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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, JULY 8 1987.

WHEN ANIMALS ARE

HYPNOTISED

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(By D. R. Wanford Bodie)

WHEN I asserted that my hypnolle Wexperiments would be quite os successful,on wild animals human beings I raised a storm of heated criticism.

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Finally I decided to put the matter to the test while I was on a travel lour. I was visiting an outcast spot in the African jungle, and was com pletely

unurmed. My scrvenis followed behind with rifles, in case of accident.

Between the fringe of the under- Krowth I saw a gigantic lioness drink- ing water in a pool at the edge of the glade. I advanced. The Lioness wheeled round withi Д snari. My heart began to beat frantically. The lioness advanced with her eyes fixed

I moved a little forward- on ming. I concentrating my entire attention on those little dark pools that were the

of the beast's eyes,

the moved forward to crouching beast. My servants were becoming alarmed and had come to my side with raised rifles,

Pull I

felt

The lioness crouched, and I that she was going to spring, but without warning she turned tail and dashed out of the far end of the clearing.

experiment hod been

My Arst entirely successful. All in a Moment

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The next time I nearly lost my life. I had encountered the beast, and felt that it was under my hypnotic power. Then, without warning,

tree, monkey leant across from a uttering wild

the cuckies. For secund

gaze the

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fraction of A wavered from the pupils of crouching animal. In that moment

sprang.

It

My men had their fingers pressed tightly against their ride triggers. The shot found its mark, and the beast fell inanimate a few feet in front of me.

Most animals and reptiles aro to the Influence of susceptible hypnotism! In India I decided to test whether my hypnotic Influence would bring the same results as the Indian

wild snake-charmers. A cobra which

particularly ferocious was brought to me, and i began my experiments.

I ha

was

I

had no instruments with which 10 charm the snake, and had to rely solely on the power of concentration, The snake glided towards me. moved my hand towards it and then drew myself back, intending the snake to rear. It did so, and I fell thoroughly confident of my powers.

Then without warning, the nake lurched forward towards my hand. Luckily I retained my self-possession and clenched my fist so that the hard knuckles hit the snake across the mouth. If the reptile had touched the soft flesh at the side of my hand, I would have received a fatal bite.

A Week's Trance ·

The hyaena is a particularly high- ly atrung animel and therefore extremely susceptible to hypnotism: On one occasion I was challenged to enter a case of ferocious hyaenas. I did

The

advanced, animals anarling wildly.

waved my hands

BO.

in their direction, axing my gaze on a wiry brute who had made a wild dnsh In my direction. Without warning the animal crumpled up as though it had been stunned.

We inspected it and found that it was in a comatose state or in a trance. It was over a week before it came back to consclousness and in

that

time a circus proprietor made 11 small fortune out of it by allowing people to see the "hyaena in trance."

Animals

able to exert arc

Trailing their HOMES

Behind

Them

·ILLIONAIRES are doing it.. The mid- dle class are doing it. The poor are doing it.

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Doing what? Living in trallers, carrying their homes. with them, covering Amories in comfort in their houses on wheels

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the The. American trailer-traveller twentieth-century nomad, the modern “Arab” A "tortolse" who has come in a motor-car. under the influence of speed-up; himself, his family, and his household belongings packed enugly in a trailer hitched to a car. A man whose backyard has grown and grown until it is more than 3,000,000 square miles big, the best part of a continent to play inl

The depression started it, but in the general enthusiasm for trailer lving nowadays most people have forgotten that it was the new poor who found it economical to close their homes and live like gipales.

The millionaires to-day who can afford country homes and yachts, who can take auites on de luxo ocean liners when they travel to Europe, are not living in trailers to save money. They are caught up by the craze because they like it. The millionaires are among the million people who to-day are liy- ing on wheels in God's Own Coun- try. The covered wagon has re- turned as a now ploneer page in history is turned.

