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ONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JULY 21, 1933,

AN OLD FRIEND CALLS AGAIN T

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The crash on the New York HALF AN HOUR TO SPARE

IN LONDON:

The Very Idea!

SALE AHOYIE

BY EDWARD KELLY, BARGAIN HUNTER.

A GIRL Friend by the

name of Flossie, whom we have never yet met, was telling us about some bar- gains we could get at the various stores in town the other day.

Stock Exchange comes as no sur- prise. It has been evident for some time past that the stondy boost, has boon the result of "Half an hour to spare-what could only reach them in a shorter speculativo pressure, boaring no

time than the half-hour you have can I do with it in London?" to spare. relation whatsoever to economic, realities. A similarly unhealthy

NOT A PLACE FOR Whon a business friend from condition has boort noted in the Vienna put this question to me IDLING. "I NOW

commodity markets and, even more in London the other day, I was dangerous, In; industry ftaolf, startled to find that I could not pared with the other capitals of The truth is that London, com- REALISE the takon on a large scale in anticipa- annoyed with myself for my half-hour pleasantly. I love Lon- where production has been under-I was more than startled. I was cities in which to spend an idle give him a satisfactory answer. Europe, is the most dificult of all tlon of a consumer demand which failure, and just a little dis-don and the unfavourable comparl- has not yet been created. Con-appointed that the London I know son does not please me. Partly the

We have always been con- tinued movement along these lines and love so well could not provide traffic problem is responsible: the sidered pretty good at driv- could only have the effect

me with a ready suggestion. And lovely things of London are not ing bargains. Whenever we I cast my mind over the times accessible in half an hour. But precipitating a graver crisis than when in other cities of Europe I, even without our traffic problem the pay a dollar for a drink in the that which President Roosevelt too, have had half an hour to capital undoubtedly does lack the hotel, the bargains. (Ouch! was called upon to face when he spare, and wanted to spend it in amenities that would make your Who threw that brick?) entered office. The shake-out of a pleasant and inexpensive man-half-hour a pleasure instead of a the market should do a consider acr. The comparison was not a penance.

Which, to proceed, is murmur- able amount of good.

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933.

Pact ceased

Consider, shall I say, Vienna, ing an earful. But the sort of On first thoughts it would seem whence came the friend who set bargains we make and the sort a simple thing to while away half mo 20 hard a problem. Here your of bargains our headache makes an hour pleasantly and intelligent-odd half-hour is never a penance.

to do la autograph the south-east In the latter ease all wo've got

corner of a cheque.

ly. But half an hour is a difficult You move about easily and freely. are two different animals. perlod to play with.

Within a few minutes you can be It does not, for example, per- atanding on the edge of one of mit you to travel for in a congest- the city's many swimming pools ed city in search of occupation. ready for a five-minute plunge; in London your open-air dip costs you WHY NOT WRITE

half a day. [HOME?'

- HOW THEY DO IT

We remember the last sale she took us along to. We ontered the shop which had something about ET CIE on the window, and. wax ladies posing in the very latest thing in corects inside the window.

The Four-Power to be of vital importance from the moment that the French modifica tions wore accepted. The final signature at Rome this week. likely, therefore, to have алу

It does not allow you to visit & IN VIENNA, material influence upon European politics. When theatre, unless you wish to throw

Half an hour has never been a Germany conscated with the com- non-stop variety would

away money; even half-an-hour of

be ex-burden to me in Vienna. If I want ment that the Pact was not what pensive at five shillings.

In rest and a drink and a view of the Inside the shop there wore quita what they expected, the whole

The National Gallery would be passing pageant the nearest cafe is other ladies stripped to their. story was told. In its first. form useless unless you were in the never more than fifty paces away. garments too scare and too in it sought to establish something neighbourhood and wanted to see here I sit and drink pleasantly, timate to mention, while the shop

a particular picture or two, since London can I get a glass of iced renewala.

even non-alcoholically (whore in assistant -buzzed around with. vast collection is to confuse the or read one of the many newspapers not supposed to look, and besides, to wander aimlessly among that lemonade without undue bother?),

Being a married man, wo were brain and weary the feet.

of those

of my own

and

country.

