HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937
T. PAUL GREGORY Tells You About The
CITY'S STREETS, SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
Men don't like
you
1-To read their favour-
ite books and turn the corner of a page down in order to mark the place.
•
cutse when you are not using it To protect it from sand and salt- water,
2-To gather all the
flowers in the garden. sash, By all means fill your rooms with them but leave just a few in the garden for show pur posca.
Your
3-To get lipstick pa table napkin. This practice is calculated to drive men demented,
To forget that when starting the car from culd it is at a good idea to race the engine. "Allow it to "tick-over" slowly for a miunte -or two before getting under
way.
5 To nuke-up in public. Wherever you may be, in a restaurant or a friend's home or an office it is always possible to retire elsewhere to attend to your make-up. What would you say if men brought out their razors and shaved in public? Doubtless many women would think it a good idea!
-To bring out the family photograph albrom
to show to strangers. Nothing can be more boring.
-To criticise them in 7-1
public.. Men are shy
creatures really.
8-To waste film in the camera. Do try and remember to wind the roll on after each exposure. When on the beach put the camera in the
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-WEEK-END PROBLEMS
By Hobert Phillips
PROBLEM I
seg
EUTAXIA
said
friend my Cleon, of Eulaxia, "that in each of
SEVER Houses the Government majority is the
same."
"Seven Houses!” I exclaim- ed. "What on earth are you talking about?"
Cleon laughed. "Didn't you know? We have a complicat- ed constitution. There are seven Houses, which are in ascending order of size:
The House of Peers,
The House of Sapes.
The House of Architects,
The House of Necromancers, The House of Quill-Drivers. The House of Advocates, The House of Nominers.
"Their total membership"-
cach
In
he made a rapid calculation- "Is 102. And, as I was saying. the major
is the saine
expressed polite interest. what
you probably don't know," went un Cleon, "is the peeufior way we have of calcu- lating the majority. Aristides, known as Squarefare, invented 1. The number of Government supports is multiplied by itself: then the number of their oppo- nents is
is multiplied
by itself. The din
difference
between these numbers consti- tutes the majority."
two squared
Not some time afterwards did it dawn on me that it ought to be possible to cauculate the membership of each
• What is it?
PROBLEM II,
ACROSTIC-
use.
WITH ANAGRAMS
UPRIGHTS
This comes from pines; and that from various trees,
While this-and-that one oft in
Scotland secs,
睁
LIGIITS
(1) Instanter,
that
60 to speak, eagle eye. Will Arsi discover which passes by (2) An ingrate? Surely not! For some declare. This land's no named be- cause there's silver there. (3) So near you'll get, yet far
away will bide,
It what's so near should
here be misapplied!
Cry Of The
Peddler-The
Wail Of The
Beggar
Aensual stroll through the streets of any large
city is always productive of interest. In- deed, there is the ever-present opportunity of en countering in Rome obscure lane or nondescript by way that which is both unusual and unexpected. These opportunities are naturally greatest in those portions of great towns wherein.. dwell the citizens of foreign birth and who, more- over, cling tenaciously to the customs of their fathers. Of all these streets, however, it is that section populated by the Chinese that is most fascinating but even the dwellers of London's teeming Limehouse and San Francisco's exotic Grant Avenue whilst picturesque and interesting to a degree are yet lacking in kaleidoscopic charm, for it is only in the East that the Children of Cathay can be seen as they really are.
南
强肾
Hongkong, being as it is nothing hours of every day, it is no exage seeming Importance of their craft. This little channel is called the more than a detached portia of geration to say that the sum total of Indeed, the public letter writer is at puu-chung, and it is afhmed that Ching proper is, of course, one of these vocal utterances on the Island once the recipient and the charge of a person's age will be in a direct the best places to glean first-hand alone will amount to several mil- less cars are poured many a tale of commonly known facts are hun countless secrets, for into his tire- ratio to its length. To these knowledge of a great people and to ':n. A few of the more distinctive hardship almerve the encroaching influence street eries may be mentiaed, in love affair or two, and it is his duty written down only a the books of and woe and perhaps a dreds of others which are of the West upon the East. All of this article, as for instance the to weigh carefully the floud of words the members of the physiognomical us have wandered dozens of timea trade call of the peripatetic sejs and present the ideas that they re profession, and to learn about through the Chinese portion of sors-grinder and knife-sharper:
present in a fashion which will at these, mad to ascertain their effects the Colony and have threaded our
once he dignified and effective. For upon the daily lives results in the "Ch'aan-to-p-o... mah kaau-tain his services, he is wont to charge formation of a considerable clien- way with diflculty through the aa"--(Let me)
the customary ***{1]542
Jee of Ave to loanging crowds that seem to pul- knives and grind your scissors for the composition of a solitary epistle observed in one's rambles around
ten tote. you cats per letter, and as frequently Many of the sights to be Julate around any centre of attrae you." tion. We have been the cynosure
will take more than half an hour the Island have to do with the of his time, one can readily perceive various customs and superstitions
Few. Cities
Varied
More
wargi
the
of a gaping huddle of rustics from Another is that of the itinerant that his profession is not a highly connected with the dead. For In- the country who have eme to workman who specializes in mend- remunerative one. In fact, so poor- stance, many Hongkong for a fugitive holiday, in the cane-bottoms of chairs: ly paid is it that the average publie Colony
residents of have notici Inbouring and are grateful for any sight to "Sauching ja-k*ri-pi-y?”—Mend- letter, writer, in the majority of coolies lugging along certain of stare at, yet we ourselves on more ing Flowery-lag' Le American es has to site out his existence by the streets that which appeared at than cae vegasion have stood en chairs."
