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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION,

Girls and Boys' Corner Colourful History Of

K.N

Name

Address

ACROSS

1 Miss Muffet was

10...

The

15

This is all my own work

having something

on a tuffet.

The story is told in

The spider would have

harm.

7 Short for read."

Ago

13

DOWN

1 A spike of corn.

2 There came a big spider

Mat

ald rhyme.

down beside her.

done her

3 The spider

. frightened

Miso

Muffet away.

8 When Miss Muffet saw the spider sho

TAR

0 Sounds like B.

12 Highly flavoured,

15 Miss Muffet was not pleased to...

the spider.

10 One of the things she was eating.

entrics, painting Bome excellent were received for last week's competition. You certainly seem to like painting and are very clever et it.

The Senior prize this week goes to Jill Eager Loged 13), 5, Bowen. Road, S. 3. Bux (nited 8), 63. Jardine Bazaar has been awarded the Junior prize.

I am sending coupons to Jill and 9. 59.

4 What she sat an.

10 Part of the title of this rhyme.

11 Another

cating.

thing

13 Just C and E.

14 "Instead of."

Dear Kiddies,

Mies Muffet Was

Bux. WIB they bring the coupons to the Hongkong Telegraph' offices where they will receive money prizes?

are

Specially commended for excellent worki

Seniors: Witlom Oswald Sousac. Aurea Marques, Arthur William Grimmitt, Der- Bowerman, Diana Hosking. Sheik Hamed Bux, Oel Tiong Pin,

rick

Thelma

The Cocktail

BEGINNINGS IN OLD-TIME AMERICA

COD hath made men upright,

but they have sought out many inventions."

The pessimistic observation of The Preacher may well have found a rueful echo in the heart of too-adventurous revellers who have freighted the ship Plca- Bure with a miscellaneous cargo, But the practice of mixing drinks antiquity. A of a respectable is treatise on false, gods published in ancient Babylon speaks of the re- mixed markable properties of a

obs- named "Cuttack"_"It drink tructs the heart, blinds the eyes and emaciates the body. If poured upon stones, it breaks them. It is better, anys a proverb, to cat stinking fish than to take Cuttach."

In some puritanical clrcics it may bo held erroneously-that we are here given an accurate and terrify ing portrait of some early ancestor of the cocktall.

The Greeks took odd liberties with wina. They regarded the drinking of it undiluted as a barbarian proc tice. They used to sprinkle grated cheese on it. And they opened ban- mixture of quets by drinking wine and honey.

AUDACIOUS COMBINATION HERE hus, in fact, never been b THE

time when the human race did not subject is alcohol to preverse experiment and audacious combina-

Pinna, C. E. Clark, Leonardo Xavier. Mansoor All. S. J, Bux, A.

Antonio Souza, Dora Tiu, G. Brown,

Karima J. Khan Muriel MeTan, Hazel Sclater, Morgle Xavier, Frank Herlock, Yeung, Ki-wa, Betty Peggy Burton,

Becker, Frederick Garcia, Antonina da Luz, Lina Luongo, Marie Pereira, Mary Horwood, Muggle Cheng, Wong Chiu-yink. Remedios, Vivian Pomeroy, Margaret Daniel Choy, and Walter Choy.

Garcia, W. Landolt Toomie Juniors:

Sousac. Ricardo do Luz, Ernesto Luis Gladys Smith, Jacqueline Xavier, Teresa Souza. 8. A. L. Bux. George Guest, Patricia Coombs, Tony Xavier, S. 8. Bux. S. A. Bux, and June Martin.

This week we are going to have a cross-word puzzle competition all about Miss Muffet. All you have to do is to деток and down to All in the words complete the frame. Read the cluc care- fully, write your answer neatly in Ink or pencil and fill in the name, address and age coupon.

Juniors need hold paint the picture, but

not so. Entries should be sent to Uncle Eddie, e/e "Hongkang Telegraph," Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 4 p.. on Wednesday.

prizes will agairi be given.

Lots of luck, kiddies.

Uncle Eddie

Let Health

you've gained

be

SUMMER is at an end. Holidays and

week-ends in the warm sunshino have built up your health and given you abundant stores of vitality. Why not carry this holiday health right through into the Winter?

The best way to keep up your health and vitality is to drink delicious 'Ovalting' every day, for it is supremely rich in the nutriment necessary to maintain body, brain and nerves at the highest level of efficiency.

Start the 'Ovaltino' habit now, and make it your safeguard against Winter ailments. But be sure it is 'Ovalting. There is definitely nothing "just as good."