I

we are above such snooping, so we cannot tell you anything ex- the Hongkong Telephone directory. copt that the prices looked like

Was a perfect bargain, marked

Oné exquisite lace thingmegig: down from $100.00 to $90.99. The old saying that a woman pays. originated at a bargain sale,”

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Speaking of bargains reminds us of the time we went along to an art exhibition in Hongkong not. so long ago.

very closely akin to a Directory of Europe. It was objectionable for a score of reasons. The final draft is practically innocuous; it You may be a mile from

and periodicals provided for mô by the In beneficent management. I find represents resignation to solidari parka, where with more lelaure you here ever the newspapers

could sit in peace and watch the periodicals ty among the four leading Powers, passing pageant. You might, of News of home! I read, and I feel without which Europe would ultimately find itself divided into suming that you were diaposed to minutes ago seemed so far away. course, go and have a drinka at home again-home that a few two hostile campa, The main drink and that your idle half-hour I am impelled to write a letter to tenance of peace would have bo did not fall within one come practically impossible. In- periods when the law decrees that

England. sofar as it removes this danger, you must remain thirsty. Yet even as though Aladdin's genii were in I snap my fingers, and behold! It must be regarded as useful.then you are seldom assured of any NORTH POINT Above and beyond, in seelding to comfort in the places where you attendance-ink, pan and paper

AMENITIES

achieve anything like collabora- go to drink, unicas it should be the and blotter are laid before me. In tion, it is inadequate. A Franco-lounge of a handy luxury hotel half an hour I have quenched my German rapprochement is not to where of course you pay

thirst pleasantly in the open air, be accured by this method. Sociologically, the entire com-

a high price for the drink!

read the news of home, written to wife or sister or friend, observed But waitan idea! Why not the life around me and munity has an interest in the

We were examining the pain~:' write a letter home while awaiting have five minutes to spare. plans of the Government to

still tings, wondering which one would. your delayed ten? Your request

be the cheapest to send to our resume the bathing sites fre-

for pen, Ink and paper is met with long enough for me to listen to the when the attendant approached Five minutes. Well, that is just wife's mother on her birthday, quented by the Chinese at North Point. There is much more to Education Circle of the Royal some consultation with the servitor set; or to listen to the gay lilt of he asked, in accents sweet

At a recent meeting of the geress is approached and after offered to me by the cafe's wireless

a flicker of eyebrows. The mana- music broadcast from London and us."

"What is your pet painting?" the problem than ways and well delivered a thoughtful address obliged with pen and ink, but not cafe; or to buy the new hat I should

Empire Society, Sir George Max-you are informed that you can be the orchestra that plays inside the low. means of providing adequate on "Some Problems of Vernacular with paper. Often not even pen have bought weeks ago! alternative sites. Our strongest Education. Although a member and ink are available.

We were baughty with him.' feeling, on examining the peti-Committee on Education, he spoke nearest hotel; but here, unless you UNANSWERED,

of the Colonial Office Advisory

"Our pet doesn't paint," we So you try the lounge tion of those most vitally affect-not as an educationist but

of the THE QUESTION STILL

said, "and, besides, we came here- to buy a picture, not to discuss our ed and the explanation of the Colonial administrator deeply im- suspected of using the hotel 43 are known, you are liable to be

girl friend's hobbies," Government's position, concerns pressed by the importance of educa-stationery for an unlawful purpose can begin a "sit-down" meal within went

In Vienna or Paris or Prague I We thereupon stalked out, and. the underlying question of public administration.

tion as an essential factor in good You leave the letter till another 30 seconds of sitting down and have bought our

to Sincere's, where we policy. We shall not easily for-policies, he showed that all Colonies the Thames Embankment at West rapidly that at the end I still have twenty to

Reviewing past time and rashly decide to taxi to four courses follow each other so postcard, marked down

mother-in-law Д from. get the fate of the Praya East aliko had neglected vernacular minster, where you may breathe 10 minutes of my 30 to spare. And I card-was-inside--a-packet--af- sixteen cents. The education, and had preferred, not the air and see the chipe. At can have my meal anywhere, in any cigarettes.

to

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COLONIAL EDUCATION

{

and.

