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LAUGHTER IN THE NIGHT.

A LITTLE SKETCH OF CHINESE LIFE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 14, 1929.

VOLUNTEER CONCERT

MARRED.

RAIN INTERFERES WITH PROGRAMME.

of the Weather Gods than they receive. No only do enthusiastic ofcera and men devote time and money to making a success of a promenade concert, but they ar: range a programme that caters to the taste of the most exacting, and in return they get-rain, rain, and more ruin.

·RECORD BREAKERS.

(Continued from. Paga 6.)

RADIUM “BOMB.”

The Very Idea! POWELLS

An American writer on lawn tennle has been urging that the term "love" should be eliminated from the game. He thinks its

to "he-men.' I nåver heard

RELIEF FROM PAIN FOR CANCER SUFFERERS, tonnage has

since been never achieved in a sall-driven vessel.Striking results from experi- 'It was her bullder's purpose to dements with the radium “bomb" at Overhead in a star-strewn sky The Hongkong Volunteer Determine whether marked increase Westminster Hospital are record the moon shone, casting shadows fonce Corps really deserve better in tonnage would be, followed byled in a report by Dr. E. Rock sentimental quality is repugnant | only in those places where the

proportionate Increase in speed, Carling on the first 80 cancer roof tiling ended in fantastic

but this purpose was never reallz-cases treated. upward sweep of painted plaster, or where some learing devil's face or the twisted tail of a stone fah, without which strangs embellish ments no Chinese building seems complete, intercepted her ghostly beams. From the river came the sound of hourse voices-boat- people calling as with dexterous skill they sailed their tiny craft round a dangerous bend or passed a sandbank and the "chug-a- chug.chug" of some fussy little motor-launch as she pushed her way against the flood

greater nonsense in my life, snys London correspondent in reply. ed. The wonder ship burned to Dr. Carling, who is a surgeon at If this critic had paused to think New York, immediately prior to British Medical Journal" the ex-ment of his own view that "love" the water's edge at her dock in the hospital, describes in the he would find the word an endorse- her first salling. Rebulk, rerig porieneos of nine investigators. cuts no ice.. still a swift and majestic ship,

No permanent cure la claimed,

the

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Last night, however, we thought that the vengeful Gods would smile upon us, and up to a point they did. They permitted band and artistes to reach Item 7 on the programme, and then they let loose with a fierce tropical down-

pour.

ged, and reduced in size, she was

Is it true, however, that "he

but never the marvel she would but the famous surgeon points to men" find love so repellent? If on both sides of the Atlantic the have been had she gone to sea as relief from pain as the result of we are to believe the best sellers six months' work with an experi-"he man" is not immune from its! Donald McKay built her.

One of the most popular of all mental bomb,

influence, and it is precisely be- One patient who was too weak to cause of their robust quailties as clippers was the Dreadnaught, commanded by the redoubtable Capt. get out of bed now runs about lovers that cave-men and shelkhe Samuel Samuels, and nicknamed briskly and seems quite well. are so popular with a certain

The Wild Boot of the Atlantic." Another patient's health is 30 section of the reading public. A medium clipper, not particularly much better that it is difficult to awift in light winds, in a galo she persuade har to continue treat- outstripped every craft in eight.ment.

Let aspirants to championship. honcura cut love out of their lives: Hthey will, but do not let us cut it out of the game. Such à course might even lead to the brutaliaa tion of lawn tennis.

Some Schoolboy howlers: Columbus was a great naviga- istor who cursed about the Atlantic.

