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THURSDAY JAN. 24. 1929:

THE SMALL-POX DANGER.

When the Sanitary Board ten years ago passed a resolution per- mitting the treatment of small-

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1929.

DAY BY DAY..

HABITS OF INDUSTRY PROVIDES FOR A MAN WHO GIVES HIS OHILDREN

THEM DETTER THAN. BY GIVING THEM- A FORTUNE-Whately.

Lieut. Commr. E. W. B. Sím has

H.M.S. Cricket.'

SOUND ADVICE TO STUDENTS.

MR. J. D. BUSH 'ADDRESSES YMCA. SCHOOL.

The Very Idea!

which - suggest that there - la no danger of spreading the disease provided those coming in direct or Indirect contact with the sufforer are rendered immuna by vaccina-

"Are they literary people down tion. That, however, can hardly']

there?" neked Judge Thompson, when a solicitor anid that a cer- bo the case, for we are told that

Some sound edvico to Chinese tain accident had happened in the nurses and staff at the Ken-been appointed to II. M. S. Sterling, students was given by Mr. J. D. East Ham near Dickens-road, nedy Town Hospital are forbidden

Bush, M.A., Vice-President of the Macaulay-road, and Thackeray- Chinoso Y.M.C.A. at the annual road." The question to leave the compound "in order Surgn, Lieut. A. J. Burdon, M.B., graduation and prize-giving core-think, be answered in the affirma

Inust, I to avold the risk of carrying infec-B.Ch has been appointed to mony in connexion with the tive, for the half was not told in tion from their pâticate." As we

Y.M.C.A.. day school yesterday court. There are also in East Ham afternoon. presume that all the staff are vac-

a Shakespeare-crescent, a Byron- cinated, it is conceded that the

In the course of his remarks, Mr. avenue, à Milton-avenue, a Shol Bush_said;—"As" students, you |·ley-avenue, a Ruskin-avenue, a disease can be carried by persons

must learn the accret and learn it Goldsmith-avenue, n Coleridge. who themselves may be immune.

H.M.S. Kent, flying the flag of early that there is time for every-avenue, and a Sheridan-avenue. Then why is a system permitted the Commander-in-Chief, China

thing. Do not be in a hurry to be There has also been a historical which allows occupants of tene-Station, has arrived here from learned and to achieve wealth, mind at work: close by are Boleyn- road, Cloves-road, Parr-road, position and power. You can no Kudat. ment houses in which cases occur

more hasten the fruition, of these street, whose united algnificance Arragon-road, and Katherino. (where efficient isolation la ad-

cannot be missed by the most casual student of the annals mittedly impossible) to mix with

English matrimony. the

community? Incidentally, there was no direct reply at Tucs- day's meeting to Dr. Koch's query

Commander Henry H, Harwood, M.B.E., of H.M.S. Cumberland, hns been promoted to be Captain.

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of

For threo solid hours the hoarse- voiced sergent had been lecturing.

as to whether compulsory removal experienced the first snowfall of/done in China" in education, his man on the duties of a soldier,

to an isolation hospital is insisted upon in the case of foreign suffer- ers from the disease.

cases.

manufacturo and

The man scratched his head for a moment and then a amilo of:en- lightenment crossed his faco.

"Yes, sir," he said, “you're quito right. Why should he?"

I doubt

No mathematician likes arith-

metic-Professor G. B. Jeffery.

Does the right honourable gen. tleman laugh at Cameron of Lochiel7-Mr. T. Johnson, M.P. -

The writing of history is now regarded as genteel employment for the man of comfortable moana who has retired from bustress.-- Mr. Philip Gucdalla,'

A woman has only to go down to Dover and dip her toes in the Channel to become famous.--Miss Ellen Wilkinson.

