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THE BELIEFS OF SIR

JAGADIS BOSE."

Imagine a small, compact, grey- London names are not always haired Indian gentleman, dressed The mail service to Samshul, Wischow and Kongmoon is rosumed

quiet and yet full of smiling At the request of the Director General of Posts, Peking, the 22 what they seem. For instance, if in conventional London clothon Parcal Post Service with Chinn has been postponed until 1st October, one were asked how the name

Hammersmith was derived, one energy; in his dark face he has would probably scoff at the east-somehow the look of a soldier. Bosida him is his boautiful Indian noss of the question.) Duo,

wife in hor native costume, lovely" September 3.

But the anawer, according to with its bronze and gold; sho had .September 3.

Gertude Burford Rawlings in a very peaceful, happy expression, .September 4.The Streets of London" (Geoffrey Lady Bose has been the comrade .September 0.

of her husband, Sir Jagadis Chan! September 6. Bles) is as follows: September "Here was a Celtic settlement dra Bose, FR.S., in his great scien-

'tile work, September 7 whose members lived in, plle- September September 10 dwellings. Later, the convenient September 13. creek doubtless attracted Danish September 11. pirates and gave them good har

bour. An English or Danish Hama (r) probably gave his name to this mythe, or junction of two

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Parcels 3rd Sept. 5 p.m. Macedonia Sat, Sept..4. ...9.46 a.m. Registration Letters

..10.30 4.30. (Due Marseilles 1st October.) Mingseng

Sat., Supt. 4. 6 p.m.

streams

You would say there is nothing.

in the appearance of Sir Jagadis to be spcake him the gentus. A man who with wonderfully deli- cate instrumente is discovering in- nermost secrets of plant life. "The

old mystics,” he says, “"perceived" the unity of life. All-gcientific. men have supposed that on the one hand animals and on the other hand plants represented two streams of life, having nothing in common. This is wrong. Plants have feelings as animals have. They respond to what goes on

Malefactors of Fulham. Cripplegate is another instance The author says: "Tradition has it that cripples formerly frequented Sat, Sept. 4, 5 p.m. this gata in the City wall for the Sat, Sept. 4,5 p.m. purpose of bogging. But the more Sun., Sept. 6, 0a.m. likely derivation is from about them? Sun., 9 a.m. Mon, Sept. 6, 6pm. crepel, erypele, an underground 7.passage, and great street or way Luca., Sent, 7

10 am. and it is believed that a protected 11 am way between two low walls ran Mausang..Tues, Sept. 7, 12,80 Pfrom the gate to the fortification Kotsu Marn Wed., Sept. 8, 8.30 .m.

Suiyang

Kweiyang Pres. Grant Kaijo Moru Szechven Takada

Sarpodon...

Parcels Letters

known as Barbican."

you get many life flashes of humour from Sir Jagadis, whose lectures on the Continent, and now in London, have challenged the attention of the scientifle world. As I spoke to him a personage Dwellors in Fulham will be in- from a country which had better. Wed, Sept. 3. Registration 9.45 am. terested to learn that the most probe nameless came and asked him, Lettoza (Due Marseille 10.30 am.bable derivation of the name is "When are you coming back to

October.)

from ful, which "in the Anglo- my country?" Fooshing Wed, Sept. 8, 3.30 pm. Saxon laws means an unconsecrat-

......Wed, Sept. 8, 5 p.m. Tiikerang Thurs., Sept. 0, 11.80 a.m.ed place of burlal for malefactora" ...Thura,, Sept. 9, 8.30 a.m. Fulham, therefore, may have been Kueichow..Thurs., Sept. 9, 2.30 p.m. a criminals buryingplace, which Chenan...Fri, Sept. 10, p.m.

Sat

Sept. 11. gave its name to a later ham or

..Noon homestead."

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Sunning

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"Never came the reply, in the serene voice. "Honestly, you have too many noisy people, and you are too exhausting 1"

Sir Jagadio told me of his in- stitute in Calcutta, where any man. or woman of any race can go and Fetter-lane la not so simple as study with him on condition that it may appear. "Stow calls it they devote their whole life to Fewter Lane," says the author, what Sir Jagadis regarde as "Fewter, or idle people, lying supremely important work for the

All discov President Pierce .....Sat., Sept. 11. there. Faitour' in English meant benefit of humanity.

an imposter or a fortune-teller." eries there must be made public: Parcels..... Noon. Registration 4.16 p.m. Holloway, on the other hand, once when he himself was offered Letters 5pm.provides very much what one a large sum of money for an in- (Duo San Francisco 6th October.)

would expect...

vention his only reply "was, "I Chinhua

...Sun Sept. 12, 8.30 a.m. Kanchow.....Mon, Sept. 18, 5 pm.

