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The Car For Celebrities.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931.
PUREE DE POIS
By BESOMORO.
I have been for a drive in a new type of car which has just been put on the market. Its novel feature- is Its glass, which renders the oc- cupants invisible, but at the same time enables them to see everything
in the society's aims and objects, that is going on outside.
It may be declared in dis- Obviously, a car of this kind has So advises Mr. Anconeus Dell, certain advantages. It should ahead of the Society of Skippers, ie not encourage skipping of tinguishing type that the society
pen to sly celebrities-politicians
vague,
reasons.
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EKIP TO IT!”
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The
and cinema stars-who complain which, by the way, has nothing work.
It is the whatever to do with "those who Of course, when those prize and of too much publicity. ideal car for Charles Chaplin. go to sen" and "are only four subscription late, in connection Among a modest and law-abiding inches from death." "Every 'morn- tions, are distributed widely, no with the annual skipping competi- race like the British I do not se ing," says Mr. Dell, "thousands of why it should not have a certain people run to catch trains." And ways (Hong Kong and Peak), response may be expected from the commenting on this practice adds, the bue companies, the motor firms. On the other hand, it is not a low silly! Why don't they skip and the chair and rikisha bearers' car I should like to meet in Chi- instead of run? They would imilda
But, fortunately, they're cago. I should suspect loop-holes prove their health enormously." not the only pebbles on the bench. and machine-guns-Londoner in Skipping, it seems, is the one thing. So, let us skip to work, skip from thu Evening Standard.
that matters to Mr. Dell. It is his work, skip at work. But, don't let gold passion. He hopes in a
skip work. | Lord Russell's Query.
year's time to have 15,000,000 per- When is a judge not a judge?
Lona skipping through life to
GOOD JOB. The question arises through a gre health and happiness. Among his
Do you want a job? Do you cent observation by Lord Russe!!
converts he numbers a couple of want oven a better job? It is an or Killowen, suggesting a doubt millionaires, many professional reptional opportunity to make a whether the Lords-of-Appeal in footballers-and-boxers, some doc Fortune, and your stand a chance of Ordinary, of whom he is one, enn tors, numerous business girls, and winning £100,000 to £209,000 in one technically be described as judges. # great host of women whose winter weAKON. I don't know if the using
the term in its ordinary youths have been left behind these job is yet vacant; it was up to a устве.
ferly years pust. Referring to few weeks ago, A Riviera casino Laymen would scarcely hazard a these last. nne, Mr. Dell says: is looking for a person to hold the doubt about the matter. in the ab- "Some time ago we had a skipping bank in the baccarat games. sence of such high questioning. competition, and I was surprised, to applicant must never have been in being accustomed to regard the find that married women of forty trouble with the Police (that rules duties of the office as essentially or more are much more proficient out a number of persons in Hong judicial, and bandsomely remuner than younger women. The cause, Kong); must not be in debt (that. ated as such.
probably, is that they are determin- will wipe out the applications of But Lord Russell is humorously ed to keep young."
95 per cent. of Hong Kong); must disposed to describe those of his
If the skipping craze is to take be an expert player at baccarat.. distinguished rank as "neither fish,!
on in Hong Kong, this is the season The only drawback to the position nor flesh, nor good red herring" into launch it. The cold snap ought is that the banker will be compell- the realm of the law, and he gives; to act as an added incentive to .ed to make good his losses out of
popularising the art of skipping. his own pocket. First, they are not required to wonder if we shall ever see In addition, most are blue-eyed. adopt the orthodox garb of judges, Peakites skipping down to the city. THE INTERNATIONAL CAT Avery interesting fact that wig-and-gawn. Secondly, when most of Kowloor skipping SOCIETY.
they attend banquets at which along to the ferry. What a great early grey hairs, frequently are toast is devoted to the Bench and improvement would be noted in the that is only another indication of I didn't know there was one. But a mark of longevity. The con- the Bar, they are expected, like the health and
figures of Penkites, my ignorance. However, this verse is also true. People who lay guests, to honour it by rising especially of residents 011 the society held R meeting in New retain the natural colour of in their pinces-a demonstration of highest level! Portly gentlemen York, a few weeks ago. It is re- their hair for a longer period disociation from the subjects of and starboardly ladies would con- ported to have thrown the usually the compliment universally obtinue to be conspicuous, but con- decorus Biltmore Hotel into a tur than usual often reach an ad-served.
