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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1937.

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MILK SUPPLY PRECAUTIONS

"L

Witty

but only

too true article by JAMES AGATE

on

Getting

into

DEBT

hold the Skimpollan

AND." said Lady I KNOW many men who Bracknell, "gives philosophy. A rich man said to one position, and me the other day: "My dear James, when I had five pounds a prevents one from keeping week I counted four as pocket That's all that can money. When I had five thou- sand a year I regarded four be said about land."

thousand as loose change."

it up.

An income is something that I sympathise again, and to one cannot live without or with this extent am a Skimpolian, I in. At least many people have strongly object to finding money found it so.

for rent, rates, taxes, food, When I was a child I used to clothes, light, heat and water. ask for more pudding than I

could eat, and my mother would In my view. Nature, "who Lell me that my eyes were big forced these wants on me, should Not a great deal that is new

ber than my belly. It is the supply them. The butterflies" same with expenditure. The are free. Mankind will surely emerges from the official report hand is bigger than the pocket, not deny to Harold Skimpole Dancing (TO- by the Director of Medical Ser-ane one finds oneself groping what it concedes to the butter-

night 8.30) Parialan Pierrot C-2010 Rhapsody in Blue

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C-2074 Love Tales-Selection C-2707 The Lion and Albert

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C-2720 The English Rose (Merrie

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For Love Alone C-2754 Soloist Delight

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March Heroique de Szabady (Coloraturo-Soprano) C-2770 Shadow Song (Dinorah)

Doll's Song-Tales of Hoff- LIGHT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA C-2759 Mannin Veen (Dear. Isle of

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But there is another reason

flies ?"

This doctrine may even be

vices, with accompanying ap- pendices, on the outbreak of why so many people run into preached and lived up to sub- dysentery which, took a heavy debt. This is impatience. A consciously. A man-about-town toll of young life last November. child, looking to-day into a toy. In one of Pinero's, plays, when

his asked

income, replies: In view, however, of the previ- "Oh, Mummy, can I have that "Enough for cab-fares and but- ous assertion that the epidemic lively monkey for my birthday ton-holes." People of this tem was considered to have originat-next August?" It wants the perament have added a

axiom to Euclid's. It runs. lively monkey now.

"Ends never meet."

shop window does not say:

-

new

I GO to many plays, see

many flims, and read

never

"Look out-there's

my tailor!"

Why did

they call her a

Gibson

GIRL

by:

J. B. Morton

brought to life the familiar pictures.

Her hair was dressed high on her head, on her face was that expression of haughty disdain which the young men of the period found so attractive, and which the young women, there- fore, began to cultivate.

Her slow and graceful walk, her air of boredom and aloofness were a perfect piece of acting, and to one who looks back and sees her vanishing into the wings it seems that she took with her a certain easy rhythm of life which has been lost ever since.

Intellectuals werd-struck by the apparent vapidity of the lyric, and made great fun of the lines. :

"What is the matter with Mr. Ibsen, Mr. Ibsen?

Why Dana Gibson !"* But the

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ed from one batch of milk at the Dairy Farm Company's pre- children. I should hate to own In this respect some men are

intellectuals forgot mises, it is reassuring to note a yacht. But, if I did covet one

that the singer was Swedish, and the implication in the Latest re- it would have to be ready to sail, many novels. I hear and read

Mr. Ibsen, being a Norwegian, port that no blame can fairly be money to pay the wages of the gigantic crashes, but

not when I had saved enough about stupendous fortunes and

was only, so to speak, one coun- try away. They also forgot attributed to this reputable skipper and the crew, but to about people who are always

that rhymes to Gibson are rare concern. "The Dairy Farm,"morrow morning.

hovering on the edge of debt.

enough to be almost non-existent. Is a young man turned down

The lyric-writer intended to says Dr., Wellington, "may fairly ALL my life I have by his

sweetie? Frequently, ON an evening in the year 1906 suggest that a Scandinavian nover been able to be-described-as-a-high-class

afford what I wanted. All my

And always he has enough- ́the audience at the Vaude- should be celebrating the beauty

cautions are taken to produce | have been able to afford.

thinking of Mayfair" was running, heard stead of leaving it to an Ame- clean milk." Elsewhere, the Di- My baby eyes were bigger things out in wide and remote the opening bars of one of those rican.

spaces and shooting grizzly melodies that made the name of And I imagine that Tbach's rector of Medical Services as line to-day is larger than it was. he would be hard put to it to find continents.

than my baby belly. My waist- bears. In real life, of course, Leslie Stuart famous in. two praise of a Gibson Girl would serts: "Altogether, it can be said But my eyes have grown in pro- the price of a pop-gun and the

have been about as gay and Strindberg's that the milk is handled in a portion.

A very beautiful Swedish- spontaneous fare to Southend. Banitary manner from the cow Charles Dickens created. a.

