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Acid Baths STRANGE For

FACTS Body Burns

HEN KILLS A SNAKE

STATUTE BEEHIVES More strange facts from all parts of the world, sent by Router Correspondents.

Statistics published in Prague show that one citizen in every seven is liable for seizure of goods for non-payment of debt.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Hen-Pecked Husbands

MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.

MEMORIAL TO PIONEER

Hold Meeting WOMAN WHO FOUGHT

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NEW SAVIOUR TO NEW DEMANDS TO

HUMANITY

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

BE MADE.··

London.

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A new buth treatment for bad

The famous "Adam-without- body burns was described recently before the American Medical As-Eve" club, secret organisation, of sociation. The lives of persons hen-pecked trusbands, has held its severaly burned by petrol ex-annual "freedom" meeting, plosions, ignited clothing or ex-

The rally was hold in a moor- tensive scolds may be saved by land" hamlet, "somewhere in tannie aeld baths, it is claimed. | Yorkshire." One of the rules

The bath provides a method of of the rendezvous was that preventing infection, previously man who went was to tell difficult because of the great pain wife.. suffered by victims of burns. One

no

his

FOR EDUCATION

MADE SCHOOL LIFE HAPPIER

London

A memorial hall is to be erected to the late Miss Charlotte Cow- droy, the ploueer principal of the Crouch End High School for Girls, who spent her life fighting for the propor education of girls. For her, however, the proper education of, girls' did not consist in providing them with public schools modelled any closely as those of their possible upon

Membership is open to all hus-brothers. A struggle between a hen and doctor said that he believed that anako at: Ventersdorp, South most of the deaths and exhausting bands with nagging wives. Ench Arrien, lasted for five minutes-nesses resulting from burns were new member is initiated with the and the hen killed the snake.

due to infection alone. The tan- accret ceremonial in which he But an hour later the hen died nic acid bath relieves pain to such "swears by the snake" to support from the snake's poisoned bite.

an extent that scrupulous cleaning the club's proposals. for burned areas is possible.

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The proposals this year include Human faces burned beyond re- the demand for a night out once cognition now can be made over by a week, more pocket money, and surgeons. Old and now photo-less dish-washing. graphs and plaster models are used ns guides in the process.

Murli, a tom-cat belonging to the proprietor of a grocery shop in Vienna, is believed by its owner to be one of the largest in the world. Ho weighs seventeen pounds.

Ttwenty-une wooden statues, some of them eight feat high, are When eyelids are burned away, being used as beehives by a farmer new ones can be made of skin from in the village of Hoofel Bohemia. other parts of the body, even to the Some of the statues were erected by membranous lining which is sup- monks in the seventeenth century.plied from the musous membrane of the mouth. Eyebrows and eye- lashes can be made from fragments: The remains of a sixteen-year of the scalp. Noses and eara, al- old Princess have just been cremat-most obliterated, may be restored by ed at Loethen, Anhalt, Germany.

manipulations of the skin-Renter,

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But the Princess died more than 300 years ago.

Her remains lay in the tombs of the Princely house of Anhalt- Koothen, in St. Jacob's church. A spark from a lamp set the tomb on fire and the coffin of the princess was destroyed.

Josef Wyobek, aged 40, of War- saw enjoys a peculiar diet. While ho was realsting arrest, handcuffs were put on him, but he promptly broke these and swallowed them. he When taxed by the judge, boasted of his "ostrich" digestion, and claimed that before the war he used to swallow coins and watches. He was sent to prison for a month in which to digest the band- cuffs,Reuter.

PEOPLE CAN. LIVE LONGER

FEW SIMPLE RULES OF CENTEGENARIAN

WOMAN'S RECIPE

Sydney, N.S.W. Most people could live to be 00 if they took the necessary care of themselves and observed a simples rules.

fow

This is the opinion of Mra. Sarah Musgrave, who has celé

brated her 108rd birthday.

Glyder to

Fly Black Sea

ATTEMPT THIS MONTH

Moscow.

