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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1954.

potatoes, or does odden;

I may be so boud, will

CAMERA NOTES,

WEATHER VAQANIES.

sionary measures may not be out of and that the camera should be examined daily, carefully wiped and be placed on a table or cluir where it will get the heat of the sun without the "Oh, I am a minister of the direct rays of the sun being on it, yo tell me what yo' do?" Gospel I preach the Word of God."

"But what dun yo' do?" persist- the aim being to keep it in as dry, a state as possible. When put away ed the boy.

it should be placed in us large and "I teach you the way of salvaniry a causar as possible, and with tion; I show you the road to every part of the camen open-nut heaven."

closed up-so that as much fresh Nay, nay," said the ladair can get to all parts, as posible. "dunnot yo' pretend to teach me a soft flat dusting bush should be the road to heaven, and doesn't kept in the carcera case with the known th' road to Bow' ton."

Broker"? Wo fled at this stage A Departing Society,

ing the continent of Africa in

is as great, if as realising that the Architect's moral Hongkong in mid to be famous for search of a butterfly, in hardly

At that, LANGASHIRE Httle known, as fibre had been broken, and that this the Societies it creates, and then worthy of comment.

HUMOUR Our caption may however, there are very few people

that from any part USEFUL TIPS BY AN EXPERT strong unan was about to break down allows to die.

# of Great Britain. from in nuanly tears-just like an Etel gest that we are about to refer who would feel inclined to emulate

a padre fresh Incidentally, Mi. Here is to another of the alleged many göne his example. M. Dell hero. We have been at to their vest. On the continy. Barnes passed over the great crater Cambridge enquiring "Pray, my

The Inst two or three days of considerable pains to discover who This is the title of a new Society of Ngorongo, which is thirty-five boy, can you tell me the way

very mild and damp weather, should first introduced bowlers into the should like to see created that miles in circumference, and in the to Bolton?

is if the principle of acknowledging hollow of which are said to live Ay "replied the boy. "Yo'mun be taken by Amateur Photographers Colony and why they should have services rendered for the benefit of some 75,000 head of big game that go across yon bleach coft and as a warning. Consequently it will been adopted by our broking friends the community is to be taken into never leave it.

into th'loan, and yo'll get to be advisable to watch one's camera For ourselves, we think

Doffcocker, and then yo're that those whose cameras' have focul jast as Cinéma Commissionuriant account. nt Home robe themselves in some virtue should be its own reward, and

We know of high road, and yo'can go straight plane shutters should, test them at

least three of four times week. those who, enon

As the summer is, if slowly, súroly dead and gone Admiral's robes of the doing of good or helpful things

*Thank you" said the Vienr,. should not be considerad, so excep.

grossed in ofice. We used to wear bowler hats tional as to warrant parting gifts or book, become obid to the "perhaps I can find it. And now approaching, a word of advice on the ourselves, and thought that they receptions or dinners. But we

do for a livelihood ?” got their natro from the fact that coguise that all do not think alike sense of time-oft to the extent my boy will you tell me what you are of a camera and some precau when a strong gust of wind came on this topic. Rul that many of forgetting to return the book clear up the shippon, pillsPlace. A contemporary in Java says"

delight to homir those who may to its rightful owner. This engross- along it invariably bowled over the rent themselves in diligent ment can apply to certain games. bowlers. When we reached Penang and helpful service. Thus we create Here is evidence regarding one on our venturesme journey cast,ar Departing Society whose busi-game as judged by the dialogue the most amazing, sight that strnek -- very delicate business we between two policemen in

'Nobody could make 'em hear or young and fevered imagination admit, will be to see that our doors certain city:

|of good receive either the testi-

so we burst the door!' was,n Chinese coolie wearing moniat terrife or the word in wesson Thus our

"Were they dead?" bowler in the fierce aays of a weient-before they depart.

No-playing chess." less sun. On arrival at Hongkong) Denman Fillers who have spent they

were conspiculously absent themselves in the musical and artistic life of the Colony will not!

