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HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.

"How many students are there studying at this university 7''

Oh, about one in ten.'

Englishman: I lost fifty pounds during the crisis."

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Stout Friend: "Tell me your inethod."

Father: "Did you pass?" Fritz (a student, home for holi- days): "Sure did! Every car, ex- copt one !!!

I want twins photograph. ed."

I will do them separately or else people would think I had mov

the plate.

Fussy Lady who has been a longed time in selecting her purchase): "But I don't think this is lab. It looks to me like mutton."

Exasperated Butcher: "It was Jamb when I first showed it to you,

inudum."

Profesor "Would you like a week's holiday, travelling about at my expense, Smithson 1

Butler (gratefully): "Thank you very much, sir."

"Good!

Professor:

After 29 years' work I have, completed my giant catapult: if you will pack a hamper of food, I will send you off on an eight-day trip to the moon !!!

"I'm perfectly sick of 'love' and all about it?" said the cynical girl to her would-be admirer. "What; is it, after all, but merely like this fir She pointed to the fire, which was dying out. "It burns brightly as first, then gradually gets lower and lower, and finally becomes asFog."

"Yet," said 'be, it would be all right if you kept it alive."

"I say," shouted" a "inan to the telephone exchange, "are you aware that I've been at the phone for nearly ten minutes 1"

"I've been here all day ! repli. ́ed a gentle voice,

"Someone told me you had mar- ried. May I congratulate you, if

it isn't too late?"

Thanks, but it is; I married last week!"

The traffic offer had raised his hand and the lady motorist stopped with a jerk. Said the officer så he drew out his little book: "As soon as I saw you come round the bend I said to myself, 'Forty-five, at least."

"Officer," remonstrated the lady fadignantly, you are very much mistaken. It's this hat that makes me look so old."

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"What do you do

"I keep house, scrub, scour, bake, wash dishes, cook, do the laundry, iron, sow.

And the census-taker jisted her: "Housewife-no occupation."

"Busy" was the word from the inner office when Mr. Salesinan culled.

Nothing daunted, he wrote across his card: "That's why I am cal- ling, I haven't any time to waste on loafers," and sent it in again.

This time he got in.

Interviewer: "What lessons have been taught by the recent flurry in the stock market ?"

Broker: "Many speculators have: learned that the old overcoat is good enough for another year, and that the habit of spending the win- ter in the South isn't'necessary.

One morning, when the children wure pating breakfast, Milford put two hemping spoonfuls of sugar in his cocoa

"I should think one spoonful would be enough." objected his sis Ler.

I should think so, too," he re- plied, "but it's nöt."""

A clergyman was preaching n long sermon from the text. Thoy art weighed, in the balance and found wanting."

After his congregation listened for about an hour, some began to get weary and go out. Others fol lowed.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930.

SUBURBAN HEIGHTS--READING ON THE TRAIN

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

GUYAS

BOARDS TRAIN, SETTLES HIMSELF BY WINDOW AND PULLS PAPER FROM POCKET.

SPIES VACANT SEAT ON OTHER SIDE OF TRAIN.

PUTS TICKET IN BACK OF SEAT. AHEAD AND FOLDS PAPER TO EDI- TORIAL PAGE

SHIFTS, FOLDS PAPER TO EDITORIAL PAGE AGAIN AND SETTLES TO ENJOY HIMSELF

GETS TICKET, AND" SETTLES TO HIS PAPER AGAIN.

FINDS PLACE AGAIN AND REMEMBERS HE LEFT HIS TICKET ACROSS THE AISLE,

{(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)

A.P.C.'S NEW HOME IN

SINGAPORE.

$2,000,000 "SHELL BUILDING"

1 PROPOSED,

A repost from a recent issue of the Straits Times States:—

Singapore is likely to have an other huge building.

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The Asiatic Petroleum Company have a project to build at a cost

REALIZES HE'S GOING TO

· HAVE THE SUN RIGHT ON HIS .PAPER AND IT WILL BE TOO

DARK IF HE PULLS SHADE DOWN.

FRED PERLEY LEANS OVER TO TELL HIM ALL ABOUT THE SPEECH AT THE MEN'S CLUB LAST NIGHT

LARGE LADÝ SITS.DOWN BESIDE HIM. REALIZES IT'S GOING TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO TURN THE PAGE.

The design is unlike any office building

now existing in Singa pore,, and should be extremely well adapted to local conditions.

It consists of a square central struc ture 12 storeys high, with a large bay projecting from each corner. An impressive tower surmounts the central structure, which will be floodlighted at night on both the Anson Road and sea frontages, and will thus be one of the landmarks of the city.

