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MOLING

MOLINO

WHERRY

REGISTERED)

SHERRY

A FINE, PALE, FULL-FLAVOURED WINE. Produce of Spain.

SHIPPED BY

WILLIAMS, HUMBERT & CO., JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA.

Agents

SPAIN

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Wines & Spirit Merchants.

CEE PEE WARE

Charming DECORATIVE POTTERY in shapes and colourings which are so popular to-day on account of the beautifully blended colours which add a note of individuality to any furnish- ing scheme.

MANUFACTURED IN THE HEART OF THE BRITISH POTTERY CENTRE.

CROCKERY & GLASS DEPT.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.) WATCHMAKERS, & JEWELLERS. DIAMOND MERCHANTS, UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for ADMIRALTY CH ROSS FINOCULAKS and TELI KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTI ENGLISH SIEVERWARE Direct I

** High Class English Jewellery.

İSA

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 2, 1937.

The China Mail

Ninety-Second Year of Publication Wyndham Street, Hong Kon

Telephone

London Office:

are to or-

meals and tastings" for

to spread the know- good food, and to “op- islative restrictions pre- judicial to the enjoyment of food and wine." Whatever may 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. be the meaning or the value of Notice To Contributors.“ the last object, the others are All communications intended for definitely good. Most hopeful of publication should be addressed to all is the society's endeavour to the Editor, and be accompanied by attract women members, for it the Writer's Name and Address, is they, ruling the kitchen, who not necessarily for insertion but are able to spread the knowledge as a guarantee of good faith. and the practice of good eating. A society such as this can do a Subscription Rates.

great deal to reform a nation's meals to give us all, at our dinner tables, a sufficiency that is really and truly elegant-

*.*.

One

3 Months

HK$36.00

Moms HK$18.00

·HK$ 9.00 Postage Abroad Extra

Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 2, 1937. "No Tramps”

EATING NOBLY

Under Britain's sublime con- stitution it is the business of the Opposition to oppose, but it South Africans who cherish would create a less unfortunate the art of noble eating will de impression of British intelligence light to hear that the Wine and among trade rivals if the opposi- Food Society of London is to tion could avoid such fatuities Arthur Greenwood's form a branch in Cape Town, as Mr. What is not quite clear, however amendment to the Bill continuing is why South Africa should be the subsidy for tramp shipping, singled out for this high honour: which the House recently de Why, for instance the Society bated.

"conditions

did not pick on Hong Kong or To talk about Shanghai. There is plenty of which are swelling private pro- scope for education locally. perty" in connection with an in- Many things may be made of the dustry that is being destroyed business of eating. The simplest by subsidised foreign competi- is to call food "scoff" and to de- tion may be good Socialism but Your it with the single-minded-it is vastly foolish, and to talk ness of a dog swallowing a lump about "the efficient reorganisa of liver. This sort of eating is a tion" of tramp shipping" purely physiological process, the equally nonsensical since "tramp mere swallowing of nourishment shipping" is nothing but a con- without thought and without venient name for that part of imagination. There is pleasure, the merchant shipping industry of a sort, but it is a sub-human that cannot in the nature of pleasure, the elementary feeling things be organised.

of well-being that comes from an

appetite satisfied. There is also Meum And Tuum

dietetic eating, which is partly

mastication and partly mental Advice by a lecturer on psy tarithmetic, the unfortunate vicchology:

habit of stealing, double his pocket money. Give him six- pences to save as well as pennies to spend. That will satisfy his natural acquisitive-

tim to this habit counts the "If you have a son in the movements of his lower jaw in order to make certain that his food is thoroughly mixed with the right proportion of the na- tural lubricant whose name ist seldom mentioned where politeness? people meet, at every forkful, Of course, you must make too, he mentally tots up the sure, before adopting this course, vitamins and calories, the that it is acquisitiveness that is minerals and proteins that have making the child steal, because gone before and are likely to there are quite a number of come after, and when the re other possible incentives. You quisite amount of each has been may have some difficulty in ingested he rises self-righteously psycho-analysing the problem. In from the tables

that case play safe and give the

These two methods of eating, little perisher a good hiding. with all the gradations in be tween, may sate or they may Army Recruitment provide just sufficient nourish- ment for the body, but they can-

Finding new ways to find re- not truly satisfy Gluttony or cruits, seems to be as difficult crankiness are both out of place as finding the recruits them- at the table. True eating is an selves. Reports from England art Like all arts, it is peculiar indicate that everyone is taking ly liable to abuse by the snobs a hand in the game of “What and by those who, having learn- would you do if you were Secre ed a few words of technical tary for War?" In the barbars patter, pretend to an odious shop the subject is as popular as the day's racing and young men superiority justified neither experience nor palate. They are of suitable age for enlistment not noble eaters, they are mere are eager to talk, talk, talk, or do ly highbrow diners. The true anything in fact except enlist. artist in eating, like the true What is going be the

War Office g tist mother departments of come of it all? ing, is essentially simple and schemes for attracting the miss unaffected Home-made bread, ing soldiers are achieving good cheese and good beer, on little Thirty-five thousand men suitable occasions, make as mem- are needed in the current rable meal for m as the and it is already more gallicised complications that the doubtful whether 20,000 of these diners delight in. The will be forthcoming..... Nothing and Food Society, unde seems to be able to ove

esidency

the Army,

of

Simon, and including

Craig and Ambrose Her

advisory councit,

prejudice against prejudice from which

neith

avy or the RAF is 1 ring af all