RAINBOW
Saturday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 24, 1938,
Seaside Landladies Are
Hostesses Now
New Brighton, Cheshire.
„The seaside landlady has yanished to the Victorian umbo;of antimacas- sars and horse hair furniture.
The conference of the Brillah Federation of Hotel and Apartmerit Associations began at New Brighton recently and there was found her modern hostess prolotype.
"COSIER THAN HOTELS"
Dark-haired, young-looking Mrs. F'. Isherwood, of Southport, who smoked an expensive cigarette," said:
"The traditional type of scaalde
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MEN'S WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S
Winter
Clothing
Hongkong Benevolent Society
11, Ice House Street.
MONDAY
THURSDAY
10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
cated women with the job of running one of the biggest industries in the country,"
Said plump, jolly-faces! Mrs. M. Mills, of Morecambe;
"The younger element is com- ing into our job nowadays, well- educated men and women who cun organise are taking it over. "in the old days an apartment house was only a shelter; now it is na good us the best hotel-and cosier we claim.
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"The average holiday-maker Recommodated on a £1,000 a year scale. He has a waitress, a chamber- maid, a cook, and the best of food and accommodation for a very few shillings a week."
SEA VIEW GUARANTEE
by
Even the old problem of the "sca view" has been attended to |modern landladies, «
Elderly, stately-looking Mrs. M. Howard, of Southport, said:
"In the old days there might have been a little polite evasion over whe- ther the sea could be seen from bed- room windows," she said, "but that does not happen to-day. It the room does not overlook the sea, we don't nay it does."
Even now at winter is here these lundladies do not relax. A short holiday and they begin renovating their houses for the next reason..
it
The Federation talked for hours on variety of subjects. They were annoyed because people .ent abroad; because of the competition from holiday
of a camna; because
a shortage = of staff: because of the high wages domestic servants demand; and be-; cause of the poor season they had
· all "enjoyed”” this year.
The Day We Celebrate
His Excellency the Governor presenting a banner to the Instruc- for of the first winning school, the Lin Nan School, Hongkong at the recent Physical Delli display.—A. A. Kahn.
Girl, 15, Weds Father
Of Five
A girl of fifteen gave her age as twenty to
a widower with five children, and married him. At Glasgow Sheriff Court recently she ad- mitted contravening the Marriage (Scotland)
*Act.
Judgment was
postponed.
now
The prosecution stated that the girl,
sixteen, dis- appeared from Ireland eighteen months ago and came to Scot-) land. Last August she visited her parents and told them she was married.
She went through the marriage ceremony with the widower last March. Later her true age was dia- covered.
Sheriff MacDonald said there was no good in sending the girl to prison. They should try to redeem her. He would get a probation officer's report.
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Romance Floes Cleveland
Cleveland, O. Frank Zizelman, marriage licence clerk, can't understand what is wrong with Dan Cupid. "I don't know what it could be," he said. "Only 11 Il- cences one day, whereas in June our average was 80 a day. It might be the weather, or else cupid is on a sitdown strike."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO TRY TO REGAIN ONE'S VOUTH WITH
A CARNIVAL HAT BUT IF
YOUR DANCING STOPPED WITH THE WALTZ ON SCHOTTISCHE -FORGET THE IDEA
THE COLD-BLOODED
LITTLE SQUIRT THAT COUNTS
THE LOOT TO SEE IF EVERYONE
HAS COME ACROSS
AND ABOUT ONE OR TWO AM. THERE'S
A GATHERING AROUND THE TURKEY –
TO TAKE A FINAL HACK AT IT.
12-25
THERE ARE ALWAYS SOME OF THEM IN A CORNER. REHASHING THE YEAR'S ROUGH STORIES... THE WIVES HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THEY GET HOME TO HEAR THEM.
1*DON'T CLOSE THAT CONTRACT!
I CAN GIVE
YOU BETTER
TERMS
NO TROUBLE-IT'S JUST. THAT HED RATHER.
HAVE HIS OLD BATTERED MICKEY MOUSE –
CHRISTMAS ORNO CHRISTMAS/
OF COURSE BUSINESS REALS IT'S UGLY HEAD.
ADRMAN LYND.
IT'S THE CHILDREN'S DAY. LET THEM DANCE AND RAISE THE ROOF ---AS FOR
·US, GIVE US OUR SHARE OF TURKEY AND A
¡COMFORTABLE, CHAIR.
AFTERWARD.
Ledger Spidicam