The club made merry at its annual gathering over the news that the Threatened Wives' Defence Club has disbanded. Reuter.

SALE OF CE.R.

DECLARATION BY CHINESE

REPRESENTATIVES ·

Karbin, July 23.

From well-informed circles it is learned that M. Morits, the repre- sentative of the Ministry of Com- munications, will hand over on July 24 to the Soviet the Chinese Eastern Railway Administrator's declaration in connexion with the parity of the gold rouble, reforms and the limitation of the powers of the Soviet Manager.

The declaration will contain a re- clause stipulating that the forms will be based on the 1924 agreements, and therefore the So- vlet approval or sanction is un-

A glider is to attempt to fly over the Black Sea in July,

It will take off from Sebastopol, necessary.-Reuter.

in the south of the Crimea,, andį will fly to Turkish territory, escorted by a sebplane. Prepara-

tions for the fight are already in FRENCH CLAIM TO progress.-Reuter.

THREE MILES A MINUTE TRAINS

MOSCOW'S CONTRIBU-Chinese

TION TO SPEED AGE

ISLANDS

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Nor did she encourage them to compete with the male members of their family by seeking to enter the professions or the commercial world.

Her aim was to educate her girls to excel in all "womanly and Phy- wifely accomplishments."

Bical work was of great value, in her opinion, not as an aid to beau- ty nor even because it produced a fit healthy body, but because a body is more likely to house a well-balanced mind.

Miss Cowdroy considered that the set face, muscular rigidity and ungainly carriage which re- sults from яете systems of physical work, inevitably produced a corresponding loss of resilience, poise and grace of mind.

The memorial which to being planned to commemorate her work In the school which she ruled as to principal for many years, include a new hard tennis court and an outdoor classroom. When the latter is built, there will be

sufficient room for the whole school to be accommodated in the open air.

Shortly before she died, Miss Cowdroy finished a book which is to be published under the title of Wasted Womanhood."-Reuter,

THAMES AS A MUSEUM

ITS MUD HAS MANY TREASURES

RADIO BROADCAST

CHINESE PROGRAMME AT NIGHT

From Z. B. W., on wave length of 355 metres (84.5° k/c.),

0-8 p.m. European programme. 6-6.35 p.m. Operatic. Orchestral-The Daughter of the

Regiment (Donizet)Overture.

Members of La Scala

Orchestra, Milan. C1054. Song--La Favorita-Oh, Dearest

Ferdinand (Donizetti). Song Don Carlos-Oh, Fatal Gift.

(Verdi).

Sigrid Onegin' (Contralto), 7101. Orchestral--The Twilight of the. Gods-Siegfried's Journey to "the Rhine (Wagner).

Symphony Orchesten conducted *

by Albert Contes. 2007, Song-The King's Henchman

Nay, Maccus, Lay. Him Down (Millay-Taylor), Song-The King's Henchman-Oh,

Caesar, Great Wert Thou? (Millay-Taylor)..

Lawrence Tibbett

(Baritone). 8103. 6.35-6.58 p.m. A Concert. Song Wainta Maori (Hill). Song A Maori Slumber Song

(Te Rangi Pal).

Froncos Alda (Soprano). 1330. Piano Solo-Turkish March

(Beethoven). Piano Solo Brooklet (Schubert-

Rachmaninoff).

Sergei Rachmaninoff. 1108. Song Ten Thousand Miles Away,

(Willon).

John Goss and Cathedral

Male Volco Quartet. B3762. Violin Solo--Song of Spain

(Bamazeuilh),

Master Yehudi Menuhin. 7317.

6.58-7.15 p.m. ..

Sonata in A flat, Op. 110

(Beethoven).

Frederie Lamond

7.15 p.m.

(Pianist). D1665/D1666,

Closing Local Stock Quotations, etc. 7.17-6 p.m. Musical Comedy. Selection-No, No, Nanetta. Selection Show of Shows.

New Mayfair Orchestra. C1887, Selection-Song of the Drum.

New Mayfair Orchestra. C2148. Selection-Happy Days. Selection-Puttin' on the Ritz.

