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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12,

1932.

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Maybe this photographs has you baffled. A blimp made the geometrical pattern asen above as it took off with Washington Monument in the background.

Instruments of torture used by the Borgias were exhibited at Roma ra cently. Picture shows the cage in which clergyman were confined.

Photo

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Mr. Tsuyoshi Inukai, the aged Premier of Japan, who holds his government together despite fra- quent rumours of downfall.

If somebody rocked the boat, sailors porshed high atop the

U. 9. S. Salt Lake City, would get an unexpected ducking. This striking view of the ship was taken as it passed beneath Brook. lyn Bridge on its way to the Pacific const from the Brooklyn navy yard.

shows Japanese artillerymen moving light feld-piocss Into the Woosung

dime-a-dance

girl

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

BY JOAN CLAVTON

Deautiful Ellen waiter, who works by a

anlengiri in Dareiny's Department Store. lives with her mother. Mully waiter, her elder alster, Myra, and her 12-year-olt brother Mike. Irrespins! Holly ha long sino spent the furtune left by her Engilah hu band and the two girls support the family.

CHAPTER IV.

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ptied. The last toy hoat capsized agine that the fact Steven Barclay on the lake. The last cross and had lent her a dress meant any- was dragged away thing except that he was a kind sleepy child

and generous man. to aupper.

What did she know of him after The park grew quiet.

The limousine swished to a stop all? He was rich and she had of becoming his at the Casino where early diners, idly dreamed men and

in evening young and adored wife, dreamed clothes, leaned across softly light of the beauty that as Mrs. Steven and laughing. Barclay she could bring into the that he fed tables talking

Ellen and her escort went inside lives of Myra and Molly and baby And that was impossible. He for iced drinks. Neither of them Mike. Dreamed, too, of herself in thin, gay frocks, never chosen for Was 57. Ellen was young enough was hungry.

Ellen looked around with wide-utility, moving in the

same light restlessness thought had left him years ago.

to be his daughter. Almost rough-

fancles.

women

Here there

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Some of Mussolini's supporters in

training.

CRUELTY TO. ANIMALS. CAMPAIGN AGAINST, KILLING METHODS.

A correspondent signing himself | "Humanity" sends us a pamphlet distributed with Ovoracas in which world-wide appeal is made against the horrors of trapping fur bearing The pamphlet is by animals.

The author points out that from Major Charles Van der Byl. eight to 10 beavers are killed for one cout and about 80 mink skins make one wrap, and adds that practically all animals with paws and that if women know these undergo tortures in the steel traps things they would never buy an- other trapped fur.

Many other instances of brutall- ty in the hunting of fur animals are given and a list supplied of firms who specialise in furs of animals that have been humanely killed.

ly he loaned forward and gave the eyed pleasure at the other, diuers, spots of the world with never a

for reaching successful men and lovely, well- thought of work or care.

She stepped into Dreamland and Moll foolishly spends money saved to pay driver directions

As her eyes re- he offered dressed women, Ellen decides to work at night Dreamland. When the rent a dance hall hostese until the sum is mado up. She goes to Dreamland and interviews Ellen a cigarette and pulled out the turned to the handsome man oppo-ran straight into Jacob Salomon. Jacub Balmon who offers her job on conlighter for her no one would have aite her she began to feel a sing-His face broke into a wide grin.

"Hullo-you're back. And with dition that ahely her own evening

Quick work, dreser, he has no evening dress.

guessed that he imagined he had, fing in her heart,

What fun to be so rich! What the dress, too, I see. Back at the store gain, Ellen begins to in the brief space of seconds, put

disappointment. Steran bliter cry in her

Ellen's chin came up, Harclay, owner of the store, sees her and away from him a small, vague fun to be driven in a limousine kid."

When he dream.

wherever you wanted to go! What!

"I might as well tell you," who aska her to come to his office. tells him of bar problems he offers to give

"L don't smoke," Ellen told him. fun to stop at a smart restaurant her a dress but she refuses to accept ta

His brows went up quizzically. because you were thirsty, to be said coolly, "that intend to work For three then oers to lead her one of the dresses worn by the motela. She borrows a lovely

"I thought all young girls smok-served by an impressed headwait- here only temporarily. white taffets frock,

or, to have every wish anticipated, weeks at the most." Eften a half-pleased, halfgirizstened, by ed nowadays.'

drifted away "That's ok. by me, kid. But since Barclay's obvious internal in her.

At his look of surprise she ex-Care and worries

were Alice and Dolly and girls plained. "You see the people we from her. The hurried, clattery you're here I suppose you won't live among and, for that matter, morning with its clashing of milk mind obeying the rules, like the Sunny and Anne and Mazie to him, to bo Ellen assumed they were "I won't." Ellen replied, ignor that to her. When Ellen accepted Steven my family, too, are so poor that cans and jangling alarm clocks other girls. Or will you?"

to drive her to we must be respectable. On any seemed years away.

anding his heavy-handed sarcasm, Barclay's offer

Salomon had not knocked but "Guess this is the only one nobody appeared surprised. A Dreamland she did so with the debatable point-like smoking for was only peace and beauty some naturalness he had shown in women-we're all ultra-conserva- leisure.

