THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1930.
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HONGKONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LIMITED.
AT
MIDNIGHT on 3rd MAY, 1930
The New Automatic Telephone System will
come into Operation.
STOP USING YOUR MAGNETO TELEPHONE
AT 11.45 p.m. ON 3rd MAY!
Do not use your telephone at all between 11.45 p.m. and 12 Midnight on 3rd MAY as the Change-Over will then be in progress.
AFTER MIDNIGHT
on
3rd MAY,
You must
use your Dial
when making Telephone calls.
IF YOUR TELEPHONE HAS A GEN- ERATOR HANDLE AS WELL AS A DIAL DO NOT TURN THE HANDLE!
USE THE DIAL ONLY!
The new automatic telephone numbers will be found in heavy print in the second column on each page of the Telephone Directory.
REMEMBER!
Your automatic telephone will be of no service- UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW
TO USE IT!
Call now at the Company's Office, 4th floor, Exchange Building, and—
ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
Read the instructions contained in the Orange Coloured Section of The Telephone Directory.
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AN AMERICAN, GIFT | TO JAPAN.
PHOTO-STATIC COPIES OF}
VALUABLE OIL TREATIES.
[UNITED PRESS.
Tokyo, April 16-Photo-static copies of, documents in which are written the earliest history of Japan's relatious with America are naw the treasured possessions of the Imperial University here. They were presented to Dr. Onozuka, president of the University, by Mri William R. Castle, Jr., the Ameri- van Ambassador, at a ceremony which was attended by high Japaa ese Government officials, including the Ministers of Education and Foreign Affairs, and by leading nethiers of the American colony in Tokyo.
The documents, which were sent to Japan by the State Department in Washington, consist of photo- stati capies of the treaty of Kanagawa, signed in 1884 by Com modore Perry, and of the treaty of. 1958, which was signed on behalf of the Caited States Government by. Townsend Harris, the first Ameri- can Consul General in Japan There is also an original copy, rel 'lowed by age, of the Shimoda con.
vention of 1937, which
also signed by Townsend Harris.
The photo-static copies of the Kanagawa treaty contain signed Cocuments in Japanese and Eng; lish, with translations in Dutch and Chinese attacbed. The Shimoda convention also has a Dutch trans lation attached, the Dutch being the only Europeans allowed to carry on trade with the Japanese until the arrival of Commodore Perry. This original copy was in the posses- sion of the American Embassy here. The copies were secured from the State Department through the eforts of Mr. Eugene M. Doomaa, First Secretary of the American Embassy. The Imperial University Library possesses an original copy of the Kanagawa treaty, but it was so badly scorched in the great fire of September. 1923, ns to be prac tically illegible.
HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
[ORDERS BY HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFZ, INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF POLICE.]
General.
Revolver Practice. The regular weekly revolver practice (voluntary) will take place at the Buwen Road Revolver Range on Wednesday April 30. from 9 p.m. to 10.30 pm. It will be open to all ranks of the Hong Kong Police, Special Con- stables, and all persons holding
permits to carry arms and also to
the Sharpshooters' Company, Hong Kong Police Reserve.
Police Training School, The weekly classes for. Polico Reservists at the Police Training School, Kowloon, will be held on Tuesday, April 29, at 5.30 p.m. All members of the Chinese and Indian Companies and Flying Squad who have not yet pussed Part II of Training Course are requested to attend.
Squad Dall,
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All recruits of the Chinese and Indian Companies, and of the Flying Squad will attend at Central Police Station for Squad Drill, on Thurs day, May 1, at 3.30 p.m. under P/Sergt. Hunt. Dress Mufti.
Chinese Company.
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WOMAN'S CORNER.
SECRETS OF GOOD-TEMPERED OVEN,
SOME USEFUL HINTS TO REMEMBER..
Are you on friendly terms with Different kinds of cakes requíro your
oven! Many house-wives different temperatures and times seem to regard their ovens as bad for cooking. A cake without batter tempered monsters that take fien- requires a lower temperature than dish delight in spoiling their besta cake with butter, for the reason efforts at cookery: With the result that a butterless cake contains a that they use the oven as little larger number of eggs in propor- as possible and use only the top tion to the flour and the eggs are of the stove,
toughened in a high temperature. That is the reason why a sponge. cake cooked in too hot an oven is dried up and tough.
Better Flavour.
This is a mistake, since отец cooking has many advantages over A temperature of 320 to 243, de- top-cooking. Food cooked in the grees Fahrenheit is usually right even requires less constant watch for A wellrisen really spongy ing when once the right tempera-sponge cake. A sponge cake very ture has been reached. Also, a much resents having the oven door complete meal can he cooked at one opened during cooking, and will. time, and often oddments such as cakes and scores can be cooked on too soon,
promptly fall if the door is opened A spare shelf.
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Pastry requires a hot oven-130 And post important of all, the to 500 degrees. Ment requires foods have a decidedly better flav-high temperature for the first ten our when cooked in the oven. !minutes, 400 to 450 degrees, and then a lower temperature, about 350 degrees, to finish.
But to get the best value out of your oven you must know how to control it and humour it. It is Do use trusting to instinct to tell you when the oven is "just right" for certain foods.
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Testing The Oven,
who have their own pet methods of I have some neross house wives testing their ovens.,
Indeed, an experienced cook can tell simply by placing her hand in- side the oven just "when it is hot enough.
