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COLD, DAMP, AND CHANGEABLE WEATHER

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932,

THE LATEST

Studebaker

STUDEBAKER SIX 'MODEL "55" RECAL SEDAN FOR FIVE BURMA BEIGE- COMPLETE WITH 6 CHROME WHEELS TIRES AND TUBES.

PRICE HK.$6,150.

THIS CAR HAS SAFETY CLASS STÚDE BAKER FREE-WHEELING SYNCHRONIZED SHIFT- ING VACUUM SPARK- CONTROL AUTOMATIC STARTING FULL CUSHIONED POWER HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBERS NON-RESON- ANT BODY

is generally very young, to ridi- BIG GAME TROPHY

cule tradition and sentiment.

DAYS

By A. P. GARLAND

In every age, he has his place. But to-day in a more sincere society his place la amall enough.... We are not to be frightened from sur plum puddings and mince ples by the doubts of doc-A tors or checked in our pleasure- making by the pessimists, or prevented from going to church by the pretence that the foun dation of the Christian faith is, a pathetic illusion.

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Bulls and Inners

From the Offee Butts

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Smokers' Christmas Proverb:-- When America goes wet, it will

LONDON taxidermist has Put not the gift "Flora", in the be known as the Brew-nited

confessed that the grant

mouth.

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days of taxidermy—and what days "Mistlotoo is dead nowadays,"

they were, to be surel- have gone point of view, he'd be batter off na for over, and that, from a business

an expert tomato-stuffer. For the fact is, big-game shooting is no longer in vogue.

Time was when every well-to-do in love used to go off ibox-shooting young man who had been crossed;

says a writer, Yos, and berried.

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If there's one thing a man would rather be without, he usually geta It as a Christmas present.

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States.

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Baby, Baby Bunting,

Father's busy hunting For some dark spot beneath the

stars

Where he can hide those gift

cigars.

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A China Conat captain saya be in the Himalayas in order to catoomed in Hongkong-especially A whiff in ovary porti

Early settlers aro always only smokes when on shore leave.. forget. Frankly I could never at the beginning of the month.

mount for him.

of to Shoot Elephant.

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We suppose these tobacco trubia

time.

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Planning Ahead Sir Arthur Salter has put him self in the vanguard of the grow ing number of economic thinkers who have embraced planning as see how the shooting of an ibex the ultimate goal of economie that had had nothing to do with life. People confuse the new, the love affair at all could relieve During a festive'moment of un- could be called smoke rings. ideal when they associate it with ar aching heart. No more, I'm controllable exuberanco recently, a the end of private enterprise. sure, could the Ibex soo it. young man attending a local party According to Sir Arthur, de

COUTAO Anyhow, in duo

the came into momentary contact with The miens test is well-known in liberate planning and control young man would come back with a fro-bucket which happened to be Hongkong, where people are often must be so ordered as effectively a cargo of thex horns, which he'd passing. Not unnaturally, be judged by appearances. to safeguard the public interest. hand over to the taxidermist to fooked a little pale! while at the same time allowing for the continuing vitality of

The Elizabethan style of fa- private initiative. There has

It's usually the man with the shions is said to be coming back. been planning in plenty, as he was constantly barging into men

Similarly, in the old days one tough beard who takes it on the Looks as if we're in for a ruff

chin.. pointed out, in separate organi- in Piccadilly with young cannon

口口 sations. A factory, a labour under their arms, who would tell. group, even an entire industry you they were off to shoot elo-| many such many other things

examples may be phant, harte-beest. Rocky Moun- which will interest you.

found of economic planning. But fain sheep, or something, accord- bagpipes ori- they have not been integrated Ing to taste. The only quadruped gnated in THE HONGKONG HOTEL 'to the end that the public in that seemed to be nobody's child France. We de- tercat shall be served. They was a rhinoceros. The reason for precate this ac- GARAGE

thio serve special ends. And the pre-wears only one tuak. Now it takes the

was that this gifted animal cusation during atason of sent economic situation has dis- two tunks to make a trophy, one goodwill to all closed what should long ago alone looking too lonely on a wall. mon. have been apparent that sel- So the rhinoceros wan neglected. www.fishness in the long run does not

But the result of all this way cater even to sectional ag-o keep taxi-dermists working over-

