SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931.
THE REDOUBTABLE BELLA
SHE READS THE CARDS.
[By Robins Millar.)
Bella leaned over the
blue and white waxeloth of the kitchen table and began to shuttle a pack of play-
Ing cards,
"Cat" she said father.
briskly to her
"Do you think can play Nap and brush my bitts at the same time he asked, "Get some sense Into your heid."
"I'm going to tell your Foocher," she explained.
"You needn't bother." Mr. Thomson was firm. "The only Foocher I have to look forrit to, is when we have a wedding in this house and
I can get Peace and Quate."
"I'll tell you all about your Secret Love affairs," she persisted. He scratched his cheek and left a mark of Blacking round his eye. "Some day when your mother's nutt in."
A Spinster.
"Go 0.
Let's hear them" re marked his wife merrily, for she was never one of thon crabbit ones. wouldn't wonder if he has a fancy for Miss Young up the stairs."
"My father aye thought they were But," and she blushed for wicked. the sin, "I have tried my hand at Donkey."
:
"You're a wild woman on the Q.T," said Bella cheerfully,
THE
CHINA MAIL.
turned at lag". Shout up and tell her to lock the ddor."
"Would you leave the woman to her Fate?" asked Bella Indignant- ty. "I knew this was coming. It's the Bad Dark Man"
NEW
SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.
IN CHINA MAIL.
Without waiting for her father to COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED become heroic (which he did after he got his trousers and boots on, and found the coal hammer in the bunker) ohe raced upstairs. Young met her at the door.
Mfas
"Oh, Bella! I've got my wish, and, don't writ," she cried.
"I can't alp that. Is he dark
I "I whilse try to read a cup," confessed Miss Young across the and wicked?" kitchen table. "I seen a camel yesterday, and it seemed to be try-I ing to get into a chesty drawers."
Her Wish.
"That will be a wedding-or miracle," remarked Bella breezily, for it is in that Irresponsible- fashion that she reads cups herself. "But we'll see what the cairds says Have you a Wish?"
"Miss Young seemed over whelmed. "Maybe I have,
Well, just to have a Man in the house," she confessed.
"We shall see." Bella started to lay out the mystic emblems. "I wonder if you have any illicit Love | Affairs?"
Ir
"Any what?" gasped the spine- The cards will tell all" said
Bella,
"This is you," she said in a This is the spinster' body who gloomy voice she uses for such lives on the top lat. A solitary moments. "A falr-heidlt woman is Roul that keepa #ludger. It's a trying to do you a Mortal Injury." curious thing about the Close and "I know. The girl in the Dairy about most Closes, that It la pos-has deliberately forgot twice to send sible to live in proximity to people, me my rolls this week." house touching house, perhaps, and
"I'S worse than that. Your yet hardly know them at all. As Pate unfolds. I see a Bad Dark Aunt Anna said, the last time he Man. What does this foretell?
in from Knightswood, it's He is conneckit with your wish." different i: a Scheme. Because "I'll not have any Bad Dark there, you at least see your neigh Men here," said Miss Young Armly. bours working in the guirden, and
"In any man made approaches you can sum them p (and. Oh, to you?" Boy, she's the ane to do it) from the shape they make with the nasturtiums and the other thingum mies in the plots.
came
|
Miss Young looked a little coy. "I thought the Butcher stupped the link sausages' awful bard In my hand this morning. Would
you
But in a terement, all they dis-all that an Approach?" close of their private lives is the "It might be in a Butcher," said washing they hang up in the Back. Bella angely. "But is be nutt And, as Aunt Anna remarked, "You ginger?" canny tell a man's carryter from his
With a shade of disappointment, semmit."
the spinster nodded.
→
There was Miss Young living up the close, and keeping herself .TO herself almost
more
than was
"Mummy, give me a plece of cake so that my coffee is not s0 dry."-Lustige Sachse, Leipzig.
"Your wish is to come true. But in some strange and mysterious way, as you see from the Spades, it is ashushated with this Illicit Affair."
"What is an illicit Affair?" ask- jed" Miss Young innocently.”
"I can only judge by his breath. bear him under the bed." "What's it like?"
"Ferocious," said Miss Young, trembling.
Hoarse Breathing.
"I'm afeared of no man under no bed," said the redoubtable Bella, and she walked into the kitchen.
Lifting the valance, she called loudly though her heart was beat- ing, "Come pot. You're spied."
