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KING AND SMELL OF APPLES.

HAPPY DAY AMONG THE FRUIT AND FLOWERS.

CHELSEA, WONDERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1930.

MEETING WITH A £300,000 HOME FOR "FAVOURITISM” IN

MURDERER.

HOW "JIX" CAUSED A MAN'S RELEASE.

HANGING DEBATED.

Lord Brentford recently told the story of his prison meeting with a murderer, which proved to be lucky for the murderer,

The happiness of the King, when he found himself among the glorious wonders of the Chelsea Flower Show, made those who

He and Sir Herbert Samuel, M. wero guests at the private view realise how great is his love of a, both ex-Home Secretaries, was garden.

giving evidence before the House of Commons Committee on Capital

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With the Queen, the King spont

almost an hour and a half walk- Ing through the tents, discussing with experts those gardening pro- blems which perplex alike the big landowner and the tenant of a suburban patch.

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Punishment

Lord Brentford said he was once paying a visit to Maidstone, and there met a prisoner with a bucket,

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CIVIL SERVICE

JUDGE ON "SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE."

A MARRIAGE BAN.

The "spirit of adventure" was discussed when the Royal Com- mission on Civil Service resumed the hearing of evidence submitted Built and equipped at a cost of by the Association of Officers of £300,000 to serve the staff of Mid-Taxes, dlesex Hospital, it is on the lines of a first-class hotel.

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That is just what it looks like, as one enters the handsome stone hall, with green marble floor, green and silver curtains and green chairs.

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A LAZY - MINDED PEOPLE.

HEADMASTER SAYS ENGLISH BRAINS WASTED.

DULL CONVERSATION.

English conversation is the dul-

lost in the world, according to the headmaster of one of the newest of our great public schools, Mr. J. F. Roxburgh, of Stowe.

"The English are a lazy-minded Mr. A. L. N. D. Houghton, gene-people. In their normal moods ral secretary of the Association, and their leisure moments they over are, intellectually, too, often mora referring to "misdirected zealousness," said he was against dead than alive. the spirit of "get on or get out" entering the Service,"

"It is not because we have not good brains, but because, accord- He suggested that the reward for ing to our national habit, we 30 zealous and efficient work should them only under provocation.". The prisoner said that he was a

The funds came from an ancome in the normal course, ratherThe standard Englishman is a Soon after their arrival the reprieved murderer, and had been noymous donor, whose only condi- than as encouragement for the dull fellow who dislikes ideas. King and Queen had a little alf-in prison 14 or 15 years, and add-tion laid down with the gift was man who is constantly watching Mr. Roxburgh blamed our secon- ference of opinion on an exquisite ed perpetual flowering carnation.

Why don't you let met out. I that no expense should be spar-income tax returns to see if he can dary education chiefly, for this. "Our secondary education," he "I don't like these faded, pinky shall be no better if you keep me e, in order that the nurses might find some concealed liabiliy.

be as comfortably "housed”

said, "falls to turn out men who Things anyone else in the country,

Confusing Two

are intellectually alive, because it He insisted that there should be. Lord Tomlin, the Chairman: does not honestly value intellect, about the home nothing of the That is confusing two things and this is perhaps more the case confusing the limits of a man's in the great boarding schools than atmosphere of an institution.

duty and his liability to perform in the secondary day schools." his duty.

manves," the King remarked. Then with a twinkle he added:

"But women like them because they suit their dresses."

Too Big for Royal Buttonhole. The Queen gave an answering smile, and asked the exhibitor if she might have a few carnations. During the rest of her visit she carried four lovely blooms in "feded, pinky mauve," with the pinky beige of her raped sont as a background.

A little later she added to her Aowers a giant gardenia which the King admired, but thought too big for him to wear.

The Queen was in love with the display of little rock plants, some of them so delicate and so tiny that they looked as if they ought to grow in the garden of a doll's

house.

Little Princess Elizabeth has now given her name to a dark pansy, with velvety crimson petals edged with pink and yellow.

Two exhibits made the King

laugh. One was an arisarum, a variety of arum lily, which the King thought the most peculiar flower he had ever seen. With its brown centre and long curling tail it looks rather like a tropical iu- sect.

Grotesque Fly-Catcher. But it is not nearly so grotes- que as a fly-catching plant, which the son of an exhibitor brought from British Honduras, and which the King could hardly believe was

real.

here another three years"

"I caused inquiries to be made, and had the man released," Lord

Brentford said.

Mr. Lovat Fraser (a member of the Committee): I cannot help thinking how lucky the man with the bucket was to meet you. (Laughter.)

Lord Brentford said he was Home Secretary for five years, and probably had to deal with more cases of murder than any other the last 50 years." Home Secretary, except one, in

He was of the opinion that it was desirable, in the best in- terests of the community, that capital punishment should be rC- tained.

