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THE HONGKONG
WHY TRADES. DIE
SILK MATERIAL
Used For Many Simple Afternoon Gowns
KILLED BY CHANGE OF FASHIONS
SOME GO IN A.NIGHT
By NEVILLE CORBETT
CHIMNEY-Sweep was sum- moned for debt at the county court recently. He told the Judge that he was unable to earn much nowadays' because central heating and the electric firo between them had all but killed his trade,
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It is all part of the price of pro-'| gress. Now inventions, new waya of living, cut remorselessly into the profita of some of the oldest- established businesses. By curious coincidence, at the moment that the unlucky sweep was telling his hard case to a (no doubt) sympathetic Bench, one of the last- remaining shoeblacks in London was explaining to a reporter why his craft was dying.
The reasons were simple and easily understood. The old- fashioned blacking has been re- placed by patent polishes, so that ahoes do not need cleaning an often, Morcover, road-surfaces have been so improved that people do not get their shoes so dirty as in the bad old day when one had to wade through a sen of mud every time it rained.
VANISHING IN A NIGHT
There is no security now for anybody. Trudes that seemed in- dispensable may vanish in a night. When women began to "bob" and "shingle" their hair, the makers of hairpins were faced with ruin. Some of them converted their factories to other uses; the rest gave up business-at any rate, for the time. Now that our wives and daughters are growing their hair ngain, there is hope of a revival.
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COOKERY NOTES
Fine silk materials are used for many simple frocks. This one, in very dark green, hae at- tractive epaulette frilla over the shoulders, dark brown but- tous at neck and cuffs, and a brown waistbelt buckle.
TOMATOES AND ECGS Strain the liquid from a
tin of
well-huttered baking dish; sea- tomatoes, and lay the latter in
all over with little bits of butler. son with salt and pepper, and dot Enke in the oven till hot through. In the meantime, scramble two or three engen butter, and a litle milk, spread over the tomatoes, and serve with hot buttered toast.
To say that the coming of the motor car made a huge difference to many trades would be to labour the obvious. It stands to reason that livery stable-keepers, anddlers, and harness-makers,
corn
and forage merchants, carriage-buil ders, and a host of others were very hard hit.
But the innovation bad some repercussions that were quite unexpected. It hastened the end of the walking-stick. Nobody dreams of taking a stick Into alarmed the hatters, much as the cur, and so the cane which used
to be every man's companion be-
gan to fade out.
vogue for knee-length skirts some time ago brought despair to the The war gave it the final blow. material to make a woman's skirt drapery trade! It took so little Millions of young fellows got no that millions of yarde kos were used to handling a rife that they sold per year. In the same way did not recognise a walking-stick millinera wept over the small-hat when they were demobilised. The fashion, and were goaded to frenzy trade in "button-hules" began to languish about the same time. It
when so many girls knitted their has never recovered. The rose.or carnation that set off the lapel of the formal frock-eunt, or morning- coat, looks out of place on a sports jacket. Everybody wears informal attire now, and so the florists suffer,
ONCE FAMILIAR "GADGETS"
Own.
MAKING
UP FOR IT
In some ways things readjust themselves. If women use less material in their clothes, they buy more of them per year than they used to. In the same way, when people abandoned boots and took
SAVING AMERICAN MINERALS
STATE CONTROL
OF COAL
URGENTLY NEEDED
Washington, March 3. Government ownership of soft coal fields as a stop toward federal conservation of America's mineral and oil deposita was suggested to President Roosevelt by his Nation- al Resources Board.
The committee, declaring that in the time required to read ita 50- page report enough fuel would be wasted in our oil and gas fields and coal mines to keep 10,000 ro- lief familles warm during the win- tor" recommended:
1. That catablishment of R national coal reserve be seriously considered.
2. That fixing of minimum 'and maximum bituminous coal prices may be needed.
3. That Congress consider estab- lahlug an agency to authorise con- trol of production and capacity to halt waste of underground re- Boureca,
4. That emergency provisions of NRA codes for production control be continued in some form.
"Government purchase of select- ed acreage of bituminous coal felds deserves serious consideration as a means of controlling capacity" the board sald, "Such a national coal reserve would be leased as needed with payment of royalty to the United States."
The committee opposed Govern- mental action that would supplant private initiative in other mineral fields, but said federal supervision should be established to provide "addition of safeguards and pawera to enable the industry itself to net collectively, where necessary, in order to avoid the physical and Hocin Rate of destructive com- petition."
PUBLIC UTILITY
The administration, however, is the oil industry a public utility to considering legislation to declare
insure federal control now that the U.S. Supreme Court has held un- constitutional the NIKA section authorising the government to con- trol production.
