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TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
NOTES OF THE DAY
ANTI-HANDSHAKERS:
1935.
NORTHERN OUTPOST
OF AUSTRALIA
(By L. S. B.)
The Very Idea!
DUMB-BELLES LETTRESTM by Juliet Lowell Who's Afraid of a big barn chest?
The recent news that the entire handled until they have regained. To a Hair Tonle Co.
The superiority of the Chiness! is in nothing more manifest than in the way they shake their own hands instead of groffering hands to each other. The gesture is still one of welcome, but they retain control and are not exposed, as crew of a Japanese lugger had boon the deck.
taken into custody by the Austra- Europeats and, greatly a fortiori. Americans the whims of lian authorities and subsequently
to the Bre, their co-shakers. Without asking fined for poaching and for collect whether long finger-nalla have in- ing undersized shell, will make the fluenced Chinose custom, it is of following sketch, of Australia's course true that such politeness is not really the same trusting act most northern port of interest. as the surrender of the right
Until somo years ago when the hand; for right hands are userul competition of Japanese artificially and on occasion, as when mastar ing the left eleve-link, indispen-cultivated pearls grew too acute sable allies in the battle of life. Thursday Island was the centre of
la
Aboard the lugger it is not so romantic. In the first place, it recks of fish; In the second, it is far from comfortable. The deck space is limited and unprotected
Dear Sira:
I am writing to tell you that my joy is so great. I have been desperately in love with a beauti- aho always rejected my sult, P. S. ful maiden for over two years, but not what I wear-but my plea to have her marry me, because she
tokl
and husband had to have hair on his chest, and the more
from a blazing, zua and the tiny theart me that her lover and
cabin is stuffy and cramped. The hold, however, is amazingly capa clous. To watch a boat unload one could imagine that there was some
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To trust that hand to a stranger, one of Australia's most prosperous trick involved, a collapsible bottom to leave him free to express his and profitable industries. To-day, or some such contrivance, for the cordiality, his manliness, and deep sincerity by touch, to bear his although it is still the centre of a shell is brought up in an apparent sustained grip until he chooses to pearling fleet of nearly a hundred ly endless stream, bagged, and relax. is to give the most valuable luggers, Thursday Island seems to taken ashore for grading. There of hostages. So it is perhaps a bo dying and the realdents are re-is very little pearl shell, most of sign of the uneasy times in sentful not only of the legitimate it is trochus; and-very occasionally Europe to-day that in Ljubljana in competition of cultivated pearls in there is a pearl, though this means Yugo Slavia an Anti-Handshaking club has been formed with an the market but also of alleged nothing to the owners. initial membership of one hundred, poaching by Japanese boata. . The rebels include in their rebel. on a firm stand against taking off their hats to other men, sa etiquette prescribes: but what they are really out to abolish in shaking particularly offices and between members the same staff. In Yugo-Slavis, es In so much of Europe, it is quite it common thing to shake hands with everybody on arriving for work and again on going out to lunch,
of
With a shout or two and the
boat
A more desolate and god-for-clank of chaing-noises which fade anken spot than Thursday Island at almost as they are born in that the end of the dry season can humid, tropical heat-the scarcely be imagined. A straight, slips almost silently from her an- narrow pler juts out awkwardly to chorage and crawls down the har the wharf in the middle of a harbour with just suficient wind to bour formed of low, dirty-green keep her sails filled. With two or hills devoid of interest. The other three glistening black men lolling end of the pier leads into the main on the grey dock and with a back- street, an undulating expanse.over ground of palm fringed beach, the thirty yards wide, patterned with boat seems inevitably to be sail dust filled furrows and reflecting a ing off to some romantic adventure. This handshaking business used to be thought a quaint survival blistering glare. On either side a But no; she finds a quiet spot in from the duya when right hands row of houses, colourless wood or the lea of some island, anchors, hold daggers or could draw iron ovens, desolate and seemingly and the diver, in full dress if it is swords; to place it in the keeping deserted, set in a fenced-off wasto deep, and with just the head-dress of another was to clear yourself of dust or bare ground. "There is if it is shallow, clambers' over the of any dangerous Intention no grass and only an occasional side, down two stops, and into the ability. Business men have often withered, aparse-looking palm or sea.
