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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, -NOVEMBER 14, 1953..

BUTTERFIELD the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

and SWIRE.

“CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD., B...

BAILINGS TO

.Tientsin

Shanghai

"HUNAN" "YUNNAN"

10 am, 18th Nov,

10 am. 10th Nov,

ANRIVALS FROM

"YUNNAN"

...... Shanghai.

Singapor

"HUNAN" ?SZECHVEN"

.Tientain

10th Nov. 16/17th Nov. 17th Nov,

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

"TAIPING"

"TAIPING"

BAILINGS TO

.Sydney

ARRIVALS FROM

21st Nov

19th Nov.

Kobo

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Balling to Europe via Aden & Port Said

"BELLEROPHION"Liverpool &

WHO'S A WINDOWPANE?

"MENTOR"

Load Dublin 23rd Nov. Genoa, London Rotter- dam Amsterdom

14th Nov.

"

*

Hamburg

"PATROCLUB"

Marseilles, Liverpool & Üldpow

23rd Nov.

5th Dec.

20th Nov,

"ANTILOCHUS" Liverpool & Glasgow "CYCLOPS"

&

13th Dec, Dublin 23rd Des. Liverpool Scheduled Balllngs from Europe

G. "PATROCLUS“

8. "ANTILOCHÚS“

G. "CYCLOPS"

8. "AUTOLYCUS"

G. "PERSEUS"

9. "ANCHISES"

Q. "ULITONEUS"

8. "ASTYANAX"

Baile Liverpool

Salis

Rotterdam

Salled

Sailed

do

ལ

In

ៗk_Nav,

13th Nov..

18th Nov.

. 24th Nov, 3rd for.

ith Dec, 14th Dec. 24th Dre.

Arrives Hoat Hour 17th Nov. 24th Nov. 30th Nov. 8th Dec.

14th Dec. 20th Dec 20th Dec. 7th Jan.

Q. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool. B. Loading dwanzga, hefore Liverpool

Carriers option to proceed vin other porta in load a discharge

carro.

DE LA RAma Lanes

ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC &

PACIFIC COAST PORTS

"BENARES"

"AJAX"

"JIAINAN"

"AGAMEMNON"

"DONA AURORA"

-op-

SN.Y.

Balls 8.F.

Arr. H.K

Salled

Salled

16th Nov.

-do-

4th Dec,

da

15th Nov.

2nd Dec.

14th Dec. 31st Dec.

25th Nov.

17th Dec,

6th Jan.

SAILING for NEW YORK, vin SAN FRANCISCO,

LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.

“TELEMACIUS"

"DONA NATI“

"BENARES"

Loads

Balim

19th Nov.

20th Nov.

4th Dec

5th Dec.

19th Dec.

20th Dec.

Accept cargo for Kingetan and to Central & South American ports on through bills of lading,

Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Koute

Depart Hongkong

#K/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 1.00 a.m. Tue. Fri. Cornets at Hangkok with UBA on IK/Maella/D.N. Borneo DC-31 8.30 p.m. Tue, Fri.

HK/Salgon/Singapore

1/tanol/talphong 11/Bangkok/kungoon/

Calcutta

DC-41 11.00 .. Wed DC-3 10.00 an. Wed.

(DC-4) 11.00a.m. Sat.

Arrives .K.

Con return) 7.13 4.1. Wed. Nat.

Tursday's for Rangoon)

3.43 p.m. West. Bat.

300 km. Thu,

2.43 pm. Thu.

4.30 p.m. Sun.

All the above subject to Alteration without notice.

for particulare plessa apply to:

Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd.

1 Connaught Rd. Tel: 30331/8

Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. Wast. Tel: 25875,32144.24878

EVERETT

LINES

EVERETT ORIENT LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator--passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo. China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon,, Calcutta and Chittagong.

"NOREVERETT”

Arrives Sails

Nov, 20 from Singapore. Nov, 27 for Kobe

"REBEVERETT”

Arrives Sails

Dec. 2 from Manila

d

Yokohama.

Dec. 3 for Singapore,

& Rangoen (Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Robe/Okinawa)

Penang, Calcutta

EVERETT STAR LINE

Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Kurea, Japan, Philippines, Indo. i China, Stam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay,

Karachi and Persian Gulf Porta.