The board pointed out that cut- servation of mineral resource is important to the future of Ameri- eral industries employed more can industry, that in 1929 the min- than 1,000,000 men and reported products valued roughly at $6,000,- 000,000.
"The real significance of mineral exhaustibility is the tendency to force an increase in cost," the com-
resources Arc
mitteo said in pointing out that the country's mineral headed toward certain eventual depletion.
NO NEW DISCOVERIES
Of the 33 motal-mining districts that have yielded the greatest wealth to date, only ave have been discovered since 1907, and none at all since 1917.
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Across-
1 Suppone, to give oneself airs, 4 thus is in harmony.
8 How a noted craven was opponesi, 11 A bird you'll find in winter
nests,
13 Fights against a change of rola- 12 Tidy form of 31 across.
tions.
16 Put out.
16
Autumn partien that get the bird, and come up fresh in the apring, 17 Standard of similarity for 10 Cancel. couple.
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20 A great river of India le mostly
filled with these associations. 22 The old answer that will serva
for aye.
25 English Channel which might be atpien-but we don't think it will.
ed the pink in 1915, and no new American gold production, pass silver deposits have been un- covered to take the place of the 27 Bird fisher,
The United States must have a
It, and you have.
fore returning.
Changing modes of life account to aloes instead, the leather trade was affected. But nowadays the for the disappearance of a good person who bought four pairs a many once-familiar "gadgets." Who ever aces a boot-jack now-year now buys eight, and so on Infamous Comstock lode or Leadville. 28 This word? Its role is filled by except in illustrations to old-style proportion, novels 7
heavy workers, Or that other "Jack" by the aid of which cook used to roast
The same balancing process goes tariff to make it possible for 29 English river. I have no usa for on everywhere. If the motor car domestic copper producers to com- 31 You must seo this mountain be- the Joint for dinner before an oped nearly killed some fire of coal? Gas-ranges
trades, it pete with the low cost of mining electric stoves have done away road-houses
and brought new life to others. The ore abroad.
which
Lead and zinc depletion, the with the roasting-jack, ns with the across at every few yards on the committed warned, is "far ad- Dutch oven.
main highways owe their existenco vanced." A bright girl of about twenty, to the motoring habit. Many way-
The Mesab! Iron range, opened Interrogated by this writer the side hostelries, moribund owing to
in 1893, has hardly enough high- other day, said sha had never railway travel, were revived again grade ore to last another 40 years, heard. of such a thing as a Dutch in the same way. While steam although there are huge tonnages oven, much less seen one. That took people off the roads, petrol of low irrade, once-indispensable fireside com- put them back again. panion, the bellows, for reviving
1
one comes
a fainting fire, has also had its the world moves on.
Some trades must languish no day,
No doubt the makers, of bows and arrows grum The growing fashion of going bled violently when gunpowder about barcheaded has seriously began to be extensively used.,
SALESMAN SAM
YER RIGHT, MADAM! YOUR LIL
\\YEAH, AN' YOU GOLDİ.
BOY WAS IN HERE A MINUTE AGO, HIM THIS STICK OF
TO GET A STICK OF PEPPERMINT
CANDY!
POLLY.
LOPS
LICORICE AND I WANT TO EXCHANGE IT
FOR WHAT HE
ASKED FOR?
FOR
KANDY
KELOS
Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields are 29 per cent: exhausted. In the bituminous fields, however, are "stupendous reserves of low- grade" coal-the fuel the com- mittee would conserve through public ownership—United Press.
A Tough Taskt
WHY, LADY, THAT'S ONLY HALF OF TH' LICORICE STICK! YOU'LL HAVE TO RETURN ALL OF IT BEFORE
CAN MAKE AN EXCHANGE!
OH, YEAH? WELL,
YOU MADE TH MISTAKE-AN F YA WANT THE OTHER
HALF-
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32 He's in France, as a base, to set
free. 33 Give way.
31 Fan.bus us a story-teller,
• Down
This may be your destiny, but · not all of it.
2 Without delay, and so on.
3 The sort of hair that's always
unkempt.
♪ A sachet supplied by swindlers. "Who driven fat-should him- solf be fat," (Boswell's "Life
of Johnson.").
7 This clue is certainly not par
ticularly hard.
24
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www 16
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8 Take definite shape. The first three lettors of is low, then follows where they sleep.
9 This plant comes from tho
Aisno.
10 Devils scold about a letter to
ranke a fine display,
13 Tho end. of such a sale-is-indica-
tive of great industry.
14 Not the reserve of the auctioneer,
certainly.
17 Simply one end, so,
18 begin again.
21 Accompanies.
23 One can easily take the measure
of this girl.
24 These are
Mondays.
the machines for
20 Took a journey with our Ted. 27 Lilian Fern was one in "Tho Chimes," and so, I believe, was Scrooge.
30 Purposes.
31 Not retroussol
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