QUAINT SURVIVAL ?
or
Hongkong Telegraph. laughed to think how little mean-
THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 1936.
THIS PIRACY PROBLEM
tree.
Past mid-afternoon there conies
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Then, if the ground is a good basket after basket of shell ja one, a sign of life. Apathetically, more hauled to the surface and the deck
ing the ritual need have to-day when fighting and ambushes take other forms. There are offices where proud natures acorn to be
the misunderstood and accompany a than half naked and apparently becomes alimy and dirty as handshake with the accepted aimlessly, there saunter down the
crew with more skill than force the shells and throw formula, "Here is the hand that street in couples or singly Papuans, prize open will one day stab you in the Aboriginals, Chinese, and some of them into the hold. The flesh goes back." But in other offices, as in doubtful ancestry. Perhaps, too, back into the water. There is a Ljubljana, the question is asked: Fasclets and Nazia have learned a little more completely dressed and
on
hair he had on his cheat, the more she would love him. So you may immagino my grief that God made mo with a hairless chost. And for two years I have been rubbing hair
that I am rubbing it there, and tonics on my chest and don't let all that has ever happened is some blisters on my chest and my heart gets heavier and sader, until I hear how wonderful your hair grower is, I ordered some 2 months ago and now there are five little black hairs on my chest and it makes me so happy that. I could hug you to death. But I am not going to show them to my girl until they grow out strong and heavy, and I can just picture her surprise and love for me when she sees that her hus- band to bo, has a hairy chest.
Yours most reverendly,
Martini C
I can picturo her murprise and love for me.
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Wrestler Writes Apropos Browning's play, "Pippa Passes," revived in London, Mabel. Porchester, the well-known Old
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But for the circumstance that maintain, the ritual at all? few Australians, slightly better and Bmit to the amount of shell any Bize and all-in wrestler, writes: children, mostly British, aboard 24714 "Don't Let It Bother You"...."Fats" Waller & His Orch. the ship, the Tungchow piracy combining the remembrance of pose, though showing no greater nothing smaller than a full span of war with me at Rocdean, she folly
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She was a fine, manly girl, 6ft. 2in.
A physical Instructor to the
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one bost may collect each season to make a gesture more nearly moving with a greater air of pur-and also to the size of each shell,
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the hand being sent to the surface. worldwide attention that it has. One lung may be
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In practically all other respects, certain muscles which get little even romantic-note is struck at later, the boat puts back to the
in her socks, with double muscles. scope in sedentary callings
At Oxford she often used police- 24706 "Pop Goes Your Heart" Raymond Palga & His Orch. the incident was
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Indeed, there is nothing to eh men as Indian clubs. If we had play. The efficient Japanese com- "Beauty must be foved"
..Raymond Paige & His Orch. have become accustomed, in this most refreshingly brought into the other end of the pier: there leland, unloads and is off again.
part of the world, to regard as bine the quest for physical fitness The low-waisted, black hulled, tico the crow to stay in Thursday a few more girls like Pipper this. quite common-place in these re-and social geniality by constant twenty-five foot craft tally well Island over long. With a tempera- country would not be in the state The enormous girl felt her biceps curring instances of outlawry bowings from the hips, bringing with the mental picture formed of ture of well over the hundred mark, it is to-day."
Important abdominal muscles into them from romantic tropic tales of the days are only slightly more
"She was breaking in elephants their blood running ever more along the China coast. None play and getting batter exercise in poaching and trepanning. Two-oppressive than the nights; and pensively and added: the less, the gravity of a con-proportion as the obeisance is masted, and most of them with a thinly the majority of the hundred-in-Kenya-when-I-heard from her.
