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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 222103E

Girls' and Boys' Corner

THIS

HONGKONG

GETS

MY GOAT

'OW I hated him. Grum- bling and grousing all the time. I loathed the very sight of him.

"Have another?" anld I. "Thanks," said he.. "It's not worth drinking. Nothing's worth drinking those days. But I suppose we've got to do some-

thing to pass the time."

He pushed his glass across and I crept to the sideboard. Ever so long I kept

was

my eyes on him. Fixed right on him. There

some- thing I couldn't understand. Why didn't he dic7

"Well, all the best,"

I said presently.

"All the worst," he responded. "Deep de- pressions." sighed

A deep sigh and took "Pest

of a world," he re- marked.

a deep drink.

This is all my own woric

Address

Name

Dear Kiddien,

1 received quite e farge number of en- Jas week's competition. The tries for majority were correct but some of you nde intstakes with Nos. 4 and 5).

The correct names were Cod and Sole.

The prite wimmers fhls week are:

1 Mirkhun (aged 14), 113, Robinson Road:

Rowenary Langley Nathan Road:

(ged

897). 183

There is to junior prize this week a the younger children did not enter for

the competition.

...Are....

Itali, S. A. K. Bux. Roy almes, Ann Hunter, Pamela Coombes.

new

Reginald Itocha: Welcome an a member to our Girls and Boys' Corner. stephen Mase: You did not give me Your age so your entry unfortunately hati to be withdrawn from the competillon,

Pauline Auffiad: Your entry was excel- Jent, Pauline, but unfortunately you are a little too uld to enter our coinpelition, After you have celebrated your birthday, then you are no longer able to join our Girls and Boys' Coner.

15th

This week, kiddies, we are golog to A popular colouring competition.

Coupons are being sent i have

to Ho Shuk-chan and Rosemary, which | Take the picture above und, with your

I want them to bring to the Hongkong paints or crayons, colour it an gatly as Telepruph offices. The coupana w

be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for goed are the following:

theit

work

Sentors: Madelyn Buang, G. D. Abhan, Poul Versoona, Charles E. Clark, Reginald A. Rocin, Claude Chao Kang. Owen long ing. Carlos Castillo, Mak Sze- keung, Vicky Moss. Dick Dedent. Peter Sum, Arthur Dand, Wong Yung-tsing.

Intermedialer: Dorothy Revie, Barbara Hoe. Jean Hunter, Anne Cullimore, Ursula Escher, Joe Martin, Jr. Margaret

NEW

ENGINEERING

DESIGN

NEW

OPERATING ECONOMY

NEW

SILENT OPERATION NEW

SABILE

NEW

you can. Fill in your name, age and address coupon and read to Uncle Eddie.

Homplong cio

Teleprojitt Wyndam Street, before 2 pm, on Wednesday.

Three prizes will again be given-one for the best entry in each section.

Lots of fuck, widdles,

Uncle

Eddie

GAE FRIGIDAIRE

M

ONLY BY GENERAL MOTOR

"Might be worse," I ventured.

"Couldn't be," he asserted.

"Oh, I don't know,"

зald I.

- by

Will Scott

Cut six inches off one of the legs to show me.

"I do," said he. He put down his glass and sneered.

"That isn't beer!"

I'm afraid I glared at him.

"THERE is no beer these days," he snarled, "Just cheap chemicals. They call it beer. The labels are pretty. The advertisements are enticing. They colour it up a bit, and try to immitate the taste.

Sometimes It looks like beer. But it isn't beer, all the same."

"Isn't anything right?" I asked all sarcastic.

"Not a darn thing." he said quickly. "Everything's a fake. Fake Guarantee of purity on

everything, but you can't believe a word you read. Everything's some- thing it isn't supposed to be. Nothing la what it is supposed to be. Life's just a swindle."

'That's how he always went on. Grousing At every darn thing. Moaning all day long. All night long. I detested the very thought of the fellow. And for seven years I'd had him for next-door neigh- bour.

cause it's made of grape-juice!" "I don't believe it." I told him straight. "Why should they prena grapes to make ink when there are plenty of good dyes left all over the world? ".

