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Clad In Milk
PIANO RECITAL
Mr. Harold Scott
To Perform
ASSISTED BY MR. LI CHOR-CHI
A piano lecture-recital is to be given on Wednesday next at 9.30 p.m. at the Peninsula Hotel by Mr. Harold Scott, în co-operation with Mr. Li Chor-chi.
The following programme music will be presented:-
wood transformed, by the com-Hungarian Rhapsody bined ingenuity and industry of
the chemist and the manufac-
de
Diaz.
Harold Scott Liszt
Here There and Everywhere
ROYAL DILEMMA
BRITISH SEA-BED HAS NO SECRETS CEASELESS WORK DONE
BY ADMIRALTY
CHARTING BRITISH WATERS IS A FULL-TIME JOB
to man-
Yo
faithful to the old fashion, was
could thus be clean-shaven like naval officers.
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Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for
The Yeomen of the Goard's publication should be undressed to
beards.forN an interesting link the Editor, and be accompanied by It will be remembered that with the Crimea. King Edward the Writer's Name and Address Scott was here a couple of years VIII. whose example the "Beef-
ago and gave a recital at the eaters" followed, grew
(By A Special Correspondent) Helena May Institute, besides hood when the fashion of wearing YOU have watched a great the Straits of Dover past the
various beards was general.
to the Thames many recitals at the
liner making her way out Goodwins schools in the Coloay Since It had been introduced by the of port for the open sea? Or estuary, and up the coast as far then Mr. Scott has travelled ex British troops who had grown better still, have you ever been as Harwich. tensively in the East and has had beards in the Crimes as a pro-aboard a large ocean-going
Sleek Creature in pronounced successes other tection against the cold.
steamer leaving the Thames or The submarine
at basin parts of China, including Peiping,
Dover is her base, and here it Later in the Victorian era the Southampton Water?
If you have, then you will rewas that I joined her. She Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 10, 1936. Shanghai and Tientsin and also
martial beard was again taboo. in Kores and Manchuria
at her Critics were not wanting to con-member how she carefully fol-was waiting for me of tend that King Edward then lowed the buoys which seem to herth. There she lay in the Prince of Wales who remained be placed in some of the most morning sunshine. gleaming
inconvenient spots. Instead of white from stem to stern,
low-lying, beautifully Modern applied chemistry is Lavitation to the Waltz Weber breaking the Queen's regulations going straight out, she glides slim, continually springing. new Papillons
Schubert on this account, when he appear-long a sinuous path to the sleek creature, her only dash of Fontenaille.ed in Field-Marshal's uniform
deep water beyond..
colour being her solitary fum- wonders upon us. It is but a Obstination
We all know why a ship must nel, painted yellow. Had it not few years since we have got Arioso de Benvenuto used to the idea that cups and Legende, Melodie, Poloja, Melodie,
(Songs by Mr. Li Chor-chi) They were suenced by its being] meander her way in and out of been for the ensign fluttering shallow from her stern she might for Paderewski, pointed out that if he removed his port sandbanks, combs and buttons, and such Polonaise
Testi, beard he would be unable to wear water, shingle, submerged all the world have been a mil- Iobjects as are usually made of Aprile
Martini naval uniform without likewise wrecks. We all know, too, that lionaire's yacht." hard substances like bone and Plaisir d'Amour
(Songs by Mr. Li Chor-chi)
Lieut.-Comdr. E. H. B. Baker, offending against regulations. the positions of these under- horn, can now be manufactured
Sonata in E minor
Grieg
water dangers are determined her commander, greeted me from the nitrogen-containing song of the Solway Sailor
A similar dilemma never faced by experts" and marked on when I had climbed down the portion of ordinary cow's milk. Keltic Sea-Rowing Song
the present King. For during the charts and that it really is gang plank from the quay side We are already accustomed to
war soldiers were no longer ob-quite easy for the pilot to guide of the deck. "A splendid day liged to grow moustaches. They a ship past them."
for both of us," he said. "We What we don't know is exact-can get plenty of work done ly how it is all worked out, this when it is calm like this. Bad seat variety of shimmering GOODS FOUND IN George let it be known that he every danger spot is how "the sible."
It is stated, however, that King business of knowing where weather makes our job impos-
wished the Brigade of Guards to experts" know where to draw He introduced me to Lt- continue the traditional practice their wriggly contour lines on Comdr. D. W. Deane, No. 1 in of leaving the upper lip unshaven. the maps of the world
the ship and second in com-
M Always Changing
mand, and Lt.
Beach The sea bed is always chang-Thomas, the navigating officer. "Have a look round Your Daily Smile!
ing. Shifting sands really do Then: shift, sometimes to an alarming while we get out."
I took stock of the vessel. For instance, it has Editor of a woman's magazine says extent Anyone who believes that should try Goodwin Sands have moved long spars and bamboos, empty.
and longer dependent on the sheep Magistracy this morning charged women like simple, direct statements just been discovered that the Lashed to the decks were 30-ft. everywhere for wool to keep him warm, but with unlawful possession of a telling one she has on too much lip about 800 yards to the south-oil drums,
tarpaulin-covered that the cow may be made to lady's white handbag and two mos-stick
were last there were since they examined ten years ago.
cases and pieces of machinery. contribute to keep up his bodily quito nets last Saturday at Queen's
I How do they find out? temperature both from within Road East, near Li Chit Street
Use Of Beacons "I suppose when you have been Sub-Inspector Logan said the The kindly cow: and without.
or so it becomes joined the Navy one day to find When we were out in the will still yield milk for food: accused was arrested by a con-ying for a year
out how they find out. I spent Straits of Dover Lt-Comdr. "Surest thing you know. Why, I'm a day in HMS. Kellett, one of Baker came to me and said: but we may eat the cream. of stable and admitted having picked second nature." it and wear the rest.
up the hand-bag and mosquito getting so that I often feel a craving the Admiralty'a four survey "First. we have to pick up a Lanital, the new wool-like nets, which, he said, he had found for worms and bird seed.
ships which spend their days beacon: See those long spers Road All
examining the bottom of the and bamboos, with oil drums substance, is derived from skim lying in Johnson
seas round Britain: They lashed to them? They are the milk. The process has passed Stations had been notified and given
know the movements of shift-beacons we use to mark a spot. the laboratory stage and is a the necessary information, but commercial fact. Skim milk there had been no response nor mission to an old Irishman to sleeping sands, they tell the world You see, often we have to work contains casein, the part of claims for the articles in question. in the barn.
