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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, Arnil 30, 1936.

DEWARS

THE

"WHITE LABEL

SPIRIT OF INSPIRATION

SOLE AGENTS:

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ESTD. 1841.

NEW REX RECORDS

8731

6591

interest

which will

OLD SHIP O' MINE (Ardon)

SONG OF THE LIFT (Evans)

you

Primo Scala's Accordeon Band

Primo Scala's Accordeon Band Troise & His Mandoliers

SORRENTO BY THE SEA SPANISH CYPSY DANCE (Marquina)

Troise & His Mandoliers

Casani Club Orchestra Casani Club Orchestra Jack Payne & His Band RHYMES-Fox Trot

Jack Payne & His Band Casani Club Orchestra Casoni Club Orchestra

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WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER-Fox Trot

MOON FOR SALE-Fox Trot LOVE IS A DANCING THING-Fox Trot

Casani Club Orchestra Casani Club Orchestra

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SYMPATHY-Waltz

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OLD SHIP O' MINE-Fox Trot SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC--Fox

Trot

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Jay Wilbur G& His Band WHY DID SHE FALL FOR THE LEADER OF THE BAND?———

Fox Trot

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

8724 WALTZES ROUND THE WORLD

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Primo Scala's Accordeon Band THANKS A MILLION—Film Selection

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W

HEN the fingers of modern science have completed their analysis of the love-

philtre from Ceylon. waiting rate, when the reforts have frothed over into the test-tubes, and the very essence of love lies on the

$5.00 per hour, running rate;

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, APR. 30, 1936.

SINO-BRITISH CO-OPERATION

slide below the microscope, what

then?

Private enterprise, perhaps. Cupid and Venus Ltd. can assure you that your boy-friend won't

LOVE

for

SALE

taste it in his soup With the BULBS of the Naga Maru Ale, a plant which,

nid of easy instalments,

boredom your presence inflicts

on him will be tastelessly trans- formed into adoration.

Such a company might

get into difficulties with the law, but the demand is there. Our learned judges have more than unce had to denounce the love racket.

காடக் ம

according to tradition, has the magical powers of

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

By TANGYE

LEAN

most suppose to be done by charms and philtres, are merely effected by man's blood che- mically prepared." Prepared, one cannot help wondering, for what?

The question is relevant, for Burton is surely right in hold- ing that certain physical 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 In- nouncements in the Press showg that people are inclined to pro- week- pose marriage over the end. Leisure, good food. plea- sant surroundings, these things are perhaps a better "chemica! preparation" than the "dead men's cloaths" referred to by Burton.

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NOTES OF THE DAY A CASE in 190e of eighteen has produced poetry of great CIENTIFIC analysis of the

AIR SERVICES

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root from Ceylon may just possibly produce interesting re- sults, but in principle the affair is a retrograde step. A re- volutionary change has upset the love world 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.

1932 is illuminat- In its time the love-potion

months hard labour was passed beauty, to be chanted while the on a woman who was said to ingredients are browing. These have obtained hundreds of lines, which have only just been The comment of well-informed pounds from "two spinsters by translated, were written in an- The provincial authorities in circles upon the despatch pretending she had a potion cient Egypt:

which Would bring them Darken her eyes; let her Canton and British engineering [from London speaking of the pose,

husbands."

know not where she is; be interests are mutually to be sibility of Chinese mail planes tink- Lord Irwin, the former come fire under her till she ing up with the Imperial Airways Viceroy of India, in charging. comes to me that she may complimented on the signing of

in Hongkong, is simply?" "It's in the Grand Jury, said that Mrs. love me for all time and may a contract for the construction evitable." As to when the service Wilkinson (the defendant) was not be able either to eat or

drink till she comes of a modern iron and steel will be extended north from Hong-stated to have alleged that a

What would this intelligont Hear me, O mightiest, that concoction discover? Very little works, which is to be operated kg, no definite time can be set,jcertain preparation called "Zep"

But it will be soon.

thou mayest inflame her love, one imagines, and a great Of that there possessed such qualities that if as a Government undertaking.

worn by heart and let her love me. deal of infatuation and despair. can be little doubt, since everyone, piece of material

Dorn Lyne and Mabel Lyne (the May she forget father and For the ideal love-philtre is love At a time when the need of including the Governments

spinsters concerned) was soak- mother, brothers, husband, itself. As a charm its potency serious development of heavy crrhed, appears to appreciate theed in it and then burned at a

friend-nay, forget them all, exceeds that of the hell-broth in value of the service and is prepared lamp, she had the power to see

Macbeth. save me alone. industries in China is apparent,

enthusiastically to support it. in the smoke the men who

The potion was a sort of spiri- find it is most gratifying to

Everyone admits, too, the key would marry them.

