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المسل

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.

. More and more people are taking up horse-riding. In Hongkong most people afford it. This is the first of a short series of articles which will show what it costs and how you

Learn to

Ride

SAY, Pam, why don't you come out riding with Jim and me to-morrow?" "Oh, how I'd love to! But,

unfortunately, I've never done any riding."

"That's easy enough, we'll be getting horses from the stables, and you can have the old garden pony, he's as quiet as a mouse.” "But I'd never be able to stop him."

"Stop him? Much more likely you won't be able to make him go."

"I say, it's so Jolly tempting. I simply must do it.”

aterloo !

What happens to Pam?

Something like this.

"Dead quiet" pony finds itself with strange rider. Starts he having nohow. Gets on lo grass. Gallops off with a squeal of de- light.

Trees loom ip Bearer ...nearer. ... Branch knocks terrified Pam to the ground, Result? Nerve shattered. Pam never rides again.

★ *

I have told this and but typical story to

prove my point: rid- ing, like ballet dancing or fencing, must be learned with a profes- sional teacher.

If you think of learning to ride, avoid your friend's pony. Learn properly by go- ing to a riding school. The horse is nearly as important as the master in the early stages, and all the good schools keep specially .trained horses accustomed โด carry beginners. Take a course of regular lessons and you will soon be riding with enjoyment and skill.

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need?

ow much?

This

is the RIG-OUT

I Felt hat in fawn, grey, brown bottle green. Ribbon of same colour, Plain brim-12/6.

2 Cloth

or hi-weight twees! cont in fawn, brown or check pattern (wol too. loud). Colour should contrast but not clash with Jodhpurs Slightly waisted. Single breasted with two buttens in front. Single all up back. Length: Should just touch horse's back when you are la saddle-35/-.

3 String or leather gloves-2/0.

4 Short light 20-inch lain- or leather-covered stick (on no account carry crop without lash or racing switch) --6/α.

5 Jodhpurs

of mnde

special breeches-cloth (whipcord too thick) in fawn Or brown. Side seams should curve round to knees and run straight down middle of shin bones. Length: Should reach Just below ankle. Have short slits made at bottom of each leg (on Inside) and pinch jodhpurs in with hooks, Makes legs look thinner.-83/-.

6 Plain low-heeled walking shoes with tongues, straps and buck-

les. If stirrup leathers rub you must get jodhpur boots--25/-.

Total cost £7.4.6 with boots.

£5.19.6 lthout boots-

that is, if you ride in your own

shoes.

Above prices only approximate. The nore you pay for each article the longer it will last and the smarter it will look. Stirt (see small sketch) can be made at home (two for a start), Very like i man's, with slits each side to avoid bulkiness at hips. Two de- tachable collars (saves washing), Rather full sleeves. Turn-back cutts (optional): single ones less trouble (fastened with links).

Length: Should hang to Inches below waist. Important: Put little ribbons with press buttons inside shoulder seams to secure shoulder straps. Material: 25 yards 36-inch unerushable coloured linen for each shirt. Strong bust bodice essential.

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RECIPE HUNTING

IN BORDEAUX

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HITS OF THE MONTH.

F6035 (Old Oak Troo. Vagabond Lover

(A Pretty Girl Is Like a Molody.

F6040 (Lyin to Myself. F.T. .. (Ev'n Tido. F.T. (Crosspatch. F.T.

Big Chief Do Soto. N.F.T. F6047 (Empty Saddles. F.T.

Tis amusing to and unex- pectedly in a French pro- vincial house a book of recipes, hand F6041 written and transmitted like a helr- toom from generation to generation. How telling the handwritings are, from the careful "anglaise" of our great-grandmothers to the brand Iellers (rather elegant and more dincult to decipher) of the 1000 period, followed by the standardised typescript of mere modern daya.

It is all the inore interesting if the house belongs to a province which from time immemorial was under English influence-by which I mean In the Hordeaux district.

Below are some recipes taken from the manuscript cookery book.

Pancakes of Game

THIS is made with remnants

(I'm An Old Cow Hand.. F.T. F6050 (Sugar Rose. F.T.

(Poor Dinah. F.T.

F6017 (Would You

F6027

FG055

.Louis Armstrong & Orch..

Bob Crosby & Orch..

..Ambrose & Orchestra.

Foster & His Kings of Swing.

.Roy Smeck & Hawaiian Serenaders.

(It's a Sin to Toll a Lio. (Alone Again. F.T.

Jack Harris & His Orch. (Every Timo I Look. F.T. (Is It True What they Say abour Dixic. F.T. (You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes. F.T.

Brian Lawrence & His Landsdowne House Sextet..

of roast game grouse F6052 (Wood & Ivory ... ... ... ... ... ... .... ..... Ambrose & His Orchestra..

partridge or, pheasant. Cut the flesh

in small dice. Cut a little ham in the same way, also a few mush- rooms previously coolted in butter.

Season well with salt and pepper and bind with very Ittle brown sauce made with Sherry or Madeira. Prepare some thin puncakes. Spread a tablespoonful of the mix- túre on each, roll them and pour the same sauce all over the pancakes dis- posed in a fireproof dish; see that It is really hot, and serve.

The sauce is made as follows: melt in butter a little ham, a carrot and one onion finely chopped. When the vegetables are soft," add plach of flour and cook for a minute or two, then a cup of stock and a table- spoonful of puree of tomatoes.