The hoarse breathing
that had undoubtedly given her a look of dismay turned into a cough. "Come oot," she called again, and then "Gie's a match."
Panting with a hasty rush up the stair, Mr. Thomson arrived, flourishing the hammer. Bella had a match, and he looked for himself. "Oh, gosh me!" he exclaimed, in the voice of an executioner baulked of his victim.
He dived under the bed and re- turned with a fat, black pug dog, which coughed pathetically In his grip.
Baby!" squealed Miss Young. "And he's got the Influenza."
The dignity with which Bella walked downstairs must have been seen to be believed.
And so to bed.-Glasgow News.
RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station a wavelength of 366 Z.H.W. on
metres.
Social Functions.
To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.
To-night-Dinner Dances at
G
NOTICE.
R
KWANTI RACE COURSE.
Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels.THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY
To-night-Craigengower Cricket
Club dance.
NOTIFIED that the following Traffic Arrangements will be en- forced at all future meetings:-
1. All motor omnibuses and motor lorries will park in the
To-night H.M.S. Cumberland dance, K. E. Theatre.
To-night--Otbrd and Cambridge Society dinner, Lane, Crawford's pace near the Military Road lead- lag to San Wal Camp before the finish of the last race.
Restaurant.
Entertainmenta. To-day- Quern's "Love in the Rough.".
To-day- Central "Fashions in Love,"
To-day -- Majestic "Saturday's Children,"
To-day "Student Prince."
To-day-World "Ben Hur,"
Theatre
Theatre
2. Buses or lorries will not stop to pick up or drop passengers near the entrances or anywhere clsc on the Main Sha Tau Kok Road in the vicinity of the Race Course,
Theatre;
Theatre. -Star
Theatre,
* Meetings. Jardine Matheson's Board Room, March 30-Society of St. George,
6.30 p.m. March
Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., 2, Queen's 30-Hong Kong & Building, noon,
March 31-Union Waterboat Co. Ltd., at Messrs. Dodwell's Office, 3 p.m.
3. Persons who travel by motor omnibus will walk Across the course to the bus park thus avoid- ing crossing the main road traffic. 4. Motor Cars will park on the pace provided opposite the mem-
bers' entrance.
E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector General of Police. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1931.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
DR
and
Home Malle To-day-Inward from America RAFT PROGRAMMES (President Garfield). and ports and Europe via Siberia ENTRY FORMS for the SECOND EXTRA RACE MEET- To-morrow-Inward from Europe ING to be held on SATURDAY via Negapatam (Talma).
and MONDAY, 4th and 6th Monday-Outward for America. | April, 1931 (wanther permit-
5 p.m., and Europe via Siberis, 6 ting) may be obtained at the p.m. (President Pierce).
Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.
Lammerts' Auction. Tuesday-At 5, Carnarvon Bldg., Kowloon, household furniture, 10.30
a.m.
Miscellaneous,
Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock Noon on THURSDAY, 26th March, 1931,
Hong Kong, 21st March, 1931.
Monday-Laying of foundation stone of new Po Leung Kak by H.E. |**** the Governor, 3 p.m.
Monday-St. Joseph'a prize distribution, 5 p.m.
Wednesday-Lecture
College
by Prof.
L. Forster, Union Assembly Room, 6-7 p.m. (approx.)-Chinese Pro- University 8.30 p.m. ramme.
7-11.30
p.m.-European gramme of Victor Records. 7-7.27 p.m.-Orchestral. Sincerity (Pignoloni arr. Cibelli), Wedding of the Winds (Hall arr, Cibelli),
La Vittoria Orchestra (35911).
I may tell you that Bella has undertaken the study of the Con- With a Song in My Heart, tinental method which works with Body & Soul, thirty-two cards and the book of Continental instructions has its periods.
"What it?"; echoed Bella, "Well, it would be carrying on with! the chap in the ice-cream shop, for instance..."
Is
Jack Hylton & His Orchestra (90027). Love and Spring, (Waldteufel). Maytime (Young & Romberg),
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra (30030). 7.27-7.54 p.m.-Musical Comedy and Talkie Hits. Gems from Whooper, Gems from The New Moon.
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,
1/- 13/16 Documentary, -4-
months' sight
Pro-
Tears,
Don't Forget me in Your Dreams,
Fox-Trot
On London --- Bank, wire
1/- 1/4 Bank, on demand... 1/- V Bank, 4 months' sight 1/- 3/16 Credits. 4 months'
(22585),
sight
Broadway Baby Dolls, Wishing & Walting for Love,
1/- 15/16
On Pin
(22010).
