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THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR F TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET

STORAGE CAPACITY.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1929.

DAY. BY DAY.

▲ HOUSE IS NO HOME UNLESS IT

CONTAINS FOOD AND FIRE FOR THE MIND AS WELL AS FOR THE BODY.— Margaret Fuller Ostoli.

THE BOOKSHELF:

A NEW INTERPRETER OF CHINA.

Alice Tisdale Hobart has been described as "the new interpreter

The Very Idea!

Two renders have written to The Daily Mail about their children who were born on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the

eleventh month.

but that he thinks it "smart" to boast of how much more colourful and Bohemian the life of the "Northern settlement is than, for example, the humdrum existence with which the Hongkong resident has to put up. Whilst we would

The P. and O 8.5. Khiva, from not for a moment suggest that Singapore, is due here on Saturday of China." Her latest book, "Pid-

One of them is Jean Everett, the |gin Cargo," published by The Cen- these moderns are truly represon-| at 6 n.m.

tury Company, New York daughter of an ex-soldier who tative of the community, they are

(G. $2.50), provides full justifica- went through the war with the 1st, tion for the description of her work. Royal Scots. She was five years Mr. Lancelot Giles, of the British old last Armistice Day, and was born during the two minutes". consular service, in commenting on silence. The Empress of Russia, which Mrs. Hobart's writings, remarks:

Jean has eleven toes, six on her left Hongkong on November 27th,Too often have we been afflict-left foot and five on her right. arrived at Vancouver on Decembered with romances about China which This, however, writes her father, 14th.

have only served first for derisive has no effect on her walking. She laughter and then for sheer bore- was born at Armadale West dom, as one wildly impossible situa. Lothian, but is now living at tion succeeds another, the authore Battle, Sussex.

Another "Armistice baby" is apparently never having seen China

performing, perhaps unwittingly,

From the British India Steam Navigation.Co. we have received a useful, over-sharp. pencil.

a disservice to Shanghai when they talk thus. It is because of the prattlings of the "fast set" and the springing up of establishments which set themselves out to cater to their tastes that Shanghai has In some quarters gained a rather An amended notification states that the P. and O. 8.8. Beltana, unsavoury reputation. In taking from Shanghai, is due here at 6 the atop upon which It'has decid-n.m. to-morrow. ed, therefore, the Municipal Coun- cil is doing something to "remove the causes for reproach. Nolone who is jealous for the future of Shafghai will quarrel with the decision. It is high time, indeed, that some such step were taken.

We remarked, earlier. in this comment, that the action taken by

A very colourful lustration of the Asama Maru is the feature of the new N. Y. K. calendar which has been sent us

Aamall quantity of ammunition and fireworks will be fired for proof purposes at the Stonecutters Rifle Range on. Wednesday after

noon.

or met any Chinese and drawing Victor Thomas Abbott, who want their idens of China and the Chineloven on this year. He lives at ese from some common stock of rid. Coad's" Green, near Launceston, fculous absurdities. It is only those Cornwall. who spend twenty or more of the best years of their lives in smaller treaty ports who know how to deplet, ad Alice Tisdale Hobart does, the life of the interior."

the

"Pidgin Cargo," then, comes from the pen of one who knows of what she writes. It is a tale of pioneer- ing on the Yangtze, of the life-bat-

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the Municipality will be for the The "Closing Day" and dis-tle between a nun and a river, of DODWELL & Co., Ltd. | Rood of the community, a no-tribution of prizes of the Kowloon the never-ending struggle of an the reason. He innked astonished

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Lady Clementi has kindly con- sented to perform, the unvelling ceremony of the portrait of the late Dr. (Mra.) A. D. Hickling at the Tean Yuk Hospital, Western Street, on Friday afternoon next.

The report that a home is ros- pectable does not exclude the pos- afbility of its being one in which the environment is unsympathetic or even impossible for a child of a special temperament.Dr. W. A. Potts.

The other night I went to an "at home" at an Indian students' hostel (writes, a correspondent "to n Home paper) and was surprised to see one student in his dressing gown and slippers...

Wondering why he had present- unusúa) ed himself in auch. manner, I went up and asked him. ment's reflection will establish the Bowling Green Club is advertised American shipper and his son with at the question, and replied: "But

Lo inke place on

Saturday, the giant stream that plays so big this is an 'at home, and so why a part in China's commerce. The should we put on coat, collar, and point. Apart from the tremend- December 21.

dramatic sweep of the novel, with other things which we wear when ous amount of money which müst

its stirring incidents of shipwrecks, we go out?" be wasted in these cabarets, there

pirate fights, loyalties, trencherles, is the economic aspect of the

escapes and rescues, flows impres question so far as it affects the

sively upon a background of the surging river of Chinese humanity, bushes life of the Settlement.

