THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 9, 1936.
A Yorkshire Tea
to eat and
lovely to
easy to make
GINGERBREAD
VOU need, flour, Zozs, lard and butter mixed, 2ozs, sugar,
Zoza, currants, 1⁄4 of a teaspoonful of baking powder, 4 of
n teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and 1⁄4 of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Rub the lard and butter into the flour and mix everything in with a file milk. Roll this out and cut it into rounds. Bake the scones in a quick oven on a greased baking tin for 20 minutes.
SCONES
POR this use b. flour. lb. butter, loz, Hugar, Gazs, treacle, 11⁄2 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of ground kinger, and one egg. It is very easy to make. You just rub the butter into the flour, mix in the rest by degrees (with a Hule mlik if necessary), and bake for an Hour in a moderate oven.
LA
FRUIT CAKE
AST of all a cake mixture; Three CFRS, 1⁄2lb, of castor sugar, 2ozs, of eftron peel, 2oza, of orange peel, 2oza, of lemon peel (all preserved, of course), tib, of butter, Ilb, of sultanna, 100ts. of flour.
You cream the butter and sugar and mix in the rest in the usual way and bake in moderate oven for about an hour and a quarter. You can cat this cake with cheese like
true Yorkshireman-It's very good,
For Our Junior Readers
T
DEEP SEA TRAVELLERS
HROUGH tho
water, a great sheet of alivery bodies twists and sqlems, The ber- ring are on the move.
their midat dart and anap torpedo- atanped giants. some 10 feet in length, beneath whose gleaming Rentes es n
massive coat of
Nature's own
armour.
They Are funny, the fam- ous fighting fish. Weighing up to 1,000lb.. the funny puts up A
Record-Breaking FISH
The herring are on the mare, and with them the plant tunny,
terrific struggle. lasting somelinies 12 hours, before being landed on rod and line.
These Alinatie glants, in reality an outsize species of mackerel, take Heavy toll of the herring shoals. They' first attack them of the Shetlands in early summer, and pursue them down the East Coast.
But the tuany will travel no further south than Spurn lead. Arrived off this landmark in autumn, they sud- denly vanish. Where they go for the winter fa a mystery.
More than 60 specimens have been marked with identity discs, but no fur not one hins been recnotured, Salmon.
again, make long journeys, not only across, the sea, but il p our rivera. where, leaping aver
swirling rapids, rocks and ather bar. riers, they find
a breeding
ground.
In June Inst year u grline young salmon in a second year) was cop. tured in a bag net close Io Bergen, Nor way. It was marked and ni lowed
10 17
free, only to be recaptured a Żew weeks Inter
on the east of Scotland. Thai grise, having travelled not less thazi 500 miles, holds the record in salmon Journeys, Dut all the record-breaking trophies belang, rightly, to the eels. For three years the myriad hosts of ribbon-like. semi-transparent elvers, or young; eris,, born in a wast ocean cradle 100 fathoms deep off Bermuda, wrlage their way to our rivers. 3,000 miles away.
Then, three years later, the old cels, obedient to Nature's hidden summo115. creep out of our ponds and streamns, aften slithering overland through long grasses to the nearest waterway, and so swim back to their far-away birth- place, where they lay their epeis
ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING-
BRHH !!
IT'S CHILLY-THINK
I'LL WEAR MY TWEED
SUIT.
But is it really in fit condi-
tion to wear? It would be wise to have a look at it now, as well as your other winter clothing, and should they require cleaning and smartening up send them right away for
ZORIC
ODOURLESS
DRYCLEANING
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Kowloon Works
Hongkong Depot
25 Questions
1. Which two of the following Iqualities do you firat demand in. a. wemas: (a) amiability, (b) prettt- nens, fel beauty, (d) attractiveness, fe) domesticity, (1) brains. (u):) motherllness (h) sex appeal?
2. Other things being equal, word you prefer to marry a blonde for a brunette?
9. Do you mind going out with Ja iroman who is taller than you
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4. Do you prefer (a) petite, (b) tall, (c) plump, (2) slim," (a) medium, women?
5. Da you mind whether or not
a tepian Recurs?
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Do you prefer a woman fo barr (0) blué, (b) brown, (c) |hazei, (i) gren cuent
7. Do you like a women to wear her hair (a) long, (b) close cut. (e) medium!.
I Do you like a woman to wear (a) little make-up, (b) not very natierable make-up, (e) plenty of make-up?
9. Do you prefer a woman's nails to be (a) heavily painted, Ich) slightly linted, (c) juat vur. Inished, (d) natural?
10. Du you like a woman who prefers dogs to children?
11. Do you like to be seen in public with women who wear (a) noticeably fashionable clothes, (b) quiet, tasteful clothes?
12. Do por think women should swoke (a) in private, (b) in public, (c) not at all?
13: Do you mind if a woman combs her hair and attends to her make-up in publief
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14. Do you think a woman looks her beet fu (a) evening clothes, (b) day clothes, (c) sports clothes?
16. Do you prefer a woman to -wear: (a) high, (b) low,! (c)
mediam, heels on her shoes?
16. Which type of voice do you like beat in women: (a) contralto, (b) soprano,, (e) mezzoł
17. Would you rather a woman (a) helped you to choose ₫ dinger. (b) expected you to choise it pour- Relf?
18. Would you like to marry a woman whose income was larper than yours?
19.
Do you like a woman who is (a) firm, (b) truient, with an Tantal
20. Do you like a woman who likes to give you good advice?
Do you admire women wha are good af athleticnt
22. Are you unduly upset by n woman in tears, or can you deat with her sympathetically and en- couragingly?
23. Do you like the woman who cxpects and acccptx courtesies from men, or the woman who shrugs her shoulders at them?
Do you think a wife should have a job?
