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WAAN-On December 18, 1933, at
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.
ments put forward. This morning's news reveals the fact that President 'Hoover is seeking co-operation with Mr. Roosevelt, so as to ensure con- tinuity of policy. This is a decided advance, and it holds out the hope that some definite decision may be reached before the June payments become due. One thing has been made clear by Britain, namely, that she does not intend to continue pay ment of these debt instalments on the present basis. Thus the dominant fact is that some new arrangement has to be reached, and the sooner that is done, the better will it be for all concerned.
Pet Superstitions
"'en-
A CHRISTMAS DINNER- The Very Idea!
TOGETHER WITH A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL
GIVE AND TAKE By Edward (“Gimme") Kelly. It is not generally known, oven
CAN RECALL, some fifty years (sunshine in your cellar. If not, by those in the know, that the ago, a Christmas dinner att would be easy to enlist the nym-real reason underlying the visit which a baron of beef was served pathics of your wine merchant, of Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent in an immense pewter dish carried who would see to it that you were Under-Sacratary to the Colonial tate de Cuvee Oco, is to confer with a certain shoulder high, into the dining-provided with a roum by four resplendent foot Romance Conti, and a 1904 Cham-
Chablis, a 1916 Corton, 1911 local export.
my
bertin.
men. The butler preceded them. bearing a boar's head garnished with rosemary. There was no The selection of the right food peacock-ple, and, unlese is comparatively easy, becauso memory fails me, no turkey.
highly seasoned dishes are taboo. IT you order a saddle of well-hung "Hops and turkeys, Carps and Welsh mutton, it would be im
Beer,
pious to add red currant jelly. But feel that even a saddle of mutton is not quite worthy of the greatest Feast of Christendom.
Came into England all in a
year."
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Artice.
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The fact has not been reported
in the dafly presa, mainly through jealousy.
ourselves were discussing Hong- The other great Statesman and kong only yesterday.
What this place wanted to brighten up business, we decided, was a bit of give and take.
Say
due modesty, do not claim that Sir Samuel and ourselves, with
at
For all the efforts of our ra-
For instance, take the cheese tionalists, the cultured citizen of According to that good gossip, the Twentieth Century still likes Mr. Vincent Lean, this year was very dry old sherry will be the best the cheese business would be to Before dinner is served, a light, business, as far away as you like, to hug a superstition or
All you'd have to do to liven up two, circa 1523. Small beer was drunk aperitif. Oysters and the Chablis give a free mouse trap with every just "to be on the safe side." in England before the Thirteenth
precede a cleur soup, That "pet" superstitions are Century. The Encyclopedia Bri- sole should be grilled, because at half pound of Gorgonzola, usually petty as well only goes tunica affirms that hops were in this early stage of the banquet the every mouse trap required half o to show how sincere the belief traduced into this country in the palate might be cloyed by a rich pound of cheese every six weeks, in them is. Even those
reign of Henry IV.
and there were 100,000 mouse lightened" persons who make a The swan-another Yuletide
traps in the Colony, the result of One superlative dish ought to this burst of magnanimity would special point of walking under venison. We attempted to cat to combine nectar and ambrosia in that would take place.
dish-used to be called Norfolk suffice; and if it be your object be plain. Think of the expansion ladders, or of sitting down thirteen at a table, arc, in effect, many years ago, and quoted the other I suggest to you a phensant wild stwan, shot in California, perfect harmony each with the honouring a superstition by gowise raven. A cygnet is not una la Sonbaroff. A young fat hen ing out of their way to defy it. like a goose, which I hold to be too pheasant, must be boned, stuffed our idea is original. The fact is that most of us grenay food for the delicate with foie gras, braised, and served
Everybody knows that the safety furtively cherish ✡ belief in palate. "lucky" or
with potato chips. After thin razor manufacturers thought of "unlucky" events,
dish of cheese might be justifica- the iden years ago. They started dates, and numbers, perhaps be-
giving
ruzora away surety cause, deep down in our hearts,
A magnificent turbot appealed ion for a glass of aged port; a to Victorians. In Leviticus sente-wise man will stick to the bur-fantastic prices, and now every- we suspect that fate never
body has to buy blades to fit them. gundy. are forbidden "catches you out" without giving abomination:
That's a real case of making and, curiously Such a dinner could be ordered two blades grow where one blade Hongkong to Mars wife of you due warning. But the like enough, only the other day I was at short notice at any good res grew before. John S. II. Waan, and eldest llest explanation of the per told that on that necount the tur-taurant which has first-class wine. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. petuation of quaint superstitions bot is not eaten in the Island of It is not beyond the compass of a
(But what, you ask, has this to Young. Mnent, A daughter is that man cannot rid himself Skye. Perhaps for the same rea- good plain cook at Shanghai
de with Hongkong? Lissen!) and Straits
home. With plenar copy.
