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THE HONGKONG AEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1935.

POLITICIANS "AGIN" THE GOVERNMENT

M.P's.

Is Eyebrow Plucking M. P's. WHO WILL NOT

Dangerous? No!

These are the eyebrows of

Marlene Dietrich-

MISSIDA MARY

rounding akin is already cut or scratched.

Those women who carefully prune their brows to a quizzicaİ, inquiring expression or thin out

George Robey bushes to the fine:

SEE WETMINSTER

IRISH ABSTEIONISTS

DECLINED

downy line of a Garbo, need not the. Abstentionists

go back to the rugged-brow-

才

For the first tim

Two men, Mr

lines or risk poisoning if they politics.

take elementary care.

Their tweezers should bo

over a flame. '

HAVE

NEIR SALARIES

Ulster, Dec. 15. ince the Treaty of 1920, e come back into Irish

Patrick Cunningham, a Ivey, the editor of a little spaper, have both been es of Fermanagh and astionalist Abstentionists.

AMOS, an eighteen-sterilised by holding the tips farmer, and Mr. A.

The skin around the brow Nationalist weekly should be made germ-resisting returned for the cologne or any spirit before the Tyrone, in Ulster,

year-old hairdresser, of Walsall, Staffs, died from poisoning last month after she plucked her eyebrows.

the

At the inquest at Birmingham Dr. B. T. Rose described practice of eyebrow-plucking as "very dangerous indeed."

But other doctors. whose opinions were obtained, do not look on the habit so gloomily.

and these Juan Crawford's__

Ан

Auld, almost one

any

hygienic habit can be dangerous if it is carried out with unclean implements.

by dabbing on a little cau-de-

plucking begins.

and, surely you recognise these?

Claudelle Colbert's,

made to the

electors

The only promise that

wra th they were elected they wou Westini Eagland

been

the

by

thi proce Parli

take their sents at

Many people in

Juz led by Abstentionist, and parently incongruout of getting elected to

rder not to sit there,,

All his life Mr. Mulroy A been an frish jourlist, y was only at the last moment,d reluctantly, he stood as cand

In any case, Dr. Rose's warn ing comes a little late. Those lines as thin as pencil. Which the mis made popular years ago, are out of fashion now.

For photographic purposes, film stars

must pluck their brows, but the great mass women who want to look attrac-alcohol, tive by personal appearance, not for daylight scrutiny a natural [by photograph, soon learned that brow-line showed more charac

ter.

of

Doctors generally agree that- Most plucking now is merely there is no danger unless the to trim up the natural brow- plucking draws blood or the sur- {line-not a very drastic practice.

BRITAIN

IS LOSING IT'S ALE CONNERS

DEEN MISTAKEN have heard that we

England, puzzled people in said. "They tell me that we been mistaken for stainers

confused and abolitionists, the people who Ap to abolish capital ishte

"Actually, of course, wall present the Roman Cat of Northern Ireland, who to see a united Ireland,

of Ferma "Our conatituency, and Tyrone is the largest in

HIRED A TAXI: “£400

ON. THE CLOCK, SİR”

New York, Dec. 5.

IN Pennsylvania Station, New York, seven days agu

man about to book to California thought the fare too high; argued with the ticket collector; lost.

He walked across to a taxicab rank, said to driver, Edw Michaels: "I want to go for a long, long ride."

London, Dee. 15. One of Great Britain's oldest and most dignified officials, the official beer taster, is disappearing and only 20 of these lip-smacking.. gentlemen remain,

The most recent 'wale conner" to go was at Altrincham in Cheshire, where the local Court Lect has re- gularly-appointed-a-town-Easter

year since

every

1200. Now Altrincham has been incorporated As a county borough and the Court Lect dissolved.

The City of London has four ale conners who are elected along with the sheriffs, the Chamberlain and the mace bearer at the mid- summer Guildhall elections.

have The city's ale-conuers kept an expert eye-or tongue- out to maintain the high quality of the public's beer since the days of William the Conqueror..

London's veteran conner is 88- year old Edward Hipwell, who has been testing beer for 30 years. Recently, however, there

have

been adint demands for his true- tasting abilities although he has, in ceremonial occasions, made his job more than a mere sinecure by visiting a brewery and gravely passing his verdict in a freshly brewed beer.

The London conner receives.no fees as he did in the old days but he draws a small annual salary,

"Years ago." Hipwell said, "A conner who, found the beer below standard would report to the authorities, who might fine the

brewer.

