HUMOUR: "ANCIENT AND" MODERN.
Your wife is a very systematic woman isn't she 1"
Yes, very
She works on the theary that you can find whatever you want when you don't want it by looking where it wouldn't be if you did want it."
I think marriages are really, made in heaven, don't you?"
Well, it all men took as long to propose as you, most of ther would have to be."
Lady Caller: Did your husband, win a prize at the flower show
Lady at the Gate: were highly condemned."
No-but he
An old lady with an hour to spare went into a "einerna without realiz ing that a talking film was being show.
"In two minutes she had returned to the box-office..
I'm afraidl there's beer &
mistake," sive stammered. I
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"Is he a good rabbit dog?" in- quired the sportsman, after inspect ing the animal.
"I should think he is the dealer replied with pride. You should have seen the way he went After my wife's new arnlskin coat!"
Famous Actor (reproving super
You don' during rehearsal): seem ca me to take auy interest in the scene. Look at me. See the interest 1 inke in it'
Super: Yes, air, yes. But "see the salary you get!
The traveller, anxious to make
versation. turned to the other Gerupant of the compartment, and remarked: Not much news nowa days. How are things in China! Do you know
No, "I don't." said the other. I travel in tin."
Inat look at that native carry, ink a basket of fond on her hend
thought this was a picture-show. Yes that's her idea of a well- but when I got downstairs I disbalanced diet. covered that a man with asthma:
was giving a lecture in German.' Housewife (engaging new gir
A member of a London club has the habit of partaking of his soup in a hoisterous fashion. The noise
I hope you had no quarrel with your, last mistress when you left
her
The Girl: Oh, no? She was tak
upsets the other members, but theying a lath, and I just locked her are, to courteous to protest.
One day, however, when the of fensive sounds were at fortissimo, FL SounK
and ferveless member shod towards the culprit and Said: May 1 help, sir.
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Help!" repented the partaker of soup I don't need any help.' Sorry," said the youngster. thought perhaps you might wish to j be dragged ashore."
Are you guilty or not guilty "I don't quite "see," said the prisoner," why I should express an pinion and try to interfere with the jury's guessing contest."
Cooper: "Honestly, now, you would not have thought this car of mier was one I had fought, second- hand, would you ?"
Jones: Never in my life. thought you had made it yourself."
Husand (who has been asked to try cake baking in ovea): Darling is it done when the knife breaks off inside it."
She: "That gown is so beautiful it takes my breath away!"
He: "Well, let's hurry on-before at affects my money that way,"
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in. took my belongings, and left."
Where did you get that quainte medal (
Oh. that's an heirloom, My grandfather won it in an oratorical contest.
Indeed! Sort of a hot-heirloom. isn't it?""
She: "When, I marry, it will be to a man who counts"
He: Then you need look no far her I'm a cashier,"
All that I am," decinimed the politician. I owe to my mother.”
Well exclaimed a voice from the back of the hall, doesn't it feel great to l out of debt
coa: and art."
CROSSWORD PUZZLE. #
"Horizontal. '
1-Frolicsome act.
G-Dress.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.
SNAPSHOTS OF A MOTHER AT GRADUATION
THES EYES ON DAUGHTER BUTTING WITH HER CLASS ON STASE
FINDS DAUGHTER WAS SMILING AT ORL FRIEND
BEHIND HER.
CRITICALLY SURVEYS DRESSES OF OTHER MEMBERS OF CLASS
BEGINS TO GET SENTIMEN- TAL ABOUT GRADUATION. -SOON SHELL BE GETTING
MARRIED
·FROWNS ON SEEING THAT DAUGHTER HAS CROSSED HER LEES, HOW MANY TIMES HOA SHE TOLD HER-
TRIES TO SIGNAL OR- DERS BUT CAN'T CATCH
HER EYE
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IS RELIEVED TO FIND
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
SEES DAUGHTER SMLUNG
THAT NONE OF THE DRES” » AT HER AND SMILES SES ARE FRETTER THAN AND WAVES BACK DAUGHTER'S
AND THEN SHE WONT HAVE ANY DAUGHTER, APPLIES HANDKER CHIEF TO EYE
IS MUCH RELIEVED WHEN AT LAST SHE UNCROSSES THEM
(Copyright, 1929, by The Bell. Syndicate,.Inc)
EMOTIONAL CRISIS A- VERTED BY WISHING SHE HAD CUT THE SLEEVES FULLER
FEELS THAT HER DAUGHTER IS THE PRETTIEST ORL IN TE CLASS (JUST AS EVERY » MOTHER FEELS)
6-13
SPORT AND ATHLETICS.
JAPANESE BASEBALL.
Playing one of the fastest base-
score.
A
BRITAIN'S LOST LAURELS.
