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"All facial irregularities will one day be corrected by soarless surgery."
The Daily Sketch recently had the followint from its New York If this vision, described to correspondent:
Pell Mall Gazette representative Modern "Eves," who are lured by Dr. Zarroy R. Stoddart, an to the East by the bright prospect American beauty su cenu," ever of finding there planty of wealthy.ntaterializes, and at some future unattached males are given aage all human features are word in season by Mrs. Whitney Grecian and dawlessly perfect a Sperry, a weading San Francisce new race of critics gibing a rainst globetrotter.
Texture-man tong" will no doubt
Mrs Sperry has just returned he heard. And "O, for the sight from a 73,000-mile jaunt through !of an ugly man or woman," will the Urient, Antipodes and South be a world cry.
Sea Islands, during which she "Tremendous strides," said Dr. made a special way of all-Studiare, in an interview at the tions and prospects from the Savoy Hotel. "have been mile woman's point of view.
in facial surgery during the past **Women who go to the Orient five years. in search of husbands should|
-The war" stimulated this visit Java and shun China," she branch of surgery en irmously, declares.
and the great successes achieved
"Java is 3 happy hunting'during that period are being re. ground for the right type of, pested every day. woman. The island abounds with. The psychological effect of handsome, cultured Hollanders. physical perfection is extraordin who have gone to take theirjary, fortunes.
"Twenty per cent of my opera- There are golden opportuni-tions are performed upon men. ties for single women, but the I am convinced that these man beat is so intense in that part of do not come to mɔ mecals for the the East Indies that most white pleasure of looking hantome. wone: refuse to live there."
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CHINA'S HUMANITY.
Passing of the "Horse."
To the Editor of the.
North-China Daily News. Sir.-Tonight on the Bund a tricks. He with three other man die dropped dead in his
horses" was pulling a load of tin. The momentum, caused by In China, on the contrary, says A man with some slight im-the hurry to cross the road, could Mrs. Sperry, she met any pen-perfection. such as outstanding: not be arrested, the heavily load. niless English and American ears, does not feel at ease in com- ed truck hit him. He died. women who, erroneously-informa-pany: he feels that people are There on the street he lay
ed that there were more white looking at him; he becomes em-taking his last rest, and God men than women in that country, barrassed,
knows, his first. A noisy crowd had gone there to be married.
SOME ORCHID SECRETS.
"Consider how much at ease a gathered about him. held back man is," said Dr. Stoddart, "if somewhat by police who awaited he enters a drawing-room per- something: evidently an order fectly attired and groomed; and to move the body. then think how a little thing like; a hole in a sock can demolish all his self-possession.
Similarly, a facial deformity can warp, even lead to the de
struction of a man's career.
repute.
We all know his next move. It will be made in an unpainted coffin. Perhaps an old woman will accompany it, a mother, The Workings of Symbiosis,
Perhaps a wife, perhaps a child In any case whoever goes along Symbiosis is a condition off"I recently operated on a lawyer is a familiar picture, this poor. will be dumb with, grief. This conjoint life that is more or less of international benefical
He Chinese funeral, with its dry." to the associated safered from heavy, over-hang-eyed mourners, slain in the flesh. organisms. So the Professor said eyelids, his eyes were always at the British Association. half-closed. When engaged in the lived: Think of a bowl of rice
Think of the life this "horseTM Of many instances of symbiosis Supreme Court, he was acutely his all-and for this, he was ob one of the most curious noted conscious of his lowering, deform-liged to become a "horse." was that of orchids. Cultivators ed gaze. A slight operation, how, of orchids had found that success ever, corrected his deformity, and was obtained more frequently by to-day he is a diffezent planting seed in soil upon which cheers and buoyant.
man orchids had preriously lived, and "In fact," said Dr. Stoddart, "1 much secrecy was observed as to am convinced that it is the methods employed by the paychological effect which gives | more successful cultivators, Re-this form of surgery a Kreat search had shown that orchid legitimate future."
seeds did co
the
germinate in
vertain
absence of fungi, and each species of orchid
the
had a special species of fungus THE "EGYPT'S" GOLD. peculiarly adapted to it. The seed apparently emitted a secre- ition that attracted the fungus. This penetrated the seed and was eventually digested by certain of its-cells, and it was not until then that the seed germinated.
Salvage by Modern Methods.
