THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1937.
DUET
in a
FLAT
Tis Saturday afternoon. Dorothy has been left at home in the flat she shares with her business friend, Phyllis.
She lins to tidy up after their modest lunch, do n 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 Dorolby, who has finished off and and tried on a new jumper, made herself several 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 #kes uncongenial tasks to accumulate so that she can have what she calls a good whoosh round at the last minute. It is unfortunate that Phyllis should choose this minute to return' and Durothy only has time to push their little Saturday night joint. in the oven (1).
Phyllis: Everything all right, Dorothy?
Dorothy: Marvellous.
Had ten?
Phyllis: Yes. So have you, by the look of things,
She Makes A Start On It
PHYLLIS begins to collect the dirty cups that decorate
the living room, and reports to that maddening trick of
tweaking at curtas, plumping up cushions, and running her finger
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 mesul
Dirty plates, cups (with cigarette enda soaking in the saucers), jugs, snuce- pans, teapots, and cutlery are piled menhelngly 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
This is
leve
'A good whoosh round *
what Dorothy learns
(1) A hut joint is their Saturday night treat, and saves cooking on Sunday when they join the hiking or lennis club,
(2) Henry's hints on washing up: Wipe greasy plates with paper. Put all
Arst and rinse in cold on the bone cooks more Into water.
(3) A joint should be seared first elther on top of the stove or in the oven,
་
"
casserole with quickly than one boned pepper, salt, a little sugor, and rolled,
parsley, a large piece of and two table- (4) Henry's idea to pre- butter, vent burning the fingers is spoons of hot water.
then cunked in a moderate wooden clothes per on the
to clamp др ordinary Cover and put in oven.
oven, Applying a fierce
(6) When Dorothy cooks
scraps in paper and burn heat for the first fifteen saucepan lid and lift it up cheese it's greasy, and
or put in dustbin. Wash
up with mop, dry with the
dish rag, and polish with
minutes keeps the juices by that,
stringy and hard, because
in, but after that u too (5) How to cook carrots it has either been cooked hot oven will
cause quieldy: Put them raw too long or had the heat
the cloth. Wash glosses shrinkage, A joint left through the mincer, then too great.
DOROTHY files to the oven
und, a pathetic-looking object is revealed, shrunk and wizened and about the size of a chop.
Phyllis, who is almost in tears: I suppose I should have written down "How to cook a leg of lamb and given it to you before I went out (3). Henry (rather decently because he's hungry too): Have the gravy and keep and vegetables to-night what's left of the ment for 10-1
morrow.
about the saucepan lids (4).
Can Be Done Quickly
T
ON HONGKONG PEAK IN
A TYPHOON
Four Hours In 135 m.p.h.
TL
each office
Behind The Windshield
After a few moments we two pas- ers who had stayed with the car gan to fear that the windshield might and were sitting on the back seat be
of a crash. This soon
Wind
This was at the time the world's record wind velocity,
of the car.
Dorothy: There ain't going to be TIE summer of 1923 in Hongkong was one of almost constant ty- no vegetables. I didn't cook any
Then it was that I uttered a prayer One thing I forgot, and the, other phoon warnings. So much so that
of thanks for the rocks that were my the few occasions when the typhoon reason is that I always burn fingers lifting up the saucepan lids. signals were not displayed seemed to
ring about. Still holding on grimly do excite more comment than when they
feet to collect a couple of the largest with my arms I was able with my Henry: I told you what to were,
be unable to withstand the pressure and most suitably shaped und push Four colleagues and myself, residing near each other at the Peak of the wind. We therefore tried sit- them up against the rear wheels. ting on the floor with our backs to partition between the seats, alt PHYLLIS: Well, there's
morning by hired the bag or
iwo of potato automobile. On an August morning ready to duck our heads at the sound
Shouted Words WIL crisps we can heat up, and some net as usual at 0.30 the first of my disfavour, I
met imagine, because we did From that time on the wind gra- carrots. It's lucky I've got a reelpe friends ant the
Junction of for cooking carrots quickly (5).
ou not feel that we were "facing" our dually decreased, and about 11.30 1 Maths. His asking respective
mc Dorothy: You know you can what I thought of the weather plight. We concluded we would be decided to join my companion be- was still make a lovely. Welsh rarebit, Phyl.
the ear, I'd offer to, but mine is always ally caused me to make a closer observa- better of hanging on to the rear of hind the other car, com
tion than had the fact that the ty
and, opening the door very necessary to keep pretty close to and tough
phoon signals were hoisted, I re- gingerly, we crawled round as best the ground. By shouting at the top of our voices we found we were She
then ctraightens the living-marked that the wind seemed fluky we could.
