1932-02-25 — Page 7

TiiURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932,

By T. Thompson,

REVEILLE!

A DELIGHTFUL TALE SET IN A WORKING MAN'S HOME.

"Our Joe and Our Bill! Our

Liza and Our Jane!"

Bil Rub An' thee be They'n had

SHARE MARKET.

Distinctly Quiet.

SETTLEMENT LIQUIDATIONS.

THE CHINA

MAIL

SIAMESE LOCOMOTIVE

VENTURE

DIESEL OIL ENGINE AT PRAI.

The International Express from are stated to be speed und

The official summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:

Despite the fact that the Roces, are over, the session opened dis- Bangkok, which arrived at Prai tinctly quiet, this being mainly yesterday afternoon, Bays the due to some Settlement liquidation Pinang Gazette of February 6, was still pending.

hauled by n Diesel locomotive, the Sales.

first of this type to be seen in Malayo.

Hong Kong Bunk, $1,340. Union Insurance, $410.

Buyers.

Union Insurance, $107. Douglases, $26,

Hotels (Old), $13. Chinese Estates, $95. Singapore Tractions

economy. Another important point is that they cause no in- convenience to passengers with coal or wood dust,

In conversation with the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Royal State Railways of Siam yesterday,] In anticipation of its arrival, a I was informed that there was a number of people gathered on Prai saving of 50 per cent. in the run- Station platform and everybody re-ning cost and five hours in time in ceived a mild surprise as the train la run between Bangkok-Padang) came into view.

Besar on one of these engines as "Where is the engine?" asked the compared with the best type of) (Pref.), man next to me.

steam engine: Crude oil is used so, passengers have nothing to feari as regards coal dust and flying sparka. The ongines are capable of a maximum speed of sixty miles an hour; and required a driver and one other man as against a driver and two firemen on the stedm en- gines.

14/- Amusements, $19. Govt. Loans, 3% Premium.

Sellers.

Docks, $29.

China Lights (Old), $21. Cements (Comb.), $16.60.

"I'm sure I don't know," I re- plied.

To all appearances the train was moving into the platform without an engine, but the secret was soon revented. The object that looked like the front coach was in fact the engine!

Mr. A. W. S. Graeme of the

Mrs. Spicer turned over sleepily "Ne'er thee mind him, and reached out into the giyom to hard wi' th' towel, wards the aggravating alarm clock clennin' thi shoes. which threatened to rouse the ow but a lick an' a promise for neighbourhood. She effectually three weeks us Ah con tell on." "Mi scotched its tintinnabulation, and britches want mendin'," said Joe, rolled back For five minutes. "Ah connot do 'em now," said Mrs. more of droway ecstasy, Then Spicer. "Tha man poo 'em off to- she sat up slowly and rub-neet an' go to bed soon." "It's bed hor eyes. Gradually she alius alike," said Joe. "If it wor brought. he suf to the ideaeawr Bill yo'd do 'em now." "Look that she had timed herself to the what time it is," said his mother. minute. She dressed mechanically “Yo' wor lat' twice last week, an' and wound up the paper blind. The yo're goein' to be quartered again street lamps stretched before her to, if yo' dunnot be shappin'." Infinity. And so, she remembered, They sat down to their break-

These Diesel engines manufactur- did also her daily rounds. Her fast with their shirt sleeves still

ed chiefly in Denmark and Switzer- | F.M.S. Railways who travelled by husband had gone to his work an rolled up and ate and drank in

¦land, are stated to have been exten- the same train from Bangkok sald hour ago; the fire would be lit and silence. When they had got nearly

sively used on European railway ❘ that so far as the run from Bang- (Continued from Page 6.) the kettle on the boil. She yawned to the bottom of the pile of bread

a few have kak WAS concerned the eagino and looked out at the reflections on and butter Bill said. "Cut two more

Only one egg is deposited each systems recently and

been brought out to do experi- | had behaved very well. the damp streets. The tramp of slices, mother." Mra. Spicer reach year, larger than that laid by the mental service in the Royal State feet reminded her that it was Tues-ed for what was left of the loaf wally of a light to dark purplish-

ordinary domestic fowl, and gen-Railways of Siam. day morning. They were "playing"|"Han yo' lost yo're appetites," she

Lasked

The period of in- Mondays at the Pioneer Mill.

