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CULT OF THE COCKTAIL
By PETER CHEYNEY.
Trade campaign in the country. Since then, they have not hesitated to criticise the Government's policy, THE ASCENDANCY OF THE ORDER Barney
A fow weeks ago, Elvira Doloros I remember a cocktail party and have thus occupied a rather WAS THE UNERRING BION OF THE AP- charge of causing the death of Quite a nico. party. Quite nice
was acquitted of the which I attended some years ago," anomalous position which it will be. PROACHING CATASTROPHE PLATO "Michael" Stephen at her flat on poople. A room full of smoke and better, In the Interests of all con- COMPARED ORATORY. TO THE ART OF May 31.
a crowd of people who did not par- Thua onded a story, which in-ticularly want to know each other, corned, to end. Apart from the THE COOK WHO FLAVOURED HIS
'POISONOUS MESSES TO TEMPT THE trigued people all over the world | but who were comrades under the infringement of Free Trade prin PALATE Frodo,
after it became public-a story influence of the cocktafi. In one ciples which the Ottawa proposals
(In the words of the Judge) "of corner a bookmaker-very, flushod told tales of his profession. In
· The Empress of Asia arrived at two rather useless lives." Involvo, there his been some Vancouver yesterday.
One of those lives need not be another a young gentleman who criticism along the line that the
useless in the future and all possessed nothing but his looks agreements take away Budgetary between Mr. Giovanni foriofill, en-to the unfortunate woman who was changed startling pleasantries The wedding will shortly take place right-thinking people will extend and an old public-school tio ex- control from the House of gineer, of 14, Lock Road, and Birs. In the 'spot-light of this cause with a. lady old enough to be his Commons, but that point is not Dora Strzeszah, of the same address. celebre, the sympathy, and pity mother.
of vital Importance, since
The marringe took place on. Satur- which is due to one who has auf- Parliament has the power either today, September 24, at the Hongkong fored the agony of such a trial, Registrar's Office, of Miss Elsa and who will suffer the agony of Fintify or reject the proposals. As Hansen and Bir, Ludvig Dockert memories of a night that began
it so happens, the preponderance of Messrs. Stemssen and Co.)
with a "cocktail party." Protectionists in the House nacares ratification, but that does not re- move the right of Parliament to reject, as it might have done had the House been more evenly divided on tariffs.
onc
A quantity of oil was destroyed at the Cheung Fat Sonp Factory, at Smithfield late last night when a fire broke out on the first floor. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.
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A ten-year-old girl, Li Man-yiu, of 000, Bonham Road, was admitted to the Tung Wah Hospital yesterday suffering from scold wounds sustain- ed when she collided with an amah who, was carrying a pot of boiling water.
A cocktail party.
And, in the corner, our host, a gentleman of title, mixed the drinks with a hand which was un- stendy and an eye that could not distinguish between one glass and another...
Perhaps some of the women who To-day is the day of the cocktail attended this trial, who got up party. Nothing is possible with- early for once in their lives, who out it. Nothing can be arranged smiled, and chattered, and treated without it. It is such a "nice" the awful thing as if it were a drink mainly because women can cinema show, will have cause for got a bit "buffy" on it without thought about cocktail parties. having to absorb too much liquor Perhaps the woman who made-which might spoil their figures! up her lips just before the jury returned may treat the thought of parties are like the drink. They And the people at the cocktail life more seriously.
are a weird mixture.. Some people Perhaps
are nt overy cocktail party.” They
THE HONGKONG HOTEL It must also be remembered that construction in Fa Yuen Street ordinary men and woman that the parties where all sorts of strange
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We have been requested to state quiries, full particulars regarding the
that in response to numerous ch
Freedom for what!
