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NIGHTLY

REVELS

SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1938

OF THE BARN OWL

THERE is an old peel tower i know

well in a Cheviot valley, which from long past times has been the residence of a barn owl.

On many

a summer eve have I watched him

issue forth like a ghostly phantons.

a terror to roosting birds and creep.

ing things of the night.

Of all our fly-by-nights 1 like the barn-owl

He is not a roamer; he passes his whole life within a few

of big heltran. miles

When fandly cares weigh upon him, he is the mnost dutiful of husbands, 110 example to brothers,

my

of his biped 1 hunt for the stuff of life for wife and wear is un tiring.

TLOY

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There is hardly another bird to

in thi When a wife i menlah him and Commily with ravenous appetites

to prn ode

during the breeding seasam. Jse and needs live

the

have seen stremi le him to wither takut festuales exerting tats, volver, mice, and when the supply as over. Abundant. The will brak The legs ind

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then y more until its lander in the gripitaly. wall of fie peel traver hun a short Ef victims

Although

him ng ;4

Fura il h Jook at, for as a fering in apprnach. In_wild stude he is a fiend mearm

1 mld age the wall ot

The old lower to see how hire papang, downy chicks were getting on H flew at me, dealinur leit das at my cap and making the must lad midling krusks I had eve heard

I beat hunts retreat, lest in het ferocity he should plank 25 eyes. You on watch his triph

way with interest, but kep

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The SNAPSHOT GUILD

SUMMER CLOUDS AND SKIES

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affectively.

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day

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and one of the season's chief pleture charme la Its wonderfully rich blau skinn agull which cloud makara stand oat in magnificent fufi-pleturo, Doma and contrast, Oven twa ple thren of identical subjects in wideh the sky appears, it's a safe wager that your attention will be held by the our tirely showing the clonda agulas a gray shy and not the one with the unacural and un- attractive flat, while Artonmon!.

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affairs. As a father he is courage are no unther's darlings allowed to) to the noon complains of wänder- stay at home in the owl's dentis

personified.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Why

WENT out of my way to see the spinsters (horrid word) when they were in town en masse a day or two ago. I went in search of physical character- istics that might provide an answer to the question, "Why don't girls marry?"

It was a fruitless search. Your typical spinster of a quarter of a century ago has all but dis- appeared.

A woman in frumpy clothes, with A scraggy neck, her hair in a bun, and steel-rimmed spectacles - that used to be the formula.

The women

But all that is gone. who paroded in demand of pen- sions recently were trim and neat and cheerful.

The sort of women, you imagine. who manage their bosses at the office most competently and are a Westminster presented with chiming clock when they leave to net married and bring up a family in a suburban vitia.

Only these women don't leave to get married; and the nearest they get to bringing up a family is being Auntie Jane to friends' children.

Dway

O they prefer life that way? Thoro are in Britain 1,040,000 different answers to that question. For by this yure the fermate of the spacles is more numerous than the male.

And so long as this preponder- ance of female birthe continuen and the monogamous system of marriage is upheldt, the answers will go piling up.

So here, before they pile up too much, are some of the answers from a representative bunch of un- married women who say here what they think with only their names suppressed, for reasons that

obvious)

Are

First. Miss 8. B., aged 42, aturno-

CLIMBS 10,000 FEET TO SAVE GUIDE'S LIFE

Working by candle-light in a cave 10,000 ft. up a mountain, a Northmap- ten woman doctor gave an anaesthetic and treated the wounds of guide

who had fallen several hundred feet.

To get to the cave she had ridden i 14 miles on horseback,

With her husband and other gundes she stayed at night tending The guide, until dawn made it possible

for it to be lowered down blac Curtain pass

The story is disclosed to a leiter from the Kry. Hubert Fanisch, nantsler of College Street

Church, Northampton,

girls

don't-

She is

tive, a professional worker genuinely grateful for a incasure of emancipation that has made possible for some women an in- dependence that is real, and that she means to keep. She is even grateful, in a way, to the war that Hurried it along.

"If you see.

JOMEN of my generation, were between 20 and 30 then," she "And our world was up- side down. Everybody's WAS, of course; but ours especially

snys.

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“I had a man friend. Not much And when he more than that went to the front we had a sort of arrangement. Not quite an en- gagement.

You know?

You We wrote.

know Level general

of suburbanites letters? Not exactly exciting

Then, while he was abroadt Rot a job, well-paid and interest tag. When he came back frout Pranee 1 just didn't want to give up my job.

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"It would have meant lying on his income amaller than mine and scraping along. And 113 AB very well to talk of the course of true love and nii that, but missing the things you've been used to is as Rood a way as any of breiking up a marriage

So there wasn't any marriage "If anyone else had asked me and they haven't I should have

I've en given the same answer Jayed my freedom and I want now more Than ever did.

course

I've been lucky, of That's why Uni fairly happy now Whether I shall be as cheerful in

n couple of weeks ago manifestly was not the right one.

