FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931.
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL;
HONG KONG HOTEL REPULSE BAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSÈ HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, Peking.
THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.
9-12. Chatham Road, Kowloon.
Finest Situation on the Peninsula. Large Airy Rooman with Fell Benefit of the Cool Sea Breezep. Unequalled Cuisine.
Phone
Tel. 56734.
Proprietress:—Mrs. Gardiner,
MARBLE HALL
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Cable Add.
"Harview."
21, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,
Tel. 57089.
A Select Private Hotel furnished with an eye to the comfort of its Tenants. Single and double suites of rooms with private bath. rooms attached,
K. FUJIYAMA
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PHOTOGRAPHER
ANNOUNCES HIS REMOVAL
To
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3rd floor.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
HOW TO PLAY
A GİRL STOWAWAY
蠢
"ROCKAWAY.”
HOLDS UP LINER.
7.
Game That Is Becoming A Craze.
UNPRINTED RULES.
Wanted to See the Queen.
CAPE TOWN'S SLUMS,
Recent allusions to the game of It seems like a fairy tale that any "Rockaway," whose audden popu- little girl should set off from one larity threatens to eclipse even the of the slums of Cape Town, alone |"Cooncan" craze many years ago, and unafraid, across six thousand has prompted a number of readers miles of ocean to go to London to to inquire where the official rules see the Queen, but that is what
may be obtained, writes. Peter Gertie Bridget Phankles, of Freda Stewart in the Sunday Times. Street, Woodstock, did the other The answer, I am afraid, is "No-day, writes a Daily Express corras- where," since they are not print-pondent on board the Winchester ed, and the game on the surface Castle.
| appears so simple that endless
variations constantly creep in..
She is twelve years old, tall und miserably thin, half starved, almost From two to eight people can white,, her tousled mop of untidy play, and where there are more black curly hair alone betraying the than four players two packs of touch of colour in her make-up. cards are used. A starting hand, Her very blue eyes, perhaps, explain of seven cards, is dealt to each her Irish name. player. The dealer then places
She crept aboard the Wincheutor
the next card face upwards,, and Castle from among the many thou
the remainder of them, as a pack, sands who crowded the docks and face downwards, in the centre of every corner of the huge vessel the table. The card exposed by prior to its sailing for England on the dealer is the foundation of the Good Friday. pile on which each player in turn endeavours to place a card.
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There is not much to do in the
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HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE,
Beef Birtoin....
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
June 4, June, June,
1931, 1018, 1914.
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do so he must play either any card Good Friday (no "Sunday" cinemas of the same suit as that of the ex-out there!), so every one crowds posed card, any card of the same down to see the mailboat off, and idenomination, Irrespective of suit, Bridget seized her chance. She was or an ace, which counts as a Jok-playing round the wireless office arid
the boat deck all the afternoon. If unable to match either the Several of the sailors spoke to suit or the face value of the ex- her, but an hour or so after we had Pork Chop posed card, and lacking, or un-left Table Mountain behind us and willing to use; a Joker, the play- were well out to sea she emerged er must draw the top, card from from some temporary hiding-place the pack, previously placed face and came smiling along the corridor downwards in the centre of the asking where could she sleep, as she table and continue drawing until was tired and wanted to go to bed. à suitable card is turned up or tho For a little while it was thought pack is exhausted.'
that she must be with a passenger It frequently occurs that a play in some capacity or other, but to er reduced to his last card is un-every question she simply answered. nble to, play it, and is forced to "I'm, going to London to see the draw as many as a dozen or more Queen." cards. If he already holds or draws au ace, a player has the choice of using it at once; or of continuing to draw cards, and on his decision the fate of the game often rests.
"Switching Suits,"
By "switching suits," ie, play ing a seven of hearts on a seven of clubs, or a two of diamonds on a two of spades, the same player is often ablc, not only to get rid
So then we realised she was i stowaway, a little girl atowaway, something almost unknown on the South African seau.
What could we do with her?
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Heart Kidney
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Sucking Pigs, to order Buct, Beef
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Fish.
Barbel
A stewardess promptly proceeded Bream
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to serub her thoroughly and shear Canton Fresh Water E her mass of frizzly locks, shedding more than half her tangled hair. Passengers helped to clothe her in something clean, and some one gave Codfish Catish her a blazer. After two
or three Crabs
Cuttle Fish Dab Date
Dog Fish
Fels. Conger
Fresh Wat
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of some of his own cards, but alse days of good feeding she began to to force his opponents to draw a look a different creature. large number of cards before they. She was exactly like a monkey can play one.
let loose, stealing the matches out! The first player to dispose of all of the smoking-room, upsetting the the cards in his hand is "out" children's toys, pulling their hair, The scores of the other players are chattering and eternally fabbering counted, and when all the cards into herself, and in everybody's way the pack in the centre of the table from morning. until night. have been drawn, each score is
Only one who knows Cape Town's doubled.
Cards count their face "scully-boya" (worse value, and Court cards count ten. English hooligans Aces count twenty, or the total apaches), would
score wins.