That right the farmer went round when a wreck becomes dan-out of sight of land. milk which forms
His Worship fined the accused cheese Casein is largely nitrogen and $50, in default six weeks' imprison to the bars to see that the man was gerous, they inform shipping our position from definite land- comfortable, and found him lying on which channels are safe, and marks ashore, place beacons a heap of straw with a drainpipe for which channels spell danger. within sight of land, and when with appropriate treatment ment.
ja pillow.
"Don't you find that pipe hard?" asked the farmer.
"No, honor," said Pat.
turer, into silk stockings and a
silky fabrics of beauty and utility but little inferior to the natural product of the silk- worm. Now we are able to be- hold the warriors of Il Duce, and no doubt a considerable portion of the civilian members of his nation, clad in milk. The fact has been proved that civilised man is no
astonishing
may be turned into a passably, good imitation of wool Rayon was not more like silk in its!
STREET
Chinese Fined For
Possession
Ip Ho, aged 32, appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central
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For Comfort The country farmer had given per
early days than Lanital is like EXPLANATIONS edit Jers
wool No doubt Lanital will improve with time and the fer-
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to put the thing another way,
how scientific progress is some-! B
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
A Man Of Iron
DIG FERRE, a peasant of gigan- tic size and strength, was a
times made conditional upon native of the village of Rivecourt, social and economic environ- ment.
near Compiegne, France. He was lieutenant of the peasant leader It was, however, a German alone, who defended the fortified chemist, Todtenhaupt, who had the honour of the first experi- castle of Longueil against an Eng mental production of milk-wool, lish attack in 1858. A party of Englishmen entered the castle somewhere about 1916. Buti
at present artificial wool is through a breach in the walls and killed the French leader. "It was actually being manufactured on
then that the gigantic Ferre, arm- a large scale in Italy. The great Italian textile firm, Snized with a heavy axe, hurled him- Viscosa, is said to be producing self against the invaders. Single- a new and improved form of handedly he annihilated the in- Todtenhaupt's substance, as a vading party. He is credited with result of the experimental work having killed 40 English in the of Antonio Ferreti, at the rate affray of that day, which number of 30,000 pounds a day, and it does not include a still larger num- is claimed that before the end her of wounded foes.
A monument has recently been of the year the daily produc- tion of the new wool from this erected to Ferre at Longueil, firm will be nearer 100,000 France. pounds. It need not be feared
that Lanital in its present A President Of Texas state will put the wool-farmer
out of business for, compared | IRABEAT Buonaparte Lamar
with natural wool, it leaves M1794-1859) was editor of
the
much to be desired. It is more the Columbus Enquirer of Colum- difficult to manufacture into bas, Ga, when he made a trip to cloth; for though soft and Texas on a borrowed horse. He white it is weak by comparison, joined Houston's army and after
himself and is, moreover, said to swell distinguishing considerably when it is soaked battlefield, was made commander- But, drawbacks or no draw-in-chief of the Texas forces, with- backs, it shows again that the out ever having been
a soldier. magic touch of science can turn He became Attorney-General of food into clothing, just as it the Republic, although he was not. has already in the rayon indus-a lawyer. Within two years after try turned timber into clothing, his arrival from Georgia, he was Nor is this an end of the radical President of Texas (1838-41).- transformations. that.
are
already in sight and that may.ploited to any great extent be- should the occasion arise, be cause the natural production of
being. brought into
For sugar is cheap, and wood can be food may be produced in used in other ways. But it is quantity of a chemical not difficult to imagine a state process from wood. The of affairs when any country large-scale production of sugar may be obliged to wear its milk/ from wood has not been ex- and eat its forests.
east
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We-fix
The Kellett looks after that we move further out we fix jpart of our shores which ex- another line of beacons by the Tvetends from Portsmouth, up the first line............
English Channel and through (Continued on Page 6)
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
BION PUZZLE
A CAUGHT 2 FISH
8 CAUGHT 2 FISH
CCAUGHT | FISH
HOW MANY MORE FISH DIDANDS CATCH THAN C? ANSWER.
ALB CAUGHT 2 MORE BIANC
BIG FERRE
MIRABEAD BUONAPARTE LAMAR
of GEORGIA
BECAME
SECRETARY
ď WAR-COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF TEXAS ARMY
ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOT A SOLDIER
HE BECAME PRESIDENTOFTEXAS and ATTORNEY GENERAL. ALTHOUGH HE WAS
NOT A LAWYER
GIGANTIC IRON PEASANT OF FRANCE.
ARMED WITH AN AXE-KILLED 40 ENGLISH SIDERS SINGLE HANDED IN ONE DAY.
100 YEARS WAR
THE HEBREW WORD
שנהר
IS TRANSLATED INTO
8 ENGLISH WORDS:
"AND I WILL HAVE
PUT HIM TO SLEEP”
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