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LUNCHEON IN HONGKONG,

THE ILLUSION COMPLETE."

One of the most, defighthil ways of enjoying the Exhibition at Wembley is to set apart a day for each of the coun- tries of the Empire. The illusion is ceth- plete Angone who has actually visited Hongkong, for instance, will not hesitate to marvel at the miante reproduétion of the sights. sounds, and life of the East WITH (wries F. Marie Imandt in the Glasgow Balleria). The impression felt on pass ing under the archway with its Chines characters to distinguish it. brought vividly back to me my first acquaintance with the real city in China.

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Crowds of laughing girls made a pie-i ture under rightly hued sunshades of parchment is pretty colour decorated" with such charining trites as butterflies. But at Wembley the faces were those of English schoolgirls who were protecting themselves from a downpour! Chinese style. Reis of silk were within pigem holes in some little booths; in others the silk industry went on from cocoons to the finished product, enteroideries hung over railing, julaid teakwood furniture. rattan chairs, enaris-all sorts things were in Wembley's street in Hong kongy Workmen were, applying ther selves there with the same indifference to onlookers and interruption as they do in their native land.

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Necklaces of rari jade were enclosed in glass-covered cases. Some fole will no doubt be in a position to carry hom their souvenir of the great Exhibition in the form of a neckline of jade costing anything from 123 apwards. But more popular are sure to be "balls, said by the Llinaman in charge to be real jadr. des- tined to dangle on mady a black ribbon or chain of gold or silver. Jars of ginger, Chinese sweets, bowls of solid brass, perfumes from the East, fans all sorts of tempting trifles recalled the radiant" Eastern city set high above the bine sea, "reproduced to the letter at Wembley.

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One o'clock set everybody off to and the midday meal." Thoughts of my days in China led me to turn my footsteps towards the native restaurant at the entrance to the street. Up a few sups. went. to be greeted at the door by a smil Chinaman dressed in dark blue bro enlle and stepping on silent feet. was one of many who wore purple or blue brocade and who all went noise lessly about their work just as

China. The table at which I found my scar was teak wood inlaid with mother. of pear, the "high stool, was the same, with a bright cushion of pink silk. Every chair has a cushion of gaily-hurd wilk with flowers Embroidered on it and frill ed with a contrast. The building is white pillared, with brown wood.

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Any lamps hang everywehre, curtains of ilk in such colours as pink, "amber, yellow, purple, jade embroidered with trails of Howers wave in the breeze looped at every doorway, and doorways are many. Chinese pictures are here and there and inset into bugs laups of parth- ment finished with great silken tassels. An orchestra plays. Chinese music on fitt ivory instruments. The illusion is perfect!,

THE MENC. Sharks Fins with Minted Chicken.

"Pea-ben Eggs.

Hau and Chicken in Soup.

Cauliflower with Crab

Fried Rice. Sweet Fruit in Syrup. China Tea The food was served in fitfe bowls of white china, the tea was tea was drunk out of a small cup without handles. dish of say was provided as a relish, and there were a European Park and spoon in addition to che sticks. Good seasoning made the dishes tasty. Sharks' ng are just strips of gelatine, Any "cook would like to make crab with endli flower, for the cauliflower was par-boiled, tossed in batser, and mixed with the crab in the finest threds. Prahen eggs were in a delicious omelet with inushrooms, fried rice was lightly boiled, tossed in butter and mixed with chopped eggs and anushroom in shreds.

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The Fourteenth Lover," which will Be shown at the Queen's Theatre from tomorrow (Sunday) till Tuesday, con cerns a fickle flapper. Vi Marchment,! played by capricious Viola Dana. Vi has thirteen suitors but the number does not awe, her at all. Her father wants her to choose one and she picks a four- teenth, a garines on her father's estate. Although of university breeding he is not, tonsidered eligible by the wealthy Alarchmont family. But Vi is not con sidered eligible by the young and hand- Koing gardener. However. Vi's senti ments are very-ordinary and exceedingly human. Admitting to herself that she is really in love she decides that to win the man she wants, the will, live in the park gate lodge if massiry. Her dad dismisses the gardener. To fit herself for her coming ffe Vi studies cooking and sewing and in the middle of one culinary experiment, confesses her troubles to the Kardiner.

The latter's mother "s pathises with Vi to overcome the young man's pride. The Irada Vi into scandal but she comes out convinced herself, and her family convinced, that the fourteenth lover was her only real love. Viola's nezing, as proved by recent, successes at the Queen's, is such that interest is always ustained to the end and there is never a dull moment, when her charm is fished on to the screen.

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