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The China Mail

Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1935,

Improving Trade

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

LESS FALSE CHIVALRY

More significant than the high! number of diverce suits down for hearing in the next session is the proportion between the sexes of suitors and respondente.

There are only 200 fewer his- bands suing for divorce than wives.

A pendulumi has swung back, A

Just after the war large' numbers

CLEANEST OF ALL

SPORTS

TOBOGGANING ON THE

CRESTA RUN

"WHAT FLYING OUGHT TO BE BUT ISN'T"

(By Capt. J. S. Coats),

BOUT this time of year the becomes definitely heavy to con-

second portion of the trol.

OF

of husbands came back, found their Cresta Run at St. Moritz is open- Long strong spikes screwed on wives had been unfaithful and sued. ed. You now ride from June to your boots give power in tion. At the end of the month braking and steering. A crash Then, in 1928, "misconduct" was made a ground for divorce on either it will be opened from Top and helmet and pads for elbows, the run, which is described as hands and knees are obligatory. [alde..*%

"what flying ought to be, but Some people wear chest Few people have ever questioned isn't, comes into its own.. stomach pads, but this is unusual. the wisdom of this change. But it' let the racketeering wives in, and From the Top the chief feature

Self-Confidence" 6lled the country with chivalrous is Church Leap, which is a very

In an all-out run in an open steep straight designed to get up race there is much to think of, husbands who had acted like gentle-|

a rider's speed before reaching much to avold, and, above all, man, granted collusive divorces, and the first corner. The Leap is there is a continuous battle with most unfairly lost the custody of

really frightening first time one's subconscious self. That their children,

down, because, from a toboggan other self which keeps on say queer it is convex to look at and seems ing, "You are going too fast, to be disappearing and getting brake hard. You know you can't steeper and steeper. No corner possibly get round this corner can be seen until you are within brake, for God's sake, brake." When Mr. Lloyd. George went to about ten yards of it. That is I don't know if that's how Wales to launch his "new deal" he because Leap starts with a piece other people feel, but that made a presentation to Mr. Nath of 1 in 12. next a long bit of 1 in what happens to me. In fact, I Roberts, who has been his agent for 5, and finally 10 or 15 yards of 1 devote the whole of my first

jin 2.8.

Now it seems that this form of chivalry is dying out.

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POLITICS AND INVENTION

30 years.

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1

week's practice to calming and Mr. Roberts is an old personal

Split-Second Mind Needed quietening that noisy self. In friend of Mr. Lloyd George and is

other words, to getting up my But the crux of any only a few years his junior. He is whether from Stream Corner or found a

run, self-confidence. Luckily I have a solicitor, but his hobby is inven-Junction,

scheme that helps. is Battledore and tian.

Shuttlecock. The latter corner the effect of over-breathing. So Reading "Bengal Lancer" I learnt The many contrivances he has is built low and very sloping now I practice yoga for at least evolved range from an anti-dazzle ("dished" they call it), and in a device to a mincing machine, vites you to sail up and over into Somehow it seems to give quite minute before starting. Mr. Lloyd George has been an the soft snow and straw beyond a lot of extra courage. of liberty. The results are ad- mirable. The men go out with M.P. for 45 years. Mr. Roberts's The full run is three-quarters of something of the team spirit and record of 30. years without his a mile long, and a minute is a that other self in this way. Then I start to subjugate with restored energy and self-candidate losing an election is good time from a standing start "Now this is the most important confidence, and not many of notable one.

The record is held by Jack them go back.

Heaton at 58sec., which equals the first two runs you have

run of the season to you. an average speed of 48 miles per pinched a lead of 6-10ths. of a The average gradient is second from Jack Heaton, whom

Salute The Sneeze!

ing

Your Daily Smile!

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Table Manners

Another of the accumulating} signs of better times may be A woman doctor calls upon us seen in the announcement that to salute the sneeze. She assures the cuts in wages of those en-us we have not the reference 'Dr. ployed by the London Transport that Aristotle did so. Board are to be restored in two Octavia Lewin, however, mixes Teacher: steps. By June. 1 the wage level her recommendation.