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AKE a look at one of ·

£200 these charming

Two homes. trailer private rooms and ample space for four people. The two rooms are created by sliding doors in the middle, providing either two alt- ting-rooms by day or two bed- And they are rooms by night. beds with deep, comfortable inner spring mattresses.

has

kitchen. Thats home dinette, lavatory, electric icebox, china cupboards, cupboards,

clothes cupboards, bureau drawers, heating uhit all the essentials of

by

Harold Butcher

New York Correspondent of the "Daily Herald."

modern living packed into a small space.

The original trailer-travellers did not start out in all this luxury. When they banded together as the Tin Can Tourists, an organisation which originated in Florida in 1920, there was nothing preten- tious about the cars whose owners were starting a new way of life. Now the cars and trailers are much more swaggor and the organisa- tion has grown to 50,000 members. A similar organisation 15 30,000 strong.

The trailer-traveller seems to be an individualist who could dispense with organisation, but, as a matter ⚫ of fact, he is not and dare not be. Even though he does not "stay put" in a respectable community. gradually paying off the mortgage on a suburban home year by year, he must come to à stop occasion-

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Breakfast for four, with two of the sleeping-car berths folded up overhead in a monstrously luxurious two-wheeled trailer.

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hypnotic influence over one another,

though I don't believe that animals

can

hypnotise human beings. a nasty splinter in its paw and was

the1+ Rabbits and young birds are very in great pain. I hypnotised susceptible to the hypnotism of the animal. He was immediately sooth-.

ed, as though he had been placed un- snake.

Domestic animals arc caslly der an anaesthetic, and without the Influenced by hypnotism. On an slightest whimper allowed me occasion when a pet cat of mine had remove it.

A STORY OF SANKEY

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to

THE centenary of the birth of by the famous Norman Macieed. Dwight L. Moody, the greatest They were subsequently reprinted in of all modern evangelists, is being two other magazines, but thelf author celebrated In Scotland and in had died before Sankey sent them America. Great centenary meetings echoing round the world,

Convinced that this poem would have been or will be held in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and be a great song if it were set to music, Sankey tore it out and put elsewhere.

From pulpit and platform tribute it away in his scrap-book. Some has been paid to the memory of this day, he said to himself, he would American preacher, who on his best compose a fitting tune.

on the visit to these shores some sixty years: By a curious coincidence, at the

meeting in Edinburgh ago set Sootland on Are?

Moody Somethin however, ought to be following day the preacher's theme said of Moodsis, musical colleagues wasthee Gloody Shepherd. Ira D. Banker, whose singing, was appealed to..itis colleague to sing no less effective and heart searching something appropriate, but Sankey kadi, nothing: save the poem he had Than Moody's preaching w

To-day only the older generation come across the previous day, He remember the: Apelle which Moody, felt that it would be exceedingly the preacher, cast over his vast appropriate, but he had no musta audiences, but Sankey lives on in written upon it.

"Sing the byman and make the tune "Sacred Song and Solos," which he compiled and which are still being as you go along," a voice seemed to sung in many lands. Not a few of command him.

Wherefore, with a silent prayer the tunes in that collection were composed by the compiler himself. for help, he laid the cutting on the One of these, which will over be organ before him and began to sing. associated with Edinburgh (for here "Note by note," Sankey said years Diwal

it composed and sung for the first later, "the music was given me clear -time), stems destined to immortality, through to the end of the tune."

There e.were Ninety and Sankey himself has told how he

Nine" born. Those who first heard came to compose this tune.

He was reading a magazine during it in Edinburgh sixty-three years ago a train journey from Glasgow to were moved to the very depths of Edinburgh and lighted upon a poem their being: hundreds were in tears. about a shepherd and, his sheep... Moody declared he had never heard The verses were by Miss Anna anything like it. Wherever Sankey Clephane, and had been written at himself has told how it came great Melrose They first appeared in audiences at hushed and silent.

GEL T. Good Words, a periodièsi then edited

was

thus

A Lay Sermon

By HUCH REDWOOD

GOD is never "ator off" really;

Why

the Psalmist himself, whỏ asked the question, proclaimed Him "nigh unto all them that call upon Him." But somtimes we cause Him to hold aloof, and In sometimes, atandest blessing.

