DONALD DUCK
WILL YA READ
US
A BED. TIME
STORY, UNCA DONALD?
NO DOGGONE IT
Y' SHOULDA BEEN
ASLEEP LONG
AGO!
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Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 22, 1939.
Walt Disney
By Walt
---AND THEN THE LITTLE RED MEN CRIED,
*WHY, CHICKIE BIDDY, YOU NAUGHTY
CHILD!"
OPEN
UNTIL
6 P.M.
P.M..
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
Two British airmon, prisoners at internment
barracks somewhere in Germany, chat with Gorman officer, left, Barbed wire runs along building to discourage anyone who might consider jumping out of a window.
Make It A Safe Christmas
HERE are four "Do's" and four "Don't's" to make your Christmas.
safe: DO
linng up paper and other lan- terns by wice, not string-and make sure they don't swbig:
Warn your family and guests if there are going or similar surprises In Christmas pudding:
Walt until the pudding is on the Jable before puuring on Hghted spirit:
Keep all Bågs, paper streamers, well clear of open lights and elec- trie fuses.
DON'T
Make any change at all in elce- tric wiring
the except under direction of an electrician or cam- petent person;
Give highly painted toys or those With sharp edges to very young children-who may Dut them straight into their mouths
Use celluloid for any decorative purpose-it's higidly inflombiable,
Leave paper streamers hanging r lying about after the party s
over.
PHILIPPINE FLOODS
Manila, Dec. 21.
Nephews' Teasers Will Be Worse
This Christmas
By GUY RAMSEY
You
THE spate of Christmas games is upon us. know the kind of thing: “What was the maiden name of Mrs. David Copperfield?”-one given at the Liberal Party ballor, "What. murderer called his victim an egg?" which was set to the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man, in their ânnual General Knowledge test.
Hitherto I have been able (more or less) to hold my own when my young nephew Roderick has returned to the bosom of his family for Christmas with a store of such teasers, specifically designed to make Uncle Guy look an awful juggins."
For General Knowledge tests (which ought really to be called Special Knowledge tests) are really tests of other people's intelli- gence. When Roderick, helping himself to his fourth mince-pie, to the peril of his waistcoat buttons, splutters:
Uncle, how long is the Equator?"" or, worse, "Who said, 'My kingdom tor horse? I find my cigarette ease empty (I always keep my cigarelle case empty when Roderick at home) and, on pretext of filling t, go to my library and look up in the encyclopaedia or
If the letters in the word NOR are in the same order as they are in the alphabet, write the number which is less than 3 by the num- ber of letters in the word AND.
not, write the number I-unless it is a Wednesday. In which case write 172..
So This Is Fair
The Province of Cagayan is still cut off following the typhoon and floods of the weekšént. Authorities Equator fear epidemies and famine. Some Kingdom' in an athology of, quota- I smoked three cigarettes. 1,800 people are homelreu at Ilagan, tions,
return ustentatiously was crooked, my hair (such as is Isabella Province. The Postmas-putting und come oul bat with the left) .was wild. I had my paper
persons answer.
Lor reported thal several were killed and that crop damage Was enomous. The food waters have not receded.-United Press.
Free Gifts to Patrons
Wo-beg.to.announce.to.our. Patrons and the Public that we are holding a
Grand Christmas and New Year Sale
NOW IN PROGRESS
It may be of interest to know that our Company deals mainly in
special Chihase handicraft articles víz.
Silk Lingerie, Decorative Linens,
Handkerchiefs & Novelties
produced in our China factories. Due to the unsettled conditions in the greater part of this globe we are now carrying a very unusual large stock of all kind of goods suitable for gifts to meet all tastes and for every day use, and as the present rate of exchange is very favourable we are glad to be able to announce that all goods offered will be at real bargain prices.
We also with to stato that to show our goodwill, we are giving free `gifts in a great variety of valuable articles to each purchasor of goods to the value of $3.00 and upwards, each freo gift having a value in proportion to the value of the goods purchased.
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We therefore hope that our Patrons and the Public when making their Christmas and New Year's purchases will bear this in mind and visit our shop and make use of our rare offer and bargains, and we have every confidence they will leave in complete satisfaction at having received full value of goods In return for their patronage.
