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THE HONGKONg Telegraph, Saturday, FEBRUARY 4, 1939.
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That Night in Avalon Waltz,
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The Latin Quarter, F.T.
BD5415-Cielito Lindo, Conga
La Paloma. Tango. BD5123-Daydreaming. F.T.
MUSCLES
IN DAYS GONE by my wont was to dip an, us yet, undevelopėd but questing nose into my im- mediate progenitor's "Referee," that journal depressing in huc but. delightfully varied as contents which formed an integral part of the Sunday family life, as did the "St. the James' Gazette" and "Pall Mall" round off the the
LARGE MUSCLES are GREAT on remaining days of,
stevedores or carabao drivers.
BUT.
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to
Such papers, dignified and crudite, long deceased, now seem symbols of a class also extinct.
'.
The morni'n g-coated, kindly and sober-mannered
those secure," and papas,
undisturbed comfortable, and modestly prosperous
Your dealer or garage man recom-little homes of the pre- cinema period no longer exist.
The
Sold Hero HONGKONG
HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd. ·
and
The HOUSE
HEALING
like
一
com-
Hongkong Telegraph. which reached my ever-open car ing the only catablishment of the the evils which beset the flesh in surely natural, glee with which
Xavier Cugat's Orch. Wyndham St., Hongkong
'Phone 26615 February 4, 1989
........Rudy Vallee Connecticut Yankees.
I Wanna Go back to Bail. FT. BD5424-Six-Eight. Selection
Paso Double. Selection.
BD5125-I used to be Colour Blind. F.T.
Change Partners, F.T.
BD5428-Never Break a Promise
Penny Serenade. Blow F.T.
DD5127-Heart and Soul. Slow F.T.
Rare indeed is it that the woodland path und comely, No particle of printed matter sheltered home.
will remain to solace the bed- humbler members of a Neither the arrogant, though
Entering, no hint is found of ridden after her morning visit, munity may hug themselves in, doubtless well-meaning, bully the woes which beset mankind. unless the wary and initiated perhaps, unholy joy in the reali of Wimpole Street (blinded by
The broad, cheerful, flower patient has tucked his printed sation that, by reason of the between the blessed forethought (possibly in self-lined corridors, swept with san, belongings safely solf-importance
far-seeing prescience of a far righteousness) nor the jolly, air and light, lead only to small blankets! irresponsible and often ineffec- and friendly wards of a The bi-daily visit of the genial, less prosperous European popu- tive father of to-day; but the aspect, blossom-filled and sun- uncannily clever M.D. etc., is no lation), the sympathy with the
occasion for correct proportions of the vir- soaked.
uneasy apprehen- "little" man and woman, the self- less generosity of that by-gone tues of both blended and soften-
Not one dark corner nor dusky sion. ed into a respected individuality, hiding-place for lurking care or He of the twinkling eye, the benefactor of a former genera- de- tion, they may obtain this in- honoured in his limited pro- bronding self-pity will you find confident, straight-backed fessional circle and beloved and in this haven of healing and portment, whose inimitable and estimable service in the troubled cherished in his home.
soluce.
unique "bedside manner" forbids world of to-day.
Perhaps it was unworthy, but The appreciative remarks Perhaps I am biased, this be- depression of spirit, quickly sets
we chuckled at the chugrin (real as to the merits of "Mustard & nature in which I have acted as a precipitate flight.
True, a yeli of pain or the or simulated?) of the Great Man Cress" excited the imagination "trentec," but it is difficult to
an "operatee" who came and gave us the once and provoked youthful investiga- believe that one could receive a gibberings of tion.
more kindly, considerate and "under the influence" will occa- over.
Naturally he tentatively sug- than sionally bring realization as to Who was this Geo. R. Sims? understanding reception
the nature of our refuge, but in gested that his next (if any) sick This "Dagonet"? Wide-eyed in one does here.
an incredibly short time the leave should be spent amongst * 女
Aesculapius admiring wonder at what I, in
hors-de-combat will pert up suffi- us, at which our
un- demurred, on good and sufficient, .Geraldo's Orch. A Bowl of Rice
my inexperience, considered the THE DELIGHT of surrender-
ing the declining physique ciently to appreciate the Geraldo's Orch.THIS EDITORIAL, written last stoic fortitude of Sims continu-
into the keeping of a smiling- merciful challing of his snigger- indeed, arbitrary grounds. night, has had to be hurriedlying to write his weekly article
outrageous outpourings. Jack Hylton's Orch. redrafted this morning. In the from his sick-bed, complete faced, soothing-voiced, gentle- ing, wide-eared fellows at such
original version we expressed the with details of symptoms, at- handed and obviously capable
But the true and prevailing at- hope that
is surely recompense mosphere is content and cheery following yesterday's Pierre's Orchmeeting of the new and enlarged tempted remedies, name of fair Sister
enough for any foregoing irrita- happiness, be it doctor, matron, attendant, and so on.
