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necessary. They argue that tho world must actilo down to prico stability before resuming arrango- ments the burdensomences of which depends on the movement of prices. A rovision of war debts according to capacity to pay would obviously BEAUTY be difficult in a period of fluctuat- DELIGHTFUL, AND WIT GOOD NATUR- ED. IT WILL LIGHTEN SICKNESS, ing prices. And yet, at the same

POVERTY, AND AFFLICITION; · CON- time, the accumulation of uncer- VERT IGNORANCE INTO AN AMIABLE tainty is not destined to nbatat 1MPLICITY, AND RENDER DEFORMITY

ITSELF AGREEABLE.-Addison, business to find an even keel. The crux of the matter is Germany. She has to face the possibility that she will be divested of her short- term capital on March 1. The export trade is being pushed tre His Excellency the Governor has mendously in order to pay off com-appointed Mr. William James Carria mereint erglitora. But It is un

surer, with effect from November 2, 1931. uphill task and one which has been rendered doubly diflcult by Bri- tain's forced abandonment of the gold standard, causing neighbours of Germany to follow suit. It is arguable, In these circumstances, that Germany would work back to equilibrium with greater enthu siam if her reparations commit ments were scaled down instead of

Wanted: Enterprise to Press a Button.

By NORMAN R. COLLINS.

TECESSITY may be the mother| Most women disregard the fact,

INC

of Invention, but luxury quite that many otherwise Intelligent

It is noted that the Hon. Mr. By Jas often seems to be the father. housewives would rather continue R. Ballifax, C.M.G., C.B.E. resumed For example, who has ever heard to carry heavy bucket or turn a duty as Secretary for Chinese Afsire of greater luxury than that pro-stubborn handle, than proan even (on November „9.

vided by an alarm-clock which, the tiniest button if there were instead of ringing a strident, the slightest chances that it were. jangling bell, sets a gramophone the wrong button that they ware

The whole thing is pressing.

The kitchen of the future, wo are that Emperor of China who told, will simply be a vast switch- had a clockwork nightingale to board bristling with 03 many lull him to sleep.

buttons na a pageboy. Yet the alarm clock which rouses

to be Senior Assistant Colonial Tren Oriental in its opulence

proclamation Inauca by Hin Excellency the Governor indicates that the sleeper to the sound of soft Button Pressing Specialists. a new coinage of Hongkong one-cent music, and not to a noise like a If it's, there will sooner or later ploces is to be undertaken in the near telephone hell, was on view at the be a demand for slave-labour to fature.

Exhibition of Inventions recently press the buttons. held in London.

For it is certain that after a The Gazette notifies the appoint- A lot of recent inventions, in-time pressing the button will seem ment of Professor L. T. Ride, M.Adeed, seem to have, been, conceived as intolerable a demand on the M.B., B.Ch. M.R.C.S., LR.CP., to be in the same spirit of luxury. The energy of mankind as dipping a Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volunteer device I read of whereby

Corps, with

onepen in an inkpot did. Then wil} etfect from legged man can go mountaineering come a succession of devices for Defence October 20, 1981.

is obviously merely a good-natured making

butten-pressing easier. means of indulging a whim and and devices for making the une The Annual Drill Display of the not a strict necesalty.

these devices easier, until finally we live In world that le run by of cementing newfound ties of Hongkong Fire Brigade will take

place on the Compound of the Central A Peeler For Shrimp

clockwork and not by us. next. the 18th instant. The public are

the Display.

VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED | merely delayed. AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE

France has a great opportunity

THE HONGKONG HOTEL | friendship with Germany to-day. A Police Station at 3 p.m. on Wednesday The instrument which peels At the moment we are living in

GARAGE.

The Hongkong Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. Incorporsied in longkang.

Stubbed

The

Imper Vaffer

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1931.

FRANCE'S ONUS.

The Prime Minister's warning

definite move from Paris in favour

of a reduction of reparations, in ordially invited to attend and witnessishrimps might In certain circum-the awkward adolescence of inven-

but

which

return for American concessions, which are practically assured, would represent a happy gesture which would be not only received with rejoicing in Berlin, would serve to pince France-Ger- man relations on a happier footing than they have been for nearly a century. The first move, however, must come from France. Will you rise to the occasion?

