1936-10-09 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Friday, October, 9, 1936.

A Yorkshire Tea lovely to eat · and

easy to make

GINGERBREAD

You

YOU need 11. flour, 2ozs, lard and butter mixed, 2oza, sugar,

Poza, currants, 4 of a teaspoonful of baking powder, 1⁄4 of

a teaspoonful of carbonate of ñeda, and of n teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Rub the lard and butter into the flour and mix everything in with a little milk. Roll this out and cut it into rounda. Bake the scones in a quick oven on a greased baking tin for 20 minutes.

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SCONES.

pot this use b. flour, Valb, butter, luz, sustur, Gors, treacle,

4 teaspoonful of hating powder, 1 teaspoonful of ground ginger, and one egg. 1 in very easy to make. You just rub the butter Into the flour, mix in the rest by degreen (with a ittle milk if necessary), and bake for an hour in a moderate

oven.

FRUIT CAKE

AST of all a cake mixture:

LA

Three PA, 4lb. of castor

sugar, Zoza, of eltron peel, 2oza, of orenite peel, Zoza, of lemon peel (all preserved, of course), 15lb. of butter, lib, ot- sultanas, 10ozs, of flour.

You cream the butter and sugar and mix in the rest in the usual way and bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a quarter. You can eat this cake with cheese like a true Yorkshireman-It's very good,

For Our Junior Readers

T

DEEP SEA TRAVELLERS

BROUG11 the water, Kreat sheet of slivery bodien twists and squirms, The her-

ring are on

the move.

In their midst dart and khap torpedo- raped giants, tome 10 feet in length, beneath whose gleaming senten les mansive cont of Nature's own Armour.

Record-Breaking FISH

again. make long Journeys, hol only across the sea, but 11 D our rivers. where, leaping over swiriin K rapids, Focks and other bar- rem, they f

breeding

The herring are on the more, and with them the giant kunny.

They aro tunny, the fam- oun ghting fish. Weighing up to 1,00015, the Lunny puts up a terrifio struggle, Jasting sometimes 12 hours, before being landed on rod and line.

These Allantic glanta, in reality an outsize species of mackerel, take heavy toll of the herring shonis. They flest attack them off the Shetlands in early summer, and pursue them down the East Coast.

Bu iho tunhy will travel no further south than Spurn Head, Arrived of this landmark in autumn, they sud- denly vanish. Where they go for the winter is a mystery,

More than 60 specimens have bren marked with identity dises, bụt so far not one has been recantured. Sulton.

ground.

In June Jaze

Fear & grise ta salmon

roung

In a rental

gear) was cop- red in a bog close to Bergen, Nor WAY. It WOR marked and al- lowri 50 KO free, only to be recaptureti a

Jew weeks Inter

on the east of Scotland. That grilse, having travelled not less than 400 mira. hok the recorti in animan journeys.

But all the record-breaking trophies belong, rightly, to the eels. For three years the myriad hosts of ribbon-like, semi-transparent elvers, or young eels, born in a vast ocean cradle 100 fathoms drep off Bermuda, wriggle their way to our rivers, 3.000 miles away.

Ten, three years later, the old cel, obedient to Nature's hidden sumurons, creep out of our ponds and streamTA, often slithering overland through long grüsse to live nearest waterway, and so swim back to their far-away birth- place, where they lay their ergs,

ONE MORNING YOU WILL BE SAYING—

BRHH !!

IT'S CHILLY--THINK

I'LL WEAR MY TWEED

SUIT.:

But is it really in fit condi- tion to wear? It would ba wise to have a look at it now, as well as your other winter clothing, and should they require cleaning and smartching up send them right away for

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25 Questions

Which two of the following qualities do you firat demand in a woman: (a) amiability, (b) pretti- nesk, (c) beauty, (d) attractiveness, (e) domesticity, (f) brains, (a) motherliness (li) séz appeal?

2. Other things being equal, would you prefer to marry a blonde or a brunette?

Do your mind going out with

a woman who is taller than you are?

4. Do you prefer (a) petite. (b) fall, rej plump, (d) slím, (e) medium, women?

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5. Do you mind whether or not

a saman siccars?

6. Do you prefer a woman få have (a) blue, (b) brawn, (c) Jhazel, (d) grey spent

7. Do you like a woman to wear her hair, (a) long, (b) clone cut. (c) medin?

8. Do you like a woman to wear (a) little" make-up, (b) not very noticcable make-up, (e) plenty of make-up?

9. Do you prefer a woman'a nails to be (a) heavily painted; Į(b) slightly thifed, (e) just par-

nished, (d) natural?

10. Do you like a woman who prefers dogs to children?

11. Do you like to be seen in [public with tremen who wear taj noticeably fashionable clothes, (b) quiet, tasteful clothes?

12. Do you think women should smoke (a) in private, (b) in public, (c) not at all?

13. Do you mind if a woman combs her hair and attends to her -make-up in public?

14 Do you think a woman jooka her best in (aj evening clothes, (b) day clother, fe) sports clothes?

15. Do put prefer a icoman to rear: (a) high, (b) low, (c) medtem, heels on her shoes?.

16. Which type of voice do you like best in women: (a) contralto.

(b) soprano, (e)' mezzo?

17. Wordd you rather a woman (a) helped you to choose a dinner, (b) expected you to choose it pour- Acifi

18. Would you like to marry reoman whose" income was larger than yours?

19. Do you like a woman icho in (a) firm (b) lenient, with Her- vants?

20. Do you like a wonían teha likes to give you good advice?

21. Do you admire women wha ave good at athletten?

Are you induly upset by a woman in tears, or can pori deal. with her sympathetically and en- couragingly?

