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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY

1937.

WHEN ANIMALS ARE

HYPNOTISED

(By D. R. Wanford Bodle)

WHEN Inserted that my hypnotic experiments would be quite ns nuccessful on wild animals human belags I raised a storm heated criticism.

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Finally I decided 1. put the matter to the test while i was on a travel tour. I was visiting in outcast spot in, the Africah jungle, and was com- unarmed My pletely

Bervanta followed behind with riacs, in case of accident.

Between the fringe of the under- growth i saw a gigantic lioness drink- ing water in a pool at the edge of the The loness advanced. slide. 1 wheeled round with Bul. My heart began to beat frantically. The lioness advanced with her eyes fixed

little forward- સત્ત on mine. I moved concentrating my entire attention on those little dark pools that were the pupils of the beast's eyes,

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

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

experiment had been

My Brat entirely successful. All in a Moment

n

The next time 1 nearly lost my life. I had encountered the beast, and felt that it was under my hypnotle power. Then, without warning.

tree, monkey leap across from a uttering wild cackles. For the fraction of second

EL

my gaze the wavered from the pupils of crouching animal. In that moment Crozen

sprang

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

Most animals and reptiles ure

influence to the

of susceptible hypnotism! In India I decided to test whether my hypnotic influence would bring the same results as the Indian snake-charmers. A wild cobra which

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

I had no instruments with which to charm the snake, and had to rely solely on the power of concentration. The snake gilded towards me. I moved my hand towards it and then drew myself back, intending the snake

rear. It did so, und I

felt

thoroughly confident of my powers. Then without warning, the snake lurched forward towards my hund. Luckily I relained 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 tile side of my hand, I would have received a fatal bite.

A Week's Trance

The hyaena is a particularly high- ly strung animal and therefore extremely susceptible to hypnotism. On one occasion I was challenged to enter a case of ferocious hyaenas. did so. The animals advanced, anarling wildly, I waved my hands In their direction, fixing my gaze on a wiry brute who had made a wild

in my

direction. Without

dash

warning, the animal crumpled up as though it had been stunned.

We inspected it and found that it was in a comatose stale or in a trance. It was over a week before it came buck to consciousness and in that time a circus proprietor made a small fortune out of it by allowing people to see the "hyaena in

trance."

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Trailing their HOMES

M

Behind

Them

·ILLIONAIRES are doing it. die class are doing it. doing it.

The mid-

The poor aro

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

13 the The American trailer-traveller twentieth-century nomad, the modern "Arab" in a motor-car. A tortolo" who has come under the Influence of speed-up; hlmscif, his family, and his household belongings packed anugly 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 in!

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

The millionaires to-day who can afford country homes and yachts, who can take sultes on de luxo ocean linera 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 aro lv- ing on wheels in God's Own Coun- try. The covered wagon has re- turned as a new ploneer page in history is turned.

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TAKE a look at one of these charming £200

homes. trailer

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

This home dinette, lavatory, electric icebox. cupboards. china cupboards, clothes cupboards, bureau drawers, heating unit-all the essentials of

has a kitchen,

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 1020, there was nothing proton- tious about the cars whose owners were starting a new way of life. Now the cars and trailers are much more swagger and the organisa- tion has grown to 80,000 members. A similar organization is 35,000 strong.

The trailer-traveller seems to be an individualist who could disponso 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 a stop occasion-

Breakfast for four, with two of the slooping-car borths folded up

overhead in a monstrously luxurious two-wheeled trailor.

a nasty splinter in its paw and was

Animals are able to exeri 11 hypnotic Influence over one another, though I don't believe that animals con hypnotise humon beings. Rabbits and young birds are very in great pain. 1 hypnotised the suscepilble to the hypnotism of the animal. He was immediately sooth- snake.

ed, as though he had been placed un- Domestle animals

easily der an anaesthetic, and without the Influenced by hypnotism. On an sughtest whitaper allowed me occasion when a pet cat of mine had remove it.

are

A STORY OF SANKEY

to

THE centenary of the birth of by the famous Norman Macleod, Dwight L. Moody, the greatest They were subsequently reprinted in of all modern evangelists, is being two other magazines, but their author celebrated 'In Scotland and In had died before Sankey sent them America. Great centenary meetings echoing round the world. have been or will be held in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and elsewhere.