A Spanish Joke, With so many nations of the world facing up to relentless

stances be extremely useful, but tion. Our parents were suvages it is difficult to see how it could in the matter of material comforts. And we are not yet completely at The first of the weekly services to ever be essential. be conducted by the Church of Eng- A walking-stick which is "quick- our ease among kettles that make land at the Colonial Cemetery Chapel ly transformd Into a tripod camp- the tea without human interven- will be held to-morrow with Evensong stool and is also "adaptable as ation or alarm clocks that put early and Address at 5.16 p.m. A monthly bathingraft" might have been de-morning eggs en to boll as they Celebration of Holy Communion is also

phone. the island of the Lotus-enters. to be held in the Chapel on the first signed by Tennyson for export to ring the bellor play the grame And the "automatie telephone- Human comfort at the present Sunday of each month at 8 am.

receiver lifting device" which, day is probably at its highest on The verandahs of the first and when placed beside baby's a level somewhere about midway be. second floors of No. 112 Temple Street cradle, enables the infant's mother tween that of a sanitary ideal home |collapsed suddenly yesterday morning,

and caused some

discover whether the child is and an unspoiled country cottage. to were asleep or not simply by ringing up Hygienic is not yet the highest neighbourhood. Suveial men working at the time, but all escaped the house, is not necessity in the epithet that a Christian can pay injury. New verandahs were being acnee In which our fathers under-to his family hearth. erected, and for some reason, the stood the word.

ahoring gave way, causing the collapse of the front of the building.

SUGAR MARKET.

Cattleman Milner.

The real trouble with invention is that they complicate the busi-

Mans Inventions leave me won- ness of life quite as much as they dering whether it was not fantasy Under the provisions of section (reduce the effort of living.

as much as necessity that mother- that next month may see the world economic and industrial worries 58 of the New Territorica Regulation

ed them. The retired cattleman who invented a reversible hat for on the fringe of a storm area con-which have for thousands robbed Ordinance, 1910, Mr. R. A. D. Forrest Why be Bothered.

has been authorised to hold a Small There comes a polat when people women of a spice of laughter, the Debte Court in the New Territories

seems as mythical and not be over-emphasised. A host life

a thing in the amazing « figure us the general of pressing problems shelved in spectacle afforded by the blissful at the following places: The charge would rather do

rooms of the Police Stations at old, bad clumsy way than go to who invented an improved powder the Inst twelve months cannot manner in which the Spanlah Gov-

Tauen Wun, Tai O (Lantas), Tung the trouble of setting the machine puff for the handbag-yet both

(Lantao), Ch'eung. Chau, that is ready to do it for them exist. longer be relegated to the future. crament has thrust aside these com- Chang

And such Inventions quickly.

seem all Britain is pressing strongly for aplicated problems and concentrates Yung Shu Wan in Lamma Island, and easily and

There must, for example, be tens the more surprising in a world on sentencing Alfonso, now safely the office of the District. Ofleeg, South.

of thousands of perfectly good where there are so many things world conference to sort out the beyond its reach, to life imprison-

cigarette lightera stowed away, that obviously need inventing. currency muddle. The disarmament, will be thoroughly appreciat-

uscless simply because they need There is, for instance, a rent efther a new fint or more petral. need for a game, offering all the And until inventors have dis-charms of competition, that one covered a means of overcoming the can play without cheating. ordinarily uninventive man's dis- There is urgent need for મ taste for anything mechanical moneybox sÐ invitingly designed their business of inventing is not that it will make the saving of The following cable at the close at an end.

money even more attractive than been received by Messrs. Pen-miraculously to have made writing

At first the fountain pon seemed the spending of it.

Thoro is a clamorous appeal for as effortless as talking. Then the machine that will-but no. I. stupid, lazy human race hegan to won't mention it. I feel myself grow tired of the delicate opera-being carried away quite as much tion of Ang a fountain pen. So as the Frenchman who invented a the self-filling fountain pen was device for waking up deaf people conceived, and the marvel of 25 by dropping a little rubber ball Sears ago now seems as awkward on their noses! and old-fashioned as the quill and the sand box.

recently catablished France and Germíny.

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.

London Terminals. March 1932 G/81⁄2 up d May 1932 6/10% up d. August 1932 7/-% up ad. December 1931 6/5 up 0. Buyers at above prices, sollers asking 4d-4d. more.

The Distracted Housewife.

