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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1936.

Girl Sleeps For 5 Years, Wakes And Winks Her Looks Improved, Health Good: She Can Be Cured

RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OF MR. BALDWIN.

Bulldog's Nails Dyed

Red To Set Fashion

"COCKS,” a bulldog owned by Carl Neel, appeared on the street "Sat Perry, New York, with red, carefully manicured toenails. "It may set a new canino fashion," said Mr. Neel, who spent an hour dyeing the’nails, '

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HIS WEEKLY CALL

Chicago, Dec. 20,

ONE night in February 1932, as Patricia Maguire, twenty-six-year-old typist, of Oak, Ill., was going home from work, she fell asleep on the railway. that sleep, begun nearly five years ago, she is now just awakening.

From

Mlley, and again Pat responded. Then the yawned and went to sleep again.

Patricia Maguire is now thirty- Jone. The most puzzling case of sleeping sickness the U.S.A. has

Such signs of consciousness are over known, she has neither regarded by doctors as indications moved nor spoken since that that the encephalitis lethargicn" night she collapsed, though there (sleepy sickness) has not

chused serious injury, to the brain. have been times when she scom- There fa, consequently, the chance ed able to recognilse people. of an improvement and even of a

Yesterday, however, her mother, cure. Mrs. Peter Miley, declared that she notleed a steady Improvement.

In the past Patricia Maguire has had blood transfusions, oxygen tents,

"Pat is more alert and seems serums and psycho-analysis. Famous more interested in what is going specialists “liave" examined her and on around her,” said Mrs. Mlley.

confessed themselves baffled, Mrs. Miley sat at her daughter's bedside and asked Patricia to raise her hand. She did so.

"Now wink at me," said Mrs.

HUMANS INFLUENCE BIRD SONG

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LOOKS IMPROVED Equally puzzling is her. good health.j Her black hair 18 unaffected, her complexion roay, and she has ten put on a rigid diet forestall too much weight.

'Her looks have even improved during her long "beauty sleep." Her mother sees that she has a permanent wave regularly, and a manicurist calls at the house each

wetk

Special care is taken to prevent her muscles being taut,

Patricia's flance visits her every Week, and the doorstep is

A German cuckoo sings with a deeper note than an English smooth by sympathetic callers. cuckoo, but in South Germany where human voices are safter the note of a chaffinch is also softer.

These discoveries have been made naturalist, who left his country when by Mr. Ludwig Koch, the German Hiller came to power,

In England he has made records of the songs of wild English birds with" Mr. E. M.. Nicholson, honorary secre- tary of the British Trust for Ornitho- logy. It is by comparing these re- cords with those made of German

birds that Interesting

obtained.

data

Mr. Nicholson suid; "Mr. Koch's records

bre of the utmost

value to ornithologists. Other work the British Trust for Ornitho- logy is doing includes, on the econo- mic side, bud-ciling by birds--what buds they cat, when and where and

what for.

Z10 MILES IN 10 HOURS "Tameness of birds is being inves tigated and homing experiments made.

worn

le Nagged Me'

Merna Kennedy, actress-wife of Busby Berkeley, Hollywood danes director, won a divorce in Los An- geles when she testified Berkeley "constantly bagged, and thought more of his job than he did of me."

UNHAPPIEST GIRL

TO MARRY A KING?

Kept A Prisoner

Vienna, Dec. 20.

THE unhappiest girl in the world"--that is what they call the 23-year-old Archiduchess Adelaide, who may soon be the bride of King Leonold of the Belgians. According to reports here, the engagement will be announced at Christmas.

OCCUPIES ONE ROOM

I live in the same apariment build-

young Archduchess, writes a' corres-

The Archduchess is unhappy! because she is a virtual prisoner. She cannot enjoy herself asing in Hoher Market Square as the home every evening by nine. - other girls do. She must be at pondent.

"Storm petrels, Manx shearwaters Austrin, and her brother, Archduke Her mother, ex-Empress Zila of and puffins from Mr. Lockley's bird-Oito of Hapsburg, are responsible for observatory island off the Pembroke strict chaperonage. shire coast were taken to Start Point, Devon, and released. They flew back

She attends official ceremonies, but

to their nesting grounds, 200 miles dare not spend one minute of the day away, in 10 hours."

in private pleasure.

Priest, Fasting For 260

Days, Plans To Die

Bombay, Dec. 20.

Mistilalji Maharaj, a Jain priest, who has taken no food for more than 200 days, is preparing to die on Mon- day.

He has willed himself to die then unless the disputing factions

of Jains are reconciled.

So far no effort has been made for peace, though the priest has been moved from the suburb where he fasted to the heart of the city.

In a barely audible volce he said 10-day!--

I live until

"I am confident I will Monday. After that....

Asked how ho could will himself to dle at a specific moment, he said had developed Yogi powers

He

through many previous Insts.

OOFTY GOOFTY

New York, Dec. 20. Oofty Goofty Bowman says that Qafty Goofty Bowman is his real name, has been for fifty- six years, and will be until he dice, no matter how many people with inquisitive natures or a distorted sense of humour tele- phone to ask him about it.

Another American with a much less unusual name, Mrs. Mary Christmas, is cas Jokers have worried her so pattent, much by telephoning and in- quiring about Santa Claus that she decided to give up her tele- phone.

These two incidents are record- ed in the American Telephone: Co.'s

report for the current year.

"MEET MY SON"

Detroit, Nov. 10,

IT happened in Detroit. Mr. Bernard Marks and his son were walking along together. The father saw a friend, called out

-

Here the occupies a single foom on the second floor.

in the company of a woman secretary. Whenever I see her walk out she is

or an elderly lady,

Neighbours, who know of her un- happiness, say: "Poor Adelaide."

Only a few days ago she was in- vited by aristocratic.friends to Gratz for a house party and dance.

She wired Archduke Otto for his consent. "Stay In your room. No entertainments," Otto wired back. Adelaide has a lovely face, a stately figure. Yet her fine features always suggest sorrow.

A leader of the Monarchist move- ment, Colonel Gustav Wolff, told me: "The engagement of King Leopold and the Archduchess. Adelakie is more than possible-it is likely, Few daughters of Catholic Royal houses are left for European monarchs.”

IMMENSE VALUE”

The rumoured Royal union, it is felt here, would be of immunse value to European stability.

King Leopold is thirty-five, and has three children.

en. The eldest, Princess Josephine Charlotte, is nine years old. It is fourteen months since he lost his wife, the beautiful Queen Astrid, who was killed in a motoring accident in Switzerland.

King Leopold was at the wheel of the car when it a stone parapet along

narrow, road near the popular Swiss lakeside resort, Kissnacht. It plunged over an embankment and Queen..Astrid was Murled against a tree.

COASTGUARDS STRIKE

Alexandria, Dec. 10, of coastguard vessels this morning Between 50 and 60 Egyptian officers abandoned work and came ashore as The friend looked at the son, gasped? "Why, that is the man Finance Ministry to restore their in protest against the refusal of the who held me up in New York and robbed me of £60." To-day recantly abolished mess allowance.~~ the son was sent to fall.

to him, "Hey! I want you to meet my son."

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