In the distance drenched, with silver moonlight, beyond silhouette of flowering cotton Happily the Volunteer Drill Hall trees, the bull frogs croaked in the provided a refuge for the big She has a record of nine days, The "bomb" "consists of almost flooded rice fields and fire-flies audience, who took everything in

seventeen hours between Sandy a gramme of radium, costing £10. flitted like wandering stars, In the best of spirits, and made then-Hook and Queenstown to her crc-000, enclosed in a lend box with a

dit. Most of the clippers made ex-| the compound the big, brass bell selves at Home on gun carriages traordinary passages across the narrow opening. The box is plac- had clanged the hour of ten and and army waggons. Several at Atlantic, and commonly overlooked within a few inches of the skin us the echoes died away or linger-tempts were made by the K.O.S.B., and left far behind them the of the patient, and the growth ed high among the eaves where Band to complete the programme, clamsy paddle-wheel steamers of bombarded by radium rays. birds were sleeping, one by one the but the rain was too heavy. the day. Indeed, some thirty years lights winked out in the boys'

Long Treatment. dormitory, white nets were tucked

passed before the clipper's per- around still whiter beds, and many

formances were excelled by steam.

uge The "bomb" is in a pair of tired eyes began to close

and, with the passing of the clip-six days a week. During the day But the inevitable decurred; tinuously for 24 hours daily for in sleep.

per. the long supremacy of the out-patients are treated, and dur sailing ship came to a glorious

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Mr. and Mrs. Richards are to be thanked for adding, a

spice of savoury variety to the programme They are fine, vocalists, and in future, Hongkong will look for

A grass widow is the wife of n dead vegetarian.

In India a man from one cask can- cannot marry a woman out of

another, cask,

But all the restful magic of the ward to their presence at its band end. The clipper's contribution to ing the night in-patients, the wore "a silk shirt cut low in the!

concerts.

The K.0.S.B. Band were.well up to standard, while the Aloha Sere nadera, popular as ever, rendered their numbers with a skill born of long practice.

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maritime progress can hardly be average time given to each case estimated. She taught people the being two hours.·' ·

After an initial nervousneys, value of speed in transportation; she raised the standard of ocean most of the patients aleep peace- travel to a height it had never fully while they are under the known before; she brought the "bomb," and for some time after- continenta into close communica- wards. They state that tion; she gave an impetus to com- sense of comfort and well-being is merce, whose rich fruits the world increased while under the in

fluence of the rays.

night could not full Ah Lin to sleep. He did not even think of sleep, Instead, he tossed upon his wooden bed and laughed.

He laughed until his sides nched. He roiled upon

hia bed in sheer abandon of delight. For Д moment he would subside into a convulsive giggle which would set everything in his room bobbing in excited sympathy. Ah Lin had A NEW TENNIS" STAR. is enjoying to-day; and her per-

lived that day-lived as he had never lived before. Ah Lin, third coolie in the compound, he who had no brains, who always was left to sweep the floors or clear the garbage or sweat at the water- pump Ah Lin, that slow, silly fellow so slow and so silly that the women laughed at him had that day worn carried a silver-handled stick, and, O wonder af.life! had sat in a chair while two sweating chairmen had carried him fully three miles through the town where all men

could see him.

a silk coat and

He who had never sat in a chair before had been carried carefully,

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MOST PROMISING SINCE

BETTY NUTHALL

Miss "Pat" Brazier, a 15-year old Worthing schoolgirl, is con- sidered by many judges to be the most promising girl lawn tennis player since Miss Betty Nuthall

made her name,.

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sistent competition, so long, suc- cessful, forced the steamer to excel: her if it would survive, at all. Whatever marvels may yet be per- formed, her record of valorous achievement, unique in its field, has won an everlasting place in the memories of men.-B.B.B. in the Christian Science Monitor.

£600,000 FOR DUCHESS OF ROXBURGHE.

In the final of the "Under Six- teen" event of the Schoolgirls' Championship at Queen's Club, West Kensington, recently, she bent Miss J. Marquis by 6-0, 6-2. OVER £1,000,000 LEFT BY LATE

LONDON HOSTESS. reverently, with all the respect forehand drive, and a most

Her service, her well-produced man of substance. When the difficulty had arisen curate volley won the appreciation about the escort among the clerer of the small but critical "gallery." white men and they had stood Tom Jones, one of the profes puffing silly clouds of smoke"into" the air and saying nothing, it hu sionals, who umpired the match, said that he thought Miss Brazier been Ah Lin who pumped water and brought the goats in when the had a big future in lawn tennis, and ruin came; Ah Lin, whose brale many experienced judges of the was slow, who had thought of a

game endorsed his opinion. ruse to hoodwink the soldiers und

Mr. Brazier said that he coached get the bay home. They always his daughter at first, but recently think in straight lines, these "she got to know, too much for me, Western men. They try to walk and now she has a professional through walls instead of round coach."

these thoughts in his heart, wrap- [ham. ping them in rich, soft laughter.