The Swedish engineering which has set its hand to the raising of the sunken gold in the
amounted to something Oef us In the days when Turkey judge a nation by its heart) sho gave the donkeys one day a week to rest One whole day each
in the sun and live entirely. week these animals could stretch
Cannot China do something for her horses." and for all others in the "horse" class?
Why not schools for all these unfortunates? Even one hour a day in which to learn a little, an hour's respite from drudgery, why not? One hour a day would be seven hours a week. Not as much as the donkey had at one time, but something at least,
Any firm would be glad to give its workers a small chance like this. No firm would grudge an
Among the remarkable cases of symbiosis was that of the larvae. Egypt, has been experimen hour spent in this
Insaner.
of a certain beetle that formed ting with a specially equipped Three hundred and sixty-fire galleries in the word of pines submarine since May last. Now hours a year would lessen the The galleries had a characteristic that the wreck of the Egypt. has burden of the horse." blue colour, produced by the been located charts and diagrams The arguitent may be brought growth of a fungus ambrosia upon will be prepared: targets will be forward that it will make the their walls, the fungus being cul-selected in the Egypt's hall and coolie "horse" discontented to tivated by the larvae for food. An the gold seekers will batter a learn something. Let it. The. cven more remarkable instance breach in her sides with torpedoes. beginning of thought is rooted in was that of a termite in Madagas- What will happen therefter is a discontent. What a sloppy lot of ear that built numerous chambers dark secret only haif-revealed to degenerates we would be if we and galleries. It collected dead the business men who are backing were all contented with our lot! wood, chewed it up finely, swal- the enterprise. It is known,) lowed it and passed it out un-however, that a device of ca- tent will mean & struggle towards affected through th intestines in the form of xrazil
gutering, rivalling a dream of the light. No "horse" who re- spherical Jules Verne, will be prepared for ceives the right instruction in his masses cemented together as this phase of the task. It will hour will think of revolution. He porous cakes that were impre reach forth giant arms and grasp has late proof of the folly of this. nated with digestive secretions. the specie boxes where they lie Have not the enlightened classes Fungi developed on the cakes AR the
them. tried it out?
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and served
food the termites. and in well- jcared-for
left purser
The accumulation of discon-
Let us
for these steel fingers will bot We know well enough that the relax under the weight of sea habit of the Chinese mind is to neste the growth water which, st 65 fathoms plod along in peace. was harvested by the workers, would crush a diver's helmet. make the plodding a little more who ground up the mycelium me treasure will be lifted to the endurable. land spores and fed the young sea bottom and then raised to the Tsao Kun has just gone into larvae therewith, while older surface. No divers or diving office. Why not suggest to him larvae received spores and large appliances will be used. The the establishment of a chain of Jurvae received mycelium and the ground-up wood contained in the will succeed. It has been agreed
syndicate is convinced that it coolie schools?
No money in the Government cakes. A third example was that to spend £100,000. When the you say? It cost this president of ants who cultivated fungi over gold is raised £605,000 will go to: 15 million to get where he is. He areas of five to six square metres, the syndicate and £495,000 to should do something to justify and here the queen when about to Lloyd's who met the heaviest loss his value. A little less out of the found a new colony, carried away in the wreck of the Egypt. An huge squeeze pocket, a little less a small ball of fungus in a corner agreement giving effect to these for imitation soldiers, that is ail of her mouth wherewith to start terms has been signed on behalf Ife has the opportunity to e fresh culture in the new habitat. of the Swedish firm, three British start something" in China. No Luminiscent symbiotic bacteris insurance companies, and Lloyd's matter how he climbed the ladder, were present in various light- underwriters. The syndicate's be can live in the memory of the emitting animals and two species engineer considers that the work people.
of fish had recently been studied will last over three summers in the sea abous the Neither he nor Lloyd'e has the Banda Islands. The lumino s slightest fear that he will fall to örgen WAS a compact muss bring the gold to the surface. Ex of white to cream-coloured tissuet that lay just under the eye, the back of the organ being covered]
with a layer of black pigment attract and mislead its prey. which served to keep the light The natives of the district were from hising into the tissues of in the habit of cutting out the the fish. In one of the species organ and employing it as a bait the fish alternately turned the in might fishing, for it maintained light on and off, and it was aps its inminosity for about eight parently used as a searchlight to hours.
Will some one add his voice-to mine and sea what can be done for the "horse?"
Thanking you for space,
I am, etc., GERVE BARONTI, Shanghai, Oct, 19, 1923.
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