In the whole of the cases he had to deal with there was only one in which the man did not do his utmost to get off, only one man who said deliberately, "I have committed murder and I realise the penalty is death."

At one time there were 50 re-

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Accordingly, arrangements were made to put up a Home for 368 occupants, and the first section already accommodates 225. The accond section is now nearing

completion.

The amenities include- Full size swimming bath; Hard tennis court; Badminton court:

Ball room 60ft, long; Bed rooms with running hot and

cold water;

Electric shampooers; and Hair driers and heaters.

Prince Arthur of Connaught, chairman of the hospital, accom- panied by the Princess, paid a visit to the Home.

"I suppose you can all swim," said the Prince to the smiling nurses when he went over swimming bath.

fitted with cubicles and shower It has blue-filed walls, and is

They are two different things. The question is whether a man who adopts that line is an efficient officer. I think the proper answer of his superior on the question of his efficiency would be he was not efficient because he did not re- cognise the limits of his duty.

Lord Tomlin: Is it your view that State Service should be or ganised for the protection of mediocrity?

Mr. Houghton: Certainly not. Thoroughly. Undesirable,

scheme of promotion opened the He thought that the present way to a class of favouritism which was thoroughly undesirable.

On fagging, Mr. Roxburgh was cautious. "Continuous

unhap pineas never did a young boy anything but harm, but I do not think this is common in the pub- lic schools."

Within limits fagging was not harmful. "But," he added, "I would strongly disapprove of fag- ging which bound one boy to the. service of another boy for any: considerable period, or which made excessive demands on the time of small boys. ..--.

"In some school, I believe, on the sound of a fag-call every fag has to run, and the last is chosen

for the job. The job may be nothing more than the picking- up a fallen book for a young man of 18, too lazy to rise from his chair, yet 20 boys may have raced up three flights of stairs for it.

Mr. Houghton explained that in the small offices the senior clerical officer recommended clerks for pro- themselves in a "distinctly vicious system which allows a small boy motion, and some tax clerks found

"I would strongly object to a

to be beaten for an alleged de- order that the volume of his work circle."Y

One clerk often stayed behind inficiency in personal service." might be reflected in the recom- NICOLA, MAGICIAN -

prieved murderers at Maidstone, and they led a fairly happy life. case of a reprieved murderer com-wall, the Prince laughingly sug He had not come across a single baths. Pointing to a niche in the mitting another murder. He had gested that no doubt that if the death penalty should be placed there.

a statue of Venus were abolished professional crit

mendations for promotion. Lo The nurses are grateful to the some offices there was competition minals would resort more. to fire- Prince and Princess for suggest-to sit longest.

ing the ballroom, panelled in wen- Lord Tomlin: That seems to be thered oak, where the first official an objection to competition, and a dance for first and second year very long way from a charge of nurses will take place soon.

Arms."

No Difference for Women.

tion between a man and a woman There should be no, differentia- convicted of murder. It was only

Men partners are to be admitt- ed on payment of a small súb- scription, and "sitting-out" places will be provided at either end of the bailroom, which opena upon a garden.

Lovely Bedrooms.

favouritism.

Numerous Instances.

Mr. Houghton: We have au- merous instances where the per- sonal element of favouritiam is present.

& ILLUSIONIST.

COMING TO STAR THEATRE SHORTLY.

Nicola, one of the greatest of modern magicians and illusionista, who is appearing shortly at the Star Theatre, has been creating quite a sensation in Singapore where he has been playing to won-

derful houses.

The deliciously-scented sweet

a matter of sentiment

Sir Herbert Samuel, M.P., said peas in that wonderful famingo that in his view, if it were shown colour which makes the dulleat to be necessary to take the lives garden radiant with perfumed of murderers, in order to prevent

The programme opened with a brightness delighted both the murderers taking the lives of in-

Lord Tomlin: If your point is review of the magic of the universe King and Queen.

It was also a special idea of the that in small offices there is a ten- of the famous conjurors he has met nocent people, it seemed to him Prince's that the nurses

in which Nicola impersonated some The Queen was interested, too, a legitimate and moral thing to have a special smoke-room. It is officers to recommend for proma-Ching Ling Foo in such celestial

should dency on the part of superior in the perfect specimens of helio-do-

on his world tour. They included trope, for at her wish some were "It might be," said Sir Herbert, lighting, and furniture upholster- cicacy, that is a charge which re- mysteries as stretching a woman,

in panelled oak, has concealed tion on grounds other than off- planted in the grounds of Bucking "that if capital punishment were ed in shot silk damask. ham Palace.t few years ago..

quires substantiating. abolished, there would be some No

Are you aerial fishing, etc.; the Hindu countrywoman, looking deliberately planned political as- proudly at a cottage garden filled sassination of a public man of

suggesting that is a general condi. Fakir, Hassan Bux, performing tion of things in the Taxes Branch? the famous Hindu basket trick, with snapdragons, could have ex-importance." pressed a greater afection for

The Prince and Princess were "No," said Mr. Houghton. but and Asra, the maid in the air; the The Rev. James Barr, chair- interested in the bed rooms, each that the present scheme opens the Royal Egyptian sorcerer, Prince these oldfashioned flowers thin man: Like Cavendish and Burke. having, in addition to running way, and that it does exist."

tamesea Abass, in a lightning-like the Queen, who exclaimed, with ad- They were murdered four days be- hot and cold water, a built-in war opinion that the marriage ban believable; and, perhaps must Mr. Houghton Was also of transformation which is almost un- miration: "I like these!"

