THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929.
OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
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New Standant of Realism
NORMAN LONG. (ENTERTAINER AT THE PIANO)
On the Beach at Bangaloo
5159 Sing llo, for the Days of Drinking
Why is the Bacon So Tough
| Never have A Bath with Your Wrist Watch on
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That's Why I Love Her -
| You Musta't. Do it' After & 'O'clock '
The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.
WOMAN'S WORLD
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S.E. ENGLAND ELECTRICITY SCHEME.
BRITISH MATERIALS TO BE USED.
The whole of the material used in the contract placed by the Central Electricity Board with, the General Electric Co., Ltd., for one section of the overhead trans- mtsalon lines in the south-east of England, will be manufactured in Great Britaly,
An official of the company stated that the contract, the value of which was approximately £500,000, would cover the erection of the 192,000 volt line in the district north of the Thames, stretching from Reading on the west, to Peterborough on the north, and Ipswich and Colchester on the cast. The total mileage of the overhead trans- salon would be 264 miles, and the total actual length of conductor would be, 1,300 miles...
The contract would be carried out by the Genora! Electric Company with the assistance of their associated company, the Pirelli-General Cable Works, Ltd., of Southampton, the latter company carrying out all the actual erection work. The work of erection would take in all three years, and employment would be given in the actual erection work to between 500 and 1,000 men. In addition to that employment would be given to large numbers in the manufacture of the steal towers, steel aluminium conductors insulators, and other accessories.
The overhead lines are dne section of the system of overhead lines covering the whole of England and Scol- Jand which are being erected by the Contral Electricity Board with the object of linking up the main generating stations throughout the country and affording a cheap supply of electric power in all districts.
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It's passe for the summer girl to try to put up a good front any more, because the back means everything, according to the newest edicta of Dame Fashion. At the left, above, la pictured the bench pyjamas to be worn with the new low cut bathing suits. The
centre shows an evening dress' in the new mode. To the right is a dress that is more dressy in the back than in the front.
My
Ideal Wife
Now
Novelties.
A HARASSED BACHELOR
EXPLANS.
The New Corset.
BACK INTO WHALEBONE AGAIN.
Eve has thrown another bomb into Harley Street. She is wear ing corsets again, and her medical critics are wildly disputing their effect on her health.
Acroza.
1. Shout.
5. Marksmen.
&. Proclaira
12. Mountain nymph.
10. ADEST
21.
Free,
18. Small boat
24,
14. Scraggy.
...
10. Clumsy fellows,
11. Permite
15. Speak dreisively.
10. Encircle wheels.
Dng by day.
25. Off-spring.
15, Nose,
17. Disperso.
29.
18. Dandling. 20. Oppressors.
22. Before,
23. Margia.
20. Hear Невг.
27. Gava over,
50. Tunes
31. Kind of puzzle.
32. Gulde.
33, Plunder.
36. Medicine.
37. Certain.
34. Transfer.
49.
43. Charge.
43. Religious woman.
44. Dress.
40. That which dredges,
49. Kind of fowl.
52,
Bollow.
63. Dimonalons,
64. Three,
65. Month.
56. Affray.
37. Rear.
58. Laziness. 60. Valley.
1. Audacious.
Down.
2. Pertaining to an area, 3. Disengage from a habit.
Mounted soldiers,
4. Suspend,
7. Rigid.
8. Kind of sweatment.
9. Forthwith.
PEANUT COMEDY.
FOR THE TENNIS GIRL.
The turban sports cap is the I have just reüd with interest | latest atyle of headwear for the and no little amazement "the tennis court.
It most obviously of takes its inspiration from the descriptions by many women their "Ideal husband."
skull cap with a cut op brim which The relations were inspired by most of us have been wearing for a competition, and although re-a season or two but as the cap Because of the revival of the stricted to one hundred and fifty is made of woven artificial silk it Prines-dress-though it is no words, the dear ladies have is comfortable and cool in wear. every word, making it clear that the folds tucking one inside the the figure till it reaches the knees, managed to cram a virtue Into The edge is a series of plents with longer called that tightly t
ting garment moulded closely to what they want for a husband is other in the correct Vashion of an, not so much a man as a thorough- Eastern turban. The cap is made where it breaks out into frills and ly domesticated angol
in various pastel and bright ounces, requires a tightly fitted, In this article I propose to get shades and costs three-and-eleven-strongly boned foundation, a little of my own back by describ-pence.
So the good old steel and whale- ing an ideal wife.
