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LADY ANNE WALPOLE'S

ENGAGEMENT

Member Of A Famous Family -Late Season Weddings-

New Coiffure Style

A descendant of the famous Georgian Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, is to be among the many notable brides the next few months. "

of

Lady Anne Walpole's engagement Palmer was announced recently.

to Mr. Joseph Eric As a little girl she and

emigrated with her father (when he was 74 years old) mother to New Zealand, he having aettled his Norfolk estates on a distant relative, a boy at Eton."

Lady Anne's mother, the Coun- They will marry also within a tess of Orford, who lives in De- few days of each other, and will

brothers-in-law

South-

S.0.S. Note From Lost Aviatrix

"HAVE WATER: BUT NO FOOD"

Amelia Earhart's Appeal For Aid

Ten days ago, four boys in Beverly, Mass., turned over to the police a note they reported finding in a bottle in the Bass River, which appealed for aid for. "A Earhart", somewhere "off Wake Island."

an

PART OF JAW CAME AWAY WITH TOOTH

Claim Against A Dentist Fails

Success Of Blind In Professions

LORD BALDWIN'S

PRAISE

Successes of blind boys in the professions and in winning prizes in competitive examinations were mentioned by Mr. B. O. adnack, headmaster of Worcester College, Worcester, the “Eton of the blind.” Mrs, Mabel Annie Hetty Wadiow. He was spearing at the opening. of Chestnut-avenue, West Wickham | by Earl Baldwin, of a new wing of Kent failed in an action in the the college. King's Bench Division against Mr. N. S. Heegaard Warner, dental sur-said, had in the past two terms geon. of Station-road. Sidcup. won the Younger, Prise for the best whom she sued for damages for law studen; of his year, ut Balliol Injuries alleged to have been re- ceived in a dental operation

Among others about -30 were The case was heard before the sing solicitors, eigh; were tea- ministers of religion, 16 were prac Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewartchers, and 16 were in practice ás and a special jury

Mr. H. Lester, for Mrs. Wadlow

One "old boy," Mr. Braduack

masseurs,

In three sports at leas:--swim-.

They also sought to develop a

arts of civilisation for bling to A doctor and nurse were in at-mixer" was the most difficult of the "social sense." Producing a "good

acquire..

vonshire, is a vicar's daughter, berome, through one of the mar-wondered how the message could said that in September, 1937, she

D. S. Coast Guard oficials who helped her father in the rages. work of his parish near

have doated from Wake Island in went to the British Dental Hos-ming, rowing and chess-In whien "ampton.

They are the polo peer, Vis-the Pacific, around Cape Horn, uppital, Lewisham Park, to have four their pupils were doing exception- count Cowdray, ton-playing cap-the Atlantic Coast, and upstreams Warner that she had trouble be-needless luxury, This future bride has an intain of the British

teeth extracted. She teresting step-sister in

team

told Mr. ally well, sight seemed an almost the

ex-visited America. and

which in Bass River, but ordered plorer Lady Dorothy Mills, whose of the team.

a member Investigation.

fore when having teeth attended travels

Mr. Include

John an adventure) who is marrying Lord Cowdray':] printed in pencil on cheap, block

Lakin, The message was undated and to He made no reply. among a cannibal tribe in West youngest sister, the Hon. Daphne paper, was as follows: "Am off the tendance. Gas was administered coast of Wake Island. Lat. 120, and the next thing she knew was to long 117: Have some water, but nol hearing Mr. Warner say to the the food. Please notify George Putnam doctor: "It is going to bleed." week up. pra (husband of Amelia Earhart, the

Mr. Warner told her the case in missing avatrix)

was unusual and that when the or Coast Guard.""

tooth came away" another came with it and a part of the jaw.

Africa

Among ancestors of Lady Anne

Pearson

Miss Pearson's wedding la Horatio Walpole, brother of take place in the celebrated

town after Horace: Immor-London Season breaks talised by his "Letters." and his bably during the first home at Strawberry Hill, where August.

is

he printed his own works.

An August Bride"

Two bridegrooms hurried back to England from America.

TUESDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST

Grapefruit "

Cereal:

Scrambled Eggs

Doughnuts"

Coffee

LUNCHEON

Chicken Gumbo Soup

Spring Onion Salad

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes

Stewed Corn & Kima Beans

Creamed: Spinach..

Popovers

Water Melon. Iced Tea

DINNER Fruit Cocktali

Beet Salad Roast of Lamb Celery Dressing

Buttered Peas Glazed Carrots

Peach Ple

Coffee

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She will be one of

the very few important brides of the last 20 years to choose August as her wedding month.