grey colour. sarcastically, "an" fun She went downstairs, and washed! hosses'?" "It tak's a bit to keep using up to five or six weeks, during, cubation is unusually long, extend- herself in the glazed brown mug on'guoin","

sald Bill. "It's Tike the stone "slopstone" in the tiny throwin' it down a scof, sald his which time the hen does not rely on kitchen. Then she cut piles of mother. "It's time yo' wor off her mate for food, and she leaves the nest in search of it. The young' bird does not leave the nest for six to eight weeks or sometimes more,

"It's

bread, and brewed a big stone jug Quarter-to buzzer went a bit sln"," of coffee. Afterwards she filled a "Milk's turned," said Joe. frying pan with rashers of bacon swimmin' on th' top." "Get it sup- and placed it on the gas ring. As ped," said Mrs. Spicer wearily. It began to wizzle she went to the "There's thousands o' lads as'd bu bottom of the stairs and shouted fain o' what's in front o' yo' this **Our Bill" and "Our Joe" and lis-mornin'."

toned without expectation for an The two lads rose from the table answer. She kicked vigorously at to complete their dressing. "Wheer's the bottom step. "Our Joe and our mi weskit?" asked Bill. Eawr Bill," she shouted again, "Ah'm not] Joe's puttin' it on." "Mine's two goin' to shout again." Then she buttons off." said Joe. "Why didn't went to the frying-pan and stuck aŝta tell me? Give it him back this fork into the curling bacon.

minute," shouted his mother.

"If The

!

Nature's Perfect Ventriloquist.

According to Siamese rail- way official who arrived in Penang the results have been satisfactory. Their chief merits

BRIGHTER SUNDAYS,

after hatching, which is altogether After-Dinner Concert That Strikes

an abnormal time, compared withi that similarly employed by other poor or non-flying birds.

SIX MONTHS IN A BATH.

He Has Made Them Safe For People To Ship In.

The Right Note.

"Is there any likelihood of F.MS. Railways buying any of these en- gines?" I asked.

"I cannot say. The matter restaj with the authorities," replied. Mr. Graeme.

RAILWAY IRRITATION.

Explanation Of Desire To Kick

Fellow Passenger.

"་

London's latest form of entertain- Professor A. M. Low, at a lun- ment-the Sunday after-dinner con- cheon at the Savoy Hotel, describ- cert-is now also one of its most ed a journey across Africa from popular. It has justified itself west to east, which) ia being under- to the hilt by removing the re taken in an effort to obtain data proach of dullness that once clung of the response made by various to these end-of-the-week-end hours. forms of life in their natural aur- Mr. Nathan Maissell, a retired] At the same time, it has been a roundings to different forms of in- When the bacon was cooked she ever a woman wor plagued 1”

diamond merchant, of North Lon-difficult demand to supply. The visible rays. The trip is being took it into the living-room and lads dived for a coat here and a don, has just spent six months in greater satisfaction then in finding made by Mr. John Sawyer and Mr. placed it in the oven to keep warm. cap there and finally stood with, hie bath.

exactly the right intimate note R. O. Symon in a sports car. She listened at the bottom of the boxes in their hands and ready to Mr. Maissell read in the "Sunday, struck, as it were, in the triple Professor -Low maintained that stairs again for some inkling of 0. "Good mornin', mother," said Express" that there had been choice of programme

at the Dor- human beings, in common with movement. The only sound was of Joe. "Good mornin', lad." "Good 100,000 accidents to people in baths, cheater.

other forms of life, emitted 'what,' deep breathing. "Have Ah to come mornin', mother," said Bill, "Good and soon afterwards he met with Mies Elena Daniel's soprano for want of a better term, he would up to yo'?" she demanded. The mornin', lad." She kissed them a similar accident himself,

songs included "My: Noble Knight call some form of emanation, or breathing rose and fell like the both. "Behav、 yoronel's," she said. He then decided to retire from (Meyerbeer)

1 and. delightful radiation. swell on a heaving sea. "If As do "There'll be a warm 'tatoe ple in business and endeavour to evolve Strauss serenade, sung with live-

"Everyone has noticed on a rail- come up there'll be hangmans to th' oon when yo' come back to-neck. something to make the bathroom linese and purity of tone. By way way journey," be said, "that some play." The sleeping pair lay bliss-God bless yo', my lads." She watch safe.