A new bandeau eyeshade has bone corsets are being sold in My Ideal wife moves quietly also made an appearance which hundreds, and efficiently about the house, allows for the fact that sizes in One specialist rejolces that the "How To Handle Womon," which' neither complaining of the short-feminine heads vary. The hack of day of the rubber reducer and the is being shown on Sunday and comings of the maid nor calling the bandeau in fashioned of silk- elastic belt is over. “If,” he said,
listen to long covered elastic so that it is aclf "girls had left themselves really Monday at the Queen's Theatre, rigmaroles about it being 400 adjusting to the wearer's size, free there might have been some is another excellent Universal bad of the butcher to treat us The peak of the eyeshade is, of thing to be said for the no-corant like this."
comedy, course, lined with green to mini-mode, but they bought cheap. She is on excellent terms with mise eye strain.
badly made elastic belts, wore Glenn Tryon is starring and her neighbours, and yet so co-
them as tight as they could pos- Marlon Nixon is his leading lady, trives matters that they never call
sibly endure, and impeded the cir- Tryon has only recently been culation.
elevated to stardom, but his original type of comedy portrayal
upon mit
to
upon us when we wish to be to please me, but because she has alone. She may laugh ot the the wonderful knack of obtaining foibles of the people next door, pleasure horaalf from all sho but never maliciously, for she does.
18 generous in her dealings with all the world,
She always
"Less Danger."
.
GLENN TRYON IN "HOW TO HANDLE WOMEN."
of love.
23. First appearance.
29, Farewell..
14. Slender spirial shoot,
35. Prongs,
36. Goddess of grain.
87. Sect.
39. Jug. 41.
Hugo
42. Feel
for.
45. Bay window.'
46. Dall..
47. Nobleman.
48. Nivulot
40. Remaining.
50. Figure on an escutcheon.
51. Christmas.
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LETTER GOLF.
The FIRE GONG is a signal for speed-even in letter golf,
F
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GOING
1.-The idea of latter golf is to
"The new corset has at least to My ideal wife is interested in be carefully fitted, in many cases is rapidly making him one of the to-made to order, and there is cer-outstanding stara in point of Although sturdily independent wards it is never uncritical. She tainly less danger of serious popularity. He imbues his charac- change one word to another and
my work, but her attitude in thought and action my ideal never pratsen for the sake of results." wife has tact, and never asserts praise, and she never finds fault
Women doctors, on the whole, terizations with elever tricks and do it in par, a given number of her independence to the peril of for the sake of finding fault. are against any kind of boned cor- funny actions that never fall in strokes. Thus to change COW to domestic peace.
dresses well, but set, and declare that the sports When the sun is shining bright she never bores me with a dis- girl does not need any support their purpose of providing mirth, HEN, in three strokes, COW, ly, it does not outshine the cussion of dress. She cooks well, other than her own muscles.
The adventures of a newspaper|HOW, HEW, HEN. radiance on her face, and when but never harrows me by allow dressmakera support the now cartoonist out of a job, in trying, times are threatening, her smile Ing the job to make her perspire. fashion wholeheartedly.
2.You can change only one is as radiant as ever, never be She talks well, but never dis
to gain domination of a somewhat letter at a time.', And, In any case, Miss 1920 la coming merely "brave." Unlike pleases me by talking merely to not likely to eschew her corsets, recalcitrant young lady," and in so many good wives,she does not, hear her own voice. disguise her worries, for the
Some of the most daring models of selling the unused peanut crop of She is kindly, and gracious, and the season are built on the now a foreign country named Volgaria, word, of common usage, for each
lines for example, "The Mer is the thread of the story. After a jump. Siarg words and abbrevia
She' is-
But
S.-You must have a complete
simple reason that she has none.true. Hor faith is strong, and she knows
But enough! I, too, am restrict-maid," an evening robe of gleam-whole lot of extremely amusing full well that everything willed for space, and in any event, ing green and silver fitting like incidents, he finally sells the crop,
tions don't Joust.: come right in the and.
what right has a foolish old sheath to the knees, where makes money for himself and the 4-The order of letters connot. Please and be Pleased. bachelor to go on writing in auch irridescent tulle sprouts forth in a Prince of Volgaris, and wins the be changed. She falls in readily with my strain?—JAMES O'F, DONNE. In fashion that suggests sea foam love of a girl who had formerly One solution is printed on schemes, not because she hopes' Exchange.
and ends in a "fish tall" train.
another pago."
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WELL-HOW DOES UNCLE HARDY'S TRIP TO. HAWAII STRIKE YOU, FRECKLES? DO YOU THINK YOU'LL HAVE A GOOD
TIME?
BE NEEDNT WORRY ABOUT US, NEED HE, FRECKLES?
NO-Z ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH
UNCLE HARRY
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ANHEN DO YOU THINK YOU'LL START, UNCLE
HARRY........... IN A
WEEK OR SO?
SOONER THAN THAT—I, WANT "TO GET AWAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE-SKKÜLD BE ON MY WAY
RIGHT
Now!
THEN MAYBE WELL.. BÉ CEANING IN A DAY. CR. SO I LIKE TO EAT ON TRAINS BOY!
THEY HAVE GOOD
THINGS TO EAT, DON'T THEY,
'.
UNCLE HARRY
YES-BUT IM GOING TO SEE
IF I CANT ARRANGE FOR A FASTER ÁLLYA- OD. OF TRAVEL TO THE HARBOR
VIVAT DID UNCLE HARRY MEAN BY A'FASTER, METHOD
FRECKLES ?·
THE ONLY. THING L CAN THINK OF
NOULD BE AN AIRPLANE ....... I WONDER.
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