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CHASED BY TIME.

THE RUSH MANIA OF UNTIDY MINDS.

{DY ELIZABETH VÕNK MİLLER.)

Have you ever stopped to think Well, of course, that depends on whether you're one of those women who have leisure for the practice of mental callisthenics as well as for the physical daily dozens, or the other kind who are hounded through life at a stretch gallop by lack of time for anything except the next item on the programme.

Well, what I started out to say Was something a little unkind about people whe race against time. Have you ever pondered over what they gain and how much they lose by all their burry! Bed-time, the daily goal, finds the rest of us there, too; perhaps even we've beaten them to it and get an earlier

start in the morning.

The "Rushed " Person Is Usually Uatky.

Show me a man or woman who rushes all day and half the night aad never owns to a spare moment, and I can make a pretty accurate guess as to that person's mental and moral instability. If she is a woman without a personal maid to gloss over her deficiencies every- thing about her will be untidy, from her mind to her top bureau

that she has attended a concert when the bas sat fidgeting through one number, sa

Oh, I'm bored with her The funny self-importance of that type of mind is exasperating unless you can think of it as pathetically ridiculous.

A Well-ordered Way.

"One of my grandmothers who lived to be aighty-six never had a ervant in her life, and to within a few days of her death during along widowhood-insisted upon keeping her own little home. When ever I think of her, it is of a placid old lady sitting in rocking chair reading a book or newspaper, or ready to tell you wonderful stories of her experiences during the Civil War. She never seemed to be busy about anything, but everything in her house was spotless, and how your eyes would have glistened to see her store capboard! It was like a shop, only the rows upon rows of jars of pickles, catsups, pre serves, bottled fruit and vegetables, jams and jellies, were produced by her own industry. Also the stone crocks of cookies, the pies, and great loaves of delicious bread.

BEACH FASHIONS FOR LITTLE FOLK.

Comfort is an important "consideration when "choosing "holi day clothes for children, and the illustration shows three admir- able designs for beach wear in which little folk could not fail to feel perfectly at ease in hot weather.

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The overall suit made of blue and white checked sephyr is trimmed with plain white material.

The little girl's yellow and white voile sleeveless jumper is wura with a white or yellow linen skirt, and shorts of eretonne *worn over a bathing costume, make another comfortable suit.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,

TAKE NOTE.

ALL FOR ONE DOLLAR.

"Among other dotlar bargains which are offered next week in the furnishing department of White... away, Laidlaw's are some very fine Liberty cretantes at 81 a yard which were originally quite expensive. They are the type which is most Successful as straight hung drapery and the patterns are very hand- come.

I also saw tea clothes, white with checked stripes in several colours, which would be excellent for veran- dah or garden teas and looked very fresh and pretty, price #1. Small bath towels measuring 20 inches by 40 'which are" just the thing for packing way in the bath. ing basket cost three for #1, while you can get very nice quality huckaback linen face towels for $1 each,

A large assortment of plain coloured curtain“ neta' are offered for #1 a yard also bordered· case- ment for the same price.

SUMMER CARE OF THE EYES.

HOW TO AVOID · SUN HEADACHES..

A summer headache cat spoil the most perfect day for any woman. Even the pleasurable feelings creat ed a pretty frock, gorgeous weather and good company are effectually damped by a dull, heavy pain just bebind the brows.

are often

Summer headaches caused by an overdose of light. Eyes require only a certain amount of light for vision. Flash a bright light on to the eyes of a friend and watch her pupila contract. The iris or coloured curtain of the eye is meant to prevent glare from reach- ing the eye's interior.

When it does penetrate to the back of the eye, glare sets up dis- comfort. If the light is excep. tionally strong, the back of the eye may be bleached and serious damingé done to the sight.

Lenses Should Not Be Too Deeply Tinted.

The woman who is subject to Aummer headache can save herself from much discomfort by wearing protective glasses when the sun in bright. Have a pair of comfortable tortoiseshell frames fitted with lenses not too deeply tinted, but sufficiently coloured to soften the light.

These lenses are preferable to dark glasses as the latter tend to make the world look dull, and have a depressing effect.

It is well worth while paying a little more to have optically-worked lenses, as cheap glasses often have wavy surfaces which tend to inter- fere with sight, ⠀⠀

Important Don'ts.

The following eyesight "don'ts" will prove useful:

"Don't read with your book held in the sanlight;

Don't wait until the aun gives you headache before putting on your glasses.

