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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1936.

Hospital To Banish

Snake Said To

Bring III Luck

East Grinstead (Sussex), Mar. 10. [IGH over East Grinstead's new £30,000 H'

hospital, on top of the tower, is a ser- pent-symbolical of Esculapius, god of healing. It will not be there much longer. A weather vane is to replace it at a cost of £63.

Superstitious people in East Grinstead sigh. with relief. For they regard the serpent as an omen of il luck.

In support of their reasoning. they point to the facts that:

It rained heavily when the opening ceremony. was performed by Princess Helens Victoria on January 8.

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The hospital matron, Miss Garlett, and nurse themselves became patients on the first day. The matron had quinsy trouble; the nurse suller- -ed from a poisoned arm,

An

Two patients, an elderly woman and eighteen-month-old child, died within ten days of the opening.

A steriliser broke down.

All the work of the sinister ser- pent said the superstitious ones. WHAT PATIENTS SAID The hospital authoritica' do not Though most of them dis- like the snake, they think the £63 rould very well have been used for other purposes.

agree.

This is what some of the patients said-

Mrs. Dixon, undergoing a serious operation" to-morrow: "Snakes

NO SNOW NO CALIFORNIA

While large parts of the United States were visited by cold and snowstorms, film stars in Callfornia wero able to practise sailing in bright sunshine.

Maureen O'Sullivan læseers aboard her yacht.

Charming

“JUBILEE" HAS A PARTY

AT LONDON ZOO ·

"Jubilee," the Zoo's greatest treasure and the most photo- graphed and most discussed baby in London, threw a tea party last month to celebrate her first birthday, anniversary.

don't trouble me it's ridiculous. Measles

Doreen Jones, nged thirteen, re- cently operated on for mastoida: "The snake doesn't frighten me." Mr. Skelton: "I was brought u here in a state of collapse and I'm getting on fine. The snake hasn't done me any harra."

The men patients are equally emphatic.

Still, the superstitious ones of East Grinstead will not sleep con- tentedly until the serpent that dominates their new hospital is taken down.

When Kipling Was The Editor

FOR 48 HOURS Johannesburg, Transvaal,

Mar. 6.

Without

Misery

22 BOYS ENJOYED BEING ILL

It was a rent chimpanzee's len party with Jublice and her mother, Boo-boo, the famous chimp, as) hostesses.

On Jubilee's behalf the Zoo lavit- ed a large party of young children from humble homes, to be their guests in the Zoo. They assembled · in the Zoo and were taken to see Jubilee and Boo-bao, but they saw her behind a glass screen so that she shouldn't entch a cold from them.

The cases of 22 boys suffering The tea was the jolly ten that has served so well to with measles who were "bright the Zoo and cheerful" throughout the millions of youngsters since the war attack and had to be reprimand-day, but of course the cake had ed more than once for being "too real birthday character. high-spirited" are described in this month's British Medical

Journal,

THRIVING WELL

Never before has the Zan housed auch a popular figure as this baby, 12 months old.

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They were some of 40 boys in

The baby thrived. She bed at one time during an epidemic theory little creature over 10lbs in of menales carly this winter at a weight and is now able and ready preparatory school near Malvern, to "check" her mother, to The remaining 18 boya "lay like great delight of visitors. loga" for three days, ill and miser She has come safely through the she abic, and all had bronchitis with cold spell. Some time ngo cough and severe respiratory symp-caught a cold and her keepers hud A UNIQUE signed copy of atoms. One had broncho-pneumonia. anxious days, but now she is skip- ping about, climbing up and down programme bearing the words

The lightness with which the the ropes and wires and even trying of Kipling's "The Absent-Minded. Beggar" and a copy of a news-first group took the discase is as-the chimp's characteristic-little- paper edited by him during the cribed to the protection given by trick of kicking the iron door with South African War form part of convalescent scrum. All 22 were a bang.

inoculated. A Kipling Exhibition which has been opened here.

