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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE, 4, 1936.

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Sung by Webster Booth Stay with me for ever ("Giuditta")" (Lehar)

Sung by Webster Booth C-2835 Gertrude Lawronco Medley-Parts 1 & 2

Gertrude Lawrence Jack Hulbert Where there's you there's mo You're sweeter than I thought you were Jack Hulbert (Both from the Film-"jack of all trades"} BD-335 Tap your tootsies (Film-"Jack of all trades") ·

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Lesson in American

DONNING cap and gown,

Professor C. V. R. Thompson will give the two million readers of the Daily Express an easy course in one lesson in the least- known language in the world-American.

Oh, yes, I know grammariana tell us Americans speak English. But that is not true. I am not being rude or allying myself with those English folk who say Americans murder English. I am saying they have a language - of their own.

English

Biscuit

Cracker

Bon-bon

and

American

Cracker Bon-bon Candy so on

who say "Grozvecnor" in place highball. Liqueurs are

numbers..

never

may

.

cordials,

take the highway (main road), and you will get a "ticket" (sumidone)

If you go haywire (awry) while driving,

we .are

WHEN WE ARE given employment "hired," and if the employer likes our work he gives us a "raise," never a rise.

We

When we play party gamNES

enll **Musical

Chairs" "Going to Jersusalem," "Hide- and-Seck" "Hide and go Seck," "Postman's Knock" "Post Office." And, while I am talk- ing of the post office, postmen are letter-carriers.

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When wo have any money we shy we have a "big roll," "are i the dough." A note is always n bill, a dollar is a buck, five dollars is a finn, ten dollars a sawbuck, a thousand dollars a "G" for Grand. Because the dollar used to be a piece of eight we call a quarter of n dollar-which is worth about a shilling-two bits.

A bank clerk is a teller, and a clerk is the man who sells, you groceries, underwear, or cigarettes, any one behind a counter.

D.

If you live in the suburbs and Going on the wagon is limiting So let us consider a few facts of "Grovenor."

Nothing amuses Americans more drinking to beers and wines. Six come luto town every day you are acason- about the American language than the Cholmondeley, Beaulieu, quarts of champagne still see you a commuter, and you hold a com-

ticket. and kindred subjects.

Marjoribanka joke. But they can on the wagon. If you have to mutation ticket, not FIRST, WOULD not understand when the unfor- much you are "cockeyed."

AND HERE ARE Englishman like to kill the story that every tunate

pronounces After dinner we go to a "movie,"

some of the odds and ends about of never a cinema. Then, perhaps the American language and its American calls a pearl a poll, Arkansas Arkanans instead

Ko to see "floor show HONGKONG HOTEL an oyster an erster. That is a Arkansaw, cannot turn Carolina we

vicious canard, as the politicians into Calina, forgets to make cabaret to you and after that users that I have discovered:--- feel like taking our That some schools in New GARAGE

say, The poll-erster language is Connecticut Conneticut, and Balti- we

"brond," "jane," or "frall on the York do not teach foreign Stubbs Rd. confined almost entirely to New more Baltimer.

No one ever says "Not at all" in floor for a "twister" (dance). languages because they have York's great suburb, Brooklyn,

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HOME. quite enough difficulty teaching Bostonians, who would have you response to "Thank you." "You're believe they are the direct descen- welcome" is the phrase. You never Perhaps we go by one of the their immigrant pupils English.

morning." always "busses" they would not That President Prauklin dants of the Pilgrim Fathers, talk hear "Good rather like the people of Norfolk. "Hello"If you want to be ritzy understand if you said "omni- Roosevelt, is the best speaker of bus." Perhaps we go by subway American, that his favourite open- Mid-Westerners talk like Fredric you say "Hello, there,"

TELEPHONE March; Californians like a good

That Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, river, by tube (underwater tun- of New York, is the worst speaker 1936, to Phyllis, (nee Capell), wife outd-speaker; deep, dark South- language is different too. A (tube), or, if we live across the ing remark is "My Friends."

erners like a tired circular saw cut- line is always "busy,"

engaged. "Long-distance" gets nel). Or we may walk along of American, but at the same time ting through honey.

the sidewalk, which is pave the most eloquent. You

That ex-miner John L. Lewis, JENSEN-Elly Elisabeth, wife of 1.

