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Hongkong Daily Press
No. 22,136 號陸世百壹仟式萬弍第:日卷廿月伍年巳己
ESTABLISHED 1857.
HONG KONG. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1929.
Registered as a Newspaper at the Geners! Post Office in the United Kingdom.
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Slavonic Races take great pn. B in their personal appearance. *NUGGET gives the finishing touch, to elegant, footwear
UNDER THE PUNKAH.
annoyance
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"By J. PENN. It's no use! Acting on the tip themselves quite at home, and ex- the Editor gave the other day, pressing obvious I dashed down to the Singon de George wanting to use the place partment store and bought me one himself! The nerve suure people. of the latest bathing suits' be was is amazing. The other day I saw writing about. There was a nasty three men march into shut, and little pair of blue-black knickers, & when the Chinese who is supposed vest with armholes big enough for to look after the place remon
man calmly said;- Samson and Goliath to shove their strated, one limbs through together, and a dinky "That's all right; we shall only
reen and yellow bat with the in-be here a couple of hours!" scription: Look out, girls, here
comes Sugar Daddy!" Or the bet Bottlethwaite has
shot-gan
-a dainty little thing an inch wide which, he says, he will carry in the and two and a half yards long car with him in future. Anybody were the words: Here's your found spread out on the verandah e-boy, girlie-grab it Alto of his shed will be shot at sight: gether, very smart rig-out, and May I be there to see I donned it with great pride and no less satisfaction.
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certainly effective, with almost a superfuity of that gentle refinement civilisation of China's old-time about it. Yes, Sir, it's effectivel
One day a dear lit-tle Rep-Orter was walking in a love-ly place by the sea-shore when he saw and heard a
big splash. **It some-thing in the water," he said to a Man.
"It is a shark!" said the Man. The Rep-Orter was thrilled.
Why is it a sharkt' he asked. "Because," replied the Man.. there are no sharks at Rep-Else
Bay."
The Rep-Orter sucked his pen-cil and sighed. Then be wrote the story of the shark in Rep-Ulse Bay.
"If I had had an-other whiskey. Sir." whimpered the Rap-Orter, could have seen whales "
"Sir," writes an indignant read er, Synthetic food stems to be
"This is a fb," said his Ed-itor. the rage in this Colony. At the confounded hotel in which I am and he pub-lished the story and Scotch whip-ped the naughty Rep-Oster slowly starving to death,
for not having seen two sharks. Woodcock appeared on the menu for dinner. My mouth positively watered at the thought of a nice y browned young bird being put before me, reclining gracefully on a piece of toast, with its toes pointing heavenward. Imagine my disgust when the woodcock turn- ed out to be nothing more than a measly omelette! What do you know about that 1
Fortifying myself with a couple of gin-slings, I bounded down the beach and plunged into the bring, Did any of the girls take any notice? They did not. When I tried to arouse their interest by geiling:Chase me. I'm a shiek" did they rush towards me They did not. When I shouted, in my manly baritone Come on, girls, look who's here!" did they flock round met They did not, wherefore I say,
"It's no use," and I have spent about ten dollars for nothing. Hong Kong girls are Well, gentle reader, I have cop- much too modest and shy to be suited at some length upon the with that well-known attracted by snappy slogana" on a subject man's bathing suit. In fact, they savard, George P. Bottlethwaite, don't look at the men at all-at who suggests that the woodcock, least, they don't at me, so I can't being Scotch, probably had a pro- imagine they do at anybody else found aversion to being " plucked" and beat it before the idea of ap unless properly introduced..
pearing on a hotel table was taken toe seriously.
Still, I did got a little fin down at Repulse Bay on Wednesday. Seeing that none of the girls show
Now, children. isn't that just love-y?
George P.B. complains that the short skirts one sees on the Ferry these days give girls rheumatism in the knees.
