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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

JANUARY 7,

1935.

- Wk:T

MAN'S S PAGE

How

far you throw

a party?

HEN

wife

my 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 embar- rassing for a man to have to ask his friends at the office to come to a party his wife is 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 headuches to help them out.

Begin with

a good Idea

UT the other day

"Have à camera party”

can

cartoon, leader page articles, home page, front page story, and so on Guests were formed into teams, cach team member taking a few of the pages. The team which turned out amusing the most convincing and newspaper got 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,

After din-

One evening people arrived for ping-pong tournament and a cheap a cold dinner which, for a change, microphone. In the other roum was was served with soup at the end, a loud-speaker and an audience.

sweet at the beginning. Each guest in turn had to "broad- ner every one went to the kitchen | cust a running commentary" on the for a satud-dressing competition traw ping-pong match. A local radiu materials were oil, vinegar, sugar,

cheaply, unit, mustard, pepper, cream).

I went had fixed it

B & Party which must have there were prizes, quite cl

eust very little and it lasted unt! 4

m.

The success of that party proved Ask them to

your that ideas, no money, make friends enjoy themselves. People bring Cameras like having something to do.

They might like it if your wife

to be on holiday.

ked them to dress as they'd like

were

NOTHER iden

is to have a

"WICZ, U, S. WAT, OFF. 15 1993 BY MGA BERVICE, INC. |

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

I Did

in fall

At

LOVE

FIRST

SIGHT

PHEBE, that saucy shepher--~|~|~|~|-|-÷~|~|-~|~|~|~÷÷÷÷÷÷÷~f~ffaj

dess in "As You Like It,"

is wiser than all the learned. sceptics who scoff at the notion that falling in love may be as sudden as falling off a horse.

Who ever lov'd, that lur'd not at first sight? she says.

Who, indeed. Nobody-except the sceptics. If we are to believe them, falling in love is a gradual process.

the first time:

Says

F. C. Prince-White

answering the declara- tion that true love must develop gradually.

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Here is how it was one. Appar ently the menu was meant as a copy of what a Danish farmer would eat. for dinner. We got "beer-bread"

camera party with handicaps fixed according to the capabilities of soup. Ends of brown bread boiled in follow water, beer, and sagar. To

Or you could have a clay model- each guest's camera and their know- the soup we had finely minced enw

competition with

of ledge of photography. If you've got sing

figures and junkel. Those beef on toast.

one of those powerful spot lamps, so who couldn't face raw beef (though famous people.

A girl know once gave a sue- much the better,

How did you fall in love? Did you. a latticed it's very good) got the kind

party. When As background have

sir. say to yourself when you came smoked ham that tastes like smoked ressful "newspaper"

invitees arrived they

given window painted on canvas with on calmon.

pages Drinks were aquavit at the be- exercise books of twenty-four

Two heals are funnier. This appears to be a young ginning of the meal, beer to follow, cach, the nutside cover being a las pening in the middle for two heads face to face with your destined wife woman who might make a tolerable wife. I must get to know her, if who are passionless mock at the Interest allowed at rates which may be unphong con, and in course of time I shall be divine wizardry of Eros.

she is a able to decide

Nature cares not at all for ethics; suitable person to encounter at the breakfast table every morning for, it welds together hearts In an in- stant, and stops not to consider whe- roughly, forty years."*

ther you and the other have a com-

Current Accounts spened In Local Cur. non liking for this or that. "You,"

rency and Fixed Deposits received for it declaras autocratically, "are made

one year or shorter periods in Local and "for each other-And-you-bow_your_British Income Tax Recovered.

Executorships and Trusteeship-under-olen Currencies on terms which will

be quoted an appitenitan

Safe Deposit Boxes To Let. G. BELL

KAN TONG PÒ,

a cum- was

There

room

to come oil. page pasted with the usual heading. than une.

Just get a new idea and your wife's the normal seven were there was a columns to the page, spaces for a party, will be a success. J. F.

Milk for the teetotalers, After dinner there petition. In one

Don't let

wine list

you

the worry

different wines.

The other three dis-i tricts have two generally recognised etassed growths.

