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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936.

Christian Scientists "Scorn to Use

Medicine"

Divine Gift of

Christian, doctor but wanted to be treated by | although medical science has, by the

TEA

THE action of a DANCE

Scientist who delayed call. ing a doctor after his wife had been taken suddenly 1,,was

Christian Science practitioner.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

TREATMENT

He telephoned to Miss Burnett, the

and sho

came from

help of Divine power and by man's persistence, progressed so far and been made available for all, there aro people in the world who will not accept it as a Divine gift and who

ENTERTAINMENT criticised by the Barnst Coroner, London that night and gave Christian acorns to make use of it.

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The jury returned ja verdict of Death from Natural Causes, adding that they thought there had been neglect by delay in calling a doctor.

Mr. T. Ottaway, this month. Science treatment After she hud

The inquest was on Mrs. Allergone a doctor was sent for. Saunders, aged 52, of Harris-lane, Miss Jessie Burnett, of Warwick Shenley, Herts.

road, London, W.14, sald she came to the conclusion that Mrs. Saunders was suffering from nervous break-WONDER” FISH down due to overwork.

Mrs. Saunders collapsed in her husband's cafe at Shenley, Nurses frum Shenley Mental Hospital, who were in the cafe, suggested calling a doctor, but this was not done until late that night, and Mrs. Saunders Wellhouse Hospital, Darnet.

Dr. II. 1. Segar, medical superin- tendeat of Wellhouse Hospital, said that death was due to severe cerebral

CHRISTMAS DAY (from 5-8 p.m.) died early the next morning in the hemorrhage.

with: VERA LOVE and her FESTIVE FOLLIES,

ALSO ON

EULA HOFF and BOB BURNETT, and ART CARNEIRO'S BAND..

$2.00 per person.

BOXING DAY & SUN.

AND

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

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LOSES EYES AND DIES OF GRIEF The coroner said that though it

Sydney, Dec. 20, appeared that the case was hopeless Vicious little box fish, no more from the onset of the lines, proper than 6 Inches long, have caused the treatment should have been given.death of Australia's "wonder fish," Ho added:

the 11-foot 6-Inch grey nurse shark think that, which set up the world's record for

length of captivity,

"It is lamentable to

THIS'LL MAKE YOU WHISTLE

Hollywood, Dec, 20,

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

DEC. 27 POPULAR TRAVEL BOOKS:

INTEREST OR ESCAPE? Travel tops the list of popular preferences in a library-book

NEW YEAR'S DAY (from 5-7.30 p.m.)

with: VERA LOVE and her FESTIVE FOLLIES, EULA HOFF and BOB BURNETT, and NORMAN BROOKS' BAND.

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

science cumes nearly bottom on he list.

Philosophy comes last of all. And to judge from the position of psy- chology Interest In Freud and his

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

HISTORY SECOND After travel comes history, then blography-evidence of the modern Interest in personalities.

During nearly four years in cap- tivity at the Taronga Pary Aqua- rium here, Skipper II, as the shark wus known, is estimated to hove awum 35,000 miles. After it was at- Lacked and blinded by the box fish, the shark remained motionless at the bottom of the pool, and despite attempts to save its life, the huge Ash pined and died after being blind for three weeks.

Since being captured off Sydney

Heads in November, 1032, the had never stopped swimming pre- viously.

Repulse

Bay Hotel

Gala Carnival Dinner Dances

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Visitors had been anxious about THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

the tiny fsh. Another shark has been in the pool for three years and eight months, and the box fish have been removed to a separate pool to safeguard it.United Press.

Its Loan Sharks,

Papyrus Dated 109 B.C. Reveals

"Further, whatever I do not re- pay in wheat by the aforesaid date repay within the following I will month at the rate of 80 pieces of silver per artaba.

Chicago, Dec. 20. ine this loan; and I further promise A promissory note dating to deliver the said wheat to the house of the woman- Nekhutes 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- in ancient Egypt, has been added slons of time to be granted. to the Egyptian archaeological Polkical science and economy exhibits at Field Muscum of (fourth) might have been expected to Natural History. come fairly high in the list.

Hieroglyphics On the papyrus, Filth of the 15 subjects is English translated by Dr. Nathaniel J. Riech, Philadelphia, reveal an interest rate The list is given in the forty-of 100 per cent and other harsh terms seventh annual report of the com- An interpretation of the translation: mittee. It is part of a survey of

peasant-slave Ensnak- what is being done to full readers hommeu, belonging to the Zemi ceme demands.

tery, have borrowed from the woman Nekhutes 22% artabes of wheat. promise to repay this loan with 100 per-cent. Interest, making the total due 45 ariabes of wheat.

Ilterature.

"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 libraries under the control of the committee.

the

now

"Further, as long as this note is In Nekhutes posscasion I

cannot claim, unless I can show a receipt, to have made full or partial payment. Further, everything that I possess or shall acquire is herewith pledged to Nelchutes until I shall have discharged my debt in full. Further, to meet my obligation, I admit Nekliutes brings sult against me for tional liability for any damages. Further, the agent of Netthutes is "Further, I promise to repay this hereby authorized to deal with me loan with good, unadulterated

and I promise to follow his instruc- chafitess seedwheat, measured by the tion's unreservedly and promptly at same standard as was used in making | all times."--United Press,

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