1935-04-01 — Page 13

LETTERS FROM

EVE.

I must tell you the most priceless joke something in the nature of a faux pas,

Last night, our new Manager and his wife dropped in for a chot, and she is really a sweet little thing. She and I were discussing various domestic and other problems, and happened to get on to the question of shoes. I told her that there was no need to worry about that sort of thing out here, because Gordon's are so thoroughly reliable and up-to-date. While we were chinwagging away. Bungho was doing his best with the Taipan.. such a cheary soul... and whether he was only dropping a hint or not, I cannot for the life of me say.

but evidently he overheard me use and, thereupon

the name "Gordon's interjected with the remark don't mind if I do!"* Of course, it was extremely tactful, because we were just wondering whether to offer cocktails or not. They stayed on to pot. luck and we quite enjoyed ourselves. By the way, I've decided to go in for Gordon's instalment plan... a really fine way of making the budget When it becomes generally cover shoe items. known everybody will be doing it.'

MOTHER CALLS IT MIRACLE

Child-Always fretful, never hungry-

Now has Big Appetite... is Sturdy and Strong

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SOMETHING. TERRIBLE

MUST BE WRONG WITH HIM. )

HE WON'T EAT, HE'S ALWAYS FGRÖSS, SEE HOW PALL

HE IS.

DON'T WORRY ANOTHER DAY, JUSY GIVE Y

HIM A LITTLE CASTORIA, IT WORKS

WONDERS!

Doctors Advise This Natural Way to Make Child Hungry ...Restore Buoyant Health!

Almost all chil4 ailments that cause mothers so much worry are due to just ona thing-authorities call it the Intestinal absorption of poisons. This Mistressing condition occure even when child's habits may seem reg. ular. The stomach is upset. The child won't eat... becomes nervous and cross.

Now this Insidious condition can be corrected naturally and quickly with a little Castoria which tastes zu very good, children beg for it.

Thisremarkable preparationswiftly purges the system, banishes poisons, scillen the stomach and improves di- gestion. Then Natura does the rest, Appetite returna. Disposition im proves And soon the 'child is again sturdy, healthy, and sunny,

Let Coatoria take care of your child's health. Give it at the first

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE

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NEXT DAY

WHAT! ARE YOU STILL, HUNGRY AFTER THAT GREAT BIG HEAL.) THAT'S WONDERFUL

ROSES WILL SOON

DE BACK IN YOUR CHEEKS!

EVERY MOTHER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CASTORIA! THE WAY IT BENEFITS CHILDREN IS A MIRACLE. SEE HOW HEALTHY AND STURDY

MY SON 13.

warning sign of trouble. Results will surpise you,

CASTORIA

MEDICINAL SYRUP from babyhood to sloven years

MRS MOTONO

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LIFE AT SEA IS DULL

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

FORTY YEARS IN SHIPS

By LEE BRACE

After nearly two score youra experience I can say quite truth- fully that life at sea today is dull and monotonous. It was different, certainly, in the duya of sailing skips, but the modern steamer hus. completely altered things.

In

MONDAY

FASHION NOTES

Three-quarter Length Coats Favoured

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IN LIGHT TWEED

"Cont and Skirt Vogue Re- turna", "At MORL smart gatherings there are as many three-quarter length coats as there are short ones." The suit sketched was made of smooth light tweed with kairs woren into the surface,

APRIL 1, 1935,

WAR RASH IN

MANCHUKUO· ·

FEVER CATCHING IN BORDER AREAS

FRONTIER STRATEGY

Peiping..

With Soviet Russia and Japan glaring at each other across the Amur River, desperately buliding railroads, frontier fortifications and flying fields, it has not taken long for the virus of beiligeront distrust and its resultant war scare fever to permente their "wards," Soviet- feed Outer Mongolla and Manchu- kuo.

The first outbreak of the rash when ΑΚΟ long occurred not Japanese-Manchukuo patrols clash- ed with Outer Mongolian frontler guards near Bair Nor, a large lake 160 miles south of Manchull, whore

Chinese tho

Eastern Railroad crossed the Siberian border to join the Trans-Siberian. Japanese map- makers had begun to make all maps with the lake entirely within 11singan Province of Manchukuo. Later, when Mongol patrols were observed inside this new boundary, they were first warned, then driven but by combined Japanese- Manchukuo column.

Liberal und immediate applica- tion of diplomatie balm luas ap parently chaured that the rash will not spread at present, but reports fitering in from Outer Mongolia as well as from Manchukue indicate that elaborate defence preparations the being undertaken on both sides of the line.

