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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1987
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
Home-made
BAR
MOST modern houses and flats
make up for their lack of sprolousness by raving plenty
bulit-in cupboards.
of
If you have one of these cupboards In the hall or dining-room, it's easy enough to transform it into a bar. And it I't such an extravagance of space as it sounds, for it will hold all the bottle and glasses you want. When you give a party it'll save you having trays of drinks balanced precariously on little tables (they always spit ani take the polish off, too). Drinks prochwed from behind
a bar look more professional
seem to taste better.
You 'need
four Doors
Your built-in cupboard will pro-
bably be more
Jess the shape of
the one in the picture. This has four doors opening outwards from the middle, two at the top, two at the bottom.
More usual type of cupboard has
two doors opening only
outwards down the eerstre, In this vase all you have to do is to saw them in half. So we're back where we started with four doots.
Another advantage these built-in cupboards have is depih-they're Renerally quite deep enough for some one to stand Inside and mave. around. Ge Into your cupboard, shut the bottom two doors, fling the top ones wide open.
Next step in to fix a strong shelf about a foot wide on hinges on to the left wall of your cupboard. When down it will be flush with the wall;
"Drinks pro.
duced from behind a bar look more professional."
INGREDIENTS: One built-in cupboard and a
little ingenuity
when up I can rest on a snail ledge x the shelves for the bottles-unes a bold and suitable design and stick
hald eseb that up. on the opposite wall. There's the with holla circle to framework of your bar.
Fix them in
your Reach
where
bottle are the safest, If you can't get
them remly-made the earpenter. Getting the
wil
do them for you.
Those.
like the hingest shelf, should Atmosphere
varnished,
we
Shelves for glasses should go on Hang up a few pub notices On the back of the top doors, the walls inside the cupboard, with "Passing of betting slips is pro-
you can reach them easily, little ledges to prevent them slipping hibited”
"We have in arrange- Underneath them, out of sight, ment with the bank whereby they off you can have a shelf for shaker, jugs, promise not to sell liquor and ice bowl, lemon squeezer, and all the promise not to cash chemies" paraphernalia of cocktail-mixing. "Children under 14 not served".
Put in a strong light and there is and you've got the right atmosphere your bar. Decorate it as you like. for making the party go. You can paint
a scene in bright Of course, if your grandmother colours on the back wall. Or if that's comes to tea, all you have to do is too difficult, got a large poster with to shut the cupboard doors...
CHAPTER ONE
́SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL
Prote
Little Lord Fauntleroy
charme
FREDDIE .BARTHOLOMEW DOLORES COSTELLO BARRYMORE
A Motion Picture Based on the World- Famous Frances Hodgson Burnett Stary
Hobbs' knowledge of the great world, sits on Hobbs' cracker barret and It is a night in the year 1883 in drinks in all this wisdom very angely.
Habba Brooklyn.
is his preceptor, his guide, Cedric Errol, youngest son of the counsellor and friend, the fount of Earl of Dorincourt; lles dying. He all wisdom,
As for carls and marquisses, has incurred the wrath of his noble and wealthy father in England by Hobbs dismisses them all with marrying an American girl. They single cloquent phrase "they're a are living in humble circumstances. bad lot."
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Mrs. Errol-"Dearest" to her hus- "Did you ever know many band, and her young son-brings the them?" Ceddie Inquires. news of the death to little Ceddle. "No, I guess not," Mr. Hobbs ad-
That mene
elaces the prologue. mits. "But I'd like to catch one of The action tips' two years to the them in here, that's all. I'll have no carly summer of 1885. It is Ceddie's graspin' tyrant sittin' around on my birthday and his mother presents tracker barrels."
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courageous.
It's
in
With his new bicycle, Ceddie rides when Mary, the Irish servant gally through the streets to show 11 Dearest's home, comes to the store to Dick, his bootblack friend, the old looking for him. She tells the boy apple-woman and his grocer friend, that his mother wants him at home. "There's some strange things hop- Mr. Hobbs, He is accosted by group of street gaming who try to penin' to us," she tells the boy mys Inke the bleysle nivay from him. A ieriously.
rough and tumble fight ensues in Hurrying home, Mary, slips up- which Dick Jeins, siding with Ceddie, stairs with Ceddie and dresses him The two manage to give a good ac- up, in his very best clothes. She count of themselves, though out- hurries downstairs. A fall, thin, numbered, until a pollerman Inter- elderly gentleman is talking to his mother, who has tears in her eyes venes.
