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HOW FOOD. IS WASTED.

IGNORANCE AND PRE- JUDICE.

GIRL WHO “FOUND "* VALENTINO.

EXPERT DOCTOR" OF FILMS.

An English girl, Miss Kathlyn, Food prejudices are found to Hayden, who gave Rudolph Valen, exist in all parts of the world by ting his Grat real start in films and Dr. Charles W. Townsend off one of the leading Hollywood Ipswich, Massachusetts, who writes scenario writers, has been on a visit of them in The Scientife"Monthly, to England. They are the cause of an enormous She went to Hollywood ten years amount of waste, perfectly good ago 8 a typist. Her first contract nutriments being thrown away by since her return to England has net it to eat." The been to write all the scenarios of cosmopolite, says

Dr. Edgar Wallace's plays and books, Townsend, does not hesitate to try and the first play."The Man Who strange foods. Not so the savage, Changed His Name," was finished the child, and the ignorant. Ir last month. there, three classes, food prejudices often curious and irrational abound. He goes on:-

the ton as educated

In a hostile world, the savage must take heed what he eats or he may rue the day, is tribes for generations have known what foods are good, and he avoids all others. Food prejudices. to day are due to inheritance from our savage an cestry.

On Both the American and European shores of the Atlantic Ocean two shellfish are common,

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.

CHARGE OF RECKLESS DRIVING.

AT CENTRAL MAGISTRACY.

At the weekly traffic cases heard by Major C. Willscr' at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Mr. G. F. Haslam, manager of Messrs. Brun- her, Mond & Co. (China), Ltd., appeared as the complainant in a summons for reckless driving against the Chinese driver of public rar

Miss Hayden knows the American | No. 141. film world inside out. She has done A kinds of work and met nearly all the important film people.

"Extra's Part,

She first waw Valentino when he had been given an extra's part it the film Alimony." She watched him act, and when the film was finished she said to the director

This man is a find. Can you give him a good part in the next Rim 1

The director took her advice, and gave him the part of rather heavy lend in "The Married Virgin" at

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Mr. Haslam stated that he was driving a car on his way to town along Kerrison Gap Road, and had just reached the curve near the Naval Hospital when the defend- ant's car passed him at a very high: speed. By quickly swerving out of A CHAPTER OF SCOTTISH' the way. complainant avoided a collision with the oncoming car, which missed him. only by a few inches.

the soft-shelled clam, and the edible mussel The species of these two molluscs are the same on both sides of the water. In It was intended that he should Europe, mussels are eaten freely play what is called the smiling Traffic but not clams, while the reverse is heavy," or a sort of had Dougins that the defendant the case on the American side. Fairbanks, But Rudolph proved This prejudice extends back to pre-superior to the plans, historic limes, fer while elam shells abound here in ancient shell heaps, and mussel shells, are merely ace dental, in Europe, the exact op posite is the case.

Prof Edward S. Morse, in his study of the changes in the shell of the clam, was amazed to find no clam shells in the Baltic ebell heaps, while the living moliases abounded in the nearby estuaries. It was the same in England; the clam had never been caton, even in ancient times. It is a common shell there, and thousands of bar- rels are abipped to the Newfound. and fisheries for bait. We learned the epicurean delights of the elam from the North American Indians, In a recent visit on the Norfolk coast of England I had great di culty in persuading a company of educated English people to taste the clam!

Children are nearer the savage state than their educated parents, and strange foods are often to them abominations. The wise par ent instils the precept. Eat what is set before you and be thankful." The unwise parent allows the in- nate talent for food prejudices to grow strong in his young hopefuls, and even boasts that his little Johnny or Mary can not eat this and enn not eat that.

Miss Hayden has become an ex- pert doctor.” When a finished film is regarded as a failure and unmarketable a film doctor called in to prescribe for it.

is.

There was a film shown with success in one of the leading London cinemas about six months ↑ age. That film had been on the shelf " for month as a hopeless failure till Miss Hayden took it in hand. altered it, and gave it novel

stuss ending.

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New Idea, She has brought a new idea with her to London, and started to carry it out. She has been to sea The Flying Squad" twenty times by herself, but finally she took the director of the film with her

"We shall work together, eat to gether, think together until the film is complete," she said to a Press representative. "Neither of us will have a single thought or iden that we do not share. I think that is going to make a great difference to the film.

