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OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.

HEALTH EXAMINATION. BEFORE MARRIAGE. :

A MUTUAL DUTY. For many years, indeed ever since medical science discovered definite means of diagnosing hereditary de fects, eugenists have urged physicas examination before marriage as a means of preventing the develop ment of mentally defective people and of protecting the healthful per-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928.

OUR FOOTBALL COMPETITION.

PRIZE OF $50 WEEKLY.

REX INGRAM TURNS MOSLEM.

BODYGUARD OF ARABS IN ORIENTAL MANSION.

LAPSE INTO MYSTICISM.

WOLVES IN BELGIUM.

DEER AND SHEEP KILLED IN HAINAUT.

Brussels, Dec. 22. Wolves are belloved to have made their reappearance in Bol- gium after three-quarters of a century. They are now suddenly reported from the contre of the jcountry.

GERMANY'S BID FOR BLUE RIBAND.

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TWO FASTEST LINERS YET

DESIGNED...........

Tho "Hongkong Telegraph" offers a prize of $50 to the readers who send in twelve correct fore-

NOT TO LAST LONG. casts of the results of the English League and Scottish Cup matches (to be played on Saturday next,

London, Nov. 30.

Germany is definitely out to. Rex Ingram, the world-famous

capture the blue rlband of the January 21st) set out in the Cou-m-producer, whose celebrity is

At Soignies (in Hainaut, on the Atlantic, and it seems certain pon below. No goal scores are second only to that of D. W. Senne, ten miles north-east of that she will gain her object. required; only forecasts showing Grimth, has turned- Moslem.

Mons) the supposed wolves gained He lives in an Oriental man-entrance to the little park belong: Lloyd

The two great North German wins or draws.

liners, "Bremen" and sion at Nice, surrounded by aling to the Burgomaster and killed Europe," now on the stocks, and himself to sculpture of a fatalis- close by, two sheep have met with much mystery, turn out to be the body-guard of Arabs, and devotes three deer. At Bruine le Comte, about which there has

In the event of no reader fore- casting all twelve matches, a prize sou against the infected one.

of $25 will be given to the rendor Several states now have lays re- who sends in the greatest number quiring various kinds of physical of correct forecasts; and In the examinations bofore marriage event of two or more readers send varying from an attempt to deter-ing in an equal high number, the mine the presence of tuberculosis, prize of $25 will be divided. mental and other diseases, to com- plete examinations. In many places a mere declaration under oath that the person concerned is not infected is accepted as sufficient."

Thousands of records are avail- able, in the case historics kept by physicians, of young wives who have contracted diseases from their husbands, in many instances the elwase being such as necessitated surgical operation after marriage.

It has been urged that such ex- aminations are not desirable be cause they would interfere with marriage, that they offend modesty and that they might destroy anti- meat. Blood tests are necessary and more complete examinations are called for when the blood tests in- dicate their importance.

In some countries special clinics have been developed for making physical examinations before mar. riage and for providing suitable certificates. The argument of sen- timent should not be permitted to' sway anyone as to the importance of such an examination in view of the terrible results of municable disease present in either of the persons to be married,

com-

The time would seem to have come when the public should be' educated regarding the right of the prospective, husband or wife to be assured that the opposite partner does not have tuborculosis, epilepsy, St. Vitus' dance, or other disense.

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"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH” FORECAST COMPETITION.

Matches to be played on Janu- ary 21st:-

Dumbarton Arthurlie Ayr Un. Clydebank

SCOTTISH CUP.

FIRST BOUND,

V

Hamilton.

V

v Queen's Park.

Bo'ness.

V

Dunfermline.

East Fife Raith Rvs.

Y

Y

Dundee Un

Aberdeen,

2

ENGLISH LEAGUE.

V

+

V

y

Everton. West Ham. Aston Villa. Port Vale. Loeds Un. Northampton,

Birmingham Portsmouth Arsenal Hull City V Notts Forest v Exeler

Name

Address

No. 21.

Date

Strike out the teams which you think will lose, but make no marks in respect of matches which you think will be drawn.

tie type.

been 80

the same fate. He has just completed a large

fastest mercantile craft yet de- bronze, which shows a miniature Much apprehension is felt in the signed in any country, and the effect in the Christ in the arms of a giant neighbourhood. General gossip forecast to this Buddha.

has exaggerated the incident, and Daily News last month is thus con- He studies the books of Colonel it is being stated that the killing armed. Lawrence. He haa bought is the work of a lion, which has

They are twin 'vessels of 46,000 villa in

North Africa. His escaped from B menagerie.

tons gross, propelled by turbines. thoughts are more in Araby than Although the traces left seem to The steam pressure of 550 lb. to in Europe or Amerien, and film be those of wolves, opinion is the square inch is almost twice as production has ceased to interest sceptical, and it is being asked high as that of the "Mauretania's" him, though he has donc more how a pack could have reached boilers.

than any other British or Amerithe district. can-born film director to make motion pictures an art.

At Least 27 Knois.