the myraid, common millions of China, each counting for less than HUMPHREYS-AL Tientsin, ou So long as these cafes are permil

one drop of the Yangtsze's 'yellow

down, A Chinese, who appeared, before flood-ground 15th, following pneumoplated to remain open all night, so

betrayed,

The Commons is an association J. 1. Humphreys, C.M.G.,

Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow-starved, but constantly renewed,

of improvisers: all the thinking is C.B.E. Governor of British long will they attract young men toon Magistracy this morning, on patient and indestructible.

who ought to be in their heds. In charge of cruelty to two chickens

This book is much more than a done by officials, salaried for the stands to reason that no office as- and a goose by carrying them sys-novel; it is a study of China and purpose-Mr. Leslie Hora-Beliska,

M. P. sistant or shop employee who pended by the wings, was fined $5, the Chinese, written by one who

All artists who make concessions knows the Oriental" mentality makes practice of "going the

On admission of a charge of through and through! It is obvi- to other people's wishes, tastes, or rounds" can be fit for business causing un obstruction by playing ously based on fact, for many of views, cease to be artists, Mr. C. next day: the loss in efficiency football in Nga Tsin Wai Road, the incidents treated and the per-R. W. Nevinson.

Lean see nothing different in my- Kowloon City, a Chinese, who up-sonalties involved are historically must be considerable. There are

peared before Mr.. T. S. Whyte recognisable. Not only will the self when I put on my frock coat,

Millionaires other considerations, also, which, Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy, tale grip the reader as he turns-Mr. George Lansbury.

are over-respected its pages, but he will gain a new

this world. Mr. need not be specified to be realls-this morning, was cautioned.

insight into things Chinese. Add in ed. Here in Hongkong we may be

to these considerations the further | Runciman, The body has been removed to fact that Mrs. Hobart writes with little more. straight-laced and

Little Jones drove up to a race coolic, marked literary ability, and it will the public mortuary of "ultra-British" than many of the aged 5 years, who was found.be realised that in "Pidgin Cargo" | meeting in a particularly dilipidated. people of Shanghal, but we have hanging by the neck from the we have a book of unusual merit. car. As soon as he pulled up the It would seem that Shanghai' at any rate the comforting unsur-erandah at 13, Water Street, West We thoroughly commend it, and attendant in charge of the car-park.

Point. The police" are satisfied would add that no-one who lives camp up to collect the fee.

In the Enst should fall to find a cafe managers are up in armsance that if we err at all. It is that it is, a case of suicide.

place for it on his or her bookshelf. against the decision of the Municion the side of moderation.

North Borneo,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY DEC. 17, 1929,

THOSE SHANGHAI

CABARETS.

pal Council that as from February 1 next all cabarets, bars, hotels,

little

A Genuine Case?

"

Charged with returning from banishment before the expiration of his term of ten years dating from February 23, 1920, à Chinese, "When so many weird and won-who appeared before Mr. T. Sin the English language on the Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy this morning, stated that lie bad made a mistake between he had miscalculated the time.

hard

The Game of Wel-chi, Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., have just published the only book: Chinese game of Wei-chi, which in traditionally supposed to have been invented about 2350 B.C. and was we are told that it is quite possible mentioned by Confucius in 600 B.C. that the game will be the rage this winter amonget Westerners, and for that reason the appearance of this little volume is most timely. The large audience which. The book, which sella at 34, 6d. is the joint work of Count Daniele last night for the second perfor. Customs in China, and Tong Shu,,

Royal gathered at the Theatre

Pecorni, a former Commissioner of mance by the Philharmonic Society of the Chinese diplomatic service. of "The Geisha" was delighted It has a foreword by Professor with the excellence of the pro-H.A. Giles,, who was the pioneer duetion. Those taking part were many years ago of introducing the i even better than on the opening game to England; he says to play night, and the play went with a It as an amusement is an easy task, fine swing from start to finish. but to become a master is an affair Another big house is expected to of years.

In addition to a historical

éte.. within the International Settlement must close their doors derful fairy tales are concocted by not later than 2 a.m. They con-petty offenders for the benefit of fend that it is only after that hour Police Magistrates, it is hardly that their businesses really begin surprising that, after a few months' the Western and Eastern calen- 10 pay, and assert that the enforce experience in the local courts, the dars. His Worship sentenced the ment of the new rule will mean mean the Bench rather despair of | defendant to four months' that they will have to shut down the attempt to disínguish between Inbour.

the false and the true. We feel altogether. There seems

sure, therefore, that a little deeper likelihood of the regulation meet- enquiry would have been made into ing with objection from any but the case of an old man charged with those who run these all-night stealing at Kowloon yesterday, but cabarets, as the hours permitted for the fact that so many "bad hats" had preceded him into the dock. are quite adequate for hotela and