tual hors d'oeuvre: "amongst the officials of Canton position occupied by

When the spinsters' money Hongkong

was exhausted, Mrs. Wilkinson men who are animated by pro- geographically with respect to this alleged to have said: "Will gressive ideas and are deter future air services of the Far East-in sell your jewellery-give mined to make full use of the ope has not been abandoned eume the proceeds to buy more |tively of making this port the west-["Zep'?" "One of the sisters sold country's natural

resources, em terminus of the Pan-American her jewellery, which was valued From the British standpoint, it Airways Pacific service, though at £150. Mrs. Wilkinson urged is reassuring to know that this what Pan-American Airways would her to "put every drop" on the

give in return for the concession { man. major contract has been secured

For the defence, it no-one can tell. But perhaps they ! in the face of keen American would not be asked for a couves kinson used "Zep." In reality, strongly denied that Mrs. Wil Continental.competition, sion: for ultimately it must become it was claimed, she had used a and, moreover, that the financing apparent to authority that the substance sent by her daughter

greater the number of air services in Miami. making this their base, the better

and

of the project is said to be most satisfactory to both parties to the deal. A sum of two million pounds sterling is involved, and

Within a few weeks we

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One's sympathy goes out to for business generally, and the air all three of the ladies in this business in particular,

case, not only because of the shalt indignities which they encoun- tered at the hands of the law, probably see another Imperial Air- but because their tendencies It is planned to commence work ways plane on the Hongkong-Pen- were honoured by convention on the site as soon as engineer-ang route, 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-ciny. rived from England. The suc-carrying of all Empire first class

mail by plane which, some believe,

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 thein into olive oil:

Then take, it, in a vessel and go up on a house facing the moon and recite the

But, for that doomed race which deserts love for infatua-· ion 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.

con-

So they have hoped through the centuries as they gazed at a lizard's tongue or made mil- lions or conquered new worlds. formula seven times.

And so many of them hope. could not object to that, but the prospects of Verrus and The most fastidious--lover--to-day: luckily, if we consider usually he or she has had to put Cupid Ltd. up with more coctions.

Bu

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repulsive con-

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URTON, in the "Anatomy of Melancholy," compiles a

Rhyme On

list which includes "a swillow's A Banknote

heart, dust of a dove's heart, mandrake roots, pretious stones. dead men's cloaths and candels." Others are of opinion," he re- marks, "that these feats, which

cessful conclusion of the contract is destined to be realized next year SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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. ing secured by British interests airport of some consequence begins All in aB, Hongkong's future as an

in South China for many years, to look up a little. apart from Indemnity Fund projects. In previous big-scale industriai plant capable of pro-) schemes in Canton, 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 bel Slovakian interests went the hoped, will pave the way toj sugar mills contract, whilst further projects of 11 like; Americans secured the contract character.. The Canton authori- for the bridge across the Pearl ties 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 Yan-koi,¦ representative all British on-and his colleagues are to be gineering group has been suc-commended for their foresight cessful, after negotiations Inst- in these matters. The step now ing over a year, in coming to a taken should still further cement) subisfactory agreement with the trade and financial rolutions he- Kwangtung provincial author-tween Britain and South China, tics whereby Canton will even-to the manifest advantage of tually possess a big and modern both..

"I'm not afraid to go out into the world. Haven't I re-

peatedly asked you to buy me a little dress shop?" ·

LOVE of scribbling seems to bợ Ane of the weaknesses of mankind. of the various classes of scribblers one of the most harmless and some times the most interesting is composed of the folks who find time to jot down sonic slogan or wish on the back of a banknote before paasing it on:

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 cause the notes to pasa 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 parted with will find its way back. "Will yo no' come back again?" and "Bring back my bonny tae mu

are extra-

ordinarily popular. The other day, however,

ever, I came across a porfect gem. Written in a a small neat hand, wore- the following verses,

Great in thy power, wee simple leaf, The lack of thee mak's mony a thief, The lack o' thee mak's mony a stave, The lack o' theo fills mony a grave, The lack other mak's life stem

drear

The lock o' then draws mong a fear, The lack o' thee the poor must bide, The factor's quash(?) the tyrant's

chide,

Thy away, is fell on every hand, Thou rurst out' goa, thon rulat on

land.

For thee the sailor ploughs the

main,

For thee the farmer tends the

grain,

For thee the merchant goes to toinn, For thee the priest puta on the rown,

We they a fool map strut and stare, An' imitaté a lordly air,

W thee an ass may high aspire, Dino wi a king, a duke, or squire, Yet tho' thou'rt weo ani' bare an

thin.

We thee in covered mony a

sin-

W me, alas, thou, cannot stay. Thou'd rend my pureo to get away.- Thon fare thee well, woe myslia

Wï“me 'thy time'is evor brief.

GRACE V. GALLOWAY.