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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.

A LETTER FROM-PHYLLNIA

Christmas

I suppose you are in the middle of all your preparations for the Christmas Number, but I hope you have time to read my letter. You are lucky to have a Christmas at the office in November and one at home in December. Do you have to give two lots of presents, or only one?

Christmas presents have been worrying me. You see I have to give to Mum and Dad and the lady next door's little grandson and some of my cousins-and-again, of course, there's Sammy. Saminy's the biggest worry of the lot; you see can always fall back on cigars for Dad and soap for Mum and scent for my cousins, though I have to be careful in this because last Christmas I made a mistake and addressed a bottle of black narcissus to Uncle Bob. He was frightfully annoyed, I suppose be cause he had no, use for it; you sce he's a bachelor and had no wife to give it to.

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Last Christinas 7 gave Sammy silver shaving set. I bought it at o shop Hear where

Its Trials.

Brings Its

Do you think I ought to give Sammy cigarettes for Chrismar or would it encourage him in a bad habit? Still, I don't think that smoking is such a bad habis as chewing-gura-Smoking is at least picturesque, but there's nothing picturesque about chewing gum, though a cow looks rather well; but then it chews cud,

too,

would be quite easy do especially as there is no snow to

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Tips for Waits, We were once staying with friend who was a doctor and the carollers woke him up just when he had come back from a night || call. He was so furious that he stamped up and down his room, but he must have relented, my dear, because he went out and gave Would it be better, do you think, shall we have to take them when them dollar. I never know before than sausiocans took - - tips.

if I gave Sammy something to keep we go out singing 7. I think him indoors A book wouldn't would rather do it for nothing, keep him in long enough, would it 1, and anyway a dollar isn't much.....

What do you think is a suitable" I saw in an advertisement for present for Sammy to give me! Do pianolas that it is advisable to you think I ought to consult him train boys to have their interests about it 1 What I really want is a at home by buying piagolas, and gold wrist watch, but isn'o there things. But then I suppose he proverb or something that saya would have to keep it at

a girl should not take jewelry from a man 1---but I suppose Sammy's place because I would have to see

different. Anyway Sue's boy him sometimes, and Dad might friend gave her a watch and she think it a nuisance. Of course I couldn't afford to buy a pianola, hasn't fad any very bad luck yet, but I was thinking of something excepting that she lost the watch. like a ping nong set. On second him anything to encourage him to thoughts I don't think I will give be a home bird, as the saying is, because Hum Bays that it's 1. anisance to have man about the place all the time and, I must look into the future, mustn't I

Our

dear

Has your wife made her pud-

them for her but after the pie in- dings setf Mum has mada six in the copper. I offered to make cidenti Mam thought she had better make them herself. How..shall I

over learn to cook, dear Editor, if I never have any practice? Even now Sammy boasts about his

we live. It Editor? (Don't let the printer see mother's cooking, do you think my

took me a long time to save up for it, so I used to go and look at it in the shop window up the street. Dad said it would be tar- nished long before I had enough saved to buy it, so I went in and explained this to the shopkeeper and he used to take it out, of the window ever so often, and clean it for me with jeweller's rouge. I suppose jewellers go in for make up because they do a lot of trade with theatricals.

this bit because Sammy reads

their wivest

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a lot, and it might make him self-ons will ever boast about mine to conscious)

Don't forget to write and give me your advice, I appreciate it so. much, although you have never given me any.

I must ask my girl friend, Sue, what she thinks about it. Sue and I-are-going-to-dress up as carollers and sing outside houses this Christ- mas Eve, if our Mums will let us We read about some village children in England who went out into the snow and sang to give the people good cheor. It was in a book, of couren; but we thought it

Well, my dear, I hope you have very happy Christanas. I will hang up mỹ stocking. Someone might rut something in. You know my address. don't you?

Yours Faithfully,

PHYLNIA.

The Poet And The Pork

-by-Fred. J. Broomfield

cuffs, liko sisters of mercy, as Victor always averred that they were

The 94th December in a bygone | sence Wha so shadowy that one, ing black, with white collars and year dawned hot and sultry. The bar barely noticed him. He wore a de cayed bowler hat and a frock coat of the hostelry sacred to the thirst-that might have come down from extinguishment of the Brotherhood was thronged with droughly clients, but the guest room was deserted, though noon-had-struck, and the long table was chastely draped in napery of the whitest, and made an ample, display of edibles dedicated.

to the season.

