FASHION MIRROR "LIES"
Carter The Great's Independence
"ELONGATED MAIDEN"
MYSTERY
Mirrors are now being made which distort the truth and dis prove the old saying that "a mirror cannot tell a lie." A woman who went to buy a dress in Mayfair sighed with relief when she look- ed at herself in the miror that was placed in the centre of the softly furnished fashion room. She thought that she was getting thin- ner and, that the dress was giving her the right slim Laes and de- cided to buy it at once. When she reached home and eagerly lifted the dress from its tissue paper wrappings and tried it on, she saw Insightly lines and creases
which
she had not observed in the fashion Balon. The new dress did not make her look any thinner, but on the contrary gave her the plump effect that she was trying to avoid.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935
A courtroom photograph of Edward Bell (right), church dea- con and political leader in Fredericksburg, Va., who is on trial ac- cused of attempting to poison bis wife. His attorney, Michael king, is at the left.
YORKSHIRE COAL
MAKES PETROL
Importance To R.A.F.
HOME DEFENCE SQUADRONS
NOW USING IT
CORRESPONDENCE.
BRITISH INCOME
TAX
To-day's Short Story.
A MAN MUST EAT
By Dudley Hoys
THE smell of cooked food was bothering to look up from the print,
T tantalising,
7
"Cup of tea, miss, and roll and
goading. It the man said to the waitress: drifted out of one of Tryn's restaurants and made Smith butter." desperate. He felt wretchedly hungry.
1
Smith eyed him almost contempt uously. He wanted to shout:
"Heaven above, man! Eat when
His nostrils twitched, and his mild brown eyes glittered. He you can afford it. You've got a watched the city workers streaming job, you've got money. Food's the into the place. None of them gave greatest thing in the world." him a glance. Why should they? Evidently the man thought other - Even if they knew he was an 'out-wise. He continued to pore over of-work, stranded, jobless for six his paper. He had a long face, months, would they care? (sparse hair, gold spectacles, and a
That food smell was taunting him; again. What was it? Stew, rich gravy and succulent brown meat, His mouth potatoes, and carrots? watered and his whole being floted with the urge for food, food..
There was a solitary sixpence in the pocket of his shabby blue-serge suit. He had forced himself to leave it unspent, terrified to he left with nothing whatever. How much could sixpence buy?
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Elephant's Feet," by F, W.. Brooke.
He
straggling
grey moustache, looked like a senior clerk. These A kind of madness seized him things Smith noted` subconsciously, He walked into the clattering, noisy, His immediate senses were all cheerful place, sat down at a marble-jangling at the delicious immin- topped table, picked up the menu once of ham and eggs. card, and deliberately planned to eat A few minutes later a soothing until he was surfeited. Afterwards- physical joy was creeping over him.
Well, afterwards didn't matter...
But his mind was uneasy. The A waitress had come up.
food had started to tone down his
From time immortal magician and illusionists have popularly been reputed to employ cunningly concealed mirrors for ther astound. ing effects. Carter the Great and his company of assistants, who far seven nights will appear at the
(To the Editor, “China Mail.”) King's Theatre, commencing on
Mr. Ernest Brown, Secretary for Sir-Most of your readers are no Wednesday, eschews the utilis-Mines, emphasised the importance doubt aware that it is possible for tion of mirrors or glasses of any of developing the coal fuel industry British subjects resident abroad to kind in the attainment of an un-
On as, a measure of home defonce when recover Income Tax suffered He said calmly: "Tomate scup desperation. He found himself Usual perfection in illusive effects
he opened extensions of low tera-dividends, interest, trust income, and a roll, please. After that I'll wondering about the time when the in his latest modern miracle
works at etc., derived from the United King-have fried ham, two fried eggs, bill would be planked down and he called the "Elongated Maiden" Perature carbonisation
dom. Ankern, Yorkshire, last month.
potatoes-chip potatoes-a double couldn't pay it. The head, arins and legs of a pret-
He said that the production of I find, however, that many people portion of toast, and a cup of ty girl are stretched yards away from their natural positions with-motor spirit and heavy oll was the so situated are under the mistaken coffee."
