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"THE HALL MARK
TRADE
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OF PURITY."
MARK
Sole Agents :-
UNDER THE PUNKAH.
Dolorous Dollar Dope.
Wherever you go nowadays you; hear nobody talking of anything but dollars and such talk! The dollara is going down to one and three or two, or one, and even
Br J PENN.
The thirty-first of May,
Is raise-day Pay-day,.
I could sing for nye,
Soon as I've got my dough, Let the brokers try to chase, "Exchange Blues" from
place,
Never mind if the dollar Gets low day by day,
If they raise all our pay, On every pay-day, Raising, just raising our pay!
the
Terminological "Inexactitude.
What at Kingsford Smith really said to Amy Johnson 1 One paper says he told her she could dy
bob! Well, I am not worrying: I leave the bankers to do that. I have an overdraft of about Ave million dollars, and if a dollar is only worth one shilling instead of the half-crown when I borrowed it well, I should worry! I was in London when street-hawkers were seiling 1,000 mark notes for a penny cach, and & 10,000 mark note for sixpence. Well, and what about it? Stands Scotland where it did
to Australia if she had the deter I'll say it does! And Ireland, too!mination to stick it out." To And so it will when the Hong Kong stick what out her chest? Another dollar drops to twelve a penny. It paper tells us that what the famous Do use worrying, brothers; not a ying-man actually said to Amy bit.
was that she could fy to Australia right enough if she had the guts to stick it out? Not quaite 'naice, Mr De Kynggs-Forde Smythe, think you? Not the way & real
to transmitting it-why have any compunction about printing it "Guts" will be found in the Ox ford Dictionary-the acknowledged authority on English-not as a vulgar word, a "not quaite naice word, but as a perfectly, proper word, meaning among other de- finitions-real value or force." A thing which has no guts in it is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as something of no real value or force. Conversely, that which has "guts" has real value or force- and Amy Johnson surely has proved that she has-well, has what the quaite naice people prefer to call
determination,"
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Hints For the Penniless.
I have just been reading a sixty- page leaflet written by an Ameri- can author entitled "A Short Cut To Success-And Wealth. If you haven't done so, rou should read this bright little effort, calculated to make everyone a millionaire.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd. brokers have reduced their rick gentleman should speak to a really The book, however, clearly explains
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Today's Tiffin-$1.35.
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-Grilled Macao Salmon
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Nevertheless, this business no doubt is getting on many people's nerves. I notice that some of our
shaw' runners to only two, while I actually saw one prominent figure walking from one bank to another some, days back, Waking "man, actually walking |
Another thing this exchange busi- ness bar done is to make some of our "spinners turn out better yarns than they ever did in all their lives, so I am not at all sure whether it is not in fact better for the piece-goods markets to have these fluctuations." I were to believe all that has been told me, then there must be roughly some 199,999 people in this Colony who in the good old days thought nothing of giving a motor-ear away, but can hardly afford to give away
a cigarette now.
Pay, Pay Pay!
refrained membah of the opposite that it all depends on yourself". sex, what. Quaite, quaite! But Since I have digested the contents at any rate, even if foreible, it is of this, little sixty-page effusion, I intelligible. If you have the guts no longer consider myself among to stick it out, you can do what the backward sort, or rearguard. you propose to do; if you haven't Instead, I see a new era of pres
perity and plenty ahead of me and got the guts, you won't!" The Unce Guld.
since the whole thing depends on myself, I lost no time in making a -start...
It seems to me there can be no half-measures in these matters. Either the cable-editor should give us exactly what the cable say Elagsford Smith said, or else he should re-model the whole message. If he considers the long ears of some of his readers will waggle with ungum indignation at seeing
able collection of stamps was going Last week, when I saw a valt up for auction, did I hesitate?" No.
a thousand times, no! I walked- straight into the auctioneer's with unfaltering steps. That book I read gave me the guts-beg pardon, the a word bias is in constant, oral determination to go through with use even by the very naicest "the thing. Did I know anything of people, though rarely seen in print, the letter "e" upside down! Did
cent Java Bed of he should have paraphrased the
I know the value of the 7 Guilder cable, as, for example:- Anyway, one has all his work cut "A person of the masculine gen- Bangkok brown with cream back- out to drive away these horrible der, yelept Kingsford Smith, who ground? Did I know how many Exchange · Blues," but as I am has had some personal experience stamos comprise a set of the 1865 descended from particularly of the art of aviation, assured Visa Dutch East Indies issue? No, but did it matter i "All that does bright stock, I refuse to be depress. Amy Johnson that, provided she ed. I have written a few lines to displayed in the highest degree matter"-I am quoting now from that popular tune,
"I'm Singing those laudable moral qualities of the little American book beside me In The Rain," and thoroughly re-
courage (in the face of danger), is that you get in ahead of
perseverance commend it as a sure cure for the patience, and
(as everybody else." nilment referred to above. If some the Bruce and the spider), it was exemplified in the story of Robert think I am treating the subject too flippantly, I ask them to pause and
his candid and considered opinion consider what this already sad that there was no known nor ob- world would be like if every vious obstacle which should or mother's son were a pessimist.
would prevent her achieving the seize your ukeleles, boys, and lift ambitious obiect she had in view,"
That would be one way of telling your voices in gladsome song:---
the story. Another-and a much be something like this:- more real and human way would
So
I can't be happy and I cannot sing, And I cannot do a bally old thing, I feel so worried by these dollar Jumping incessantly, all the
ways.
dam day.
