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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1986.

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OLD

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In Globe

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THE RELIANCE WE PLACE IN THE QUALITY OF OUR

PIANOS IS INDICATED BY THE FACT THAT EVERY

INSTRUMENT WE MANUFACTURE BEARS OUR OWN

NAME.

:

THE FIRST "MOUTRIE" PIANO WAS MANUFACTURED

OVER SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: THE "MOUTRIE"

OF TO-DAY COMBINES EVERY MODERN IMPROVE-

MENT IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, PLUS THE

BENEFIT OF OUR EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF LOCAL

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.

A “MOUTRIE” IS YOUR SAFEST INVESTMENT, THEY

ARE SOLD ON THE EASIEST OF TERMS, AND ARE

BUILT TO GIVE A LIFETIME OF SERVICE.

May we quote you?

S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

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LTD.

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Come On,

KIDDIES!

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DOLLS' COTS, ETC.

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what can we.

give Aunt Rose?

DID promise to keep off the subject of Christmas presents for another

me-

year, but you know conscientious. Don't seem to be able to let a thing ride.

I'm not worried about having missed any of the best bargains. TRY THEM It's something deeper than that: finer. Have I, I ask myself (and the answer is practically always no), have I got down to the soul of the question?

GET BEHIND THE WHEEL AND THRILL ΤΟ THE BRILLIANT NEW STUDE- BAKER PERFORMANCE,

It turns out, after much thought, that there is some- thing missing, and what it is i the technique, or the art, if ! strongly, of selecting, giving, and sending.

Hongkong Hotel may put it so

Garage

Phone 27778-9

The

We have, of course, all studied the thing in theory. There is Stubbs Rd. has been said once, even if it

that say-so, for instance, which.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1036

hasn't been said a hundred times, that the ideal way to choose a present is to select something you really would like to keep for yourself.

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Now it seems to me there are flaws in this. It could only work out in the most satisfactory way if the givee, was one of your own household. do know of a young wife who, unsure of her taste in ties (after a study of the funny parpers) upped and gave her husband a set of real lace and crepe de Chine undies (small women's). the They both liked present very much.

For recipients outside of the house a complicated routine must be developed.

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CourHC.

There is, of the simple method of

DEPRESSED AREAS

One of the most difficult and disturbing features of the un- employment problem at Home is to be found in what are called Special Areas. These are dis tricts where local industries have, for various reasons, . be- come practically derelict. "Many of these areas are in the coal- mining districts, such as that in South Wales which ex-King Edward recently visited. Two years ago, the Government ap- pointed Mr. P. Malcolm Stewart as Commissioner for these areas, his task being to study the problems and to devise mensures for improving the conditions therein. Mr. Stewart at first stipulated that he should serve

With thought I have devised for one year only, but he has this plan. The crux of the now.resigned after two years' matter is to buy your presents service. His third and final.re-early. The shops have been telling you to do this for ages. pont, just issued, contains no

but they forgot to say why. fewer than twenty specific re- commendations. One of these relates to the further expansion of industry in Greater London, and in dealing with it. Mr. Stewart says the rapidity London's growth is a cause for the alarm: It is a danger to

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general welfare of London's pre- sent population and also to the national well-being. In case of hostile attack in war time there. would be grent difficulty in pro- viding adequate protection or food supplies for the inhabit- unts. To prevent any further needless expansion, it is there- fore suggested that industrial- ists should be asked their rea- sons for seeking to establish themselves in London; if their rensons are not found to be valid they should be restrained from doing so-though left free to choose elsewhere. The psycho- logical factor is said to play a part also in keeping manu- | facturers away from the Special Areas. They fear that the

districts

buying the present, telling yourself it is for you, and keeping it. But that is not

down-. so much technique as right cheating.

POEM

When Icicles hang by the wall,

the And Dick

shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the

hall,

And milk comes frozen home

in paik, When blood is nipp'd, and

ways be foul,

Then nightly sings the staring

owl,

To-whit! To-who-a merry note, While greasy Joan duth keel

the pot.

When all alond the wind doth

blow..

And coughing drowns the

parzon's salo; And birds sit brooding in the

snow,

And Marlan's nose looks red

and raw,

When roasted crabs hiss in the.

bowl,

Then night slips the staring

ow!,

To-whit! To-whol-a merry note, White greasy Joan doth kert

the pot. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

The

Technique

of

giving presents

by MOLLY

mc

"Albert, how would you like

to give yoM curtains this year!”

a gramophone record was all that was expected, two weeks before Christmas would not be too early to post. Then just sit back and wait, turn the other check, hold out the other hand,

However, the only time I can really advocate this last course, because, human beings being what they are, you can't be tou careful, is when you are giving a Good Impression present. These have to be very carefully thought out and regarded purely as an investment. They must only be given to the person (or his wife and family) who has it in his power to give you a rise.

