THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 12,
1930.
GIRL AND LOVER IN, SAFE CHARGE.
"CITY OF PEKING" AGROUND.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
"I THOUGHT SHE WAS A MILLIONAIRESS."
PASSENGERS REPORTED
INJURED.
Tokyo, Apr. 11.
How a girl was found under the bed of another girl, from
The Ellerman Line 3.s. "City of whom she was alleged to have Poking" on a voyage to Dairen and stolen two dresses, and, on being Vladivostok with eighty passen arrested, was stated to have made gers, stranded In
a fog between an extraordinary confession of Quelparti Island and Port Hamilton robbing a safe, was related at last night. Marylebone..
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Fishing boats in the vicinity re- In the dock were Hilda Lewis, cued all the passengers and crew, aged 19, of Priory-road, West totalling about 130 and have land- Hampstead, and her lover, Barnarded them safely, though several of Lewis Sheker, aged 29, a clerk, of them are reported to be more or
less seriously injured. Church-street, Stoke Newington.
They were charged with being Reports vary as to the fate of the concerned in atealing £128 8s in vessel, some stating that she has cash, 20 postal orders, 19 cheques sunk and others that she is in a and four cash boxes, worth £138 dangerous position and that the 85. 8d., from Baines and Scars-holds are submerged.-Reuter. brook, Ltd., printers and pub- [The "City of Peking" is a steel lishers. Hampstead, where the screw steamer of 6,960 tons and has girl worked.
frequently visited Hongkong. She was built by Palmers Company Ltd. in 1920 for the Ellerman Line and is registered at Liverpool. Her length is 442.8 ft., depth 58.7 ft. and breadth 31.5. ft.]
The girl was also charged with stealing two dresses from Jennie Childs, another employee.
On being caught hiding under Miss Child's bed, Lewis was al- leged to have said to Detective sgt. Benstead:-
I might as well tell the truth now. I took the key of the safe and hid until the others had left. I opened the safe and took four cash boxes and wrapped them in brown paper.
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When Sheker was arrested
he
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
My Next Husband.
Will-give me a definite dress allowance and pocket-money.
Will take me to an hotel or boarding-house when on holiday, instead of rooms where I have the catering to do as at home.
Will-have a hobby, so that I haven't the task of amusing him in the evenings.
Will go out with me now and again, so that people won't ask. "Has Mrs. G. a husband?"
Will-notice when I have on a new frock.
Will leave my letters for me to open.
was stated to have said that hel Won't bring friends in to sup- did not know he had done wrong. | per when I'm spring-cleaning."
"He said to me, 'I thought my girl was a millionairess,"" remark- ed the detective.
I went over to my boy's place Both the girl and her lover were and got him to open the cash given good characters. They boxes with a hatchet and chisel. were remanded.
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Wen't-mack the children be- cause they're noisy..
Won't be so beastly tidy, and hide my gloves if I happen to leave them on the hall table.
Won't give me money for my birthday and Christmas presents, but take the trouble to find out what I want.
Won't sing in his bath (I'm musical.)
A Contrast in Hat Styles.
One is an adorable little beret, made of yards and yards of very narrow silk and straw braid. The second is a very large hat with a closely fitting crown; the top is soft rose pink, the under-brim creamy caramel, and the material is felt, amooth, and supple as satin,
Won't tell his friends what a The Mischief Maker. To House Wives.
wonderful woman I am, thus dis- appointing them when they find I'm quite ordinary.-A WIDOW.
A Dainty Gown.
Eau-de-ni chiffon is a good medium in which to express a dainty dance dress, with R shirred bodice and
a skirt made of four shaped kilted flounces. The yoke effect on the bodice is new, this dipping low at the back in line with the bodice.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
DO YOU RECOGNISE HER?
Oh, how
do you do? You're not looking very well-I'm sure you work hard not having any
help.
THE FOOD VALUE OF RAISINS.
Raivius.are packed full of iron in its most nasimilable form and are pre-eminent among the more prolific sources of food iron. In addition, By the way, I was so glad to they contain in very large mes zee your husband looking so much surn the invaluable element of better. Oh, didn't he tell you line, magnesium, potassium, and saw him yesterday? Talking to phosphorus. that pretty Mrs. B. My dear, I was positively startled to see him looking so--well, so different! He is usually such a solemn man, isn't
he? .
