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CHINA'S LEADING SEX LIFE IN PLANTS.

ACTOR.

TO VISIT CANTON AND

HONG KONG.

MUI LAN FANG AND HIS COMPANY:

THE INTELLIGENCE, OF THE EARTHWORM.

"WHAT NATURE WISHES TO DESTROY IT FIRST TURNS MALE.”)

A most interesting, lecture was given at the Helena May Institute FROM OCH CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) Yesterday evening on "Sex Life in

CANTON, Oct. 2nd,

but Mr. Crook had chosen a more romantic subject. He would, he presumed deal with flowers and said Sir Henry I am imagine nothing more sweet than a flapper

In the course of the lecture Mr. Crook touched on the problem of the disappearing races of Poly asians and Melanesian, and gave as an explanation the preponder

Plants" by Mr. A. H. Crook, Headmaster of Queen's College.

Sir Henry Gollan was in the chair and made an amusing intro Mei Lan Fang, popularly ae-

ductory speech in which he said claimed by Chinese and fore that this question seemed to be alike as China's most celebrated papular now a days. Only a short actor of the present generation iswhile ago a lady bad read a paper to come to Cantou to give a series to the British Association on sex of operatic performances in the "Hoi and nutrition in fungi. Personally Chu Theatre on the Bund begin. | he did not think much of fungi, ning on November 1st." With him will be a group of about 150 Pekinese actors including Tan Fu Ying, Kin Shiu. Shan, Chu Ke Fang, Kang Min Sheung and Tuity of the valley." Yok Fu. The party will stay n Canton for 12 days, after which they will come to Hong Kong to give another series of performances in the Ko Shing Theatre. They will their appearance in the British Colony from the 11th to the 8th of November, after which they will go back North. Mui Lan The so-called hierachy of both Fang's trip, to Canton has followed | plants and animipis Was touched series of negotiations between upon and examples giver of the leading Cantonese and the famous intelligence of earthworms, eto. actor. The local theatrical lovers which tended to upset the usually hed opinions of "higher and had great difficulty in inducing

lower" forms of life. Mui Lan Fang and his company to leave Poking and Shanghai for the South. It is reported that the „Japanese Government invited them to Japan to give a performance at the coronation of the Japanese Emperor which will take place the next month, and made an offer of $60,000 but that they declined the

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invitation. Their visit to Canton

ance of males. The same fact had been noted in these, plants which were dying

having separate sex out.

Mr. Crook quoted very aptly several amusing verses and his lively wit kept the audience amused as well as interested.

A large number of people were present including Mra. Southern,

The lecturer said that there was little to be found in books on sex about the sex plants and the term

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER · 23rd, 1928.

SEVEN BOLD ROBBERS.

*ROUTED BY MAIDEN OF THIRTEEN.

ROUND THE COURTS.| C.ER. IN DIFFICUE-

A JOKE THAT WENT TOO

FAR.

OPIUM SMUGGLER FINED $13,000;

"How a young girl of thirteen years of age foiled the plans of seven bold bandits yesterday morn ing was told in a police report. A curious case was heard at the It appeared that the robbers went Central Magistracy yesterday be- a dwelling house at No. 368, fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell. It arose Queen's Road West, after having out of a practical joke which two ascertained that the master of the youngsters were in the habit of house had gone out. They repre-playing upon each other.

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sented themselves as agents of the landlord, and the door was opened to them. Once inside the premises. they herded the womenfolk and children into a cubicle with the object of gagging them. In their excitement they overlooked a girl of thirteen, who slipped out into the street and raised the alarm.

The thieves realising that it would be unwise to prolong their stay, made a husty exit. Pandemonium reigned during the general exodus of the gang, and a married woman with a child strapped to her back was so terrified that she went to the verandah for a leap into the strect. Fortunately for her several persans shouted, to her to restrain her. She thought better of it and went into the house.