His Thou afar of. Ohand. is with-

drawn, Lord? PEALM X., 1.

The Jews awaited the coming of a Deliver- er, and there was a day when, acclaimed as such, He stood in their very midst. But because Ho knew their unworthy desires Ho "did not commit Himself unto them" (John ii, 24). If God seems distant examine your. -motives.

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Remember, however, that He has to leach you to trust. Cast your mind back to the days when you learned to swim or + to cycle. The instructor's hold I war your comfort during your early lessons, but suddenly he let go, and at once he seemed terribly far away. Yet all the time he was close at hand to: grasp you if need were, to cheer 'you on if he saw you had learn- ed your lesson, Don't lose heart if God Ibis go in like manner. It is part of your education. Trust His teaching and you will triumph. Remem ber. He will not fail.

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ally, and when he does he needs a camp and proper living conditions to go with the camp.

His organisation helps him to achieve those conditions in much the same way that a union wins them in industry for the workers,

For example, his trailer home is planned to be run by electricity. He is therefore attracted by a camp that provides electrical connec- tions, despite the fact that he could use the battery of his car And it is good in an emergency. to know that he can get baths- showers, tubs, hot and cold.

N every State in the Union trailer parks and "camps have been estab- include facilities The itsbed.

kitchens. laundries, community community halls, general atores, stations, patrol restaurants, garages.

And why not? Is the country any less delightful because meals are well served and one can sleep in a civilised bed at night?

Every summer the National Parks, where the camps are free, swarm with trailers. Montana chocks over 50,000 trailers through ca that State in a summer. Indiana has licensed 37,000. This year it is expected that 100,000 trailers will be sold and added to the estima- ted 300,000 now touring the high- ways and byways.

trailers

Growth? Well, 2,500 were made in 1934. The figure shot up to 10,000 in 1935, and then to 56,000 in 1930.

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The trailer-traveller follows the sun, Just now he is in Florida, taking sun baths on Daytona Beach, or bathing in the bring. And the really swell. part of it all is that he does not need to be rich to enjoy the pleasures of the rich. There is a snug, however." He does need a regular income, - Trailer-travelling is not for those who must stay in one place to earn

a living.

But for the people who are lucky enough to have small, but regular incomes, the trailer life is perfect. provided they like to be on the more. It is perfect because they can always travel to the places. where the sun shines.

Naturally enough, California 18 trailer-land-an idea: Stato almost

Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon, Rulm Dorothy, Hazol, Audrey,

Melvin, Beatrice, Mason, Robert, Howard, one dog and one cat, travelled from New York to California in this mobile house.

all the year round, although this year, just to be contrary, the weather has been wintry, while in other parts of the country. New York, for instance, the weather has been unseasonably mild.

California has also attracted the "hoboes," the homeless wanderera who have no trailers but must hike. The depression let loose a horde of hoboes--men, women and children -who wander because they had literally lost their homes.

But California turned a cold shoulder to these poverty-stricken sun-chasers, and stopped them at the border. European" frontiers suddenly sprang up in America. and Americans who gave every in. dication of coming on the Call- were not fornian relief rolls admitted into the State.

The trailer-traveller who can pay his way, is not barred, and there is a long, long list of camps where ho

And adequate throughout accommodation

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Does the trailer-traveller over get bored?

His life has novelty and a dash of adventure, but he must sacrifice some of the attractions of civilisa- tion. He takes his radio with him and can hear all the music, includ- ing symphony orchestras, that he destres, but he must miss the Arst- class theatrical shows to be seen on Broadway every winter.

OMEN cannot escape household duties wher-

Wever they go. There is

cooking to be done, either in the trailer kitchen

camp or the

kitchen.

Shopping, however, is easy; the butcher, the grocer, the farmer will

come to camp dally bringing all the food-including really fresh vege- tables that the trailer-travellers require. And the iceman is on hand with ice for the iceboxi

in I suppose the craze will end

And every car having a trailer.

then there will be a violent re- action and everybody will stay at home. Home, sweet home!

-To-day's Thought-

NO statement is too absurd for some philosophers to CICERO. make.

