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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1932.

SYNCHRO MESH

FAULTLESS GEAR CHANGE

and

ment as such, and not payment for any other purpose than the liquidation of the sum shortly due. The British methiod is not likely to increase the prospects

WAYS OF A MAN WITH The Very Idea!

By W. J. SEYMOUR THE MAID

of future dettlement; it might, home-three bed, two rec., who gives cause

Indeed, caslly arouse suspicions In Congress and tend to stiffen, rather than moltify, opposition to eventual reconsideration of the general issue. Although the British Note is unambiguous to

THAT N.T. TIGER

By Ed. Kelly, Big Game Huckator Two Indian policeinen doclaro they have seen a tiger in the New Territories.

THE worst of these modern actually they don't want her, One for complaint h. and is that a man makes such an admirable foil. kept too closely in touch with the

Do you remember what we used realities of domestic affairs.

to do in the Army when one of Grandpapa was lucky; he didn't tho Brass Hata was making a tour

inspection? Wo Invariably All Kowloon sportsmen, with see the wheela go round. In his of days It was fashionable to keep a planted a plece of litter on the one exception, have now taken up. ja degree, Mr. Stimson professes big house and a staff of servants, otherwise spotiesa mesa-room floor residoneo in Victoria. We are the most of whom the old boy never in such a strategic position that

aw

exception.

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to regard it as merely indicating the British view regarding steps

"Pishl"! we said when we heard His wife complained about he couldn't help seeing it. Tho which may be proposed later on the servant problem generally, theory was that so long as he the report. In this way, he keeps the door Grandpapa wasn't confronted with found something to grumble at We've seen tigers before. They open for a re-statement of Bri-a flesh-and-blood manifestation of he'd be happy.

didn't slink away like the cowardly tish policy along lines which it every day of his life.

A wife is much the same where thing in the Territorios. would not run contrary to the, The modern husband la, and the maid is concerned. So long as They weren't yellow. They terms of the funding agreement. docan't quite know what to do she lan't satisfied you can be rea-atayed right in the same room and

the played about with

snakes. Mr. Neville Chamberlain's latest about it. Instead of having to sonably sure she is contented.

And it is as well to bear in mind No, they weren't yellow. They utterance, that Britain does not agree that girls in general aren't ask America to accept her pro- what they were, ho has to listen that if ever she found the paragon were Invariably blue, with pink-

to detailed accounts of the short-of her dreams sho'd worry still dots and vermilion stripes. posals at this stage, but re- comings of one in particular-to more. more m.p.g.

serves the right to bring it wit, she who has just cleared away effortless steer forward when discussions begin, dinner, and in the morning will braking ing. smooth instantaneous would appear to be a response to serve breakfast. acceleration

more room Mr. Stimson's feeler. It docs, super springing

at any rate, indicate the right lower body lines

sweeter method of dealing with the

matter. performance

. in fact everything a light Six can give - yet the saloon (with sliding roof) costs only £295.

decisive

Geneva's Problems.

DON'T BLAME THE UNTIDY

By EDWIN BRISTOWE

Wo laugh a bitter, cynical laugh when we honr these reports, Thore la not much, as you Imagine, we don't know about tigora.

A very distant relation of ours was once a tiger but the warders led him, protestingly, back to the padded cell.

And that reminds us of an ez- IF you are tidy and methodical, pertenco go once had at Macao.

Wo had been spending a it in all too easy to suppose

faw with that other people are, or days at the Riviera Hotel

Pete. should be, the same.

Poor old Pete, woke up one

On Dangerous Ground. He cannot decide what his atti- tude ought to be. For instance, after hearing how she omitted to dust the thingamajige, how she will flirt with the butcher's boy, and how she tosses her head when spoken to for her own good, he Shilly-shallying goes on at almost feels that he ought to The Committee of neowl next time he passes her, to Geneva. Nineteen is in uncomfortable show his displeasure. But, hang Yet there are two sides even to morning and swore there was mood and Sir John Simon stays it all, a fellow can't go about with this question. Do

untidy people tiger under his bed. really suffer a constant senso of behind, unable to make up his a perpetual scowl on his face. mind whether or not Japan's At times he realises how delicate discomfort, as you suppose? And threats to withdraw from the position is his. He sees his wife do they, after all, waste any more worried to death by the inefficiency time looking for things than you League in certain eventualities are to be regarded as bluff. The (presumably) are paid by him.

of the young lady whose wages do perpetually tidying up?

