"THE" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, BATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1910,
WEEK-END
h. P:
These initials-whether they stand for HIRE- PURCHASE or HORSE- POWER, play a big part in every one's life.
[AVE you ever thought how much modern life depends on
the initials h.p.?
HA
There are, it is estimated, 16,000,000 hire-purchase agree- ments in existence in Britain; 60 per cent, of furniture is bought this way, 70 per cent. of motor-cars.
Motorists have another and more lasting interest in the initials h.p., for they represent that most yital of all questions for car owners what horse-power? Horse power is that purely arbitrary term for units of energy. Yet to-day it dominates the lives of town-dwellers,
It is so vital to the life of the nation that the Hope Govern- ment regards it as the greatest taxable asset from any one section of the community. Motorists paid the Exchequer £16,700,000 in horse-power tax in 1934.
Ilorse power governs the purchase
of cars-more eng" are bought to-
day, than any other rating.
But although hp. in of interest to motorists It in of equal interest to all travellers.
Safe and Speedy
In Hongkong a million people a day depend for their anfe and specdy transit on the hp. of the Kowloon and Island busca.
Have you ever wandered what the horse-power of Hongkong's buses is? When
travel you
smoothly
and silently in one of the Intest models you are being hauled along by 80 to 100 horse-power.
Hongkong is gradually superseding Its petrol buses by oil-driven
ones. Potrol buses are of 05 h.p.
45-Gallon Tanks
There is an Interesting sideline to this. Have you ever wondered why you do not sce
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Try your brain
at this one.
WRINKLES
"It tuds a cornets but i blew too hard."
This lustration represents system of Tube railways.
There are seventeen lines connecting,
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the twelve stations, as shown on the plan.D
An officini wants to arrange a route that
will take him over all the lines with as
little travelling as possible,
Be may begin where he like. You will find that he must go over some lines more than once.
If you say that the stations are a .mile apart he will have to travel more
than seventeen miles to inspect every. line.
How far is he compelled to travel?
Wat is his shortest route?
(Answer in another Column)
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Hongkong bus tyres is approximately of transport. 60,000 miles.
motors
The Kowloon-Canton rail which you use to travel to golf at Fanling or for a flutter at Shum Chun are propelled by Liberty motora of 160 h.p. each.
Hongkong buses Large Proportions stopping to fill up with petrol7 Perhaps you think that at each ter But it is only when we get to minus there are petrol supplies with steam trains that hp. assumes really large proportions-how would the which the tanks are replenished.
motorist with a "len" feel at the Actually a bus never takes on petrol controls of one of the "B" Class locomotives employed by the K.C.R. or oll during the day. It carries being carried to Canton by a 3,000 tanks for 15 gallons of petrol. h.p. engine. As a matter of interest Oil buses have a longer mileage steam trains are not rated in horse-
power, but in tractive power.
The
than petrol buses-nine to the gallon K.G.R's "B" Class engines' tractivo power is 35,700lbs., roughly equal to 3,000 h.p.
and carry 35 gallons with them. Hongkong's fire engines are of 45
h.p. Some of them have Rolls-Royce Variations in Flight
engines and chassis.
Flying shows a greater variation
Note for motorists; The life of in h.p." that probably any other mode
Dear Kiddies,
Girls' and Boys'
You gave me a big task in checking up the huge number of entries in the Find the "G'a" Compriįtion—almost a record entry. Some of you did 10 stick to nouns and even gave the same object more than once,
After deleting all wrong words, I Irene Osmund amongst the Juniors, find that the biggest list of correct articles in the Senior Section was Celeste Marques. Glad you
were
There is a miniature airplane with a one-cylinder engine of one-fifth b.p.- and a 600 h.p. supor-charged U.S. machine, claimed to develop 1,000 hip. at 2,100 revs. It cruises at a speed of 200 mi.p.h.
. But, for really astronomical hp. The figures one fras to go to ships. steam turbines of the Queen Mary have a horse power of 200,000. They Kive the giant liner a speed equivalent on land to 37 m.ph.