New Yorkers talk like Boston- out-of-town V. Jensen, died June 4, 1936, at ans, Mid-Westerners, Californians, never ring anybody up-call ment, being careful when we

And if an operator cross the pavement, which is head of the Miners' Federation, is the most picturesque speaker of street. the War Memorial Nursing Home, deep, dark Southerners, Italians, then up. The funeral Cortege will pass the Greeks, French, Spanish, English, told you "You're through now," We live an such-and-such street, American.

she would mean your conversa never in it.

That Amelia Earhart is the best A house is always to-day, and a mixture of all of them. 37.511.

No one in America drops his "h." tion was finished and you would "For real" instead of "To let." A woman speaker of American,

That the most-used words of the The only guide to ble or humble hang up.” ***

flat is an apartment, a punctured

American ngange are "swell" and birth is the use of the past tense. Cheese biscuits are crackers, tyre is a flat. If you say "I saw him on Broad- sweet biscuits are cookies. A kind Our trousers are kept up by sus "okay."

That the latest slang word is way last night." you can sip tea of scone is a biscuit. Muffins are penders instead of braces, and our with the Four Hundred. If so hot buns, unless English muffins socks are held by garters instead "whacks-meaning erazy.

That columnist Walter Win- say "I seen him etc.." you are out.

are specified.

of suspenders. A bowler is a NEARLY ALL

Mutton is a foreign ward in the derby, trousers are pants, and pants chells marriage of certain words such as "infanticipating." "Reno- Americans pronounce words as American lunguage. American are shorts. they are spelt. They laugh when sheep, like American women, have If you take a drive you go out in vating" have become part of the

"automobile"

your American language. they hear an Englishman say learned the secret of perpetual your

That most Americans pronounce "secret'ry" instead of their youth. They never get beyond the machine." It runs on gasoline, carefully laboured "secre- lamb stage. There is no treacle shortened to "gas." Paraffin is donkey to rhyme with monkey,

is taaaary." Warwick War in America; it is always molasses, kerosene, and if you ask for paraf- and tomato to rhyme with potato. That it is quite correct to pro- wick, not Worrick; Berkeley is Sweets are candies--hard or soft, fin you get floor polish. If your not Barkley, and there are some according to whether they are car is an cid one you may hear it notace vase as vaize.

That my course in the American chocolate or "chewies," Sweet called a joltopy: course in a meal ls dessert. Des- By the time you reach the more language is over. Isert is just plain fruit.

distant country you will see plenty

Maniment nt Thursday.

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Evie Hayes Hongkong Telegraph.

If I had rhythm in my Nursery Rhymes ...Sam Brownie The Star and the Rose

Faithful jumping Jack (Heykens!

Standchen (Heykens) Obstination

.Sam Browne

Marck Weber's Orchestra .Marek Weber's Orchestra .Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra Tango Habanera ..Alfredo Campoli & His Orchestra "Follow the Sun"Selection-Parts 1 & 2

(With Vocal Refrain)

THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1930.

CANTON AND

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To Cut it Down himself more than four hours a night. are more than fifty-five you will spend

Edison's ability to go to bed at similar-declarations made from small-States, and others will be five-of-your-remaining years asleep.

in and awaken completely refr

refreshed Canton in recent years. To less poignantly disillusioned, that no We are all Rip Van Winkles, and the view it as a declaration of war small nation need look for protec- fact that we divide up our periods hours a night, and that as a result he at 7 am. was remarkable, but an in- tion if it is attacked by a great of sleeping does not make the total of had "lived" two months more than timate acquaintance has revealed the fact that he was in the habit of tak against the Central Government,

ilme we aleep less astonishing other men born on the same day. A small nation may Power.