'Ovaltine' is packed in tins containing 4% 12, Doza, and 18 ozs. Compare these weights with imitatione. 'Ovaliine' gives you more in quantity -mero in quality and therefore more in value,

Drink

Ovaltine

19C70

Health maintained

AM

this Winter

IN

an article in the Evening Standard, extracts from which appear here, George Malcolm Thomson, scemingly an authority on the subject, traces the history of this type of drink. Academic articles on the history and art of drinking are becoming the vogue in both England and the United States, considerable space being devoted to the subject on both aldes of the Atlantic.

ilon. The

question, indeed, only has been whether drinks should be mixed before or after they have passed the lips of the imbiber.

And this is a question which, in our civilisation, is answered impres

of sively by that modern temple human Imagination, skill and devo- tion, the cocktail bar.

It

Yet, let us confess it, the cock- tall has only recently come to enjoy an unchallenged pre-eminence. has had to fight hard for recogni- tion: A cloud of juleps, cobblers, slings, sangarees, lips and smashes compassed it about, so that its own virtues were not at first peculiar discerned.

What distinguishes a cocktail from those other less august decoctions? It is as well to define our terms at an early stage in research. Strictly speaking a cocktail is a mixed drink containing bitters, just as n julep contains mint and ice and a fizz, soda water.

Perhaps all of those mixtures had a common origin and a common in- spiration. And who is to say where the birthplace or who the begetter? Perhaps there were many of ench

A cold night and a well-stocked earth- bar might suggest to even an bound soul the first sketch of a rum ip. The sun in 'n tropic sky and an adjacent bottle of gin might have bosom awakened in more than one

the smash.

earliest whisper of the

ORIGIN OF NAME

gin

THE cocktail, since nobody knows where it was born nor to what

it owes its name, is claimed by many lands, though most loudly and with the greatest show of conviction by United States. It first enters the English literature about the year of Trafalgar when Washington Irving notes it as an especial boast of the

of New York.

city

There are, indeed, Americans who claim that the year 1770 was doubly blessed in that it gave the world the, Declaration of Independence and the in corkt . For, the legend goes,

being that year n French officer, served by Betsy Flanagan, bermeld, Elmsford, at O'Brien's restaurant, U.S.A., with a drink in which she had put a fowl's feather, thereupon

history. launched the name upon

maintain But British publicists that the cocktail dates from the old cock-fighting days, when the specta- were won't to toast the victor

tors

of a muin in a drink containing as many Ingredients-us-there--were- feathers left in his tali.

It is, however, known who lifted the cocktall out of obscurity and Kave it

RS

SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1938

GRAMOPHONE

New Records

THE CAPRICORN CHALICE

EPISODE

62 FROM

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S

NOTEBOOK

HE theft of the Capricorn market square at Helmby.

"That.

all the Thousand and One Nights the tale of Sinbad is probably the most famous, though the history of the Calendar who was a King's Son is one of the most Intriguing. And of the Hundred and One Master- pieces of Modern Russian Music Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazado" which, tells both of these tales (and some

in crime, as in less exacting fields. others as well) is among the

"Why do my ventures so seldom loom of the Earls of Epstanger

are carefully best.

was carried through without fall? Because they

thought out. Why am I stopping b now a hitch. Now there comes H.M.V. record of a soundly This coup was planned by here? Because I'm going to buy you an ordnance map. Why am I buy

nn Delmer Demure, known at one ing you and pleasing per played

ordnance map? Be- time as

you mustn't go wrong to- the "Bayard of Bor- cause formance by the L.P.O. un- der Antal Dorati, who has stal," who, when he got away morrow. "And

why-excuse this flood of with the chalice, had to hls cre- conducted the 'do Basil Ballet

rhetorical questions-why am I put- dit-if credit be the right word ng on my gloves? Becauso I think at Covent Garden, We have used to "Scheherazade"

use at least three major of everything. I have no change on got

fe'onics.

me, and I must pay for my map with as a ballet. But it existed as pure music long before the dancers had their way with a fact of which this re- cord is a reminder.

it.

☆

THE Columbia record of

THE

Delibes "Sylvia" is true ballet music, the work of a man who knew his job inside out and backwards and did it extremely

The prettily. L.P.O. under Efrem Kurtz play it charmingly. Not un- til I had gone through this record did I realise how popu- lar these "Sylvia" tunes have One hears them become. continually being whistled and hummed in snatches by people as they go about their work. One of them. was mur dered last week by a bus con- ductor in Sussex.

M

of murder,

TALKING a new Swinger

cord, made in the best style by Benny Goodman's players, called "Mimic the Moocher's Wedding Day," which begins March with Mendelssohn's (H.M.V.). The reverse side, "Changes," is equally up-to- date. A Decca record, of "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" is useful piece of straight dance music, very ably_per- formed by Josephine Brad- ley's players.

