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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY
MIXED GRILLI By A Merry Miscellany
Ashley Sterne
UNDERWRITERS.
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amounted to $203,171 against $133,923 in 1926, being more than double, while overhead expenses have increased from $161,211 to
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I think I may fittingly conclude save an occasional snack when he my brief summary of the enreer | feels hungry. He has knocked off of Pijk Smkff, the famous Jugo- all drinks except spirits, wine Czecho-Slavakian composer. by beer, and spends most of his time giving a few details of the man in meditation, either in bed or in himself, which I trust may prove provocative of a wider appriela- tion and deeper understanding of his remarkable works.
Helan trifle over 5ft. tall in his socks, but much taller when standing on a chair. The hair of his head is jet black, but bis beard a bright red and his eye- brows flaxen. He is a vegetarian, and subsists entirely on MAW pickles, and mangle-wirzels; buttared buns. He drinks only linseed tea, red ink, and end liver
oil is hobbies are stilt-walking
and thecae-tasting. He is the cocktail-bar of the Smaj Hotel, married, and has nine children all at which celebrated Beanbay hos the same age, shape and size. Heelry he is once more installed, composés every day from having made his peace with the $1 a.m. til mid-day, and again management. They found indeed. from 11.47 p.m. till midnight. He that after they had kicked him out sleeps in water-barrel.
it
By the takings in their various bars religion he is a Theodolite, and showed so lamentable a drop, that by politics a Neo-Contortionist.cm bia return to Bombay from his
all. thank you.
That will be
ja telephone murber is Splvrk interrupted piigrinunge to Rajgir they practically implored him to 00011000101019.
come back and occupy his former gitarters, Crumpett generously The latest deliency for Parisian Consented to overlook the past, and gourmeta, I read, is, the heads of died his return by ordering
arved with champagne ad Livium tor violets, which are
Entire Hotel Staff. "All day at I only how the gourmets salada. will reciprocate by wearing let. flowed like water," he says, "m 1s in their hinton-hales..
Mrs. Elinor Glya. the novelist. in her new book, "The Wrinkle B4" says that wrinkles may be preventeds if you sleep with your hred in the Magnetic North. Not ang pin know that you can similarly avoid getting domneh- ache by sleeping with your left hier tor pointing 1 Terra del Fuego
and your right thumb to West- mister Abbey; and that you ran pyvent lawn tennis elbow, virket. hotulim, quinzy, and writer's cramp by yine awake with your appendix pointing to the Tropic Capricorn, your nose do t'phun Junction, and stickit You Joyce out at Milky Way.
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eyes
The abodetium smile, thendur.
ing fair.
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surmise,
all, hang's the quart of fluid you
have eat ght
Upan your sitten surfare, and 20
koj
Front Pan my spring suit yo newly
bought.
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have wept.
skies relentlessly
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from watery Cale
Hy grue so kind protection front
the rain;
My
llars you have kept -
culate;
"You're purest my heart from water
en the bran
Ye not for these ako hold you
To guy sad ie the very worst of
by:
Winsome
Have
you forgotten: Dorothea, Was I kissed heath your
heit ring vila?
A Basicul critic asks why it that many people go to sleep young, I at once telegraphed to my al dansient Cancerts, Team only
merry
professors the question, "At what age to you consider it most advis
able to marry?" to which, I have
seest that diy prefer Moryboa
phens.
received the following repliest: * Mr. Ortha L. Wilnow, a student Prof. Anesthesis Bilgewater of Chicago University, ins ligen
1066.
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your
kain
wire
night
verstehen. Pat mir bulb-a-crown on Oxford for a platz.
Bulkley Slodgers My Dr. answer is a vehement "Yes."
Prof. Fillinger Rottenhleiter.- My reply is an emphatic "No.".
Prof. Beans Gayzer.Consider dotage is only logical age in which to commit matrimony.
amining old, Latin Herature, with a view to ascertaining wit buy preparations were ized by the labes of Ancient Rome. ¿ Lace lotion recomanenged by 1'ling, was compasyd d) the 'ashes of sunila mixed with honey. while a favourite ungent was extracted from the indies of cro- codiles. Strange us these cosme ties may seem, I have heard of even more extraord-nary ones. Batts Ins-Belfry A
When was translating some old lemot is the correct answer.
Babylonic cuneiform & few yours Crumpeti Barmion
a recipe for Trof. Either Wednesday or Trafalgar Ago I came across
preserving that school-girl cum- Square,
plexion for which the naughters of Babylon were once so famour. This specifie.was made from the
merrythoughts incinerated
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Professor Crumpett, by the way. who, as I told you last week, was intending to become a mahatma, ostriches mixed with mucilave, tells me in the course of a long granulated zing, and the tags of I also learned that a cable that he has already started bootlaces. his studies, and is fasting very ellicacions lip-safve could be rigorously in order to attain the extracted from the left-hind leg of necessary subjugation of the body the quagga. So you can take it to the mind. Between meals, he from me that Mr. Wilner speaks says, he 'cal absolutely nothing sooth, and is not merely pulling
our legs with hot air.
