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BY J. PENN. Bring your troubles to me" has always been my motto and it bas been pointed out that publication of one or two of my swers might be of benefit to others in similar distress. Accordingly, I have select- led one or two typical cases from a recent post-bag. Here, for instance,

When these lines appear in print, it will be St. Andrew's Day in the morning. [What about it?-ED.] I don't know much about the gentle man, any more than his pious memory provides a convenient ex cuse for a drink once a year. But even if I knew quite a lot about St. Andrew I don't suppose you is a pathetic appeal which reached would want to read anything Ime a few days ago :- wrote on the subject, seclag that somewhere else in this issue there will be an account of the Bell. which will be eversomuch more interesting. So let's leave St. Andrew and his Day, and see what else is to do around town.

Yes-mention of St. Andrew calls" up the subject of golf, and Mc Bottlethwaite has quite a novel grievance this week. He wants to know who was the bright genius who planted machine-guns round the links at Fanling, and arranged for the said deadly weapons to be brought into action just at the very moment he was about to ad. dress the hall? As

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You see, the idea is to make Hong Kong bright, not lurid. However, there is always the tram to Ken- nedy Town. It would no docbt be popular there.

hoss.

About this dance-by-ticket busi-

The dear old gentleman 'ur sure he must be a alce old man by the way he wrote-who Dear Mr.J. PENN-I have been suggested books of tickets issued keeping company with a young by local charities certainly had a nan, for the last ten years. We brain wave, but did he stop to con were to be married, as soon as he sider the complications which would got a rise in salary. He is a inevitably arise? Suppose, for in very steady young fellow, and he | stance, I bought a book of tickets means any very life to me. But issued by the Church of Latter-Day lately I heard something about Saints, and all unconsciously weat him which has past a cloud over up to ask for a dance with a charm my whole exerce. A friend of ing girl whose parents had reared his told me as I ought to know her strictly in accordance with the that he has a passion for kippers tenchings of the Calithumpian for breakfast. I as once taxed creed. Looking at the proferred my dear boy with it, and he ad- ticket, what would she say! mitted that it was true.

"Sorry, but we don't recognise that crowd!" I can see a whole lot of trouble brewing for the poor boobs who happened to present unaccept. young ladies. "Mother wouldn't like it!" ar "Father would not approve!" Would be heard on all sides, or else it would be necessary for young men to enrry about a dozen differ- ent books, of tickets, so that pro- |spective partners could select the particular charity they wished to er rich by consenting to dance with a stranger. No; I'm afraid nothing We can be done on these lines. shall just have to jog along joy- tesly, secretly rejoicing that a curfew bell does not send us to bed sharp at ten o'clock.

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I am a fisherman's daughter, and have never been able to look a two-eyed steak in the face, but when I asked him to give them able tickets matter of

up for my sake, he said he was sorry, but he could not do it..

"What am I to do I feel that I cannot go through life if it is to be sprinkled with matutinal kippers, but yet neither can I do without my dear one. Will you please advise me?

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fact, MeBottlethwaite did not ad- drees the ball, but he did,address very vigorously the person or per sons unknown who nearly frighten- ed the life out of him and put bim of his game for the rest of the day. It was an illuminated ad- dress-which is to any it was an address enlivened with many bril liant flashes of profanity probably never equalled in the history of the Colony. McB. enys he is all in favour of defending the Empire at all costs (providing local taxation is not increased), and having a strong naval base at Singapore, Cawnpore, Castle Peak, and Aber dren, too. for that matter, hut Jash it all, why prae- t:ce trench warfare right the edge of a golf-course when there are thousands of other places to choose from? He thinks this is one of the crimes which should be added to the long list of things "not done."

Girl who dress to kill usually cook the same way.

Answer. Your position, dear, is a very difficult one, anil I hardly know how to advise you. There is no accounting for fastre, and if your boy is devoted to kippers, you must try to see hi point of view. "After all, why let a few kippers come between you? True love is stronger than, kip pers, or “at lens), ought to be, Bender, are you not just a little "unfair to the kippers, many of whom were no doubt caught and hipped before they learned to know better1

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Speaking of night life in Hong Kong, I hear of new pastime which appears to be very popular among some enterprising people. Knowing how populer the talkies" are, they go in early and buy a block of a dozen seats, and then hang around to await the folks You must talk this matter but who go along to the show without fairly and squarely with this having taken the precaution to re- young man, and if he inaiata | serve their ведев in advance. umn his course of action, you | “Sorry, all heats sold !" says the must tell him to choose beturen man in the box-office, quite truth kippers and you. He will no fully. As the disappointed folks doubt choose kippers, but do not let that distret yun, for he will then prove himself unworthy of you. Keep a brave heart, "und all will come out well.

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selection from other replies sent to salve the tortured feelings of those in (and out) of

love:

girl.

turn away, wondering what they shall do next--and there is not, much choice in this burg-up comes a man who has been patiently wait. ing for this very opportunity, and offers two, four, six or ten tickets. at: fifty etats each over box-office prices Rather than go back home disappointed, most people buy tie kets from these "pirates. It is the difficult phase of "squeeze" problem to deal with, and do doubt the management would be glad to prevent it if they could but how it is to be done 1 confess I don't know.

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Every week, it seems, there is something new to Chronicle about Kowloon. The very latest improve- ment is the erection of a petrol- remp outside the fire Station-a brilliant idea. Hitherto, in order to have the escape or engine ready for a quick turn-out, it has been customary to send a fireman across to Hong Kong once a week with n couple of empty.beer-bottles to get JUGGINS.-I don't blame the petrol. Now it will be possible for You behaved diegracefully, the firemen to fill up the tanks The very fact that she consented not theirs, but those of the motor to sit on the stairs with you show vehicles) with petrol straight from ed that she had some liking for the pump. The only thing that you. Not every girl will do euch a worries me is the possibility that thing. But they do like to sit on some innocent stranger running out a carpet, whereas the City Hall The brilliantine on a man's head gas inay drive up to the basement in November-oh, tut, is not necessarily a sign that he is pump just as the fire-engines and tut. Jugging! No wonder she now a brilliant thinker.

However, things are coming out.

gives you the cold 'shoulder. the petro-pump has been very thoughtfully placed right alongside the motor ambulances, 50 there need be no delay in conveying a misguided and mangled motorist to

the hospital.

A pessimist is a man who notifies the local undertaker of his change of address.

BLUE-Your wife is right. You

have the children to consider. Bet ter sell your saxophone, or better still jump on it and throw it away. HOMICIDAL-I an not a bit surprised. Many raen have felt the same. But in spite of our boasted civilisation, the law still regards mothers-in-law as haman beings, Don't do it, unless you count the cost,

My well known modesty has for- HONG KONG NIGHTS.~I see hidden my making mention, up to no harm in changing hats with your the present, of the fact, that I have boy when riding on the Peak tram. on occasions been of some slight No more. I imagine would the assistance to readers who have been passengers. But perhaps the con- troubled with affairs of the heart, Icertina is a little out of place,

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St. Andrew's Day. Extra Race Meeting, Happy Valley.

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Army Navy (L), H.K.C.C. v. (F), University. Chinese E.C. (F), Indian B.C. v. Craigengower, (F) Div. II.: Police v. Kowloon C.C. (L), Craigengower v. Indian R.C. (F), Recreio 1. Diocesan Boys' School (F).

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