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the war
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RUSSIA TO-DAY The Very Idea!
By JULIA BLANCHARD
ever taken
with
I
Duke Now Farmer
THIS IS ALL BULL
By Edward ("Bovell") Kelly.
K
We have learnt too late that bull
brations in Spain next month.
Pity. We could have been there had we known carller.
We know bulls inside out. Wo'd even know them if they weren't inside out.
This is allright if one is for enough in front-any, about three-quarters of a mile-but this condition rarely happens.
The thing is to be a little on one side, and a good way behind the Lull. This is by far the best
a magnificent. regal old Fencing with bulla needs fellow who was a former duke, certain amount of agility. One one of the few old nobility still must have speed and a good, strong functioning. Having befriended, fanec, preferably a alx feet one. in Czarist days, the man who, now Concrete will do, although palings heads the State Farm vineyards, are quite safe. this old duke was kept on
When we were In Spain wo wore
If he wishes to secure the con- fidence of the Yugo-Slavs, lo declare that the right assumed by Italy in the Treaty of Tirvana to intervene in Albania will never be exercised without the consent of the other Great Powers. I, on the other hand, he prefers to Sinbad the Salor had to have mer palace where, 20 the old pretend that Italy alone has the his magic carpet to carry him into legend goes, Princess Tamara, fighters are wanted for the cole- right to decide when, to wonderland, in the old Arabian back in the 15th century, had a what extent, she may invoke the Nights tales.
different lover every night and In Treaty, he may be certain that
But modern Miss Margaret the cliffs or had him
the morning either threw him off his neighbours on
drowned the other
Bourke-White found, this summer, in the underground rivers! side of the Adriatle will continue that her camera served quite as to regard him with suspicion. efficaciously to carry her to the "My most difficult time was in Tension is certain to persist un faraway wonders of the land of the wine country," Miss Bourke. til some sensible agreement has the Soviets,
White said. "There on an
As for fighting them! We've old
rodcod bulls around until been reached over the applica-
Just back from Russia, she catate, now a state farm, with a tion of the Trenty.
old ivy-covered palace
they've sweated borrit. brings with her 20,000 feet of gorgeous motion pictures of out-of-the-way that is now a workers' home, they
Having mentioned this, a fow The Debt Question
places in the new Russia-the were making their year's wino words on bull-fighting to those firat
Soviet and celebrating with feats where who wish take it up as a hobby, or
they drank out of horns. The approval.
a profession, or in the case of trick was to drink a whole horn-married men, n relaxation, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt again
A real plancer Is this youngful at one draught and then tip would, perhaps, not be amiss, declines to assist President
twentien. the horn upside for the last drop coming from one who is a bull ....... Hoover in seeking a solution of woman, still in her
Prospecting for pictures, Mins to come out on your fingernail, to Expert. debta problem.
Position la the main thing. Although the President in the Bourke-White atrapped her heavy show your appreciation of the
camera onto her slender back and quality. managed the first When the bull charges, the first place considered it would be invaded the rocky reaches of the hornful. But then they began to average beginner is in front of the useless for him to move towards little-known Russia around Tiflis, tonst me, my future husband, my bull. meeting Britain's wishes, he was riding tiny Cossack ponies, sleep father, my mother, his father, his On camel mother, and all our aunts, uncles, courageous enough this week to Ing on the ground, make a proposal linking war back she visited the little villages cousins. You can ace how dim- debts
and disarmament in-close to the Turkish borders. She cult a situation I was in when the took pictures in the Baku oil purpose of my wiele trip was to separably and again giving country where Russian women, get good pictures!" Congress an opportunity of deny- still with their faces partly veiled, ing the charge of stubborn in-work barefoot in the fields. She difference to facts, which has
photographed Stalin's mother, Here she did get some hand-position, and the front of the bull been Inid
against it. Mr in the erstwhile royal palace, now some ones, though. For here in may be easily recognised by its Roosevelt not only does not help, a Soviet government home, and these vineyards works an old handles. but definitely retards progres several of the dictator's aunts and in his refusal to cooperate with uncles in Russian Georgis. President Hoover and it would
Old World Against New seem that the complexity of the
"You really have to see the an- problem is one of the chief drawbacks to a antisfactory cient villages that I visited to realize just what the Five-Year solution. Since discussions an
plan the balance of international pay Bourke-White told me.
is accomplishing." Miss overseer of the huge vineyards severely gored by bulls through al- Why that used to be part of his great lowing our mind to wander as one ments seems little understood as
down wear Turkey I took pictures estate. Her pictures of this of the animals rushed us. We were discussions of the Einstein
of oldworld camel trains plodding handsome old man are part of her practically covered with gore. theory, it is hard to get the through the streets
Her most of age-old most treasured 'anes.
