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ANTS' EXPEDITIONS

Colonial expansion was recent- ly in the air literally in London- That was the explanation of" the plague of flying ants which in- vaded many London households | last month. S

THE LOST ART OF DRINKING

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NEW CONDITIONS IN UNITED STATES

་་

MANY MORE WOMEN SEEN IN PUBLIC SALOON BARS

(By Terence O'Brien)

New York floridly painted wall as a back-

The Bank Holiday heat-wave provided ideal conditions for the

RINKING is still a lost art ground, and mix drinks with ants' flight after their annnál

in the United States. The the sleight-of-hand dexterity wing growing-

saloon has come back, gorgeous-familiar to survivors from the Having grown their wings, the arrayed in red leather, old wet days. ants ́ ́fy away to found new Chromium plating and деоп The saloons are more ornate colonies. It is their only method lights, but pre-Prohibition bar than those in Europe: Thou- of spreading their species across men retrieved from other jobs sands of pounds have been spent the country. On landing from to cultivate a thirsty clientele in adorning some of them with their fight in the new territory complain that the old traditions futuristic furniture, which runs mainly to black glass tables, the ants bite off their wings, in are not maintained

armchairs the manner of venturesome voy-. The public, they say, is con-thicky cushioned agers who burn their boats, and suming less alcohol and with slung on curved steel frames, settle down to establishing their greater caution - The seasoned and indirect lighting thrown discovered colony.

QUEEN LEADS

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In'a cold summer the ants tend case. to die quickly after growing wings, so that householders

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China Mail engines and utilising heavy oils, not then invaded by flying swarms.

Your Daily Smile!

teacher

.

Is

no

toper with a copper lining who from odd angles, even from was their mainstay has passed beneath the bar and behind its out His successor is a finicky glittering expanse of pyramid- The flight is known as the

person more inclined to fancy ed glasses.

One unusual feature of post- Nuptial Flight Only the Queen mixtures, who looks upon a bar ant and male ants of the swarm as a kind of glorified ice cream Prohibition drinking in public is the predominance of women. take part, the sexless worker antsparlour.

You see well-dressed girls of Whether remaining unadventurously

the country home. Theirs is a dull life. They actually drinking less is a debat the secretarial type dropping in are useless for the principal purable point. The enemies of at the luncheon interval or after pose of the expedition.

Prohibition insist that it is so. office hours, usually in couples The Queen ant leads the enter and point to the fact as proof or threes, for a quiet cocktail.

Saloon Habit were 21 rise, followed by the males, and that the dry years failure. the landing lamentable

Official They meet each other before she also selects

statistics tend to support their dinner for aperitifs, and no one ground.

thinks of criticising them except perhaps the barman. Less Drinking Now

The saloon habit as acquired by During 1917 the American women workers and shoppers people consumed 1884,500,000 seems to be an extension of the gallons of beer, 48,000,000 gal-ice-cream parlour habit which the chances of Great Britain

lons of wine and 85,248,000-gal has always been universal in becoming self-sufficient as re- Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 19, 1935 gards fuels are enormously en-

lons of whisky. For the fiscal the United States.

Prohibition hanced.

school with the year 1935, including the esti Before The demand for coal Junior came to Fulham's "Pied Piper" in its natural state is continual-lad news that his father had work mated volume of consumption respectable woman would have

ly narrowing, but coal remains again.

"What is he doing?" asked the during June, they drank 1.562 dreamt of entering a saloon 000.000 gallons of Beer, 28-Now a man may bring his wife Fulham is not a romantic the only power-source of which

the she has large supplies beneath “Ok, he's got a hard-job," said the 000,000 gallons of wine and or sweetheart for cocktails, and reighbourhood nor are

six 55,500,000 gallons of whisky-sit with her on high stools at members of its Borough Coun-her soll If transport adapts child. "He's got to

Although the population had the bar without attracting itself to the fuels that coal can watchmen." Like

+ cil romantically-minded.

increased by 26,000,000, the attention. the rest of us, they are con-furnish, the national position in

A Different Game

The new mode, as might well cerned over the high total of any time of stress will be vastly

strengthened

Two youths went to see a billiard current consumption of whisky! street accidents, and they

match in which well-known protes and wine was smaller by one be expected, has aroused the third and of beer by one-sixth hostility of the reformers of sionals were playing realise the special risks which

These figures relate only to both sexes In some cities children run in those months The New Night-Watch Silently they watched one of the

players pile up a huge break, and at tax-paid liquors. In order to there is agitation for the pas- when the schools are, closed!

last, one whispered to the other arrive at an accurate estimate sage of a law forbidding women and the need for air tempts Details were recently publish what do you call this game, Alf of the public demand it is to drink in saloons. Excise them to play in the road. The ed of the methods now used in

"Why, biliards, of course," re

* necessary to add the consump Commissioner Thomas Ander- risks are diminished by the dealing with nocturnal crime in plied Alf

A police

The other was alent for a few tion of "bootleg liquors, and son, of St. Louis, is one of the device of closing certain streets the London area to traffic and so converting man's function nowadays is. minutes; then he whispered again this is an unknown quantity champions for their exclusion. to his friend, "Well, what do they Opinions differ as to the effect Mothers who used to worry them into playgrounds, but like a doctor's, preventive. But

call the wame we

play at of the repeal of Prohibition on about the sobriety of their where recreation grounds are if he fails to prevent the com- club?!"

illicit sales.

