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THE DIRECTORY

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 1925

PENELOPE IS TRAVELLING. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMAN "EXPLORERS.

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1926.

CHINA. JAPAN, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAIT BETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATER, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP.

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LOV. SINESTINE EVANS IN THE ** MAN-

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A RUN TO STRASBOURG.

JACK HOBBS,

NEW VILLAGES AND NEW WAYS, WOMAN'S SHARE IN CRICKETING

Reims is unrecognizable, with its tall?

FAME.

We have now been married nineteen, Of course, I never have any difficulty, years, for we were married when Jack in picking him out. I know his manner. was and I was younger, and whatever isms too well. He has a trick of lining may be said on the subject of early mas his cap every few minutes. Also he usedk riages it is not for me fa condemn them; to blow his nose so often that I had to And I had known Jack a forg time when tease him out of it. T

There was another lady who "spotted" married him, ever since he was eight years old, in fact, when we were boy and this little babit, and she sent hiura gay, girl together in Cambridge. I there is tandkerchief with the request that he man never should use, it. He flourished it about all truth in the saving that a marries his Erst love, then we must be day, all the more so, of course, because | he knew that I was watching him and one of the exceptions

that I knew all about the handkerchief. The girl was delighted, and I ragged" my husband again.

The resting of four children, three sons and one daughter, gave me plenty of home occupation during the earlier years of my husband's cricketing career, but now that the children do not demand such close attention the eldest is 17 and has just started business-I see much more cricket. In fact, I have not missed match at the Oval for the last three years. Not surprising then that I have a fair knowledge of the game. I think that wife should be able to take an intelligent interest at least in her husband's business as well as identify herself with his re- creations.

My husband's chief recreation in the winter ia badminton, and his hobby when at home his player-piano I am almost as keen on badrainton, and each of us has achieved some success in the league

There was a time when it really wors ried Jack if he did not do well; he wor ried not only for himself, but for his club. But I don't think he worries now, except: in test matches, when he is anxious to give the team a good start. I believe that concerns him more than his own individual performances I believe he is always happiest on a tricky wicket. It keeps him thinking and makes it all the more worth doing to keep the other people thinking..

A motor trip through the devastated regions of France, interesting though it be even for one familiar with the various When I tell my husband that I can stages through which the stricken country take some of the credit of his good for Penelope is travelling. She is not only has passed since the Armistice, is a in Australia fast winter and in England buying out the Onterie Lafayette lock, depressing experience, writes" Corres this, auzuner, when he passed W. G. stock, and barrel. She is going farther spondent in the fines. In the first place Grace's great record, he simply laughs, and doing worse. She is making the erhaps this is a matter of personal as husbands will do but--well, it's like Inst outposts of romance" as real and idiosyncrasy-one haver sesals, so long as this, KOREL,| familiar as the kitchen sink. Little one is in sight of shattered tree-stumps Jack bas never been anything but

Mmo David returns to Paris from Main and the marks of projectiles on walls, to very moderate drinker, und since his Street, Lhasa, Tibet, where she has been be able to shake off the feeling of death.operation of 1921 more absteinious' still living quietly What she has to say To this, of course, the becasional ceme. Why, even a glass of wine sometimes up- about the drove of gentlemen who have tery, with its 5.000, 10,000, or even 15,000 sets him, and on the trip out to Australia beer advertising themselves as the first graves, French, British, American, and I suggested that he should give it up. and only visitor to Lhassa in mostly German, contributes But even if there I believe he thought I was fussing" smile. Othello asel to be the life of the were no cemeteries there would remain a little, but evidently he came to the party. Now we have Clare Sheridan and a sense of something in the air which is conclusion that his bealth made it worth Beatty reciting hair-breadth escapes indescribably sad..

a trial, and since then he has not touched midst field and food and, lonely journeys Secondly, ono is depressed by the dis alcohol in any shape or form. Certain beyond forbidden frontiers to tired busi-covery that the greatest opportunity of it is that it is long since he was as well Bess men and chair-ridden editors. our time has been missed in the rebuild as he was in Australia and at present The International Association ofing of the mined villages There is no And health may well have an effect on

Cricket is a funny game, and funny Woman Explorers has been founded. The evidence of artistic design. The But his-as on everybody's cricket.

