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THE CHINA MAIL.

What is a bole, we are asked. A P.W.D. Overseer Broker or a should be able to answer this.

The cost of living in Germany is 98,500 million times higher than in 1914 And yet they say Berlin is always on the Spree.

keepers, but a nation of bee-keepere. If our net is awept too sweepingly we are humbly ponitent, but survey- ing humanity from the editorial chie has almost brought conviction to us and led by that higher power to which we referred in our opening, brought us to this state of mind- A barber's shop In the sidecar proving perhaps that after all wo-of a motor-cycle le plying at Los Angoles, California. Cutting it wo are Apiarista.

fine again 1

An this scoms to be east in the forts of a sermon, let us beg of you, dear Breth— — de roaders, to consider this most exhausting sub ject. If the sun is not to go down upon your wrath, let it not go down,Į. even as the "night cap" will go down, before you live naked your self in all seriousness, and answered it in all solemnity, "Am I an (of a)

Apoiarist ""

The Gap.

Haphazard is the only word for it. We refer to the absolutely danger ous and slipshod method which has been put into operation to enable the crowds of pedestrians in go to

frightened out of the wits is a good A doctor declares that being

cure for baldness. Our compra dore's bills have not made the slightest difference.

SATURDAY JANUARY 12, 1974.

CAMERA NOTES.

TAKING RAPIDLY MOVING OBJECTS.

Wa are collect January 28. Thirty-sixth ordin COMPLIMENTS. ing examples of ary general meeting of sharehold

these. of which ers of the Hongkong Land Invest- the following ranks very high in ment and Agency Co., Ltd., at our estimation. Disraeli is speak- Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices ing to the Queen Immediately after 11.15.m.

February 1 One-hundred and the appearance of the "Life of the Prince Consort.".

fourth ordinary meeting of share- Madam, had Ipossessed your holders of the Hongkong-Canton Majesty's power of composition, and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., at I should never have deserted the Offices of the Company, Noon: fascinato the Amateur photographer literature for politics."

and leads to the making if amoy January 14-Ordinary annual

THE MUSICAL FAMILY.

OTHER MEETINGS.

SOME IMPORTANT POINTS

Rapidly moving objects always

We have a plato, general meeting of St. David's exposures, bot unless he is very Society in the Supreme Court, 5.10] careful and understands the priu- p.m.

cipio of movement as well as know-

a player and such, An organ, euphonium and lute,

A new ukulele that no one will

touch,

A gramophone, cello,and flute. Our late acquisition can put them

to shame,

p.m.

January 14-General meeting of the Hongkong Philharmonic Soing his camera and lens and what clety in St. John's Cathedral, S. the shutter will da, the results are not likely to encourage 'hin to under further effort, owing to exposure and what is more prolable -tnices of indrament an the nega tive or film.

January 22-Diocesan Boys School Annual Speech Day from

3.30 to 5 p.m.

H. B, Irving was TAKE COVER, -manager at the Savoy Theatro during the air raids. One evening, when the news of an air raid came It started the day that the wife's tural Society's annual flower and travelling the quicker the shutter

For tones that are raucous and

sharp;

mother camo,

Since then we've had nothing but

harp.

FLOWER SHOW. March 6-Hongkeng Horticul

vegetable show,

LOGAL AND GENERAL.

through, he went to warn his lead- ing lady. He walked straight into her dressing-room and found the Tady absolutely-well, she had reached the final stage of undress- ing. Irving, quite, absent-minded as usual, never even saw how she was dressed take cover!" he heard this at Kowloon recently ably held over antil Monday.

said, and walked out again,'

I'm thinking-

HIS JOB.

There are arduous duties connected with bowls. Over-

My word, Bill is thoroughly | inked, isn't he?"