marked. The bow and the salute auxilliary engine, they have
odd white residents on the Island last. It's thundering rot her hav- tinuance of the evil remains, as ma
have this further advantage also, sturdy appearance. And on board look forward to the day of their Ing to leave England just because S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. does the problem of prevention. that they do not betray their is a motley crowi
release from an unpleasant term of the Guards got the wind up.” да bandshaking can. At the moment, chief interest makers
exile. appears to be centred on
The best and the most romantic Brigade of Guards said hotly:
"Anyone who says our fellows possibility of punitive effort inaume 7" Impression that two strong may be almost as many national and picturesque impression of Aus
were afraid of 'Pipper Ponsonby the Bias Bay region, in which white men have at last managed itics represented, though if there is tralia's northern outpost is got is a liar. We didn't mind her, or If one Japanese employed it is almost from the deck of a ship as she sails any Old Roodean girl, taking on connection It is gratifying to to meat, do not at nii like it !
their palm is hastily and lightly certain there will be two, for a for more inviting places. Then one our best heavies, but she wrecked note the promptitude of the stroked, or if they are given a Japanese diver will not trust any-sees only the colourful sight of every gum, in the London Com- Canton Government's action and fleeting sense of a flabby and one with his air and life lines, creach side of a pier, a palm-fringed over the size of the sick parades,"
twenty or more luggers moored on mand. Besides, there was trouble. tainly not an Aboriginal. More- the co-operative work evinced shapeless mass.
over, any pearls that are found are beach with a tropical, iron roofed Miss Porchester suggested, in- from the fact that H.M.S. Decoy
jolly good way BORE'S BEST FRIEND
the property of the diver, and, town beyond grey, deserted streets, cldentally, that lent her services in landing a
however uncomplimentary it may and a background of green hills. out of the Carstairs-Hawhough Two fingers are resented more seem, the man on the sen bed likes An outpost, Indeed, and admirable dilemma in Kenya would be for contingent of Chinese troops in
But, even than those who point them at all to have a delegate on the boat when and interesting for that, but in the Miss Ponsonby to call and give the Swabue arca.
comers can envisage; and yet all the shall is opened. Indeed, some dry season an abominable place in them a jolly good bashing. My assuming an extension of such
these furtive efforts to minimise divers object to any shell being which to live.
Kenya correspondent is keeping co-operation, it must be conceded the contact have a reason behind,
his eye in this possibility. that such measures have their them, because the prolonged hand. limits and do not really get atahake is the boro's best friend. the hand the root of the trouble. Proven-He can hold and even pat tion of these outrages is the of his hearer with every air of great need. Chief difficulties in delighted cordiality, knowing all the way of cleaning up the the time in his evil. heart that Bowers, affected area are, firstly, its escape is impossible.
even Fascist salutors, do not extent; and, secondly, the prob- derive from their manners the the lem of ascertaining who are, and same physical dominion as
An are not, pirates. Once strong handshaker who
enjoys. before, in 1927, a British naval occasional handshake on a big oc- expedition endeavoured to root casion between the parties to an out the pirates, but, despite all engagement or marriage, or other that was then done, the evil still major partnerships, and on other persists. Sa it is reasonable to old custom and not a bad one. events, is all very well, important assume that, no matter what ae-
But when it grows to ludicrous tion might be taken now, there lengths in the interests of sales- would be no guarantee of effec-manship and a politeness without tive suppression of the gang or ordinary good will behind it, it is gangs. When we come to the time to cry halt and to fill in the question of prevention, it is membership forms which will en- obvious that much more could able one, as of right, to extend, be done by the Chinese authori- fellowship to the stalwart men of for once only, the right hand of ties in policing measures both on Ljubljane. fland and along the coast. Tho chief necessity, however, la to
To securo the devise arrangements for a more such a manner. rigid search of passengers, sup maximum resuits, there must be plemented by measures for the well co-ordinated measures, both proper protection of the vital fashore and afloat, but the main parts of ships which ply in the fréquirements are (a) to prevent piracy zone. So far as third-suspects, as far as possible from class and storage passengers boarding the ships; and (b) to are concerned, danger could be devise effective methods to make reduced: to a minimum by attack from within impossible thorough and pystematic search in caso would-be-pirates "slip. when they come aboard and by through the net. Clearly, it is
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