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· THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1988.

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WHO ENJOY THE FINER

THINGS IN LIFE

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N the catalogue of num- bers, three probably occurs most frequently in our life.

Its first manifestation in the mind of most people is, obvious- ly, the Trinity, but the number is associated with the Saviour from His birth, when the three Magi, gulded by the star, arrived to pay Him homage, bearing three gifts Gold,, Frankincense and Myrrh. In celebration of this event the Church early cs. tablished the Feast of the Three Kings, now called the Epiphany,

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Catalogue & Full Particulars from

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DEATH

DUNN-At 2 p.m. on April 5, 1930,

at the Queen Mary Hospital, Samuel Dunn, aged 60 years. Funeral will take place at the Jewish Cemetery nt p.m. to-day

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, Armit. 6, 1938.

DIVIDING WATER COST BURDEN

813 A.D.

followed THE number

Ilim to the end of His had burnt six, because he re- fused to pay the same price for life, for on the night of His ar- rest, He said to Peter, "Before the original nine volumes. the cock crows, thou shalt deny Leaving the ancient world Me thrice." He was crucified with Its three governing men on one of three crosses at 3 forming a triumvirate, the crown o'clock in the afternoon, when offered three times to Caesar IIe was thirty-three years ofund its triremes, the forerunners nge, and He rose on the third of our own "three-deckers," we dlay, as He had prophesied when come to our own times with the He said to the Jews who ques. Three great Estates of the tioned Him, "Destroy this temple Realm-the King, the Lords and and in three days. I will raise it the Commons. For the protec

tion of the Empire are the three up."

great services-the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, bound together in their allegiance by the Tricolour,

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THE

When Charles Stewart Par- neli was known as "the uncrown- ed King of Ireland" and the Irish Land Act was being hotly dis

MYSTERY OF 3

The Pope wears the tiara or cussed in Parliament in 1880-81, for it figures in the

nursery

the triple crown.on ceremonial the question of "The Three F's" rhymes we learn by heart- occasions and in the Church figured largely. They stood for "Three Blind Mice," "Three Lit-

Before we can be married in building itself is the triforium Fixety of Tenure, Fair Rents tle Kittens," "The Three Wise -the arcade above the arches and Free Sale, but Sir Stafford Men of Gotham" and "Old King Church the banns must be called between the nave and the side Northcote, afterwards Earl of Cole and his Fiddlers Three," three times and our children are

Iddesleigh, denounced them as while it appears in many fairy taught the three R's. aistės.

stories like "The Three Bears"

If we

race, we start to the The proposals offered by the

The number appears in the "Fraud, Force and Folly."

and "The Three Figs.".

bidding of "One, Two, Three, Financial Secretary, the Hon.

Old Testament. Three were the Mr. Caine, for the abolition of patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac and free water, the revising of Jacob, and threefold was their charges and the reorganisation | blessing. of the administration of this

vital

have

utility service appear to failed to win any great amount of popular support. The

more

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pears

In heraldry three animals, OT," and we must win certain

we

frequently ap- THREE

in connection birds or other symbols constant- events three times running to with the Sciences and the Arts. ly appear in the arms of those of secure permanent possession of Of prime importance is the high birth. Thus, three lions the trophy. If we bet and lose

which Sovereign; three ostrich feathers thought, "third time lucky." STILL earlier, the num- triangle from whose study des are seen in the arms of the we console ourselves with the Being tired, we replenish our trigonometry ber appears in the veloped

of the from the badge of the Prince of ancient mythologies of Greece treats of the relations reception given the suggestions and Rome. There were three sides and angles of triangles and Wales and three feathers the exhausted energies with three dress before the ming we buoy ourselves with the belief that we shall not drown by contemporaries is not exactly Fates-Clotho who spun the the methods of deducing from headdress of ladies appearing in meals a day. If we go swim-

who certain given parts other re- ceremonia! Sovereign. enthusiastic. If, as seems pro-thread of life, Lachesis

quired parts.

until we have sunk three times, bable, the

well-to-do pointed out man's destiny with a

Three obeisances or bows are while if Mathematics, chemistry, bio-

come into the people of Hongkong are going staff and Atropos who cut the

thread with

a pair of shears logy and other sciences have in- made on entering and three clutches of the police we hope to taken on escape the "third degree" in to pay the waterworks pipe when the time. came, for, him to troduced large numbers of words steps backwards are under the new system of charges it is not surprising that die; three Furies-Tisiphone, beginning with "tri" to denote leaving the presence of the their attempt to make us con-

Sovereign or his representative. fess. Alecto and Megaera whom the their relation to three.