And don't think you can get

Answer is that they looked a lot away with putting a chain store present into a Bond-street box. for the money.

Suppose they try to change it? Some people hold that even

There used to be such pre- better sport can be had in gonts. Bath salts, for instanCE. choosing present for an Such a handsome bottle, such enemy than choosing one for a lot of bright-coloured crys- -yourself. Enemies' presents tals, such a big ribbon bow, anil- come into the latter class only all for the price of a bar of soap. if the enemy has Pride and can Yes, it was a good present once. be guaranteed to post the pre- but that was before sophistica- sent right back by the next tion set in. It's too late for that mail. But it's a bit of a risk, now. As far back as last this, and there is a better way. Christmas I was at a party Firms are very helpful about where one of the guests was This is how it works out: Make the enemy type of present, carried away in hysterics caused a list of your folks, put down They fix up a lovely hollied box by her sixth (and last) jar of opposite each name one of the with mistletoe stuck through bath crystals. Her voice, echoing things you really want, then go the bow so that the enemy is up the lift shaft, proclaimed fooled for a moment into think that in any case the doctor only ahead and buy it.

ing she has got something. I let her use pine needles. know of a powerful disinfectant

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in the cunningest of little pack-

Then, when their presents to ages, and there is even a label you start to roll in (they are which says "she could use this." pretty sure to be nothing like

as fine as the presents noted against their name on your list) send them right back. Not to

So far I have left out presents

for children. Children are hard

to fool, and most of the time they haven't even got good. manners. They are not yet the

This is almost ideal, but per- little hypocrites they will be

the giver, of course, that would haps less subtle than the wrong when you've finished with them.

be too crude. But to another coloured powder, a face cream

on the list, A's to B, B's to C, which grows a beard, or a hat

For this reason it is better

and so on. That way, you are which was made for quite an- that they should be kept out of left with your complete range other profile (and which she'll the way should your Good Im- of presents to yourself.

have to wear overy time you ask pression present bring the Big her to bridge).

Chief round to your home bear- And if any one brings out any dirty remarks about the A mirror is a fine present for ing. not the raise you hid curiousness of coincidence you a girl who is all run down be- planned, but, instead, teddies for can give a knowing laugh, say cause she foolishly goes to her your little ones. It's not that ing, "Wasn't it funny, C dear, office after a night out, which children can't lie, it's that they I chose the very same present is what they call burning the won't do it in a good cause.

I remember painfully the to send dear A as you gave to candle at both ends.

awkward half-hour in my, own me." And unless C has marked

Of course, you may already household when I, at the age of.

presented by a big with a flaxen-

present distress makes these the Special Areas for plant to the present in red ink the way have gone ahead in the or- five, was

unsuitable for the extract oil from coul; the im-you do when you send your development of industrial acti-provement of existing and the home caught pheasant to be dinary way buying the ordinary business man 'vity, and for this reason Mr: building of new bridges and plucked at the poulterer's, she presents for the ordinary people haired doll in a cardboard box. you know, and my notes may I laid the doll carefully aside bo too late. Not quite too late, and started chugging round the Stewart suggests that, as harbours; improvement of, com can't prove a thing.

though. I can still warn you means of overcoming their obmunications in certain districts; Jections, the State should offer settlement on the land for

not to give the present until the room with the box on the end

of the string. manufacturers special induce number of families; the provi In this or similar ways there very last minute. ments. The inducements sug-sion of special training for the are some presents that have Believe me, it's the safest way, gested include a measure of re-unemployed; and "settlement in been going the rounds for years. Give them a week early and see

the British Empire overseas These are, often solid, expen- what happens. The recipient That story brings us right lief from income tax and from should be resumed as soon as sive-looking presents that live looks the present up and down around from the art of giving at rates, and the grant of possible." Meanwhile many most of their time in cupboards and upside down, sniffs and presents to the art of receiving long-term loans at a low rate. undertakings for the improve- and only come out for weddings says h'm, electro plate, not even them. From it you will also These inducements would apply ment of the Special Areas have and Christmases, Gonge, or silver. Well, they certainly don't Terceive that I never was much only to new industries establish- already been undertaken. but molu boxes, cloisonne vases and get the radio set I'd promised, good at it. And some one has ed lui the areas and to extensions these are not generally consider difficult parlour games which At the most a cocktail shaker. just placed a bunchy-looking parcel on my desk, with some ed adequate to the needs, and might be fun if any one could to existing industries, and might the. Government, therefore con- master the rules, come into this

difficult-looking "knots. When operate for a period of seven templates more comprehensive cluss. Like some hats you see

you come down to essentials, the STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 am. to 6 p.m. SATURDAY to 5 p.m. years. Other recommendations plans for dealing with the out, you wonder how they came

-Of course, if you had hap, interesting part of any present include financial assistance in problem. “

to be bought in the first place. poned to buy a radiogram when is the last knot.

CONJURING SETS, ETC.

COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF

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