Small boys will not believe this. For them the sea still spells romance. Older folks, especially thono who have someone at sea, will not believe it either. To them every puff of wind la half a gale, and every gale what they Armly believe to be a storm. When the wind howls round' the chimney pots, and windows rattle in their frames, they. aro

con: cerned for their folk at sea. Quité apart from the fact that the ship to which their thoughts Лy may at that particular moment be loafing along in a flat calm in the Tropics, they quito wrongly Imagine that wind Inevitably means danger.

bad П well-found ship weather, even what the nailor terms bad weather, means dis- comfort rather than danger. Danger and disaster are usually the result of defects to rudder, LEEKS WITH WHITE SAUCE propeller, or machinery-anything TERE a delicious way of hu, prevents the ship, being kept Hvis ducks. Choose thick under proper control. Only in white ones, and cut off most of such circumstances is bad weather the green tails do not throw them really dangerous.

away, as they will do for broth. Te the leeks into bundles of 3 or 41

The strategic importance of this with narrow white tape, and boil

heen has often particular area tender. Drain them very stressed. Presuming a new Russo- thoroughly of water; this is im- Japanese war in the Far East, it is portant, as, otherwise, they will be commonly taken for granted that very snilden. While they are cooke of the major Japanese drives ing, make some white sauce-one

will be directed at the supposedly oz. butter melted in a small pan, vulnerable stretch of the Trans- one oz. flour stirred in, and 1⁄2 pint Siberian Railway between Lake of milk added gradually; Baikal and Chita. The attacking all the time the sauce boils-eight column, it is assumed, would ad- This, however, was not quite minutes. Remove the tape from valce westward from Dolonor or the side of scalaring to which 1 te leeks, place each little bundle from the region of Hair Nor onto ruferred when took as title the large slice of hot buttered the steppes of eastern Outer Mon- bald statement that life at sea is fast, and pour the white sauce all gulia, then swing northward, at- dull. What I was thinking of is over them.

tenfpt to cross the Siberian frontier

railway, the normal life, and not the odd

and strike at the happenings which make irunt page

strongly militarised Outer Mongo- news, although they affect but a

Ba, it will thus be seen, would form fraction of one per cent. of the

an important first line of defence for the Soviets. ships at sen.

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT

Since I first went to sen nearly 40 years ago I have only en- countered two storms (using the word properly), although I have been through many a gale. But, as I have said, a galé is nothing to worry about, and against auch weather must be weighed months and months of fine weather.

of

sea

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STRATEGIC IMPORT

500-mile stretch of the border.

EXCHANGE YOUR OLD PIANO FOR A MORRISON

WE WILL SEND ANYWHERE IN THE COLONY TO INSPECT AND VALUE YOUR PIANO FOR PART EXCHANGE, PRICES.

UPRIGHTS From $425.00 BABY GRANDS. $1,360.00 DEFERRED TERMS ARRANCED, IF DESIRED ALL MORRISON PIANOS ARE FULLY GUARANTEED FOR TEN YEARS.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO

9 Ice House Street HONG KONG.

USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK-UP

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pany. What are you there for? Just waiting. You do not even bave the satisfaction of feeling that you are doing something. | Let me draw aside the veil

Owing to careful guarding of Nothing ever happens, or at least romance And

the reveal Wife for what it is.

It happens se seldom that it military secrets by the Japanese, amounts to the same thing. But Information regarding what is go- averyday job of work that offers little in the way of variety. because it may happen, it is ing on in Manchukuo is meagre. One official report recently publish- but more often than not dull absolutely essential that you keep ed, however, indicates that the monolony, and which necessarily a bright lookout and...pad back robs its followers of the wider and and forth, back and forth, for entire northern half of the Man- chukuo-Mongolian frontier is to be Tour Interminable hours. much more interesting life open

guarded by a series of frontier Ab, but when ope Keta to those who live and work ashore, į

posts. The exact nature of these One at least aces the world? and? Well, things are better posts is not announced, but there Who was it said with deadly truth, then of course. You have much will be twenty-eight of them, "A sailor is one who visits all more responsibility, for one thing; placed at strategic points along 3.

secs none?" The countries and arrival in a foreign port is merely

The avowed object of these posts the signal for cargo work. Down the hold all day, tallying cargo;

is to prevent further encroach- ment on Manchukuo" by the Outer guarding against pilfering or

Mongolians, like that which occur- keeping watch to see that only the

TAKING TO CARPENTRY red at Buir Nor. proper packages are discharged. Night work is by no means ui- But your extra leisure is

Well-informed circles discount 12 Cut into three.

