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THE - HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 22,

WINDERMERE

SA REAL CAMP.

میرا

MOSCOW UNIVERSITY

FRESHMEN DISAPPOINTED AFTER LONG JOURNEY

Moscow, July 10.

and

Sprightly young college freshmen urey haired post-graduates to-night milled about the lobby of the New Moscow Hotel.

1985.

THYMUS GLAND

MAY PRODUCE "SUPERMEN"

EXPERIMENTS

ON RATS

Atlantic City, NJ., June 14. They parloyed as to what to do

Discovery of a gland extract raco of after travelling 5,000 miles to at-which may produce a tend the summer session at Moscow "supermen" was reported when 12,000 physicians of the United University, only to find there was States and Chanda met for the no session.

opening of a joint convention of the American and Canadian Medical

More than 200 prospective Associations.

students of Soviet learning and

A colony of squeaking white rats culture were lured by advertise-in tiny cages demonstrated to the menta of 'Intourly the Soviet gathering of scientists a develop- travel organization, but on arrival ment of thymus gland extract,

from the sweetbreads of calves here they were informed that the which spoeds growth and maturity school term had been cancelled, the to an unprecedented degree. The professors having been drafted extract is being tried on humans. for other State services or being so Thiladelphia Institute of Medical tired they were unable to work this Research and the Philadelphia summer.--United Press.

General Hospital, directing the

Dr. Leonard G. Rowntree of

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The camp is a particularly good Ctriking while the iron is boljseveral years is a private camp STR characteristio of the for girls. In the centre of an centre for a whole summer's rest West that has gained the admira-iden) vacation district, it in caally and exploration, becauso many are tion of the rost of Canada. And reached by main mountain high-the aldo trips that can be made so there is little surprise in the ways. The famous Banti-Will- by car, mountain-bred posles, or announcement that the Board of dermera road leads to it, a good on foot to adjacent spots of Trado at Invermere, B.C., has alternative route being through beauty or historie interest. Ten- leased the bungalow camp at the mountains from Cranbrook.

The lake averages about 68 dois courts and motor launches ars beautiful Lake Windermere for

of the this summer, in anticipation of srees in the summer and is ideal available for the

Ex-guests. increased tourist traffic to the for swimming and beating. Canadian Rockies, which has been cellent trout fishing can be had There is accommodation for 42 generally forecast in Europe, then several creeks and smaller guests in the camp, which coa- lakes near by and the lake itself sists of a large mala building. Orient, and the United States, has landlocked salmon of consid-with wide verandah, and of sep- The camp, which Labelnerable size, Within a day's ride arate small bungalows, equipped taken over by small but enar-le the celebrated Lake of the

with single beds, stove, cloibus Ketic Invermere, is one of the Hanging Glaciers, with six sp closet, pice furniture, running must delightfully situated in the tacuinr glaciers all concentrating

A Canadian Rockies. Buil! ori-in ons moraine with an ice wall water, and electric lights. ginally by the Canadian Pacifio several hundred feet high which double bath-house, with hot and Hallway, this camp has been suc- drops a continual succession of cold running water, contains sep-

arate bath rooms. cessfully operated for the past small icebergs into the lake.

ROCKEFELLER'S

DAUGHTER

MANSION MAY BECOME LUNCH ROOM

GOOD OLD DAYS RECALLED

days of his exile.

were.

The furnishings, now gone with the auctioneer's hammer, exquisite and costly. One rug alone, a rare old Persian that be- longed to a Shuh, cost $185,000.

The mansion, built a half cen-

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FOOD POISONING

CUTTLEFISH BELIEVED TO BE THE CAUSE

After finishing their evening meal tury ago by the socially-minded Friday last, three Chinese, Ng Joseph Thatcher and citadel of Lan-kec, Ng-Yin-and Ng Yiu sud- lavish affairs during the World's denly felt ill and were taken to the Columbian Exposition in 1893, Kowloon Hospital where it was found might not have reached its ignoble they were auffering from food-poison- end if Mrs. Rockefeller had carrieding.

out plans which she announced According to one of the men, they seven years before her death. bought a cuttlefish a few months ago. She engaged architects to draw and on Friday they cooked some of a million dollar it with the melon they usually eat up plans for museum on the spot, a grandiose with their meal. castle-like affair housing objects d'art.

