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AT

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UNUSUAL AND

PERSONAL

CIFT WHICH WILL PLEASE HER.

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Est. 1841.

For the convenience of our customers

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Christmas Eve until 6 p.m.

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Stubbs Rd.

SILVER WEDDING.

HICKS-PEARCE.--At

the

Union

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

DECEMBER 19, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY WORLD'S WEIRD WEDDING The Very Idea!

BUYING PROSPERITY

SUPERSTITIONS

By HELEN SIMPSON

There may be some things money cannot buy, but ve members of the United States Cabinet and a good number of advisers of one Bort and another, bellove that the country can purchase prosperity-- Few brides or, bridegrooms ap-1 we may suppose that the English at the trifling cost of U.S.$105,000, proach the wedding ceremony com-are trying to give their brides a 000,000, or £21,000,000,000. The pictly free from the superstitions chance of sun. proposni, according to reports from which in the course of centuries How can they reconcile this with

United New York, is that the

have gathered round marriage, States, through a vast programme Many of them date from great the nation, very widely held, that of public works expenditure spread antiquity. My small daughter it is lucky for a bride to cry at over a period of twenty-five years, said to me the other day, turning her wedding? In the Tyrol they my wedding ring round and shall put every able-bodied man in

Ko so far n to have a apecial every state in the Union back to

round: "But why do you only wear work. Such an object everyone it on this finger?" I gave her the handkerchief ready, blessed for will applaud. The difficulty will be answer my mother gave me to the the purpose. I believe that this raising the necessary dollars from same question, and which has been comes from the days when a belief s community which alrendy given thus for a couple of thou-In witchcraft included the certain- aiders itself over-taxed. Or is it sand years. Poople thought that ty that no witch could weep more possible that the Gabinet has in

nyeln ran from the third finger mind some reform by which it will direct to the heart, and thus heart than three tears, and those from draw more money in the federal and hand were bath embraced by her left eye. treasury that the wealth of the the ring. An old writer says that A tearful brkte, though her Ration may be redistributed? the thumb is too busy, the little appearance might suffer, did at There have been hints of a ten-finger not sufficiently honourable, least afford her husband proof dency toward a new socialism at the forefinger too little protected that she was not in league with Washington; nothing radical, mark the middle finger Is used for Satan. you, but

a mere modernizing of scratching; therefore the third Marxian methods: This may be

finger bears the ring. the first Intimation of the national administration's

alm

FANCY FIGURES

con-

at

of

Why wear a ring at all? Be Enuse, without beginning or ending, it la the symbol of eternity and so of married love. To lone it is, for woman, horribly unlucky, since it means losing at the same time her husband's affection; to break it means death. But as for wear. ing thin, there is a pretty proverb hope is true, for it tells us:

There are some who will smile the American's tossing about Is fantastle figures. But there nothing very far-fetched in this billion-billion dollar recovery pro

beof Queen Elizabeth's day which

The cust

would

gramme. stretched over A quarter of century. America can find the money. The British peoples spent more than one-third as mitch in less than a quarter that time, but for a different purpose--war. Up to the

As your ring wears So pass your cares,

•

Church, Hongkong, on December Spring of 1919 Great Britain and other train of thought in my head.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1934. A VITAL BALLOT

vigilant

we

The

From that period and earlier. from a time when even in church men had to be prepared against sudden danger, comes the custom of the bride standing at her hus- band's left hand, and taking his left arm as she gore down the church from the altar. His right, the sword hand, was thus left free

to defend her.

I came across a new superstition that other day. Bubbles in water or ten, ssid my informant, mean kisses when n married woman

pour out. Does this explain the astonishing popularity of cham- paene at wedding? 1 recommend soda water to the teetotal bride.

"

flcance might be.

A HEART CRY By George

DEAR George,

I am writing to ap- peal to you to give us the rest of the serial of the Piratess of Bias Bay which you began in your column a fortnight ago.

Our Hilda says that you left Gladys on an empty barrel of samahu but Tommy says that she was just going to bohond a taipan in shorts and top hat.

For myself I never rend your rotten column, but as one gentle. man to another I appeal to you to put us out of the suspenso which is threatening to cause a break in our family.

We have never had such trouble in our home since Hilda caught mensles and Tommy had to go to school while aho stayed at home,

Yours, etc..

Hamatrung Husband. P.S. If you are tied up for the next movement my wife suggests that you put some clothes on the taipan and make him marry Glodys who then returns home to the Colony and lives happy ever after on the mid levels.

•

In response to this heart-rending cry from the pen of an admirer, we are obliged to take up our cutines again to hew a way through the enigma of the Hollywood Girl Turned Pirate.

