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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1950.

The things that people swallow

HILDREN are the world's CHII

most daring swallowers of foreign bodies, as every mother knows.

are

Adults

usually more cautions. Painful childhood experience has them so.

$19

made

Yet accidents can happen,

those

know doctora who have had to remove nulls, needles, pairs of aris- sors, and sets of false teeth from innumerable stomachs. In New South Wales gaols warders are always on the alert for prisoners who try to swallow entlery.

Rarely is antekle the alma. try- Usually, the prunners ate ins: to get into hospital, device work, and receive sportal foref and attention.

At Long Bay, yurg priemerent the steed

of

two

food dixies

20,

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17

lat.

and swalloweth the Then he "at" the artat houdie

THE case of the 19-year-old Sydney girl

who recently swallowed five safety- pins, including one which was open, and lived to tell the tale, reminds us that the human stomach, like that of the ostrich, is one of the most ill-treated of all the delicate organs of the body.

how Jurnal of 1937

he had in Melbourne hote! In 1932.

Peculiar Demonstrating his been called to attend a Bombay

of friends, 1 to make his gifts to a circle Hindu who wed living swallowing articles and succeeded in swallowing a watch from and chain, which he recovered hustling them out again his stomach with a lont jurer of mid returned to its owner, tape..

un-

But when he tried to follow When the tape one day fulled up this success by gulping down to perform iluly, 12

table fork On lo pront fortunate Hindu fell to the of the fork stuck in his throat not be dislodged, up ground in agony,

and would

and! Jie tugged how During De fubrequent runt matter they operation

were coughed and choker.

=

By Edward H fricads rushed him

Axford

to

Rosal Abbourne Hogatal. but on the way the fork withert it for aut dropped down 1011 the region of Mr Lowe

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While an X-ray photography tothers ID was bring taken, it moved agains removed from

of sly obser and develd in the stomath renknives, ploces

exampers itle d by whir time the and two duar keys, je nove

1: word-swallowint

not ductore ve up and resorted to of a fork. Four years later he

Chi ti Whole handle of

palmer, on operation. awallowed the

Narily the safest of 2171 iron spoon and Enjanged get it's superzing the number of Mi Lowe was pleased with the

un ult pieces of in.

Other Long Five

Bay

totied their with from cheps from tronger buttons, nails,

people who get fond of 11. Jen prisoners Bot neprosary, tf commer, for the sword to penetrate a. far as the

infestimets

uraret, needles

13zor blades. One trick to wrap razor blade fragmente in rution wont in ardar to them down."

rethove

Prison luctors who all this scrap are often BunZETİ at what the konnan gullet and intestines will put up with.

A curiou ruse now goigt the round of the medical journals a that of a woman

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whose ap found packed with 40 small lead lol been there

pendix was time than They that the appendix had become Istic 115 tretched and enlarged,

Beste at walls bad teen now

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are

remember Do you

hearing the Butch- about Myan Dajo, nam inlled as "The Man They

Fermaleta Mr real 12 Could Not Kill? For years be

Bucharest, had o Europe by having larried lo amazed

through

vital frrific scene with her hand words rhmert

Most sword-swallowers atinded if the ade goes down

kultet. ao farther than the

parts of his body while he lay in the hotel and feft, never to

be heard of again. nfel atul a patio brance.

But that does not lessen die latter. One bile vein may be cut, Che fake mive and you bleed to death.

That is why wword-swallower his youth

parte sional in proetines

with shart.

enged wards poin dampro puntel

it

hatch

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Then a dip, dur erbar to months earlier unjustified self- demonstrated

ite a cave for calarets how he could swallow conce 24

to in Birce swords handed The doctor, or the undertaker.

in turn on the stage by a beauti

After suffering for from stomach pots, hearches,

fils at men, including Vomiting, the woman went to a

that doctor and hat the

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good living wallowing course, sene people can

busules swords things Thers was Hartji Ali, an Egyp- tnt-ban naturalised American, who med to nonich Australian

of

He claimed to have been stabbed 500

submerged boiling water. istark ho 131 through the brain. One day in while demushafing; his blunt- 194B,

in Switzerland, her werk long profi- nift raightening into one of his wual tranver

