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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JANUARY

7, 1938.

MAN'S

PAGE

How far can you throw

a party?

W

HEN

my wife

thinks of giving a party she usually decides first what food she can afford to have, then she thinks what day she can have it on, and finally she says to me, "And mind you ask all your friends at the office."

Now it can be very enlar rassing for a man to have to

ask his friends at the office to wife is come to a party his

giving, because most men go to after-dinner parties with the idea of getting away as quickly as possible even if their wives have to manufacture headaches to help them out.

Begin with

a good Idea

40.

DUT the other

Bu

day

"Have a camera party”

I went derler had fixed it quite

cartoon, lender page articles, home page, front page story, and so Guests were formed into teams, ench team member taking a few of the -pages. The team which turned out amugiag the most convincing and newspaper get a prize.

Personally. In spite of my wife's protests, I believe in getting rid of the servants, if any, on the night of the party.

Some of the best parties I have been to happened on the servants'

night out.

One evening people arrived for

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"silli have a chance. I haven't proposed to her since I grew this mustache."

I

fall in

Did LOVE At

FIRST SIGHT

PHEBE, that saucy shepher-++++++mtaf

dess in "As You Like It." is wiser than all the learned sceptics who scoll at the notion that falling in love may be as sudden as falling off a horse.

ping-pong tournament and a cheap & cold dinner which, for a change, microphone. In the other room was was served with roup at the end,

loud-speaker, and an audience.

After din- sweet at the beginning. Each test in turn had to "broad-

for a salad-dressun; competition (raw cast a running commentary on the every one went to the kitchen

mutch. A ping-pon

local

sugar, radio materials were oll, vinegar, cheaply, salt, mustard, pepper, cream). to a party which must have There were prizes, of course,

The success of that party Proved Ask them to eba very little and it lasted until F

your that ideas, not money, make

themselves. enjoy

People bring Cameras Appar friends Here is how it was one. ently the menu was meant as a copy like having something to do,

is to have a NOTHER idra your wife of what a Danish farmer would eat They might like it

camera party with handicaps gut "beer-bread" asked them to dress as they'd like Ends of brown bread hoited in to be on holiday.

fixed according to the capabilities of water, beer, and sugar. To follow

Or you could have a clay model- each guest's camera aud their know-

Who, Indeed? Nobody--except the If you've gat Uzures of led of photography. twith the soup we hnd timely minred raw

ing competition

one of those powerful spot kumps, so sceptum. If we are to believe them, hreef on toast. and junket Those

Calling

in love is a gradtal process.

fall in love? Did you. HOW who couldn't face raw beef (though famous people.

did you A girl I know one gave a sue- much the better. uf

have

a lathived ckground When Rent) got it's very

party.

say to yourself when you came suker ham that tastes like smaked cessful "newspaper"

were invitees arrived they

Riven window painted on ewyas with an

face to face with your destined wife ralmon

Two heads are fumier for the first time:

young Drinks were arquavit at the be- exercise books of twenty-four pages opening in the middle for two heals

I'm. This appears to be ginning of the meal, beer to follow, mach, the outside enver being a blank to come out.

woman who might mnie a interable page pasted with the usual heading. than one. Milk for the teetotalers.

Just get a new idea and your wife's There After dinner there

a golumns to the page, spaces for a party will be a succes. J. F.

for dinner. We soup

petition

In one rom

the kind

Was

a com- there wa

Don't let

were

the cormal seven

the

wine list worry

you

This article may help you

different wines. The other three dis-! triels have two generally recognised classed growths.

You can buy a bottle of Medne for, say, two shillings and you may And it a pleasant. though citing, dinner wine.

not ex-

choose your wiars. Anyway, it is But it you want one of the Meduc

useful to know sumething about

Dor

the subject.

you

Kol

classifiert growth clarets of a year, you can pay anything up to twenty dollars, or more, for a bottle. the know

The point about buying a classified first thing about growth claret-all of which bear the tate of a chateau long since famous Are wines?

voll for its wines--is that the name on. able to read a wine list the bottles, or should be, a guarantee from left to right, or do of its quality.

you always begin with the price column and work back- wards?

THE

HERE are

number any

or different wines soll under the

arc

A knowledge of wines is not name of Medoc, just as there

a number of Graves, St. Emillons now considered so much a part and Pomerols.

of a man's education as it used

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unu! But there is only

M.:

How do we help a child? By supplying tinned milk and Lactogen, and in the worst cases, congre, emulsion, or orange juice, to starving babies.

The word "starving" is not put in just to appeal to senti- ment. They are starving and they do need the help of the community. HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BURNS, PHILP LINE

From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY SALAMAUA, RABAUL and

MANILA.

"NEITUNA"

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Chatenu to be. But it is useful to know Laßte (a first growth Medoc) and two its naturally in the interests of something about one

yard to ensure that the quality and wines anyway, even if you are the owners of this particular vine- not

regular wine-drinker reputation of their wines are main-The Motor Vessel 21 yourself. By far the most Important Inined wines to become acquainted with re

Whether it is worth your while Consignees of Cargo are hereby burgundy and claret, since they are to pay $20 for a bottle of claret 15. informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazar- generally regarded as being the king of ecurse, for you to decide. and queen of all wines.

