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TICTRIAL SUPIEMI

BACK TO COAL

Conversion of Two

Great Liners

TURD

MBER 11, 1933.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

RACCOON COLONY AT Let a Man Teach

WHIPSNADE

You How to Shop

THE PASSION FOR WASHING

On account of the Whipsnade 'monkeys', 'almost Incredible 'capai Felty for 'destruction, It has Decisi

found necessary to At the Tätibua | "Tarzan Tree" "with stout topes reaching From The upper branches. "fo "the ground.

By PHYLLIS STANFORD,

I would hate to let him know t but it is from mere man that '1' have discovered the art of alion ping.

Ifave you ever paid u vleit Withi un minuto his talloe" "And, have you'watched furtively from the seat in the Corner in which you have boch se deferentially en- Aconced? Became If you This step was taken owing to this probably saw the erstwhite head more powerful monkeys so "prun-of his school and the hutocrit ing the giant cak, which had with stood the gates of centuries, as to maroon then wenker brethren in the sleeping baxan half-trny up the frunk,, besides in some cases ent ing off all necess to their dyn quarters.

presumptive of your breakfast. inble become as clay to the put- ter-Though the potter (of course, Į (menn fallor) sunvely permitu thở; Positions to appenr Peverschl.: Checks and stripes are produced, discussed, chosen br Het walde,

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Ten years ago Boro, a shouniakur, of Miskeloz, Hungarsk was sen- tened to, alx nonths for theft. Now he is appealing to have tho stence cancelled on those extra- ordinary ground

While visiting the young wife of A jealous and elderly farmi, ho had to hide, in the collar when the old man arrived. He was detected, and "confered he was, thoi to steal. Now he wants to wear his piame before marrying the woman, whose husband is now dead.

Another love story, with a quoral' in taomewhere, comes from Jajtra, in Bosnia

brate won Man, we

Thla. town wan; pique of its Bachelors Club-unfa marriage epidemic struck down all the mem- hers.

1. The last nait,vas, hammered fito the club'a coßla when its sixty-year- old president ploped With a nine-

KADINCKLACESARMA VOR SPRAAK Henger-eld singer from one of splendid bull which, zainal first prize in a recent agricultural exhibition in the local cafes.

Munich in connexion with the annual October festivities.

A inan mix not chote his suits ODDS AND ENDS FROM

A part of the Town near the res-mmsterful declarations of cholce: fairhut has been enclosed for the from the clay are met with master reception of ʼn raccoon calony, The ly mouldings from the potter, or rección, "With its clownish face and cäuntered by "evch níöre nihktøyfy “ ringed tull. tell recall to many,

Thelmuation. childhood memòries of Cult Renius; Indoød, "Brer Coon" is sell the herb of plantation legend en folk lore, and to be "ooney" is a popular synonym for gunning hall 'renbürendulzess in the 'Central United States,

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The raccoon evinces ono 'mod rätekale frhit pansion for wunhing every article of, fond by- fove eating it, and this habit invol en the prezent. exhibits in rànstant The herring season'is now engaging the full attention of Ykemouth journeys between their drinking fishermen, except perhaps, of ugch weather-hekten old whit na shown above, | tronchs in the middle of their on- -telling a girl viajtor the story of bix amaking nëventures on the invekt øvekhk. | cloguim and the purveyors of

"voluntary contributions." A vie Council of the Institute of Naval enon that lived pento years ago in Architects, in, perhaps, the best the Regent's Park menagerie Wash known of the protagonists of steady ed if newly-born young so fr....] propulsion for ships, and, in the quently that they einntialiv sne- majority of cases, of steam devived | combed ta their excersivo Ablutions. from British owal. He has ny An interesting addition to the pressed the view that, in recent

Aquavini fa, á þollection of nomie years, the econéinie value of chai

remarkable little African pil- properties and advantages of oil,

Their popular Kaine is derived from but technical advances in Abiye ait of

having depsalfed some afat, eggs. the fact that the female, after

takes thoni fito buy mouth--to the reisiderable distortion of her fea bates- and theiw betalita Thymi bitil they butch. Por sotile weeks aflet matching the young are liable to be engulfed within the patebin! mouth envily upon the slightest

th of dra.

The forthcoming * conversion of the two great South Atlantic'Bners,

Asturias and Alcantara, of the has been obscured by the physical like dals known a monthliedern

Royal Mail Steam Packel Company, from Diesel engines to steam tur- bincs is of profound signideance in the battle that has long been raging between steam and internal combustion for the propulsion of British ships. The conversion is attributable to the great overali

cost of the Diesel engine and the

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handling and burning roat have for alt practical phyposer eliminated the handleaps under which coal has proviously isboured, and there la no longer any ungon why if should not be used for the propilaton ships, rul courtderable

and advantagen geented theirhy,

The view bna breg eonßrmed by: Hir John Biler and other, well-

vibration and noise to which it gives rise in largo passenger abips. The great turbines of these vor- sels will draw their aleam from the | known umring engineers and von- very intest type of Johnnon water-structors, and, with regard in the tube bolter, the space accupied by such boilers being considerably less than that occupied by Dieart on- gines.

