Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NANCY
OH, SURE, SLUGGO I'D LOVE TO GO TO THE MOVIES WITH
YOU THIS AFTERNOON!
O.K., MINNIE---LATER!
MEET ME ON
DIS CORNER
AT THREE
O'CLOCK!
HELLO, SLUGGO--
WHO ARE
YOU WAITING
FOR?
December 27.
1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH-- ER-- NOBODY- NOBODY
AT ALL!
YOU SAID
IT/
WONDER WHAT SHE MEANT BY DAT CRACK!
समा
Don't let him see
us, Mother. John's just come in
with a woman
John walked out
in a fury. Honestly, child, if you don't do something about your nerves and tiredness your marriage will be
wrecked
Imrie hat ein -abiz
MOTHERS
Please, Mary, calm yourself. You're so Jumpy and strung up these days. I'm sure it's nothing.
John's stopped loving me!
I know he has Ok, I wish this tiredness of ming didn't show in my
face
Mary took Horlicks regularly every night and soon all her tired- ness and nerves' had disappeared. She felt so much stronger inside herself.
ARE OFTEN PEACEMAKERS
MOTHER HAS AN IDEA
I wish you'd come tonight. doctor... Yes, doctor...before ten o'clock. goodbye, doctor
SIX WEEKS LATER
Mother and daughter are lunching together in town, when they see the daughter's husband in the same restaurant, but not alone...
Do you feel worn out, depressed and nervy?
Take
THAT EVENING
Oh, John, Mary's rather upset. She saw you at lunch today...
It's this
Well, what of it? ir was the Boss's daughter, if she must know.
Oh! I'm fed up with Mary's nerves and
tears. I'll have dinner out
somewhere
From what you tell me, |your trouble is Night
Starvation, Mrs, Parker, You see, even during the wretched night you go on using up tiredness, energy in heartbeats, doctor, breathing and other even in the automatic actions. In mornings. your case this has led, It tells on
to an excess of acid waste products in the my looks
blood, causing you to wake tired, feel and look run-down,'nervy, depressed. Now, recent fests in one of our great London hospitals Have proved that Horlicks is what people need
for this. Start
tonight.
So
Darling, I could never love any woman but you. You're so full of life'
Do you even wake tired?
HORLICKS
Guard Against
NIGHT STARVATION
Then you will sleep soundly - wake refreshed--and have extra energy all day
Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
LONDON LOG
-Air Mail Letter From Home-
Mr. Shaw Takes A Walk
not o
general exodus. Patients would not: stay in London. Thus the specialists It is curious to see how London at Brighton and such towns were reacts to the appearance in 11s getting the Harley Street practice. In streets of ER world-famous figure. I
times people would normal happened to be walking along Pall to a man who was not associated with Ma
on Friday behind Mr. Bernard one of the great hospitals and thus Shaw and noticed that rearly every constant practice. They also found worran gave a sudden start of recon-comfort in the words "Hurley Street." nition and turned when she had as though the ability to pay £250 passed, while of the men, even Inent for two rouns were a guarantee Pall Mall, few seemed to know him. of skit).
Mr. Shaw walked along, swinging
his stick, the most light-footed of all
If specialists' fees were high. It was
the middle-aged and elderly men of due to the expenditure demanded af Unfortunately this expend!- } the street of clubs and proconsuls. them. Whatever was going on in Europe, lure went on, even when there were. Mr. Shaw seemed at peace with the no Ices. world. He stopped of a bookshop Christmas Shopping Lights
Jy
Sir Harold Webbe is to ask the
the House on
but there were only first editions of! Kipling in the window. The soldier-1
In front of the Home. Secretary in zev.spaper-seller Army and Navy Club held up 'even- Thursday if he will permit limited In Your amount of shop-window lighting ing papers to him and
the Christmas shopping No, view of
ingatal
"ration, Mr. Said
thank you," replied the sage.
season, pending a decision on present I gather
3 caught up ( Ittle breathies street-lighting experiments.
with him as he paused at Wilkinson's that the Home Secretary is sympa sword shop and gazed with inquist hetk, and it is hoped that he will tiveness at o bullet-proof waistcoat, express his readiness to experiment "Going to buy the bullet-proof waist- with a modified form of shop-window
asked. "No." sald Mr.lighting forthwith. Shaw
Just looking Peace-
never resist
a row of! makers can gurs." Mr. Shaw's Quarrel With
TEIS
question in Parliament ist promoted by a meeting in London Inst week discuss black-out grievances at which the Bond Street und Regent Street associations, the retail distributors, the London Employers' Association, the hotel and Conversation turned on the inter-restaurant keepers, were represented. national situatlon, and I ventured to!
