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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

December 30, 1939.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Saturday, December 30, 1939. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015

THE prefix "Special in the Telegraph" Is used by the Hongkong Teleprapur to indicate hows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommual- cations Ordinance, 1936. Such new bents the indeation "Up" is received in serve all grassriations, where either witally or in part without previous

Hongkong on the date of nublleation by

arrangement.

"Give light in dark- ness and Deace in trouble."

New Year's Day THERE is no particular reason why you should drop bad

babits or slart good habits on Mon-

day--Any other day would do

Why let the calendar decide your life for you? Haven't you got a mind of your own? Did you have to go on playing the foul unill the last chime of midnight December

31?

If you resolve to do something

worth, while as from next Monday, Just because it is January like het- ting is that you will be back at your i

1940

Some Resolutions For You

T

IRED of making New Do not, oh old men, enter into

to whether Year resolutions for any discussion as

Irving was n better actor than| myself, I propose to anybody on the stage today. frame a set for the guidance You will lose your temper, and of everybody else.

the young people will not know In his famous essay entitled 'what you are talking about. "New Year's Eve,* Charles And you, oh young men, try] Lamb says, "The First of Janu- to realise that whereas you ary is that from which all date know all about the insides of

internal their time."*

combustion engines, That is'untrue. It is untrue your ignorance of everything of the State, which insists on else is pitiful and ridiculous, muddling me up with years be.

Aml you, oh men of all agės, ginning in April. There is no make some attempt to under- such year,

stand that speed in itself is

The character called Grandpa valueless, that it is no good ac

complishing the journey from A in "You Can't Take It With to B in record time unless you You" objects to paying income will be better occupied at B than tax because he doesn't approve you were at A.

f. it. I approve of income tax, but am far too logically minded to pay tax on a year which doesn't exist!

1939.

If

B-18

"You only want snapshots of yourself standing by the car!

Did we have to travel 2,000 miles for that?”

LONDON LOG

Air Mail News From

Home

AND now for the women. Plense realise that the male nostril prefers the scent of saddle soap to all French stinks My first Resolution, therefore, whatsoever. That the male eye! is not deceived when eyebrows concerns the Treasury, which

are shifted to the neighbourhood henceforth shall collect during of the ears. I once knew a man 1940 the tax payable in 1940, who was on the point of propos- based on the income received in ing to a girl when her eyelashes

THE rapid discovery of an an- To Be Naval Architect That is something every-j fell into the whitebait.

swer to Hitler's magnetic] body can understand.

nature has made you

He took brilliant mathematical de- beautiful, let

that mines is due largely to the men sce

genius of Professor F, A. Lindegrees at Cambridge, and hopes to be

come a naval architect, My second Resolution con- beauty. If nature has made you

Ho inherits nuval tradition cerns Banks, who shall hideous, do not draw attention mann, a Christ Church don and

one of Oxford's most distin- through his mother, whose brother, henceforth tell me how much to that hideousness.

guished scientists..

Lord Glasgow, is head of a noted. If you must make up, take money they owe me on the first

Professor Lindemann has long naval family. accentuate the of every month, instead of the care only to

From the Home Front twentieth. If I owe them the beauties you already possess. If been a personal friend of Mr. Winsten Churchill, who used to. latter will, of course, he written you are scraggy, don't wear low consult him when preparing his CIR SAMUEL HOARE is speaking

to-day to the Conservative As dresses. If you have arms like in red ink.

Budget speeches. Now Mr. the thighs of oxen, cover them

socation in his constituency, Chelsea. Churchill has made him head of As every all in Cheisen is in uso up.

a special department at the Ad- for some war-time purpose: Sir miralty under his own super- Samuel will speak in a large private vision.

A Minor Resolution for Bank refrain Managers will be to from writing letters drawing one's attention to the state of one's overdraft for fear a remil-a tance has gone astrity.

YOW

Never wear sandals.

Never, in evening dress, carry long wisp of something that fsn't going to wipe anything.

Never tuck a handkerchief in- to a bracelet.

