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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BRIDES-LES-BAINS.

The Kingdom, of the Fat:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928.

FAULTY LIFEBELTS.

Danger Of Breaking One's Neck.

A FELINE GUARDIAN.

How Pussy Shepherded the Chicks.

The fame of Brides-les-Bains, where the season is entering on. To the Editor of the Times. The other day the writer had Fit tast phase, rests upon its

Sir. On my return from a the good fortune to witness an medicinal spring, writes n Times voyage to the East 1 had made up unusual and amusing incident of errespondent. Without that pot my mind at once to ask youja cat's devotion to a head of The mother hen ent attraction it would be merely whether you would be good young chicks. beautiful a clustering townlet in enough to give publicity to alwas penned with her family. 19 ja grand valley. Here Savoy be-letter on the subject of lifebelts.jin all in a slatted-fronted coop

gins to grow stern and abrupt as delayed writing, but am doing nearby a shallow pand. it mounts to the Italian frontier. so now after a conversation with | Brides has only standing room one of the survivors of the the chicks began to errep It was early mora, and one by between towering slopes wooded Lusitania. During my voyages, through the slats until ar elad with vines, which lead the passengers were subjected to adventuring on the edge of the straight upwards to the rude weekly lifebelt drill, and on each

was that Mr. pond. Then it peaks and dazzling glaciers of Lafoccasion the principle of the Whitetip, who was stitting some Vanoise.

apparatus came up for discussion, little distance away in a watchful Brides is indeed the Bethesda not only amongst the passengers attitude came into action. of the Obese. Aix with its themselves, but with members of

innumerable distractions may the crew. Though a few of us! First of all, he ran round the draw the indifferent to the treated the drill seriously and whole brood.. gathering them to [ritual of its establishment. The learnt how to fix the belts to our|gether after the manner of a |great majority of those who come bodies, the general opinion Was sheep-dog shepherding a fack pf to Brides conte of single and, that in case of a serious accident sheep, and proceeded to cleverly weighty purpose.

to the ship not one of us would drive them towards the coop.

The early morning parade at care to make use of the apparatus where the old hen was clucking the spring is a revelation of bu- if there were the remotest chance wildly man Strength and human weak- jof having to jump overboard. The

ness. They come in their scores, belt, of very hard material, isi He succeeded in getting them unwieldy forms, having arisen passed over the head, and so fixed all in, when one, more venture- with what he reulean effort from round the neck that the front some than the rast, made a fur- their beds, sweeping or balancing portion bears hard up underneath ther dash for liberty.

to their duty! Some are of the chin, and the least upward The cat waited for a seconds. -ice to cheer the heart of any jar causes a considerable amount then he quiets slipped behind the travelling showman, and have all of pain. Withsuchanarrangement.coop, crept along by some bushes, the grim persistence of their it is obvious that if a passenger before the astonished chicken bad Sixteen eighteen stone. Others were to jump overboard from a time to believe it. White:ip had bear their bulk with almost height, the sudden impact under-seized the ball of fluff in his sprightly resignation. Others neath the chin would be so great mouth an gently carried it back ain. fat enough in all co-las to cause almost certain death to the safety of the brood. science, take obvious rouzage from due to a broken neck.

the fact that they are fant the. I discussed the matter very This performance was repeated fattest of the throng. These are fully with various senior officers, several times, each time the the real obeses but, in addition te and they informed me that they cat rounding up the chicks und there, there is a well-represented would not for this reason ever driving them back to the coap. glas of bath

to whom, dream of jumping into the water middle-age has heralded its with a lifebelt round their necks.

Lafter

chase,

more.

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But as the morning advanced and the reapon-ibility began Lappoach by a mere strutening. Many of the passengers, who toteli, he İmrame erufty.

There are ladies en whose anxi gave the matter any considera- Getting them back once lous faces it is written that a mere tion at all, ridiculed the lifebel: halfenone the less would spell re- drill, remarking that they would

particularly strenuous br settled himself juvenation.

Is it only fashion prefer to jump overboard and down by the vide That has decreed the straight chance a swim rather than run lines of their cloaks, the risk of almost certain death up, and as each chick made to mailing "of their be a broken neck. Only three me nut he tapped it with his chiru * These certainly did not digs ago, I was discussing the Paw. 484 gentle reminder he was n the watch. In this way he blink the truth before they made subject with a survivor of the the public, though usually super Lusitania: she had her lifebels within bounds, and from

succeedle in keeping the family emgatory, confession that theirjon, but as she actually went down presence at this place entials.

with the ship the jar on her neck dangers of the pun·l. was only slight. She was in the E.G.H. in Ex..

the

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War.

