Group photograph taken of a party held to oclebrate the birthday. of Constance
Ballle-Robertson-King'a Studio,
MR. REASON WANTS TO BE A GERMAN
M
[R. GEORGE REASON, of Leyton, E., who wrote to Berlin asking if he could become a German citizen, said, "What I admire about the Nazis is their orderliness, their perspicacity and their hospitality."
Forty-two years old and unemployed, he wrote to Dr. Goeb- bela's newspaper, Angriff, asking if any of ila readers could find him a job.
He is prepared to take his wife, his son and his daughter
Courage Under with him.
Test
In his letter to Angriff he said: "I am quite convinced that the sole cause of misunderstand- It must have occurred to a good ing between the German and any prople who read the accounts British people is the fomenting before the Thells inquiry of the ex-of trouble by that pestilent par- periments by Professor Huldane and asite the Jew." his four assistants into the effects of
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 7, 1939.
A FATHER GIVES ADVICE TO MOTHERS
HER DIET
AND DAY
How I Brought Up
Perfect
TERE is a day in the life of the
Perfect Baby:
7 a.m. Edith Juno wakes; has aix ounces bolled Grade A milk.
7 to 0a.m. In'her play pen.
Dna, Breakfast-fruit, bread and bacon fat varied with cereais, 9 a.m. to 10.30 am: Plays in the wardta
Orange juice and
10.30 am: sleep until 1 p.m.
Lunch-boiled finit or 1 p.m. minced meat with green vegeta- bles every day.
2 p.m.; Goes to Newquay beach' for ten minutes sun-bathing. Ühen plays on the beach until teatime. 4 p.m.: Orange juice. brown вугир bread and butter, and followed with milk.
6 pan Tepid bath, with out- meal in water. Inslead of soap. 6.30 pad.: Milk-and 'bed.
Baby
NEWQUAY (Cornwall).
New Methods In Anaesthesia
Probably the two outstanding advances in surgery during the last 100 years have been the dis- throughout covery and practice of anaesthe Britain have written (sis and antisepsis.
MOTHERS
(more lives than have been lost in all
the wars since their advent.
to Mr. Raymond Smith, a Separately and together they have thirty-five-year-old chemist probably been the means of saving of Newquay, father of the "perfect baby," asking him how they should rear their children.
combating the cause of local sup-
so
Antisepsis, by recognising and
purallon-the dread sequel of mony earlier, operations-opened, up Mr. Smith's wife died twelve vast new possibilities for surgical treatment and cures. Antestheale, months ago when baby Edith by abolishing pain and securing mus June
was born, Mr. Smithcular and tiesuo relaxation, enabled
..
Mind Ailment brought up the child himself, the most prolonged and deflenic
Research
gathering knowledge from operations to be undertaken. Speed no longer became the first essential books and neighbours.
of surgery.
He went to the Baby Week show at St. Dennis, near St. Austell, to pick up some wrinkles on how to look after Edith June. He came out of the show with the silver cup for of all the competi-
BALANCED MEALS
A plan for a national institute for research into the treatment of mental diseases may be con- sidered by a number of leading the best child specialists, hospital authorities, tors trade union officials and others.
The project, still In stages, visualises
its earliest Recently in his spick-and-span the co-ordination; little home at Cliff-road, high up in of recent developments in treatment Newquay. Britain's proudest father and the extension of Intensive re- told, how he had succeeded, He search.
said:
Mr. George Gibson, generat secre- "I suppose I was lucky being a lary of the Mental Hospital and In-chemist, and so had some knowledge titutional Workers' Union, and of baby foods. But I was worried member of the Trades Union Con-when I began. Then I decided to get gress Genern! Council, is netively in- together a diet containing, all the vitamins and stick to it. I did, and now you see the result.
terested.
Diet, clothing and nursing provided in British mental hospitals are, on the average, "as good as anything in the world," he said recently.
