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SOCIAL

WOMEN'S PAGE

SLIMMING OUT THIRTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING

OF FASHION

Famous Chef Calls

For Better Meals

PROFESSORSHIPS OF GASTRONOMY

The founding of a Chair of Gastronomy at Oxford or Cam- bridge was suggested by M.. Emile Aymoz. maitre chef of the Dor. chester Hotel, in an address there recently to a gathering of doctors. He pleaded" for study of cuisine, the research in

and nutrition training of men to minister to the bodily needs of the nation.

"Your nation should lead the world in the study of food and the cooking of food," said M. Aymos. " sa boldly that the man who grows food, whether he is a farmer

or a coffee planter, and the chel

PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN at the Thirteenth Extra Race meeting held at Happy Valley. (Photo by Leica).

or cook who prepares it are as im- MAILED FIST IN

portant to the nation's well-being

asy scientist or physician,"

Because good food is the concern

of everyone he argued, In English-

speaking

countries all

CRISIS-FAKE

Britain may not have been pre- menus pared for war during the crisis.

should be in English as well as in but Germany was so much less

French Cooking. like learning ready that her most vaunted

could not be exclusive. Good food was the rightful possession of the people, and must be presented to them in their own language.

SHORTER MEALS

defences-the

Siegfried were little better than toy tifications

Line-

for-

eminen'

M. Jean Quatremarre, Other points. Iron: M. Aymo's Frenchman, has debunked the German military menace In อย

and this article in "Excelator," is one of the conclusions he has reached.

address were:

Dieting. The modern woman no longer tries to slim herself down

to a skeleton. A few years ago He has been investigating the three women out of five would re-military and economic prepared fuse to eat potatoes. Now notness of France and Germany dur

one in ten will passing the crisis.

Ands both. them by. Food is much lighter atong with Britain, unready-Ger- Heavy, starchy foods seldom ap- many far behind the other two.

more than

pear on the menu of any restaur ant which prides itself on it..; colsine

Shorter Meals,--Even a batignet nowadays seldom includes mure than Ave courses. Where is this shortening of meals to end? Son we shall eat a smaller amount of a greater number of courses. Dinner-tine. The earlier dinner hour. the more gastro- nomially minded the ballon. The

the

"There should be no illa. Di the sions as to the value Siegfried Line." he writes. The line is not yet armed. Indeed. In the neighbour- hood of Alx la Chapelle and other districts. barhed wire had to. be hurriedly felds wtretched when organisation began." There was such a shortage

the

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the

MOBILISING KIANGSI'S WOMEN

esta.

The Klangs Provincial 'Gov- ernment is planning to

Women's blish Provincial Guidance Bureau to train wouten In war-time work. says Central News

the

During the present year. bureau's training programme. which will be carried out pro- gressively, is expected to be in force in all the 83 hsten af the province.

According to Miss Hatung Tse. responsible omela, undertak

In ing the training of women Kiangsi, there are already 20,000 women in Iyang. in east Klangsl. who have been organised into units to do first aid work. "com- fort" families of soldiers at the front and solicit contributions to the war chest.

NEWSETTES

THURSDAY'S MENU

BREAKFAST

Grapefruit Cereal

French Toast with Jam

Cocon

LUNCHEON

Barley Soup Carrots & Cold Slaw Salad Lamb Cutlets Mashed Brown Potatoes Stewed Corn Turnips Strawberry Tart

Tea

DINNER

Tomato Juice Cocktail Puree of Sp.nach Soup Roast Leg of Lamb Roast Carrots & Potatoes' Balled Oniona

JI

Mint Jelly

Apple Pudding

with

Hard Butter Sauce Coffee

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THEY MUST WAIT UZON BRILLIANTINE

EIGHT YEARS

TO WED

There is one office in Singapore where you are not allowed to get married..

that is not until you have completed eight years i service first overcoat

Earl Baldwin's refugee fund is Lt. B. Blanchford, of No. 7 Almal Villas, reported to the police that now over £350.000:

he elther lost or had taken away

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Mr. L. Impey, of Shanghal. isirom his residence, an visiting Hongkong, having arrived

in the s.s. Tingsane.

Mr. W. Lange, of the West Coast Insurance Co. Shanghai, arrived here yesterday in the s.s. Tingsang from the northern port.

Four persons were killed and 29 persons were injured in the Colony last week as the result of traffic accidents, which totalled 63.