SCHOOLROOM "HOWLERS"

nover

need grouse canoes," he said on another occasion, TEACHERS

of the "are due to the internal heat of the about the monotony schoolroom. The unconscious hum-carth.”--

It is interesting to learn that "the our of their pupils does much to an livon the dullness of essay hooks and inhabitants of Paris are called Paris- exam-papers. Here are a few choice: Ites. The Chinese," we learn from "howlers" culled from various school an exam, paper, "eat a lot of rice rooms where teaching has its bright

moments.

"

with things called pitch forks,"

A star," states another pupil given to howlers, "that is so The masculine of vixen," wrote a far on that it would take millions of bright schoolboy, His wear."

years to blizard, he added, "is the inside of a:duck

A

During a history lesson, the school dunce, who knew more about detec tive books than history, stated that In 1372 Edgar Wallace routed

the

eain walk there in an express

In answer to the question, "Whose emblem is the leek?" a smart school- boy gave the answer, "The plume bars.

Engilah at Stirling. George Bernard; Another scholar wrote, "All bruter Shaw, according to one of his young are imperfect animais. - bian alone is blographers, is captain of the London Fire Brigade. A

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words, 7, 4).

welting?

9 Father, biblically. 10 Candle (anag.).

(Two

11 Simply a dream of a goddess. ⠀

is a necessity. 13 in this part of the world rope

15 Enthusiastic.

18 Why

Why do llamas fce rapidly, so long as a blow, is expected? (Hidden.)

17 Eastern country.

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("a teacher was inform-21 Ohio grapes, but A 1 (anag).

29 the greatest extent, in fact, "Cologne," a geography paper ed, is a fulle spot in the desert."

more than mort. stated, is famous for the odour made Anither howler states that "Living- there.The people of India are stone went to Africa to be a divided into casts and outcasts." to

Another howler stated that "the King was crowned in the Crystal Palace with his sepulchre in his hand."

28 All players know that there's nothing in swear words on the links. 29 One who makes a striking catch.

Hidden in Clue 16. 3 UU.

the natives to be misery 27 Star.

this The co

commón

minerale in t country, if is Interesting to learn, "are lime-Juice and soda-water.

“All the feachers in our school are statement corified," was the amazing a made by a pupil.

"A refugee," wrote a young essay-

The yellow perll," wrote a young ist is a man who keeps order at essayist who was never stuck for an football matches." "The Stock Ex answer, "means banana-skin left change," said another, is a place where cattle and pigs are sold."

"A schoolmaster," wrote a wool gathering pupli, "leads a very sedim entary life."**

"During the Napoleonic Wars," stated a young history 'don, "all the crowned heads were trembling in their shoes.”

"A Htre," said the schoolboy who was always ready with an answer. "is a nest of young puppies," · "Vol-

on the pavement Casteld another, was a salat, vile man, who was always doing his best to make his own enda mest."..

Writing an essay on "A Thrilling Race a schoolboy stated: The Jockey lost two of his teeth when his horse fell, and had to be destroyed.” In answer to the question "Name one of our famous authors, the dunce of the school wrote, "William the Con- queror is one of our foremost authors. He wrote Doomsday Book."

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34 Regard, if not esteem.

35 The criminal is moved by this

treaty.

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2 Sounds like what the washer-

woman did on a ladder..

3 Marine cultivation.

4 The end I have is green, and

rather shorter.

5 Madden (anag.).

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7 Jack Bles to the clerical gentle

men.

8 Extravagantly coarse.

12 She is for amusement by the

sound.

14 Makes a super label, and very

nice, too.

15 A measure of extremities. 18 Cast down and, Anolly, cast off 19 The burden borne by cotton. 20 What my wife is, is reminiscent of what she does when the Icts fing.

22 The girl who gets round the

pupil.

24 This was all that Margaret obtained, and I don't expect that she appreciated it..

25 More than a boll, yet certainly

not a carbuncle.

28 Pierre sees. nothing in him, but we regard him with friendship.

27 Posted as a tyrant.

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31 Hidden in Clue 18.

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