"Sometimes the penalty would be more

The offender severe, might be sentenced to drink all the bad beer, the remainder being poured over his head."

At one period in · Britain's history the conner always wore leather breaches. He would spill a little bear on a bench and if his broechea stuck to the wood he

he

To-day the longest taxicab trip over made ended passenger climbed out of his cab outside a Hollywood having travelled 3,000 miles as far as from New York England. He paid a fare of £400,

spirits

during "My passenger was, shall we say, in high whole journey," said Michaels. "Every time we stopped be turned to the car with a few bottles. He paid each night for t day's mileage.

家

"When we reached Hollywood, my passenger said:

Let's

British Isles, and makes up about one-third of the six Stiles of Ulster.

the "I ja

constituency for which the anious Mr. Joe Devlin nat, and Mr. Cahir Healey. Ever

A TOP THE

GREAT WALL

an envelope.

Wall of China, erected many cen

Japanese troops now are the Great juries ago, as a protection against invading hordes from the North.

since the partition in 1920 this Melons After

constituency has returned Nation- alista to Westminster.

"USELESS"

"They have protested against partition, without result.

Supper Killed

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BOOK

"Sothis time, the Republican party decided that representation at Westminster was useless. The

Nationalist two

candklites, of whom Mr. Healy was one, stoodį

The causes of the deaths of down, and Mr. Cunningham and all the rulers

of England, were nominated.

from William the Conqueror to "We held no election campaign. Edward VII., are discussed by a We simply issued an election Harley-street doctor in a book letter, saying that if we were which is the only one ever writ elected we would not go to West-ten on the subject, it is claimed. minster, as a protest against the treatment of Roman Catholics in "Le Roy Eat Mort," as it is Ulster and against the partition called, is by Mr. Macleod Years- of Ireland.

ley, F.R.C.S. It is published by the Unicorn Preas at 3n. Gd.

King George I. EARLY

"Except for organising what transport we could to cover the huge area we did nothing We made no speeches, held no meetings."

more.

Richard Cromwell, the secont Protector, who threw up his job after two years, lived longest of all to eighty-five. He was one of the few to die of old age.

4,000 MAJORITIES They were returned with majorities of more than 4,000 each. Now they are keeping their one Election promise. They are Ignoring the fact that they have a common in marshy Millbank until the embankment was made.

been elected.

They will not go to West- minster to be sworn in.

They will not accept their salaries as M.P...

plications due to malaria. Malaria Oliver Cromwell died from com-

Dysentery, due to the insanitary conditions of camp life, including unclean water, was a contributory cause of the death of a number of

They will forfeit their de-the early warrior kings, including posits of £150 each.

the Conqueror.

They will disfranchise nearly 120,000 voters.

Stephen died from an abscess of the appendix, from which the It is a er journey through operation by Sir Frederick Treves twisted country lanes, past wild saved the life of King Edward VII. bare hedges and green fields fade 850 years later.

ing into the blue of distant hills,

to the whitewashed farmhouse where Mr. Cunningham lives, a

on to Honolulu,' but I glanced at the ocean front and few miles Trum Omigh.

'This is whare my line ends,”

The taxical suffered in the long trip. So Michnels sold if

Hollywood car-breaking firm for £5.

HAPPILY MARRIED

TALKIES:

COLOUR NOW DEPTH

HOLLYWOOD EXCIT

AT LATEST EXPERIMENT

Hollywood, Dec. Excitement is rife mong i wood studio technicians Aver beginning or what may be entering wedge for three-dimen gound and Colour film for fe dramas of the fature

The three are bey Com for the first time in Audiosed a Pele Smith oddity, which gone into production,

the M

at

Goldwyn-Mayer studimension

Combining third sound and colour, the new fill the nearest approach

to pat Film actress called it "a crual lie" the screen.

#em lite when rumours linked her name with to step from the screen and

Players Clark Cablo's following

latter's divorce announcement. “My husband proachi the audience.

In and I are happily married," she said. cases pinyers actually

holl objects a few inches from spectators' faces.

WOMEN PREACHERS FOR CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

The picture is.

In the nature of o monstration

#pa

Ruvelty

Practical

of the Process...

opens with Smith wing pasteboard eyepieces with cold celluloid through which Edinburgh, Dec: 10. tor is to look. He explains ho Church of Scotland deaconesses put these on. Ther

musical'

squirted

the ap a ga numbedience.

