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|DYING RACE

The International Congress on Alcoholism have been told some facta about the barmaids of New Zealand. They are a dying race, none having been licensed since 1910..

Co

COCKTAILS ROUND THE WORLD SHANGHAI WAS ONCE DRINKERS PARADISE

CONCOCTIONS OF THE EAST

(By Sir Percival Phillips.)

The few who have survived those NOCKTAILS and cirrhosis of the Mention the Taj Mahal and he 24 years are, famous, Their special the liver were associated in thinks you mean the Bombay hotel bars are crowded for most of the a most unpleasant way at a recent with its alert Goanese watters. Shanghai merely recalls the long- time between 9 am, and 6 p.m.-conference of doctors." the legal drinking hours in the

A physician whose middle name est bar of all. Ask how he liked Dominion.

should be Gloom declared with the Peking and he will become fluent detachment of a neutral on the subject of diplomatic parties They are said to get wages of cold anything from £7 to $12 a week-observer that the next fifteen years in the Legation quarter made india- large salaries for women even by would see an increase in the number creetly conversational by copious Dominion standards.

of hostages to Harley-street (or portions of tax-free liquors thrown One in Auckland played golf words to that effect), particularly together in a shaker.

His memories of African coast every week-end. She drove to the of women, due to over-indulgence course in her own motorcar: in pre-dinner drinks and their towns are bounded by tall glasses;

effect on the liver.

while the, West Indies, suggests BARRING THE BAR

This is sad news; but I doubt if variations of a

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subtle. decoction

it will affect the consumption of tinted like a tropical sunset and Although bars in New Zealand cocktails. Their popularity has frothed with a wooden stick. If he were closed by law at 6 p.m., you been diminished here and there by has wandered from the trail mark- could always get a drink in the the higher cost of drinking, but.jed by barmen in white jackets to evening, provided you were known given a fair chance, the allies of wilderness of out-stations where to the management.

gin and cracked ice will continue drinking is a primitive pastime, he At the front door of one hotel their world-wide operations for the will shudder slightly at the recol- there was a concealed button.

lection creation of synthetic cheer.

of plain gin and boiled The cocktail has achieved social water.

bar.

in

the

When the porter opened the door to the police he touched' the button, importance. As A substitute for The senior clubs in the East which rang a gentle buzzer in the the old-fashioned dinner party it founded by planters and "burra

of commerce finds favour in households forced sahibs" Illegal drinkera ran up the back on an economy budget, yet wishful spacious days of drinking have stairs and jumped into the first of giving and returning hospitality, their own cocktails. Many of them room they saw.

Carried to excess, it may well sup-are historie. The Byculla club at Practice at bar-clearing on the plant all food. A six-to-cight- Bombay, the. Bengal club at Cal- lines of boat drill in a liner was a o'clock. "open house," furnished cutta, the Spotted Dog at Rangoon, regular thing.

with martinis, is likely to drift on the Singapore, Hong Kong, Shang- The record

was about 5 2-5 the tide of aimless chatter to an hai, and Tientsin clubs are in his there is always a fraction of a seconds. And not a glass was left hour when appetites and liver-alike special class. second just as the ball touches on the counter.

are beyond service. But this mere- "Heirloom Recipes" the ground when: It is easier to

ly plays into the open hands of The cocktails they serve are jdeal with then at any other time,

Harley-street.

made to recipes handed down like he used his marvellous eye and time-judgment to glide any ball off to the boundary, straight balls included, unless it was hopeless- The story of the last days of ly short-pitched or on the off. the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, The next stage of the bowlers' who will always be remembered riposte was what was called the from college at the close of the Their nationals in exile carry their tour they materialise as powerful by the mame under which he be- "off theory."

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1934.)

Ranji

Your Daily Smile!

"I am learning the violin at 68," says correspondent. We sympathize with his neighbours living at 65 and 70.

Good Grade

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A youth had just driven home have

term.

As a

The cocktail is peculiarly Anglo-a family heirloom from one genera- American in origin and tradition. Lian of native barmen to the next. For this reason it thrives best in In these days of greater restraint foreign countries that harbour and straitened incomes they have communities of Britons and Amer-jecused to be in the forefront of icans. Our Continental neighbours social drinking, but when summon- never taken kindly to it. ed by a collector of cocktails on

prejudices with them.

and generous in size as ever, came famous years before his The death of an uncle gave jaccession, Ranjitsinhji, is not him as Jam Sahib' of one of the led his mother anxiously.