Such attitude has many, a tion.
The beneficient matron (who sister, patient, "boy" or amah. modern follower, and I am now
But a sine qua non for parti- my can, matron-like, upon occasion
smuck of the martinet) and who BUT YOU of the bursting bank ticipation is the practice of true hero-worship.
account are debarred from socialism in its strictest sense, One of the more dismal of our surely has discovered the elixir.
the growing younger as the years this bliss; the owner of the hand- to-day almost forgotten and expressed philosophers opinion that every pleasure was go by, possesses one strange and some home upon which we look ignored.
than one) is taboo! but the lessening of pain or dis- far from secret vice-the collec- down (possibly in more sense comfort; that joy without pre- Lion of wastepaper! vious disease of mind is a non- existent myth.
New Mayfair Aceardeon Band,
..Jack Hylton's Orch.
When Mother Nature sings her Lullaby. Waltz. BD5426-Rhythm in the Alphabet.
Cinderella Sweetheart.
F.T.
BD5429-Tango Medley
BD5433-Joseph Joseph Quick Step
The Humming Waltz. Waltz,
BD5431-On the Bumpy Road to Love. F.T.......
.Geraldo's Orch.
Fatts Waller's Orch. Committee on Nutrition, a report of the proceedings would be made The Nearest Thing you ever did was Kiss me. F.T.
public through the Colony's news
Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. papers. This, we see, has been not quite so confident in
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REPULSE BAY Hotel
Geo, Pio-Ulski's String Quintette
every SUNDAY for Tiffin 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Fred Carpio's Dance Orchestra
overy WEDNESDAY for Dinner 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
A la Carte & Table d'Hote
done.
There are indications that the work of this Committee is likely to be of a prolonged nature. Happily, the Committee has realised the necessity of public co-operation by means of publicity in European newspapers which, we might add. are widely translated by Chinese journals.
A moment's thought will lead A decisive denial of such dolourous doctrine.
Meanwhile, we do not have to be particularly observant to notice that to the Colony's equivalent of the Poor Law system in England--what is known as the Rice Bowl--is rapidly
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more than one in fact.
breaking down under the strain Im-ON THE PEAK is a hospital— posed on gencrosity by the thou- sands of added mouths that must be fed as a result of the influx of re- fugcen
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PEACE TO THE Ashes of the unforgotten benefactors and honour to those now scientiously carrying out their bchests!
DO YOU SPEAK
но сол-
"Riconoscenti
AT BREAKFAST?
THER THERE must be something wrong with people li
It may be that the blessed easing of the cares, physical and This Rice Bowl system, we may mental, the relinquishment of they're in a good mind at breakfast," abandon-a friend of mine said the other day. add, ensures that no person shall responsibilities, the
"Then," I replied, though disbeliev atarve, for he or she need but pre-ment of all the aching entity in- sent an empty bowl to more fortun to the kindly and expert hands In not so distant days, when there of others is not bliss in the nar- were less wanting mouths to fill, row acceptance of the word; still,
ate Chinese to have it filled,
ing what I said, "there's something extremely wrong with me."
I began to reflect on the reason for
my bringing to breakfast what Robert
in
-By-
HILDA COE
COME out into the early
morning with me, and see
bacon. They are so good.
Once upon
hissed if they had a grievance, but when the grey goose was broody she would, rather than leave her nest, eat corn out of my hand.
After thul she was always a pam- pered pet; if she were not stroked and talked to at breakfast she started her day sadly. But she had very little to grumble about,
Now, having fed the poultry, I come back through the few beseechers were turned away the intense and beautiful satis-Louis Stevenson has called a mern- until some nourishment, however faction is an experience not to being face and a morning heart, and if you can get an appetite. It is t
apple blossom or the newest rose, or my-chlidhood. mengre, was added to the vitamin-missed by the connoisseur in de-at once I was back, in imagination. thousand pitics not to enjoy eggs and garden gate. I may stop to sniff the to wonder at the beautiful black Perhaps then I established a style less polished rice. To-day, genero-lightful sensations.
