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In The Dentist's Chair

INSTINCTIVE FEAR

The road to the dentist's chinir 1s paved with irresolution. Pain drives its vietim there, but drive It must. Having arrived there at last, the victim might be expected to surrender quietly. But it in not always 80.

There comes from Dundee, where the British Dental Association was in annual conference,, the strange story of a dental chair from which patients regularly withdrew when ever the dentist suggested gas. It was not until the dentist himself ant in his own chair that he dis- covered the reason. On A wall across the road, in full sight of the patient in the chair, was a Biblical reminder, in large letters. that

death is inevitable and may come to anyone at any moment. The

Tossing the caber at the Highland fate of the dentist who did not,

Games.

study the view from his chair will doubtless serve as # warning to others, and we may hope in the future for brighter scenes on which

“Arranged" to gaze while persuading ourselves

Divorces

HOME LAW MAY BE REFORMED

London, Sept. 7.

that the pain will soon be all over.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER

1934.

This picture from Russia, the country of prest, paradasi shuwa cyclists riding past when '110,000 spartemen demonstrated in the Red Square at Moscow,

"DIDN'T LIKE HIM”

Man's Explanation For Brutal Assault

1.

"TELEFONEMA"

TRACED BY DOG

"BURIED IN SWAMP FOR

29 HOURS.

Chuck, a shaggy little dog, des- cribed by his master as a "Mountain Airedala," is the "hero" of Hadson City.

Given an old shoe to smell, he spent seven hours in the Great

The news from Dundee also dis poses of the popular idea that in the interludes between attending

SPANISH GOVT. MAY patiente dentists sit comfortably in their own chairs, where everything

TAKE OVER is no neatly and scientifically ar ranged. In such a chair who could When Leonard Trevor Smith

Madrid, Sept. 7. not

commercial ! in (38), described as. do the crossword puzzle

The "telefonema" or telephoned record time?

traveller, of The Crescent, Wimble don Park, London, appeared at telegram service of the National Company of Spain, A highly organised divorce No right-minded dentist will Wimbledon, recently, charged with Telephone businces, employing a large number admit that any visit to him is use- unlawfully assaulting the booketal subsidiary of the International Secaucus swamp near Hudson City at Wimbledon Park Telephone and Telegraph, will be searching for a lost man. He or even unnecessary. Yet assistant of professional women co-respond. less ents, is claimed to have many there are other things than pain Station, his explanation of the taken over shortly by the Spanish found the man, Steve Lacey, in the

Government,

inlck of time. branches throughout Great Britain, which attract people to the dentist's affair was given in these words,

The ten year concession under Lacey, an unemployed man, with chair. How else can one explain "I just didn't like him, and I had

the company has acen (a wife and five children, went into There is only one ground for the golden teeth that used so often it all bottled up. It just had to which divorce in this country, but the to be seen and which still fascinate come out one day.”

operating this service expired in the swamp to plek berries. He fell authoritics are now charging that the coloured people in America Smith added that he had an in- August. The Government has into a bog and was buried almost too many of the divorces are among whom they are the first- tense dislike of the bookstall at- decided not to renew the contract up to his neck in mud and water. He lay there for 20 hours before "arranged."

thorough

which was intended as temporary tendant, who annoyed him." over-fruits of new riches 7 kauling of the present procedure of

The attendant, Leonard Gordon expedient to supplement un inade-Chuck found him and summoned There is, too, the story of some Belson, the Divorce Court is contemplated,

rescuers by his shrill barks. By said that Smith jquate telegraph service. outside the bookstall, and Under the with a view to tightening up the English prisoners who worked at a

of control the that time Lacey was unconscious legal loopholes which at present per-

factory in Germany during the said: "I am going to give you a American operated company, mit of the "arranged" divorces.

War. Every Sunday they used to jolly good hiding." Then he came "Telefonema" servico reached visit the dentist in a neighbouring behind the counter and attacked high state of efficiency. town, so pleasant was it in those him. dull and dreary days to escape from Describing it as an unprovoked

A

Wue

The manner. of sending

the

and so seriously affected by mos-

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quito bites and exposure that doe tore feared for his life. Later they were more hopeful.

Chuck found the body of a man

enses, and an attempt will be made (the factory and Kommando, if only and brutal assault the Bench fine telefonema is the same as that for in the treacherous swamp a month

More searching Inquiries will be made in future into any suspicious to abolish the type of case in which

"unknown women" figure,

ROMANCE REBUILT

wrong.

Smith £, with the option of one message on a form and hands it go, but scoffers said it was only a telegram. The sender writes his month's imprisonment.

over the counter, not of the chance. To-day they are patting telegraph office but of the tele-his head and admitting they were phone exchange, and gives it over the telephone. The recipient of the message similarly Jias it delivered in the same way as an ordinary telegram but there is the additional advantage of having the mesange given by phone first in order to reduce time and then having the confirmatory copy delivered by messenger.

TWICE ENGAGED TO

to proceed under military escort to the dentist's. It is not every one's iden of a pleasant Sunday after- MANUFACTURED EVIDENCE.

