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SOME MEMORIES OF "LORD'S."

THE ABIDING GLORIES OF THE GAME.

CRICKET ROMANCE LIVES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NEW MOTOR TAXES

IN SPAIN.

A PROPOSED PETROL MONOPOLY.

The new tax imposed by the Gov-

DOCTOR'S SECRET

DISCLOSED.

SATURDAY, JULY 30,

1927.

CHINESE GIRL WHO WORE FASHION.

ARRESTED FOR SHOWING STOCKINGS.

Police officials are still shudder-

WIFE WHO GAVE ARSENIC TO DYING. MAN.

WHEN SILENCE IS RIGHT The first arrest was carried out by Poking police recently for in A grim dialogue was related by fraction of the "Modest Dress" or- I wonder whether the word ernment on all classes of motor- "Lord's still means as much to vehicles will come into o eration Dr. Halliday Sutherland, the Lon- der, and a young woman now pincs Eton boys as it did to us in the shortly, states a Madrid message. don physician, as an example of in prison awalting trial.

Cars will be taxed according to the problem "Should a doctor 'sixties. In those days it had a significance which surpassed that of horse-power, from 20 passtas each tell?" at the annual meeting of "ing from the effects of the patrol- any other spokon sound with which horse-power up to 40 horse-power, the Medico-Legal Society,

He was treating a poor patient man's harrowing story in which he we were acquainted, conjuring up and all above at 30 pesetas. visions, as it did, of the moat tre The extent to which British in dying of consumption when he dis- told how the young miss had al- mendous event of the year, the terests may be affected by the pro- covered that the man's death was lowed her arme, her neck and the cricket match between Eton and posed State monopoly applying to being accelerated by the adminis-upper part of her bosom, and a tremendous expanse of leg in the Harrow, writes "A... Old Etonian" Importation and sale of petrol in tration of arsenic..

I suspected the patient's wife, plural, to appear before the public It so happened Spain is believed to be reflected in the Observer.

gaze. In the South City amuse- that when I went to Elon, in 1866 by a conversation on the subject said Dr. Sutherland.

ment park, the constable related. the school Had suffered a series of between the British Ambassador horrid position, Supposing one

men who had never seen leg, be- grievous defeats, and the possibilSir Horace Rumbold) and Gener- went to the police and one'a kus-

saw the fore, stood mesmerized us the Chi- ity of reversing the verdict that hadat Prime de Rivera, the Premier.picion. was wrong l 1 been given against us for three The American Ambassador in wife alone. "Who gets your hus-nese girl paraded past, in company.

food?" I asked. She with two young men. years in succession was being dis-quired as to the effect on Ameri-band's

In the height of the excitement changed colour and said, "Why do

strolled on the cussed with an auxiety immensely enn interests.

The Premier stated that the de- you ask?" I said, "Because I don't the policeman serious than any which is nowadays felt about the possession

cree creating the new status would think his food is agreeing with scene and was almost overcome, of "the ashes.

His own statement is illuminating. ceased "and; thank God, I was re- To is the matter was far too be published at the end of the him. The man's sickness quickly he explains, by the exhibition. He said that "a long pair of stock-i grave for metaphor: I know of

It is proposed to establish asieved of the responsibility.

Sir William J. Collins said thereings took the place of trousers." no words that can adequately ex-

The police asked her and the press cur feelings as the time of national industry the manufae- the match approuched except those ture of a mixture of alcohol and might be cases where it was the

more

a

week.

A Game for Youth.