It is time that the cult of the
In-considering this question, it must be recalled that the National Government was returned to office with a free hand to do whatever it deemed advisable in the emergency Giving the appearance of having The publicity of the Barncy trial are there because they are "amus- with which it was faced There been a builders workman,, the boy has at least achieved one gooding," ie., they know more "storics" of a Chinese about 30 years of nga thing? It has thrown a ray of than anybody else or they have can, therefore, be no charge of. Its was found hanging with trap light across the dirty shadow of some funny habits, or they can having exceeded its mandate. But secured around the neck, suspended the pocktail party; it has shown take you to still more "amusing
from the doorway of & house under
atmosphere which goes with the things happen, the Samper Liberals have all the is believed that the man had com little sugared glasses and the A young woman of my acquáin, way along made their opposition to
Cocktail-shaker may produce an-tance told me that she likes cock- tariffs perfectly clear. They are,
other, and more vivid atmosphere tall parties "because they all start the atmosphere of the Old off very conventionally, but that therefore, quite justified in break-
Balley
lots of them and rather axeltingly." ing away at this juncture. Mr.dinner and entoking concert to b. Since the war the cult of the tie of the generation which has
This young woman is characteris Baldwin, before the National Gov- the Peninsula Hotel on Armistice come an integral part of the life
given by Ex-Active Service Men at cocktail has grown. It has be
secured "freedom." crnment was formed, had an idea, Night, will appear in our advertise of that useless and floating popula- ment columns at an early date. Mrtion which drifts through exis- of first seeking agreement with the R. Tatterson, PN H.B.S. Tamar, tence, and which cannot bear the cocktail was killed. It has been Dominions and then aubmitting the and Capt. PT. Mahony, R., have thought of life unless it has a responsible for too much misery agreed policy to the electorate sent the Services,
joined the Committes and will repre-cigarette hanging from its painted and too much evil. There is no- means of a referendum. This was the
lips and a cocktail-gines in its thing to it. It does not give an At yesterday's meeting of the kand. It has become the start of appetite; it merely gives a head- designed to overcome his pledge Rotary Club, Rotarian T. B. Wilson many dramatic incidents which ache, and it may result in a great not to impose food taxes without gave an interesting talk on his have never been made public; it deal more than that. It influences the approval of the country. How impressions of the Seattle Convention, has written finis to the career of the lives of people out of all pro- which he attended as Hongkong dele-more than one man; it has started portion to its use, and the "at- over, the creation of the National gate. In the course of his remarks, a not-too-desirable career for inore mosphere" which it creates la mere
he said the delegates at the "Con- than one woman..
evil than the drink.. ferenco wore very keen to obtain powers, ruled out this plan. *Tho
news of the Far East and one and all
But maybe the votarles of the full Implication: of tha Ottawa
were anxious that the present trouble The cocktail party has broken sult will allow themselves a little WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1932. grecidents will be disclosed very spirit of Rotary-should be speedily sary because they were good. The ther or not the game in worth the in Manchuria which was against the dows, traditions which were neces-quiet thinking, and consider whe- soon now, and it will then be seen settled. The Hon. Mr. B. W. Tso cocktail party smashed the tradi- candle.
presided.
tion that a "nice woman did not Maybe. But I think not. They THE CABINET RIFT to what extent they are likely to
got drunk," and, although there are too like to regard everything be of advantage to the several
Official confirmation has. boun lare probably cocktail parties where which has happened, everything parties concerned. One
received in Shanghal of the con-, people do not get drunk, yet I which has been said, and all the Free Trade' members of the seems inevitable,, namely, that liv C.B.E., R.N., R.N.O., formerly com-tinuous attendance at such parties few weeks us something which their thing ferring upon Captain S. Robinson, would say definitely that the con- conglomerated horrors of the Inst Government, namely, the Samueling costs yil riso in England, and mander of the C.P.O.S. Empress of must inevitably result in drun- weird brains may even find "too
Japan of the Imperial Japanese Medal Liberals and Lord Snowden, have
awfully exciting" or "too awfully on the Liberals mak-of Morit, with Red Ribbon, by H.I.M.kenness, as is natural. evidently made up their minds to ing the most of that point. Even gulshed services which he rendered tail and the atmopshers which in
we may count
the Emperor of Japan for the distin- Under the Influence of the cock- amusing."
But if their friends, or parents, reaign their posts as a consequence so it seems unlikely that the on the Empress of Australia at the variably accompanies it, the nicest who too often suffer as a result of of the, Ottawa agreements the Liberals will again become # time of and in connexion with the people somehow manage to change the cult, are given a little more position they take is that they serious factor in the political life 1923. Similar decorations were con- broad-minded. Women exchange range towards them; if they can great earthquake of September 1, their characters. They become courage and a little more intole entered the Administration as Free of the country. They have beenferred at the same time on five other stories that were once confined to become less "broad-minded" and Traders, and, inasmuch as the largely squeezed out between the foreign commanders.
the corner of the club smoking-leas Inclined to grant the "free-. room. Girls tell us "a new one" dom" which this fatuous decade'
the detrimental effects they may novelist!
have started on the road that will consider it will have upon the For the cocktail is like no other see the end of the cocktail and nil, standard of living or well-being drink. You may know when you that goes with it. of the worker. On the evidence or brandy; but how many people have drunk enough beer or whisky (olicited by this inquiry the T.U.C. know whether it was the first or
Hongkong Telegraph. Government, with
unlimited
And it is time that it finished.
