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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
Nothing ever
happens
to me.
M
A mother of four wrote this article
mothers will find
an echo of their lives
Most
in it own
Y eldest boy's headmaster is retiring after twenty- five years of service at the school.
PRIZES FOR CLUES
Here is a crossword puzzlo in the solution of which roadors Tho may win doublos dross circlo tickets to the Majostic Theatre. puzzle is based on the film, "Gold Diggers of 1937," showing at the Majestic on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Five sots of double that I tickets will be awarded to the senders of the first five correct solu- tions opened. Entries should be sent to Mr. C. Goldin, manager of We bought her attle scarlet the Majestic Theatre, 5th floor, King's Theatre Building, Hongkong. harness and lead, and when Nan- not later than noon on Saturday,
appealing
adorable and
couldn't say no.
nie took her out the men repairing
the road used to call out: "Look out! Here comes the Wimbledon bloodhound."
Last
Was autumn, when Cora eight months old, the ran away wille out with the children on the conunen. She was missing for 11 whole night, but was found by some- body, and taken to the police station next morning,
Of course, we were delighted to have her back, but I was secretly worried: had not yet got a licence for Cora, Nonnie bought it when. she went down to the pollce station to fetch her, and nobody mentioned It.
Gave Us a Shock
J
A WEEK later an
enormous
sandy haired policeman parked his bicycle outside ad rang the front door bell: he'd just come to look at the licence. Immediately I said: "didn't buy it until the dog was lost. She's eight months old, but she's such a little thing: I hadn't rralised she was growing up. I have so much to do,"
My voice trembled; I had been a morning when everything weni wrong. Two of the children woke
maldi
and there's
up with colds; I burned my term on the electric grill; Nannie briskly. "Alan' on тія uppers On Saturday morning when I read the last sentence again, so there'll be three pairs of of his printed announcement: It has been not only my living, shoes to be mended, but my life, and the prospect of retirement fills me with dismay," Ave-and-six to pay from last week: I was so deeply touched that I immediately wrote him a little note, it's # plty you forgot to soak the prunes because there are no eggs. and I knew neither what to say nor how to say it, but somehow
the greengrocer hasn't yet. The coke's getting low. What assured him of my sympathy.
pudcting?" shall we have for
a
And on Monday morning his acknowledgment gave me happy beginning for the week. He said: "Your charming letter reminds me of a bygone age, when sympathy and understanti ing were genuine, and people had the will and the time to express them."
Sometimes I think that in this metallic, speed-crazy age our hearts tend to become streamlined out of our existence. Afternoon Off
JE are lucky enough to live staff.
il common:
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always thankful when Nannie take all the four boys out for a walk, se That I can get an uninterrupted tour of work, but how much more thank-
coinc
0
COLD DIGGERS
JOAN
You know the kind of morning ACRO6S: And then this on top of it: I'd read on the back of the form that the penalty for keeping a dog without a
cence is £5.
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7 Blondell's first name. 10 By.
1 Powell's first name. 15 Upper extremity,
14 Covered with ashes. 10' Sun-brown colour.
The policeman entered the num- ber and date of the licence in his notebook, Corn came trotting into Don't think that, because I men the hall wagging ber tail. We both with a domestic looked up at the policeman tioned Nannie I keep
mine My life is a % of Onancial eloquent brown eyes:
tear- us and downs; when we're on the filled and beseeching, Cora's friendly
and trusting. erest. I employ a nannie, xeneral muid if I can get one, and an octa-
The policeman cleared his throat 10 Myself. sional charwoman.
and snapped the elastie band round 20 Indefinite article,
"Well, well, we shall 21 Public notice. and his notebook,
bave to see about it. She certainly 23 Behold.
very small dog. Looks is 28 Edge. though it's going to be line, after 29 Comparative ending. all. Good morning.
30 Su That happened three months ago. 32 Keenly hungry for.
I have learned a lesson: this 37 To journey, hope I shan't hear any more about 35 Supposing that. year I bought Cora's licence on 38 As. January 1.
