1939-05-10 — Page 3

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 10, 1939.

The Table They Don't Have To Wait At

On

Counts

It Takes Orders, Stands

One Leg, And Even Neighbours Have All Tried It

PEOPLE FROM various parts of Scotland are visit- ing a miner's home in Bowhill, Fife, to see a small table which, it is claimed, can balance itself on one leg, waltz about the floor, and correctly answer certain questions,

"We haven't had a minute's peace since the antics of the table became known a week ago," said William Dryburgh, the

owner.

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"We shall have to turn away all the visitors, or start a museum. want to make it known that my wife and I are not spiritualists.

"A spiritualist came from Glasgow with the to carry out experiments table, but we would not allow him In the house."

ON ONE LEG

Mrs. Dryburgh drew out the table which she uses for holding a radio set, and set it in the middle of the living-room.

She placed her hands on it, her palms fightly touching the surface.

"Rise, table, rise ou two legs," she repeated for eight minutes. The table erenked and rose sightly "Faster, faster," said Mrs. Dry- burgh.

Two of the table's legs ruse six Inches from the floor.

"On one leg now," she said. Slowly the table rose and balanced itself on one leg.

"Down now," said Mrs. Dry- burgh.

And the table slowly resumed Its normal position.

came

Into

the

Four neighbours house. They succeeded in raising the tuble on one leg.

One of the neighbours succeeded alone in making the table balance on ole leg.

"Move to the budgie's cage," he shouted four times.

knew how many cigarettes were in the packet.

"How many elgarettes are in the pocket?" asked Mr. Dryburgh,

The table tapped seven times on the floor.

We opened the packet, and there were seven cigarettes in it.

A stranger, who had been watching the demonstration, took a bunch of keys from his pocket.

He placed them on the table, his hand covering them. No one in the house except the stranger knew how many keys there were.

The table tapped three times on the floor. Three keys were under the stranger's hand.

a wrong "Often the table gives answer, but it is seldom much out," said Mr. Dryburgh.

He Barred Women From His Funeral

When the funeral cortege of Mr. . G. Vine, 74-years-old under- taker, arrived at All Saints' Church, mourners Hastings, recently, the were divided into two groups-men and women. The men will follow the coffin into the church; the women will return to their homes.

Slowly the table inoved towards a

Mr. Vine's Inst wish was no women

ordeal of bl cage which stood near the living-

should undergo the room window.

carried out funeral.

Dryburgh then

The

another experiment. balanced itself on two legs.

SEVEN TAPS

table

placed A cigarette packet was on the table. No one in the room

Mrs. A. Butcher, his mother-in-

KUFS

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Sister Of Peer Tells Of £400 Bet

law, said: "My son-in-law had seen THE

Hon,

Glasgow. Mrs. Elizabeth so much sadness at funerals that hei Finlay, 59-years-old sister of Baron Glenarthur, and mother

was anxious that his own should not upset any woman.“

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of three children, told Glasgow's Sheriff Court recently,

"I have dealt with bookmakers all my life.

Some years I was a winner and sometimes a loser. During the past year I certainly was a winner, but did not get the money.

"The only two I won from-to the extent of £400were warned off the Turf, and I got nothing. I was left with those who had not been warned off."

£20,798 LIABILITIES

At her examination in bankruptcy, her liabilities were said to be £20,790 and her assets £174. But she said: "I have never bet heavily, and there is no great loss to my creditors because of gambling transactions."

And last night, sitting by a log fire in her Highland home, Loch Nell Lodge, Taynuilt, Berwickshire, she told me:****

"It is ridiculous to say that my assets are only £174. I have an estate in Berwickshire worth at least £10,000, and there are also three trusts in which I am interested. ***I intend within the next two or three

days to put a definite proposal before my creditors. My nancial position is very much better than would appeur in the present circum- stances. I have never lived ex- travagantly."

TOOK ON DEBTS

And in court she said that she attributed her bankruptcy to several

causes.

"One of these is that I believed when my husband died I would be well off, and somewhat foolishly took his debts on my shoulders.

"These included debts to a number of moneylender, and I have tried

my best to pay them off. In addition, when my father, Buron Glenarthur, died in 1928, instead of receiving. ny from his estate, I actually lost. This whs because shares in

Messrs. Arthur and Co., Glasgow, were overdrawn.. I expected to be | left about £3,000 to £4,000 a year."