She ad-the whale?" will have been brought back to vises us to sneeze because the that prevailing before the disas-Greek and the Roman, thought it the bones?"" trous experience of 1931. In fortunate, and because, if we do this matter the Transport Board it properly, it is healthy to our of our plate." has shown, as did the railway (selves and not infectious to companies last year, a willingness others,

Pupil: "Yes, ma'am.”

a

Or

hour. Fond Mother: "My son has many 1 in 7.7. original ideas, don't you think?” Another point, not always you expected to beat you. This Teacher: "Yes, especially in spell-appreciated, is that on the Cresta run will decide who wins the you are dealing entirely with certainly do a low 58. He is Grand National because he will Severe over-brak behind you and will know what acceleration. "Do we eat the flesh of ing at one point can never be re- he has to do to win.

covered, as, if one corner is taken will probably do the trick, so you Any 58 badly, it means a bad time be must help me to go all-out and Teacher: "And what do we do with cause you can never recover the try for a 58.5. No braking this Pupil: "We leave them on the side initial impetus derived from the run. Only directional steering

start.

when required on the worst The split-second mind is badly

banks." needed. Every run, even in practice, is electrically timed to one-tenth of a second. One-half of a second a run is enormous,

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Bridge Chat "What do you think of her bridge to mortgage the future. in the There is no doubt of the classi-zame? belief that the better traffic recal opinion. In one of the most. "Well, she's a great one to start turns will continue and will jus-charming little love poeme that something she can't finesse." tify the larger expenditure for ever was written Catullus records which they have to budget. The how Cupid "sneezed approbation." desire to make good the cuts in Dr. Lewin's medical certificate of wages at as early a date as pos-the sneeze's health we accept res- sible, and well in anticipation of Pectfully. But why is it, then. a full recovery of revenue, is typi- that after the shock of a great cal of the better spirit that pre-sneeze we feel dislocated and vails between the employers and lost? Neither, mythological nor those who work for them.

medical faith helps us.

HONOUR. AMONG

THIEVES

Transportation Case At Madras

TELEPHONE SONG "Oh, my dialing, Clementine!" LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Start Of The Run Clang goes the bell, and the start is the first worry. No slip allowed and a clean dive on the: toboggan. Good, that's, over,

Tiny Time Differences The majority of races on the and couldn't be faulted. Lean Cresta are the aggregate of hard left, round that little curve. three runs and it is remarkable Straighten up. Hard right, what small amounts of time go round the next. Good. Here's: Ito win or lose a race. Dead- the leap. Keep those feet up, heats are far from unusual, and Go back Lean a little right to Dr. Reicheldt's valuable book many races are won by one-fifth get early on First Bank. Now The Curzon Cup left foot down, twist hard left "Truth and Tradition In Chinese of a second. Buddhism" is now available in a has been won and lost by one and hold the toboggan sa low on It la tenth of a second, and the Grand the bank as you can. Push up- new and enlarged edition. on sala at The Bible Book and National (the biggest race of the with your left hand and hard

year) has seen three dead-heats. down with the right. Tract Depot, Ltd. Wyndham

We are Street, Kelly and Walsh and at other booksellers.

Such action as has been taken! by the Transport Board has greater importance as showing that those engaged in great busi- nesses have confidence in the fu ture and do not regard present. improvement as a passing phase. That belief would seem to be con-

The rainfall in the Colony for the firmed by recent railway traffic.

24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, [returns: Additional confidence

Madras, was 0.06 inch, making a total of has been fostered by the bank re- "This crime is palpably petty 1.52 inches, as against an average ports, which show gains in pro-and unworthy of me, declared of 1.59 inches, since January 2 fits in a year that has been one a notorious robber, Basavana

of great difficulty for all banking Gowda, when faced with a The 8.8. Rawalpindi left Shang- businesses. The iron and steel charge of obtaining £0 15s. by hal yesterday and is due to arrive Industry, which in the depression false pretences.

was amongst the hardest hit in "I have attacked Government the country, is reviving in all its treasuries and such like," con-

here on Friday morning,

4 dead-heat means two more round and heading straight for runs each to decide, and as you the beginning of Second Bank. have to walk up the run each Lift that left foot and change- time, anybody who has to run off hands. Down with the right:

...

a dead-heat has taken quite a lot foot and hold her low on Second, of exercise. It has a fall of 514 as low as you can. All right, feet in three-quarters of a mile,lift your foot. so the two competitors have again and try to take Third Bank Change hands: climbed 2500 feet at least. without raking at all. That The Cresta is built and super seems to be going well. Come vised each year by Colonel forward and pull her off.

