1938-04-06 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1988.

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DEATH

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at the Queen Mary Hospital, Samuel Dunn, aged 60 years, Funeral will take place at the Jewish Cemetery at 4 p.m. to-day.

The

Hongkong Telegraplı.

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, guided by the,star, arrived to pay Him homage, bearing three gifts-Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. In celebration of this ovent the Church early es- tablished the Feast of the Three Kings, now called the Epiphany, which became a separate fenst in 813 A.D.

THE number followed,

Him 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, IIe said to Peter, "Before the original nine volumes. the cock crows, thou shalt dony Leaving the ancient world Mo thrice." He was crucified with its three governing men on one of three crosses at 8 forming a triumvirate, the crown Caesar o'clock in the afternoon, when offered three times to He was thirty-three years of and its triremes, the forerunnera age, and He rose on the third of our own "three-deckers," we day, as He had prophesied when come to our own times with the Estates of the He said to the Jews who ques. Three great tioned Him, "Destroy this temple Realm-the King, the Lords and and in three days I will raise it the Commons. For the protec

up."

THE

tion of the Empire are the three, great services-the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, bound together in their allegiance-by the Tricolour.

When Charles Stewart Par- nell 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

spun

nursery

1-

Before we can be married in

WEDNESDAY, Arni 6. 1938.

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- DIVIDING WATER building itself is the triforium Fixety of Tenure, Fair Rents the Kittens," "The Three Wise

-the arcate above the arches and Free Sale, but Sir Stanord Men of Gotham" and "Old King Church the banns must be called COST BURDEN 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. nisles.

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 Pigs."

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

In heraldry three animals, Off," and we must win certain Mr. Caine, for the abolition of patriarchs-Abraham, Isane and

THREE frequently ap- free water, the revising of Jacob, and threefold was their

pears in connection birds or other symbols constant events three times running to charges and the reorganisation blessing.

with the Sciences and, the Arts. ly appear in the arms of those of secure permanent possession of ourselves with the of the administration of this

Of prime importance is the high birth. Thus, three lions the trophy. If we bet and lose

arms of the we console vital utility service appear to

trigonometry STILL earlier, the num- triangle from whose study de- are seen in the

which, Sovereign; three ostrich feathers thought, "third timo lucky."

Being tired, we replenish our have failed to win any great

ber appears in the veloped

of the from the badge of the Prince of [amount of popular support. The ancient mythologies of Greece treats of the relations

were three sides and angles of triangles and Wales and three feathers the exhausted energies with three reception given the suggestions and Rome. There

the the methods of deducing from headdress of ladies appearing in meals a day. If we go awim- the ming we buoy ourselves with the ceremonial dress before

belief that we shall not drown by contemporaries is not exactly Fates-Clotho who

who certain given parts other re-

Sovereign,

until we have sunk three times, enthusiastic. If, as seems pro-thread of life, Lachesis

Three obeisances or bows are while if we come into the bable, the more well-to-do pointed out man's destiny with a quired parts.

Mathematics, chemistry, bio- people of Hongkong are going staff and Atropos who cut the under the new...system... of/when the time came for him to troduced large numbers of words steps backwards are taken on escape the "third degree" in pay the waterworks piper thread with a pair of shears logs and other sciences have in- made on entering and three clutches of the police we hope to

Sovereign or his. representative. fess..... charges it is not surprising that die; three Furies-Tisiphong, beginning with "tri" to denote leaving the presence of the their attempt to make us con-

Alecto und 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 several relations, an example of (hear)

to secure light to honour we give three on the other hand, if the poorer sought to propitiate by calling which is the trifolium or clover silence and the town erier, cor- cheers, the "tiger" to which may people are to benefit, as seems the Eumenides, the "Well mean- because it normally possesses rupting the word to "O yes," stand for the threes which the

or "kindly Goddesses"

three leaves. When a plant is calls it three times as he rings reader may miss because there equally probable, it is in the ing"