Our old and distinguished chief- tain, Victor Daley, sat at. the hoad

of the board, thrumming with his tice of him than they took of the of a large family, nearly all daugh

healthy brown, but which now dis played as many corruptions of primary and tertiary tints as a copper sheathed boat out of commis-

sion

Mrs, Kearney glanced at the the 'soventies; his trousers were too empty dish, and made inquiries con- long and were frayed at the heels; verging the absence of its porcine and his boot resembled daredict garnishment, to which the poet re- dust-bins. He came in ke ghost, plied like a learned advocate in moxed ghostily about, tpoke to no term reminiscent of Charles Lamb's one, and never called for drink. immortal dissertation on roast pork. He was wont to side up to table,The joint, Madame, has been and annex, furtively, nad timidly confiscated by one who had an in- scraps of bread and sheese, and alienable claim on it, based on the stalks of celery. He departed in inherent promptings of Nature and the same ghostlike manner, without the pangs of appetite, Moreover, noise or comment or remark, The he was acting, not as a principal, constant guests took no more no-

but as an agent. He is the father flies on the ceiling, or of a passing ters, whose claims on a father's pro- left-hand to the air of Walbrook | shadow thrown upon the floor.

tection no one dare deny," no one d'en va-t-ea guerre, and making About half an hour after the ventured to impugn. Mr. Ca. Sa, desultory notes on a slip of copy-pealing of noon on this particular is a widower-No! I am wrong-he paper. A couple of bored comrades day, so immediately prelusive to has an invalid wile in the last stage Noeltheihuffling feet of the of consumption; but, alis, she has yawned sympathetically at one an shabby little nondescript shambled a shrewish tongue and will give her other, and wondered whether the up the steps, and their dusty, and poor husband not the slightest day would close with a rain-burst discreditable looking owner glided peace. He, poor, devoted swain, ghostily into the room; but on this indulges the dying woman's faintest or a southerly dust storm. But the occasion he carried in his left hand wish, even at the peril of his per- Kttuce, the radishes, and the ham an old and weather-belten glad. sonal liberty, and in bold defiance and cheese sandwiches remained un-stone-bag, which had anos beep a of the laws of his country. Would touched. The room suffocated with

you, Madame, be one to punish such sublime devotion 1 The sick lady slicer, incapacitating lanquor.

expressed a desire for jork, roast Presently, Ah Sam, the Chinese

park, roast lein of pork, stuffed with odorous saga and pungent onions. boy, brought up from the kitchen a

Braving all dangers, flouting all steaming, brown-eracklinged, savour. The man knocked his bag against ostventions, risking criminal prose- a chair, and the noise caused cution, and the forfeiture of a disseminating loin pork, odoriferous Victor Daley to look up Through hitherto unsmirched reputation, Mr. of pungent sege sad appetising out the subsequent proceedings his | Ca. Sa has confiscated the roast. onions. But though the aroma was over followed the movements of the loin of pork that adorned your hos

Ha shabby' parish with amused but at "pitable board. What then? May provocative, it appeased its own tentive interest Victor referred to ho not retain the spoil of his pro- sufficiency; for not one of the trio | him afterwards as " Mr. Ca Sa." | wesa '1' Is it not the blessed season attacked the epicurean dish. So it The furtiveness and timidity seem of Christmas! Can we begrudge to sulked in splendid isolation and ed to have been fallen from the man the poor and needy, and not im

as a mantle. He want boldly to possibly the deserving, the offerings solidified into aloof luxury through the table and placed, thereon his inspired br. the sacred spirit of the lapse of time and the lack of Gladstone-bag, which he opened, charity. I pause. appreciative edacity.

and from which he took a mJOW- white, folded servietter This Since those barbarous but happy, spread out, and scizing the days of pristine simplicity, the loin of roast pork,ipped aligament of Castlereagh Street has fully up, placed it in the bag, been altered almost as ruthlessly sethet latter with resounding sup the map of the world since the con- and briskly walked outfi clusion of the Great. War. In those

A silence dense as glorious years arear, the hostelry dedicated to the uses of the Brother- upon the star hood could be entered by a side, Victor merely door, to which stone steps led up tolerant from the flanking footpath. This panions roko entrance was, however, sacred to made motion the initiated. Any stranger who but the port lifted invaded the sanctuary in this wise hand, and said, "4496. was regarded with the set brows did not and stern faces that greet a parish chapter of ** There was one, ciception. A

but Victor little, stunted, seedy man, with w wotworu fase and a hesitant shume, Kear came thus into the guest room every litw day of the working woek, Hist pra

Followed then

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Victor was interrupted, at this „juncture" in the flow of his trium- "phantly" weeping" eloquenies. A third nun-like Step-daughter entered the room.” She carried in her hands, held forward daintly, a package. engrapped in's mow-white sɔrvíette, somewhat" discoloured at one end with brown splash that suggested

heer of

the last comer. thase given a poor man three jluts of beer for this beautiful loin of 19280 pork. He bought it to taka home.tor bis Christmas dinner to- maraw; but he and his wife "und family are all going out to dine with his mother-in-law-so he asked me to relieve him öfift

Ailembes Teise an a fog fell again "on the ing But Victor laugh

ted humming his eternal

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