THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY MAN
1988.
SPARE MOMENT PAGE
MERRILY WE LIVE
PRECEDING CHAPTERS:
Wads Rawitna, novelist, rough- ing it on the Pacific Coast, 48 stranded when his var falls into a ravino. He goes to the il- bourne house to ask to use the phono. Ho le mistaken for a tramp and as Hra. Ibourne has a hobby of taking in trampa and the chauffeur has disappear- od that morning with all the nituor, he engaged to drive against his will. After a few ow elling and humorous situations Ao voants to stay in the airange hasehold. It will furnish him with good copy.
than
Copyright 1030 by Korra, 200.
Chapter Six
ADAPTED FROM THE Main Goldwyn-Mayer
MCTURE
by LUCY HUFFAKER
When the driver saw the big roll of bills Mr. Kilbourne drow from his pocket, he said the amount wan fifteen dollars. Mr. Kilbourne bold out the roll to him but before the driver could take It, Wade stopped botwoon thom. He took the bills, put them back in Mr. Kilbourne'n pocket and leaned over to look at the moter. From its pocket bú draw out the bills Kans had given him.
Hero'n three dollars fifteen conto less than that thing roads and three dollars more than you do Barvo. Now be on your way. I sm handling this"
The driver gave Wado a look not exactly on the friendly aido, Dut the only other answer he made was to start his motor and rush down the drive, with his hand on tho horn.
"Quiet! Tolks trying to get nome rest" roared Mr. Kilbourne,
It was then a Bght finshed out Warto was exhilarated rather from an upstairs room. Some one Brod from the many and came to the window. Wade man Variod things which had crowded aged to push Mr. Kilbourne Into a hi day, but no he was not to be clump of bushes where he would bo on call that night and there was invisible. He looked up at the win- nothing to do, he took off his uni-dow. It was Mrs. Ilbourne.
the pajamas, form and put on lounging rabo and slippers, which the butler had loft in his room. He was just ready to go to bed. when he heard some pno drive up. He couldn't see who it was, but who- evor it was seemed to be having trouble. He was in the garage when Kano came in hurriedly, ran to the phone and dialed a number.
"Don't be alarmed, Mrs Kil bourne," Wade said. "Bome one who had been drinking too much, In- alsted he lived her, but I got rid of him."
That's vary thoughtful of you," onld Mrs. Kilbourne, "Strange he should think he lived here, but drinks get such funny ideas into It ho their poor, befuddled heade. comra back, just tell bim he's mis- taken. Goodnight.”
"Betty?" he asked and his voice was soft and strained at the name timo. "Everybody's asleep. I tell you He waited until the light had I can't wake falber up. He'd be so gone out, then helped Mr. Kilbourne furlons I never would get anything to come out from his hiding place. out of him. I promise you I wis troubles were not over. One got it I'm not one to walab-minute Mr. Kilbourne would berato but, Betty, I can't right now. I him and say he needed no assist know nobody forced me, but auce; the next to would say ha
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The
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Causes of beastly blick.
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been in a city where the female part
of the population so strongly gave
the impression of inward melancholy
or secret sorrow.
By LEWIS SPENCE
I don't deny that it's up to the woman to make things cheerful at home. If a man ja met of evening by a complexion of patient suffering he'll begin making another life-map, and I'm afraid our sisters, our cousins and our aunts are guilty of this graveyard pose in many Edin- burgh homes,
and women,
The procession of sad and dejected women's faces one sees in our streets is such as to arouse anxiety in a
But what I do add is that their philanthropic brenat regarding the disgracefully lacking in a sense of heartburnings and vexations which simple joy. It is to the absence of unhappy traditions predispose them this latter quality that I attribute the to this hereditary mournfulness. You must underlie them.
Those who deny that the great appearance of so many dolorous and can't din Into' a people that they're majority of Edinburgh wemen up- dispirited female physiognomies in "the righteous" and "the clect" and all that for countless generations pear triste and dispirited cannot be our streets.
The truth is, we Scots are much without turning most of them lato very
And to those perspicacious.
more 40 than men, are who seem from their facial expres-too grown up, too adult to enjoy potential undertakers, sions to be suffering from more or ourselves in the innocent and whole- much less acute distress, must be added hearted manner of our neighbours markedly amenable to environment.
contingent who ample
cem the English and French.. We are
dogs, and such pleasures Snappy Ones actively discontented and at war with lot of dull
exclusively I have sold nothing so far about themselves or with soclety at large.. as we have are too
Of cou
course, the Scols housewife of masculine and violent. Worst of all, the shrewishness and snappiness of less our environment, have come to adopt a certain type of Edinburgh lady, a past generation
and their harsh because I believe it to be a result "cross-bearer." The our cafish games a professional matriarch of old Edinburgh seldom traditions and have grown too mas and concomitant of the miserable emiled. In the first place it wasn't culine and athlelle, decent or godly, and, again,
an
you I'll walk while you ask them." ( had always been fond of him and There was a pause. Then: "I never expected to have another can't, Belty. I'm porry if this a friend he loved so much. In fact, it embarrassing to you. Yes, I know was, under all the circumstances, you okayod my credit but five Just the conversation one might ex- grand and only a minute to get it! peat. Wado kept up his end by try Yes I'll wait."