She runs to her son and catches At the grocery, Mr. Hobbs pro- fesses
1 An eвormOUS contempt for him up in her arms to kiss him. "carls and marquisses" as he calls is evident that she greatly trou- them-oppressors of the poor, areo- bled. gant in their pride of wealth and "Oh, Ceddle, darling?" she exclaims lineage. He tells Ceddie he wouldn't to the puzzled child,
allow one of them to step foot in The tail old gentleman rise d his store" be ggered forks at Ceddie with his sharp j05. would, he declares emphatically, He rubs his thin chin with his bony Hobbs, rending from an illus hand and seems not at all displeased. trated British periodical about the "So this," he says at last, to this nobility, impresses upon Ceddie that is little Lord Fauntleroy." these are very evil persons indeed And thus begins a new and most Ceddle, knowing no better and pos- amazing chapter in Ceddie's career. seusing
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Ainice McPherson, America's "hot gospeller," in a typically spectacular
posc.
U.S. Through A Windscreen
COVERED WAGON, 19-II.P By Guy Auxila (Geofrey Blex, 82, 68.) HEN the author, a young English Journalist, climbed into a small car in New York with his wife, two children, two cats and one hundred and seventy- Ave dollars, he became just another discoverer of modern America. "We'ro going to Hollywood," he said. And ho jet in the clutch and started:
But he saw nearly 4,000 miles of tho United States from East to West through English eyes. And that makes his second book, Covered Wagon, 10-11.P., present an America differing from that which we usually meet in this type of book,
Screen heroes of a few years ago, who are now begging crowd work parts for five dollars a day, appear in these pages bealde America's spectacular religious leaders, Almeo McPherson, of the Angelus Tample, and Father Coughlin, the "Radio Priest."
Here, in the Wild West, are no bright studio lights to shine on the crimped hair of star lover. Cameras click under the blue skies where men are men. The author stays to write the scenario for a cowboy thriller. Then le moves on.
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INQUIRE
An a rule of good English, the word "inquire" should never be nised where "ask" will do.
You can inquire into the matter," but you "ask the time for the way)."
"SINCE AND AGO”.
Wrong is: "It is a week ago since. they arrived." The "ago" should be dropped.
Wreng is: "They arrived a week since." This should read "ago" in- stead of "since."
"HEGIRA"
The Arabic word for "fight" is normally used ta reference to the fight of the Prophet, from which the
Mustim calendar is reckoned. pronounced "Hejra" (two syllabics) Inot "Hej-cyc-ra.”
"I
"EVENTUALITY"
It is
This word is frequently misused. such an eventuality" should be "in such an event." "If that even- |tuality' should arise" should be "if
that should happen."
PEAK WEDDING
MISS B. LOCKHART-SMITH AND
MR. G. H. BOND
The Peak Church was the selling for un attractive afternoon wedding yesterday, when Miss Bridget Lock- hurt-Smith was married
to Mr. Gerald Hollingsworth Bond. The Rev. H. W. Balnes performed
She
the
Sonnet
POEMS
composed upon West- minster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802: Earth has not anything to show
more fair;
Dull-would-he-be of you)-who
could pass by
A sight so touching in its
majesty:
This City now doth, like a gar-
ment, wear
The beauty of the morning:
silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres,
and temples le
Open
unto the fields, and to the sky:
All bright and glittering in-the
smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully
steep
In his first splendour, valley,
rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never feit, a calm
so deep!
The river glideth at his own ♦
sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses.seem
asleep;
And that mighty heart is
lying still!
W. WORDSWORTI!.
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
***
Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth full of grace, force, fas-
cination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? Day, full-blown. and splendid- day of the immense sun, ae- tion, ambition, laughter. The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
WALT WHITMAN.