of entree there was the ballet of times one feels a desire to kick a fully unconscious. "By Gow," said ed them along the long stroot,and Every day during the past year Vanda and Vladimir, whose excel-fellow passenger, who for some Mrs. Spicer irritably, "Ab'll bring round the corner. The morning he has gone into his bathroom at lent little act led up a further con- unexplained reason," seems to th' mop to yo' if yo' dunnot be stir-light was now creeping into the sky, noon, and stayed there, except for tract in this menu a tricornes the radiate a feeling of antagonism.” rin'." There was' & subdued and the street amps were bobbing Intervals for meala, till early the, amusing "nonsense" conversation Some sort of emanation or ray, grunt which could stand for any-out automatically. She stood and next morning.

of Naunton Wayne. " thing.

watched them also. "hey began to Time after time, worn out by his! For the length of his inevitable Mrs. Spicer went on cutting bread pop out at the other of the long ceaseless work, he fell asleep in cigar he discussed droily such splen- and utfor. She get out some street. Pop, pop, pud, pop, right the bath, and awoke to find the didly unrelated topics as the Drink clean white paper and one or two down to the one near her door.

Commission, schoolboy plays, India old newspapers.

Then she return-She came in and shut the door. Her The results of his experiments, and-cigars. ed to the foot of the stairs. "How cup of coffee was nearly cold, but after spending nearly £1,000, are a Finally if anything were still mony shives should Ah put yo' up she drank it with relish and ate a non-slip rubber base to the bath a seeded to black out pleasantly the this mornin'?" she asked. There slice of bread and butter standing, soft rubber sent and back rest, and memory of a particularly drizzly was no answer. She reached down! When she had finished she went a spongy rubber pillow. These are Sabbath there was dancing to the the rolling-pin and banged It on the again to the foot of the staire and secured to the bath by rubber music of Ambrose's Band. stairs. "Ah'll peight yo're yeds called, with some tenderness, "Our suckers. An adaptable chin rest wi' this," she vindictively declared. Liza and our Jane, come on now suitable for bathers who are sub-SMOKED DURING EXAMINATION. "Have Ah to wakken o' th' row to an' get ready for schoo',"-—-Man-¡ fect to fainting fits, is fixed to the get two dozy rapscallions to their chester Guardian.

wark?" There was an angry pro-

test from upstairs. "What's to do

now?" asked Mrs. Spicer. "Eawr

Bill's ta'en.o' th' clooas," said Joe. "Ah'il come an' poo th' lot off." said Mrs. Spicer. But she di nothing of the sort.

She went on cutting until there was a respectable pile upon the table and two more piles which abe made into sandwiches with potted] meat Then she filled two little empty mustard f.ns with tea and augar. The sandwiches she placed into fibre lunch-boxes.

NOISE

1..

water cold.

pillow.

NUISANCE

SIR WM. BRAGG GIVES HOPE OF RELIEF.

Scientists Efforts,

lim

Noises of Industry.

The 70-Cigarettes-A-Day Student.

A candidate sitting for an examination at the Witwatersrand University of South Africa had worked at his papers for about an hour when he sent up a request to the examiner to be allowed to smoke.

"Smoke in the examination room? Why, certainly not," replied the horrified official.

he suggested, might cause such disturbances. If a step could be taken towards bringing, to a stage where it could be tested with in- strumenta, knowledge of the radia tion which took place from all forms of life, something would have been achieved which might have an important influence upon human happiness.

"It may be possible some day," Professor Low said, "to produce a ray which irritates people and an- other, ray which soothes them."

BETTING IN GAOL.

Convict Wins $10--And Has It Confiscated.

The authorities at Fremantle Gaol, In Australia, have just dis-. covered that a prisoner had been conducting bets from his cell, and even collecting his winnings.

They do not disclose how the in-

to com-1 genious convict managed municate with the outside world

In spite of this curt refusal the request was repeated. The examin- Sir. William Bragg, Director of break up and the people say 'Good-er saw that the candidate was going Meanwhile the Royal Institution of Great Bri- night to one anther, then I hear white about the gills. Joe and Bill had accepted the in-tain. was the guest of the Man-❘ them. In fact the human voice will The candidate explained that hef and know the names of: horses run- the stairs. "Wheer's mi shoes?" members he spoke of what science other noise will" evitable, and came reluctantly down chester Luncheon Club, to whose wake you almost any time when no was accustomed to smoking 60 and ning on which to place his wagers.