Mr. John Johnson, the Chief Engineer of Canadian I'acific Steamships, Ltd., and a Member of

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THEIR LIMITED CUDICE.

Men may thy they are not the slaves of fashion, but they renton ly nge stávok under the eye of the thilan..

The shoe with hats. The jokes about women and new hats are as old and a humerous as lose abant mother-in-law aïd Abre dern.

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HERE AND THERE

Perhaps, it is the approach of, showed jenetically no evidence winter: perhaps it is something in only a slight scalp wound.

the air. Whatever the reason, the

Let us tion from Liverishuras lu furt is that quarrels avem to hidk Lore, qud read about the pillant fere in this weekend'a hatch of | shoemaker:--

strange newn from atironu,

Read about the truculent tra drinkera, für era mijile:---

Venture to disagree with you.".

Of còinge men are very limited in, their chateg, bột even sò you"] Will agree that the speed with a politen ponent to the Which à máy can buy a Wew hat is | Mayor or Kuldīga, Latvia, diring as remarkable as his self-ontvol. | an, shkument. Callonduras, it abonnig tỷ. No The Mayor promptly hit him dà nothing of the pantomime that sigh of any interest to the matter, the head with a to- Wight be ralled Woman and the opponent retaliated with both ap pull, pasality, but hegntation of 1 hauls, tire that we had to bi je. Hat. A very Butle straightening of and emuer, and the An

alfont la Foncerned with the hated to hospital. volent and the size Allie

*) want a mól! hai“

How All Cotainly, alt. Wm you take a seil, hladail?”.

Apnju watch at Mattel. A. very short region of the size ar the bulbi in ratillr-onesided how, |

gh the Defore, we and sut

And here in a quarrel, reported by Kenter from Oakland (Califor ifa) which seems to prove that a thick, head in not dwaga a kúndi- rupa---

The paire padure Hob Brow It had snemet a Mattet of mom s'a beat tile barrel at Oakland ingitance and color aperto WINTERH

The halberg H-acute, hat decided verstbing before we and Taken half a dozen steps across his dese ini, and any show of resistance on our part is niel with a chilly courtesy that precludes any pos sible difference of opinion, kind reveals him to mu ni ode HRITA perfect pollor.

RECOGNISING THE EXPERT.

Men, you ass, recognise the ex. pert. And how right they are, Wo have been called a nation af shupkeepera, and there must be Boma amongst us who know our. Job. After all, wo pride ourselves "on" being "able to do our own “job, so why not admit that the tailor or the hatter is on expert at his?

I have been experimenting in hairdressers. I said to one, "I think I shall grow my hair."

"Curls would suit you, madam, and look delightful under the new hats. But " and we guessed together and wondered they would be easy to manage or not.

Subconsciously--it may even- have been consciously, but it was pleasantly so-1 became clay and she the potter. I thought I decid- ed against curls; but I ace now in the light of afterthought that it was the hairdresser who knew that my hair would never take them peacefully and that for me they were not to be.

Well, after all, I don't go to a doctor and detail the treatment I want him to prescribe for me. So now 1 have decided to take a leaf out of mere man's book and to go shopping by the code therein set for them. I am going to save myself a lot of time and trouble, and I will always have the satisfaction of knowing that, in the eyes of at least one person who knows, my purchases are correct,

I choose my expert-very care- fully, of course. I test his ability and then I take it for granted. Ho rises to occasion nina tirags out of ton. And the tenth? I try again further down the street.

WILLS FOUND AFTER 200 YEARS

LAW SUITS MAY FOLLOW. Ninety-eight unopened' ` wille, dating from 1740 to 1760, have been found in the archives of the town of Szekesfehervar.

These wille, which may possibly enuso law-suits and the transfer of property, will be officially opened". by the Burgomaster, and then made qublic by the tribunal, after which they will be returned to the archi ves. Apart from their value from an antiquarian point of view, the will afford an interesting heraldic study, and are expected to throw light on the origin of many old Hungarian families.

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support a charge that he had hunched Bulito Desirell over the head with the Babján.

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Hospital attendifils, who gent

The chore atory use only comio. relief, Contrast it with this tar vible little piece of news received from Reuter

An, unemployed Chineas saflor, Singapore decided to commit sul-

eide,

Pouring kerosene, povrg himself, hornivallowed some, then dit the of and deliberately inhaled the Banies.

Brullio hume, enhi that his head Sture roujotta has been affethily kanctioned in France, h school for croupier

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