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1926.
EAT MORE EGGS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, OUTOREK 15TH,→ → 1923
A LEARNED DISSERTATION ON
EOWLS.
[BY PAST. MACDONALD, ILAATINGS.]
I have just eaten“ un
egg. You who read this probably ate one or two this morning or will eat them at supper, which is the proper 'meal for eggs. CHINA. JAPAN, FOREX For a long time I have avoided
holding that they are apt to make one INDO CHINA, SIAM, STRAITE
acer, but a beautiful woman having SKETLEMENTS, MALAY STATER, | assured me that she attributed her vir tue to egg-eating, wet me giving eggs a NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP-
fresh trial. It is too early, of course, to
·PINES, BORNEO, "Era.
relate anything of the effect. It appears that I must undergo a six months' course. Perhaps I may be in a position to pras in the manner of the Pharisce Whenas Winter Comoth," na they say in the Arabian Nights
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Now they have the babit of scurrying to the wire as soon as they see me come into the garden. If I carey = spade, they remain there, pressing and squabbling for position. If I do not carry a spade they leave the wire and resume, their leisurely scratchings in various parts of the rau. Once I carried a spade into the garden on a Sunday. Now I never dig on Sundays, and believe me or not, as you wish, those hens showed not the slightest interest in my spade. (Impos sible, say you. But a dog knows when it is Sunday morning, and he does not attempt to accompany you to church).
BULLYING.
It must be admitted that hens are very quarrelsonie, especially in runs where the cock does not rule. They are quick to bully the weakest, and when they draw blood, become more vicious than before. Look at their fiends, and you must admit that they are cruel heads. However lovely may be a fowl's plumage, the east
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.
general features of fashion include of countenance is had. I should not like bows everywhere, bishop sleeves, Barce My first nequaintance with eggs was, needless to say, at the parental breakfast to be pinionel and at the meres of to skirts, dyed fur on conts, and scallop-
revengeful hens. This fearfulness, salled and decorative hems. table. I did not got a whole egg, but the more reninrkable when we refect Velvet and face cloth are two of the the top of one which my father sliced off upon the enchanting bundles of yellow chief materials. with a knife. I was delighted to read in fax that are the babies of the fowl At the recollections of Miss, Edith Somer three months they have the form of days, ville, immortal partner of the deathless and give no hint of their impending Martin Ross, that she had a similar ex-frightfulness. It is not, indeed, till they perience as a child. But her father te begin to produce eggs that they begin two eggs for breakfast, and so she got to look truculent and malignant..." two tops. never got more than one top. I wonder why that gives me a sense of slight superiority?
Have you ever pondeged upon the sleep ing habit of the fowl! What do they know that tells them it is wisest to sleep upright? And bow is it that human beings chose the horizontal for rest and the perpendicular for work? I have a theory of sleep which appeals to all to when I tell it. I say that horizontal sleep tires, and perpendicular sleep re freshes. Moreover, Felaim that an hour's perpendicular sleep is worth eight hours in bed.
THE AWKWARDNESS OF THEM. Now the top of an egg contains yolks. Yet I had a relish for the white. The appetite grew by, what it fed on. and on the first occasion I was allotted a whole egg I remember thinking that the yolk spoiled it and certainly dropped Borce on my hih. Well, they are spills things. I do not care how old you grow, you are always liable to drop a spot of egg. You loathe guarself for, doing it, and you know you incur the content of others in your society. It is to this that I attribute the tendency of eggs to make | bei you rise" wearily, frequently feeling people ancer. My upper probably
nche and cramp as you go to the bath Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Fishriveled in babyhood when I saw the room. It is not until you achieve con- the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS stain on my chest protector derisively tact with water that you recover from the of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger embroidered with the lexcad "For a good devastating effects of horizontal sleep. Commercial Centres.
boy." Said an aunt to a guest: "A nice Now the hour's perpendicular sleep in a child, bat awkward with eggs.
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Think it out for yourselves. After lunch you sit in your easy chair and feel an urge to slumber. You yield to it, An hour later you wake, and you are alert and refreshed. Yes after eight hours in
Years have been reeled off, and now If ALPHABETICAL LIST of BESIDENTS own hens, stimulate egg production, and, length. Nature wakes you when you are to my very profound astonishment, can ready to live again. In your chair an wag a tongue with anyone about Wyan-hour is enough in your bed right hours
Little my is considered the minimum, slottes and Light Sussex father anticipated, this when he sliced me off my first egg-top..
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My first he was an accident. I hap pened to be ill at the time. It was one of those nice child illnesses,, all steam and hot buttered toast and toys to keep I have never got over my you quiet. early love of the sick-roon, and rejoice to think that probably I shall expire in its incomparable atmosphere. Well, a brother brought me a chick, day-old a solatium for my sufferings Eastern Asia, the various Customa Tariffs, du not remember what the paras were Trade Regulations. Chambers of Commerce, indeed, I do not think a child is over Scales of Commissions, Consular and Court unhappy in hod. It is not till middle Toes, Hongkong Stamps Daties, Signalare is reached that we know it for a Codes, Chiness Festivals, Tables of Mosey hand of hardship, Weights
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"THE COMIC HEN.
