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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1925

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THE HAPPY ENDING. AN AMUSING SKETCH.

[ST & WINDU LEWIS, THE NOTED

- RYGLISH HUMORIST

EVERFLOWING STREAM..

MORE SCHOOLBOY, HOWLERS.

That ever-flowing stream of unconscious She said (abaking ber hyneinthine curis; humour, the serious tainted schoolboy, that she didn't want to be told thy continues to provide us with an abundant. stories. She said, decisively, that she "pply of amusement, and some of the didn't want to play anything. She said errors committed by candidates at school Mr. Pillbury weuldn't like it. Mr. Pill-examinations often provoke more merri- bury is a woolly bear of haggard aspect, ment than the wittiest allies of a star | with a solitary eynical cye. Nor, it ap-comedian, says a London headmaster în peared, would Mrs. Wabble like it either. Mrs. Wabble had her right leg devoured by the Sealyham puppy some months ago.

Weekly Dispatch. The fact that we

are calmly informed that "Les Invalides" traps Women thai can't do anything

<

and is consequently touchy about the pro-al," and that" Martin Harvey is

prieties as any lady would be.

famous for sauce," certainly suggests

I said, gazing at the girl:"Girl, I am that the mind of a child is an enigma. Your south, probably thinking of our own accustomed to handlingwomen. parents have left you on my hands for chaite. tells us that "Natal has a hovy We purpose of being entertained by me.er rainfall, but most of it falls in

And by Heaven," I added bitterly, winter.” "entertained you shall be."

She said casually, "Wobbelshbola." "We are about," I said, stifling s yawn, like the Sheik when he reaches for his waip of raw camethide and mechanic- ally kicks away the golden headed vietim at his feet, to engage in the game known as Plumny. I myself;"

She said she wanted to hear a story. "What sort of story !"" She meditated.

"A silly stowy about a lady."

It is extraordinary how the moderu nursery keeps abreast of the taste of the moment. I stared at the girl.

"Have you been reading The Greeu Hat

"What's the gween bat?"

"F

I suid It's an in- Anyway," hastily, never mind about that. 1 will tell your story about something else."

1 cast around in my mind.

Do you like rhubarb jam!" She did

"Well, this is a story about a haker." "I don't ink Mrs. Wabble would like

This is a story," I said firmly, "which will bring no blush to the cheek of a Wubble, nor cause the breast to heave and the eye to dim with any emotion save those of sensibility and benevolence. Everybody who knows My thing at all about bakers knows that there are ao stories about them which are not calculated to encourage Virtue and in- crease Propriety. "Are you ready?

There was a little fuss until Mrs. Wab ble was reported agreeable.

This story. I began, is called the story of THE BAKER WHO HAD CELLULOID

TOES.

There was once a baker who had celluloid tues and daughter named Loo,

"I don't fink I like Loo." **You will directly. It was the habit of

this baker, who had a pretty wit, to refer to her laughingly as Baker Log, because -as he put it-she never wanted to go to Hanımersmith. Well, this baker was a very good and powerful baker, and baked unceasingly for which action he was from time to time rewarded with Gold and Silver Cups.

"Was he nice!"

"That." I said feelingly, in the minaner of the Negro stories in a popular New York weekly "is what he wasn't nothing else bit. We will take a brief stab" at his record in passing. He was runner-up in the Mixed Roll (1903) and the Open Doughnuts (1805). In the years 1900-1910 be won the Welterweight Jam Puffs (under Raspberry rules), the Mixed Meringues, and the Catch-as-Catch-Can Eclair Bowl (Gentlemen's Singles), and in 1811 was awarded his White (which is equal to a Bluc) for brilliant work in the Open Cream Buns In the year 190 * Auct Alicia, who writes the 'Lader the Oven feature in the Baking Monitor and Weekly Crumpeteer, said:

I advise supporters of the Balham- string to keep their eye on the Bum- pling nomince.'