14 Short trials of a schoolboy, common, An odd evening ashore, | much good to you, for your chole the possibility of armed and with luck a whole Sunday. It of company is limited to the chief breaking out in the near future, but 16 This soldier is quite in order,

10 Cart pin (Anag.). does not sound very thrilling, engineer, one solitary person. It can be seen that neither sides 18 Shows, does it?

Out of sheer boredom you may is in trustful mood. And with mount the bridge, ostensibly as such fuel ready, a very small spark master but in reality Jo have a could start a very large "fire.-- yarn with the officer of the watch. United Press. That is permitted, though it isn't done to hobnoh with the officers when off watch.

BURDEN OF LEISURE

What of the time actually at sea? Two spells of four hours cach on the bridge, and the rest of the time is your own. Or some of it at least, for there are other odds and ends of duties besides actual watch-keeping But you

and about the same salary as a senior clerk in a decent office who has no responsibility at all. And you have more leisure, for you do not keep a regular watch,'

not

Perhaps I should explain here for the benefit of the uninitiated that 1 am speaking of the average cargo

per cent. of the British merchant service.

Many masters take to carpentry

strife

1 A dance that does not.

sarily, lead to double-desling (hyphen).

B-Where I had to go back with

nothing in America, Dowdy.

11 Turn away from an old-fashioneü

Krcen.

21 No end of a diplomat,

2 These days are not recessarily

hot.

24 Cast down.

27 All owners show this permit. 28 A clown who shows tempor." 29 Ho, there!

is the chief officer's special pro-30 This miserable word is formed vince he doesn't like that either. from these letters, C E E E E H-

LNRSS 9 3. The master, in short, is a rather lonely bird bourd his ship.

This brief outline might he filled in with innumerable detalls to prove my point, but I have told enough to show that a life at sen

do have leisure. The trouble is steamer, which forms about 80 what to do with it. The same few yarns. No change, no relief. Day after day the same old thing. A vayage may last two years with to keep them from dying of ennui, la in general a dull and montonous "the "sume half-dozen shipmates. but they are apt to absorb too procession of days with little

On the bridge, occasional sights, much of the time of the ship's anything for an intelligent man to Tland and Electric Bassure Acupuncture, Moxocaue and Bone Brun

Stand and Hoker of xpaprie and Hongkong Govers

Electrie Massage Holder of occasional azimuth, and carpenter, and the chief offeer get his teeth into. Int Eleaners. Curr Sprained Ankios at Diploma and Cortineste of Tokyo Denkl

circle of horizon around you, doesn't like that. Others contrive Wrists, commended for many year broho Kenkrusho (Tokyo Electrical Cure

Institute) Local Hospitala mtu Doctors.

Back and forth across the bridge to take a little too much interest and the lesgkong Government

you pad, your thoughts for com. In the work of the ship, and as that sell a farm and go to Rea?" 31B, Wyndham Street.

4. Wyndham Street. (1st floor).

Tel. 26051.

License,

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SALESMAN SAM

Į JEST FOUND THIS SIGN: PASTED ON YER WINDOW

AN', I'D LIKE A 308 AS

COOK!

WELL, HAVE YA HAD ANY EXPERIENCE; BUDDY?

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What is the old saying? "Who'd

One Job Gone Wrong!

HAVE I HAD EXPERIENCE? SAY, I WENT CAMPIN' ONCE, AN' DID ALL TH’COOKIN' {

SO FAR, SO GOOD!

NOW, ARE YA A

GOOD WORKER?

AN HOW! WHEN I COOK, MISTER, PUT EVRYTHING

I GOT INTO IT!.

SORRY, BUT WE

CAN'T USE YOU-

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2 This wild animal's head's all

right. 3 Scottish dish largely typical of

England

Just a line that the compositor won't be able to read.""

Shown where a nervous affection put an end to an unbeliever.

0 Side gelling on for a score. 7 Feminino name.

S Between husband and wife this

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unwise. The inference-is-

plain on both sides,

10 Such speeches may be made after

a good luncheon.

13 Heject with disdain.

17 What the ploughman does

shops.

in

19 The dying-men ure in the cafe

-getting something

drink one spelling).

20 Sell cap (anag).·

to

hold

21 Hewers of wood and-of water.

23 Sticks to the for till the death, 25 Decidedly palo.

20 Funk those if offering shelter.

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