Arrives Soils

Nov. 18 Nov, 17

from Japan. for Singapore, Port Swatten-

Madras, ham,

Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, KHOT- ramshahr, Basrah & Bahrein,

"STAR ARCTURUS”

Arrives Sails

"THAI"

Arlives Salls

Nov. 19 from Singapore, Nov. 20 for Inchon, Pusan, Kobe

Yokoimma.

Nov, 20 from Sandakan. Nov, 27 for Okinawa, Kobe

Yokohama,

(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/OKINAWd),

EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A (Incorporated in the Repubile of Panama

With Limited': Liability

Queon's Building, Tolophone 31206. Chinese Department: Telephöne 28293,

Go Away, You E-Flat Instep,

Let Mum and Dad Get 3D

By ANN WINTERBOTHAM

THEN it comes to

That's the way it goes. Our don't take time

W lige talk my Mum parents Just

These are in modern, terms and some are translated into the talk of the twenties. BOP: Modern gressive Jazz.

I'M

music,

pro..

WHAT IS KNOWN

A A SCREECH

BOX

CRAZY: Big or different, up- lown or snazzy,

and Dad are 10 get hep. Next time your par

ents ask what you're saying, let "Squares." Now I have them dig the set of deanliions.

great deal of respect for my parents, but they just

aren't "hep." They go around the house using expressions, like "the cat's miców," and "23 kkiddoo," and the rest of the talk of the twenties. No doubt I

DIXIELAND: Old - fashioned should speak in short sen- tences and explain the jive bop, known as rogtline.

Addle Biss DOGHOUSE: they talk as I go along, so

known a coffin in days of yore. cun dig it.

"What do you mean, 'It frac tures me Dad asked. "Are you sick.. or do you have the blues?"

.

"No, it means you're gone; you kill me; it's frantic," I tried to explain.

Perfect Rectangle "Gone? Frantle? I don't get it," he said as he scratched the to have place where he used hair.

"Dnd," I sald, patiently. "you're really tops. But you're a square, a perfect rectangle, and I don't mean 3-D."

I'm too

"You wow me, kiddo. Twenty- three skiddoo!" Pa came back,

"Toot another corice stick, bung an 88, beat some skins or climb on a doghouse, but don't try to sweel-talk me. hep for that," I chided.

"Are you telling me to take a

walk on short pier?" you don't dig 11? Well, you're sounding like vinegar, yourself, What I mean, your G-sharp is flat."

"You must inean, I'm frac- tured,' Dad was trying to dig

DIG: Understand or see; Dad said "pipe that," or "get a load

of that."

DOWNBEAT; Baale reality, tke Clara Bow. E-FLAT INSTEP:

A worm,

or "heol. also called a wolf.

FRACTURE: To send; "give a big kick"; to wow..

FRANTIC: Superior to best, the cat's meow as the old folks

GEORGE; Okay, “I gotcha." It also means "on the nose."

GO: Start sending; "take the lead out of your pockats.".

GONE: The greatest, tops.

Knows His Stuff' HEP: "Greatness and gone- bess, "knows his stuff," or "A 1."

HEP CAT: A philosopher of the down-beat, a cake eater or a lapper. to be obsolescent.

HORN: Trumpel; a wah-wah in the gay twenties.

JIVE Rhythm, sometimes between music. The difference live and bop is fine and tech- nical, but

but generally described as being the difference between improvising and sticking to the arrangement. Jive is more like the old-time "jam session."

JIVE-TALK: King Cole's Eng- with itsh, faintly synonymous

me, but I just wasn't getting "BOY: Means the some as

10 hish.

ou're not fractured. You're Jiveless, You're a lonesome win- dowpane

"Ah! You mean square?" This pop of mine is almost hep.

"Natch," I replied.

Elmer, whatever that means. "Kilroy was here" and "Where's Elmer" have no definition.

LICORICE STICK; Clarinet, a "Ted Lewis's cane", In Dad's

day.

Chirpie Sparrow Is Hungry

· —He's Not Sure if He Had Breakfast or Not-

By MAX TRELL

HIRPIE SPARROW alighted on the garden wall where Chart and Honid, the shadow- rhildren with the urned - about names, were sitting. "I don't -suppose," ho- said-to-them, "that. you've caten your breakfast?"

"Oh. yes, Chirpie, we have caten our breakfast." suid Hand, "I don't suppose." Chirpie suid again, "that you had any of your brenkinst left over?”