He admitted the theft he had ordinary establishments of that

stolen a bar of iron worth possibly kind; indeed. the latitude given is thirty or forty cents from a con- far greater than that enjoyed intractor's yard-and the Police pro-night, and those who have not al- Wei-chi is played on a square map Hongkong, where the sale of induced records of two previous con-rendy booked for the remaining on which are drawn at equal dis- texleanta is prohibited after mid-victions for equally petty, offences, shows should do so without delay.tances nineteen lines crossing at right angles nineteen other lines, night, except by permit on specia one in 1989 and one in 1920. He

intersections. was sentenced to one month's hard A Japanese named F. H. Take-thus forming 801 ocensions.

labour. In ordinary circumstances, nota appeared before Mr. T. W. H. The "men" or "pieces" used in the the Marine Court game are placed on these inter- Here in Hongkong we have we should have said he had got off Hunegood at been spared the doubtful plen-rather lightly, but the man also had this morning on the charge of sections, and not within the squares. having committed a breach of his The game represents a struggle for gures associated with restaurants a story to tell. Briefly it was this: hawker's licence by selling ciga territory by opposing forces, and which engage professional dane- he himself being 75 years of age, rettes on board the s.s, Taiyo Maruit may therefore be called a war

he had a blind wife of 80 to sup- yesterday. Defendant admitted game. in girls for the purpose of proport. In the eve of his life, he the offence and was fined $6.or viding cabaret entertainments, the stated quite frankly, he had been five days. The mistress of a pas-sketch, full detalls are given of how authorities (quite rightly, in our reduced to begging in order to ou-senger hout, charged with curry to play the game, and, by study of ing three passengers in excess of the many analysed games the opinion) setting their faces tain a living. The Magistrate's the number allowed by her licence, reader can rapidly improve his against the opening up of estab-comment that his only occupation was fined $3-$1 a passenger

alternative of three lishments of this type. From the appeared to be begging and stealing with the

strikes us, without full knowledge days' hard labour.. Shanghai standpoint, life here

of all the facts, as a litle unfair. may, in consequence, be much Three convictions in twenty years" |"slower," but that the gain is to do not make a hardened offender, the community in general there while we are definitely of the view can be no question. We are told that the Government of Hongkong that the psychology of the Shang-has some read responsibility towards

Paris Brussels hal cabaret frequenter is such that man who has passed, the normal

span of life and cannot be expected | Amsterdam he will not go out for one or two to earn his own living. He has Berlin hours' entertainment in the even- ceased to become employable. Beg Copenhagen

Vienna ing, preferring to make his noctur- ging offers his only chance of ex- Helsingfors nal jaunt an all-night one. Thuaintence. It is only human that he Lisbon It happens that many of these should succumb to temptation on Bucharest

Buenos AireK Shanghai cafes run until six or seven o'clock seeing an opportunity of making

away with a bar of fron which Yokohama in the morning. Our reaction, to might not be missed, but which New York' these things is that they are no-would perhaps provide him with a Milan thing about which to boast; quite Bule extra comfort. On the sur- Stockholm the reverse, in fact. We know face it appears to be a genuine case Oslo

Prague all too well the type of Shanghai- of hardship, at least warranting Madrid lander who likes to create the im- condemning the man to # felon's Rio

Investigation by the Police before Athens, pression amongät strangers that cell for a month and possibly leaving Bombay Shanghai is a "wicked" place; not blind woman to face the battle Silver (spot and forward)

Hongkong

that he would really like it to be, of life alone,

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"Ten shillings, sir," he said. "What " Jones said, "ten shill- inga? What's that for?”

"Why your car, sir?" the man replied.

Jones looked from his vehicle to

"Righto!" he decided, after a the man and back again. pause. "It's your give me the ien bobi"

WHO WAS.. MADAM

BUTTERFLY?

Far-away Nagasaki was the scene of Madamo. Butterfly's tragle love and death, 'She was only fifteen-the age of 'playthings and sweetmeats-- when her almond eyes and pretty fluttering ways snarod the passing fancy of LA. Finkerton, an officer in the American Navy;"

They woro married in Japanese fashion. Butterfly understood little of the great business of signing papere, But she did understand that. she belonged to the handsome American, and in an innocent desire to please him she re- nounced the gods of her fathera. Her apostasy was. discovered and her relatives cut her off from the family, A little terrified, Butterfly clung all the closer to her husband, and, for the brief space of a summer enjoyed Idyllic happiness. With the autumn, Pinkerton's boat re- turned to America, but he promised his girl-wife faith- fully to return, with the. roses, the warm and sanny season, when the red-breasted robins are busy nesting."

Three years passed, but no. tall fair-haired husband re- turned to see Madame Butter fly and his little -5011 Instead, there came a white- woman, Pinkerton'a legal, wife, to beg for the child», Disowned by parents and husband, Butterfly embraced her little Mousko-San, and in an agony of love and despair stabbed herself, just us here repetent lover entered the Toom and sank upon his knees beside her.

Poor victim of man's. selfish, thoughtless passion, this little flower of the East was carly bruised and broken. Puccini's opern which bears her name though one of the Baddest is one of the best loved