Let

It simmer, reduce and thicken,

Simmer it slowly for twenty min utes. Add a small glass of Sherry or Madeira, cook a few minutes more and pass through fine strainer. Baked Pears,

Blackberry Sauce

LEAVE the pears

whole.

Prick then with a fork. Add a small glass of water, aprinkle with sugar and bake slowly till soft in a reproof dish.

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BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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For the sauce, cook some black- Berrics with a little water and sugar to taste: put in half a van!lin pod, bring to the boil and let it simmer till the fruit is quite soft.

Mash it well, so that it is like a puree, and pour all round the pears

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TATE.

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310

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In the dish.

This sweet can be made with pears which are not quite ripe, and can be served hot or cold.

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English Bagatelle

TAKE half a pound of maca- roons, crush and pound them well and moisten them with a little rum or brandy. Put them in a deep serving dish and cover them with a layer of creme,

This creme, which corresponds to the English custard, is made as fol lows: put a vanilla pod in a pint of milk, which you sweeten and bring to the boil. Break in a bowl the yolks of four eggs, stir them and pour over them the bolling milk. save the vanilla pod for another' time).

Stir, strain and heat slowly, stir- ring thickens, lave it fairly thick.

Pour it all over the crushed maca-

and cover

roons,

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ACROSS

1990. 180

1 Here they recover quickly, and

broken with whipped

rit give no trouble. (Two words, D, 4.) Considerably shorter.

cream. Keep In a cool place, and serve very cold,

This is evidently a French version of the English trifle, as, indeed, its French name implies.

10 is the fudge in love? He is

certainly not heart-whole.

11 The end of the treat,

12 Thrashes in hooligan style.

Are riding clothes expensive?13 One less than Eton's famous

Well, you can get a complete out- fit for $25 to $50 and if you are sensible you will spend the higher amount. Good, strong jodhpurs made to measure cost $30, but they won't rub you and they will last for years.

ad economy

Bad

uy a cheap pair if you like, but do not blame me if you

gentle riding by yourself in a for occasional lessons. In this brow-sweating kind you used to cannot sit down after your first ow many lessons will you

way any bad habits which you have in bookkeeping and short- ride. How much will it cost? month's time.

Bore?" Noling for you can not go on a

Before arranging for your les- may form when riding alone will hand. They are in themselves a Of all sports, I know of none Will the clothes be expensive? sons, aim at saving enough to be corrected before they become source of pleasure and excitement: more delightful than the riding How long will it be before you enable you to have twelve lessong chronic.

learning to control a live and tour. If you begin lessons at are skilled enough to go on d rid- without a break, and to buy good,

sensitive animal is something once, and progress normally well. ing holiday? These are the strong riding clothes. The clothes

which will be new and thrilling to there is no reason why you should questions you are sure to ask. will last for years and save a great

I can safely prophesy that not go on a short tour (with casy The cost of riding lessons varies deal of time and trouble eventu-

pleasure and recreation," you may boredom or drudgery. from 20 to 50 dollars a dozen. ally.

But if you plan such a tour you "Why should I have to have When the first course of lessons y Separate lessons may be taken.

must go with a friend who is an My advice is to begin with a is over, save as much as you can so many lessons?"

experienced horseman (or horse- dozen lessons before you attempt spare for hacking

To this I reply that you will get

woman): some one who is used La Hongkong, there are won to riding across country and who to go out alone or with friends. evenings or at week-ends. $10 precious little pleasure out of Try to have the leasons regularly, a month will give you a ride a riding until you have been to derful facilities for learning to understands the care and feeding

school.

ride. The roomy schools, of of horses. say three a week, and you should, week.

Riding lessons, morcover, are which there are many, provide given natural aptitude and a good During the first year I strongly instructor, be it to do a little advise you to return to the school different from the concentrated ideal conditions for lessons.

on

summer

ndoors too

Muriel King

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ordinal

One might imagine that I give notice to the patriarch, 16 Truly a peculiar

state for duster to be discovered in, 10 Characterises modern music. 20 You can warm up most things

but this. See! 22 Inside.

24 A fiddling necessity? No, sir,

It could be, though.

27 Do you want to ly? Well, take

to these.

20 What the rye obtained after a ttle hesitation-unluckily for the farmer,

30 A simple-hearted rascul. Attribute of a writer.

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32 Form of speech used when the

chauffeur is told, "Home." 33 Likely to hear little good

No. 1.

DOWN.

of

the

2 Game studied by geologists

rather than by zoologists. a if they're a danger to

yachilaman why does he take them in his sails? 4 What eggs

priately, usually packed in. 5 "At a ton" works this maltes pale butter a better colour. (One spelling.) (Anag.).

are, very appro-

6. The custoin is for a woman to

Ko hunting.

7 A country-lover with an equal

affection for towns.

Takes the lead, as spare men

9 It may be quicker to go "in by-

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rail, than" through such ways. by car. · (Anug.).

14 Dilettante.

16 The zenith of human stature.

17.Three in combination. 19 St.

21 Isn't it perfectly sweet!

23 Take ye gin; he, too, as on aki

to health.

25 ft Rose in the willows? Yes,

but not difficult to find.

26 Give 30 room to breathe and

get the spoil.

28 They used to cover women's

faces with spots. (Rev.).

29 Father in the army. (Rev.).

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