23. Do yog, like the woman who expecte and accepts courtesies from men, or the woman who xsbrugs her shoulders at them?

24. Do you think a wife should have a joby

25. What is your iden of a real- ly attractive woman?-Not than 200 warda.

NOTC

designed to find out kind of women

what

men

find attractive

• Last Tuesday the "Telegraph"

published these questions.

Here are some of the answers

sent in.

She doesn't worry; she has about her an atmosphere of simple good- ness; knows her own mind; in generous, no spendthrift, pagal- tibout: Is loyal, brave, and truly feminine.

If the house burns down she will start building up a make-shift home with a few old pocking cases and odds and ends of ting.

Of course, she is beautiful-ll good women are. But she would never earn any money as n m slor.

And, it goes without saying, she

an is a food cool. woman is one who is To act according to her own con...

science rather than conform to

She

plump, well-propor- conventional standards. Not jealous

without good cause.

SHE need not be exceptionally, I tioned and good-natured."

Social: To be ready for what-. good looking, she need not ever comes along, be it work, play, dress at the height of fashion, she wealth or poverty; fond of open air need not make up like a painted must have a pleasant and simple pursuits, able to cycle doll. She and drive a car; ready to take an personally. intelligent interest in things

has beautiful urmus, rather, than a pretly face; has corn-coloured is completely feminine: up- hair: preciates the beauty of her figure, and does not malce herself miserable trying to slim.

Has a placid, soothing tempera- ment; is a good pul; laughs a lot; doesn't worry; accepts masculine admirers as a normal tribute to her

charms.

Doesn't bother with politics; likes home, children, animals, the theatre, and a "binge"; doesn't, take anything too seriously, but is helpful and con- structive when asked for advice: likes music generally: wears the clothes I like, and likes me.

HE

M. K.

·IJERE ore the characteristics of my

attractive woman;

Physical: Height,5 x 8 in., weight, 9 al., brown hair and bright brown eyes, medlum · figure, well- developed.

Mental: Good

common sense rather thun book learning. Able to say exactly what she', means" and means exactly what she says. To show pleasure or resentiment if and when she feels it.

out-

She should be interested in life side her sphere, such as mechanics, as It Is not as she would like it

S.A.H.

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to be. She should be able to mix well and should learn to close her cars to little-tattle.

CHE must be a helpful companiond efficient, and should be able to She should be quick, practical and guide as well as a lover,

run a home with the greatest of sympathetic and intelligent.

Well-mannered, able to hold her be fond of children.

ease, should learn to cook well, and own in company and in a discus- sion, yet not self-opinionated or intolerant. She must have poise and dignity, and yet be able to enter naturally into frolic.

L.A.J.

Nattractive woman must be of A medium height, have an intelli- She must have a fem code of

be broadminded sent face, and a figure built in pro- morality, but

must enough to accept for other people portion. to her height. She

have natural grace, other codes than her own. She

She must be quick of decision and. be unselfish must

amiable, ready to act in cases of emergency: gentle but not sentimental, fond of sympathetic when needed and 4 children, yet not obsessed by then, staunch friend in trouble,

and

Above all, she must have charm

Her attractiveness would be in- and grace, a sense of humour, and creased by a judicious display of a elcar, unbingsed mind.

temper when warranted. Any woman loses in attractiveness if she allows herself to be bullied or dominated. To me, that. "Hifle bit

IT is mighty hard to discover in of devil" counts much, and adds to

Moral Faithful to the man of which we all admire in Darby's wife sonality. her cholce, but not a prude. Rather Joan.

SALESMAN SAM

L.S

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ACROSS

If the second letter were "A." the athlete might And the two words incompatible.

5 Double the last letter and this old instrument would be a wine barrel.

Stroke for a keen batsman.

10 Flower.

11

Lasting description embracing a

bird.

12 Think of some connections be-

tween sailors and the sea.

13 You might see through it, but it

would scare you all the same. 15 Number.

17 Sounded like a bow I think, 19 China might occupy this.

22 You mny take rod and whip for

this animal.

25 To

To go wrong would be quite right here.

26 Postage stamps are small in this. 28 Hallan town.

20 Hardly carefree.

30 An nid to regular revolution.

31 A mran course is between two

of this.

32 A fraction of the article only.

DOWN

1 It's a bit thick when sailors have

to listen to this.

2 Paddy..

3 Wherein there is a popular ris-

Ing every day,

4 A humane weapon.

5 Famous Scottish name that end-

ed with a blemish.

AH, I SEE TH TENTS ARRIVED! NAW, I KIN DO IT! (GOSH, TH′ BABBLING |GUESS I'LL BE GITTIN' \WOT, PRETTY BIG, AIN'T IT? SHALL/YOU GO GIT SOME|| BROOK MAKES ME KINDA | BACK TA CAMPI SAM THA I HELP YA PUT IT UP?"

WATER, DOWN AT HOMESICK-REMIŅOS ME}|OUGHTA HAVE TH TENT

TH' BROOKI OF TH' MISSUS!

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"Baltic deer" (anag.).

7 A. festive bird,

8 "No delta" (anag.).

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14 This affords a revolutionary means of banishing dulness.

18 A land of varying states.

18 Made from 20 across beheaded

or curtailed.

10 Skin.

20 The kind of men worth decorat-

Ing.

21 A high banic.

22 The way to while away a long

time.

23 Spanish town.

24 Kind of 22 down.

27 A fitting lost word.

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