Il, however much you are pre- dous and/or extra hazardous Go- Of course, it is all very one and pered to pay, you should know that downs of The Hongkong and Kowloon a good it is generally better to buy the wine Whart & Godown Co., Ltd., whence large to be able to choose

Who ever lue'd, that lord not at frst sight? she says.

whether

F.

Says

G. Prince-White

answering the declara-

tion that true love must develop gradually.

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the, i most get to know her, if who are passionless mock at the can, and in course of time I shall be divine wizardry of Eros. glu is a able to decide

Nature cares not at all for ethles; suitable person to encounter at the breakfast table every morning for, it welds together hearts in an in- roughly, forty years." Your Heart Shook

tant, and stops not. lo consider whe- ther you and the other have a com~ mon king for this or that. "You," t declares autocratically. "are made for each other."And-you-bow-your-

AND you. madam, did you souls in subinission.

its

whisper in your heart when the man Fate chose your husband appeared:.

"No doubt, no doubt," the scepties of the future? smile, "but what What happens to this romantic pas- apsion in the course of the humdrum

years?"

"This gentleman has every pearance of being a blameless char-" acter-one at whow side I might well make the hazardous journey of life. Ask the Darbies

If opportunity offers I shall question

him regarding his views on the ethics

of responsibility and the duty of par-

ents to their children--and, of course. vice persa"

I

KNOW full

well there

are risks in marrying

Did you talk like this to yourself for love at first sight; but risks either of you? Of course you did are part and parcel of life-our

every day is a speculation. not.

and heart

It all happened-all that atupend-

Why, then, should we expect love ous upheaval in mind which hurled you into each other's even the most "sensible" sort of arms-exactly as it happened to me. love to be exempt from the tricks Your meeting was unexpected. of chance and the Incalculable blows You entered a room, it may be, talk of calamity?

ing to someone else whom you Ilked

abruptly Pussion is a tempestuous ocean, but very much. Your goze rested on one particular face-and we must brave its perils before we

heart shook, can come to the quiet water of sten in that instant your your pulse hammered in your head, fast affection and completely under- Your soul went winging to paradisial standing companionship.

belghts.

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The sceptles tell us that love-at- Tint face which mirrored for you all beauty, all delight, all wonder first-sight unions are doomed in the world, drew you with a magic catastrophe, Well, I could show them grandfathers and grandmothers not to be withstood.

Inevitably you and she-she and who loved at the first glimpse of one another and married in their "Arst you-came together, with no ques- Bac careless rapture." And they are tion asked of good or 1, of fitness sweethearts still, and shining exam- or unflocss. Your heart said: "les to their children and grand- n here- whom you have awaited," children of what wedded felicily can

have even though your lips may mumbled: "I'm very and to meet you," and such futilities. Wizardry of Eros

be.

the Darbles and the Summon Joans from every part of the land, and ask them "Was it love at first sight with you?" It is certain they

it was 50.

IT has been said that love would answer, with one voice, that at first sight is but the For true love is always love at

Only those first sight.

Chablis to go with your oysters, or of a lesser-known vlucyard of a good and/or from the wharves delivery stirring of passion. a suitable sherry to accompany the year than a wine bearing the name may be obtained. dessert.

But we cannot all afford to have a wine on the table to go with each course, and a good claret or burgundy served with the main course is usually enough to satisfy the requirements of all but the privileged few

of a famatts chateau, but of poor vintage,

THE best claret, vintages since THE best cloret 1024, 1920, 1920, and 1934, with 1020 and 1933 not far behind.

And you need not take any notice

FIRST of all, then, about claret, cause few. It any, natural red wines

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the GodownLS, und all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th January, 1930, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersign ed on or before the 20th January, 1938, or they will not be recognized, To comply with the General Dond- ed Warehouse Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Omeer in al- tendance when damaged dutiable And in case you do not sl are at their best after fifty years, and goods are examined. ready know, claret in the name given anyway, your money would be much All broken, chafed, and damaged to all still red wines produced in the better spent on new radio set or in Goods are to be left in the Godowns, Gironde Department of France, of redecorating the dining-room. where they will be examined on the which the capital city is Bordeaux. In addition to the four main claret-11th January, 1038, at 10 am, by

There are four main clarel-pro- producing districts of the Gironde Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.

to wines, No Fire Insurance has been effect- ducing districts in the Girande: the which give their names Medoc, Graves, St. Emilion, and there are a number of parlahes whose ed. Pomerol, and each of these districts nines you will also find on the labels

of claret bottles. classifies ita output of wincs.

The chilef and best known of these The Medoe has five classed growths are Pauillac, Margaux, St, Jullen, St. wills a total of more than slxly Estephe and Cantenac.

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