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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936.

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

men's personal

Guide to

buying a pipe

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 smokes a small apple-shaped howl.

one.

General tendency is to buy heavjer pipes. an you get older, eming up with something inasive on the end of a curved stem.

But it does int butter much about th shape, the important thing is the grain. The iden! pipe has a grain running straight from top to bottom of the boy all the way round, ending in a bird's eye at the bottom.

These are made by hand from specially If they were made by inseltine selected wood,

you would not get inore than about one real- iy Brat-class

RXDS.

straight-grained, pipe in

twelve

Not more than one in machine-made pipes is of premier quatity.

Absolute minimuin to pay for a good straight-grained pipe, unters you are very lucky, is about $. In wwanke shop you pay $25.

Breaking-in

Good pipes are often sold with-

fa be- out being coloured. That cause they go a dark, rich colour after being smoked. Cheap pipes! have to be stained.

Good pipes are often mussive to fool nt, but always light in the mouth. That is because every drop of rap has been allowed to drain out.

Straight-grained pipes break in but They do not chor, a thle layer of carbon which helps the smoke.

*Some manufacturers break pipes: in artificially with machines which

make them. Others paint a layer

of carbon round the bowl.

In filling your pipe use the third finger to press the tobacco

down.

It is the weakest In your hand and is more likely to give the correct pressure:

You can learn plenty about buy- inst pipes from

watching

them

East

bring made. In onc little End shop, they make them in the window.

Watch the putty

Most pipes are made from: bruyerej wood, which comes from the roots of small, bush-like trees in Algerla, į Corsica, and Spain.

When you ask for a brint-wood pipe the joke is on you. There is such thing. "Briar" is a cor- ruption of bruyere, Good bruyere is not so plentiful.as it was.

ten

**Tendency is to buy

heavier pings as you get alfer. ending up with something massive.”

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gos ip

"It's his own fault! When they were first married, if thought it was cute of her to hang around the office all the time."

How to snap yourself looking at yourself

If you buy a cheap pipe pick one with as litle putty in it as possible. lens,

Holes are Niled with putty, and it mnkes the pipe smoke hot.

OR men whose hobby is, photography here is an

amusing trick worth trying. The trick is to make two exposures on one negative.

The only thing that is necessary is a cover to fit over half the It fits This can be made out of cardboard or a tin bottle stopper. loosely over one alde, of the lens.

Take your snap, then swivel the cover round to the other side of

If any

one tries to sell you the lens and take another snap. "hand-made" pipe with four gripi After one or two experiments with different apertures you will be nurka inside the bow, tell him able to do it without any dividing fine whatsoever, that he has been misted. Orip! Of course, to get the currect continuity of the background the rarian mean machine made.

camera must be placed on a stand.

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Figures At Forty

·DOUND about forty you prob- ROUND you more than a little apprehensive about the future of your Bgure. You should not gain more than ten pounds between the uges of forty and fifty-five. It you gain much more than that li means you are cuting more than

warranted by the amount of exercise you take.

Up to twenty-five exccss weight does not matter much. After thirty It is bad for you to be more than Afteen pounds

After forty overweight.

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That layer of flabbiness over your body may be comfortable, but to not encourage it. H weakens the mascles and gives a lot more work to the heart.

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Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori MASSAGE

Acupuncturo, Motocausis and Done Belling

ROUND ABOUT

N

The Showman

ow I know why people a not pelt me with roses and climb, nereaming. over policemen to ask me to sign their autograph books.. It is because I lack navy blue eyelashes.

as

A beautiful French netrees arrived in London, She is described as having a face so naturally beauti ful that it needed but the planest frame, the slightest trace of make-up.

Well, that is my face all over. My face, too, in "Heart-shaped, with a pale luminous skin and greenish eyes." But it is alated that this actress would be "unrecognisable as a filmi star" were it not for "her'navy blue eyelashes."

Just that little touch! And ijs ab- sence has deprived me all these years of the glamour I crave, de

Oh, with I had navy blue eye-

lashes,

Real Hollywood make-'em-all-sigh

jasheal

I would then have a chance

Of some Лaming romance

Instead of Fate's usual-style ashes!

Note for Mars WHENEVER a good old story comes

true, I hasten to crown it with rosemary.

Years ago General Sir ArchibaJel Pottering Doddie, who counted no battle won with dirty buttons, re marked, "Now that the war is over we can get back to rent soldiering."

And this week a small officer in qulated" as saying that, if the First Division stays in Palestine for more than a few months, next year's Tattoo may be peri. ously hiterfered with..." among the minor effects of this exit is the dis- ruption of the whole of the Anny, sportlog eulendar **

Will the Martian observer klixtly note the British temperament as re fected in the above? And will he also comparo it with the prevalling military mind on the Continent?

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