A hat that shades the eyes is essential if you intend to be out in the sun for a long time. After motering or any excursion where you have been in contact with dust,

drawer and cupboards. The powder She was, in her humble way, a truly bathing the eyes with a weak solu.

gets spilled, and the laundry gets neglected, and she is usually dis- tinguished for her grubby gloves. Indeed, rush without purpose may end in actual mania, and any doctor can tell you lunatics are notorious- ly untidy unless their particular form of mental disease takes them to the other extreme. You can always tell an unstable woman by her hair. I wonder if it's because hair grews so close to the brain.

Tutile Whirlwind Galls.

great woman.

Bury People Who "Appeared To Have Vast Lalare.

But I can think of other women who were, or are, really famous in worldly sense, and of great men have met, but not one such can I recall who did not seem to be possessed of a vast leisure. There is, in fact, "something too big and apacious about really important people to admit of their being hur ried.

The woman who never has a There is an affinity, 1 suppose, minute" also never seems to have between the scramble that always anything else. When she has drop-results in tardiness and a chronical- ped, in for half a cup of tea and ly overdrawn bank account. It is departed in a whirlwind you settle just difference between keeping on your ruffled plumage and wonder the wrony side of the ledger and what it was all about. She never on the right side that makes for tays anything worth remembering moral as well as financial balance. and never anything very inter- esting. She is always late, whether it be for dinner, theatre, concert, or a dressmakers' appointment.

The bairdressing establishments know her well, and oh, how they love her! Bo do you and-1 for presumably we're not that kind of woman. It is her fault that we, who are punctilious in keeping our appointments, have to sit and wait because she was twenty minutes late for hers.

It is because for her, or the male of that type, that we get trodden on in dark theatres about the middle of the first act.

Her Sketchy Reading. The woman chased by time never reads anything but novels, and more often than not contents her- self with a blind perusal of only the first and last chapters. She feels

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Morning time

After all, it is simple matter of system, and the more comfortable system is the one that enables you to go throught life with a reserve to fall back on, whether of money or of time.

The Loes That Ensues,

The timo-pressed are generally money-pressed. They scribble their letters with one eye on the clock to catch the last post. Rushing about so frantically they lose their small possessions and borrow yours. They waste incredible sums on taxicabs and telegrams, to save that precious time of theirs and. they make a hobby of post-dated cheques.

And when you examine their lives with the cold light of reason, it becomes only too plain that although they are always going somewhere, they never seem to ar rive. Daily Mail.

Gibbs Dentifrice

tion of horacic and water is advis able. Eye-shades made of a green tale-like substance, such as tennis players wear, give good protection.

Baby's Growth

THE

HE best indication of proper development is a right increase in weight coupled with increase in muscular strength.

At five months Baby should be able to hold his hand sreet. At seven months he will be able -to-nit up a while. When ten months ke`crawls, pulis himself up or stands by a choir.

Do not encourage a child to walk before he does so of his own socord.

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P.C.'S DEATH"

MYSTERY.

LONDON POLICE MALADY, INQUIRY.

-HOME OFFICE MOVE.

It is expected says a Home paper of August. 1st, that at the inquest on P.C. Thomas Halloran, a member of the House of Commons staff, fresh light will be thrown on the cause of the mysterious malady

which has attacked members of the

Metropolitan Police Force and their families. P.C. 'Halloran died at a police nursing home at Denmark hill, S.E.

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AUGUST 24th, 1928.

WHAT WOMAN CAN LIFT THE OIL-ELECTRIC "

SOME REMARKABLE TESTS.

COLLEGE GIRLS FINE PHYSIQUE.

TRAIN.

SELF-CONTAINED POWER

· PLANT.

"LYTHAM÷BLACKPOOL LINE EXPERIMENT,

The engine is really the property

MR. J. H. WHITLEY MARRIED.

SECRET ENGAGEMENT TO OLD FRIEND.

SON ÁS BEST MAN,

LONDON, August lat. MrJH. Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1921 until six weeks ago, surprised"

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Chelsea Old

reasons" refused a pearage upon Mr. Whitley, who for " personal

years ago, Hin bride, who is many retiring from the Speaker's chair, in 02. His first wife died three

The average woman weighs ap- proximately 110lb,, is 62in, tall, has pull of 18316., a grip of 58lb., and

The Manchester Guardian gives crush of 3016. These conclusions have been reached by a number of some interesting particulars of many of his old friends yesterday investigators, working under the Diesel electric train which the when he was married to Min Industrial Fatigue Research Board, London Midland and Scottish Rail- Helen Clarke at whose report on "The Physique of way Company is trying out on the Churchille women in Industry" was publish normal service between Lytham and ed recently. The investigation, Blackpool. which has been conducted under the supervision of Professor E. P. Cathcart at the request of the of Messrs. William Beardmore & years younger than he is the Home Office, arose from the pro- Co., Ltd., the well-known firm of daughter of Mr. J. A. C. Clarke, posal in the Factories. Bill of 1998

formerly of March, Cambridge- He was taken ill with severe in- empowering the Home Secretary to engineers. The company has placed shire, and now of Hunstanton, ternal pains accompanied by sick prescribe the maximum load to be at Messrs. Beardmore's disposal, | Norfölk.