*

These ring questions started an-

Chapter 8 Where do our white ribbons and

Once in bride's bouquet I As the taipan turned the corner favours come from: why do

found, tucked away among the and came upon us altting, on the have them at all? And why that

orange blossom, a sprig of rose-barrel of shamshu be Roomed to uld shoe which even the

most

mary.

I asked her about it; she become conscious of his grotesque departing bridegroom laughed and would not answer, attire. cannot always prevent being hung and for a long time I could find at the back of his car? favours are easy to interpret: their nobody who-knew what its signi- colour signifies virginity, and the

At last an old indy in a cottage true lovers' knots are tied to recall the knot in which Roman brides enlightened me, "Why," and she, "where rosemary grows thick, the led their girdles;.

Woman wears the breeches.". 1 As for the shoe, it is an old wonder if the husband of that twisted. Once, a long bride understood the omen of her custom while ago, the bridegroom's shoesweet-scented houquet? was laid on the bride's head as a

There is a legend not very differ. sign that she should be subject to ent from this in Cornwall, con-

then thrown to be

theless, her condition is such that married

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After all shorts and a top hat are not in the best insit at Blas Bay this season where the fashions of Swatow and Amoy are beginn

on the Ing to have their effect Pirate mode.

"Hallo, Theo!" called Gladys cracking her knees as she rose.

Theo blushed and fled, and no blandishments could recall him until he had raked out an old and faded school tie with which to

(Don't miss the end of this serial which is beginning to get marry She watched unmoved, and when out of hand, Shall we her relatives urged her to join the Gladys ourself or leave her to Theo! race took from her bosom a tiny Anyway what would he do with a bottle of the water of St. Keyne girl like that? There will be action which she had brought with her and romance, love and hate in our to church, and drank it at her next soul slavering instalment case while he panted. out of sight-watch out!) She deserved, it seems to me, to order that household.

There is no end to the super-

DUMB BELLES LETTRES By Judlet Lowell The Nerve Of Some People

MERGE FOOT

JEST NNY

e Dominions had paid £7,600,- 19. 1909, by the Rev. C. R.

third Mot 21 Hickling. Alfred,

000,000 into the War, account, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hicks, which is to say they were spending Truro, Cornwall, England, ti at a rate of approximately £2,000,- May, elder daughter of the Inte900,000 year. America proposes Mr. Thomas Trevarthen Pearce, to spend less than £1,000,000,000 and of Mrs, Edward Roger", a year. Both these figures are in the Roskear, tamborne, Cornwall, England.

nature of emergency expenditures Present Address:

and are in addition to the ordinary Repulse Bay Hotel, Hongkong.

cost of government, of course, and America would be painfully strain- eff th meet such A commitment. But, we repent, it can be done, and It is quite possible that it would be mural economics, and the Holu- tinn of the American unemployment problem. To some it may sound like a remedy for desperate la. and while the United States cannot him, and te looked upon as a nation facing scrambled for by the guests. The cerning the Well of St. Keyne. cover up his nudity. Then we Despite the fact that there is Lankruptcy and revolution, never-boy or girl who caught it would be/Whichever one of the pair first sat down for half an hour at crib

drank Its waters, auid tradition, while. Gladya gave orders for a reluctance in some quarters to

be got ready Im- the year. In

was Pampan to approve of the Peace Ballot the Administration may not.healt-Yorkshire they used, once, to pelt should reign in the house. which is being conducted in ate to use a desperate remedy, the bride and bridegroom with old told of a bridegroom once, who, medintely,

ungallantly left his wife at the shoes, an uncomfortable custom. England with a view to ascer-

History doca not relate if the church door and legged it for the taining what the public thinks on TALK OF SECESSION

shoes were picked up afterwards questions aimed at the preven; A Western Australian deputation and kept for luck, but probably, tion of war, strong hopes are en- which is now in London has stirred having touched the married pair, tertained that the outcome will up British Empire problems

Western Australia'a happiness.

of they retained something of wedded be such a strong expression of consequence.

Now for that most popular Confederate States in 1861, is to ment will be forced to take notice be allowed to secede from a duly superstition of all: of it. There are five simply-constituted federation. Britain is

Marry in May. phrased questions in the ballot. concerned in two ways.

