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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936.

SONYA GIVES SOME ADVICE

SHOULD HUSBANDS TELL? Wives Answer

Wages Problem: "Most Men Do”

Norway'a woman champion skater Sonya Henic photo- graphed training on the lee rink in Borlin. Some small skating enthusiasts have seized the opportunity to learn some trick from the nine-time world champion.

World History

Pushed Back

To 1500 B.C. By

Chinese Find

Should a husband tell? The question. was raised in Clerkenwell County Court last month, when a wife, in the tone of one who states a commonplace, 'remarked to Mr. Registrar Friend;-

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"Men do not tell their wives what they

carn."

She added that she had been married for twenty-nine years and still did not know how much her husband earned.

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A London newspaper carried out a telephone inquiry of representative opinion in London. These are some of the answers the paper

received:

BUSINESS MAN'S WIFE:

"Of course I know what my husband earns. He would be the first to tell me of any increase that he received,

"If he lost money he might try to keep the news from me, but in these days of income tax returns it is difficult to keep secrets like that." DOCTOR'S WIFE:

"I should think it is a purely personal question between, a man and the type of woman he, marries. 1 happen to know exactly how much my husband earns because I look after his books."

SOCIAL WORKER:

Shanghai, Feb. 20.

Authentic written history in China has been pushed back to at least 1,500 years before Christ by archaeological excavations at An Yang, Honan province, Dr. Y. Y. Tau of St. John's University declared in the course of a lecture here.

to Bix These excavations by Dr. Li select 3,000 rolls and five Chi and others have brought to thousand detached pieces. These light much valuable information on have been carefully restored and the life and literature of the peo-studied, and are now in the posses- ple of the Shang Dynasty (1700-ton of the British Museum. 1122 B.C.), Dr. Tsu declared.

"Tun Huang was once a great "The people of the period," he centre of Buddhism and the theory said, "were great believera in divi.is that the manuscripts and paint. nation and ove left behind themings were sealed up in the eleventh huge stores of oracle bones with century to prevent them from fall.

These

inseribeding Into barbarian hands during inscriptions. banes, and the stone and bronze raids. They remained 'lost' to the implements and pottery associated world till Sir Aurel accidentally hit with them, reveal the arts and upon them, nine centuries after- crafts, the social customs, and re- ward." ligious beliefs of a pastoral people who had taken up ajriculture, who know the art of brewing, and who were engaged in trade with re- mote regions,

Hunting as a form of organized recreation and warfare seemed to occupy a large part of their time gaid attention.

"The Tun Tuang discovery by Sir Aurel Stein in the Stone Chanis her at Tan Huang, Kansu, was perhaps the richest single kuul of! ancient manuscripts und paintings | ever achieved by anyone, Sir Aurel found the walled-up stone cham- ber; nine feet square and 10 feet high, lled to the ceiling with 15,- 000 rolls (hooks) sewed up in 1930 cloth bundles, each containing a dozen pleeds. 'Ho was able to examine most of them and lo

EX-COW PUNCHER BOASTS LINK TO 'OLD KING COLE'

Tours, France, Feb. 28. Willis Vernon Cole who claims to be a direct descendant of "Old King Cole" who was not only a nursery hero but also a genuine character of history, is a former cowboy from Wyoming.

Cole today is the proprietor and manager of a prosperous wine business, Author, and globe- married to a trotter, he California girl. His three chil- dren were born in Touraine.

The chateau where they Bre is an old 11th century building modernized. This residence is Aurrounded by vineyards, and in his cellars are 800,000 bottles of wine.

SALESMAN SAM

"It varies between classes, and even between districts. The wife of 23 professional man earning thousands might not be so inquini- workman tive as the wife of a earning a pound or two a week.

"The professional man, on the other hand, would not have the same templation to conceal part of his earnings to provide himself with extra pocket money.

no

"On the whole, 1 should think

make that most husbands secret of their earnings from their wives. Mine does not." CLERK'S WIFE:

"I should hate to know exactly how much my husband was earning. I never ask. him. I work, too, and I do not tell him how much 1 carn."

Husbands hold a different view. Those whom the Daily Express "No," asked had only one answer. they said, "we do not tell our wives. They know." of

who Ten

twelve

wives tho answered

question knew husbands exactly what their earned.

GRETA GARBO HAS CHANGED: HAIR IS HEPBURN STYLE

WE

Stockholm, Feb. 28. WHEN Greta Garbo does eventually return to Holly. wood-she was due back several weeks ago to begin work on her two new films-it will be found that she has changed.

Let me introduce the Greta Garbo of to-day-a Greta Garbo

Good Idea Goes evolved during her holiday in

Wrong

Signora Galluzzi, who lives In Rome, has one disturbing falling. She snores.

So her husband, who fancles himself as an inven- for, invented an apparatus tube inside consisting of n which was a this blade made of brass. The Idea was that a snore would cause the brass. blade to make contact with an electric bell, which would ring and awaken the snorer.

Signor Galluzzi tried out

on Tuesday. liis invention (says United Press). heard his wife anoring, but the bell did not ring.. He ran into her bedroom to see what had gone wrong He found her choking.

He

She was hurried to hospital. There the doctors found that the brass blade had lodged in her throat.

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1 Mis Smith, the beauty special- irt, thinks this is too hard, for the nails.

Opening move of doctor in carri

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8 Don't knock first!

9 Over a hundred and fifty bache-

lors of medicine.

10 One way to carry arnis. 11 Polished off.

12 Shut up in a gull. 15 Challenging.

16 Turk you can sit on. 17 A river of the East.

18 Small person, but not so small

when unfinished.

10 Keenness. (This may appear

more difficult to the Cockney). 23 Hands down. 26 Wielder of the bow

27 It's not only a swindler who

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her native Stockholm:- Hair: A new style resembling Katharine Hepburn's, carefully dressed instead of being just Garbo-ish and trouble-free... Young Swedish girls are

learning to do their hair in the new Garbo-Hepburn way. Expression: No longer tired and blase, but free and happy with eyes wide open." Clothes: No old, go-as-you-please

tweeds, but beautifully cut tal-28 Silver coin placed in a vegetable.

Heath. lor-made costumes. Drinks: Garbo used to love cock-39. He sounds arresting.

talls; now she prefers wines, 31 Get back, for example, in a especially champagne.

32 After tea-time rest and call. The new Garbo seems full of 33 A vegetable I've turned up after

the finish. life, despite the throat trouble from which she is still suffering. 34 Kicked out. She recently told a friend: "When In Stockholm I like to be just Greta-not Garbo."

If the new Greta-not the old Garbo returns to Hollywood she will set the whole world of film- goers talking-and imitating.

Can you imagino Greta's hair with orderly Hepburn' waves?

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AS I TOLD YOU; DE FLUKE SAILED AWAY IN HENR) (SO YOU'RE IN CHARGE, HUH? LA GOOF'S BALLOON, AND. I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM WELL, I WISH TO HAND YOU A HIM SINCE! I'M TAKIN' CHARGE OF THE HOTEL TIL COMPLIMENT! FOR THE FIRST

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15 Tea in, Mn? (Anagram).

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then it's almost anything.

20 Wanted a new washer, perhaps. д touch of 21 Put aside with

modesty.

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