She has been a friend of 'Mr. ness, and was removed to the carried or moved by women or for demonstration purposes, some Whitler for more than 20 years nursing home. His condition grad-

Data comprising weight, height; of the rolling stock such as one sees and had been closely associated ually became worse, and he collap-length of arm, distance of finger-in use on, the electrified line be with him in connection with his work as president of the National aed suddenly. The symptoms were tips from the ground, and various tween Manchester and Bury To Council of Social Service. Few exactly similar to those shown in Physical tests were obtained from casual observer, indeed, there is people, however, ware aware of the

4,368 women in twenty-six factories, and including a number of unem nothing to show that the train run-engagement. ployed women and some college ning between Lytham and Black- Strict secrecy was preserved con.. women,used as controls.

wedding Forty girls employed in a Glas- pool is in any way different from cerning the time and place of the A special licence was heavily built man, had suffered from a chemical factory did navy and Bury. An observer who is not Canterbury, as the church is not those running between Manchester obtained from the Archbishop of work from six a.m to six p.m. with two hours off for meals.

licensed for marriages, "All so casual would notice that the lins the women and girl, worked with

Hight Guests. Only eight people saw the cere not electrified, and he would won-

mony. Sir Ralph Verney, the As evidence of what these work der how this train is managing to Speaker's secretary, was the only ers were capable of we saw one

a locomotive guest apart from members of the He took samples of the contents twenty-five tons of crude borite per or an apparent electrical equip away by her brother, Lieutenant- shovelled twenty get along without

families Miss Clarke was given of the body, which are to be sub-day, lifting it to a height of about

the cases of other police officers affected by the, disease, but it is known that Halloran, who was a

heart trouble for some time.

Å ̧ post-mortem examination was

young person.

report.

made by Dr. E. F. Creed, director | ease and bare-footed," states the between Lytham and Blackpool is of the pathological laboratory at King's College Hospital, Denmark hill, 8.E, who is an expert on food poisons.

woman who

"They

jected to laboratory tests, and be eft din. Five girls who "shovelled ment. What Mers Beardmore Colonel A. E. Clarke, and was at- will give evidenco at the inquest crystals from evaporating pans are endeavouring to prove is that tended by her sister, Mrs. E. at St. George's Hall, Camberwell, into trucks, which, after filling, you can have the advantages of Mr. Whitley's eldest son, was his Ogden. Mr. Percival Whitley.. S.E. Other witnesses will include they wheeled for a considerable electrification without the heavy father's best mail. some of Halloran's colleagues who distance along very imperfect rails, initial cost which it is customary to have been affected, and Dr. J. A had an average combined output

Few people saw the couple leave after the brief service. Gorsky, the police sergeon attached

immediately for the country. It is understood that the honeymoon will be spent on a tour abroad and that on their return Mr. and Mrs. Whitley will take up residence at Ormondegate, Chelsea.

to Rochester-row Police Station.

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·Home Office Inquiry,

per group of six tons per day." suppose that electrification im-hurried into a motor-car and left. Girls employed in a Midland brick plies. works carried loads of bricks sib. In view of the seriousness of the short of a hundredweight for a dis- epidemic the Home Office decided tance of seventy to eighty yards. upon a thorough investigation. Some women wheeled barrows con Sir William Horwood, the Chieftaining (cwt. to 4hewt. of bricks. Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, had already set on foot an extensive inquiry within the police force.

