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THE "CHINA MAIL" Book-

binders.

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Dentist.

HARRY FONG, Dentist,

lat floor, No. 74, Queen's Road Central, Tol. Central No. 1265.

Electrical Supplies.

THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG

ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD. 72, Queen's Road, Central,

Tel. C. 8270.

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Engineers and Shipbuilders,

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ARE INVITED

Hair Dressers &

Booksellers.

LEE YEE,

Ladies' and Gentlemen's

Hair Dressers

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No. 12, D'Agullar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre)

Hair Dressing Saloon.

HANSON SKEY,

Ladies' and Gentlemen's

First Class

Hair Dressers.

45, Des Voeux Rd. C., H.K.

Optician.

THE HONG KONG OPTICAL

"Phone 2232.

THE CHINA MAIL,

MOTORING SECTION

LEARN TO WALK.

HELPING THE POOR OLD MOTORIST.

USEFUL HINTS

The pedestrian is given some really useful anfety-first hints by the London and Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.

CLEAN HANDS.

REMOVING REPAIR TRACES.

WINTER MOTORING.

EFFECT OF BETTER CARS AND DETTER FACILITIES.

BOOM AT HOME.

Practically every motorist has his own method of cleaning his

London Jan. 14, hands after having carried out

Noth- The days of grace allowed to some dirty job on the car. Ing is more objectionable than to motorists for renowing their car have to keep an appointment when licences either for the first quar- one is conscious of the fact thatter of 1928 or for the full year havė one's hands are not ao clean as now passed. they might be,

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1928.--

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

2

15

10

12

13

14

15

$6

17

19

20

21

22.

244

25

-Licensing authorities report

26

127

29

131

32

34

BUS 35

36

37 30.20, 39

142

43 25 144

NO

49

152

153

54

55

156

57

58

There are plenty of complaints about the reckless motorist, and now and then mild rebukes of the

It will be found a good scheme that there is a large decrease com- careless pedestrian. but as. it is generally understood the latter has to smear the finger nails, around pared with previous years in the cor-owners who have "right of way" the pedestrian is the quicks and under the tops, number of rarely called to order, Colonel with thick soap. This will prevent | failed to take out new licences for Mervyn O'Gorman, C.B., D.Sc., who to a great extent grime and dirty the first quarter. has tackled the question of "Road Traffic Froblems of the Pedestrian," gives the following "walkers' code

of the road.”

(a) Walkers should divide into two streams on the footways by keeping as far as possible to the left of the pavement space when there is a pavement.

"(Keeping to the left is seriously preferable to keeping to the right, because this arrangement makes the walker face the oncoming vehicles on his site, and the advantage of this is that if he is crowded off into the road he steps of seeing the vehicle, and not with his back turned towards it),

should,

Are

In other words,

Many motorists were accustom- ed in past years to store away their.car until sunnier days arriv

cd.

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grease. from becoming too deeply the winter motoring habit is grow- embedded, especially around the ink. When the hands quicks. washed, the snap naturally comes away, bringing the major portion of the dirt with it. The use of a

They did not like the discom- scrubbing brush afterwards comforts of winter motoring, a

Now the discomforts have been plates the cleaning quickly.

winter motoring The following will be found an eliminated; efficient way of cleaning the hands boom has set in. generally, using ordinary house- facturers report excellent business. report a hold cleansers and, preferably, of Motoring associations

of inquiries re- course, hot water.

record number Remove the worst of the greasegarding the best routes to week. with a rag and then wash the end resorts' and a similar demand hands with parafin oil. Petrol is for information regarding

facilities for taking a better cleaner, but it tends to dissolve the natural grease of the abroad. hands, leaving the skin dry and taut. Either paraffin oil or petrol

Motor

manu-

45

48

151

HORIZONTAL·

the

the

car

1-Navigute 4-Possened at power 7-Energy 9-Matter In rarefied

state 11-Humor 12-Cone-bearing tree 14-Enclosed space

(pl.)

More Open Than Summer.

"(b) Walkers

when there is no footway, prefer the | right-hand side of the road--for the

same reason-facing the traffic.

"(e) Walkers should facilitate will remove practically all traces

And all this is happening in others' progress-notably rememor grease; then follow by washing

can hardly be ber to allow themselves to be with soap and water aided by some January, which

called an ideal month for motoring. overtaken Or passed—especially household cleanser.

The fact is motoring has now when walking in pairs, or trios.

This will not only really elean

stage when seasons "(d) Shop-gazers should move the hands but in most cases will reached. near to the shop-giving priority to leave them reasonably, soft.

In count very little. Once winter those who are passing. It would

place of paraffin oil or petrol, or-motoring was a pastime for hardy folk. Now even the longest win- be good if they and those who'

dinary clean and new lubricating

remove the dirty grease. This is affair.

