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THE SUN BATH.

Mr. S. J. Jennings, writes to

the Daily News from Geneva:

GENERAL NEWS.

SAVING JAPANESE. Honolulu, Japanese in Hawaii If you take steamer trip" from are depositors of 16.27 per cent. one end to the other of the Lake of the savings in Hawaiian banks. sum-Chinese hold 9.82 per cent, and There of Genera on any sunny mer's day, it is probable that you Hawaiians 5.2 per cent.

of are 26 basks in the islands with will see & greater display human epidermis than in any depo-its less than $5.000.000. A GIDDY OLD THING. other trip of similar length at a similar distance from the aquator.

Though she is said to be 117 For smongst the peoples who years old. Betsy Arnold danced habitually wear clothes, the about the Verdun oak at the Swiss in summer-time probably liberty celebration at Bryngwyn show the greates: anxiety to fake with the youngest of them. When them off, and the man who at she was younger she was stronger than any man for miles around the earliest period of the season can exhibit a skin lanned prache Irish home and gained fame tically from head to foot to the for her weight carrying ability. deepest bronze, feels a genuine Lp to four years ago she smoked. pride in the achievement.

Let me take a typical instance

A CHILD'S PROMPTNESS. The prompt action of Ellen

of a sunbathing establishment on Norris. 11 years old, left in charge the shores of Lac Leman-to of four younger children. in try- give the lake is usual name,ing to save her sister, aged five.

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from death by burning was men- Walking along the avenue limes which skirts the shore oftioned at the Southwark Coroner's the lake at Geneva, you come Court recently an inquest on the presently, beyond the Jardinchild. Vine: Norris, of Mary- Anglais to a stone jetty which ebone. Ellen found Violet en- pushes out some hundred yards veloped in flames, and at once On the southern extinguished the flames, though into the lake. side of this jetty, sheltered from the breeze which usually blows too late to save her life. Violet. had been playing with matches down the lake. runs a wooden A verdict of Accidental death

was returned. platform, and lolling on this plat form. as well as on the jetty itself

PRIZED PROCLAMATIONS. ате men and in all attitudes.

Belgium has a prized collection boys basking in the sunshine.

light in the spirited proclamations only e Thes wear

issued by Burgomaster Max of drawers, bathing of "except a few of the elder men,Brussels, issued in 1914 before he

who have retained their hats. Passing the pay-box and looking over the low wall, you see over the four-foot canvas screen a fe yards away, a crowd similarly disembarassed of attire. but i more active mood. Some of them

practising

est

are

Another favourite method of taking the sun bath is in en open boat. This is more effective from the bronzing point of

over the

of

was taken into captivity by the Germans. German agents past- ed other placards proclamations as fast as they were discovered but the Belgians found a way to remove the Hun posters and preserve Max's sting- high-jumping,ing proclamations. Most cher- some putting the weight, some shed is that which urged Belgian Nearer the citizens to keep their flags in doing physical drill.

for the readiness

day edge of the lake, they are sitting about on the beach, but the num-reparation.

com- CHILD DEVOURED BY AN EAGLE. bers in the water are

From Perpignan comes a story The primary paratively few. object of the bathers is the "bain of an infant four years of age, who is supposed to have been d'air et de soleil."

carried off by an eagle and devoured in the mountains. The child disappeared three months view. ago from the village of Maranges, as one gets the reflection from near the Spanish frontier. An reveal the water. At certain parts of active seach failed to

of trace

the child. the day you may see rowing boats any filled with almost nude figures At last a group of villagers. dotted all about the lake, their who ascended the mountain occupants taking an occasional of Cancardus, looking for some plunge into the water and coming horses which had escaped, found Gut to row themselves dry. You the bones of an infant, some scraps! may see a man, dressed 'matoly of linen, and a pair of tiny sabots. in a straw hat and a pipe. sitting The unhappy parents were called, in a boat contentedly fishing. The and recognized the sabots as chose of their infant. Near the bones method is usually to row out and

was discovered a nest of eagles. undress in the boat.

It is suggested by "La Verite that while the child was playing in a field an eagle swooped down and transported the little fellow to its eyrie.