One of the bull's garera broke off STUART-SMITH D'ARCY-question considered on its mud villages, but as background exciting time was the opening of in us, and part of it may still be GWYNN-On 22nd December, merits. The real reasons for for these ancients were modern, the Dneipoatroy Dam, where she inspected in our back at the office 1932, Kenneth Stuart-Smith to the necessity of immediate and concrete apartment houses being hot pictures of Colonel Hugh between the hours of five and six. Helen Elith Ann, second
who built Wounded though we were, wo daughter of Lieut. Colonel R. S. drastic action are lost. in a built by the Russian government, Cooper, the American
It for the Russian government, as D'Arcy-Gwynn, D.S.O. (late 24th welter of spurious considerations for workers,
anatched two of the remaining bulls Regiment) and Mrs. D'Arcy-and false arguments. To this
"Down close to the Turkish bor-stan types. She describes it:
well as dozens of pictures of Rus-by the throat, one in cach hand, Gwynn.
and, holding them in front of us as class belong the varions com- der I visited native villages where "It was like a huge
with women still wear the almost abso- celebration, with the streets
Yuletide shield, slowly choked them to pensatory advantages
all death. Then, swinging them about which public opinion is wooed- lete native Russian dress and men, hung with red and green electric our head, we battered the brains out
sheep, lights and workers market advantages, disarma- sammer and winter, wear
on holiday of the other two bulls. akin head-dress, long cloaks singing and rejoicing in the dam We thinks that was one of our and so on-advantages which lines, with wooden buttons and tures, and the ones I got in Red stack of dead balls we had already without sleeves, cut, on military they helped to build. Those pic-narrowest escapes. It we hadn't can at least be understood, Inrge belts that still carry swords. Square, with Stalla in the review-dealt with to lean against. while the utimate advantage of They were thrashing grain by a general improvement in world horses walking around in a tedious conditions if payment in full is circle and waterboys carried plc-. not insisted upon appears turesque water jugs on their WAR CLOUDS
ridiculous, paradoxical and con- heads. But in every one of these But villages I saw modern glans-walled Fresh evidence of the ill-feel-trary to common sense. ing which continues
these to prevail
extraneous advantages nurseries where children, dressed In clean blue pinafores, were between Italy and Yugo-Salvia fail in their purpose, over busily making the nursery hand- is forthcoming in the battle of shadowed by the all too evident icraft things all children love, name that people will always know
fuct of straitened American
We are undone. For though it words which has broken out be-
स against circumstances. tween Signor Mussolini and the financial
The buoyant Soviet posters of the She is proved that her lonely last come up against a problem be from us to say so, we have at flight of 10,000 miice from England which we have been unable to suive. Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister. Treasury Budget deficit, accord- Five-Year plan,"
to Australia was not an astounding The immediate cause of this ing to the latest figures, rung
In Russian Georgia, Miss freak of fortune-how anyone could In u last desperate effort to flad crossing of verbal swords is not into more than £140.000.000 at Bourke-White was the guest of the imagine that lurk in the air would Christmas cards to send to those important; the plain fact is that par, and private indebtedness Georgian government and, accom- hold good for 19 consecutive nerve. We had forgotten, and who have un- it is another illustration of the in crushing down the everyday panied by her interpreter and wracking days I cannot imagine-and fortunately not forgotten us, wa
she took an be citizen. Until it is clear that seven commissars, she tension which has existed
is the world's celebrity again. rushed into a shop this morning to Just how famous she is, I dis- see what we could find. The carda tween the two countries ever bis lot will be benefitted by a eighty-day trip on horseback, on since the Tirana Treaty was con- change in the debt situation, the tiniest, most skittish horses covered when I went to leeland. I was themselves were not bad, but the
walking 'beside the lake of the wording capital, Reykiavik, when my
on nearly all of them cluded between Italy and Albania, change will be impossible. So she ever saw.
were assaulted by Ga American made us feel slightly unwell. Under the terms of this pact, fur the difficult road of attempt-
Drank From Horns
gramophone record. And there, In about 85 per cent. of the cards Italy undertook to maintain the ing explanation has been avoided
where I had fondly imagined I was there occurred the word "bright" They forded rivers that she was to escape civilisation, I heard the, Even "hearty" was not so popular status quo in Albania, and Yugo by the political leaders, who; Slavia has ever since suspected prefer the easy path of de-ure would sweep them away. words; the Italians of ulterior designs nouncing the defaulters and They lived out in the open, cook- in what should be a buffer stato standing up patriotically for between the two countries. It American rights. Most of them has been suggested that all that probably believe that such an has stood in the way of friendly attitudo is best for their relations between Italy and country. Yugo-Slavia is the antipathy be- tween the nationals of these two countries in Dalmatia. This |belief, however, does not bear
The
Hongkong Telegraph.ment, territorial adjustment,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.