A ba

apbar

other

would judge the liquor to be of reare to be permitted to receive a floats out into the quired strength.

licence to preach-under the water is

and

"I still can taste beer with the superintendence of the minister coming into the faces of the best of them," Hipwell and proud of the parish, to which they be lookers, Jy. But there's no need to-day long. No bad, beer ever leaves the

demonstrations are made. The Church of Scotland synod of | brewery."

The picture, classed Lothian and Tweeddale made this Smith special, is In Westerham, Kent, and Aices: decision by a large majority here through

A double-end ter, Warwick, the church vicar following a motion introduced by oach corresponding

the Rev, O. B. Milligan,, of Edin-spectators' eyes, burgh.

Bervos ne alo-connor..

Rev. J. A. Castle, who is the official daster of Westerham has the resounding title of, "Alo con nor to the Court Baron and Court Loot for the Manor of Westerham and Squerryes and the Hundred Court for the Hundred of Wester. ham knd Edenbridge." -

car

Photo

to

ore

tion comparable

the

Mr. | Milligan | stated that though this matter was con- | cerned with women preachers

an assistant to the minist the parish,

The Rev. James Altkeni

it had really nothing to do Livingstone..expressing disay with the question of women val, said that no good cause had in the ministry. Licensed made for the

Hicensing 'deaconesses would be in a posl2 i conesses.

of

"I'M A FARMER"

་

John - Glutton John-and-Jumes-1-both helped ̈

to kill themselves by gluttony,

The farm buildings aro built in Columbug may he said to have aquare, and fowls were scratch-contributed to the death of Henry fing round the front door,

VIII, for his sailors brought back

Mr. Cunningham sat in bis from Hispaniola (Haiti) a heredi- harlour, a severe, Victorian room,tary disease until then unknown to the blinds half pulled over the Europe, Asia or Africa. It killed windows that look out on to the King Hal. bright November sunshine in his

felds.

He in a lean, taciturn Irish farmer, shy, of talking, uneasy with strangers. He wore a suit

It probably accounted for the physical, mental and moral de- generation which grew on him from middle life. "With these Yearsley, "there is ground for a modicum of pity for Henry."

Call and give us the

names

and addresses

and we will do the rest.

THE CLOVER FLOWER SHOP

Gloucester Arcado

of black, with bir black boots, and clear Facts before us," says Mr.TO-MORROW,

be lapsed frequently into long periods of silence.

Gradually, however, he came to talk of the election.

Queen Elizabeth died of ton- allitis at sixty-nine. Charles H. "I'm a furmer," he began, "and did not dle of apoplexy, as the I'm interested only in farming. I history booka say, Lut of complica- have never before taken part in tions following gout and gouty politics, and I have never been out kidney. Sixteen doctora signed of freland In my life. I never the prescriptions for the "violent intend to be.

and nauseous medicines" which "As for being an M.P., it failed to save him. He was fifty- doesn't interest me. I never want- four, ed to be one, and I only stood be cause I wanted to help, to make, this protest."

JAPAN CONCLUDES BIG DEAL

BR

The unfortunate James II. .died of cerebral hamorrhage. Melons after supper probably caused the indigestion that finished off George J. George II, died; at seventy-seven, of a physically broken heart-a great rarity.

►

George IV. (long the Prince Regent) died at sixty-seven from rupture of a blood vessel in the atomach, but he had so many com- plaints that it is said "the post- mortem revealed a veritable patho-

RITISH capital is respon-logical museum." He had a brandy

sible for the largest iron liver: ore mining venture east of Suez, which has been decided

upon

The deposits are at Koolan Island, Yampi Sound, West-

USED STAMP: WAS 47 YEARS OLD

Forty-seven years after it was

as valid and cancelled 'with a

ern Australia. Large quan-issued to commemorate, In 1888, tities will be sold to Japan, the centenary of the founding of states Austral News. The boon used in New South Wales on Sydney, a postage stamp has just preliminary expenditure in-a latter, passed by the post office volved in opening up the de-stamp bearing helpful advice posits will be about £250,000. about registering valuable mail. Brasserts Ltd., the English Iron The stamp is of some philatelic and steel company involved, have value. concluded a contract with the

The federation of the Australian Nippon Mining company, of Japan, States Into the Commonwealth did to supply a considerable quantity not eventuate until 1901; so that of the ore, probably millions of In 1888 New South Wales had its tona.

own post office.

AT

WHO KILLED HIM

13 terrified pas- sengers accuse each other! One Y when

DEATH flies EAST

with

CONRAD NAGEL' FLORENCE RICE.

Raymond Walburn

• Irene Franklin

Steven play-fry Albert Donand and Fed Niblo, de

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