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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936.

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AND

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—and a Service worthy of it

EV

AVOURITE day of the year for the late Charles Vance Millar, Toronto's eminent King's Counsel, mil- lionaire, bachelor, Turfana- tic, was April 1.

Humour to Mr. Millar was chairs. from under honotired guests, leaving mes- sages to call Mr.. C. Lion at the Zoo, cigars that exploded after half a dozen exquisite puits. He always saved his best jokes for April Fool's Day.

VERY month big shipments of

Bedford trucks leave Eng-pulling land for every part of the world And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic letters from Bedford owners all over the world have shown that the Bedford is popular wherever it goes. Why, this success ? Mr. Millar died on October 31, for, in designing the Bedford 1926. Bis death was sudden. range, Vauxhall experts studied Ile collapsed in his office, had overseas conditions at first hand. ceased to breathe by the time

arrivel. There They learnt what was wanted in doctor

But a trucks from the very men who nothing funny in that. were going to use them.

few days later details of his will And there is 1 world-wide were announced. There was n organisation to mako Bedford kreat deni funny about that,

service and genuino sparos avail-

able everywhere.

MILL

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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936,

STRONG OR WEAK LEAGUE ?

Ninety-nine per cent. The beneficiaries v॰tvདྡཱ།ད༔༣༥༔ their Ingacles, not them. turned The money to thetr

[

to

favourite charities, some of which

were devoted abolition of racing ind drinking. Toronto aughed at that joke.

Aather clase left a sa of money to a clergyman to say Massen for the rust of

Toronto ellizen premitent

"who will need them wher- ever he 『F,༦༢"༥, Toronto laughed a louder at that joke.

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But Goyse Number Nine caused ne nughter, and L prize Joker Milla joke. It left the residue of his palate then about TRO,. 000 to the woman in the numicipal area who bor the most children in the ten years following his deaths.

This will be explained,

neesenvily

r r | s

T

kemon

my

Was

£80,000

$80000

STORK

marathon

Favourites sort

themselves out in

Toronto's race to

win

prize

years

woman

the £80,000

offered 10

to the ago

who

has the largest family

by October 31 this

year.

A number of distant relative; were discovered, and were encouraged to bring suit in the Ontario courts to set aside the will. They failed.

She has had baby since.

was

fused to give an inch, Then the whole idea was quashed by teral opinion Umt the money had to be. awarded to the most prolife mother as the will dietated.

The marathon has three months to go, and the latest position is

Mrs. Arthur Timlock, aged

1 thirty- six, Irish wife of a' civle employee,

ten children. No more ispreted.

Mrs. Stephen Darrigo, aged thirty- three, Roman Catholic, wife of

pire was waiting to give evidence at, grover now 'on reher, len children.

vler trial. Mrs.

--ligible

another

No more expected,

fl

Mrs. Grace Rognato, aged forty- two, nine children. Another Cx- pected before October,,

Ambrose

Bagrato a nine children for the prize, is expeeling; before Delober, is hoping For twins or triplets. She is chief Mrs. John Nagle, aged thirty-one, Trouble-maker among Toronto's pose wife of a farm labouter, nine child-

Another life mothers. With her slight know- ren

before expected terlige of the Law nurl things legal she Detober.

Mrs. hart checked up every recard,

Harrison, aged responsible for Mrs, Matthew Kenny, thirty-eight, wite of five-pounds-n- strongest favourite at all, being dis- week motorman. nine children. qualified). If she should win the Another expected, before October. prize Mrs. Bagnato wants to adópt

any of these last three have baby boy,

twins, triplets, quadruplets, or 'quin- Mry, Kenny, the French-Canadian tuplets before Ortober they will wire of an vanemployed Scotsman, möye forward seemed a "dead cert" in more recent favourite,

and her husband' have years. She been thing on relief for half a de-

cade, but every year at least on new baby arrives,

to the posilon

BUT

of

Toronto's

She claims thirteen sincy 1926, sportsmen, who are laying side- but Mrs, Bagnato sabrted when she lets on the event, are doubtful it heard about it. They weren't pro any of these women will win the perly registered," she declared, and went to the Vital Statistics Bureau

12.

