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The ms. Tjinegara is due to sail

MISS BROWN AT A COCKTAIL PARTY

WHERE EVERYTHING IS "SUCH FUN"

MANNERS AND MODES OF THE

NEW YOUNG MAYFAIR

(By Angela Milne)

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

50 Foot Ship Through

I

44 Foot Canal

order to meet the tremendous demand on American shipping during the World War, it Was jdecided to put many Great Lakes steamers into the Atlantic service. but some of the Lakes ships seem- Led permanently eat off from the focean, because they were too long lor too wide to pass through the

MISS BROWN at half-past Joan opens the door of the flat Welland Canal: Many ships that

MISS were too long for the that

for Batavia via Manila and ports on Tuesday, September 1, at

3.M

4

10

33.7

The s.s. Tjikembang will for Sourabaya vis ports on Tues day next at 11 am.

curtain,

?

24 hours

ed longest and most kindly by Terrace, third floor. S. 1. Flattery other

and young man with long dark hair Miss Brown stands by the Miss Brown realises that they

posterity. We brought nothing was in charge of the case into the world, neither may we said that the case was

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nose, and a piece of hair hang-She is holding a plate of sau- were cut in half and floated ing over her eye, and a smudge sages on sticks, and she tells through

Brown to take one, The freighter Charles R. Van of typewriter ink on her arm.Miss and a whole heap of letters to because they are marvellous, Hise presented.a double problem be corrected just because Mr. and to go right in; and then to the Shipping Board engineers. Richardson is in a bad temper she looks over Miss Brown's She was too long to get between The m.s. Cremer will sail for and knows she wants to get shoulder and screams "Hullo, the canal locks, and her beam of my dear!" at someone else on 50 feet was 6 feet too wide for the 44 foot canal However, her But Miss Brown at six, cool the stairs. Mankind may be divided, as Singapore. Penang and Belawan away in time.

Miss Brown moves into the bull was less than 44 feet deep, so each was Gaul by Julius Caesar, into Deli at 4 pm on Thursday, Septem- and powdered and beautiful.

rather, the room the vessel was cut in two, leans negligently against aniroom or three parts: That which beber 3.

off-white brocade curtain with seems to rush at her in a wave: half rolled on its side, and it went lieves in keeping a good thing

Choi Tim, aged 25, unemployed. Bronx in one hand and an the rattle of glasses and voices, through the canal without trouble. to itself, that which is willing

Through the haze and smell of cigarette

Three cases of enteric fever to part at a price, and lastly, was this morning charged before olive in the other.

Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central her eyelashes (which have smoke, a sudden blare from the OF the altruists who insist

a were reported to the local Health carnal somehow grown half an inch) gramophone in the corner, telling the world. The last Magistracy, with having

ended on Wednesday. class is naturally the rarest, knowledge with Leung Hui, aged and her eye-veil, Miss Brown burst of laughter from another authorities during the but its apostles are remember on August 15 at No. 3 Lyndhurst can see, leaning against the corner.

marvellous Crowded Everywhere perhaps five seconds, and then

comand a blue shirt. He is asking door and looks round. It is have to talk about the "It's frightfully hot, so cool, and how she has been crowded against the window. isn't it?" she asks- Ja number of us during our brief hearing for August 27

amusing herself all day, and They are crowded everywhere. "Yes, isn't it?" says Hugo. sojourn pick up some bright P..

what she thinks of the Russian There are two people trying to "Frightfully.” idea which, like the sand-grain

A Dinner Dance will be held on ballet. Perhaps his shirt is get past her. Miss Brown "Do you like it hot or cold?" in the oyster's shell, so frets!

Bay green, or even yellow.

edges round the door and near-asks Miss Brown. us that it develops into a lus-the Open Roof of Repulse

So Miss Brown's thoughts le bumps into a tall young man. "Well, I like it. fairly hot," trous growth which must be Lido-weather permitting-and at

"But not hot as shown to an admiring public. Repulse Bay Hotel in event of bad run as she jolts along in the He is carrying two glasses. says Hugo. Should the idea be a commer-weather, to-day at 9 p., and the bus from her office to the cock-He smiles distantly and passes this. Not frightfully hot."

eyes fixed on the "Nor do I," says Miss BroWNL cial proposition, our blister may usual Tea Dance will be held to tail party. At South Kensing-on, his

Miss Brown notices, Except when you're in the prove a pearl of great price.morrow at 5 pm, at Repulse Bay ton she gets off the bus. glasses.

Joan's dat is somewhere near with a shock of surprise, that country, of course. Then I But in such cases it is nowa-Hotel

bere, or so it said on the back he is wearing a blue shirt and like it really frightfully hot, days necessary to employ a pro

Mr. J. R. Masson returned to the of the invitation card. "Some that his hair is definitely long, don't you?" fessional herald to proclaim the

after a Town hoardings Colony yesterday

brief where near South Ken, but it's even if it isn't exactly dark. great news.

They are getting on rather sort of part of a mews, and No. He looks, frightfully clever-well. Hugo brings out his and country beauty-spots visit to Shanghai

is next to 16, though I can't He hands one of the glasses to cigarette case. Thank you,” sparkle with a thousand mes-

Ng Fat, 29, unemployed, a form-think why, but it's quite easy a girl. sages appealing to the hungry,

"Yes," Miss Brown hears him says Miss Brown, taking a

cigarette. thirsty, sick, bored and uncloth-er servant of Mrs. Hall, of Luns if you ask."