He called "goiter out of my his neck to nave de blade ensy

But on this sad day he use-hall audiences beforg thị aves the tougheng the bet bundy." i 4"་" ;*

did not come back, and when was by swallowing live guidtish munotes with dally exerisen.

sut v a doctor was called he pronounced at t Chur back in York Day with

life of word-swal- both dead. profitable

the given meir. Unluckiest of alt

wed to swallow Jealo lowing without

Paki Nalumni, where real starti

petiol. cale it by For ww metrin.

years he quot

ten slown its Europet throwing

front, and then put

Ju re by swallowingg water. He continued doing the 11 t life with ryny sign of Tal vir a istant.

na plature, and JUNERE wht the true ewe of

When, ne aithst in 1935, after satisfaction

when he died in Bugad in Jala Lily,

Swed: swallowing the third sword,

1987 death was attributed tim- to the ground thrust but suddenly worden wallewer.

ily do heart failure. in agony, people two 2ft swindly down his jallet and dien

Juctors, American

complain Aahrugged their shoulders and performance at during a

id, "It's a

but it's the hey are being overworked by Melbourne Fair in 1939.

having to remoz ton many Most people would be astire tuck of the an satedlea to sallow two

The

pol-mortem ex- toothpicks from stomachs. -warts, but Lija's ambition araination revealed that any of They tans not merely

American had been dipped in universal

100thpick w to swallow three. In trying the

for this but the practher Habit swidlowed deliberately by to shove the third wind down, samic acid. Indian Are-eaters, Hinds faks, he cut his throat and elle So the sad story come oud. 1 indulged in by so many Atderi- those dare shortly afterwards Royal appeared that the killed fakir caus of theving their toothpicks

Fra a wife whose friends told and w Bowing Bend her that her husband re! his think that much Hund would If Americans could be profes, beautiful assistant were known reme

how to use toothpicks Bucharest, hotel as Mr and tought

properly and safely. Mrs Fernstein.

moved by surgical operation.

She then entered to a fond. fas Sta particularly parti kige

phrarant, and al drated that the birds she ate Had been shot by her brother, win win a first-class chot.

STRA

TRANGER su ove the things

and yogi men, and

devil fellows, the profesional Melbourne Hospital.

sword-swallowers,

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Australian British Army medical Lowe, 2511

a word-inwallower, officer, Captain R. Desoldenhed, onl

described in the Brithh Mertical had an exerur intent

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swords

them. Doctors

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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MY

GLADS

DADDY, IS THIS ANY GOOD?

Books & Persons

BY: HORACE, THOROGOOD:

How writers

succeed

How do successful novelista

Uv "get there" at lost?

hard hoeing at a long row.

I am reminded by the cuse of John Creasey, author of string of popular crime novels.

Handicapped at the start

Airt

New Books by George Malcolm Thomson

Bad Samaritan watching

the thieves at work

War. to

SCENES FROM PROVIN- is sent, on a mission to Washing- han had a frustrating CIAL LIFE. By William ton. He becomes an American. Frustention follows

-1e morrics. All the characters Malevento, Cooper. Cape. 98. 6d. marry. All except Joe. He sits He sets out with the best in- 270 pages.

down to write his life-story. ications but alas for human This is novel of sly and hopes, he is gradually drawn THERE

nonsense angular talent.

into Cooper din

web of potty dishonesty 1. about Cooper. He puts penses hig Own brand of d corruption woven with

by

things white. white.

is no

abolical ingenuity.

When he

down in black and humour. Extra sec.

The elinax comca Black rather than THE COCKTAIL PARTY.

makes in hi By T. S Eliot. Faber aware that she is the wife of mistress, un- and Faber. 10s. 6d. 171 Lao an an-Fascist partinan who has been unjustly goled by the local chief of police.

