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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.

Thinking Aloud

VERYBODY was

saying how lightening in these lowering times is news of the royal engagement, and I began wondering-What is the measure of, the influence of such an event upon us all?

Quito considerable.

For example, tho Marriage Bureau in Bond-street reports A treat stimulant to business. Ap- plications by new clients in search

a husband or wife are 60 of

per- cent up since January 1940.

Women on the tender fringe of middle age, the close-to-forties, are Απ the great majority of applicants. Perhaps the news of happiness re- minded them how close to the last nhance they are getting.

In contrast, the men who apply tree mostly successful young fellows neater 25 than 30; clearly those who are now getting on so well in ilfe that the thought of dign. In the future appals them.

Advico from

by PAUL HOLT

Gwenda: "Why it in a dish

don't you put father. deep fat, amoother it arons, mushrooms, herbs?""

This nourishment of gorge

and

In eye is both inspiriting and civilising, in but it is not enough, A study of the programmes reveals not one major new work by a living British com- poser. There is an oboc concerto and suchlike frivolity, but no new nymphony.

A

(I went back to the kitchen. The whale steak lay there passive. Hittle sulky, I thought).

2

3

Advice from Blary: "On braise

it, my dear,"

Inquire the

4

reason and you are

Nantes Britain. home?

fower

than 40 reached Well, would... you

солью

After 17 years fogether at Canon's Park · Middlesex, a cob (male awan) lurned on blo mate and chosed her away from their Dve pyghota. She probably kept on nagging him about their future.

Two snags hore

is reported that Mr Herbert Morrison plans to revive the old war-time Ministry of Information.

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He is going to run into two big snags here. First, It seems to me to be uneconomical to pour out stuff about the Government's doings It Advice. Crom Jean: "How old that the great ones are writing nobody has the paper to print what

-you pour. Secondly it will take wonderful. Curry it, darling. for the films.

genius to decide when propaganding Stain your barley with turmeric,

Very well, then. Compete with the Government cases and whore then flavour with corlander need and just a squeeze of lemon juice. the films. Let the B.B.C, commls propganding Socialism begins."

sion Mr Walton and his fellows 10 Add to your curry, let me sec. ***

And it would be wrong, you will write for the concent hall. The chives, sultanas, chopped onions,

chutney,

B.B.C. has an excellent excuse this agree, to take out of public money Neither nex seems to worry much mace. Now serve it with

from party corporation be what should come autumn when about money in a partner. The chopped

raw onions and tomatoes, women want a settled fellow over pickled cucumbers, of course had fadio should become

comes a quarter of a century old, funds.

a leading 40. The men homebody. She has ( thought the whole steak

putron as well as a persistent pur- to have a good Agure, but she moved a title this time).

and of all sorta have veyor of music doesn't have to be pretty.

you 'must

and kinds. Preferably good.

...And then

(spiced fritters) Do not be surposed at the num-goolgoolas her of people who, nowadays, go potato bhurthas (spiced cakes) and to a marriage mart for a male. They chaputis (griddled flour flaps)*** really want to get married. They

are Ilymen's shock troops, or Stak- 4 Now Yvette, just back from

Innovlies. The rest of us still the majurity, are but casual

in love's vineyard,

A YOUNG

Illiteracy

labourers

mon I know straight

to the Army

went from It's report of Eton a fortnight ago. his first

ten days in khaki includes this item:

Five out of the eight young men In his hut cannot read or write. He spent his spare time writing letters home for them.

If this should come as a shock to all the public-minded people who take it for granted that we in Britain have universal eduration it is best to put it down to the war. Father in was in the Forces; mother was

the factory; son played hooker from

school.

A bedden wound at Hitler's hand.

Cookery, 1947

whale stealt at 2s. 9d, a b. And there It lay upon the kitchen table, Frozen, it looked like driftwood, Thawed, it

smooth and assumed the

MY wife bought 2lb. of

Hard on Rita

Honeymoon

MR. AND MRS WALFORD are spending their honeymoon in Weston-super-Mare. The bride's travelling dress was an Jee-blue CONT you think we have been a coat over him, and thinking, nome- a. Turkish D little hard on Miss Rita Cairo, suggested

Hoy what opti- a-grey Kebash-al-attarine.

figured s First you stuff

Then worth? The charge against her is dress"-(From a Yorkshire honey. with almands and

paper), and that she looked tired and hadn't got brush the surface with honey

He got off lightly at that. conversation. But

since sprinkle with pounded pistachio much nuis, Roast and serve on layer of everybody I heard insisted on talk- ing to the poor mite in a hushed apricot jam."

and holy

she clearly

an

I

thought it only

whispelfe to whisper BY

And no charity

offices the

news-

St James' In clubland 1 back.

military band was playing nt Nor is it fair to expect a young lunch-time. From the Ministries woman whose world fame has come and

typists and to their animalism to appear socially as a cross between Mme Recamier and Beatrice Lillie.

Miss Hayworth has other things to offer, I'm sure.

trom a healthy and good-tempered secretaries came sching music,

(I thought the whale steak was looking a little, pater).