Just on the name anaesthesla was coined by an American, Oliver Wen- dell Holmes, so were anaesthetics, In the practical modem from the New World. It was under
sense, a gift
ether, in America, that the first ma- jor operations, in painless conditions, were conducted in 1848, and within a few months the example had been followed in England.
ARRIVAL OF CHLOROFORM Later, thanks chiefly 10 James Young Simpson, of Edinburgh, chloroform was added to the and since armoury of anaesthetics; then there have been varleus modi- fications and combinations of both, together with an increased use for minor operations of what was ori- ginally known as - "loughing gos,” now generally used in combination with oxygen.
Later still various preparations, chiefly with a cocaine or cocaine- derivative basis, began to be used as
power of depriving relatively small areas of the skin and underlying tissues of sensibility for brief but, in many cases, sumelent periods,
"You can almost tell the time by her. She eats at strictly-kept inter- vals, and wakes from her sleep at "But," he added, "in the matter of most to a second every morning. carbon dioxide in confined spaces Recently Angrif published an- research into the incidence and. "My recipe for bringing up chil-local anaesthetics, these having the that theira was a singularly fine type other story about an Englishman treatment of mental discase we lackdren is regular, balanced meals, of fortitude coolly applied to the named Henry Wicks who sought the direction and control.
plenty of exercise, sunlight and great end of adding to human know- "protection" of the Rrich. They
"For instance, modern treatment fresh air-and, most important. a ledge and, incidentally, to the solace described him as a refugee from of those who have been so bitterly the Jewish terror in Britain."
of two of the most prolific types of happy home. mental disease-general paralysis of bereaved. Professor Haldane him- self dismissed his own performance Mr. Reason said, "I read about the insane und schizophrenia-split
originally Mr. Wicks, and admire him for his personality-came quietly enough:
courage. learned to speak German the. Continent.
I have done this port of thing when i worked for a Gerinan Bra
were asin England. before. The men who sociated with me this time werel doing it for the first time, and they showed more fortitude than I did.
+
"WIPED ME OUT'
"When I left them
I started any
Whether that be so or not, all own business manufacturing drugs
from
SPARE-TIME RESEARCH The cause of the lack of control in British research is not far to acck. The duty of providing accommoda- tien for the certified insane is im-
дя
in
It was then found, again chiefly
the result of ploncer work "Women are too inclined to pan- der to their children. They should America, that forge areas of the body make laws and keep to them. I could be annesthetised by injecting have made laws for Edith, and al- certain of these substances into the not want spinal canal, and many extensive though at first she did
keep them she is very happy operations upon the lower parts of now."
the body have been conducted under this spinal anaesthesia.
to
Again, what is known as regional
hearts must have folt a little prouder and tablets. I was doing very well posed upon local authorities, and each Brenda Dean Paulesti-the isolating from pain-
with a population large
enough administers a mental hospi
tal,
ainne or in conjunction with other authorities.
On Bail
sensations of an area of the body by establishing a ring of locally an aesthetised nerves, has made possi- ble some of the very prolonged operations involved. In present-day brain surgery.
SURGEONS' PREFERENCE Nevertheless, it is probably true to say that most surgeons prefer, when- even possible, to use a general an aesthetic; ond an immense amount of work has been done in making the
from it, pleasant to the patient. reception of this, and the recovery Nowadays, too, though the main
to belong to the human race when untit members of a vertain race be-authority it was noted what these five men did)gan to undercut me. and why. The four resistants were "The last month, I had a the farther members of the British But which wiped me out financially. I
Brenda Dean Paul, 29-years-old talion of the International Brigade have been trying to get odd jobs)
"In some arens hospitals may be daughter of Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, in Spain, and their effort was offered everywhere, but they say I'm too joined together and run under the was remanded at Westminster Court "as a tribute to the ninety-nine men old. What nonsense!
