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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

WIVES

AND SWEETHEARTS PAGE

BRIDE AND 'GROOM ABOARD THE MEDWAY

The bride made a delightful picture in a Marie Antoinette paried costumo of silver gray moire at the wedding this week of Mrs. Gloria Monroe (nce Kahler) and Licut Robert L. Chave, R.N., of H.M.S. Rogont, Kobza-nagy took this wedding- photograph-of-the-week aboard H.M.S. Modway, where the reception was held after a simple ceremony at the Registry Office.

He's a happy healthy

Ovaltine Boy!

Let this Festive Season be one of good health and full enjoyment. All mothers know that the very foundation of health is correct nourishment and that there is nothing like 'Ovaltine' for meeting the nutritive elements of rapid growth and development. Its supreme merit is such that it is the food beverage most widely recommended by doctors. Every 'Ovaltino' child drinks his cup of 'Ovaltino' every day, and that is why he is such a bright, happy little person.

Delicious 'Ovaltino' in the perfect food beverage for children. It is rich in just the right kind of nourishment needed to build them up — body, brain and nervos —'and koop them full of energy and vigour. Mako 'Ovalilno' the daily baverage in your home. SC.03.

TEST ANSWERS

By Whose Hand?

(Solution)

Where had the whisky come from? No botile, pocket flask or receptacle of any kind was found. The unknown stranger correctly presumed by Playfair to be Simon Magsilees' murder- er-had taken his flask away with him; leaving behind-owing to sudden panic-the evidence of his presence in the room.

Current Affairs

FRIDAY, ́ ́ DECEMBER 31, 1987.

Should Hongkong "Ladies" Haggle In Shops ?

WHEN summer cruises camo

into force some years ago and people who had never before been out of their own country were able to visit places which previously they had never even dreamed of seeing, the criticism was levelled against them that they appeared to be under the impression that entirely new rules of behaviour came into force the moment they donned their cruising outfit.

It was said that they went ashore and in the streets of Tangiers or the shops of Barcelona and behaved as they would never dared to behave in their own home town.

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Whether that criticism was entire- ly just or not, I cannot say, but I do say that here in Hongkong one fre quently sees Europeans behaving ns they would surely never behave in their own country.

"In Rome do as the Romans," and, having presumably been told that every "native" is a robber and that in the East you should never buy anything without flest arguing about the price and getting it down, they proceed to do likewise to the great humiliation of anybody of their own nationality who happens to be near Absurd, isn't it?....Is it honest? verandah the whole of his really "Come along. What's ten cents?"

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No "Thank You"

TOR do they restrict their be

haviour to perpetual and unrea- sonable bargaining. They never by any chance say either "please" or "thank you," invariably treat the little Chinese shopman, who is doing his best to be helpful, as though his only alm in life was to "do" them, and adopt an attitude of superiority which, In view of the fact that John Chinaman is probably doing for them what they cannot do for themselves, Is ridiculous.

When one stops to think about it, how dependent for our comfort we all are on those obliging little shop men of Nallinn Road or Queen's Road. Whether it is loose covers and cushions you need, a mattress re-made, a sulie of furniture of your own designing, new ratlan, a favour- ite dress copled pair of shoes made to measure, John Chinaman is always there to turn to always "can do" and, when lie makes a promise, rarely lets you down.

Something for Nothing

QURELY he is worthy of better treatment than he frequently re- celves?

Need For

Little More

Politeness

ing tourist, but, if you have made it your business to find out, roughly, what you should pay for a certain article, then it is unreasonable and immoral to attempt to get the price below what you know you ought to pay.

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MOREOVER We

should do well,

now and again, when considering whether we are getting good value for our money, to give a thought to

about her good fortune in getting the actual people who make us what her mattress for so little.

we require: the serious faced men "Only two dollars,

sitting over rattling sewing machines my dear.

all the long day so that our drawing Absurd, isn't it?....Is it honest?

rooms may be gay with chintz covers: they need to, realise that they are Do people who always pay less thon

the patient women weaving endless keeping down the standard of living

rattan so that we may slt in comfort. of the poorest paid members of the community?

Inconsiderate

THE same woman, If she hus no Mahlong engagement and is at u loose end, will allow a Chinese youth,! who pedals laden and perspiring to her bungalow, to unpack on her verandah the whole of his neally packed stock, merely for the pleasure of looking at it and comparing his who was there a few days prices with those of his confrere's,

women say:

Have we not all heard previously. "Here comes the pediar. I don't want anything. I haven't got ony money to spare, but let's see some- to unpack the whole of his stock on thing and 1 admit John is willing the chance of selling even 50 cents worth—the owful haggling over prices begins.

$3?

"No Can Do" 499 Absurd! I'll give you one" ond in reply to his smiling "Solly, Missle, no can do" assures him and everybody else who happens to be there, that she has never heard of anything 50 ridiculous. She knows that in Tientsin you can get it for half that price.

Of course you can, but we are not in Tientsin, nor is John Chinaman a charitable institution. He is a trades- mon anxious to earn a living.

I have heard people say, by way gaining. of excuse, that the oriental loves bar-

I wonder....

Perhaps he does when it is done in friendly fashion as in the "souks" of Morocco, the bazaars of Calro, where the customer is offered a cigarette being no object, seller and buyer en- and cup of coffee over which, time

deavour to arrive at a price agreeable to both.

