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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

DECEMBER 16,

1935.

POLITICI ANS "AGIN" THE GOVERNMENT

Is

Thess

Eyebrow Plucking Dangerous? No!

are the eyebrows of Marlene Dietrich-

MISSIDA MARY

rounding skin is already cut or scratched.

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

George Robey bushes to the fine

M. P's: WHO WILL NOT SEE WESTMINSTER:

IRISH ABSTENTIONISTS

HAVE

DECLINED THEIR SALARIES

Ulster, Dec. 15.

For the first time since the Treaty of 1920,

downy line of a Garbo, need not the Abstentionists have come back into Irish

go back to the rugged brow-

lines or risk poisoning if they politics.

take elementary care.

Their tweezers should

over a flame.

be

Two men, Mr. Patrick Cunningham, a

AMOS, an eighteen-sterilised by holding the tips farmer, and Mr. A. J. Mulvey, the editor of a little The skin around the brow Nationalist weekly newspaper, have both been should be made, germ-resisting returned for the counties of Fermanagh, and cologne or any spirit before the Tyrone, in Ulster, as Nationalist Abstentionists. plucking begins,

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

her eyebrows.

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

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

and these Joan Crawforl's

As one said, almost any hygienic habit can be dangerous if it is carried out with unclean implements.

Doctors generally agree that there is no danger unless the plucking draws blood or the sur-

BRITAIN IS LOSING IT'S ALE CONNERS

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

by dabbing on a little cau-de-

and, surely you recognise these? In any case, Dr. Rose's warn- ing comes a little late. Those lines as thin as pencil, which the films made popular years ago, nre out of fashion now.

For

Claudette Colbert's.

A TOP THE.. GREAT WALL

NOVEL!

Beautiful Chinese lampshades which fold absolutely flat. Frames col- lapse and shades may be folded into

an envelope. These are the latest creation. Reasonable and most effective. Ideal Gifts.

Now on display at

13, ICE HOUSE STREET.-

B.B.C.

Japanese Tipops now are the Grast

furies ago. a pro relion against invading hordes Trom the, North.

The only premise that they British Isles, and makes up about war Lins, toled many cen made to the electors was that, if one-third of the six States of they were elected, they would not Ulster.

"It is the Westminster.

constituency for take their seats at

Many people in England have which the famous Mr. Joe Devlin by thu ferm sat, and Mr. Cahir Healey, Ever been puzzled Abstentionist, and by this ap-since the partition in 1920 this parently incongruous proeceding constituency has returned Nation of getting elected to Parliantent inalists to Westminster, order not to sit there.

"BEEN MISTAKEN"

"USELESS"

of

stood

SEND SWEET GIFTS OF FLOWERS TO YOUR FRIENDS ·

THIS YEAR.

Melons After Supper Killed King George I. EARLY

All his life Mr. Mulvey has "They have protested against "So this time, the Republican been an Irish journalist, and it partition, without result. was only at the last moment that,

at Westminster was useless. The reluctantly, he stood as candidate. party decided that representation

The causes of the deaths of "I have heard we have Nationaliat

of England, film stphotographic purposes puzzle people in thngland, who Mt, nonat candidate

from William the Conqueror to said. "They tell me that we have down, and Mr. Cunningham and all the rulers brows, but the great mans

"We held no election campaign. Edward VII., are discussed by a with confused alcohol, and women who want to look attrac-been mistaken for abstainers from were nominated. tive by personal appearance, notolitionists, the people who want We simply issued an election Harley-street doctor in a book letter, saying that if we were which is the only one ever writ- by photograph, soon learned that to abolish capital punishment.

"Actually, of course, we re-elected we would not to to West-ten on the subject, it is claimed. for daylight scrutiny a natural

of

brow-line showed more charac- ter.

Most plucking now is merely to trim up the natural brow-

present the Roman Catholics of Northern Ireland, who want to see a united Ireland, "Our constituency of Fermanagh

minster, as a protest against the Ulster and against the partition treatment of Roman Catholics In of Ireland.

"Except for organising what

line-not a very drastic practice, and Tyrone is the largest in the transport we could to cover the

HIRED A TAXI: “£400

ON THE CLOCK, SIR”

New York, Dec. 5.