↑

S. G.

his friends claim, he invented that famous-rum-und-egg-combina tion, the Tom and Jerry.

This is, however, a matter of in- ternational secure status in the world

dispute. English pro- of beverages, Mr. Jeremiah Thomas, erages. This, plous task was

pagandists point out that Tom and performed by

Jerry was a slang term for a London who first saw the light of day t public-house in the early years of New Haven, Connecticut, in 182 the nineh century.

Mr. Thomas

adventurous led MA life, but through it all he was true to one lodestar-the improvement

of

of the science of mixing drinks. In this beneficent crusade he crossed the ocean and dared the heats

knowledge, the Equator, acquiring

finally conducting researches, and spreading the light. He was in turn novice, priest and missionary.

"BLUE BLAZER”

at the

S principal bartender A Metropolitan Hotel, New York, he made it the first great cocktail house in the world. His imposing mustachios behind the bar, his in- comparable dexterity in tossing the mixture of drinks from one glass to another for he lived in days be fore the cocktail shaker-attracted the respectful admiration of many. He was in fact, recognised master of his art and bare, himself with the conscinus dignity of the virtuoso.

In his early days his 'prentice hand had evolved the spectacular Blue Blazer. He was at the post of duty in the saloon of a Californian mining camp when a miner, dis- paraging such infants' food as nent Bourbon whisky, expressed a lively wish to drink hell-fire,

And

Danes have the temerity to assert that Tom and Jerry is sim- ply the Scandinavian "eggedsis." As corroboratory evidence, they produce the fact that Mr. Thomas himself called the drink a "Copenhagen."

But the master's fame rises clear above these jealousies. It rests on the book in which he enshrined the fruits of a life of study, reflection Mix and experiment; "How to Drinks, or the Bon Vivant's Com- panion." It contains the recipes of 300 different drinks, compiled with meticulous care by the distinguished savant.

Published In 1862, when Mr. Thomas was at the height of his powers, it passed through many cdl- flons. It was edited anew a few Years age and published in New York by Grosset and Dunlap. It is recognised as a standard authority, Three years before he wrote it.

Thomas paid

n visit to Mr. shores. He brought with him his awn solld silver bor utensils, valued not stay long at $4,000. He did among us, although there were not lacking opportunities here for a man of his ability. For New York, its saloons, its votaries, called him home again.

our

"A PERIPATETIC AMERICAN"

Mr. Thomas, after due medita- Uon, mixed whisky and water in one of the two silver mugs which he had brought from the East, set a Bight to the mixture-a feat possi-IN "How to Mix Drinks" he notes, ble in those days and hurled the binzing liquid rapidly from one mug to another. The miner's wildest longings were amply satisfied by the

result.

This triumphant invention achieved an astonishing popularity among the rough diamonds of the mining camps. But Mr. Thomas was not content with the fame which ho had won in his profession.

He was overcome with shame when, one day, a client asked him for n drink of which ho lind never heard. As it turned out, this be

to was pecullor vernge

Central America.

Mr. Thomas salled there without delny, and, returning northward, stayed in South Carolina long enough to unvell the secrets of the Julep.

IN

THE TOM AND JERRY

due course he was to be found presiding over the bar of the Planters House in St. Louis where,

"We

very well remember seeing one day in London, in rear of the Bank of England, a small drinking saloon that had been set up by n peripatelle American, at the door of Which was placed a board covered with the unique titles of the Ameri- can

mixed drinks supposed to be prepared within."

Among these, let us note, was n cocktail the "hunderbolt cocktail. it is a solemn thought that this humble trans-Atlantic booth, set up with some

Irony besida thie temple to rectitude, sobriety and the pound sterling, may have been the rat cocktail bar in London..

vnst

If Mr. Thomas could only have foreseen the numerous and brilliant offspring which that unpromising parent was to have, how proud to would have felt. For he would have hind no doubt that the boiler repute of the cocktail In our tires opřong In, largo measure from his own la

bourg.

to

It was he who had "lifted" # note. And, as it might be an es- Lady Lacklight's pendant at the sential part of my defence that I've never been near Helmby, I'm not Powcester's New Year Ball. It going to run the smallest risk."

his pound So saying..

clear of fingerprints before buying Petunia a half-inch map of Sicethorpe and district.

had note

WAS he who, from a wedding

In Pimlico, reception spirited away the Dixborough diamonds.

And it was he who had forced an "impregnable" strong room on the liner Contessa Emilla.