These two lads were both employ- ed ́at the Taikoo Dock, and very often slept out in the street to gether. Sometimes cat of them was restless and in order to while away the dullness of the right, he would burn his companion's leg with joss sticks. On the following night the victim of the joke would turn the tables on the perpetrator, and this went on for sometime. Both took the joke in good humour, until one night when it was carried too far.

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TIES.

RESERVES SQUANDERED.

CIVIL ADMINISTRATOR BLAMED.

HARSIN,

The President of the railway, Mr. Lin Je, who recently returned from Nanking, where he had been sent at the instigation of the Muk den authorities, is confronted with the diffenlty that the railway's coffers are now enipty, and, as the export season does not begin until. the end of October, ways and means have to be found to meet the big pay-roll and other accounts due. The loan of three million dollars from the Bank of China, recently concluded, has enabled, the railway to pay September salaries, but there is nothing left for other pay

ments and no provision either for

·October salaries. Another loan' will he necessary, and "it will have to come from the Chinese, for the

Dalbank has no spare cash, whilst it is hardly likely that, under pre sent conditions, any of the foreign banks will step forward, even though a very high rate of interest

is offered.

sound asleep, the other lad took Seeing that his companion was soine herbs, saturated them with kerosene and tied them to friend's leg. A lighted match was applied and when the sleeper was rudely awakened he tried to shake of the burning mass, but was unable

Where The Money Went. to do so, with the result that he

The reason the C.E.... has found was badly burat. He had to be

itself in such a predicament can be taken to the hospital where he re- mained for over a fortnight.

told in a few words. Three months Yesterday morning, he had to be for the export season is dead, and in a year it always loses money. carried into" the Court by a stable to give evidence against his

for four months, little over ex pensas is made. Thus, the railway friend. His Worship adjourned the

actually caly makes money dur case' for another week remarking that he could not deal with the de

ing five months iu O year, fendant until the doctor has pro-been placed in the bank, so that and this money kas hitherto nounced the complainant out there was always a reserve to draw upon when required. It is ancient [history that, months ago, after the Chinese part of the surplus capital had been taken from the Dalbank. and placed into Chinese banks, the whole of this sum; amounting to many millions, was transferred to Peking for the use of Chang Tso

few millions of the Chinese share

The Cabbage's Bleeding Heart! Modern thinkers credited plants with sight hearing and sensitive. neas greater than that of what are generally called the higher fauna. If they were right we might ex- pect in the dear future that there would be a society for the preven tion of cruelty to plants.. It would be inhumane to cut flowers especi ally in the amourous season and to one could eat a cabbage after having seen a graph of the pageant A YOUNG WOMAN'S LAPSE. of its bleeding heart.

Old Families And Parvenus."

Animals were generally divided into a distinct heirachy with the amoebs at the bottom and our-

danger.

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That her mother had died in the country and that she needed $10 to return to her home, was the excuse advanced by a young Chinese woman when she was charged at the

to the value of $12.50 from her. the theft of jewellery and clothing

fellow ledger.

erhaps needed explanation. When selves at the top; plants presented and Hong Kong is being looked wo plants, of the same species more difficulties, but botanists were Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with Lin, and in addition to this another!

forward to by the theatrical public with the greatest pleasure.

ADULATION.

material and the other gametes older and the newer famities. The bore one of them gametes with food able to distinguish between the

with generative power the plants maiden hair tree which could be found in the Colony had the long-

are said to have sex.

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In the animal kingdom the differ-est history of any plant chces between the sexes was less marked in the lower forms than in the higher. It was easy to distinguish male from female in the animals, in birds it was sometimes difficult, in frogs very hard without dissec tion, in mussels impossible and in life, the bony fishes almost impossible

without dissection..

For the past week, the Canton press has been filled with praise for the famous actor, declaring that Mui Lan Fang and his com pany are the true representatives of the present Chinese stage. Their presentations of Chinese modern and ancient, show not only Chinese civilization as it was and is, but aisa humanity itself with all its virtues and defects. One

leading article stated that Mui Lão Fang is to China what William Shakespear is to England."