In botany, three appears in Criers in court repeat "Oyez" Finally, to those whom we de- they should be concerned. But, Greeks, fearing their enmity,

three times to secure light to honour we give three on the other hand, if the poorer sought to propitiate by calling several relations, an example of (hear) people are to benefit, as seems the Eumenides, the "Well mean which is the trifolium or clover silence and the town crier, cor- cheers, the "tiger" to which may "kindly Goddesses because it normally possessee rupting the word to "O yes," stand for the threes which the equally probable, it is, in the ing"

three leaves. When a plant is calls it three times as he rings reader may miss because there Gracts, Euphrosyne, public interest to support Mr. three

Aglaia and Thalia, and Cerberus, found with four leaves, the his bell before making his nn- is not room in this article for Caine's scheme.

the three-headed dog, which superstitious preserve it as

bringer of luck. Actually it is not proposed to

guarded the entrance to Hades. attempt to pass judgment on

Three were the books contain. this very involved and coming the destiny of Rome which plicated subject. But it does Tarquin bought for 300 pieces of seem, on the face of it, that gold from the Sybil after she which those who can best afford to pay more for their water are to be asked to do so; and that if there

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are any benefits they will be house-holder, with a particular- found in the reduction of rates ly valuable property, might have assessment which would among the tenement dwellers. an In this respect it must be borne allow him very much more free water than he actually requires. in mind that unless landlords, Obviously, too, it is not reason- or principal tenants, are pre-able that he should escape pay- pared to reduce rents in direct ment for water when oven the

com-

ratio to the amount of water poorest member of the $12.00 per suit

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Everywhere

new

да

a nouncement.

them.

Three golden balls are the THREE is probably the ably derived from the arms of earliest number with the Medici, the great bankers of we become acquainted, Florence.

sign of the pawnbroker, prob- Rudolph de

Cordova

SPLENDID NEWS ABOUT

EYES

By An Ophthalmic Surgeon

TUG DENONE INGVATEMA

JAVE you ever sat opposite a girl lovely in every through thick lenses, her eyes that should have been so beautiful either magnified like those of a codfish or diminished to black dots in a pool of ripples?

HAV respect but one: that she had to peer at the world

If you have, you will learn with interest of the great strides that have been made in perfecting In- visible spectacles-in other words, "contact lenses,"

These lenses make their bow this week at the British Industries fair as delicate shells of glass worn closaly fitted to the eyeball itself, their edges covered by the eyelids, their presence often imperceptible at first LIKE A CAMERA

TO-DAY

rates saved to them, the tone-munity contributes to the up- ment dwellers will not benefit. keep of the water system as long In fact, they will be forced to as he pays rent. Such in- stitutions as hotels, with their pay for all their water and, in large assessment, have an addition, that proportion of their enormous free water allowance; rents which formerly the land- though, in all fairness. It must lord had to contribute to the be mentioned that of the pre- Government in water rates, sent 17 per cent. charges Injustice muy creep in here; and taxes on assessment value two- which, you may remember, were first talked of a year

seventeenths are for water, so or two ngo. if it does the only persons that no property owner really standing to gain by the regulations would be the land-escapes the water rate. lords, those sometimes maligned It will be seen from all this and often suspected people that the question of division of glance even to an eye surgeon. whose investments are not al- the cost

It is the dutyTHEY are far more than a beauty-aid; they are a ways the gold mines the general difficult one. pubile tends to believe them. of the Government to maintain means of restoring perfect sight.

The eye is like a camera taking pictures through There seeins to be no question the service at the lowest possi-n closed window: ita lens may be properly focussed, but that residents of the higher ble cost to all consumers, and no but If the window pane is not an even surface the lovels, particularly those on the one section of society should be picture will be distorted. In the eye the cornea, the Peak proper, are going to have asked to bear more than a fair transparent skin covering the pupil and the coloured to pay substantially more for share of the burden. Mr. Iris, corresponds to the window-pane.

A distorted cornea can be corrected only by baving thefr water than they have done Calne has made an effort a cap of glass fitted to it which presents a regular sur- In the past. The reason for and a commendable effort to face to the outalde world. To achieve perfect results this is made clear to the put water administration on a has taken years of research.

The original contact lenses were hemispherical uninitiated when it its explained more scientific basis. His sug-shells of glass, but as each eye is a different shape often that their free water allowance gestions merit the closest obser- the at was not good. Now they are made to measure. At fast the final shell is cast, the lens correction is calculated on their assessment vation, for unquestionably the value. The higher the assess public reception of this scheme ment, the greater their supply is going to have considerable

of water is 11

14 HOURS' WORK

In both these cases glasses are worn. This article explains why you can't,” awo "them in the lower pleture,

Now comes a long process of filing the lens, noting "where" it is irregular, taking it back to the beach and grinding it down a few thousandths of a millimétfe and trying again. This may take 14 pesilons of an hour each...

ground into the centre, and the patient can start his new

surgeon makes the eye inzenalive by putting at have known a young woman to dvercome, on few drops of cocaine on it and then, takes a mould putting on her contact lensen add weing-herwell, coch-

plete for the first time in a long mirror that made and the first trini taj is soulded from them.

of free water. It is obvious affect upon the final decision of of the eyeball in wax. From this plaster-casts age that a particularly wealthy the authorities.