Then there is the time-honoured method of using flour or a piece or four minutes, the paper is of paper. If, at the end of three
biscuit colour, the oven is moder- ately hot, if it is golden brown it is hot, while it almost black it is very hot indeed-too hot in fact for ordinary cooking.
Apt to be Soggy.
With roast meat have vegetables that can be cooked in the oven at the same time. The same with fish.
cooking this way, as they require. Baked potatoes are suitable for
the same temperature as roast meat,
But do not try to have roast pota toes with meat that requires slow cooking, or they will be apa, to he soggy. For slow cooking, have the potatoes cooked in a covered dish with milk, since they take a the milk will not curdle in a low long time to cook this way, and
temperature.
Even-Temperature Meals,
Halibut steak, baked potatoes. baked apples can be cooked in one temperature-400 degrees. Put the potatoes in first; if of medium size But for the the inexperienced they will kook in forty minutes. cook these methods are too vague Fut the fish in immediately it has und unsatisfactory. She will be been prepared after putting in the auch wiser to pin her faith to a potatoes. The baked apples should thermometer or an oven register.be put in half an hour before the
meal is to be served. Near the Flame.
Another lunch or dinner of baked It is never safe to judge by feel-ham, rice padding, creamed carrots ing, for some of us have more sengi. can be baked at one temperature, live hands than others. But with 325 to 375 degrees. The sliced ham a thermometer there can be no mis- will take an hour to an hour and take. A thermometer can be bought a half. to serve every household cooking. need, registering from 100 to 600 degrees... Baking is never done at Handling of Revolver.-Instruc.grees nor lower than 200 or 250 tion in aiming, correct grip: and degrees. trigger pressing will be given at the Company's "Headquarters on Wed- nesday evening, April 30, at
Indian Company. Parade. All ranks" of the Indian Company will parade at Police Headquarters on Tuesday, Mar o for drill under P/Sergt. R. J. Hunt. Fall in at 5.30 p.m. sherp. Dress: White uniform, belt and cap with white cover. No member may be absent from this parade without leave from the Company Com mander.
Flying Squad.
F..
The weekly instructional patrol
of the Kowloon Section will take
For the sake of economy in time and fuel it is wise to arrange meals. with dishes requiring the same oven temperature. Many cooks have the idea that the greatest heat is near the gas flame, whereas the heat rises, and the top of the oven is hottest, and, therefore best for browning.
The rice should first ke boiled in a little after to break the outer shell, and then put into a pudding dish with the milk; the "treamed carrots are cooked in a casserole with milk and water to cover, and when soft a little four and milk is used to thicken the liquid...
Many such dinners can be plan. ned, requiring little attention, by the housewife who learns the se erets of her oven.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Victim Hey!. You've
place on Tuesday, April 99. Fall my face in six places picked in at the Tsimtsatsui Fire Brigade Barber "Then I'll charge, you Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: cutrates". Khaki unform and cap with khaki
cover.
Mr. H. Cecil, Hunt has collected another entertaining book full of "Fresh Howlers," published by Messra Eract Beno, Limited. It is a mine of laughs in a line or two, taken from the seriously in-
The soldiers marched to the The weekly instructional patrol of church and halled in the square tended answers of school-childrọn."
People go about Venice in gor gonzolas,
the Hong Kong Section will take outside. One wing of the edifice Here are just a few of them: place on Friday, May 2 Fall in at the Central Police Station at 5.15 p.m. aharp. Dress: Khaki uniform and cap with khaki, cover?u
was undergoing repairs, so there was room for only about half the regiment.
Sergeant," ordered the captain, "tell the men who don't want to go to church to fall out."
Sharpshooters' Company, Strength--Constables R415" Ray mond Shen, and Riga C. L. Can A large number quickly availed have been taken on the strength of femselves of the privilegs. the Sharpshooters' Company as
"Now, sergeant," said the cap from April 23 and 24, respectively.tain, dismiss all the men who did Revolver Practice-Members of not fall out and march the others the Company will carry out revolver in-they need it most," practice at the Bowen Road Range on Wednesday evening, April 30, from-21 to 23 houra
Pompous: You have asked for my daughter's hand in marriage! Rifle Practice. Tho regular What, máy I ask, are your finan- monthly practice will take place on cial prospects?" the Stonecutters Bife Bange on Prospectus: "We have an income Sunday at Kumquat 19. Work you will leave Railway Pier, Kowloon.
Pompous
A polygon is a man who has many wives.
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A brunette is a young bear, Ambiguity means having two wives living at the same time,
All brutes are imperfect animals; man alone is a perfect brute.
Matrimony is a place where
souls suffer for a time on account of their sins.
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The Pope issued a Bull decom- posing Elizabeth,
The Normans introduced- Frugal System.
A figure of speech is a way of talking or writing by which you year bay what you don't mear Emly
at 0.30 am. sharp. Members will bad. With my daughter's allow bring their riffes. Uniform optional. ance of $10,000 annually, you ought
(8gd.).DL Kind, to be able to get along!"
Prospectus: Yes, sir." I—I—in- cluded that!".
April 28.
D.S.P. (R.).
Some of these howlers are just a little too good to be convincing, and the reader may occasionally. wonder whether the teacher has not had a hand in them.