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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 3 1934.

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LORD SNOWDEN'S PRETTY BODICES AUTO BIOGRAPHY

AMUSING INCIDENTS

OF POLITICS

PRIME MINISTER TWITTED

By A Correspondent

The first volume of Viscount Snowden's Autobiography was published recently. The volumu ends with the Armistice and the Coalition Election of December 1918, and it records chiefly the pro- gress of Labour representation from a more handful of men to a party, mostly through years of passionate idealism and Impressive |

which meant n minimum

of dissension within the ranks.

He finds one or two occasions, however, to refer to K familiar characteristic of Mr. Ramsay Mae- Donald in phrasing ambiguous statement. In one early mention he remarks:---

"He suffered in those days from a failing, which has grown upon him with advancing years, of being unable to make a speech which was not open to any interpretation a person chose to place on it."

Elsewhere, he

"an Guys of scriinonious discussion" with Mr. MacDonald; "I surpassed him in the vigour of my language, but did

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CLOCKWORK CARS FROM JAPAN

NEW PROBLEM FOR DRIVERS

AND PEDES- TRIANSI

The Japanese are reported to be puiting on the market a clock- work car. Already one has been Invented which will go for forty miles at one winding, and more nre promised. There will be no more trouble about potrol, only the need for strong hands at the. key with which to wind the car.

On the other hand, the over- wound car will be peculiarly use- less, and those who have memories of the springs flying out of their clockwork toys will have to over- come an ingrained fear lest the big spring on which they will be sitting should get loose.

There will be apparently a lot] of winding to be done, because springs soon manage to unwind and announce rather abruptly that they are completely unwound, But motorists will be well-advised to welcome the clockwork car not only for cheapness but also for the homely connotations of the

nume.

not equal him in skill in avoiding WHAT YOUTH MAY. WEAR

There is something about the the point at issue."

word clockwork which is lacking Describing a letter Mr. Mac-WHEN a frock is said to be to words like petrol, gas, or elec- Donald wrote in answer to a war- "youthful" It means it gives tricity. n note of the nursery time request to attend a recruiting the wearer the appearance of which motorists will find oxtreme- meeting, Lord Snowden points youth. No more flattering thing ly useful when they are brought| out: "It shows that his facility in can be said of the woman who has before the Bench. No one is go dancing round the mulberry buah passed the years of youth than ing to believe that a victim could is not a recently acquired accom-that her gown, her coaturae, her not get out of the way of a clock- plishment."

hat, make her "look an young work ear. It will be contemptible On the other hand, he pays At the same time, the sincere tribute to Mr. MacDonald's woman should not be misled by will attach to the driver.

mature to be run over by it, but no blame early work as secretary of the the youthful frock, when she feels Labour party, at first without that it is meant for the sweet-girl- It will be very interesting to salary or clerical assistance, and

see the reactions of the young lo for long thereafter at a purely

Youth may

wear accentuated such a car, and to test how Car nominal honorarium, even when linea with far more composure the mania among modern boys for the onerous duties of secretary- than her more adult sister. The motors is a passion for what Is ship necessitated

a fully staffed skirt may be shorter, there may be grown-up. It is reasonably cer }

offee.

more plents, there may be more tain that the car which goes by VICTIM OF IRONY.

gathers. For the figure of youth elastic will not, if it ever appears Mr. Arthur Henderson

is one to which the mode is readily on the road, command quite the (adapted, and youth need not adapt homage that present-day engines

herself to the mode.

command. It is to be expected

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occasionally a victim of the Snow den irony. Of a war-time incident

he anya:-

"Within a week or two of Mr. Henderson issuing an appeal

graduate,

If a snug hipline is the rule, afand hoped that very different de- girl may accentuate this line, grees of devotion will be excited while one of older years must by cars according to the nature to the British people to stand to-guard against the possibility of of their engines. It will then be gether for pence, and to proclaim betraying a contour that confirma possible for magistrates to vary that the days of plunder and her years.. In every detail of line, their penaltics by confining pec- butchery were gone by, he Was doing his best within his limited youth applies the literal rules of cant motorists to

dressing and design.

gifts of eloquence to emulate Mr. Lloyd George in appealing to the youth of the nation to come for- ward to fight in this 'holy war."

He tells a typical tale of John Burns, who was once given a com- plete suit of clothes by the_pro- prietor and workmen of a Bond Street tailoring catablishment. The tale had a sequel years later in a telephone conversation be tween Burns (then Cabinet Minister) and his earlier bene- factor.

the Bond

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FORTY M.P.H. BY

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particular kind of engine or clockword or even string.

WHAT OF SPEECH?

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THE STORY OF THE FLUTE,

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HOW TO PLAY CHOPIN. CHOPIN'S GREATER WORKS;

(Preludes, Ballads, Nocturnes, Polonsiics, Mazurkas).

CHOPIN: AS REVEALED BY EXTRACTS FROM

HIS DIARY.

LIFE OF CHOPIN.

