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THURSDAY.

FEBRUARY

NOTES OF THE DAY

ANTI-HANDSHAKERS

The superiority of the Chinese is in nothing more manifest than in the way they shake their own hands instead of proffering hands to each other. The gesture is still

1935.

NORTHERN OUTPOST

OF AUSTRALIA

(By L. S. B.)

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES by Juliet Lowell Who's Afraid of a big bare chest?

The recent nowe that the entire handled until they have regainedTo a Hair Tonic Co. one of welcome, but they retain crew of a Japanese laggor had been the deck. · control and are not exposed, as

Aboard the lugger it is not so

Dear Sira:

Europeans and, greatly a fortiori. taken into custody by the Austra Americans are, to the whims of lan authorities and subsequently their co-shakera. Without asking fined for poaching and for collect-omantic. In the first place, it whether long finger-nails have in ing underalzed shel), will make the reoke of flah; in the second, it is she always rejected my suit, P. S.. fluenced Chinese custom, it is of

far from comfortable. The deck space is limited and unprotected from a blazing sun and the tiny

I am writing to tell you that my joy is so great. I have been desperately in love with a beauti ful maiden for over two years, but not what I wear but my plea to... have her marry mo, because she always told me that her lover and sweetheart and husband had to have hair on his chest, and the more

course true that such politeness is following sketch of Australia's not really the same trusting act most northern part of interest. 45. the surrender of the right hand; for right hands are uadiul Until some years ago when the cabin is stuffy and cramped. The and on occasion, as when master-competition of Japanese artificially hold, howover, is amazingly capa hair he had on his chest, the more ing the left sleeve-link, indiapon- cultivated pearls grow too acute clous. To watch a beat unload one sabla allies in the battle of life. Thursday Island was the centre of could imagine that there was some To trust that band to a stranger one of Australia's most prosperous trick involved, a collapsible bottom

his manliness,

she would love him. So you may imagine my grief that God made me with a hairless chest. And for...

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Kincerity by touch, to bear his although it is still the centre of a shell is brought up in an apparent tonics on my chest and don't let austained grip until he chooses to pearling fleet of nearly a hundred ly endless stream, bagged, and all that has ever happened is some va that I am rubbing it there, and relax, is to give the most valuable luggers, Thursday Island seems to taken ashore for gruding. There blisters on my chest and my heart of hostages. So it is perhaps a be dying and the residents are reis very little pearl shell, most of gets heavier and sader, until I hear sign of the uneasy times In

sentful not only of the legitimate it is trochus; and very occasionally

how wonderful your hair grower is. Europe to-day that in Ljubljana in competition of cultivated pearla in there is a pearl, though this means I ordered some 2 months ago and Yugo Slavia an Anti-Handshaking

the market but also of alleged nothing to the owners. ·

now there are five little black hairs initial membership of one hundred. poaching by Japanese boats. Club has been formed with

on my chest and it makes me so The rebels include in their rebel-

happy that I could hug you to lion a firm stand against taking

them to my girl until they grow death. But I am not going to show off their hats to other men, as A more desolate and god-for-clank of chains-noteca which fade out strong and heavy, and I can saken spot than Thursday Island at almost as they are born in that just picture her surprise and love the end of the dry season can humid, tropical heat-the boat for me when she sees that her hus- scarcely be imagined. A straight, alips almost allently from her an-band to be, has a hairy chest.

etiquette prescribes; but what they are really out to abolish is shaking hands, particularly inside offices and between members of the same staff, In Yugo-Slavis, as in so much of Europe, It is quite a common thing to shake hands with everybody on arriving for work and again on going out to Junch,

QUAINT SURVIVAL ?

With a shout or two and the

narrow pler juts out awkwardly to chorage and crawls down the har- the wharf in the middle of a harbour with just suflicient wind to bour formed of low, dirty-green keep her salla filled. With two or hills devoid of interest. The other three glistening black men lolling end of the pier leads into the main on the grey deck and with a back- street, an undulating expanse over į ground of palm fringed beach, the thirty yards wide, patterned, with boat seems inevitably to be sail- dust filled furrows and reflecting a |ing off to some romantic adventure,

This handshaking business used to be thought a quaint survival blistering glare. On either side a But no; she finds a quiet spot in from the days when right hands row of houses, colourless wood or the lea of some island,, anchors, hold daggere or could draw iron ovens, desolate and seemingly and the diver, in full dress if it is swords; to place it in the keeping deserted, set in a fenced-off waste deep, and with just the head-dress of another was to clear yourself of dust or bare ground. There is if it is shallow, clambers over the .of any dangerous intention сг ability. Business men have often withered, sparse-looking palm or sea,

no grass and only an occasional alde, down two steps, and into the

tree.

