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THE HONG KONG DAILY

THE FAMILY BRIDGE TABLE.

PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1929.

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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

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"What is the difference between a client and a customer?"..

customer pays cash on the spot."

Father: You should know, Willie, that two rights never make &wrong.

Willie: Shoes do, Papa."

She: Did you see that lovely Russian count?"

He: "Is that an accomplishment for a grown mua ? **

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Minister (calling at the Aronoff's): Well, my little fellow, do you always do as your mamma tells you

Little Joe: "Yes, sir, I do. And so does Papa!

shout;

I am a son of the soil ed the grimy campaign speaker.

"Yes, and I'm sorry for you." exclaimed one in the audience, "for I see you have your father on your hands.

Bride: "So this is the machine that tells how much gas we use !"

Meter Man: ""Well, I wouldn't say that, Indy, but this is the ma- chine that tells how much gas you have to pay for."

Father: How is it you have not- done your school home "work"

Son: "I have decided not to do any more. It is not fair. We children do the work and the tea cher gets paid for it."

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We never needed any of them new-fangled scales in Ireland,” said Pat. There's an aisy way to weigh a pig without scales. You et a plank and you put it across a stool. Then you get a big stone Put the pig on one end of the plank and the stone on the other end and shift the plank until they balance Then you guess the weigh, of the stone, and you have the weight of the pig.".

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The other day Clem McGuire dropped into Elsa's little Main Street cafe and ordered an oyster stew. When the steaming soup was served Clem explored it cautiously and found one lone, single, solitary oyster. Holding it aloft on his fork, he cried loudly and with much eclat: "O looked, as I live and breathe A stowaway!"

One of John D. Rockefeller's

favourite stories is about an old man arraigned in court on a charge of vagrancy, who gave his name as John D. Rockefeller, Beratch- ing his grizzled poll in perplexity at the outburst of laughter, the old man exclaimed:

Yassal, dat's mah real name, an' it's been a trial to me all mah life, Yuh Honah.", "

Officer (addressing sergeant): There is a pile of rubbish over in Kosciusko Street that ought to be hauled off.

Sergeant:" Very well, make your report.

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Ofheer sits at his desk and nib- bles the end of his pen for several minutes, then snatches his cap and makes a break for the door.

Sergeant (sharply): "Where are

you going?"

Officer (sheepishly): "I'm going to drag that rubbish bver into Ma ple Avent."

One evening a young mother heard a great deal of noise coming from the dining room where her three stall children, ranging from. four to nine years of age, were evidently having a very happy time. She went to the dour and naked what it was all about, and was told that the children were playing radio. She paused for a moment before attempting to quiet the racket, when the youngest little boy save out, an unusually loud shrick, when she turned to the older sister and said, "Yes, it why is Junior screaming?"

The girl replied, static!

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

112

Horizontal.

1. To unite.

3.Prefix: doubly.

6. Therefore.

9.-Likely.

11. Took a chair.

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13. Last name of Robinson.

15.-Leading role..

18.-Anger..

18-Italian city,

19. Pronoun.

20.-Hill..

od-By. 23-French article. 34.-Hammers.

10-Every other (abbr). 29.-Models.

30. Planters.

39--A constellation. 33-Enclosure.

-Sprinkles. 37-Digging tools. 40.-Type measure.

41.-Less complex

13.-Virginia.

44.---Father. 46.-Suffered.

47.-Jumbled typer-

48.-Impudent.

50-Caustic material.

51.-Domestic fowls,

83.-Valuable fur.

35. To exhort.

$7.-Former Algerian official. 38.--Exists.

50. Old pronoun.

60.-Shelter.

1. tree.

2-Judged.

*Vertical.

To venture. 4.-To exist.

5.-Persons of low mentality. e-Divisions of play. Coniunctione

S-A Continent. 9-Advertising bill.. 10-Afternoon party 19-Toward.

21

26

12

(1.-A loft.

12 Wagon track.

20-A disease.