NO AFTER-EFFECTS

Every chance should be taken to:

EX-HANGMAN 'FAILS TO HANG HIMSELF

"LOSS OF SKILL"

Warsaw, Mar. 10. Alfred Maciejewski, an

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ACROSS

1.The achievement may be almost

a talent.

9 Cambridge college.

10 Suitable colffure for, the nea

wide?

11 This political economist was not

well when he lost his head.

12 A saintly race.

14 Father wants nothing moru to

make this decoration..

18 To be found on a new penny,

18 Is this where the Italians get

their planes from?

20 Two verbs together are frank..

They not only "enjoyed" measles, but showed no complications or The newspaper is the Friend, of after-effects. Their fever period Bloemfontein, and bears the super- was 0.5 days as against 1.7 days in Their loss scription, "Edited by the war cor-the unprotected group. respondents with Lord Roberts." of weight was only 0.33lb., against

Kipling boasted that he edited 1.17b. the newspaper for 43 hours. Another newspaper in the exhi-add to the supply of this scruni, hangman, was found hanging 21 n grave" (anag.), bition is the Mafeking news sheet which is scarce, says G. W. Elking from a tree in the park near the 22 This dye is apparently far from

sensible. of January 20, 1900, dated "108th ton, who describes the epidemic. Belvedere Palace to-day. The 24 The Mental Tristitution" of

In spite of the He adds that the day of the siege.”

other days. "knot, however, was faulty and he difficulties of the time, the sheet powerful weapon" "to ward off revived under medical treatment. 27 Hedge-row berry that may have

cheery results, devoted a column to the words of dreaded complications.

When questioned in court, he 29 Balsam. "The Absent-Minded Beggar,"

apologised for his "loss of pro- 30 A useful match. which was then being sung in Canada Boils Currency, fessional skill." Ho explained 31 The soft part of 9 across. theatres and music halls through- out the Empire.

Then Sella Pulp Paper

Ottawa, Mar, 10. The Canadian Government now "boils" its old banknotes Instead of burning them.

serum is

that he had made the abortive at tempt at suicide because he had been filted by his sweetheart, who

There is also on show a copy of the only cheap edition of a

refused to have anything, to do work by Kipling which ever

with an "ex-killer.” appeared. Mr. Kipling sold the

Maciejewski, whose real name is copyright of "Departmental Dit-

the Last year $50,000,000 in common Kalt, unsuccessfully sued ties," and then discovered that it bank notes were dumped Into a State last June for £1,600 dam- was being printed with

paper hugo vat and boiled to a pulp, which ages for injuries received in the (cover, priced at sixpence.

was sold to papermakers,

execution of his official duties. He was so mortified at the

Burning of old bills was aban-Ho alleged that the injuries, which appearance of the book that he doned as "wasteful" and because of permanently affected his ability to rebought the copyright and the possibility of scraps of notes, earn a living, were due to a faulty. withdrew the whole edition.

partially burned, being carried rope being supplied when he was The exhibition has been na-through chimneys to the outdoors. executing a gangster named Bloch. sembled by the acting director of United Press.

The rope broke, he said, and the African Museum in the new

Bloch temporarily free, attacked public library hera. Mr. W. B. Kipling until his death, and a keen him, kicking him savagely in the Morrison who was a friend of collector of his works.

SALESMAN SAM

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abdomen,

Somebody Come On In!

ALL SETİ You cook TH' VIANDS AND I'LL

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AH, MEES-LEAVE IT TO SAM HOWDYHERE I AM, CHEFFY- TH' DUMB TAIR SAM | CHEF THERE AIN'T A LOOK? WHATS) ZE BAD SPOT IN THIS HOTEL I TH' MATTER? NEWS! CAN'T KEEP GOIN' ! I'LL.

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OUR TWO WAITERS, ZEY ARE SICK!

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thing strengthening. 36 Not a fleet officer unless

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more.

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