What is your idea of a real-
ly attractive woman?--Nat more than 200 words.
designed to find out
what kind of
women
men find attractive
• Last Tuesday the "Telegraph"
published these' questions. Here are some of the answers
sent in.
She doesn't worry; she has about her an atmosphere of simple good- ness; knows her own mind; is Kenerous, no_spendthrift, no gad- about; is loyal, brave, and truly feminine.
If the house burns down she will start building up a make-shift home with a few old packing cases and odds and ends of tins.
course, she is beautiful-al! good women are. But she would never
rear any money as a film
star.
And, it goes without saying, she
Y idea of an attractive. daring in displaying her charms. is a good cook.
M
woman is one who is To net according to her own con- science rather than conform to plump, well-propor conventional standards. Not Jealous- tioned and good-natured.
She has beautiful arms, rather than a pretty face; has corn-coloured hair; is completely feminine; ap- preciates the beauty of her figure, and does not make herself miserable trying to slim.
Has a placid, soothing tempera- ment; is a good pal; laughs a lot; doesn't worry; nccepts masculine admirers as a normal tribute to her
charms.
Doesn't bother with politics; likes home, children, animals, the theatre, and a "binge"; doesn't take anything too seriously, but is helpful and con- structive When asked for advice; likes music generally; woors the clothes I like, and likes me.
M. K.
without good cause.
SHE need not be exceptionally Social:
To be ready for what-
need not good looking, she ever comes along, be it work, play, dress at the height of fashion, she wealth or poverty; fond at open air need not make up like u painted and simple pursuits, able to cycle doll. She must have a pleasant and drive a car; ready to take an personality. Intelligent interest in things out- She should be interested in life side her sphere, such as mechanics, as it is not as she would like it to be. She should be able to mix well and should learn to close her ears to little-tattle,
S.A.H.
L.A.J.
SHE must be a helpful companion and emelent, and should be able to She should be quick, practical and guide as well as a lover,
home with the greatest of sympathetic and intelligent,
Well-mannered, able to hold her be fond of children.
case, should learn to cook well, and own in company and in a discus- sion, yet not self-opinionated ur intolerant. She must have polse and dignity, and yet be able 10 enter naturally into a frolic.
N attractive woman must be of She must have a firm code of gent face, and a figure built in pro- medium height, have an fatelli- morality, but be broadminded enough to accept for other people portion to her height, She TERE are the characteristics of my other codes than her own.
have natural grace. H
attinellye woman:
must be unselfish and amlable,
She must be quick of decision and gentle but not sentimental, fond of ready to act in cases of emergency: children, yet not obsessed by them. staunch friend in trouble.
sympathetic when needed and a Above all, she must have charm Her attractiveness would be in- and grace, a sense of humour, and creased by a judicious display of a clear, unbiassed mind.
temper when
warranted. Any -woman loses in attractiveness if she allows herself to be bullied or dominated. To me, that "little bit
Physical: Height 5 ft. 6 in.. weight, 9 st., brown hair and bright brown eyes, medium figure, well- developed.
Mental: Good
common
sense
rather tum book learning. Able to say
means and exactly what she means exactly what she says. To show pleasure or resentment" if and when she feels it.
She
must
is mighty hard to discover in of devli" counts much, and adds to
I the young woman those qualities rather than Moral: Falthful to the man of which we all udmire in Darby's wife sonality. her choice, but not a prude. Rather Joan.
Telephone 57032. Telephone 21279.
SALESMAN SAM
L.S.
They Oughta Have A Circus
AH, I SEE TH' TENTS ARRIVED! NAW, I KIN DO ITA (GOSH, TH' BABBLING PRETTY BIG, AIN'T IT? SHALL/YOU GO GIT SOME|| BROOK MAKES ME KINDA
·I HELP YA PUT IT UP?"
WATER, DOWN AT" HOMESICK-REMINDS ME
TH' BROOK!
OF TH MISSUS!
GUESS I'LL BE GITTIN' | BACK TA CAMP! SAM
OUGHTA HAVE TH TENT" UP BY THIS TIME!
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OUR BRITISH
EU
ACROSS
If the second letter were "A," the athlete night find the two words incompatible.
5 Double the last letter and this old instrument would be a wine. barrel.
1 Stroke for a keen batsman. 10 Flower.
11 Lasting description embracing »
bird.
12 Think of some connections bc-
iween saflora and the sea.
13 You might see through it, but it would scare you all the rame. 15 Number.
17 Sounded like a bow I think. 19 China might occupy this,
22 You may take rod and whip for
this animal. ·
25 To go wrong avould be quite
right here. 20 Postage stamps are small in this. 28 Italian town. 20 Hardly carefree,
30 An ald to regular revolution. 31 A mean course is between two
of this.
32 A fraction of the article only... DOWN
1 It's a bit thick when sailors have
to listen to this.,
2 Paddy.
3 Wherein there is a popular ris-
ing every day.
4.A humane weapon.
Famous Scottish name that end- ed with a blemish.
CROSSWORDS
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"Baltic deer" (anng.). -7 ́À ̈ festive' birdr
B "No delta" (anag.).
14 This affords a revolutionary
means of banishing dulness.
10 A land of varying states.
18 Made from 20 across beheaded
or curtailed.
10 Skin.
20 The kind of men worth decorat-
Ing.
21 A high bank.
22 The way to while away a long
time.
23 Spanish town.
24 Kind of 22 down.
27 A fiting last word.
Yesterday's Belation.
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where there is no
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