As

and prize.

most, persistent tactics.

seratched. Mrs. Bagnato, a swali, they went behind the scenes, ap- busy woman, was married when she proachedl the mothers. Their plan Was thirtien, consirlers child- wus to call the marathon vff, divide

bearing the easiest part of her life. the money among the leaders. Three One of her babies was born while of the leaders agreed, but one re-

who, during the part ten years, hag had the greatest number of children. It may well be that the winner will hen mother who has not heard of the Stock Marathon, a dark horse."

And then the great Millar joke will Scores of mothers will be bitterly disappointed. Scores of

And Charles Vance Millar,

laugh.

will have had his Inst

C.V.R.Thompson

The preliminary disenssions

and capricions... beenuse on the revision of the Covenant no hity rests upon me to

leave my property at

To avold litigation the judges will to prove her words, She was right. of the League of Nations have death, and what I do leave

Three of Mrs. Kenny's children were not consider their claims, but will go begun. More than one Govern-is proof of my folly In gathering two, Mrs. Florence Brown. In not registered according to Torate to the Vital Statisties Bureau and mors of the world's goeds Phan 1 her twenty-two years of married law, and three others were not eligi- seket from their figures the woman ment has expressed opinions on require in my span of life,"

life she had borne twenty-six ble. So Mrs. Kenny has almost be, the subject so that we know the

children, six of them eligible for come reconciled to being a runner kind of proposals and counter. 1.

ORONTO was the prize.

Mrs. Brown amounced she was "

S the marathon proposals that are being dis-furious. Moralists failed to see

going to buy a farm when she won the joke. They burst their the money, raise chickens and more entered the last stretch in Octo- be over, cussed and it is possible to blood-vessels with indignation. children. But she was out of the ber of last year the reformers fathers will have mure, children to formulate some judgment on "Putting a Premium on legitimate twelve months suddenly became active again, support than they can possibly af- their respective merits and macy." "Promoting competition Mrs. Grace Bagnate, court inter- They did not employ their old ford.

in Sexual Matters," "Maternity preter, | demerita, Actually the real

Race Must be Stopped" were favourite after Mrs. Brown WAN They knew it wap useless. But Humorist, tussle that is going on behind | their war-yells. the scenes and which these dif- ferent proposals reveal is that between those who wish to see the League stronger than it is

They went to the courts again to try to prove that Millar executed the at present and those who wish with as a joke, intended to destroy it, died before_he_had_the_opportuni- to see il welker. The most de-ty. That failed. tailed proposals for the reform They tried to prove Millar was in- sane. Another failure. Eventually (of the, Covenant are those sub- even the Government became In- mitted by the Chilean Governterested in setting aside the will; appropriating the money for edu- ment to the League. They cóneational, and charitable purposes.. tain a number of suggestions A Bill was written, was tossed but because of the surprising pro- that are worthy of careful con- tests from Ontario's womenfolk, and sideration, but they are definer a time the Millar will controversy died down, was almost forgotten. itely to be classed amongst the But Toronto's birthrate soared proposals which would leave the League in a weaker and more ineffective form than at present. For instance, it is proposed that

"After exhausting the means of persuasion with a

steadily.

HOW

TO

Deal with the Heat

SPECTACULAR if extravagant way to test the temperature is to break an egg over the pavement and let it fry in

IN N 1932 the first the sun.

favourite appeared. She was a slight, blonde housewife of forty-

by

Wilson Chamberlain

salt to

Reason:

If it's a really hot day, it Your safest. cool-colour bets are, As for soft drinks, water is str should be done to a turn in about in this order: khaki, light blue, grey, the best. Mix it with milk in bat five minutes. Yet you could be yellow, green, orange, brown, dark weather. Neat, add a spoonful of

blue. comfortable playing tennis at the

every pitcher. same time,

Red, though recognised "hot" Your body loses saft in the heat." colour, peculiarly enough in pro- tective against certain sun rays when worn next to the skin, Hence its

HABITS have as popularity in the Lost in underwear. much to do with benefiting from

the heat waves as have clothes,

MOST of us think food, or proper sentitus

State thatThe members of the League may

Reason: Evaporation. violates its obligations. the be called upon to decide who is

Take a scorching hat day with other States would concert, as the aggressor when disputation high humidity: you feel the heat sole sanction. the suspension of runs high and time presses. because, though you perspire, it not evaporate; hence cannot diplomatic relations". This is Are these circumstances favour-does

cool you. Lei evaporation cease

that most delicate 15 hardly likely to deter a harden-able to a calm and judicial judg- altogether:

Ent ment? Again, a grave mistake thermostats, your temperature, will that Hot Weather means

brenk down-or, rather, go sky Less. Particularly of ment. ed aggressor from committing an act of brigandage, particu-visited with punishment which reaches 100 of 110 at most, then you the truth.

may be made and the innocent rocketing at the rate of one degree Nothing could be further from it's hot.

every Lwenly minutes. When !! larly he would realise that may in after years be found to like the egg, will be done.

example:

For

You should brush your teeth twice as frequently when Reason: Mouth diseases are doubled in hot weather.

