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~THE CHIKA MATA, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937

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THE LEAD PENCIL

once heard a man who makes 'over for one, on window ledges, with the more useful troops. While business of writing say that, mantelpiece, and in flowerpots there is a halCinch of lead left, his right hand felt as if part of it which are always fair targets for a pencil is still a pencil. ~ was missing if there was no pencil) myone with a stray object to dis- Perhaps man's character · is

in it. I can well understand that pose of; high and low have revealed by the pencils he carries. feeling.

Jooked for one and found none. And a woman's. Some would have Not that the pencil is used all and within an hour I have come lit so, but I should not wish to be Morganatic marriage is a purely position. It is there as an aid to pencils crowding the table and of the signs. A well-kept pencil the time that it is held in writing back to find great congeries of too positive about the interpreting Up to the Germanic institution.

not necessarily for insertion, bus)1918 revolutions in Germany and thought. or at least as a symbol of overflowing the surrounding levels with a fine point is just as likely

us o guarantee of good faith.

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Imost methodical

f. Where had they been in the mean-to indicate a loiterer who spends Austria there were only 30 or 40 hope that thoughts will come. princely families in the two coun

time? Whence came they, and valuable time putting his pencil in Some practitioners of tries considered to be of "Eber art of writing require for the most that there is no such thing as a ciency. I have seen pages of the the how I cannot tell. I only know order as it does a person of effi- buertigkeit" (equal birth) with satisfactory results a favourite sufficiency, or a shortage of pencils, Deatest and the kingly and imperial families place or position, or perhaps

These families, like the Haben-favourite time of day or

a but either an absolute dearth or reckonings made with 3 percil night. an excess. Long and short, hard that required not only manual lobes, Windischgraetz, or Ysen-Marzo de la Roche writes against and soft, nicely pointed, broken, strength, but even the assistance burgs, were princely houRES

that an old drawing-board held on her stubby, chewed. penny-a-piecers of the tongue to make it performa

A. Hamilton Gibbs retires and ter-centers, they appear say, had lost their sovereiga rights, to the top of an ivy-clad stone masse one day on the library table,

et its work. when the Holy Roman Empire was tower on his farm. Ellen Glas- and the next day are all on abolished in 1805.

gow goes into her garden. John desk in an upstairs room. If a German or Austrian roy-Buchan used to compose his stories

Per Case of 144 Nips. Duty Paid. Hong Kong. Monday, Jan. 11, 1937 had been "mediatised." that is to knee

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Speaking at a dinner in Lon-sity or a member of one of these while he was shaving or riding on dan the other day, Dr. Maricau, families wished to marry outside a bus Amy Lowell wrote her a pencil away. That is the res-fuse to trickle, there is the pos- President of the German Cham-this circle, he could only do 30 poems between midnight and other son for the vast concourse of sibility of hunting up szother ber of Commerce, referred to morganatically.

people's rising hour. Irvin Cobbinondescript little remnants the bewildering condition of While such a marriage was per-cnce said he wrote his best story like dingy camp-followers,

that, pencil which ought to prove more fock productive. world trade which, be said, fectly legal, the bride could

not with his typewriter resting on a could only have catastrophic take her husband's name,

Thus, soapbox There are many,

less results-

if a Hohenlohe married a non-roy-famous, but trained to produce

That a world in which high al lady, his bride could not be Prin- their daily stint under any condi-

ROBBERY AT UN LONG

Four men, one of whom are arm-

Or perhaps thoughts have been running freely, but there comes an interruption from outside The user of the pencil.gets up to answ cess Hohenlohe.

tions, who need only to feel the Thus also the Archduke Franz touch of the typewriter keys be-1

er the call and the pencil. "the Ferdinand's morganatic

wife, neath their fingers and thoughts ed with a revolver, held up the in- right, true, and helpful pencil, is

laid down. When its ownzer Countess Chotek, though belong-at once turn into sentences and mates of the Fuk Cheong grocery turas, the pencil has disappeared. shop at Un Long Old Market, the flow of thought is choked, and

tariffs, unsettled and unstable currencies, quotas, import licences, clearing systems andị jother forms of exchange con-

trol are the rule and not the ex-ing to an old noble family, was not paragraphs. ception is not one in which in-styled the Archduchess. Her title ternational trade can thrive is was Duchess of Hohenberg. · jobvious.

Your Daily Smile!

They Have Their Uses

But what is the explanation of the development? Each na- tion blames everybody but it- It was after the operz. The ex self. Dr. Markau attributes all pensively dressed woman approached Germany's restrictive regula- the broad-shouldered man

"If I am not mistaken," she said, tions on the Versailles Treaty-I have the honour of speaking to the and the indemnity, forgetting renowned bass, have I bos?" conveniently perhaps that in- He felt flattered.