Every time my wife gets into the The Car with the Silky that she will not co-operate in morally responsible for piling yet used to think this was just one of asked.

United States throws out a hint Consequently, he feels that he is ear she leaves the door open. I

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VAUXHALL becomes more marked. The case already had quite enough to try eure. But now

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The

Hongkong Telegraph support of the people in the mention them to his wife he lays of comfort are permanently differ-

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1932.

WRONG TACTICS

Punch

I know a man whose wife once

comfortable to have things left open.

been a burglar in the place. I

wns

We handled him carefully until we reached hospital. A few days later we called to see him.

"How are you now?" we asked in ja hushed voice.

"Fine" says he. "Seen any more

tigern?" We

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In the meantime, we give a hint on how to keep off tigers.

Just a little more water, laddie- just a little more water.

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With this wave of visitors from Hollywood, we are able to give our reader the low down on the Great Depression in the Land of Make Bellove.

Wo interviewed one of ladies,

She

starred in "Counterpains." poured out ten for us in her suite

at the Peninsula.

"Gee," she said, "it's great to be in this prosperous looking burg. Gee!"

the deliberations unless the another burden upon the noor those distressing little habits that

"No," he said, "no more tigera." swing towards her own policy; woman who, having married him.time and gentle persistence would

And then we know he had 'em. know it's nothing of Japan seems rather different. her, heaven knows.

of the sort. It is a deliberate actor, helleve it or not, there were The Concentration Cabinet, Feeling thus, it is only natural of choice. She prefers to leave three tigera loping over the chest

of drawers. to the door open because she feels it although ostensibly civilian, is that at times he should seek

We will soon be publishing obviously responsible to the will justify himself in his own eyes by is more comfortable that way. booklet. It will be called "Fells of the militariats, who have shut the maid. He will note that she party risks involved, and the prob. All varieties are illustrated, and

trying to find points in favour of

And were it not for the third Tigris" or "Tigers We Have Seen." their eyes, to the outside world, folds his suits admirably, or makes ability of apprehension by the there will be appended a list of and who are determined not. to nice toast.

police for charioteering, I should all the cures known to medical budge whatever the consequen- He had better keep suck feel it my duty to indulge this ces. And they have gained the thoughts to himself. Should he whim on the ground that her idens

science, including Tiger Balm.

adventure for two reasons. One himself open to the grave charge ent from my own, is the feeling that Japan at the of accusing her of being unable to Of course it has taken tíma to beginning of the unfortunate make toast or fuld sults as nicely reach this point of view. A con- sistent serica of discoveries about affair was misjudged. Then the as some chit of a girl can.

Nor must he ever defend the the house, however, has convinced Japanese have been hard pressed maid, which means that he must by the world depression. Accus-keep a tight hold on himself. Men me of the need for it. It is im. tomed to call Manchuria their are notoriously so falrminded and possible to find, day after day, half

a hundred Inkbottles standing | bellevera "life line," they are as determin-impartial that we malio them about dangerously uncorked, with- Despite the inclination in some ed to protect their interests in judges and football referees. But out coming to the conclusion that -quarters to place the onus for that region as a hungry man his dare any husband exercise these the latest war debt development last crust. But events are show- admirable qualities in the home? in the opinion of many it is more on the United States, a study of ing that the protection of the 'll say he daren't. He may acc the British Note leaves the im-life line" by the setting up of the other point of view, but he

Method in His Madness. pression that it is not America a puppet government is draining mustn't let on that he does. which is at fault. Britain is the Japanese budget. Already

Again, I had a friend in student quite prepared to pay the sum 100,000 troops have been requisi- complained that the maid, with her days who was a brilliant exponent due on Thursday, but not as an tioned. In spite of them, how broken the best tea-pot.

usual grosa carelessness, had

of the thory that organisation and annual instalment; she desires over, the protection is hardly

method and order were a pitiful "But, my dear" he began. it to be treated as a capital pay protective.

waste of time. As daily reports That was as far as he got, and

I wanted to borrow his hairwash ment, of which account should show, a force even on this order at the end of ten minutes he found one day. He said I'd find it in his be taken in the final re-adjust-cannot prevent trains from being himself apologising for being such bedroom. But when I opened the ment of the whole question. wrecked, human life endangered, an outsider as to take the part of door, I could see at once there had Regarded as an attempt to and property destroyed. "Some muid against his own wife. secure a speedy re-examination day Japan will recover from its Whereas what he was expecting rushed downstairs to spread the Kiss Curl, you know, who CO- of the whole war debt issue, the fears sufficiently to depose the to have to apologise for was being news, but he assured me he had British representations must army from the control of its clumsy as to knock the tea-pot heen up there only a moment ago command widespread approval; foreign policy and to try to inoff the table as he passed by. and all was well. nevertheless, this does not dis-sure its rights on the Asiatic it is really very simple, once you