Again, in 1905, she said:

The ad has a useful, left, and swings well into the dough. 'Tis short. arm jabs, impressed." And finally, in 1913, she said:

In the Crumpet Class I recom- mend punters to put their shirts once again on Alfred Mutin, whose form never flatters only to deceive." I paused,

·

Was she weally his aunt ? "Not exactly. Her name was William Henry Toombs, and she lived at Golders Green.

Why

I don't know. Why does anybody She had to live somewhere.#

Silence

I'm going to play shops. Like last time," said the lady decisively.

As you like."

I drew a breath and lit a cigarette,

HISTORY RECONSTRUCTED.”

that!

doubt you will be surprised to learn

Sienna is famous for being burnt. Wolsey's fate is attributed to his having shot at the Pope (Text-book reading: Aim at the Papacy),

The Chartists' lemands included Uni- Tura Suffering and Triangular Farlin-1

miant

The poll-tax was to be paid by every body who had a head.

Bihard I was murdered in Ponte- fracastle, but his fate is unknown."

Sam confusion is centred around the pock Wordsworth, it appears, wrote Thmitations of Immorality Milton lived life of "nesthetic purity," aadi

Domsday Book is a name sometimes give to his work Paradise Lost." An- other pupil thinks Tennyson the greatest pro riter that ever lived, and that he wrote the *** Had " and Paradise Last"

Gatal knowledge questions seem to provide the choicest howlers." An

philosopher tells us in a lucid mask that a Limited Monarchy is a Goremment by a nonarch-who, in case &. bakruptcy, would not be entirely rS ponsal for the National Debt. Lou have be same thing in private life with a limited liability company."

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*** About five years ago 1 had a breaking out on the side of my face. It started like pimples and they festated and broke causing more erop. | dons that www yety painful. I only got = couple of hours sleep at aight on account of the Irritation, and my face was a sight.

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LIGHT ON EUCLID,, Madematics and science provide us with the amusing and somewhat hazy definitions. We sincerely hope that there will ways be plenty of gravity, for wetical power; secondly, the natural ingraved by one of the most eminent Firms is

There are two reasons for the unprece- dented cutting of locks by the great ladies of Western Europe-frst, a desire to make manifest their now-found poli-

dalence which is the heritage of all mortals.

are andwhat disturbed by the informa- tion Gravity is that which if there i were me wo should all fly

A away." circle wems to be a very complicated affair. One aspirant to honours thinks it is 1 round line with no kinks in it

joined up so as not to show where it

When a shingled woman realises that she need but put soap on a towel and rub vigorously the beautiful pedestal of

of the principal ports of the Far East hare boom Great Britain and are annually corrected and brought up to date.

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Chambers of Commerces

her head, she spends only a few minutes Trade Regulations, of time, and thereafter can answer the Beales of Commissions, Conectar and Court

Stampa Datice, Signal Pardet straight lines are those which, tickets for the next charity ball at the ages, Heasures and other Cou

or sell Feestival, Tekles of Money Ś

began.

when they are produced so as they macet, de not meet..

A retangle is much larger than an ucute angle.

Then are two ordeles in the heart-a right angle and a left oracle.

Translations are full of pitfalls and some wild guesses are made. For ex- ample,

Hooit qui mal y pense-He may be bonest he thinks badly.

Illigini erant liberi quattuor fere anorum-She had twins almost every four yers

Ave done Lord, I am a bird.

And is a staggering explanation: If twiangles have two sides of the one equal to three angles of the other, wides each to sob, to which the opposite. are equ that is to say the trianglea shall be qual in all respect.'

Then Bey must be silly." "Not all they aren't," I agreed. "Dahal good," said a sardonic voice. "Tell us be mare.""

"I dont know any as good as that true one mean," I said thoughtfully. if you want pure realism, however, I ran do better un finish the story of

telephone, harangue the cook,

Albert Hall

As a Japanese, I fnd a great diffi- culty in knowing female from male when I venture into the haunts of Loȧ- don, that most intricato civilisation. Bowildered, I look at the neat, shora heads of the intelligent women wonder whether they wish to proclaim to all that their political freedom is a fact.

and

To me, a Japanese, who has been brought up to think that action belongs to the waterfall, that colour is the exclusive privilege of the azalea plant, and that tenderness is shared only by breezes and the weeping willows, the western women do so stimulate my brain and upset me by their restlessness,

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"It is all so new and só mysterious.

