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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1933,
SUPPOSING YOU
ARE ONLY MILDLY
INTERESTED
"-
as are deemed necessary. How TENNIS BALL WIVES:
ever inconvenient, or even expen-
The Very Idea!
HYDROPHOBIA
alve, this may be to the firms PROBLEM OF INTERFERING RELATIVES concerned, the point emphasised
An ex- The tennis ball wifo is she who courage and looked like
in her by Mr. Wynne-Jones is the
vamp is no anxious to make herself aggerated slage
By Eddie Kelly, Poodle-faker. dominating consideration-popular both with her own family mother's house, and an extremely
woman in her According to a nowo item in the namely, that the safeguarding of and that of her husband that she plain and dowdy
paper yesterday n Singapore the public from danger must attempts to be implicitly obedient mother-in-law's.
to a hundred varying suggestiona It was her husband who brought magistrate has ruled that a dog is take precedence over every other which hundred varying people her to her senses after a horrify-entitled to his first bite. and factor. If the enforcement of may offer her. She becomes. In ingly dramatic day in which she damages cannot be recovered from the new regulations results in fact, a human tennis ball who is had not only had an accidental the owner unless it is proved that DRIVING the present haphazard system span from one end of the court to meeting with her mother while she someone else was the mus first,
the other and back again in awan wearing her old blue cont and HAVE NO
of storage being brought 'to an foverish offert to please everyone skirt, but had actually ran across one. She has her mother-in-law during the LICENCE BUT HAVE A FRIEND end, then a decided step forward and offend no WHO WILL OBLIGE will have been taken in protect- either the presence of mind nor course of an afternoon excursion
the stability to take unto herself in pillar-box red. ing the public from a very real the properties of the tennis net danger. In these matters, it is ours inclining neither to one far better fo err on the side of safety than to allow a latitude side nor the other.
JUST COME IN AND ASK US FOR A RUN IN A 1933 VAUXHALL
CADET
WE WANT THIS CAR TO BECOME KNOWN AND
WILL ASK NO IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR
INTENTIONS,
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.
Stubbe Road
DEATH.
Happy Valley
BAIN-Bertha Bain, wife of Mr. A Bain, died at Matilda Hospital nt 10.30 on 2nd February, 1933. Cortege will pass the Monument at B p.m. to-day, Jewish Cemetery.
The
which might easily have the most regrettable consequences.
I
Hongkong Telegraph really
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1933.
THE FIRE-CRACKER DANGER
2
mo-
courts
can
It was her husband who pointed
man of twenty-two, with brains and personality of her own. That the way she dressed herself could neither harm nor influence any body but herself. That if the difficulty had concerned the way she cooked her meals or swept her sitting-room then, indeed,
and
comparative youth
H. E. M. W.
The first thing we ever wrote for the edification of our Great and Admiring Public, was about dogs. Dog-gone It, we've got to do
again now.
As one of Hongkong's biggest ·
big game hunters we want to lodge a protest here and now about this decision...
Once the Hongkong magistrates get hold of a thing like that there's no telling where they'd stop.
ling and snarling until they got down to the Singapore case of Rox Tibby, or whatever the dog's name is, and the tiger would be discharged. Without a spot on his character.
How do we know they'd draw the line at dogs? What are dogs, anyway? All they're useful for in to support Canada's greatest industry.
One dirty dog we know bit us bucks the first time and two bucks only last week.
Family Album twice and got away with it. Three
One of these days Stella Benson who doesn't like or someone Hongkong is going to bring a lot of mad dogs to Hongkong and turn them loose on the Peak, in the Government Offices. Polico Courts and amongst the shroffs.
x
Then the dogs will bite ull will get these people, who hydrophobia and go mad and probably die.
What a chuck-in for Hongkong.
•
THIS IS ZOW CALLING—
Sun-
Therein lies her great mistake. To a young, married woman whose parents and in-laws are gonuinely fond of her and interest
Take those Now Territorios ed in her, life can be very com-
her tigers, for instance. One of those pleated. How often does it hap A Talkie Problem
inex-days someone'll come into court pen that mother puts forward some earnest requent that cannot perlence would compel her to take with a piece of his anatomy miss- Hollywood possibly be granted without caus- advice. But that, as it was, she ing and will complain that he was
ing deep offence to muther-in-law,was merely being weak and foolish bitten by a tiger. According to
language barriers, message,
"Y'roner." the defending mends as infallible some mode of faneled.
counsel will say on behalf of the which now restrict the distribu- or that first cousin Emilly recom- not to wear the clothes she herself tion of talking pictures and dress or behaviour that would be The result was that the black
tiger, "my client has no caso to constitute one of the most ser- anathenma to husband's Aunt care and hat appeared once again.
