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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 6TMa, 1925

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STRIKE EXPERIENCES.

FUN AND FANOY,

TALES TOLD BY THE PUBLIC

The destinations of two down-line trains as they approached West Hamp stead (Met) station had been wrongly announced.

The platform bell announced the ap. proach of a third train, and the volun teer porter, who did not mean to be let in for renewed chaff for another bad guess, sang out, "Uxbridge train, I think it's Watford, but I believe it's Harrow."

W. T. Scort.

22, Brook-street, W.1.

In darkness and in heavy rain, I "boarded" the most crowded omnibus I have ever seen. I gripped the rail and had one foot on the edge of the step and the other in mid-air. The conductor came for my fare, looked at me for a second, and then said: "Half price, you. I can't tell whether you're on or off."

ARCHIBALD RÖSL National Liberal Club.

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I met a friend on the platform of Liverpool-street Station. He was hold ing a green dag in one band and a whistle in the other. I greeted him and asked him what he was doing.

"Oh, he replied, "I'm guard of a train."

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**But where is the train ?" I asked.

Came the answer: "That's the trouble, I blew the whistle, waved the flag, and |·hère I-am, anyway

"FRANK MCHARLIK

64, Westhorne-avenue, Eltham

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EASIER!

On a journey to the City our driver could-not-pull up at a station, but went past for 100 yards. It was on a steep in cline, and the train was very heavily loaded. The driver made several vain endeavours to back-the train.

MRS. GRUNDY AT HAMPTON COURT,

WHEN THE OLD LADY WAS

HOUSEKEEPER.

INTERESTING LETTER.

The following letter appeared in The Times -

Sis,-In reference to your article on Tuesday last on Mrs. Grundy" that lady was as a fact, embodied in the Housekeeper of that name at Hampton Court Palace in the late forties and early fifties of last century. Her fame is per- petuated in a dark space-one of the mystery chambers of the Palace-the door of which is rarely opened," and which is still known as Mrs. Grundy's Gallery." Here she impounded any picture or sculpture which she considered unfit for exhibition in the State Rooms, and here she kept them.under lock and key, ia de- fiance of the authority and protests of the Queen's Surveyor of Pictures. No entresty, no persuasion would ever in- duce Mrs Grandy to let any one so much as peep into her Gallery, still less pene trate into it.

The story goes that on one occasion the First Commissioner of Works, on a visit of inspection, noticing a closed door, asked what it led to "That is Mrs. Grundy's Gallery, Sir," replied the Clerk of the Works in awe-stricken tones, and he had no key to admit him. So Mrs. Grundy was sent for. In aBAWEṛ to the First Commissioner's request, she declined to open the door for him. "But I am one of her Majesty's Ministers, and I have authority over the structure of the Palace." "I cannot help that, sir," replied Mrs. Grundy, only on an order signed by his Lordship the Lord Cham- berlain of her Majesty's Household can I allow anybody to enter my Gallery.

Mrs. That is the sort of thing that Grundy would say."

History does not record the eventual result, though he did not get in on that occasion. But in the century-old struggle between the Office of Work and the Lord Chamberlain's Department, som 40 years. after her death the First Commissioner succeeded in having the occupation of At last a head popped out of a carriage Jars Grandy's Gallery ** transferred to window and a voice called out: Don't his Department, to be used for stores. trouble any more, old man I'll ask Some is years afterwards its treasures them move the station."?

were gradually brought forth, and the PAZCY HIND.pictures hung in the State Roome, notably

Cariani's beautiful "Venus Recumbent, No. 88 in the Second Presence Chamber, identified three years ago by Mr. Tancred Borenius as having belonged to the famous Venetian collector, Andres Van- dramin, from a drawing in his catalogue of 1627. It was not until 20 years ago that a leaden statue of Venus, which had been sent from Windsor and was stored in "Mrs. Grundy's Gallery," was brought forth to adora Henry VIIL's "What would Mrs. Pond Garden. Grundy say?"

2 Squires lane, Finchley..

A STORY WITH A PUNCIL.

A gung of hooligans stood across the road to bar the prograss of a bus. The volunteer driver pulled up and sat calmly watching them lift up the bonnet of his 'bus apparently with an eye to the magneto

Then, suddenly, he slipped from his seat to the ground. A few lightning movements, and the hooligans lay in a neat little row on the ground...

or la 18 row on the grounmpion of Cambridge University climbed back to the driver's seat on the bus, the con ductor rang the bell, and off they went.

