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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
PINES HOTEL
BAGUIO PHILIPPINES"
THE VACATION LAND OF YOUR DREAMS
5,000 FEET ABOVE THE SEA
Sleep Under Two Blankets 365 Nights a Year
Hike, Ride or Motor Through The Miles of
PINE FORESTS
And Such Vegetable.
And Flowers Of The
TEMPERATE ZONE!
December, January & February are
STRAWBERRY MONTHS IN BAGUIO.
At The Pines Hotel you will find sunshine rooms with or without baths and fireplaces.
Modern and Metropolitan yet with a "homey" atmos- phere. Write or wire (Pines, Baguio) for reservations.
If you desire, a repre-
sentative will meet
your steamer.
Pines Rates are Sur- prisingly Low.
Pines Hotel
BAGUIO, PI.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow,and altho.)
12
(
15
12
טון
13
14
TO
19
22
23
26
28
29
30 31
32
33
194
36
37:
38
141
39
43
HORIZONTAL
1-One who rules for
Knother.
6-A moal
11-Above
12-Epochi
13-Indefinite article
15-Rubbers
17-Opera (xbbr.)
15-Permit
20-Girl's nama 21-Unit
22-Mark for riflemon
24-One who breathes
nelally when asleep
26-Unfestone
27-Clothe
28-A degree (abbr)
148
51
...
TO
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.)
43-Existu
44-Gifts
48-Ast
47-Be agitated
48-A letter (pl.)
(60-Piece of bed-linen
(pl.) 51-Wandering
VERTICAL
1-The ancient
29-Bill of sale (abbr.):S-Evening (Post),
80-Examines
15-Stinge
36-Parches
38-Hidden
$8-Girl's name.
40-To Inetil courage'
Inta
42-A 1110
(The
10-Small candie
14-Lowest tide
16-Very
17-Unite 19-Treachery
21-8an of Agamemnon 23-An insect (pl.) 25-Cavity containing
the eye 30-Dritia 31-Agos 32-Narrow body of
water connecting two farger bodlei
of water
35-Robust
business quarter Venice 2-Départ
of
83-Ridiaulie
134 Girl's name
4-Tandons
-A distinguishing
feature
6-Stappòra
87-Barlors
80-A long shaft with
spear head
41-Pronoun
7-Journey to carry a 44-Part of the foot
god message-
B-A dance
45-Borios (abbr.)
47-Exist
Musler note
solution of the above with a new cruss-word puszio,): sili appear in Monday's issue.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
ARS
ROD
BAN ON FLYING.
GAME SANCTUARY IN OLD CRATER.
Beasts Take Refuge In "Dead" Volcano.
AFRICA IN MINIATURE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
OUR HOLIDAY HABITS
(By HL C. BAILEY).
In a poignant-poem Charles Lámb, His father wont bathing at Wey- reminded us that it was Satan who mouth amid popular enthusiasm invented work. Nevertheless holl-which nearly drowned him. "Think;
of the surprise of his Majesty," [days are a much later invention.
The learned will make haats to Fanny Burney wrote, "when he had correct me as to the antiquity of no sooner popped his head under; The mystery of the Pyramids, holidays. That the Middle Ages the water than a band of music the majesty of the Victoria Falls,
and for that matter older ages still concealed in a neighbouring machine the grandeur of Kilimanjaro, have
great George awed many Europeans, but not bad many days in the year on struck up 'God save more than a few score at most which no man did any manner of our King,"
work is true enough.
Beyond a doubt the affection of have looked upon that other, mighty African
But they had not attained to our those two monarchs for the seaside spectacle, the great crater Ngorongoro,
ideal. They did not go away from did much to make it fashionable? one of the geological wonders of home. They had not discovered the with their subjects. By the begin- the world,
und It forms the seaside. The idea of touring had ning of the nineteenth century pco- not formed in their minds. Even ple, even people of original tastes, greatest of all natural game sanctuaries.
the happiness of Hampstead was accepted it as inevitable that they unknown.
should make holiday there.
eminences to little hills.
brim.
It is
of
Remotely situated in the midst of grimly beautiful mountainous?
The holiday spirit does not emerge Bryon reports himself from Hast- country to the west of Kilimanjaro, till the seventeenth century. Then inga as "swimming and eating in Tanganyika, It is a scenic jewel you find Mr. Pepys starting off at turbot, smuggling neat brandies and in a setting of a thousand extinct ve in the morning-his wife ought silk handkerchiefs, walking on cliffs, velcanoes, ranging from mighty to have been ready at four with a and tumbling down hills." Tea coach and four horses and bottles years later Lamb went to the same Some 40 miles in circumference of wine and beer and cold fowl to place and did much the same things, and not less than 15 in diameter, go the long journey to Epsom, drink and found that he was "a long time
the waters there, talk to the ahep-reconciling to town after one this is surely the world's greatest volcanic crater, The floor of herds and pick flowers. Such were these excursions," From this, he of the worst Ngorongoro is 6,000 feet above sea once the simple, suficient joys of concluded that one
things about regular work was its level, and is surrounded by walls the chiefs of the Civil Service. averaging 1,500 feet in height, Though that century would make feeling worse at the end of a giving the general appearance of some sort of a holiday at spas-holiday. We approach the modern a gigantic cup, Alled almost to the Epsom, Tunbridge Welle or Bath-state of mind..
