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NIGHTS
Christmas Week
AT THE
IN THE
HONGKONG HOTEL "GRIPPS"
SATURDAY
December 23rd TILL 2 A.M. CHRISTMAS EVE December 24th TILL 3 A.M. BOXING NIGHT December 26th TILL 2 A.M.
PRESENTING
THREE CABARET ACTS
"MIGNONE"
"JUNE WEST & KAY"
AND THE
"SIX GRIPPS GRACES"
TWO BANDS
NICK KORIN AND HIS SWING BAND
and
THE HONGKONG HOTEL TANGO ORCHESTRA
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THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
December 21, 1939.
A LOOK AT THE COLONY'S SHOPS
CHRISTMAS shoppers, so intent on their job, are a Christmas entertainment.
A reporter took a stand for an hour in each of four big Hongkong stores, observing shoppers.
Later, the results were
tabulated.
1.
2.
Ne out of ten were women. One-third were accompanied, chiefly by women; sometimes by children; rarely by men, 3. Not one man was accompanied
by another.
4. Ouly one shopper in 20 carried
a parcel.
Conversion was practically nil.
It is only when you settle down to exact observation that you realise what a streng silent Englishwoman the Hongkong shopper can be.
Price, First And Last
Here are typical specimens shoppers' talks
"How much?"
"Perfectly sweet." "No, not stripes,"
"Is it Brillah made?” "Sorry."
**Thank you."
LETTERS
Americanisms
To the Editor,
"Hongkong Telegraph."
Sir-Hongkong is supposed to be a Brith Colony, and it is therefore with surprise, and, if i may say so without hurting the feelings of our American friends, dispist, that on appears at times to be living in an elshoot of the United States.
On all sides one fears Chinese speaking English with an American. accent; no great harm in that, per- of hapa, but more insidious is the daily crop of American words, expressions, and spelling which appears in print.
Advertisements are largely blame, but I am sorry to see that our daily newspapers. far from being Uncorrupt In this respect, (as, being moulders of public opinion, they should be), are themselves almost the
Woman's buying technique is en tirely different from 'man's.
Women approach the goods first' and look for the price tickel; men approach the wesistant and ask the price after they have made their selection.
Mirror Lure
The time element with men was a mere fraction compared with women, One woman, an extreme example, took 30 minutes to select a $5 scarf. The quickest purchase by a man was 3 woman's $50 dressing-case in 34 minutes.
Men walked in the centre of the aisles, Women edged along the counters examining as they went
AL ONC counter containing comb, brash and mirror sets, one woman in every three picked up one of the mirrors and had a good look at her face.
A Note On Notes
Among 30 enquiries made, six were for the book department, 19 for the toys, three for linens, and two for bicycles
The six for the book department were all made by young people.
Most shoppers seemed to know what they wanted, and to carry the knowledge in their heads,
Only seven people with shopping lists were noted-four of them men.
worst offenders.
on
to
I will name but a few examples, the columns of the culled from Colony's journals during the past 50Fiber." "Gasoline," week or "Plow" and "Billion."
Sir, to write headlines about Now "Twenty Billion Yen," or dollars, or what-have-you, may make impressive the delving into reading, but smaller print one discovers that the question
Tweraty meint in Thousand Million-what-nols,
It is perfectly true that a billion in in America, and, for that matter France, is thousand million, but, In Great Britain it is million million, sum a thousand times as great, and I cannot for the life of me see why we should adopt American. (or even French), standards of notation,
Moreover, it is productive of rais- understanding. If you sily 20 thousand million
everyone known
what you mean, even though our American visitors may wonder why you don't call it 20 billlon; but if you do call it 20 billion one cannot tell whether you mean American British billions.
or
do not want to start a controversy
the relative about
incrits or superiority of British or American spelling, expressions, er notation, but British since we are living in u Colony, may I beg you, Sir, to give the lead in writing the English language in the way which is at the present accepted as correct in home of that language-England?
Button. (Oxford Dictionary defines "billion" | "B["-4" (M})llion", the second power oth million. It is derived from
a thousand million, as do the United
Canada among the Drills Dominions, and other countrice. We do not be leve it is incorrect to use the word LONDON, Dec. 20 (Reuter), to indicate "a thousand million" when -The Stock Exchange closed we are referring to the countries in quietly fum after earlier irregu- which it is used in that sense. larity induced by small profit-Telegraph" knows of no Hongkong newspaper Intentionally using the taking sales.
examples of Americanisms quoteci by "Briton"-Ed.
STOCK EXCHANGE
France, which recognises a billior as
CLOSES QUIETLY Stales, Japan, at least Australia and
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI
Of the commodities, cotton eased on general liquidation, which dis- closed a poor take-off.
Wall Street was irregular.
Rise In Silver
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NEW YORK Dec. 20 (UP).—The rise in the price of "foreign silver" is attributed to Indian interests.
Informed circies believe that India has worked out an arrangement under which she will grant Import licences making it possible to purchase silver in New York.
One-Cent Advance
SONGS THAT HALL
CHRISTMAS
(Continued from Pope 6.)
The
were to greet the blessed morning. Wondering why the sacristan 1100 folled to do so, he lighted the cardies himself.
UP the road marched the Round- head host, silent, stern, and deter- mined to make havor of those they called Idol-loving heathens. As they came in sight of the church, Its lights NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (Reuter).-flashed out over the snow and stirred According to local banking circles, them.to fresh anger, Lo-day's further cne-cent advance in the silver price was caused by heavy speculative buying in Indila and, to a lesser degree, in London.
Confused by the European war trends, Indians are reported to be converting their currencies into silver bars for hoarding.
Canadian Gives War Hospital
"Death to those Papists!" exclaimed the leader, rushing up to the door.
The Charm of a Boy's Voice But there was no enemy to slay only a fair-haired lad who anging a carol.
Was
When he ended, there was a stringe sight; every armed man had bared his head and fallen upon his knees, Then all silently departed. The boy had not even seen them!
Bul soon he grew tired of waiting for the other singers and left for home, wondering if the Christ Child TORONTO, Dec. 20 (Reuter)-A would know that he had tried to private citizen of Toronto has given sing als best; wondering why the $150,000 (about £30,000) to pay for others had not come; and wondering, tramped a hospital in Buckinghamshire, Eng-also, why the snow was
down and why there were so ranny land.
Canada will thus have its frst war footprints about the durch door.
He did not know that he was, hospital overseas.
The gift was made to the Toronto himself, mistaken for the Christ Chile.
MAY NEVEN, branch of the Red Cross Society.
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A Scots woman came to town and entered a shop to buy a collar for her husband,
"I'll take that one," she said.
"Only the one, madam?" Juquired, the assistant. "Of course! low many husbands dae ye think I've got?"
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