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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1985.

NOTES OF THE DAY

RUINING THE FARMER

THE COST OF BEING SMART

By JANE GORDON

The Very Idea!

LOONEY LINES

To any that a waterfront strike can bankrupt a good many farmers may seem a trifle disconnected or far-fetched, but such is precisely the position in at least one part of

Throg- A cocktail party on a small scale Scraps From The Scrapbook Canada. Apart altogether from HOSE gentlemen in the question of justice or injustice

morton Street cannot be near-will cost anything from £26 to £35.

Of Eddie Kelly of strikes as a weapon of fabour, ly as clever as they think they are: Dinnere at the best hotels cost 158. and whether the benefits they bring are worth the price, it must be otherwise they would have long ago Ed. a head, excluding wine. The admitted that when they work a formed a pool and launched a public debutante may even do right by her grave hardship upon an innocent lasue of London Season Shares. parents and announce her engage-

do more than gilt-ment at the end of one season, In A Bread is a large number of and far-removed section of socioty. They would they--will appear. contemptible. edged; they would be practically which case there will be a grand small holes entirely surrounded Recently the small fruit growers encrusted with gold.

finale at St. Margaret's, West- by brend.

of Gordon Head (Vancouver

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minster.

Edited By Eddle

BOUT brend.

Island) have had to contend with The richest mino yields a poor

A simple recipe for using it is drought. Their strawberries result compared to the London This will cost, at its cheapest: ] to lay down a slico and put,butter and other early fruit ripened speedily, and they were forced to Season, which every year during Organist alone, 6 gne., add choir on top of same. If you have.. ship a lower grade of produce than May, June and July nets millions of boys but deduct organist, £19; take enough money left with this The attrac full choir plus organist. £23; neal cursed two-shilling dollar to buy is customary. They already faced pounds for London. serious losses. Their fruit was tions offered affect the pockets of all the church bells, £; provide an a loaf of bread this makes a packed, however, and rushed to kinds and conditions of men, Awning for your guests, £4; allow palatable dish if you have the

cokl Victoria for shipment in storage by steamer, to Vancouver Consider first of all the well-to-do them, to walk on a blue carpet butter.

Speaking of recipes, a good one. and the prairie provinces, the man with a daughter whose mother instead of a red one and it will cost Eastern American States and Engstecides that she must be a debutante £1 more; policemen to control the for bread is: Take 1 lb. of onlookers, nine bob a nob. An flour, lb. baking powder, 8 land. They discovered, when they reached the dockside that thers at was a longshoremen's strike. They roughly these. Starting with the economical trousseau will cost two eggs, 1 grated prawn, and suffl- could not load their fruit. Or if presentation nt Court, her dress or three hundred pounds, and the cient scones for nine people.

Eat scones. Stir remainder well. they did load it in Victoria, they with train and feathers, gloves and wedding reception half a guinen a could not obtain any guarantee that fan or flowers can hardly come to head; and the debutante's father Keeping stirring. These are

all costs: and the costs Пre

CA?!

with the comfort himself less than £30.

thought that he will probably ba The most inexpensive train costs treated with the greatest sympathy three to five guineas; gloves from by the kind gentlemen at Carey 25s, to 358.; fan or pound; feathers, 358.; and dress about ten gulneas. If her mother presents her, you can double the

flowers a Street.

stirring times.

Torrors of Wealth

Half a million germs lurk on $10 note.

it would be unloaded In Vancouver. And a few hours' delay would mean the spoiling of the refrigerated cargo. There were not more than two alternatives: either they must form their own longshore gang, load the fruit, travel with it to Vancouver, unlond it there, move

This has been discovered by a You must remember that the It to the railroad yards and load

scientist at the Hongkong Univer- it again for its destination; or

debutante is only part of the London sity. Probably he borrowed the they must take it back to the farms

Season. There

Wimbledon, $10. After this she must have at least which will cost you anything for and let it rot. They had to choose

This means 250,000 germs stroll between two courses each of which five dance dresses (including her centre court seats; polo at Ranelagh about a $5 note, and 50,000 gernus entailed a certain loss. To attempt Court dress) and these will cost and Hurlingham, for which you dollar! Heavens, do you realize what are waiting to pounce from a silver to load the fruit would have brought them up against the long-anything from three to thirty must get a member's voucher, and peril you live in?

She must also have whoremen's union and would have guiners apiece.

you pay 58. on each one of these nicant fighting. The farmers went at least two afternoon dresses for If you are a polo playing chap your

home, muttering.