For some while the two of us hung able to converse. My friend wonder- room and lays the cloth, while an ominous sign. Phillis produces quite an appetising
our on to the spare wheel. Despite the ed whether the slight lull meant that While we were picking vo Hittle 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- sand, ing over us, and if so whether we Welsh rarebit poured over the heated the road the strength of the wind open our eyes for the blown
our and our arms were sorely strained would not get practically a repetition chips, coffee, and the rest-of the must have been uppermost In
of with the effort of hanging on. Al- of the past three hours. I told him football match chocolates.
minds as it was coming in gusts 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 on much longer. Happily his feare passed on empty stallonary car was not possible to converse. minus most of its windshield glass. After a little we were met with proved ungrounded.
About noon we thought we might The sight served to increase our ap- another menace. Some pieces of prehension even though the damage rock, the largest weighing, I 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 woe- with his and though we had to watch them begone looking creature carefully at the time these rockes teeth chattering and his wet clothes were later to prove our or at any clinging to his body. Probably we
(8),
Phillida Hughes.
SHE KO
Wanchai Gap
A few minutes more and we were passing through Wanchat Gap when
rate my, means of salvation.
Swaying Car
looked to him as miserable as he did to us. When I saw him a few days later he was none the worse.
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It was obvious to all of us that we were for it. Directly WC were through, the Chinese driver drew up My friend, happening to giance Walking home proved to be no coay the car close to the cliff, which was backwards, noticed that there was job. Rain had fallen incessantly on our right-hand side. We were another car, with a Chinese driver, hended cast on a downhill slope with but no passengers, pulled up a few since nine o'clock, and water was rushing across the road several the wind almost dead against us. feet behind us. The driver was still inches deep in places. Also there
The passenger next the driver had in his seat, and grinned at us when evidently promptly decided on his he saw us looking in his direction, were obstacles such as trees, tele- the His car, although partially protected ed contractors sheds to climb over. graph poles, and two or three wreck- course of action. He allghted moment we came to a standstill, was by ours, was swaying as though it I had often walked the distance Instantly struck breathless, and his were proceeding at a high speed under thirty minutes.. It was leas 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 proter on the collar, On this occasion it dropped to the ground to save him- tion than one, my friend signalled to took us two hours. Once or twice AND SKIN INJURIES. self from being blown off the road. I me that he was deserting our car for we had to walt in exposed parts and Soothing, cooling, antiseptic and imagine the velocity of the wind was the other. Ours being a seven-seat- rush them between gusts, the wind 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 man who red not to risk the peril of changing respect. I have stated that rain had
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been falling incessantly. "Falling" tion of the car was doubtless the
wind seemed to be still increas was incorrect. The
It had been driven for prompt usage cases of cuts, scratches, bruises, burns, scalds, and cause of my decision to stand by. Ing, and after I was left alone its all but horizontally.
The three who had left the car similarly, but the car, in jerks it shifted 6 feet directly it was stopped at Wanchal remaining two off to join their judged. My thoughts then were that Gap had found shelter to the leeward
went ringworm, itch, dry and running friend. In a cearch for sheller he as far as I was concerned the night of a clift just above. They had diffi- BOICE, pimples, bolls, ulcers, foot w was already crawling back up the was over. Without protection no- culty in making and getting through sores, cold sores, as well as for plies, rond. Meanwhile the driver had put thing could live on the road. At that the Gap and in doing so had run the two of us who had stood by the the beneficent, healing properties of the car into low gear with the hand moment I think the wind had reach the risk of being felled by heavy car. She-ko quickly become apparent. brake full on, and was lying on his ed its greatest velocity. We pieces of debris that
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(Reproduced from
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