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SOCIAL

WOMEN'S PAGE

HOME OF R. L. S.

TO BE SOLD

Robert Louis Stevenson's family home in Edinburgh is shortly to come into the market. It is 17 Berjot Row 8 stone-built. Georgian-style house which, until his death recently, was the property of Lord Kinross,

The house An Howard Place where R. L. S. was born is now a Stevenson museum. But, the greater part of his childhood and early youth was spent at 17 Heriot Row. His "Child's Garden of Verses" was inspired in its nurseries.

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"For we are very lucky

With a lamp before our door

And leerle stops to light it

"As he lights so many more." The lamp-standard in question

is still there, attached to the area railings, but it is no longer in use, It has been supplanted by a more recent gas lamp-post: which Ameri- can tourists continually mistake for the original.

There is still living, in Edin- burgh, a retired postman who delivered letters at 17 Heriot .Row in Stevenson's time,

He is Mr. Robert F. Buchanan who remembers meeting R. L S. on the doorstep when he was at home during his father's last illness in 1887.

Mr Buchanan recalls the great man's velvet jacket and especially his fine, strong voice.

A MacDonald Play

'Man In Iron Lung Weds Former Sweetheart

"The man in the Iron hang." 29-year-old Fred B. Salte, was married to his former sweek- heart, Miss Teresa Larkin, aged 25, a few hours after obtaining a special Hcence, at the home of his father, the Chiengo millionaire banker:"

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Miss Larkin was his friend before he was affileted with infantile paralysis three years'

Snite is confident that he will ultimately recover. He is now able to breathe for one hour each day outside the iron lung. Part of the time he is allowed to sit up.

His courage has astonished doctors and nurses. Recently he visited Lourdes, where he made a pilgrimage to the Grotto of Miracles.

Picture taken when Fred Snite, jun, was best man at the wedding of his friend Terrence Dillon and his sister, Mary Saite. Misa Teresa Larkin (right) was mald of honour. Fred is seen in the mirror of his iron lung between the bride and groom.

NEWSETTES

LONDON, Aug. 10 (By Air Mall)— Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's sons and daughters are considering whether they object to a play called "Prime

A son, Frederick Kenneth. was Minister." The play is based born on Tuesday" to Mrs. Eva Lee. on the life of their father, and Mr. wife of Mr. F. H Lee, of the Jack de Leon wants to put it United States Life Insurance Com- on in London in the autumn.

pany.

14 Fu-chi, puppet Police Chief at was assassinated by

Chinese patriots on August 19. His body was taken by his family to Canton for burial.

The play has been written by a' Gray's Inn solicitor, Mr. Harold Rubinstein, who has been a play-Fatshan, wright by hobby since his first success "Consequences," in 1913.

He was sitting in the 1917 Club on the day in 1922 when Mr. Mac- Donald was elected to the leader- The death occurred in Singapore ship of the Opposition. In the on Aug. 11 of Mr.. Tan Soon-bin. middle of the excitement he turned JP Deceased was a son of the to Miss Rose Rosenberg, Mr. Mas Mr. Tan Jiak-kim, CMG., and Donald's secretary, to say what a was 57 years of age at the time of grand scene in a play it would make.

left

Miss Lean Slok Kheng, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lean Tab Toe, of Taiping, FM.S.. Malaya by the P. & O. Ranchi from Penang on Aug. 24, for Hongkong, where, she will further her studies.

The Executive Yuan decided at a regular meeting held in Chung- king on Tuesday to change the Kwangsi Provincial University into) a national university. Dr. Ma Chun-wu retains his post as Pre- sident of the University.

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Following

ад announcement his death. He was considered one made by the. Hongkong. Canton of the wealthiest Chinese, 'n and Macao Steamboat Company. "If you write it.", replied Miss Singapore and had large bus'hers that the s.. Fatshan will resume Rosenberg, “put me in." When he connexions.

wrote it, he did.

• FOR FIFTEEN YEARS

A combined camp for all troops of the Boy Scouts Association in

her run to Canton on August 29, a Large crowd of people gathered outside No. 127 Des Voeux Road Central, yesterday, to book their

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He started on the play soon Kowloon and the New Territories passages in advance. afterwards and has worked at It will be held on Aug. 25, 26 and 27. for fifteen years. From 1931 to near the Kowloon Tong Reservoir. 1937 he rewrote the last scene The Camp will be thrown open to every time Mr. MacDonald figured inspection on Saturday, Aug. 26. in a political' crisis.

between 3 pm, and 6 pm. Scouts acting as guards to the Camp will te stationed at the No. 7 Bus Ter-

With Mr. MarcDonald's death at sea it was rewritten for the last time.

minus.

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M, Charles H. Bingham-Powell, who has recently been appointed as an Architect for the Public (Photo by Works Department.

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THURSDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST

Pineapple Juice Cereal

Grilled Herring Raisin' Toast Coffee

LUNCHEON Tomato Soup Salmon Salad Baked Ham Parsnips Potato Balls Baked Cabbage Apple Pie Cheese

Tea

DINNER

Grillel Sardines Stuffed Baked Peppers

Asparagus Mushrooms au Gratin Creamed 'Spinach Raisin Pudding Coffee

RED COWS GIVE BEST MILK

Scientias investigation into the vitamin A contents of milk from. COWS of " different. colours undertaken by the Imperial Dalry Institute, Bangalore, has placed cows in the following order:

1. Pure-bred red-com.

2. Rlack cow...

3. White 'cow. ·

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In cross breeds the vitamin A value found was low,

COUPLE HANG FIVE HOURS ON PARACHUTE

A society polo, player, and his wife were rescued at New York World's Fair recently after spend- ing five perilous hours dangling from a parachute 1000ft, in the air. Tens of thousands of thrill- seekers watched the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cornelius Rathbone as, strapped to a small plank below the parachute, they were billowed by the breeze.