Miss F. comes up by tram from Norbury to type from 0,30 to 6, for five days a week, in the classified advertisement department of à weekly newspaper in Floot-stroct. For that sho la paid £4 a week, which, for a girl of 25, is not a bad aninry.

And, being a practical person. Miss F. does not intend to forsake that anlary for marriage with a young man with an uncertain in- come that hovers around £3 a week: Heartless? Not a bit,

"Oh, I know the risk I'm taking. I want to get inarried. This job is interesting enough, but pounding a typewriter palls after a few years, however exciting the work.

And at least I have had one offer of marriage. Many women. would have jumped at that and done the worrying afterwards.

"I prefer to do my worrying this end. Thirty years ago, I suppose, I would not have had the chance. Thirty years on I'll tell you whether It was worth it." That is Miss F.

marry

30 years' time is another matter." Another matter that she is quite content not to worry much about Just now Miss B. intends to keep her freedom and, for as long as she can, her Job as research worker

f her own flat in Bloomsbury. Bul she admits,

quiet moments, that if the job became worth leas and the flat in Blooms- bury room In digs. the prospect would be less inviting

The derision whieh Miss B., ut Bloomsbury made just after the war Miss M. P. reached after much consideration a couple ut weeks ago; but in her case it was i

tlfferent sort of decislori.

Miss P. will get married just as 2001 105 The right man comes The alange ætul peps the question man who weat away so miserably vna toen de in these circumstancesi

Girls' and Boys' Corner

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Baptist

Name

Address

With his wife, Dr. Rutla Parker Gray, Mr. Janisch is holiday-making in South Africa.

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While staying at a hostel foot of the Drakensburg Mountain, near Johannesburg, a guide, known orally as "Charle, the King of the Mountains," had fallen in trying to recover a rucksack,

Dr. Parker Gray volunteered her Aurvices.

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JAM-TIN STERILISER After describing the guide's in

and sealp Jurtes, which included

fractured and facial

wounds shoulder and ribs, Mr. Janisch tells how muddy water was boiled in a

administering Jam-lin prior to annesthette,

"With great skill, bit by bit, the terrible wounds were sewn up; and when sewn up with such skill that examined days later they proved to desired," he be all that could be adds,

Dr. Parker Gray is honorary anaes-

Orthopaedic thetist to the Manfield Hospital, Northampton, and

Royal Society the Fellow of Medleine,

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100 PEOPLE

SEEK ISLAND UTOPIA

Melbourne.

More than a hundred people, aged from one to acventy, form a party establish a Utopian proposing to colony on the Pacific island of Nukaliva, one of the Marquesas

group.

Dear Kiddies,

This le all my own work

Last week's cross-word was quite popular with the older entrants, but few entries were received from the

Age

Three prizes will be given in order of merit for the correct and best- weltten enteles.

Lots of luck, kiddies.

Jumors Perhaps It was a wee bit Uncle

went

to difficult. Some of you wrong with 18 Across: Pause between acts of play. This should have read "Interlude". 10 Down: Pertaining lo 3 Down which was "Gives light at

night" was also rather difficult. The answer was "Lunar“.

The prize-winners this week are:- Senlor: Charles Edward Clark (aged 131, 19, Hillwood Road, Kow- loon.

Intermediate: Penelope Jane Dod- well (aged 0), 301, The Peak,

Junior: Nena Ozorio (aged 6), 200, Prince Edward Road.

Coupons have been sent to Charles, Penelope and Nena. I want you to bring these coupons to the "Hong- kong Telegraph" offices in Wyndham Street where they will be exchanged for money prizes.

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Specially commended for good work are the following:

Seniors: Nancy Dion, Goeffrey Hazel Sulater. Eddle Xavier, Ethel Chue, Mary Grace Asche, Dulce Borradas, Hameedah cl Arculli, Terence Barton, Stephen Mose.

Intermediate: John Hardoon, Claude Coom, Ghazi J. Khan, Ann Hunter, A. C. Knder, Teren Souza, Robert Sousa, Alexandre Barrades.

This week, we are having a jumbled

competition. The namts puzzle to be solved is one of jumbird names of drinks-tea, coffee and so on. The names are to be found In

Mr. F. Briggs, formerly in the photographic section of the Australian Air Force, is the leader of the party, the mixed letters under the pleture, and is fitting up the yacht Connella | When you discover them, write the for the journey to the island with an name, in ink or penell, in a neat advance party.

numbered Ilst. Write as nicely as Many people in Australia, New you can, because writing and neatness Zealand, South Africa and America are taken into account. wrote wanting to join the settlement, which is open to those "tired of the strain of civilised life."