Avoid slave bangles.

Hils duties are to examine and udvise

on

room,

П

Apart from the Prime Minister's the various inventions speech, which was rend at the Lord. submitted to the Admiralty. But he, Mayor's luncheon by Sir John Simon, this is, I think, the first platform has also had time to conduct exien-

speech made by a Cabinet Minister sive research of his own).

outside the House of Commons since the war.

Air Force Research

fully.

It hasn't. Tho pretence that it has is pure hypocrisy.

My third Resolution concerns

who should employers,

Sir Samuel will talk about the In his middle files, tull, with henceforth to pay all salaries on

Do not colour your nails. Do

He will emphasise the iron-grey hair and moustache, the Home Front. the 30th of every month.

not wear them long. Both prac Professor is a soft-voiced, entertain necessity of war ilme restrictions and tices, besides being hideous,ing conversationalist with a talent ask the public to bear them cheer- Nothing is more annoying suggest the harems of the East. for sarcastic invective. than to receive salary for work Long, nails, indicate that you

Other Specches—— In the last war he was experi- in one month somewhere in the cannot cook or wash up, play mental pilot and director of the

at I understand that this speech wil next month.

the piano or put on a gramo-RAF's Physical Laboratory

Farnborough. And he discovered! be the forerunner of others by I am persuaded that if the phone record without scratching For plots could get out of a "spin" Ministers, including members of the bankers, and the employers of fit.

at a time when a spin meant a cer- War Cabinet.

that of the moment. If your He worked out his theory an businesslike way towards them. taste is individual and not mob, paper. The authorities were scopti-informed

there is a chance that you may cal at first of these "pper

dynamics," not look a fright.

"Very well," sald the Professor,

this country had behaved in a Dress in any fashion except tain crash.

businesslike way towards me, I should have. behaved in a more

NOW come to some more personal Resolutions, and old tricks a long time before next will begin with those for men. December 31.

Don't be put off from trying, however. And don't wait till 1940 before trying again.

To fulfil a purpose, to keep it be fore you through a whole year is a kind of character test. It needs determination and persistence.

There would not be much point in your effort if it only meant that) you had lested your character. The virtue is that it STRENGTHENS your character.

The resolution which MAKES character is that which you pass because your own judgment tells you to, and not the New Year fashion!

Do not keep one handker- chief for show and another for USC.

have scen

OF

heard

He did.

Do not laugh unless you "I'll do it myscif." something funny.

Stay at home twice as often.

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il

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These speeches should serve useful purpose in keeping the public

and In maintaining closer personal touch with the men who are running the war.

Searching the Vaults

TOOK the precaution of searching the vaults of the Houses of Par- llament before the opening ceremony to-day, to ensure that no modern

there.

con

Ten Yeomen of the Guard, in full- only son, the Hon. dress red and gold uniform, sabres

And funnily enough,"

h," remarked Colonel E. B. Frederick, Ensign of the King's Bodyguard, their wives.

ked them better with beards."

"King's Bodyguard, slow, march!" requested the colonel, and together wo fled through the Chamber, carry- Olbert and Sul- ing lanterns like livan chorus. without the music.

The yeomen then lowered them-

Do not, oh men, tell your

Mr. Inskip's Escape friends about this round of golf

ORD CALDECOTE, the Lord Guy Fawkes had secreted explosives or that hand at bridge. If you must go into these excruciating Do not exhibit your children, Chancellor, is receiving

tell them to details,

your even if people say they like chil-gratulations on the recent fortunate

dren. They don't.' Talk to escape of his enemies.

and all, arrived just before me in u Robin Inskip. Do not wear blue ties with them about their brats.

Mr. Inskip, who is in the R.N.V.Rprivate bus, with the same object. Only three of them, I was shocked brown suits or brown shoes with Leave the dinner-table when was serving in a minesweeper when to observe, wore beards, blue suits.

He es- the men begin to smoke. The R was blown up by a mine.