*

Mr. W. E. Holland has arrived In Shanghai from Tientsin and expects to remain there for some time.

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Mr. B. J. Chen, manager of the Reliance Motors, who bas been spending the helldays in Shang- hal. Is returning to Hongkong in

French usually dine between 7 and equipment that when one reserve the Empress of Asia to-morrow.

7.30. The Spaniard seldom sits; down to dinner before 10. The English, who like to dine between 8.30 and 9, have probably chosen the best hour.;

company was

Incorporated military authorities could supply 150 men with only two helmel among them;

The

Germany

A

Mr H. Gordon, residing at the Peninsula Hotel. has reported the mobilised 103s of a wrist watch valued at German new army, built up with a view to a £30 somewhere between the Tytam NUTRITIVE VEGETABLES

for Tuk power station and the Hotel! rapid offence. was equipped "Vegetables. At the beginning of

Yetin Tuesday. quick and paralysing" attack. the season English vegetables are

tew weeks better than French. The English within a allow their vegetables to grow too would have been on the defensive, The and the training and equipment of large before eating them. English method of cooking vege- her army would have been

fective. tables retains their nutritive quali-

The German forcés. says M. ties far better than the more com-

short plicated and attractive French Quatremarre, were just as

methods.

Iner

of morale as equipment.

Experiences showed that even

and a pair of gloves, valued at:$75

Mr. C. Blaker, director of Messrs. Gilman, & Co., Ltd. and Mrs. from Shanghal Blaker returned yesterday in

the 5.5. Tingsang. whither they went to see Mr. B. O. Blaker, of Messrs. Thomson de Co.. the Shanghai accounting firm, who has been seriously ill. Shanghal residents at present in Hongkong will be interested to know that Mr. B. O, Blaker is now well on the road to recovery.

Motor-car tops and little used side-walks the central and western districts of Shanghai were covered with a thin white blanket of snow by 11.30 p.m. on January 6. although at about midnight it did not show any more. With a heavy grey sky, however, it seem. ed possible at an early hour on ..the following morning. that Shanghak should wake up to a long-awaited wintery setting.

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Hongkong on

Several members of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuo-

now in i mintang

missions various

are departing Mr. -T". Aldeguer, of Reuter's within these few days for Chung- Shanghai. Is at present paying a king to attend the Afth plenary be visit to Hongkong, having, arrived session of the committee to here yesterday in the s.s. Tingsang.held on January 20. Messrs. Li After staying a few days, he will vi an, Chen Yao-yuan and Chan proceed to Canton.

Chu-szu. left on Tuesday by plane, and Gen. Li Fook-lum, Ad- Wen- Three cases of diphtheria. two miral Chan Chak, Mr. Hu best beef and lamb in the world, the docile German public opinion cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis chan and others will leave" soon. France the best veal and chickens objected to the courte on

ang one case each of small pex On enteric fever and dysentery were America's finest contribution to the leaders were" embarking.

a number of occasions Germans reported to the health authorities protested: against.

mobilisation. an Tuesday. Women were bitterly resentful M. Aymoz added that the popular

men were" taken revival of interest in good cooking because their would probably come from America. away.

Quatremarre criticises Americans took a greater interest In their food than the English.

Meat.--England produces the

gastronomy is the Hamburger, a form of minced beef,

BISHOPS DANCE LAMBETH WALK AT FULHAM PALACE

-Suffragan bishops of London danced the Lambeth Walk-re- cently.

which

Regulations were issued recently by the Ministry of Finance gov- erning trading in ornamental gold ware by Shanghal jewellers and goldsmiths, says a report to the "YI Pao." Under these regula- and goldsmiths

The Chinese defenders at Lu- shan, Kuling, the famous summer the German Air Force...and says Resort, in a New Year message to tions jewellers

M.

the Central Army authorities, are not permitted to sell or bay

it was far less terrible a weapon made a vow to defend their post-gold ore or pure. gold, other than

than we were led to believe.

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walk in their purple robes. Nope of them had tried before, but they picked it up quickly.

tion to the last man,"

Mr. H: C. Hopkins recently arrived in Shanghai from London A woman who was present said: and has taken over charge of the "Nearly all the suffragan bishops branch of the Chartered Bank of and archdeacons "Joined "in, and India. Australia and China in the finished up with a tremendous 'ol'northern port from Mr. R. D. The Bishop of London started Murray who is shortly proceeding at Fulham Palace, which he is off the party by dancing the polka on Home leave. leaving soon after 38 years. He is with the youngest guest present. then starting on a world tour. Re The choir boys of St. Paul's and will be 81 this month

They did it at the Bishop of London's farewell Christmas Party

the Chapel Royal were among the

ornamental gold ware. The cur- rent prices for gold will be fixed officially by the Central Bank of China or by any of the other three Chinese Government banks and not by the Jewellers.