When they got to know in Australia

things can happen at it. I cannot help charter members of the American branch monotony of glaring walls is unrelieved have sent out invitations to the English, except by, here and there, an adventure that Jack was a total astaner we had

thinking, sometimes, when I see a ner vots batsman go out on that long walk requests from temperance societies for Danish Freach, and German woman into glazed tiles, but of the wrong colour.im to speak at meetings. But Jack is

from the pavilion, that it would be a travellers "of renown, inviting them to

from the pavilion to the wicket, and I'm forin national chapters. The nucleus of and pretentious new houses. The quaint not a temperave advocate in that sense. competitions of the game that flourish good idea if a subway were provided sure it would be a godsend to the un- the American members is Harriet Chal little hotel at which one first discovered Total abstinence suits his health at pre-around London. I do believe my hus the seaside, the best seat, and has evidently no had effects on band gets more excited about his had THE DIRECTORY covers the potablemers Adams, F.R.G.S., who has followed that, like fish

I could pop into it instead of facing all thee: events, parts and cities of the Far East, from the trail of the conquistadors all over champagne goes to London has been his cricket, and he is content to leave it minton prospects and games than he does, fortunate batsmen who don't score. They Netherlands. India to Siberia, in which Spain, Mexico, and South America; rebuilt several hundred yards away with at that. He is also, I may say, a smoker, even over his cricket."

If we may judge from the time he disappointed crowd. Europeans reide.

Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, who was for Ritz accommodation and Ritz prices and very food of a pipe.

A little time ago some well-known spends in it and his ever readiness to Not caly is the Directory as full and complete years a missionary in the Cameroons and Verdun is still picturesque, but, unlike in cach see it can be made, but each Colony, who has not only written "Black Sheep" those of Heims, its street are desolate lady, discussing the use of paint and return to it, I think I can claim that my women, gaye it as her husband is happy in his home ite-never Pert or Bettlement is prefaced by DESCRIP and two other charming books about life and its water is the hardest in all the powder hy

opinion that wives painted so that happier than when, after a hard and try- carefully revised each year, the in the jungle forest of Africa but has world.

their husbands should continue to find ing day, he turns to his player piano, ajority of which will serve as so accurate made notable anthropological records It is a pleasure to reach Strasbourg them attractive, and I was asked what I, Jack is passionately fond of music. though GUIDES FOR TAX. Tourier, giving every detail or language and taboo; Gertrude Emer with its air of clean and complacent

connection with the places, their History

san, one of the editors of Ja, who has prosperity and the charm of its old thought about it. I replied that paint he can play no musical instrument Topography, sta

was more likely to drive away my hus. When at the Oval and the crowd ap- The Information in these Descriptions, consist travelled by herself in Indo-China, houses. (It may be mentioned, by the band than retsin hirs, and I should think plauts as my husband goes in, I always of a hundred interesting articles, packed India, and the Philippines, and who was way, that the girls with big bows who that applies to most married men. have a ridiculous inclination to stand up

one of the first American women to cross figure in the photographs of festivities.

I have also My recipe for a contented-and there and say, "I'm his wife." will laste concisely set cut, and containing by sampan the submerged forest, that are not indigenous to the town, but are fore, har busband is a comfortable never quite been able to rise superior to statistics of the TEADY of each Country and port, would alone safice to fill a large volume.

lies on the road to Angkor, lost city of imported from the country for the occa The Book is printed from New Type specially the Kmer kings in Cambodia: Margue ston.) A few hours talk with representa- home, in which the husband can indulgen slight sense of irritation when onlookers

those little foibles that most men possess mistake the other batsman for him. reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in rite Harrison, who laughs at prisons. tive local people makes it clear that, now avary arrangement greatly facilitates reference. usken adventurous journeys to Sakalin that the French have stopped saying and and where the children are well looked want to tell them "It isn't fobbs "- especially when a chance has been given. and last year took the three-hundred-mile doing unwise things, the Strasbourger is after by the wild. trek with the Bakhtiari tribe through the not more unwilling to be French than he mountains of Western Persia and colla- was to he German "Of course, we arb borated in taking the motion-picture French," he says, "en a way but we are Grass; Mary Austin. authority on Alsatians first, and it will take years to Indian life in the south-west; Rose show "whether we are better off under Wilder Lane, whose "Peaks of Shala" the Freneb system than we were under records her journey into the mountain the German, We would much rather not valleys of Albania: Black Niles and Ger be under either, and, having got nerus. ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS intrude Mathews Shelby, both of whom tomed to the Ciermanns, who left us largely the Far East contains the names of over have records as explorers in South Ame- alone, we shall need some time before

we shall like the idea of assimilation 20,000 FOREIGNERS,

with the centralizing French.***

arranged, with the Initials as well as the Sur. ce, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly,

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Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Fame, the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger

Commercial Centres.