Now
we're in
#
trough, ful I am to hear the jingle of the Nannie and I manage everything baby's rein-bells announcing their between us. Nannie is a treasure return.
a round, neat, jolly little girl in All the children have worn these the carly twenties with a heart of reing as babies, and the sound of old. She is always busy and al the bells at four o'clock has always Ways good-tempered; we call her
nur Sugar Plum Fairy brought happiness and peace to me. Tea-time is my favourite hour when
the children are safely home and the No Calling
burdest tasks of the day are done.
Did you solve
the match puzzle?
WWE live in the smallest and humblest house in a benufl-
19 #
I
New Kind of Pet
30 Short sleep.
41 Place of happi-
ness.
42 Cow call. WE
WE have had other pets. Once 13 Leer.
my husband proudly brought 44 So.
parts.
DOWN:
ful, snobbish district. People In suburbs don't call, on one another home a hedgehog, Ethelred; and let 45 One of two equal now, and so far the only neighbourly it sleep in the kitchen. I can only recognition we've had is a visit from say that during the night Ethelred a man canvassing an electric wash- abused our hospitality. ing machine, who said the woman in We had a maid then, and in the the big house at the corner told morning, she sold furiously:Cats-1-Variant of Huy. 2 Indians of Peru. him to call on me as I had a house and dogs, and even babies. I can ful of children, and also on ungry put up with, but that prickly beast request on the telephone to stop our there I draw the line." It was dog barking.
such a firm, heavy line that Ethel- red had to be dumped immediately
The dog Cora, black Cairn, under a hedge. came to us a year, ago. One morn- Billie, our black cat, is a dear Ing my husband, who lives in a little thing, so gentle and loving. world of dreams, said casually as she can be fierce and cruel, though. he was going off to work: "We're One afternoon, during a garden- going to have a do it will prob- ing craze, Max, the four-your-old, ably come to-day." And she diet, came running in for a shovel, say-
I hadn't wanted Corn--I felt I ing excitedly "Billie's killed a poor had enough work with the children little bird. Nannle wants the shub- and the house-but she was only ble to get it off the path; it's ever six weeks old and str small and so dend."
Arrange 24 - matchsticks as shown. Take away 4 of these so that you leave 5 iden.; tical squares.
3 Opposite of south,
fo
4 South African antelope.
7 Fruit conserves,
8 Crude metal.
Part of to be,
12 Neuter pronoun,
13 Nickname of Colidge.
14 A tangle.
16 Literary iniscellany.
17 Sweet potato.
20 Extremity.
23 Arid.
24 Middle.
25 Western State.
26 Furces ahead,
27 To place.
31 To chant.
32 Part of to be.
33 Lah.
34 Horse's foot.
30 At a distance,
38 The sun.
40 Mixed type.
42 Mother.
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1 Spells trouble for most people. 3 This Is a real bird, not a synthetic one, and not a parrot (hyphen, 7, 4.).
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17. They used to make small boy.
from summer
suits material: ideal for a festive meal.
18 Advice to the printer seen o
many an author's desk. 21 These are obviously seaside at-
tire,
23 When put before me it certainly and it sounds a bit sombre,
sticks like anything.
24 This pattern in Sivle 50,
25 Air,
28 More than one of 10.
20 Stampede near a fire,
30 Goes up the chimney (hyphen,
7, 4).
31 Out of the beaten track,
DOWN
1 This will make a hen run
(hyphen, 4, 7).
2 Goods.
3 Extract milk.
4 Beat of music.
5 Given to me it means
nche..
A head-
Taint (three words, 2, 2, 3).
7 You want to follow
ruped here.
Not right, yel not left.
་
a quad-
13 "I can't get men" to unite China
anag., two words, 5, 8),
14 This trouble may be due to a
sedentary life. It herins Afty-four.
15 Light dict for the police? 19 This duster
superseded by
cicaner.
has
at
yet been the vacuum
20 Always good for pretty girls.
21 Famous for its sage.
22 This cock hus not hen.
20 Looking down from this part
of a ship the view la the same
as when looking up.
27 Body
28 that belongs to it.
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