Visitor: "What peculiar fuel": Yes, I run the furnace for the frst two months with direct mail ~ądvertising.”
In the Car: "Y'know, I don't think forty-four hours a week is too short. Look at that big motor factory in Americs where they work only thirty-eight.
Under the Car: Yes: Lut I Wall Street has no heart ex-think they might work another ten claimed the broker.
tightening up the bally nuts."
Oh yes.ie has,replied-his- wife. I was just reading that bonds dropped in sympathy with stocks.
They were discussing the inven- tors, the question having been ask- Some "A Kathleen Mavourneen loaned who was the greatest. questioned a judge in an "Irish court. Whit in the world is that "
said Edison, some Steinmetz, and
51 un. The man in the corner of thescarriage spoke with a strong That's what we end some loans Hebrew davour. He said: "May- in our parts," the witness replini.be, maybe, but the man whe in-
They are the It may be for years and it may be forever" augi.”.
vented compound interest was no sloucher."
15 DIMLY CONSCIOUS THROUGH SLEEP OF
EARLY MORNING SOUND FROM NURSERY....
SOUNDS ARE REPEATED, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT'S "BEING THE BABY DEMAND
ING HIS BOTTLE,
LOOKS OVER TOWARD HUSBAND TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY HOPE OF HIS ATTENDING TO IT. HE SNORES.
·DECIDES THAT MAYBE THE BABY WILL PROP OFF AGAIN. SHUTS EYES.
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.
SNAPSHOTS OF A MOTHER STARTING ANOTHER DAY
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Judge: "Gentlemen of the jury, now that you have heard the evil. ence and the argument of counsel, it becomes my duty to charge
Juror: "Judge, it isn't fair to charge us for these uncomfortable reats and listening to such a poor show,"
A kindly but somewhat patronizi ing landlady inquired of the young "üride how she and her husband pro- peal to spend their holiday.)
Our plans so far," replied the bride, a little distantly, are only tentative."
"Oh, how delightful!" exclaimed the landlady. I'm sure you'll on joy camping out more than any thing else you could do.'
Barsting open the door marked "Private," the butcher confrented the local lawyer.
"It a dog takes n plate of meat from my shop, is the owner liable !" he asked the man behind the desk.
ik
* Certainly,” replied the lawyer. "Very well your dog look niece of steak worth a half a dollar about five minutes ago.`
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"Indeed,” he replied smoothly. Then, if you give me the other half that will cover my fee."
..
Old Tom Murphy, was 20 boys- legged that the biggest pig in the district could pass comfortably be tween his legs without touching him,
Wild pigs always, managed
to escape in that manner.
He met a Christian Scientist one day, who told him that he could The young wife took her husband easily be cured of this irregularity. shopping with ber. Entering | He suggested that Town only im a fashionable robo salon she select-agined that he was bowlegged. "All eď a dress and fitted it on. "How you have to do to get your legs long it suit me... dear?" she asked perfectly straight,' he told him, him.
"is to go to bed one, night and keep repenting to yourself, I'm not bow-legged: I'm not bow-legged, until sleep overtakes you." Tom decided to give it a trini, but he stopped awake too long, and when he awoke next morning he was knock-kneed, Now poor Tom is unable to get on his horse.
Not wishing to prolong the azany, for he knew that he would have to pay for one eventually, he replied: "It suits you right down to the ground, darling."
"Then I won't have it," she goan- ned.
I want one that only reaches to the knees."
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4.-Fun.
0.-Ailing.
12-Part of "to be.". 13.-Mistake.
14. To hind.
13.-College honour. 17.-Plagued. 15.--Parte of body. 91-Spanish article.
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25.-To help. 27.-A jewel. 31.-Faucet.
32. To emaciate. 34.By
35.-African antelope. 36.--A colour. 37.-lipon,
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38.-Bicycle, race track. 41.-Finish.
42. Paradise. 43.-Akc. 44.-War god. 45-Boxing match. 47.-English school. 40.--Wooded hill-side. 83.-Beginning
37.To be indebted.