He was not a bit nervous. The out apparent discomfort; the sim- most important side of the indus- impression that the amount re-
produced coverable does not warrant the all-pervading prospect of food plest solution to this astounding try. Quantities of fuel act would be to say that the de- by the Askern undertaking were trouble involved in the preparation swamped every other feeling.
being used by the Royal Air Force, of these claims. I can assure them The soup arrived, and its flavour whisked away. The man at his moiselle was in some way equipped and several thousand tons of oil that this is not the case and would was a free richness on his tongue table went on reading the paper, with, false limbs and head. Car- ter smilingly anticipates his audi- were being used by the Navy: The urge all recipients of income from As he was finishing it, a middle-and nibbling at his roll as if food that they this country to take steps to obtain aged man sat down at his table and were a nuisance, Smith could have ters and invites numerous of the Admiralty had stated
were prepared to take larger quan- their repayments without delay. "Doubting Thomases" to come
A time limit of six years is In- Itities as soon na supplies were upon the stage and tickle the soles
volved and it is essential that ready. of the feet, shake the hands and
year commencing "The development of home sup-claims for the feed the wandering, though smiling!
plies of liquid fuel for home defence April 6, 1928 be lodged before April TRANSFORMATION
mols.
head with bon-bons and whisper in
is a matter of prime importance," her long-distance ear, ban Unlike the lady in Mayfair, the he added. "There seems to be n "Elongated Maiden" takes no um- brage because her lines and metry are distorted.
real hope that the next few years will witness a material advance in sym-the development of the industry.
VARIETY CONCERT
TO-NIGHT
Charity Entertainment At Lee Theatre.
BISHOP TO PRESIDE
under A variety concert, held the distinguished patronage of; Lady Southorn, O.B.E., and under
the Chairmanship of the Rt. Rev.
the primary object of which is the
production of a good smokeless fuel for domestic use.
Nina home defence squadrons of the Royal Air Force are now flying- on petrol produced from Yorkshire
coal, and at the last Hendon air pageant 80 machines used it.
PEIPING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Report For 1934
5, 1986.
W. T. FRY.
13, Buckingham Palace Gardens,
London, S.W.1.
CENTENARIAN WHO LOOKS 50
Advertises, At 100, For A Job
ATTRIBUTES GREAT AGE TO HATHA YOGA
unfolded a newspaper.
He scraped his plate and thought; doggedly: "I don't care. Now I'll have apple ple and custard ́ and cream."
He told the waitress, and sho
Without hit him.
OF A STATE
Indian Maharaja's Fine Work
ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN HALF-CENTURY
:
Half-way through the apple pie Smith had a definite consciousness of fright. All the desperation had left him. The madness was gone, and he had reverted to himself, Edward Smith, aged twenty-eight, ordinary, average, respectable no, not respectable. In a little while he would be the centre of a scene, and they would charge him with defrauding Tryn's by eating a meal he couldn't pay for.
The thought of it made him hor- ribly self-conselous. The back of He glanced
The story of the transformation his neck coloured.
of the Bombay State of Gondal from about furtively convinced that
a country inhabited by Ill-condition- people were watching him.
Men ate. ed, uneducated and
Nobody watched him. despairing peasants. into a land of modern and chattered, and smoked, and read social service and contented people newspapers, and played dominoes. Alfred Arnold, 'says'
is told in the biography of the Presently they would pay their bills Maharaja Shree Bhagvat Sinhjee, and go off to their work. Presently Press in a message from London, ruler of Gondal. The publication of he would have to tell the waitress has revealed himself as the man this biography, writer by St. Nihal the truth, and eyes would stare, and who advertised in a personal Singh, coincides with the velebra- the police would come in, and he'd column: "Man, aged 106, active
United
the Lee Theatre, Causeway Bay, at POPULATION INCREASES, BUT as at 40, needs employment. tion of the golden jubilee of the be marched off, sick and shame-
B.shop R. O. Hall, will be held at
"8 p.m. to-day,
The concert, which is in aid of
who
NOT BUYING
faced..
