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No. 8. CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL.

Posz.0202.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25th, 1928.

SUPERSTITIONS OF MOTHERS.

THINGS LUCKY AND LUCKY. FOR THE NEWLY BORN.

"Br Mas. BELLOC LOWNDES,"

the Novelist]

Everymother-if I may coin a word which to me is far more! significant in all its implications than is Everyman-seems to have always experienced certain terrors,

connected with her baby.

WHO FINDS THE MONEY?

COMMUNIST WOMEN'S LONDON TRIP

50 OFF TO MOSCOW,

LONDON, July 30th. Fifteen hundred Communist women from all parts of Great Britain made a week end excursion to London to demonstrate in Tra falgar-aquære yesterday against

AIRSHIP WITH WINGS.

LIFTED BY GAS TO FLY LIKE

AN AEROPLANE,,

Aeris research has evolved de- signs which are a combination, in one machine, of the characteristics of airship, aeroplane, and helicop ter;

Such plans are to be tested in "Airship helicop- full-scale trials,

are to be built and ter-planes Hown in the United States,

A machine- of this type -has-on- either side of its gas-Alled bull, a series of curved, telescopic" wings

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JCJL

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certain hopes, and certain fears, what they described as a "capitaliste engines, drive propellers, which BEGULAR WEEKLY SERVICE BETWEEN HONG KONG AND JAVA

To the mind of one who is not ashamed to admit that she, too, is superstitious when the well-being or otherwise of those she loves is in question, there is something significant in the fact that most of these "maternal superstitions are to be found not only from generation to generation, but all over the world. Indeed, in the age-long history of folklore there stands out the anxious, always uneasy love, of the mother for the child.

Perhaps the most moving saying ever conceived, which, alss! loses something in its translation from

God

the French, was that uttered by the wife of Victor Hugo: said to Hitself, I cannot be everywhere," so He created the mother."

Often the spiritual tie transcends the physical tie. Many a mother with a son in the war knew when he was in acute danger and became aware of his passing at the time he was killed.

war

STEAMER

A contingent of 350 miners' wives can be swung into different posi- came from South Wales with little tious and made to lift vertically children and babies in arms; bun- as well as drive the airship forward. Drawn up at starting by the lift dreds came from Yorkshire, Derby, Birmingham, and parts of Scotland. of its gas and also by the air-screws Nobody explained who financed pointing upward, the vessel will the excursion, which appeared to ascend partly like an airship and be very pleasant for most of the Partly like a helicopter. Then, the visitors. Some of the non-Com-propellers being turned to drive munists who were there observed forward, and the telescopic wings that doubtless the money came from extended, the flight will resemble TJIBAROKA the source that supplied the funds for 50 of the women to leave. La don last night in the tour in on a Bolshevist-conducted tour in

Russia.

The visitors, of course, will be permitted to see only what the Moscow gang permits.

While hall the red banners "in Trafalgar-square yesterday bare such mottoes as No more war and Women must fight war," the other half urged the workers of the world to "unite and fight capitalism.a

TJIMANOEK

that of an seroplane...

One advantage claimed for there hybrid craft is that they will be

TJSALAK able to ascend from and alight in TISONDRAI... confined space in the heart of

vities.

HONG KONG METRONOLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Bong Kong Observatory, August 24th. PreviousƑ05 Date On Date

DLY 醋 jati pm] 4 am. || 1. p.m.

29,75 20.76

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FOR

AMOT, DAINT 27th Aug. 29th Ang, Manila, MaxAMER

+ p.m. & BOUZABATA AMOT, E'LUING. 3rd Sept.'. 5th kept.. BATAVIA

& Sha

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4 p.m & S0722414 19th Sept

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TJITAKOEM........... Maraman Java In Harbors, 27th Aug

TJISONÐARI“ BATAVIA 50th Aug

& SOURARAKA.