ing to keep Mr. Kilbourne from Another pause. Nervousness had shouting and from falling down. At become panlo when Kane spoke last they were in the house. Mr. Ki noxL "No not I'll come down to bourne insisted on sitting down on noo you. If you come up here, all the stairs and taking off his shoes, fathor will do will be to turn me which might not have been a bad out for good and you won't get any idea, if he had not thrown them to of it. What's that? You say you'll wall uniti boop, tomorrow. Thanks
Wade sighed. That was over and alot.
Hs hung up the phone and stum- evidently no ens had beard the blod toward the car. It was then noise. Ho had reckoned without
white Marian. Bbe was coming in from he saw Wado.
"What do you mean listening to the dining room, her hands and privato adaire?" he stormed. her mouth full of cookies. He
the top, before he climbed on tip- tos up to his room.
mytro thousand!" paid Wade. suggested it was paat bed-time "They took you to the cleaners, surely for a school-girl.
"I see you know best," zbo an didn't they? Now take it easy, didn't mean to pry into anything, swored. "But I'm sober, so --” but as I did hear some of it, I "How would it be for you and might as well know it-all. Just bomo to have a little secret, Mariant cause I'm older than you and bad Good friends should hava tham and more expariener, perhaps I can bo if you're willing I'd like for us to bo friends? Shall we both forget of some assistance”
what we think we saw and hund and never mention it, each to each other?"
It was an old story. He had gone to the Red Mill, a girl introduced him to a couple of her friends, they -played cards, at first he won h
share, than
Marian hold out her hand to him. As she went up to bed, she leaned over the railing and said he wan a swall guy.
The night was not yet ever for Wade. A ho walked around the house, he saw a parked car and heard Jarry and Herbert Whooler
was
more or
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of her.
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woman the rest of her life had to wear 1 don't like to see a woman looking the environment. Such a
as certain to appear in our frilled cap, to look
very every inch a man except for an inch was sprightly.
or two of skirt. It seems to me as narrow and restricted West End and female unnatural as a young fellow in a our hidebound suburbs as
In our slums. The wonder Ravages of Golf
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under is that,
such
conditions of melan- But although 1
remember appear. con
unmitigated depression and Woman is a creature of joy, some cholle inertia, she is not much worse. quite a number of such reproachful
tay, n
But she is gradually disappearing. antiquities (they were always sighing thing of a nature-spirit, a
a and Slowly, but certain, more generous and quoting texis) I am rather sur- sylph, and we in Scotland have prised to see much the same kind transformed her by our regisively and human
type is taking her addiction to pursuits appear- of faces as they affected now
badly warped place. no thanks to us, but to ing beneath the towering new hats masculine into and peeping out from the latest fluffy edillon of ourselves. The old chivalry that innate feminine genius for perhaps glorided woman a little too amendment which has begun to veils.
What dire amiction lies behind much, and the Victorian tradition realise the blundering stupidity of these dismal looks? (If that sen- depressed her into a kind of feeble the masculine code, tence weren't a couple of feet too doll, except, perhaps in Scotland. was already; long it would have made a tolerably But the Scotswoman hobbling line in blank verse of the sumciently severe and didn't require CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. more autique kind.) Or, to put it any further hardening process. cating
result la that she SERVICES CONTEACTUELS DES The awful parlance, what's in modern these dames? Do our wives, sisters, realises herself that her natural at- and daughters still maintain the tributes and characteristics have be in de sfecle notion that in order to come thoroughly warped by the Steamship
"PRESIDENT DOUMER” be "respeckit" they must drape their several anti-feminine agencies which I have enumerated, her innate feel-
No. 13 A/38 dainty checks with funeral aira?
Well, I have been making stringent ings resent them and she is miser-
Bringing Cargo from
TALMA inquiries, and several explanations able. We have made her most of
Wednesday, 11th May, 1938. of this mournful mien have been her-into a rather hard little pseudo-via Saigon, arrived Hongkong laid before me. One is the condi- man.
Consignees are hereby informed SIRDHANA What we have to do-no casy task tion of golf-widowhood in which so been snooping on bor and Mr.