In plants sex took somewhat the same form as in the lower animals and it was absolutely impossible to distinguish the sex except at flower bearing seasons. Some planta in the

same species produced only pistolate Bowers and others only stamenite flowers.

Wisdom Of Worms!

الرحيم

In the animal kingdom there was La apparent heirachy. Most people would be ready to say that a snail was lower for example than a cow,

maintain that it

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According to the prosecution, defendant and the complainant both earth, from three to, eight millions lived in the same house at Austin. of years. It is nearly extinct as it Road. On Saturday night last, the has given up seeding itself and is complainant returned home from now only grown artificially.

her work to discover that her rattan The various rules of the heirachy basket had been tampered with and of plants were that if a seed were that some of her clothing and entirely uncovered both before and jewellery were missing. Suspicion after pollination it was considered feli on the defendant and after she a low type, if it had an ovary it had been taken to the Police was higher and younger. If it Station, she confessed to the theft pollinated by the wind it was older She later assisted the police in re- than if fertilised by insects. If the covering the stolen articles. Part pollin tube grows up through the of the stolen property was secreted rule the plant is older than if the in a cavity in the gutter opposite pollia is found on top of the stigma. to the Kowloon Football Club, and Age was also determined by cer- other articles were recovered frem tain structures in the wood plants.

pawnshops. As a general rule the few plants in which the sexes were perfectly distinct were older than the berma- phrodite plants.

sexes were They were all

of the estimated next few months profits was also handed over by the railway for the same purpose. At the same time, the Eussians took their share and transferred it into

the U.S.S.R.

On The Verge Of Bankruptcy. Thus, at one stroke, all the liquid

drawn from Harbis. The railway money of the railway was with

President, who is a lawyer and a shrewd man, foresaw what would come and protested against this se tion, which had been advocated by the Civil Administrator of the the good graces of the late Marshal, Railway Area, who thereby secured'

who, whilst in Peking, had never money enough. Now that this

as goodly sums that the gentry and money is irretrievably lost, as well

business men were forced to contri. His Worship indicted a fine of bute at the same time, the Chinese $50 taking into consideration that here, beaded by Mr. Lui Jo are it was defendant's first offence, the very wrath with Gen. Chang Huang alternative being one month's hard Hsiang, the Civil Administrator, who has lost much of the popularity labour.

he hitherto enjoyed, and this is not surprising. The C.E.R. is placed in a very precarious position, and if this year's bean crop be a failure the line will be on the verge of

News

"WEARY WILLIE.

"

The story of a weary. Willy "

was told at the Kowloon Magistrasy hankruptcy North China Daily. yesterday when a. Chinese was

£1

charged with being general nuisance.

The company's popularity may be judged from the fact that when they appeared in Hong Kong several years ago. the entrance price went up from 810 per seat to 830

The lecturer then shewed speci- per seat and even then it was hard or an oyster than a dog, but they mens. of several local growing to get in.

Canton was anxious, as would besitate to say that en plants in which the

an oak. distinguishable, it is now, to have the company in orchid was lower than to Canton, but they refused and his question of hierachy in the very old and in most cases had animal kingdon was largely a mat- Jost or nearly lost the power of went North immediately after their

ter of human conceit. "A fly would reproduction. An interesting fart engagements in the British Colony.