direction of ut Joint board, as in Lan- recently on a charge of obtaining u lost in the submarine." If they of- "I have travelled in Germany, cashire, the West Riding of York-bottle of whisky and a bottle of fered themselves for service in the Austria and other places on the Con- shire, Staffordshire and London. ginger ale by false pretences. Territorial Army, would the War tinent. I like Germany. I like their
"Normally, every mental hospitalj
Delective-Se geant Irvine said that of any size hus its own laboratory, Omler, one wonders, hold by Its way of life. secret Instructions that the charne-
"I have a profound admiration for and the medical officers, in the time the previous night he saw Miss Paul
"I said I was making inquiries ter of all men who fought in the them as individuals and as a race." they
outside their routine have Spanish war must be closely seru Asked if he would be prepared duties, carry on pathological and re- about a woman who had obtained goods from. Harrods, Ltd., by falsely) tinised for subversive associations? to see his son, now aged fourteen, search work.
"Only in the case of London, as representing herself to be Miss Jean ansesthetic may be ether or chloro- Perhaps it would; red-tape can justi- trained for, the German Army-hefur as I am.sware. Is there any at- Baird. She said, 'Yes, that was me,
fempt to centralise and direct such out all Harrods people knew that I form, it is generally ushered in with gas or gas and oxygen, which are much pleasanter to inhale. Not only research. No State funds have been am not Jean Baird.' available for psychiatric research,!
"She was taken to Walton-street is the modern practice of anaesthesio and although lately, through grants
than the old, but from u trust fund, some centralised station and after being charged re-a good deal safer
It has eliminated almost every factor research has been going on, very plled. 'I still deny 1. I had bo
intention to defraud.'"' Miss Paul was that can alarm or distress the re- little was done for many years to
cipient. develop Scientific research, and not allowed ball of £10. sufficient is being done now,
fy anything to those who dare not said
Nome
trust themselves away from its lead- "I shouldn't mind. When you're ing-strings. But how Hittle real
in Rome you must do As ground there is to fear "Reds" in' this does." country! And how little worthy of the splendid and unflinching spirit of the common people of this country their supposed betters, advisers, and controllers sometimes seem!
Badges For Royal Army Reserve
Sir Robert Vansittart's Film Lyrics
CHANCE FOR RICH MAN
"If some milijonaire desires to do something that would make bin a
Sir Robert Vansiltart, Diplomatic benefactor to humanity he could en- Adviser to the British Government, ¦ dow un institute of psychiatric re-
Alexander search, is writing dialogue for
with sufficient to enable
In the House of Commons recont- Korda's film, "The Thief of Bugdad," really expert men to collate the re- ly, in answer to Liculenant-Colonel now in course of production at Den-sults of local Investigation, develop Sir Mervyn Manningham-Huller, Mr.ham, Buckinghamshire.
and prosecuto promising efforts and Hore-Befish stated that the King. He was once attached to the Per- direct further local effort. has been pleased to approve that the sian Legation, and learned to speak "Such trust fund would, of Army Reserve should be redesign the language.
Dartmoor Convict |ly.
West End
A Famous Fashion Salon Closes
09 п fashion
TWO HUNDRED London dresses for women, has frequently
the world with employees of Schiapar-
"And, as you know, the world's course, have to be fairly substantial elli, one of the world's most most famous women come to me," ated "The Royal Army Reserve," and "We are trying to make the flim a to provide sufficiently attractive su-
she added. "I am enlarging my dress designers, place here in Paris. I am not clos- famous that a silver badge shall be issued really convincing fairy story of the laries for the best men." to members at the Regular Army | Eust," he said. "I am collaborating
found a month's notice ing down in London because I Wilnk Reserve of Oficers and the Royal with Miles Malleson on the dialogue Army Reserve, including officers and 1 have contributed several lyrics
their pay envelopes recent London unimportant
centre. Quite the contrary. and other ranks of the Supplemen- in the Persian style. I write mostly fary Reserve, and Militiamen who re- on Sundays."
