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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, August 15, 1936.

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DOUGLAS.

UDITH, attractive though audience for her, to her ahe WILS, passed her listening

laughing twenty-fifth birthday and chatter, continued to nct as brides at her jokes. She Krew Accustomed

maid and never as bride.

to people thinking he

Then her father's friend, father. Thomas Taipan, came home

from Hongkong. And,

WOULD you prefer Judith's lot as the spoilt pet of the elderly taipan, or Nell's hectic life as Neither, you

the dashing young Neville's wife?

may say, is the ideal marriage. But if you had to choose between the two situations discussed below,.. which would you select? ·

was her

On the Channel steamer he met

Af an old friend, and they discussed a trand party they had had after the

ter years spent where white arst night of the "Dollar Erincess.";

were hard to get Judith had never heard of the "Dol-

women

at, Judith, so gay, so modern, Thr Princess."

By

Muriel Segal

understood it to

so impulsive, bowled him right And the talpan often whistled airs which he was amazed that she didn't off his feet. She was u trille

recognise.

"It's from 'Our Miss naughty, perhaps, but, bless me, Gibbs, a great show," he would that impudence delighted him. "But you children only like filma

What a little devil she was, to be Tlie taipan disliked films and didn't then, does she tire of being the same "racket." It all seemed ver

know Joan Crawford Jean "spolit baby"; why does the dream vague and Nell

from sure.

Hal-Hal And the handsome, know white-haired man of 89 (61 on his Harlow. As Judith was a film fan of a husband who needs her to mean something to do with specula- 26-year-old this rather cramped her conversation. mother him and spoll him? Why tions. It entailed spending a lot of passport) Indulged the

But the taipan continues to adore does Judith envy Nell?

money and going places and doing things to inspire confidence" and lovely in all her whims and fancies.

this was grand fun. Judith enjoyed being spoiled, for her for being gay and mischievous the young men hung her contem- or childlike and helpless, and pam- poraries were not apt to spoil their pets her and protects her girl-friends. And the taipan was so showers her with gifts and utten- distinguished-looking, too. And well tons.

off. People with plenty of money

were a rare blessing. And she would

go big as the talpan's wife.

date.

her.

and

com-

TELL is Judith's cousin. They are the same age and similar in looks and disposition, both attractive and amusing and high-spirited. Nell was WHEN Neville very much in love with her Chlet,

pram-hunting and pitcher-knitting. She, too, wants to discuss proms and cast-on for pitchers.

But Neville says: "Later-things are too unsettled Just now to take on further responsibilities in the way of familles." So they go on a cruise with a dozen other Gay Young Marrieds to make up for not having! hables.

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1 And the end of the flower is

silence.

7 Where they simply tear after

wine in Ireland.

It's quite unpredictable, but the cat has turned tail--and you have to first (two words, 4, 2). 11 Always in a reverie.

12 Sheep in underground tunnel. 19 This guard might be rather a

drawback.

and Nell were married the fun continued fast

two of them NEVILLE is ever generous with turned to be Mrs. Chief. So get along famously. Nell has never Nell and loves to ace her beauti- So, one day this paper published THEIR home is a pleasant house in but one day a lady turned up who and furiously. The Judith's picture, wearing

the country where the taipan mother's pearls and her sister's fox has lived as a boy. His two sisters Nell turned to her childhood friend led a very "social" life before, and fully turned out and the gayest and though she recognises that Neville's wittiest of their crowd of elegant Neville for consolation. to

not exactly "county" and amusing friends. fur, and the caption said she was to live near by. They are kind

Neville's idea of consoling a girl friends are

On the few occasions when they marry Thomas H. Taipan at an early Judith, but she has nothing in with 1 cracked (but not broken) they are all amusing and fairly in-

and things are 16ver dull.

are alone together they have mon with them.

16 Poet and high ecclesiastic. The taipan golfs and walks with heart was a solid week of hectic tee blackest moments are when, much to laugh over and discuss that

17 Makes slack. other middle-aged gents, and when nights of 'doing the town.

By the time Nell and Neville had occasionally. Neville returns home their momenta tete-a-tete, are al! too

holiday, play, enjo

10 Sings in notes that have been 'doing the

a panic because something has short. They they in n

altered, HE

E took her on a honeymoon which Judith brings any young people

same happened conducted home they treat her husband with finished

other and leaving them penni- lates each

and their high 21 Keeps its cap on indoors. was rather like a

matters students' tour, because he had been great respect and veneration, but found that they shared the

food. Пms,

music, less. Although

straighten spirits seldom flag, sharing their 23 A commanding position to be

held by a mere toy. youth and exploring all life's plea-24 You must double them before everywhere so often, and he knew are not at ease with him.