Seventeen further cases of small-aims than you can the growth of notified a flower and a plant. The world pox, all Chinese, word yesterday. Of these, 14 were from of to-morrow belongs to the youth Kowloon districts.

|of to-day, There are tremendous opportunities lying ahead of you Shanghai on the 18th instant and there are gigantic tasks to be

after 9 pm., it began to snow. the winter season when, shortly agriculture,

transportation. Before you can and he thought it was time to sco how much they had understood of succeed in attaining the goal of

his discourse. The Directors of the Hongkong your ambitions, you must be will.

Casting his glance over the men, Whilst we agree that there is/ Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.ing to pay assiduous. court to the he fixed on Privato Green.

muses of wisdom in good books, Ltd., announce, that subject to au-

"Why should a soldier be ready something to be sald for the condit, a dividend of $1 per share for ripe experience, sound thinking to die for his country?" he barked. cession permitting home-treatment 1928, write off steamers and office and constancy to high ideal,

"Do not make the fatal mistakes of small-pox cases, where the sur-furniture $87,500 and carry for-

as many of your predecessore roundings are satisfactory, especi-ward to 1929 Account $36,500.83,

have done in the country of taking ally if it could be shown that it

In the results of the October hold of jobs too big for them, resulted in prompt notification of examination in written subjects at without the requisite aptitude and Home stations, among the success-proparation. Dear lads, it takes

whether education cases as they occur, wo are in ful candidates appears the name of long preparation; it takes immense makes one better or happier.----- clined to think that the risk to the Captain J. E. Drysdale, M.C., of the lot of hard working, like a miner Lord Hugh Cecil. community is too great, during a Royal Army Service Corpa, station-buried in a landslip, fn the serious epidemic, to warrant Itsed in Ilongkong. There were in all vigorous words of a noted French 203 candidates who passed-158 novelist, and much thinking and continuanco. The law should also lieutenants, 97 captains and eight doing too before you can be ready be greatly strengthened for deal- majors.

to take your place in the leader ing with people, who fail to report

ship of your country. If you want A warrant has been issued by the anything good in this world, you At the Kowloon Magis- police for the apprehension of a must work for it in a proper way. tracy yesterday, Mr. Hamilton ax-Chinese named, Yeung Kook-wan,

manager of the Yu Shing import "Remember above all, education pressed surprise that the maximum and export firm, of 85 Des Vouck and ability to do things are not penalty for this offence is a fine Road West, who is alleged to have synonymous. School cannot put of $50. We re-ccho his sentiment, absconded with $40,000 belonging more brains into a boy's head; it under the Public to the firm. A report was made to can only help him to make the Seemingly,

the authorities by a partner of the most of the brains that he hna. At best, education consists, rough- Health and Buildings Ordinance, firm, Tse Yu-sheung.

ly paraphrasing. Confucius, in

To-day's Dog Story,-"Many The case in which Chun Tak-understanding the past so as to years ago," writes a reader, "I had chan was charged at the Criminal know how to grapple with the an uncle who lived at the end of Sessions yesterday. with armed present. Aa Henry Ford anys, 'So that quiot little cul-de-sac called robbery at West Point ended in schools are useful if they show the St. James's-place. Ho frequent- the acquittal of the accused, after blind alleys of human endeavour, ly came home in the afternoon in Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., who de-Indeed, the school is the signpost a hansom, not his own but ono just fended, had described the case us to indicate the right and wrong were heard coming round the picked up. As soon as the wheels the thinnest and most unsatisfac- turnings of life.”'

corner by Spencer House his dog, tory ever put before a liongkong Mr. Yu Wan, Inspector of a Skye terrior called Smut, al- had failed to attain. Another The Government attitude to jury. The prisoner alleged that Vernacular Schools, also addressed ways jumped up from his place by statement made was that it was wards the Channel Tunnel pro- he had heen subjected to "third the students, stressing the impor- the drawing-room fire and rushed largely due to this concession that ject, willingness to initiate a com-methods by the police, and Mr.tance of education and urging co- the previous epidemic had been prehensive re-examination of the Justice Jacks ordered that his al-operation between students and