GETTING DESPERATE

cost.

cocktail parties.

will

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The best racing in the world is to be found during the London Season. A member's annual badge

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935.

HOME POLITICS

self your ponies may cost you 150 No significance need be attach-

or 500 guineas apiece, and you can Her Asent clothes are ed to the result of the bye-

another hardly do with less than three. She will go in the Royal,! felection in the West Toxteth

But that is not all the story.expense, Sooner or later,, if the longshore- Enclosure, of course. This division of Liverpool. Labour has registered a gain at men peralat in their refusal to cost four guineas for her voucher the expense of the Government. handle farmers' produce the farm-

and her mother's voucher; six at Sandown. Kempton, Hurst, The seat is traditionally Labourers will take drastic action. They

are a hardy lot, those Western Ruineas for her father's voucher: Gatwick and Lingfield costa twelve in complexion, and the success- Canadian "hay-seeds," slow to anything from five to twenty

anger as a rule, but dangerous if guincas a day for her frock; one this includes two women's badges. to fifteen guineas for each man, and Iful candidate had been its mem-

ber for seven years prior to the provoked. More than half of them

to three guineas for her hat: 25s. last General

A day'a racing at Kempton will cost Election. Publicam ex-soldiers. They have plough for her shoes: every time Bhe apathy was shown in the small-ed hard ground for the past few

bers enclosure, and 25, for his ness of the total poll, an apathy years, the prices have been slow lunches, the club tent voucher will man £2 s. to get into the mem- for general-crops that some in-be 108, to 258,; and every time sho

female companion. which gives point to the sugges- tion frequently made that voters stances the harvest was not worth sips a cup of ten. half a crown to

the gathering, and when they have 58. who do not exercise their pri- an ourly crop and an opportunity vilege ought to suffer dis-of obtaining the high prices which enfranchisement. The Labour prevail on the early market, they mother, that will cost them another for the woman's party looks. Her poil was well up to the level of are not likely to let a longshore 15s, a day apiece; go that those four hair must be shampooed, set, and the General Election figures, but men's picket stand in the way of days racing alone economically waved at least once every ten days it is amazing that eleven thou. their shipping. It has been aug done will put father's bank account at a cost of 108, to a guinea; her

Band electors rested that they organise to break

If she goes by train with..her

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. and fewer Conservative electors the strike. If they do they will back at least £60.

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face must be massaged at 108, 6d. have been nearer or a guinea; her nails must be ing. Turning from

this parti- the longshoremen prove trouble-five thousand than three thousand manicured

at half a crown or cular bye-election to the general some it will be interesting to see political situation at Home, in- the farmers swing into action. People on Gold Cup day alone at 38. Gd.; her cosmetics alone will cost her about £4 or 25 during the dications now are that the Gov- For ship they will. strike or no Ascot, quite apart from the other Sesson.

three days. You can add all this ernment will not go-to the strike.

up for yourself to discover how Henley, the Aldershot Tattoo, the country until early next year. Circumstances may arise justify-

much money floated over the lawns International Horse Show, the Chel- apart from the Tote earnings (sca Flower Show, the Theatrical ing an earlier appeal, but it

A Russian ballet dancer has during that week.

Garden Party, are all comparatively seems more than probable that recently won a prize of £1,000! the Government will produce offered by a publishing Arm for the will cost her parents roughly eighty.

If the girl is given a dance, it inexpensive. another "Prosperity

I am not much of a mathematician Budget" best manuscript autobiography.

| guineas for the band, and one myself, but if you care to add these before dissolving. Views differ The practice of stimulating the pro- guinon ahead for guests, which various sums together and multiply as to the likely outcome of the duction of masterpieces by the inchides alightly inferior chum-them all correctly by a few thoug election, but at the moment growing of late years, and people to give their girl a chance they will much the London Season in worth. pagne. If the parents cannot afford sand, you will discover exactly how there seems little reason to think are now beginning to wonder whethen take parties to a selected num-The fact that the streets are not that the Government will suffer ther its effect upon literature leber of charity dances, the tickets actually paved with gold only goes defeat. The only fear is that altogether beneficial. Experience the Labour Party may, in the has shown that only comparatively ranging from two to three guiness to show that London is holding out event of no very marked im rarely do modern literary competi provement being recorded in the Ruskin, Matthew Arnold and Ten-