"Did you pass everything?" ask-

Bars Of The Far East

There were giant cocktails in the merely in itself an incident of smaller Mahratta States the op-

The French regard it

days when they ruled the bar. great pathos, but throws a flood portunity of turning his terri- "Everything but two motorcycles. poisonous enemy of good cooking, None of your niggardly thimbleruls of light for all those who are tory into a model of modern de They must have had aeroplane and so we find Saigon, the "little of diluted ingredients, such as are willing to go through life with velopment, and led to his being motors in them:"

Paris of the East" making no purveyed to-day by profiteering their eyes open on the difficulties chosen as spokesman by the In-

claim to be a colony of American hotels, but a man's size glass filled of working a system of Parliadian Chiefs who govern one farther apart," says

"France and England must not drift

politician, bars. Go further up the China to the brim with a delicious and mentary representation in India, third of the population of the Channel-swimmers will indorse this,

devastating blend of coast, where English is the pre-

mysterious or elsewhere in the East. If it great Peninsula under various

dominant foreign tongue, and every

materials known only to the grin- be true that he found life not treaty arrangements with the

club will be found to have its ning expert behind the bottles. worth living because as Chancel-suzerain Power. Naturally they The bright pupil looked long and specific for killing care when the

Cocktail connoisseurs find their for of the Chamber of Princes he are very sensitive about the pro- thoughtfully at the second examination

question, which read: "State the num- sun goes down. Or even in the Waterloo in these potent aperitifs. had been called to order by the tection of their rights; and it ber of tens of coal shipped out of the middle of the day- Viceroy, how can men like the was taken for granted that they United States in any

** given year. The world-wide depression has flaged by flavours Boothing to the ancient Mahratta Chief families would be the great obstacle to the Then his brow cleared and he wrote: affected cocktail drinking even palate that the unsuspecting vic sit in conference with stump grant

self-government. "1492-none."

of

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The Right Answer

Their sting is so artfully eamou-

more in that part of Asia than in tim goes to his doorn without orators who seek notoriety by Their unanimous agreement to

Europe for China and Japan have knowing it. He gulpa down the being not merely called to order come in was the great surprise Facts You Did Not Know made imported liquors a luxury by first full-bodied one and finds it as but suspended by the Speaker? of early negotiations, and at one

merelal motor vehicles were exported

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the

ORNAMENTS

of

Imposing Customs duties that are mild as a lemon squash, and in- It does not seem so very long stroke-put the Simon Report' out In the first six months this year almost prohibitive.

finitely more grateful to hia in- ago when Ranjitsinhil made his of date. The subsequent Round 49.605 passenger automobiles and com-

Shanghai was once a paradise of terior. A second follows the first first appearance at Lord's in the Table 'discussions were all based from the United States, compared systematic drinkers. The bacardi with no more effect that a vague Varsity match. and was an on the new position; and the with 38,049 in plauded for boundaries that scrapping of the new compro- period last year.

corresponding cocktail, the "China side" speciality, impression that the world is a big- in its various forms from simple Ker and better place. A third seemed to be achieved with a mises laboriously arrived at minimum of effort. Cricket, would be regarded by the people

Germany has a bakery that travolum and fruit juice to high-power-joins the other twa,

Suddenly he feels a slight "plop" with all its virtues, has a ten- of the Provinces under direct Bri- from town to town in a motor trucked combinations with gin and dency to become stereotyped; tish rule as a disgraceful bit of huge cake that carries a Penerator to vehicle for gilding the night, and verse. alowly

that town a trailer made to resemble a liqueurs added, was B popular at the base of his akull, the uni- turns upside down, and the famous names in its re- chicanery. But the longer the supply current to the vehicles elec-its cost was negligible.. Now that massed hands play a heavenly sym- cords are of men who have intro Chiefs thought of the implica-tric lights, duced a now stroke, or s new tions of their first generous

the Nanking government is squeez-phony, and flowers bloom all around method of taking wickets, In the action the less reliance could they An enert from the United States. Ing foreign imports to the limit, It him. He is in paradise and para- perennial war between attack feel in the value of the safe-Bureau of Fisheries is conducting a has become a rich man's toy. Many lysed. He falls into a tail spin a and defence. The "hody-line" guards of their rights that were mussel farm in Texas in which he is of its former patrons are drinking thousand miles to nowhere, and on

experimenting with the producton spirits thriftils, and some controversy is by no means the to be included in the new Con-disease proof bivalves to aid the pearl been driven back to beer.