In She began, did Ellen, to weave didn't tell you about."

few of the girls reached for extending the Invitation. Their live. Not," she added still

kimonas with mechanical squeals He pointed to a sign on the friendship had made such strides that light strain, "that I lie awake those swift dreams of girlhood,

so little! that her only hesitancy sprang nights longing to amoke. I don't those dreams that need

ly continued their tollots. One from the vague fears which had like it really. If I did I'd smoke." substance. Although Steven Bar-bright pink plaster wall. Ellen of dismay but most of them acrene- "I'm sure you would. But I'm clay did not guess it his own shad-read that the hostesses were por hard little youngster, whom Salo- troubled her in his office, fears

mon called Tony, deliberatoly pull- ing except "yea" or "no" in answered her one-piece dress over her that his name would be linked rather glad you don't. I can't got owy figure moved through those mitted no conversation while danc- with hers by gossiping follow-used—”

questions. She turned

hoad and stood in brief shorts and They drove almost quietly to to workera.

He broke off abruptly and Dreamland, absorbed in their se- amazed face to Salomon. But Barclay himself hud no such

stopped "Does look funny," he conceded, a solled satin uplift, grinning at

them. fears. Ho moved in a different thought that there was no uso apparate thoughts. They

carefully still. grinning, "But there's good

A brightly painted screen, gaudy world than his employees. He pearing in her eyes qs an old fogy off Broadway. Ellen would have been amazed had he even if he were old enough to be picked up the box which held the sound business back of it. The with peacocks and pagodas, con- dreamed of the complicated fool-her father. With Ellen's permis- precious dress and stretched out hostesses can talk when they're

sitting at the tables with their cented a washstand in one corner Tho ings of many of them, of their bit-sion they drove through Central her hand to Barclay.

"I can't tell you," she said partners. And when they're sit. of the small, hot room. Ellon ter narrowness, of their jealously Park before going to the dance- and envy of those more fortunate. hall. Central Park in the languid breathlessly, "how much I appreting they order things to eat, if went behind it to dress,

the gents will stand for it. They quarters were cramped and stif- lng but she did not mean to risk relaxed and quiet clate what you've done for me."

moatly will." Ho was too naturally modest to im-twilight was

another of Salomon's agine, that his comings and goings, after the fierce heat of the day.

"Oh," said Ellen blankly. Above thom, through the open' however trivial, were of absorb On the bridle paths there were a

clashing of "Our specialty's chop aucy," hoftional entries.

When she emerged only two host- ing interest to scores of men and few horseback riders, their habits windows, came

at an braases and a singing of strings. continued imperturbably. "Price women who had never met him crumpled, their horses

hostess. Thirty-five if the chep and a languishing blonde called a wicker Nor did it occur to him that he apathetic trot. But neither the The orchestra at Dreamland was $175 cents to me, 25 cents to the cases were left in the room-Tony might be subjecting a girl to the horses nor the riders appeared to tuning up.

"I'm glad I could do it," Barclay Buey Isn't eaten but that means Aniso. They shared broath of scandal.

be enjoying themselves.

you can't mess in it with your fork bench, where they had sat smok But as Ellon sank back into the The benches were crowded with replied.

hand look at the new hostess. He meant to stop there. But he It has to be good enough to servo ing and waiting to have a first- soft depths of dove-grey cushions workers who had stopped on thoir

Ellen looked toward Tony-and Ellen giggled. and turned her rosy face to him hurried way home to draw what heard himself saying what he had again." he felt a pang as of anticipated solace they could from the dusty not intended to say.

"I would like to do a great deal "The Joint's straight," he as- met a pair of coolly hostile eyes.

don't

(To be Continued.) pain. And he believed then that green of the park. The air was

sured her seriously. "We he had been unwise.

ahrill with the confusion of child-more for you."

Ellen's heart throbbed queerly serve liquor. We don't even ad- He had not known until then ish shouts. Scores of children;

the footpaths but her voice was steady as she mit mon that have boon drinking-| why he had been so uneasy and so ran up and down restless after Ellon had left hla and scattered about the lake, send- told him that he had done a great much."

She was a little perturbed by office that afternoon; he had not ing out small boats on the placid deal too much already. She was

self-conscious, a rare thing for his cheerful outspokenness but known why the routine business surface.

Darkness drew in and lights be- her, as she climbed the stairs-aho mockly allowed him to pilot of the store had become so sud-

gan to plorce windows of the glant self-conscious, and, now that she her to a cramped dressing room why the denly unimportant or hours had dragged so ondlessly. apartment houses overlooking the was away from Barclay and what and to introduce her haphazardly But he know now as Ellen shyly park. A light breeze aprang up he stood for, a little dissatisfed to the other girls, some 18 In num smiled at him that he felt that One by one the benches were em- with herself. How foolish to im- bor. He used no last names. The

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