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their

The "bomb" is dangerous to the Operators, and the radium staff are excluded from the hospital on Sundays for the sake of their healths.

(It is reported that a bridegroom

All hail to the day when the neck at his wedding.)

paper reports.

What the bridegroom elected to

wear,

The cut of his shirt, and the

length of his shorts,

And his manner of dressing his

hair.

No longer alone shall the bride

and her train,

Draw fair praise from the "man

In the street.”

But once and again we shall

hear the refrain, "Oh, doesn't the bridegroom look

sweet!!"

Discussing individual cases, Dr.

tongue and "What a fine crop of apples," Carling says that mouth cases have done badly, said the man who was looking well-stocked orchard. though "they were in any case the round a hopeless failures of other "Do all your trees bear as many methods." 7

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Merely Palliative." Throat and neck cases have been the most satisfactory, and they "hold out definite hopes of suc- cess when the best dosage has been ascertained."

apples?"

"No," replied the gardener, "only the apple trees."

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Mr. Campion, the Marylebone magistrate: It would not make the slightest difference to me' if a prisoner's father were the Prime Minister.

The

A fortune of about £600,000 is Of other cases it is stated that We never refuse to take money. inherited by the Duchess of Rox-some are failures, some aerely-A money-lender, at Clerkenwell burghe under the will of her palliative" in their results, some County Court. mother, Mrs. Mary Rita Goelet, of "quite temporary" in improve- Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., ment. and formerly of Wimborne House, London.

He has

Constable at Willesden: prisoner was fighting with another Irishman, and when I separated A severe case of cancer of the them they both turned on me. breast was "bombed" and there Willesden Prisoner: I never Mrs. Goelet died on February 23

was an "immediate ease, cessation struck the constable, last and left estate considerably of pain, and a remarkable return high cheek-bones and that makes in excess of £1,000,000, but of to well-being. lasting, however, his eye look as if it had been which that for the English grant only a few hours after each ap- punched. is valued at £4,279.

plication." The patient is still Woman at Kingston-on-Thames: Mrs. Goalet, who was at one under treatment.

I only have a drink once in six Another patient with cancer of weeks and three "stouts" must. time a leading London hostess;

was the widow of Mr. Orden the neck was treated, and "the have taken effect. Goelét and daughter of Mr. aryngeal growth disappeared and Barrister "at Kingaton-on-

She also left the Duchess of:

Willesden Woman: My husband left me stranded, so I had to fall on the Poplar Guardians.

them. O. wise AboLin! He can Although Miss Brazier is only think round and round, in and out, just 16, she played three times for in zig-zags and in circles. Slow, Sussex second team last year, and silly Western men, never to have this year was in the county' firet Richard Thornton Wilder, banker. his general condition, which was Thames: In Victorian days a thought of it." And he surged team against Middlesex and Dur-Roxburghs all her tapestries (ex. grave, has improved an remarkably wife regarded it as. ber duty to

cept three for her unn Robert), well indeed."-

that he declares himself very stay at home and look after the home, but modern women do not works of art, jewellery and per-

Dr. Carling suggests that more like auch medieval Ideas. sonal effecta.

intensive bombardment is one of Of the residue of her property, the lines upon which better results after family bequests, two-fifths is can be obtained, but for this at to go to her son Robert, and three-least another gramme of radium fifths to the Duchess of Rox is required. burghe, or her issue.