Someone holds out ed. Get-rich-quick schemes Buildings, Kimberley Road,

“Walk Right Up”. say, "I did the 271 miles in just a plate. She takes another

old over seven. Seven and three sausage on a stick. are tidings of considerable sus-brought before Mr. E. Himswarth Miss Brown asks an

Now, and woman,

Joan comes up with a tray. 2 man selling minutes, to be precise. picion rather than great joy, at the Kowloon Magistracy rester-

But that is "A dry Martini or a sweet?" being things that an honest day charged with theft of $240.

papers, and a policeman, and a when you

she asks. schemer prefers to keep to him- It was stated that on September little boy on roller-skates, and all that Miss Brown hears.

Miss Brown wonders what to "Dry, please." says Miss self. But the physically per-1, 1935. Mrs. Hall reported to the fect and mentally efficient may police the loss of this amount of at last she finds herself, some

20 minutes later, outside a do with the stick off the sau-Brown, because she knows you discovered experience 2 genuine and money. It was later zenerous urge to help the weak that defendant stole the money newly-painted black door with sage. She puts it in her hand-ought to like dry Martinis bet-. "And have an olive," says and afflicted into better ways of from a chest of drawers in Mrs. Low of bells down the side. bag. She takes her gloves off, ter than sweet.

do. And Joan. Miss Brown takes one; living. Harbingers of health Hall's bed-room, and went to Shum There is a card in Joan's write and puts them on again, just

now Joan comes back, with two another stick. and education are worthy of Chun where he lost it all in gambling pinned on the door: "Walk for something to

Before Miss Brown walks bottles and a red-faced young their modest hire, since human ing. Returning to the Colony four Right Up.". nature puts as little faith in days ago, defendant was traced by right up she powders, her noseman in horn-rimmed spectacles free treatment as in tasteless police agents and arrested. Sergeant | medicine.

Haynes conducted the prosecution. again, because she is feeling so "Mary," she shouts to Miss and untidy. Brown, "come and talk to Hugo: frightfully hot But most of the great world- His Worship sentenced defendant There is a buzz of conversation while I

"So it is," says Hugo, with upstairs. coming from

It drinks."

"Frightfully Hot" delight "The old Badger." mercenary efforts of grows louder as Miss Brown

Hugo and Miss Brown stand He moves away. and trouser-merchants climbs the stairs, and it breaks

each other for (Continued on Page 7) and air-into a sudden clatter of talk as and look at

carry anything out, but quite mittal one. The case was fixed for her how she manages to look very dark, because people are weather.

2.30 4.

was

shaking discoveries have been to two months' imprisonment. given to humanity by scien-! tists and inventors who were purely far more concerned with in-skirt- įducing people to appreciate to induce the bead- their messages than to pay for clothed barbarians to embrace them. The early philosophers, the gospel of garments. physicians and reformers were It is, of course, not always thankful for an attentive audi-easy to differentiate between a fence and no half bricks. great truth and a great myth. Founders of religions and up-No doubt a medieval theologist setters of established social would have thought himself lorders were so consumed by justified in going to the stake their own zeal that discretion to support his sincere convic- often went by the board, and tion that 25 angels could stand they frequently were them-on the point of a needle, instead selves burnt by an unkym-of the 24 or 26 allowed by

wranglers.

What pathetic populace. We, with orthodox

cried

our modern broad outlook and was that great news that had boasted freedom from bigotry, to be brought from Ghent to find it hard to credit the seemn-Aix with so much gasping and: Mr. Browning is ingly petty details of ritual for galloping? which a man would cheerfully said to have confessed that so endure the rack and thumb-far as he was aware, there was screws. "Play the man, mas-none. Many vital. messages somewhat unfortunately ter Ridley

Bishop are Latimer as the flames licked unintelligible to the masses. around them. "This day we Einstein's theories have played shall light such a candle. ." the very devil with our cherish- Small wonder fiery metaphors ed ideas of straight lines and were so often employed by decent infinity. Happily the these men of burning faith. full gravity of his dictum that "Thy Word is a consuming "all space is bent" is believed fire," sang the prophet, and we to be only fathomable to five still hand on the torch of learn- other kindred scientists. Even ing and science and art. Even the sanest and most sagacious err in their the early inventors, impoverish-may sometimes led by pioneer experiments, estimate of the epoch-making could sometimes give the world value of a truth. Oliver Wen- their great truths only by dell Holmes tells of a learned conceived a stoking their furnaces with the professor who household furniture. But the magnificent thought whenever! true evangelists have usually he was in the early stage of He finally resolv- succeeded, even in the face of chloroform. heart-breaking handicaps, ined by one bold sally to lay hold getting their messages across. of it and solve the riddle of the therefore It seems incredible that a mis-universe. Having isionary can settle on a South composed himself in an easy Sea island and impose Chris-chair with writing materials at tian ethics upon savage tribes hand, he 'fahaled chloroform. who collect heads as we do pos-As soon as he felt the great tage stamps, find human flesh thought evolving in his mind, definitely more wholesome than he roused himself for an butcher's meat, and already instant, seized his pen, wrote possess a fine ferocious set of desperately and fell back u- tribal gods who have suited conscious. On coming to he their purposes admirably for read, in sprawling but legible centuries. Yet this has been characters, this great secret: done again and again with "A strong smell of turpentine greater success than meets thelpervades the whole."

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"Hugo," says Joan, badger's here."

"The Badger?" says Hugo.,

Joan. "The Badger," "Over there."

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