the Old Bailey, the Common Serjeant dealt with the second gang, where the forger was

brother of Davis The men in the dock, according to the police, They had operated almost exclu were members of the third gang. aively on the Midland Bank.

Detectiva Inspector Yandell, of all times gangs, gave the record of New Scotland-yard, who captured Fingers and his two confeder-

He was sent to a reformatory at possession of housebreaking-imple the age of sixteen for being mants, and six months inter he was sent to Borstal for two years for escaping from the reformatory.

or millionaire business man luckates. Seymour, said the detective, symmetry compared to the move-

was twenty-nine years of age, was But with the rates at more than ents of the teacher as she illus married, and had one child 20s in the pound, which was thee the exercises. But there is

due care in many local areas, one could ple and fests extraneous fat and

reward; the body grows up cxcase the hesitation of the local the spirit risca with a feeling of authorities to embark on large exhilaration as though the world schemes of improvement, however could be had for the asking, desirable they might be. By

The other alternative was to face a question which was long overdue of local rating.

complete revision of our system

The question of ensuring the full utilisation of land and its cultiva- tion to the utmost was not murely Jocal question-it was a national question, and this problem of the State taking a larger financial bur- den for the provision of land for cultivation in allotments and small boldings "would have to be dealt with.

STARTLED AUDIENCE.

ACTOR'S CRY IN ANTI

WAR PLAY.

This sensation of conquest je ob tained without the sacrifice of life's mellow pleasure the cigarette, and drink, and pleasant foodan long as them are kept in modera- tion.

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- CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

He had six months' bird labour at the Old Bailey in 1923 for atter Tag forged cheques on City banks, G.K. Bank and, at the same court in 1953, he was sentenced to three years penal servitude for farging cheques and receiving the proceeds of mailbag and letterbox arcenies.

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Porger's Outft. "On those occasions, anid Uman Inspector Yandell, “a forger's complete outfit was found at his house, which was described by the Common Serjeant as a forgery factory.

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„Tix. 148 1 om, Tangleze Insurance ................M. 848) kuy, Onias Underwaters 2.20 buy. Chins Fire Insurance $215 mom. Hong Kong Fire Ins... 718 bay," "Shooting Stare," Mr. Anthony and cheque books are taken by bis

"It is to him this stolen cheats Bongo 727 bus. 973 Asquith's first film

Steamboat buy, story, wa

sel agents, who receive them from the Tagaminta shown privately at the Plaza

2.80 sel Theatre on February 2nd to an

thieves. The agents in turn receive. Indo-Chinas (Prof.) $35 xom, audicace which included

ths forged cheques from Seymour

(Dol.) -4310 auza. mother, Lady Oxford, and half the has copies signatures frein the Watarbo 201 kom.

for presentation at the banks, after Shell Transports..... social world of London.

Ther war must be more sense-

It is an open secret that Mr. less than brutal, erica & woman Asquith, was responsible also for character in The Unknown War the brilliantly original production rior, when she learns that her methods shown in the filth, though lover is to be sent to certain death in this matter he had the sound. in a hopeless attack* You could techaient co-operation of AV not describe war in better terms Bramble, the eminent British film replies the young soldier.

director of Captain John Orten, These lines strike the note of in senario-writer, and of Stanley remarkable play which was produc Redwell and H. Harris, as camera ed ar the Arts Theatre Club, Great artists, and Newport-street.

artist Stars' Intrigues

2.

rent

The piece was adapted by Cecil Lewis from the French of Paul Raynal, and it has rur successfully in several European countries, especially in Germany a somewhat curious fact, considering that the CHAIR USED BY CHARLES I. theurs is vigorously anti-war and

AT HIS TRIAL.

that the scenes laid in France

War is only talked about, no ecen. It is talked about in language that is often of the kind known as Bowery. But there 39 grip and interity and much that amystic and symbolical in the Firat sat at his trial at Westminster whose lives the upheaval of coun- The chale in which Charles the story of the two young people into has been discovered in the Cottage trics brings DISH - great toya gund Hospital at Moreton-in-Marsh such tragedyante sa Gloucestershire.

FOUND" IN GLOUCESTER: “SHIRE"HOSPITAL.

Negotiations for its purchase by the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, ate now in pro- gress, and the chair will in due course be shown in the woodwork and furniture section

There are only three characters an old man, his son, who has ob tained leave under promise to re- turn to the line to carry out a desperato mission, and the girl who was to have been his wife and who gives herself to him, not for fast The story Ea, that this is the but as a sacrament chair actually used by King Bach unracter was finely acted Charles at his trial, an official | Mr. Maurice Browne, if rather stated. We trave made careful handicapped by a fixed smile in inquiries and are quito satisfod." the first net, was impressively quiet, und we have no reason to doubt | and, when necessary impressively the authenticity of the story. emotional His passionate cry of Hou that the very indice I don't fear God, I del Bam, r that the chair is a genuine ane startled the audience like a thun and well worth acquiring by, the derclap. And yat it did not sound Muscum. It may bs described as blasphemy Is was the chal at interesting discovery. We leage of a soul in agony. understand the chair was left to lies Rosalinde Fuller as the giri the Mareton-in-Marsh Hospital not also played with fine control and long ago, to be preserved there, and deep feeling, and Mr. Huntley the authorities are selling it. Wright as the old father" showed Anational museum is regarded how fine a serious actor he can be as a more fitting place for its prè, when he is allowed to escape from Lervation."

farce or musical comedy.

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He was head of the gang, and Kailan Mining Adi the Military Medal and Bar for xplorations had a good wir Record, having wOD · Langlests(combined): gallantry in the field.

Bo (ingle)

Sinclair's correct name was George Trench Mines

Inspector Yandell added that Shanghai Loans Benjamin Tollemache Sinclair and K. Whe he had a wife and three children. H.K. & W. Docks.. He was at one time a umber of China Providente the South African Constabulary, Hongkow 188 bay. and during the war he served with New i Engineerings...Tl, 4.60 the Royal Fusikers and was ap- Shanghai Dooks. 111. 89 bay, the story of a commonplace in-

"Shooting Stars," in essence, is pointed to a temporary commission wo Cottons......Tim, 9.05 buy,

as a second antenant. KRÁSNA Orientals ColtonamiTla;:2.15. trigue between a married film ac- I do not think," said Inspector Shai, Cottons (ald) am. Tis. Gu tress, and a film comedian, and the Yandell, that Sinclair has been K&B Hotels film story on which they happen to associated with this forgery group be working serves as a kind of until recently, comment on the real life narrative, and provides nearly all the scenic backgrounds for it.

Mr. Asquith does not believe in the plain tale, simply told. Be is sut to dazzle the spectator with camera tricks and optical quipa, so

the treatment, but as the specta much so that there are episodes in which one cannot see the trees for

tor's attention is enthralled from first to last the result, from an entertainment, point of view, can- not be disputed

It is infortunate, says the Daily Expresi cinema correspondent, that the interior story, the film comedy, is handled in such a way thạc 11- seems to be a meer at popular taste.

Mr. Asquith explained this by saying that he had endeavoured to collect in it all the conventional * gnga "** anu, shubboleths of film. production

Shooting Stars, nevertheless,

Dones, the brother law of Seymour, was bound over at the Old Bailey in 1994 for uttering a forged cheque stolen from a letter box. He was an associate of con Ficted thieves and housebreakers

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