THE PASSING SHOW

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22231, 23 October 1937, Page 19

THE PASSING SHOW

Let Sleeping Skunks Lie A Canadian doctor, starting on his rounds, recently noticed a large skunk lying in the road just outside the city in one of the busiest traffic spots. He swerved to avoid hitting it. Returning several hours later, he found the skunk still undisturbed in the middle of the road. The doctor went to investigate, but a roadman called out, "Better let him wake natural; motorists have been skimming *ound him all the morning. If you try moving him, as somebody did a month ago when he took a day's doss there, you won't forget it in a hurry—no, nor anybody who comes near you!" The doctor took the man's advice, but to make sure the skunk was alive he threw a pebble—from a distance. The sleeper got up, ambled a few yards, and lay down again. * * * Awaiting Return of God Authorities in the Belgian mandated territory and in Uganda are watching for the return of the three-in-one-God. Natives of the Kiga, Ankole, and Ruanda tribes are prophesying the advent. The god had no beginning, is like the wind, is everywhere, and was the old religious Trinicy dominating a large part of Central Africa before the advent of Christianity. The god is called Nshanja. Unfortunately a few years ago the adherents preached the ejection of all Europeans, arguing that until they were gone the natives could not return to their old faith end customs, so the Belgian authorities in Ruanda stepped in.

Women as Cricketers “I enjoyed the women’s cricket test, every minute of it, enormously. It was not pat-ball; it was the real thing. And, appropriately, at the end of the final test, honours were easy. Mere man must surely watch his P’s and Q’s, else he will be robbed of much of his thunder.” —Lord Tennyson. * * •* Television Helps the Deaf Television may soon be the medium of helping the deaf to hear. Remarkable results have been achieved since the introduction of a set in the Home for Deaf and Dumb Men at Belvedere, England, where television with head-phones definitely enabled a number of the inmates, who are all but completely stone-deaf, to enjoy radio for the first time in their lives. The psychologist at the home explains the phenomenon as being the result of “the co-ordination of the visual and aural faculties.” The additional help in seeing what they were hearing helped them to distinguish the sounds. For those who can lip-read, television has also been a boon.