The settlers won't "go native but will enjoy the amenities of civilisa- tion.

Be enreful to put your name, aga and address on the card and remem- ber that, the competition closes at 4 pm. Wednesday. Send your entries to Unele Eddic, c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph," Wyndham Street,

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Eddie

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from Page 2

hular.

2-The Cominber of Deputies.

3.Martial air (played on buspipes) 4.-011.

-Manna.

0-Homer.

7 -JD.

--Pointed.

D.Flox-should be phlox 10.- the coast of Spain. 11.—All girls, 12-Do unto others as you, 13-Australin WDS Inde

&c.

14. Vanity. 30..--0

16,-Skin diseases,

17Tentmaker,

18-, J, Sheelian. 10.-Calf.

a

e British.

20-Australia (1032-33).

21-Get tangled up in its wheels (en)

ok-fashioned bicycle). 22-GoldBlocks,

23-Homonying.

24. An athletic contest,

23. From left to right.

Puzzle Corner Answers

Cryptogram: The great musicians nre told, not by the air, but by the hair,

An Account in Crylogram: Bover- clan, Crown, 6 shillings; Guinea, st. 1 shilling: Dob, i abilling: Tanner, 'Groni, 4 pence; Two 0 ponce farthings, pence. Total, #2, lill- lings, 10%

eiter Changlus: Yarn, yard, card, ni, slid, sit, niot, slob, shob, knob, knot, kolt.

What Are the Numbers?: 9 and 12. Fun With Synonyms: Jul-project; underntantkriow; twist-kink; loave depart; depend-lang; jolly-banter: Ink-sociale; make constitute; clin- close-impart; mind-obey.

Inspector Playfair

Solution

Nabul, who had taken the stamp, had (naturally) not bothered to rend the account of it clreviated in the paporn. In writing out his description, ho gave the number of perforations correctly.

Now Miss 1. B. is no less good to look at, ho less emclent at her work.

It is just Her inck

that

she is five years older than Miss which lessens her

chances. That she earns a pound a week less; which would make her more willing to risk marriage on a small Income. And that she has not to date.- had even a chance to turn

man down

This Mias B. lives in n house in A North London suburb with her mother and father and three more. quite eligible sisters. She works in a big oflice, belongs to the local tenuls club. is a good mixer. And she looks the competent sort of woman who could manage a home without trying to dominate it.

When she gets old is she going to become one of the frustrated. rather embittered women of tho old time caricatures? From her conversation you would say not; but you never know, for she wants a home of her own that badly.

She skates casily over her parti- celur problem now; but you know wil the time that she seldom forgeta

it

Just bad luck, I suppose," she ALLY Or else I'm particularly rc- pulsive." Which isn't true.

But there it 15. So long as there are surplus women you will have people like me making a nyls- ance of themselves.

TILL, what can you do? Short of polygamy - which wouldn't attract you will have to put up

me a bit with 09

And I suppose we should be grateful that in these days we can generally get a job of work to do instead of decorating the draw- ing room with our crochet."

There is another kind of woman doomed to spinsterhood: those who deliberately ignore every oppor- uf Lanity of marriage because family lies-of invalid parents or younger brothers and sisters.

T. Нег One of them is Miss mother is dead and her father so paralysed that he can only move himself, with the aid of a 'wheeled chair, a yard or two at a time.

Miss T stands behind the coun- tor of an Oxford-street store for right hours and then goes home in housework packed train to enough to appal a woman with all day in which to do it.

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She is 30 now. She has been doing this for 14 years. Outwardly, She admlin to no sherifice,

"It's just one of those things," she says.

And that is as good an answer as you will get.

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY, NURSE?"

"Don't scold him, Mrs. Hardy, He doesn't look well. Are you sure he is not constipated? Whenever a child is cross and peevish, I look at the tongue. If it is coated, or if the breath ia disagreeable, 1 know at once what is wrong, I always give California Syrup

of Figs. That moves the a few hours and cleanses bowels in the system.

"Children don't understand the importance of regularity. They get absorbed in play and won't trouble. And it is only when they get thorough- ly cross and miserable that you real- ize that they are constipated. I find it saves a world of sickness and worry to give them a regular weekly dose. I would do that if I were you, With a natural laxative like 'Call fornia Syrup of Figs' you can't go wrong.

"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, and we nurser awear by it. Get a bottle of 'Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs from the drug. store and give him a dose at bef time. He'll be us happy as a lurk in the morning.

"Never experiment with cheap and drastic preparations when buying children's laxatives. The safest plan in to do as I do, follow the example of the doctors and give 'California Syrup of Figs."

"California

Syrup of Fiqs”

`NATUREN OWN" tagatvi