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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 24TH,

1926. 陸拜雞

AN UNREPORTED COMPETITION.

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Kowloon...

Dep. 40

9.18 10.30 11.40 12.00

435 8.29 7.10

PUBLIC ARE INFORMED THAT ANY ATTEMPT TO DETECT HIDDEN PERSONALITIES WILL BE FRUITLESS.}

9.34 10.89

12.09

£31 4,44 6.38 7.19

10.41

2.43 458 8,51 7.51

12,54

2.56 5,09 604 744

9.00 5.18 6.08748

Fanling

De, 7,82) 10.03 11.18

111 324 6.19 17,58

Bheangshm

Dep, 7.38 10.07-11.00

Shamchan

Art. 7.42 10,13 11.28 12.20

3.81 5.346.29 8.08.

Skumahan

...Dep.) 721

8,08 10,88 11,40 )

1.58

8.00

437

6.18

Sheungshui

...Dep. 795

8.12 10.45 11,47

$.07

404

8,08 6.15.

Fanling.

8.11

428

4.33

34

3.25

3,20

8.38 456

Yaamati...

Shafn

Tripo

Taipo Market

Dep. 6.50

Dep

1,09 9.30 10.51

7.18

9.49 11.04

Dep. 7.91 9551106

Taipo Market

Tripo

Shatin

Yagmati... Kowloon...

Tap. 7.32 8,16 10.49 11,51

Dap 2.42

8.26 10.39 12.03

Dep. 7.46 8.30 11.04 12.07

UTAZIONA

Dep. 7,59

843 11.17 194

Dop. 8,12

Am. 8,20

8.53 11.99 19,83

2.87 #.08 11.37-19,41

4.49

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8.19 6,529 3336.33 5.51 6.46 3,30 5,08 P.03 6,58 8.58 518 8.11 7.08

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HOW TALK BECOMES EXPENSIVE.

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WOMEN AND BARGAINS,

Talk is cheap until it gets to love Another ingenious suggestion was that letters," said Lord Dewar in an epigram- Some time ago, some friends of mine who have more money than shares, after of Mr. A. Fiat, who recommended level-matic speech at a dinner given by him

Here are some others of Lord Dewar's witty commentaries on the world:-

bowling team, who have been touring a long discussion is to the annuallyling the Peak and all the hills of the to the members of the South African

island, thus etabling a typhoon to pass England. overbend without disturbing the Colony. The thought was so stupendous-in its

In the past we used to look to the simplicity that the Committee were future; to-day we look to the tax col- However, upon telestar. To them that hath, cometh the somewhat at a loss. flection, it was realized that many of the revenue officer. contributors to the Prize Fund owned property on the Peak and the suggestion was therefore ruled out.

recurrent damage due to rainstorms and typhoons, faully decided that-the-dis location of business so caused was a great hindrance to them in their per- fectly legitimate occupation of diverting the money of a hardworking public, into their own pockets. They decided there fore that a reward should be offered for the most practical suggestion for safe- guarding the Colony by some mechanical means. Owing. I fancy, to the fact that I bear a strong facial resemblance to the man who put gin into engineering, I, together with a small Committee, was appointed to consider suggestions, for which verbal application was made. Owing no doubt,to the fact that the Press were busily engaged in animadvert ing upon the latest peccadillo of that

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Life is made up of trials with an occa- sional conviction.'

Avoid the pessimist-bis wheel of for

tune invariably suffers from a punc

Scotsmen waste three years of their the point in suggesting the erection of lives telling stories against themselves. series of £ying arches, based on Dumb- Englishmen waste three years of their Bell Island, and carrying on them alives listening to Jews and Scotsmen tell-

ing tales against themselves. motor road. This, he pointed out, would not only enable the Mayor and Corpora tion of that island to proceed in comfort to their daily arocations, but would also serve to buttress that portion of the Peak Road which in its own mind in- finitely preferred a location of Fokfulam Reservoir. This scheme was held to be irrelevant, but the document was fortured tyre.

If women refused to marry pessimists warded to the Director of Public Works,

The Committee were greatly attracted that would solve the housing problein.“ by the suggestion of Mr. C. Hatch, who recommended the installation, at Macao and Swatow, cf instruments, which, on pressure of a button, would automati- cally make a noise like a vacuum, thua turing aside any typhoon from its path towards Hongkong. It was, however, decided that the subsequent friction with the two ports in question would he worse than any typhoon,"

The idea of fr Archie Tect that all houses should be erected with one side in the form of an inclined plane without windows, so that heavy winds on im pinging would slither harmlessly over the building, not only suggested domestic discomfort, but presented the same dif

1.9 did the ficulties-in orientation scheme of Mr. Hornblower.

matter escaped their Argus eyes. It is, however, necessary to make public the result of our Committee's investigatiota. Mr. Rufus Q Hornblower pointed out that storms were chiefly a matter of wind, and that the shape of the Stanley peninsula, was suggestive. He recom mended that it should be hollowed out, and that an enormous bellówe should be constructed inside. When the typhoon was approaching, the bellows, operated by machinery, should direct their full blast upon it, thus causing immediate defection to a safe path. The Com- mittee however seemed to remember some story about the horse blowing first; and in any case our correspondent omir ted to mention the method of moving the Stanley peninsula round to meet tphoons coming from directions other than that in which it faced. His sugges tion had therefore to be turned down.