have hitting solid earth hours later loses much time wondering what hap- first, and will not be the fast: stitution. A man like Lord WII-button industry. though it is not always that lingdon. trained in the methods

Japan presses even more heavily pened. charges of bad sportsmanship of home politics, grows accus English salvagers have begun the upon the favourite ingredients of

Bottled Lightning task of boring through more than 40 anti-thirst mixtures desired by enter to add a bitter spice to the tomed to regard

These forms of bottled Eightning a vote once argument. There are precedents taken, however hotly contested feet of quicksand off the Netherlands her guests from the West. But for also haunt the African ports. There conet to reach $10,000,000 in gold

the invention of a suave even for that. The old rule was and however small the majority, burled in a British warship that sank the depression of the yen, which is one, that the bowler must not raise as something fixed and definite, more than century ago.

somewhat alleviates the atrain upon Goanese barman at Mombasa, who his arm above the height of the not to be denied or even further i

converted pounds and dollars, the has given it his name, thereby hop- elbow: and there was much criti-discussed. No other rule of or- THIEF'S FAILING FOR Anglo-American community would ing to achieve immortality. It is clem against those who began to der could enable a large assembly

go dry.

pink in colour and a tower trend towards the overarm style. to deal with business at all.

The Japanese have kindly en-strength in the wilderness. The Then there was the "fight 'over One cannot therefore wonder if

deavoured to satisfy its demands (Continued on Page 103 the difference between a fair ball he was appalled at the idea of

Gaol Sentence by manufacturing substitutes for and a throw: the difficulty of de- beginning the work of negotia-

well-known brands of Scotch and' cialon being shown by contradic-ition all over again. The Jam Sentence of four months' hard gin. Their success has not been tory rulings of umpires, so that a Sahib on the other hand must labour was imposed on Luk Kun, sensational. Certain products have County team could play a bowler have felt that while his honour unemployed, by Mr. Q. A. A. Muc-an appearance of authenticity that [on one ground who would be no-was engaged to stand by what fadyen at the Central Magistracy does not go beyond the label. balled on another. When Ranji had been agreed to, it was no less this morning, for the theft of a Even this has been known to creato first appeared things were fairly engaged to secure his own status large, quantity of ornaments, the doubt In the minds of critical for- quiet: the field was placed about and that of those who had follow-property of Slt Che, of No. 2 Prince eigners, as, for example, the brand fifty-fifty on each side of the ed him.

Terrace, yesterday.

jof whisky launched on the home wicket; and the bowler set out The same trouble of resolves Lun Kwong, charged with receiv-market under the name to vary his pitch as much as to reverse a policy freely adopted ing a stolen electric fan from Luk Queen George." possible.

A straight ball must has arisen in dealing with Mr. Kun, was fined $50, in default one Thinking In Drinks never be hit; it was gracefully Gandhi; and has created accuss month's hard labour.

The cocktail addict who but monotonously returned with itions of bad faith which proba- A married woman named, Kung travelling is likely to carry his pre- batsman exercised boundless pa-ment and tradition to which rules receiving some of the stolen goods, and permit them to colour his im- tience waiting for some "loose of Parliamentary procedure. are was discharged owing to insuffi-pressions of other. laids.. I know a stuff." When it did appear the completely alien.

cient evidence.

man who talks glibly as a globe bowling was changed. Into this

trotter in terms of blended "ap "Does a Mr. Smith Uvo here--a mechanical performance Ranji Introduced what was called "the who is known as the "Hero of the of typhoid fever and one case of map of the world is a vast bar know he was a student-I thought he

One case of diphtheria, two cases patisera." "His conception of the student Brigadier-General Weng Chao-yuLE,

"A Mr. Smith lives here, but I didn't leg glide." Building on the Woosung Defence" and whe is, now on paratyphoid fever were reported in divided by climate and temperature was a night-watchman!" incontestable fact that every ball a tour of Europe, arrived in Moscow the Colony during the three days into many compartmenta. must pitch somewhere, and that yesterday from Berlin,

ended September 8.

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