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THURSDAY.

MODERN DIETETIC

REFORMERS.

WHY FRUITARIANS ARE

SUCCEEDING,»

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AUGUST 18, 1927.

NEW CHINESE VESSEL. MAN WHO WORKS TOO

BEING BUILT IN HONGKONG.

QUICKLY.

450 EMPLOYEES GO ON -STRIKE.

A twin-screw cargo and passenger vessel of about 100 tons gross is be- ing built for. the Hua Klau (Over- Boas Chinese) S.S. Co., n concorn

Singapore trading between REASON AND POCKET.

and ATTEMPT TO" LIMIT OUTPUT. Muar, by Messrs. Kwong Hip Lung

Four hundred and fifty of the Dietetic reformers

and Co., Ltd., of Hongkong. It is are very vocal these days, and much of expected that the vessel will shortly employces of John Wright and Co., manufacturers of gas stoves. their advice, sound and unsound, bo rondy for delivery.

The vessel has an overall length Aston, Birmingham, are on strike is being taken to heart by the of 145-ft, Moulded breadth of 26.ft.because an employce persisted public. But dict reform, as com and depth 9-it. 3-ins., whilat her earning more than the amount al monly preached, is n somewhat speed will be about 10 knots. For lowed under the rules of the Iron cald and puritanic religion, up-dealing with curgo, the ship will have Founding, Workers' Association. pealing mainly to the reason and two derricks, one to lift a maximum the pocket, writes a doctor, to a capacity of two tons and the other Home paper. Noblor philosophies ono ton. A steam windlass will bo than this have found it desirable, used for raising and lowering the anchors, of which the vessel la pro- essential, to give their expositions vided with two Bower stockless an- and publie appeals an esthetic chors and one kedge anchor. The

quality which has generally heightened rather than diminish- ed the force of their impress.

On the whole-one can but back, or at least, sympathise with the principal Fefonis in diet on which stress is now being laid. There can be no question as to the de- sirability of fresh fruit forming a much larger part of our daily food than has, until lately, been usual in this country. Equally, the arguments in favour of bread made from the whole berry of the

native crow will be housed in the forcenstie and three galleys have beer provided for on board the ship, which will also have two store-rooms For the safety of passengers and crew two lifeboats, four life-rafts and 100 life-belts are provided.

One of the rules, declares that no nian shall earn more than 284. d. n day, or £5 17%. 6d. for a five days-week

The employers state that the strikers are not willing to resume work unless the company will per- mit the victimisation of the mun who has been the cause of the trouble. In any case, It is under stood that they would refuse handle the man's output after it The vessel will be eil-driven by had renehed the limit laid down. The company, supported by the two sets of vertical compound sur- faco condensing engines, with a high-employers' federation, takes the pressure cylinder of 13-ins, diameter, view that the union has no right and low-pressure 26-ins, with ato impose a limit on earnings, and they refuse to compromise with a position which does not allow of man making as much money as

piston-stroke of 18-ing.

The passenger accommodation on board consists of two cabins con-

wheat, rather than from itstaining twe barths each and a bath

emasculated core, seem unanswer- able.

room. Between the passenger cabins is a well-furnished saloon. But one cannot help noticing The Captain and officers are com- and the vessel is that the sucess which has attend fortably berthed ed the advocacy of the fruitarians electrically fitted throughout.

Mr. O. C. Smalley, managing agent is out of all proportion greater of the Company, is leaving shortly than that which the wholemeal for Hongkong in order to register apostles have achieved. The ex- and take delivery of the vessel, after planation is surely not far. to which he will proceed to Australia Reck?

with a view to purchasing further In the one instance. the reason-steamers for the Company. ed argument has been supported by normal taste, while in the other no such support has been forth coming. It is interesting to find that now, at least, enterprising commercial firms have realised this defect, and are putting on the market attractive products made meal cal- with whole wheaten culated to appeal to the esthetic palate.quite as much as to hygienic

réason.

FRENZIED BY HEAT.

ARMED MADMAN CLEARS CINEMA.

New York, July 14. Hectic multitudes swarming on the seashore during New York's latest heat wave became panic- Of all, the sensus, that of taste stricken last night when a Coney holds in our conventional world Island cock. maddened by the the lowest position, sa far as so-unbearable temperature, ran amok cial esteem is concerned. A man with a carving knife. with what is called a finer sense of colour or of form, or with a de- licate car for musical harmonies, is regarded with admiration; and a child betraying potentialities along these lines is considered es. in pecially worthy of education order to develop these faculties to their highest.

Cultivating the Palate..

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In a combination restaurant and cinema where the diners were sweltering in 90 degrees of in- tensely humid atmosphere while they watched the screen drama the cook rushed among the specta- tors, Chairs and tables were. overturned in the stampede.