A. Patient's Right.

It was a

hiy

clalm and said he had yet to see a girl student dressed in such a fantastic fashion. Sie is held for further examination.- N. C. Standard,

NEW PURE FOOD RULES.

now

"NO PRESERVATIVES" ORDER EXTENDED.

of De Quincey concerning a dream petrol, the use of which will be duty of the medical man not to two students to leave at once, but cempulsery on all motorists. The divulge to the patient what he was they demurred, declaring that the of great solemnity-

exchange value of the peseta is suffering from cancer, for in-police had no right to interfere The morning was come of mighty day day of ultimate to-day approximately 28.50 to the stance. It might be detrimental with their personal liberty. This to the patient's welfare to tell roused the ire of the guardian of the law who told the girl in blunt him. hope for human nature, then suf-

Then there were cases of at-language that she dressed in a fering mysterious celipse and la

manner bordering on the nude and bouring in some drend extremity. become, a fine art, and to have, as Some greater interest was at stake, a matter of course, several swipera tempted suicide. I remember a

recent police order some mightier cause, than ever yet on each side, even if such policy case of this sort in which a local deserved arrest in accordance

against women's queer dress.. the sword had pleaded or trum-involved the taking of greater riske, practitioner called a consultant with the

As the girl still tried to argue pét had proclaimed.

A man had gone out of a win- The popularity of the hitter is un-down into the country. doubted; and the instinct of the dow through the conservatory and with the police, reinforced by this The School's Hopes. The hopes of Eton at that time onlooker in this respect is perfect had a compound fracture of the time, they had to arrest her and were centred on a player whose rely sound, for the art of defence, thigh. The local doctor said. "Of her two companions. At the pre- putation has since become well es-carried to its present excess, is

The consultant said. quarters the girl stated that she tablished in the annals of cricket, turning a sport into a scienco, a course, 1 shall communicate with liminary examination in the police I remember how a school-fellow, recreation for youths into a busi-the police." who had kindly undertaken to in-ness for men, and throwing cricket Of course you will do nothing of belonged to a local school. The struct me, a new boy, in the things more into the hands of a profes- the kind. It will hardly assist the examining officer doubted

recovery of the patient." that everyone had to know, pointed sional class. out a tall youth who wore an ex-

Sir William Willcox recalled pression of the offhand devil-may- For the upshot of the whole mat- care order, and appeared to beter seems to be that erickes is es-that during the Armstrong, case a chewing a straw, and said, "That's" sentially a game for youth, not a doctor, when asked a question, had Bun-Jam:" To me, utterly ignor-business for middle age. The pub-aid, "That is a medical confid- ent as I was, this information con- lic school and the University ence." On being commanded by veyed nothing; and it was with matches are sometimes spoken of the Judge to answer he did so, but some impatience, as if I ought to as mere "gala day" but they are under protest. That, Sir William have known what there had been much more than that, and they have thought, was a fair and proper at- no previous chance of learning, at least one great advantage in titude.

Lord Justice Atkin, who pre- that my mentor explained that being free from the excessive mo-

London: July 1 "Bun-Jam" was a nickname for dern regard Eur averages and re-sided, said it was an implied term of the contract of employment

From to-day the regulations pro- the famous hitter, "C. I. Thornton, cords. Who, when watching a whose fents, us then related to me,county match, has not wished that that a doctor would not disclose

in spite of the to the disadvantage of the patient hibiting the use of preservatives made a lasting impression on my the veterans." mind. A wonderful bitter he was greater expertness they may have information he obtained in his in foods, the first part of which came into force on January 1; will transfer their professional capacity. even in those early days; and achieved, would

But plainly a doctor was under be extended to bacon, ham, ex think his audacity helped the re-energies to golf! The Oxford and vival of Eton cricket. He went in Cambridge match is, to my mind, no obligation to withhold informa-yolks, and other articles.

One result of the new regula- first wicket down, and was not kept better worth seeing than that tion obtained from a patient when in reserve, as "sloggers" now are "game of the experts," Gentlemen crime was about to be commit-tions is that food research is being In law he was obliged to dis- conducted on a more intensive until the edge had been taken off. Players; and the reason is not teti. the bowling: on the contrary, it far to seek, for cricket, though now close information if he was call-scale, and research departments of

He had often wondered how it was for him to inspire courage by it has been built up into a high ed as a witness. his example, and to disconcert the strategy, is at root a very simple, bowlers in their prime by knocking even a childish, game--viz., he was that medical men felt it was them over the ropes. The match running from stamps to stumps; in their discretion whether or not of 1867, the first of which I was a and while it does no violence to a they disclosed to a patient what spectator, marked a turning-point sense of the humour to see a boy he was,suffering from.