Involved as the problem seems, Eventually I found the stuff pose of the feeling that a mainland without trampling on know how. The husband just has quite by accident. It per- mistake in tactics has been the rights of others.

to remember that he must always the chest of drawers.

forming the duty of fourth leg to made. The United States

without reserve, accept and 27- Government has made it

dorse whatever his wife says about perfectly clear, all tho, way

the maid-except when she praisea through the recent negotiations, that payment of the December

Happily Discontented. instalment is' expected. Britain The change in the editorship has strongly represented the dif- of Punch is in England an event ficulties which payment involves, of almost national importance. but she has shown no inclination Punch is a peculiarly English to default. In the circums-institution. So English, indeed, tances, the correct procedure that foreigners have often de would appear to be to make the clared their inability to under- payment, but to inform the stand it! It has been asserted United States that this must not that, like the British Constitu- be taken as n precedent for con- tion the humour of Punch does tinuing these annual remit-not exist. But English people | tances. The issue might have are equally convinced that the been taken even a step further humour of Punch, again like the by expressing the hope that British Constitution, is the best America would take account of thing of its kind in the world. this payment when re-examin-Under the guidance of Sir Owen ing the future of war debt com-|Seaman, who is as brilliant a mitments. That, it appears to scholar as he is a parodist, the us, is the full extent to which inßuence and prestige of Punch Britain would be entitled to go. have probably been as high as at It seems clear that until the any earlier date in its ninoty-one funding agreement has been years' history. This is saying modified by mutual consent, a good deal, for Punch has long Britain is not entitled to attach been able to draw upon the work strings to the December pay-of the foremost English authors ment: she must either pay it for and cartoonists. So great has what it is, or default. Mr. Stim-been the wealth of material at the son's reply, that the U.S. Trea-its disposal that it holds sury has no authority to accept unique position of having been the payment except on the terms the only journal in the world to of the funding agreement,. cor-reject a contribution from Char- rectly states the position. It is les Dickens at the height of his stated in the British Note that fame. Mr. Punch has never one of the reasons animating the been merely a humourist. In his British Government in declding first issue he declared that his to pay the amount due is that aims were higher than "the the United States Government amusement of a thoughtless has expressed the view that pay-crowd, and the collection of ment will greatly increase the pense." He has always had a prospects of a satisfactory ap-kindly hand ready for the un- proach to the whole question. fortunate and the shafts of his But in saying so much, the U.S. wit have not been barbed with Government obviously meant malice. Mr. Knox is desvedly payment of the December instal-'entering upon a high heritage.

"You hanour as," wo replied, If you had compelled him to be gallantly, in the grand old Kelly tidy and methodical he would have style. complained not only of intense dis- "Aw. Gee, Mr. Kelly. Can it comfort, but of irritation at the Cut it out. Let me and you get onormous amount of time he had (acquainted right away and looking for the perfect maid, but fortable.

Women always pretend to be to waste making himself uncom hand you out the real dope."

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"And I say he's going to be a lawyer!”

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A pitiful story it is too. Wo, who have been reading of the [salary cuts of our pet cinema pash and wopt with them, little realise the full enormity of what is taking place. "Guess you think a million dollars a year is just the nanny. goat's stop-ins," said Miss Curl, "but believe you me, you don't know where a girl's gotta get off. They think you're kinda mud if ya don't keep ten autos and a yacht. And say, howja like to bo high- hatted by a scenario writer, and a Wop at that, because in your little place in the Hills, you've only got one swimming pool,"

Synthetic tours glistened in hor beautiful eye, and we preased hor hand in silent sympthy.

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THINGS WE MISSED.

Our local artists don't go out [for popularity. They paint a junk or two and 'n pansy and are satis- fied.

Think of the crowds rushing to the local Art Exhibition if the pictures consisted of subjects like the following:

Gathering of the Clan Usque- baugh.

John Knox brondenating. Haggle tending its Young.

Darnley stabbing Rizzlo Rizzio stabbing Darnley, Gathering of the Clan Hog- manay.

signing

Flora MacDonald autographs for Americans. The boy Barrio setting. South- wards with a lump in hiẽ throat.