The madman Cell dead and the spectators who had been shot was taken to hospital.

he can.

Not Justified.

known a

UNWANTED GUESTS,

PLOT TO HOAX A PEER'S SON

Scotland Yard was able yester day to thwart an audacious hon attempted by a group of poople believed to have addresses in the | West End of Lonilon, who hav

tions to society functions. lately been issuing bogus invita

Last night the Hon. Evan Mor gan, Lord Tredegar's only son gave a party to celebrate his 34ti birthday, and it apparently becam known to the practical Jokers tha some members of the Royal Famil were to be present. Because of this elaborato plans were mad for their joko to produce thi most crue! effects possible.

Mr. Morgan, who has not a town house, engaged the whole of a res tauránt for the entertainment of his 150 guests, but the boax was organised on such a scale that } it had succeeded the building would have been so crowded that the dinner and dance. ments would have been completely upset.

24 Hours Before.

arrange

It was not until 24 hours be

fore the function that Mr. Morga learned of the scheme. He com municated with the police, and on their advice he renewed the pro-

per invitations by sending to each of the intended guests an Cx planatory note and a saxe blud day Party, July 13, 1927," with card bearing the words, "A birth-

the restaurant. So complete word the precautions that not a single Improperly invited person arrived For the dinner.

out which no one was admitted to

Mr. Alexander Ramsey, chair the Engineering Employer's As man, of the management board sociation, said he had never, in his 15 year's experience of in- dustrial negotiation strike ad little justified.

Scotland Yard officers, as Employers, he said, were always sult of their inquiries, were able being challenged about low wages to prepare an almost completa and confronted with America" list of the persons who had re-

the standards, and yet here was

false ceived

invitation case where piece-work was involAmong the mes

the police in- ved, and where the workers sought terrogated during the day was a to limit earnings. The man's relative of um. eminent parlia- wagca had been earned by shermentarian. It is believed that merit and the other men. in the

they have established, the identity ahon would be unwilling to take of one of the men responsible for over his job on the same rond the affair. tions."

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One of the men told a Dally Mail reporter that the man's out put was simply due to abnormal brawn and staying power, and the union did not wish a high-pressure standard to be established.

A COAL CRISIS IN SEPTEMBER.

MİNER'S EXECUTIVE REVIEW SITUATION.

the Delegate Conference at South- port.

The bogus invitations it is un derstood, were sent out not on! to well-known people but also to members of the Civil Service, members of jazz banda, Negro theatrical performers, actresses, and chorous girls. An almost exact copy of the correct invita tlon card was used. ̧

One of Many.

To a considerable extent the methods employed were simimilar to those by which six weeks ago faked invitations were sent out for the wedding of Mr. Gavin Henderson and the Hon. Honour Philipps. That hoax caused great pain to Lord and Lady Kylsant,

was

Standing on a chair, and frenzie i by the heat he then threatened Nor is it thought fitting to the crowds surging outside in Surf Avenue, fracturing the arn

A two-days' meeting of the devole public money to the of one; spectators and wounding Miner's Executive of Great. Bri- therance of such an object. But two others. The police then inter- tain was opened in London in the bride's parents, but their case. he would be a bold politician who vened and riddled the madraan mail week, chiefly in order to was only one of several in which urged the devotion of public money to developing the subtleties with eight shots. With the ninth discuss the report of the Execu-hosts and hostesses have been of sensitive palate in child shot they wounded one of the tive to be submitted next work to victimised this season.

Mr. Morgan's party last night| spectators in the abdomen.. so favoured.

representative of the arts, No visiting chefs attend Our public schools, to enable such

The report covers the interval politics, and sport. Four meni- between the last annual confer-bers of the Royal Family were pupils as could appreciate them to educate their palates on the great

ence in 1925 and what is tanta-presert, the Princess Royal, Lady the conl Maud Carnegie (her daughter; classic dishes prepared-or, as it

mount to a history of situation aineo then, and the and Prince and Princess Arthur of were, "played" as they should

critical period through which the Connaught, and the followin be when interpreted by a master.

Why are cur food reformers so

I would like to urge every one industry is now passing has been names are selected at random obtruse? They cannot all be of my readers who has at his prepared for the miners' corsi- from the list of the company:- Lord Balfour, Mr. Augustus Joh, mere theoretic faddists. Many of disposal even over so small a plot

It is decribed as a document of Lord Beatty, Mr. Alfred Noyos, them have palates sensitive en-

of cultivable ground to study the unusual candour, and makes de- Mile. Spinelli, and Mlle. Yvonne ough to distinguish between the elements of gardening and per- nite suggestions how the miners George, who travelled from Pari agrecable, the delicious, the en-sonally to apply them. I would

should, prepare

themselves to Lord Ivor Churchill, Lady Cynthia durable, and the abominable, but advise him next to read carefully bring the present agreements to an Asquith, Miss