The German ships have a con- Various other renaotis hav: Mr. and Mrs. Ingram have tract speed of 26 knots, but in brought Mr. Ingram to a screen worked together continuously for actual service they are expected standstill. One is the ever-widen ten years. ing gulf between his art 'idea' and the box-office mentality of the American company which has hitherio employed him.

though

to be considerably faster than Mr. Graham Cutts, the British this, and their ses speed will pro- film-producer, who has just re-bably be at least 27 knots. They turned from Nice, informed me ought, therefore, to perform the Three of Mr. Ingram's recent that he hired Ingram's studios to run from Cherbourg to New York (3.198 nautical miles) in well films "The Arab," "The Magician," produce "Confetti."

lundar five days. and "Mare Nostrum," have not

When the company went into The world's speed record for Been popular successes, they were models of artistic pro-the studio restaurant, one evening, ocean travel is held at present duction.

an by the "Mauretania." Her fastest- they found it set out, for

"Who is dining ocean passage was made in Au- IIis last film, "The Garden of elaborate feast. Allah," not yet shown here, has whom?" asked Mr. Cutts, "Mr. gust, 1924, when she crossed from not been an American success. Ingram is giving a banquet to his Cherbourg to New York in, five It cost £75,000, and was produced, Arabs," he was told. like the others, in Nice.

Another

Great Fortune.

averago

wag

days one hour, at an speed of 26 knots. This actually 1 knots above the reason for Mr. In- gram's" screen-idleness Is

Ingram is not a poor man. He speed for which she was design- Harry Lachmann, his faithful has made a great film fortune and,ed when bullt some 20 years ago. Even though Germany does friend and factotum for so many despite his lapse into mysticism,

that

years, has left him. Mr. Lach-remained sufficiently practical to snatch the blue riband, she is not mann, aided by Nina Wilcox acquire the principal ownership likely to retain it for long, since Putnam, the Saturday Evening of the Nice studios, which have the projected mammoth "Gunar Post writer, is producing films become the centre of Rivieran der" will certainly be much faster elsewhere in Nice.

in- than the North German Lloyd film production, and daily

.boats. crease in value. His favourite

Sculpture.

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companion

Mr. Ingram's astudios, in which four or Aye films can be made "Shorty," grotesque simultaneously, are let to other dwarf, who has appeared in producers, and Mr. Ingram him-veral of his films. self lives apart with his Arabs and symbolistic sculpture,

an

In the interests of British shipping prestige it is to be hoped Arab that the construction of this new se-ocean greyhound will not be much longer deforred. There is interesting rumour that she will pictures than that of this brilliant have high-pressure turbines, de-. His patron in sculpture

signed by Sir Charles Parsons, temperamental Irishman Jules Mastbaum, the Philadephine but

similar to those with which he theatrient magnate, who founded adopting the Moslem outlook,and equipped the experimental Clyde a Redio Museum and recently living like a sultan-they call steamer "King George V Inst him the "King of Nico"-in an died.

WIS

Terry,

There are few stranger human

Ingram's wife, Alice

absurd house filled with Oriental year. These work at the enor mous steam pressure of nearly star of all his films, is besieged treasures and odd sculptured 600 lbs. by offers from British film-pro-studies in fatalism.

Rex Ingram, like D. W. Grimth, All claims must reach this office ducers. She has accepted, it is

but a screen-shadow, There was a time when, f not later than Wednesday follow understood, an offer to star. In is now ing the date on which the matches Edward Godal's "Peace of the though Griffith, unlike Ingram Griffith spoke, every one listened, a great fortune. but now, says one who saw hiri are played. No prize will be World" film, with which H. G. did not make awarded for which a claim has not Wells is closely associated, and Griffith is now one of Hollywood's recently among a studio restau- it is probable that she will star emergency" directors, mixing rant erowd, "they contradict him." been made.

Before sending in your coupons,in Jack Raymond's new film, with players, and technicians as

No one has yet contradicted a suficient con- mark your forecasts on the dupli-Zero," a Fathe production, hused if he were merely one of them Ingram. He is

selves...

tradiction in himself. cate list given below. Keep your on the Collinson Owen novel.. duplicate lists and compare them later with the published results of the matches and if you find that you have eight or more correct aend in a clairn for the prize.

Mark your envelopes "Football" on the front and write your name (without address) on the back of the envelope.

v. Hamilton

v. Queen's Park v. Bo'ness

MARK AND KEEP THIS DUPLICATE LIST. DO NOT FORWARD IT TO US. IT IS PRINTED FOR YOUR CONVENI- ENCE SO THAT YOU MAY KEEP A RECORD OF THE FORECASTS YOU HAVE BENT IN: Dumbarton Arthurlic Ayr Un. Clydebank East Fife Raith Rvs. Birmingham Portsmouth Arsenal Notts Forest Hull City Exeter

1

V. Dunfermline F. Dundee. Un. -y. Aberdeen

Y. Everton

v. West Ham,

v. Aston Villa

v. Northampton

v. Port Vale

v. Northampton

F. A. CUP RE-PLAYS.

EXETER AND BURY GET THROUGH

London, Jan. 18. Exeter and Bury qualified for the fourth round of the F. A. Cup Com- petition to-day, by defeating their respective opponents in re-plays. Exeter City defeated Rotherham by three goals to one, while Bury eliminated Charlton Athletic win- ning by four goals to three. Reuler.

[Exeter now meet Blackburn on their own ground, whilst Bury will be at home to Manchester United.]

"Modern batting is extra- ordinarily good; in fact, in my opinion it is better now than ever in the history of the game, anid Mr. P. F. Warner in an ad- drees recently on sport at the Gulldhouse, Eccleston-square. "Bowling has not improved sp much, but I believe," said Mr. Warner, "it will rapidly reach the highest standard." He thought Tate and Larwood were the beat of the modern bowlers, and Hobbs was the supreme batsman.

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