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THE HONGKONg Telegraph, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936.

DEWARS

"WHITE LABEL"

THE SPIRIT

OF INSPIRATION

SOLE AGENTS:

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ESTD. 1841.

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you

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.....Jay Wilbur & His Band EENY MEENY MINEY MO-Fox Trot

Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra I FEEL LIKE A FEATHER IN THE BREEZE-Fox Trot

Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra

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W

HEN the fingers of modern selence have completed their analysis of the love- philtre from Ceylon,

waiting rate. when the retorts have frothed

over into the test-tubes, and the very essence of love les on the

Open and Closed cars slide below the microscope, what

with liveried chauffeurs

always available. Prompt and reliable

service.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, Árt, 30, 1936.

SINO-BRITISH CO-OPERATION

of A

then?

Private enterprise, perhaps. Cupid and Venus Ltd. can assure you that your boy-friend won't taste it in his soup. With the aid of easy instalments, boredom your presence inflicts on him will be tastelessly trans- formed into adoration.

the

Such a company might get law, into difficulties with the but the demand is there. Our learned judges have more than mee had to denounce the love racket.

LOVE for

SALE

ULBS of the Naga Maru Ale, a plant which,

BULBS

according to tradition, has the magical powers of

making one person fall in love with another, have been sent to London for examination by chemists

By TANGYE LEAN

NOTES OF THE DAY A CASE in 1932 is illuminat-

AIR SERVICES

But it will be goon.

ing. Sentence eighteen. onths hard tune of sighted

on a woman who was said to have obtained hundreds

4

of

In its time the love-potion has produced bently, to be chanted while the ingredients are brewing. These lines, which have only just been translated, were written in an cient Egypt:

Darken her eyes; let her know, not where she is: be- come fire under her till she conies to me that she may love me for all time and may not be able either to eat or drink till she comes to me. Hear me, O mightiest, that thou mayest inflame her heart and let her love me. May she forget father and mother, brothers, husband, friend-nay, forget them all,

save, me alone.

The potion was a sort of spiri- tual hors d'oeuvre:

Take pure olive oil and the plant called beetroot and branches of an olive tree; then pick up seven leaves and, grinding them together pour them into olive oil.

most suppose to be done by churnts and philtres, are merely effected by man's blood che mically prepared." Propared, ane cannot help wondering, for what?

The question is relevant, for Burton is surely right in hold- ing that certain physicul states are more conducive to love than others, Statistics are impossible to obtain, but it is difficult to. believe that many proposals. "have been made during a siege

or a plague..

On the other hand, an exami- nation of the engagement an- nouncements in the Press shows that people are inclined to pro-· poc marringe over the week- end. Leisure, good food, plea- sant surroundings, these things are perhaps a better "chemical preparation" than the "dead" men's cloaths" referred to by Burton.

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CIENTIFIC arinlysis of the rout from Ceylon may just possibly produce interesting re- sults, but in principle the affair is a retrograde step. A volutionary change has upset the love work as radically as the Copernican reorganisation of the universe; we now suspect that the most profitable analysis would be conducted by the love-. philtre on, those who desired it.

What would this intelligent concoction discover? Very little love, one imagines, and a great deal of infatuation and despair. For the ideal love-philtre is love itself. As a charm its potency exceeds that of the hell-broth in Macbeth...

*ace But, for that doomed which deserts love for Infatua-

con-

tion and finds that in exaggerat- ing their worship they receive nothing in exchange but tempt, for them, there is sure- ly, something that will bring salvation.

The comment of well-informed pounds from "two spinsters by The provincial authorities in oral circles upon the despatch pretending she had a potion

would bring which

them Canton and British engineering from London speaking of the pos husbands."

the former Lord Irwin, Interests are mutually to be sibility of Chinese mail planes link- complimented on the signing ofg up with the aperial Airways Viceroy of India, in charging in Hongkong, is simply: "It's in the Grand Jury, said the Mrs. a contract for the construction|evitable," As to when the service Wilkinson (the defendant), was modern iron and steel will be extended north from long-stated to have alleged that a works, which is to be operated kang, no definite time can be set, certain preparation call "Zep" Of that there possessed such qualit that if as a Government undertaking.

can be little doubt, since everyone, a piece of material worn by Dora Lyne and Mabe Lyne (the At a time, when the need of including the Governments emm-

spinsters concerned) was sonk- serious development of heavy cerned, appears to appreciate the ed in it and then burned at a value of the service und is prepared lamp, she had the power to see industries in China is apparent,

in the smoke the Ten who jenthusiastically to support it. it is most gratifying to find

Everyone admits, too, the key would marry them. amongst the officials of Canton position occupied by Hongkong

When the spinsters' money men who are animated by pro-geographically with respect to the was exhausted, Mrs. Wilkinson gressive ideas and are deler future air services of the Far East alleged to have said: "Will you sell your jewellery-give mined to make full use of the Hope has not been abandoned en-me the proceeds to buy more tirely of making this port the west-Zep'?" One of the sisters sold country's Tatt'al resources.ern terminus of the Pan-American her jewellery, which was valued

Then take it in a vessel the centuries as they gazed at.

