THOUSANDS ENJOY WINTER SPORT ANYONE CAN LEARN ON NURSERY SLOPES
By WILFRID TREMELLEN
are
Thousands of British people are jarm, "is always to pretend to your travelling to Switzerland for the sell that what you really want is Winter Sporte. Snow has at last to go much faster than you fallen heavily in Switzerland, and the Sports are in full swing. Twice as many trains have been run from England as compared with lant year.
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actually going. It's kidding your- self, of course, but the psychological effect is immense."
Later on you will go on ski-ing excursions to the mountains, and. the lunch you bring with you in 66ƊUT,” you object, “I've never your rucksack and cat in the silence seen a aki, except on my of the frclad slopes will be the most way through to the millinery enjoyable of your life especially department and then I didn't if your guida lights a fire of fir- cones and makes gluhwein. This is stop,"
You may not have seen a luge, n delicious hot drink made with either, but it hardly matters. Be-white wine, cinnamon and sugar cause the winter sports folk are a bolled with snow.
LUGEING PARTIES
choery crowd, and it is difficult to
In the afternoons there are some- fool a stranger among them. The Jolly old man in the corner seat at times lugeing parties. Then you, Victoria constitutes himself your like everybody else in the hotel, "uncle" as soon as you have given drag your luge by its reins up to tho him permission to smoke, and al-top of the toboggan-run and, Join- though bis labels show he is going ing the queue. sit chatting on your to a different centre, what he does mount until the man in front is
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY
King Winter reigns in Switzerland again, and thousands of his loyal 'subjects are enjoying the multitude, of suras at his court.
not know about the place you are sent off. One minute later the HOUSING SCHEME type of furniture under the hire- and wash-houses, accommodation
bound for is negligible.
PLACE FOR BEGINNERS
starter nods to you. At once you of the descent
shove off over the lip on the steep and whizzing loc-covered track.
It feels like hurtling down a long white tunnel, because you simply dare not raise your eyes at first, and see only the blur of the snow
FURNITURE BY HIRE-PURCHASE
purchase agreement would be sim!- for perambulators, a central station- lar to that displayed in the exhihl- for the disposal of refuse, 20 shops, tion houses. Everything which is and a children's bathing pool. considered essential in the way of
Another tender has been accept- furniture and furnishings is shown
On your first morning in Swit- zerland you go down to the village
in a price-list which has been issued ed, the Woolley Construction Com- at the to select aki and sticks
for complete furnishings on the pany, Limited, of Leeds, having "Sport Shop. For two or three
Leeda. francs you can hire all you want
hire-purchase aystem. A reduction secured the contract for the erec- Further plans have been made in is made where the tenant is in a tion of 208 dwellings at £76,592, for a fortnight. Your travelling
Tho chairman states that the. companions of yesterday, all talk banked up on either side. Swift connexion with the £12,000,000 |
the to pay cash. You tug at the reins, and your feet
It has also beɛn decided to build lists of application for corporation poration. scrabble frantically on the ice.
Additional particulars of the fists to accommodate 800 families houses have now had to be closed. You brake just suficiently to avoid hire-purchase furnishing plan which in the Quarry Hill district, which No houses will be available apart shooting up the bank, and then you has caused so much comment have was until recently one of the slums from those needed for alum-clear- are round the corner and whizzing been given by the chairman of the of the city. The scheine is an am-ance purposes and the 1,000 which down the straight. There is an-Housing Committee, the Rev. C. bitious one and includes a com- are to be erected under the non- other corner, and then another, but Jenkinson, who indicated that the munity contre, swimming baths subsidy plan.
your right size, and soon you are
all plank-planking down the frozen road towards the Nursery Slope It reminds you of the time when you were a child and tied date-boxes
your feat.
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You climb a modest slope and you have got the hang of it now shove yourself off with your sticks and soon fool confident enough to Now you are whizzing down in fuo raise your eyes and enjoy the glori style, breathless with the exhilara- tion of it until, after attaining our mountains.
DON'T MISS THIS
You stay in your sports kit for
what seems a fearful speed, you wobble, recover, wobble again and fall, losing your sticks and tumbl-tea-there will be music in the-
lounge and later, after putting ing over and over. Astonishing your damp gloves and socks on your You sit up, wipe the snow from Ledroom radiator to dry, you bath your eyes, and find that, though and change for dinner. the mountains all seem to have changed places, you have not hurt yourself in the least.
EASY TO Learn After a few more descents you And that if you keep your knees "loose" they act as springs and you can keep your balanco over the irregularities of the slope.
While you are struggling to your fect an old hand comes up with a word of advice. "The way to avoid falling," he says, giving you an
MONKS' ACTION FAILS
"TRAPPIST BEER" TRADE NAME
There will be revelry afterwards champagne, paper hats, Paul Jones and what-have-you. But do not omit to do this, on one riotous evening at least: steal away at some moment when the fun is grentest and the netse loudest and take a look at the moonlight on the eternal snow-clad mountaina. It lo freezing hard outside, but the stars are brillant in the Indigo sky and the pines stand ke sentinels in the eilence.
Trapplat monasteries: that the Trappists were not traders, and therefore could not complain of competition on the part of a real trader..
The Court, In a closely reasoned Judgment, agreed entirely with the brewer's submissions. It held that the Trappists wore an association not for purposes of proßt, and that; their ideal was to live according to the precopts of St. Benedict, to do charitable work, and to propagate Brussels, Jan. 2.
the Catholic Faith. Though it The Antwerp Commercial Court could be admitted that a religious has non-suited the Trappist Fathers community might carry on a trade in a claim for 250,0001, damages for to supply its charitable funds, It unlawful competition made by them was inadmissible that such a com- against a brewer of. Brasschaat munity should place itself on the noar Antwerp, who sold beer undersame footing as real traders, whose the name of Trappist Beer,
business was carried on exclusively
For the brewer it was contended for profit.
that the name "Trappist" was not
a special mark, but applied to The Trappists were ordered to several bears made in different pay the costs of the action.-
British Tommies (Top) receiving a jovial Nazi salute from Saar-landers as they prepared to take
-up thair biliete la Saarbrucken upon arrival to patrol the Saar valley during the Longus of Nations ple- biscite period. They immediately bagan to muka-friends among the townsfolks who accorded them a cordial recaption. Two of them are pictured, befowin difficulty over the language while picking out tha
Inevitable picture postcarda lo send home.
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