On the whale the Committee decided The Committee were much impressed with the idea of M Gotta Slatoff, who to divide the prize between Mr. A. Jew, pointed out that more damage was done who wrote "Overinsure, and hope for by rain than by wind, and suggested the the best," and Mr. P. A. Triot, who erection over the Colony of a large rain- briefly commented "Refer the matter to proof awning, secured to Tai Mo Shan, the Kowloon Residents' Association."{ Devil's Peak, Waglan, and the Lantae The Committee, however, wish to make it Peak, As however he recommended quite clear that they cannot, in view of fabric exclusively sold by a local firm, their investigations, recommend the Gov- it was feared that the writer was atrament to delete, or even to diminish, tempting to obtain cheap advertisement, the item of "Typhoon and Rainstorm and-his-letter-was accordingly consigned Damage" in the 1997 Estimates. "to the waste-paper basket

NO FIR TREES IN LONDON SOON.

ONLY A FEW AND ALL DYING.

Where are London's fir trees?

A Daily Express representative asked himself this question on a recent morning as he lay in bed gazing out of his window at a solitary elin.

In spite of a long and thorough search not single är tree was to be seen in

DOGBRODY.

MARRIAGE AGE PUZZLE.

BRITISH HOME "SECRETARY'S

DOUBTS.

The problem of the legal age for marriage in Great Britain is causing some perplexity to the Home Secretary In Parliament recently Bir W. Joynson Hicks, when asked whether he proposed to introduce legislation to raise the legal age of marriage, said that the question which was a very difficult one, was un- arry London square, nor yet in those back der consideration, and he was not yet in premises which call themselves gardens. position to make a statement.

The more he dived into the ancient The Office of Works was then resorted marriage laws of this country, the more to for information.

dificult the subject appeared to be and "Fir trees?" said an official, much he was not at all sure it would not turn after the manner of a man who might out that the legal age of marriage was remark, What are fir trees!"

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My two.- (Laughter.)'

I don't think we have any in the parks. No, I am sure we have not," he added decisively," but possibly the London County Council, who control most of the parks, could give you more exact information.A VA

It took a long time to extract informas tion from the London County Council

Fir trees? Why, we must have some somewhere," said an official." Let me

sea- DOW-

Mr. D. Grenfells. Is this not a proper

question for the Committee on Juvenile Delinquency (Laughter.)

HELEN WILLS.

THE GIRL AND THE PLAYER

BY FRANK POKON. 1

Miss Helen Wills has one thing in common with Mlle. Leaglen, her great were.. caught rival: both of them young." At the age of Attean Helen Wills won the Championship of the Pacific Coast; Mlle. Lenglen won the Championship of Picardy at the age of fourteen.

That, early achievement of fame is shout the only thing that the two best players of their sex in the world have in common; in all else in appearance, in mannerisms and in style of play-they are diametrically opposite.

When they came on the court at Cannes à few months ago to play that memorable match which set two Continents talking, an American woman sitting near to me said: "They remind me of Carmen and the Quaker Girl," and the comparison was very apt. Suzanne Lenglen, dark, eager, vital Helen Wills, fair, placid, demure.

HER" TEMPERAMENT. From a temperamental point of view, Helen Wills is splendidly equippe i for a game which is specially trying to the nerves. A bad line decision against her would never affect her play in the slightest degree; she would hardly notice it, in fact, so tranquil is her quiet con- centration on the actual game. Unruff ed, serene and efficient, she just carries fon, no matter what the state of the score," and to that faut must be ascribed a good deal, of her kuceesa.

She belongs to a category of games players who are always had to beat," the category which includes players who are modest and yet confident in their own powers. For Helen Wills certainly has that confidence, and she is incapable of thone sudden lapses which come to players who are too highly strung; she never commits the folly of ander-rating an opponent, but she never commits the equal folly of over-rating them. She just produces her beat, no matter what is the nature of the opposition.

Helen Wills is popular" wherever she goes, and that fact is easy to understand, for her personality radiates the charm of an unaffected simplicity. She never gets

in the least excited about her lawn tennis triumphs, and off the court she prefers to talk about art, music, or good books rather than about the game in which sher at the age of twenty, has achieved so much.

-HER TESNJA.

Perhaps severity is the best word to use in describing her lawn tennis. She hits, particularly on the forehand, with tremendous force; in. the whole history (The law at present appears to be that of women's lawn tennis I doubt if there girls may marry at 12 and boys at 14 have been three other players who hit the A recent report of the Registrar General ball equally hard. Her service is power- recorded the marriage of a girl of 13, fal and well placed, and when the volleys three of girls of 14, and 30 of girls of 15 she does so with a crisp hinality. It in the course of a year.)

"And on Hampstead

Reference books were produced from the cellars of the County Hall None wich here," said the official glancing at the exclaimed another. record of Battersea Park. "None here,"

would be difficult to point to any phase

of her game which is really weak, for as she has developed her lawn tennis she Heath,bas carefully concentrated on those stroken which were less good thin others. The result is that to-day Helen Wills has become second only to: Suzanne Leng

And those are all," said a third.

he remarked, scanning dismally the re-But they are all dying, and there len, and there are a great many excellent cords of Finsbury Park Whereupon seems little probability that fir trees judges of the game who are fully con- three members of his stuff left their will be planted in future," said the vinced that the Lenglen era" will soon seats to grapple with the problem.

officialin charge, but do

be ended, and that the new Queen of "Ab," shouted one, exuberantly,

London Boil does not suit them. The lawn tennis will be this pretty, charming "there are fire in Bostall Wood, Green-altitude is too low, and in a short while girl from California who has yet to reach

Continued at foot of next Column.) they will be extinct.

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