"And what can I do for you, ma- vestments of foreign capital in

dam" he asked." Germany after the armistice I can't find my car," she answer- far exceeded any outflow in the ed, pleasantly, Would you be so form of reparations or interest. kind as to call out "Charlie at the Japan, latest country to impose top of your voice?" stringent exchange restrictions,

fascinate.

The Ready Answer

* Deduction

world

My

garden lacks seclusion, about 2.45 am yesterday, and

tower robbed them of $4 in money.

According to a Police report, the robber gained entrance to the

There is

stone no ivied available I have an incurable! habit of sleeping between midnight and sunrise.

nothing can be done until the lost is found.

Of course, there are differing magic shop by breaking open the door As for zy in the touch of a typewriter, the

There were in the premises at the tastes in pencils. Some persons mere exercise of using the thing and three fokis, all of whom were my part. I like them soft, and time. Chu Sik-tong, the master. like them long and hard; but, for demands all my powers. The low-bound and gagged. After looting abortish

lead pencil is my lucky stone, the shop, the robbers fled.

or what you will. It does

not

always produce the desired effect. But, without it, there is no effect at all

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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Church Carved From Solid Rock

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That way they fit best into my hand and require little attention except to he occasionally run into the sharpener. I have no success with those important-look- ing pencils that are supposed to grind out a little lead

oke wants it. It is admirable to have one of those in colours to match

as

every handbag, but I keep a more humble article for real, if furtive.

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Not even a fountain pen will suffice, for it seems too permanent Once a sentence is down in ink, it looks too substantial to be deleted. the consequence of a threaten-i Teacher: "Watson, give me a sep: On the other hand, with a lead ing weakening of the yen, Lence which includes the

pencil, one can make a dozen false would certainly not admit to

Humble little things that they herself that the Manchurian father has a waistcoat with ten but can cross out, erase, or

Pupil (after deep thought): “My starts without compunetion; one THE Church of St. Emilion, inare, lead pencils are not even per-

scribble

the Gironde, France, is the mitted to go by their own true adventure, shipping and com- tons on, but he can only fasten eight" above the line, and run a whole most curious church of its kind name; for, as everybody knows, mercial subsidies, and ипесо-

squadron of balloons around the in all France. It was carved in they are not made of lead at all nomic competition in the inter-

A young father was entertaining margin of the sheet to carry emen-one piece out of solid rock as ear but of carbon national market, have contribut-

The particular some friends, when his small sondations. A lead pencil is the thingly as the 9th century. It is about kind of carbon-happens to be called ed largely to her currency pro- rushed into the room and announced for us poor scriveners who stutter 125 feet long by 55 feet wide and graphite, because it will write. blems. Doubtless Japan has her in a loud voice that he had just killed when we try to put our thoughts rises to a height of 65 feet. The However, it is not the little cry- own explanation, but equally five flies.

three were gentlemen, on paper.

adjoining oratory, fountain and stals of carbon which, when rub-.. certain is it that the fault is Dadds" be added "and two were But even lead pencils have their cell of the saint, have also been bed off on paper, make marks, let- credited to factors outside Ladies."

father was startled by the peculiarities, their shortcomings, carved out of the living rock. Alters, and words, that aid my flow of Japanese influènce and control.

and their endearing limitations. steeple 170 feet high does not rise thought as much as it is the shape They are above all things gregari- over the church but stands some and feeling of the writing instru GUS I have known our library distance away on a hill of earth.ment in my hand. There is nothing

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was which.

It is encouraging, therefore, velation of such biological knowledge to and Dr. Colijn, the Dutch and asked how he could tell which Premier, throwing out an in-: "Well" was the reply, "two of vitation to the Oslo Convention them were on the mirror, and the table to be entirely bare of pen- St. Emilion is a highly frequent that can take its place.

room led place of pilgrimage. signatories. Belgium and the others were round the whisky bottle. Scandinavian countries; all of whose currencies are now based

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According to Mr. G. Palmer, the

Mr.

of Trade, whose holiday, sowell-known hockey coach of th called, is plainly connected with plans for reciprocal trade agree entirely due to the efforts of the local European Y.M.C.A, it was ments on the lines of those con- British Consulate that his release cluded by Britain with so many from detention by the 151st. Di- other countries in the past few vision of the Fourth Route Army, years. Britain, in fact, "almost

was effected during the week-end | alone among the great nations, in Canton. has gone steadily and consist

Canton, On his way to ently about the job of rebuild-Palmer stopped at Shum. Shai, ing her world trade with a where he had some business to minimum of restrictions and a disenss with the Customs Officer maximum of obstacle-removing there. At 11.30 am. he restined agreements. No attempt has his journey and on reaching Fat- been made to seek self-shan, he was asked for his pass- sufficiency. The object has been bort. As he had no passport, he to trade with all who will agree was immediately sent back to Can- to trade on fundamentally equal ton for detention under armed terms.

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