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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

1928.

OUR CROSSWORD

PUZZLE.

"MAN A MACHINE.”

LIMITS OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE,

How far may biology ponch on. life preserves? How far can such forbidden ground exist, and to what extent can science take into account any phenomena that can- not be explained in terms of phy- sics and chemistry?

These are dome of the problems raland by Mr. Joseph Needham in "Mana Machine (Payche Minia- ture 12, Kegan Paul, 29. 6d.).

Mr. Needham is on unassailable, though too little famillar, ground when he charges the vitalists with imitating Huxley's "Trespassers' will be prosecuted-Moses," and with having arranged boundaries between living and dead matter, boundaries not to be crossed by science and with setting up the boards further back every time that the experimentalists crossed over.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Dressing Wraps.

IN ASTOUNDING VARIETY,

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Patchwork dressing wraps aro the latest iden in bedroom wear for chilly mornings,

The Children.

HOW TO PLEASE THEM.

When one is very young folding up nighties and pyjamas in a bothersome task, but it can be The word "dressing-gown" has made into a pleasant game with the now gone quite out of fashion in aid of one of the newest Bunny Instead, on nightie casca. From a caso of exclusive circles. buys either a boudoir gown, a softest plush a delightful woolly fascinee, a 'coolie jacket, a Haori rabbit is peering and he flaps his coat, or the very latest in slip-on long cars in approval when tidy have garments-the Pullman negligee, little boys and girls put away their especially designed for the woman night clothes. He makes a com- traveller. The Haort and coollo panion for the bunny hot water coats can also bo unl as bottle covers which are already so Bridge Jackets. Rodier Kasha, popular.

Faracelsus, he points out, was 'Bubtle

· ឆវា offender with his alchemist dwelling in the stomach who had to give place to the simple action of rubbing "produced by the movements of the coats of the stomach, without the assistance of uny Dæmon or Stygian liquor," an- other writer also offends who has Bald that "champagne will

never

change a peasant into a doctor, nor brown bread a philosopher into a fool," for as Mr. Needham shows, "the vitamin' in rice husks, more potent than brown bread, may turn a foot into a philosopher."

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Dress Fashions.

MAGIC OF THREES.

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Dame Fashion has suddenly developed a passion for triple effects. She demands that dress detalls shall be triplicated or not exist at all.

Particularly with buttonholes. The newest buttonhole consists of three flowers.

2

Posics on evening frocks are also made on the trinio.principle, which is further accentuated by a trio of triple posies being arranged on the gown. Shoulder, waist, and hora postes appear on many of the new

FASHION'S NEWEST FADS.

The Vogue of the

New Kid Boot.

"Kid Boots" are the latest

Japp in 1898 pointed out" that there must be something very strange about living matter, for all tho optically active compoundagesture Fashion makes to Milady's known were produced by Hying insistent cry for variety, agencies of one sort or another, but Kipping refuted him by making them in the laboratory.

Purpose of The Embryo. The steadfast purposefulness of the embryo supposed to be striving for a certain end, is, "the author. explains, upset by a whiff of prussic

It may be they come via Russia. For certainly there is something suggestive of Russian dances these new high shoes.

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It may be they are a refined, re-. learnaled crystallization of the popular galoshes iden.

The fact remains they have arrived, smart as can be and are acid, an electric field, a fail of a making a tremendous hit in Lon- fow degrees in the Incubator tem-dan. They afford warmth on cola perature, or a slight asphyxia, and days and welcome. protection the result is not disorganised when the weather li wet, growth but organised growth in the wrong direction.

Improve Any Ankle.

Step by step Mr. Needham shown Svelte, beautifully cut from the how the scientific biologist has re-finest of kids, these high shoes fit way claimed forbidden territory from to the foot and ankle the

Bmart gloves do, enhancing the the philosopher.