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THE MAPS AND PLANS

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of the principal ports of the Far East have bees Engraved by ons of the most eminent Firms is Great Britain and are annually corrected and brought up to date.

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TRAVELLERS' TALES.

The Strasbourgers are proud of their city nad do not grudge the heavy expen diture which keeps it neat and clean. They say that, if the rest of the French paid their taxes as they do, the finan al difficulties of the country would forthwith disappear.

A good crowd and a crowd with a senas of humour. You can see that they have had many a hearty laugh at the Ise of The Circumnavigators" and otlur organisations of men who drink l'ole, swap yarns about Shanghai and toasts to whoever is just back from the

The religious question is described as Capetown, ou eat the regular lunch and dead and buried. At its height t chiefly afflicted a few outlying and back- ward villages, and even so was greatly exaggerated, for political reasons, by the Paris Press.

call it tin.

Thereafter, but for the narrow strip of war country which marks the first French rust for Mulhouse, my road ran through

The International Association of together with the Texts of all the most import Woman Explorers arow no purpose-but Treaties concluded with the countries of to have a banquet. They propose to have Fasters Asia, the ranous Customs Tariffs, an annual feast in honour of the prin- Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce,cipal woman explorer of the year. They Sales of Commissions, Consular and Cour would hale Mme. David over from Paris Yees, Hongkong Stampe Duties, Bignal this autuma if they could. Blair Niles, pleasant places. The contrast between Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money I suppose, will take a speech about how the delightful old villages in this part of Weights and Measures and other Com the men explorers are not to write their the world and the new monstrosities It is published at the Office of the "Hooks in Munchausen ink. She has never along the northern front is very marked. TONG DAILY PRESS." -

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The Directories and Descriptions are of :-"

Feking

OKINA Boochow

Tientsin

Peitaiho

Chinkiang Nanking Wabu

Kinting

Bankow

Chinwangiac Taku Antang

Manchurian ochor Trade Ctras Shari

Yowchwang

Port Arthur

Chefoo

Weihniwei Trinaniu

Mukden

Wenchow

Santuac

Foochow

Shanghai Amor

Harbin Swatow Langchingchun

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Canton Kowloon Lappa Bhamani

Kongmoos

Narning Wuchow K'Chanwa Pakkoi Holbor Langaho

Mongter

Hokow Baixão Tengyush Changohuz Handrun

Kirin

Langkow

JAPAN & Forma

Tokyo

Yokohama

Mon Nagmaali

Tripsh

Kobe

Hakodate

Daaks

Tainan Takow Auping

Vladivostock

Nicolajewsk

Ebimunosoki Kyoto

Tamani

BASTIEN SIBERIA.

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Wonsen

Mokpo Chemulpo Fun

Chinnampe Karsan Pingyang Sougchin

HONGKONG AND ITS DEFENDERCIes, Macao, FEROX INDO-CHDA

Fatbi Haiphong Tontin

Quinhon

Annam

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Manila

PHILIPPINES.." Baguio Iloilo

Zamboanga

Branei

Barawak British North Borneo

Saigon Cambodge Chelon

BOLTZO.

Bendakar

Hegri Sembilan Johors

BANGKOK MALAY STATES.

Belanger Pakang

Kedah Trenggata Perlis

BEATS BETTLEMENTS

forgiven, one gentleman for the unrench-Belfort is detestable. The prices in dif alle romantic wildness of his hook on ferent towns vary enormously. Thè ex- Mongolia. She thinks it isn't fair for enflent practice of automatically adding people with the fiction touch to write 10 per cent. to the bill for tips is univer travel-books. It makes life too hard for sal. It adds so immensely to the con an honest woman who only puts down fort of travelling that one cannot but what she sees with her eyes open. That marvel that the old piecemeal method whole subject is a thing that has to be of tipping should have survived any. enusidered now that Penclape is travel where. Or the whole, at the present rate ling. Take the South Sea Islands, for in- of exchange, prices are very reasonable stañer Some pretty tall and lustrous What is not reasonable is the French stories used to be told by Ulysses and method of tarring roads. Instead DE O'Brient about the Iuring damsels of doing short lengths half-way across and Tahiti. My theory is that with his sanding it well at once, there are ple sisters, cousins, and aunts taking all the where one finds miles of fresh tar over steamers to coral strands the gentleman the whole width, sprinkled with about As explorer will simply not find the hoola-much sand as one puts pepper on a [hoola dance as beautiful ag once he did. poached egg- So strongly does the.