[N Pennsylvania Station, New York, seven days ago, a IN

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

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

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

"My passenger was, shall we say, in high spirits during the whole journey," said Michaels. "Every time we stopped he re- The most recent tale conner" to turned to the cab with a few bottles. He paid each night for that go was at Altrincham in Cheshire,day's milleage, where the local Court Leet has re-i

town taster Kularly appointed a

1290, Now year since Altrincham has been incorporated | as a rounly borough and the Court! Lært dissolved.

every

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

have

The city's ale-coppers kept an expert nge--or thu: 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 years. been testing beer for 30 Recently, however, there have been sent demands for his true- tasting abilities although he has, in ceremonial orgusions, made his job more than a mere sinecure by visiting a brewery and gravely passing his verdict in a freshly brewed beer.

la

the to

"When we reached Hollywood, my passenger said: 'Let's go on to Honolulu,' but I glanced at the ocean front and anid, "This is where my line ends.""

The taxicab suffered in the long trip. So Michaels sold it to Hollywood car-breaking firm for £5.

HAPPILY MARRIED

TALKIES; COLOUR- NOW DEPTH!

huge area we did nothing more. We made no speeches, held no meetings."

with

"Le Roy Eat Mort," as it la enlled, is by Mr. Macleod Years- ley, F.R.C.S. It is published ́by' the Unicorn Press nt 3a. Gd.

Richard Cromwell, the second Protector, who throw 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 majorities of more than 4,000 each.

Oliver Cromwell died from com- Now they are keeping their oneplications due to malaria. Malaria.

Election

They

promise.

are

ignoring the fact that they have a common in marshy Millbank until the embankment was made.

Teen elected.

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

They will not accept their salarica as M.P.s.

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

the early warrior kings, including the Conqueror.

They will forfeit their de- posits of £150 each.

They will disfranchise nearly

Stephen died from an abscess of 120,000 voters.

the appendix, from which the It is a

ear journey through operation by Sir Frederick Treves twisted country lanes, past wild saved the life of King Edward VII. bare hedges and green fields fad-850 years later. ing into the blue of distant hills, to the whitewashed farmhouse! where Mr. Cunningham-lives--a |--John-and-James-1.both-helped- few miles from Omagh.

to kill themselves by gluttony.

Columbus may be said to have

"I'M A FARMER" The farm buiklings are built 'in'

Jahn →Glutton

a square, and fowls were scratch:contributed to the death of Henry VHL, for his sailors brought back Ing round the front door.

Mr. Cunningham at in his robi Hispaniola (Haiti) a heredi- parlour, a severe, Vicloban room,tary diese until then unknown to the blinds half pulled over the Europe, Asia or Afrien, It killed windows that look out on to the King Hal. bright November sunshine in his

felds.

The in lean. taciturn Trish

une farmer, shy of talling.

suit with strangers. He wore a

It probably neeunntal for the physical, mental and moral de- meretion which grew on him from middle life. "With these

BOOK

Call and give us the names and addresses and we will do the rest.

THE CLOVER FLOWER SHOP

Gloucester Arcade

clear facts before us," says Mr.TO-MORROW,

HOLLYWOOD EXCITED black, with big black boots, and Yearsley, "there is ground for a.

AT LATEST EXPERIMENT

ficllywood, Dec. 1.

Excitement is rife among Holly

long

he lapsed frequently into periods of silence.

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

"I'm a farmer." be began, "and

modicum of pity for Henry."

ton-

Queen Elizabeth died of ilitis at sixty-nine. Charles II. did not die of apoplexy, as the

wosal studio technicians over them interested only in farming. history books gay, but of complica

of what may be the have never before taken part in tions following gont and gonty huginning

atering wedge for three-dimension, politics, and I have never been out kidney. Sixteen doctors signed life. } never the prescriptions for the "violent und and colour tim for feature of Ireland in my

intend to be.

and nauseous medleines" which dramas of the future.

M.P.. "As for being an

it failed to save him. He was fifty- The three are being combinesl

I never want- four. for the first time in audioscopics, doesn't interest me, aPete Smith oddity, which based to be one, and I only stood he- gone into production at the Metro-cause I wanted to help to

this protest." Goldwyn-Mayer studios.