Graces, Euphrosyne. found with four leaves, the his bell before making his an- is not room in this article for public interest to support Mr.three

Aglaia and Thalia, and Cerberus, Caine's scheme.

the three-headed dog, which superstitious preserve it as Actually it is not proposed to guarded the entrance to Hades. bringer of luck. 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 scem, on the face of it, that gold from the Sybil after she which we become those who can best afford to pay more for their water are to be

to

asked to do so; and that if there

are any benefits they will be house-holder, with a particular- found in the reduction of rates ly valuablo 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 even the ratio to the amount of water poorest member of the rates saved to them, the tene-munity contributes to the up- ment dwellers will not benefit. keep of the water system as long as he pays rent. Such in-

com-

nouncement.

Three golden balls are the

them.

sign of the pawnbroker, prob- Rudolph de

THREE is probably the ably derived from the arms of carliest number with the Medici, the great bankers of

acquainted, Florence.

Cordova

SPLENDID NEWS ABOUT

EYES

RSULKADARSZEGERENTSIT

By An Ophthalmic Surgeon

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

In fact, they will be forced to stitutions as hotels, with their HA

TAVE you ever eat opposite a girl lovely in every pay for all their water and, in large assessment, have an through thick lenses, her eyes that should have been

addition, that proportion of their enormous free water allowance; so beautiful either magnified like those of a codfish or rents which formerly the land though, in all fairness, it must diminished to black dots in a pool of ripples

If you have, you will learn with Interest of the visible spectacles-in other words, "contact lenses,"

lord had to contribute to the be mentioned that of the pre- great strides that have been made in perfecting in- Government in water rates. sent 17 per cent. charges Injustice may 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 ago.

if it does the only persons that no property owner reallyBritish Industries fair as delicate shells of glass work standing to gain by the regulations would be the land- escapes the water rate.

new

lords, those sometimes maligned

LIKE A CAMERA

TO-DAY

In both these caros glateas are word. This article explains why you can't see them in the lower picture.

These lenses make their bow this week at the closely fitted to the eyeball itself, their edges covered It will be seen from all this by the eyelids, their presence of.en imperceptible at first and often suspected people that the question of division of glance even to an eye surgeon,

of water ia R whose investments are not al- the coat

It is the duty THEY are for more than a beauty-aid; they are n ways the gold mines the general difficult one:

means of restoring perfect sight. of the Government to maintain public tends to believe them.

The eye is like a camera taking pletures through n closed window: its lens may be properly Lacussed, There seems to be no question the service at the lowest posai- 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

iris, corresponds to the window-pane. Mr. for share of the burden.

A distorted carnen can be correc ed only by having to pay substantially more

cTort- a cap of glass fitted to it which presents a regular sur- their water than they have done Calne has made an in the past. The reason for and a commendable effort to face to the outside world. To achieve perfect results this is made clear to the put water administration on a has taken years of reacarch,

The original contact lenses were hemispherical uninitiated when it its explained more scientific basis. His sug-abelle of glass, but as each eye is a different shape often that their free water allowance gestions morit the closest obser- the ft was not good. Now they are made to measure.

14 HOURS' WORK "'. is calculated on their assessment vation, for unquestionably the value. The higher the assess-public recoption of this scheme THE surgeon makes the cye Insensitive by pulling a ment, the greater their supply is going to have considerable few drops of cocaine on it and then tahes a mould puiting other contact lenses and seeing herself.com of free water. It is obvious offect upon the final decision of of the eyeball in wax. From this plaster casts are plete for the first time in a long mirror, that she wept

made and the first trial lens to moulded from Liem. that a particularly wealthy the authorities.

Now comes a long process of fitting the lens, noting where it is irregular, taking it back to the bench and grinding it down a few thousandths of a millimetre and trying again. This may take 14 sessions of an hour At last the final shell fa cast, the lens correction ground into the centre, and the patient can start his new Ishave known a young. woman sa overcome di

for joy