The highest paid person in the film world is Mr. Thorlberg, the director of The Trail of os.

"You would hardly believe it in England, but there were thirty-four conferences, ench costing about £500, before a word of that film was written."

The third class, the ignorant," is wel represented-or rather used Miss Hayden is not too elever to to be by the peasant servant gil. superstitious. She is convinced who was content with corned beef that the uamber thirteen has play and cabbage, and refused even toed a large part in her life, and taste venison and wild duck." on her twenty-sixth birthday on All of us are near the savage September 13th she went to see state, Dr. Townsend believes. He This Year of Grace," for which ninber finds that food, prejudices nhonnd she had been given sent even among the educated. In the thirteen in the thirteenth row. matter of fish, he says, this is strik- ingly the case. We rend:

ther known

"In my youth, when on codfish" ing excursions I caught pollack, no matter how large and fine, I was told to return them to the water as they were not fit toà

eat.' Nowadays this prejudice seems to have disappeared. Ai Grand Manan, New Brunswick. haddock and hake were formerly thrown away, and nearly everywhere along our coasts the dogfish, hated by fishermen, is destroyed and east out. It is true that the dogfish is a shark, but it has firm white flesh which is nearly as good eating as that of the ewordfish.

HISTORY.

CLAN THAT FOUGHT FÖR THE STUARTS.

A tragic chapter of Scottish his tory is recalled by the sale of Invergarry House, inverness-shire, The present residence is a GOD-

His Worship was "informed by Süb-Inspector Alexander was #1 new driver, and that the offence was controlled area. committed in A Reinarking that this was. all the more reason to be cautious in hisparatively modern building erected on the spot where lived the last driving, the Magistrate ɓned the

resident Chief of the great Clan defendant #13.

Donald, Alaitzir, Hanaidson Mac donell, the seventeenth Chief of Glengarry.

CAINE ROAD OBSTRUCTION.

The driver of private motor car No. 1800 was summoned for leaving his yehicle unattended in Caine

Road.

From time immemorial Clan Dona d has been one of the most obstreperous and warlike clans in the ghlands, and members of it turned out in large numbers in the Stuart rising of 1743, while nearly 40,000 served during the European War, more than 5,000 being killed.

The property is to be offered for gale by auction this month, and

consists of the house and 160 acres

of land, and includes the salmon. shing below the falls of Garry and the fishing rights in Loch Oich, on the banks of which, the property is situated.

According to evidence given by Mr. W. Kent (A.S.P.), car No. 1800 was standing at the top of the incline near the Old Bailey junction, presenting an obstruction to motor traffic in Caine Road. Mr. Kent said that he was obliged to pull up near the obstructing vehicleThe ruins of the old Castle, which to avoid colliding with another car still remain in the bands of the Macdonell family, are. however, coming from the opposite direction. excluded from the sale. On looking into the stationary car see anybody in he could not charge.

Defendant said that he was lying down inside the ear. to which Mr. Kent replied that it was impossible for him to have failed to see the defendant, and in any case it was a bond fide case of obstruction,

A fine of 20 was imposed."

Castle Ruins Excluded.

The property was originally sold by the son of the seventeenth Chief to the Earl of Aborne, and in the conveyance of November 13th, 1837, the following words appear; Excepting the site of the old castle of Invergarry, the Monu- ment at Tobernacaun, and the family Burying Ground

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RUBBER AND TIN..

SHARE QUOTATIONS AND DIVIDENDS.

Messrs. Carroll Bros. report that the Tin share market is an active and rising one, but business has not been very large on Recount of the sbsence of sellers. A fair busi ness has been done in Petalings at 83.15/5.20, Kuchnia 21.60/1.70, Sungei Ways 83.10/3.20, Sungei

Besi 14/- to 15/

The Rubber share market has displayed a little more animation and there has been a fair enquiry for some of the cheaper "dollar Present quotations on

counters.

Rubber shares are:

Ayer Panas Balgownies Glenealy's

Jimats

Kedahs

Malaka Pindas Pajama

$6.00

1.35

1.40

1.20

2:90

1.20

1.15

Dividends Declared. Sungei Bagans.-10 per cent final. Idris Hydraulic Tin.-10 per cent. interim, making 30 per cent. date

to

Pengkalan, Ltd.-5 per cent, in- terim, making 13 per cent, to date.