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wait for buses would repeat the oil is used by some motorists to ter journey is quite a prosaic | words: They should also swerve who only stand and wait.'

Colonel. O'Gorman concludes with the following general conten- tions and aspirations:

n tip often put forward by work- shop mechanics.

In fact, a very large number of motorists now enjoy a long

Where most trouble is experienc-run in winter more than they do In summer because the roads are from 1. Pedestrians are very vulnered, is when an adjustment or job less congested and freer able and defenceless trafic units, has been carried out by the road conspicuously hampered in their

progress.

2. Observation of traffic units of all sorts has disclosed canons of individual behaviour which favour traffic flow.

3. The eanons of traffic be- haviour are based upon the con- siderateness, voluntary or enforced, of ench traffic unit for the other

trafle unit's progress.

4. Expression is given to this considerateness by the double dictum, "show your intended direc-

side and when water supplies are not freely obtainable. It is advis- able. perhaps, to carry a bottle of paraffin oil on the car, although the reserve petrol supply could he drawn upon instead.

An abrasive type of cleaning can be made with fine rond dust to remove the grease while it is still- moist. A bunch of grass, too, wili often be found useful in removing the worst of the grime, but without the use of a special cleaner it can not generally be hoped effectively tion and study the other fellow's" to clean the hands on the road.

5. To keep to your "proper side" is to show your intended direction and incidentally to respect the other fellow's, whether he would overtake-or would pass you.!

6. Pedestrians ignore the canons of traffic behaviour on the footways, and are, therefore, not attuned to their inflexible enforcement when they step into the roadway.

VALVELESS ENGINE.

An Englishman has invented a valveicas engine which he claims runs with such economy and absence of stresses that, in time, it will re-

the

heavy motor-coaches.

Hotels are less crowded, accom- modation is easy to obtain, and there is ΠΟΥ a real Dickens'

atmosphere about some of the old English inns and hotels, whose owners have awakened to the pos sibilities of winter catering for motorists.

In a sense the road has become more open In winter than in sum-

mer.

Car owners can enjoy in safety the exhilaration of a burst of speed on clear roads and can drive for mile after mile without being troubled by irritating, traffic

blocks.

Cheap Closed Cars,

There are several factors re- sponsible for the present winter boom in motoring. First we have development of the closed the motor-car. This type of vehicle ta not only very much improved but it is also inexpensive.'

The modern saloon car of the such as we saw in family type, variety at the autumn motor show,

16-Deliberate mischiet 18-Cylinder grooved

spirally

20-Cut away tie by

(Itti

21-N. centrai, State

(abbr.)

23-Curved bar on

collar

THE INTERNATIONAL EYNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 39-Abbreviation of gleí's name. 40-Abbreviation of

"Senior"

41-Sead of

leguminous plant 42-Lang period of time

(pl.) |44-Abbreviation for

eastern Stało 48-Instrumant for

'throwing atones 46-More impolite 48-Keep back 50-Tractable |51-Extreme Brit

52-Nave of a wheel 84-Court

24-Vehicle mounted on $5-Feeda

Funnoro

25-Abbreviation for

"Saint"

28-Domesticated animal 28-Having patches of

varied color. 30-To be indebted 31-Always

32-Intimate friend

33-Hill In Joruvalom

34-Snare

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157-Cows

58-Pointed útlek

VERTICAL

1-Make stiff 2-Allowing that

3-Not high 4-Decret

6-To exist 6-Banish

9-Costume

9-Abbreviation of

man's namTO

VERTICAL (Cont.)

12-Traveled (Poat.) 13-Set free 14-Apparatus for reducing gase 15-Prefix meaning balt 16-Large wooden

mailet 17-Pathate |10-Shedding teara 120-The Book of Psalms

22-English port

.

opposite Calata - 25-To sweep down, as

a bird on Itu pity 27-To obtain 29-Club'

|30-inflammable liquid

35-Supernatural 36-Terminai extremity of human arm 37-Nolay 38-Bestow income

проп

41-Become white 43-Next to the first 46-Abbreviation for

"Bainto" 47-Spanish for river 43-Large cask 52-Consented

63-Entreat with humility

10-Long narrow plage 55-Accomplish

of leather

50-in like manner

35-Sharpen with knife

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

The 'motor-car

has become a

utility as well as a pleasure vehicle, and can no longer be described as a luxury.