Does a young woman tire of American girl came slowly and praise of the Merry Widow Hat character called Mr. Skimpole, her husband

majestically down the stage, THERE came a moment to the consumer, and would be drawn it was sald, though Dic- case she spends the summer toy-dance, sang the song called this creature of ice lowered her

Yes. In which and, with the chorus in atten- called Grade A milk at Home." kens's son denied it, from Leigh ing with her pearls in a basket Why Do They Call Me a Gib eyebrows and smiled languidly; Precisely how the milk which Hunt, just as Mr. Micawber was chair at St. Jean de Luz. In

son Girl?" Her name was and it was then that the great caused the outbreak may have drawn from his father. Of the real life, if she ran away from Camille Clifford, and she was heart of the public leaped like n

two, Micawber was the sounder her man she would be lucky to billed as "The Original Gibson salmon. become contaminated can only economist and more respect be able to live on her beads till

Girl," be a matter for conjecture, but worthy member of society. He such time as she found a job as there seems no ground whatever conducted his life on the prin- a waitress.

ciple that something would turn for thinking that the Dairy

up. And when it did, that his. Farm Company were in any way debts would be paid. negligent. The human factor necessarily plays a prominent

in the song when

The tune fitted the singer to In the audience was a man perfection. For it was a languid who had been astonished at melody. It had that infectious READING the other the song, and far more astonish- lilt which no composer since day a book on domes- ed at the claim made for the Leslie Stuart has been able to much singer. He had the best of imitate, and it carried all over Not so Harold Skiropole, who tic finance I was very did not recognise debts. But struck by this sentence:-"The reasons for his astonishment, England the craze which had be neither did he recognise money. essential feature of hudgeting is for his name was Charles Dana gun in America nearly a genera-

tion before. "I don't go about asking people the balancing of income against Gibson.

When Leslie Stuart's musical The story of his life and of what seven-and-sixpence is in expenditure, not only in amount

the craze for which he was res- comedy was produced in Ame Moorish, which I don't under- but in time."

Why should. I ask Wore this not true, London-ponsible in America during the rica that song began the busi

ness all over again....... them what seven-and-sixpence is would go bankrupt to-morrow in Money, which I don't under "and. universal darkness cover stand?" And his answer to all all," as Pope says. For if every- financial remonstrance was al- body in London were called upon ways: "I have not the power of to pay his or her debts before counting."

mid-day to-morrow, 99 per cent. would be defaulters.

stand.

I have realised this from in-

part in concerns employing large numbers of workers, and, even under the most stringent rules, there must always be some ele. ment of risk in handling such a commodity as milk. The most that can be done is to reduce that risk to a minimum, and it is obvious that the Dairy Farm Company has always been at great pains to see that this is done. The fly nuisance, which With commendable promptitude, fancy, since, report notwith- is much in evidence during cer- the Government has already put standing, I know more about tain seasons, might well be a the first recommendation into money than any six Chancellors source of danger. Judging from force. Compulsory pasteurisa-

of the Exchequer put together. the report, there are two sources tion would, without question,

I have made it a rule never to at Pokfulum-probably the most prove costly to small dairies; it owe more than what I could pay. serious from the collection of might even put them out of busi- months. On this principle, if a if I spent nothing, for three huts and small houses occupied ness. Yet, on broad principle, total indebtedness at any time by pig-keepers, and market security for the public must be may amount to £25; the shoe gardeners, and, to a less extent, the major consideration. It is will pinch, but he will be able to from-the-Dairy Farm's-manure trus that pasteurisation of itself wear it.

pits. It is satisfactory to learn does not render contamination A man with $1,000 a year may, that steps are being taken for impossible. That it is a valu- owo £260; he will still be able to the abatement of this nuisance. able safeguard is indisputable. nod to his tailor. A man with Two steps, in the interests of But it must be accompanied by $10,000 a year can owe £2,500; public health, were urged by Dr. the most stringent regulations in the tailor of such a one will be Wellington the making of regard to general cleanliness if

all salaams and obeisances.

The man with £100,000 a year

"that expression of haughty-disdain

Valeska Surratt sang it, and it was followed by tableaux vivants of some of the artist's best-known pictures. The Zieg- feld Follies put the Gibson Girl- on the beach, and get the fashion for bathing beauties which is still with us.

There were plays about her muale-hall songs and sketches about her. She appeared in ad- vertisements. And one might say that her reign continued un- til the eve of the European war.

A second generation of young men had responded to her my- sterious charm, and a second generation of girls had begun to imitate that proud carriage of the head and that sidelong glance.

nineties is told in Mr. Fairfax

GIBSON lives on to-day. Downey's "Protrait of an Era"

in Maine; and in an (Scribners).

age of craze nobody has succeed. Not only had he never met ed in making such a commotion Misa Clifford, but there never as was mendo by the type which had been an original Gibson he invented. girl. But the craze swept Eng. The achievement of Gibson, and the compulsory pasteurisa-Government decision on the banker will enter his rooms on all land from that moment, and apart from the stir he created, tion of all locally-produced milk. point is awaited.

certainly the singer of the song (Continued on Page 4)

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