Yes, but what can y'expect-

"Church Notes" are unavoidTM

Lighting-up time to-day and

Obviously the faster an object in

umat work in order to get a clearly defined image and it is not advisable to try exposures on racing horses ar motorists, etc., until the slower moving objects can be takon suc- cessfully,

Hongkong Amateurs buve splendid opportunities for taking a start on junks, launches, steamers- ar rieshas, etc. I suggest junks

to walk before you can nuo

and fro from Wyndhnin Stment in FROM A BOOK. I'm thinking how the selection committee puts him in 10-morrow (Sunday) is at 5.58 p.m. is a start becauso you must learn

plain and certain'

Qaren's Rod. Matchboard planks -ome sully cucked, creaking by it is in sudden moments, that we reason of the untold strain put upon don't belong to this world, yet them, are supposed to keep residents that all our efforts while we live from a fate, which, to judge by the in it are concentrated in chaining smells which greet the nostrils,

ourselves down to it in a trému- would be far from envion. We

loussoll of fear that we're lost if lave said it before and we repoat it we don't retain our hold. P'm again that some officials or Depart thinking how people surround ments move in a mysterious way themselves with possessions which their wonders to perform. Those become their touch with the concerned do not get about enough world they're afraid to leave. I'm They sit in small offices surrounded thinking how the representation by plans, and minutes, and in due rather than the essence is the time get rewards of a thousand secret link we set in the chain; pounds or, C.M.G.. or even a how we buy all that's beautiful in Knighthood. If they walked about. Hife because we haven't the courage such procarious methods as we have to realise that it is not our own, but endured these last few days feeling belongs just towell, God, if like. We're afmid to the thing was but far few hours you

And that would only, would be unknown. Who is be alone, the intelligent person responsible? be all right, were it not meant in Is it an overseer; or an executive the essential and ultimate scheme engineer; or an assistant Director? of things that we must be alone. Ont on him. Let him walk the Even lovers are meant to be alone. plank and sniff the odifergus breezes Only in a plan of Nature's do they until he ery for mercy. Yea! Let seem to come together and then, him be weighted until he fall head-often, the nearer they are in actual long into the smells and gloom of contact, the further they are apart. Loyers are closest, perhaps, of all the subterranean passage that pre-

when death separates their bodies. sumably leads to the so. No one vill grieve for him. Let us like Horatio of old sigh--sigh for a business government.

Since the above was penned the gup has been bridged in more or less decent fashion.]

Fat que.

Sir Armstrong Jones, at expert in mental diseases, told a meeting of the National Union of Teachers that a vaccine which would enable a person to go through all fonus of exertion without fatigue was being tested in British laboratories.

Perhaps that's why lovers are so often glad to die. It's this world that separates lovers-this world and all the countless tangible representations and appearances that come between them. Once you love, I believe nothing. can part you. Death is a link, not a severance. If one dies, the other is nearer than he was before. If they

both die I believe they are so close to each other then, as that scarcely the hand of God could come between them.

a rink with three teetotallers, and Bill's had to take the whole four of the visitors in all the afterncon"

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

The

and

have been set down for January 21. the spot that son want it without The next Criminal Sessions when you have taken a junk in traces of movement, then you can Hongkong Amateur try on the faster moving objecte. To prevent finger Photographic Society has an outing

Exposures on rapidly moving, objects marks from show-to-morrow to Lam Tsun, Tai Po.

can only be made when tho ing up on the

feather is good and the sun shinos waist of a light

the liveetly on the object from behind

dress cut up some raw onions and take them before going out.

Putting a newspaper on the top of a custard, pot improves the flavour. If the right kind of journal

is used the colour of the custard can also be improved.

To make cheap face towels take a railway journey and a sult case.

Administration's mines for the The total output of the Kailan week ending 29th December, 1923 amounted to 109,951 tons and the sales during the period to 75,677

tons.

Death occurred a few minutes after admission to the Tung Wah hospital yesterday, of a Chinese youth who fell from the first floor There

of No. 116, Queen's Road Cental, was a into the backyard.

young

:

THE GAY BACHELOR. fellow from Sandham,

A list of Masters, Mates and Who sewed on his buttons at Engineers who have passed their

randham,

examinations and obtained certl- When his clothes went awry, ficates of competency during the He would never say die,

For his motto was Nil Desperand-car is published in the current

issue of the Government Gazette. - ham.

