1936-10-08 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1936.

detail

of urch

Crochet

this JABOT

Abbreviations:

Ch., chain; d. er, double crochet; tr., tréble.

This front makes a delight【at finish to a little print-

ed frock or a tailored blouse.

The pattern is worked with a very fine crochet col..

ton or silic, and is easly and quickly made.

"Begin at the centre,

Work 5 chain and Jole in a ring. Into this ring work 10 d. er, then in the follow- ing row, 2 d. cr. In each d.. er; of the row before; work thus for 4 rows, increasing in each row.

At the 0th row, begin to work in loops; each loop in the first row of loops consists of 4 ch; catch the loops with -slip stitch into every other d. cr. of the preceding row. In the next how make loops of 5 ch., and catch them with a slip stitch into the centre of the preceding loop: work every row in the same way, but increase the size of the loops in each row by one ch. until there are 14 ch.. in each loop., Work 4 rows with loops of 14 ch., and then break off, fastening the thread securely.

Dip in a stiff starch, to give it definite shape when ironed. The jabot should trill and look like a glant butterfly.

MOLLY CASTLE, on her way round. the world with a a suitcase: reaches. CHINA, goes

goes shopping and has a-

PICNIC

in

PEKING

HANGHAI, they say, Isn't China, and may- be, the way things are, there are very few places that are now-a-days.

But Peking (which

in itself is no longer Felting but Peiping) had is exnetly what Imagined China ought --to-be, and that in itself

is n help to a traveller."

The

Chinese, onu had from childhood been led to expect are

-motor-car when I went drifting pienteking in that direction.

"They claimed they would run me all over town

for a week for 5s.

t tools a

a patient race who spend most of vying with each other to take me 'one' lifetime carving a set of little greater speed, in further direc-

inside one an- tions, and for less-money. boxes to fit neatly

other out of a solid block of ivory,

so that comiq Ittle Occidental child

may play with them for half an hour

or

whence they came.

☆

THEY claimed - that

would run

all

decorative. more

·

the first part of their claim was cer broker's has, for instance, a long temple here which is more decora- | tainly true, (59. I figured, was really black and gold pole with a strange Seen on map or from the air too little for all that mileage, even gold dragon's head on it. Peking looks just like a set of those, though it had been mostly in'wrong carved boxes. But it has certainly directions.) tuken more than one generation tu

HERRINGS FOR THE BREAKFAST TABLE

TUSH is idrát, for a light break-

Fast-end none so sice is a well-prepared herrin. For nat only are there mang simple ways of serving this delicious fish, but the herring is one of the cheapest and most nourishing foods that we can buy.

+

deal with the fresh herring Wave you tried it fried in catmeal? It is so quickly cooked this way that it is an ideal method for breakfast.

:

Herrings Fried

in Oatmeal

Remove the heads and tails from the Ash and wipe dry. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Dip in beaten CHK and then in coarse, oatmeal. Meanwhile, be getting your fat hot, really hot, When a blue smoke is rising, pop in the Ash and fry briskly for Ave to ten minutes according to the thickness of the fish. Don't put more than two fish in the pan at once or you will reduce the heat of the fat too much. Drain on kitchen paper and serve piping hot.

Filleted Baked"

Herring

If your family is inclined to com. plain of the hones in a herring, try this method. It is a good plan to prepare the fish overnight in this

case.

Cut off the heals and tails and split the Ash down the undorskie. Place the cut side down on a board

and press gently but Armly up and down the backbone. Turn the fish over and you will find that you can If the backbone out quite easily, bringing most of the small bones with it.

Now season the underside of each fish with salt and pepper and spread from with tomato sauce. Roll up the tail end and pack into a buttered casserole. Put a tiny shaving of butter on top of each roll. .