Why all the talk about a gold basis, Don't our bosses know what a raise
is 7
They're raising all our pay, Just raising all our pay, It's a prosperous feeling, A raise on pay-day,
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And so it happened that I got away with several lots of stamps, catalogued variously at between £100 to £1,000, for a paltry $150. Do you realise what this means with the exchange at a fraction over 1/47, No, perhaps you don't. but you haven't seen the little Bangkok brown which I now have Among my treasured possessions. one corner, but I hope to be able True, it is slightly moth-cnten in to sell is one day at a little below catalogue price, and I might be satisfied with a paltry 1000 per cent. profit instead of a small fortune. Good English.
Meanwhile, if you hear of anybody After all, why this squeamishness know now that you have the name wanting to buy rare stamps, you about the good old English word of at Feast one hopeful seller. "guts" Since Renter has no You'll keep roy name in mind;" scruple about writing it, and the won't you? Thanks so awfully eable companies have no objection! much!
with Amy Johnson her chanes of "Kingsford Smith. discussing ring frora England to Australia, said: If you've got the guts, there's nothing to stop you.""
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Diary of Coming
To-day.
(May 31.)
Union Day, South Africa. Queen's Theatre: "The Idle Rich."
Coming Events.
European Mails:- Inward: Europe vid Negapatan (Joypore) Europe vid Siberia (Pres. Harri- son); Outward: Europe via Mar- seilles (Khyber), 10.30 a..
World Theatre: "Tide of Em
and The Great Success"
Tides: High, 10.40 a.m.; Low, pire (Chinese film at 2.30 p.m. and 7.154.10 am and 6.26 p.m. p.m.)
Star Theatre: The Girl on the Barge.".
Sunday. (June 1.)
Queen's Theatre: "Puttin on the
Majestic Theatre: "The Patriot." Formal Opening of Clubhouse of the Hong Kong
Ritz." Flying Club, 4 p.m. Kai Tack Follies" Concert by at Kowloon Cricket Club.
"Tennis:=""A" Div.: K.0.0.TV. HKO.C., I.R.Q. v. Q.R.C., M.B.K. 4. §.0.A.‚Á‚ “B" Div.: Recreio v. T.M.CA, C.R.C.. USLC., Nip pon Club v. H.K.C.C., RES.C. LR.C., K.C.C....... v. 0.8.0.0.7. S.C.A.A. 2. C.0.0. "0" Div.! Filipino Club v. C.C., Univer- sity T.C. u. C.8.C.C., H.K.C.C. «. |G.T.C.
Lawn Bowls:-Div. I. Kowloon Decks R.C.. Civil Service C. C.C.C. Recreio, Police R.C.
Craigingower C.O... C.8.0.C.. H.K. Electric. R.C., KC,C. v, Royal H.K.T.C., Kowloon B.G.C. v. Taikoo R.C.
Tea Dáncs: Peninsula Hotel, 5
Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, 18-p:m:
World Theatro "All at Sca Star Theatre The Last Fron- tier.?...
Monday. (June 2)
Queen's Theatre
Puttin on the Ritz".
World Theatre: All at Sea" Star Theatre The Last Fron- tier,
-Sale of Crown Land, K.I.L. No. 2339 and IL. 2002 at P.W.D. offices,
3 p.m.
European Mails: Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Pres. Mekin-
Tuesday. (June 3.)
· Birthday of HM. King George V. Reception at Government House, 9.30 pm Agent
Queen's Theatre: "Puttin on the Ritz
World Theatre: "Slightly Used.” Star Theatre: "Powder My Back."
Tea Dance: Peninsula Hotel. 5 p.m.
European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Gen. Met- zinger) noon, Europe vid Siberia (Empress of Russia) noon (super- scribed correspondence only).
Wednesday. (June 4.). Queen's Theatre:" Puttin' on the Bitz."..
World Theatre: "Slightly Used." Star Theatre "Powder My Back."
Ordinary General Meeting of the Douglas Steamship Co., 11 h at P.O. Building.
Half Yearly General Meeting of: Voting Members of The Hong Kong: Jockey Club, 5,30 p.m. at Club House,
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