Vigorous in hig defence of trimness of a well-turned ankle, mechanismo, he arrives at a recon-helping to conceal the unattrac ellation, if reconciliation it can tiveness of a thick one.

be called, of the age-old antithesis. Each pair is really a three-in- "What is man that Thou art one. The cuff can be worn high, mindful of him?" he writes, "is fastened around with smart tile the question to which mechanistic buckled straps, in which case only science with its revelation of the ex- one colour of kid shows. treme littleness of humanity in. Or they may be worn with the variably leads. Thou hast made cuff turned over to reveal

Mil-

him a little lower than the angels' other, probably a lighter or eon- Is the affirmation which philosophy,trasting colour, and in the third ethics and poetry always maku naway, they can be worn with the against his insignificance. Kanttongue down and the cuff uri was the first who saw that both which gives them the appearance these statements, appearing as they of being quite a different pair of do to be an antinomy, are only so boots. They are as easily slipped because they arise from partiul into na the suapped galoshes." and limited experience."

They come in browns, with tan or beige-lined cuffs, in all-over atan, in black and blue kid that is that new continental shade that is heralded as "the blue for spring.

"But." he adds, "the state of exact science where man is machine is 'no. mean city, even though it be the elty of a dream. They that have well considered all the dreams of man and yet go often round about her and tell the towers thereof may be pardoned, I believe, if they hold her to be the noblest and most beautiful of them all."

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The Colour Combinations.

A wood-brown pair of kid bools sets off a fur coat at the Black shoes may take pearl grey left; above, the smartness of turned-down tongue and cuff; lining, or branch out and hit upon scarlet or jungle green or

below, a fur-cuffed pair in black with grained inserts. delicate belge. The blues are apt There is something youthful about shoes to maten her fur coat. A to take other shades of blue for them. Yet put black boots on an neat pair of black shoes takes an liping.

older woman in a smart black ermine cut and comes higher in The lighter shades, however costume, and this new footgear im- price than length, accordingly. The Morning Post recently gave particulars of the record figures popular they prove this spring, are mediately fits into that picture, too. By next winter there will doubt- of Bankers' clearings for 1927. not the favourites now that the rich, A version of the high boot that lessly be other variations. But it For the Arst week in 1928 a fresh woody brown ones are. With a is rich and handsome looking is is questionable if they will surpass high level has been established in luxurious mink .coat, these the fur-cuffed one. These come in these first kid boots in the fineness the matter of the Weekly Clear-boots seem singularly appropriate. various furs and one can order her of material and skillful fitting. ings, the figures being £1,071,293,-

000, or about £40,000,000 more

than in the corresponding week of Shetland wool, embossed velvet,

Another member of the bunny evening frocks. Sometimes the last year. Last week's figure is a and embroidered taffeta cosily family is used to make teeth clean- three bunches of flowers are ar- record in the history of the Clear-fined for warmth are now being ing into a game as ivell, for a most ranged to make the points of a Ing House, the previous hlukest bought as winter wrapa.

important-looking rabbit, all dress- triangle, as with a talleta frock totul having been £1,035,722,000" Hand-blocked French finnnel is ed up in his Sunday best, acts as a which had a posy on either hip and for the week ended October 5, a new material this season which tooth brush holder.

another at an equal distance be 1927. In both cases the total was is being largely used.

tween them, on the hem. mainly affected by Government seis consisting of the kimono, Ioan operations.

slippers, and a boudoir cap, all to

Kimono

Bummer for

LOCKED IN TUBE LIFT.

CIVIL SERVANTS' ALLEGED ATTACK ON LIFTMAN.

A "Acone" at a London Tuboj Mr. station was described to Ratcliffe Coustus at West London Police Court recently.

William Robert Griffiths, aged 89, civil servant, of "Newhaven,” and Potter's Bar, Middlesex, Ernest. William Arthur Dickson, aged 30, civil servant; Roger Dick- Bon, aged 21, engineer; and Dennis Dickson, aged 19, clerk, all of Tailor's Green, East Acton, were remanded charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Edward Loftus, a liftman on the Central London Railway.

Mr. Morley, prosecuting, said that on the evening of December 23 Loftus was going on duty and found the defendants in a lift with. the doors and gates partly closed. He requested them to leave, when they attacked him. Dennis Dick- son caught hold of his arm and twisted it round, the shoulder being dislocated. Loftus had received injuries in that arm during the war, and as a result of the assault he would be on the sick list for. some considerable, time, Loftus obtained assistance, and the four mon were locked in the lift until the police arrived.

Loftus, cross-examined, denied that he rushed into the lift and shouted excitedly at the defendants und struck at them..

STAR THEATRE.

POLA NEGRI'S FINE NEW

PICTURE.