In the morning all you have to do. is to pop the casserole In a moderate oven and bake for about ten minutes. Incidentally, there is practically no smell from herrings cooked like thin if you cover the casserole with a lid or greaseproof paper,

Grill Your Kippers

this Way

flat-bottomed long in rowboat on a lake covered in lotus leaves with summer palaces and thered pagodas rising in all direc tions; with carved, fantastic, camel- DEFORE passing through the back: bridges connecting one bed of a picnic jast of the gates in the reeds to another; with last of the walls on our way to the basket tucked into the stern. shopping streets. Most of there were hila, we drove all along the longest for catered Chinese, but a few

HE place to lunch is on foreigners. For instance, there was

Jude Spring 11, where The Peking Graft

jade water bubbles out of the ground Sporting Shop: Rack" und "The

The Chinese

shops have signs into a crystal lake (they bottle this they quisite, well-known signs llice sur ut a factory round the corner, but so, und, turning restlessly to

over barbers! poles and pawnbrokers you must pretend to ignore pro-

gress). something else, put them back in

everything Chinese, There is a ruined, overgrown cabinet town for a week for 5s. or less, and signs, but, like ornament grandmother's

Their Dawn-

tive than the temples which still sland. It is fun to lunch sitting astride a large carved turtle with a leaning pagoda above you.

After lunch you must visit the ND the ol clo' man has Temple of the Azure Cloud, which an embroidered mandarin has a chumber of horrors contain- coolles have their pride. Ose way coat waving from his pole. Three ing five hundred disciples of Buddna, of showing it is never to admit that bones with a red hanky below points twice life-size, and all except one peculiarly sinister

Wipe the kipper, with a damp cloth they don't know where it was you you to a small restaurant. A horge grinning in a

hair shop has Avo talis, three block, manner. The one who hasn't ony-

Marco Polu.

and cut off its head Make your It took me all of Manchuria and wanted to go until they have, bump- two white. A human hair shop is thing to laugh about

This is the kind of place that quite a bit of China to get accused you through sinister side alleys more superior: there are seven foils, tomed to the idea of riding around for bulf an hour, in the opposite way, all black.

makes you thirsty, to the thing to geil hot, grease the grid and put the Pedlars sell fans and sunshades do a to go along to still another kipper on skin side to the heat, In a carrloge driven by man-power.

Even if you don't tell them where and fly-swatters and feather dusters. temple which has a beer garden at and grill for a minute or two. Any However, when once I had hold of the idea I went right on doing you are heading for at all they will The dusters are made of curly, shot- tached. They cool the beer in the rat that falls from the fish will thus It is the Temple of the Sleeping be caught by the toast beneath it them in their, Halls for visitors to

Buddha, and, there he is, the old It: mainly because it was easter, to run rally for a few hundred Kreen cock feathers. People hang micred spring ride than to walk, hainpered on all yards down the street before asking use on their dusty shoes.

Peking is a dusty place.. Half of gentleman, twenty feet long, all the dust from the Gobi Desert whirls fucked up in his eklerdown with a sides by the two hundred or three where you wanchee go. hundred of these human animals. The Chinese, think the Europeans around its streets, rising again wis- pleased expression on his face. He's who cluttered -up the roadway spoil the ricksha boys and will pily half an hour after a rainfall has so fast asleep he probably doesn't even know about die beer garden.

build, and needs more than half an hour or half a year to tire of its pos- afbilities.

For it seems that the ricksha

A

A grilled kipper is a truly British dish, but have you tried one actually slice of buttered grilled over toast? Make the toast, trim off the crusty edges, butter lightly, and then lay it on a grilling pan.

Now turn the kipper fleshy side.

up and put a nut of butter on it. Grill for

three minutes.

two

Wo

Serve on the toast with a clash of

around me claiming in loud voices have one drag him out to the West- fald it low.