21. Let fall.

"Oh. he's

23. Symbol for Lithium.

21-Strips.

-To take oath,

27. Bour

---Ti devour..

31.-Finish.

Pronoun.

33. Electrical unit.. 26-Grins pleasantly, 37.---Drowsy. *.-To convince. 39.-Symbol for samarium. 42-To work hard. 46.-Battle host.

4-To ring loudly. 43.Suffix: foot. 40-Musical-note---- 31.-Pronoun.

42-Pronoun.

Symbol for nickel. 50-Musical note.

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SUGGESTS A LITTLE BRIDGE TO THE DIMMICKS WHO HAVE DROPPED IN FOR THE EVENING.

WIFE ADMITS SHE'S BEEN CUT- TING OUT A DRESS ON IT, JUST MOVE THINGS ON TO THE BED.

GUNAS

DOESN'T FIND BRIDGE TABLE IN ITS USUAL PLACE AT BACK OF COAT CLOSET.

DOESN'T FIND IT

• IN HER ROOM.

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REMEMBERS THAT MILDRED HAS HAD ́IT UPSTAIRS FOR

PAINTING CHRIST- MAS CARDS ON.'

FINALLY LOCATES IT IN WILFRED'S ROOM. LABORIOUSLY MOVES SOME HUNDRED RADIO PARTS WHICH COVERED IT

CALLS TO WIFE DOES SHE KNOW. WHERE BRIDGE TABLE 13, IT ISN'T IN MILDRED'S ROOM.

CARRIES IT DOWN TO FIND A MESSAGE HAS JUST COME " THAT THE DIMMICK BABY HAS WAKEP UP AND THE DIM- MICKS HAVE TO GO,

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PICTURES AND PLAYS.

The Union Jack may he waving way before the "fall theatrical over half the theatres on Broad

Reason is over.

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has designs upon the reputation of the American Ziegfeld. He is at present gathering the "world's talkies are driving British movie

While the American most beautiful chorus" for ship- ment to Americn-and. It will be concerns into the bankruptcy 100 per cent British. "I am tired courts, English theatrical prod of the constant talk about the cers are laying plans for an inva-super-excellence of the Ziegfeld and sion of American theatres which

drive the muy

few remaining Drondway actors and playwrights into Hollywood. If all goes well, 13 British productions will follow in the wake of "Journey's End" and This Year of Grace" by Christmas time. Not only will the productions be of British author ship, but the `casts' will be entirely British, guaranteed to speak, only. the purest Oxford English.

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American choruses," he said, "I feel there is a distinct fald for English girls, if we are to do jus tice to British lyrical talent, want girla of an English type of heauty-blondes preferred. They must have good skin, good teeth and pretty hair. They must have good legs, small ankles and small handa. The first thing I look at in an applicant for chorus work is the ankles."

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by the cinema industry. There is a feeling that "The Crowd" and

Homecoming "

too much above the heads of ordinary folk to be generally popular. but that remains to be seen.

Mr. Vidor is a pioneer in the method of story telling that skips over time intervals, never diverges from the main narrative, and never turns back. This technique has

en generally adopted by talkie producers, not for artistic reasons, but because the extra footage re- quired by dialogue calls for great story-compression. Mr. Vidor's me thed is an attempt to parallel life itself, which also moves strongly and continuously into the future. The passengers in the non-stop While England is being "Ameri- "The Crowd," a King Vidor time Journey showing in "The canised" througli the talkies, silent film, hends the list of gener- Crowd" are a young couple in American may be "Anglicised"al releases during a period re lower middle-class life in New through the theatre. Mr. C. B. markable for non-talking strength, York. They are average samples Cochran, the most prominent Eng-The Four Feathers" and "The of the seven million. She is an lish producer, is the "gemeralis Pagan," both made in the silent ordinary down-town type, prone to simo" of the invading forces. In technique despite their elaborate easy flirtations, and he is clerk No co-operation with the Selwyns, he sound and music effects, are draw, 137 in the office of a great insurance will send six productions to Newing immense audiences in London, company. They meet casually in York. Noel's Coward's new operetta, and The Crowd" is supported the business maelstrom, firt casual- "Bitter Sweet," Calsworthy's among the general releases byly at Coney Island in a shrieking "Exiled" and "The Skin Game," "Homecoming." one of the last orgy of vulgarity, marry casually, Sean O'Casey's "The Silver silent films made in the great Ger- and start housekeeping on the hap- Tassic," Menckton of's Many man tradition. From the view-py-go-lucky instalment plan.There Waters." and the London Pavillion point of artistry, no talkig yet is a certain poetry about them, revue, Wake Up and Dream."

