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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929.

Christmas 1929

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert bat our Readers are warace to look out for occasional phonetic speltinys, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)

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HORIZONTAL

1-A grade of green

tea From China -Grudge 9-Verbal 11-Heavenly body 12-Printer's measure 14-A motordriven

vehicle used for drawing plows

1B-A contineant (abbr) 17-To cut off the edges

of a coln

15-To lone vigor 20-A color

21-A feminino nanso 23-South African

antelope 24-Certain 25-Forbid

27-Mercantlio traffic. 29-Clear of .30-Assist

31-8mall tree of the

sak family

33-Ah addition

35-A tribe N. Amer

can Indiana

36-Feminina name

18-Enamare

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 40-Cover

41-A musical instru

ment

43-9zint (female-

VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-Place where money

le made

18-Peruse 16- Wither 18-Knotty

abbr.) 44-Advertisement

(abbr.) |45-An elevation ci the 25-To canoniza cuticle resembling 28-A lyric poem a bilater 17-8enlor (abbr)

20-Part of a boat (pl.) 22-Dwell

48-Melody

49-A market

51-Impress

62-To cross a river,

In a beat

VERTICAL

1-A Dowardly car

nivorous mammal 2-Very

no

-28-Moved swiftly

31-Barran

32-Elevate

33-Year (Latin)

3+Carved memorial

poste in front of Indian dwelling 3B-A firm grap 37-Boy's name (short) 39-American commo-

tiore, opened Japan to comnierce

3-A worthless leaving 41-A boat 4-An aromatic plant " 42-Xing and patron 5-Halt

saint of Norway

Vohtole 7-Elther B-Eluda 10-Slow (MM) 11-Tough

| 45-Wilty use of words

48-Earller than 48-Musical nata 50-initials of a popular

president

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

TURKISH JUSTICE

12 Million Cases In A Year

Constantinople. Whatever criticism may be levelled at the judicial institutions of Turkey in other respects, the volume of busi- ness transacted, by the National Courts during the past year In- dicates no lack of energy on the part of either Bench or Bar, as the following figures, taken from the official Digeat for 1928, show.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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THE CHINA MAIL,

LIFE AT MACAO

Young World Travellers Enchanted

BAMBOO SHOOTS

Sounds And Smells Peculiarly "Oriental!

INVETERATE GAMBLERS

little shops had no fronts and we saw whole families living, eating, and sleeping within easy view.

"What is the name of this [street?" we asked, curiously.

"Heavenly Peace," he answered. "And the one we just came out of was called "Flowery Lane"."

"My stars; that's just like the Chinese. Even if they have to live in a squalid hole, they call it Flowery Lane. I wish I had a picture of it to send home."

The three of us wera ah-ing and oh-Ing on every side. Vendors of live cat, rabbits, and dogs in Our steamer was moving slowly up Hong Kong Harbour in openwork baskets brushed past a.. the rainbow mist of early morning. Everybody was on deck to We looked and wondered, but did

not ask questions. watch the interesting river life around us. From our tremendous poor here that they eat everything People are 20

high decks we could look down upon the swarms of junks, sailing that grows, even grass roots.

Bits of Ivory Beauty ships, humpbacked sampans, and freighters from every part of

In Ti Sung Guy we left our the globe.

ricabas and walked on foot. In little stalls we saw skilled artisans working with primitive tool. Old men pedulled with their feat on clumsy wooden file wheels as they licate boxes and every article Im carved out cigarette helders, de-

nginable. We bought bits of ivory beauty for mere coppers."

We had come a third of the way around the world by now and bad begun to feel we were real world travellers. No amount of vadlo ahont places could give us that tremendous thrill of just leaning over a rail in a foreign port—those strange sights and sounds and smells that are so peculiarly Oriental!

олсе.

HIGH ADVENTURE".