Pretending.
Where are You Dream Girl,"
(22062).
On demand Credits. sight
625
My Temptation, Waltz-
4
On New York- On demand
months
€65
24%
When Your're Hair has Turned Fox Trot-
to Silver
(21921).
Credits, 60 days'
sight
25%
On Bombay--
677A
Kias Your Hand Madam, Josephita
(21920). On demand
On Calcutta--- Wire ..(21910). On demand
67%
-67%
67%
On Bingapore-- (21888). On demand
On Manila- (21853). On demand
On Shanghal- On demand
43%
49%
Tis. 761⁄4 4% dis.
The Victor Light Opera Co.] Gems from Follow Thru,
(35969).
Gems from Hold Everything.
The Victor Light Opera Group (35970). Goma from Rio Rita,
"I would never dream of such a thing," and Miss Young aat back
"I haven't eaten ice in her chair. cream for twenty years."
Thursday Night. That was what came before the events of the Thursday night. With Gems from My Mary Land, a romantic mind, influenced by the
The Victor Light Opera Co. (15810). Heart Break Weekly, Bella
7.54-8.20 p.m.— Iberin-in the Streets & Byways
(Debussy),
Symphony Orchestra (9869), Beria-The Odors of the Night
(Debussy),
Symphony Orchestra (9687). Iberia The Morning of a Fete Day
(Debussy). Iberia-L'Isle Joyeuse (Debussy),
con-
So she was not at all surprised when Miss Young dashed past her
neccessary. Just the ludger, a de- cent chap who takes Drink occeived that her neighbour might casionally, but slips up unassertive have more in her life than she cared ly at such times, singing "Elleen to admit. Alannah" In two keys and troubling nobody. The Close ventures on a certain speculation as to how Misson Young gets him to bed; but it in known that he just sings himself to sleep like a balrn-quite x senti- mental thought.
"Away and tell Mies Young about her Secret Love," suggested Mr. Thomson, mischievously.
Huffy!
r
"Well, I will, but," said Bella re- doubtably. And when she got as far as the door she added, "She's got more sense than some."
In
Bella folt a wee bit huffy at this ribald attitude to her Forchin Telling. She had recently begun to fancy herself not half as a spaewife, having graduated in the tea cups at the rest interval in the Biscuits with great success. one week she foretold two engage- ments, simply through the ten leaves (and having heard what was going the rounds in the chocolate water department). Now sho was the possessor of a special pack of card, and dying to find someone, on whom to practise the book of in- structions, which she had of by heart.
the stair, exclaiming grief- stricken, "Baby's been stolen."
"Whose baby?" asked Bella. "Mine" replied Miss Young, frantically, "I'm going to tell the Polis."
Bella was loft gasping. Misa Young, wearig her 'black cost and no hat, vanished Into the night. Here was Mystery. Bella's mind revolved on the extraordinary dia- covery.
She went in to her mother and instead of blurting out her astonish- ment, Inquired casually, "Mias Yaung saya Baby has been stolen."*
"What a pity," said her mother : just casually.
The things mothers keep from their daughters,
"How old is it?" she asked. "Seven. And you never came straight home from the Pitchers. Get off to your bed."
"But what about Miss Young?" "Oh, let her see the Polis about it herself."
Her mother actually calm about a kidnapping! ·Belia did'ar she was told, wondering. but all the
And whom should she meet on 'sensational reading who had ever the stair but Miss Young herself? encountered. about the loat Planting herself in front of the heirs to dukedoms, raced into her lady, who was about to scurry shyly head. past with her basket of messages,
Sensations.
she said "Whoopee" in to herself, Sensation plled itself on sensation and, audibly, "Hello, Miss Young. that night in the Close.
Symphony Orchestra (9688).. 8.20-8.38 p.m.-Organ Solos. The Old Retrain (Vienna Popular
Song transcribed by Kreisler)," A Perfect Day (Garrid Jacobs-Bund),
Archer Gibson (38010). Prelude in C Minor (Chopin), Largo (Handel),
Archer Gibson (35972), 8.38-9.30 p.m.-Concert Items. 0 p.m.-Weather Report, Local Time, etc. Planoforte Solo-
Prelude No. 8 (Debussy), Prelude No. 3 (Debussy),
Jock O'Hazeldean,
Song→→→
That's What I Call Heaven, Mean to Me
Woltz-
Bear When I Met You, Raquel
Fox Trot-
Won't You Tell Me Hon, Outside
She's Funny That Way, Dream Train Weltz-
Old Timer,
The Waltz I Can't Forget,
11.30 p.m-Close Down.