Herr Hitler
ask Mr. Show if he hund sent a Demands for quick action were put telegram of congratulation to 1er, forward. for West End trade interests: Hiller on his remarkable escape. No, are much worried about the complete Mr. Shaw had not done so; "But prohibition on lighting: Queen Wilhelmina was quite right to threatening do so. Mr. Chamberlain ought to to shopping.
. He could say, 'Greally as the
to rain
which la Christmas
Shopkeepers think that the Govern- British nation regrets your escape, decency obliges the British Government's modihed street-lighting ex- periments can hardly be completed ment to congratulate you on it."
that his own quarrel in time to save the Christmas trade, Ile adiect with Hitler, besides his being read on They want something within the next he Jewish question, is that Govern weder-two-and-favour to idea.at iments founded on the idolatry of one some form of shielded light in shop which 2011 are necessarily shams. No windows, indirect lighting country should be in the contr
control of would not reflect on the pavement or
any
Die man,
however able. He upwards, and which would just saiffer could not oversee everything and to show people whether the shop was no matter
his upen and what kind of shop It was. Christmas-Card Preparations
how villainously. agent were corrupted by their e brief authority, he had to back them up or perish. "Remonber," he warn- ed. "what Napoleon sild when they told him about Trafalgar: 'Well, can't be everywhere."
The Polish Premier's Visit
General
th212k
Christmas cards are likely to bel more popular than usisal this year. for menibers et familles are more Scattered throughout the widely country
ever before, and of multitude of cards will be sent to the Many will send cards where Sikorski, Ladislaw
the troops. new Polish Prime Minister. who they usually sent presents, as more arrives, here to-werrow, is not only a convenient alike to sender and t man with great practical military e them to other friends whom they ex recipient, and they will also send. perience but also notable Writer and a theoretician in warfare. His have been remembering much more books on
relations than usual in these troublous times. the Polish-French
fame as a writer, and brought him
The publishers have brought out to the his volumes about the Polish Army a new series appropriate
to its two and the future war showed him ne a occasion, to addition
Master"
man
it
of
Crossed
with a
ས
with great theoretical know- thousand types of "Old ledge of modern war machinery. eards, the Medle Press has prepared
He will spend the first day in con- cards depicting battleships,
flags: there ference, and a meeting during the border
humorous
wards day with Mr. Winston Churchill. Ile are
ibout the will also have a conference to-black-out; ammising cards for chil- morrow with Mr. Chamberlain, and dren; a set of A..P. cards, and h the evening will be the guest of card by Margaret Tarrant, "Brilan- honour of the British Government nine's Treasure," depicting Britannia a dinner at the Dorchester Hotel on a hillside looking at the search- After three days of omelot discussions lights over a city as she guards three) he will spend another two days small evacuees, each with n gos- privately In Tondon,
mak. The Minister is an outstanding] Messrs. Tuck have recently friend of Great Britain and France designed calendar with the arms of and he strongly opposed Marsha the Empire us a border for the sonnet Pilsudski's desire le carry on a foreign which Masefield wrote for the Silver policy of his own irrespective of the Jubilee and which was published in altitude of France. Since 1928, when the King's Book. The
a
arms and
he broke with Pilsudsit, he has lived create of the fighting services are seen in Paris and speaku French fluently on other cards.
He reads and writes English, but pre-
fers to speak French. He will be Evacuee Children Story caferlained to luncheon by the King. A friend who was calling at Amble- In Darkest Harlay Stroct
side tells me that two small evacuée boys called at Grasmere Church the Harley Street is almost deserted other day and asked to see "Mr. except where specialists have been Woolworth's grave" When it was -nble to snatch a couple of hours to explained to them that it
was Mr. se'n pallent who has had to remain Wordsworth's grave that was there it Landon. A surgeon in internal}
complaints fold me that he had been they lost interest. mobillaed on a basis of £800 a year
for his whole time, which meant the
dispersal of his arduously built up C. T. WẠNG HONOURED |
practice. He paid £250 a year for
two rooms in Harley Street; he had
Manila, Dec, 20.
his car, his nurse, and his secretary A formal Chinese dinner will be on his hands, in addition to the tendered to-night by Mr. and Mrs. Normal expenses his family aml Eduardo Tan-kling, prominent household.
Manila residents honouring Dr, and
A surgeon's heyday was not more Mrs. C. T. Wang and their children at than ten years. During that time it the Tan-kinng residence near Manila, was open to him to recover his high Numerous notables are amongst expenditure and make some money those Invited, including Vice Prel upon which to live afterwards. le dent Sergie Osmena; Floor Leader was at the beginning of his ten years. Quintin Paredes, Consul General and He added that the desert which was Mrs. Konigson Young and Vice Consul Harley Street was in part due to the Mr. and Mrs. Mok-United Frees
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