answer. This is his first bite." ious marketing problems for Jane? Impossible, it would seem and that after the first feelings of
Then there'd be a lot of wrang- the motion picture producer, may to refuse any single favour or resentment the charm and thought- prove a boon to the industry ignore the very least advice. Yetfulness which she was careful to after all. In fact, it is the many of the favours are so come show her relations made them opinion of Dr. Martin Freuden-pletely antagonistic one to the forgive her "obstinacy" and decide thal, counsellor of Legation in other that the only method of to bear with her "curious ideas.": The tennis ball hurled itself into complying with them all would be the German Foreign Office, that the determination to be "all things tree and remained there. It will
never be served again! this bit of adversity is the most to all men." But, as this in one of hopeful aspect of the whole film the most uncomfortable, deceptive situation. Having failed to sur- ways of living that one mount the language barrier by imagine, few women would be con
tent with such a solution. any other means, he says,
The most fatal way of dealing Vanished-The tion picture producers must de-
with the problem is to tell one per- velop entertainment having a non what the other has advised. universal appeal. "Films of the "Oh no, I couldn't possibly have: better sort have enjoyed a sali- blue wallpaper as So-and-So says "Yes, I
A writer of reminiscences jus ent success, regardless of lan-it would be far too cold."
the agree with you, I do aged a new recently pointed out that of all guage and irrespective of
bas form in which they have been raat, but mother was only pointing Victorian institutions not one shown," he said during an inter-out yesterday how extravagant ruffered so disastrous a slump as the "Don't you like old family album.. And the statement recently. "IL view
scems that would be." that the talkie situation works my orange powder? Oh dear, now cannot be denied,
Whiskers here and thera break the monotony of an avenue of bald faces; as a stimulus for the creation of what shall do? My husband
thinks it suits me so well." outstanding pictures,
If wise, the wife will switch on nightshirts are known in cathedral Some American films of high a surrent of firmness before it is ton towns; aspidistras look forth moodily suc-late, so that it electrifies her whole from Bloomsbury windows, and rel flannel underwear-so say the drapers artistic quality have been cessful in Europe, and some character to an extent that will still has its votaries. But the European films have been impermit her to address the fiercest modern hostess would as Buon admit family mensely popular in America, as well as the meekest members of that the goldfish had foot-and-mouth
of in- disense as that she harboured They do not have to depend upon her family with words
six dependence. And whether she ad- aliam. Occasionally one may be dis- words." After spending
mits "Yes, I think your advice is covered in x attic propping up the "wonky" leg of an old oak chest, but,
Aa programme consultant to months in the States studying gued and therefore I will follow in general they are no more in use ZBW I am arranging a rather all phases of production and dis-it," or " think it bad and there than last year's almanac.
marvellous series of lecturen for Yet fifty years ago the country was However belated the action of tribution in American studios, fore I won't," her tone will leave
place, wind and weather permit- the authorities may have been Dr. Freudenthul completed what no doubt in the mind of her com simply infested with family albums. you. The broadcasts will take
onc of the anion that she will at all times do Where are they now? in deciding to grapple with the is regarded as
Well, the story goes that they have ting, every Friday (except surveys of that which she herself considers fire-crucker storage question, most remarkable
savage parts of Africa, Borneo and heterodynes, and will be relayed there can be no two opinions its sort ever made by a foreign to be right provided it does pearly all been exported to the more days) on a wave-length of 117.6 I was recently very interested in places, where the natives have from all stations, excepting that of regarding the desirability of nation. It deals particularly harm to others.
with an evaluation of methods
powered deities. If so it's a startling did allow herself, for a little thought that one's hairy ancestor of Stonecutters. The
are distinguished, fire within recent years it has dustry in making adjustments to while, to be a tennis ball wife, the Reform Bill period may now be plain that although they realise been shown that the presence of meet changed business condi- She is not very good looking, and regularly worshipped with tom-toms the lecturers
she is not rich enough to make up and hula-hula dances by light-hearted they prefer something extinguish-
than A ed. Water plty! fire-crackers on the premises was tions.
for this defieleney with really men elud in nothing more
bone nose-ring and a long spear.
You can't afford to miss this Here Consequently she
I'll maku contesalon. a contributory factor, and it is
smart clothes. doubtless in view of this fact
decided to adopt an original style Personally I am something of a mis-Intellectual treat which is explain- of dreas which, without being ogynist and live little interest in woed below:
1. Mr. Edward Kelly on "The that more stringent regulations
between pictures of my hont's whey- was recently startling, was certainly distinctive, men, yet if I had to make a choice have been promulgated. Pre-|
But no sooner did she flaunt a faced aunts and those of Greta Garbo Shing Mun Dam, and other forms mises of the shop-tenement type centred in the annual "old car and became her very well, have been the usual storage-race held in England. The race black cape and rather wide brimm- and Co., the latter group would get of swearing."
