THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 29, 1936.
Α Page Mostly About Pride, Of-
MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN & BRITAIN
How England's
Tennis Children
Are Keeping
The Flag Flying
ENGLAND'S girls are determined to keep
the old flag flying. If you doubt it, con- sider the remarkable array of juvenile | tennis talent that performed at Dulwich this month.
Putney High School seems to be bent on pre- First Miss senting Wimbledon with talent. Evelyn Dearman, then Miss Mary Hardwick (both) in the team now somewhere south of Madeirn on the way to South Africa),
The third gift to the higher ranks from Putney seems likely to be a jolly young girl with a black mop of hair, a ferocious service, and an impeccable drive on either hand, Mollie Lincoln,
She la among the last eight at Dulwich and has | a sporting chance of being among many other last alghts. Mollio has just the personality to A her name; she will be popular. STUFFED DOG MASCOT,
St. Paul's has a couple of fine girls in the lists, Miss A. P. Cardinall and Miss J. 1. Mac- lachlan.
"Miss Cardinall carries a woolly stuffed dog as a mascot. When she is not handling a racket she clings tightly to Carlo.
Her schoolmate, Miss Maclachlan,!
They don't honour the owl as a symbol of wisdom along the Columbia River in Lincolu County, Wash, because big ones like Mrs, Entily Johnson is holding carry away chickens. This one has a wing spread of feet 1 inch-which is getting close to the engle size.
America's Most
Popular Dramatist Is
A
By F. G. H. SALUSBURY
LITTLE national pride is pardonable so early in
the New Year-that is, before anything can havo happened to lower it-and I am profoundly tickled to learn that a "Shakespeare boom" is on in the United States.
Shakespeare, thou shouldst I will withdraw behind a proud on. have been living at this hour:nouncement of interest to fisher- thou wouldst have garnered a fat men. meed of royalties.
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IT concerns trout. There are some As it is, Miss Katherine things from which the far Cornell has just played Juliet flung Briton is inseparable. A A trout 232 times in forly cities, travel-dinner-jacket in one. led 24,000 miles about America Bems to be another; for the hill to do it, and garnered £135,000. tribesmen of North Malaya have promised the local Fisheries De For one performance in the partment not to destroy the British town of Des Moines, lown-you trout that have been put into the remember II. B. Irving's warning local streams. to his famous father: "Don't go' down Des Moines, daddy"?-she
took £1.615.
Of all the impressive remarks have heard none stands out withi such insistent charm as that in [which a film magnate once profess ed to me his faith in Shakespenru.
"Mark you," he said during a Pause in the Malvern Festival, "I don't say Shakespeare could, write dialogue, but 1 do any he was born seeriarist."
Well, now it has been proved that) he can write' dialogue. Hence my
is not of so sturdy a build, but One Man Sets Up Here Is Something outburst of national pride.
clever at the and makes her forceful strokes by excellent timing. Then there is Miss Rosemary Thomas, a little girl, one of the prides of Wallington. She is only fourteen, and beat nn. experienced girl, Minn M. S. Mathlas. She has a thoughtful tennis hend on young shoulders. Rosemary--for remem- brance. Watch her progress.
A Fire Speed Record, First
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Of 1936
Moseley-rond fire; station, in
John Archer is only fourteen-Birmingham, holds a record that tall Ind. He has been playing at
its members will probably tournaments for three years or more. He is an extremely promischerish with pride. ing star-to-be. Went down to J. B. It concerns their first call of the Daniel, of Bedford, 7-9, 7-5, New Year. This is the official re- 6-3.
port:-
Daniel is seventeen.
D. R. Bocquet is the stylist of the tournament, and Derek Hardwick (Mary Hardwick's brother), four- teen only, has a drive that at times! would do credit to a Davis player.
Pride Of Children
Cup
One Age At
Which Man
Is Perfect Now about pride of chil
dren.
Said Mr. James Fairgrieve, in his presidential address to the Geographical Association in Lon- don:---
"The normal pre-adolescent boy or girl has no desire for perfection, attainable or unattainable.
"He IS perfect. He is about as self-sufficient a mortal as you can find in the world."
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AND, talking about perfection, Robert Impey, aged two and three-quarters, is to-day an, exceed- ingly proud small boy because his perfect problem picture has a place of honour in the exhibition of Amateur Art of All Ages.
Robert's picture is an effort in yellow water-colour with a profu- sion of poncil lines.. Ho calls it:- "A Elephant-or Only a Duck." and has thus set up two conflicting schools of thought on his muster- piece.
Much depends on the angle from which the picture is viewed.
BURGLARS'
NIGHT OUT
IN HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood.
11.13.-Brigade receives call. 11.13 Brigado turns out, 11.13.-Fire extinguished. 11.13 Brigado returns. And the explanation:
The fire occurred in the station building. One-man-ran-to the spot and put it out at once.