Mr. Reginald A. Colwill, the pre- sident of the Amateur Swimming
sagciation, in message to the
HAWAK AND KATAHON. Hawaii is preparing to entertain bali ganies ever seen at Eugene, some of the best women swimmers Oregan, Meiji University of Tokyo, tf the United States and the world Japan, defented the University of at Honolulu at the annual A:A.U.
swinners of Great Britain, saya Oregon, holders of the champion-women's outdoor meet August 7-10.
that determination and the will to The young wife was heartbroken: ship of the northern division of the An international flavour will be win are needed by English swim-
What's the matter?" asked a Pacific Coast Conference by a score added to the occasion by the invita
mers if they are to regain the lost friend.
ni i to 0. The two speedy Japanese ton of leading women swimmers laurchi. Mr. Colwill says he refuses "Oh, my husband is so absent pitchers, T. Akagi and M. Naka- from Japan and Australia to partito believe the young men and women minded. After breakfast he left a
mura, allowed only four hits.. cipate. Hawaii will bring the exist. tip on the table, and when I hand-
Oregon threatened only once, in ing women, champions of the coun- of England are any less efficient hin his hat and your he gave me the seventh inning, but brilliant try to the meet, some of the more than those of other countries. Time was," he adds, when another tip."
felding kept the Oregon from scor. promising younger swimmers, and British swimmers showed the world Well, that's nothing to worrying. The Meiji secre came in the a few selected foreigners. This list the way to go, and we can do it about. Just force of habit."
eighth, when well played baseball of stars will be enlarged by many That's what worries me. He worked . Matsuki, first baseman, representatives sent by verions again if we make up our minds to l kissed ine, when I gave him his around to third and enabled him to clubs and associations. The invited do our best. Our swimmers can pow list of foreigners, it is understood, swim the new strokes as perfectly The Meiji team has now played will likely be increased with the the people who invented them. We have rainers in this country 12 games, and has lost only four assistance of foreign organisations. of them on this trip. They are The committee has been advised We are just as skilful as any you will find anywhere. That meaS now on a tour of the United States. that the Kokumin Shinbun,
that what we want to-day, more Japanese newspaper, expects to
than anything else, is the will to send several Japanese women stars
win. Give us that in a strong in addition to those which the enough dose and we undoubtedly A.A.U. will bring.
shall win. Enthusiasm is what want. We have suffered through, too many Dismal Jimmies There Are signs of 4 revival. Our women swimmers did wonder- the keynotes of many bequests fully in South Africa. But we can made in the will of Dr. Bernard do even better yet, and the mer William Henderson, of Exeter have a good deal of leeway to make The English women never.sue- College, Oxford, who died up. Let us recapture the spirit ceeded in getting really on top, January 11, leaving £10,495. He which won the war, and ' get a move though Miss Bouman gave them was a notable historian, and the many points by her mistakes at the author of books relating to Roman net, The Spanish champion. how-imperial history. He left E100 each ever, made up for these by her to the City of Oxford School for beautiful forehand cross-cut shota Beys; the Municipal Secondary and she was the best of the iour. School. Oxford; Roysses. School, A sportsmen's church service held In the other semi-final the SouthAbingdon, Berkshire; and the Boys' in the Holy Trinity Church, Bir- Africans, Mrs. Neave and Miss Central School, Gloucester Green, mingham, proved most successful. Heine, beat the first and third Oxford, the income to be expended Jack Hood, British welter-weight women in France, respectively each year in the purchase of two champion," and W. H. Walker, inter- Mme. Mathieu and Mme. Lafourie. cricket bats for the boys of those national football player, read the
#chools.
lessons. The first act went to 11-0.
16
7 8
10
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11-Native of Great Britain.
12-Avenging deity."
14-Delicate network.
17.-Suci god.
15.-Girl's name.
18.-Old affirmative.
19.-Greets.
20.-Rug
21.-Pronoun.
22.-Wild West show,
23. To decline gradually. 24-Weasel-like animals, 28.-Smill pics. 97.-Old.
28. Part of face. 29-Mixture of metals. 31.-Verse maker. 34.-Nobleman. 35. Ferments. 36.-Toward. 37.-Dance step. 38.-Coast. 39.-Chum... 40.-Article. 41.-Coquette. 42.-Nude.
43.-Injury.
45.-Calls forth. 47.- very fond. 48.-Gave medicine "to.
1.-Petition.
Vertical,
2-A grnin. 3.-Devoured.
4-Negative.
6.Worked into homogeneous
m485.
A salutation,
Greek war gut.
8-Storage box.
9.--Within.
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10.--Oppressor. 11. To censure. 13.-Satisfies.
10. Prevaricates, 19-A pet name. 20-French river. 22.-Strictness. 23.--Lingers. 25.-Men.
6-At that place. 23.--Wooed. 99.-To terrify. 30.-Inclined. 31-Needy.
32.-Gazed steadily. 33-Shoe bottomą, 35,--Parts of lega. 38. Plam-like fruit. 39.-Step.
41.-To suit. 42.-Carryall,
44. Thus.
46.-To act.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
No.1399
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FRENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS. One of the features of play in the French lawn tennis champion- ships at Paris was the defeat of Mrs. Watson and Miss. Eileen Ben- (the holdere) by Senorita nett Alvarez and Miss Bouman in the semi-final round of the women's
Joubles.
CRICKET BATS FOR SCHOLARS.