Mid-Morning Parties

Unusual ld-morning given at a West End cinema and a concert hall made up part

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

Wadlow

fainted

Value Of "Talking Books" Lord Baldwin, in declaring the new buildings open, said that the Pilgrim Trust, of which he was a trustee, had given £500 for three years to a fund for the production of what were called talking books. That seemed to the trustees a way, give an added opening to good no to supercede Braille, but to

Bterature-literature that would'

stand reading aloud slowly so that it could be easily digested.

Addressing the boys, Lard Bald- sometimes wonder whether there win said some of them might was room for them in a big com-

FAINTS IN WITNESS-BOX He also told her that there was a large hole in the gum which The following forthcoming mar and sent her to hospital. Mrs. would take three months to heal partiesriages are announced:- Mr. Wilfred

while Alexander Reed, evidence and was attended to by giving of clerk, Command Headquarters, and a doctor. a recent programme "for those Miss Anna Joaquina D'Almada e who did not go to Ascot for the Castro, of No. 4, Granville Road;

In cross-examination, Mrs. Wad- final day.

Mr. George Wrighton Askham, tooth extracted it was found to low said when she had a "wisdom" Lady Howard de Wälden held Salvation Army officer, of No. 31. have "twisted prongs." "She had a party in the foyer of the British Concession, Shameen, and now quite recovered except for petitive, world. He was convinced Queen's Hall during an interva: Miss Alice Wilkinson, Salvation nerves." in the dress rehearsal for the Army officer residing at the Y. W. Georgian Music Festival.

C. A., Rangoon, Burma; Her daughter. Countess Orloff- Mr. Chan Sia-wai, engineer, of Davidoff, who is herself a musi-No. 378,, Nathan Road, third floor jclan, looked in, sensibly clad for and Miss Cheung Bo-king, of No. a rainy morning in a grey flannel 13, Yim Pa Fong Street, second Mr. Yeap Choong- yow, teacher She set an interesting and very and Miss Alice Ko, of No. 173. of The Red House, Pokfulam Road becoming new hair fashion. Her Bal Yee Street, third floor.

striped suit.

"

Novel Coiffure Style.

close-fitting

swathed

which covered her hair

turban, at the

Jack, was .of grey Jersey, and

door, Kowloon;

that there was ample room for

Mr. Wamer stated that the ex-them to play a part, where they but, to his surprise, a part of the low men and women. The miracle traction seemed to be very easy. would be a real help to their fel-. jaw and ant her tooth came away.of blind people was their poise, The bone was very thin where it their content and their inner hap. surrounded the roots of the teeth: piness. They put to shame those in cident which could not have been

Lord Hewart: This was an ac-possession of full health. the world? That is so. avoided even with the best skill in

I!

JJ

Summing-up, Lord Hewart sold MAN & GIRL OF

that the jury might think that no

degree of preparation beforehand

Viscount Runciman, presenting

or

any further degree of skill

she had taken a single lock of the prizes at Tururo School, told would have prevented the occur- her gold hair and curled it back the boys that what would

across the top, keeping it in place them most happy in

make rence. with tiny hairpins,

this Dress ac- was the pursuit of great

world The jury, without leaving the cessories were of yellow suede.

causes. box, found for Mr. Warner, and No pleasure could be greater than judgment was comradeship in that pursuit. with costs.

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17 DEAD IN LORRY

entered for him. Coroner's Comment

On Suicide Pacts.

NEWSETTES

The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster.]

A daughter was born to Coun- K.C., O.BE, Attorney General, tess Howe, wife of the well-known celebrated his birthday yesterday. racing motorist. Lady Howe, who was formerly Miss Joyce Mary Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer Maclean Jack, was married to of Health, also celebrated the Lord Howe in 1937. anniversary of his birth, yesterday.

Mr. E. I Wynne-Jones, Past master-General, will celebrate his birthday to-day.

•

Insp. J. R. McWalter, of the Hongkong Police, will observe his birthday anniversary to-day.

Sir Cyril Norwood,

Suicide pacts were the subject of comments by Mr. E. F. Hadow, the coroner, at the inques; at Kehll- worth on Ernest Compton, 35, haulage contractor, 3 married man, of Hurst-lane. Castle Brom- wich, Birmingham, and Joan Phil ston Green, Birmingam. lips, 17, of Mackadown-lane, Mar-

the men's lorry in a wood near The couple were found gassed in Kenilworth.

Recording a verdict that bota committed suicide while the President balance of their minds was distur...

of St. John's College, Oxford, at bed, the coroner sald that it was the prize day at Magdalen College cbviously a suicide pact, and ad- School, Brackley, Bald

the first dedjel thing boys at school had to learn was to be fit.

..