Another person. started, where- upon the paranu, stopped his ser new office to be called "Shell Build-al steel- mon and remarked: "That's right, gentlemen; as fast as are ing" on the vacant land- at

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the weighed, pass out"

junction of Anson Road and Prince- Edward Road. This is the site usually occupied by travelling shows,"

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LURE OF THE DANCE.

"BRING YOUTH TRIPPING INTO UNION FOLD.

At the monthly meeting of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council the Secretary (Mr. A. A. Purcell) read a report which he had prepared on behalf of the Executive Committee in which the holding of dances by the Council was proposed as one of the means of getting | young workers into the trade unions. It was suggested that at the dances refreshments should be provided, that an address should be given" lasting not more than 15 minutes, and that each young worker present should be presented with "an ap propriate leaflet, easily read, point- idly referring to the need for join- ing the trade union movement."

Dancing and Speechss.

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Mr. Major said that at, the pre- sent time dancing was not popular, und in saying that he spoke from some expérience of the taking of halia for dances. He thought the wort of people who went to dances were not the sort who could be cap- tured easily for the trade unions,' and they would not like a speech to he inflicted upon them..

Mr. Purcell said that information which the Exécutive Committee had obtained recently showed that a very considerable number of young non-trade union workers did attend dances, and the Council had to con sider that fact in reference to the question of how to get hold of the youth side of the industrial move- ment for the trade unions. There were works now that employed un overwhelming mass of young work- ers compared with what used to be the case a few years ago.

Offices in the Bays..

Mr. R. Moores, in moving that All the office accommodation will that part of the report which aug- be in the bays. In the central referred back, declared that if they gested the holding of dances be structure there will be nate-rooms, advertised a dance as being beld two lifts for each bay, rooms for

for the purpose of attracting young Lambies and porters, lavatories, would not come to them, and if workers to the trade unions people and verandahs. On the main front-they advertised it simply as a dance age there will be a broad flight of it would only attract the flotsam steps" leading up to the first floor

and jetanm who drifted about from dance-hall to dance-hall of the central structure, over the trade union movement," he added,

On porch on the ground focr.

has not been built up on dances.' will connect the first two storeys three sides of the building passages

Quastion of Expense, of the bay's.

-Throughout the building the win.

of nearly $2,000,000 large The building will be of structur-dows will be of non-actinic glass faced with artificial Garage accommodation will be pro- granite. The cost of $2,000,000 in-vided on the ground floor of one cludes the price of the land.

of the bays. European and Asiatic refreshment rooms will also be pro- The bays will be ten storeys high,vided. On the tenth Boor of one and the upper storeys will he set of the bays there will be severn! back progressively, The eleventh flats which will be used by A.P.C.

officials visiting Singapore. and twelfth storeys of the central structure will be art back slightly, bay,

rscapes will be provided on each

and the eleventh will be open, thus admitting air and light to the well which will run through the central structure: The twelfth storey will be used for a water tank.

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Draft plans prepared by the Company's architect, Mr. F. A Walker, have been passed by a com- mittee of the Municipal Commis sioners and are now awaiting ap- proval by the full Board,

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It is interesting to recall that the first offices of the A.P.C. in Singa- pore were a single floor in Win- chester House, which the Company Occupied in I007.

THE WOMAN'S CORNER.

WOMEN ARE NOT ALWAYS KIND.

"It was despicable of her to do it! A man would never stoop to that!"

Do you know her? The woman who is convinced that all low-down and unsporty actions are perform ed by members of her own sex!

According to her, men do every thing on the grand scale-they even do ein magnificently! If they wrong, they are prepared to admit it and face the consequences, if'and when they are found out.

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But women! Why, she says, thefe is no depth to which they will not descend to cover a fault, and no end to the extenuating cireumat ances they will plead when discover-

ed.

Men's errors are big, she says, wile women's are incredibly mean and petty. It is possible to get a hold on a man's faults, but a woman's slip through the fingers.

By this the means, evidently, that a man's faults are so copious that she has hopes of reforming him by telling him all about them! She should take care, however, or she, herself, will be culpable of woman's much-talked-of failing-a nagging

tongue:

Other women think she adopts this men-are-always-right and women-always-wrong" attitude in order to please the opposite sex. If that is so, her disloyalty profits her nothing. In her milder mo- ments, men think her soured, but, when she gets into her stride, they decido she is "a bit of a crank."

They avoid her to the best of their ability-the fact that she is usually spinster bears witness to this fact !