Apart from the pleasant sensa- tion of exposing the skin to warm sunshine, there is no doubt that the action of the sun's rays is highly benficial. AtLeysin, which, is almost as famous as Davos as a eure centre for tuberculosis, the

A LUCKY FIND. A store jar containing a num 'sun cure" is a definite and ber of old coins was found a few well-tried institution. The ex-days ago by a countryman of posure of the whole body to the Japan in the Saitama Prefecture. sun's rays is not so much employ- The discovery was made in a ed for pulmonary trouble as for peculiar way. The man was poor the surgical forms of tuberculosis. and, finding it more and mora and for, scrofula, arthritis and difficult to make ends meet, he rickets. The first clinic of this said a smalf godown belonging to kind was opened in 1903, aud the him. That step was taken some the build- results so far exceeded expect months ago, and

down and re: ations that two others were soon was taken added, and eventually about 15 moved. Quite recently he began annexes. Weak and anaemic ploughing up the land where the children are found to benefit warehouse bad stood, and un- greatly by the treatment, and so covered a mysterious-looking old accustomed do they become to jar. With much curiosity, he exposure to sun air that even in opened it and found therein, to winter they may be seen disport. his surprise, 480.gold koban, 280 the saw silver coins of various sorts, 420 ing themselves in toboganning or skating with no old Chiness coins and 200 coins more clothing than boots and of à Korean dynasty of the middle light drawers and white sun hats, ages. The lucky man duly re- boys and girls mizing indis- ported his find to the police The value of the criminately, as they do on. the authorities.

coins is said to exceed Y,50,000, -- balconies of the clinica,'

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919.

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GENERAL NEWS.

RETURNED TO SHANGHAL

Mr. Lawrence E. Kentwell. BA rister-at-law, who practised law in Shanghai in 1916 and 1917, and who has been for two years on war service in France, has just returned to Shanghai.

THE LATEST FAD, The latest fad of Londoners is to have houses painted inside and out with the "lucky colors" of the owner, which depend on the date of birth and are determined by reading occult books.

SANATORIUM FOR HANKOW.

The Chinese are to build a sanatorium for invalids at Hai- kow and the native papers report that one wealthy subscriber has donated $10,000. For this the Government has presented him with a stone tablet.

SKULL AND CROSSBONES. On both sides of the bridge at Tapton (Derbyshire) two large pillars, topped by the grim device of a skull and crossbones, have been erected by Alderman Mark- ham as a warning to motorists who have grown too familiar with the usual red triangle.

A STRIKING RECORD.

The departure from Singapore of Mr. H. W. Buckland, agent in Singapore of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, on Septem- ber 15, completes a striking record of service in the East. It extends over 32 years, made up as fol- lows: Suez 1837, Aden 1888 to 1990, Singapore 1891 to 1895, Shanghai 1895 to 1897, Yokohama 1898 to 1900, Singapore 1900 to to 1904, 1901, Hongkong 1901 Shanghai 1905 to 1906, Colombo 1906 to 1907, Singapore 1907 to 1919.

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PRESERVING THE BRITISH LINE. famous Paris. These points of the war, on the British line, which are marked for pre- servation: The Butte de Warien- court, the ruins of Bapaume, some of the destroyed monuments of Paronne, the Chateau of Thiepal and similar devastation points, the underground maze of Combles. the 'tanks' churchyard "at Pozieres, the "King's observation point" on Hill 80, near Givenchy. the Givenchy battlefield, and the famous slag-heap and "Tower Bridge" at Loos.

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AIR PILOTS LANGUAGE.

After observing the isobeis I struck an anabatic; and in a yawing moment stalled and near-) is smashed my carlingue." Which is another way of saying: *********** After, noting the lines of equal. duration of sunshine I struck a LTD.

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breeze coming up the valles, and

as the aeroplane moved angularly on its axis it came down with such a bimp that I nearly bottom the E-11 through of the nacelle." That's the way the educated airman will talk if he" considers the dictionary of the air brought out by the Royal Aeronautical society. And the society deplores colloquialisms the and current slang in vocabulary of the airman. Oh, my, yes! Here are some of the words which will be standard in his daily speech: Adiabetic, Tsobyets. Katabatic, Ombrometer, Parenthelion, Troposphere.

EUROPEAN AND OPIUM SMUGGLING.

At the Shanghai Mixed Court a few days ago before Mr. Tenny (American Assessor) and Magi- etrate Yui, William Frederick, unemployed, appeared on the following charge:-That he did on the 15th of September, 1919, attempt to import two tins of opium (weight 71 lbs.) into China; the opium being concealed in casks of fish imported on board the ss. Penza the said cargo being passed through the Customs by J. Magill and Co, who was employed by a Russian, one Nicholai, who stated he was: employed for the purpose by the accused, contrary to law (Chinese Criminal Code, article 66). It appears that the man Nicholai was charged on 26th September, before the Vice-Consul and Judge; with importing opium but was discharged after making the state- ment that he had been asked by Frederick to pass it through the Customs. The case was remanded;

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