Every Last Crumb

Knart and Hand shook their

heads.

"We ate it all," sald Knart. "Every Jast crumb?" zaid Chirpic,

Chim not very

8-51

Chirple-lt on the garden wall

beside the children.

WHAT A SQUARE! 'HE'S WAY

OFF-BEAT-

PARENTS MAY NOT BE HEP BUT DON'T BE FOOLED-ZWAY URED A FORT OF JIVE-TALK NOT

SO LONG AGO!

DOG-HOUSE

IS WHAT I'M CALLED,

LOR IN OTHER WORDO,

A 'COFFIN

I NEVER HEARD SUCH LANGUAGE:

DAD AND MOTHER USED EXPRESSIONG THAT, NO DOUBT, WERE FRENCH TO THEIR FOLKS.

NERVOUS: Interior to super- lor, but still pretty good.

OFF-BEAT: Missing a few; 23 skiddoo."

ON-BEAT: Net missing a thing. Dad would say an on- beat "knows his stuff,”

PASSION-PIT: A drive-in theatre. Dad didn't have them.

SCREECH-BOX: Violin;

"cat wailer."

WILUTA SEND: Produring a

"hot," glow or satisfaction; "wallop," or as Pop would say, "It makes A bulldog bite is chain."

SKINS: Drums "variety coun- they ter" in the days when played cowbells.

SMOOCHING: Getting cuddly. Dad called it "sparking."

SOLID: Very fine; known long ago as gorgeous, divine.

SQUARE; One whid disagrees. A square can de Hep, but he call doesn't end. Dad might him a spollsport, or a country cousin Mum would call her a hog, or Dumb Dora,

SWEET TALK: Impressing with

with words. In the old days they called it buil,

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N, CO..

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outward"

"CANTON"

Leaves London - Dus Hongkong

15th October "CARTILAGE” 17th November

"CORFU"

"CHUSAN"

10th December

18th. Deberiber,

10th November

15th December

11th January

10th January

Via Boulhampton, Vort Bald, Aden, Bombay, 'Colombo

“CARTHAGE"

Homewards

"CANTON"

"CONFU"

"CHUNAN"

Penang & Singapore

Leaves Hongkong Hue London 18th November 20th December 10th December" 16th January

. 15th February ist. March

10th January

31st January

Accepting rargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay,,

Homewarde "ROMALI"

Aden, Fort Bald & London

FREIGHT SERVICE

Balla

For

15th November Singapore,.Penang, Port SweatteriaITI. Colombo, Aden, Port 94ld. Geno

Marsellies, Havre, Lon- Hottor-

dion, Antwerp, dam & Hamburg

With liberty to call at Belawan before or after Sicalta Ports and at Bombay f inducement offers.

GYAIIADIO for carto Space for refrigerated cargo.

Tanks

of Ol in' Balk Limited Passenger

accommodation, :

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.

dud 15th Nov, from Calcutta, Rangoon

& Straits.

"BANTHIA"

bali

SWOONEY: Breathtaking, "oh you kid," or "my shick."

THREE-D: Solid,

the

VINEGAR: Sour or off-beat, "dumb"

"ANKING"

"on

"WARLA"

"SANTHIA"

WINDOWPANE: An obvious square; "toop" (short for stu-

pid").

It is interesting to note that we bopsters have yet to coin a word for money, Ah, well, may- stuft be well dig some of the some day.

GAME WITH WORDS: STORYBOOK QUIZ

FOR

7. Robin Hood lived in a:

Lain.

OR this week we have

made up 20 questions A cave; B. force; C. moun- about book and story charae- 8. Doctor Doolittle always tera. You have three travelled with: A. animals; B. choices. Circle each correct medicines; C. his family.

0 Pegasus was a: A. horse; This is a good Answer,

B. dog: C. man.. game to play with a group of friends.

1. Cinderella married a: A. prince; B. king; C. duke.

The Tortoise won

o race 2. from the Hare because: A. the 13. the Toricise was swiftet; Hate boasted too much; C. the Hare took a nap.

Heidl lived in: A. Ha land; B. Switzerland; C. Ger- many.

4. Pandora brought froubles Into the world by: A. telling a lle; B. opteing a box: C., run ning away.

5. Red Riding Hood got into

A. dis trouble because she

10, Snow White lived with; A. 3 dwarfs; B. 7 dwarfs: C. 12 dwarfs.