+
French Harrings ever understand Fallbut
score doubled, whichever is the where she had picked up her terrible Labrita greater. At the end of a "session," mixture of African and English Losch which, usually consists of ten profanity. Her language was ap. Lobsters games, the player with the lowest, palling when she was stopped by any Mackerel
The "final treble" convention ap-ship.
one in her wanderings 'round the Monk Fish plies, only to the Inst three games of a session, when each player's
The quartermaster threatened to Parrot Fish score is automatically trebled, and wring her neck if she came down Perch ... if the pack in the centre has been to the first-class deck again. The Pike exhausted, the score is trebled first officer embellished his threaten Plaice**
Just a Nuisance..
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Mullet Oysters
again, making nine times the orings with many lurid adjectives, Pomfret, White iginal total. Thus, in a "final treble" but nothing seemed to deter her. Pomfret, Black game, a player left with four Court She was just one unmitigated Prawns cards and an Ace, would score ten- for each Court card, doubled for
nuisance.
Ray...
an Ace, and then trebled twice, came out her coloured blood. As I ca making a total of 720,
Rockaway
watched her doing an excellent almon offers far more
Shark limitation of a "snake ́dance"; with chances for intelligent "play" than Wonderful movements of her peer, Skate appears from this bald description, little thin arms and legs, graceful
Shrimps since it is often vitally important to
Saspper concentrate on thwarting danger one on deck, to the music of the
39 a degree, in, full view of every Solen our opponents, even at the cost of ship's band, quite unembarrassed, Tench drawing many cards, rather than to attempt to get out oneself.
Music was her passion, and there Rock Fish
STANDARD TIMES.
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MR. J. G. MILLAIS,
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ill there with malaria and had nothing to do but pick away at the walls of the but.. I was glad that it stirred you to do some sketches, as the Soudan people are keen to have aomething to amuse travellers In that lonely outpost.
Uf you ever motor in the country in Summer, come and look me up (in Sussex). "I have a good garden full of magnolias, rhododendrons, and azaleas, and should like to have your criticism on my bronze Admirers of Mr. J. G. Millais, work....I have always admired.
whose death took place recently will your work as an artist, and have
smile or go from courage of the little girl who could Sunrise and Sunset is Rous mandolina, or gramophones atrum each other, hundreds of miles set out on a 6,000 mile journey Kong for June, · 1981. Stan-Incessantly the low, tuneful back from land. These two newest mem- across the seas to London.. dard time of the 129th Meridian ground of slumbereus tunes beloved bers of the Union Castle fleet were East of Greenwich) are as fol. by coloured and white people alike, stopped on the high seas for the lowes
Bridget was true to type and upsake of one little girll Sunrise Sunset bringingrue 10. 1930, and up Meanwhile, one of our small boate What to do with her puzzled every had been alung out ready, and vast 5.38 7.07 one. She could not be shut up in a quantities of oil were poured all
cabin all day long. The best in the round the ship. The sailors donned WALL DRAWINGS IN SOUDAN tropics was unbearable even on deck their lifebelts. Into the launch went She could not be allowed to play another stowaway, a coloured man, with the children because of her and as the startled passengers began abominable language; so there she to pour up on deck in all states of was, apparently, until we should dress, undress and half-dress the reach our first call, Madeira, on stowardess.came along with little our fourteenth day out from Cape Bridget, frightened and miserable, be interested to know that there are been a subscriber to Punch for Towa
They had watched her closely all some remarkable studies drawn and many years. Also I knew your Some one said she was mentally night for fear she should get an scratched by him on the plaster of a work in the good old days of 'Pick- deficient," but they do not know inkling of what was to happen at living Rest House at Shambe, in me up when you and Sime made Cape Town's elum children and the dawn. The huge genial bo aun took Southern Soudan, dope while he that gay little paper. Will you do sadness of their lives. When wire her in his arms, and with a "Good was recovering from an attack of another artist a favour? As 1 have less reports made it clear that the bye, girlie, be good," swung her malaria a few years ago, 70-illustrations to do for a work I riots in Madelra, might prevent out into the launch. A substantial. When Mr. L. Raven Hill, the have written on the 'Courtship of calling, our
our commander, Captain parcel of clothing and toys followed. distinguished Punch artist, saw Birds, I want to do half of them Gardner, decided to stop the War The began to cry, pitifully, and them in January, 1928, they ware in the manner you do your cartoons, wick Castle in mid-ocean on its way put out her poor little arma entreat. In excellent preservation: "and the and ask if you, will tell me the name to Cape Town, and send the child ingly to the boeun, but he gave his pride of the lonely official there. of the rough pencil you use, (I soo over in one of our small boats. We final orders, the boat slipped down - Through - the kindness of Mr. you use pen work for ane lines as heard a whisper of the night into the water, then off she went Raven Hill, who suggests that the well) and the name of the firm that before, so were up almos st, dawn offs the olly sen to the boat awalt pictures, should be preserved in reproduces your drawinga."'* on the look-out for the Warwick on inz, her alongside, the Warwick memory of Mr. Millais, publication. After receiving the Information KABEIN
real British cheer went has been made of the wing-let- naked for, Millais wrote: "Ut la véry
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kind of you to give me such clear readvice As you say p for
reproduction is the devil loathe, as you no doubt do, every- lows thing of a coated surface, as it is!
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