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The China Mail Hong Kong. Thursday, Sept. 12, 1935

before the complicated instru-

Here

There and Everywhere.

CONTROL OF THE SUITS

A House of Commons official of whom MPs know little is busylati the moment. He is the sunshine controller.

He sits in a little cubbyhole with La lever at his hand and looks

through a spyhole at the House

His retreat is behind the cross- benches beyond the bar Government side: His job is to

FULL

THROUGH AMERICA IN A £1 CAR

FINE OPEN-HEARTED FELLOWSHIP

INTERESTING RECORD OF AN UNUSUAL TRIP

(By Rene MacColl

London-

pants which may be filled. No

MONTH- ago, at Reading, filling station of any pretension

on the Apenney van 1 bought a that I saw did not advertise

FULL DRESS TOO EXPENSIVE

Even

Fast

Roadside Welcome Legends to tempt appetite

officer finds that this is a charge pitality of the car. Averaging Eats Here.*

There is "Beer Parlour,” and

prevent the Opposition from having car for five dollars, or roughly, Ice Cold Beer 10 cents an uncomfortable place in the sun one pound. It was a 1929 tour the smallest non-beer provid- which comes in through the oma-er model of a well-known make ng filing station situated, per- American friends refused to hape, in the middle of a grilling mental windows high above the Treasury bench and shines on Mbe seen in it. One said it show-plain 30 miles from the nearest ed a very democratic spirit" town, could give you a frost- Lansbury and his supporters.

cur on my part to be willing to covered bottle out of an ice- His lever controls frame

chest containing a nationally- drive it. tains, which revolve on swivela.

The next day I set out on a advertised soft drink. tour of the South. and I was Many accepted telegrams and back at my starting-point in cables Some gave" "kerb ser vice." A specially designed Visitors to Mildenhall and Dux-Pennsylvania in just 15 days.) ford during the RAF Review having covered 3.200 miles and tray with paper napkin, knife Inoticed that only the officers in visited parts of eight States and fork, is clamped to the side. of your car, and you enjoy your Minor Casualties charge of the Guard of Honour

drink and Hot Dog (the na- wore full dress with busbies, and The thermometer rarely left'

tional sausage sandwich) swords. Some people wondered the 90's and once or twice fring you sit at the wheel.

the shade. There why the whole RAF. Review was ed 100 ini not carried out in full dress.

were minor casualties-five flat Most of the RA.F. junior officers tyres, an overheated engine, įdo not possess full dress. It costs roof which ripped and allowed a are of infinite variety: "Fried about £50, and a short-service Florida rainstorm the full hos Chicken Dinners," "Good Eats,"

or just "Eat of about 55. per week on his pay over 210 miles à day for a fort-i during his five years* service.- night brought its moments of the continually recurring "Bar- fatigue. But it would be hard B-Q" or "Barbecue" (there are: to imagine a more varied and many spellings to be seen), Your Daily Smile!

which means a joint of meat pleasant holiday.

The nights were spent in turning on a spit over a slow You are the eldest, Freddie," said Tourist Camps” or

"Tourist fire A slice is hacked off to

city make a considerable sandwich. ments used for television can mother sharply: "so it is really up to

The warmth of the greeting, and town, however small, stand- be manufactured so cheaply as you to set rood example to Johnny Homes Outside every

and Timothy” to make their introduction into

Freddie sniffed. "I'm!" he said "ing on the main highways, tha and still more of the farewell the average home an easy mat- don't mind being an example for motorist in America may find is terrific at the filling stations. draws up before The Modern Miracle, ter. Yet nothing could be more Johnny, but I won't be an example for these havens. The camps are As your car

foolish, in the light of experi- both of them. Johnny's got to be hit rows of little hutments contain-the petrol pumps of one of the Of Wireless -

ing beds Though the price larger stations a group of two

"How charged is usually the same: 75 or three men erupts from the The editor of the country newspaper cents or a dollar3s. or 48 door exclaiming. Organised as a display of the Twenty years ago broadcasting

their eyes falling on the Penn activity and inventiveness of a was a dream far more remote went home to dinner smiling radiant per person, they vary enorm you? How are you?" and then.

ously in amenity.

sylvania licence plate. "Well good new industry. the Radio Ex-than.is vision over a distance ly.

decades have "You must have had some

Eyes For Snakes

well, quite a-ways from home!" hibition held at Olympia recent-to-day. Two

wife.