Yet in one way those alburas had A young sultor, for ex- places for these dangerous goods, was run from London to Brighed hat, then her mother-in-law my vote every time.
ton and commemorates the com- gently reproached her for making their uses.
conspicuous and her ample, hanging his hat up in a Victor- and in many instances tons of ing into force, in 1896, of the herself fire-crackers have been stacked Locomotives on Highways Act. mother stated that the whole outfit fan home was invariably given the This Bay have depressed him. Her indecision, there- it dyed red. the lower floors of such Prior to the enactment of this would be far more successful were family album to look at.
constituting
law, every road car was buildings,
fore was painful. In both cases Most likely it did. At the same time affection demanded that she should by studying the photographs of
Couple of generations of his prospec- menace to those who happen to pelied to keep its speed
to a walking pace and to be do as asked, yet she was intensely tive "in-laws," he got a shrewd iden live above. In one of the cases preceded by a man with a red averse to doing either. And for a of the gang he was marrying into which has just come before the flag. This was done to protect time she put aside all thought of A. P. GARLAND. Court, it was shown that the the public against steam traction crackers were stored close to a engines and road-making ma-' London-Brighton kitchen, a circumstance which chines. The
run, a unique event in all motor- illustrates the extreme danger dom, is confined to cars manufac when the premises happen also tured not later than 1904. Na- to be used as dwelling quarters.turally, they must negotiate the The chief point raised on be- entire course under their own half of the firms interested in power. In the "Old Crocks"
event of 1931 a woman driver! this business, during the hearing took part in an ancient vehicle of this week's cases, was that for which she had paid 15 the regulations were such that shillings! It is amazing how they could not possibly be com- many entrants there are for this plied with, by reason of lack of race each year, and how many of the veterans manage to go storage space. This, is course, the route without mishap. Any is on the presumption that the number of humorous incidenta exporters remain in their exist-usually occur, and the crowds ing promises. But it is precise-lining the roadways join with ly this danger which needs re- the drivers in entering into the moving. Congested residential fun of the occasion. That such a race can be held, however, und areas are not the places in that twenty-eight-year-old which to store fire-crackers; in- terans of hundreds of thousands deed, the authorities should long of miles of travel can still move ago have taken steps to prevent along at a good pace, is certainly the danger from assuming its tribute to this form of locomo- present dimensions. Instead of tion which in a generation hus
that action. In more than one employed by the amusement in the fate of a friend of mine, who adopted the plutographs as high-the Kowloon Fire Brigade and
in
B
Still Going Strong.!
Much interest
сот-
down
that, the exporting firms have swept the world. been permitted to rub along with makeshift accommodation until the evil has become really serious. If the regulations can- not be complied with on exlating premises, the obvious remedy is be that other quarters must
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
ve-
IT IS OPEN TO SERIOUS QUESTION
wiETHER, AMONG NATIONAL MANU-
OF A
FACTURES, THAT OF BOULS GOOD QUALITY MAY NOT AT LAST
found where it will be possible TURN OUT "A QUITE LEADINGLY to insist on such precautions LUCRATIVE ONE-Ruskin.
"Always reading books! She'd better not let the stage director entch her wasting so much time improving her mind."
former com-
2. The Editor of the "Critic". on Six reasons why the Government is always right."
3. "Veritas" on "The Interport Selectors".
4. The Interport Selectors au Veritas".
6. Mitzy Intelligentsia (aged 5) of The Peak on "The Philosophy of
Romeo and its consequent effect on the guitar industry."
6. The Directors of local banks on "Gold, Silver, Frankincense, and Myrrh, with possible reference to the Hongkong Dollar."
SLIMMIN'.
Callin' on Doris Anchovy yester- day, we found her very dopressed. "It's the slimmin'," she told us. "Trottin' Melisande round the Penk isn't the exercise it ought to be; we mostly live in the Rolls. So I'm havin' to take drastie measures."
"What are you livin' on?" naked.
ye
"Coal, mostly," said Doris. "Here's my menu, if you want to Jack at it."
MENU.
Breakfast.Orange juice: the pips of one apple: coal-dast on toast.
Lunch. A mali plece of coal. Ten-Hot water; the sheel of a walunt, grated; 1oz slack.
Dinner. The juice of ons plum.
Dry toast,
Two small pieces of coal..
3 currants,
"My good girl."
we aniel.
horrified, "you're dyin' by inches."
"I know," said Doris, "And
hot what wouldn't I give for a buttered erumpetį"
"The crumpets," wo annwared. sententiously, "wlll sound for you
on the other side."