All these you see and more on Or it may be that he's dreaming; pepper, and, if you like it, a squeeze

that a ricksha is for white Missty ern Hills, twelve miles out of town, your way out to the Western Hills. about it. indispensable method of travel, and back, all in a morning. Myself, And eventually you find yourself

SALESMAN SAM

HERE'S AN IDEAL SPOT, DUZZ! LETS CAMP HERE!

And that is a Peking picnic.

IDEAL, NUTHIN' TH GROUND'S TOO LOW! CAMPIN' NEAR A LAKE MEANS TOO MANY MOSQUITOS! KEEP LOOKIN'!

of lemon.

How About AMountain Peak?

WELL, HOW 'BOUT THIS PLACE, YOU

OL' FUSSER ?

FOR JAZZ PIANO

ENTHUSIASTS.

HOT BREAKS FOR THE PIANO. Sheftel

MODERN SYNCOPATED BREAKS & ENDINGS, Garratt.

HOW TO PLAY RACTIME. Winn's. HOW TO RAG & JÁZZ. Winn's.

CHORD & JAZZ BOOK. Winn's.

HOW TO PLAY JAZZ & BLUES: Winn's:

MODERN JAZZ PIANO COURSE. Rube Bloom

TEN LESSONS FOR PIANO. Zez-Confrey.

- TÚTOR COURSE IN MODERN SYNCOPATION, Billy Mayer). BLUE BREAKS FOR PIANO (Easy to Play But Blue) Shefte. JAZZ BREAKS. TRICKS, BLUES, ENDINGS, etc.

BLUE BREAKS.

MODERN PIANO METHOD.

Vincent Lopes.

LOOK & PLAY. VAMPING TUTOR,

LEARN TOSPLAY POPULAR MUSIC IN 60 MINUTES.

and

A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTY PIANO SOLOS including

THE GRASSHOPPERS DANCE (just arrived).

TSANG FOOK PIANO. COMPANY, Marina House, 19 Queen's Road, C Tel. 24648.

OUR BRITISH

of

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ACROSS

24

$13

$15k

In these liappy hunting grounds it seems unlikely that there will be notices to "Keep off the Grass" (two words, 7, 8). 9 Insul

10 Sea term for vessel

11 Likely to make its polit felt 12 Thus, by the mountain you will

And A trunk."

13 Stays in an organ.

15, They are necessary for feneihg. JB It comes back as a feature of the work before last, I can see. 17 Voraciously cats.

20 Catches one blow, anyway. 22 Wearies in old dresses. 23 Carries on from day to day. 25 Fold in a simple attachment.. 36 Shows a legendary lady out- side u Hertfordshire town, quite unconscious.

27 Trapsailantte city.

28 County that has caught your

eye lately.

DOWN

2 It would seem to be impossible to get such a garment right on Thyphen, 4, 3).

NOFE! 'TWON'T DO! WE GOTTA KEEP LOOKIN'! THIS IS STILL Too Low FER A CAMP!

3 So now, for a change, try a faint

clue.

to such 4 Art is afinest

everything people.

5 Bound to give an opening which

it happen.

6 Fuull

7 Cut Aslan, O! girl (anag).

8 A drink you imagtae? Well,

mental absorption, anyway.

HEY, WISE GUY, THERE'S NO COCOANUTS IN THIS NECK OTH' WOODS!

CROSSWORDS

110.

10

14

10 Fashion

121

tuke

13 Nationally, one would

shelter In such unpleasant wanther conditions..

14 Musical Indignities.

18 This hussy does not hide her

agc.

19 As a clue this is a very good riddle. What is the answer?

20 but ten times the number. 21 The cutter that is never with-

but an audience.

24 You will notice that a vehicle has been overturned in this piece of land,

25 It is necessary to play cricket, though, of course, the bowler mustn't.

----Yesterday's Solution.

WANED AVERNAKE

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ADVERTISE

where there is no

doubt about

CIRCULATION

IPAINT

WHO SAID THERE WAS?

I'M JEST. LOOKIN' FER

A PLACE HIGH ENUF.

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