"It is difficult," he says, "bo en visage radiation as 'curing' cancer Dismantling operationa

In any other manner than through begun on the White Star liner normal physiological processes of Celtic, stranded at Cork Harbour defence or repair, rejuvenation or

restitution,"

Difficulty had arisen over the that Ah Lin was caught smuggling provision of an escort for a boy these valuables back again into who had fallen seriously and the office wrapped in a copy of who had to be taken home imme-the Morning Post. Explanation diately. The difficulty was made was easy-voluble, and for the all the greater because of the foreigners" humiliating. Realis strained circumstances of the ing his danger, Ah Lin had con- times. While a state of flood after reived a great idea. "It had come exceptional rains had rendered the to him while he had taken his narrow, tortuous roads impassible bowl of rice, "Why not walk ns for a "foreigner," a state of civil u gentleman?" "Why not, war had put fear into the heart indeed? So he had taken the of every able-bodied coolie within coat from its peg and the stick miles. For every few days from its corner and had put them squad of soldiers in new uniforms, to good use. Immediately upon with fixed bayonets, and a long line leaving the school gate he had of rope, would appear in the lagged behind for a space to don streets and snap up any healthy-the garb of aristocracy, wearing looking coolie within sight.

the blue silk coat over his own

Away they would be taken in clothes. miserable bunches either to train

or launch, henceforth to carry

Then as a gentleman, an elder. ammunition for the troops pouring he had picked his way with dignity to the border. Thus för a week behind the chair. Polleemen had or more all wise coolies who loved saluted him, soldiers had pushed their homes and themselves had people on, one side to allow them been hiding in dark corners until to pass, the boy's family had given the bayonets and the rope had him rice, duck's logs and white passed.

wine. The chairmen had agreed After a long consultation during to bring him back again, for rather which the Westerners blew much than be caught by the soldiers of their strange-zmelling tobacco with an empty chair and, pressed smoko in the air and had gaid, into service, they preferred to "What shall· wo do about an event for this cocky felow, Impos- escort?" so many times that Ah ter though they knew he was. Lin had begun to understand the Thus he returned in great state, full meaning of the words, it was the pride of life filling his heart, decided that he, being third coalie blowing clouds of cigarette smoke in the compound, anmarried, and into the faces of the people who seemingly impervious to any jostled near him in the narrow changes in fortune, should try his streets. But surely those who luck and follow the chair at a bore him must have wondered why reasonable distance.

the chair wobbled so, and pitched With the characteristic placidl-and swayed like a boat, why the ty of his race Ah Lin had bowed little silver bell rong so often, to the inevitable and went to eat shivvering and tinkling in a frenzy what we considered might well be of delight. It was because Ah Lin his last bowl of rice in the Setool was laughing-laughing until his compound.

sides ached-because he At two o'clock the chair with living living as he had never the boy in it, two chairmen and lived before. Ah Lin, splashed out of the big

gutes into the flooded street.

WAS

It was early next morning and

the miste were beginning to rise

It was at three o'clock that before a little brass, god in a Ching Hung, the school manager missed his new coat of blue silk corner of Ah Lin's room settled and his silver-handled walking firmly on its blackwood pedestal atick from their usual place in and attained Nirvana-Rev. A. the office. It was at deven o'clock

WHITMORE.

have

mouth since December 10 last.

Llave!

SERVICE THE FREG.US.MAT OFF.

"It may make me look old-fashioned but I'm going to

stick to my pipe."

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"Did you post my letter, Joan?" asked the little girl's mother. "It' was a very important one."

"Yes, mother, I did."

"But why have you brought back the money for the stamp?" queried the mother.

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"I didn't have to use it, mother. I slipped the letter in the box when nobody was looking."

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Here is a case of Scat meeting. Scot. An old gentleman 'and his daughter hired a taxicab to Waver! ley Station, Edinburgh. On arrival he tendered the taxicab

The driver a half-penny tip. driver, his face convulsed, was about to utter forcible words when the daughter sweetly intervened.

"Daddy is old." she whispered, have "and the money values changed a lot since his early days. Here, my man, take this!" And she thrust a coin in his hand.

The driver saluted acknowledg ment, but nearly had a stroke when he beheld the second. tip. It was a penny:

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Enthusiastic Aviator (after long explanation of principal parts and working of biplane): "Now you understand it, don't you?"

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Young Lady: "Yes, all but one thing."

Aviator: "What is that?". Young Lady: "What makes it stay up?"

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