The Queen showed a housewifely came on in the House of Commons, desk, a movable full-length mirror on women entering the Civil Ser-burlesque magician

fore the usual resolution was to drobe, luggage cupboard, writing was an unfair condition to imposa popular of all, Bluey, the eccentric Interest in apples.

and the friends of abolition found and reading and bedside lamps litvice. It was a sex disability, and Argentine, in a series of feats of it impossible to state, a case. from the bedside.

[Lord Cavendish (Chief Secre- tary for Ireland) and Mr. T. H. Princess Arthur exclaimed at Burke (Permanent ander-Secre- the modernity and convenience of tary) were stabbed by four "In-coloured baths, green, orange and nurses. The Home is connected vincibles" in Phoenix Park, Dub- blue, in cubicles to match, and to the main building only by a lin, May 1882.]

the electric devices for the nurses' subway, the object of the donor being that the nurses. should be

£100,000 Orchids.

of

She liked the appearance Dunn's Seedings, an Australian sipple. "But dre they good cookers!" she asked. She made a noto of the fact that they are ex- cellent cookers.

"I like the smell of apples-nice and homely," commented the King, as he looked at the display of fine Australian and New Zealand ap lies, now arriving in England at

their best.

Orchids worth £100,000. filled one of the tenta. A Brazilian orchid

with the imposing name of

cypotodium punctalissimum

is

hair toilet.

should be removed.

necromantic nonsense.

from the

In reproducing his own theatre in Monmouth, Illinois, with parapher his own workship, Nicole, conclud nalia, illusions and effects built in

his illusions and scientific pro- ing his review, gavo" examples of blems. The dexterous feats of

Sir Herbert Samuel: If it were found that policemen in the exer- cise of their duty were murdered provide sumptuous meals for the phere of the hospital.

Six certificated, women cooks able to get away from the atmos- manipulation revealed him as one by the deliberate crimes of pro- fessional criminals, there would probably be vehement public re- action against abolition.

Gradual. Abolition.

"That has led me to take the

should powers

still be re-

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worth £500. The King and Queen view that the abolition of capital learned that collectors risked their publishment, if it is to come about, lives to find this bloom, which grows might be gradual, and that the in places reached only at great peril high up in the rocks in Brazil. tained to apply the punish-

ment, in special cases. should think if a resolution fol- lowing a discussion in the House of Commons were passed in that senso, Home Secretaries would be glad to avail themselves of it."

From 1901 to 1929 the death

spris. Of that number 827 were reprieved, and 411 executed.

GIRL OF TWELVE

BLUFFS TEACHER.

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VERSES WHICH NEARLY WON sentence was passed upon 738 per

A PRIZE.

The story of a little girl who hoodwinked editore of many newspapers, including a famous humorous journal, by her poetry, was told to a gathering of psycho- logy students by Professor Cyril Burt at the London School Economics.

of

His subject was the measure- ment of mental capacities,

The little girl was 12, and in every subject she was dull and backward. But she could write remarkable verso,

The first person she impressed was her head mistress, and later an education inspector.

Some of her poetry was so un- usual for a child of 12 that it was sent to publications, and some of it was published.

Then the governing body of the school decided to give her special merit award.

Almost all the murders in Eng land now were by mer of women, and were often the result of a sidden brutal passion.

A well-known psychologist, however, was struck by the fact that the child, against all the ac cepted standards of psychology, was clever in only this one respect

the writing of verse.

He tested her, and this is what he found:-

She had a good memory, and every evening she used to take round her coster father's barrow full of cabbages. · ́

They were sold wrapped in newspapers, from which she read good, but simple verse

Without conscious, trickery she called on her repretory of memoris ed verse when asked to write poetry upon a subject at school.

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of the greatest exponents of pure sleight of hand in the world. Right before one's eyes (be came out among the audience to make matters simplert) ke "melted". rings into and out of one another! For years, it is claimed, Nicola has startled the police and scientists throughout the world by escaping from all kinds of handcuffs, shackles and other prison paraphernalia and from numerous cells in various countries after being challenged by the police to test the gaols. Nicola has devised..a

way to duplicate the feat on the stage. The effect is magical. It is useless trying to explain it Nicola caused a young woman prisoner to vanish with the same dexterity.

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