The London conner receives no fees as he did in the old days but

Combining third dimension with- he draws a small annual salary.

sound, and colour, the new fiha is "Years ago." Hipwell said. "A conner who found the beer below weald report standard

Film actress called it "a cruel o"the nearest approach to nature on to slep from the screen and ap- authorities, who might fine the when rumours linked her name with the screen. Players seem literally Clark Gable's following latter's

the audience. divorce announcement. "My husband prunch "Sometimes the penalty would and I are happily married," she said. Ses players actually appear to

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

brewer.

be mere

one

period in

Britain's At history the conner always wore leather breaches. He would spill a little beer on a bench and if his breech stuck to the wood he

over

WOMEN PREACHERS FOR CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

Edinburgh, Dec. 10. Church of Scotland deaconesses

JAPAN

make

In many CONCLUDES

hold objects a few inches from the BIG DEAL

spectators' faces.

The picture is a novelty, and

in the nature of a practical de-

monstration of the process.

It

The unfortunate James II. died of cerebral hamorrhage. Molens after supper probably caused the indigestion that finished off George 1. George II. died, at seventy-seven, of a physically broken heart--a Arent rarity.

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

opens with Smith showing smal BRITISH capital is respon-logleni museum." He had a brandy

pasteboard eyepieces with coloured

sible for the largest iron liver.

celluloid through which the specta- ore mining venture east of

A

and other

The deposits are at Koolan

YEARS OLD

demonstrations are made.

The picture, classed as a Pote tities will be sold to Japan, the centenary of the founding of

tor is to look. He explains how to Suez, which has been decided USED STAMP: WAS 47 put these on. Then a girl sings

musical number. A balloon upon. would indee the liquor to be of re-are to be permitted to receive a fonts out into the audience. Soda- quired strength.

licence to preach-under the water is squirted, apparently

Forty-seven years after it was "I can taste beer with the superintendence of the minister coming into the faces of the on Island, Yampi Sound, West- best of them." Hipwell said proud-of the parish to which they be lookers,

startling Jern Australia. Large quan-issued to commemorate, in 1888, "But there's no need to-day long.

Sydney, a postage strump has just bed beer

leaves the

The Church of Scotland synod of brewery."

Lothian and Tweeddale made this Smith special. in photographed states Austral News. The been used in New South Wales on

a double-lensed camera. In Waterham, Kent, and Alces-decision by a large majority hore through

as valid and cancelled with a ter, Warwick, the church vicar following a motion introduced by each corresponding to one of the preliminary expenditure in-a letter, passed by the post office volved in opening up the de-stamp bearing helpful advice the Rev, O. B. Milligan, of Edin spectators cyma. burgh.

tion comearable with that of posits will be about £250,000. about registering valuable mail, Mr. Milligan stated that

e minister in Roscorts Ltd., the English iron The stamp is of some philatelic

value. though this matter was con- the parla

and steel company involved. have!

the The federation of the Australian n.contract with cerned with women preachers

Aion of camelude

Momen Wolne company, of Japan. States into the Commonwealth did disappro

toernale a considerable quantity not eventuate until 1901, so that 14 ho ing of den-of the ore," probably millions ofjin 1888 New South Wales had its

tons.

acrves as ale-conner.

Rev. J. A. Castle, who is the official hister of Westerham has the resounding title of, "Ale con- nor to the Court Baron and Court Loet for the Manor of Westerham and querrven, and the Hundred Court for the Hundred of Wester ham and Edenbridge:"

an ent

The T Livin

it had really nothing to do with the question of women vai, said t the ministry. Licensed made.fo... deaconesses would be in a posi- conesses,

in

own post office,

WHO KILLED HIM

?

13 terrified pas- sengers accuse each other! One is quilty...'. when

DEATH flies

EAST

→ with CONRAD NAGEL FLORENCE RICE

Raymond Walburn

Alrene Franklin

Screen play by Albert Demjand

and Fixi Hibla, hi

story by, Philip,Wylie ted by Phil Rosen LUMBIA PICTURE

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