papers of the fear lest his continued son all good Scots abhor eels. the right company it ought to bo
What about tho Shing Mun memorable success in "conquering Nature"
оссяніоп. The right ordering of a Christ-
Over Dam? Haven't we been trying to should bring down upon him the mas dinner must be governed by coffer, old brandy, and the beat get it for years and years, and wrath of jealous entities. He the tastes of those who are going gar procurable, comparisons may years? feels that it may be just as well to end it. If you are entertaining be made between quantity and Well, us and Sir Samuel, we are
going to
the goldfish to propitiate what gods or de- children give them turkey, plum quality. mons there may be lurking pudding, mince pies and crystal- Beware of an over-heated din-market, and present them to tho Ing-room! Beware, tou, of excess Water Authority. Estimating the about, by faithfully observing lised fruits galore. time-honoured customs, only The decoration of the table will speed in eating and drinking. You minimum amount of water requir
ed by ench goldfish, for drinking čou swig champagne; but the curious because we have for-mean more to your young guests great, wines of the Cote d'Or must and bathing purposes, at 15 gal- gotten what they symbolise. than the food. We attempted one be sipped, or their subtile others lons per year per head, and the
year a Winter Sports aconc- The superstition that it is un-Swiss chalets, snow slopes, ponds will escape you. A fine old brandy, average goldfish family at 12 per lucky to light three cigarettes
that tho with the same match may not be and so forth. Silver tinsel lavish-according to the experts of La year, it will be seen
Shing Mun Dam will have to be understood by the post-War effect, the more startling if the
ly used can produce a fairy-like Charente, should be "champed."
completed by 1936. If ladies are of the party, cham- generation, but the men who lit utmost brilliancy of lighting is pagne can be served to them if
The scheme is capablo of ox- pansion. their cigarettes in the firing-line concentrated on the table.
The Hongkong Tele- they prefer it and an ice. Here
phone Company could maka a know how it arose-or think
If a turkey must be the piece de in a recipe for the ice: Plain cream record profit next year, if it would
unsweetened but flavoured with the war debt problem to the ex- they do. But why do we throw resistance, let it be reverentially Maraschino must be frozen
send the number of a Peak blonde spilled salt
left braised. A chestnut stuffing is tent of deciding to recommend shoulders? Why do we turn our vastly improved by the addition of too hard) and served with a hot to every subscriber. So, too, with to Congress the appointment of silver when we catch sight of stoned raisins, chopped olives, and which brandied cherries are drop- they would give away (surrepti-
anuce of melted currant jelly into carpet, if they had
furniture dealers. With every any Borse, a special commission to review the new moon? Why do we pistachio nuts. Cranberry sauce, red at the last moment.
tionsly, if necessary) a pair of Are not these beloved by our transpontine cou- the whole issue. The report "touch wood"?
pedigreed silver-fish. Then, when from Washington on Saturday, "absurd" practices the wreckage sins, is delicious, but, alas!, it that Mr. Hoover had reached the insisted that all things, animate red wines. Possibly the synthetic preserved in Maraschino, which ly digested, they could sell more Many ladies prefer the cherries 'the carpets had all been thorough- of a primitive philosophy which vitiates the palate for the nobler conclusion that the situation didor inanimate, had power and vitiates his palate for cranberry Certainly the Maraschino chorrles
gin concocted by Uncle Sam can be bought at any caterer's, carpets or offer to buy in the not call for immediate action. purpose, and could consciously left an unpleasant taste in the affect human beings for good or mouth. The inference was that, ill? And until we are sure that having secured the British pay- such a philosophy is ridiculous, ment, he did not intend to bother most of us will continue "to be
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.
HOOVER'S SECOND
THOUGHTS
It is something to the good that President Hoover has re- considered his attitude towards
himself further with the matter, despite his earlier utterance that he welcomed the sugges tion of a close examination of
our over
on the safe side."
An Innovation
sauce.
•
(not
leok handsomer, The melted red The ordinary Christmas dinner currant jelly must be brilliantly often terrifying to the middle-clear and not too thick. agod and elderly, "Safety first" As a Christmas present, I give at Yuletide is admittedly the my long-cherished recipe for
clarion call of cowards; and the dish of cheese.
f
sliver-flah,
corner
Eventually, the scheme would become self-contained along the Bnes of that devised by the genius who bred rats to feed the cats on his cat farm, the cats being killed for their skins, the carcases being used to feed the
big family gathering is sacrosanct; Cut half a pound of Cheddar rats designed (as above) ultimate- one dares not interfere with its cheese into thin shavings, Put ly to feed the cats. ritual, but when the Bright Young them into a saucepan with three Things are not with us, is it not tablespoonfuls of milk, one gill of
food?
attention.