11. The Pied Piper led rais into a: A. forest; B. mountain; .C. Tiver.

12. Huckleberry Finn's friend was: A. Jim; B. Tom: C. Som. 15. The colour of Moby Dick C. A. black; B. gray: WAYS:

while.

14. Rip Van Winkle slept in the Catskills for: A. 20; B. 30: C. 40 years.

15. King Mides was able to turn every hing he touched to: A: silver: B. göki; C. remething

live.

lived:

10. Robaison Crusoe

obeyed-her-mother-B. went to A-in-Sherwood Forsel; B. in

her grandmother's house; C.

wore a red hood.

6. The peaceful

the Alps Mountains; C. on.

dzert island. Ferdinand

was a: A. deer; B. kid; C. bull.

OLD FAVOURITES GET MORE VALUABLE

a

Arthur's

King 17. One of Jenights was: A. Launcelot; B. Siegfried; C. Merlin.

18. Androsics was not killed by a lion because he: A. had no fear; B. had befriended the lion; C. was able to run away.

19. The Sleeping Beauty slept years because for a hundred she: A. prieked her finger: B. opend a secret door; C. made

Tikki - Tavi, 29. Bk T mongoose, was a valuable and

A. get I am thinking of the Sudanese mal because he could: stamps, which will be replaced rid of mice; B, frigh.cn burg- when the future of the Sudan ; C. kill enakts.

(Selulicm: Fare 20)

MID the excitement of col- A lecting the Empire's new remember Coronation stamps. some increasingly valuable older

"Every single last crumb." Fald Hanid=Why do you ask,

"Are you still thinking about favourites. lunch?" important,"

"Yes," said Chirple. "Why do sald Chirple, "only I was sup- posing us I flew over here that you ask?"

"Have you thought where maybe you hadn't had your you're going to get it?" asked breakfast yet, so that I could Knari. tell you to save a crumb or two

for

me

"No," said Chriple. "I've been But I see that I was thinking and thinkng but I can't supposing all wrong."

"My goodness, didn't you have think where I'll get any lunch, any breakfast this morning?" I guess I'd better forget about lunch, too, just as I forget about Hanid asked,

"I don't think so," said Chir. breakfast.""

Then Knart and Honid laughed pic. "I mean, I can't remember having any. So I guess you and shouted: "We've got your might say that I didn't have any, lunch! Look!" At least, that's how it seems to And Kaarf took a handful of me."

bread crumbs out of his pants ""That's a shame," said Knarf, pociect, and Hanid took a hand-

certuinly is,"

agreed ful of cake crumbs out of her Chirple, "There's nothing like agron pocket, waking up in the morning and having breakfast. Well, I guess I'd better forget breakfas!” and

start thinking about lunch,”

He Could Hardly Speak:

"It's all for you, dear," Hanid

With that, Chirple hopped over said.

to the end of the wall and stood Chirple was so astonished and with his head under h's wing, so happy, that he could hardly Finally Knart called over to ask speak. But when he did he him what he was doing.

gald: "It's more than lunch! It's breakfast, too!

there's enough for both wonderful per! Oh, you're

Went on Thinking

"Just what I sald," replied

And

Then he swallowed every

Chirple, taking his head out from crumb. And when he was n under his wing. "I'm thinking ished, he sang this song for

about lunch." Then he put his Knart and Hand:

head under his wing again and

went on thinking.

Knari looked at Hand, and Then Hanld looked at Knarf, both of them nouided and silpped down from the wall without o Bound. Chirpie didn't

notice. then as they ran silently across the garden and into the house.

They returned a few minutes later. They climbed back on the wall and sat in their old places.

"Chirpel" - sold. Hank Chirple looted out from under h's wing. "Yes?!!

I wish I know where bread crumbs grow.. Or maybe they d

στον, But

anyway That wo

times a day Not

-

Eke

I'd like to say,

three

would

meat Not bolatoes

Not

Soup Not tomatoes

Not

fish or Chicken rolls or bun But just me bri old Breid Crim

(SEDAN AIR MAIDJ

:

witch

fin.