Gladys Cooper, frem most of their writings and the seed catalogue of a good firm, end at the earliest possible mo- Miss Cathleen Nesbitt, Lord Ber- speeches, one never would guess and no .matter on how tiny a

ners, Mr. Nigel Playfair, . Yet, flavour has a place in scale, to grow for himself a few of

The first of these agreements Senorita de Alvarez, the Spanish sound biology no less real and the simpler vegetables in kinds affect the Durham miners, whose lawn tennis champion. fundamental than is oecupied by chosen for their flavour only.

lumped together Beethoven and Balfe as "music" or Conrad and

Corelli as literature.".

intelligent and patient, reap an aesthetic reward such as few people dream of.

deration,

ment,

"One-eyed

the Connolly,"

those qualities of light and sound If further, he will take the trou-contract of service" comes up for which affect our senses pleasant-ble to learn exactly how these review in October. Among the miners, it is openly predicted that ly or otherwise. There is thought things should be cooked, and will the new wages which will then be to be something selfish or self-in-carry his knowledge into practice, suggested to Durham will pre- dulgent about the cultivation of tie will, if he has been reasonably cipitate a new coal crisis. the palates-an attribute not gen crally imputed to the cultivation of the sense of beauty or that of no just harmony. There ground for this discrimination.

I suppose that one must bow to the elaptrap formula about the im- possibility of putting back the elock of civilisation. But, I can not help regarding it as regret table that everybody these days seems to think that food grows in shops, and is cooked in factories. The dreadful thing is that it is so nearly, true.

Losing Taste.

A TARGET SHIP

USE OF EX-SUPER- DREADNOUGHT.

and

I have dwelt on the aesthetic and

The Centurion, which was laun- pleasurable side of this matter, American champion" "gate crush- firstly, because I think this is er" (who gains admission to big ched from the building slip at perhaps the most important side sporting events without payment), Devonport Dockyard by Mrs. Win- of every question; secondly, be- has been compelled by the alien ston Churchill in November 1911, cause I am aure that it is the only authorities to return to New York, and was "scrapped" under the side which, in the long run, will He was held up when he reached Washington Agreement was re- influence the conduct of mast Liverpool. He had hoped to have cently commissioned at Chatham people.

"crashed" into Olympia to see the Dockyard, after an extensive overhaul and repair, during which big fight.,

she has been converted intoà Fleet target ship to replace the "Agamemnon" as target ship for the Atlantie Fleet.

But, behind it all, there is sound medical and biological doctrine.

The sense of taste, like the senses of Louch, sight, and hear-

I realise that this is part of the price we pay, and probably mart of the necessary price paid, for ing, and even like the faculty of reason itself, was primarily and man's increased leisure and wo-essentially ntilitarian; that is to man's increased emancipation. Bay. it assisted in the preserva- Gardening and cookery are begintion of the individual and in the ning to rank in the minds of our maintenance of harmonious rela- young moderns with sailing ships Lions between him and his en- and bows, and arrowa

vironment.

Pleasant flavours produce in our

structures Still, where is the shop where bodily

reactions of they green peas, let us sayaa green great importance. It is peas are known to the esthetic which are largely responsible for cook and gardener-can be bought the healthy flow of our "digestive for money? It is not easy to find fluids, and for all the processes of a restaurant where, even if suen effective and comfortable diges- were bought, they would be cooked tion. The distinction between the as they should be cooked. Ilovesthetic, the spiritual, and the many people can discriminate corporeal has possibly been neces between the taste and quality of aary for the development of potatoes as they are bought and specialised thought and know- públicly served, and potatoes as fledge, but there is danger of the they may be? Potatoes are pota-ideas being unduly isolated. toca; strawberries are just straw- We are coming to see that be berries; almost apples are just tween health and beauty--with apples though trade propaganda whatever sense or faculty that has done something in this depart beauty be associated-are ment.

nexions more intimate than dry- And yet, one would be thought as dusts--medical and other Lobtuse and uncultivated if one have suspected.

con-

A man should not hold a girl on his lap unless he can support her.

Captain R. S. Macfarlin, who commanded the cruiser Carlisle in the Far East, commissioned. the Centurion, which will carry oul a series of trials, and will afterwards leave Sheerness. for Portsmouth to be completed.

The Centurion's last service was as flagship of the Vice-Admiral commanding the Reserve Fleet, from which she was paid off about 15 months ago, the sum of £368,088 being voted by Parlia ment to fit her for target purposes: The Centurion took part in-the Jutland Battle.

A scheme is being prepared, which must first of all receive thus approval of the Harvard authori ties, whereby, one or two students from Harvard University will go to Johannesburg every year to carry out research work in an- thropology. The students would be financed by the Rockefeller

Foundation:

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