Sperts, music, and education are
on
we
on.'
SPORTSMEN'S CHURCH
SERVICE.
MAINLY FOR THE MEN.
Whitnash, a tiny hamlet in War- Now hope has come to the hitherto cumulative résult of these changes depressed farmer in Britain, as a is vastly beneficial.
wickshire, has a magic brook, bei result of recent state measures, at
lieved to be posscased of healing first regarded with suspicion but A notable Briton with a St. power, which attracts people from now recognised as materially im George's Day birthday is Field great distances. The story of this proving the outlook. Heretofore, Marshal Lord Allenby: Leader of romantic little stream, hallowed "by British agriculture has suffered be the Third Army in France, con- the legends of centuries," is tucked cause the cost of growing produce queror of Palestine, and one of the way in a cold geological survey of at home has been so much greater most successful of recent High Com- the Wells and Springs of Warwick. than that of importing it as often missioners for Egypt, the Fieldshire, just issued by the Stationery to outweigh the benefits of proximity | Marshal possesses 4 remarkable Office. A farm and a golf-house are to marketa. To-day the costs of array of honours, but, unfortunate now supplied from the shallow well production are being materially re-ly, lost his only son in the war, and at Whitnash, and formerly an an- duced. Permanent improvements to has no direct heir. All youngsters tient well exist by the side of Whit- the land are rendered possible by love the famous soldier, and he nash brock, concerning which a arrangement paid for by the state loves them, and one of Lady Allen- curious legend is told. The inhabit- and providing the farmer with cheap by's duties while he was in Francs ants long ago took the bell from credit. Such credit, unlike ad- was to keep him supplied with toys the old church to the brook to be vances from the banks on which he and sweets for little friends in the freshly consecrated before placing. has hitherto been compelled to rely, occupied towns. Some of the recipit in, the belfry of a new church. cannot be called in at short notice.ients wrote him letters later on, The bell was accidentally dropped These loans are already available. which he has carefully preserved. Two other forms of relief take effect
into the water and disappeared. Superstition soon invested the brook next autumn. One of them provides Several thefts from the poor box with magic powers, and the country that municipal taxation shall cease at a New York Church led a clergy people believe that they could have to be levied on agricultural Innd or man to try a now detective camera coming events foretold by casting buildings. This taxation, though invented by a policeman. The apstones into the well at night. They nominally only one-quarter as heavy paratus consists of a camera con- used to think that the answers to us that paid on private residences taining a mechanism by which flash their questions were given by the and gardens, bas nevertheless powder can be exploded and a pic-sounding of the lost bell in the proved a grievous burden to the ture taken, also causing a bell to morning. The site is now drained, distance. At the but the little stream of water, which farmer, since it has been levied, to rung at not upon his profits, but on the church where the camera was tried flows into the Whitnash brook is value of the ground he tills and the the bell was heard ringing and the still believed to be possessed of structures he uses in his trade. The clergyman reached the church door healing powers, remaining concession concerns rail-in time to see a man trying to run way freights. They are now to be away. He was captured, and when reduced materially, as the Govern- the photograph was developed it ment has agreed to relieve railways showed the picture of a man with of three-quarters of the local taxa- his hand in the top of the poor box, tion which these concerns have apparently in the act of removing hitherto paid, conditionally upon the lid. The photograph will be the singkat being sim minduced in affort back to the producing industries prove that it bears the likeness of spare that tractTouch or a gingle
bought in lowered freight charges. The the man charged with the theft.
CARL LAEMMLE.
PRESENTE
NORMAN KERRY
J.
LEWIS
STONE
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FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 3.30 & 9.20.
AT
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STAR
MYSTERY! INTRIGUE! ROMANCE!
A
WILLIAM FOX
PRESEITS
THIEF IN THE DARK
COMING TO THE
QUEEN'S
BARON WHO SHOT A PRINCESS.
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
The utterance was received with cheers by some of the people in the court, whereupon the, President SENTENCE: 12, YEARS HARD ordered the gaurd to clear the hall.
LABOUR
The trial showed that Gartner killed the girl because she refused to marry him. Vienna:-Baron Felix Gartner, formerly a captain in the Austrian Gartner, who is sixty years of Army, who shot in the Vienna age, was twice divorced, and had Konzerthaus, on November 3 last for some time been paying atten- year, the beautiful Princess Jhijhi tions to the Princess, who was, a The value of a tree is now made Mouheh, daughter of Mouheh tall, beautiful woman of thirty-ive. known by Dr. Ephraim P. Felt, Pasha, Egyptain ex-Minister of The Princess was returning to her box on the first floor after the in- former New York State entomolo-Finance, was, after a five days' trial,
terval when she was stopped in the gist, who reports that fifty fair found guilty of the murder, and sized "elms were sold recently at was sentenced to twelve years hard corridor by Gartner, and a short heated conversation was heard. £1,000 apiece, and that many are laboury worth £9,000 Cach Woodman On hearing the sentence, Gartner Buddenly the man drew a revolver.
shouted feel innocent but and red hve- THEY FITN like to suffer for my beloved." collapsed and died immediately.