Helen,

American' friend, suggested a whaleburger. In the kitchen, I took charge. am

I ordered

teashops, heard the good foreman. sauce bearnaise. This turned out to

and began to run, looking for the be a battle between the week's eg

parade. When they reached Pall ratlon, some tarragon vinegar, some

Mall they found it. Five ex-Service curdling and some lumping. I

men were walking slowly in the dered "pile of golden-browned

gutter, playing their Instruments, onions, a steamed marrow and new

In disgust the typists slowed places simmered with mint,

down, turned away."

or-

At Inst I approached the whale steak. I thought one little eye wink- ed at me, but I thrust it under the griller Just the same, While it was grilling I opened a bottle of claret..

St Julien 1937.

It was all a lovely sight on the Inble,

But the whale steak won. tasted of exactly nothing.

Musical check

It

Animal kingdom T number of dogs to be main

Lula-Jula-lay

TWE

tained at the famous St Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps is to be severely

reduced. And what will the comic

artists

do now, poor

NEVERAL young matrons were de- things?

lighted carly this summer to A man was fined £1 for cruelty find that one of their friends lo frogs. It is in

pity perfect with children. More a way a that frogs don't know the boundless more brought their own little dar- lings for her to mind. They were benefits of English law..

Since a raven was mysteriously always us good as Fold. At Last murdered at the Tower of London

curiosity overcame

200 men of the 3rd Company of the been detained to follow the remain- ing Ave ravens around.

shiny AT the Promenade Concerts this shapelessness of red liver. It lay DODON they are foeding the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards have there mute, awalling te fate. queues with hot and cold snacks, Now, there followed these unnery- and the bars of the Albert Hall Ing oventa. My wife began to make have been repainted pink and bung telephone calls:

in puec.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

COPA 1947 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. RES, AL B. BIT DEP

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both my big toes!"""

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likely to ent tled up.

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činke a fuss and get your sbare

of love.

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may be in the soup.

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Frerenta friction industrially.

Causes i internationally.

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was and

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DAB

AND FLOUNDER

by Walter

Last

Minule Safi! BUILDING COMING

DOWN

•T/R/B-BGO

Let's go

the pier

ETWEEN now and Sunday night, if it's fine, a couple of million people at the senside will go for a walk on the pier. This is an old British custom, that's worth looking into. So I've been doing, some pièr pro.. menading myself.

The earliest pier was probably an old log in the mud that somebody used for reaching his dug-out canoe, and the first promenaders were the people who walked along the log to look at the canoe, because boats, you may have noticed, are like men at work-you can stand and look at them for hours.

by

Pier promenaders were eman-It's fun finding out cipated in 1823. That's when, the old Chain Pier at BrightonBERNARD WICKSTEED

the was first opened. It was first pleasure pier in the world. The toll was 2d., and there were coloured lights on it and young One to ask

this shops. The promoters asked George IV. to open it, but he didn't answer their letter.

paragon how she did it,

"Oh. it's quite simple, really Confidentially, and If you won't tell Out of 3,160- valuable homing a soul, I treat them all like pigeons released at Bordeaux and drunkts."

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NEW YORK ROUND-UP

Doggy horoscopes

JEW YORK. When you're choosing a dog in this city, you can now get its horo- scope from a Canine Astrolo- ger.

The idea is, you'll you're getting.

For instance,

under

January

15

In the golden pier age that, followed they were built in dozens all round the coast. Royalty still regarded them with suspicion; but an earl opened Hastings pier in 1672: and anid as he did 80: "This is a peerless pier, a pier with out a peer, unless that peer be the humble individual who is addressing you now." (Loud cheers),

THE

SAW!

further 3d. for deck chairs. The longest pier in Britain is This year it costs id. to sit When the announcer is heard at Southend The length is down. offering her a fint-mignon (three 2,360 yards, or 1 mile 2 furlongs are reine beat eating houses), 60 yards. Fifty years ago it mile 2 furlongs and 160 yards Lassic remains silent.

If you don't want to walk 1

-

On

it the whole pier will collapse and fall in the sea.

They are called shipworms and, it you remember, Mr Chapman Pincher told us once they were about the only living creature that can divest wood.

They'll eat through a plio in anything from 25 to 50 years, according to the kind of wood,

The part of the pler they like eating most is the bit between high and low water marks, and the kind of wood they lika least is greenheart (also used in fishing rods).

Greenheart comes from Brazil, and the cost of in averige sized pilo

suitable for a pler is £60. Pilch pine from Russia is cheaper, but, the

worms eat it quicker..

Two-ton hammer

MR. GOSS

is repairing his pler with concrete piles. These run out at about £10 each and are in- tricky

edible, but they are more to drive.

Driving a pile in the mud is lice hammering a nail in the wall—only on a bigger scale, The hammer Mr. Goss uses on Walton plez weighs two toms.

At first the plle goes in about two inches at each, blow but towards the

end 11 takes

eight blows

to drive it an inch.