THE MODERN WAY, IN AFGHANISTAN.

ser-

STRIKING INNOVATIONS.

From an official account published in Abani Afghan, a Kabul a news- paper, the firge ahembly of the people] recently held decided that the Council of State thould be re- placed by a National Asserably of at Kilia. 150 fmembers. Government

vants will be ineligible for election A further declaration forbids the to this body, and foreigners who purchaser from assuming the title become naturalized Afghan subjects of Glengarry or Invergarry, will be ineligible until they have The ruined castle still stands lived in Afghanistan ten years. upon the rock overlooking the loch Special Cabinets were constituted AT KOWLOON MAGISTRACY. known as the Rock of the Raven." from among the Ministers, includ

and from which the Macdonellsing one for investigating complaints took their crest, motto, and war brought forward by members of the ery. It was here that Prinee National Assembly. Charlie arrived on August 26th, it was decided that compulsory 1745, a week after the gathering at military service should be extended Glenfinnan: he. returned again on from two to three years. It was found the castle deserted, and he uniforms and dress. Civil dress the day after Culloden," but he also decided to abolish ceremonial. and his followers slept on the bare would consist of a black suit and floor. A few days later Cumber military dress of khaki. It was

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PAINTER'S ACT LEADS, TO, GAOL.

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land's men arrived and burnt the castle to the ground.

geance

likewise decided to abolish n forms of complimentary addresses; The manument of Tobernacaur the "King and Queen and all offi- (the Well of the Heads) referred to cials would he addressed in cor in the conveyance was erected by respondence as "My Dear ———. the seventh Chief to commemorate. It was proposed that the Govern the ample and summary ven ment should accept five Afghani

inflicted in 1661 on the rupees from every independent in Beven murderers of young Ranald dividual of the nation and one de-Macdonald of Keppoch. It was in month's pay from every Govern

this well that the heads of the ment official to help to defray the cost of 50.000 rifles and ammuni- murderers were washed before he ing presented to the Chief.

tion purchased from France. Chu- lam Mohiuddin Khan, the repre Glengarry's "Tall."

sentative of Kabul city, made an Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Mac offer of 10,000 rupees for this pur- donell, known in the Highlands as pose, which was accepted. It was the Seventeenth MacMhic Alastair, decided that lists should be made Chief of the Macdonells of Glen of property of officials at the time garry, was one of the quaintest of their entering Government ser figures of his day. He lived in vice, and that accounts of their the style of an ancient Scottish income and expediture should be Chieftain, and appeared both in kept. London and in Paris in full High-

In England and in this country the various kinds of flatfish, whe-of woodchuck, muskrat, and skumk';

I have tried them, all." as sole, plaice or Bounder, are considered good and Explorers in Barage regions ofter delicate eating. In the Gaspé learn to divest themselves of food

A Chinese painter admitted, be Peninsula, in Newfoundland and in prejudices. Captain G. F. Lyon, of Labrador, this is not the case. At M.S. Heria, in a voyage of disfore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow- Grand Grève in Gaspesia, I told a covery in the Arctic regions under loor Magistracy yesterday, taking fisherman and his wife the highie. He says. All were horrified 14 inders among other things as Captain Parry, was a good exain esteem and high price in which the founder was held in Boston, at the idea of eating foxes, but security for wages duc from a con saggested that the next he caught very many got the better of their

tractor and without the latter's Phould not be wasted. A few daysing. Other instances cited by Dr. permission.

delicacy and found them good cat inter Isaw several Bounders de Townsend are as follows:

This constituted posited as fertilizer in the garden,

offence against the law, and the man "Captain "George Cartwright. and, on my exclaiming at the sacri.

who lived from 1770 to 1780 on the was charged with larceny. lege, he said, 'Oh, they are not Labrador coaat, was another such 'fit to eat!"

It was also revealed that the adventurous soul. He found his men rebelled at being made to eat

fendant had suddenly disappeared, venison in winter in order to con- and the ladders were also missing. serve the salt pork which they pre He was later arrested by the police, ferred, and only by an artifice did and gave as his reason for taking he get them to eat polar bear.

Stefansson, in The Friendly the articles that a certain amount Aretic gives a very good Becount

of money was due to him as wages of food prejudices among Esqui

Dogs Inought up far from the owner of the property, from the 'sen and fed on earibou under whom he had worked.