The man's winnings totalled-over, 70 cigarettes a day and found the asked Joc. "Wheor did ta put 'em might do in the prevention of noise last neet?" countered his mother; and other modern nuisances.

enforced abstinence at a time of $10. But his little hoard was dis-

"It's nowt but reich me an' fatch

While it was difficult to auggest severe mental strain too much for covered and confiscated. He called these abuses of light and how the whole nuisance of-noise him. Janga

It is possible that his right to me in this house. Dun yo' think sound offences against civilisation could be combated, Sir William The examiner, himself a smoker, retain the money may be tested by Ah'm nowt but an arrand-lad?" naisances of the first order, but the spoke of what had been done in the understood. He arranged for a court proceedings, but the prison The pair donned their shoes natural concomitant of so many scientific study of acoustics. The colleague to take charge, and he ac authorities would seem to have the simultaneously, only pausing to rub people living together. The more noises of industry was one of the companied the candidate outside. laat word in a matter of this kind. their eyes, "Yo" should go to bed people were crowded together the problems, he said, which had been There the candidate enjoyed Booner," said Mrs. Spicer. There's greater the necessity for rules that referred to the National Physical cigarette with the examiner look- no gettin' yo' to bed an' there's no made desirable conditions possible. Laboratory at Teddington. He told ing on. gettin' yo* up. When Ah wor yo're Civilisation meant a growing abili age Ah had to get up at hawve-past ty to live on good terms with one's five an' no messin".

M1 mother'd neighbours, but there were difficul- buildings as the Hall at Geneva, The lighting of roads, that eternal

of what science bad accomplished

in guaranteeing that such modern receiving

careful consideration.

GIRL IN A CUPBOARD.

Imprisoned For Years By Her Father.

When she was taken from a cup-

ha poogd me out o' bed bi th' yure ties in making general rules. Some the Ulster Parliament House, and difficulty of the dazzle, the lighting o th' yed of Ah'd bin hawve o' th' people liked noise. He confessed the Melbourne Town Hall should of docks and rallway uldings were trouble yo' two are," "Times is to finding enjoyment sometimes in be acoustically, satisfactory. Science also problems for Teddington. different, said Bill falling in behind the children might deal with such matters, Science could help in the abolition board in which she had been locked

The pair slespily rolled up their marching to tin-can music; but How of street spises? Au instru- of noise and other nuisances. It for several year shirt sleeves and went into the kit there were other people who actualment could be made to register in offered a better method of cure than chon to wash. After a sharp strug jy liked noise at all times, who dividual noises, but he acknow the way of punishment.

gle for precedance, which went to couldn't sleep when they go into ledged that it would be difficult to to meet the difficulty was Bill, there was a yell from the vic- the country

ke | put it to practical use and to alle

tor. What's to do now?" asked bls "I can sleep," Sir William add the sound measured by a poli mother Impatiently Ahve gsteed. "in a room where the cars are to become the basis of ten soup in ml o'en,” said Bill STL):

passing to and fro and never hear ition.

sarves him rest," said Joe. "Tha'rt them, but at two or three o'clock in The problem of light, of the illd.

porvish nowt," said Mrs. Bolcer: the morning, when the night clubs mination of buildinga

conld be

r-old girl)

gatria, had And com

COLUMBIA

•

NEW PEDESTAL MODEL

(CHROMIUM PLATED FITTINGS).

THIS HANDSOME PEDESTAL MODEL IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE "THAT HAS MET A REAL DE

MAND FOR A FLOOR INSTRU

MENT AT A MODEST PRICE THAT EMBODIES THE FAMOUS COLUMBIA TONE,

CALL AND HERE IT AT

The Anderson Music Co.; Ltd.

Ice House Street.

66

ALLSOPP'S

"THE BEST

DRINK

Sola Agandan

TRADE MARK

Tel. 21322.

BEER"

UNDER

THE SUN.”

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.

(Incorporated under the Companies" Ordinanoes of Hong Kong.) Prince's Building,

Ice House Street.

Telephon 20075.

Correct styles FELT HATS : —

Andrews,

Battersby,

Cambiaghi,

Hardeman,

Ward's,

etc. etc.

at reasonable prices,

THE BAKILLY CO., LTD.

159-156, Des Voeux Road, Central,

King GeorgelV

It Speaks for

A SOUND

UND PRODUCTION

by THE DISTILLERS AGENCY LTD.

-Sole: Arem

SCOTCH WHISKY DETILLERE.

· EDINBURGH LAND

CANDE PRICE & CO LTD.