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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936.
ROUND
ABOUT by
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The Showman
ERE is a joke to begin with. I have just cribbed it from an American magazine story:
and I make this confession chiefly to prevent the Man with the Iron Teeth claiming it as his original work-seniowhere about 1301.
This in the joke:--
ManDo you feel like'a sandwich?“ Goll: Why, do I took like one?" Pallto laughter from the Bearded Woman of Wopps-on-the-Wold, and elet. Aing, nolen from the Man with the Iron Teeth,
Nordic NosCS
The most popular ball-room tur in Germany at the moment 15, "I'm Danzig with my Thunb to my Nose.“ This particular gesture, adds my Derlin correspondent, has been en- forced by Governmental decree on all Germans whenever they nec discuss ing or reading about the League of Nations. Everyone was practising it on Sunday and yesterday,
There was one tragedy. Herr Hit- ler, who was practising before a mirror, Buddenly realised that he was corking aanook at himself. The whole nfinis in being hushed up.
The Noble Young Man...
One source of information rarely falls me. This time it bubbles up w the announcement thal Miss
having an exciting time Waltzing with Viscount --, who was in great forn."
Well, that conjures up a picture, tors' it? Let's sing it.
J
Tenors: “ Whon-oupat Whoo-onjic!” Basses;." Whoo-vojst Whoo-anpa [** Soprauss: "Oh, she fliès through the room like a len) in the an
Contraltos: " doncapers everywhere
All:"
A-knocking daten
The Viscount is whirling her round by her hair,
"He's riplit at the top of his formal" Percussion: "Pom poma!” PB-8he lind an exciting time.
Quoted As Written
"A very brown freckleless girl told me that if I cat spinach every day i shan't produce a sperk of a freck,”
What a cute Hitle beast!
Wags' Corner
ITTLE Jones the has to be fille
came to the office with a notter. nhle gap in his front teeth.
"Hulfo," they naid. "Had sa acet drat?"
No; only a row with the mlasus." And she hit you as hard as that?" "Oh, no, she didn't. But the next time I gnash my teeth nl her I'll be careful to take my pipe out first!"
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MOLLY
CASTLE
going round the world with a suitcase reaches the point where East meets West, Learns
How to throw a
ITH
સ
few moun- tainous exceptions and
Lake Baikal, the scenery along the route of the Moscow-Manchuria ex- press is all the same: open fields full of wild flowers, with wide, swift, log- spattered rivers meandering through; ' great cultivated everywhere and
areas,
clumps of slender silver birch trees among dark firs.
It is the sort of seenery you would expect to see anywhere in North Europe multiplied by thousands of miles, and about seven interminable days on a train. But that makes quite a sum.
And then suddenly, overnight, you are in the Far East. You have come to the place where East meets West, and it is quite true that there are barbed wire entanglements between.
This, then, is Manchuria,
Beach Suit Jacket
Manchouli I gave the remains of my bottled fruit (they sold I'd need vitamins) to a picturesque porter. He went away with it, grinning a toothless bat delighted grin, chattering in per- fect imitation of Nelson Keys.
O the platform at
In spite of the notice that "Accord- Ing to miritory authorities (sic) it is strong prohibited to take any mea sures or plans," I made a sketch of his blue linen, red-applique'd jacket: I intend to have it copied for a bench sult.
Between Manchouli and Harbin I had my pussport examined about twenty-five times, wrote out the story of my life for the benefit of countless Jap officials at every way-
CHOPSTICK
party
side station (can they be going to a suspicious of me from the mo- eirculate it in schools?); narrowly ment he saw me counting the mag- nvolded being shot by the tough- ples out of the window the thought looking armed guard stationed at the Was counting the guns); stayed the entrance of my compartment, who night in a White Russian hotel in
THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
What to do to help a child.
Münchoull where even the cock had
a melancholy crow; found out a new way to cook beans and how to use chopsticks.
Very Little Skill
S to the chopsticks, there is very Anyone knowing of a child whole skill attached, it is all a has been assaulted, neglected, or myth put out by the people who make ill-treated. In a manner likely to spoons and forks. I intend to give a chopstick party when I get home, cause unnecessary suffering or and you can all come and see how Injury to health, or knowing of easy it is. a parent who is seeking advice on any matter concerning a child, would be doing an act of kindness by communicating at once with--
I shall serve howla of steaming savoury rice with another flatter bowl over the top to keep the heat in.
They call on such dish Dombour! The Hon. Secretaries, H.K.S.P.C. and it has scrambled egg, and blis of c/o G.P.O. Box No. 513, Hongkong, chicken, and began shoots mixed up or the Inspector, 49, Pokfulum þín it, and it is served with an accom- Rand, lat floor; or the inspector, paniment of mandarin Violet Peel Health Centre, Wan-
chaf; or the Inspector. 12, Sai Yen Choi
floor, Street, 1st Kowloon.
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except 'in enses where malice in proved.
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE
Arupuneinre, Moxorausla and Bone Setting Holder of Japanese and Hongkong Govern- ment Licences. Cures Sprained Ankies and Wrists. Recommended for many years by Local Hospitals and Doctors.
4. Wyndham Street. (1st flour). Tel. 28051.
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
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sauce and
"I made a sketch of his blue linen, red applique'd fackel; I intend to ·
have it copied for a beach suit.”
SALESMAN SAM
buy you wonder it can ever have Leen worth any one's wille to make them. There is certainly no Shop 1lours Act, and for all I know, with no proof to the contrary, the shops stay open all night.
Shirley Temple Frocks
UAINT ttle kimono Japanese
QUAINT
women patter along the shopping streets In their wooden sandals, ne- companied by Europeanised, spec- tacled husbands.
