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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936,

Christian Scientists "Scorn to Use

Divine Gift of Medicine"

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He telephoned to Miss Burnett, the from practitioner, and sho pronhat night and gave Christian

came

THE action of a Christian doctor but wanted to be treated by Scientist who delayed call-n Christian Science practitioner:

CHRISTIAN. SCIENCE TREATMENT ing a doctor after his wife had ENTERTAINMENT been taken suddenly, ill, was criticised by the Barnet Coroner, Mr. T. Ottaway, this month.

The inquest was on Mrs, Alico Saunders, aged 62, of Harris-lane, Shenley, Herts.

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Mrs. Saunders collapsed in her husband's cafe at Shenley. Nurses from Shenley Mental Hospital, who were in the cafe, suggested calling a doctor, but this was not done until Inte that night, and Mrs. Saunders died early the next morning in the Wellhouse Hospital, Barnet,

although medical science has, by the help of Divine power and by man's persistence, progressed so far and been made available for all, there are people in the world who will not accept it as a Divine gift and who scorn to make use of it.

Selence treatment. After she had The jury returned a verdict of Death from Natural Causes, adding gone a doctor was sent for.

Miss Jessie Burnett, of Warwick-that they thought there had beca road, London, W.14, said she came to neglect by delay in calling a doctor. the conclusion that Mrs. Saunders was suffering from nervous break- down due to overwork.

Dr. H. R. Segar, medical superin- tendent of Welthouse Hospital, sald that death was due to severe cerebral. hemorrhage.

The coroner sald that though it appeared that the case was hopeless from the onset of the illness, proper treatment should have been given. "It is lamentable to think that,

Mr. Saunders told the coroner that his wife and he were both Christian Scientists. He was quite prepared to call a doctor when she collapsed, but | He added: she herself sold she did not want a

"WONDER" FISH

LOSES EYES AND DIES OF GRIEF

Sydney, Dec. 20. Vielous little box fish, no marc than 6 inches long, have caused the deal of Australia's "wonder fish," the 11-foot 6-inch grey nurse shark which set up the world's record for fength of captivity.

nearly four in

THIS'LL MAKE YOU WHISTLE tivity at the Taronga Pary Aqua-

Hollywood, Dec. 20.

Douglas Shearer, Hollywood sound recorder, says if the words "Fifty-fifty Mississippi" trip off your tongue without a stutter or undue hissing sounds, your diction is probably good enough for the “talkies.”

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rium here, Skipper II, as the shark have was known, is estimated to

After it was at- swum 35,000 miles. incked and blinded by the box fish, the shark remained motionless the bottom of the pool, and despite to save is life, the huge attempts Ash pined and died after being blind for three weeks.

POPULAR TRAVEL BOOKS: Since being captured off Sydney

INTEREST OR ESCAPE?

Travel tops the list of popular preferences in a library-book questionnaire recently completed in Croydon.

The Public Libraries Committee is interested to know if this reveals an expanding interest in world affairs or an increase in the number of people who "want to get away from it all."

Despite the great discoveries made

in recent years in physics and biology, Ancient Egypt Had

selence comes nearly bottom on the Hist.

Philosophy comes last of all.

And

to judge from the position of psy-} chology interest in Freud and his

·HISTORY. SECOND

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. followers is decreasing.

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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.

THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$25,000

in 1937 to continue its work for alck and

destituto children..

Hon. Treasurers:

PIP. A., BICKELLAR, CA.

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,

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Mr. KWOK, CIAN, --

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong..

November 16, 1930,

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Heads in November, 1932, the shark had never stopped swimming pre- viously.

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Visitors had been anxious about the safety of the shark because the tiny fish. Another shark has been in the pool for three years and eight months, and the box Ash have been removed to a separate pool to safeguard i-United Press,

Its Loan Sharks,

Papyrus Dated 109 B.C. Reveals

Chlengo, Doc, 20. me this loan; and I further promise to deliver the said wheat to the house A promissory note dating of the woman Nelchutes in the Zemi from 109 B.C., believed to be cemetery without transportation the oldest of its kind, and show-charges, by the last day of the ninth ing that "loan sharks" existed month of the year 9 with no exten- "Further, whatever I do not re- in ancient Egypt, has been added signs of time to be granted. to the Egyptian archaeological pay in wheat by the aforesaid date the following Political

repay within ceonomy exhibits at Field Museum of I will und

month at the rate of 60 pleces of (fourth) might have been expected to Natural History.

silver per ariaba. come fairly high in the list,

Filth of the 15 subjects is English

After travel comies history, then blography-evidence of the modern Interest in personalities.

literature.

science

The list is given in the forty- seventh annual report of the com- mittee. It is part of a survey of

what is being done to fulfil readers' omney, teasant-slave casnak- possess or shall acquire is herewith

demands.

"The phenomenon of the year,"

says the report, was the demand for Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom."

More than 1,000 people asked for it at the various braries under the control of the committee.

Illeroglyphics on the papyrus.

"Further, as

as this note is translated by Dr. Nathaniel J. Riech, in Nekhules possession I cannot Philadelphia, reveal an interest rate claim, unless I can show a receipt, to of 100 per cent and other harsh terms. have made full or partiat payment.

Further,

everything that I now An interpretation of the translation:

the

to the Zeml ceme- pledged to Nekhuics until 1 shall have tery, have borrowed from the woman discharged my debt in full. Further, Nekhutes 22% artabes of wheat. I if Nekhutes brings suit against me for promise to repay this loan with 100 falling to meet my obligation, i admit per cent. Interest, making the total additional liability for any damages. due 45 urtabos of wheat,

Further, the agent of Nokhutes is "Further, I promise to repay this hereby authorized to deal with me loan with good,

unadulterated and I promise to follow his instruc- chaless seedwheat, measured by the tions unreservedly and promptly at same standard as was used in making all times."-United Press.

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