GRAPEFRUIT STUNT

the

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sails 10th Nov. Tur Jupan dule 27th Nov, from Japan balls 26th: Nov, for Singapore, Penang,

Stangoon & Căloutta due

from Japan alk Dec. kalls 7th Dec.

for Singapore, Rangoon & Chittagong

dub 71 Dec. from Japan

alle 8th Dec, for Singapore, Penang,

Rangoon & Calcutta

P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

due 26th Nov, from Japan salis. 27th Nov.

"ORDIA"

"ORNA"

dno 28th Nov.

"OZARDA"

kalls 27th Nov, Jor Gift Dec. sails Til Dec.

for Singapore, Colombo. Karachi. 13ombay, Bahrein, Kuwali, Khor- ramshahr, Hasrah, direct. Other P. Gulf Ports vis Bombay

from P. Gull. Karachi, Bombay & Singapore for Japan - from Japan.

for Singapore, Colombo, Bombay & Karacis Divo P. Gulf Ports Vla Bombay

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD. "EASTERN" due 2nd Dec. from Japan

"NELLORE"

RASI och Vec.

for Brisbane, Sydney. Adelaide & Melbourne due Il Dee. From Australia valls 20th Bed, for Japan

All vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or off the route & the route & sailing are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.

For full particulars apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

Early Libraries Kept

Their Books Chained

AT one time books were no

precious that they had

their wandering away. to be chained up to prevent

Now, when books are very plentiful, thousands of them

hard to think of a time when being printed yearly, it is it would be difficult for an ordinary person to own a. book.

In the Middle Ages, how- books were the laboriously written by hand

ever,

One Hair.

In most braries students had

up to study, Chinese lad fixed,

falling asleep.... jerking method to keep from

Make a little tent with a hand-by patient monks. Even kerchief by spreading it on the after the invention of the

at the floor and pulling it up centre. Ask a friend to stand printing press, it was a long and time before enough books close to the handkerchier now administered by Britain and balance a pie tam on his head. were printed so that the cost

and

to stand the Place a grapefruit in the ply of a single volume was Egypt is settled country governs itself.

"Now ask him to pick up the within reach of the averago Among the nicest Sudanesa issues of recent years is the handkerchief without upsetting person. Books were chained Firmail set. You see one here, the grapefruit and without in churches and libraries so

This two-plastre stamp came holding onto anything for sup- that they could be used by a few instances there were three locks with three keys held out in the early 1930's and cost port.

by three different people for all of the faithful. d. in London. Now the price

a designed Michelangelo is 28.-J.A.

A bishop or a king might library for chained books as extra rafety of the books. late as 1571. This was for the want to carry his books with House of Mediel at Florence, him from place to place. He

If you think this is easy, try it yourself.

Rupert's Coral Island—11

way ID you think A length Beryl pulli bersel Blind}" together. must set back to the 'll ever be clever enough, to find ethere or they'll think I'm loont 2 The old man camues alle declares, and shouldering the quietly,

•heavy sails she makes off. ̈ ̈ ̈ But-Eaz's be:29:cort ol coral laishd·

found by being clever." heimurmurs. " Nor even by being. Roper ways bellifid and looks, wistfully at his old friend; O good Kellor, but oily by being

•how with I could; see a coral - born under a luckydai IN

ALL DIDIITA ANILAYED

Italy.

used a chest with rings on either This library contained a num- side for this purpose. A long ber of lecterns or high reading pole could be passed through stands with benches on either the rings, and on to the shoul side. On the top of each lectern dorm of two men who would were chained several books.

Old

öld

account books contain an Under each lectern or desk was transport the books, a shelf, nine Inches high, which Interesting nate about also held books lying dat. The libraries. Suma of money were shelf was set back a few inches spent for "rubbing the library."" from the edge of the lectern to This can be translated to mean, comfortably provide room for "dusting the library or in the library the readers anges. The chains the books

by were attached to the book the cover. Op the outside of a vided with seals.

books

dusting

Some

Loraries

Library

to stand up

not prom mo, scholars while they read.

row of lecterns or on tho atale. A tory is fold of a Chinese

might be posted 1st of bo

contained

In that row.

In some libraries,

youth who fastened his queue to: a beam above the desk. If

kept in

Often are head tall forward, he would be cer in the wall was designed to awakened by the pull on his contain these pieces of furniture, half and be recalled to h These were always locked. In sludies.

called "ainierende at cheats he should get bloopy and his