We hear of a grandisement, let alone the pub- time," ilc interest, Take any one of

cricketer who To-day a shikari la satisfied to want to buy a DANENBERG-At 21, Jordan Road, the price-fixing schemes, Rub restrict his shooting to clay pipes turkey and

at 8.10 a.m. 24th December, 1932, ber

an was once price-controlled. and glass balls-with Mrs. Libania Felippa Danenberg Prices soared. Rather than sional rabbit when he feels un- aged 50 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 6 p.m. pay tribute to the monopoly, usually ferocious, to-day.

government furthered plans to A well-known shot-Eton and develop synthetic rubber. Hoddleby Gas Works-told me Economic

sea

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Happy Valley

DEATH

The

Hongkong Telegraph

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932.

CHRISTMAS

A writer do- clares that the

deca-

came out with a duck

NANETTE: I caught my husband flirting.

JEANETTE: That's how I

got mine, too..

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In the opinion

of

A

we

mot the other day, we should encourage oven indiferent

carol singing, for the sake of old custom. They also serve.

who only stand

the waits.

自口:

The Pick of

the Season:~~

To-morrow'a

turkey bones.

口口

We noticed a well-known talpan

debt revision, it'll be a case of this morning, buying sundry items in a chemist shop, obviously In in-

nationalism was why, fostered. New areas were plant- "Big-game shooting is a wash- U.S. "Aye." ed to rubber, Eventually the out, old boy," said he. "Those. extra supply came on the mar

poisonous Alm companies have

A "Sound Museum'

So the problem faces us, What will now golf clubs do for tro- phles?

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Many bachelors maintain their mothers and say nothing about it. They just keep mum.

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Always wish when you eat your Arst mince-ple. Or you may wish that you hadn't?

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neath the sheet,

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Well, yesterday, driving to the To-morrow Night: The Festiva 9th hole at Parlby, I corpse 3 Board. The Following Morning: crow-and I bot he was surprisel! The Festive Bored]

on the green of the 12th. That bird I'm having stuffed and pre-

O D senting to the club.

Many people who nak for your Does the solution of the problem enndid opinion really mean candl- le here or does it not?

od.

ket, competing avidly for the ruined it. They simply Infest Coloured tar is the latest inven- Central Afries and placos liko tion. Things are coming to a awollen prices. But the pres-that, and they've fimed the wild protty pitch? aure drove prices down almost animals no often that the latter to the vanishing point, leaving have become tame and will cat off the entire industry prostrate,I mean, out of your hand. A The beer trade has its own of- former monopolists and new pukka ehikari would as soon think ficial Journals. Kind of barrel To-morrow is Christmas Day, growers together. The lesson is of shooting a prize Hereford as organs. “And she brought forth her perfectly clear, · It could be one of them." first-born Son, and wrapped Him duplicated as between Capital Then ho added darkly, "I warn in swaddling clothes, and laid and Labour, ns between protect the world that the supply of big Him in a manger: because there ed factory and nonprotected game trophies will soon vanish.” wae no room for them in the farm, na batweon banking and Awesome Sight, inn.". And supposing all this industry. One section of the This laat remark rather horri- had never happened? Let us community is dependent upon fed me. No more big-game tro-

We hear of a young bachalor imagine a world without the other. Perhaps it is too much pheal Then what are golf clubs who, when asked what he would Christmas Day, a tumultuous to expect every section to co- going to do?

like in his stocking-to-hight, I shall never farget my firat laconically replied-leg! sheer perplexity, in which operate on the basis of the public there is no anchorage, a desert interest. Each is governed too visit to a golf clubhouse and how in which death, the severer of rigorously by its own specialised great skulle mounted on boards on awed I was at the sight of the dear companionships, must be a requirements. Here is where the walls of the dining-room. terrifying obsession for man government comes in. Yet, as In Gy ignorance I said to the from the cradle to the grave; a Sir Arthur Salter explained, secretary, "They look like the world without the precept or the "governance has lagged behind original founder members. Are -charity which is love, without the specialised activities of they? To which he replied with Holly makes a good form of an acknowledged duty towards man." Now that the great a kindly smile. "No, no. Those decoration, but the local variety God and another towards one's problem of production has are the skulls of antelopes and has not nearly the kick of the real neighbour. The thought is in- been conquered, men must things presented by members." article, especially when placed bo admissible. Two thousand years turn to the repair of hu- ago the faith of all the world man relationships, the defects in was changed, and we cling fast which have robbed us "of nine to-day to the hopes and the tenths of the fruits of our ideals and the faith which were achievements in mastering na then born among us, We pass ture and in individual skill and through troublous times, but organisation.". we shall fear, no evil; for we are sustained, at the very bot- tom of our hearts, by a certi- tude that nothing is in vain, and