So they have hoped through From the British standpoint, it Airways Pacific service, though at £150. Mrs. Wilkinson urged

and go up on a house facing

a lizard's tongue or made mil- the moon and recite the is reassuring to know that this What Pan-American Airways would her to "put every drop" on the

lions.or..conquered_new_worlds. give in return for the concession man....

formula" seven timesTM major contract has been secured

IL For the defence,

And so many of them hope no-one can tell. But perhaps they

The most strongly denied that Mrs. Wil

fastidious, lover to-day; luckily, if we consider in the face of keen, American would not be asked for a conves-kinson used "Zep." In reality, could not object to that, but the prospects of Venus and and Continental competition,sion; for ultimately it must become it was claimed, she had used a

usually he or she has had to put Cupid Ltd. | and, moreover, that the financing arent to authority that the substance sent by her daughter up with more repulsive con-

greater the number of air services in Miami. of the project is said to be most making this their base, the better One's sympathy goes out to

case, not only because of the Within a few weeks we shall indignities which they encoun- tered at the hands of the law, [probably see another Imperial Air- but it is planned to commence work ways plane on the flmgkong-Pen-were honoured by convention because their tendencies

on the site as soon as engineer-ang chute, as well. And there is in the past and remain latent ing and other experts have ar- still that ambitious scheme for the in most of us to-day. riped from England. The suc-

was

coctions.

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satisfactory to both parties to for business generally, mud the air all three of the ladies in this af Melancholy," compiles a

the deal. A sum of two million business in particular. pounds sterling is involved, and

carrying of all Empire.first class mail by plane which, some believe,

cessful conclusion of the contract is destined to be realised next year! SIDE GLANCES

is all the more welcome since it whether Australia's. Quantas de

is the first really big undertak-cides to come into the thing or not.

All in all, Hongkong's future as an ing secured by British interests

airport of some consequence begins in South China for many years, to look up a little. apart from Indemnity Fund projects. In previous big-scale (industrial plant capable of pro- schemes in Carton, non-British ducing over 100,000 tons of iron interests have secured the plums, and steel`annually. This pro- German interests obtained the vides a striking example of Sino- power station contract, the paper foreign co-operation which mills were contracted for by should be all to the benefit of Swedish interests, to Czecho-the. province, and, it is to be Slovakian interests, went the hoped, will pave the way to sugar mills contract, whilst further projects of #1 like Americans secured the contract character. The Canton authori- for the bridge across the Pearl jities have shown many evidences River and for the new railway of an intention to create and bridge under construction at develop worthwhile industrial Wongsha which will connect the enterprises in recent years, and Fatshan and the Canton-Hankow the Chairman of the Provincial Railways. Now, however, a Government, Mr. Lin Yun-koi, representative all British en-¦and; his colleagues are to be gineering group has been suc-commanded for their foresight) cessful, after negotiations last-in these matters. The step now ing over a year, in coming to ataken should still further cement| satisfactory agreement with the trade and financial relations be-

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Kwangtung provincial mutheri- tween Britain and South China,

Tel.

28151.

ties whereby Canton will even-to the manifest advantage of tually possess a big and modern both.

URTON, in the "Anatomy Rhyme On list which includes "a swallow's A Banknote

heart, dust of a dove's heart, mandrake roots, pretious stones,

dead men's cloaths and candels," A LOVE of seribbling rooms to be A one of the weaknesses of mankind. "Others are of opinion," he re- Of the various classes of acribblers marks, "that these feats, which one of the most harmless and some; times the most interesting in composed of the folks who find time to Jot down some logan or wish on the back of a banknote before passing it on.

By George Clark

"I'm not afraid to go out into the world."- Haven't I re- peatedly naked you to buy me a little dress shop ?”

The habit used to be much more common than it is to-day. Perhaps the speed-up in modern life and the rise in prices enuse the notes to pass more quickly and casually. We don't have time to waste in vain regrets in parting with a note,

The remarks written are almost all wishing that the note being purted with will find its way back. "Will ye no' come back again?" and "Bring back my bonny tae me," are extra- ordinarily popular. The other day, however, I came across a perfect gen. Written fa a small neat hand, were the following verses,

Great is thy power, wee simple leaf, The lack of theo mak's many a thief, The lack of thee mak's mony a slave, The lack o' then fills many a prave, The lack o' thee mak's life seem

"dreary

The lack o' thes draws many a fear, The lack o' then the poor must bide, The factor's prash!?) the tyranl'a

chido.

Thy away, is felt on every hand, Thou rust on soa, thou rulet on

lund.

Farther, the sailor ploughs the

For thes the farmer tends the

pratu,

For thee the merchant goes to town, For then the priest puts on the gown,

We thee a fool may strut and stare, An' Imitaté a lordty air,

W thee an ars may high aspire, Dine si a king, a duke, or squire, Yet the thou're wea an' bare an

thin.

Wi thee is covered many a si Bme alas, thou cannot stay. Thou'd rend my purse to get away Then fare thee well, wee mystic

leaf.

We me thy time, fo' ever, brief.

GRACE V. GALLOWAY,

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