THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1987.
DUET
in a
FLAT
T is Saturday. afternoon. Dorothy has been left at home in the flat she shares. with her business friend, Phyllis.
She has to tidy up after their modest lunch, do a spot of 'washing and a few other housewifely jobs and have supper ready for Phyllis when she returns with Henry from the football match.
The afternoon has passed pleasantly enough for Dorothy, who has finished off und and tried on a new jumper, made herself severni cups of tea, read the short story in the morning paper, and, had three telephone calls. The only things Dorothy hasn't done are the washing up, the odd jobs, and the supper preparations.'
Dorothy rather Hkes uncongenial tasks to accumulate so that she can have what she calls a good whoosh round nt, the last minute. It is unfortunate that Phylils should choose this minute to return and Dorothy only has time to push their little Saturday night joint In the oven (1).
Phyllis: Everything all right, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Marvellous. Had tea?
Phyllis: Yes. So have you, by the look of things.
She Makes A Start On It·
PHY
DHYLLIS begins to collect the dirty cups that decorate the living room, and resorts, to that maddening trick of
tweaking at curtains, plumping up cushions, and running her Anger
over the mantelpiece be-
fore taking off her hat. Henry lights his pipe and says nothing.
Phyllis wandering Into the kitchen-cum bath- room: What a fearful mess!
Dirty plates, cups (with cigarette ends soaking in the saucers), jugs, sauce- pans, teapots, and cullery are piled menneingly upon everything: the shelves, the floor, even in the bath.
Henry, who knows all about camping and things like that, removes his cont and comes in to help. He takes charge and under his expert guidance the job is quickly done (2).
Phyllis, whose nose has begun to twitch: Dorothy, our joint.
Tragedy of the Joint
'A good whoosh round'
✩ This is BENDROS what Dorothy learns
(1) A hot Joint is their first and rinse in enk on the bone cooks more into Saturday night treat, and water. saves cooking on Sunday when they join the hiking or tennis club.
(2) Henry's hints on washing up: Wipe greasy nutes?
with paper. Put all scraps in paper and burn or put in dustbin. Wash
up with mop, dry with the dish rag, and polish with the cloth. Wash glasses
DOROTHY flies to the oven
and a pathetic-looking object Is revealed, shrunk wizened and about the size of a chop.
and
Phyllis, who is almost in tears: 1 kuppose I should have written down. "How to cook a leg of inmb" and given it to you before I went out (3). Henry (rather decently, because he's
hungry too): Have the gravy -and- vegetables-to-night—and keep
what's left of the meat for
to
morrow,
Henry: I told you what to do about the saucepan Ilds (4). Can Be Done Quickly
PHYLLIS: Well.
ог
were.
(3) A joint should be seared first either on top
45 casserole
with
quickly than one boned pepper, salt, a little sugor, and rolled.
parsley, a large piece of (4) Henry's Idea to pre- butter, and two table- of the stove or in the oven, vent burning the fingers is spoon: of 110t water. then coolted in a moderate to clamp an ordinary Cover and put oven. Applying a fierce wooden clothes per on the heat for the first fifteen Sucepan lid and lift it up minules keeps the fulces by that.
oven.
(6) When Dorothy cooks cheese it's greasy
and stringy and hard, because
in, but after that a too (5) How to cook carrots it has efther been cooked hot oven will cause quickly: Put them raw too long or had the best shrinkage. A joint left through the mincer, then too great.
ON HONGKONG PEAK
A TYPHOON
IN
Four Hours In 135 m.p.h. Wind
our sta
Behind The Windshield
Shouted Wards
From that time on the wind gra-
Dorothy: There ain't going to be THE summer of 1923 in Hongkong
This was at the time the world's no vegetables. I didn't cook any phoon warnings.
was one of almost constant ty-
record wind velocity, One thing I forgot, and the other the few occasions when the typhoon So much so that
After a few moments we two pas of thanks for the rocks that were Then it was that I uttered a prayer reason is that I always burn my fingers lifting up the saucepan lids, signals were not displayed seemed to and were sitting on the back set car lying about. Still holding on grimly excite more comment than when they and on seat be with my arms I was able with my gan to fear that the windshield might feet to collect a couple of the largest Four colleagues and myself, be unable to withstand the pressure and most suitably shaped and push residing near each other at the Peak, ting on the floor with our backs to This stopped any further movement of the wind. We therefore tried sit them up against the rear wheels. had been accustomed to journey to there's ♫ office cach
the partition between the morning
sents, all two of potato automobile. On an August morning of a crash. This soon
mon ready to duck our heads at the sound of the cur. crisps we can heat up. and some met as usual at 8:30 the first of I imagine, because we did met with carrots. It's lucky I've got a recipe friends at the Junction of for cooking carrols quickly (5). respective aths. His asking that we were "facing" our dually decreased, and about 11.30 1 Dorothy: You know you can what I thought of the weather plight We concluded we would be decided to join my companion be- make a
a lovely Welsh rarebit, Phyl. caused me
to make closer observa-
rva- better off hanging on to the rear of hind the other car. It Woa still I'd offer to, but mine is always olly tion than had the fact that the ty. the car, and, opening the door very necessary to keep pretty close to and tough (0).