AMOT, N. CHINA

AmoȚ, N. CHINA

Amor, BHANGHAI, KELLUNO

- TJILEROET Maxassen, Java 10th Sept. 19th Sept. ESE

TJIKEMBANG BATAVIA.. 13th Sept 16th Sept. TJIKINI ... Maxassxx,Java 24th Sept) 48th Sept⠀⠀⠀ Amor, N. Umpa

With regard to world-wide super- The demonstration was conduct- Barometer. stitions and beliefs, I consider bed in a militarist fashion. At the pr far the most interesting-though I

Kuunidify should not myself care to call it beginning of the procemion, which a superstition is that certain in marched from the Embankment, fants have a psychic gift which was a contingent of the Communist with most babies disappears as army, men in khaki blouses and other ... soon as they can speak, but with hats and khaki breeches and leg gings. Behind them were several others lingers on to adolescence, ranks of the women's army in khaki including among these the horse, blouses and red tam o'shantara will now and again show conscious

Bugles sounded and military BB k G-Cloudy

Fog Lightning; delight or the most abject terror orders were shouted. Women were Drissle st some sight or sound which is ordered to keep step and watch, O-Overonet; P-Pausing invisible or inaudible to the human rapidly. Many elderly women aroweza; 9-Squall; B-Bains beings about them. I think that rived at Trafalgar-square almost

*Thyader. most owners of haunted houses will breathless and perspiring. agree, even if reluctantly, with this statement of mine.

Babies and the domestic animals,

A belief in the supernatural visions of the very young I can stantly prebent in Blake's verse You find it in "A Oradie Baug," and in the lovely last lines of "The Land of Dreams":

Father, O father! What do

we here

In this land of unbelief and

fear 1

The land of dreams is better

far.

1

Above the light of the morning

`star.”

After the demonstration, when the 60 women guests of the Soviet went off to the docks to join the ship which is to take them to Petro- grad, there were cheers for the Russian "benefactors."

י

"

for a child in a decline is to drink the water in which a blacksmith bas plunged his red-hot irons. This no doubt arises from the fact that iron is a tonie and that, it was early prescribed for every form of debility

0.00 0.00 0.00 Highest open-air Temperature, 281-85 Lowest ppanair Temperature, Asth : 79

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From Angust 25th to 31m, 1928,

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A curious example of pure super- The conviction that fairies, both stition, and one which I reluctant kind and maleficent, are drawn asly share, is that to dream of s if by a magnet to a new-born in baby is unlucky. Bo strongly in Wed. 29m 7-6271 15 52 faat is found among the peasants, this belief impressed on my own of most parts of Europe. An old brain that, by a strange effect of Thor. 80m 8 16.7 7 8 2 8 Scottish superstition in that a

the mind on the subconscious self,

* 350 9 wothan is Occasionally enticed

whenever I do dream of baby, F.313 50 17 9 2 4632 away when in childbed to nurse e

I at once wake up."

60 9 fairy changeling a lingering, voracious image, being substituted, like the reflection in a mirror.

8508

This belief in immortalised in DODWELL & CO., LTD.

the beautiful "Lament of Queen of 'Elland's Nourice,” which tells how a human mother is spirited away to be the nurse of": the Queen of Eldand's child. The bewitched mother entirely forgets her own four-nights-old baby. One day, hearing a cow lowing for its calf, she remembers her baby and implores the Queen to allow her to go home. But the Queen only per- mits her to return to Christendom after her elfish nurseling is able to walk:

A curious superstition, which seems to be world-wide, is the be- lief that a new-born child must be taken up, rather than down, the first time it is moved. The thought behind this belief." is clear.

The baby who begins life by being taken downstairs will move down- ward, "while Increase of every kind will attend a child whose frat movements are upward. So endur- ing is this belief that a Breton midwife will even now often jump up on a stool or chair with the new-born child in her arms.

Certain widespread superstitions with regard to children have their obvious origin in the fact that it is a human trait to like carry- ing about some object be longing to a loved one. A great. many people, otherwise strong. minded, believe in charms, lucky stones, and mascots. In Catholic countries a baby often wears, from the day of his or her christening, a tiny gold or silver medal which has been blessed by the Pope, er which simply bears the effigy of the child's patron saint.

Even now, many a little British child wears & string of beads night and day, and the breaking of the string is thought to connote some danger to the wearer.

The oldest of all maternal super- stitions, and one which is"still"in"

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She duly carried out the prescription, and, meeting the per- son who had told her of this old belief, the thanked him very warm- ly for having cured her baby i

A number of superstitions con- nested with children have their root in sound common sense, Buch is the Essex-belief that one remedy. (Continued on next Volumn),'

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