In one I found scrupulous One of them plunges the ly was even more a celebration given us the advance that was fortune this morning, greeted as

"Indeed I did annomced the cleanliness, newly-washed cur-nozzle of the gas pump into the of a miracle of science. Of the shown at Olympia. If the zeal

first experiment of the masses to see proves as editor. "Tim Smith, who hasn't paintains a good bed. hot and cold tank. A second checks the who

of great as that for hearing, sound his subscription for 10 years, came ted with the sending

vision will presently be and stopped his paper.” through and electrical vibrations

Awful!** the air, many, including the making their progressive de most notable of them all, are velopment side by side. living and working amongst us The inventor of the thermionic valve, which made possible thej. translation of the electric waves into waves of sound, predicted that it would enable speech to carry round the world Yet the pioneers in discovery could scarcely have foreseen that in ported) was

men

jence, than to set limits to the for Timothy.”

possibilities that he ahead.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

One case of diphtheria (im

reported to the

a few short years such advance Health Authorities in the 24 hours would be made that the wire ended on Tuesday. less receiver would be installed in most homes, that

many

*

Finally

*

are

A third. and water. running water, a bedside read-oil

the windshield Pay- ling lamp, electric fan, new car-cleans

pet. The showers (reached by ment is made, and then, in- cheerful shout- A lady asked a pupil at * public walking through the camp in a fallibly, the examination, "What was the sin of dressing-gown with one eye on Thanks, call again," or "Come the Pharisees?".

"Eating camels, marm, replied the child.

(She had read that "strained at gnats and camels.

ar

quickly the ground for snakes) were back and see us." or just

clean and efficient.

"Harry back." The next night I spent too!

"Au Revoir Pharisees. swallowed weary to push on-in a squalid

The same au revoir motif is. room with uncurtained win- dows, a dirty bed. borrowed to be found in the restaurants Jones: “Your office sent me a cook

in seemingly from the peniten and snack bars. At one modest last week" -

Office Manager: tiary, so hard was it, and the but excellent restaurant

Florida the word "bill” had Employment

most depressing washing "Yes, that's right,” he

e been eschewed, presumably as Jones: "Well, it will give me the rangements.”

if you will die Tourist homes, of which I in bad taste. At the top of greatest pleasure

counted over 20 on the outskirts the slip of paper handed me of a small town in North Caro were the words "Guest Check" lina, are the houses of middle. Underneath was "Miss Robio- class people, often elderly or son is waiting on you." Then retired, who let out one or more came the itemised account, and large capitals, of their rooms to "transients finally in

Thanks and Come Back Some of the larger ones may have a negro porter and other Soon

*

Junior: "Daddy, what is dew"" Daddy: "The rent, the bote at the bank, and the instalment on the car

The following unclaimed tele-with me to-nigh thousands of people would be gram is lying at the office of the employed in the daily entertain-Great Northern Telegraph Co: ment and education of millions Maruki Co., C/o Shokin.- of listeners, and that the mak- ing of the necessary instru ments would become a great industry.

ing and will arrive in the Colony Those who sometimes doubt on Saturday morning. She sails that the eagerness of the aver-for Manila the same afternoon. 2ge man for new discovery may

the

The RM. S. Empress of Asia

leaves Shanghai to-morrow

have found disproof in Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 Olympia exhibition The en hours ending at 10 am to-day was ormous zest with which mil-0.01 inch. The total since January lions have accepted wireless en-1 has been 61.42 inches, as against tertainment almost as a neces- sity of life has given incentive an average of 7128 inches. Ito the manufacturers of instru-

Sub-Lieutenant Jackson, of ments to meet demands that.MS. Duchess, reports the loss of sometimes take fantastic forms.