" he said to available, as is the case in Ful-mission of a crime his next aim

worry about the sobriety of ham, it is clearly desirable that is to get on the criminal's track Time lost may the children should make the without delay. fullest possible use of them. mean crime unpunished. Accordingly the Council engag-great expansion of London in ed the services of an LCC. recent years and the improve- gymnastic instructor as “holi- ment in the means of transport

One and their means that the policeman has Two old settlers, confirmed back-the other hand, the liquor taxes for a different reason.

in the backwoods. The have been sharply increased flood-lit compounder of cock- drifted from politics since repeal, and this has en-tails said bitterly: "We want couraged evasion with conse-protection from "mooching

watch

Treasury Convinced

sons,

me.

Descriptive Small child to her mother, after Mr. Morgenthan, Secretary of their daughters " The they had passed

Barmen In Favour in plus the Treasury, believes that -2: MAI

of the I found the barmen of St. fours: "Oh look, Mummy, there's rigid enforcement man with puffed sleeves on his legs Federal Excise law has cut Louis strongly in favour of deeply into bootlegging. On eliminating women patrons, but

day playmaster onded by more ground to cover and less clors, sat

experiment was

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Stamped

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such overwhelming success that time in which to cover it. This conversation the Minister of Transport call situation is met by a system of and finally got around to cooking

“I got one o' them cookery booksquent stimulus of the fillicit women. They are bad for ed for a special report on it patrol-cars fitted with wireless

me."

during a tour of the country martinis as though they were in

Yet the quick response made and in touch with Scotland once, but I never could do nothing traffic. Even so the Treasury business because they sit over by these London children to the Yard.

Too much fancy work in it, eh?" experts who keep close watch on one drink for an hour and waste con-valuable table space. We are Nor is the policeman on his "You've said it! Every one supply and demand are new provision for their amuse- ment will surprise no one fami-beat forgotten He too has them recipes began the same way vinced that lower consumption organising a campaign with the liar with the child-mind. A been brought into closer touch "Take a clean dish and that settled per capita is indicated by their slogan. Swat the feminine bar-

returns, an

fly." Typists will come in here little group of true Cockneys with headquarters. A light in

I saw very little drunkenness and park themselves over two will devise entertaining and a police telephone box catches often original games for hours, his eye, and he promptly re- CHEUNG CHAU NOTES

Dissatisfaction Over Ferry Service

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

[From Our Own Correspondent] by Chueng Chan, Yesterday

man's

particularly if there are a few ceives a report or

No sleath of grown-ups looking on. But a description crowd of London children is fiction accomplishes greater helpless. It feels lost in the marvels than the group of men vastness of London, and waits on night duty at Scotland Yard. They are in touch with all Lon- for somebody to give a lead.

don. The records of their Road Transport On Oil cffice are at their disposal to

From Coal

Police officials informed me that a girls club.", "a". nearly all the arrests for One reason for the presence drunkenness are made in lower-of women and girls in public class bars where doubtful drinking resorts is the decline No spirits are sold cheaply.A of the pocket-flask party-

The average habitue of the longer is it a gay adventure for favourite cocktail lounge," as half a dozen couples to pool many saloons are now called, their stocks of boot-leg gin or indicate probable criminals.

usually confines himself to two whisky at a dance and defy the At their voice patrol-cars and The number of visitors is ra- whiskies and sodas, or two cock-law by swiftly becoming drunk uniformed men converge on an pidly thinning out. Most of them tails, and speedily vanishes. Since drinking is no longer No swift revolution in trans-area and block all lines of left before the stormy weather Beer is the popular drink be illegal the rest has gone from such exploits. The sale of poc- port will follow on the decision escape.. The modern criminal came on Two local residents cause of its cheapness

Prices generally are slightly ket flasks has almost ceased. to replace the petrol-engines in is often an enterprising and who had been at Lantan got back

lower than in Great Britain for (Continued on Page 10) London ommbases by motors efficient man; but he is counter-just in time. using heavy oil, but in the ed by still greater enterprise and Our ferry service has been the same brands and grades of course of years the change will efficiency at Scotland Yard. somewhat disorganised The liquor A generous portion of

CONDITIONS IN launch Sun Chau has been in imported Scotch, the authenti

FACTORIES dock and it was replaced by the city of which is muumistakable, Sun O, which made too rapid an costs is 5d., served with domes approach to the jetty ons day and tic soda-water, at the ordinary smashed a big hole in the wall of first-class saloon Cocktails, ex- the ticket office at the shore end cluding the exotic mixtures of of the pier, in addition to damag-liquems preferred by women. ing her own nose in the attempt. cost 1s. 2d to 15. 6d. She in turn was replaced by the size is beyond criticism, and Sun Tai, which is far too small to is the blending.

have

national importance: Should the Diesel engine be employed for all heavier trans- port the prospect of Great Britain becoming self-support- ing in oil-fuel is enormously enhanced. From coal there can be obtained a much larger yield of the heavier oils than of the lighter hydro-carbons.

EXCAVATION OF MING TOMBS

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