Maybe so, but I think they are also the cause of stiff necks among the young men in the Colony through continually twisting their heads round to admire the show."
world over are advising people to Here's a go! Health officials the cover their food in such a manner that flies cannot get at it. Now, since à fly lays about a thousand eggs every week, and since young flies know no game but jazzing upon food, what the dickens are middle-aged dies to do with theit troublesome children in this new state of affairs 1 (See answer. ín Sport and Athletics column).
The following books are not yet ed any interest in my outfit, I pa sale locally but, if we keep awam out to the raft and clamber-living and hoping between bouts of ed op top-side for a san-bath, An hoping and living, veloce never -old boy of faletefan proportions knows!
who was squatting there taking up "Around Hong Kong in Coal nearly all the seating accommoda. Cart" by Igo Quick (Trusche & tien looked at me sidewise but said Co., 35).
"Hot Hools " nothing. I raised my little green and yellow hat politely and said Hooves") — 0 Jockey Clob Well, we may be short of water, romance, by Wong Wong (Ring fail to reach quite up to B.B.C. and our radio programmes may "Lovely out here, isn't it?" looked at me again, and growled :- "It was till you come on the scene" suspected that he was trying to be offensive, but I am not
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"Dollar Bargains," by Write. the sort of man who takes umbrage away Paidlaw (Knocker & Bell, us easily as whisky-soda, so resum-$10),
All the above are 10 per cent. ed the conversation brightly thus:-
Whom do you think will win the discount for cash. Interport 1" He glared at me na he grunted: "What Interport?"
This nursery rhyme has been rose and balanced myself grace transated from the very early fully on the edge of the raft in Chinese by George P. Bottle. readiness to dive. and saidthwaite, well known Prof, and gad. "Why, the Interport contest of fat about-town --
old fools with fungus growing on their faces and none where the hair. qught to grow who think they.own the ocean when they've spent a few vents on a bus fare and then I plunged As my sylph-like form came to the surface about twelve yords away I saw Falstaff wobbling on the raft furiously shaking his fist at me. "Attaboy I cried, hot poppa mustn't get cold feet!"
While on the subject of swim- | ming, I think a few words about people who calmly plant themselves for the afternoon or day in other folks' bathing-sheds are called for. Bottlethwaite has a nice little place
on the beach, but does not the it very much, and when he does ap- pear on the scene he usually finds a gang of from five to fifteen
"Sing little child, how loud and
"bairl
י
Nor stop for a minute to give
as a rest,
But sing, Httle wretch, sing."
How peaceful the night on
Penk's star-lit beight- Screech high, screech low, little
monster-chlid Bcreech
In that voice that your teacher
calls singing."
:
"In one minute's time, if you'
don't that this din
I'
on
brain you and dance your bawling remains- Sing on. pretty child," aing
on 1"
George says that this little rhyme people encamped there, making may not be good poetry but it is
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he was a boy which would be about seventy years ago, according to some of his yarns, but I told him he must be surely mistaken regarding the lady's identity. Then-HOTEL Constance, he started to whistle" Chin, chin, Chinaman??" and Yo ho, little girls, yo ho!" and sure enough I recognised these dear old friends, though Bottletwaite's whistling is zot too good, mind you. Anyway, it's the same old Geisha right enough, and those who, did not see it forty years ago will now have a second chance. In another forty
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It is nice for us poor lonely exiles from home to be kept so closely in touch" with the theatrical atmes- phere of dear old London. I am Dow anxiously waiting for the A.D.C. to announce its forthcoming presentation of that popular Charles B. Cochrane production "The Har bour Lights." or that touching and topical problem play by G. B.
"Lace Shaw entitled Cabin."
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (June 20.)
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Queen's Theatre: "Lady of the Pavements."
World Theatreh." The Missing Link."
Star Theatre: "Resurrection." Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.12...
Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 3.30
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NUGGET polishes the Shoes Yacht Club.
The World
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Queen's Theatre Fleetwing. World Theatre: Sorrel and
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Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
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Tom's
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Queen's Theatre: Fleetwing, World Theatre: "Sorrel and Bon."
Star Theatre: While London Sleepa"
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