To-day's Poems.

(Long Trail.) There be triple ways to take, of the

eagle or the snake,

Or the way of a man with a maid: But the sweetest way to me is a

ship's upon the se In the heel of the North-East

Trade.

Can you hear the crash on her bows,

dear lass,

And the drum of the racing screw. As she ships it green on the old tril,

our own tail, the out trail, As she lifts and 'conds on the Long Trail-the tail that is always

--RUDYARD KIPLING.

new?

WEATHER CALENDAR.

In a recent novel BLIND BIRDS. we have been The vaccine will eventually be in

reading there is the possession of every man and introduced the episode of a blind woziun..

bullfinch which has been blinded Sleep, he said, was more import-purposely in order that it might ant than food. Everybody ought to sing the better. Does this beart- go to bed before 11 pau. Inter-less cruelty to a bird make it sing rupted sleep was of very little value better, or is it a fallacy to be added to those we have mentioned in- sarastorative.

Experiments made with children cluding that one of an earlier age | at elementary schools proved that which made out that wearing car 1871. there was such a thing as an rings was good for the eyes?* "initial spurt" and an "end spurt."

The Grot part of this is very | terrible. If this test proves success- ful and it is adopted in Hongkong, we are lost. There is now no hold- we derive that which sums up losting some people who think they can

Hongkong's Only European Optician.

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funny stories, or

oven

DONGKONG SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 19.3. least 40,000,000 of them alone in vaccine and these well-meaning

A grass widow SCHOOL'S IN. is the wife of a dead vegetarian. Ocean is that continent which contains río land.

In India, a man out of a cask @he China Mail, hopes and money, in the word sing, play the piano, tell alleged

make may not marry a woman out of Carlyle said there were at speeches, Application of the another cask,

Louis the Sixteenth was gelatin- England, but the dyspeptic old folk will know no fatigue and make ed during the French Resolution.

Things which are equal to the {curunudgeon was brutal enough to life far from "one grand sweet

As to sleep, we entirely same thing are equal to anything

else.

APLARIST S.

Song

all them fools. Being thirteen agree. Everybody ought to be The weather of India is very

stone distance from dyspepticism made to go to bed before 11 p.thor and the people wear no clothes Bo fur as we know, and following we do not use it word. for reading Those who possess raucous voices and are called coolies.

Indly-tuned pisnos, rug-time Four Bible we are well aware what Laurenço Sterne's example ami

The Quakers were an American grmophone records should bo trusting to a higher power for the is to mappen to the man who calls made to go there at 9 p.m.-for sewing wild cats.

religion who were famous for completion of this, and the fornm- | his brother-men a fool; and would with these people there is no

King George and the Prince of tion and ending of the sentence to remind that observation to those initial spurt" or "end spurt"; it is Wales were both born on public

a continuous spurt. follow, and others evon, this hus who read so far and feci liko using

holidays. nothing to do with the. Darwinan the "epitaph" to ourselves. So wo theory. A not over lang residence substitute the word Apiarists- in this fragrant place has somewhat blessed us is Mesopologia. For convinced us that there is something each men is up, or a. Apiarist—a

A local writer CHARIVARIA, says "we humans are always wait-

in that thoury, but on this duwning keeper of bees--keeping them, leting for something to happen." He of another blue day, as one of our it at once be said in his bount; has either bought some shares or has been walking along Queen's "To-day's poems" had it, we tre trotting these tarne and wild speci- Road. not set out to discuss that theory mens out, on every conceivable although we know not into what occasions Even Governors of In referring to the Mexican males channels we may be led.