(Continued on Page 10).

Thomas Badrutt. As there gre

no permanent foundations. it is

branches. It is to the restoration tinued Gowda. "I hate touching left Yokohama yesterday at B Shuttlecock in 1982-88 was 18 LEAVE TO APPEAL

of the heavy industries that we little auma."!

GRANTED

The RM.S. Empress. of Japan easy to imagine what changes there can be. As an instance, p.m. and is due at Vancouver inches lower than the year be look for the chief 'hope. · of ħab- Gowda continued to address week this Saturday. She leaves fore. At times 45 men are re- sorbing the unemployed, and it is the court: "I stand for truth Vancouver on February 23 and is quired to build and maintain the in the evidence that that restore-and honour among thieves due at Hong Kong on March 15,. tion is progressing that good Crime, you know, has its own

run, but, once built,, about 15-can reason is being found for the code of rank and conduct. I The as Bennacdhul, from Lelth of construction and maintenance

keep it going Even so, the cost Motor Garage Involved gradual abandoning of the econo-personally have given nway Middlesbro, Antwerp, London and a very large; roughly 10,000 mies forced on the country more lavishly to the poor and needy," the Straits, left Singapore for this Swiss francs a year (at the Justice, Bir. A.D.A. Macgregor, than three years ago.

The judge sentenced Gowda to port last Saturday and is due to moment more than $1000), which and the Pulsne Judge, Mr. R. E.. transportation for life.

Reformative Prison

PAID TO HEAR DR.

FURTWAENGLER

វ

arrive here to-morrow.

Chancellor of the University of Hong Concert Goers Threatened to Mr. Malcolm, D, Scott Miss Joan Hornell is to be Civil Action of the Hong Kong and Shanghai

Bank to-morrow 7 at Shanghal,

Prisons: exist: to keep people out of them. The old assump- tion that the best way to do this was to make them as horrible as possible has: for some, time been discredited. It is generally re- cognised, that the most effective prevention of crime requires pri-

Barlin, Dec, 29 sons to be educative as well as The Filharmonic Orchestra is

endeavouring to appease its sub

Before His Honour the Chief

takes a lot of finding, as it 138 Lindsell, in the Supreme Court quite impossible to make the this morning, Jung Hing Yin, e/o.. It has been announced that the riders pay more than a small The Chartered Bank of India, Aus well-known, and popular, niece of amount.

tralia China, No. 8, Queen's Road. Bir William Hornell," - Vice- Young Riders Needed Central, made application for

because, in my opinion, it takes Yui Yau Motor Garage of No. 2, leave to appeal against the judg We also need young riders, ment given in favour of the Cheng at least three years to make a Whitfield, Causeway Bay, for $655 first-class rider. Every corner stated to have been money lent. has to be studied carefully and Judgment was given for the de learnt again each year.

Your fendants by the Pulene Judge, toboggan requires tuning and Of the results of the experi- acribers and avert civil proceedings

careful experiments made with without costs, a few weeks ago.. mental prison at Wakefield there which throsten to arise on claims,

the amount of weight carried- comes an encouraging account. joald to amount to 42,000, marks, Sixteen candidates from all From Junction up to 80lb, of lead There the training of the prison which a large group of concert- over the kingdom competed pub can be carried, but this er to recover himself in the outer soars are making for the return of licly at the Constitution Fair for possible from the Top. world has been developed to in their subscriptions to the On the title of Miss Blam Which more than 2016 to 2516, is clude wage payment by results, chestra's current series of concerts will be valid for one year is able and then only by an ex with a dry canteem to spend the the subscribers declare that fliey winner was Bangkok girl and enced rider. The tobogg money in a football league and paid to hear Dr. Furtwangler con- she was crowned with redhead weighs 701b, to 80lb. Itsell ping-pong and the like delights duct and no one else.

dress Adorned with diimonds with extra weight added

deterrent

SIAMESE HOLD BEAUTY COMPETITION

Mr. Peter Sin and Mr Lon Almada appeared for the plain tiffs, while Mr. Macnamara and MDL.Birellett represented the defendants,

No statement of accou presented and'fi

WAS!

Kal was grantedk