Credo
Away with funeral music, sel The pipe to powerful tips The cup of life's for him that
bride was given away in mur- Hargreaves. ringe by Dr. G. M.
was daintily altired In an Ivory chilon velvet "Eunice" gown with a high
drinks draped neckline, long full alceves enught in at the wrist, and a plaited waist line Anished with Truckcle of orange-blossom. The skirt
0
ם
fall in a soft train. The bride's new short circular veil of ivory tulle was held by a halo of orange blossom and
And not for him that sips.
R. L. STEVENSON.
unice" costume of navy and while
pearl lustre leaves. She carried a Freeze with bat and accessories to bouquet of white sweet peas.
As bridesmaid, Min
Miss Marjorla Mus- tone. Mr. and Mrs. Bond are spend- till wore a hyacinth blue gown and ing their honeymoon in Shanghal and" short cont trimmed with old gold, Hangchow,
also by
by "Eunice". A halo of gold
leaves was worn on her hair.
The bridegroom was attended Mr. J. Forbes.
by
neted
at present in Hongkong on his way The Rev. G. W. Shepperd, who is
to Australia, where he will take up as the post of General Secretary of the Matron of Honour and as hostess of British and Foreign Bible Society,
Mrs. A. M. Henderson
SELFRIDGE'S NO. 275 The Peak, where the recop after having spent over 20 years in
mony.
tion was held following the cere- the Far East, is calling for Sydney on the N.Y.K. steamer Kliano Maria The bride left the reception in non January 29,
How Goes Your Watch?
ALTHOUGH made to resist heat by J. N. T. Lintott, M. Sc.
year,
and watches sometimes lose
their regularity and gain or lose watches this wheel may be very tiny few minutes a day at this time of and not able to stand hard treatment to the extent the larger wheels Sudden changes of temperature are found in the latest models. In those generally to blame, and in particu- the movement may be ingeniously Iar that which occurs ut night. All arranged in two layers day a watch is kept in contact with A watch is best wound in the the body, the temperature of which morning. The winding tightens the rarely varies more than a degree or springs and helps it to withstand the two. At night it may be laid on the jolting it receives during the day, A dressing-table under an open win- night the spring can be looser with- dow and cool down about 40 degrees out fear of the watch losing its ac- before morning.
curacy.
*
It is best to make a point of placing AL
whatever time it is wound, a a watch at night where it will not get watch should be wound regularly. such drastic chilling-hanging from About 88 per cent. of watches sent a hook in the wall is the best place. to the repairer belong to women. This keeps the watch upright: to One of the reasons for this is that keep it vertical during the day and women not only wind their watches horizontal at night tends to affect less regularly than men, but often the efficient working of the balance let a watch run right down before wheel, parlleainly if the watch is winding it. This is particularly the a very small wrist model, not rec- case when a watch is not worn every tangular in design, and not one of day, the latest types.
Watches should also be oiled re-
The size of the balance wheel has gularly about once every 18 months. much to do with the, necuracy of a It is best to have this delicate job watch. In small, round wrist carried out by an expert.
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ACROSS
1 Raises the temperature some-
times.
3 It only rung (anag).
10 If you're this you may be found
out (three words, 3, 2, 4). 11 Cancel.
12 Me lie? Certainly not.
could be, though,
It
13 Able to be mixed with soil to
grow flowers.
15 In France' this digger hangs
round the neck,
17 Wasted time while all inside
expired.
19 On no nag wBI cut a figure, 21 Golfers do not get into these on
Imers,
32 Pat's rise turns out to be not very substantial. But, of course. we've all heard of the Irish- man's rise.
24 Treating of duty.
27 Nasty language outside open-alr
baths.
28 A funny idea, this, surdly (two
words, 3, 0).
29 It certainly sounds a robustious
quadruped.
30 Looks--may be black, or blue.
DOWN
11 Look closely before you go down
to bend.
2 Over fifty, then comes the end,'
but still ogle...
4:A watch dog in a cabi
5 Outbid..
23
;6 Make: use of this:
7 With a tent this is only experi-
mentul.
8 Chicken feed for the unhatched. 1 Does a clock stop work when
It is?
14 Queer supporters worth having when you're, pressed for timo (two words, 3, 7).
16 This English town sounds like a
drooping flower.
18 The knight who was never with-
out his spear,
20 Injurious to health.
21 Might be as well.
23 Try a change of state.
20 Hirsute.
20 For this one must take two
separate items together.
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