telling fortunes, and so for this first glance to be a sort of maile thralled at the picturesque novelty
purpose he has always before him able iron house about five feet in In certain of the more distinctive. " tortoise shell and a hamboo re- height. This a reality is a port- er the sights that on occasion are ly Chinese "sections of the city, one, tim, i, e. slender pieces of bamboe out to families in mourning, and replacle containing the sixty-four able furnace or tit-lo which is hired to be seen in many of the Island's may see
many strange thoroughfares.
things shaped not unlike the ordinary is prescribed by Government as a hawked about in the streets, em- Chinese chop-stick. As he sits it safety measure, for its purpose in bracing the category of the most his table near the kerb awaiting the to act as a receptacle for the burn- unconventional things. Amongst approach of prospective clients he ing of the various suits of paper these are the
the will often raise his voice in a sort clothes, motor-ears, rickshas, and chur-tsaap-lo or venilor of pork of chant intended as a provocative even boats which are destined to
prelude to basiness: chitterlings-pickled phr-spouts, and Few cities in the colourful East the like, These delicstics are im- preven more varied and pleasing mensely popular amongst the spectacles than Hongkong, for Chinese masses who always have an coupled with the delectable pros- extra copper or so to squander on pects of an incomparable scenic the tit-bits of this peripatetic deli- beauty and churm, there are, too, catessen. In order to attract trade, the unforgettable impressions of this hawker has a special cry: daily life in the city streets where East and West commingle with the most gracious cordiality. Yet, not- withstanding, there are many phases of Chinese life which owing to a lack of comphehensive knowledge of the vernacular tongue renders true ua- derstanding at limes rather difficult. For instance, what resident of Hongkong in his strolls through the more purely Chinese quarters of the Island has not noticed things which
"Chuc-tsul leung-mei lai Ho-pau lau ngau-pule Sin-tim mel-mai tai Yat-sin ya tenng-mei Ho-yan lau mei,” "Pig-snouls-two kinds Beef flavoured with oyster oil Abalanes with oyster oft Every deliency fresh and sweet One copper ench two kinds-- Delicacies flavoured with oyster
oil,"
he did not understand, and which Public Letter Writers likely rendered his first impression
a false one? How often he has felt
"Tsim-kura sten-meng K'nu-ts'oi kira
Ka-chank kwa Tsz-shan kwa
Maai-mung kwa
Haang-pan kun"
be offered up as a sacrifice to the manes of the dead. According to The Chinese popular custom the human soul hovers near the family hearth for a period of 10 days after death, and at the conclusion DE cach Roven days food and raiment must be offered up; con- These words convey to Um initi- sequently, on these ncensions, the ated a comprehensive epitome of his iron furnace is in much demand, Soothsaying ability inasmuch as they for the relatives must burn at proclaim that he is an adept in making prognostications regarding the future, past and present in al- most every mundane sphere be t personal, domestic or otherwise.
Physiognomy Also
Another very popular member of the peripatetic profession is the street-kerb physiognomist. It is diffealt for the uninitiated to realise the tremend us hold that this preudo-science has upon the minds of Amongst those who carry on their According to popular beliefs, the the Chinese masses. for professions within full view of the whole course of one's life may rest tempted to enquire the reason many a seeming triviality in the passing crowds are the se-sun-lo or upon the shape of one's head and pursuance of customs of which he public letter writers, These men the size of one's ears and other unfortunately is entirely ignorant, are much sa vogue and when one insignificat trivialities. Indeed, yet to the Chinese population of the considers the fact that nearly all of the Chinese say that a person Colony are occasions of momentous Hongkong's maid-servants are illi- with large head and ears is des
to tined
bave 11 long import. Moreover, too, even
the terate so that this must at
some Another superstition is that varied wares of the hawkers and time or other resort to the services nected with the raphis or groove their chunting voices have often of an amanuensis, one realises the in the middle of the
upper lip. been made the subject of remark, and more than one European has wondered what the deuce they were saying, and even when a question was put to those household oracles -ike boy or amah-they have blanilly
replied: "Velly sully, ma-82-fa (master). My no can 'splain what day talkie. My no gabby what call him English." Amusing Coolic Cries
These street-cries are, however, quite interesting and even amusing, and range from the plaintive wail of the ubiquitous beggar with him: "Tuni-kwoo, azṛuani a, koh-lin hat- vi-tsai a"-"Oh you ladies and matrons have pity on a poor little beggar lad" to the repetitive and doleful chorus of the carrier coolies padding along with their burdens: "Ting-nguang-sheung, Kwai kiu nei kung, Pok-tau t'uup”—"Henve hol Heave hot The devil has made you poor, and Although your shoulders may pain like the blazes yet you must grin and bear it." In- deed, every hawker has his Individual cry, and in the daylight
own
life.