Hongkong Telegraph Inughed to think how

THURSDAY, FED. 7, 1935.

THIS PIRACY. PROBLEM

there were some seventy school- But for the circumstance that

children, mostly British, aboard the ship, the Tungchow piracy

worldwide attention that it has. In practically, all other respects, the incident was

such as

we

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Yours most reverendly,

Martini G

I can picture her surpriac and love for me,

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Wrestler Writes Apropos Browning's play, “Pippa

Porchester, the well-known Old

little mean- ing the ritual need have to-day when fighting and ambushes take;

Then, if the ground is a good Past, mid-afternoon there comes other forms. There are

offices

one, basket after basket of shell in where proud naturea scorn to be a sign of life. Apathetically, mere hauled to the surface and the deck misunderstood and accompany than half naked and apparently becomes slimy and dirty as the handshake with the accepted aimlessly, there saunter down the crew with more skill than force formula, "Here is the hand that street in couples or singly Papuans, prise open the shells and throw will one day stab you in the back." But in other offices, as in Aboriginals, Chinese, and some of them into the hold. The flesh goes Passes," revived in London, Mabel Why maintain the ritual at all? few Australians, slightly better and limit to the amount of shell any Blue and all-in wrestler, writes: Ljubljana, the question is asked: doubtful ancestry. Perhaps, too, a back into the water. There is a Fascists and Nazis have learned a little more completely dressed and one boat may collect each season combining the remembrance

a gesture more nearly moving with a greater air of pur- and also to the size of each shell,

the hand being sent to the surface A brighter, more picturesque When the hold brims, perhapa days

to make

of

"If this is 'Pipper Ponsonby, the Oxford wing three-quarter," who was with me at Roedean, the folly Pipper's', Dosses were like a cock in the jaw from a thunderbolt.

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A physical instructor to the

were afraid of Pipper Ponsonby Brigade of Guards said hotly:

is a liar. We didn't mind her, or "Anyone who says our fellowa

any Old Roedean girl, taking ou our best heavies, but she wrecked

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ed in diagrams of Swedish drill. One lung may be expanded and certain muscles which get little- even romantic-note is struck at later, the boat puts back to the She was a fine, manly girl, oft, ein scope in sedentary callings are

in her socks, with double muscles. the other end of the pler: there Island, unlonda and is off again.

At Oxford she often used police have become accustomed, in thrig most refreshingly brought clusters the pearling fleet..

play. The elicient Japanese com-

Indeed, there is nothing to en-men as Indian clubs. If we had part of the world, to regard as bine the quest for physical fitness The low-waisted, black hulled, tice the crew to stay in Thursday a few more girls like 'Pipper this quite common-place in these re-and social geniality by constant twenty-five feet craft tally well Island over long. With a tempern- country would not be in the state curring instances of outlawry bowings from the hips, bringing with the mental picture formed of ture of well over the hundred mark, it is to-day."

Important abdominal muscles into them from romantic tropic tales of the days are only slightly more Tho enormous girl felt her biceps along the China const. None play and getting botter exercise in poaching and trepanning. Two-oppressive than the nights; and pensively and added the less, the gravity of a con- proportion as the obeisance

their blood running ever more "She was breaking in elephants Itinuance of the evil remains, as marked. The bow and tho salute-masted, and most of them with anthinly the majority of the hundred-In-Kenya-when-I-heard-from-her-

auxilliary engine, they have does the problem of prevention. that they do

have this further advantage also, sturdy appearance.

