MIXED GRILL BA Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
How are your New Year Re-jduring as other more notable re-
solutions gotting on, messmates Hcs of Ancient Grecco.
o' mine? Are they still with you, or-have-they-already-folded-up
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Says a writer. In a woman's their pants like the Arabs and as paper: "A sensible housewife silently trickled off? In the Int-does not judge a maid by appear- ter event it is not for me to judge ances." No; and for the follow- you harshly, for I know from poring very cogent reason:
senal experience that sometimes we fall to fulfill our good resolves through circumstances over which we have no control. The present scribe, when a dear little boy in a perfectly sweet little Lord Fauntleroy suit, 'beneath which lurked a heart of Macchiavellian gulle, onco resolved to put a penny a woek in the missionary box. He conscientiously kept this up for several weeks. drop- pling his penny into the box rogu- larly every Saturday night after: he had said his prayers..... until one day the collector from the gas company called and dila- covered that the lock of the slote: meler was broken. As Rabbie Burns so truthfully remarked:
The best-laid schemes the giftle
gie un Gang aft agtoy n ithers sea us.
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"A petrified goose, estimated to be about 3,000 years old, has been found in a cave in France. By a curious coincidence. I found a part of one, possessing precisely similar characteristics, or a plate in a city restaurant at Christmas- time.
Some people make a habit most
uncharitably vilo,
Of judging others' characters juat
by their facial mould, Forgetful of the fact that there is
many an ugly dial That's frequently accompanied by a
heart of soild gold.
Let me quote a single instance of such cruel and heartless gullt:
I myself sustained an accident at
footer when at school, That crushed my frontal bones and bent my brow back on the tilt; Tot folks asaume I have the sloping
forchend of the fool."
But, housewives all, no wonder you refrain from judgement bane, When Susan Jane, the parlout-maid,
or Mary Ann; the cook,
Takes service in your household;
you can't judge her by her face, For she's never with you long enough to give you time to look!
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By the clinical thermometer of In order not to forget to portray sulapius! but these doctor- the slow movements of an aged fellers are crying "Have at you" and infirm
man in the opening once again. Some section or other scenes of the new "Faust" film, of the community always seem toerr Ekman, who plays the titled be getting their goal. A few role, weighted his wrists and weeks age it was the folks who ankles with lender bracelets, It stooped over their office work and seems to me that some of our re- contracted
chests and vue beauty-cheristors, in order convex tummies. Now it's the not to forget to reproduce the motorists, whose locomotive mus-agile movements of young and cles, say the docs, are becoming sprightly maidens, might as aptly atrophied from disuse. Anyway, attach balloons to their arms and
legs.
encave
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So great has been the success In the Community-Singing con- certs in London and the provinces that I am thinking of trying the experiment of Organising a Com- minity-Silence concert by way of contrast. My kien is to take the Albert Hall or Olympia, and fill it with people who are in search of profound quiet. We shall all
they are commenting adversely on cotton-wool, soft soap, or on the moterist who sea his car
potatoes something in preference to his legs on the mashed slightest possible pretextech awfully soft anyway--and Mr. for so trifling a job as to returnGibson Young will come on to the. next-door's garden-shears he bor platform and drop pins, or make rowed. Hence they predict that silence like a mouse. I shall make arrangements
dess and confirmed motorist will
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courge
the future progeny of the hope with the B.B.C. to broadcast the be afflicted with "soft and flabby silence, so that the workers em-
ployed in builer constitutions." Never mind.
factories and
i. Brothers
of the Spanner and blacksmith's forges, and those en- Sparking-Plug Think of what aged in blasting operations may a lot of fun our soft and flabby participate in this great bon progeny will derive from asking which 1"propose to confer upon one another if they've joined the the row-ridden Londoner,
Custard-Club!
پیچید
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I have just received a huge cable from Professor Barmion
Which reminds me that my Crumpett, wherein he tells me eminent friend, Dr. Bulkley Stod- that he spent an entire day per- ger, lecturer in dietetics az Yell ambulating Bombay in his search: University, Connectichusetts, has for a snake-charmer willing to in- sent me a sample of his new cure struet him, in the mysteries of the for obesity, "kinnilene." Ho art. But the individual who ap- clairus, for it that it will not only peared to the Professor's myopic remove superabundant adipose vision to look in the least like a tissue from the human frame, but snake charmer turned out upon will even take the fat ant of investigation to be merely a street streaky bacon. So far so good vendor of strings of sausages. But, I hope Doctor Stodger will But not before" old Crumpett had not be content just to rest on the bought up his entire stock in the laurels which grateful patients belief that he was purchasing (and no doubt grateful rashers cori samps, or cogrus. His inten- too) have tung at him. I should tion was, he says, to take the like him to experiment further snakes back with him to the until he can find some substance Smuj Hotel, and keep them in his which will remove all the fat bedroom for the purpose of from, the roles of some of our private practice. I can
gee the pantomime "comedians" (so call- Professor becoming awfully popu- cd.) Most of their fat is as en-lar if he isn't jólly careful,
!
TOLL OF THE WAR.