This raises an interesting point from the coroner's point of view.. but, unlike most coroners, I prefer

Rear-Admiral Thomas Charles to take the common-sense point. Hart Janded in Shanghai last of view The wedding took place in Holy week to be greeted by the driving Trinity Cathedral, Shanghal, of rain and blustering winds of the the girl had died, he would have If the man had survived, and Mr. Herbert John Murray Cook. forerunner of a Shanghai typhoon. been charged with murder-in-

son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cook, As he stepped out of Admiral cidentally, he would have got on of Shortlands, Kent, and Miss Yarnell's barge, which had con- In his case, of course we must re- Audrey Parker, daughter of Col-veyed him and his family, from turns verdiet that he committed onel W. Parker, DSO, and Mrs, the s.8. President Coolidge to the suicide by gassing tumseif Parker, of 5 Headfort Place, Lon-Customs Jetty, the slight, the sun- don, 8. W. 1. Dean Trivett off-tanned. Rear-Admiral was con- ciated. The honeymoon will be fronted by a barrage of cameramen spent in Hongkong.

and was ushered into town with a salute of clicking cameras.

...

May Have Consented

fact that she may have consented "On the question of the girl, the to allow the man to gas her has The exhibition of famous oll

nothing very much to do with it. paintings by European artists, The following passengers left would be to say that the man "I believe the usual verdict. comprising landscape, portrait and Hongkong by the sa. Taisang for murdered the girl. But I am not still life subjects, which opened at Haiphong on July 22: Mr. Y. B. prepared to say so, on these St. John's Cathedral Hall on Sun-Lee, Mr. Vlon Tie-pong, Mr. Wang. grounds I don't know, and you day afternoon, will be continued Mr. Qu, Mr. and Mrs. Hemming- don't know, whether the girl put to-day from 8 am to 6 pm. way, Mr. and Mrs. Y. C. Wong, the pipe on, or whether the man Twenty per cent of the total pro-Miss Lee, Miss Lau Wai-m, Mr. put it on, You cannot say who ceeds of sale of these paintings Yeo Tak-koon, M., B. S. Youan murdered the other." will be donated to the St. John Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Teun. Mr. Ambulance Brigade Association,

It was stated that the two went Randall, Mr. V. V. W. Fretwell, Mr. away together last year and did A. B. Moulton, Mr. G. Townsley, not return for some days In Members of St. David's Society Mr. Ble Hiem-koh, Dr. J. O. Hala, December Tast Compton tried to (HK) are reminded that reserva- Mr. 8. M. Loh, Mr. C. L. Yao, Misagaa himself. To try to break the tions for the launch picnic to be Tang Yong-mel. Miss Tseng Hign association the held on August Bank Holiday, chu, Mr. Andre Ruyters, Mr. Woo moved to a house farther from Monday, August 7, 1939, should be Garr, Mr. Thomas 3. J. Wang, Miss the Compton home.

giri's mother forwarded to the Hon. Secretary H F. Godine, MissChong Kel- A note found in the lorry in the. as soon as possible in order to mins, Mrs. J. Wu and three chili's writing said, "Don't think facilitate the necessary arrange-dren, Mr. and Mrs, Bimon and we are cows ments. The launch win leave three children. Mr. and Mrs. Bem led us this way. We have waited so Kowloon Police Pier at 2.16 p.m. Pul-giu. Mrs. Wang and child Mix hug. The tim

It is our love that and Queen's Pler at 230 pm. T. Y. Fang, Mr. Bouen Ta-tohen:41 Borry

hes how come to be this we

TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1939.

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"Meredith, I want to make my wi❘ My fox-head scarf-pin to my Uncle Philip, unless he remantics. My col- lection of film'stars' portraits, auto- graphed, I leave to the Mea: To my faithful butler, Albert Hawkins, the contents of my cellar .....”. "But, Lord Henry, in't this rather sudden? It was only last night that! `chaned to catch right of you in Ergens Street on the roof of a taxi-isk, sound. "ing a fanfare on what appeared to be

a hunting-horn."

"Don't remind me of it, Meredith If you only knew how I feel. Not morsel of food has passed my lips since, a brace of devilled bones xi- three a.m.

"I am indeed· worry to hear that,

Lord Henry, but in all my long ex- perience I have seldom known a hang- over prose fatal. Are you not cagnisant of Bost's Lime Juice?"""" "I think so, why ?".

Because the said Rose's, whether taken ds"Gin and Lime” ar consumed · before bed, does, by virtue of in therapeutic properties, neutralise the aftereffects of alcohol and render hangovers unil and void."

www.

Is this true, Meredith ? M: "Tam speaking, Lord Henry, as your soliciter."

Thank you, Merall, fmm the bottom of my heart. You have given me fresh hope, Bellové me, when !; de come to make my will you ahal not be forgotten.”

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