Bingled bair is not, to my mind, 1, portent of sex revolution. Women will be mothers in spite of a million wars and a thousand coiffeurs, and men will be husbands although civilisation undergoes centuries of chaos. Also there is saving grace provided by the divinities which shape our ends-al- though we be Japanese or English, of Biarritz or the Lido and that is the children on whom we are definitely saddding our unsolved problem, our un waged wars, our hatreds yet to be cured. It is not the dressing of the hair and No can summarise. Having cellu- body that matters these whims pass orinton picture. old toes, though a staunch Conservative, into the museum he marries daughter to a professional The fall wigs of the 17th century, the Bel owl-stuffe ho believed in Service, not taat hair of Sir Thomas Lawrence's Self. Held some time later calling for beyday, the ambrosial" whiskers of souchous nane Johnson or Johnston Thackeray, are merely externals. Al- Everybod thought he was perfectly right, though we all are trying to enjoy our and a timaith called Prebble turned pale selves and draw admiration to our- and went to amaica. In the very next selved, we still do our bit of work in month hisdaughter's husband was shot in

the hake

Will take long?"

a yew-tra a linen manufacturer who order to pay the piper, and sweat blood thought Cac a nice town, so now she in doing it.

never go hear Buckingham without; Whether her hair, be shingled or down It's big shop, and you are rethinking d the eltor Pitt. The name of to the waist, the wiinan "of East or

keen on buying fings,”

"I am."

"I'm going to wite a letter first so that

you can come to my shop."

"Keep your tongue in. Mr. Selfridge always does."

Her parent lounged in and lazily fixed his eyeglass.

"Still at it?"

her dog is over."

Is that all asked the lady. That's all

• "I dontfak it's vewy nice."

West is torn by the twin wishes of excitement for herself and peace in this world for others. Even Governments recognise the dual significanes and the

No do Stark, I call it. Just a prophetic depth of woman's shingled slice of rar palpitating life."

Her partneezed.

Are coming down?"

"Still," I agreed. "Kindly be quiet. "In a minute," I said. "I have a I may have to labour to entertain your letter to fctate to by secretary here. chill, but I do not reckon to be harassed Realy, Mis Brith Right. This is to by fat men while so doing,”

the same dress as before. Dear Sir,

hair,

HANGMAN'S ROPE JUJÚ,

-Scores of Koda residents to-day "be. are themselves protected from many lurking dangers because among their treasured possesions are pieces of the ropes which hanged the cathedral outragg prepstrators, Zadgoraky, Friedman, and Koeff.

The lady brought me a hastily scrawled We note vihastonishment that the sum hieroglyphic.

of Five Shag and Eightpence advanced This."

is." I said, considering it from all to you sure weeks ago by our Mr. Wynd- angles, is a letter from Gamfred's to ham Lewis's till outstanding. We con- your father. · Dear miss! Just listen: sider you toit and a beezle, and have

Dear Sir-We are surprized-pleasure pressing the hope that rats It is a curious Balkar superstition. He fidgeted slightly and yawned. may gnaw so eara. Believe us, dear that possession of pieces of rope by which How awful!" I said to the Lady, Sir, yours defeatly, per pro Camfrou's, criminala nro hanged brings good luck. round-eyed.

Limited, Jerry Bingle, Managing There was wild scrambling to obtain the

coveted trophicu:after, the osecutions... "Why are they suppwised?" she ask- Director

The bangman, an itinerant gipay, reap- He gave in There is something in Business As We had a jolly half-ed a small fortune by cutting the ropes tour foreh-time, and I got away into small strands and disposing of the

pieces to the highest bidders. with his unirea as well.

ed.

"They aren't really," I said medita tively.

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