Rent in by Marianne Hill (aged 12 pleased about being commanded. As years), of the China Fleet Club; you say, It's an encouragement to try whilst Kathleen Morrison (aged 7 harder.
years), of 7 Enst Block, Queen's Road, Jacqueline Anderson.--Sorry you the winner amongst the Juniors. haven't won yet. But you made a
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Will Marianne and Kathleen call at good effort this week.
the "Telegraph" Celeste Güterres-Welcome to the office for their competitors' circle. Keep on trying. prizea?
Jose McCausland.--You took a lot Commended for uf trouble this week, nicely colouring
Better luck next time. excellent work the picture.
Ana Maria Santa Clara (Macae). are Norris Giles, Marjorie T -Yes, I should very much like you to
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win a prize, but
Jldn't this week you Betty Houghton, get all the "G" articles on your list.
Robert B. Williamson (Canton)~- Glad to see your entry-the first you Isobel Morrison, have sent in. Try again this week, Lydia Ozorio, Robert.
ANDREW CHAD
Diana
Freeman, Jeanne Freeman,
Margaret Chou,
Belty Manders Margaret M. Decker-No, Mar- and Suen Mo-tak garet, 1. didn't mind being suspected amongst the of having stolen the sausages, Seniors; and although I really am fond of them.
Now, children, as several of you Leslie Giles, Arthur Brown, Junie McCausland and bave nekel for another painting, con-
Last week's Benlor winner.
SOLUTION
Ile need only travel nineteen miles if he starts at. B and takes the following route, BADGDE FIFCBENKLUIGJK, Thus the only portions of line travelled over twice are the two section D to G and to I. The route may bo varied, but it cannot be short- oned.
Corner
petition, I'm giving you one this week. The accompanying picture should give you plenty of scope for colouring. You may use either paints or crayons. Send in your entries, akiressed to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph," to reach him not Inter than pm, on Wednesday.
There will again be two prizes-- ono for children aged 10 to 14 years, and the other for those under 10. Some of you sometimes forget to give state Don't forget to your ages. them this week.
UNCLE EDDIE.
Is your Name
ANNIE 15 # #
0 13 5 7. 0 1
A name belonging to one some what difficult to know, being pub jeet to quick changes of mind, forpuleive and a bit erratic. She is fond of freedom and will resent any interference, preferring to work along her own lines, those often being original and
wt pro. gressive.
Annis is intuitive and imagina and usually interested i anything strange and out of the common. Inclined to be rather touchy in temper and a bit sur- castic.
tive
The Fate gives an unsettled life; many changes of residence, long journeys; strange experi• ences where the affections ure concerned; sudden "separations; some publicity
The lucky day is Monday, the colours light green and violat: the yom the moonstone; mascots the crab, shell, and duck. The per« fumes wallflower or lily. The lucky dates of any month 2, 11, 20, 20.
Favourable yours of ape: 18, 21, 20, 31, 41, 46. Unfavourable ages: 14, 10, 24, 28, 34, 44, 40: Ages bringing changes or long fourneys: 22, 38, 32, 36; 43.
Interesting events connected with the affections: 22. 21'and '40,
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How they set about curing Hopeless Apers
ŠEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD American far- mer, Robert Milton, last month completed five years of continuous hiccuping.
What is the matter with him? He is suffer ing from, spasmodic irregular activity of the breathing apparatus, probably started by some- thing irritating his stomach.
By now It has become an ordinary factor in his life. He cannot imagine himself not hiccup Ing. He hiccups hopelessly. He saye so him self.
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The similar case of Vera Stone, of Memphis, Tennessee, was cured by attacking the complaint as a psychological problem,
She was given strong injections of a power- ful drug, which sent her to sleep. When she woke up she was in awful agony. She forgot about hiccuping and concentrated on thinking about her new suffering. So she forgot to hiccup and was cured.
POEM
She died in the upstairs bedroom, By the light of the erning star That shone thro' the plate" pluss
window
From over Leamington Spa.
Beside her the lonely crochet.
Lay pliently and unstirred, But the fingers that would have
work'd fi
Were dead as the spoken wordt.
And murre came in with the fea
things.
Brehst high utid the stars and
chairs:
But wurd won alone with her own.
little woul,
And the things were alono with
theira.
She battell the big round seindong,
She let the blinds unroll,
She net a match to the mantel,
She covered the fire with coal. And "Tea," she said, in a ting
valer,
"Wake up; if'a' nearly, five.” O chintzy, chintzy cherrincan, Hulf dead and half alival
Do you know that the stucco is
peeling?