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To Be Proud Of
-OR IS IT? Several years ago the University of Alberta started a Woman-Inters Club. Members flocked to its ban- ner, and
flourished the mightily.
club
Then Time and Woman got to work. One by one the members | faded away.
Five still survive, determined to die (stili single) in the last ditch.
82-MILE SHOUT
Munich, Jan. 24.
A shout that carried more than eight and a half miles under the surface of Lake Constance has been recorded by Bavarian scientists.-
Reuter
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Good Nows For Wives
bosom of New South Welsh men. Prosperity is returning to the senior State in the Common wealth, as in evidenced by a
PRIDE should also inflate the
Bill to allow married women schoolteachers to resume the positions from which they were ilismissed during the black de pression in favour of a thousand waiting student-teachers.
The Bill would also absolve mar- ried women teachers from an an qual declaration that their financial position is such as to necessitate their employment.
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Now, the question of the employ ment of married women is an irri- Eating one, as Whitehall knows, so
America is proud of this, first of the new DST (Douglas steeper transport) planos, built by the Dolgias company at Santa Monica, Calif., shown jurt, before it took its first last Sight. With a wing span of 95 feet, an overall length of 45 feet and a gross weight of 24,000 pounds. It is one of the largest passenger planes in operation. In America. It is a low wing monoplane powered
with twin motors.
SUICIDE IN CELL AS PROTEST: AGAINST DISCIPLINE
Lowes, Jan. 3.
While Alice White, a film A PRISONER at Lowes Gaol made a dramatic protest here to-day because a fellow prisoner had
hanged himself in his colli^
actress, was sleeping burglars broke into her house at Holly- wood.
They stolo:
A fur coat.
Clothes valued at £1,000.
Rard perfumos,
Seven pocket-booka.
A negligès.
That was the inventory Mise White gave the police next morn- Ing.-Reuter.
He was giving evidence ph Minall, aged 32, of Kingston-at the inquest on Frederick Jose on-Thames.
Major F. L. R. Munn, the prison governor, said Minal), who was serving a 12 months' sentence, was reprimanded by the Roman Catholle Chaplain for talking during Mass. On the same day a glass gas globe in his cell was found broken,
Minall said he did not know anything about this, but, after inquiry, he was given two days' solitary confinement and two days on bread and water. He also fofelted remission marks.
Major Munn added that Minall scomed undisciplined and anti-social. This was his first experience of prison, but he had been at Borstal. The rope used was similar to that used for mall-bags,
A prison officer, Frederick, Gupwell, said Minall was seen pacing backwards and forwards in his cell. An hour later he was found hanging.
The iden is to have good fishing tribesmen, who live largely by trap- there in year or two; but the
ping any okl sort of fish, had been regarded as.potential spoil-sports,
Indeed, a message describes them as "simple, uncivilised folk,"
Now, I suppose, they will develop into people contort to east flies for hours, as much to the delight of the trout as their own. This is another great advance.
Pride Of Women
WOUNDED IN THIS CASE BY MAN THE INFERIOR SOMETIMES pride is wounded. The pride of women teachers, for instance.
At the Conference of Women at Weyfouth recently, Teachers Miss Clark, of London, demanded to women being know, "Why are pushed out of the schools?
"Ia it," she asked, "because women won't put over military. training in the schools? If this is so, then it seems to me we must have more and more women in responsible positions."
Sald anothor delegate, "There are far more posts going than there are able men to fill them, and inferior men are being appointed while superior women apply.”
are
unable to
Intelligence
DOG IS CLEVER,
BUT-
HERE YOU HAVE BRAINS
Here pride takes a tumble. Dog is British; other fellow, an orang outang, comes from east of Suez.
You may think the dog is clever. So he is, in a way, But-
SAID Professor David Katz to a
juvenile audience at the Society of
Arts, Adelphi,
W.C.-
"Scientists have come to the con- clusion that three different types of
exist intelligent behaviour
in
animals. One is due to instinct, two is learned from experience, three is that in which an animal uses a sort of reasoning power.
Reasoning
"Many insects, birds, and mam- mals are able to learn from their experience.
"But only very few, such as the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orang outang, have climbed the ladder of evolution to the point at which reason or insight comes into play.
"Clever performances by horses and other animals are generally taught by more tricks. The horse [which is said to understand lan- guage and to solve arithmetic prob- leins, is in reality given the clue by soma movement of his master,'
Village
Catches
15,000 · Rats
The Tendring (Essex) Coun cil recently tried to exterminate the large number of rats in the village.
They offered to pay 2d, for overy rat tail they received. .:The result was that almost everyone became proud of their city and at the same time a rat- catcher.
Fifteen thousand tails were sent in.
Mr. H. Campling expressed] the feelings of the council' when he said:-"I don't see why we should bear the expense for the benefit of people outside our dis trict."
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