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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

Did any of your family ever make a brilliant marriage.

"Only my wife."

Visitor: "I'll give you a thous- and for that landscape.'

Artist: "Hooray! You're a man after my own art.”

First Executive:" "Is your ** að. sistant back at work yet from his vacation 1.

Second Executive: "No, just back!!

Lady: "I must go. I have to meet my haband at 5 o'clock. What is the time now ?

Hostess: "It is now 6 o'clock." Lady sitting down again): "Ah, then. I still have half an hour."

"And did he survive to tell the tale asked a listener after the story of traveller's amazing ad-

venture had been told,

"Oh yes, replied the story-tel- ler, "He's done äothing else ever since."

"What is your trade?" asked a benevolent old man to a person he had just helped.

"I'm a picker.".

"A picker? What is that?"

Well I pick strawberries in July, peas in August, pockets in winter, and oakum the rest of the

year.

Little Louise was on the street and was brought into the police station. The officers tried in every way to learn her name. Finally one of the officers said. "What name does your mother" call your father

Why, said Louise, very inno- cently. "she doesn't call him any name she likes him."

A station master was alarmed by a crash on the platform. Rushing out of his office, he was just in time to see an express disappear ing round the curve, whilst amongst

number of overturned milk churns sprawled B dishevelled young man. "What's the matter Was he trying to catch the train 1 asked the bewildered station muster of porter.

"He did catch it," exclaimed the porter, "but it got away again."

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Mr. Rowe. "Jack is so crazy about wireless I ean hardly draw him away from it."

Mrs. Crave: "Excellent training for a husband my dear-listening."

He (angrily): "Do you always elieve everything every fool tells you ?".

She (sweetly): "No, darling, but same times you do sound so plaust ble,"

Boxing Teacher (to pupil): "Now, have you had enough of the art of boxing for the first lesson ??

Pupil rather think so, and I would like to ask if I can't take the rest of the lessons by post.."

What his four legs and no wings, but can jump as high as the Eiffel Tower 1.

"I give it up."

"A dead horse."

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"But a dead horse can't jump.' "Neither can the Eiffel Tower.."

"You are working too hard," said a policeman to a man who was drilling a hole in a safe, at two o'clock in the morning."

"What's that?" asked the bur- giar.

I say you need arrest," replied the policeman."

the crowded tea-shop. One was

They sat opposite each other in

barly individual and the other a diminutive little man in a bowler hat. They had

steadily munching for a quarter of an hour when the little man suddenly top- ped the other on the arm.

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'Do you think you could pass me the sug he asked timidly.

The burly one scowled. "P'haps," he muttered. "I've bin moving pinnners all rão life."..

minister A man approached a and, shaking his hand heartily, exclaimed. How are ye, sir! Yo remember me, I'm sure?".

"Well I can't say I do," said the minister doubtfully.

"Oh, but ye must, Ye married me ten years ago. Don't ye mind the man who forgot the time of the ceremony 1"

"Ah," said the minister, I member you now. You got an awful fright that night."

12 "I did that, an' I've got her yet."

CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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1.Tennis strokes. 5.-Jutting rock. S.-A sheil fish.

12-Persia.

13-A number.

14.To wander.

--To superintend.

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17. Referring to surface mining.

19.-Loud sound.

20.--Blue.

21.-Profits 23.-Reclines.

21-A beverage.

26. Substantial.

28-A kind of dance.

31.-Conjunction.

32-Inhibition. 33.-Negative.

31-Part of "to be."

36.-Annoyed.

38.-~ Yes

30. Mohammedan leader."

41.-Norse goddess of fate. 43.Harbour.

45.-Tends.

48.-Unclosed,

50.-To conquer.

$1.-South American country.

2. To be in debt.

54.--Story.

55.--Roman date.

80-A number. 57.-Killed.

Vertical,

1.-Branch.

2.-Pertaining to mouth.

3.-A fruit.

4.~~~~Trap.

B-A digit.

6.Forward.

7-Corded fabric.

8.-Freak of fashion,

10.To state.

11-Simple 10.-Procures.

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18. Set down. 22. —Dignified. 23.-Kind of cloth. 24. Flax coloured. 25.---Age.