Therapeutic Diet
close examination. The constant A wise man has said that one friction between the two nation of the quickest ways in the alities along the Dalmatian coast world to get dyspepsia is to is really the aftermath of the focus
your mind on your
long struggle over the frontier stomach. On the other hand, which was to divide them, and one must admit that in the au- which lasted from the Paris important matter of diet civi- Peace Conference until the final lised man has an astonishingly acttlement in 1924, when what is rudimentary grasp of what suits known as the Nettuno Conven- him, and what does not, and tions were signed. These Con- why. The learned and popular ventions dealt with labour, land works produced on food-values, settlement, etc.. along the nutrition, therapeutic dicts, Dalmatian Coast and were re-vitamin complexes, and the like, garded as likely to improve the would fill a large library. But relations between the two coun- the ordinary man has flourished tries. But it took over three so long and so well on his joint years before Yugo-Slavia ratified and two vegs., on a scrap of bacon the Conventions. Even since and an egg or two, on any old ratification, there has been. a bread and any old cheese, that feeling among the Yugo-Slavians all this talk of carbo-hydrates, that these understandings open proteins, calories and "nitro- up Dalmatin to economic pen-genous equilibrium" leaves him etration by Italy, although in an-cold. Until the diet therapy swer to this fear it has been experts cease from theorising pointed out that foreign pen-and set up stalls in the market jetration can scarcely be a serious place with something more excit~ threat in a province which al-ing on them than nuts and rendy has far more inhabitants "chicken food," mankind will than it can reasonably support. continuo to feed in the old un- But, to come back to the main scientifle way. The latest point, what really unites Serbs, American treatise whets one's Croats and Slovenes ngainst appetite for all sorts of unusual Italy I not any threat Implied by fare. The mucilaginous pods of thene Convention; it is the the pumbo, when caught young, Tronty of Tirana which lasat may be delicious, but our com- the bustuni of much of the pradore has never heard of them. amouldering friction. One way
. a diren he stock the easily
Is which to Booth muttern over digested tapepo-and yes, he would be for Bignor Mussolini, has no citramquats to-day.
ing stand, are among the best."
AMY
By NORMAN COLLINS So Amy Johnson-it is by this
background of flam-her-has done it again!
ing over fres, sleeping on the ground. They visited a famous 12th century monastery with dank stone chambers and treacherous underground rivers. This monas- tery was part of the famous sum-
Amy, wonderful Amy,
How can you blame me For loving you?
ears
VA
hesitate to think what would have happened in our weakened condi- tion.
But, you say, this in cruelty. The hull's life in at stenk!
A XMAS PROBLEM.
8 "bright," And we absolutely refuse to be either "bright" or "hearty" to any of our friends.
The word bright conjures up
Since you won the praise of every visions of the type of woman who
nation,
You have filed my heart with
miration.
Amy, wonderful Amy.
"As I often tell. Lonis, if au ything should happen to him
I'd opon a little tea shop, with his life insurance.”
ad.will insist on sitting on prattling at breakfast on board ship however late you come down. The word hearty suggests her husband.
THE SOLUTION.
But wait, Are We defeated Never let it be said. We have since writing the above addressed an ad- vertisement to the manager in words something like this:
"Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kelly, and the progeny, wish to thank all friends and relations for the letters, cards, gifts, and good wishes at the present time. They regret they are so overwhelmed with emotion that it is impossible for them to reply Individually, so will friends please accept this, the only, Intimation."
Tho advertising manager declares we are flippant.
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RESTAURANT ETIQUETTE.
Paris newspapers have been hotly debating the problem of whether a man should enter a restaurant first or stand aside to let his woman (lady?) companion pass. Borlin papers ridicule the general verdict of Paris that the woman (lady 7) ahould be allowed to enter first, bo- cause they say that the inan should go first to look for a table and if ponsible "take upon himself the curious glances that always greet 4 newcomer."
woman
I really cannot see any difficulty. Having been perfectly brought up, whenever we entertain a (lady, we should aay) at a restaur- ant I always hoist an umbrella to screen her from the curious glances, propel
her in frant of us.
at the same time blowing a few blasts on a polleo whistle to attract the attention of the Maitre d'hotel.