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MAN

S

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

PAGE

• Men's hobbies, men's gadgets and men's personal gossip

Guide to buying a

pipe

W

HAT sort of pipe do you usually buy? If you are a young blood you probably buy a light, round-bowled Parsons like S-shaped stems and large bowls. The King singkes a small apple-shaped bowl.

onc.

General tendency is to buy heavier pipes as you get older, ruding up with something massive on the end of a curved stern,

But does at malted much about the stupe, the important thing is the grain. The ideal pipe has a grain running straight from top to bottom of the bow all the way print, erping in à bird's nye at the bottom.

These are made by hand from specially selected wood. If they were made by mughing you would not get more than about our real. ly first-class straichi-grained pipe in

rosa,

Not more thru one

twelve

machine-made pipes is of premier

quality.

Absolute minimum to pay fow good straight-grained pipe, unless

you are very lucky, is about $5. In swank shopя you pay $26.

Breaking-in

Good pipes are often

and

nut beitss coimus ed. That rause they go a dark, rich

with

fa, be

colour

after being stoofed. Cheap pipes: have to be stalne

Good pipes are often massive to Took at, but always dirhat in thu mouth. That is because every drop i of sup has been allowed to dram ont

Straight-grained' pipes break in! quickly. They

develop #thin

to not bor. but

Jayer

which helps the paoke.

of carbon i

Some manufacttirers break pipes. in artificially with machines which stroke them.

Others paint a layer

of carbon round the lowi.

In Bling your pipe ve the third i inger to press the tobiero

lown.

It is the weakest in your hand and ·

as more likely to give the erreet! pressure.

You can learn plenty-almart, buying

pipes fran

inf

watchiu::

helug inde. In one little

them i Kaf

End shop they made them in the winetrave.

Watch the putty

Most pipes are made from bruyerej wood, which comes, frioft the roots; of small, bush-likte trees in Algeria, Corsica, and Spain.

When you ask for a briar-wood pipe the Joke Is on you. There is to such thing. "Urlar" is a cor- ruption of brugere. Good brugere

is not so plentiful as it

Was

Tendency to buy heavier pipes as you get alder, ending up with

comethun massave.**

It's his own fault! thought it was cute

When they were first married, he of her to hang around the oflice all

the time."

How to snap yourself looking at yourself

if you buy a cheap pipe pick one with as little putty. In it as possible,¦ leas,

OR men whose hobby is photography here is an amusing trick werth trying. The trick is to make two exposures on one negative., The only thing that nebe,stry

cover to fit over half, the This can be maile out of pureboard or a in bottle alopper. It fits

Take your snap. Ben swivel the cover rund to the other side of

Itoles are filled with putty, and iti trosely over one side of the lens. makes the pipe smoke hot.

If any one tries to sell you the lens and, take other up. "hand-mulei pine with four grip

After one or two experiments with different apertures you will be MARIN inside the bowl, tell him able to da li without any dividing line whatsoever. that ho has been misled Grip

Of course, to get the correct continuity of the background the marks mean machine maries.

canerar nust be plucent on a stanch,

M

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Cio des MESSAGERIES MÁRITIMES

Figures At Forty

POUND about forty you prob-

more than a little apprehensive about the future of your figure. You should not gain more than ten pounds between the ages of forty, and fifty-live. If you gain much more than that It means you are cating more than ia warranted Iv the amount of exercise you take.

Up to twenty-five excess weight does mol, matter muchi, After thirty it is bad for you to be more than fifteen pounds overweight.

After

forty the retation between overweight and mortality rates

becomes unpleasantly marked,

That layer of fishüiness over your body may be comfortable, but

it. It do not encourage weakens' the muscles and gives a lot more work to the heart.

Try to diet and exercise your way back to normal.

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori

MASSAGE

Aemptineture, Moxocausis and Bone Batting:

NOVEMBER 10, 1936.

ROUND ABOUT by

N

The Showman

TOW I know why people do not pelt me with rosen and climb, screaming. over policemen to ask me to sign their autograph books, It is because I lack navy blue eyelashes.

A beautiful French actress has arrived in London. She is des ribed na having a face "do naturally beaut ful that it needed but the pitmest frame, the slightest trace of make up! Well, that my face all over. My farr, too. 13 "heurt-stumped, with a pale luminous skin and greenish eyes." But it is stated that this actress would be unrecognizable on a lim atar" were it not for "her navy blue eyelashes"

Just that little touch! And is ab Bence has deprived me all these years of the glamour I crave...

Oh, I wish I had navy blue eyes

Justins,

Real Hollywood make-em-all-sigh

Jashes!

I would then have a chater Of some fastug romance Instead of Fate's usual-style ashes!

Note for Mars

WHENEVER a gomi old story comes

true, I hasten in crown restinary.

with

Years ago General Sir Archibald Pottering-Doddle. who counted 110 battle won with diriy buttons 10- marked,Now that the war is over we can get back to real soldiering

And a week a stuff officer is quoted ns saying thon, the First Divisio stays in Palestine for more than a few months, next year's Tattoo may be seri

interfered with-"numong the miner effects of this exit is the ruption of the whole of the Army, sporting adintar.

With the Martian observer kludly note the British temperament a TC- fireted in the above? And will he also compare it with the prevalling military mind on the Continent?

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