(Continued from Yesterday)

Our driver Was

courteous and very pleasant, so when he suggested that if we'd like to go to Macao to visit the gambling dens he could take in there the next day and see that we saw the sights" for $3, we took him up on a bargain at

Perhaps our families would think w were wicked and adventurous, visiting the gambling dens of Macro. But why go to the Orient If you don't see it, we argucil. -

"We may be just three defenceless women, but we've got our heads about us," as Edith said. "And anyway. I've felt safer here fa the Orient than I ever did to Chiengo! F: makes me laugh when I think of the movie type of Chinaman that I imagined we'd sec. Villains and fiends with knives in their teeth. Thats all bosh-manufactured on a Hollywood lot. I think they've bean 100 humble and peaceful until they've been trampled under foot. Some day I think great things will come out of China If they'll just pull together as one nation."

At Macao

"You're right, old dear." I agreed, "but our Macuo steamer leaves at 8 in the morning, so let's 'turn in and have a real rest. No dancing to- night!"

By noon the next day we had arrived at Maceno. Our round-trip tickets cost us $2.60 apiece; the interesting water trip was certainly worth that much.

"Now we're in Macao, the Monte Carlo of the Orient. Hold tight to your purse strings. girls," Edith admonished. "What I know about funtan is nothing at all, but I've got to try it once."

Our guide laughed with us, and directed our ricshas through all orts of twisting narrow streets, and we were jolly glad that we had not tried to pilot ourselves alone, Where do you think we ended up? At a very stunning cafe built like a pagoda.

"Must have tin-- think an maybe you ke Chinese timu, who' say?" was our guide beaming explanation.

"Right-o," we answered in three cries, being both hungry and curious about this great four-tiered pagoda with the bobbing lanterns hanging out on the verandahs. It was high nnon and nothing to fear,

"Foreign Ladec"

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Old World Homes

And on to Jade Street, where our guide told us that imitation jade sells for next to nothing, poor jade for a very little, but the tiniest piece of real lucid green jade le worth a goodly sum. The three of us bought a few trinket pine and

the fates enough to buy us a set rings of the medium quality-more of Macao's post-card pictures: interested in the life around 128

than mere shopping. Our ricshas turned toward the Evening shadows fell before we shore and we found an entirely had seen half enough.

It was different side of Macao. Of course nice to know that we were to stay you know it is one of the oldest'n the comfortable security of the Portuguese settlements in the world. Victoria Hotel. It is an English Farther out of the city, where the hostelry over on the Shameen side. earlier settlers bulit their lovely Shameen If an Island in the river old world type homes, we felt weo Canton proper and is protected were in one of the quaint fishing by guards, gates and bridges. villages of Spain with the brown fishermen mending their nets along the shore. The colour of the faded terra cotta houses ranged from rose to soft apricot; the water was blue, blue! And the soft haze of afternoon sun cast a glare on all this beauty.

All was peaceful and quiet in the wЯight as we wandered through English lanes of old-fashioned lowers and wondered how we could possibly be in Canton.

Our last day we had left for the temples. We took a long ricaha rip to see the Temple of Five

To cap the climax, our guide Hundred Genfi with its calamity took us to A monastery garden bell which is only where we spent a lazy hour sippinging of disaster. cordials and eating ripe figs off the trees. Here, we did buy souvenirs tiny straw-covered bottles of sun sweet liqueurs at a few coppers

piece!

So you can see how easily a week slipped by, in Hong Kong. In six more daya our steamer would be calling for us. And still we hadn't

sen Canton.

rung as a war- Then to see the City of the Dead with its tiers of d and forgotten graves. And It truck us that a new young govern- nent in Canton will some day hange the old order of burying the lead above ground

The Shawl Markets Our next stop was at the Shawl Markets, where we spent a couple f hours and came away with ilkan treasures worth a hundred thatimes to us what we paid.

Up The Pearl River Our hotel informed us YM.C.A. guides could be secured that would guide us capably and cheaply about Canton.

The river

trip we could make by ourselves, as it was quité safe on the big boats of the English, companies.

Next morning, we took the day boat for the 78-mile trip up the Pearl River so that we could see the shore life.