tious produce unemployment-situation, snatch-

nyson":"milwrote winning prize a victory by a narrow majority: poems at Oxford and Cambridge: if it did, however, it would be but not one of these efforts-as in a precarious position, insecure compared with the writers' other in office, since a clear majority works--is really worth remember- jover all other factions is not to ing; and it is a chastening thought be expected: Mr. Oliver Baldwin, that when, for the Newdigate a genuinely at Oxford.. the Socialist son of the Prime memorable poem got Itself written Minister, in the article which we in Myers's "St. Paul," the exam- published yesterday, foresees a iners awarded the palm elsewhere. large increase in the Labour Nevertheless, the habit of offering vote, but he does not believe that prizes for works of literature is the Government will have any one that goes back into furthest difficulty in retaining a comfort-antiquity. It was for competitive festivals that the great Greek able majority over opposing dramatists chiefly wrote. To this parties. A new factor will be fact has been ascribed one of the the appearance of the Lloyd ||lenst desirable features that has

but it will be surprising if this many ages, the practice of evaluat- new campaign makes any real ing one work in terms of another, of saying that this novel is better impression on the electorate.

than that, of judging works of art There are aspects of the Lloyd as if they were rivala on the athle- George plan which will admitted-tic Beld, instead of trying to get Pr. I make an appeal to the more from ouch the appropriate pleasure

progressive element amongst the that it has to give. voters, but, in general, the "New ==

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have stolen the main features of the Labour Labourites programme. Indeed, it is more Liberal thunder. However, des- 50 Pr. than probable that the Liberal pite Labour's relatively innocu- [ex-Premier would have an nous doctrines, there can be little finitely better chance of staging doubt that its return to power an effective come-back had he would produce something ap- linked up with the Labourites, prouching financial panic, Under existing conditions, whether justified or hot. Weigh- Liberalism, whatever its precise ing all the factors, the Govern- brand, would appear to have ment would appear to have little small prospects of an effective cause to fear the next election,} revival. That is mainly so be- always provided conditions do cause, as Mr. Oliver: Baldwin not become worse and the appro- rightly says, the Labour Party priste moment is chosen for test- is evolving into. another Liberaling public opinion.

"I don't remember his name,

He's a pink-faced little vice president with, a sparkle in his eye."

Could any man with a spark of humanity in his soul lend a man five bucks, knowing that it carried with

250,000 gorms, mostly unclassified. Every citizen of this Colony who is in possession of a $10 note is menace.

The people who control the rate of the dollar have done their best. They have lopped off at least 20,000,000 germs from our salary. But is it enough 7.

No! (Applause).

It has come to our notice that a

ment and laughing in the faces of the well-known citizen has been walking about our city, defying our Govern. police, carrying a $50 note in his left- hand pocket.

This man is a carrier. Hold him! Stop him!

Tell the 1.G.P.!

Do something. Hooray!

6-13

Edward Kelly this week illus trates the young Hongkong gold- digger, who has discovered that the only difference between "tup ing" and "taipan" is in the spell- ing. She spells it “$$$$$$".

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A Rhyme in Thyme

Since our usual source of versa han dried up to-day, we've had to fill out this column with some of our own doggerel:

A bright spark who lived in Kow- loon,

Returned home one night far too BOOM,

When he saw his young Mra. Being

-covered with Krs.

He rolled up his sleeves and tore into that other blake, and believe you and me what he did to him war a shame.

We had it all worked out to end that last line in moon, boon, June, tune, ruin, Boon, tune or wooin', but exeltement got the better of us.

Silver

One of those col-dorned Yanki horns in an the argument:

HANK J BOND: Say, you” big- stiff, lay off that stabilisation stuff, will ya now? What's the big idea,. hornin' In the U.S. silver racket?

on Get wine to y'aclf, Big Boy, and don't kid y'self you're a big shot in the Treasury or sumpin.

Gee, kid, when I read all about this stabilisation dope, is my face red? What are y' goin' to stabilise, Buddy, the Hongkong dollar? For crystler six!

I'm giving you the low-down now, Eddie. Listen, pal, Just mooze a bit, and when you can buy a whole lot of brand new dollars at around"eighteen pence and then, out of the blue sky comes a chance to clean up on them ut about three bob a smacker—well, you're gonna say I'm a swoll guy."

I ain't no U.Þ. guy runnin around' spillin' the boa about 'Bonator Thomas and his gang. No sirl But I'm a wise enough guy to know what when that gang wanta, sumpin, they got it, and it's $1.20 'an ounce · they're wantin' right now, MA

Say, an get this, Ed. Just lay off mypal__Dave,, \will. Davo's '

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