FLOOD CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH

Drought Accompanies Inundations

CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY

EXPRESSED

refinements..

Various Scales

"Hitch hikers, wistful for a lift swarmed outside towns of size. I was repeatedly any At the other end of the scale warned against giving people is the ordinary "guest room" of lifts on the road, and many cautious by the bourgeois family, with the motorists made lady of the house, 2.ways genial tales of stick-up men harden and pleasantly talkative, bring their hearts and pass on All ing you your pitcher of ice the same I saw a few instances water and offering, to cook your of hitch hikers obtaining rides. Hsuchow, To-daybreakfast in the morning My route south lay by way of Considerable relief was felt by Through most of my 3,000 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash The listener of to-day may be pair of binoculars which has the authorities and populace of miles I was on one or other of lington, Richmond (Virginia), Hsuchow upon hearing the report the great Federal highways. Wilmington (North Carolina), entertained while he is riding been stolen from the ship.

that the waterievel of Weishan Through forest. swamp tobacco Charleston, Savannah, St. Au- Yue Yuk-hang, alias Yue Che

and mountains these gustine (Florida), Daytona, sets in miniature to carry with

concrete ribbons go Beach, Palm Beach and Miami

The "Old South" him wherever he goes. But the Chung (or Chang), otherwise call-Lake and the flow of the Pu-loa- fields main direction of invention ated U Gee Chong, late of No. 24 ho River and the middle stream superb

more steady yesterday.

changing scene and conditions The Old South" lived up to the moment is in that general Yuk Sau Street, Hong Kong, who of the Grand Canal had become their way unaffected by the

Considerable anxiety is express signalled by the State lines its tradition in story and song

the violent "south east Along them the automobiles Continued on Page 3) improvement of cheaper sets died at the age of 45 in- for the home enabling the man testate, at that address on Augusted over

caused surging tear at high speed, few heeding of moderate means to pick up 23, 1984, left local estate to the wind, which most of the programmes of the value of $27,800. A petition by waves to wash against the west the limit of 45 miles an hour

ILLICIT ARMS world. The wireless instru-this widow. Yue Kwan She, dyke of the Lake, enveloping the officially imposed by most|- ment has become a normal part grant of Letters of Administration dyke It is said to be in a crum-States

Charge Against Two of house furnishing, as essen- of the estate has been granted.

Unemployed Itial to the daily round as chairs

in a motor-car. He can obtain

bling condition.

The authorities and populace

“Filling Stations The filling stations, cluster and tables themselves. It would A fatal accident occurred in of suchow and Pa-hsien are thick along the highways It! be difficult to estimate how King's Boad, near the Tsang Fook doubling their efforts to streng is not only cars but their occn- greatly that has added to the Piano Company's workshop, yester then the remaining dykes, in the bus No. 481, hope that a major catastrophe amenities of life, or to what day when ́n

Chi, knocked down can be averted

aged 40, NEW LOW PRICES! degree it has modified the char-driven by Le

acter of home-life, and widen- an unknown Chinese fed the interests of the family. who died in the Government Civil At the next stage of pro- Hospital at 10.50pm. yesterday. igress," if anticipations - are

THE SHUI HING

CO.

189-193 Des Voeux Road, Ca

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Tel

FLOOD AND DROUGHT A most contradictory: situation is in evidence here, for, whi districts north of Hsuchow

realised, we shall move into the Sergeant Edwards of the Police, in the grim fear of a calamitons Fera of television, supplement- was admitted to the Government mundation, the farmers south grip orning as the Hanchow are now in the g ing but never supplanting the Civil Hospital this

zies sustained when drought. No rain bas, fallen transmission of sound. Of tele- result of

ollided

for more than mos

vision

pia

hibition

dee

Isuchow has

The

ight morning

Hui Chan Wui, unemployed aged 29, of No. 23 Eastern Street, and Chan Kau, aged 28, also un- most employed, of No. 135

Boad West, were this Charged before Mr. fadyen at the Court with hav an auto

Mac Police

ears runs Dass