phoon signals were holsted. I re- gingerly, we crawled round as best the ground. By shouting at the top She
then straightens the living marked that
he wind seemed fluky wd could.
of our voices we found We were room and lays the cloth, while an ominous
sign.
For some while the two of us hung able to converse. My friend wonder- Philis produces quite an appetising While we were picking up our on to the spare wheel. Despite the ed whether the slight full meant that little meal of carrots en casserole, other passengers a little way down protection of the car, we could barely the centre of the typhoon was pass- Welsh rarebit poured over the heated the road the strength of the wind open our eyes for the blown sand, ing over us, and if so whether we chips, coffee, and the rest of the must have been uppermost in our and our arms were sorely strained 'would not get practically a repetition football match chocolates.
minds as it was coming in gusts of with the effort of hanging on. Al of the past three hours. I told him increasing strength. At Magazine though our bodies were touching the if such were the case I was done for. Gap, a few hundred yards on, we force of the wind was such that it I felt I had not the strength to hold passed an empty stationary car was not possible to converse.
on much longer. Happily his fears
Phillida Hughes.
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ninus imost of its windshield glass. After a little we were met with proved ungrounded. The sight served to increase our ap- another menace. Some places ot About noon we thought we might prehension even though the damage rock, the largest weighing, 1 judged, venture homewards. Before leaving may not have been caused by the nearly 100 lb., were being dislodged we persuaded our Chinese driver to wind..
from the cliff and falling around us, forsake his refuge. He was a woc- and though we had to watch them begone looking creature. with his carefully at the time. these
rocks teeth, chattering and his wet clothes were later to prove our-or at any clinging to his body. Probably we rate my, means of salvation.
Wancha Gap
Swaying Car
My friend, happening to glance
looked to him as miserable as he did to us. When I saw him a' few daya later he was none the worse,
Horizontal Rain Walking home proved to be no easy
A few minutes more and we were passing through Wanchai Gap when It was obvious to all of us that we were "for" it. Directly we were through, the Chinese driver drew up the car close to the cliff, which was hackwards, noticed that there was job. Roin had fallen Incessantly on our right-hand side. We were another car, with a Chinese driver, since nine o'clock, and water was headed cast on a
a downhill slope with but no passengers, pulled up a few rushing
the road several across the wind almost dead against us. feet behind us. The driver was still MAHA
The passenger next the driver had in his seat, and grinned at us when were obstacles such as trees, tele- Inches deep in places. Also there evidently promptly decided on his he saw, us looking in his direction, graph poles, and two or three wreck- course of action. He alighted the His car, although partially protected ed contractors sheds to climb over. moment we came to a standstill, was by ours, was swaying as though it instantly struck breathless, and his were proceeding at a high speed, under thirty minutes.
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cause
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How could she fell that the tender lines of her in- nocent young love would lead to anguished shamo, four...and even tragedy!.
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HENRY HUNTER POLLY ROWLES C. Henry GORDON
spectacles were whipped from his Apparently with the idea that the than one and a half miles though all FOR SKIN COMPLAINTS face. Without any hesitation he two cars would afford, more protec-
dropped AND SKIN INJURIES.
to the ground to save him- tion than one, my friend signalled to on the collar. On this occasion it self from being blown off the road. I me that he was deserting our car for look us two hours. Once or twice Ours being a seven-seat- rush them between gusts, the wind tve had to wait in exposed parts and Soothing, cooling, antiseptic and imagine the velocity of the wind was the other, rapidly healing, She-ko is a curative then approaching 100 miles per hour. er, the other a five-seater, I prefer- still being high enough to command The predicament of the reon who red not to risk the peril of changing respect. I have stated that rain had had so hastily forsaken the protec- situations. Keep She-ko handy in the homo Uon of the car was doubtless the The wind seemed to be still increas- was incorrect. It had been driven been falling incessantly, Falling" for prompt usage in cases of culs, scratches, bruises, burns, scolds, and One other of the passengers was ap- strength was sufficient to move the
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