with legations should be investigated. teachers." dealt with so quickly as it had. whole question, conforms The regularising of this method was public opinion, and could hardly also defended on the ground that have been more explicit at this it offered

a good prospect of age. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the official spokesman, noted that the enlisting the co-operation of the

limitless possibilities of the am- public, although it was describilbitious scheme has again caught by a Government spokesman as be-popular imagination, but pleaded ing a choice between two evils. that a decision should be reached The conditions attaching to the on broad grounds of national concession are that cases must be policy, and asked for the co-opera- reported to the authorities, all (ion of the Liberal and Labourdant was not in a fit condition to be people residing in the house must Party leaders in order that the be vaccinated, and a notice must findings of one Government should be pasted on the door stating that fot be upset by another. All of there is a small-pox case in the which is to the good. In a pro- ject of so much national impor- house.

fance, the introduction of party

nox patients in their own homes,

subject to certain conditions, it was stated that the adoption of these new and rather startling principles" on the occasion of a previous outbreak of the discago bad reached, an end which a strict- er application of the regulations |

the Sanitary Board has power to specify a heavier penalty. If that is so, then that power should be exercised without further delay.

Channel Tunnel.

of the

Sentence of twelve month's hard

labour was imposed on a returned banishee by Mr. E. W. nmilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this that the defendant, who claimed morning. It was given in evidence that he had only been deported for ten years and got for life, was originally deported for ten years in 1916, but in February, 1919, he re- turned and was banished for life. His Worship remarked that defen- beaten.

BANKNOTE TRICK.

CHINESE MAĮDSERVANT

VICTIMISED.

BRIDGE

POZIVE

BY FABYAN MATHEY,

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down to the hall to greet his mas-

ter,

"One day my aunt had visitors, and was describing, the exploit. In a few minutes you will see it for yourselves, she said. The wheels were heard; nothing happened. Smut did not turn a hair, Of courso dogs and children will nover show off when expected. Five minutes passed; again wheels were heard, and Smut was down- stairs in a twinkling. How did he know that his master was in the second hansom and not in the first?"

[The winner of the silver cup for the best cosay by an elementary school pupil in London was a girl of 13, who stated, when she took the cup, that her wish was to be a hair dresser.]

She wrote the best of essaya

Produced in London town, And added to the growing sum

Of feminine renown.

She beat the boys in wordy war, And led a conquering host, · · And then declared her longing

for The work that pleased her

most.

She envied no Jane Austin,

No Fanny, Burney's fame; The mantle Mrs. Browning left

She had no wish to clalin. For further literary grace.

She frankly did not care, And only hoped to find a place

In dressing ladies' hair.

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In view of the figures quoteil at

conflict would be little short of Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary absurd. While the detailed scheme Board, especially the large num- that now finds favour is compark- The approach of Chinese Naw her of dumped cases, it is per- tively new, calling for the expendi-Year is a period when the local tinent to recall that when the ture of £190,000,000,-which would Police Force is specially on the matter was before the Sunitary provide a railway from London to watch for undesirable characters. Paris as well as the tunnel, and It is, at this period of the year Board in 1918, the main object would provide a service compet-that the average Chinese woman,

lived of the concession was described as ing in speed with the Imperial having

paralmoniously

There are no trumps, and South being to prevent, as far as possible, Airways, and running every 45 throughout the year, brings forth has the lead. North and South

minutos the underlying idea her savings from the family chest must win all five tricks, the dumping of bodies of those dates back to over a century ago, and makes purchases for the cole- africken with the disease. Judged and, at one time later, concessions bration of the New Year. by the returns for the present were actually secured. The big- Pickpockets reap a rich harvest. Lay out the cards on à table, a8 epidemic, that object is not being gest factor to-day, the economic during this.time, for many women, shown in the diagram, and study attained, for during the past three considerations, are a modern de- unaccustomed to handling money the situation. See if you can find velopment. The Southern Itail during the whole year, are easily method of play that will net and a half months no fewer than way, with its splendid cross-Chan-robbed in the busy districts where North and South all of the tricks. 478 'bodies have been picked up. nel organisation, would probably the Chinese assemble to buy

Neighbour, to a woman at Bow There is, however, a much more be hit most severely, though it is cakes, crackers, and other casen-

possible that some arrangement tlals to help in the colebrations.

