1936-02-06 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936..

Just arrived!

A New Shipment

of:

Fashionable Designs Silk & Cotton Prints

for

SPRING

Inspection Respectfully

Solicited.

(Silk Dept.,

1st flr.i

China Emporium

LTD.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for

$25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for

sick and destitute children,

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

MAKE A POINT

OF VISITING

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

SOAP KING WEDS U.S.

ACTRESS

Mrs. R. B. Foster, European director of à firm of beauty product makers, who searched the whole of Britain and Europe three years ago for the most beautiful girl is married. His bride is Miss Barbara New. berry, American dancer in the recent Hippo-

drome show "Love Laughs.".

The tall, dark, soap king-who is reputed to be one of the best-looking men in commerce- married Miss Newberry at Coldwater, Michigan. She has announced her retirement front the slage,

They plan to settle down in London after a honeymoon in Egypt.

Mr. Foster is a golfer as well as a beauty expert. He has tied with King Edward VIII for the cap- tain's prize of the Sunningdale Golf Club. He has beaten the King og another, course.

Beauty Quest

It was in 19:12 that he set out on his tour to find the "beautiful girl" As director of the Colgate and Palmolive concern he was looking for examples of the "keep that schoolgirl complexion” 'stagan.

of

la choice Toll on the girls of Mottram, Cheshire. He sald thom: "I have never seen auch beauty in my life."

His bride was formerly married to Eddio Foy, junior, who appeared with Ramon Navarro in "Royal Exchange." She obtained a divorce three years ago.

SO A MONK IS BURIED

No Mourning No, Flowers- No Coffin

Father Malachy Dunne, the monk who died suddenly at the Monastery of St. Bernard at Charnwood Forest, Leicester- shire, was buried in the shadow of the abbey cloisters which he had never left for thirty-three years.

Seventy monks' attended the funeral. The ceremony W36 carried. out with all the mediaeval rites of the Cistercian Order.

There was no mourn- ing, there were no flowers, there was no coffin.

Death In The Air

A MODERN REBECCA

A little girl from Libyn, who is fatching water,

not from the well but from a modern water-conduit.

Mr.. Baldwin Once In The Dock

The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, WOS once in the dlock of a police court.

He mentioned this when he mude a presentation to Mr. Stanley Hemingway, who re- tired from the office of magis- trates clerk to the Stourport (Wores) Bench.

He told Mr. flemingway, "I have been in the dock luring the time of your father..

"I was in the time when muzzling orders were about. i had a dog which walked out to get the early morning air, sat on the grass and tore its muzzle off.

"Inspector Walker saw that it was Insufficiently clad,' and it cost me ten shillings.

SKY TRAVEL SAFER

LAST YEAR

Fatal Accidents. Deaths in

them.

1934 1936

20

215

31

44

London, Jan. 28.

THEY CALL IT

A WISDOM

TOOTH

YET IT IS KNOWN AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY

THE CURE- JUST A MATTER FOR THE DENTIST THE latest people to take an interest in your teeth are-the Lunacy Board of Control.

Mental experts at Birmingham University

wisdom found that teeth are in many cases the cause of insanity.

They extracted the wisdom teeth of forty-eight patients and now thirty-seven of these people have returned home cured.

The other cases are making pro. gress, too.

Quick Cure

A

nineteen-year-old girl had been, for five years. She had insomnia, and for ten months before being admitted to the men- tal hospital had been unable to work.

Once #ho tried suicide.

to commit

Her two lower wisdom teeth were found to be badly infected. They were taken dut,

The second night following the extraction she slept without a sedative for the first time for eight months.

She received no other treatment.. The pains in her head dis appeared, she became cheerful und "was discharged from the hospital within one month of the operation. She is back at work.

Here is another case, A man of thirty-three was admitted to the

institution.

Both in the Air Force and in civil flying the accident mortality in 1935, estimated in relation to the greatly increased aggregate flying time and flying distance, was less than in previous years. In

He was depressed our expanding Air Force, the figures for the past two years are; and suffered from delusions.

these accidents

Two Boys Of 17 there Was one glider fatality. It is not yet, pos-tracted all his teeth, which were The institution's dentist ex- sible to give even approximate figures for the amount

bad. He is now back at work, of civil flying. On all sides, however,

cured.

Another case was that of a It is estimated on a conservative there. Have boon considerable in-

schoolboy basis that Air Force

creases in regular air transport, whose henith gave way just before

seventeen-year-old

flew an aggregate

exceeding while there has been an accelera he was about to take his matrica- 60,000,000 miles in 1935. In noted increase in the

number of ation examination. Air Force In the world is the civil machines registered. Through average amount of flying per the years the causes of accidents machine to great.

machines

Ho became worried, suffered vary scarcely at all. The falllbifrom insomnia, and was ill when lity of the human factor is still admitted to the institution.

Hia lower wisdom, teeth were In civil flying accidents in Great responsible for more than 95 per Britain and to British air cent, and it is often said in fly pressing against other teeth and liners on the air routes abroad ing, circles that most of the accl-could not come through the gum. the figures are:--

dents would be avoided if all pilots They were extracted. were of the long-experience con-

He is now back at home, plays Fatal Accidents. Lives Last tinuous-duty class. Steadily, if

tennis and golf, and studies alowly, improvement is taking

shorhand and typewriting. place. And there are

When a factory workor, aged curious 48 changes, as for example the almost seventeen, was admitted to the complete disappearance of the institution he could not talk, was Matalities at air circus displays, planting of that dread by realish-confused.

parachute fear of lightning and the sup-depressed, and his mind was and two successful parachute tion of the danger of ice forma-

Wisdom teeth again. They ascapes. In one accident, that of tion en wings and propellers, were taken out, and the boy is the City of Khartoum, twelve danger now being successfully back at work, happier and lives were lost. In

addition to fought.

1934

1935

There

in thorn,

24

21

43

were two

healthier than ever..

Just Received.

A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS.

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TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.

9 Ice House ·Street

HONG KONG

#

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

4

128

150

1 These types of ships have always a fourth on board (5, hyphen 7). 9 How conspicuous a foreigner is

in the little street!

10 This might describe a huggis,

but you'll say it's nonsensel 11 Doesn't know when she gets the

ware and 12 she's

d'oeuvre.

rendy for the hora

13 Such screams only carry a short

distance.

14 The marbles in Bloomsbury

don't come from here,

16 nor is this suitable attire for

topers.

18 Sharper.

20 The Russian port for songs. 22 Make of enri 21 Measures.

27 Is willing to compromise., 20 Slow in time.

30 If she is, she may not powder, but she certainly paints, 31 Send Leg (anng.).

32 You must take a drop, but, it'a

quite wrong!

31 You can't bank on the aged in

habitant of this famous street being able to.

DOWN

2 Makes equal shares, having

about fifty,

The Spanish lady who studies in France.

4 In return,

6 African hunting expedition, 8 You'll always find a 'noblenuan

in good time.

Avoiding colds

means taking-

EVANS

ANTISEPTIC THROAT MADE

Pastilles

IN ENGLAND

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4, Wyndham Street, (let floor),

Tel. 26051.

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7 Describes the night the Z]†-

pelins fixed,

8 The house in which to keep a

party?

9 Epithet for lowly people und sinted fare two words, D, 7). 14 Can you guess this? Try. 15 Found In packing-cases une

gloves.

17 Thin sock doesn't need washing. 19 The vessel to take for a journey. 21 Mountain.

23 Shorten this, though already

short to sturt with,

26 U.S. territory, though there's a

query.

26 Render cars useless. 28 Sunny.

20 French lown.

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