One's, form at golf is a until our favourite Medico-at last be met at Singapore with a table GOLF. subject of perennial interest. The follow- retired-blossomed om in one-and costing $3.50, or hove a buss plate

the was. overheard in others quickly followed. Thatjereted to their inemory which it fing

will need an endlowout fand to snackeries the other day. We are seems to us to be the uninterestingray for the rolish. Something more not certain if it is a leg-pull or a To-day's Poem. history of howlers in Hongkong.al than this or bothing at all Old tomes do not enlighten us one Thus shall the Hongkong spirit not little bit. We learn that certain became a thing to be scoffed at and gentlemen on recasion wore whitehorred by all men, and those like the good lady who left us quite hats and were invariably met with recently after a splendid devotion in the cry Who stole the donkey the enge of education, envering the History does not record the reply,heet yeare of her life without a word but we can well understand that will depart with the kind word and the grip of appreciation ou white hats soon reused to greet the which the memory will dwell for noeming air. and became veritablaj many a day. drugs on the old clo market. Our Brokers possess nerves of steel as we all know. They are not going to be put off with such a cry as: "Who's, carrying the Baby?" or even the less personal que of :.

"Where did you get that hat Where did you get that tile?”. with the issibility of some rinald one completing it with

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"Isn't it a nobby one Quite a fine old style. 1 sduud like to have one Just the same as that--- Where did you get that Hat

Where did you get that tile?

These noble lines have been set

to

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Hongkong's Only European Optician.

the less pootic statement concerning the supply of bananas. No. our Brokers are made of sterner stuff,

piece of gospel:

Went round in twenty-three 10-day!"

"What strokes?" "No-whiskies."

TIME.

more

"

(Fairy Lights.} There were only you and

As we danced our last good-bye, And there flickered in the dawn Fairy lamps about the lawn.¡ ̈

camera, and frequently used. Never CITY your camera out of its case,. in the sun aiter a heavy downpour of rain because the heat of the sou and the dampness of the utmosphere combined are very likely to 'caure trouble. Of course such a remark doos not need to be taken too literally or one might be afraid to use the | camera, atall but return it buck to its. case after use. And it must be borne in mind, these remarks were meant for Java and only apply to Hong-

If there is anything Now I deck the Christmas trees;

deceptive than You, who hold the heart of me. time we should like to See them shine across the founi, hear of it. Our just a minute" Fairy famps to light you-home-kong during the summer months. become ten or more, and the time

ANNE PAGE.

spent in waiting for those who Soft we swayed among the trees", have failed to keep to the strict Smiling in the sleepy breeze, letter of time in the appoint And there twinkled, sweet and wise, ment made with them, expands, Fairy lights within your eyes. Amateur statis- so it seems, to infinity. It might HAIR CUTS. ticians doubtless be said that time makes liars of us

worried

the mafl,

Even Bishops are not im--in the Royal Magazine. selves during these holidays into mune. And we mention Bishops a state of coma arriving at com as being, we suppose right at the parative figures regarding the very top of all the Christian virtues energy spent by the Chinese in eise why Bishops? Also be- their New Year celebrations. We cause the story of a Bishop and a are not good at figures, but we telephone reaches us-surely two have been wondering how many of the most exacting things male Chinese got their hair-cut; in: life-for do they not both. how much it cost theth per cut, how teach us patience and forbearance many cushions could be stuffed with to the Nth degree? This is about the "proceeds" of the cuts or how a well-known" Bishop. All many watch-chains made from it

Bishops, Git used to be a fashion at Home at one time to wear watch-chains made from the hair of a beloved

one-wrist watches killed that fashion to say nothing of the fact that pawn brokers would not lend

On no account shorkil u'camera

be left to itself for two or three weeks, and if constantly wiped and left exposed to the fresh air kept free from dust and dirt is will not fer from the very trying condi- tions of off suzumer climate.

Too much attention cannot be, paid to this particular subject as I have very often heard photographers out here admit that their camera has not been touched during the suramer months and strangely it is 'often these individuals who" com- plain that they would not use o Reflex camera or any camera having a focal plane shutter because they go wrong so easily, and it is very difficult to get them repaired out. here. My reply to that is if they Hooked after their carers properly they would never need repairing- During the summer montas, oug

SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

February 9-Coronet Theatre; like Brokers are "well- Douglas Fairbanks in "The Molly known; so that it is not neces- Codie." sary to mention names.