But ateathers wait for no wo en! We caught the night boat by a háre five minutes and arrived Hong Kong at 8 in the morning, with a good hour to spare before

was time to depart with treasures.

our

The crowd still waving on the lock inded from view as our ship heeled out into the ocean waters. As we drew near to Canton at Ahead lay Manila and beyond sunset. the river was packed closer that, Java, Singapore, Ceylon. My with sampans with whole familles heart thrilled anew when I realized living on them. A large portion that at everyport we were able of the population of Canton is to come and go just as we liked, as floating one. People are born, free as any vagabond ravers of the married, and die in their little Your seas-even sampans, sometimes never setting | giria! foot whore. Families of nine and ten live crowded in as many square feet all their lives.

if we are

Just

has

Apropos of Tiny children

the Shanghai Dis- play near the edge of the Kttle trict Magistrate'a recent petition basta unafraid, for they are tied to the Kiangsu Provincial Govern. around the waist with a cord and a ment for funds for the upkeep of block of wood. If they fall over-the district police, an order board they are hauled in again with een received from Chinklang in- little concern.

structing him to devise means to raise Buch funda himself Changhal is richer than other districts, the magistrates of which are unable to find money even for themselves.

over

We leaned on our elbowa our immaculate white English boat

so we followed our guide inside. and watched those miserable crowd "My dear, this worth writinged families. One woman lowered home about." we whispered among her rice in a basket to be washed in ourselves, diving into a succulent the sluggish rlver water. Near dish of baked chicken and pork. by a little boy scrubbed a cooking. We tried everything that сате pot and emptied his refuse in the along-bamboo shoots (that taste water scarcely two feet from where Such a good deal like cooked celery), the woman washed her rice, spiced almonds, chicken and pork, ia life in Cantoni steamed rice, soup, deltefeus flower-

After Dark scented tea, and coconut strip Our boat was

a littl

late in candy.

arriving, and we decided to remain aboard until morning to start our explorations of this, age old capital. After dark we sat on the shadowy deck for a long time, watching the flower boabs" bright with lanterns. The eerie music of their Chinens fiddles floated across the water to our ears and we felt lost in the mist of Chinese mystery. Our cigarettes glowed red and died in the darkness as we talked with "All foreign lades must gamble English officers of the exciting upstairs, only," was the curluas ), avents of the Inte war, “ answer to our query.

We ended our feast with a rous; ing cheer of thanks to our Y.M.C.A. guide and climbed into our walt- ing ricshas.

In front of a row of squat build- Ings we alighted. Laide we were led through a narrow hall and up a stairway.

"Won't they allow t to stay downstairs?" I questioned.

And sure enough, upstairs we found other European visitors (in- wardly we gave a sigh of relief) leaning over the circular railing to watch the green gambling tables"

By 8.30 next morning our guide came on deck to meet us, and we started off in ricshas clanging our bells through the narrow alley- ways of old Canton.

Ivory and Jade What a contrasting city is Can- We camp out of the

The Courts of First Instance, the coupled with ever-growing resist below. If we wished to place a Criminal Courts and the Police ance to interference by the Execu-bet. we could lower down a little ton! Courts between them accounted for tive in all matters relating to the wicker basket with our money in cobblestoned mean alleywaye sud- 821,888 cases; the Civil Courts administration of the law. Man-it and call down our number. Then denly into a fine wide street where dealt with 307,117 actions at law, moud Essad Bey, the Minister of our winnings (1) were hauled back an American steam roller was lay of which 7,066 were commercial Justice, who has arrived in Con-up again in the little basket. It ing esphalt. The very old. and the casca Reglatrars Courts (Par slantinople frem Angora, is engag-was all very exciting--but I was very now! That is Canton! qusta), 424,807; and Magistratea ed in Inspecting the whole of the most absorbed in watching the "Now we go to Ti Sung Gur Courts, 50,607. The number of judicial establishments in the old faces of the deathly serious Chi- Very fine ivory and fade," said our judgment. summoned handled was Turkish capital 408,819, bringing the total numbec

nese who were probably gambling guide, and we smiled inwardly that thefr.whole fortunes away, for we had saved our shopping money. of awards up to the very reupacži

When a water-main burst in the Chinese are inveterate gamblers.. The time had come to spend iLGE ablë figure of 1,018,288,000,

and more During the past year or two, the City Upper Thames-street was I won two dollars Max, Edith The way grew more Turalah magistracy, has manifested flooded, and traffic had to be lost one, and Serena made forty thickly inhabited. We were right

coppers, so we felt we had tempted down among the popull." laudable spirit of independence,

diverted.

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