Judith has her car, her garden, road-houses,

out eventually there is always e Just what he wanted her to see. And

comfortable home, servants, people, shows and holidays.

Neville makes plenty of money feeling of dreadful insecurity.

And

started to envy

they are. especially he wanted her to see the her

soon Nell

But sometimes, in her bath, Nell 25 Rome for the Romans.. -things-his-first wife (long dead) had security for fe, friends, an adoring

husband-whom any woman.could out of something that he calls a particularly admired.

sick Cockney,

He continued to be an

town'

that

tastes in humour, drinks, books, them out" it looks like "cleaning themselves and their galety stimu-

sures.

0 Sometimes these may become the farmer's bete noir, le, darn pests.

nol

10 William. by this count was

the Conqueror.

14 This age is an allowance of so

much in one.

15 How the ferryman got across, 18 Though he takes a walk with a roller he is not, necessarily, a keen gardener.

20 Take your turn for a ride. 21 Put up with the vessel? What

Fauce!

22 Type of architectura-or just

type.

| 20 Falshes: just too soon.

27 Converse of plain.

Yesterday's Solation. MACHIAVELLIA 】 PTAIN XAORU«R

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"TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

There are Facts

in your Larder

When you eat a clove you are eating a dried, unexpanded flower-bud from the clove-tree that groics forty feet high in the romantic Moluccas, or Spice. Islands. The flower-bud turns from pale-flame to crimson, and when it is crimson, not yet unfolded, it is ready to be picked, dried, stored, and shipped.

First captains of the clove trade were the Dutch. To capture it the men of other countries fought and died for a hundred years, and the victors for one whole century, the sixteenth, were the Portuguese, erpelled at last in 1605.

To Mauritius and Gufana and Brazil the French took the seeds to make their own plantations for the production of the most coveted of spices. The clove war was still on when the Dutch planted in Java and Sumatra, and in the end the victory toas theirs, for from these two countries comes the clove we buy in England.

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Cloves to the value of £40,000 30,000 cut, of them, come into the United Kingdom annually. You and I buy it in packets of a few ounces each, for a few pence, but the clove keeps thousands of natives in rice and loin-cloths on the plantations of the East.

Dentists use oil of cloves as a favourite local anaesthetic for fractious nerves, rasped by the drill. Who hasn't chewed a clove to try to stop that aching tooth?

with a peaceful, settled-down hus- band to look after her. Security: rest and peace! And Judith had them all.

Lucky Judith, sighed Nell, as she got ready to catch the Golden Arrow plane en route for Biarritz.

Cinders!

THERE'S nothing like a cinder-

fire for toast-making, but cinders are dirty to look at, dirty to handle and won't "stay put." So try this method.

Save all your small brown paper

bags from the green-

bag grocer's. Fill cach

with cinders and twist the corners just as the man in the shop does. When the fire is nice and bright place a bag of cinders carefully on the top. Nert time the fire needs making up use coal, but the time after another bag of cinders may be gently placed in position, and so on.

Never add einders when the fire getting low. They will only deaden it.

This is a clean and practical method of disposing of cinders. It has the added advantage, too, of making one. fect virtuous af the exercise of so thuch economy.

29 Birds that would appear to have swallowed some most unsuitable vegetable matter.

30 Might be the last racy place in the London vleinity (twu words, 7, 8).

2 Ilackneyed?

DOWN

3 Measure the first and last of a

Yankee herd.

4 Cold and aloof.

5 Cupid. With

little very

structural alteration, would be a perfect Eun-havch, though so rough,

7 Moderate nip (onag.).

8 MONDI

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MODUS OPERANDI

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1936 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated it $25,000, against which the Income. to date is $18,000 only.

In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of

$7,000

before the close of the financial year on Bist

October.

Hon. Treasurerat

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & 0. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chino,

Hongkong.

SALESMAN SAM

Slightly

Changed

By Small

3

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A "Filmo" Straight-8

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$250 in Cash Prizes

to be won in the

Hongkong Telegraph's 6th ANNUAL AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

SAM, YOU'VE BEEN UP TO MIS-

CHIEF WITH THAT BOW AND

ARROW! WHAT WAS THAT CRASH.

ER-UH- (GLUB)

IT'S

SHIVERS, WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DINING ROOM? I HEARD

SAM'S QUITE RIGHT MADAM!

I JUST HEARD IN THE DINING ROOM? NOTHING! A LOUD NOISE BUT SAM SAYS IT IS NOTHING-

PLINK

IT NOTHING

NOW

BUT IT USED TO BE YOUR CRYSTAL

CHANDELIER

EEKD

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