Chicago, June 14. The $4,000,000 mansion where Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick --known as the richest woman in the world"-reigned as the arbiter of Chicago society and entertained, queens and diplomats may be tarn-

But her interest was sidetracked ed into a luxurious lunchroom.

Edward L. Brashears, appointed to a plan to develop great sub- division tracts where the children

GENEROUS EFFORT

It is believed the fish was responat. ble for their sudden illness.

The three men are reported to be recovering.

receiver for the property, has an of the less wealthy familles might the old mansion was kept in mo- nounced that the home, of John D. Rockefeller's daughter, who died in grow up amid flowers and trees.mentary readiness for his return- 1982, is a "white elephant" and She organised the Edith Rockefel- that, with all its onetime splendour, ker Trust and into it went a large even after his marriage and divorce It's good for nothing more than part of her $50,000,000 fortune. a glorified eating place.

The home, encircled by a high, ornate iron fence, was the centre of the city's society for 35 years, Queen Marle was entertained there, as were the Prince of Wales and Crown Prince William of Sweden.

The scheme collapsed when the depression set in in 1929 and the reigning queen of society, who had not spent a night away from her feudal home in 11 years, moved to a hotel suite. She said she had had heavy financial estbacks.

AT "1830"

from Ganna Walsna, the singer.

opera

The home was referred to among society folk simply as "1880," Ite street number, and an invitation to a seven o'clock dinner there meant seven o'clock; If one arrived at 7.10 he missed soup and perhapa the fsh.

Dinner guests ate from the same

Now the home of society's queen' Bervice used by Napoleon and brought from the Island of St. Although she charged desertion-democracy was only a word to Helena by General Montholon.. when she divorced Harold Fowler her-may become a beachside eat- friend of the Emperor In the last McCormick in 1921, his room in ing place with service at all hours.

JESTES

Here is piátured the fourthwa last of the Jubiles praonscious af Their Majesties brough West End through Sloane Square, Hammersmith and Fulham Where the above platach was talent.

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Nothing wrong with this dog's life. He's old, and can't walk far, so his mistress, at Margate, wheels him about when shu's shopping.

Making visible efforts to control their emotions, King George and Queen Mary, frequently showed their pleasure over the demonstrations of loyalty attending the Silver Jubilee of their reign. Here the monarchs are pictured in their car-King George a bit restrained, Queen Mary magerly attentive to the cheering crowd-as they started their homeward journey after taking part in the levee for the diplomatic corps at St. James' Palace,

this occasion thay visited kuilaam, of, the crowds in

experiments, reported that rats treated with the extract reproduced- in one-eighteenth of normal time and lived longer than others of their species.

Rnts in his cages have attained six days after birth the physical and mental development of other Their rats at the end of 72 days, eyes opened in 36 hours, contrasted with the normal period of 16 days and they reached maturity in four days.

The first generation of animals that Dr. Rowntree treated with the extract is 27 months old, equivalent to 75 years in human life. Rats normally live about 24 months.

Dr. Rowntree refused to com- ment on the possible effect of ad- ministration of thymus extract to his human "Guinea Pigs." The experiment has not progressed-to a bq point where conclusions drawn, he said. "He is being assist- ed in his work by Dra. Jefferson H. Clark and Arthur Steinberg, Phi- ladelphia, and A. M. Hanson, Fair bault, Minn.

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Dr. Martia G. Vorhaus of New York reported successful treatment of 02 of 100 neuritis aufferers by oral administration of a newly isolated crystalline form of vitamin B-1 the "nerve" vitamin. The crystal is so potent that a granule, the size of a pinhead, in equal In vitamin content to 100 cakes of yeast...

The cancer preventive, developed by Dr. J. R. Davidson of Winnipeg, Canada, le a highly concentration in diet of vitamin E, found parti- cularly in the wheat germ,

Dr. Davidson applied a cancer irritant to 12 white mice. Bix of the rodents were fed a diet high in vitamin E, the other six normally. All of the six ön normal diet con- tracted cancer and diod. None of the other was affected--United Press,

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