The allowance of holidays to overy It does not seem to have discovered | The impression conveyed is that sea water. Mr. Pepys did not class is, of course, a later Invention. at some time subsequent to its bathe, but Dr. Johnson did. "The Dickens could describe the City clerk period of explosive activity the man who dipped people in the sea" of the 'forties as having only gigantic funnel became almost en- at Brighton was much impressed by Christmas Day off the whole year tirely filled with volcanic matter, the doctor's prowess; and George round. Our compulsory Bank Holi- Ngorongoro la an Africa in IV,, in his exuberant youth, alarmed days date from 1871. Far be it
the officials of the beach. miniature, containing almost every
from me to dispute their value. fenture of the landscape to be found outside. There are lakes, rivers, great awamps inhabited by hippo- · potami (though how they ever got there is a mystery), patches of thoribush, dense forests, and; clothing parts of the escarpment, vast groves of that botanical gar goyle, the euphorbia,
Acres of Clover.
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TAX-FREE BRITONS LIVING ABROAD.
Months' Visit Not To Be Reduced.
At least let us give them the credit of making holidays much more comfortable at other times.
SINCERE'S PAINTING
COMPETITION.
Prominent Artists Tó Judge Entries.
Most of the interior, however, is flat open plain, with countless Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancel- Mr. Pau Shiu-yau, the well-known thousands of acres of wonderful lor of the Exchequer, regards it as Chinese artist has consented to clover, not to be found outside. too great a hardship on certain judge the children's pleture painting Hore, too, there is always moisture, business people to reduce the period competition organised by Messrs. and even when Africa without is (three months in each year) during Sincere'a.
burned and brown, luxuriant feed, which persons may live in Britain The competition is open to any so that the place is a veritable without being assessed for income student under the age of twelve Paradise for game, which at cer-tax.
years. Schoolmasters or mistresses tain seasons of the year congre
Mr. Stourton (Con, Salford S.) are requested to forward the names gates here in almost incredible asked him in the House of Com- of any student who wishes to take numbers and yarlety,
ons recently if he would consider part and copies of a sketch will be shortening this period, as many issued, together with coupons which wealthy people lived abroad for the entitle students to purchase a box sole purpose of tax evasion.
At no time are there less than 100,000 head of wild animals to be seen in Ngorongoro, and when feed
of paints from Mesara. Sincere's at is really scarce elsewhere there Mr. Hare-Belisha, Financial Secre- the cost of five cents. Entries close may be a quarter of a million.
tary to the Treasury, who replied, on December 16. With the exception of giraffe, reminded Mr. Stourton that the The ten best paintings received which seldom venture to such an three months rule applied to all will be awarded medals, while all altitude, practically every animal who left the country to live abroad other entries will receive a gift of].
samé kin:l.
common to this part of Africa can
be seen in the crater at some time and returned from year to year.
He said Mr. Chamberlain Was
The prices will be distributed in
or another. The most commen afraid that it would not be practic-the Sincere Company's roof garden. species are, of course, most numerous, and zebra, wildebeeste, able to discriminate against wealthy hartebeeste and Grant's and people, and a general reduction of Thompson's gazelle may be seen at the three months would be a hard- all times in mixed herde running ship on the many British people who had gone abroad for business into many thousands.
Myriads of Birds.
or other reasons and desired period- ically to visit this country.
Of birds there is a vast variety, But, he added, the matter was ranging from myriads of pink kept under close review, and he em- flamingo, and many apecies of phasised that income from sources waterfowl in the lakes and within the United Kingdom was swampa, to eagles and vultures of generaly liable to tax wherever the various sorta, and great flocka of
anow-white egrets, which float recipient lived.
about amidst the herds like gigan- tic snowflakes.
CHINESE PLAYERS'
PRESENTATION.
Two Shakespearean Productions.
Ngorongoro le equally a Para dise for the greater carnivora, and lion, leopard, and cheetah abound. It is even more remarkable for the enormous numbers of hyaenas It containe. Instead of being almost entirely nocturnal, they are to be seen at most hours of the day. They are not mere scavengers and
A Chinese troupe, all members of cowardly brutes unlikely to attack any creature unless it is near to which are amateurs, will play for death, but are ferocious killers, a week commencing on the 16th hunting even big game like the instant, a series of theatrical per wildoborate with all the method formances at the Ko Sing Theatre and remorselessness of wolves or in aid of the St. John Ambulance
Hospital work in the New Terri hunting dogs.
tories. The proceeds realised will bo wholly contributed to the St. | John Ambulance for the purpose
above stated,
ROCKEFELLER'S LOSS OF MILLIONS.
Millionaire Struck
By Depression.
Some of the players are fine. artists whose acting, according to the best, authority are said to be equal to the best of the professional
are only the most i
188 among which are
kespeare,
The $100,000,000 fortune once troupes over seen. The acts chosen hold by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, for their pla
·hot "the world's richest man," and his son, has shrunk to $80,000,000 owing to the depression.
This is the estimate of Mr. John Football teams must not travelly the economist and
feller
air to full Axtures. This deaf-blographer of M Roch
alon was reached at a meeting of
the Football League, Management
In Blackpool At this
-wap décided that
The Rockefeller Jynn' atos, connlated
tune, Mr.
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