But I despair of getting people to take poultry seriously. There is, admittedly. something comic about their everlasting egg-laying, and a trussed fowl is scarcely an object of dignity. "Chicken is hardly a food for the weather and work-bitten male, and so has become associated with the thought of the female the necessity for whose dict exists but bates. You will notice that a man will only eat chicken if it be kept in countenance with a salty ham or in a sandwich between The heroes of sheets of rough bread. Dumas had a way of ordering pullets an-i wine, but you know what the French ure, I think the Ten Commandments were meunt only for them.
Wine colours, purples and blues are So, too, are greens- popular colours. although each houss claims its own particular and different" tone.
Fullness in the front of the skirt is a feature of every collection.
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Frock collars are smaller: coat collars
larger.
Necklines are square in front and deep V-shaped behind.
Silver material is more used than gold.
WHAT ARTISTS THINK. Each collection," too has its dis-
tinguishing characteristics.
Worth, for example, goes out for dig.. tity, and combines it, very successfully with the new incde. He shows more straight-line" silhouettes than most of his confrères.
Dire
There are trains to some evening frocks. at this house, and skirts are longer and backs leas decollete than elsewhere.
Black velvet and black lace favourite materials for dinner dresses, and both velvet and the once-despised velveteen are used for wraps. Blue figures conspicuously here-dark blue for day wear and china, peri-winkle. and royal blue for evening.
There are Rome marvellous, sequin dresses, so brilliant as to be dazzling, and besides blue and black models there are others in a deep, strong green tint, and the dresses are cut to preserve the slim #gure.
Poiret frocks lock us if the wearers had been poured into them down to the hips (se moulded to the figure are they), but the skirts are out at the bem.
Much velvet and any striped velvets are used, and some of the frocks havo bodiers that, apparently, have no connee- tion with the skirt. For instance, & white velver skirt will have a black velvet bodice.
He is practically the only courturier, to show really long skirts, and he is still trying to popularise the hustle, indiented by big hows at the back of the jupe. Occasionally one anda a bow in front or ni one side.
The add shoulder strap-one of silver, one of jet, or one of flowers," one of diamanté, and so on-is an amusing and. novel idea.
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THE STORY OF JEMIMA. ★i-wanted to keep the chick in bed, but Eggs, however, have the homage of there were objections. Some paltry mat- both sexes all the world over. No matter
Lelong, has introduced the kinetic tart af bygiene, i remeraber rightly, what country you visit you are safe if systers of design. His models have all What happened was that to my Vandan you can get a fresh egg. I have eaten been conerived and planned with the brother felt the responsibility of housing in the remote past cars in Paris, Monilea that movement is the motto of Land feeding the chick. His was the pre-treal. Oldham. Alderney, Philadelphis. the modern woman, and with an eye to Kliminary presure, and then and since and Glasgow, and all tasted alike. The visualising the wearer when moving rather
It is than stationary. have suspected his gifts. However, the egg is the Esperanto of foods. chick became mine exclusively when the wonderfal to think when you crack its
Gorgeous embroideries and wonderful last pot had gone, or the last mump had, top in Clapham that exactly the same colour schemes are a feature of his even- been defated, whatever the illness was, product is being enjoyed in the monasing models, many of which are trimmed
teries of Tibet. Hens the work over with chenille or bead fringe. I took care to keep him to myself.
are not fed on the same diet. Yet they The colours are Marie Laurencin produce the same-testing egg.
shades-pastei piaks, blues, mauves, and green and a few greve Again, there are Neapolitan ice" shades, which are acarly akin.
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It soon became apparent that he was a she, and I conjured up visions of mighty
Sometimes I think that if there were wer supplies. Moreover, I would deny myself the eggs and become rich vending eggs there would be no foreign travel, then to other members of the family. Eve knew that if she had to give up
a odd little hen.apples there were eggs outside Eden. Well, that WAN Never having seen another hird, and gohan knowing only one other living creature Hunchus myself, really well, she behaved with a Precocity that I hesitate to describe lest That she you suspect my credibility. followed me everywhere, as a fond dog will was nothing. That she would ask for food by rubbing her back on my foot, as a cozening ent will, was not much But that she would call out in greeting, just as a parrot does, was truly remarkable.
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"There is no doubt that the coming dancing season will see the return to popularity of the tangs and the waltz to the exclusion of everything else, the Her name was Jemima, and she would Morning Post, was told by a well-known seurry to me at the sound of it or of West End dancing instructor. The tango, a certain kind of whistle. She would fir which will be danced is a modified forme at another child who pretended to strike of the popular conception of the dance me, so making me supect that there, and will consist of about half a dozen was an Indian Game strain in her. She, steps at the most.