Don't reduce in summer. Winter best. If you're fat, without means you laugh a lot; and that will of Lean, morose people enjoy the hent

"When you feel hot and worn

is

such diplomatic "enubbing" have been unjust. Two flagrant weather experts have gone to such be you are only

Grim thought, it's why hot out," one doctor told me, "it may you're probably good-natured, which

nir-

+

could not continue indefinitely. and, comparatively recent in-lengths to study ventilation, realising it. The average person give you all the exercise you need.

it stify. three sets A proposal for strengthening stances were Bismarck's notori- conditioning, clothes, habits,

ond playing even diets; for the wrong food affects tennis needs as much food to keep mast. the League, on the other hand, ous tampering with the Eins the circulatory system, hence, the cool as his grandmother needed to Worse than fat people, the very has been made by the French dispatch in 1870, and the sink-sweat

evaporation.

ginnds, hence the speed of keep warm in winter na she sat at old and the very young have the

hier needlework' fifty years ago!" worst time in summer.

Remember you carl As for meat, on Army surgeon who

became Premier. He suggests a stric-ing of the American battleship Why, too, British Army doctors

3 Maine nt Havana in

literally "ght-headed" in 1898. in Hongkong, Singapore, India ex- had seen long service in the Enst ter application of Article XVI Year's elapsed before the truth periment ceaselessly with such fine discovered that the healthiest. In the heat; by the process of blood be- and for this purpose recom-was made known. To avoid power of various colours.

details as the exact heat-resisting dions, the Sikhs, are those who eating rushed to the skin to keep you

goat and mutton; the unhealthiest, cool and open your sweat glands. those who eat no meat.

If you're placid, this may make mends that collective 'security those pitfalls Lord Howard pro- |

RECENTLY they

you want to spend money recklessly, should include two aspects, poses that certain definite sanc-

or kiss' every pretty w-it happens. FROM India, too, every summer, and is attributable namely "A group of Powers: Lions, ngreed to beforehand, employed a crateful of rabbits

directly to heat-distortion, though the ready to use all forces against should be imposed on all belli-ina test which shows startlingly comes the most cooling drink judge is having none of that.

just how important colour is in you can get: ten. Reason: Tea, If, on the other hand, you're an aggressor: compulsory econ- gerent parties until one or both keeping cool.

naturally hot-tempered, the hent will. in common with all xanthines, send you out looking for a fight. Sorting them into three colour contracts the blood vessels and You become short-sighted and jomie and financial sanctions by declared themselves willing to

sign an armistice and submit groups, they pinced them in the withdraws blood from the sur- 4 all other League Members",

faintly colour-blind in the hot direct rays of tropical sun and then is dificult to over-estimate the able form of peaceful settlement, rabbits had died of sun-stroke. The

their dispute to the most suit-stood by with stop watches. Thirty-face of the skin, which is where sunshine.

three minutes later all the black you feel the hent.

If you have trouble sleeping try hanging wet sheets at the importance of the choice be- The merit of such.

Opposite from the effect of alcohol, foot and head of the bed. It will a scheme greys lasted one hour thirty-two it is why drinking over-heate one in start evaporation. Falling this, an tween, these two schools of would be swift, automatic, pre- minutes.

whites completely hot weather. The wise men of the electric fan. Naturally, don't go to recovered.

East' have their whiskies late in the alcon with it on. the existing Covenant is pointed not endanger the prestige of the out by Lord Howard of Penrith, League.

It

GREATLY REDUCED! LANE, CRAWFORD'S thought. One fatal defect in determinet action, and it would

The

Reason: Black absorbs heat most afternoon evening; then a drink It's hot this summer. It's been hol rapidly: white deflects it. Hence can have beneficial effect. Shandy for the last three summers. Accord- the popularity of white for summer galt (beer and ginger ale) is ideal ing to the weather experts, it may dresses,

when it's hot.

be hotter yet.