"Mongkok". The population of Hongkong at the present time consists of 800.000 odd persons. Some of the odd ones are in the Civil Service.
"Ace of Spades."--Neither the calling nor the play in the most difficult part in the game of bridge, Dealing is the main thing. Needs practice, of course.
"Shroff"'—Your application is Watch receiving consideration. this column for our reply.
•
A SIMPLE INVENTION,
(De capo ad infinitum, în saecula The hitherto almost undis-permissible to cut loose from tur- cream, the yolks of three eggs and saecularum, only more so). the whole subject in preparation puted proposition that the fune-key and plum-judding. substitut the whites of two eggs. Whip It for the International Economiction of a parliamentary opposi in tess commonplace fare and till it boils. Season with salt, & ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Conference. In other words, he tion is to oppose the government adtecting the wine before the dush of cayenne, but no mustard. appeared to take the line on the lof the day was recently over-
Serve with but not "on" tonat. "Amelia”.—If your huaband general issue which Mr. Roose- ruled with happy results in the
"Serenely full, the epicure would goes out at night as often as you velt did on the December pay- House of Commons. Mr. George
say there must bo Д reason. ment that the "baby" was not Lansbury
A burgundy dinner would be Bay.
Possibly there is a new typewriter and Sir Herbert the right thing, if you
Fate cannot harm me-I have at the office whose ribbons need ara for- .his. This development was in Samuel, who are respectively tunate enough to have this battled dined to-day." tensely surprising after it had
leaders of the Labour and been made clear all along that Liberal Parties at Westminister, Mr. Hoover, whilst compelled-to were responsible for this in- insist on the December payment, novation. When Mr. MacDonald was willing and anxious that, moved the curtailment of debate once this was out of the way, by what is known 29
the there should be a reconsidera "time-table" method in order tion of the general problem. He to accelerate the passage of even went so far as to suggest legislation to implement the the recreating of the Debt Fund- Ottawa agreement, Mr. Lang- ing Commission. The response bury and Sir Herbert-both of Congress to this latter pro- of
whom disapproved of posal was not by any means on this legislation-announced that couraging, and it now remains they would not vote against to be seen what the reaction the expediting of it. Mr. Lang- will be to the similar iden bury sensibly pointed out that now put forward as the result of since the Government had Mr. Hoover's consultation with overwhelming majority behind the Governor of the New York it and must unquestionably suc- Federal Reserve Bunk and a ceed in the end in passing the number of politicians. As to legislation, nothing would be whether the Hoover Adminis gained by prolonging the discus- tration will be able to make any sion when other and no less im- move in the matter, this ob- portant questions were pressing. viously depends on the frame of Sir Herbert Samuel agreed with mind in which he finds Congress. this view, and the Prime Minis- If the present Congress decides ter's resolution cutting down to have nothing to do with the debate was in consequence matter, then the problem will cepted without a division. The have to wait over until the De- Incident is important, since there mocrats come into office in are few privileges more treasur- March. So far, Mr. Roosevelt ed by ordinary members of has not been very definite on Parliament than that of making this war debt question, although speeches. The action taken is a after his conference with Preal step in the direction of render- dent Hoover some little time ing parliamentary procedure back he did indicate that, in his more busincaslike, and as such view, the best method was to deserves to be regarded as a use- treat with the several debtors ful example and not merely in separately, at the same time Britain, but wherever legislative promising sympathetic consi- bodies, waste time with useless deration to any reasonable argu- chatter.
ac-
"I've saved sixty dollars, Mr. Benson, so I could work for
nothing while you taught me your business,"
We are now hard at work on our latest invention to aid motor- ists in a fog. Substantially, 08 patent agents say, the dovico con- alsts of one or more extensible praia or "lazytongs" which may bo projected outwards fore and aft from the front and the back of the car. The one which projects to the front is tipped with a cushion or other suitable dovico for losaun- ing the impact with pedestrians and/or other occupants of the road, and the like. The one which projects to the back is fitted with an electric contact which, on being knocked by a following vehicle, turns on an electric horn and nu- tomatically opens all the doors of the car so that the driver can got out quickly.
from Way
We got the whole Iden watching a, cat fooling Ita with its whiskers, but wa had some trouble with, our experimental pedestrian. The cushion was not soft enough.
Still, I hope to make a fortune out of it.
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