This February 9.-Star Theatre; well-known" one is said to have "Passion's Playground," 5.30 p.m.continually has to have clothes and beca" the soul of integrity." And The Globe Trotters, 9.15 p.m. there we are intrigued again. Are some Bishops not the soul of in Harold Lloyd in "Why Worry"

February 18. Pianoforte Recital et City Hall, 5.30 p.m.

February 23.-Royal Air Force Re-union Dinner.

March 1-St. David's Society

we

February 9.-World Theatre;

Dinner.

February

SOCIAL

SPORT.

20-23. Hongkong

Jockey Club race meeting.

LAND SALE.

boots dried, and special rooms

ny houses, especially on the higher levels, are purposely built for that reason. If attention and care is therefore necessary for clothes, How much more is it siecessary for a delicate instrument like a camera!

-Y. Z.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

on them) how many minutes were tegrity? And also if not, why. used in the process of waiting and Bishops? But we meander, or as shearing. Being a statistician is Mrs. Malaprop would say very bad indeed and we are thank disgrace from the subject of the | What is likely to happen-and V2, ful the "profession" has its soul of the well-known one. This

mention it with due reserve, and limitations whilst its adherents are w.

k. one once protested Bonse of the weight of the responsi-known as the limits. In Canton they that he had been kept waiting bility that is upon us-that there is have commenced charging five nearly ten minutes on the tele-

cents more per hair

cut than phone but it was proved that the likely to be a corner in Bowler has formerly. This is an imposition exact period was thirty-six seconds! Fortunately our hosiers hatters and we accuse the barbers and We know this is a harrowing ♦♦-in other circles they call thew Dr. Sun of working band in hand. Grand Guignol sort of story, and if ercers-have laid in small sizes: The Doctor provides. the hair we felt anyone was likely to lose unfortunately we should have sail raising stunts and the barbers his or her faith in a Bishop, even a for in this place certain types ap accordingly-because once well-known one, we should never your hair raises or rises, well forgive ourselves for having of eraniums swell on the least you've got to get it cut. Things mentioned it. provocation. This often finds the are so bad this way in Canton circunscribed circumference of that we believe it pays people to bowler hat too exneting. In uddi- come to Hongkong for a cut, while there is a demand for cosmetics tion--but enough of the bowler is which cannot be supplied for the hardness thereof.

the device is being adopted of a former Bishop of Manchester Dr. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. ductor of a car shall stop or move | liberal use of cosmetics as an aid Fraser. Walking in Ancoats one Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine's officer, 11 on the same in obedience, to all

èhe China Mail.

Horozono Saturday, FIB. 9, 1824

OF BOWLER HATS.

The Americans would surely call A local Editor friend

Ideal Newspapers.

to meeting hair-raising stunts. In any case this is where the bald man shines!

The foregoing re- A BISHOP minds us of a Lan cashire story of a

February 11.—At P. WD. Offices, one lot of Crown Land at Shek Wan, 3 p.m.

Dr. G. M. Harston will give a Lantern Lecture of "The Wonders of Nature in the Eye" at the Helena May Institute on Monday next, February 11 at 5.30 p.m The public are cordially invited to be present-Advt

COMPANY MEETINGS. February 23. AnDual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at City Hall, 11:30 p.m.

The following role has been February meeting of the Hongkong and Ordinance: The driver or con

25-Thirty-seventh inserted in the Tramway.

a.m.

OTHER MEETING.

directions and, signals which may be given by any police officer in February 11-ABDual General uniform for the purpose of Meeting, "Kowloon Residents regulating traffic. Association, St. Andrew's Church

day he came across two gutter boys sitting on the edge of a pavement busy, putting the finish. ing touches to a mud house they The oddities of the had made, and be enquired what Hall, 6.p.m PECULIAR English language or they were doing.

We've been makin' a Church,” its pronunciation is illustrated by the following Lim replied one of them.