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Scarves are still to the fore, especially on the evening frocks
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match the flock. Sometimes hip as well frock of chiffon or lace, but the Bowers shoulder pasies are seen on the same
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RADIUM VELVET. Molyneux is using much radium velvet, very rarely scratched for feed, never fn 1013, when the tango was Erst intro- and has evolved some exquisite colour having had a mother to teach her, hut duced into Britain, it had a tremendous schemes, and the embroidery he uses would eat everything I ate. Fruit she vague, and was seen on nearly every shows the influence of the Decorative usually rejected, but after watching me stage; this was what killed it, as every, Arta Exhibition both in colour and form." est cherries she pecked one open, scoop body tried to imitate the complicated Whilst bodices are more or less plain, ed out the stone, and swallowed the rest stage steps in the ball-room with disas-skirts are very decorative either frin- She did not try another, and I faney it trous results Expert opinion is that ged, petalled, frilled, scalloped, or em-HOSHIGAUBA-Fest Seaside Summer Holiday Resort in North China. Five miles distressed ber a little that she could not people are getting tired of the fox tret, broidered at the hem.
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-- tramway.” Yamato Hotel (3) rooma) and. 13. fernished bungalows in abarcsing sliti gardant Some of the morning dresses show neat Of course the day came when she had the benefit of those who cannot dance, little bolero effects.
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for children, Navy blue is popular here for the vinit ber, and to my horror almost plaintive beauty of the tango walking, suit, and the large assortment OGONDAI Most beautiful and select Benelde Resort in the Far East. Two miles from Fork found her badly pecked and bleeding, which lends itself to attractive music. of teagowns and pyjamas are Oriental in
Arthur. Formerly the Bummer Bewort of the high Russian officers and officials. Yazıla Hotel and 30 Tilas, and bungalows mostly with detached ser ante quarters. Excellent The other hens had fallen upon her and The most popular London dancing hotel their splendour.. Trousers are cut on
Bathing, Wonderfal Beenery, Historio treated her cruelly. I was assured that is importing an Argentine band for the the lines of riding breeches and on the
Battledads, Rainel and Dismantled Forts Milos of Walks and Drives. Abundant Finising Facilities. Orchestra. Ewloe & wack, sharming this persecution would stop, but I did purpose and, as all the dancing world straight men's trouser pattern. Boudoir
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high-nisan not believe it, and at last persuaded her knows, what is done there to-day is done coats are often transparent, and head POET ARTHUR Famous for its two memorable Bieges and its beautiful land'ocked new owner to give her a little run to all over. London to-morrow and through embroidery is frequent.
Harbour, Exadly one hour's journey from Dalra by express, train Yamato Hotel herself. He gave way, and abe rewarded out England the next day.
Bechoff a past master in the art of
(is soms). Bunniest place of historical and scenic Interest to fill & month with frena The waltz will mainly ho of the hesita frim with many czgx. You see, she was
fur working. Every coat is lavishly
walk-
· of drive" a sort human hen, and could not be tion variety, for which a deat of music trimmed with fur: sometimes it appears expected to be happy in the society of has been written recently, and which common-red hens. After an honourable will, after a long interval, have must of with fur cuff past the elbow and collars life of seventeen years (circa) she con- its own and not have to rely almost reaching to the ears.
All the coats fare, and flare a great tracted something known as the roup and entirely on fox trot tunes played in some deale pore, Penang, Malacos, Prov. Wellele passed out. The last grains of corn in went doubtful waltz time.
·Collars are enormously varied. Many her run were gathered up and planted on: The Man in the Street, who is so rarely of the coat collars stick out behind each. her grave, and she now lies peacefully consulted in these matters, was then apear, others, ara tied in jaunty bows of under a canopy of nodding tarki prouched. His contribution was perhaps
Poultry are too lightly accused of the most interesting."Tango" he said, for and others again, are so enormous Inck of intelligence. Here is a simple, another foreign dance. We have heard to be almost shawl-like, USA
Lanvin is always Lanvin. She is try- Ca proof of the fact that they reason and American music and danced American can draw deductions from what they see. dances for ten years; now we shall haveing to popolarise the black stockings to
not practicable for everyday busines When I die in my garden and come across to go through it all again with Spanish be worn with her many frocks of black very well in the "period" frock, but is
warm fick it into the chicken rum music and dance. Why doesn't some. She also is trying to lengthen the skirt life Therefore while I dik. the hens press body invent an English dance and write to practically ankle-length. This looks A great deal of silver is used in the against the wire, watching me closely some English music to go with it; (Continued at foot of next Column.) gown at this house, and one notes, too,
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