Inoon, and for the prisoners-of-war langor Many of the smaller hotels it ceased when they were throughout the country are stated able to supply the Gorman dentist to work in with the divorce agents. with rings and other trinkets of Entries are made on the hotel re- gold to melt down for his art. Kister, rooms taken-although not On the whole, however, the dent- always occupied-and the manu- ist's chair remains a place to which factured evidence made available at recourse is had only when necessity the right time,

urges, which is a groat pity, since Behind the announcement made regular visite, say every three of the forthcoming marriage of months, would save much pain and Miss Jasmin van de Weyer and trouble later. For the proper func- Mr. R. E. Banbury lies the story tion of the dentist is to keep his of a romance-which-was-shattered The state telegraph service, It patient's teeth and gums in good and rebuilt.

Another promulgated reform aime to do away with what one judge described as the "naked blackmail of the guilty partner by a husband

decree nisl.

SAME MAN.

TO BE EXPANDED,

Or wife who has obtained the condition, though such is the weak- Miss van de Weyer is the young-was explained, will take over suck

refusing to apply to have a decree

have been unnecessary.

nesa of human nature that most est daughter of Major and the Hon. equipment as can be transferred Weyer, of Clyffe, service will be expanded and its to the now department. The state The "blackmail referred to is of his time is taken up in belated Mrs. Van de the practice of the innocent party repairs and extractions that might Dorchester, and is a niece of Vis-

count Powerscourt. Mr. Banbury equipment modernized. Teletypes nisi made absolute. unless the The malade imaginaire burdens is the elder son of Mr. R. E. Ban- and other modern apparatus will be installed whenever possible. In guilty one agrees to increase the the life of the doctor, from whom bury, of Chilcoten, Baldock, Hert-the few districts which have tele-

fordshire, maintenance allowance already ap. come medicines that are easy to

In the season of 1932 Miss van and the telephone company will phones but no telegraphs, the state proved by the court, or makes aub swallow; but he does not trouble the stantial cash payment.

dentist, whose remedies are severe do Weyer was presented at Court, operate a joint service temporarily. ly practical. Extraction may be In December 1933, her engagement The newspaper La Livertao, It is expected that the law will painless, but there is an instinctive was announced to Mr. Ranbury, and Ix amended so that after a certain fear against which dentists will for the wedding was expected to take set time. every decreo nisi will ever have to contend, and they must place within a few months. automatically, become absolute, un-be careful to see that neither the Last. May it was announced that lean the King's Proctor, whose office wall opposite nor any other outside the marriage would not take place. is responsible for checking up on influence makes the approach to Now they are engaged again. all divorce actions, Intervenes them more terrifying than it need Their wedding has been, fixed for

Friday, October 6.

United Press..

be

Lisle Evi and Rudi Polifuse, children of the late Austrian Chancellor,"

and Anna Maria Mueral[n],"two_of-1},Ducas children;

on the Government's decision to take over the telefonema service, expressed the atate lack of confidence in telegraphs' ability to operate it as successfully as the telephone com- pany. Praising the expansion and efficacy of the Spanish telephone system, tow one of the best in Europe, the newspaper said "its excellency and efficiency can make e forget some of the defects of

commenting editorially

A realistic mimie gas attack during Han population were required to recent manoeuvres in which the civi- participate in Tokyo recently.

its origin," referring to the fact AUTHOR DIVORCED

that International Telephone and Telegraph secured the telephono monopoly during the Primo de Rivora dictatorship.

The newspaper referred to the inefficiency of the state telegraphs and expressed fear that the same Inefficiency will creep into the telefonema service when it becomes Government-operated depart ment.-United Press.

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By Daughter of a

Cunard Director

Mrs. Eleanor Sparks Mott has obtained a divorce at Reno, Nevada, from her husband, Mr. Jordan Lawrence Mott, the author, on the ground of cruelty, says Reuter.

She is the younger daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, London-born POETRY OF DIVORCE resident director of the Cunard since

HUSBAND'S PETITION

IN RHYME.

A petition for divorce, entirely jin rhymo, has been filed in the Jefferson Chancery Court at Bir mingham, Alabama.

The introduction reads:-"Falix Gains herewith complains against his wife, Orphelia Gains."

Line in the United States 1917.

Sir Ashley Sparks, who lives at Long Island, was Director-General' of the British Ministry of Shipping in the U.S.A. in 1918-19,

AMAZING DUEL

SPIDER AND GRASS SNAKE

The petition then states in rhyme that Follx charges Orpholla with abandonment, that Orpholis has

A four days' duel between a been absent for one year and that basement of a house at Baltimore, |spider and a grass snake in the they were married in Valley Hend, Alabama, on May 4, 1927,

In addressing the Judges, the petition says:

To the Judges of this Court, Most honourable and true, Felix Gains makes this roport And prays thus unto you.”.

Maryland, ended whon

the vention of Cruelty to Animals National Society for the Pre-

stepped in and killed the snake.

Tho reptile was slowly strangling. to death beneath the web which the spider, which was no bigger than the Banko's eye

was steadily wear-

The duel oxelted much publicity.

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