Since the trouble appeared at Bow-street Station on July 16th,

care has spread to Harrow-raad,

A

group of 413 unemployed women, who had spent several years in factory work, but who had been out of work for one year and over, showed that they were of equal weight but of less height, therefore

smaller and stouter, than their em-

This is not their first experiment by any means. They may claim in deed to have gone, in Canada and Spain, to mention only two coun-

Mr. Whitley was greatly affected tries, far beyond the stage of by the death of his first wife, and periment. A through run from contemplated resignation from the Montreal to Vancouver, British Speakership, but was persuaded to continue. His younger daughter, Columbia, & distance of 2,337 miles, Miss Virginia Whitley, acted as was achieved in 67 hours. The en

his hostess after her mother's gine was not once stopped during

years

when 46 men reported sick, the dis-ployed sisters, and that they were that time, and on the long climb death. Mr. Whitley's refusal of a Notting Hill, and Rochester-row on the whole less muscular. None through the Rockies the speed Peerage broke a tradition of 03 the total cases being 56. Many of ed played games or took exercise The average speed for the journey of the unemployed women examin-

nevar fall below 40 miles per hour. the men recovered after two or three days, but in every case the walking. A group of 460 pro- electric" train left Montreal six- in any more strenuous form than

was 43 miles per hour. The "oil- attack was attributed to food purvincial college women, all training teen hours after & crack "transcon chased from the local police can for the teaching profession, were tinental steam locomotive train. It

teen.

from the canteen to the House of

selected as

miles) at

AMERICAN RUSH TO

SCOTLAND="

RECORD SEASON.

AGENTS WHO ARRANGE EVERYTHING.

EDINBURGH.

Halloran, who was 38 and

sedentary workers.

passed the steam train at Winnipeg "The striking thing which the data bachelor, lived at the section house in Rochester-row. On the day he disclose," states the report, is the and was in Vancouver twenty-two hours ahead of it. Another of really excellent physical condition became ill he took some sandwiches of this group of young women when these "oil-electric" trains made a Commons. He gave one to a lift compared with their sisters engaged run from Montreal to Toronto (384 an average speed of in industry. They are taller, attendant named Marsh,, who was heavier, and stronger than the bulk more than 80 miles per hour. In Also taken ill but is now recover of the other women examined. To Spain the train: manage satisfac...} writes, a correspondent to a Home ing. None of the other policemen what is this superiority to be torily the long pull over the or attendants at the House of ascribed? In the first place a very Pyrenees. Commons has shown any symptoms of the malady.

"Ham Suspected

A conference of police surgeons in the affected divisions was held, when, it is understood, there was

large number of these girls, about 55 per cent., were born and brought up in country districts—they came from all parts of Scotland-being drawn from good sound stock but not from affluent families.

If I were a wealthy American,

paper, wishing to shoot grouse or entertain in Scotland this year, I should have nothing more to do an agent in New York or Chicago, state my require ments, and my wants would be satisfied.

than call up

It will be realised, then, that the Lytham-Blackpool experiment being made with the background of good deal of experience. The complete length being 247 feet and train, usid is of four coaches, the

The same agent will see that I am transported across the ocean, general agreement that the malady "They all undergo a very strict the weight (unloaded) 144 tuns

arrange my journey to Scotland, The engine car was directed attributable to ham medical examination before they feet of this are

60 feet long; 22 and deliver my luggage in the ball supplied by the canteens. All the are permitted to enter the college, the engine-roam. The rear car has

occupied by of my temporary home. police canteens in the London area and during the whole time they are

a driver's control compartment be a record American invasion of Because of this there is going to are supplied from a central purchas.students they are kept under strict

an ordinary Scotland. Most of them are com- ing committee, which buys large medical supervision.

Possibly, al similar to that of quantities.

though this cannot be the sole ex-electric train. There is accommoda-ing over for The Twelfth," and The suspected ham, it is stated, planation, as those in the first agetion for luggage, and seating for they have rented some of the finest was part of the normal supply, and group (and out of the 460 examined 255 third-class and 32 first-class extates in the country. although, after a careful examina there were only eight girls under passengers. tion, the police surgeons could find 18 years of age) were as tall and no defect of the ham remaining in heavy and practically as strong as the canteens, they decided, as a their more senior colleagues, the precaution, to withdraw existing fact that these girls all had two stocks pending scientific tests, bours gymnastics per week, and sble pressure, and it is ignited by Bary it will include the services of

they all, in addition, played games, such as hockey, tennis, badminton, ete, had a good deal to do with their superior strength develop

Not Botulism.

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PRAWNS IN THE MENU.

ment.