A. S. QUITTENTON.

18, Cedar-zond, East Croydon,

TWO OF A KIND Scene: A main line platform. A tall, languid youth with a gold- rimmed monocle is standing by a pile of luggage, pensively watching the bustio round a traia.

Another young man comes up and asks, "Do you want a porter,' sir?"

I am a porter!" is the reply, in an injured tone.

(Miss) 0. GROVER.. 10,- Endsleigh-street, W.C.L.

SAFETY !

On the first day of the strike several of the boys at a City secondary school.ar rived on bicycles. The headmaster thought this method of travelling dan gerous in the circumstances, so sent a letter to each parent recommending that a boy should be kept at home if he could get to school only by cycling. ⠀

One boy, who came from Essex, was in his usual place next morning.-

"Hallo!" said his form master. "Did you give the note to your father

Yes, sir." "Well, what did he say ?" "He said that perhaps it was rather dzugerous and I had better not Court up on my bicycle again."

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"How did you get up today, then "My brother has, to come up to town, so I rode on the crossbar of his bicycle.

R. TOWNBEND Beaconsfeld.

TWO ROPES.

ERNEST LAW. The Pavilion, Hampton Court Palace,

Middlesex, June 4th

TOBACCO POISON.

THE DANGER OF THE RELIGHTED

CIGAR

Some interesting views on smoking were given by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, professor of physic at Cambridge Univer sity, in an address on tobacco reported in Lancet. "From inquiry among athletes

I find that the most successful are non- smokers," he says. What is the least harmful smoke depends not only on the content of nicotine, but also on the rate of combustion. Thus while Virginia cigarette togacco contains twice as much nicotine as Manila" cigar tobacco, the smoke of the latter contains more than double the nicotine of the cigarette smoke,

The smoke of one cigar contains as much nicotine as 12 to 18 cigarettes. The amount of nicotine in cigarette smoke is much less than that in the smoke of pipes

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Neither a half-smoked cigar nor a pipe should be relit; it has been found that a smoker who relights a pipe "or cigar absorbs more poison than he would from .10 ordinary smokes."

Although tobacco has dangers, Dry Rolleston says that serious injury must be rare considering the universality of the babit.

A study made by Dr. Earp at Antioch College, United States, showed that walle smokers were on the whole more "intelligent than non-smokers the latter Before getting out of a 'bus bound for had a superiority of scholarship, dje Highgate a woman offered the conductor good-looking young man in-plus fours--a half-crown. Get yourself a their "four hours' vigil they found on the drink," she said.

dre desk a hox of cigarettes with a note from The conductor thanked her gravely, but the managor, "Help yourselves to these, refused the coiq

but don't smoke outside the office." Well," - remarked the woman, I And they hadn't a match between hope-they-keep-you on after-all-this-is-them- over; you deserve it."

I hope they don't,” replied the con- ductor, "I'm due back at Oxford on Friday."

Miss E, B.. SALMĀN, Larkfield-road, Richmand

LOVE'S AFTERTHOUGHT.

A volunteer 'bua was returning to the garage when an enormous crowd chased

52, Haxby-road, York.

C. MACKIE

A DRESS REHEARSAL, I had been commissioned to drive a party of amateur coalbeavers to Pad dington, but one of the party failed to appear at the rendezvous. Tearing round to his house I knocked furiously, on the door. A few seconds later the door was

pyjamas, with a bundle of clothes under his arm

It with howls, shouts, and threats. opened by a sleepy-eyed man, still in

A timid old lady turned to a police man and said, "Oh, dear! Are they going to hurt that poor driver if

"Hurt him, lady 1 No fear," was the cheery reply. They forgot to kiss him good-night

TUBBY EDLIN

Sussex Hotel, Hove.

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Two special constables told off to pro-

feet a petrol dump were wstood against. smoking on duty, and before leaving

Somehow he managed to dress in my 12-h.p., car so we sped along,-end when we reached Paddington he assured me that all was well, though he might have. been happier had he not forgotten his braces.

G. A GREATHURST. 11, Sefton-road, Croydon.

ENGLAND'S WAY-

I was doing my four hours as a special

the police station were ordered to hand in the City, on a bitterly cold day, when

over their match-boxes as a precaution against temptation,

At the dump. their quarters were the counting room. After settling down for Lemtinuri so nies Cotund),

two young fellows came along with a jug

of hot tea and invited me to have a cup.

They were strike pickets!

FRANE, STUART

46, Ebury-street, B, W.1

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