And on board odd white residents on the Island last. It's thundering rot her hav not betray their is a motley crew!

look forward to the day of their ing to leave England just because At the moment, chief interest makers да handshaking

release from an unpleasant term of the Guarda got the wind up." exile. appears to be centred on the People who offer a hearty grip, possibility of punitive effort in sume?" Impression that two strong may be almost as many national and picturesque impression of Aus with a "Dr. Livingstone, I pre- In the crew of five or six there The best and the most romantic the Bias Bay region, in which white men have at last managed ities represented, though if there is tralia's northern outpost is got connection it is gratifying to to meet, do not at all like it if one Japanese employed it is almost from the deck of a ship as she sails note the promptitude of the

their palm is hastily and lightly certain there will be two, for a for more Inviting places. Then one Canton Government's action and fleeting sense of

stroked, or if they are given a Japanese diver will not trust any aces only the colourful sight of every gum. in the London Cont a flabby and one with his air and life lines, cer- twenty or more luggers moored on mand. Besides, there was trouble the co-operative work evinced shapeless mass.

tainly not an Aboriginal, More- each side of a pler, a palm-fringed ove |from the fact that H.M.S. Decoy

over, any pearls that are found are beach with a tropical, iron roofed over the size of the sick parades." lent her services in landing a

BORE'S BEST FRIEND

the property of the diyar, and, town beyond grey, deserted streets, eldentally, that a jolly good way Miss Porchester suggested, in- however uncomplimentary it may and a background of green hills. out of the Carstairs-Hawhough contingent of Chinese troops in Two fingers are resented more seem, the man on the sen bed likes An outpost, indeed, and admirable dilemma in Kenya would be for the Swabus area. But, even

than those who point them at all to have a delegate on the boat when and interesting for that, but in the Miss Ponsonby to call and give assuming, an extension of such

comers can envisage; and yet all the shell is opened. Indeed, some dry season an abominable place in them a jolly good bashing. My

minimise divers object to any co-operation, it must be conceded these furtive efforts to

shell being which to live.

Kenya correspondent is keeping that such measures have their the contact have a reason behind limits and do not really get at shake is the bore's best friend.

his eye in thla possibility. them, because the prolonged hand- the root of the trouble. Preven-He can hold and even pat the hand tion of these outrages is the of his hearer with every air of great need. Chlef difficulties in delighted cordiality, knowing all the way of cleaning up. the the time in his evil heart that Bowers. affected area are, firstly, its escape is impossible. extent; and, secondly, the prob- even Fascist saluters, do not derive from their manners the lem of ascertaining who are, and

same physical dominion as the who are not, pirates. Once strong handshaker enjoys, An before, in 1927, a British naval occasional handshake on a big oc expedition endeavoured to root casion between the parties to an out the pirates, but, despite all engagement or marriage, or other that was then done, the evil still major partnerships, and on other persists. So it is reasonable to important events, is all very well, an old custom and not bad one. assume that, no matter what ac-

But when it grows to ludicrous tlon might be taken now, there lengths in the interests of sales- would be no guarantee of effec-manship and a politeness without tive suppression of the gang or ordinary good will behind it, it is gangs. When we come to the time to cry halt and to fill in the question of prevention, it is momborship forms which will en- obvious that much more couldable one, he of right, to extend, be done by the Chinese authori- for once only, the right hand of each. ties in policing measures both on

fellowship to the stalwart men of Ljubljana. land and along the coast. The chief necessity, however, is to devise arrangements for a more such a manner. To secure the rigid search of passengers, sup maximum results, there must be plemented by measures for the well co-ordinated measures, both proper protection of the vital ashore and afloat, but the main parts of ships which ply in the requirements are (a) to prevent piracy zone. So far as third-suspects, as far as possible from class and steerage passengers boarding the ships; and (b) to are concerned, danger could be devise effective methods to make [reduced to a minimum by attack from within impossible thorough and systematic search in ease. would-be pirates sup when they come aboard and by through the not. Clearly, it is segregating them from their from this angle, rather than by baggage. There are obvious efforts to clean up the pirate dificulties, however, in dealing laire, that the problem can most with first-class passengers ineffectually be approached.

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Bitter comment of Sidney Lord Passfield, at the annual ex- change and auction of the Pic- ture-Post-card Club.

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William Boggin, Tazi-Driver, Turns Over New Leaf Blimey, an' ain't I pure,

Delicate an clean, Decorous an* decent,

Shunnin' the obscene!

Blimen, an' ain't I pure?

You oughter see me reel Whimperin' outer "talkice"

When they're showin' 'ger-

appeal.

'Crikey, an' ain't⋅ I clean

An conscious of me duties, Burnin' all me treasured "snapt" Of leggy Bathin Beauties?

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None'

over know,

Lumme, 'ow it 'urt to sea Them little blondies gol Oh, blimey, ain't I bored

O' bain a blinkin prude! Blimey, ain't I sick

O Moral Rectitoed!

Fed right up, I am

Game's not worth the bun. You can "ave me bloomin' 'alo.,

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