epicuous. by their absence. Well, muil. What an arching of backs On Sunday our "sister-ship."vanced age. Temperament has Su informed, it may not be con- what about a Hong Kong Skipping and spitting must have occurred!
much to do with longevity.sidered a lay indiscretion hence- Club Perhaps, the the Herald, gave its readers some
proposed But did anybody expert less? The quite cheerful rending for a cold One man will placidly or, even forward to regard a Lord-of Appeal Hiking Club will sponsor it; while recting broke up when statistics in Ordinary as "no judge."-Peter the Hong Kong and Peninsula were read showing there were Sunday on "The Right to Die." willingly, accept the burdens borough in the Daily Telegraph.
Hotels may be expected to enter 7,000,000 eats in New York, 'accord- With the cold snap at the mo- and limitations of advancing
especially for skippers; and our en- ing to an unofficial census. terprising ment less acute than forty-eight years while another will brace
doubt, It is significant that the three offer skipping speeches reported were those of hours ago, we may presume to himself up. to overcome
For telegrams to and from Shang- uulits "From $1 to $100 in The modern
a ren, and it is yet more significant look at the other side of the disabilities.
Thai and beyond normal working variety of designs and a choice that according to population figures picture The Right to Live." man who resolutely refuses to
relection of colours." has been re-established. That we do not live as long as grow old sets a splendid, example. we should is one of the few solid to the supposed stronger sex.
Hard work is another facts that ornerge from the mass of conflicting theories and con- important factor, especially if itp.m. tradictory statements which sur-be of a congenial nature. Many round the subject of longevity. elderly folk owe their long lives Few men die of actual old age. Man is the one animal that does not reach his full number of years. Notwithstanding the as- sertion of the Psalmist that his years do not exceed three-score and ten, he should, judged by the standard of animal life, reach the century.
Hong Kong, Tuckday, Dec. 15, 1931.
Right to Live,
these
WO-
very
News in Brief.
stores,
will soon have on
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for the State of New York the total It will be essential, however, not population is just about 13,000,000. The lowest open air temperature to alarm employers of labour. It's all rather confusing. And yesterday was 49 degrees. The They are a nervous, timid lot. To my confusion has been confounded humidity was 57 al 10 a.m. and 60 wit a certain Journalist & Assozia by reading that the chairman of {tion, But that is another story. the meeting declared that cuts were It may be possible to soothe them all right if they stayed at home. The total output of the Kailan by inserting a by-law to the effect whereas another stated that he Mining Administration's mines for that, "any member found guilty of thought so much of his ents that he
or cats?
to their continuance in business. the week ended November 28 skipping of work shall forthwith had just kissed them goul-bye. Many British legal luminariés amounted to 120,922 metric tons, have his name removed from the Now, were they referring to cuts have passed, their eightieth year and the sales to 96,301 metric tons. society's list of membership." And. without any impairment of their The President and Committed mental or bodily activity. It is of the Sailors' and Soldierg Home simply work that keeps many gratefully acknowledge the receipt We have of the following donation to the elderly people alive.
funds of the Home: H.M.S. Moor! all seen the break-up of a pre-her (Ship's Company), $10. viously healthy man soon after
he retires from business. He has | Cheung Sin, a Chinese hostman,
no hobby wherewith to occur
WEDDING.
Two Scottish Families
United.
BULLOCH-MCLEOD.
was admitted to the owloon How-
nital yesterday, suffering from
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In the Union Church, Kenuody-
his mind, which is like an engine the right wrist caused by Road, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. with no resistance to overcome at Tak, a sicersman, during a dis- E. G. Powell officiating, the wed
Iding took place of James Bullock,į 4 wer money mafters.
loss of memory.
To-day's Thought.
Jealousy not only keeps us from giving the other follow his due but also keeps us from getting all that is coming to us.
Ten Years Ago.
From the China Mait" of
December 15, 1921.)