It Pays To Use It. And this is why fewer motor. ists than hitherto are storing their cars away in January.

consider

One might possibly sacrificing a little pleasure in order But when the car is used for to save the quarterly tax. shopping expeditions, and on many occasions when the owner would

other public service vehicles, then otherwise use taxi-cabs, trains or

7. This unpreparedness of place all other types from pedestriana is evinced by their smallest to the largest. The inven- having no agreed signal for "turn tor, Mr. W. C. Werry, is a native right," "turn

"stop," of St. Austell, Cornwall, but has left," "swerve" or "reverse" by which to spent a greater part of his life in represents extraordinary value for putting the car out of use is not

show their intention to other Australia. trafile.

8. This unpreparedness is main tained and fostered by

canons

sense

economical.

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,

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@PHE INTERKAYIKIL' TYRRIGAT

What would have happened in Twenty-eight years morey.

the old days when cars were shod It is also fully equipped for win-

tyres and have been devoted to experiments

Another factor in the develop with steal studded The closad car of

ment of winter motoring is the acceleration was less smooth' than and to perfecting the engine, which ter motoring.

few test in this description costs only a was pat to a practical

increased safety of the modern car is the case to-day and brakes were London before Sir Granville Ryrle, pounds more than the open car.

Skidding harsher in operation? (a) A belief that there is a

Here, then, is a real incentive under winter conditions.

is no longer the danger it was.

Motoring has now become almost pedestrians' "prior right of way" High Commissioner for Australia,

all the year round.

The general adoption of four-as easy in winter as it is in summer. which overrules the rationalised and Sir Walter Feacock, the Sec- to motoring

retary to the Duchy of Cornwall. The saloon car defies the weather wheel brakes is partly respon- Owing to the lack of congestion on Jaws of traffic flow.

a It can be made warm and Cosy

sible for this happy state of affairs. the roads there are many days when (b) Unconsciousness among The engine demonstrated was

We have also to thank the tyre a long run is a real joy. pedestrians that by neglecting the two-piston double-shaft valveless on the coldest day.

Very generous window space in

And for the adventurous at this they occasion frequent machine producing 21⁄2 horse power.

the motor tour iment in nonskid tyre tread.

time of the year CO.accidents among other traffic units. The engine can be constructed to the up-to-date saloons makes driv. manufacturer for the big improve-

In the recent abnormal spell of abroad is becoming increasingly (c) A consequent

of operate either from steam or petrol. ing safer-for the man or woman con- at the wheel has a clear all-round grievance among pedestrians, which Mr. Werry, explaining the

defeated the motor owners have no fear of taking them seems to entitle them always to struction, and really there were view and at the same time pas-weather it was not the ice-bound popular. Cars are so reliable that foreign car but great snow drifts which on long expeditions in blame the others, and, therefore, be two distinct engines in one, and sengers can see all they want to of reads that

And countries. both were worked by one pressure the country.

roads impassable. On warm days these wide win-made

Their adventure is simplified "THE CHINA MAIL," General in the right themselves.

(d) A mistaken notion that no two, moving pistona simultaneously Printers.

buses and every other form of greatly owing to the facilities pro- man would imperil his life to save produced a complete balance and dows provide ample ventilation, these held up trains, trams, oma!-

vided by those fairy godmothers, transport.

the motoring associations. his time (whereas many a man is entirely eliminated vibration. "It In the old days closed cars known to have lost his life to save will get rid of all engine difficulties; cramped and confined.

"Its life Now they are light and airy, in acroplanes," he added. his hat).

9. No claim is made that pedes- will be twice that of existing types, but can at the same time be made This warm and snug when the occasion The result is that they trings are always in the wrong in and it is half the weight." relation to other traffic classes, valveless engine, he proceeded,, was demands.

most powerful in are being used not only for pleasure But they are almost always in the the fastest and

but for business. the world. wrong as regards one another.

53, Queen's Road Central.

Printers.

Publishers and Bookbinders, 3a, Wyndham Street. Tel. C. 22.

Ship Chandlers.

E. HING & CO.,

25, Wing Wo St. Tel. C. 1116, Metal Merchants and Shir

Chandlers, Managing Director-

MAGGIE WON'T LET ME USE THE PHONE-SO DINTY'S GONNA THROW MY TICKET TO THE BALL TO-NIGHT IN MY WINDOW- I HOPE HE PUTS IN A NOTE TELLIN' ME WHERE TO MEET HIM-

1

THOPE: Kin US

THROW STRAIGHT · ID HATE TO BREAK A WINDOW WITH

THIS ROCK·

BRINGING UP FATHER.

were

Safe Even on Ice.

Even on ice, provided the brakes were used judiciously, cars showed little tendency to skid.

They amooth out all customs. difficulties, arrange for the passage the necessary of the car, obtain passes and generally make the going easy.

THIS IS A NICE MESS- THE TICKET BOUNCED: OUT THE WINDOW- AN' IF I HADITI COULDN'T

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