probably

Was was that in these dying species it In order to give people of higher than a man because it was was difficult to find plants bearing moderate means a chance to see able to dispense with that clumsy female flowers, and the lecturer China's leading actor the local and cumbersome pumping station, said that he had a short while 40sions for begging but he returned the theft, of 500 lbs. of tin foil from managements have decided to lower the heart. When studying the earth-read a

book by Dr. Pitt Rivers to Hong Kong every time. The the Hop Tick, shop at Whitfield, their admission prices to 88, 83, 82, worm Darwin was struck by its called "The Clash of Culture in police gave him a licence for the Causeway Bay. A fourth man was intelligence. He noted that when which he attributed the decay of sale of cigarettes but he did not charged with receiving the stolen autumn leaves fell the worms pull the Polynesian and Melanesian like work, farmed out his licence to another man and went begging

property. ed them under the earth by means peoples not so much to alcoholism, again. of the stalk or if the leaf had no foreign diseases, infanticide, etc., as to the altered sex ratio of the stalk by its narrowest end. In

people. The fact that here was a very heavy preponderance of mer over women was the cause of the decay of the TACE.

and $1, for the various seats.

The party is expected to arrive in Hong Kong on the 29th of this month. On the 29th they will call

on the Governor of Hong Kong and order to test this further he made the leading Chinese in the British various triangles of paper with Colony. They will then start for Canton, expecting to give the first performance here in the evening of November 1st.

angles at different degrees, and

When Males Predominate I' noted that they were invariably

Taking these two facts together drawn under the surface of the it might be said that what the earth by the most acute angle. A cosmic process wishes to destroy it test of intelligence, said the lec. first tures male or in other words Their plays in Canton will in

makes the proportion of males to ture, which many boys could not females so great that the race dies. clude such famous pieces as "Sweet pass even after considerable in That was nature's method of scrap Angels Showering Fragrant Flowers struction, The intelligence of the ping. an unsuccessful experiment.

the Sky," "The Dance of the bed bug was noticed by a scientist movement and motion and those Sex was closely bound up with from the Rainbow and the Yellow Jacket" during the war. Beds were placed animals which had the greatest and "The Burial of Flower!! with their feet in bowls of disin motor freedom were more highly

fectant. Varjous theatrical organizations in

A bug was seen to ap

sezed. The fact that sex in plants seemed to be dying out might be the city have sent telegrams to them, proach a bed, look at the disinfect attributed to this phenomenon.

Sir Henry Gollan made a short congratulating them on their willant and turn away. It then climb

ed the wall and so to the ceiling speech of thanks to the lecturer, jugness to condescend to come to oven the bed on which it dropped. all about it and you must your

merely remarking "Now you know

Canton and Hong Kong."

(Continued on next"Oolumn).asives thank Mr. Crook."!:

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It was stated by the police that the defendant had been seat away from the Colony on several occa

of 86 on the defendant.

Mr. W. Schofield imposed a fine

"SOMEONE, GAVE HIM "

"AWAY.”

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TIN FOIL THEFT.

Three Chinese were charged with

The three men pleaded guilty to a charge of simple larceny, and the fourth man, represented by Mr. Leo d'Almada, Sar., said that he had no knowledge that the goods were stolen.

Mr. Horace Lo watched the case on behalf of the Tai Ching Marine Store, against whom charges of re- A fine of $15,000 or nine months.ceiving had been formulated but hard labour was the punishment were later dropped by the police. imposed on an opium smuggler Mr. Hin Shing Lo prosecuted, on yesterday morning by Hr. E. behalf of the Ho Yick Brm. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy. In answer to the Court, Mr. Hin The defendant was charged with Shing Lo said: I may say this, at having in his possession 200 taels this stage, that the alleged re- of illicit dope.

ceiver's foki can depose to the fact the accused and asked for leniency. the shop at 3 am and that he Mr. W. D. Owen appeared for that these goods were brought to The case against the defendant was disposed of them to another dealer that in his capacity as cabin boy for twice as much money as he to the Chief Officer of the i paid for the goods. Furthermore Taiming, bo concealed the con- there is evidence of a preconcerted traband in a locker" in the Chief arrangement whereby the goods Officer's cabin.

were to be stolen on a certain date His Worship: Somebody gave him and to be disposed of at a certain tion, your Worship, away, I suppose 1-Yes, on informa- - time.

His Worship adjourned the hear (Continued on next Column). ing until Thursday morning.-

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