con-
TEST
Weck-End Problems
PROBLEM I EUTAXIA
A Lay Sermon
By HUGH REDWOOD
MANY
of the lustrations
which Jesus used In His teaching were drawn, I would neem, from His own home lite. This one came from the carpen- ler's shop.
His "mote" Was unques- The mote that is tionably a speck in thy brother's of
sawdust,
eye.
"beam
MATTHEW VIL, 3. one of the up-
rights or raft- ers He unl in His building work. Perhaps Ile was thinking of something which one of His "brethren" had Kald. One pletures the family critic leaning against the work- shopdoor and talking as some of those
brethren did, the Carpen- Then
ter listening as Ile works.
Jenas puts His hand to His eye. and the speaker breaks off to proffer assistance. chap,"
"My dear says the Master, laugh- Ing, it's nothing to what's iss your own eye. My trouble's a bit of sawdust: yours is a length
of G by 4
This is not written Irreverent- ly. It helps us to see how Jesus could turn trifling things to Im- mortal account.
And It teaches
a lesson of Christ-like good hu- puur which some of us badly need. Not all the Carpenter's pupils having other tools on their beneli, are centent to turn on their critles with only
alle.
THE SEA OF GRASS
By Contad Richter (Constable, 63.)
OVERED Wagons have rolled heroically along the trail of American fiction these inst
few years. This short, roumantle novel tells you what one vest New Mexican cattle ranch thought of those invad-
nghomestealers" and "nesters."
It is also the story of a proud old mar's love for his young wife, of n politician-irickster who failed her, of tough riders and sunlight and desert towns and sand and abandoned fence- parts and solitude occasionally broken by the clirie of six-shooters. Linguished tale.
A dis
R. P.
these fixed periods as many of the paper replicas of the real as they can afford.
This in brief is a description of a fow of the many things to be seen and heard in the course of an afternoon's ramble through any of the crowded thoroughfares of the Chinese portion of the Colony,
ANSWERS
The following gives the mem- bership of each House and fin brackets) the number of Gov- erument supporters: The House of Feers The House of Sages.. The House of Architects The House of Necro-
naucers
Who Is This? (1) Lord Derby, (2) Sir John Simon.
+1
24 (22)
30 (23)
40 (26)
"I'M GLAD I MET YOU, NURSE, TO THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ADVICE
48 (29) The House of Quill-
Drivers
60 (34) The House of Advocates 80 (43)
The House of Nominees 120 (62)
Total
#
PROBLEM II.
402
TRANSIENT ARGENTINA EASON
R
Lights
(1) Anagram of in-
sianter.
(2) Anagram of an
ingrate
(3) Anagram of so
Ticar.
Unheeded Warning
Solution
Playfair had marked, with an acid preparation of his own, the Miss Plendaye's fingertips of gloves. They thus left
sions which were identpres
this und
a pattern of dots arranged in a particular way. Having treated the gloves, and taken a note of the impressions that they now gave, Playtale deposited note in a sealed envelope Have it the Assistant Com- missioner. Provided the girl was so foolish as to continue to use these gloves and Playfair had little doubt that she would do .so-her conviction Was now
fairly certain.
After her sentence she sent Playfair a note: "I should like you to know that a very stupid girl bears no malice, You did your best for me and I have no one but myself to blame." Cathleen Plendaye refused to Kive away her associales, and not for some months did the police And out who they were. But.In the end they, too were convicted, and the jewels that they had -stolen recovered.
"Not at all, Mrs. Hill. I can't benr to see kiddies poorly and miserable when I know int all they need is a dose of "Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs' to relieve their bowels and clear their systems.
"What a load off your mind it must be to see them so full of fun and energy again, and with such a lovely color in their checks. Always hungry too, aren't they?
"That's the beauty of California Syrup of Figs, it not only keeps the bowels regular but it tones up the digestion and creates a healthy appetite.
'California Syrup of Figs is never harsh, never gripes and never weak- ens, liko concentrated purgatives. I always feel there's a risk in taking them, whereas 'California Syrup of Figs being a natural laxative is absolutely safe.
"I strongly recommend you to get the children into the routine of Inking weekly dose of 'California Syrup of Figs. It will ward off colds and in- fections and act as a splendid tonic for the system. Speaking from experi- ence, California Syrup of Figs is just as good for adults, especially those who are not too robust."
"California
Syrup of Fiqs"
'NATURE'S OWN' LAXATIVE