Manning, who has

been try

Not that he is one to condemu

lis facr

pages. quis comedy, already famous,

is about saffron monkeys. The numkeys are not, how to secure Lauro's release, carns that he has ergoped and ever, at Edward's cocktail party

is recking out his wife's lover. (which is a failure anyway). They are in Kinkanja, where the pale, Manning shauts the fugitive---and finds Je 1: Christian natives eat them and filled a handcuffed mat, it is the last arsonis the pagan natives regard them is holy.

tragedy in a povel

The

and

touch

WITH ME. By Cedric Belfrage. Sccher and Warburg, 10s. 6d. 328 pages,

191 used by

an attack of infantile paralyele he spent 10 years in and out of 25 different jobs, sometimes on the dole,

but writing all the human race for its manifest Time In seven years he Wind | follies and weaknesses. No. He elected 700 rejection slips.

is always

the reatly Even after publication of his horrid, inexplicable facts of lite Brst duiter, when he was 24.sed then, with a shrug, to pary The struggle with poverty went by. on for réveral years before he He is n khud of Dad Samaritan established hintelf.

patiently watching the thieves at Antonia White could testify works ward hoping the Levite will [alo, At 18, she was writing behave like a gentleman. Later, advertising "copy" for a face he will dergibe the meident in

Fifteen years ag her conl, short sentences, condeman- Ir vequence, the crop of violent

Lar Christians her neither side, novel

ap: cured: econd, The Lost Traveller, hans

Luta Comper's hran, is those

provident Power, Eyre Lot what you wotdel call a xiulators are devoured by the ABIDE just been published by and Spottiswoude. She has had young man. Ile is schoul- monkeys. to write it bit by bit in the rare encher who does not even try to

by that xocial tekturc allowed by literary † unintain direipline.

injustier. the partany Journalism.

He has a nirt naturd Style, revult. They setze an English whom he is determined not to messing rider named Cella l

THE them entrify her. With the war coming

Celf had been ** of the Evelyn Wauth in The wants 16 fee to along, he

Edward's disastrous Loved One, American funeral America. It is, he decides, the guests at

She had alo heen art and industry. only way to avoid becoming a porty.

The method is that used by he writes Edward's mistress refugee. Meanwhile

the novels.

It was at the party that she Sinclair Lewis in Dabbill, So does Tom, a Jewish char- met an unidentined and appar careful, informed ironie inspec- tered accountant, who shares a ently tipsy test who proved to top of one American carcer

in this case, country cottage with Joe. To be a Harley

Lincoln Hope se himself

a great under Sie Henry Haveoart-Reilly, humbi egitenings Amter of human nature, a great A specialist in what? Is Sir over this emotional life in fleury physician, paychinirit of an empire of cemeteries,

eccentric thi Job), but not 25 mel chorized accountant.

Jun After reading

His role is mysterious, and maller that he is an extrovert, uccisive. He mends the broken

marriage of Edward and-Lav But do is an introvert, a rathr.

thing to be, he ends Cela to her fale in th contemptible Tom's opinion, vertheless, doe jungle.

love affair with amazed as

Arte un sines-like lines.

The don, not greatly mind that her life between la divales Lamell and

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

*HAVE YOU SEEN AY

GARDENS

however, more

H

Tom

a man nam Hat Haxhy does Haxby

I wants to shoot Joe, who as quite incom- Pasig attitude

Street speelalist,

or the still mall voice speaking in a fashionable con- Bulling-room?

For Eliot's comedy, under its verture of thin, leaming verse,

intensely rerious.

That It the me?

Immoral. tieorderly lives leal to empti- nes misery. That it is desirable to make the best of a bad poh, mutkiled marrings. And that far above all other drafinies

of dedication the life

The prospective expedition at America cumplantes everythin: renunciatiu. Wit

take Afyrtle (unmarricel,

This is inunkish comedy;

and in other ul couze) or should he regard places moving

very funny. Eliet pportunity to places nd himself of Myrtle?

revolved that the devil shut not Meanwhile, bc bidea the have all the good joke.

She finds out.

THE LABY. RINTH. By Norman Lewis. Cape. 9s. 6d. 258

project from her. for canot be sure whether he WITHIN

looking unhappy because lar will not marry her or because he is feeling; cold. He is deeply ashamed of himself.

In the end, tobody goes to America except Tom whe gets a Jobs at MAP during the war and

pages..

NTO a lurid, lawless region of post-war Southern Italy mies Manning, a cergeant who

of

the career who rises from.

Chile father was an undertaker) to be ford

If Waugh has left anything to say na this grisly topic, it will Belfrage's more be found in

xtended study,

(World copyright-London Express Service)

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