Delmer Demure liked what he was apt to call "fun." The theft of the He Capricorn Chalice was "fun." planned the rald on Epstanger Hall partly as he was only too ready to admit-because, at the time, he was very short of funds; but partly also because Everard Fitzhurst had brag ged, at a Mayfair cocktail party, that the family heirloom was unsteala- ble.

Man From the "Stargazer"

211 Inward

Nor was this all. He was careful, as soon as he had bought the map. to remove from if the label which gave the vendor's name and address. Epstanger

Hall Dance

The rest of Delmer's movements were strictly according to plan. The In his newspaper following day,

he attended Marigold's capacity,

was lunch. He

present birthday also, that evening, at the Epstanger Hall dance.

At 11.30, with duplicate

the

AL

the aid of his key, he removed Chalice from its resting place. 11.45, buving left no trace of his handiwork,

for he Sleethorpe Station.

departed

At 12.10 he caught the express for

Delmer Indulged in laugh when young Fitzhurst made this boast. And that very night, at King's Cross; at 12.35, when the Petunia Waybury's flat, he had laid train stopped at Helmby, he handed his plans for its capture.

Dr

Kfor

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rear window of

compartment. They were carried out some four the Chalice to Petunia, through the five weeks later. The occasion (No one witnessed this transaction.) was the coming-of-age of Everard's Delmer knew well that the loss of It was not very the rloom would be discovered

heirloom sister, Marigold. dimeult for Delmer to arrange to re- long before he reached King's Cross, present the "Stargazer "

and he strongly that some one emissary of the

would meet The

Epstanger family, for reason

or another one might, for him on the platform. West example, mention certain

Nor was he disappointed. It was African gold-mines-was thirsting Joshua Playfair in person who met publicity. Pictures of Marigold's him at the terminus and who, at his celebrations, featuring prominently own request, searched his baggage. the Eart and his Countess, could not Demure's criminal past was suff do harm, and might do quite a bit ciently well known to render these And it was attentions inevitable. of good.

it was not very difcult to Playfair who, a couple of days later. arrange that Petunia, the best pal a invited him to attend at the Yard for cracksman ever

had, should be further examination. handy with her Bentley in a neigh- "Mr. Demure,' was Playfair's greeting. "I'm still on the track of bouring village.

Nor,

finally, was it difficult to ar- the Earl of Epstanger's Chaltee."

"What, you haven't recovered it range that Delmer, complete with his

bad." photographs

Marigold's yet?" -Buid Demure. "Too should entch the His tone was sympathetic. -from-Sleethorpe, which.

Surprise For nearest main line station to Epstanger Hall.

And

night

is the

the

of

by

Mr. Demure

All that remained was to collect

Chalice itself. And that, Delmer Demure standards, was just child's play. The heirloom was kept about your own movements. in a special safe in the library at you went down to

you go by rall7 Epstanger Hall.

"I want to ask you some more

A Map For

Petunia

When Epstanger, did

"No," said Demure, "I drove down with ล

friend." He proceeded to

detaressely-Petunia's

and

name

I'll

"You went through Helmby?

A car was seen All Delmer had to do was to ob- tell you why I nsk. tain, in town, an impression of the in Helmby, which might though

master of I've

of it-be key-not difficult, for

no precise account sleight-of-hand and to proceed to yours. And the driver of that car, his objective armed with a duplicate according to come witnesses, met the

night express from Sleethorpe

thereof.

on

As he and Petunia drove down to the occasion of the theft. You see the Hall, on a sunny afternoon in what I'm getting at, Mr. Demure, January, he felt confident enough don't you?" that another success was in sight.

"Attention to detall," said Delmer,

as he brought the car to a halt in the

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM I

FIVE STAMPS Popalong Island (In Polynesia) has recently issued five stamps. Each of them is for one or more cents, and the face value of the

20 cents. set of five

I was looking at a set the other

won Interested to day and that ten different postages could be pald using for each one stamp of one denomination and a second stamp of another oric.

ace

(1) How many different post- aycs can be paid, using three stamps, all of diferent denomina-

tions?

(2) What are the values of the Ave stumps?

It should be possible to an- swer the first question Indeperi- dently of the second.

M

PROBLEM II

WORD SQUARE

(1) Dad turned author.

(2) A poem for an electrician. (3) Polson sounds the alum. (4) Cited in disarray. (0) Not Niobe's lents.

(Solutions on. Page 3.)

Demure's eyelids narrowed. What

an ass the fellow was! "I've never," he said, "been, through Helmby In my

life. Miss Waybury and I drove down through Gursthwaite."

Now it was Playfair's turn to look surprised. "Mr. Demure," he said, expected better of you than that. I'm sorry, but I've a warrant here for your arrest."

What was the evidence against Demure?

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