1931-12-01 — Page 3

AN AMERICAN HERMIT.

鬼 Bouzi

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931.

IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

XV

FILARBONE OKTABRA

Wiping out iteracy, a task to be

complete by 1931.

Wemen day labourera working frenziedly to make the Five Your Plan a success.

CHILD

UNEMPLOYED PROTESTS.

STARVE

Unemployed disturbances are by no means confined, to Britain as this picture shows. Taken in the heart of New York, demonstrators are shown outside the City Hall.

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The well dressed bermit in the United States looks like the gratioman on right, according to story just received. He desfared that he had lived on nothing but ayater, fish, hench bons and wild cabbage, but he was arrested for stealing pelicang from a grotected rookery,

GUILTY LIPS

LAURA LOU BROOKMAN” “Author of “MAD MARRIAGE"

BROIN HERE TO-DAY,

Pretty Mnema Kont, 2-pentula, mcretary, mario Mark Trase, lionaire's sum, in

ark as his secretary, she added, "I'm going to have to ask for more many, Mr. Stuart. I want $35 a werk. think I'm worth it and Mariboru, multifes ang manuscripts come in to he

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can do them in addition to

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kom hie first job, then weten

time before tant I might just as

walker in department store, Mollet Well have been typing. You nee

powerly be and Nurms are happy und Juven't just myself to think about

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I the Fah wilt money.

atuke he saw make gnoil Mark's frik, th

siament involved a business trip to Pruner, For a moment Stuart frowned. Nermin mual remain at home, the tre tải "This ba B poor time to be Besternis, rudely turned at her festern me! Increasing salarina," he said, "aud Chris Kaunders, Nurma's former I think you' 290 $35! Yes, and Mark's father rapluyen detectives to tra; hine on Manel rn it! Be here at

beste, align away, leaving no trace of br wberendosia

Zoommate, belum ber And Jo

the Kiel. They produce orde

Nozon three years earlier Nnd been convirtuski

pay

Norma told him she world be

on a vice charge. In spite of evidence that there. During the ride home on

et www lungoat and the charge Frames, the street car she tried to compute Travers enda his lawyer to Paru, Weeke

later Nurma teelers Inter trimentally bow long, at $35 a week, Mark na divorce her, Chris helps her to it would take

to pay the ninay

and work and lost her muner berumen 01,

when the owed Chris,

For one thing In August Nomma's ann is born. When that debt would not be growing Weir Mark in four munches all fur, arger now, work on typing ngewertots

She could pay ber stunur. Bob Farrell werd bee flowers at Chelatman Way and fittle Mark's. Whatever

and calls frequentia.

CHAPTER XLI

it was possible to save would be paid to Chris.

Peasants, who carry their food with them wherever they go.

Food cards being handed in at the Government cooperative 'DON. The above pictures are the subject of some remarkable stories on Soviet Russia secured by the Telegraph commencing

to morrow.

It was hard Monday morning tol slagued Norma all through the war. It was true Jennie Clark Teave the baby. Sharp doubts, schedule. She liked working with Tay Suppose Mrs. Carey didn't had been slack about keeping the

in

Norma carnod 395 during the! six weeks the typed manuscripts for Frederick Stuart, The sun went to Chris as a first payment on the namunt she had borrowed, bla formula just right! files in order. Other tasks that The original loan of $250 was

Suppose she should leave Mark should have been attended had been #lone. mounting netonishingly.

Even in five minutes he neglected.

The accumulated "Lots of time to pay it," Chris might wriggle from the bed and made Norma's first dayn adwaye said carelessly when Norma urt himself. Norma remembered the office unusually busy ones. spoke about the debt. Chris would Junior Baker had been scald-Still there were agonizing harrowing momente when she pictured Mark

tossing and feverish from When the lunch hour arrived she sudden, mysterious illness or his telephoned to ask the landlady's little body shaking with sobs. dughter to ve upstairs and ask unable to tell what ailed him. along. Mrs. Carey how Mark was getting

never present a detailed statement of the money she had spent though she was always promising to do so. Norm's own accounting told her the sum was close to $1000.

carn would be immediate expenses.

Jennie explained she could

to the office where the bad

how

suffered

''. She moments of despair.

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sonte

On Saturday afternoon at the took the baby to the hospital clinic. end of her first week's work Norma

ill once.

nice.

A pictorial demonstration of the art of parachute jumping that may come in handy some day, Top, walking off, contre laft walking on air, right cantee, the parachute opening. Bottom, putting full weight against the parachute on landing.

As

fet out when the staff will and he went

to sleep when he'd his part to improve the family attended the play and Norma lake daya sped rapidly.

She said sho liked the first better and that this time it would be permanent. whose

conuidhowledge was amazing

ed

The $36 was the barest begin ning-littic more than enough to pay Norma's share of the rent and baby was alcenlog. Nothing at all Norma was informed that the food bill for the six weeks. That eventful had happened. was the hopeless part of being in Carse reported Mark was "getting shock and thankfulness that Mark refused to operate or a piece of tain,

Mrs. She learned with a mingling of man's akili, when the electric iron she did. The next she was uncer- debt. Most of what Norma could ulong fine."

still kept his rating of perfect furniture became unsteady Bub gobbled up by

At 5.45 Norma reached the top health. During the

"If she's foolish enough to turn of the stairs and barat breathless months of his life he had not been. Shortly after the second dinner told herself, to koup faith with a

Brat six put it in order. It was because this problem was ly into the apartment.

down a tine boy like Bob," Chris never far from her mind that Norma welcomed the opportunity right

baby-is everything all, It astounded Norma te realize attend a musical comedy-n very Travers she doesn't deserve sym- invitation he asked buth girls to nod-for-nothing ku Mark that came the second week in

that another person could care for February even though it involved Mrs. Carey. "He hasn't been a bit could. Almost she felt dismayed, the evening of the performance and docan't renlize it yet.