The principle of motion is that a

Master Of Ceremonies, Diesel oil engine drives generators The cheque handed over in New which supply current to motora, York covers all expenses-tips for The oil is injected into the cylin-game-keepers and ghillies, motor ders through a sprayer at consider transport, and catering. If neces the temperature of compression, the well-informed British subject to use of sparking-pluga, magnetos, act as master of ceremonies to con- etc., being entirely done away with duct the establishment on proper The engines are water-cooled, and

Apart from the American in- forced lubrication is employed for all bearings, so that no more attenvasion, I am told that it is going tion is required than that given to Highlands, characterised by

to be an active social season in the a normal motor-car engine. There

liter

Fears were at first expressed that the outbreak was attributable to botulism-preserved food containing the toxin produced by the bacillus

After discussing data regarding botulinus but the authorities are women engaged in heavy trades, the satisfied that this not the case.

report adds: The result of our According to standard works on comparison is to show in actual the subject the symptoms of botul-figures that the average college is obviously no boiler, and there great deal of entertaining and fore no stoking, and that means & many house parties. All the beat ism and other forms of food poison woman is a.75ems, or about 1.5 saving in inbour costs. The oil states usually in the market for.... ing are unmistakably, distinct.

inches, taller than the average fac-

the season and a number which not been let for several seasons tory woman, who in turn is just engine, it is claimed, needs in over 5cms, or about two inches, one-tenth of the weight necessary to weight of fuel only one-eighth to

have been eagerly snapped_up, taller than the average unemploy a steam locomotive. The train can

Lettings have made record prices, ed woman. As regards weight, the be driven from either end, so that especially to the Amerion, who college woman is about three kilos,

in some instances have paid well Fresh prawns can be served in or 8.31b, heavier than the factory turntables are necessa77

over £5,000 for a let of a month What it comes down to is that, for six weeks. many appetising ways as a salad, woman, who is, however, almost if the claims made for the new or at the beginning of a meal. equalled in weight by her unemploy train are justified, the electrifying cost of a brace of grouse shot on "A" fair average estimate of the In Cucumber Baskets. Cut pieces ed sister. Finally, when pull of cucumber about gin. long, and compared in terms of actual weight, of railway lines an expensive, the moors of Scotland is £2, an with a sharp knife scoop out the there is a difference of 14.8 Hios, lengthy, and unsightly business, be- experienced sportsman told me. pulp to make little baskets. Fill or 32.5.b., in favour of the college train, so to speak, electrifies its of the Abergeldie estate. This, to comes at once unnecessary. The The King has renewed his lease these with some coarsely chopped woman as compared with the prawne mixed with a little cream, average factory woman, who in line for itself, wherever it chooses gether with the estates of Balmoral the creamed yolk of a hard-boiled turn is some eight kilos, or 17.5lb., o go. It is no wonder that rail- and Gelling, comprise, over 40,000 egg, and pepper and salt. Decorate better than the average of the mytham-Blackpool experiment with forests

way engineers are watching the acres of grouse moor and deer.. with strips of pimento and truffle employed women.

nad dust with paprika, and serve The writers of the report express great interest. on small rounds of buttered bread, the tentative conclusion that bordered with thick mayonnaise solb. for conveniently-disposed loads tinted pink M

Colonel Farquharson of Inver could has let Invercauld House,: hia stately home on Deeside, to Mr. Herbert Johnson and Lord Apsley.

and 40lb. for inconveniently-dis- The final conclusion is reached, that In Egg Barkets-The whites of posed loads is about the maximum while 45lb. appears to be the best hard-boiled eggs can be used instead physiologically economic land for load for continuous carriage, the Moy Hall, Inverness-shire, has of cucumber, and filled with the women continually engaged in body of the average healthy woman been let by the Mackintosh of Mac tame mixture..

carrying. In regard to fixed loads worker would not be in any way intoan to Baron Edouard de Prawn and Tomato Jelly-Add it is concluded that the weights in strained by a land not exceeding Rothschild. an ounce of soaked gelatine to two present industrial practice are gen 50lb., with a possible extension of Others, who will be seen on the cups of strained tomato juice, and erally well within the capacity of 20 per cent. when the load is commoors are Mr. J. Pierpont Mor when beginning to set pour half women and adolescente. A maxi pact and easily handled. In the gan, the American millionaire into a border mould. Pack in a mum load of 40 per cent of the case of adolescents, where the banker, on his estate at Garnochy -day-of-faked prawns and fill up body weight for continnung and 50 plantic condition of the body has Lodges Sir Ernst Willa of Meg

with the rest of jelly, Tara out per cent, for occasional carrying in to be taken into account, a limit of gernie Castle; and Mr. H. Payne, and fill the centre with mayonnaise, proposed. This would correspond $5 to 20lb, is recommended for girls Bingham, of New York, who is make a border of shredded lettuce to an average of 45lb. and 55lb. aged 16 to 16 and 40lb. for those renting Blair Castle from the and decorate with a few prawna. (Continued as foot of next column,), aged 10 to 18.

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