TOWN'S PRIDE NOW COOP

Boltóh Notch, Conn. Time marches on! Once the pride of the community, the 'one and 'one- halt story building that once housed the railroad station and postoffice has been dismantled and converted into a chickencoop and garage.

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'BOYCOTT CONGRESS' CRY IN BOMBAY

BOMBAY.

Thousands of Parsis demonstrated In Bombay streets recently to pro- test against the Prohibition polley.of the Provincial Congress Government. The demonstrators carried large Union Jacks and shouted "Boycott Congress."

The procession resembled those formerly organised by Congress. Women participated. The boycott call is reminiscent of the clvl dis- obedience movement.

Before the procession a mass meet- ing, convened by the Pars! commu

nity, was heid,

is unkind

and harmful

The community is hard hit by the Hore's a Special Child's Preparation-PLEASANT and MILD

Prohibition policy, as it holds the]

When your youngster is out-of-sorts

majority of licences for toddy palm-obviously in need of a thorough in-

lands. The Parzi Press daily con- tains threats of foreign Gandhian weapons, against Congress, such ns fasts and non-co-operation.

The Government intends to start Prohibition on August 1.

RIOT AT A MEETING

CALCUTTA. Rioters broke up a meeting at Lucknow recently convened by non- Congressmen to protest against the financial policy of the United Pro- vinces Government. There were a number of injured, including Sir Jwala Prosnd Srivastava and a Euro- pean, Mr. E. M. Souter, members of Assembly. the Provincial Legislative

Congress demonstrators ther. tools charge

testinal cleansing-and still "fights" taking a laxative, don't set it down as stubbornness. Maybe you are guilty of thoughtlessness. For when a child objects to such medicine, there's often goul cause. The taste may be offensive or the action harsh and unpleasant.

So is it ever fair, or even kind, to force such remedies on your youngster, thus taxing his upset condition still further?

Fortunately, there's no need to resort to such measures. You can get a real child's laxative, "California Syrup of Figs, made primarily for children- and thoroughly pleasant both in faste and action.

In favour, California Syrup of Fig" Califig is as delicious as pura fruit syrup. And, because of its gentle vegetable ingredients, is mild and agreeable in effect. Doctors recommand it. And in thousands of homes where it is used, "California Syrup of Figa" has proved an equally suitable laxative for others in the family ---- either young or old, especially for women with whom it 'important to avoid the shock of stronger, harsher drugs.

California Syrup of Figs" is sold by chemists and stores everywhere. Be sure to emphasize the numo 'California' and look for Califig' on the package.

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of the hall and passed reso-NATURES OWN LAXATIVELERİ

lutions supporting the Government.

Five Europeans held them at bay for

a quarter of an hour, enabling those

who had called the meeting to dis-

perst.

South Africa

GEN. SMUTS DEFENDS POLICE

CAPE TOWN. The coloured rioting in Cape Town! against segregallon had a sequel in the House of Assembly yesterday when Dr. Malan, Nationalist leader, moved the adjournment of the House on a mniter of urgent publie Impor- tance.

Dr. Malan alleged that the leaders of the mass meeting which preceded the march on Parliament were Com- munisis.

In replying, Gen, Smuts, Ministeri of Justice, declared that the meeting was orderly. Subsequently criminal, elements had started disorder. denied that the police had cruelly) attucked innocent people.

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An Inquiry will be held into al- Shewan

legations of poller brutality,

Churches and Segregation-The Federal Council of Dutch Reformed Churches in the Union has adopted a resolution expressing the conviction

thut lerisiation is absolutely neces sary to prohibit mixed marriages and to enforce separate dwelling areas) for European and non-Europeans.

Hattalion for Semi-Fit.A balta- flon on the lines of the

the Special Ser- vice Battalion has been formed for

semi-fit youths by the Department]

of Social Welfare.

The battalion

will be administered by the Defence Department.

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tiations are proceeding for

Police

the amalgamation of the police of South- West Afrien with those of the Union, according to a statement made by the Administrator In the South-West Assembly at Windhoek.

Petrified Man Puzzles

SAN FRANCISCO.

It took U. S. customs officials here) two weeks to deelde whether a pur- ported "petrified man" should be admitted free of duty from Austraila for exhibition purpose. Both sculp- in to tors and geologists were called establish whether It was a marble statue of a fossilized human being. No one could agree, so customs off- clats marked It "of no commercial value."

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