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"The Hollow Way, now the Hol-would rather sell my wife." loway-Road, lies in a depression,

His is the serene Oriental philo- Tues., Sept. 14. and parts of it, are still consider Registration 1.45 p.m. ably below the level of the footway sophy; for among his other day. Letters2.80 p.m.

on either side, which is approachings were: (Due Marseilles 16th October).

"You can never find truth until' ed by steps. In the time of Ed- Kwongsang Wed., Sept. 15, 10.30 a.m.

ward III. the way was kept in your mind, after long discipline, Taiping

Parcels 16th, & Prepair, by a hermit, who was is dropped to a state of lothargy

Parcels

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travellers."

You suitable for meditation. must learn life's lesson until your mind comes to rest?"

There are romantic names, too-

"One must never be diverted by unexpectedly romantic at times-personal ambition",

"One must reach the point such as Begay-Stroet, B.2.

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"Bessy was the 'Beggar's Daugh- where one car wipe out all the ter of Bednall Green, celebrated in littlenesses which distract pro- an. Elizabethan ballad. She left gress: then only can one help to her parents, and went away salve mankind; this idea is twenty-

THE CHARLESTON, backward" one, repeated ad lib. through Stratiord-le-Bow-to seek five-cartaries old."

which has been borrowed from a her fortune, and took service at He is what we foxtrot variation and given a Char-Romford. The only one of her dreamer, as well as a great leston time and characteristle suitors who did not despise her for scientist. He does not like to be Charleston foot "equiggle."

her apparent poverty and humble called a mystic. "We must not

CAN BE VERY BAD OR VERY GOOD.

don is really wonderful city,

It is this "squiggle" of the feet, birth found that under the guise confuse truth with mysticism," he Truth is simple: it can from which we have a great deni. A great deal of nonsense is al-done from the lace and hip, with of a blind beggar, her father was says.

tive.

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I asked him how he could find. out what goes on in the feelings

sale. Mortgages arranged. Flats BRINDISI, PORT SAID, MASSAUA † display are of the same name, for quent on the strain and fever of of the managements of dance in 1679. There is no reason to but to make them. tell us, Bay,

Houses, vacant; we have good tenants immediately available for other houses & flats in suitable localities: See ade. in S. C. M. P. and Daily Press. Small Investors Tel. C.4630.

ADEN, KARACHI, COLOMBO,

PENANG and SINGAPORE,

Steamership

between the firms.

to learn. In the matter of win ways talked about dances old and the toes switched rapidly in and the wealthy Henry de Montfort, be found out: mystery comes of dow dressing, for instance, the big now. The one-stop, in its origin- out, carrying the body, which must son of Simon de Monfort, Earl of the little we have yet discovered." American storekeeper cannot al form known as the Turkey-trot, be kept still from the waist up, Leicester, who had been left for And his is a worshipful scientific afford to miss visiting London," was hotly casailed by morallata with a rocking movement alightly dead after the battle of Evesham." mind. "The place of knowledge Soho, if not romantic, is cheer-ls not in the laboratory, but in the said Mr. Joseph Charles taas, pre- and dancing masters alike. The from side to side, balancing, which sident of the Lyons California waltz, an adaptation of a- charm opens the Charleston to the charge ful. "Said to be so called," we temple," he said to me." I insist It can soare told, "because the hare was that religion and knowledge are Glace Fruit Co., of San Francisco, ing peasant dance of Southern, of rank bad taste. to an Evening News representa- Germany, was characterised as easily look like the too-slick, too-formerly hunted here, when the grossly indecorous. It made its deft, too-ostentatious dancing of a cry was Soho! as in fox-hunting it Mr. Rass bought, just as it way against a storm of opposition, "jazz boy," with his too-pointed is Tallyho!"

and despite the imperative bans patent shoes, his too-waisted, coat, Knightsbridge, which has such a of a plant or a tree. stood, the window display, in the of indignant mothers and seand-and his super-Oxford "bags," in a lofty and romantic sound, comes "invent,' he replied in his Lyons Corner House in Coventry-alised clergy.

flashy third-rate dance hall.

down a peg. "Early in Henry slightly broken English “instru- street, W.

The original foxtrot, born in the And it is the non-progression of 111's reign this appears as Cnich-ments to make the plant tell. "On my next visit to Europe I first strains of syncopated music, so much of the Charleston dance tebrugge, which appears to mean Your finger can no more speak

'servingboy's bridge." "

than can a plant, but give it an shall spend most of my time in was for a long time believed by it can be made as progressive [London," he continued.