Police pickets have been on the card of a suit must be sacrificed serious aspect of the matter; between the promotersi

In this puzzle the high, good County Court-You were married recently, Woman, acidly--Yes, namely, that the treatment of cases Channel Tunnel scheme and the street during the past few days; if the correct solution le to be and I did not ask permission of

the neighbours. in Chinese tenement houseя in- Railway might be made. One of searching such suspects and in

When Rochford (Essex) Gas volves a distinct danger of spread-ed in favour of assent is that of way of the transgressor hard.

the strongest afguments introdue-overy way possible making the reached,

South leads the ace of spades, Works (soon to be demolished) Ing the disease. If the concession Sir William Bull, the Parliamen- One well-known form of ewind-North discarding the three of dia- were built-in the good old days were confined to those living in tary advocate, who points out that ling is by means of the commonly monds or the good lack. The consumers used as much gas as self-contained homes, there could the expenditure of £30,000,000 on known banknote trick. By handing three of spades is then led. North they wished for £1 a year.

Sheriff Brand, at Dumfries the tunnel would provide 6,000,000 their victims bundles of worthless discards the other diamond, and be less objection to its perpetua- weeks' work. If the whole scheme paper, which they represent to East is in a dilemma. A heart When I am in a motor car I never tion, provided there was immediate were undertaken, though the figure be banknotes; the crooks often discard gives North the rest of find drivers driving at twenty notification of the cases and pro- seems colossal, its possibilities in manage to obtala money and the tricks. A diamond discard miles an hour. Thirty miles an

Jewellery from *their

vic-presents South with a trick in that hour is quite a moderate speed. vided strict precautions, in the way ployment problem are enormous. the way of mitigating the unem-

The tims.

tell They generally

a sult, and when the diamond is led

grandson, great-grand- of vaccination of all residents, The Committee of Imperial De harrowing tale of being lost and East will again be forced to make daughter, and great-great-grand- coupled with other measures, were fence, which has always had the not knowing their way about. a disastrous discard. The came son of John Constable, the painter. now village hall at Woodham Wal- taken. But, unhappily, the greater last word in the past in, sve be-They are quite willing to hand thing occurs if East discards a took part in the opening of the bulk of the Chinese masses live in lieve, still prepared to stress its their "money" to their prospective club on the second spade,

dangers from the point of view of victim to be changed at the nearest It is interesting to note that ter, near Chelmsford, recently. tenements which are sub-divided invasion, but it would say little for place if the victim would only let the discards of both diamonds are them have some jewellery as very essential. If a heart and a into cubicles, and we agree with cur engineers If some means could security. They promise to wait, low diamond are discarded, East diamond will fall rather hard. If

not be devised whereby the tunnel the official statement made

discarded by at could be rendered impassable with but as soon as their "victim" fswill throw his ten of diamonds two hearts. Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary out endangering its structure. out of sight, they promptly die and win the final trick with a North, the small diamond, again.

heart. If a heart and the jack lose Board that efficient and proper When the various factors are rear.

The first of such cases during of diamonds are discarded, East -North and South must begin isolation in such surroundings is weighed one against the other, the the season was mentioned in this will save himself by then discard with the two rounds of spades.

facilities that would be afforded quite impossible. Mr. Sayer add-seem to be overwhelmingly the maidservant being victimised to eight of hearts will both win for march off with at least one trick, morning's police report, a Chinese ing a hoart. The ace and the Otherwise East and West will ed to this observation another first consideration.

the extent of $28 by two men,. North, but at the end the small and probably two or three,

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