THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930.
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HAPPY ENDING TO ABDUC- TION CHARGE.
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WEDDING ARRANGED.
A Book which is, of the face of The General Medical Council has it, the autobiography of a parlour-directed that the name of Dr. John maid, moving (underground) in the Forrest Hamilton, of Mexborough highest society, and which is em House, Mexborough, Yorkshire, bellished by a foreword from a should be erased from the register real, live counters, has just been after the docter had dramatically the best thing for both these young published, in cheap. cardboard appealed for acquitéal.. covers at the generous price of hall
a crown.
ד' ך!
It is called "Pantry Pages," The front cover is decorated by a picture of an extremely moder parlourmaid showing a length of stocking which is comparable in its generosity with the price of the book,
The publishers, in * covering letter, draw attention to references to Lord Balfour, Lord Oxford and Asquith. Winston Churchill, and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.".
Mr. Lloyd George,
"I should think it is obviously
He appeared before the council | people to get married as soon ase on a charge that:-
(1) You have associated with they can," said Mr. Justice Swift a person or persons (unqualified) after hearing a case at the Kent for the purpose of treating per-[Assizes, Maidstone, last month, in sors in respect of matters requir. which a youth of nineteen was ing professional discretion ΟΤ skill;
charged with abducting a girl of
(2) Having acquired a part | fifteen. They had eloped to France interest in certain secret reme together.
dies, preparations and medicines
from unregistered persons, you
It was stated that the parents
are engaged in association with | of both the youth and the girl were them in the sale for your own willing for the marriage to take profit of such escret remedies, preparations and medicines...
place, and the youth's father said
The public avid for well-informed
The complainants were the Medi- he was willing to look after his and intimate gossip, for which the|eni Defence Union, for whom Mr. so if he were released. book is presumably intended, must Oswald Hempson appeared. Dr. not think however, that the Hamilton conducted his
owa de- author's list of famous names ja fence. exhausted in her publisher's letter. By no means, One reads, on
page 119:-
"Mr. Lloyd George come to dinner here, which makes the third Premier as I've served. He don't seem not to notice what he eqts and drinks."
Now that to use the author's exquisitely studied informality of diction is not half impressive like. nin't it?
Mr. Hempson said that it was alleged that Dr. Hamilton filled the two-fold role of secretary and man- aging director of a company known as Lunvitre, Ltd., which had for its object the sale of a preparation for the treatment of tuberculosis and lung complaints.. A Mr. G; E. Jones, of Mexborough, was a director of the company.
Don't Do It Agala.”
Mr. Justice Swift, addresing the girl's father, said: "I am not go- ing to scad a gaol-bird to your daughter," and then, turning to the youth in the dock, he said: "You may go now and don't do anything like this again."
The youth was George Robert Harvey, of Lime Hill-road, Tun- bridge Wells, and the girl Joan. Mary Shoobridge, of the School- house, Shoreham, whose age was given as 18 years 8 months.
Mr. Hempson said that there was an agreement with Mr. Jones, the effect of which was that this secret preparation should be deposited in. There was a romantic scene out- safe custody pending certain form-side the court when the case ended.
alities.
Indian's Head,
The author of the inmeus and delightful Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion" must have worked hard to have produced so success-
Members of the two families stood ful a hoax, but she cannot have
together in the hall and the boy been so exhausted by her composi- On notepaper of the company and girl were holding hands. Mr. tion as the author in question.. wash highly coloured representa-Shoobridge walked across and shook It would not be unfair to say tion of a Red Indian's head, which hands with young Harvey, and the that this parlourmaid gives the im-introduced an element of mystery party walked down the steps of the pression of utter mental collapse, into the secret preparation." for her references to Lord Balfour, Dr. Hamilton said that he was Mr. A. L. B. Thesiger, prosecut- Lord Oxford and Asquith, and Mr. approached by Mr. Jones, a pati-ing, mid that the girl was a school- Churchill are placed in the year ent of his, who wished to put the 1906, and, in that year, while she preparation on the market, and describen Lord Oxford correctly was seeking his help. enough as Mr. Asquith, she says he is the Prime Minister. He was not Prime Minister until 1908. "Not 'arf disturbia' that, ain't it?
"I said I would give him his chance, but that as soon as he bad his chance I could do nothing more for him. A chartered accountant She also refers, in 1906, to Mr. took over the formation of the com- Churchill's wife as real hand-pany on Mr. Jones' instructions.
He. come""
was not married until 1308. What can one say of that beelimey!"
Too Good to Miss." The whole passage may now be quoted. It is too good to miss, both as a specimen of the style which the author affects and as a vivid description of a typical din ner party of the period, given by people out of the top drawer.
This simple soul writes:-
We had an huge dinner party here to-night. Forty they site down, and there was eight" ́ ́extra | maids in for the waitin1.
court smiling happily.
ruster's daughter, and the two had apparently formed an attachment for each other-so much so that the girl's father, realising they were hoth very young, asked the lad to refrain from courting his däughter until she was, older.
The girl and the looy later agreed to go away together to France, and I signed what documents the
one day, by arrangement, the garl chartered necountant brought me to eign, and I am afraid I had little escaped from the house, met the knowledge of how far-reaching it boy, and they went "together to a become public property that whs. I did not know that it would place where his motor-cycle was
doc. waiting. tor had anything to do with it."
"In everything I have done I have acted in good faith." declared the doctor, and I have had the sincere conviction that there has been nothing dishonourable in my actions.