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It frequently asserted,"

A SUBJECT RACE All who come to Brides are not water for an hour. her chin being! Shit. There are some wan and forced upwards by the front pr werged oking Folk to whose hit-ition of the belt, and to such an den maladies one trusts the extent that ever- to-day he IS THE BBIE READ. waters will bring relief. Others cannot turot her head quickly

will the layman

suspect with out experiencing consider- residence in unhealthyable puta. She believes that Sales During and Since the climes. Such these are many d

the passengers who however, mere ghosts beside the perished in the Lusitania disaster, ponderable reality of the fallfand whose bodies were found) There is a proverb that in the Heating with their heads abovej kingdom of the blind the one the water, had met their death the Imily Telegraph, that eyed men is king. It is utterly through bruken nork caused by people nowadays do not read their Bibles as did their forbears." refuted by conditions as on the sudden and very severe observes them here. Brides is impact of the 15-belt. I believe That is not in accordance with the veritablekingem the if a challenged the experience of the British and Stout, but, so far from the lean with the offer of a substantial their circulation of Bibles and Foreich Bible Society. Last year enjoying a meciul reteem, they prize. to a director of any of the Welsh was 317.000 more than in are a mere subject race. The hipping engubanies, De dominion

Sher weight is inte

Jump 1941, the total being 1,101,574. Wister fre-s J height undisputed. I: is ever, one of from 10. with

In each of the first three year's guesses, based on metal grounds the modern fiebelts mund his after the war the English and The ruling majority seam to te neck, that he would deeline to Welsh circulation fell below gard it as disinventions. covers. "make the attempt.

10,000. This decrease water and wen nasocial.

The lifebelt, if properly design-garded as temporary, and wa slight. Do not they them-

́ed, such that it is attachelander [not unexpected, for during the selves exhibit their credentiais neath the arms, instead of hardwar the numbers went up fron

the pubiir Code?

Wh up underneath the chin. would 1,374,504 in 1913 1 more than then are these who display, an give to every passenger a feeling 2,000,000 annually in 1914, 1913, patent reason for their intrusight of security and confidence, where and (915, and to 1,75,000 in 1917 Reversing the common order as today, in case of a sudden and 1913. Last yea's advance the thin se conscious of their emergency, where many passen after the temporary

set-back condition and only pa rewig tegers would jump into water, the points, the society states, "tha ried the centre of the path to choice seems to rest between revival of Pibl-reuling in the those who can samply fill it death by drowning, without homeland." One realizes acutely what authorį lifebelt, or a broken neek with a ity mere phisical size can wield.lifebelt. especially if it is marsh illed inj

strength.

he

Yours truly.

Very significant of the word- wide influence of the Bible are MARIA'S DEACON.the society' figures of their issues Then. again. in the long dining Westminster, Sept. 1.

in all linguage for the past The century and quarter. verendah of the principal hotel it!

figures are summaries of totals

is the thing to have on one's

by

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[table 1 purple cardboard-tream, unyielding, it may be. as at intervals of twenty-five years, box containing the breada end of steel is launched upon and include Bibles, Testaments,

which alone the stour the

unprotected person. Man and portions of the Scriptures: -- should ise It would be bad and element are, for a few m1809 -81,157 taste to flaunt butter, or to usements, in sharp and swaying 1833 736,841 1908 -5.588,381 the sugar-dredyer to freely be conflict, until just as it seems 1858 -1.602.187 1022-23 8,679.384| fore those to whom such perilous that the element must win. and

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comestible are taboo. If the thin the man be swept bodily from his Take, too, the test of tran-la- are misguided enough to desire feet, the hose is lowered, and a {tion. Homer has been rendered! them, let them be consumed in glowing and thankful human into more than a score of foreign. shame and secrecy in the bed-seeks his towels

language and Shakespeare into room? The Commonwealth of This then is the Incal practice nearly forty. Both together fell Brides is under the rigid con-of our ancestral faith in water. far short of the translation of the stitution of the Diet. All things Whether that faith he fully justi- Bible. for the Gospel has been mave by prescription, and bold fed in this instance or whether.actually printed in more than 700, would be he who slighted the under a similar regime, the pure different fortas of human speech, established order.

stream that flows at such cast and the Bible Society, as their into our Loador baths might not share of this vast work, has help- There is of course, the thermo-produce equally satisfactory re-ed to spread the message in 558 Opr al establishment common tsults others must decide." The fact languages and dialects. most "cures." Thither the major remains, however, that discipline representative was shown recent- ity repair at their set hours, and in this, as in all else, counts. ly the society's library in Queen are douched and massaged for Moreover, the general belief up-Victoria-street which contains their speedior reduction. It is a holds the weaker brethren. There more than 16,000 books, all of clean, airy place whence conie was one presumably thus sap them having some portion of the cheerful sounds of splashing. The ported at the spring recently. Scriptures, in 700 languages. penetralia are not for all, but He weighed at least eighteen

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