"I can tell
WHITE
HORSE
blindfold
.. it's equal to a fine liqueur”
·Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LID.
Here's Luck!
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BEER
Bringing Up Father
| YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU ACTUALLY GOT YOUR. WIF BROTHER TO TO WORK ?M ARE LIVIN' IN
GREAT AGI
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"NOT ONLY-THAT- BUT. I'VE STOPPED HIM FROM BORROWING MONEY-HE WANTED FIVE BUCKS THIS MORNING-SO1 MADE HIM WORK FOR IT-
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL
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PROBLEMATICS BY BRAN SAAM-
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DIVIDE THIS SQUARE
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were the COINS?
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coins of one kind and 6 of another, or 4 of the first kind and 10 of a third kind or B of the second and 2 of the third. EACH SET MADE THE SAME TOTAL
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CHANGE IN CHA
EIPING. "Surely this can't be
PE Piping,"
Venturing into the recesses of the blare of loud-ép
management calls
a the balance when
SAUND
By
IN
"CHIN
returned young foreign resident as what the she surveyed the Wagons-Lits Hotel "Japanese village," a scries of small truck, the drive: lobby after checking in. On the eating-houses in complete Nipponese of the rules of train journey from Tangku to Pei- style with waitresses to match. The ping it had astounded her to find large dining-room had been divided that the coupes and the dining-car into "zones." In one zone the Chin- were all but monopolized by Japanese ese boys waited on the, tables as soldiers and civilians, A Japanese usual, appearing none too happy, soldier a mere boy-had offered Sullen expressions were to be noted. hor a cigarette and proceeded to In the other zone were smiling, bow- practice his halting English on her. ing, charming little Madame Butter- She had been in England a few flys who received their orders from months before the clash at the Mar- a maitre d'hotel of their own na- co Polo Bridge-the beginning of tionality. what the Nipponese are pleased to
My friend buzzed in and out like playful mood or term the "China Incident," an un-"
an irritated buttlefly, for the dinner of sake, almost: derstatement if ever there was one.
gong had just sounded: She reflected into matchwood.
She was to 80 In writing to her, friends had, that no longer would the walls of in guarded phrases (owing to the this somewhat outmoded but com- fearsome-looking
that censorship), intimated
con- pletely comfortable hotel resound to strike a ricsha ditions in North China since the in- the laughter and the chatter of his nose bled, in
round-the- the fare.
This flux of the Japanese, were by no frivolous but friendly means what they had been. Even the world tourists. No longer would the the former West toughest of the die-hards had been Chinese staff, alert and courteous ents' Club where forced to the conclusion that the and English-speaking, reap rich re- gathering of Ch various Chinese regimes of the past wards in the way of tips. The had been held u were to be greatly preferred to the Japanese tipped fairly heavily too, 1937 and which present one.
but the largest would go to the Ja- club and cating sign now hangs Standing now in the lobby of this panese on the hotel staff.
the In the days that were to follow this building wh British owned establishment newly arrived guest, the only Euro- the young prodigal was to experien- back in the da pean to sign the hotel register that ce many surprises. She would find Dynasty.) day, had the impression that she was that Wang Fu Ching Ta Chich
*
In the argum
in a hotel somewhere in Tokyo. A (Morrison Street), was like the Ginza fare a Chinese p Japanese clerk smiled broadly from in Tokyo-in peacetime with its moned, but he behind the counter, Japanese men ubiquitous Japanese stores,,its, blaze How dare he e and their kimonoed women shuffled of neon lights, its numerous Japan- pair, these prou its heavy the conquering r about în zoris or ordinary house ese pedestrians and
strewn traffic, so unlike the good old days, puller be content slippers; toothpicks were about the floor. Some of the guests when Peiping was one of the most "gentlemen” pale called to the Chinese bell-boys who leisurely and dignified capital in the and bathe his i answered in Japanese. The smell world and few motorcars were to be so that was th of Japanese cooking, which, once smelled, can never be forgotten, 25- saulted one's olfactory nerves.
YANK YOU SAY YOU TOLD HIM' YOU'D GIVE HIM BUCKS IF
FINS CUT THE
GRASS AN' H AGREED 21 WISH I COULD GO WITH YOU IT WOULD BE A NOVELTY TO SEE HIM WORK-
Been:
She was to f What was to irritate her more for she was a than anything else, was the continual and her income
YOÙ SAID IT~I'M GONNA TAKE A MOTION PICTURE OF HIM "IF ICAN GET HIM IN MOTION –
WHAT'S
ALL THIS P
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