90 PEERAGES MAY BECOME EXTINCT.
many, cnees the war is responsi- ble; hereditary dignities have al- so been affected as to their de-j scent by reason of casualties.
Honours conferred between De- cember 1, 1925, November 30, 1926, irrespective of such as are Over 20 existing peerages and below the rank of M.V.O. (4th nearly 200 baronetices bid fair to class), number nearly 400. In become extinct.
addition, one earl (the Earl of This is one of the facts contain Reading) was raised to a mar- ed in the new "Debrett's Peerage" quisate, four barons to viscoun
of Irish
a volume of 3,340 pages. Out of fles, while one baron some 780 peerages, more than 800 creation has received a 'barony of have at the moment no hair at all the United Kingdom.
to succeed to the peerage,, or only
an heir-presumptive.
In the baronetage there
Lanca. and arel
i
Cheshire Miners')
some 1,200 Euronets, of whim 550 Federation's new president is Mr.- aro_insimilar position. In Stephen Walsh M.P.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927.
THE "RED RIDING HOOD" PANTOMIME.
At top are seen the Orchid Ballet (Miss Daisy O'Keefe and her pupils) in the recent "Red Riding Hood" pantomime; whilst below are some of the leading characters who also figured in the pro- gramme. (Photos by Tanaka Studio).
cur.
SO THIS IS CHINA.
JACK TAR ASHORE.
Time, Wednesday afternoon. Seene, a Happy Valley-bound tram- Cold and drizzling, but at- mosphere charged with expectancy of th Hankowsigned agreement, Party of bluejackets boarding car at Naval Yard 'Gate
First Tar:-Heard the newe," Billy? What's-his-name has sign-
nd.
INSPECTOR BOND RETIRING.
A POPULAR WATER POLICE OFFICAL.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
NEW LORD HIGH, COMMISSIONER.
London, Feb. 18..
The Earl of Stalr has been ap-
The Colony will shortly lose ac- ather popular figure, when Inspec-pointed Lord High Commissioner tor E. Bond, of the Water Police, of the Church of Scotland, in leaves for Home on retirement in a succession to the Earl of Elgin. fortnight's time, after over twenty-British Wireless. years' service here. He received
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The Earl of Stair, who is the Second Tar:Good, It's dirty his appointment of Inspector in 13th holder of the title, succeeded weather we shall meet up there. January, 1924, and of late has been Third Tur:And we get no men- in control at the Water Police tion in dispatches for it, Jock. Station, a by no means easy Joel (who had been feading the post, During his stay in the news about Mr. Chen, and was Colony,
Bond Inspector
his father in 1914. Ho was edu- cated at Harrow and Sandhurst and entered the Scots Guards in 1898. He served in the South bas African War, whilst for his ser-
vices in the Great War he was men-
"still at sea")-Yes, the elements earned 25 large measure of are not taken into consideration. popularity, by his tactful haud-tioned in despatches and given the Appreciative chorus from ship-ling of matters and his genial per D.S.O. He is a Brigadier of the mates:Wow-yah, Jock! Wow-sonality, and the Colony will lose
yah!
know.
for
a popular official and a good friend. Royal Company of Archers, King's First Tar (as Billy gives fure to We understand that he will depart Bodyguard, Scotland, and Deputy coin. It's more than a penny.on March 5th, and that before his Lieutenant of Wigtonshire. From Twenty cents is a shilling, you departure a number of presenta-1906 to 1914 he was M.P.
Wigtonshire.1 tions will be made to him on behalf Billy-Can't remember them. of his colleagues. It is like counting how many yards make a perch or red, or something, Billy.
Billy:-Look out for the place. Where are we now? Have we got
to it?
Second Tar-I dunno.
Jock (who still thinks of Mr. Chen, and jumps up at his ship- mate's remark to investigate) :-- Now, what is the difficulty now?
First Tar (who believes only the évidence of his own eyes):-It is Carolina Hill or Leighton Road. All I know is that I shall be in Leighton Road when I'm there.
Billy (admiringly) You are an old stager, and yet you have been here only a week.
First Tar-Not so old. I have not been in all of it. Remember "Where Oriental Lights are Gleam- ing."
And the party proceeded to hum "Hongkong" as the car proceeded
to the destination!
FARMERS DISAGREE.
INTERESTING AMERICAN
"SITUATION.""
Washington, Feb. 18. An interesting situation 'bes been created as the result of the House of Representatives passing the Farm Relief Bill, which has caused the liveliest controversy.
The Bill was largely supported by important agricultural interests in the Middle East, but, was atrongly opposed in the East. President Coolidge and Mr. Mellon were known to disapprove of the measure but the question arises whether President Coolidge can afford to lose the Farmers' yote by vetoing the Bill in the event of his Intending to stand for the Presi dency next year.-Reuter's Amori- can Service.
Inspector Bord's place will be
taken by Sub-Inspector I. Brown, Mr. W. Villa Gilbert has re- lately in charge of No. 4. Police signed the honorary secretaryship launch... Sub-Inspector Brown of the Institution of Aeronautical joined the local Water Police in Engineers, and Mr. Norman J. 1912, and has been here for nearly Hulbert has been appointed in his
place. fifteen years.
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