Domestic labour-saving inven

PHIPPS discovers

tions, again, very often arise out IDEAL SEASON-

ment conference is scheduled to ed. The "Guilt Committee", which begin in February, with Man-enme to this momentous decision, its report to churia providing a serious com-when it presented

the Cortes, was. we are told, loud. plication. A heavy responsibility cheered. It is also conceivable resta on the governments of the that the ex-King, when he heard of Old and New Worlds to prevent the "sentence," favoured it with one of the sugar market yesterday has

The cream catastrophe when the credits of his famous smiles. granted to Germany mature. af the jest however, is the Com.treath and Co.

mittee's rider that it only refrain- Bound up with all these ques-

ed from recommending the death tions, even disarmament, ure war

penalty on account of the exclusion debts and reparations. And the of capital punishment from the only solution which suggests itself new Code, It all seems very tea childish. King Alfonso must him is a strengthening of the which M. Laval and Dr. Bruening self feel very deeply for the fa-

New York Terminals. ture welfare of his country and between

March 1932 1.27 down 1 pt. his old subjects under such petty Viscount administrators. The threat to his

May 1932 1.30 down 2 pts. July 1982 134 down 3 pts. Cecil recently stated that life, the sentence of imprisonment September 1932 1.39 down 2 pts. of a mistaken conviction that wo-

Franco-German genuine

rap-and the confiscation of his pro-

the December. 1931 1.30 down 1 pt. men, though apparently on Sourabaya (18/11/31).—Trust very verge of physical collapse, all prochement would end seventy per perty are waste of time. Spain's

and more fills sold 2,000 tons Whites, have the brains of an Edison and cent. of the world's troubles, and rulers have far bigger he struck the nail aquarely on the important matters to which they buyers and price not disclosed. the fingers of a watch-maker.

should be devoting their attention head. A revision of reparations is instead of trying to "get their own essential. It is useless to brook back" on a man, who, even if he the fact. In answer to Germany's did not fulfil the wish of the claims to revision, her creditors masses to the letter, at least show-! have always referred her to Wash-ed a sweet reasonableness at the end and gave them the power they ington, pointing out that they have were secking. If they abuse that agreed to cancel two-thirds of power and misuse their time in Germany's reparations in return staging comic operus, it does not for a cancellation of war debts, augur well for the future proa- This has proved a complete atum. perity of the country. But what- bling-block hitherto, but there is mittee's" sentence remains for the reason to believe that one of the world to chuckle over, and thus: results of the visit of M. Laval to forget, for a moment, its cares and Washington a few weeks ago was troubles,

a tacit understanding that, at last, America la prepared to discuss re- | adjustment of war debts according to the espacity of her debtors to pay, which means, In the last analysia, the capacity of Germany to pay,

ever view is taken, the “Guilt Com-

TWICE ROBBED IN FOUR DAYS.

KOWLOON RESIDENT

BURGLED.

The question before the Franco- American statesmen was: "Shall Petty thieves appear to have the moratorium be lengthened or of Mr. T. 9. Fraser, of No. 276. a special king for the rezidence

shall war debts the revised?" Peking Buildings. Mr. Fraser twice this The year's holiday granted Is clear has been victimised

ly inadequate. Thero has been no

upward swing in the trade cycle

week.

On Monday, some-ono effected an entrance and stolo a small

to suggest that payments can be carriage clock, a purso contain- resumed in July next. Manying about $8 in money, and a small slide rule from a jacket pocket.

authorities have, therefore, urged

On Thursday night, another that the period of grace be axfond invasion rosulted in the loss of od to three years,// event; five, [ a sewing machine.

© 1931 MY SHEA BERVICE. SO,

ACM

RAND LAUND

"Glad you like the ride, Milllo-just walt'll next week, when

I start delivering for that flower store."...

TICKET HOLDER.

Peter is the ideal season-ticket holder. He doesn't smoke, he doesn't object to amoking, he doesn't insist on the window being up, down, or half-way, he doesn't snore, and he doesn't want to know what the devil the country's com- ing to.

Peter travels every day on the L.N.E.R. between Goodmayca and. Romford. He is exceedingly popu- lar with his fellow travellers, who

frequently come up and pat him on the back, Peter just grins and wage his tail.

Yes, Potor's a gay dog. Ás a mattor of fact, he's the first dog in

history to be a season-ticket holder. He loves the Night Life. Which is just as well, considering he

belonge to a night-watchman.

He enjoys the distinction of be ing the first four-legged season- ticket holder. But he doesn't oc- cupy a quarter of the arca normal- ly monopolised by those gentlemen who are something in the City and Jabout twice that in a corner scat. And he always gives up his seat to a lady.

For Polly Too.

Ho has, of course, sot a proced- ent. It will not be long before- the old lady with the parrot that must have ita nourishment evory twenty minutes ("Guard, I insist: Polly la lacking in proteins") ap plies for a "season," and it will not be long after that before the guard applies for a pension,

The amenity Is bound sought, too, by those who take fo Pekinesy. With a first-class sen-` son “Tootles”: would be enabled to Jenjoy that "corner, facing no

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