In any case, even if you can't agree, you would never tell him, as I re- cently heard an arrogant young woman in Nathan Road, that you had never heard-of-anything so out- rageous and, when his English proved unequal to your voluable expostule- tions, that he was a fool incapable of

understanding anything.

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Not A Bad Fellow

N the contrary, considering that the little shopman is probably I suspect that, coupled with the quite literate, albeit a clever crafts- modern desire of getting something man, it is surely remarkable that he for nothing, it is the very fact that manages to learn suficient of our things ARE so cheap that tempts the language to be able to do business mean-minded shopper who likes to with us at all for we never bother to drive a bargain to try and get the learn any of his. That he is a simple price still further down. She (men fellow and lives on so little a day, is are by no means exempt, but women no reason for compelling him to sell am afraid, the chief offenders) to you at so small a profit that he has been told that mattresses in Des can never aspire to anything above Voeux Read are very cheap. "You his present rate. can get a new one for $2.50" says her friend.

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Week-End Problems

PROBLEM I.

A WALK IN THE PARK 1,500 yards 600.000=1320.440.

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So down to Des Voeux Road she goes and when the mattress-maker quotes $2.50, says she will give him $2. She knows that even at $2.30 it is cheap compared with what she would have had to pay for the same thing in her own country, but is de- termined to get it still cheaper.

If she succeeds and, if trade is bad and rent day near she may, she will get into her car and drive home re-

It is not unusual to hear a Euro- pean who has succeeded in getting the price down and down, yet ean- not get it pass the last ten cents, say: "Come alone. What's ten cents?"

Exactly. What is a ten cent piece? Probably nothing when it comes out of the woman's purse, but when it goes into John Chinaman's, a com- plete meal.

In every country both in the West and in the East there are tradesmen who will try to beneft from the

joicing, ready to tell all and sundry Ignorance of the newcomer or pass-

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If we use a little imagination, pay what we know we ought to pay and, but this is more difficult, try to be as courteous as is the Astotle himself, we shal! enjoy our purchases all the more when we get them home,

D. C.

Week-End Problems

PRODLEM A

A WALK IN THE PARK

In

Lory Umph has a magnificent park, In shape a perfect circle. It is exactly one mile in dia- meter. At its centre stands a aummer-house, and from here, various directions, grassy paths run in straight lines to the circumference of the park.

. There Arc also

numcrous other paths running in various directions. But ull of these, also, follow a perfectly straight

course.

One day I was walking along one, such path, which traversed the park from circumference to circumference, with schoolmaster named

retired Calculus.

We had walked, we reckoned, just 600 yards when we renched a clearing where our path Inter- sected one of the paths leading to the summer-house. "Hal" excluimed Calculus. "I know this spot. This summer-house Is exactly, a quarter of a mile Away,"

"So what?" I said, not much Interested.

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"Why," said Calculus, "we now work out the total length of this path along which we are walking."

It took him about two minutes to do so.

What is the total length of the path?

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PROBLEM JI WORD SQUARE

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is first

building-a blemish-a fur-coated animal too;

My next is a world-famous poet-an expert on love (as some know it);

My third is a tree--and it's niso a substance that's something like gluc;

And my last is river or one might. dol

(Answers in Column 4.)

a garden-or of our rulers

Here are a few ideas for

SWEETS

&

OR a cold supper sweet you can't

beat Banana Cream.

Stico three bananas and put them in a glass dish. Sprinkle with the juice of a lemon sweetened by one ounce of castor sugar. Boll the lemon rind In a tumbler of milk with oz. sugar and pour it Into the beaten yolk of an egg. Return to the saucepan and stir over a gentle hent for five minutes, with boiling. When cool, pour over the bananas and leave till cold,

Slice another banana very thinly, put it in a basin with the white of the egg and a dessertspoon- ful of castor sugar, and whip till it is like thick cream. Pile it on top of the custard and serve,

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UT peeled bananas in halves. Smear with raspberry jam and roll in desiccated coconut, or cover with melted chocolate and sprinkle with'. chopped raw apple or blanched almonds,

At lunch time t'e alıbaye saay to make frutt salad with bananas, grapes, "oranges, apples, or a green salad with nuts and bananas to favour.

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SAVOURIES

TOR something to end up with try Shredded Wheat Savoury. Crumple up some Shredded Wheats, one per person. Damp them with a cup of milk. Mash one banana per person and spread on top of the wheat. Break one egg per person and let float on top.

Sprinkle over some grated cheese and a few little knobs of butter. Bake in a fairly hot oven tiit the eggs are nicely get.

AND here are two banana sauces, one for sweets

and one for savouries.

1. Peel some bananas (not over ripe). Put in a saucepan with, a little water. Add a bit of a bay leaf, one clove, a dash of cayenne pepper, and half-teaspoonful of red-currant jelly. Boll together for a few minutes, then rub through a fine sleva and serve hot or cold..

(2) Peel three bananas and rub through o aleve. Boll three-quarters pint of water 2 oz. of loaf sugar and -strip- of lemon rind. · Add thé banana pulp and reduce a Tittie. Toss in a glass of maradio or sherry. Boll up again, strain," "and serve hot with your fritters or whatever.