You rue the day. and one to which special atten- George V is just nu much King of That is left over from Roman tion is being directed is whether the Australian Federated Common-times. In May were held in Romestitions in regard to marriage. if one nation attacks another, wealth, which Western Australia the great feasts of the dead, and The fact is, it is one of those wants to leave, as he is of England. I suppose it went against ordinary events in which nobody can help other nations should combine to He rannet regard with indifference good feeling to rejoice at such a being interested. It is difficult. compel it to stop by means of the commonwealth dispute that has ilme. (a) economic and non-military arisen. The British Parliament

comes measures, or (b), if necessary,

in because it passed the

A good many English people by military action. In effect, Constitutional Act of 1900 which this is merely asking the public created this commonwealth. The will not be married on a Friday,

Western Australian deputation has jual as sailors do not care to set It is pleasant to think that sun- to state whether it approves of arrived at an awkward moment for out to sea on that day: yet in shine will bring happiness, or that the use of existing machinery, the British Government. This is Scotland it is, or was, a favourite by the single expedient of refus devised by the League of because that authority is trying day for weddings. The English ing to be married in May bliss Nations, but never yet brought just :u་ to persuade its by proverb says that a Friday moon must ensue. Who knows? into force, for dealing with no means altogether complaisant brings foul weather, and, taking will to be happy is much; and if unjustified aggression. When followers to agree to set up in India this with that beat known saying

federation comparable to that of all: the question is dispassionately which Western Australia says has viewed, it must be conceded that failed in its own ease. The British the drive towards war can only Government might like, in these be checked in one way. The circumstances, to tell the Austrn-

tiana to settle their alternative of international an-

own affairs, archy is the collective system: But Western Australia has a case established by the Covenant of that is not easily dismissed.. It

claims to be legally entitled to the League of Nations and the hearing in England on the ground Brinnd-Kellogg Paet. This not that as matters stand the British only outlaws war and provides | Parliament is alone competent to for all-round disarmament, but change the constitution of the Aus furnishes machinery for the tralian Commonwealth. Some legal authorities hold that this compet pacific settlement of all inter- national disputes. Moreover, itence would be transferred to the Australian Parliament at Canberra enjoins cummon action for the if Australia ratified as it has not restraint of aggression. The yet done-what is known as the Jurgent need of the present time Statute of Westminster, an act is to re-establish general con- passed by the British Parliament in fidence that the principles of this 1931 to implement its declared in- collective system will be observed dependence to such federations as tention of giving complete In- and carried out by Governments that created by the Act of 1900. and peoples in their relations But it is not expected that a way with one another. Nothing is out will be found by Australia's more likely to contribute power-agreeing to such ratification now. fully towards this end than a

definite demonstration that the co-operating in the work involved PEDA MOTOR CARS British people, having considered in the ballot, which, incidentally, and faced the issue, had con- has received the warm endorse- sciously and deliberately decided ment of the Archbishopa of Can. against the old system of terbury and York, of the Roman alliances, competition in war pre-Catholic Archbishop of Liver- paration, profiteering in arma-pool, of the President of the ments, and international an-National Free Church Council, of archy, and were determined to the Chief Rabbi, and of virtually insist on Government adherence every other religious leader, to to these principles. The ques-say nothing of prominent public tions contained in the peace men in all spheres of life." The ballot raise in a simple and result of the ballot will be practical form the fundamental awaited everywhere with the principles of a constructive peate keenest interest and concern, and polley, in which everyone has a it will assuredly represent a most vital interest. Nearly forty im- valued expression of what the portant national organisations public thinks on the biggest pro- Tof the most varied character are blem of the day.

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Happy the bride the sun shines

on

always, to put such excitement or such interest into words; and so we put it into deeds. It is easier to throw an old shoe than to say good-bye face to face.

The

these small symbole actions serve

to strengthen that will, then there is still something to be said for their continuance.

"It's only 12 o'clock. I don't see why we always have to le the first to go home."

POPS

GAME!

I have been reading, in the papers about your game with ikė Trojana. -

Pop Warner, Football Coach Standford University

I am an old rancher and I have always, been a great admirer of Herbert Hoover, Stanford and Pop Warner, have never seen a football game and don't know any- thing about it but I have been reading in the San Francisco papers about your game with the Trojans and I have came to the conclusion that you do not under- stand the game. Since we all learn by our experience I suggest that you make a thorough and intensive study of football

Yours truly

M

Leonard Stop. (Signed)

The Ideal Applicant

Dec. 1, 1934.

Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii Dear Sirs:

I'm very gind elthor to except a position of not in the Hotel But if I had the pleasure to got in touch with you as personal it's all the better.

If their's any position at the. presont. is vacant, its just the thing I'm wanting,

If it la impossible for me to have any position in the Hotel I guess it's time to close.

I'll extent it to the future.

Yours truly,

Crisanto D. Cosme.

(Signed)

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