They were trapped at 11.30 at night and it was not until 4.30 the next day amid loud cheers from the crowd, that the frantic rescue efforts succeeded.

It was New. Yor's greatest drama since John Warde sat on a skyscraper's edge in Man- hattan and dived to death." The parachute jump is the amusement sensation of the fair. Although the Shanghai Post and consists of eleven parachutes office has not yet received an | which are pulled by cables to the order from the head office · in | top of a 250ft. tower and then Kunming to the effect that as released.

Pleading guilty to a charge of from September 1 postal rates of Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone were unlawfully boarding the 8.8. Vanimail destined for foreign countries being pulled upwards in the Heutsz, which was tied to buoy No. will be doubled, it was reliably parachute when the cables stalled. A4. on August 22, Choi Lim, 24, learnt on Aug. 16 that such a New York's highest Are ladder married woman, and eight other measure will most likely to be car- was run up, but it was 15ft, too women were fined $20 each, or, in red out. It was even held likely short. default, three weeks' imprisonment that "the dombestle, postal rates by Commander G. F. Hole, at the might also be increased, Marifie Court yesterday. Sub- Insp. Kellett prosecuted

"Cheer up, you'll soon be saved," yelled the crowd, who tried to throw cakes and "hot dogs" to the couple until stopped by the police.

FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS

One of the iron lungs presented by Lord Nuffield to various hos- The management of Messrs:pitals in the British Empire ar- Butterfield and Swire was sum-rived in Kuala Lumpur. F.MS., 011 moned before Mr. R. A. D. Fox-Aug. 11. It will bẹ assembled dur- rest, at the Central Court yester-Ing the week at the General Hos- day, on counts of failing to supply¦pital and will be tested by the the proper authorities with lists of Medical officers. The iron ng allen passengers arriving in Hong- for Ipoh, FMS was tested on kong by the ss. Chek King and Aug. 12. Altogether 5,000 iron Julia Banker, of No. 28 Wyndham the ss. Mui Nam on July. A fine lungs have

The forthcoming marriages are announced of Mr. David John Wills, office assistant, residing at No. 130 Tung Chol Street, and Miss

been distributed Street, and Mr. Regino Yap Chu-

of $50 on each count was imposed, through the munificence of Lordkee, staff member of the Minseng

Gowned in a beautiful oyster

Nuffleld.

Development Corporation, of No.

Shanghalanders were

happy

and five-cent notes especially printed for circulation in Shang-

to learn, that the new one-cent"

306 Castle Peak Road, first floor, satin creation cut on classical Zang Yu-ching, better known us and Miss Anna Young Kwei-on, lines, Miss Beatrice Henry made a "Two Ton Zang," the burly ex-nurse, of the same address. lovely bride as she walked up the butcher and pro-Japanese gang. alsle of St. Andrew's Cathedral n ster, formerly operating from the Stigapore on Aug. 12 to become New Asia Hotel in Hongkew," who the wife of Mr. Richard Cheney is wanted by the Settlement Police Joubert, Miss Henry is the young, for many bombings and shootings est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mal in Shanghal after the conclusion colm Henry, of Darsham, Suffolk, of the hostilitics, is reported to be England, and Mr. Joubert, son of dead. Quoting a recent arrival Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Joubert, from Nanking, a Chinese news face value of $500,000 and were comes from New York City. Hr agency reports that he was killed represents the firm of Waygood by seven Chinese gunmen in Nan- Otis Elevators in Malaya,

king on the eve of the August 13 Incident.

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Mr. David M. 8. Leong, of Penang, sailed from Singapore on

Shortly after 11 p.m. on Aug. 16, Aug. 12 by the F. & O. Rajputana six men, three of them armed with for Hongkong en route to the pistols, forced their way into the United States to continue his premises of a Chinese vegetable studies. He intends to enter the dealer within the Zikawel military University of Missouri School of zone and stole money and clothes Journalism, oldest and most valued at $754. When the wife of famous Institution of its kind in the dealer tried to prevent one of the world, where he will study the the things from leaving the pre- modern technique of newspaper mises, the latter hit her across work. Mr. Leong comes from a the head with the butt of his prominent Chinese: family in pistol, injuring her slightly. Fenang. He is the son of Mr. and French Concession detectives are Mrs Leong Eng Khean.

at present investigating the case.

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hat in order to relieve the small money shortage have already been“ shipped here. They represent expected to be circulated through the Shanghai Office of the Central Bank of China this week. The Shing Sheng News Agency had already obtained some sample notes. More such notes are being printed in Hongkong.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST

24, 1939.

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* Anything to deçines, Sir?”

." No,"

*There's nothing you bought at all?” "No."

"No presents ?" "No"

"Nothing at all ? **

Nothing, Unless .......

"Yes, Sie Unless ? *

“Unless you include a head like a rag "football dredged from a canal and a tasta in my mouth like mwaka in a railway turne

Our Paris repro- sentative entertained me rather lar ishly last night.”

"There le no duty, Sir, on hangover obtained abroad.”

“-1 wish there was, I'd refuse to pay. and then you'd have to confiscate it.”

"I'm sorry we can't help you, Sir. But might I suggest in future the advantages of a long glass of Rose's Lime Juice to wind up late nights? Rose's possesses therapeutic pro- perties which neutralise the -- morning after."

"This Ram'i really kills off kang overs? Hans they any in the Station

"Plenty, Sir Hi, Sir, come back- you've forgotten your bag."

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