58-Keats Inzily,
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51,--Moist.
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Vertical.
1. Passing fancy.
2-Wrath.
To ask alms. 4.-Prophet.
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10-Went fast: 18.-Audibly,
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20. To take a chair, 22-Part of barrel.
93-Disliked extremely. 94.-Aloft.
28-Yellow chemical compounds.
5.-Father.
To make up for
30-Loans
32-Conjunction: 33.-By birth. 33.-Bells.
39-French article.
40-Metal bearing rock. 41-Comparative ending. 44. An inscot, 46.-Greaty.
48. To evict.
49.-To cut. 50-Wholesome feat. 51-Complete collection. 62--Enemy.
51-Plant juice.
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31-A toy. 30-Note of scale.
This puzzle took 24′ minutes to solve. See how long it will take yon to solve it.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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IN BEAR JED 20 ARMY EEE DITL EENG ENZIGE LIRE BEAD BETB ELL OPIUM CAKE NE OBDAYZELIBEE BIEE BUS DICE BLID FELEIRIE: NA
VOOR REDFEE 800 DYZE ZEZE
CONSCIENCE TROUBLES HER. TUCKS HEAD UNDER BLANKET SO SHE CAN'T HEAR THE BABY.
SPORT
PRINCE OF WALES A WINNER.
CONSCIENCE GETS THE BEST OF HER TAKES ONE MORE LOOK TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY HOPE OF
HUSBAND.
AND
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SIGHS, YAWNS, RUBS EYES AND CLIMBS WEARILY OUT OF BED.
(Copyright; 1929, by The Bell Syndiente, Inc.)}}-7
ATHLETICS.
MISS NUTHALL AND THE
"MOVIES."
The Prince of Wales was one of the winners in the Sunningdale Miss Betty Nuthalt with the Golf Club's Founder's Cup compe- members of the British Wightman tition on that club's course in Sur- Cap team, arrived in the Beren- rey. His partner was Paul Azhill, garia at Southampton. "We had a member of the Essex County a lovely time in America, but I am. Club, Massachusetts, who spends a glad to be back again," said Miss large part of each year in Europe, real rest now at home." She and Nuthall. I am going to have a They had a notabir success over the other members of the team Raymond H. de Montmorency, a ↑ Mrs Watson, Mrs. Covell, and British international goffer, and re- Mrs Barron-all said they were pleased with the trip, although a tired Eton master, and Muster Elittle disappointed at not winning S. A. Baker, the winner of the last The Prince of Bar tournament. Wales and his partner received six strokes, and won on the nineteenth green. Early in the match Prince George and a friend few over the course, and several times their plane circled over the play. The Prince and his partner were one down at the end of the first nine holes, and were still ene down with two to play. They won the seven teenth, where the last of their stroke came in, and an extra hole bad to he played. Master Baker's approach putt was a lazy one," and the Prince had a patt of three yards. His ball was sent for the hole, and it dropped amidst ap- plause from the crowd of about 150 who were following the game. In the previous round the Prince and his partner had conceded one stroke to Sir Gordon Campbell and the Hon. James Borthwick, and had beater them by three and two. **
the Wightman Cup. "The team have had a splendid time," said Mrs: B C. Covell, the manager. They put up a splendid show. Betty's great battle with Helen Wills was magnificent; it was a struggle of youth against skill and experience, and Betty did splendid. ly. Throughout our visit we were treated wonderfully. One of the thrills was when the team visited Hollywood. There the girls were entertained by Charlie Chaplin, and they met other famous 'stars' of the screen. Betty was delight 1ed with Hollywood, but she said that much as she liked it she would prefer sticking to her tennis to be- coming a 'star' herself. The team also visited the White House,
i
0. P. DIXON AT 56.
C. P. Dixon carries weight to- day-more weight, perhaps, off the court than on? He confesses to over sixteen stode, and- that is one stone less than a year ago. Natur- ally, Dixon is slow about the court, but he retains much of his old skill. He still likes to proceed to the net-it is more of and on the volley his accuracy is a procession to-day than a run,-
remarkable. His backhand is as heavily out as ever, and in the old days he used to like to get to the glasses, and in one respect he is.