They buy fans and sunshades and lengths of material for their kimonos: gaily patterned, narrow-width cot- 'tons and silks.
They buy Westernised frocks for their babies (whom they still carry, however, sleepily suspended from their backs),
Their children's frocks are, like ours, modelled from Shirley Temple's. They carry a label with her portrait, a little sloc-eyed and black-haired, į but recognisable.
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Bungalows
Are Cheap
CIRCUS along one of the main strecta attracts a big crowd. It is a brightly It circus with a drop curtain оп which sprawl golden dragons.
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There are a couple of elephants and some monkeys outside to draw people in, but instead of a man
"Walk shouting
up, walk up," there is D
"Just a matter of shovelling and hoping."
green Japanese tea in handleless сирб.
gramophone playing a
tune.
The tune is "Come,
- all ye faithful.”.
A little outside the town the bathing
benches start.
The Pacific looks very blue and
The cups are much more diffculi cool, and the twisty liitle sandy bays, to negotiate than the chopsticks, rock-spattered, very inviting. which, when it comes to it, are just
and
a matter of shovelling and hoping, The coast is volcanic, and abrupt, altogether easier to manipulate pointed hills alioot up of them are in than a knito covered with peas, or the sea itself, forming improbable, bendy asparagus.
They do say that bean shools would decorative islands, grow in any London window box, and when I gel to Pelping I will and out more about it and let you know.
Open All Night
THE new way of cooking beans- the ordinary garden variety this timo-is to shred them and boll them as usual, then mix them up with
There are good hotels to stay in, fine bungalows to let cheap (about £1 a week with four bedrooms). There is American food and soft- footed Japanese service,"
N
A Dinner Costs 2/6
beaten-up egg, pour into a flat, well- A elght-course dinner at the best of the hotels cost less than half- -crown, and a taxi wil drive you
And bako
buttered Uin enough to set the egg.
just long
I am staying now in a very elegant ten miles along the coast for 16. Od. coast town called Dairen, and it you This seems strange after Moscow. have ever heard of it you are beiter
up
in geography than I was.
where a car, if you can get it, is apt Nobody, not even the hotel nan- to cost El an hour. ager, seems to know its official ad-
dress.
Other things seem strange too; His guess was that South Man- fruit shops full of fruit; beggars; real churia would find it. Originally plumbing. Anglo-American Chinn owned it, but nobody has re-
years, not even China.
style:
membered that for a good many lips; men instead of horses pulling carriages and waggons; wide varie- Russians started to build it, but tles of imported they lost it to the Japs in
foodstuffs; obse- Russo-Japanese war.
qulous, bowing servants tripping over.
the
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It is a fine town all right, with you and cach other, instead of the wide, macadamed main streets and courteous self-service to which I was small side shopping streets which are getting accustomed; small
it at nights by glass electrical lan-
wood
terns slung across the streets on those ploughing deeply through great odd-shaped wooden arches which you tracts of countryside; self-conscious- may see in any Japanese print.
Jy picturesque scenery and settings. Even the women are part of it.
It is very picturesque, and the things in the shops are so cheap to
As The Crow Flies
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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ACROSS
7 Declined in a feeble sort of way.
8. In this forest one does not see a snake in a state: quite the opposite.
10 Cry like a child,
11 Prohibition, not early, though........
of one way to arrange Bgures.
12 The jazz composer's version of
It might be "make it jerky," I think
14 'Adds for the children. »
15 Before it might be a ten.
10
Being un alien he gets the sack. it in the middle or 20 Jobouts.
22 German: here you may safely
make a mistake.
24 Continent.
26 The height that gives freedom
from restraint.
20 A
very suitable place "down under" in which to have a dance with a desertor.
31 Malingerers' tipple? 30 They show audible approval.
32 This is even
words.
the same back-
DOWN
1 Brother Jonathan's Bower? 2 The fighting forecs adopt an
old line with serious faults.
3 Picture of a box containing
nothing
+
4 Grammatical and arithmetical word that is forbidden in Ger-
many,
5 Omament never worn by the
Legless Wonder.
G You can always cut a stenk from
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this fish, even if small..
9 Might be able-Napolean cer-
tainly was to leave It.
13 What receivers do.
10 Street known to all Oxford
men.
17 This Clue is plain.
10. Of course, the head of the com-
pany may be a rich man.
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21 Staggered like anything, so Ed-
word took the beast inalde. Granting It must have no head --well, you've then solved it, 25 Lemons supply the answer here,
however sad it may be. 27 Though professional sailors find this pretty hard, yachtsmen think nothing of it.
28 Sounds like casy money
Indio, but is it?
Yesterday's Bolation.
in
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VENTA PANIC MOOR I GÖRMER NAHRB 18 ATTETYG AUDILY
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ENSERERTENTO REASSERTINUE
By Small
ADVERTISE
where there is no
doubt about
CIRCULATION
WHERE'S WOODY WOODS, AN' HOW QUICK KIN WE GET THERE?
UP THAR A PIECE, HOW QUICK YA GIT THAR'LL DEPEND ON YOU LEM JENKINS USUALLY DOES IT IN TEN MINUTES!
CMON; DU22 LETS START STEPPIN'!
Two
HOURS AND SOME
STEPS
LATER!
YEP STRANGER, THASS FING! DOWN WOODY WOODS IS (WE'VE BEEŃ, AT" "TH' JES' AROUND TH′HIKIN' ABOUT DEPOT I
BENDI
TWO HOURS! WAS TOLD
YOUR LEM JENKINS DOS IT IN TEN, MINUTES!
HE SHORE. DOES MISTER! THAR GOES: LEM JENKINS, NOW!
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