Now Mayfair Orchestra. C1893. Selection-The House That Jack

Built

New Mayfair Orchestra. C1791. Selection-Blue Eyes. Selection-This Year of Grace,

New Mayfair Orchestra. C1610. 8 pm. Local Time and Weather

8.3-10.30 p.m. Chinese recorded London. programme.

FEW REVELATIONS Report.

NANKING INQUIRIES .

Nanking, July 18. As the Thames rolls darkly" With regard to the reported through London to the sea, people French occupation of nine tiny is think of it as an artery of com lands in the south Pacific, the merce, as the most historic of official Central News England's waterways or if they Agency states that the Foreign lack imagination--just as a river. Office has asked the Ministry of But they ever think of it as the Navy and the Chinese Consul something else which it un- Tests of new train which General-at-Manila-to-investigato doubtedly is a museum. His hurtles long a single rail At the mattor. enormous speed

The Chinese Legation at Paris in Moscow.

has also been instructed to as certain the French attitude on the question.-Router

Moscow.

are to be made

The single-rail is raised

on

Abstinence from intoxicating treatles, and the cars are double liquor, moderation in eating, plen--in the form of a saddle, ty of sleep, contentment of mind,

and

LYONS

Each of these cars will hold AIR CRASH NEAR and a reasonable amount of work from 80 to

100 passengers and cleanliness together with

will be equipped with two 630 goldliness, is her recipe for lonxe-h.p. motors. It is hoped that vity.

Looking back 80 or 90 years, these "trains of the future" will Mrs. Musgrave believes that the achieve a speed of 190 miles per greatest changes in life compared hour more than three milen with those old days are the minute.-Reuter,

methods of transport and the re-

markable freedom of present-day girls.

The veteran was the first white child born in the Young district, and she has a keen recollection

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CHINA AND LEAGUE.

a

PROFESSOR CARREY

KILLED

of the early days. In the awful STRANGE SOLICITUDE FROM yards, just above the airport of

drought of 1849-52 she worked 10 hours daily manning the windlass to draw water for the starving stock. When the flood broke she

toric treasures ranging over some

10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Preas Nows.

10.35 pm. Close Down,

All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Menors, 3. Moutrie and Co...

3,000 years have been discovered TRADE WITH THE

in the mud which forms its bed, usually during dredging opera- tions.

muzzle-loading bronzo gun has been found off Free Trade

PACIFIC

Wharf, and bones, weapons and INTERESTING FIGURES

FROM VANCOUVER

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Осепп

Vic.

coins have been found at variona times. It has given up relics of the mighty beasts which roamed

Vancouver, Canada, the swamps and plains or made

A comprehensive paper on

the their homes in the huge forests growth during the past decade of. which covered the land in the dim Canada's trade with all other past long before the world had countries bordering on the Pacific heard of Rome.

was presented by the A mollusc dating from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to Lyons, July 18.

period those were the days the Fifth Pacific Science Con-

island enjoyed a Two people were killed to-day when the when n two-motored aeroplane tropical climate, and aeons before Sress which has met in the crashed from a height of fifty history began, has been found early part of June in

bedded deep in London clay, while toria and Vancouver in the Pacific Bron, near Lyons. A defect of the the bones, teath, and great curved Province of British Columbia, JAPANESE SPOKESMAN

engine is said to have been the tusks of that fearsome prehistoric Tho trade of Canada was shown to cause of the accident. The two "elephant"-a mammoth-have have increased rapidly with all Shanghai, July, 22.

killed wore Professor Carrey, of been unearthed from a bed of these countries from 1928 to 1929 The Chinese press in Shanghai the medical faculty of Lyons glacial graval near Thames Haven, under normal trading conditious, was marooned in an aborigine's quotes a spokesman of the Japan University, and a Swiss pilot. Exquisitely designed Ogures of while the world wide depression hut for eight days.

