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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1936,
ROUND
ABOUT by
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The Showman
ERE is a joke to begin with. I have just cribbed it from au American magazine story; and I make this confession chiefly to prevent the Man with the Iron Teeth claiming as his original work-somewhere about 1801,
This is the Joke:--
Man: "Do you feel like a ratulwich?“ Ooll: "Why, do I look like ole?" Polite laughter from the Bearded Woman of Wopps-on-the-Wold, and clenching noises from the Man withi the Iron Teeth.
Nordic Noses
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The most polar ball-room tune in Germany at the moment, I'm Danzig with my Thunb to my Note,
Thin particular gesture, adds my Berlin correspondent, has been en forced by Governmental decree on s'l Germans whenever they are discuss ing or reading about the League of Nations. Everyone was practising on Bunday and yesterday,
There was one tragedy, Herr - ter, who was practising before a mirror. Aukdenly realised that he was corking a snook at himself. The whole affair is being hushed up.
The Noble Yening Man...
One source of Informations rarely Tails the Thin time it bubbles up with the announcement that Ass WAN "having an exciting time waltzing with Viscount -- win was in gerat
Well, that conjures up i pir FAST, doesn't it? Let's g
Team: "Whoo-nope! Whon-gops** Bars: Whoo-oop: Whooangia!" Sopranos: Où, she flies through the room like a traf in the mar
A-kuneking doen
Contratos: " downers everywhere.
AN: "
The Viscomet) is
her round by her hair,
"He's right at the tip of his form!" Percussion: "Pom pom!!
PS. She had an exciting time.
Quoted As Written
A very drawn freckleless girl told me that if I eat spinnch every day I shan't produce a speck of a freck.“
What a cute little beaut!
Wags' Corner JME Jénce the hắn to be littler
came to the wilfer with a notice.
cir pups in his trent tretis
lulle," they said. had an a drut?"
No; only a row with the missus," And she hit you as hard as th
Oh, no, the didn't. But the next time I sh my teeth at her 7 be careful to take my pipe nut Best
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MOLLY
CASTLE
going round the world with a suitcase reaches the point where East meets West, Learns
How
ITH મ few moun-
W tainous exceptions and
the
Lake Baikal, scenery along the route of the Moscow-Manchuria ex- press is all the same: open fields full of wild flowers, with wide, swift, log- spattered rivers meandering through; great cultivated areas, and everywhere clumps of slender silver birch trees among dark firs.
It is the sort of scenery you would expect to see anywhere in North Europe multiplied by thousands of miles, and about seven interminable But that makes days on a train, quite a sum.
And then suddenly, overnight, you are in the Far East. You have come to the place where East meets West, and It is quite true that there are barbed wire entanglements between.
This, then, is Manchuria,
Beach Suit Jacket
Manchouli 1 gave the remains of my bottled fruit (they said I need vitamins) to a picturesque porter. He went away with it, grinning a toothless but delighted grin, chattering in per- feel imitation of Nelson Keys.
On the platform al
In spite of the notice that "Accord- ing to miritory authorities (sie) it is strong prohibited to take any mea- sures or plans," I made a sketch of his blue linen, red-applique'd jacket; I intend to have 11 copied for a beach suit.
Between Manchouli and Harbin I hud
my passport exumined about the times, wrote out twenty-live story of my life for the benefit of
to throw a CHOPSTICK
party
countless Jop officials at every way was suspicious of me from the mo- side station (ean they be going to ment he saw me counting the mag- circulate it in schools?); narrowly avoided being shot by the tough- ples out of the window (he thought I looking armed guard stationed at the Was counting the guns); stayed the entrance of my compartment, who Manchouli where even the cock had - melancholy crow; found out a new way to cook beans and how to use chopsticks.
THE HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
night in a White Russian hotel in
Very Little Skill
AS to the chopsticks, there is very little skill attached, it is all a myth put out by the people who make Poons and forks. I intend to give
What to do to help a child.
Anyone knowing of a child who has been assaulted, neglected, or Ill-treated in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health, or knowing of parent who is seeking advice on
I shall serve bowls of steaming any matter concerning a child, savoury rice with another falter would be doing an act of kindness | bowl over the top to keep the heat in. by communicating ht once with-
They call on such dish Dombouri
a chopstick party when I get home, and you can all come and see how easy it is.
The Hon. Secretaries, H.K.S.P.C. and it has scrambled egg, and bits of c/o G.P.O. Box No. 513, Hongkong, ¦ chicken, and began shoots mixed up or the Inspector, 49, Pokfulum in it, and it is served with an accom- sauce and Road, 1st floor; or the Inspector, paniment of mandarin
Violet Peel Health Centre, Wan-
chai; or the Inspector, 12, Sal Yeung Kowloon.
A further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society. The Informant's name will be kopt strictly private, except in cases where malice is proved.
Chal Street, Ist floor,
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE
Acupuncture, Moxocatein and Bone Betting Holder of Japaness and Hongkong Governe ment Licence, Cores Sprained Ankles and Write, Recommended for many Year Local Hospitals and Doctors.
4. Wyndham Street. (1st floor), Tel. 26051.
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
by
J
A'S
"I made a sketch of bis blue linen, red applique'd Jacket; I intend to have it copied for a beach sult.”
SALESMAN SAM
have
buy you wonder it can ever been worth any one's while to make them. There is certainly no Shop Hours Act, and for all I know, with no proof to the contrary, the shops stay open all night.