My own view, said Lord Justice in the fortunes of the game, for for a young man this engaged, a though it had to be left unfinished, middle-aged man does seem rather Atkin, is that, if ask a profes it went, and showed that the perintout of place in snea a pastime. Isional man to tell me what I am of Ilarrow's marked supremacy bad Leathershunting." too, however suffering from, i am entitled to passed. There was a relapse in heroically persevered in, does not know, and anyone not telling me the following year, when Thornton, exhibit mature proportions to the is taking a serious responsibility, even though he may think it for after hitting Giley over the top of best advantage.. the pavilion, was bowled by him a It says much for the abiding my own good."

Should Records he Destroyed? few minutes later: but his hardi-glories of cricket that its romantie

Whether doctors! case books hand had not been in vain, and inspects are not lost, under our 1899 came a triumph for his sue-modern conditions, and that there should be destroyed when they die cessors, which was the beginning is still so great a magic in the set-1 was a point raised by Lord Riddell of a series of Elon victories and ting of the scene-the hushed ex-in an address to the Medico Legal made "Lord's" a name as glorious pectation as the time for play ap-Society.

He recalled that many years ago in our ears as it had been a wordproaches, the thrilling sound of he .of dread.

bell, the gradual clearing of the he happened to buy a doctor's case We bear much talk nowadays of held, the slow egress of the umpires, book it a second-hand bookstall in the country will have fitted re the increasing dullness of cricket followed in due order by the fields for Gd., and found in it the names and various proposals are made for men and the batsmen a spectacle of some people he knew.

It would certainly add a new putting the bowlers once again on which seems to lack init a fourish an equality with the batsmen, bof trumpets to make it resemble terror to life if experiences of the lessening the size of the ball, in that of the lists in an ancient tour-kind mentioned by Lord Riddell in picture out of were general, commented Dr. Cox, ercusing that of the stumps, or re-

"Ivanhoe." Such are some of the secretary of the British Medical they vising the rule of leg before wicket.tament, as World not the best and the simplest recollections awakened in an old Association. Fortunately remedy" be this to cultivate big fashioned enthusiast by a mention are not, and I don't remember any The public comparable incident. hitting as what it really is, or might

of the name "Lord's."

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The Ministry of Agriculture has also been husy seeking methods of preserving foodstuff's by natural means, and has found a method of preserving the freshness and colour of peas without using any artificial

preservatives.

It is admitted by manufactyrers, however, that means have not yet been discovered of preserving for a reasonable period many of the foodstuffs which will be affected by the regulations.

As a result of the regulations. have become far refrigerators more necessary to retailers, al- though it is computed that con- siderably less than 25 per cent, of the 7,000 or 8,000 food retailers frigerating devices by the end of

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WITH TAILS. "AUSTRALIAN FAMILY

THE FATHER ABLE TO WAG HIS.

It was stated in Sydney last month that a family had ben dis- covered at Surry Hills all the mem- bers of which, except the mother, had fully developed tails. The father; who is a middleaged man, has a tail which is about six in- ches long and covered with hair. He has control over the organ, and can even wag it. The child- ren have also developed this up- pendage, and in their ense it is also covered with hair, but they have no control over it.

So far as is known this is the only ease in Australia of a family showing these characteristica. A specialist to-night said that the development of tails in the family WAR a case of atavism. It was a recurrence or tendency to revert to an ancestral type, and proof of intermittent heredity. The dis- covery of a tail was anthropolo- gically very important.

on the may rest assured that, whole, these records are safe..

The ordinary procedure is for the case book to be handed over by the general practitioner to his the successor, who finds in it valuable

concerning information patients on the books.

are a little The circumstances different with regard to the con- sultant, who normally does not have a successor. I would hope Are Always that the case books burned, for they would be fuller than the case books used in private practice. Dr. Cox added that there was no definite rule in the profession about destruction of the records.

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