"You're too unsophisticated to livel'

**You don't he snarled, know your way about. They use all the dyes for making wine. Didn't you know that?"

"I don't want to know all thero things," I said. **I'm happlor not knowing. If I were to spend all my time thinking that every- thing I bought or had given war not what it was supposed to--"

HE rose, cutting me short. Wasn't even list- ening. He thrust his chest out and slapped it.

"I feel finel" he said, *"Fine?" sald 1, surprised. This was most amazing.

"Better than I've felt for years,” said he. "It must be the weather- the air. They can't fake that yet."

I stared at him. -

"Can't be the bread I've eaten." he went on. "That's all cotton wool and compressed sunflower leaves nowadays. And it can't be the beer." He looked at his empty glass and sneered again. “Muck!" he said. "No good to anybody."

He went to the door.

"I'll be getting along. I've pro- mised to buy my rich aunt a new fur coat. It'll coat me forty guineas, if a cent. It will be guaranteed. But it won't be made of fur. It will be made of art- Which is fully faked linoleum. more than you can say about lino- feum! So long."

"Even the cork in the bottle," he whined, picking the thing up, "Look at it. Corks used to be made more? of cark. This thing's never seen a

THEN he went. Leaving me bewildered. Couldn't you trust anything any

I looked at his glass. Three

tree. Compressed brown paper and times I had alled it for him, the milk, most likely.. Like the beer slug. Three times.

Inside the bottle. A fake."

"Don't you ever see anything to

be cheerful about?" I said,

"Never," said he.

I stared at him. Why didn't ho dic?

"YOU'VE got a lot to be thankful for." I told him. "Rings on your fingers

and what not."

** Rings?." He stuck his hand out. Look at 'em! They make tho gold out of seaweed, I belleve. And I'm told they make the stones out of tea-leaves. Bothe new process.

"It cost me twenty-Ave shill- ings, that ring, and you can't tell it from the real thing. They even But it's a gave a guarantee! fake. You can't trust anything these days." He raised his foot. "See that shoe? Is it leather? It is not. Won't last six months. But it's all you can buy. No, there's A guaranteed brand, at double the price. They inst even months. But in my great-grandfather's day a pair of boots lasted a lifetime."

"I don't know why you let your mind remain on such things," Sald I.

"Nothing else to think about," said he. "Look at that cane chair you're sitting on, for instance."

I looked at it. I was rather proud

of it. It had cost me over two pounds. A real beauty.

Well?" sald X.

"Cane?" said he.

"Of course," said I.

Of course nothing," said he,

HE took out a pocket

knife and cut six inches off one of the legs to show me. "Compressed nettle "It's a leaves," he explained. bralny idea. But is it honest?"

"It's done in!" said I mourn- fully.

"Not worth keeping," said he "Nothing's worth keeping. Noth- ing's worth buying. I bough some ment extract the other week Did me no good. It was ali gluc Guaranteed, of course. A leg came of my table. I Bought some glue. Also guaranteed But it didn't work. Made of feat extract, most likely.

"Paper's, zow' made of wood. Wood's now made of paper. You can't trust a thing on earth. Purc swindle. Everything. But you'll find it's all guaranteed."

Look here," sald 1, will you have another?"

"All right," said he, without thanks this, time. "If you like." He had a third and told me how rubbers were no longer made of rubber, and how they now used rubber for making steel plates. Ho whined and groaned and grumbled and groused and complained for twenty solid minutes. But bo didn't dic.

"Look at the ink we buy now. Fades away in a year. Why? Da-

What Next?

San Francisco, Col. Omeinls of the Golder. Gate Inter- national Exposition of 1038 have contracted for a giant crane that will host visitors 100 feet into the air for a bird's eye view of anything they want to see,

NOW YOU KNOW

Answers from l'age 2

1.-A call.

2-Look wider.

3-America,

4.-South of Ireland.

6-70 to 80,

6-Oasis-cases.

7-Poults.

1--The first Sunday after the

first full moon, &c. 0-1

-1031-32

10.—Distance above sea level,

12.

-Make It airtight. 13.-Once every week, ~ 14.-Grouse.