"We're beardless boys now," said an aged beefeater. King Edward Do not, if you are fat, wear things men have to say after coped with little worse than a few

VIII. made the beards optional, and a wrist-watch.

dinner are not the concern of bruises.

Mr. Inskip is a young mun of con-a lot of the Yeomen shaved them off. women.. They concern women.

siderable ability. But it lles in the

But when King George VI. came Do not, when your husband direction of science and engineering to the throne some started to grow has brought a friend home to rather than his father's profession of them again. After all these years,

they couldn't sto

stand the shaving. dinner, say that you will take the law. Do not wear the saine white "perhaps a glass" out of the waistcoat twice. If you cannot bottle. Tell him to get another. afford the laundry, wear a black bottle and you will have your abode of sumptuosity. He is

• If you must "resolve" for 1940, | one. Do not wear a dress-shirt whack at both.

longing to ask. why the blazes however, try this:

twice. Better not go to the

If you see your husband with you didn't go there. Resolve to do everything in your party.

another woman, do not pretend Don't smile sweetly at the power to help free the world from

Do not allude to "the wife." to admire her. He knows you leader of the band. If you must the pingue of tyranny and terror Say "my wife.". A wife, how don't.

be nice to him, send word that that has been inflicted upon it by ever unsatisfactory, is not an Hitlerism;

impersonal thing like a garage. Lobby. You get in the way of for him at the back.

Do not crowd into the Gripps there is a bottle of beer waiting Help unstintingly and in what-

Never show anybody your men who are really needing a

Don't dance unless you are! ever way the Government asks you dogs, even if they tell you they drink.

young, slim, and good-looking. to fight the menace of Nazllum: are interested in dogs: They

At the telephone. Remember are not. Talk to them about

FOR men and women, In that nine-tenths of all telephone begins at home. Try to extend the their dogs.

Do pol conversations are unnecessary. Looking conscientiously around, benefits of shelter (through the

Don't lend books, cars, um-get up during the last three Say what you must say as brief-aw junk and scrap-lron, rusty iron

Bars, Street Sleepers Society), and ald

of stacks

timber, dlaused ly as possible.

derellet office furniture, bits of orna- (througir the Society for the Protec-brellas, gramophone records, or minutes of a picture.

In the restaurant: Decide be-

mental ironwork, an elaborate but tion of Chlidren) to the victims of anything except money, which

Victorian chandelier- poverly in our own midst. These, is the only thing that can come fore you go in whether you are

are in doubt about do- omple hiding-places for a bomb.

Yeomen The

clamped are the basic conditions of life, and back undamaged,

swinging

chatting their lanterns, they can be made possible for most Don't blow cigarette smoke scribed or dine a la carte. Knowing anything, don't.

If you can avoid doing any-mong themselves looking neither to of our population only if the strong, down your nose (n) whon talk- beforehand whether you are go-

right nor to left. After a mile or helps the weak;

ing to a woman, or (b) when ing to drink champagne or thing, do. not talking to a woman. The coco.

In the present state of the so of this we reached the exit.

I should add, for the reassurance proper place for this disgusting Having given your order, stick world, the fower people acting of those who remember the dun

to it. Don't blame the boy for and talking the botter.. Even powder Plot, that last night a patrol habit is the bathroom.

walked 16 miles through the vaults something which is not his fault. thinking is dangerous,

of the Houses of Parliament, explor- Don't tell the captain that Try to resemble the cabbage.ng every cranny. They do so every they do you better at the other Consider its ways and be wine, night.

Remember, however, that charity

Be sure of this: whatever fault or wrong exists here, and there are plenty, the Motherland to whom we owe allegiance is the MOST free, MOST just; MOST prosperous and MOST deitocratić. land on earth.

L

Don't carry a comb. Special Rosolution for Old Mer.

the cinema,

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one, through a trap-door, down n selves carefully backwards, one by steep iron staircase to the vaults.

The vaults were like the engine. room of a liner, all pipes and tur Lines and smelling of oil.

16 Mile Patrol

GENERAL advice. If you forgotten going to have the meal pre-

"

ahead,