SWATOW LACE
16. PEDDER STREET. CO., LTD. PHONE 24656
and
Paying Methods
My the
THE TWO FUNNIEST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED!
Gen. Nuisance and Chief Disorderly! They're gaga over the Commandant's Cutiel And, when Gorgeous Georgette gives them the eye it's Ready-Aim!- FIREWORKS!.. Come and go completely daffy-happyl...
Stan
AND
LAUREL
HARDY
checked. I had scored 95 per cent. -having taken 25 minutes for ten-minute paper.
a
thu
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Oliver
THE
Cangrin (and, of course, mince-pie)
to Outraged 1 letophaned reduce Roderick nearly to bursting Board of Education, asking if they point, For wellh.tho nid of my encouraged this monstrous system for ibrary I am a bit of a whale at the discomature of uncles. using other people's Intelligence,
"Most decidedly," they said. But this terms Roderick's school ment to measure a child's potentiali- telligence tests provide a new instru- has at last awakened (after 350tles. It has, of course, its limitations. years of existence) to the theory (Psychologists co-ordinate the tests
at it might be a good thing
Find out not how much its pupils with a case history and a personal know, but how intelligent they are, temperament or character.
It takes no account o!
interview.)
To this end they have evolved a not-put the wind up-children, os do "Its great advantage is that it does
system of intelligerice tests.
There have filled me with dread, ordinary examinations. They treut, st Na book of reference can help me 3 game." know.
Young Roderick will mumble withi
- A Came For Whom?
his mouth full: "Brothers and sisters Roderick. I fear. I shall lose.
A game, forsooth If I play it with
bave 1 none, but that man's fathor
is my father's son, Uncle. Who is
, Uncle"
Of Course
I
knew
just
n dirty
has it! Roderick emerged from his fab with face and a dirty crack.
He asked me: "I a man bought
Or he will ask me to complete then 24d, thing and gave a 60.; and it next two of a series of @gures that he got two coins in change; and run: 1. 3, 7, 13, 21....
one coin wasn't a 3d. bft, how did happen?"
He will ask me what is the oppo-
site of "Not in," and crew disgusting went to the library. I used up five:
I found my cigarette-case empty 1
ly
when I say feslily: "*"Out," of
course.**
sheets of a bridge pad, working & out.
I thought to be prepared for I returned, smoking and smiling Roderick's home-coming. I went "You can't entch me I smirked.
along to the National Institute of "I know the answer. The customer Industrial Psychology,
was done."
47 per
I glanced at the paper for 10-year- olds-und scored a superb
ceat,
I inquired of the Vocational Guld-
DOCO section what that indicated;
"Wrong again, Uncle Guy! One coln wasn't a 3d, bit—but the other'
coln was! Ha! hal? -
An American doctor says the in- they said that if I were 10 they would telligence declines after the ape of advise me to go in for a manual job. 13. He ta quite right I shall spend
I tried the paper for eight-year-this Christmas of my club playing ulds, This was one question:— [contract. It's easier.
Woman Buys.
Perfect Gifts
I'VE done my window shop fur rug made of long pile alpaca ping early, pressed my noso wool in brown.. against the glass in an effort
MY brother docm't know it, but
to find the ideal Christmas his habit of changing his sults about gifts for six people I love. It three times a day has made me want was not easy, for there is to give him an umbrella with three ond of such an embarrassment of interchangeable handles,
whangee, one of leather, and one of mulacca,
choice.
But now, after ♫ lat of changes, I've got what I regard as the perfect list.
MY awkward. Aunt, charming in herself, is apt to be dimeult as re- gards gifts,
kitten three months old and house I'd like to buy her a Siamese trained. It is pale cream and brown,
MOTHER kes things for the home I'd like to buy her a special lamp jabade made of two pieces of trans- parent stuff with dried flowers, and has the wickedest pair of eyes It has ever been my misfortune to wheat or barley pressed between.
An 18in. diameter shade for ac through gloss. standard lamp will cost $0.
Others R
ere made to estimate.
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FOR father I'd like to buy some thing to keep hit feet warm. in the
FOR my favourite girl friend, El- zabott, mid-Victorian by inclination these two months past. I want to buy a bracelet and matching necklot of three stranda of 'pearis, "mounted on I've got my eye on an initiation black velvet ending in tiny bows.
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