TILAWA many Edinburgh women appear to is to throw off the wretched grim that their goods with the exception SHIRALA langulah,
I won't mince words on this mat- ness which overshadows Scottish life of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables ter. The man who daily hurries off as a whole, to restore that ancient are being landed and stored into the vie-Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- to His game and leaves his wife to spirit of innocent joy which Scotland Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon nan loon, whenco delivery may be ob- ence possessed before it was vic- her own devices is not only a scifia umised by a sour-faced puritanism tained immediately after landing.
the which dried up springs and
All claims must be sent in to me boor he is a domestic misdemeanant of the first order. I leave it at that, sources of our native gaicly. I notice on or before 21st May, 1938, or they
that our working people bave already will not be recognized. Unappreciated Privilege
succeeded in doing this to a great Damaged Packages will be examin- But any man who doesn't properly extent. Why should not the rest of
ed by the Company's Surveyor and Douglas in the Messrs: Goddard appreciate his womenkind and find the nation?
presence of the Consignees at 10.00 enjoyment in their society is an
a.m. on Tuesday, 17th May, 1838. Inferior kind of creature.
Consignees must have a Revenue
"I don't fool ko belag klased, aho paid "And that's
"Yea, I know the rast," said Wade. "Now what I suggest is that you go to bed, got a good night's "How can I sleep? How will help any?
"Planeo do as I say. I think by the time you are awake in the arguing morning, you can forgot the whole affair. I've knocked around quite a Herbert," lot in my time; I know something that." about tough guys and how to ban dle them. You can trust me."
"I don't know why," said Kano, "but someway I ballare you can got
The car drove rapidly away. It me out of this jam. I don't know how to thank you, but it's no was then she notlood Wade. She thing, but it might come in handy asked him why he was prowling please take this, Someway, it wil| around and why, especially, had he make me feel better."
Then there was a sound he did not understand, until Jerry jump
ing out the car, said: "And next time I'll clap you harder."
He had placed three on-dollar Wheeler. They said goodnight. But bills in Wade's hand. Wade, being just as she neared the door and a wiss man, thrust the money in opened ber purse, she stopped. She hiz pocket. Then when Kans was called him back, he had no koy, out of hearing, he wont to the she explained. How would she gut phone and asked for the number of In. Wade suggested she try one of
he Red MiËR, NA
the window Bhe Reemed to be He had just finished his coaver giving it careful consideration, than kation with Batty and her friends said they ware too high, she wAR and stapped to the door for a brosch | zure. He assured her he would be of air, when another bar drew, up: glad to help her.
in front of the house. It was a tand Wade lifted her easily, but Jer and whoever was in it, seemed tory Insiatod she could not make it, be having difficulty in goiling out he must put her down. They tried "Well, what I want to know is it once more. Again she said it was what if I did ask you your name too high,
ten Limes? We're pais - you and I All right,” said Wade, \"We'll
and pola ought to know oncli 'try it another way.". other's namas le my motto."
It was Mr. Kilbourne. He looked
as if he might need help so Wade
walked rapidly toward him
He got down on all fours and told ·
her to get on his back, he would mise her to the ledge that, wAY. "Goodnight.", sho said when she
"You say this is my house! Well, was safe in the room, and thank
you."
what's wrong with 11 Answer the Goodnight and you're welcome," that? What you whispering for -- got a cold?" Mr Klbourne was also, ho answered.". Whisporing,
He had gone but a few stopa
"If you don't need me any more, when she called him back,
7 take my rare and be on my "I dropped my pares,” she said.
"Will you - way" said the driver!
It had opened when she had Thanks for the ride, old boy. Mast your as per agreement, some thrown it out. On the ground beside
It lay her key.
Diner time."AMANDALA
But my fare for paid the driver.
**p*1LX4won a lot; tonlylity How!
(To Be Continued)
Women-those of them at least
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
Marseilles
on
Agent.
Woman is Tit for Tat the light of like, and the man who does not enjoy her society and en- treat her with chivalrous affection is who are dependent upon usare Omeer in attendance when any duti- bound to reflect ourselves. If we able goods are examined by the a barbarian,
No Fire Insurance will be effected For all the Scol'a maunderings aro grumpy, cash, and careless of Company's Surveyars.
and the social virtues, so will they be.
who has a semi-profes- by us in any case whatever. about his, "bonnie Marys"
K. OHL Bonale Jeans he is apt to neglect A woman
a husband will them
after marriage, He doesn't sional golfer. for
Hongkong, 11th May, 1938, seem to realise how high a privilege probably become that dreadful thing it is to share the of a good, and a semi-professional bridge-dend or n
fully qualified wholelime grouser. intelligent woman,
COUNT THE the thing lles deeper than If I were a woman and had a whood, club-divorce, or husband who spent all his leisure anything of that kind. Edinburgh is knocking a white ball about and who disgracefully lacking in that descrip afterwards mopped up six or seven " TELEGRAPHS" tion of social contact in which the whiskies nighty, the affair would sexes mingle. Indeed, in this respect, blow up to a conclusión' in 'the best It is almost Oriental, It is still more manner of Greek, tragedy, In plain
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