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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 20,1929. 陸拜體日拾弍月 年九廿百九仟登英
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THE PUNKAH.
BY J. PENN.
The other day an ostrich cecaped from a lorry in the Logware Road, London. Some constables, all | Laughing, came out of the station," sage the account. The bird w recaptured after a pursuit and a struggle: If it had had any senee it would have made straight for a grocer's shop and hidden its head in the sand.",
Question: If an ostrich comes into a restaurant, brushing the waiters aside, and advances to- wards the table where a birthday party is in progress, what should A. do 1...
A Fashion note from Paris says that men must nat-oh, they ab solutely shall not-wear spats with tan shoes. This will seem most drastic to us of the great Far East. What, No spats with tan shoes! not even when wearing fall even- ing-dress at the theatre 7
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Still no rain! Fortunately there is no shortage of other forms of liquid refreshment, but bottled sun- shine is too expensive to bathe in and brush one's teeth with. I won- der whether the fine weather will last over Thursday and Friday? I know quite a number of people very sincerely hope so. New hats and new frocks are being prepared for the occasion, and old silk-hats and frock-coats are being dusted and
I am very sorry I was led into an annoying mistake last week_cop cerning names, and trust I have been fully forgiven for an innocent blunder. Just to show how easy it is to be led astray in such matters there are in the Colony three men of the same name who are constantly getting mixed up in each other's affairs. Mr. XI. gets chits belonging to Mr. X, and when the shroff is finally persuaded that he is at the wrong office, he goes off to Mr. X, and more complications arise. The Mrs. X hears some thing from somebody about a " Mr. X." and wonders if it can be her.It was a very Serce tiger and the pressed and made to look as pre- husband-and of course it isn't;
women were most alarmed, hut sentable as possible. My it is either Xe or X2, or perhaps luckily I had the presence of mind coat appears to have shrunk, co- both. There is even a gentleman
I Lust wore it. to rash up.
I forced its head undersiderably since in the Colony with the same name as my own. but I know he gets water and held it there till the Across the the chest it is quite it will women were in safety. Then I re- comfortably tight, but
Times tre not none of my chits, for I never in leased the beast, and ran off in the hare to serve:
too good, and one can't afford an rick of time."
outfit like that more than once in twenty years-at least I can't
any!
"When I was in India." droned the Major, "I saw a tiger come down to drink at a pool where the native women were washing clothes,
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Which would you rather be a
There was a panse of wonder. mr with a tin hat and small-whis. kers, or a man with a small hatment, and then a man in an arm. and tin whiskers ?
chair said:-
It should of course, be obvious that say, you are paying a call, the bin hat can be left in the hall; and there is nothing extraordinary in having small whiskers. But take the opposite case, You can leave your small hat outside, but how' are you going to explain the tin whis kers? No. 1.,therefore, is prefer able to No. II., in that case. In the pase of an
appearance in a
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"Yes, gentlemen, I can vouch for the truth of this extraordinary story. I myself happened to be in India and in that very district-at the time, I came down to the pool later in the day and, as is my cu tom, stroked this, tiger's, whiskers Gentlemen, in a friendly manner. those whiskers were wet.!
"Fore!" shouted the goller at public street, both would be almost Fanling, preparing for a big drive equally ridiculous.
But the wamen who was crossing the links paid no heedFore! seled the man with the clubs again angrily. Still he took no notice, "Try her with three dollars fifty suggested a friend "Perhaps she's one of those bargain-hunting fiends."
"
Pathetic incident which has been unreported until now:-
said Half a poord o' ham,' Donald
No savee ham," replied the official.
"This belong Post Office," "Boy," declared Donald indig. nantly. "Ye're awfu' far behind the times At Auchtermachtie they selt ham in the post office and there's egga. jula, soap: boots, and whuskey on show and a't".
"No savce," grinned the man bebind the counter.
Said George P. Bottlethwaite on the Ferry the other day, "I've cften wondered why a dog places such implicit trust in a man. The only reasons I can think of are that a man never barrows mosey from a dog or sells it a used car!"
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Tell me what you cat," said a junch-counter philosopher in a loud voice, and I'll tell you what you
"Countermand
order my
for shrimp salad, boy,' piped up a httle man a few stools down
arc.
A man said to the referee at the cad of a football match the ether day
Where is your dog 1" "Dog What do you mean?" asked the referee. "I've not gut one."
"Then," said the man, you are the Arst bland man I've met that didn't take a dog about with him.'
tailed
Maybe that was the trouble with a man who went to the theatre the other night, and found he was the only individual in the dress circle who wasn't dressed! Poor wretch, he looked very unhappy, especially as his seat happened to be very close to 'those occupied by a party from Government House. His wife has probably told him all that it is necessary for him to know about the proper thing to do, so I don't want to rub it in. Perhaps he will atone for his offence by attending the garden-party wearing two top- hats" of contrasting colours. Any- way, I am quite sure he won't dare to present himself at the gate wear. ing shorts.
And why do the 'met with the most mobbiy knees in the Colony persist in showing them? Myself has two quite dainty, dimpled knees, yet you never see me running about the streets in a costume which looks like an 0.0.5. in B.D.V.'s. Many years ago I used to wear a kilt on occasion, and very smart I looked, too, I don't mind.confessing. Even now, although, my chest measure- ment is a few inches more than it was twenty year ago, I would look quite well in the garb of old "Gaul, which is more than can be said of moet of the men I see in shorts. I think the police should be author. tion of bony knees. Persoas wish. ing to wear shorts in public othes than on playing-fields should be compelled to get a licence, and before this
Her father brought home to din. her an earnest young man with aised to prevent the public exhibi very pale face. He had a miser- able voice like a broken fog-horn, and when he lifted his watery eyes to the ceiling and said:-
"Every man should have a mis- sion in life," she asked:-.
What is yours 1" "The saving of young men," said the lugubriously.
"Oh, do save a rice one for me!" said she.
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Today
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Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Royal H.K. Yacht Club, Closing Cruise and Interport Rowing.
Royal H.K. Yacht Club Dinner, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant,
p.m.
Queen's College 'Old Boys' Asso- ciation, 9th annual dinner, College Hall, 8 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Rescue," World Theatre: Under the Black Eagle."'..
Star Theatre: "Good Morning Judge at 3.20 p.m.
English Comedy Co.: "Other Men's Wives," Star Theatre, 8.15 R.M.
Tea Dances: R.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: Lana Crawford's Restaurant, p.m. Peninsula
Hotel, 8.30 p.m
European Majls: Inward:
English Comedy Company" The Rest People," Staf Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
European Mails: Inward: Europe via Negapatam, papers only (Canges Maru). Outward: Europe tid Siberia (Yingchow), 9 a.m.
Monday."
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English Comedy Company "A Cuckoo in the Nest," Star Theatre, 3.15 p.m..
Tea Dances: HK. Hctel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,
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Tuesday, (April 23.) St. George's Day. Ceremony at the Cenotaph,
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Star Theatre: "The Chorus Lady” at 5.30 p.m.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, &.30 p.m.
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Thursday, (April 28.). Duke of Gloucester arrives per P.&O. Morea, Landing Queen's Pier, 11.65 a.m.
Queen's The Big City." World Theatre: "Love Hungry." Star Theatre:"Body and Soul," 116.30 p.m.
Carpi's Italian Opera CompaaƑ "Il Trovatore," Theatre Royal, 0.15
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