Do you know that the heart will
stop?
From thene pollow Halinule
arches
Do you hear the plaster drop?
Nurne looked at the silent bed-
stead,
At the pray, decaying face, As the culm of a Leamington
ro'xing
Drifted into the place.
She moved the table of bottles
Away from the bed to the wall, And tiptoeing gently over the
stuirs
Turned down the yaa in the hall.
JOHN HETJEMAN-
SUMMER
RECIPES
by
Countess Morphy
Epidemies of hiccups happen from ilme to time. Towards the end of 1020 they were reported from all over the Continent, from America and Canada.
The principal causes of hiccups are: Too much to eat, too much to drink, various diseases of the liver, pleurisy, paralysis of the phrenic nerve at tije hase of the lung, irritation of the brain.
A good cure for mild attacks in to press the eyeballs firmly. This nets na n counter-irritant.
Another remedy is to hold n'paper bag tightly over the patient's mouth until carbon dioxide from his breath, causes a reaction in his lunga.
In 1912 a Misa Mary Shears, also of America, hiccuped for seventeen days before being cured in a rather
quaint way.
Doctors advised sudden shocks. Revolvers were fired behind her back, masked men appeared in her bedroom al night, friends nearly threw her out of high windows. But still she hiccuped.
So they tried substituting fom for fear, and hired two fanny men, Sho laughed and wis cured.
VICTORIAN MODE
DID you know that way back in Elizabeth's reign pincu
shions were an important item of dress? They were round and tightly stuffed-slightly larger than a present-day golf ball-and were worn outside the dress like an ornamental job.
`A` great deal of loving labour, went into, the making of thom. Knitted in sille or wool, they wern gênerally inscribed with the name of the owner. Or the very pious worked in a bit of their favourite Bible text. Fortunately for collectors, they were often dated.
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As fashions.changed and frocks became simplified, the original round shape became a nuisance. So our great-grvát- grandmothers, sat down on their quiet Sunday afternoons and thought out other more comfortable designs.
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The flat pin-cushions of Queen Victoria's reign carried the pins stuck around the edgo, and these pins formed a decoration in themselves.
As a change from the knitted coverings, fiue canvas was used over thin board, and cross-stitch motifs were worked on this. Tiny map's, quaint messages, and alphabets were used as inspiration, and the shapes were varied from a simple circle to that of a pair of bellows, a flag, or a tiny purse.
Your Feet are a
Priceless Possession
100
Keep them healthy and In shape by wearing shoes that support the foot,
This White Kid with its Cuban Heel, and Plaited Vamp is an ideal shoe for a morning's shopping-so cool and comfortable.
Call in and try on as many as you like.
Other styles in a large variety of designs also in stock.
GORDON'S LTD.
„Hongkong's Ladies' Shoe Specialists.
ICED BOURN VITA
Veal Cutlets a in Normandie.— Choose small entlots (the number. depends, of course, on the number
of people) and beat them so as to flatten them. Season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with a le flour. Cook them for 15 to 20 minutes, according to their thickness, in hot butter. When done, put-them on a hot dish, add three tablespoon- fuls of cream to the butter. in which they were cooked, stir well, and adi one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Four the sauce over the cullets.
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Filets de Boeuf Mirabeau consixt of half-inch slices cut from the fillet of beef, and neatly trimmed. Season with salt and pepper, brush ovor with melted butter or oll, and grill them. Put on a hot dish when done, and over ench let put a garnish of four. strips of anchovy, one or two stoned olives, and, when available, fresh chopped tarragon. Serve with pats of anchovy bulter-butter and finly. shopped anchovies worked to a paste.
For sweets stufed Apples and Cho- colate Ple arè excellent. Peel some large green apples, core them, leau- ing large cavities. Fill these with sausage meat mixed with a few breadcrumbs, put pieces of dulter, on -top of the apples, and pour a little stock round. Dake slowly until the apples are tender (about half "an hour), and serve. In the same diali.
Mix together a beaten egg, hoë. 'melted butter, a cup of apongècake „crumbs, aʻtablespoonful of cocoa, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar, and 3 table- spoonfuls milk, add a few drops of gimond essence, and use as filling for „baked pastry shellak
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