Convinced that this poem would be a great song if it were set to mule, Sankey tore it out and put

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

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

in Edinburgh on the meeting ngo sat Scotland on fire.

Something, however, ought to be following day the preacher's theme Moody said of Moody's musical colleague, was the Good Shepherd. Ira D. Sankey, whose, singing was appealed to his colleague to sing Sankey no less effective and heart-searching something appropriate, but than Moody's preaching.

had nothing save the poem be had To-day only the older generation come across the previous day. He remember the spall which Moody, felt that it would be exceedingly no music the preacher, cast over his vast appropriate, but he had audiences, but Sankey lives on in written upon it.

"Sing the hymn and make the tune "Sacred Songs and Solos," which ho compiled and which are all being as you go along," a volce seemed to sung in many lands. Not a few of commend him.

Wherefore, with a silent prayer the tunes in that., collection were composed by the complier himself, for help, he laid the cutting on the One of these, which will ever be organ before him and began to sing. associated with Edinburgh (for here "Noto by note," Sankey said years was it composed and sung for the first later, "the music was given me clear time), seerns destined to immortality, through to the end of the tune.

Thus was "There were Ninety and Sankey himself has told how-he

Those who first heard Nine born. came to compose this tune. **He was reading a magazine during it in Edinburgh sixty-three years ago 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 shepherd and his sheep, Moody declared he had never heard The versea 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 sat hushed and silent.

G.-L. T. Good Words, a periodical then edited

A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD

OD is never "star off" really;

asked the question, proclaimed Him "nigh unto all them that call upon Him." But somtimes we couse Him to hold aloof, and

sometimes, Why standest blessing. Thou afar of, Ohand is with-

Lord?

drawn. FBALM X., 1.

The Jew's awalled the coming of a Deliver-

in

His

er, and there was a day when, acclaimed as such, Ho stood In their very midst. But because He know their unworthy desires He "did not commit Himself, unto them" (John U., 24). If God seems distant examine your motives,

Remember, however, that He has to teach you to trust. Cast) your mind back to the days when you learned to swim or to cycle. The Instructor's hold was your comfort during your early lessons, but suddenly he. let go, and at once he seemed terribly far away. Yet all the time he wna clone 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 it God lets go in like manner. It is part of : your) education. Trust is tenching and you will 'triumph. Remern- her Ho will not fall.

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, lus 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 In an emergency. And it is good to know that he can get batha- showers, tubs, hot and cold.

N every State in the Unlon trailer parks and camps have been estab- llabed. The facilities include

kitchens.. laundries, community community halls, general stores, restaurants, petrol atations, garages.

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

Every summor the National Parks, where the camps are free, Montana swarm with trailers. checks over 60,000 trailers through that Stato 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.

Growth? Well, 2,500

trailers

were made in 1934. The figure shot up to 10,000 in 1035, and then to 55,000 in 1030.

The trailer-traveller follows the gun.

Just now he is in. Florida, taking

baths on Daytona Beach, or bathing in the briny. the really swell part of it all

And

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Ho

is that he does not need to be rich to enjoy the pleasures of the rich,

There is Bring, however. does need a regular Income. Trailer-travelling is not for those who must stay in one place to earn

living.

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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 move. It is perfect because they can always travel to the places where the sun shines.

Naturally enough, California is trailer-land-an Ideal State almost

Mr. and Mrs. John Dixon, Ruth, Dorothy, Hazol, Audroy, Melvin,Boatrice, Mason, Robert, Howard, one dog and ono cel, travelled from Now York to California in this mobilo houso."

all the year round, although this year, just to be contrary. the weather has been wiatry, while other parts of the country. Now York, for instance, the weather has been unscasonably mild.

California has also attracted the hoboes," the homeless wanderers who have no trailers but must hike. The depression let loose a horde of hoboes-mes, 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 auddenly sprang up in America, and Americans who gave every in- dication of coming on the Call-

were relief rolls fornian admitted into the State.

not

can

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

спи he

find

adequate his throughout accommodation

stay.