You can buy a bottle of Medve for, say, two shillings and you may And it a pleasant, thalight nul ex-

This article may help you to citing, dinner wine. choose your wines. Anyway, it is But if you want one of the Medocl

eful to kunto something about classifed growth clarets of a good

Dir

the subject.

you

first thing

year, you can pay anything up to twenty dollars, or more, for a bottle.

the know

The point about buying a classified about growth claret-all of which bear the name of a chateau long since famous wines? Are you for its wines-is that the name on able to read a wine list the hottle is, or should be, a guarantee

from left to right, or do of its quality.

you always begin with the

price column and work back- THERE

wards?

number any

of Tdifferent wines sold under the

are

How do we help a child? By supplying tinned milk and Lactogen, and in the worst cases, .congee, 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

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

a number of Graves, St. Emilions! CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. now considered so much a part and Pomerols,

of a man's education as it used But there is only onc Chateau to be. But it is useful to know Lante (a fra growth Medor) and something about one or two is naturally in the interests of wines anyway, even if you are the owners of this particular vine- yard to ensure that the quality and

THE BURNS, PHILP LINE

From MELBOURNE, SYDNEY SALAMAUA, RADAUL und

MANILA.

"NEPTUNA“

whether

Your Heart Shook

ND you, madam, did you souts in submission. ANI

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

as

"No doubt, no doubt," the sceptles.

of smile, "But what the future? What happens to this romantle pas- sion in the course of the humdrun years?"

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

If

opportunity offers I shall question

him regarding, his views on the ethles

of responsibility and the duty of par- ents to their childrenand, of course, rice versa."

well there are risks in marrying

I KNOW full

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

not,

It all happened-alt that stupend- every day is a speculation.

and heart 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 us it happened to me, love-to be exempt from the trick

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 liked abruptly very much.

Your gaze

Passion is a tempestuous occan, but

rested on one particular face-und we must brave Its perils before we in that instant your heart shook, can come to the quiet water of stead- your pulse hammered in your head, fost affection and completely under- Your soul went winging to paradisini standing companionship.

heights.

The sceptles tell us that love-at- That face which mirrored for you first-sight unions are doomed to all beauty, all delight, all wonder

catastrophe. Well, I could show in the world, drew you with a magic 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 "rat you-came together, with no ques- fine careless rapture." And they are tion asked of good or ill, of finess sweethearts still, and shining exam- or unfitness. Your heart said: "I am here- whom you have awaited ples to their children and grand- children of what wedded felicity can even though your lips may

have be. mumbied: "I'm very gind to meet you," and such futilities. Wizardry of Eros

the Summon

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

not a regular wine-drinker reputation of their wines are main-The Motor Vessel

yourself. By far the most important tained. wines to become acquainted with are

Whether it is worth your whlic Consignees of Cargo are hereby burgundy and claret, since they are to pay $20 for a bottle of cluret is, informed that all Goods are being generally regarded as being the king of course, for you to decide.

landed at their risk into the liazor- and queen of all wines,

But, however much you are pre- dous and/or extra hazardous Go- Of course, it is all very ane and pared to pay, you should know that downs of The Hongkong and Kowloon large to be able to choose 'n dood it is generally better to buy the wine Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence Chablis to go with your oysters, or of a lesser-known vineyard of a good and/or from the wharves delivery | stirring of passion. Only those first sight. 4 suitable sherry to accompany the year than a wine bearing the name may be obtained. dessert.

But we cannot all afford to have n wing 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 famous chatenu, but of poor| vintage,

THE

the war were:

No claims will be admitted after the Guods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th January, 1938, will be subject to rent,

མ

All claims against the steamer THE best cinret vintages since

1924. 1928, must be presented to the Undersign- 1929, and 1934, with 1920 and 1933 cd on or before the 20th January,

not far behind.

1930, or they will not be recogi, zeil. To comply with the General Bond-

And you need not take any notice ea Warehouse Regulations consignees of a Cintenu-something (1800), be- must have a Revenue Officer in at- TURST of all, then, about claret, cause few, if any, natural red wines tendance when damaged dutiable

And in case you do not al- are at their best after fifty years, and, goods are examined.; ready know, claret is 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 a new radio set or in Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

of redecorating the dining-room. Gironde Department of France,

where they will be examined on the which the capital elty is Bordeaux. In addition to the four main claret- 11th January, 1938, at 10 am. by

There are four main claret-pro- producing districts of the, Gironde Messrs. Goddard and Dougins.

to wines, No Fire Insurance has been effect- ducing districts in the Gironde: the which give their names

there aro number of parishes whose Medoc, Graves, St, Emilion, and Pomerol, and each of these districts names you will also find on the labels Bill of Lading will be counter-

of claret bottles,

signed by, classifies its output of wines.

The chief and best known of these GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.

Agents. The Medoo has Ave classed growths are Paulling, Margaux, St. Jullen, St.

Hongkong, 5th January, "1830, with a total of more than sixiy Estephe and Cantenac..

ed.

T has been said that love would answer, with one volce, that

at first sight is but the it was so.

For true love la always love at

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