.(21021). Wire
(21884). Dollar
On Yokoham
On demand .... 495% Sovereigas (Bank's
buying rate) 1/- 4 Silver (per oz.) .... 13.13/16 Bar Silver in Hong
Kong
YORKSHIRE NIGHT.
(Continued from Page 8)
Summat TEyte. The original menu, which excit-Copper Cash ed much amused comment, was as Copper Cents follows:-
York Hors d'oeuvres (I' Bootham
Bar).
(An' a Sup o' Summat). Fruit Cocktails.
(For them as doant lolke t'other
soart).
Turtle Soup.
('As tha scen t'turtles laikin in
L'Alre at Swinegate?)
Alfred Cortot (7149) Hornsen Soles a la Grenbloise.
(Reight off t'ull and Barnsla
express).
In the Gloaming.
Mary Garden, Soprano (7254).
Violin Solo
Album Leat Romance (Wagner). Tango (Elman).
Choru
Mischa Elman (7196).
Springtime (Midenberg), The Glow Worm (Lincke),
Boys and Girls Chorus of Brooklyn (35814). Pianoforte Solo
Malaguena (Lecuona), The Engulfed Cathedral (Debussy),
Olga Samaroff (7304). Song-
The Last Song (Tosti), Lolita. (Peccia), "
Naturill Foie Gras.
(Fra Pudseh).' ..
Patela Brig' 'Chicken.
(An' Summat else an' all). Hooam Killed Beef wi Squares o
Yorkshire.
(Them ea eyttes mooast pudden
'gets moonst meeat), Solby Tatles. Briggus Beans.
(Look alippy wit pepper, lass). Scarborough Hokey Pokey.
(Mind tha' teeth on t'nuts)." Dessert.
(Fill up thi mugs an" ark to t
lads spoutin'),'
Armand Tokatyan, Tenor
(7318).. 9.30-11.30 p.m. Dance Pro-Coffee.
Silence gramme
Fox Tro
I haven't seen thon lodger of yours | descended and even the 'gramó
Au Revoir Pleasant DreamM, Sing Your Way Horne,
(... (22500). a back Fox Trot-
The Little Thirga in Life (22550), Them Thore Eyes, You're Simply Dollah, And Then Your Lipa Mat Mine,
for a while. Has he left?" phone through the wall was stilled. Waltz
"He's away to Dundee on a job," All wore naleep when the loud replied Miss Young, "I'm just wondering if he will come back."
"Would you like me to tell you with the cairda?"
scream that came from window awoke the entire Thomson household, Bella rushed into the kitchen and Mrs. Thomson put her That's head out of the window. - High above, at the top storey, Mian Young was shouting "Polis. Help" into the right.
Straight to the point. The
Bella for, you. “
Before Miss Young knew where she was, she was, Inviting Bells up to have a cuppy tea and probe the mysterious Foocher for her.
Pulling out the cards with flourish. Bella Invited her hostess to shuide them, which the accom- ished nervously."—"I rover play- ed at the carda ahe, explained
What Is It?" asked Mrs. Thomson
There's a man under the bed," called Miss Young,
Informed of it, - Mr., Thomson, who, had › remained - On béd with supreme calm, replied "Her luck's
That's You Boby, Walkin With Sale
Fox Trot
Kaniar City Kitty,
(22382)
But there's nowt to beat a coop
o'tay off o' tob.).
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
were in harbour to-day-
The following: British warships:
Bridgewater--South, wall. Bruce No. 8 buoy. C409In dock, Cumberland-West wall Hefald-in dock,
(21927).
Walis
Sweet Suzanne,
Hermes No. 1. buoy,
Honey
(21809):
Iroquois-In dock
Marazion No. 12 buoy
¿Tennessee Lazy
(21939)
Medway & Subs-No; 2 buoy
Moth-No. 18 bưdy.
(21854)
You're Mother & Mine
Osiris-East war
"Binging In the Ram walk
(22012).
Oswald East wall,
Petersfeld-North, wall,
I'm in. Deven. Hóavon, Little Pal
Nominal Nominal .... 3% prem. Rate of Native In-
terest
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LONDON EXCHANGES
Paris New York Brussels Genova
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12.12
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Athens
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