Reclamation. A-large-area-of land wrested from the sea, language and technique as the several minutes and

unnaturally,

use European Piccadilly your taxi is held up for street, without the need of tramping

again thrown open to development, and Instrument of education and cul- Trafalgar-square, where it cour suitable restaurant. Whereas in at the pavements or taking taxi to a offering endless opportunities for ture, and even although there is ageously negotiates the merry-go London I must first find my ro- in Hongkong. Umbrella dealers, You can see all sorts of sales constructive model

agreement in principle as to the round only to be checked in White-staurant; and then planning, importance of vernacular education, hall and again at the bottom of trappings of a semi-regal elabora- whenever a typhoon is hovering amid table- for instance, make fortunes sacrificed to the speculator and actual practice lags far behind the Parliament-street by a procession; tion I must wait becoming a blighted district of policy declared on paper, the vena- so that you have just five minutes minutes for my first course and as saleing close to the wind.

at least ten about the Colony. This is known. hideous, inadequate tenement cular school is the Cinderella of the on the Embankment before return- leave my dinner half-finished if I blocks, now rapidly developing in the lecturer's belief, a single

educational system. There is not,ing whence, you camel

Jam not to exceed my time-limit.

Another specie is the land sale.. into alums. In Kowloon, much British Colony where there is any culties of spending your half-hour my precious 30 minutes sitting in sales, we are at a loss to under Here is one of the chief dim- If I wish just to be lazy, to apend Not having attended one of these the same story can be told. The attempt to ralee the standard of in London: there are so interests of the community are vernacular education above the pleasant places to visit, if you

many a chair under a tree, Vienna or stand how they are done. Our last ruthlessly subordinated to economerest rudiments.

(Continued on Page 7.)

experience with land salca Was We wonder

when we played with our model. mic ends. Social amenities be- whether our Director of Education

yacht in the horse trough at home. come the sport of the land mar-would challenge this statement.

In the habour most of the anil- ket merely because they may

ing is done with junks. For that mattor, most of the sales. In the city are of junk

prove a source of profit to an

individual or B firm. Since LONDON UNIVERSITY

stocks and shares lost their attraction to the man with idle money, one district after an- sometimes ask to be shown the It is said that visitors to Britain other has become the scene of Church of England and the Uni- hectic development, generally versity of London. Neither of drab and unregulated. It is not these requests can be satisfied, for altogether a healthy sign. On both those institutions lack a cen- the contrary, the helter-skelter tral and official headquarters. This pace should, in itself, convey a feature of London University, how- warning of reaction. And the gigantic building near the Bri- over, will be somewhat modified by Government, which should be tish Museum of which the founda- seriously considering the pro-tion stone has been laid by the King. blems created by our excessive it is not the limb, the thews, the urbanisation, turns its attention stature, bulk, and big assemblances to North Point, one of the few of the body that donote the true remaining districts where there worth of a mag; nor is the real is an outlet, with a view to cast-Progress of a university necessarily

to be reckoned ing that too into the waiting

by the tone of arms of the speculator. To-day masonry that it plics up, or the it is a boon to thousands of cover. Nevertheless,

acres of ground which its buildings. tho edifice Chinese who indulge in healthy which London University will erect recreation after office hours. No on what is known as the Blooms" alternative sites would fill the bury site is a notable jordmark in gap created by the resumption educational progress in Great Bri- of this area. Cheapness and tain. But where the new Blooma- case of transport, wonderfully that it will not interfere with the bury building is expected to help is handled by the tramway com- activities of the existing colleges, pany, is the cogent factor in the which will continue to perform popularity of the North Point their customary functions. But it bathing pavilions. To order re-will provide an adequate centre for moval is to deprive hundreds of many university, as distinct from their one relief from sometimes college, enterprises; it will be an sordid surroundings. Is it not will in innumborable ways simplify administrative headquarters; and time that this Colony considered the task of welding the diverse parts social recessitics a little more of the university into a homogene and compelled economic con ous whole, by giving to it an actual sizlanaklama to conform to thom-?-and-visible venti

Is

This is what is known as sales- manship. A salesman ship sometimes referred to as a barque, but more often there is a ketch in

it,

A salesman in the wine and spirit business is nearly always on the port tack,

In the navy, of course, it's different. There they sale "the Medway..

The difference betweon sailors and saleswomen is that the sailors sail the seas and the saleswomen sees the sales,

And now, girls, hoforo we tot- ter off to our daily milk and rum, let us give you a warning. A

Never, never, attend sales after you are married. There's no such thing as a cheap bargain. Any- ono can say "cheap". That's what the canary said when they fed it: to the cat.

0 Nevor be tempted by advertisement that says slik stock. Inga liave been reduced, or bras- slorca have been marked down half price, bobi PARA DAR

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The curse of our nation is the fovorish desire on the part of our womanfolk" to secure something for less than it was yesterday.

Why is it that our dresses are shorter, 'our: bathing “sults* -uro scanty; and our sendtles nro: Escantior.)"It's this cut-throat aälés

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