Roman Bath-street "is supposed electrical shock and it twitches. "It is a many to be a disgusting and de-as the foxtrot-and the tendency curious coincidence that my firm grading affair, one of the singular, of bad practitioners to kick their and that from which I have and not the least ominous, symp heels up and hit some one near, to have been the frut bagulo or That is the pulse of response.. bought this wonderful window toms of national ill-health conse- which comprise the objection some wam bath in England, established Plants have the pulse of response, suppose that there was a Roman their sensations when a cloud there is no connection whatsoever the world-war. Even now there places have to it,

bath here."

passes overhead, we must, of are good country folk who feel a A Case for Moderation.

course, magnify our means of per distinct disquiet when they por- It can, however, be a very quiet

Popular from Birchest

ception artificially by delicate in- There is, I believe, a sort of ceive that "this jazz dancing" now and charming dance.. But that

struments." belief among some American busi-monopolises most of the program presupposes perfection, and per

If you are not thoroughly be-

So in a way Sir Jagadis, to re- fection in the Charleston is hard wildered by now, it is only neces cord the trembling reaction of a Consignets of Cargo are hereby in-ness men that they are hardly me at a State bali at Court. formed that all Good are being landed likely to get new ideas in this old,

The "Squiggle."

to attain. Moreover, it is essen- TO LET-Ground floor of No. 15 at their risk into the Godown of cultured country. With that be- What is the truth about the tially, in its suggestion, its heat Bay to mention that Silver-street plant, has provided it with pencil and First floor of No. 16, Con- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf lief goes the idea that the Eng-latest dance, the Charleston? The and rhythm, in its characteristic has nothing to do with silver. The and paper, has made possible a naught Road Central (next to P. & /and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kow-lishmaan is a cold, rather austere truth is that, about it, it can be music, an unrestrained, a let's-al_author says: There are several written" message--"and," he said,'

laon, whonce and/or from the O. Building). Suitable for offices, wharves delivery may be obtained. person, reserved and undemon- very bad or very good; it can be go-mad dance, and it will be some Silver Streets in or near London. serious enthusiasm showing in his Immediate possession. For terms. Optional Carro will be forwarded strative.

in rank bad taste or it can be as time before its enthusiasts calm It is always Silver Street and dark eyes, "every species of plant Apply to S. K. Trust Limit-unless notice to the contrary be given

This more or less common idea peat and pleasing as the tango; it down and dance it with restraint, never Silver Road. When of old has its own characteristic hand- "ed, 20, Connaught Road C. Phone before 8rd instant.

But weeks of practice precede standing, this name probably dates writing l

He spoke of the tremendously C.144.

No claims will be admitted after the rapidly giving way before the 1s no more indecent, done quietly, Goods have left the Godowns, and all evidence with which we come into than any other dance we do today, that quiet, unstraining skill one from Roman and Latin-speaking Goods remaining undelivered after contact when we come to England. and it is no more indecent, done practises holding on to the back times, and represents an English important possible conclusion Let go, and dance It voralon of ad silvam strato, or which may follow his diacovery the 9th inst will be subject to ront.

that "life is one," that plants have You would be surprised if you exaggeratedly than a display of of a chair. All claims against the vesselt must know the amount of money spent sand or clog dancing, or an ex-with the fullest exaggeration, way to or by the wood."

knees working overtime, heels Finally, to complete our be feelings and consciousness as

human beings and animals have be presented to the undersigned on or by American storekeepers in dis-hibition of acrobatics.

It has, normally, three move dicking up, and you may quite con-wilderment, there is Poplar.

and thep, smiling, he told me that playing their goods in their win-

"Neither the place-name nor the ho has even got response-n Goods are to be left in the Godowns, dought I am going to use for at forward or backward in a straight muscles and tendons unused to English name of the tree is re-answer" from u radish. 86

All broken, chafed, and damaged dows. This display which I have ments: a Charleston walk, taken celvably damage yourself-strain

"You cannot imagine," he said, 9th inst. at 10 a.m. by our surveyorntracting people to buy candy, and Kine; a side step, done with a rock-tho sudden strains and twists-a8orded before 1840, wo are told.

ing motion, first right, then left, well as somebody else. But de It I think the result will be great.

on one spot on the floor; and a resonably, and it is a welcome ad-Tenth and eleventh century lists any animal so stupid as a radish: England is far from finished. progressing step, consisting of enq dition to the dance programme; It of plants and trees render the latin very well. But it has feelings Bills of Lading will be countersigned There is before it, I believe, step forward and one to the side, is also one of the finest exercises populas as English byre....and just as you have. When I chloto- great future in channels of busi-one forward and one to the side. Imaginable for exercising the body just possibly Poplar to named form a radish it behaves as you ness as yet but beginning to de-There is also a fourth movement, from the toe to hip, and including from birches and not from would behave if I chloroformed.

poplars."

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