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A Large-scale textile factory has been organized in Kunming capital of Yunnan

province, under auspices of the Bank of China and the Bank of Communleations, aç-

the

Ng Hing, a 38-year-old watch-cording to Chinese banking circles. The factory will operate a total

The suffragan bishops found guests, the latter wearing their inan, was killed. according to a difficulty in dancing the Lambeth Coronation medals.

NEW RULES FOR

KISSING

These dictators-there is no say-1 practice of kissing.in public places, ing what next they will be forbid-on pain of these fines which most ding under heavy penalties. Now foreign policemen are permitted te It is the Italian Duce who is at levy upon the spot, giving a little that favourite game of banning receipt for the payment.

police report. at the Royal Air of 25,000 bobbins, and also under- take to do dyeing work. Messrs. Force Officers' Mess, Kowloon, on

Tsuyce Pel and Y. M. Chien, res- Tuesday, as a result of a traffic ac- cident. The car involved was al-pectively manager of the Bank of leged to have been driven by a nával officer.

China in ́Shanghai and chairman

of the board of directors of the Bank of Communications, - elected mempers of the board of

Unless they are already regis-directors recently in Kunming. tered with the Customs authori-

scmething which might rouse No provision is made for those ties, all shipping brokers with

were

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Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of

the. Shanghai. Municipal Council, offices in the Bhanghai area must be registered, with the Consoll has sent the following letter to

many. Italians to wilful dis- who would kiss within their own obedience. Or it may not: you sex, which, as a certain ballad of can never be sure of what may be Bir William Gilbert's making puts dated Tax Bureau for Klangsu, Mr. W. 8. King on the occasion safely banned or no

Anhwel and Chelang. When this It is what those foreigners 'do.

of the O. B. E. being conferred

You remember how the mighty. I dare say that, if the truth the collection of consolidated tares the New Year Honours:-

Ataturk., before he came to die,

is done, it will greatly facilitate upon him by HM the King in took away from the Turks their were known, even the best Italians by the bureau agents. favourite head gear, forbidding the take an unexplainable pleasure in

kissing and will soon be paying

"My colleagues on the Council

and I send you our sincere con- gratulations on the honour which

"The Council and the community

wearing of the tarbush. And as plenty of those silver lire for in-

Special police supervision will be has been conferred upon you by though that were not enough, he fringing that new-fangled law de-placed over the Dairen-Shanghai His Britannic Majesty. must needs ban also the furry cap for which the tarbush had been ex-ning the places where it may or liners of the Datren Kisen Kaisha

of Shanghai have welcomed the changed. Well, well, Ataturk had may not be lawfully enjoyed. for the first time in history, ac- his way and fitted every Turk with Those Leaders and all their like cording to the Japanese press. A news of the recognition of your must have anxious moments when Japanese consular policeman sail-services. Those of us who learned new caps, one after the other.

And what has Signor Mussolini they come to look around them for ed on board the northbound s. to value your wise judgment as a during the Jimcult been commanding of his Italians? offenders against the laws which, Hoten Maru, when she left Shang- colleague Only this, that they should hence- being brand, new, are being written hat a few days ago; as a "imobile timer of 1937 feel perhaps especial

police unft."

pleasure at the newa" forward utterly relinquish the at the very bottoms of the pages.

This is the

and Hongkong Shanghai Bank, Singapore, and the chief, clerk, Mr. Stephen Lang. told me it was an excellent system,j and commended it to other con- companies. writes a temporary correspondent.

The idea is a sound one," he said, but added. "I clerks marry against the wishes of the company. nobody can stop them."

Those who marry after eight "years receive a special "house

allowance which is 15 per cent, of their salaries. In ad- dition they have to join the company's provident fund. Only a few clerks. have so far gone against the company's wishes and have married early. These forfelt the concession of the "house allowance" granted them.

Clerks who were questioned about this idea stated they liked it and were in favour of it. We get a chance to save something before we get a wife tagged on to us." they told me.

Mr. Stephen Long, chief clerk, is to retire shortly after long service: He started work with the bank at the age of 18 and has worked with them continuously for 32 years

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