Logation assaying that

gods of the Roman Pantheon, and fallowing the year 1929 hampered the bronze head of a statue of the exchange of goods. between" She has 06 descendants, includ. China's enlistment of co-opera- ing two, great grandchildren. Her tion with the League of Nations

It is notified by the Royal Artillery, the Rome Emperor Hadrian are Canada and the other countries

bordering on the Pacific. · sister, who died in December at the in re-organising the country con- China Command, that gun practice other discoveries.

stitutes a "threat" to Japan which will be carried out from Forts on Bronze apear heads and shields age of 98, loft 190 descendants.

Imports into Canada from 1923 Mre. Musgrave still saws and cannot be ignored.

dates and times as under: Lyemun which were a thousand years old does housework, travels to Sydney

on July 28, between 10 am: and 3 when Julius Caesar's galleys to 1982 decreased from $8,065,000 The spokesman added, that the pm, four rounds in the direction of appeared off Britain's, shores into $13,998,000 or. 54.8 per cent. by train to allop, and reads news

while exports to Asiatis countries papers and books-Reuter,

drawal from the League, has between 10 am. and pint., four the iron head of a Saxon spear, a declined from 888,710,000 to $24,- shown that China intended to co-rounds in the direction of Green

In 1929. Canada's imports from, tinue her anti-Japanese activities Island; Belchers, September 1, bedug-out canoe, 17th century cíny 348,000 or 87.1 per cent.

tween 10 am, and 8 p.m., four rounds pipes, and a dug-out canoo...... in China,

and so the list might go on, al-Asia totalled $88,208,000 and from In the direction of Chung Hue.

Oceania $22,198,000, while exports most for over-Reuter. Instead of seeking Japaneso co-

to Asia in: 1929 amounted to $82,- operation. China has evidently

582,000 and to Oceanfa. Oceani preferred to turn farther aflold,

$40,000,000. During 1929 Canada's

! UGLIEST WOMEN

IN EUROPE

AND THE RUDEST MEN

Budapest.

A Swedish journalist who s

'flying across Europe. Intends to

ске

The H.K. Notary Club"mecting to-

afacusatori of Club business, - ·

thus ignoring Japan's interest in merrow will be a closed one, for the GOLD YIELD INCREASE purchases from principal Asiatic

her development.Retter.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF_ MONEY WILL

BUY MONEY'S¦ Arrangements for the next Kow. visit Britain shortly. These are woRTIL: BUT THE THING MEN CALL toon Cricket Club concert on, Satur

the remarks which he has made FAME, WHAT IS IT-Carlyle, about the cities which he has

visited so far; st

Hamburg-Has the ugliest, wo-

mon in Europe.in

'Berlin-Has the rudest men. “

Prague Tho most

day, ard well in hand. The pro- gramme will consist of a variety of Among the artistes who Special services featured by music numberă.

Australia's Greater Productivity

countries were: Japan $18,824,000: China $2,908,000 Ceylon- $2,677,- ; 000: Straits Settlements $1,757,000, and Hongkong $1,272,000. Canada's Balca the principal Asiatic coun- tries were: Japan $87,503,000: China $27,209,000; British · India #9,470,000! Dutch East Indies $2 Because of tho incrossed 727,000: Hongkong $2,457,000 and

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were held at St. Joseph's Church, have promised their - méreitba are price and the reduced costs of Straits Bottlements : $1,156,000. TRADE NEGOTIATIONS.ed yesterday when a general excha

Garden Road, yesterday, in celebra Mrs Percy Younghusband, who production, the field of gold in In the same year Canada's pur tion of the Feast of St. Vincent de makes a welcome reappearance, and Australia continued to Incroape chases from the countries of Amusing Faul. Fr. Cantore was the officiating the "Imps Quartette a vocal four. In the first three months of 1988 Oceania, ware: New Zealand $14, priest, and an augmented choir wided some to be heard for the first time, the estimated total yield was 987,000: Australia $3,519,000 and to the solemmacis of the occasion. A Solos will be given by MOSTA Kime: 174,625, 82,411 of Epp ihtaly. Fiji 88,886,000 while Canada's ex- Brosinu-Provides the worst collection taken during the service Trowt, King and Goble, while the

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