be From time to time energetic men, It is not surprising that scientists ing short naps during the day. It carrying with it the establish- ment of a new and wholly in-successfully subjected to sanctions, appalled at what they consider the have tried to discover whether men may well have been that when the but a strong one cannot, because wasted hours spent in bed, have tried and women could not be "conditioned" total of these naps was reckoned he

to train themselves to do with less

waking life. In support of dependent Government in the1 they would inevitably lead to war. and less alcop, in the same way to sleep less and thus enjoy a longer did not get so`much less sleep than a normal person. There is the further posal- South, is to stretch it far beyond Might is right, whether it apply to runner trains himself to travel longer bility a great number of cases of point that many people find they re- and longer distances. One man who nen we have inandged on far less quire less sleep as they get older, Its real purport. It is to be ad sanctions or any other form of coer-knocked several hours a night of his than the normal ration of sleep have although they require just as much mitted that the South-West cion. That is the lesson the nations sleep over a period of thirty years been brought forward. The most rest. lenders have been greatly agitat-have learned from the tragedy of claimed that he felt as fit and well as often quoted in that of Thomas Edi- when he took his regulation eight son, the famous inventor, who lived ed by Japan's recent activities in Ethiopia.

the North, both military and Having had this lesson burnt into otherwise, and it is also clear their minds, the Balkan States are SIDE GLANCES that the reports of a heat-looking about for means to limit ing of the breach between their military obligations, and to Canton and Nanking are, to put do everything in their power to it mildly, rather premature. come closer together in their search Without doubt, Southern politi-for safety. They will keep as far cal opinion favours the taking of as possible from entanglement in a strong line against Japan the differences of the Powers, and before the threats to China's live in the hope that a reform of the League will in time bring that integrity become even more pro measure of security which the pre- nounced. But it only requires agent organisation has signally falled moment's thought to reveal that to give them.

Canton could not, at one and the

same moment, appeal for nation-

move.

al unity and decide to embark on might easily be a new civil war. hostilities against the Nanking But it is unthinkable that the Government. The Japanese in-military initiative should come terpretation of the manifesto as from Canton. Dozens of rea- a declaration of war may be sons could be quoted to show the nothing more than the wish unlikelihood of such a being father to the thought, for But whatever the future has in it is clear that nothing would store, it is indeed a sorry statei suit Japan's militarists better at of affairs that, at this juncture this juncture than a renewal. of in the nation's affairs, there large-scale internal trouble in should be fresh evidence of such' China. At the same time, there a divergence of viewpoint as would appear to be good grounds might lead to an open rupture. for thinking that relations be- Never in China's history was tween Canton and Nanking, so there greater need for national If far from being improved, are unity and consolidation. drifting from bad to worse. auch unity is not achieved, the, Should Nanking determine to eventual upshot may be the com take active measures to bring plete loss of the nation's the South under more direct con- sovereignty, in face of aggres- trol and discipline, the outcome'sion from without.

the

By George Clark

"Madiun, what did you say I might do, if he began to make a nuisance of himself?"

Napoleon was another short sleeper, but he like Edison indulged in the Occasional nap. He was not above taking one of these naps during the middle of battle, and one, is driven to the conclusion that many of the men who claim that they never need more than four hours sleep, actually take more at intervale. This is different matter from being able to do with four hours sleep for two or three nights running, and making up for it afterwards. Lindbergh went without sleep for almost three days when flying the Atlantic, but slept profoundly for ten hours on landing. What scientista have discovered is

the quality of sleep is an im portant as the quantity; er put"

that

another way, if you sleep well you do not need so much sleep as if you sleep poorly. The man who sleeps in a perfectly quiet and dark room on a comfortable bed, with light bed- clothes, and who does not jump out af bed on waking, but takes things quietly for ten minutes, is likely to be as refreshed after six hours sleep as another man sleeping in a noisy room on a creaking bed after nine bours sleep. The effect on sleepers of even slight noise has surprised many investigators.

Women generally are believed to. sleep longer than men; indeed the old proverb gives them nino hours against olght, because they sleep more light- ly and are more restless.

By showing men how to sleep correctly, scientists may be able to show them how to get as much benefit. from

shorter hours. Not all the time spent in bed is spent asleep. People take varying times to go off to sleep, and even the average may vary from day to day. The time spent trying

to go to sleep is largely wasted, and the gift of being able to go to sleep at will which has characterised

frent

men is worth cult mary.

Gro

Gladstone and Mr. Lloyd George examples of the possession of this faculty, a very useful one to a Prime Minister, who frequently has to get to sleep when and where he can.