a lime-this isn't a middle to the red poppy. But most sity of that fashion often becomes
Aloof, the building stands on of life that has enabled me to spend fairy story, only a flashback-I was likely I shall hurry indoors to finish impossible, and thousands of des- titutes must be content with "hand- its own particular tor, looking happily those first hours, to the day eight years old, and lived in a village. I dressing and then run into the kit- which, according to my friend, we
a builder's chen to make urgent inquiries about down in benevolent dignity on might all be counted on to spend in We had a big garden,
yard and a big field behind our con- breakfast. turies-old thatched house, so we kept I must have been about ten or glistening bay and tiny hamlet, bad-tempered gloom.
started to cook my hens and three or four ducks.
eleven when Hens and ducks
ore early risers, own breakfast. I had found out that and it became my self-appointed pancakes were very easy to do, and task to set them free from the hen I would whisk together a batter and houses where they spent the night. make myself a pancake in next to no In the spring summer my anxiety time--not a wafery one, but one of to get out into the dew-freshened substance, cooked in a huge old- morning prevented me from finishing fashioned iron frying pan, and eaten dressing before releasing the hene. with brown sugar,
outs" of rice, and of rice alone.
Herein lies the reason why hospi- tals in Hongkong are choked to-day with bari-beri cases, why infant mortality figures, revealed by Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke last night, show a disturbing increase.
Polished rice means death, unless nourishment, in the form of goup. gravy or some other food containing the requlsite vitamins, is added.
We believe that the Nutrition Committee should discuss this ur- Kent factor, and let the public know that it is being discussed.
It appears to us that the urgenti problem in longkong in not time- wasting discussions on the scientific aspects of nutrition, or of the num- ber of calories required to sustain human lives at various ages and in various climates or countries. What we want to know is what practical be taken to romedy measures can mal-nutrition in this Colony--to remedy a condition which, we have been informed by a medical friend, is responsible, directly or indirectly, for seventy-five per cent. of our deaths. We would like to know what diseases can be attributed to mal-nutrition, and we would like to know something more dolnite about its prevalence in the Colony.
Above all, we would like to know whether the Committee will take cognisance of the fact that the Bowl of Rice system has broken down to the extent that the prowl alon of soup kitchens-a bowl of life-saving soup can be provided for less than ong Anti-coms a neces: sity that demands Iramediate recome mondation to Government, without
THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. waiting for the Committee's full-Re
port, rendered, perhaps, a year
We do thence.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Don't take it to heart, Oscar-- my wife made fun of my biscuits, too; when I was: first niarried":
Clad in one flannel petticoat, calico- For a change I would alice the and one lengcloth petticoat, biggest potatoes I could find and fry toidery frilled-oh, yes, we wore them. My mother saw to the bacon at least two petticoats even in sum- and rugs, but I had the potatoes mer erept down the stalrense, wulting to go with them. And most through the kitchen and back hall, likely the eggs she cooled I had, drew the great bolt in the back door brought fresh from the nests a few and stepped into the early morning minutes before. sunshine.
In the fruit season I would take
a walk round the garden and tuck
MAYBE the apple blossom in a few plums or an apple or two was fragrant, or the first beforehand. What grand breakfasts red soldier of a poppy was unfolding they were! Are you feeling better
there was yet? crumpled petals; maybe another opening bud on the old pink rose bush. All in due time I should come to them.
we
LAS, the days come upon A me-boarding school days. when those breakfasts of happy But first I must take from the hall memory gave way to a dull appetite-
Twico a weak lamp bracket the key of the green quelling regime. house, go through its plant-scented had rolls and butter, and for some sluffiness, then past a door at the reason, enjoyed their soggy, hot-in- further end to the sture-room where, digestibility more than anything else. among all manner of builder's odds One day a week we had weak por- ridge, and on Sundaya, bony kippers But we and ends, we kept the corn.
or insignificant bloatern. There 1 Alled an enormous metal scoop with grain, then hurried Into were intended to appreciate these on the yard, opened the hen-house doors a treat. and encouraged the pante scramble
Personally, I could only look for-
to freedom with cries of "Chuck, ward to that far distant day when could cook my own breakfast ogain: chuck, chuck," accompanied by I did not lose my appetite, but merely bouncing of the rattling grain up and put it in store.
down
In the
the scoop.
to hold
When, after my father's death, I The ducks were such gobblers I had to give up my home, my land- the scoop for them to lady offered to give no reciifust in used help themselves, and they allowed led every day. I thought this was ilberties from any hen who might luxury until I discovered two things: First, she had no intention of heating try to gate-crash,
the house before midday and, seed, (Continued on Fage: 15.)
no
Once, for a while, we kept a few goond, who stretched their necks and