15-An Istand in the West Indies. 10-Madame Melba.

17.-A

tub.

18-Is crooked. 10.-China.

20.-Fish.

21.--Leader of the Sudeten Ger-

mons. 22.--Silver and copper. 23.-Austria.

24.---One. 25.---109yds.

Puzzle Corner Antwers

Cryptograms: Stop, look, andi listen before you cross the strect;|| use your eyes, use your cars, and then use your feet.

Word Square: Night, idler, glory, herbs, tryst.

Letter Changing: Win, way, wry, try.

How Long?: 12 seconds.

won,

Fun With Antonyms: Continue- cense; elevate-depose; deduct-add;' construct destroy; disclaim - acknowledge; scorn-esteem; at tack-defend; expand-condense; improve-impair; congregate-scat-

ter.

From

I went to the sideboard. out of the darkest corner I took a little tin, now only half full of the grey stuff with which I had dosed his drink.

I read the label aloud to satisfy myself.

"Wipple's Renowned Weedkiller. Swift and Deadly. Guaranteed 200 per cent. Effective."

Guaranteed.

Oh well, maybe he was right.

It's fatal

for a wife to look tired

That's Mr. Barticit, she's beautifully dressed!

"Did you see har

face! - Lined and drawn. Her husband's not.

+

paying any attention to her!

THAT NIGHT MRS. BARTLETT FELT BROKEN HEARTED.

ALWAYS TIRED.... EVEN WAKING FIRED.

IT RUINED HER LOOKS. SHE DECIDED TO SEE

A DOCTOR.

2 MONTHS LATER **

Well, with that attractive

Mies Drake about-you can't blame him

FORY BOT PLAY FOR

OF ENEMA, NURSE,*/

“You have every right to bo, Mrs. Evans. I can see a wonderful improvement since you took my advice about "California Syrup of Figs.

"I could tell from what you said that there must be toxin in their sys tems. When children are cross and peevish and lose interest in their food and games, you can be practically aure it's an accumulation of poison- aus matter upsetting their Ingides. I've seen it so often! Just cleanse the system in a safe, natural way, chil dren go ahead like wildfire,

"But do be sure always to give hem "California Syrup of Figs." "It's n natural fruity Inxative which safely cleanses and purifies the bloodstream a fine healthy appetite: and creates a

"Keep an with the weekly dose of 'California Syrup of Figs. Mrs. Evans. It's a fine laxative for young and old. As a matter of fact I use it myself and advise you to adopt it for the whole family."

Be sure to get the genuine "Call" fornia Syrup of Figs.

"California

Syrup of Figs"

'NATURE'S OWN LAXATIVE

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

SOLUTION What Playfair had noticed of finger- was the absence prints on the chessmen and on Manderley's book of games. The Colonel was not wearing gloves, and his imprint was clear enough on his glass. Playfair deduced that some person, other than Mander- ley, had removed the other fingerprints after his death.

Come on Jane! the races will be Over Hiss Drake it waiting in the car

THINKS, If only I could

hide there liner- **I look awfut-ne and this divadlut

birciness

You look positively radiant.

Mits Drake!

WHERE TIREDNESS FIRST SHOWE

i

DULL

EYER

LIFELESS

HAIR

and so every night :

This waking tired tells on your

1 PERAM

PINCHLE

LOOR

PATTY KIN

whole appearance, Mrs. Bartlett

You see all night

long you burn up

energy in heart beats and other automatic actions. If this energy is

not replaced during sloop- of course you wake tired. It's Night Starvations? There's nothing to

•good as Horlicks..

But Jokn/

5 AGEING

LITTLE

LIKES

It's much too ・expensive.

Please Jara) Let me buy it for you. You look wonderful

in it!

Horlicks makes such a difference to the way, you feel - and LOOK

TF you wake tired, watch out ! In almost every case it's

Night Starvation. It tells on your looks and per sonality. Start taking Horlicks - a cupful regulirty at night. You wake refreshed -- eyes bright, akiti petal fresh. You have vivacity and charm all day.

HORLICKS

guards against Night Starvation

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