"Bless his little heart!" said her son exactly as well as she Carie and Norma accepted but on Probably she's in love with Bob good one just on from New York nathy! Bob's worth ten Marks! separation from baby Mark.

Jennie Clark, the girl who had angel all day! I did everything immediately. She told Chris that She refused to let the others themselves but I know what I'd

of trouble. Good as a regular little The shock of this discovery passed, Norma developed

Well, Laken

Norma's place as Stuart's the way you said. Mrs. Travers. I baby Mark, by keeping up such a change their tickets for another do!"

headache. they'll have to settle affairs for secretary, resigned on short notice. gave him his bottle at three o'clock aplendid

health

record, was doing, night.

result Chris and Bub Afler Norma returned to work finished it. Look at him!"

fortunes.

Weeks Mark's wide blue eyes consider. Chris liked the baby, played

remnined at homo.

evolved his mother with interest. He with him and worried over him Norma'a pleasure in Bob's com- Luking and transcribing dictation, could he no doubt about in into the old routine o rushing to catch street cars, Chris Saunders, tentedly.

a foot and gurgled con- almost as much as Norma. "He's pany. She always welcomed him. hasty lunch hours, more dictation going to be spoiled and apolled More often than Chris she urged clinging to a strap for the crowded the fact she never beside the bed, felt

Norma, down on ber knean barily. Chris predleted, "but him to drop in again soon and aaked personal queations, told whelming relief. There was tiny getting cuter every day."

wave of over- honestly, who could help it? He's was Norma who suggested invit-and

it ride h home and

blessed evenings Norma the reason Jennie wanted Mark exnetly as she had left him.

rek-ends with little Mark. Bob Farrell continued to pay an and Dob were never alone. When

him to dinner. to go back to the other office was.

ins

However, she

made its entry lamb-like.. because a young man in whom she formuen tragedy. The baby was as often served as the excuse

frightful accident. No un occasional visit and gifts for Mark Chris tried tactfully to engineer sunshing made heavy winter wraps

The

sun melted and bright winter was interested worked there.

hanpy and safe as if he had been theen calls.

for such tete-a-tetes somehow When Jennie announced she was

the netually une

Norma uncomfortablo. with

plans went amlar. him all day. leaving Stuart talephoned Norma

"Here's

something I thought not be aure

Chris could scrimped on lunches and made the whether Thank you, Mrs. Carey," Norma might amuse young Skeez'x." he managed this intentionally or not. for the baby. Before that taking and offered her the

Norma first job. That said. rising to hor feet.

first payment on a cheap carriage same

she went down ouldn't help but feel worried, which might contain

"I would say, handing over a backare alternoon town and

Mark out for a him she could start It's the first day I've ever left him, from a toy pop gun to rubber sure Norma's old fondness for the sunlight possible to absorb work the following week.

There were times when she was born out of the question. All of dally airing had

The problem of

you know! You've taken bonutí blocks. caring for Mark ful care of him and I'm not going thing he brought was for a much affection. A safer, surer affection had absorbed.

Practically every play Bob was developing into a deeper through a third floor window he had been easily arranged. For $0 to let myself worry any more. I'll older chil each week Mrs, Caroy, who lived

That was not across the hall, agreed to keep thee if I can't be home a little them with wide-vod neonecen ronance that Norma's marriage

When Mark regarded than the mad-cap plunge into enough, the doctor said, baby during the hours Norma

earlier to-morrow night,”

to After the carriago arrived Mrs. would be away.

"Wall. I'll just run along since ur

they were placed away for future Mark Travers had been. That Cary mont two hours daily wheel- Mrs, Carey hal you're here. I'll have to be act-

Chris felt,

felt, was the solution no children. She was fond of ting

of ing him up and down the block. The girls pecused bob of buying Norma's them and before her marriage had disappeared without falshing the salf Found

the supper" Mrs. Carey tha contraptions because he him-

problema

Norma Saturday and Sunday Married to Bob, Norma would always took him out. She felt worked as a practical nurse. A

thom entertaining, have protection from the world immensely proud when passersby pleasant,

* Bontenco. conscientious woman, sbo

Farrell always grinned and pland-that had treated her so harshly,lanced into the earringe and sald, could be trusted to carry out later and the two girls were soon

Chria arrived a few momenta od mlity to those accurations. She would have a home for herself "What a pretty baby!" or stopped Norma's instructions exactly and buy preparing their own evening at the spirtment--both tips on Farrell was davetod to Norma

Twice he was invited to dinner and for little Mark. And Bob to ask how old he was. the welcomed the chance to earn meal.

Above his blue blankets the. even so small an emgunt.

Sunday when Chris and Norma ho always had been," When Norma told Frederick over the baby's, welers was the Whenever there was any task

Sahooling hersel* not to worry had the antire day at home, could see that.

Anyone infant's hooded head was just Stuart she could come back to hardest part of Nowa's bar around the apartment requiring a Bob?

visible. It was not easy to keep But did Norma really care for him covered. Mark that child of One day Chris belloved (Continued on Page 18.)

No

anything

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"FELIX"

FELIX HAT SHOP.

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Chater Hoad.

COMING TO THE CENTRAL SHORTLY I

The First Lady of the Screes!

In Her Greatest

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