From a drab boarding house to

a glittering palace abroad

Across.

1 Tumble down, 6. Soathsayers, 10 Makes more beloved. 11 Become more mild. 12 Spirit

8 Pronounces, Stubborn

14.Meal prepared from an edible.

acorn of Barbary.oak.

16 Intoxication.

17 Large hollow spherical body,

18 burbot.

19 The C. 6.9. unit of magnetic 20 Small moveable plans used a

reluctance.

10 Hautboy.

19 Estimated.

20 Extra covering of some asoda.

22 More uncommon.

24 Dim.

25 Layman.

27

Slaps

20 Shetland equivalent of froshold,

28 Sicken.

20 Textile fabric such as velvet. 30 Lar

21 Repeat

23 Grates.

balancing dap.

24

Machod

33

Small

36 Gallery in a buildin

36 Glider.

38 Marks made by-blows,-

30 Nothing,

40 Sinned

Largo and beautiful fish inhabit-42 Cloudy mattor

ing

the Eastern beas.

and 31 Tidal wave.

37 One.

back again in a rose covered cot-32 Medicinal mans to be swallowed. tage-this is the journey, replete 34 Blockheads. with Incidents of hazard, anxiety 38 Dullard. and happiness, that Pola Negri 41 Christmas carol.. takes in "The Crown of Lies," 42 Professions. which is coming to the Star (44 Withhold. 45 Encircled, Theatre to-day and to-morrow.

46 Tarnished. The direction is excellent, giving

47 Choones. evidence of the subtle ideas and

48 Rotards. adroit effects for which Dimitri Buchowetzki is known. Crodit

is also due to Noah Beery, vil lain of "Beau Geste," who has the role of exilèd foreign nobleman who goes into the bual-

an

1 Numbness. 2. Paleness.

Down.

3 Kind of cotton gauze.

4 Go In:

5 Banquet.

nass of "selling a queen" to his country, the real queen having 6 Furnished with weap disappeared following a revolu7 Employed.

tion. Miss Negri, of course,

the pseudo queen. She is in reaii-

ty an immigrant girl who aspires

to become a great actress. Be- cause of her remarkable resem. blance to the missing queen she gains a throne. Ernest Vajda," noted Hungarian play-wright, wrote "The Crown of Lies" special ly for Miss Negri.

ASKED TO DRAW PLANS AS SOBRIETY TEST:

BUILDER ACCUSED OF DRIVING WHILE DRUNK.

Arrested and accused of being drunk in charge of a car, a builder was asked by the police to answer the following questions as a test of his sobriety:

What is your occupation? How far is it from Hounslow to Stanwell?

Draw plans of the Staines-road from Hounslow to where it inter- sects the Great West-road, giving the position of the turnings on each side and the position where you are now,

Draw plans of a house you sold and draw a section of the roof. Draw & plot of ground with 65ft. of frontage and four chains deep. Put a house in the middle and show what margin you have left.

A slender golden evening dress was "anshed with flesh pink chiffon, the latter luid broadly about

The builder was said to the the waist and tied in three sash

bows at the back, the bows, falling satisfied the police, and the charge slightly one below the other.

was dismissed,

match and tucked together in a the shorter wraps which came in Colonel C. y. K. Mainwaring, case are highly popular. Ankle- during the late Indian Army, who saw 36 length "dressing gowns" have smartest wear are still finding year's service in Burma, has died come back for the winter, though favour. at Bath.

VAPO-HALINE

GÍVES INSTANT RELIEF, TO COLD IN THE HEAD, IN- FLUENZA ETC.

A FEW DROPS ON HANKER-- CHIEF OR. IN HOT WATER TO BE INHALED FREQUENTLY.

Prepared by

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Quean's Road, C.

Tel. 0.1877.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WHERE'S HE

GOIN' NOW

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COME ON LINDY, COME

PE'S JUST EXERCISIA, LINDY, AT'S ALL!

ON!

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GO!!

'Oscar Starts Something

BOJA: YOU WANK HES GON FAST,AUA?? YOU. OUGATA, SEE

· ME AN' CLARA

60!!

YOU MEAN TO SAY

YOUR' DONK' CAN GO FASTER THAN TAGS LINDY!

·SAY!!

have

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