A Church" responded the "There was an old farmer of

Ah, Bishop, much interested

That, I suppose : yes, I see.

Our common failing is that we can, or think we can, do the other fellow's job better than he can. Particularly if the other fellow is school teacher, or a padre, or newspaper man. It is a comme failing, but a failing that should be curbed especially in a place like Hongkong where the dificeltice in the three professions mentioned aro well nigh insuperable. It is interest- ing though when a member of either of these three callings indulges in! day dreams regarding his profession... Just recently we have been reading the dreams of no less it person than Sir John Foster who is a working journalist of 40 years standing, and who is the first newspaper man to

..

Slough, Who went out to milk his old

cough.

But the cough became rough, So the farmer cried, 'Stough And departed to feed the old

sough."

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Saigon has been declared a is the entrance door (pointing place at which an infectious or

This is the nave, contagious disease prevails. with his stick).

these are the aisles, these the pews, and you have even got the pulpit Very good, my boys, very good. But where is the parson

"We ha'not gettin' muck enough

mak a parson!"

to

is probably one GUNPOWDER of the dying

PLOT anniversaries that reply.

is left to

Us.

1

was the

The Canton Steam Laundry Ltd., is given three months to show cause why it should not be struck off the..company's register.

J

The lecture to be given by. Dr. Harston. on Monday next at the Helena May Institute should? attract a large audience. The title of the lecture is "The wonders of Nature in the Eye." Dr. Harston's qualifications to speak on such a subject are too well known to need repetition.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..

To the Colony's list of authorized

A Messrs A. B. Moulder and Co.,

Reuter cable from Paris COWAP-DIX.-January 3. at

Hastings, J. C. Cowap, of them lids.

send the China Mail an attractive announces the death of M. Laffitte," Nowe Penang, to Frances Mildred, once drew our attention to be Knighted by the King, regarding Only in a half-hearted manner do

We think we know calendar advertising Bear Brand Chairman of the Havas daughter of the late Harry advertisement in on Amoricnt paper his ideas of an "Ideal Newspaper,

HOSPITAL our Hongkong and Swiss milk, for which they are Agency.

dweil agents. their pin-wheels, sky-rockets,

those who Stuart Dix and Mrs. Dix, of referring to children's hats. But Had Sir John his way he ideal boys and only a few of them, buy Stoke-on-Trent.

would have very little to do with fire crackers and let them off therein, and in giving the follow they were not called children's lots; famous law casea; very little to do with perhaps no thought of the ing story for what it is worth do According to a Reuter cable architects have been added the The unpoetic, enterprising sales with the lives of outremen; very LARSEN KLINGENBERG, -

seamen in British ports is over, Mr. Sik Lam Wong. On January 30, 1924, at Shangmnanger culled them Lids for little to do with the bad side of significance of that November day not for a moment suggest it refers from London; the strike of German names of Mr. Frank Clemes and Mr. J. S. McCann, DF-and Mrs. haj, Kristian Sparman Larsen fide-which proves he was not human life; a great deal to do with in far-off 1605. News has come to anyone in the Colony-

the beautiful and good side, It which survives memories of the Into the General Hospital a negotiations having, proved suc

Black, Mr. D. Tollan, Mr. G. to Anna Klingenberg.

sonpoetic after all for kids would recognise that the world is famous or infamous Gunpowder middle aged man was brought with cessful.

plot. Permission, we learn,has been a compound fracture of the skull, rhymes with lids, and those, who not all made up, or chiefy made up given by the Southwark Borough On regaining consciousness, the The Mercantile Bank of India, Gompertz, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hall, wan Ltd. has received cable advice that Mr. and Mrs. H. Lammerty Ms. look far enough can see or feel the of wrongdoing. Sir John interjects liquid lyricy in "Lids for Kids." this telling statement in his address Council to the owners of a re-surgeons asked him if he

which we should like to blazon forth staurant to extend their premises by married. No, Sit, I was kicked a branch of the Bank will be opened J. W. Alabaster and Mr. H

building over Montague Close. The by a horse !!!

at Soerabaya on Monday, February Birkett, were passengers on the Civil And rejoice Recordingly. But it is the world over:

18, in charge of Mr.-F. W. Harris, P. and O."Naldera" which arrived DAY.--At Government

yesterday. Hospital on February 8, 1924, imposible to get up and maintan

If I have learned one thing in Close is named after a mansion

Mr. Harold Harold H. Day, of The enthum over a bowler hat, and

The s.s.President Jefferson" my years as a journalist, it is built by Vicount Montague, after

Rear Admiral H. L. Holder that if we are going to do right, the Dissolution, and it was here

THE MAN TO Spender, the which went to the aid of the ɛ.. Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.,

- BLAME.

journalist who acEdmore" at Queipart Inland when died on January 5 at his home in aged 30 years-Funeral passes bowler hat nowadays is but we must be able to appreciate the that he was living when he received. the anonymous letter which warned.

cepts full respon- the latter steamer, grounded, will Southsea in his ninety-second year. the Monument at 5 p.m. to another name for Broker. You my other fellow's point of view.

As some obscure poet Lasit, him of the plot and which led to

one day late in He entered the Royal Navy, as a day.

not be. a Broker but if you wear truer words were never spoken."

its being frustrated. In part re. sibility for the Lloyd George probably be

midshipman in 1846. After taking. bowler hat you are a Broker or the When the reading public realises ward for his loyalty to his interview which caused a political arriving at Hongkong.

part in the operation in the Black SCRYMGEOUR-January 2, at 7; world thinks you are. And like a the ideals Sir John enumerates, we Sovereign, people living in sensation, has worked for several

Eighty Chinese are studying Sea and the Baltic in the Russian Hillbury-road, Tooting Com. Bishop-once Broker always a my hope for better things We Montague Close were exempted big London papers. During the

step in the from actions for debt or trespass, war he gave himself up to the war automobile assembly methods at War, he commanded, the gunboats mon; John Sturrock Serým“ geour (formerly of Singapore Broker. We saw quite roepect-ealistic direction if those of the Later a result, however, the savings propaganda and other war the Ford plant at Detroit, U.S.A.. "Bouncer and Cockchafer on the and Calcutta), within 13 days able Architect the other day in our three professions teaching preach place became such a regular activities.... He contested at Bath preparatory, to assuming official China Station, took part in suppres of his goth birthday. favourite anackedies, He did not ing and purveying, would combine sanctuary for those of syll habits as a United Liberal Candidate, in positions in the new assembling sing the Taiping Rebellion, and Took nu Architect. An Architect on some common platform, to the that finally it bad to be suppressed the General Election in November plant which Ford will erect in being present at the attack, on the

1922. His publications IncludeShanghai.

Straits of Shimonoseki in 1864. - extent that a pulpit or a classroom by law.

several books on general topics

For these services he was again never does. But this one was anyould be a fe place in which tóị.......... Architect. And yet he wore afroduce a newspaper. "We simply One recalls a child and, three biographies, Herbert H.M.S. "Diomede" called for mentioned in despatches, received bowler hat. A hard one. With a said wo might! We perhaps ought A SEARCH, hood rhyme.about a Hery Requith in 1915: General Shanghai and Yangtse posts this the China medal, and was specially Thomas-Petrie

co that jumped Bothafu 1916 David Lloyd momag Owing to trouble mentioned and promoted Com- te have added wo hope the day is docere thanks to his many friends dinky little brim all around. And not far distant when le happy over the moon on some rather George (French Issue) 1919; and between Chinese and local mander. He retired with the rank for their sympathy in his bereave yet one who knew him and knew suite of things will eventunte. For trivial pretext, so that really In The Prime Minister in 1920 he Japanese elements at Amor of captain in 1875, being promoted adent and for the floral tributes to be whs an Architect saluted him righteousness can be made readable, comparison, the recent feat of M has also written zumerous short. H.M.S.Diomede will call there Rear-Admiral on the Redred List

stories and magazine articles. on her way, north??) T. A Barnes, F. R. G. S. in cross- W with Halla Bill are you and t My dear wife.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

returns

might advance a

therefors interesting.

1 in 1888,