Nau dogs. and rabusit would not eat seal meat, while those hrought up on the sea-1

Taking the plon an one of guilty, shore would not touch other game his Worship sentenced defendant to when they were taken inland. In six weeks' hard labour.

The National Assembly should fix land costume. Ha was always the number of domestic servants to young dogs the prejudice was more

followed by 50 ruen and pipers, be kept by officials. Persons enter- In Labrador, young gulls are

quickly overcome than in old.

known as Glengarry's "tail," withing Government service in future considered great delicacies as food, duction of potatoes and tomatoes "It is well known that the intro-

whom he attended the coronation should not have more than one while the mere idea of eating cor

of George IV. at Westminster wife;" those already in the service morants is a thing abhorrent, vetia Europe was a slow and difficult

Abbey. A Chinese who appeared before

should not indulge in polygamy. gulls feed on the flotsam and jet-process, and that Indian corn-meal

In 1822, when the King cume to The King advised the prohibition, is even now considered fit only for the same Magistrate on a charge Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott, who as far as possible, of early mar sam of the sea. on long-dead fish poultry in most parts of the British. ne well as on fresh ones. Cormorsten, while the introduction of of being in possession, of a pair of was managing the ceremonies, wish riages.

ed to swear in Glengarry's Guard grapefruit as a part of the break- trousers regarding which he was of Honour. Glengarry refused to tan should adopt a tricoloured fag

The Jirga decided that Afghanis To eat crow has an unples able opposition.

fast ritual has met with consider unable to give a satisfactory ex- have theat sworn, saying that he in place of the present black flag.

In Labrador. sant metaphorical flavour. Equaly turnip greens are eaten, but beetplanation gave an ingenious extuse. personally answered for every man which was said to be an emblem unpleasant, even abhorrent to most

He said that the garment was

in his territory.

mourning. and only fitted for people, is the idea of eating crow

He was a great personal friend Afghanistan hefore she achieved in the literal senke,

"I discovered recently an intel originally worn by his mother, who of Scott's, and it is said that the independence. Now & pro ligent and educated man

The new flag will perly broiled or roasted crow.

Fergus MacIvor, in be black, red, and green, and on especially if young, compares well three-score years of age, who ad had since died. It was the custom character

Waverley," is taken from his per- it will be emblems representing with pigeon or squab Rook shoot me he had refused to taste any items diather for a son to wear his sopal knowledge of Glengarryhills the rising sun, and 2 stack ing and rook eating in Pickwick's one he to any dead mother's trousers for good

Ranaldson Macdonell was

of wheat, and the legends "Allah " time, at least, was common sport refazes to eat or even taste beets.

vegetable but the potato. He still "luck

ed while saving his daughter in the and "Mohammed." in England. A rook is a crow.

Stirling Castle, which was wrecked. Of banana, watermelon and canta "I remember reading a sports-

This excuse was apparently an while coming from Oban to Inver- man's recipe for cooking porcupine, he shudders to

loup he has never even insted, and

thick of trying after thought, as the man henness

For more than 600 years the which included long stewinga and them. changes of water. The recipe con apple pie, he can not bring himself he had purchased the garment for 30 Highland Chieftain, so involved between

Although he is fond of arrested had told the police that view to keeping up the status of a Scottish Clan has been in dispate His extravagant living, with a supreme Chieftainship of this great cluded with the advice which was to try-squash-or-pumpkin pie

Glengarry, Clanranald. excellent under the circumstances

ants, on the other hand, feed ex- clusively on freshly caught fish.

greens are thrown away.

over

TROUSERS AS GOOD LUCK.

to throw it all away without serv- How many good things in life this cents.

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"the property in mortgages that it and Sleat. The question was settled The filial story failed to impress was sold immediately. his son suc- some years ago, when, the three ing. A nicely broiled porcupine man has miesed owing to his trea- steak or hind quarter, I can, how-sured food prejudices How much his Worship, who gave defendant hangs in the Scottish National they draw lots for precedence eceded him. His portrait now Chiefs signed the treaty whereby ever, aver from experience, to be better for him had he been brought the choice between a fine of $7 or | Gallery,"

should more than one be present at excellent. The same can be said up to cat the food set before hire,

and; be thaakiut

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