This makes for another problem, a very | Mayor of Pornic feel on the subject that, special problem for women explorers he has resigned because he has failed to Armed with typewriters and fountain-induce the local road authorities to stop pens, coming late to the scene. The tarring during the tourist season. tradition of the traveller and of his The roads themselves, have been greatly Bible is Romance. And Homance being improved in the last two years, and are what it is, 'won't Desdemona have to go now good-to-excellent. But the prudent in for something else to stand her in motorist will, where he can, choose rather good stead when returning to the Annual. the flat. sharp gravel of Routes de Banquet sad to Othello? Fortunately. Grande Communication" to the highly there is science. The women explorers cambered and polished surface hope to return not only with competent "Routes Nationales." "copy" about life and customs in remote places, but with substantial scientific data.

SHEIKHS.

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A NEW SAVOURY.

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If you want a row cold savoury or a tasty snack to serve with coffee at lunch try this recipe för olive cheese crackers.

I asked one of the founders if the ban- quet was really all. She said she sun- posed one or two, or them would meet and exchange yarns now and again, and that they would, pool their lore about You can use any kind of crackers in baggage, hotels, servants, and trails. The the English "sease, but the best kid for. woman who travels alone is still a new the purpose is a small square, delicately species, and a queer one by old standards, salted cracker made in America. Then, hardy, valorous, patient, and curious, given the cracker, take oz. gorgonzola These women are intensely interesting to choose, beat into it as much thick cream each other. They have an absurd funds will make it moist and like stiff of common jokes "The adventuress" butter. Benson highly with pepper, and used to mean a charming Indy, chiefy paprika, add salt to taste, and a red interested in man, The adventurer was sweet pepper or tinned pimenta finely well met and well received. The adven minced. Spread thickly on crackers tures did not fare" so well. But the Garnish ceritre of each with a cross of woman explorer lives in a new day. A olive, and serve. Only remember if you mania not funt man to her, use, pimento you must not beat after the be is an official to be interviewed, vaj, addition or you will find cheese turn publisher, & member of the human race pimento colour. Beat mixture befores to be studied and considered, and only hand in this case, once or twice in a lifetime to be entangled

busband. Mrs. Feary and the Snow Baby would not be eligible The initia

Singapors, Penang, Malscoa, Prov. Walleels men who minded their own business tive impetus, study, and report must be

NETHERLANDS 'INDIA.-

Samsrang Buitenzorg Bourabaya

East Coset of Bumatra.

Padang

BRIZ AN AMERICAN. SQUADBORN IN CHIXA AND Jaran: "

OVOCES OF COAST HIVER SZAMIE

Im't Marguerite Harrison the woman explorer who came back, and reported that desert aheikhs were rather grimy This is a very fair example of what the woman explorer can do to romance with 8 capital B

Membership in the Woman Explorers seems to be exclusive on two scores, The woman must travel and make a publish able written record of it going to the Ilimalayas and simply wandering is of no account. And apparently it doesn't count if the woman explorer follows her

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the woman traveller's own. Going with. her husband is no good taking him along fifty fifty "might possibly, wreck her standing as an independent person. Bur- prising as it may seem, several hundred women with extraordinary adventurous records are eligible to the International Woman Explorers In a few years it ought to be one of the largest annual, banquete ever held under any roof on ang continent.

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You may not think it, but my husband is a very aby mnao. I halieve Be's indif. ferent to the crowds now, but he was rot always so. This lack of nervousness 10 may be good for his batting.

People ask me if we are going to bring up our sons to be champion cricketers. I'm afraid you cannot make great hats-- men they've got to have it in them, and if they have it they'll be great batsmen whether or not you want them to be. Our boys all love cricket, and can make of intend that they'll have a training in themselves what they can at it. But I another business where the chances of" fair success are not so remate.-Weekly Dispatch.

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