"But for some time past my health Escapes--For 15 Mannequins, fitters. recep- has not been too good, and my work has grown so that it has become tionists who speak
quite impossible for me to supervise Mins.
languages, cutters and work-two pinces in Europe and one in the room hands-all received notice. United States at the same ilme." HOLIDAY-MAKERS drove to Over the telephone from her home
Every year Schiaparell designs be Elsa Schiaparelli, Dartmoor Prison recently in Paris Mme. volunteering to help the search small, dark, Italian-born genius of tween 500 and 600 models evening
women's clothes, told why she had gowns and cloaks, day sults for an escaped convict after decided to close down a salon which dresses, huts, head-dresses and the they had heard the prison siren cost her thousands of pounds to es- quaint gadgets and perfumes which
bear her name. giving the alarm that a man had tablish in London, broken free.
main in the Army Reserve after they Sir Robert wrote novels and plays their six months' when he was a young man. Miles have completed training. Isue will be
in one of his as Malleson appeared made
plays, "Foolery," before the wur. zoon as possible.
Name-Change Makes Woman Millionairess
TRS. MARGARET WINSOME RINGROSE is to be MRS.
come Mrs. Margaret Winsome Ringrose-Wharton and a millionairess.
Her father, Colonel William Henry Anthony Wharton, mil- lionaire, squire of Skelton Castle, Cleveland (Yorks), asked her, in his will published recently, to change her name.
He was seventy-nine years old, was twice married, but she
was his only child.
The convlet belonged to a work- ing party in the prison quarry and made his dash for liberty just before marching-in Ume at five o'clock.
many
and
In 1927 she started a small shop
"No one will suffer, I hope, by my decision to clase down my branch in in Parla to sell hand-knitted jumpers she said. of her own design, after working na Upper Grosvenor-street,"
newspaper ar- I hope to place as many as possible a writer of poems
ticles, and eventually trying her hand as a sculptress.
In Paris or elsewhere.
A ring of prison officers immedi-
"I came to the decision a year ago, stely surrounded the prison and all;
Soon she was designing evening but put it off until it became Impos- convicts were sent to their cells,
Within 15 minutes, the convict was sible to do so any longer. I am end-gowns, evolving the famous "Schla- found, hiding behind the prison Ing my London business because my parelli silhouettes" which helped to farm.
work has grown too much for me. I change fashion history. It is understood that the man lived have my headquarters in Paris, with In the Exeter district. He will ap- 600 employees, and my big branch in In 1935 she was Invited to visit Russla, where, at the Government's pear before the governor as a result New York,
request, Ale staged a mannequin of his escapade,
of clothes designed for the He had always wanted a son to carry on the famlly name...
"I have been established in Lon-show To her he left nearly all his £1,169,000 catate-
No convict has, within living don for Ave years, and it has been an Russian worker. She made Russian memory, made a successful escape: "Conditional upon her and her, become Ringrose-Wharton, I from Dartmoor. Last attempt was expensive proposition. Most of my women clothes-conscious from that
clients come to. Paris, anyway, and visit husband assuming the surname cannot say yet how soon the change in January 1937. The
will take place. That is all I can found after 10 hours hiding in buy their clothes from my establish- ment there. So I shall not be re- and arms of Wharton."
say about the will at present." Mrs. Ringrose and her husband, a Mrs. Ringrose married Captain In 1934 two men were free for six moving from them an opportunity to
wear Schiaparelli clothes. retired naval captain, were dining. Ringrose in 1033 in London, and she days. Another two men held up a in the West End recently, and Cap- keeps ton tradition started by her van, knocked the driver unconscious teln, Ringrose suld?---
mother, who read the marriage ser- and drove to Moreton Hampstead, 14 The name Ringrose is not being vice to Colonel Wharton on each un- miles away. They were recaptured done away with. Our nume is to niversary of their wedding.
after a fierce fight with police..
but
quarry.
man
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States. And the woman who has daughter, who lives in the United "glamourised" some of the world's most famous women, including, royal "HEALTH NOT GOOD"
duchesses, usually dresses in severe Schiaparell, who was the origina- | clothes, likes to wear a beret, and tor eight years ago of trouser evening shuns bright colours,
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The
Hongkong Telegraph
NINTH ANNUAL
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
June-September, 1939, CASH
$250 $250
PRIZES
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