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27.Not thorough. 20. One indefinitely. 30.-American author. 35.-Rigorous.

38.-Climbing plant. 37. Globular roof.

38. Render less brittle.

40.-Bills of fare.

42.~~Openings.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930.

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SNAPSHOTS OF A SMALL BOY DISCOVERING A PRESENT

GUNYAS WILLIAMS

· GOES TO MOTHER'S BUREAU TO BORROW A HANDKERCHIEF.

DECIDES IT WON'T HURT JUST TO OPEN THE DRAWER A CRACK AND PEEP AT BUNDLE.

By GLUTAS WILLIAMS.

EREBOS SALE

TABLE

FINE, white Cerebos

-'tis the mark of the thour tful, careful hostess. The salt that runs freely in every climate.

Cerebos

SALT

TAKES HANDKER- "..

CHIEF EYE LIGHTS ON BUNDLE DONE UP WITH RED RIB- BON TUCKED INTO CORNER OF DRAWER.

SEES HIS OWN NAME ON BUNDLE AND

GUILTILY SHUTS · DRAWER.

TRIES TO GO OUT OF ROOM BUT MYSTERIOUS BUNDLE SEEM6 TO KEEP DRAWING

HIM BACK.

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DECIDES IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT TO FEEL THE BUNDLE A.LITTLE, IF HE DOESN'T LOOK.

(Copyright. 1929, by The Beft Syndiente. Ing"

SUDDENLY REMEM - BERS TALES OF SANTA CLAUS TAKING AWAY PRESENTS WHEN PEOPLE SNOOP BE- FORE CHRISTMAS,

HURRIES OUT TRYING VERY HARD TO CONVINCE HIMSELF THAT HE HASN'T SEEN A THING.

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PICTURES AND PLAYS.

Tallulah Bankhead's music-hall¡ music-ball once had authors like W. | debut at the Palladium followed W. Jacobs. Henry Arthur Jones. Barrie, Shaw, and other brilliant the usual run of these first vaude dramatists, giving it material. Not until the author gets a quarter of ville appearances.

There was excitement-the first the star's salary at least, will it house took within £2 of Jack Hyl-be worth while for Intelligence to

write for Sensation.

ton's record-there was

an CX-

'quisite dress for the star, and there was little for her to show in, Tal.

ink gets £500 a week, yet they take from somewhere an American sketch that, without her electric per- re-sonality, would be worth about

penny. They called it "The Snob," in which Tallulah is, married to a man who is ashamed of a bootleg. ging brother, while she is ashamed of an uncle who is a grafting litician, not. because they are erooks. I mean, but because they are not in "Society." The only artiels of attire that Tallulah took off was a bracelet, and the most amusing part of the dialogue was an interruption from the audience, When the husband wis defending his brother, who was suspected of stealing the bracelet, using slosh words, some one at the back yelled

Attaboy!

43.-S. Western American Indian. 44.-Miiniced

48.---Valley.

47. To boil slowly.

49.--8 pot.

50.-Lair..

53.--pronoun.

A critic remarks that the British

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the film is even more exciting than "Finis Terrae." It is frivolous to approve & film for the type of countenance it display's. The human face has long been one of the kineian's most powerful wea- pens! hut it has nearly always been

abused. Human portraiture on the screen has never, reached the atten- People who accept the talkies fre- tion due to it. It was not until quently have to justify themselves the Russians showed a not until realised the loveliness of everyday for doing so, and one of the rea sons they give is that the kinemas faces, the expressiveness of bone has-been saved from monotony. In and wrinkle on the screen Mould- the days immediately preceding ing is more than a matter of make. talkies, films, were growing dull. up, and in a face that is scared Everything had improved, every-hut strengthened by sorrow we see thing was efficient and well made, not only eyes with a certain look running down. Russia was looked but the original driving power was or checkbone going in such a way,

to as the hope of the future, and Russia insisted on ・ propaganda, The rest of the world's films were becoming stagnant. The screen was growing montonous.

at the sorrow and the strength themselves.