BUDGET
By Edward Kelly, Two-Up Expert.
We have discovered an Infallible method of balancing the budget, and we are hero to tell the world how.
From all over the Colony the Jocund, the free and the still mar ried will bless the name of Ed- ward Kelly. We can't help it if that's also the name of an Aus- tralian bushranger. We were christened after a wealthy uncle,. who subsequently double-crossed us by leaving all his money to a Society for the Suppression of Pyjama Parties,
Imperial Conference decisions two extremes represented by the good features of the system and that astounds even a hard-bitten demande, then perhaps we shall imply Protectionlam, they cannot Conservatives and Labour. lend their support thereto. The Committee of the National Liberal
The Bedaux System. Federation has already condemned the proposals, and this attitude is Following representations madu boing maintained by Sir Herbert by several Trade Unions affiliated will consider the question as a second or third glass of that ap- BALANCING THE Samuel and his followers. Whilst to the Trades Union Congress, the matter of Trade Union policy. The palling mixture called "cocktail" It is true that Sir John Simon and General Council has decided to decision to make Inquiry incident-mixture which depends entire Mr. Walter Runciman will remain institute an inquiry into the work-ally reveals the marked change of upon the skill and sobriety of ing of the Bedaux system of pay-outlook from the condemned days the "shaker" and the dwindling in the Cabinet, the resignation of monit by results. The Bedaux when any innovation in working. contents of the row of bottles. the other Liberals will, in effect, system, which is of American conditions was automatically con- does it matter? You can always And if one bottle is empty, what still further modify the "National" origin, is primarily a method of demned.
pour something else int status of the Government, and, It mensuring the quantity of time is to be presumed, lead to an in- and effort, and of establishing a ercase in the Conservative element. unit of measurement, representing.| The Liberal strength in the Minis normal worker under normal con- an average performance by the try had already been weakened by ditions upon which wage rates the appointment of a Conserva are based. Essentially, the Bed- tive in the place of the Inteaux system is a method of ascer- Sir Donald Maclean as President taining by means of time and mo- of the Board of Education, and it tion study the "standard output" seems more than likely that the which will afford a basis of pay- process will be carried further ment by results. There are many Buch systems in existence. It ta the Free Trade Liberals claimed for when
the Bedaux system throw in their hands.
that it is more acientific in its The split now occurring is quito method of measurement and 'en- serious, seeing that, in addition to ables an exact appraisal of labour | Sir Herbert. Samuel, the Liberal costs to be made by the employer. Free Tradore include Sir Archibald It will be recalled that a dispute Sinclair (Secretary for Scotland), arose in the Leicester, hosiery works of Messrs. Wolsoy, Ltd., Mr. Issac Foot (Minister of earlier this year over the Intro Mines), Lord Lothian (Under duction of this system. As the Secretary for India) and several question is one of growing im other Under-Secretaries. It wouldportance, the T.U.C. hos instituted appear, however, that these re- the Inquiry with the object of as- calcitrants have no intention of certaining the extent to which the going into opposition against the system has been adopted in Bri- tain, and how the Unions which Government on any other issuo have had experience of it view its than that of the Ottawa logislation, operations. The effect of the sys- In other matters, they are prepared tem upon the health and offlcloney. to co-operate with the Administra of the workers concerned is an tion. They will part company with other question upon which Unions the Government on a point of prin. I are invited to give their views, ciple. When they agreed to take along with data showing the effect office in the National Government the workers concerned. Finally, of the system on the earnings of they did so on the basis of an ar- the Unions are invited to expruss rangement to "agree to dlangree" on their views regarding both the
They're both looking so much better since we've been
watching their dieta"
On the day we were born thera were great celebrations throught- out the land. All the school kids woro given a holiday, and people got merry. It was, of course, only a coincidence that the Prince of Wales was born on the same day." Which brings us back to balane- ing the budget. First of all, we have solved the mystery of what to do with old razor blades," Wo shave with them now! Shroffs who try to relieve us of our Irk-` some, debased currency will be taken by the acat of their pants and thrown out of the window.
"Most of the restaurants" we go to give us a decent fifty.conf. meal for $9.50. In future wo will go and have a docent $3.50 meal for 50 cents.
We have prepared a Hat, show- ing how we live on $100 a month. Freely, and without thought of reward, wó give this to your
Now bring out your Legislative Councils
How to Live on $100 a Słonik. Star Ferry
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