Does the trailer-traveller ever get bored?

His fe 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 ho desires, but he must miss the first- class theatrical shows to be seen on Broadway every winter.

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"OMEN cannot escope household duties wher- ever they go. There is cooking to be done, either in the trailer kitchen or the camp 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 leoman is on hand with ice for the Icebox

I suppose the craze will end in And every car having a trailer. then there will be a violent re- action and everybody will stay at Nome. Home, sweet home!

Today's Thought- No statement is too absurd for some philosophers to make.

CICERO,

SCHOOLROOM "HOWLERS"

need

grouse canoes," he said on another occasion,

TEACHERS never 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 en- liven the dullness of essay-books and inhabitants of Paris are called Paris- exam.-papers. Here are a few cholen iter," "The Chinese," we learn from "bowlers culled from various school- an axdin.-paper, "eat a lot of rico rooms where teaching has its bright with things called pitch forks." moments.

"Mars is a star," states another pupil given to howlers, "that is so "The masculine of vixen" wrote a far off that it would take millions of

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During a history lesson, the school dunce, who knew more about deloc tive books than history, stated that berʼs.”

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1 Reduced-to writing? .(Two

words, 7 4).

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

13.

11 Simply a dream of a goddess.

part of the world rope Is a necessity.

15 Enthusiastic

18 Why do llamas flee rapidly, so as a blow, is expected? idden.)

rn country.

17 Eastern

English at Stirling. George Bernard. Another scholar wrote, “All brutes Shaw, according to one of his youts are imperfect animals. Man alone is blographers, is captain of the London

a perfect beast.”. Fire Brigade.

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

geography paper ed, "is a futile spot in the desert." 23 To the greatest extent, in fact, stated, "la famous for the odour made Another howler states that "Living-

more than most. 27 Star. there." The people of India are stone went to Africa to be a misery 28 All players know that there's divided into casta and outcasts.” to the natives."

Another bowler stated that "the

nothing in swear words on the King was crowned in

links. the Crystal country," is interesting to learn, 29 One who makes a striking catcil. Palace with his sepulchre in kis "are Ime-juice and soda-water."

32 Hidden in Clue 16. band."

"All the teachers In our school are 131 U U. coruined, was the amazing statement34 Regard, If not esteem

35 The criminal is moved by this

treaty.

DOWN

t

"The common minerals in this

made by a pupil. Marote s

"The Jallow perii,”

a young

"A refugee," wrote a young essay- let, "is a man who keeps order at essayist who was never stuck for an football matches" "The Stock Ex- answer, “means a banana-škin left change," sald snother, "is a place on the pavement."*. "Cassius,"*" sald where cattle and pigs are sold.” another, "was 'n selfish, vile man, "A schoolmaster," wrote a wool who was always doing his best to gathering pupil, "leads a very sedim- make his own ends meet,

Writing entary life."

an essay on "A Thrilling Race," a schoolboy stated: "The "During the Napoleonic Wars," Jockey lost two of his teeth when his stated a young hialory 'don, all the horse fell, and had to be destroyed." crowned henda were trembling in In answer to the question "Name one of our famous authors," the dunce of their shoes.".

the wetlood wrote, "William the Con- "A litre," said the schoolboy who queror is one of our foremost authors. was always ready with an answer, Ho wrote Doomsday Book." "is a nest of young puppies." "Vol

~*Lavinia"Derwent."-

2 Sounds like what the washer-

woman did on a ladder.

3 Marine cultivation.

4 The end I Have is green, and

rather shorter.

Madden (anag).

o Hidden in Clue 18.

7 Jack files to the clerical gentle.

men.

8 Extravagantly coarse.

12 She is for amusement, by the

sound.

14 Makes a ruper labol, and very

nice, too.

15 A measure of extremities. 18 Cast down and, finally, cast of 10 The burden borne by cotton. 20 What my wife la, is reminiscent of what she does when she lets fling.

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Pupil

girl who gets round the

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

25 More than a boil; yet certainly

not a carbuncle.

26 Fierro sees nothing in hin, but we regard him with friendship.

27′ Posted ́as' a‘tyrant.

30 Sauce

31 Hidden In Clue 18.

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