Fl

While we are human beings we must still have interest in all the variations of the form in which we are cast, and such film 43 The Rose of Pu Chi" widen our consci- The Chinese film, "The Rose of ousness, add to our knowledge and Pu Chi." is not remarkable because our sense of life. It is very de it is a film play acted by film nefinitely a shock, after the white- tors; only, the netors happen to be mask convention of Hollywood. to Chinese, and in this respect, for ** these XTAV and brautiful sheer interest in human features, Chinese faces in a kinema,

THE WOMAN'S

CHARMING HAMBUGS.

There is no getting away from it nowadays' 'good temper is an asset, and often taken into consi .deration even before beauty ar wealth. The people so endowed are admired, sought after, and held up as an example.

Is it to be wondered at therefore, that so many of us are humbugs and hide our weak-kneedness under the charming cloak of an amiabit disposition, and reap its reward of adulation?

It is only human to hide our weaknesses, and when there is a virtue knocking about for our use, who can blame us if we spread it out as a camouflage,

Look at the charming woman who puts up with all kinds of ineffi- ciency from her tradespeople and domestić staff, and who is flagrant- ly imposed upon by her friends be-, cause, in her own words, she hates grumbling." She won't mind," they

This puzzle took 24 minutes to say, "she is such a good sort, so solve. See how long it will take sweet-tempered.” you to solve it.

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Fiddlesticks! It is nothing else but funk. She literally funks the unpleasantness consistent with faultfinding, but naturally is not not going to ahout the fact from the house-tops.

The truth comes out, though, when it comes to the point that she has got to give her maid notice or take a firm stand

She goes through an agony of trepidation beforehand, suffers tor FI tores during the few minutes of AL admonition, and retires in a state of dither, with flushed checks and JES

clammy hands, to be laid up with

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MY PILLOW AND ME.

The stars

CORNER.

Are all gleaning, As bright as can be, And here we lie dreaming,

My pillow and me. So snug and sO COSY

I snuggle in bed,"

The future is rosy,

Day's worries have fled.. Dear soft little pillow,

So friendly and white, A billowy billow

To rock me all night. It guards me while sleeping,

From everything bad, From ghosts that come peeping, From dreams that are. and. It's mine and mine only,

I love it, you see.

We NEVER feel lonely, My pillow and me.

his own sex and adored by women for his good nature. But ank his wife what she thinks!

Sho will probably" only smile quietly in a tolerant way, for has she not often watched him squirm and wriggle and go to no end of trouble just to avoid chastising their son or giving the gardener a wigging.

SUPPER IS SERVED.

[BY GLADYS MANN]

When a substantial meat meal! has been taken in the middle of the day it is. not necessary or ad. visable to have a heavy meat meal at night. Also, supper should be planned so that too much of the afternoon and evening is not taken up in preparing it.

Many of the dishes can be pre- pared at the same time as the mid- day meal and roheated, and for economy's sake also left-overs, from the dinner can be prepared for quick cooking in the evening.

Casserole Dish.

Egg, cheese, and onion casserole is an easily prepared dish. Cook six large onions whole, for twenty minutes, in boiling water, drain well and place in a casserole or fireproof dish. Sprinkle thickly with grated cheese, and cover with good white sauce. Sprinkle more Cheese on top

Poach angg for each person, and lay them on top of the sauce, sprinkle with cheese, and brown in the oven or under the grill..

With White Banice, Creamed celery with toast is a dish that can look after itsel all the afternoon and be finished a few minutes before supper time. It is also a good way of using up the outside stalks of the celery,

Wash the celery and cut it up into half-inch pieces. Put it on to boil with plenty of water and salt. Let it simmer until tender-it can Lo on indefinitely if you have to go out and leave it, as celery

the water and then boils into

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drain off most of the water. Or you may find that the water has boiled away to the right quantity.

Now make a white sauce with one and a half ounces butter or mar-

The ways of the world are pass-garine, one and a balf ounces ing strange, for our charming hum-flour, salt and pepper, half a pint bugs get all the rewards of virtue, of milk. Melt the fat, stir in the while the genuine, good-tempered flour smoothly, add the milk, and people those who go along calmly stir until thickened and smooth. in the ordinary way but who can Season to taste, and pour the sauce And we all know, 19, the camadalinte the man with the story o going man who is so popular with even tow when necessity demands the whole boil up again, (Continued at foot of next column), are passed unnoticed.

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