1938-07-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

THURSDAY, TELEGRAPH,

JULY

28, 1938.

Swings It Before

King and Queen

A royal good time was bad by all in the ballroom of Bucking- ham Palace when ash-blond and shapely Evelyn Dall. above, from New York's Bronx, solut

trum the bandstand swing songs trum while King George, Queen Eliza- beth, coyal princes, dukes and curls and their coroneted wives dunced to the intest hits at the Royal Derby Night Hull. It was the most informal dance ever given by the British rulers.

RETURN HOME

MOTHER'S SACRIFICE FOR

BLIND GIRL GENIUS

Learned Hebrew- Returned To Work

Sitting quietly at home in St. John's-road, Ipswich, a cheerful girl of 21 listened attentively as her mother read

a sheaf of telegrams of congratulation.

For the second year in succession this girl had gained the highest possible honours in the Theological Tripos. Now she has finished with Cambridge-her ambition served.

WANTS TO TEACH

WHO DONE Child's

WHO WRONG?

The elegant lady (Mae West,) reclined in a chair, a picture hat framing her golden curls. The (Hollywood's Joseph

Strange Diet

Mysterious Case Amazes Doctors

Because of his extraordinary Rosen) slammed, the door and preference for a dict of pins and "I took theology because I was in-started taking a deposition from nails and other indigestible. ob- tested in the subject. Now

intend Mac in a suit brought by Mark to become a teacher. I shall go to Linder who claims she "borrow- the College of Ascension at Birming- ham to take a full course in teach- ing."

Ruth Mary Hitchcock is her name, I would not take Orders even if it and it will be always remembered were possible for me to do so," she lawyer by the 80,000 blind people of Britain, said. for she has achieved what no other blind person has ever done.

since she was 10 months Blind old, Ruth went to Chorley Wood School for the Blind at the age of six. She became the school's most promising pupil and won a scholar- | khm

to Cambridge.

she decided to learn Hecoming a missionary. There

of the most difficult of brew, one languages, and Greek to help her in Her family her theological studies. bought her three special typewriters -one each for Hebrew, Braille, and normal letters.

For hours every day the blind girl patiently tapped on the keys, slowly mastering euch machine

Devotedly helping her was her mulher aud Jeanne, her 18- Jeanne, who is years-old sister. not fond of studying and books, pont hours with her sister read- ing books to help Ruth. Her mother mastered the Hebrew help her and even went alphabet to

to school back

teaching to

eurn

school fecs money for

She succeeded so well that Ruth not only learned Greek and Hebrew, but

now als French and German.

renda

und

writes

At one time Ruth thought of be-

Her great ambition now is to zel a job to try to repay those who devoted so much love and care to her.

She is unspoiled by success and often helps her mother doing house- work.

This is what wo worked and prayed for years WO to come to

Hitchcock, "It is! pass," said Mrs.

I not so much the aendemle sucress am happy about, but the fact that Ruth is leading a happy and full] life"

STUDENTS HELPED

Miss A. Robertson, Ruth's tutor during her three years at Newnham, said that Ruth lived the normal life

student. ♫

At lectures, follow students read aloud to ber from the: books.

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A Newnham student said: "Buth has been the happiest girt in the Ruth, a brunette with a frunk, college. She has the gift of friend- eharming manner, is also a poet endship, and those of us who shured In has gained honours her studies were indebted to her for musiclon. She

her delightful companions

in piano playthe and despite her studying this time to play to her Lanily

Her blindness has made her de- of smell so much her sense

velop

colo-

The secretary of the gical Faculty, the Rev. II. C. L. Heywood, sald that Ruth's de- Free would be a good one for man who was seeking ordination Pow women enter the Theological Ruth does not believe

Tripos, nud only two men students should take a place in the Church. I got a first in her section.

that she can tell any English garden

Hlower by its seent

women

FIVE AMBULANCES TRIED

TO TAKE HER AWAY

Joplin, Missouri.

Mrs. Eliza Harryman was seized with an fcute attack of ap- pendicitis. An ambulance was sent to the wrong address.

A

A party of 50 British hotel pro-second ambulance overturned in a collision. Two more ambalances rrietors and caterers, after touring were sent for those hurl in the crash. A fifth ambulance, the last the United States, has just returned to England in the Cunard White Star available, took Mrs. Harryman to a hospital. She underwent

Jiner Queen Mary.

successful operation.

jects, a three-year old boy has nick-named "The Pin- been cushion Kid."

He is Terence Stephen Clarke, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Knight, live in High Street, Lincoin.

is the Terry

son of Mrs. Knight by a previous marriage, and he is mystifying doctors and nurses at Lincoln County Hos- pital.

Already in his short life he has pald Ave visits to the hospital for the removal of a variety of foreign budies.

Terry's brst attempt at emulating the ostrich was at the age of eight months-just after he had recovered from pneumonia--when he swallow- ed two safety-plns.

He was X-rayed at the County Hospital after his mother had notic-

ed him swallowing hard in his perimbulator, and vue pin was found fust in his larynx.

in

The other ph was tut discovered until nine toonths later, when, hospital again, it was found sticking in his side.

in the meantime Terry had been in hospital for the removal of two sewing needles, a durning needle, to which was attached a length of wool,

small brass nut. and a

A few weeks ago his sister missed lipstick from her handbag. Terry had eaten it. Then a shilling dis- appeared. Terry had swallowed It, The other day Mrs. Knight walked into the kitchen and noticed Terry crunching something.

"What are

Terry?" you eating, ed" her picture, "She Done Hint she asked. "Goo-goo," replied the Wrong," from him without pro-tle boy.

"Let me look," said his mother.... per payment. An hour later, a but Terry swallowed hard-and then wilted West emerged, anid: "I'm his mother saw a plece of glass on his Hip Terry had eaten his father's Said the one they did wrong.”

watch glass! Rosen: "She didn't answer a thing."

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COTTON-WOOL SANDWICHES

His mother at once rushed him off

on X-ray to hospital, where amination revealed a large number of metal objects in his stomach.

Cx-

Terry was put to bed and resumed what is, to him, familiar treatment--

eating cotton-wool sandwiches. These are thin slices" of cotton-wool placed between pleces of bread and butter.

The brend and butter are digested Itself wraps the cotton-wool round any sharp-pointed or edged objects in the stomach, preventing internal damage being done until it Is discharged.

and

the articles were

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Within a week Terry had provided the members of the hospital nursing staff with something to talk about. it was proved that his inside held 23 objects and this, apparent- ly, was not all

ARIONE safety plns, a ring with a "glass" stone, two glass buttons, a brooch pin, a pen nib, tin tack, small nath plus, a metal hair slide, a color stud, n paper fastener and a number of small pieces of metal, including a lump of lead.

On some objects were what peared to be teeth-marks!

op-

In spite of his strange appetite, Terry is a strong and active little fellow, enjoying excellent health.

But his

mother is worried. "We never see him eating these things," she said.

have had ten children, but Terry is the only one who is so un- usual In his diet and his habits.

wish someone would advise me what to do about him, as I am afrald he will not always get over it so enslly if he goes on eating things."

MOSLEMS ON PILGRIMAGE

these

Jerusalem, Mar. 15.

Over 700 Moslems, a record number, have left Palestine for Mecen on the Holy Pilgrimage.

Pamphlets have open distributed among Moslems requesting those, Taylor-making the pilgrimage to remember their "martyr brethren" killed in the Holy land in the struggle for national and religious enuses.

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