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It is'an undisputable fact that modern man dies his grave with his teeth. No one can deny that we all cat far too much and far too often. Most middle aged anti soon shakes itself to pieces.
farm superintendent of the Dairy To-day's dollar is worth 2/7. people are too stout. Even a A formula has been advanced Found in a comatose condition on Farm, Ice, and Cold Storage Co., smal degree of obesity leads to which, it is claimed, will give the the staircase of No. 732, Nathan Ltd., eldest son of Mr. T. Bullock,
Hong Kong pickpockets" are a surprising 'depreciation in the approximate expectations of life. Road," "al about 8.30 yesterday of West Calder, Midlothian, Scot nothing if not impudent. A Euro- eldest pean this morning cashed a cheque expectation of life. Insurance Add together the ages of hothening, an unknown Chinese, age land, and Helen McLeod,
mt 19 years, and having the ap-daughter of the late Mr. McLeod at one of the big city banks, placed companies look with unfriendly parents and the four rapearance of a student, was removed and Mrs. McLeod, of the Tempit, the money in his breast pocket, and eyes upon the obese applicant parents and divide by six. The to the Government Civil Hospital Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland. walked out of the building. He The bride, who was given away was followed. Walking up Wynd- for life insurance. These no- result will show the age which] He appeared to be suffering from
by Mr. A. Stevenson, wore a dress ham Street in a mood of abstrac- toriously shrewd institutions we should reach unless cut off by
of white chiffon velvet and geor- tion he was jostled by three men strenuously disagree with the accident. Probably, the formula Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon gatte, and a hand dreas of pearls whom he scurecly saw. Coming out popular idea that corpulence is is as often right as wrong. Ob-Magistracy yesterday afternoon, with a long white net veil edged of his reverie a few paces later inevitable when the half-century riously, children born of very used an inquiry into the death with silver thread. She carried a something in the incident struck Moved by an obe- is reached. They know that ex-young or very old parents have hung Tang (30), a male pri- bouquet of white roses and maiden him as peculiar.
soner, of Laichikok Prison, who hair fern.
curd impulse, he felt in his pocket. cess of weight adds to the bur-small chance of being notable forjan at 9 pm on December 12 The Misses Margaret and Joe The money was gone!
AIS flower girls, Wate den of the heart just when that longevity. Statistics show that from rupture of the small Intes-Crookdale, harassed organ should have its the second, third, fourth, anding following peritonitis. The in- attired in dresses of peach taffeta
jquity was adjourned.
odged with white fur, and carried work made' easy.
fifth children of the same pur-{
bouquets of African daisies. Since Nature intended
us to ents
have a better chance of Yesterday was the second day - Mrs, A. Stevenson, matron of work for our living in the fresh longevity than the first or one-of the run of the Fox film "East honour, was dressed in brown lace,
Lynne" at the King's Theatre, and with pan, velvet hạt and coat, air, we are not surprised to find ceeding children.
jawe "Fang" went away satisfied. Mr. A. D. Wyllie was best mas, that manual out-of-door work- While the average expectation Many women enjoyed the picture whilst Messrs. T. P. Saunderson era show a distinctly greater ex- of life is steadily rising it with handkerchiefs to their eyes, and C. Jackson, were the grooms- pettation of life than the seden- should he much higher. Every and rome of the mon were silent men.
as they filed out of the theatre. The hymn, "0 Perfect Love," was, tary occupants of the city. one eats too much and is 100ed to speak lest they should ging during the service. Bagpipes Certain physical characteristics' fond of the wrong sorts of foods. betray their manliness. If you were played by Mr. II. C. Wataon, are common to all people who Tobacco and other stimulante dobave not been yet, don't miss the on the arrival of the bride, and the reach a great age. A good not tend to long life, however fetare to-day. digestion is, of course, essential, pleasant they are to the palate.]
departure of the newly-wed couple from the Church. Mrs. Bul A reception was later held at the Height has an influence also. May we now look forward to an for their honeymoon. Most centenarians are medium article on "The Right to Live on travelling dress was of blue Hong Kong Hotel Roof Gardon, erepe suede and coat; and she wore after which, the happy couple left
(Continted at foot of preceding sized or short; very few are tall from our Sunday "sister-ship" a belge lace hat and beige shoes.
Column).
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