CHOPIN: A CRITICAL & APPRECIATIVE ESSAY.

MAKERS OF MUSIC.

(Biographical Skotchos of Great Composers with Chronological Summaries of Their Works). SYMPHONY WRITERS SINCE BEETHOVEN, SKETCHES OF GREAT PIANISTS AND GREAT ... VIOLINISTS.

Tarnowski.

Franz Liszt..

Davison.

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Weingartner.

Ferris,

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FIDDLERS.

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Acrosa

Will tower up with ire.

Faces you 'til humorously trans-

formed.

A case has recently arison in the Courls-whether, if the car cannot be made to go, the individ- ual at the wheel is nevertheless to be considered as in charge of it. Undoubtedly the general presump- Lion fa-that-if-a-car is on the-road-1 at all it can be made to go; but The awners

of Budapest there is an increasing opportunity foundry announce that they have for the use of ears without the "Are you Mr. H-

invented a device enabling pedal encumbrance of works. Those Street tallor?"

cycles to be ridden at 40 miles an really light cars make excellent 10 Altogether undeveloped as # "Yes, Sir."

hour. The inventors, Messrs. Hor-shelters and private oases from voice. "Well, this is the Right Hon, vath and Heroznik, say their device which to conduct shopping raids John Burns speaking. Do you re-more than halves the effort re- or in which to hold picnic meals, member yours ago giving a piece |quired to propel the cycle.

and they can be attached to other of cloth for your workmen to make

The appliance, which weighs only vehicles, perhaps surreptitiously, a suit for John Burns?"

a few pounds, and can be fitted on to be towed to another spot when

"I do," with pride, came the reply.

"Well," replied John, "John Burns never forgets a favour. He is now a Cabinet Minister, and he requires the usual turnout for a Cabinet Minister. I understand it costs about £160. Go ahead with the order."

"FAT OF SACRILEGE.”

to the rear wheel of an ordinary the authorized parking time" Ia blcycle and cost only 53.

exhausted.

Was

But most cars can and do go, Estimates in 1914, being some- and that is where we touch the what discomfited in debate by Lord heart of the mischief. The hold Charles Beresford.

of the scenery. especially on the "During Lord Charles's speech outskirts of towns, is not sufficient Mr. Churchill sat on the Treasury to make motorists delay, and when Bench, his legs stretched out, try they pass a terrace they may ing to look contemptuous. This in- easily come to think that when A Lloyd George story concerns difference annoyed the gallant Ad- they have seen one house they his ardour in support of his Bud-miral What doce ho know about have seen the lot. get, when he made speeches up and the Navy?' he asked. 'I

Something may be hoped from down the country abusing the fighting for the mon on the lower the many excellent socleiles for Dukea and accusing them of deck when he was at the business preserving the beauties of the "lving on the fat of sacrilege." end of a feeding bottle."

country; and, if they are not pre-. Just at that time the Duke of "At this Mr. Church gave served, motorists will obviously Devonshire attended a meeting of terrine yawn. I am sorry to bore have less inducement than ever a Commission of which he was a the right honourable gentleman so not to hurry in their tormented member hobbling on two sticks. He much," said Lord Charles. I and search for beauty or quiet or reat was asked what was the matter. many of his friends have been able or whatever other good It is after "Oh," he said, "It's living on the to see a long way down the right which they feverishly strain,

honourable fat of sacrilege!"

throat. grudging each second by which The House laughed, and Churchill the consummation of their journey was visibly annoyed."

Is delayed.

And there is a comical picture of Mr. Churchill, sponsor for the Navy

SALESMAN SAM

gentleman's

And Double Vision, Too!

8 Metal, only partly free.

Discharge.

11 Woights are not required with

such a scale,

12 A regular find if only after it is

over.

10 Triumph once last month.

17 This burden is more than enough

to give anyone a scare,

18 Lament.

21 The hateful thing about sodium. 23 The motorlata bugbear: it has ruined the surface of many a hill.

by sharps.

24 Nevertheless, many are tenanted

Three gathered from the Trea

sury make ends meet. 28 Can it be? Yes, as a ministerial

gathering.

20 Ask for it back.

30. It might be deepest Tory, and

certainly not to be altered.

31 Characteristic orchestral open-

ing.

Down

1 Divorts a man (anag.).

2 It certainly sounds as though this charm should have a purify- Jog effect.

3 To present one's self without this would seem to be imporativo.

4 Occupying a small space.

If we must have the words In English it is singular opera, in-

diced.

-G-Fitting. materia)..

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The money of Mayence that is not current there.

9 Foreign body on a dark coat.

13 Describes an upheaval.

14 An old weapon still carried by

the Fusiliers.

16 Distinctly malodorous,

10 Sheer

equivocation.

20 Fine! isn't it?

21 Poor cut (anag.).

22 The emphatic manner in which

one sees a cat roam.

20 Starts an anecdote, and finishes

it, too,

27 Placid end-though sharp, 28 Lettuce.

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