Folly Realised, They then drove to London, caught the bont train to Folkestone, und went to Boulogne, where they engaged a bedroom and lived toge- ther as Mr. and Mrs. Harvey.
They both realised the fally of what they had done after being. there for ten or twelve days, and the lad wrote home...to his father to say that he regretted it. They then, of their own fres, will, return-- ed to England.
He spoke with intense emotion when he said, "It has hurt me more than anything else that there should be a suggestion that there was any dishonour or die- grace attached to it." The council, after consideration ed with their dogs or their babies in private, directed that Dr. Ham only fair to the land to say that it
ton's name should be erased from
"It was like as though the Picture Papers was come alive?”!
"There was that many loverly ladies them as gets photergraff-
or on golf-moors and grouse- the register.
korses.
There was lots of Parlement persons, too. They comes often,
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Mr. Thesiger anid" that it was would have been impossible to bring a charge against him under the Criminal Law Amendment Act. The girl's father had satisfied him-
Ilia Lordship bein' very keen on | BRIGHTER BATHING SUITS. self on that point. pollyticks..
Mr. Arthur Balfour, he's been here three times since I come. He's a treat to wait on, he is! That perlite to the dishes you offers! The vegetables might be princesses: he refuses them that civil!
"Loverly manners he hue, and it seems like it's a treat to sit along side of him. Ilis ladies is always all smiles, and he looks that in terested in what's bein' eaid- laughs easy, too.
Mr. Asquith, as is Prime Minister, he come to-night, too. "There's one thing, he's got fine lot of room to keep his brains in! Why, I could lay a table for two on his head! Fine, I could lay it-flowers and all ! "I kes his white hair.
Jim [her sweetheart] thinks
COLOURS FOR WOMEN.
Brighter bathing costumes for next season are already being plan" ned and ordered in tens of thous
ends.
Counsel for Harvey asked the judge to look on the case as a piece of romantic folly on the part of two young persons who had fallen greatly in love with one an- other. The boy, he said, had a perfectly good character, and wax Last summer's record sale of bath. industrious, honest, and a perfect ing costumes in England has inly respectable citizen... epired the manufacturers to pre pare for an even greater sale this year, and in the belief that women have at last overcome their shyness about colour, they are letting their imaginations run on all the gayest colour schemes they can conceive.
Red and yellow stripes, purple and green stripes and blue and red stripes, most of them horizontal, are being used for the more practical suits.
The one-piece suit is to bo abrought back to favour, and the
great lot of him
"Then there was Mr. Winston Churchill. He put me in mind of a bull terrier, as Vicar used to keep
"He is one for talkin'.' He didn't never stop, not though you was handin' him white ice, with hot chockerlet sauce to it. His wife's real handsome."
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will he interested to read that she is fine to look at kind of formin' lootin'. and she do talk funny " Also: Funny little sort of a dog she hring with her, with eyes all gone funny, and clothes on him. yaps he does, somethin' cruel, and
universal belt will in most cases be imitation, woven in the material. Kaickers and top-piece are near ly always in contrasting colours, or the top-piece is patterned and the knickers plain.
Scantier Than Ever. Many of them will be scanbier than ever, for last summer started a fashion in sun-bathing.
MESSAGE HIDDEN IN
BREAD.
WOMAN'S CLEVER RUSE
**". DISCOVERED.
"I have subscribed enough money to bail you out Be careful not to admit that the property is yours. You may say that it was left behind by your brothers, and you can also say you are a woman and know nothing about these things."
The above message was intended for a woman who was in Police custody following her arrest in con-
Wool is still the only material ection with the running of a pe that matters. The fancy silks and Fir lottery-house at 131 Third: taffetas are not practical for bath- Street. ing, and most Englishwomen look far better in a well-cut woollen bathing suit.
The message was cleverly conceal-
ed in a loaf of bread which was
Mrs. Grundy will have to retire brought to the Police Station | by' completely next summer.
when she starts, a singin' to him. English people, for better or for another woman who displayed great she dont never stop. I. couldn't
worse, have at last taken to the anxiety for the welfare of tho hep for arfin' when she said a bathing suit, and he would be a prisoner. The Palice, sensing somo- how his nose we like Mr. Bal brave man who would denounce as thing unusual, examined the bread four's. My booty boy's got Arthur
Balfour's nose, she starts singin'" immodest practically the whole of a
What a droll, what a daring de country's population. marintion of the great I
How true! Of course, it must
BRUNSWICK PANATROPES
AND
RECORDS
but one must
L. E. 8. Hodge.
Tel. C. 8639 K. 1422
TEL C.
асепте
and found the message.
Brought before. Ir. E. W. Hamil-
ton yesterday, the woman who was charged with running the lottery
be true. Is there not this impos- Pages" is the genuine work of a ing foreword signed simply. "Coon-genuine parlougmeid, and that the term of "| It is unusual for foreword was the genuine work of abuse was fined $100 or in default,-
two months' bird labour." counters so to sign their namen, a genuine countes. They even
The woman that this communicated, in strict confidence,
who brought the countess has a noble way all her the identity of the "Countess of message, was not charged, as Mr. Fitzroy, the Assistant Attorney being wanted the Police, is said to have found no ordinance on which to proceed
The bublisher BE CRATE THICHT Rivers, Ltd., declare that "Pantry (Continued at foot of next column),
merely for the sake of the counters
-one would shudder to betray,
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