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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927.

MRILLING

KAR STEAMSHIP

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ISADORA DUNCAN'S

OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

The Lure of the Sea

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PRESENTIMENT.

FRIEND'S WARNING BEFORE FATAL NIGHT DRIVE.

Nice, Sept. 15,

Isadora Dunean (whose tragie fate was reported this morning) was very popular in Nice, where she started a school of dancing n few years ago.

HOARSENESS DUE TO MANY INFECTIONS.

A CONDUCTOR ON KNITTING.

FROTÈST TO A SEASIDE AUDIENCE.

Dr. Malcolm Sargent, the con ductor, made a protest to the audience in the pavilion on the ac-Llandudno pier against the habit infre- of woman knitting and people read-

ing papers during the perform women ances, the other day.

HOW TO DETECT IT.

Public speakers, ministers, tors and singers and not quently business men and All day long crowds of people.

in various industrial plants have visited the spot where the use the voice so frequently that they accident happened.

suffer with hoarseness.

of

tive, his opinion of Dr. Sargent's Asked by a Press representa-

complaint, Mr. Julius Harrison, the Mme. Duncan had apparently Some people seem to become well-known conductor, said seaside decided to buy a racing automo- hoarse much more easily thau audiences could not be expected to bile, and M. Falchetto, a garage others. Occasionally people will decorum as people who regularly

observe the same standards proprietor whom she had consult- ed, offered to take her for a trial be especially susceptible to inflam- attended symphony concerts." run in a car he had for sale... The rations of the vocal cords result- artiste accepted and made an ap-ings from the attacks of bacteria. pointment with him for after Tuberculosis of the larynx is dinner.

usually secondary to tuberculosis elsewhere in the body and does not tend to recover until the general tuberculosis has been cured.

Premonition.

The dancer went to dine with a friend, Mra. Desty, at a restaurant near her studio on the Promenade des Anglais, and towards ten o'clock M. Falchetto came along with the car. ... ·

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On leaving the restaurant, Mrs. Desty nd a strange prosent

ment.

"I wish you would not try that car to-day" she said to Madame Duncan, "I feel something dread- ful will happen to you if you do," |

The dancer laughed and said jokingly, "You are a pessimist, my friend. Don't worry about me. I am going to enjoy this night drive.. If there were a spare sent, I'd take you with me."

Mrs. Desty could not persuade her friend, who took her place on the sent at the side but somewhat at the rear of the driver.

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of seaside orchestras is appreciated

In many cases, he said, the music- merely for its soothing influence. Many good folks find that an after- dinner nap is all the more enjoy. able when they are luled to sleep by gentle melodies.

influence. Or

The voice may be affected either the Guildhall School of Music, said Sir Landon Ronald, Principal of by local discases in the upper he had never been troubled by any respimtory tract or by those that such distracting affect the whole system. Among course, the former are the so-called head

he sald, + concert colds that begin in the nose and the seaside

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picr is net extend down to the throat to the cert at the Queen's Hall, and you

same thing

29 а con- voice box, or larynx, and to the cannot expect an audience of holi- windpipe, or trachea.

Sinus Infection. Infections of the nasal sinuses, the cavities of the skull that com- municate with the nose, accom- panied by the formation of pus, often involve the vocal cords be cause the pus may drop from the nose to the throat and down into the windpipe and bronchial tubes.

on

day-makers to take, their music too, seriously. A great many of them merely desire a little light enter tainment, and if they are not suf ficiently keen on the music to give it their undivided attention-well, it's no use trying to make them.

You cannot dicate to the man who pays his money at the box- office: He has a perfect right to do as he likes so long as does not) as create a disturbance or in of the other way annoy his neighbours.

Systematic conditions, such tuberculosis, especially

any

Tungs, often affect the larynx. In certain occupations the inhalation | If an individual of the audience Fatal Spanish Shawl.

of irritating dust or chemicals is gets up and goes out while the Instead of wearing a cpat, Mme, likely to affect the voice.

orchestra is playing, I think a con- Dunean had a long Spanish shawl One of the most common causes ing up and beginning the piece ductor is perfectly justified in pull- thrown over her shoulders. Be-of a change in character of the afresh. I have done it myself and fore entering the enr. she had voice is theu improper use made a sort of scarf of it, twisted such as very loud speaking, espe- Coates. Reading

of it, I would do it again, said Mr. Eric twice round her neck.

cially in open or in noisy or dusty however are hardly calculated to and knitting places.

interfere with the general enjoy- ment of a concert.

When the machine was about to start she threw the longer end ef; it on to her shoulder; but it drop- ped loose, and ite long fringe hung mit at the side of the car, near the rear wheel..

Neither the driver nor Duncan noticed this.

.

Caution to Speakers.

If

Chronic laryngitis may impair

you give people really dull the voice to such an extent that music you cannot be surprised if

their public speaking becomes difficult

ennui manifests itself in Mme. or practically impossible. A pub though, that my music was boring some way. I should hate to think, Tie speaker should be cautious in listeners to such an extent that the use of tobacco, especially its they were forced to divert them- highly spiced foods, alcohol and needles, and I may add that I have inhalation. and in other irritating substances.

selves with newspapers or knitting

As she waved her hand to say "An revoir to her friend and the car started, the fringe became entangled in the wheel.

Suddenly, before Mine. Duncan could utter a word, the scarf tightened round her neck, and she was violently pulled out of the

car.

Swift Strangulation. She fell on to the pavement and

Dollar Steamship Liner body was dragged scare dis

and

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tance before the driver had time

the use of

never known it to have that effect.

One has heard, of course, people being turned out of a concert of

dents of that kind happen only once for talking, but, fortunately, inci-|

The cure of vocal trouble de- penis largely on the cause. In many instances, if no severe marked damage has been done to the vocal apparatus, the careful in a blue moon. ase of the voice and the avoidance of the irritants mentioned will aid in restoring the proper voice.

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Mme. Duncan was quickly taken to hospital, where she was found to be dend.

however, in which there has been ratifying results. In those cases, ulceration, destruction or marked thickening in various parts of the larynx as a result, of some of the was due to conditions already mentioned, the strangulation. One of the arms complete restoration of, a normal

It is believed that death was instantaneous, and

was broken.

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