Youthful
reign of "the selfless ruler." appearance: highly
Maharaja Shree was not yet 19 A weakness moved down his educated; Linguist." the funds of Holy Trinity Church, Kowloon City, includes an acroba- The Peiping Chinese Chamber He gives all the credit to when he became ruler, but already spine. He had never been any good "That means the he had a reputation as an author at bluffing. He was amazed now tic display by A. Ma and Company, of Commerce reports that busi-hatha-yoga. and magic by the Chinese Maginess generally was slower last science of concentration," he ex- and scholar. During his remark that he had dared to do this thing. cian, Wan Wan San and his Troupe year in that city, especially in the plained. "When 1 was 70, I met able reign trade in the State has He had imagined he wouldn't care,
are passing through Hong fur and silk trades and in bank-a 147-year-old yoga teacher while prospered, Mr. Singh says; poverty, and he was utterly wrong.
His fingers tightened on the six- ing, but the business done in I was in Benares, India. He disease and crime are no longer in- Kong after fulfilling an engage- ment at the Chicago World Fair, herbal medicines, rice and grains taught me the law of rhythm. soluable problems, and unemploy-pence in his pocket. The futility of the coln urged him on to a scared I learned rhythmic breathing and ment does not exist. Tickets may be purchasca at the showed decided improvement.
In spite of the depression, rhythmic exercises and gave up The country is provided with elec- recklessness. He ordered another Tsang Fook Piano Co., Ice House!
tricity, waterworks, parks, good coffee, some cakes, then a roll and Street, and at the Theatre this moving picture houses and other eating.
places of amusement did good "There is "no reason why any-roads, hospitals, railway transport butter and cheese.
The self-consciousness, had reach- business.
one using the yoge knowledge and telephones. Education, and Donation towards the Building Fund may be sent to the Manager creased by many
The population of Peiping in- should dle before he is 150, my hygiene have been the keynotes ofed a point where he dared not look thousands teacher told me. But these prac-this development and construction. at other people. He kept his face of the Underwriters Savinge
turned rigidly towards the man op- during the past year but as most tices are not for the lazy man or Bank, Queen's Road Central who of the newcomers were refugees woman. They mean living in WEST AUSTRALIA'S polte, who was still deep in his has consented to receive on be from flooded and bandit-ridden accordance with a definite sys half of the Treasurer.
areas, there was hardly any in- tem, scientifically, and the crease in the buying power of the hardest of all work-the practice of mental concentration." Arnold looks about 50,...
evening.
OUTBREAK OF FIRE city.
AT WANGHAI
Quickly Suppressed
A fire which broke out on the
top floor of 6 Spring Garden Lane
CHINA FLEET BOXING
FINALS TO-NIGHT
(Continued from Page 4)
Frandy has already a large]
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LOANS TO BUSINESS IN CANTON
(Continued from Page 1).
PETITION
Federal Attitude
DISCUSSION BY PARLIAMENT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
paper.
J
The page turned to Smith con- tained columns of advertisements;! and in a vague way he became aware that he was staring ati "Situations Vacant.".
One tiny paragraph blazed at him
It is understood that the position
Wanted ---Man with experience of taken up by the Commonwealth
whosesale tes trade. Fluent Span- Government in regard to the pet ish essential-Apply between 9 and tion that has been presented to 10 am, or 2-3 p.m., 209, Kincing- Parliament praying for legislation lana, EC.
at 8.85 am. yesterday, was for- tunately mastered before it could throng of admirers, for he is one of the finest exponents seen in the The floor was occupied by a Colony for some time,VID
A. B. Barry, who is the holder of that the depression is due to world- tralla to secede from the Common-moved Boundlessly. He had
become serious. A
Chinese Guild. There were only
In official circles, it is believed to enable the State of Western Aus Smith's jaw worked and his lips
a few fokis left in charge at the the Welterweight Championship of wide causes, but others opine that wealth of Australia is that it would seral years with time of the outbreak,* **the Orient, will probably set A. the present economic position is be unconstitutional on the part of His references were first-class,
Four fire appliances were sent B. Appleby of HMS, Kent who attributed to internal causes and the United Kingdom out, bat only one hydrant was gained a technical-knockout-de-high taxation.
used t
www.cision over the German boxer, Max
"The back portion of the Bloor Brilka, parten
and the contents were considerably His Excellency the Comman damaged.
in-Chief, Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Dreyer, KC.B...CBT vill
Unless cause is ahown to the con- diatribute the
discuss
lamin
had sacked him simpl
of hard timed.” He Spät
Spa made
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