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inade enn le compared for a mo- They are so young, so full of hope, mcat with any one of these four and so care-free-units of the great masterpieces of the silent | crowd, and yet different from the Mr. C. B..Cochran, who is known screen, and the public's reaction to crowd, in the sense that we are all in U.S.A. us the English Ziegfeld, 1 them will be studied with interest different from the crowd.

THE WOMAN'S CORNER.

TRY SALT FOR TIRED

EYES.

When one is troubled with those Ane lines that frequently show up at the end of a tiring day, and which a good night's rest will erase, the salt pad treatment works wonders..

Do not, though, confuse the tired lines round the eyes with the wrinkles which form from lack of sufficient nourishment in the skin, which, of course, require treat.

ment on their own.

DO YOU KNOW?.

It is difficult to wash ebony back- ed brushes without spoiling the backs. Ammonia must be added to the water to cleanse the bristles, but if the water comes in contact with the backs of the brushes it leaves a stain. To prevent this, smear the ebony with vaseline or olive oil before washing. The whole brush can then he immersed in the water without risk of spoiling the back, as the grease: makes it water-

Hot salt water pads are wonder-proof fully helpful to tired eyes. They Wipe the back of the brush with "not only tend to relax the tight, a soft cloth after washing. You lensed nerves, but they stimulate | will find that the oil has given the circulation, and so smooth out the ebony a deeper and richer polish, lines which have formed around so it serves two purposes.

the eyes.

GOLDEN APPLES.

TOMATOES AT THEIR BEST.

Tomatoes are

one

of the few vegetables whose health-giving mineral salts and vitamins are not deteriorated by cooking. All the same, there is nothing more delici- ous than ripe red tomatoes caten straight from the vine, with just a Bensoning of salt and pepper..

Scalloped Tomatoes.

Remove the akins-from the tome- toes by covering them with boiling water for one minute and then peel- ing off the skins with the blunt sido of a knife. Well butter a fireproof dish and sprinkle thick-

To take the salt water treat- meat, add one teaspoonful of or- dinary table salt to one half glass- Wipe off the cream with a goodly with breadcrumbs. Put in a ful of very warm water, stirring skin tonic. On no accoun: use an layer of sliced tomatoes and a few

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the mixture until it a well disastringent, as most astringents may

be too strong to use near the eyes A skin tonic is milder and quite stimulating

Beauty Tonic.

Good-bye to Wrinkles,

Now take a large cotton pad and Lonk it in the salt water, squeeze it out a little, and lay over the closed eyes, allowing the pad k. remain in position until it begins When the nourishing cream has to cool, when it should be replaced | been removed, continue with the with a fresh, hot pad.

Follow the hot salt water treat ment with a cold cream massige Apply the cream generously around the eyes, then massage into the akin, beginning at the bridge of the nose and gently drawing the hauere tips outward over the up, per lid and drawing them back ward toward the bridge of the pose under the eyes.

usual makeup, but do not forget to smooth the tiniest bit of cold cream over the upper lids to give them a glossy look.

rounds of finely sliced

onion Sprinkle with salt. and pepper. Repeat the layers until the dish i full. Then cover with a layer of grated cheese; sprinkle fine breadcrumbs over, put on a fow pieces of butter, "and bako a quar ter of an hour, or until the top ia nicely browned, in a moderate oven.

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