Raisins can, because of their high irou-content, prevent the onset of unaamin and arrest the developed disease.
Every invalid should have a beap- No, I don't know her myself.ed up platter of them within easy Seme friends of my sister's knew reach because of the tonic properties some people in a village where she of the fruit Elderly folk should used to live, and they said she make their supper of raisins, sip was not exactly-well, there was plemented, if desired, by a glass of nothing, deinité so I ought not to hot milk. prejudice you against her, especially as she's a friend of your husband's. Anyhow, if you can't say any good of a person it's best not to say anything at all, don't you think? Still, there's no smoke without fire, is there?
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Oh, you'd never guess whom I met yesterday - Mrą, K! I wonder she has the nerve to come back here after that scandal about her
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Raw Fruits. People who find that the consump tion of raw, fruit gives them indiges- tion and yet desire to keep up the supply of natural salts and vitamins can sit down to a plateful of raisins with an easy mind. And dyspeptics of any kind will discover that their i pains are soothed by n generous and continued internal application of this valuable fruit.
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ex-
Raisins might well be chewed like brother. Yes, I know he was gum or tobacco, and many an acquitted; still, it was a funny cessive moker has been weaned business, and I dare say there was
rom his habit by his wife, taking a good deal more in than we know.
care to keep his pocket full of them. A friend of yours? Oh, I'm sorry. They could with benefit become a I didn't know you liked her part of all our breadstuffs and cakes, Hardly your kind of person, and go. with us into the sickroom, ehould have thought. Still, you and the nursery.
are so broadminded, dear!
Soaked in water overnight and
That's one advantage of having simmered gently for a few hours in no position to keep up you can the morning, raisins make an ideal afford to be unconventional. I and easily digested breakfast. The can't with my husband's name to flavour is intensified by merely consider. One has to be soaking them in hot water and al- so careful in a place like this, lowing them to drain in a colander. there's such a terrible lot of For children who cannot chew, or scandal. Still, as I always tell won't be induced to, raisins can be people, your unconventional ways put through a very fine wire sieve." are probably due to your having They make most excellent sand- lived abroad. I always stick up wiches, when thoroughly pressed for you, of course, what else are down, nad form & splendid lunch your friends for?
for school children who can got a glass of hot milk at the same time.
All mothers should see that their families start the raisin habit.
Well, I mustn't stay talking; I'm going to call on Mrs. S. Not that want to particularly, but I am sorry for her. I don't think her husband is very kind to her. when you happen to catch her Of course, I don't know anything, without her make-up.. mind you, but she gives me that Goodbye, dear, so pleased to impression. She looks so worn have seen you.
Getting Anxious
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3 Tarry.
6 Domesticated.
10 Unfermented grape juice.
11 Long live.
12 Connect.
15 Doctrine.
17 Named....
19 Rinse the mouth.
21 Part of the neck.
22 Redeems from captivity
23 Tab.
Require. Engage.
Loyal,
33 Beast of burden.
35 Encircle an inner wall.
37
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Felied with an axe.
animal.
sterly mixture.
44 Anoint with extreme unction.
15 Robbed at sea.
48
Sudden spasm.
50 Rainbows.
51 Small creature.
64 Rigid.
Father.
56 Demolish. 53 Enraptured. 67 Mentally sound, 69 Cants.
60 Throw.
61 Related by blood.
1 Fitly.
2 Tinge.
3 Imprint.
4. Soup vessel,
5 Among
Down.
6 Poetical for the sun.
7 Unwilling.
8 Asian dessert fruit.
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18 Gleams.
10 Moved without restraint.
20 Commodities.
22 Extremists.
23
Speak,
24 Envelop,
26 Deserves
28 Subjects of discourse.
30 Wise
31 Girdic.
34 Was in debt.
35 Peril.
36 Blockhead.
39 Resounded. 40 Dreadful, 11 Feudal tenant. 43 Winding. 45 To81.
40 Wash lightly, 47 Period in life.
19 Proacient.
51 Mud.
52 Cistern.
53 Intend.
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ME FROM THE
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ILL CUT ACROSS
AN WALK PAST
HIM AGAIN-
KULO MISTER HOSTETTLER....
NICE DAY!!
By. Blosser.
SHUCKS! I DON'T SEE WHY I DON'T HEAR SOMETHIN' ABOUT MY
ESSAY THAT I
SENT IN!!