DISUNITED EUROPE.
ARMAMENTS PREFERRED TO
PRODUCTION.
Genva, May 6.
At the Economic Conference. Mr. Layton (Britida) said De European problem would rind bet solved until the nationa themselves acted. The object they had in vlow would not be attained simply
establishment of by the organisation for co-operation such as proposed by M. Johhaux yester- dus.
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Mr. Layton and several of his colleagues were of opinion that the' less complicated and the more elastic the pinn the more useful i would prove.
They painted out that there.weke 11,000 kilometres of new customs barriers in Europe, and the popu- lation had at least 10,000,000 souls without productive work, while C.$2,250,000,000 was annually spent on armaments.. These were aymptoms of a disunited Europe.' -Reuter.
the commission, at $107,565, has increased roughly in proportion to the increase in new business. If the same rates of conversion had been applied, the overhead ex- penses Agure (excluding commis- nien), would have been practically i the same while the Increase in income would have been 89 per
cent.
in my remarks at our meeting last year I predicted that in the fourth year of the Company's working, e. 1927, the income in the Department would exceed all ontgoings, That this prediction is likely to be fulfilled is evidenced by the fact that in the last quarter of the year under review, the income has for the first time exceeded all outgoings (including claims the excess being some $10,000.
The amount carried to Eslab- lishment of Life Business Accounti is $28,078, against $94,002 in 1925, i and the Avesunt now stands at $152,649, at which figure it is un- kely the increased, so that any further cash drain ou capital on this account is improbable. In View
the Annual Premium pf over books Tacco mi the $200,000 the rest of Establishment. excessive and we can, I think look forward to the future of this Department with confid-
Accident Department.
The Accident Department is Pamuli but is growing the not premiums reerived being $5,9-47, minst $2.822, in 1925 or more than did while the expenses at 86,089 are slightly less ai lati year.The amount rarried to the dubit of Prolit ad Lors was $1,838!
Fonipared with $4,828 in 1925.) Tirth of prenium income)
le the exponers are not being defeased gives promise that this piment cut be developed pro
Share Issue,
Torre is an Pera, in the Balance Shet calling for comment. You will remember that in dam, 1920, horter to provide, for certain ex- pension then contemplated, a fur- ther issue of shares was offered to sharchilders at a premium of 50 cars and it had this issue was underwritten. Owing to the fin- anela prition in the Colony bought about by the boycott the Lean was not subscribed, although The date for subscription was post- pated several times.
The Underwriters found it dith-i ent, in the circumstances, to take up their share of the issue and had they done so it is probable the shares would have been thrown on the market. In the eircumstances, at the request of the Underwriters we decided, after consulting our legal advisers, to rancel the Under- writing Agrement on payment by the Enterwriters of the full profit of $52,500 we should have made if they had taken up their share of the issue,
The Company, therefore,', lust nothing by the cancellation except the use of the Capital which, in the circumstances then existing, was
The purpos not required for intended. The profit so made, with $3,000 premium together
shares actually issued, arried.tentporarily to "Premium on Shares Acenunt," but it for n substantial offset to the amounts carried to the debt of Profit and
on
i:
Small Outstandings..
Of the amount $87,289, shown "Out- the balance sheet us
1927.
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Sole Agents.
at the
unding Premiums," $18,248 re- Among other novelties presented Life Premiam Receipt. [Drapery Exhibition is the Charles- in the hands of Agencies not re-ton rubber knee pad which is de- sorted at the date of account.signed for the use of ladies who of the balance of $69,011, only are learning that much discussed. dance. I understand that if by 72,990 remains outstanding.
are brought In the curly part of the year accident the knees sar Manager. Mr. Farrant found into more or less violent contact sessury, for domestic reasons, the pad acts as a shock absorber reside in England and approach and prevents bruising, says a Lon- 1 cannot say that I us to release him as soon adou writer ould be arranged without pre-have heard of anything in the na- judice to the Company's interests.ture of football-knee being caused We regretfully acceded to his re-by the fint dance; but it is doubt- quest and Mr. Sturt, the Com-less well to be on the safe side. pany's Life Manager, was offered Possibly a collision mat for use in will be overcrowded ball-rooms and accepted the position of Man-
the next development of modern ager and Secretary.
invertion.
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Telephone C. 4578
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Face Towels from...... $11.00 Doz to $33 per Doz.
to $47 $13.75 Bath Towels
Bath Sheets.............
$10.00 each.
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Linen Glass Cloths...
Tea
Kitchen
Pantry
Check Dusters
17
20 * 28. $7.00 Doz.
18
* 26. $6.50
20
x
30. $6.50
20+
X
25, $6.50
18
* 22. $4.00
Chamois Polishers
18
× 24. $5.00
Floor Cloths.
17
× 21. $3.50
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Monday evening's gathering at Volunteer Headquarters on the occasion of the winner and concert of the Armoured Car and
Infantry Companies and the Fanling Hunt. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
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