Shirley Temple Frocks
UAINT little kimono'd Japanese
Qu
women patter along the shopping streets in their wooden sandals, de- companied by Europeanised, spec- tacled husbands.
They buy fans and sunshades and lengths of material for their kinonos: gally patterned, narrow-width cot- tons and silks.
frocks for
They buy Westernised their babies (whom they still carry, however, sleeply suspended from their backs).
Their children's
frocks are, like
ours, modelled from Shirley Temple's. They carry a label with her portratt, | a little sloe-eyed and black-haired, but recognisable.
A
Bungalows
Are Cheap
CIRCUS along one of the main streets attracts a big crowd. It
is a brightly lit circus with a drop curtain on which sprawl golden dragons.
There are a couple of elephants and some monkeys outside to draw a man people in, but instead of
"Walk shouting
up, walk up," there is a gramophone playing a
"Just a matter of shovelling
and hoping
green Japanese len in cups.
handleless
tune.
The tune is "Come,
all ye faithful.".
A le outside the town the bathing
benches start,
The Pacific looks very blue and
The cups are much more difcult cool, and the twisty little sandy bays, to negotiate than the chopsticks, rock-sputtered, very inviting, which, when it comes to it, are just
a matter of shovelling and hoping, The coast is volcanie, and abrupt, and altogether casier to manipulate pointed hills shoot up of them are in than a knife covered with peas, or the sea itself, forming improbable. bendy asparagus,
They do say that bean shoots would decorative Islands. grow in any London window box, and when I get to Peiping I will find out more about it and let you know.
Open All Night
THE new way of cooking beans- the ordinary garden variety thin time is to shred them, and boll them as usual, then mix them up with
There are good hotels to stay in, fine bungalows to let cheap (about £1 a week with four bedrooins), There is American foodt and soft- footed Japanese service.
A Dinner Costs 2/6
:
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HOT BREAKS FOR THE PIANO. Shefte.
MODERN SYNCOPATED BREAKS & ENDINGS, Garratt.
HOW TO PLAY RAGTIME. Winn's.
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CHORD & JAZZ BOOK. Winn's.
HOW TO PLAY JAZZ & BLUES. Winn's,
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Rube Bloom,
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BLUE BREAKS FOR PIANO (Easy 'to Play But Blue! Shefte.
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and
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTY PIANO SOLOS including
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THE GRASSHOPPERS DANCE (just arrived).
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY,
Marina House, 19 Queen's Road, C. ́.
Tel. 24648.
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7 Declined in a feeble sort of way. 8 In this forest one does not sce a snake in a state; quite the opposite.
10 Cry like a chlid.
11 Prohibition, not early, though, of one way to arrange figures. 12 The jazz composer's version of it might be "make it jerky." I ⚫ think.
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Adds for the children.
15 Before it might be a ten.
beaten-up egg, pour into a flat, well- AN eight-course dinner at the best 18 Being an alien he gets the sack. buttered lin And bake enough to set the egg.
Just long
of the hotels cost less than half-
a-crown, and a taxi will drive you
I am staying now in a very elegant ten miles along the coast for is. 6d.
coast town called Nairen, und if you'
have ever heard of it you are better This seems strange after Moscow, up in geography than I was.
where a car, if you can get it, is apt Nobody, not even the hotel man- to cost £1 an hour. ager.
seems to know its official ad- dress.
Other things
seem strange too; His guess was that South Man- fruit shops full of fruit; beggars; real churin would find
it. Originally plumbing. Anglo-American style: China owned it, but nobody has re- membered that for a good many tips: men instead of horses pulling years, not even China.
carriages and waggons;. wide varie .. Russians started to build it.. but ties of Imported foodstuffs; obse-
they lost it to the Japs in the Russo-Japanese war.
quious, bowing servants tripping over
It is a fine town all right, with you and each other, instead of the wide, macadamed main streets and courteous self-service to which I was small side shopping streets which are getting accustomed; small wood it at nights by glass electrical Jan-
great
terns slung across the streets on those ploughing deeply through odd-shaped wooden archies which you tracts of countryside; self-conscious- may see in any Japanese print,
ly picturesque scenery and settings.
Even the women are part of it.
It is very picturesque, and the things in the shops are so cheap to
20 Joining it in the middle or
thereabouts.
22 German: here you may safely.
a mistake. make a
24 Continent.
26 The height that gives freedom
from restraint.
29 A very suitable place "down under" in which to have a danes with a deserter.
30 They show audible approval. 31 Malingerers' tipple? 32 This is even the same back-
wards.
DOWN
1 Brother Jonathan's flower?
The fighting forces adopt an old line with serious faults.
3 Picture of it box containing
nothing.
4 Grammutical und arithmetical word that is forbidden in Ger-
5 Ornament never worn by the
Legless Wonder. 6 You can always cut a steak from
this fish, even if small.
D Might be able-Napoleon cer-
tainly was to leave it.
13 What receivers do.
16 Street known to all Oxford
men.
17 This Clue is plain.
ID Of course, the head of the com-
pany may be a rich man.
21 Staggered like anything, so Ed-
ward took the beast inside.
23 Granting it must have no head
well, you've then solved it.
25 Lemons supply the answer here,
however said it may bel
27 Though professional sailors And this pretty hard, yachtsmen 'think nothing of it.
28 Sounds like easy money in
India, but is it?”,
Yesterday's Solution.
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AND
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