Crown Colonies are not exemptioil."

the China Mail says "Rebels take But not to pour on troubled Nel our subject this morning whilst Colonial Secretaries of went waters. dear readers, is Apiarisan laro called "Outpoilu of lúmpire" Apiariste. And again we have to have a large and varied collection, Where do people get cold feet?. throw out a warning that the sub-Heads of Goyoueat Departments probably.

we are asked. In Ice House Street ject luse nothing to do with honeynre, notorious as well toy may be, although it hug to do with becs for some day they may be in Life has been described as being The very word suggets n langenne positions of higher, noble, and like; a game of cards in which some men play the knavo, and- English summer day; hedges and greater dignity, This must all women the deuce.. imeadows; hunku skipping to to the depend upon Mr. Sidney Webb mution born; tho gentle murmur of becoming Secretary for the Colonics. insects including the buzzing of the But the bee-keepera are not merely busy bee that Shakespeare or governmental. They are universal Thackeray ussures us improves, like Their particular pote may be educa. out Ice House Street friends, each tion, polico, piracy regulations, shining hour. We have it on traffic, landlords, rents, the bigbar Dr. Marie Stoper has written impoachable authority that the Bee cost of living, whisky, bowls,-golf plsy called "Our Ostriches. It

1

The Pheasants' Revolt was caused by the King laying taxes,

Regarded as a business,marriage is a sound invest- meat.

WOMAN'S WHIMS

The most expensive dresses don't reveal the figure when hange ing in the shop, st

She who wears corsels gets a tight squeeze, but it's not the same. Women always consider the feelings of others—and pass judg→

ment.

Peroxide is used to take the "*" out of gray.”

Dear is the cheapest express

slon of affection.

camera don't try Buy against the light effects" for this kind of photography. Then again much depends upon the shutter and the spood of the negativo, or film. Film camora users are at `n dis- advantage in this respect, but when in Japan I saw the Paget prople have introduced a fast roll film and while I have been unable to get any in Hongkong I understand that they are on the way and will be bere in two or three weeks time. Those I tried in Japan were certainly mich

faster than any I have used before, and are to be strongly recommended for this kind of photography.

Another very important paint is the position of the photographer and the direction the object is travelling, The "Franconia" tied up the lattor point being the factor alongside at Kowloon at 7.45 this which governs the speed of the morning with over four hundred shutter. As this point is not usually tourists on board. Full particulars considered by the average Amateur of the visit have been given in I will endeavour to explain myself. Supposing race horsee were com- previous issues of the China Mail

Theft of two bottles of milking down the straight to the win from the Dairy Farm Co.'s milk- post, and the photographer:

wanted naturally to photograph man at the door of No 2, Mosque them at The Post the best point Street, resulted in a Sikh watch-would be at an angle of about 45deg. man named Bantah Singh, being from the winning post and in front fined $zs or one month by Mr. of it, and not less than 1/200th part C. D. Melbourne yesterday.

of a second exposure is essential

I am

"Committed suicide" whilst to avoid showing movement. of unsound mind was the verdict assuming that the photographer has returned at an inquest held by Mr. put himself at an angle of 45deg. J. R. Wood with a jury, yesterday, in front of the post far enough away into the death of Ernest Bruce to get an ordinary photograph say Smith, late chief officer of the s.s. about 25 to 30 yards.. If he w 100. Leung Kwong," who shot him- yards away using a Reflex Camem self with a ship's revolver on with a telephoto lens then a 1/100th December 30.

part of a second would be quick enough to avoid any traces of movement If a position directly The rainfall for the month of opposite the winning post, by the-

JANUARY 12.