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Actually, this woman is stating her honest convictions when she voices these unjust views. She is not the "cat" people imagine, for

SLEEP-WALKING.

[BY DR. C. STANFORD READ.J

The

Mr. H. Weate seconded the refer- referred to, and expressed about ence back of the part of the report

whether the young workers would be able to afford to attend the dances; but Mr. A. S. Edmondson. said that from his experience among shop assistants, of whom he is the organiser in the Manchester area, dances, were an excellent means of getting young workers interested in the trade unions.

Mr. Purcell remarked that the real strength of the great, youth. movement in Germany arose from the dance organisations in that country, and experience in many other places showed that dances trade mions got many re- craits.

from

The proposal to refer bick part of the report was defeated, and the report was then adopted. Mr. Purcell intimated that further inquiries would be made before the scheme was proceeded with.

FIVE MOTOR-CARS IN ACCIDENT.

REMARKABLE SCENE IN NORTH WALES.

Five motor-cars were involved in sa accident on the Pen-y-Gob

When we walk in our sleep it is evident that something in the mind, is disturbing us. You hear of peo-corner, Ffynnongroew, near Pres- ple who go to bed worrying overtalen, recently. It appears that some problem, and who either dream Miss Catherine B. Russell, Clatford of its colution or unconsciously car with a friend as passenger in House, Prestatyn, was driving her write it down on paper while they the direction of Chester, and when are asleep.

about to turn the corner the enr skidded and turned over, half on the footpath. The women, who were suffering from shock, were unable to extricate themselves from the car and had to be helped out by some hawkers who happened to, be, pissing

Sleep-walking is a dream, fulfilled in action. In the depths of the mind there is a hidden desire which automatically compels the individ- ual to attempt its attainment.

Young people who have "walking dreams"

are generally inclined, when awake, to show their emotions in activity.

car,

Mr. John E. Miller, a builder, of Flynnongrock, stopped his car close to the scene of the accident and Hysterical people fall into a state got out to render assistance, but similar to that of sleep-walking. almost immediately a third They suddenly go into a trance, driven by Leonard Taylor, of St. and, oblivious of their surround-Andrews Road, Radcliffe, Munches- ings, go through setions which re- ter, came round the bend, and in veal that they are reliving some avoiding Miss Russell's car crashed past episode.

into the stationary vehicle belodg Soldiers who passed through ing to Miller, nearly taking off one she is condemning herself as well terrifying experiences in the war,

side of it and finishing up in tho and suffer, in consequence, from ditch. As other women.

nerve shock, frequently go into Another car then came: on the these dream states and relive those scene, driven by Leonard Salt, of scenes of horror.

Tower Buildings, Rhuddlan Road, These trance-like conditions can Rhyl, who saw men signalling him be brought about by means of to stop. hypnotism. A hypnotised subjcot, brakes, however, he skidded into When he applied his through the suggestions of FL the rear of Miller's car, damaging hypnotist, automatically carries it farther. The fifth vehicle which out a series of acts of which he has came alofig maaged to get through no subsequent knowledge.

She knows her own faults, but he has no gift of psychology, and, in consequence, men's. innumerable little failings are a sealed book to her. She gives men the benefit of the doubt, but she cannot be aa generous to women..

Reliance must not be placed on the old Ringan that "they'll grow out of it." Though sleep-walking harmony may remain and reveal may cease the seed of mental dis

itself in other ways.

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Lsually there is little risk of ac- cidents. Commonsense precautions prevent them. No undue apprchen- sion should be roused in the child's mind concerning sleep-walking, Medicinal measures are, as a rule, valueless. The remedy for sleep- walking must be mental, not physical.

the congestion of damaged cars, but had no sooner passed than it skid- ded and all but turned a "somer-

In these abnormal states the mind is split in two; one part is in ac- tion while the other is, dormant, Bault.... When a sleep-walker, a victim of A remarkable feature of the ne- hysteria, or a hypnotic subject, recident was that only one of the per- gains consciousness the section of sons involved was injured; and she the mind that was previously up- was one of the women in the first permost sinks back beneath the sur- car, who only had slight hand cuta. Enen.

The hawkere who were first on the Parents have no cause to worry scene did not escape scat-free, for when young people have occasional they had not proceeded very far attacks of sleep walking. If they along the road when a motor-car become more marked it must be un-

driven by T. H. Costlery, Sefton, derstood, however, that the mind Cottage, Dyserth, skidded and came is oversensitive, and the source of into contact with their donkey and unrest abould be investigated by a cart, injuring the animal and acat sympathetic expert.

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