He plays without
quite youthful, much more so," in fact, than many players of twenty five, for Dickie" possesses a head of curly brown hair, the envy of his colleagues who were watching him at Queen's in the internation- al match.
net on it.
A PLUCKY LOSER."
Miss Molly Gourlay, of Cam- berley Heath, Surrey, became Eng land's lady champion golfer when she defeated Miss Diana Fishwick, a London girl who plays all her golf at Broadstairs, Kent, by six up and five to play. The final was over 38 holes on the Dorset Club's links at Broadstone. Miss Gourlay, who won the same title three years ago, has thus crowned a season of success, for earlier in the year she won the championships of France and of Belgium. Before a single shot in the championship was play. T. Green (Belgrave Harriers) willed Miss Gourlay was favourite, represent Great Britain in the 100 and she achieved the seemingly im kilometres world's championship possible in more than living up to walking race at Milan. Carlo her reputation as a great golfer. Giani, who finished eighth to Green Shé certainly played better golf in the London-to-Brighton walk re than any other competitor,, cently, and who won the race in victory was conceded ungrudgingly Ionly last year, will again compete. I by her opponent in to-day's final.
where they were entertained by Mrs. Hoover.
WALKING CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
THE MODERN GIRL IS A GOOD GIRL...
"SEX NOVELS HAVE DONE HER NO HARM."
SO SAYS ELINOR GLYN,
Elinar Glyn, founder of the modern sex navel, and creator of that mysterious word: "It, was asked whether the regarde:t the spate of are morels which followed her notorious “Three Weeka" as a menace to youth, and whether her discovery of "It," or aez appeal,, hai not done more harm than good "to
girls.,
Her reply is given below. 'I do not believe that the sex novel,”, so-called, has done any harm to the younger generation, Hathor it has done good, and if I were to begin writing again I would not vary my subject or my style, because I write exactly as I feel and as I see life."
expression of the fact that this younger generation is determinedto find out things by experience and practice rather than to rely blindly on precedent.
"I am an optimist as far as the
SEX WAR PROBLEM.
MEN'S RIGHTS. .
Her
The International Congress for Men's Rights did not nect this month in Viensa as arranged. The league complain that the payment of alimony to divorced wives, who are able to earn, or have money of their own, is as hard on the men in Austrians in the United States of America, and that the inequal- ities of judicial sentences on men and women for the same crimes are unjust and defeat their object.
The league is fighting the pro- 'gress of woman's emancipation and insisting that women should be ex- eluded from posts that men could fill, but as there are more women than men in Austria to-day this
measure is not economically practi
cal. The founder of the league. Sigurd Hoberth von Schwarztha), is a bachelor and as handsome as Valentino, in the Viennese girl's estimation.
next generation is concerned. Ihappiness, and abandoned them.
That is common sense.
가
as this present young generation is concerned.
"Sex novels, as such, may not all
"I do not read many of the mobelieve they will be a magnificent dern sex novels," said the authoress race. of Three Weeks," "partly be cause I am an old woman and old- fashioned, and partly because I have to write eight thousand words
"They are not degenerate in the a week still.
ass and they are not lacking in "But what I do see of the mo-virility or common sense, dern sex-novel makes me think that "If they have tried experiments "As such, they do not do any libagiradagnall, by containerkay-Nice-undeftand-up whichry- - great berm and they us great contributions to literature periments did not pay in health or ably result, indirectly, in and thought, they are at least an (Continued at foot of next column). great deal of good."
"I am an optimist also as far be very entertaining, or even in- | structive, but I regard them as a period of evolution-expressions of the nervous unrest and questioning which their authors-and many of their readers-fcel.
a
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