December at the Botanical Gardens was .63 of an inch on 9 days, at the Judges box for extiple, is chosen then 1/400 is necesury and T From Passy to Auteuil, the Matilda Hospital, Mount Kellett, it anowy road was roddened by was 54 of an inch on 7 days, and would suggest that Press or the reflection of the burning at the Police Station, Taipo, it was Reflex Camera with a focal plane of Saint Cloud:-Concourt. 08 of an inch on 1 day. The total shutter is essential to enable the falls for the year at the same exposure to be inada at the right were respectively 109 moment. Supposing the position 1713. Our weather is very bad, and stations

slobbery, and I shall spoil my 04ins, on 141 days, 94ins. on 136 chosen was beyond the winning post new hat (I have bought a new days, and 117 02ins. on 70 days, on the course and the photographer hat), or empty my pockets. The total rainfall at the Obser was facing the post with the horsen Swift.

vatory was 106 74lus, on 136 days. coming towards him then he would get a perfectly good result with only. 1/100th part of a second..

LITTLENESS.

It is usually not so much the greatness of our trouble, as the fittleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

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-JEREMY TAxon.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock's term of office as representative of From this I hope you will under-- the Justices of the Peace upon the stand that what I want to emphasise Legislative Council expires on fis that an object, no matter what it January, 16 and he has expressed is moving straight across, the his willingness to stand again. The view" will need nearly twice as Government Gazette notifies that quick au exposures when the in the event of another Justice of photographer is at an angle of about the Peace being nominated a mest 15deg, ahead of the spot chosen ing of the Justices other than for photogmphing while this posi Government Officials will be held tion can be used by Amateurs at the Supreme Court on Monday, living less expensive inmoras aud" January from 12 Noon to I am slower shutters. For the purpose of electing a representative of the Justices upon the Legislative Council.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. G. P. de Martin has been

the Birth of a Nation." January 12-Coronet Theatre; appointed an Inspector of schools.

January 12.---Star Theatre; "Forbidden Fruit."

Mr.M. E. F. After having return ed to the Colony resumes his seat January 12-World Theatre: on the Board of Education. "The Heart Line."

When photographing directly alioad the position for making the exposure must be carefully chosen because if it is too near the object, then the perspective will be 20 severe that you will geth very largo horse's head and small body and'. hind legs.

Having decided on the minimuno- speed required to avoid movement, the next point to be considered is that of unexposure and to avoid this, the fastest plates or films obtainable sro required with a good".

January 12.--The Grand Theatre;} Mr. A. E. Wood has been light or no large an aperture as your

April Folly,"

appointed to act as S.C.A. and to lons will allow. January 14 Theatre Royal, a be a member of the Executive and School's entertainment, under the Legislative

50 Councils while auspices of the Victoria Diocesan acting. Asien. at 4:30 pm.

::Tanuary

The story of the find FINDING. ing of $8,000 has caused a vast amount of interest. People now have their

SOCIAL

The name of Dr. Lee Tin-sik,

··January 12.—Dancing in Palace Bachelor of Medicine of the Chiba Hotel, 9.15 pməs

Medical College, Japan, has been January 24-Fancy Dressfall at added to the Register of Medical Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.

Practitioners.....

SPORT,

It is realised now that England eyes sloped in a downward January 12-Theatry Royal, was too conservative for the Con- tendency. One reader forna na servatives. Someone has described that to far he has managed to And H.K. Boxing Assen.'s third tourna them as Gonservatives.

a ten cent plece, whilst a piece of ment of the season, at 9.15 p.m. Christmas pudding brought him in e five cent plece. There is great hope of course. If he could do a this daily it would bring him in almost $55 a year and in a hundred years he would be nearing 18.000:

“

A Base" places-Singapore.

is the Broker's patron saint--for it even. We are not as the now dead might conceivably have been "Our

bo or abe that stinge, from which Napolean had it, a nation of shop,

Storks

A tremendous thought,

A complimentary dinner has

been given to Ms. George Duncan of Kowloon Docks, who is shortly, proceeding home.

COMPANY MEETINGS. January 28-Twenty-third ore dinary general meeting of share Incetor Blackman, Sob holders of the Hongkong Land Inspector McFall and Sergeant Reclamation Co. Tidst the Toy of the Hongkong Pollee, have Offices of Messrs. Jardine Matheson returned from leave by the a.. mid Co., Ltd., 11.8.m.

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