The Twentieth Century has that, whatever we may have to been so busy playing with its suffer or endure, an imperish-

scientific toys, new able hope remains. There is cinematograph film and the much talk of the decay of faith, gramophone record, that it has and in Russia 22 ruthless tyranny has tried, not only to their

not yet properly appreciated extraordinary value as murder the Christian faith, but reporters of contemporary life. to deprive mankind of the very It is satisfactory, however, that idea of God. The talk amounts a very interesting beginning has to very little, and even the effi- been made by a German pro cient tyranny in Russia has not fessor, whose "museum" of re- yet prevailed. This birth of a cords of voices of famous per- Babe, wrapped in swaddling sons, collected over a period of clothes and laid in a manger, twenty years, has been opened has regenerated the world, and in Germany. The gramophone we know well to-day that, with companies have left us a richer out a Christmas Day to-mor- heritage than the film com- row, it would be a sorry, sombre panies, but many a voice among place. We have all bought our the statesmen and actors of the Christmas presents, sent our early part of our contury will Christmas greetings, and done never be heard again. Some of what we may to keep alive the earlier records of great friendship and affection and singers and musicians are al- goodwill.

We have before us ready almost worth their weight a time of pleasure and holiday, in gold, and, imperfect is there recreation and amusement. That are, they seem to be revitalised again is a merciful dispensa- by that new wonder, the radio- tion, and we do well to make gramophone. Nowadays the the most of it. The whole world mechanical reproduction of the is sick, and a few days of re- human voice is well-nigh per- lease from the problems of its feet, and posterity need not curo will do the world all the lack the opportunity of listening good in the world. As for to lecturers, politicians, prea- those who scoff at Christmas, chors, actors, and musicians of either in its spiritual sense or our epoch if we take pains to in its secular enjoyment, they prepare belong, whatever their age may album. Posterity

a carefully Indexed be,

not to a very old-fashioned think much of

may school of thought. It is the but it will never, forgive us if the collection, mark of the bitter cynic, who we leave no collection at all.

like the

"Just think, Dottie-only twenty minutes more and it

will be a year until the next Christmas rush."

telligent anticipation of a festive work-end. Enos!

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According to a contemporary,

carol singers are to do their stuff at the Peninsula Hotel at noon to- morrow. to gin and bear it.

The residents will have

Father cares nothing for poets

And all their expressions

.sublime;

He'll turn down a sonnet with

"Oh, it's

-Some highbrow concoction in

rhyme."

But Christmas will be too

exciting-

His ardour no doubt un-

restrained,

And he'll make a great hit by

reciting

The mottoes contained.

the crackera

Another thing that has become

as important to a man as how many miles ho can get on a gallon is how many years he can got to a Auit.

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Talking alarm clocks have been put, on the market. Let's hope they don't start arguing...

According to the Inspector of Schools, Peak children are "Intelligent children. the offspring of intelligent parents." Of course, it was altitude that caused the mountain goat to say to his brother

of the plains, "Now we're off! Spring"

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Despite the vague of the motor. the horse is still in favour in many parts of the world. Lots of people in Hongkong keep a ung about the house, too.

Fewer children, we are told, are believing in Santa Claus. The de- prossion must have something to,

do with this.

口口

The Austrailan cricket bar-

rockers menu must bo "Jardines

on Toast."

The dollar is going down, down. damn,

December is the present month.

口口

Looka as if the. Ausafos are go-

ing to take some beating in "thờ tents.

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Monday will be the mourning after the night before.

for-

Edward Kelly is looking ward to New Year's Day. He reckons this year was ninetoon, hundred, and thirsty, too.

Give these Hongkong girls an inch and they'll take a tale,