Other worries besetting plcr owners are shingle and ships, The shingle, wears away the base, of the plies and ships get lost in the fog and run into them

Mr. Gota reckons it's going to cost £100,000 to get Walton pier us ha wants it and it will pay for itself in

But when he offers her Red Heart was claimed as the longest in Dog Food she becomes ecstatic and Europe. In 1946 the official

you can take a train. They barks "Woof! Woot!" in a rich, cul-guidebook to Southend called it

hour run every quarter of an tured, doggy tone.

The woots are picked up by

mike collap

E which Ats Lassie like

know what according to one reader of dogs' stars, a puppy born

Capricorni (December 21- special has a weakness for the a opposite sex.

It's

stuff for an Libra

bra dogs (September 23-Octo- star; but she's still the pride ber 23) are apt to be

of gourmands M.GM., which first" presented her and got

as a male actor. (But you know But is the dog born under how Hollywood is).

Bernie's bar

Pisces

Happy 19-March 21), "A

dog whelped under this sign," reads the chart, "husa sunny personality and strong intellect, and is the ideal house pat and can live harmoniously with cals."

That much at least is true because I myself am a Pisocs,

Alas for Lassie!

ex-film

You can drink a toast to Bern borough any line at El Bor racho

restaurant, on East Fifty-, fifth Street, owned by A.

the longest in the British Em- and last year carried 2,500,000 pennies. pire, and now, I see. in the 1947 passengers: edition, that it's the longest in the world.

.

Piers for sale

How do you collect enough pen- nies to pay for a plert One way is to do it with automatic machines, roundabouts, dodrem ears and all the

I've never heard of a longer WOULD you like to own

a other fun of the fair, On Walton one in America, but I bet they'll pier yourself? Quite a lot pler you'll find nearly 200 ways of produce une now they've been of people do. To build a new using a penay, from riding a humpty- challenged.

one you have to get a Special dumply bicycle to seeing what the Act of Parliament passed, but there have been several second- hund piers for sale recently.

H.M.S. Leigh

Romano's old friend, Nicky Quat-SOUTHEND pier is one

troechl

To the

of

butler saw.

The economics of the penny-in- the-slot machine are fascinating. A Juke box cosis about £100. so quito The 1860 model at Walton-on- apart from overheads you have to talking myna which those to which I went re- Naze is phe. collle dog flm star, has stands over the bar has been add-cently. The Navy took it over nuction in 1938

It was put up for make it play 96,000 tunes al a penny ↑ ed a huge photograph of

and gone into radio and down in the former Australian champion-a sou during the

withdrawn a time to get your money back. In war and called it because the highest bid was only America iz 21⁄2 times easier because Nicky, HMS Leigh. It's where con- £14,500. Two years later it was they, use nickels there and a nickel

LASSIE,

public estimation.

She's boosting a dog food in commercial plug.

Crossword

Bellera without number,

Shout for a boat.

7. Puppats make one master it.

6. What the bishop rutea vou ch

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V. Clarinud for a small tallow 7.

10. Demonstrate once more by way

of censure P

11. May be of average interest to

cricket enthusiast

.12. What's.teft may be put to dire

18. He falls short of a wall-knowii -

Conservative.

16. Highwayman's first name'Y (

20. Our nelakbows'w, rising

great lak

7. 09.

23. Sedah, number,

ini

28. Pullows a hit on the stage or

-on-the-grounde-

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TN the skeleton ~Cenasword tile

black squares and elue num hers have ti be filled in mɛɛwell na, the word,* Pour blučke, snares and four cine numbers nåve been thserted to give sal 'n start.

* The black squares forin a d351- inetrical pattern; that is, the two sides of the pakete balance quet allier and the rap half to a reflec- tion of the bottom'bdir. You roh .in. twelve more black saunres, at once to correspond with, those already given.

No words or fewer than three letters are used,, so 13 Artura minst De a five-letter word and Ya Down a three-letter word 13. Across t the dith viûe Artis. Et mit be balanced in the Bottom half of the pazale, by 29'jernøt the Bfth elus from the end. Rensonida. In thi way, you can complete the puzzle

as you solve the clues

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION

venir from

Romeno to

a suitably autographed.

A sober horse

the

voys to and from the Port of bought by Mr C. E. Goes, who is an is worth 214d London used to assemble and old showman in the travelling fair-

88,097

AN argument between a man and disperse.

Altogether

a horse about which was drunk ships in 3,367 convoys nat has ended with a horse-laugh there, against the man.

It began when Mr H. V. Seeley,

ground business.

So before buying a pier oürselves let us go to Mr. Goss and ask him what mags there are.

Well, he said, war is one of them and words are another, and I don't

of Joplin, Missouri (the State Tru- Now it has been handed back man comes from), was taken from to the Southend Corporation, the back of a horse and booked on who still run it rather like a 'know which is, worse.

a charge of "drunken driving."

he

ing

gait, thereafter

to

The magistrate sent Seeley to cell for 24 hours and the borst, ap parently cober, was led to pasture- und water.

а

The robot

HEN there's the machine with four

robot-like hands that grab · at prizes on a révolving table.' It taltes nine electric motors of 1-50th: h.p. cath to work the thing. Each of the

four hands needs, one motor to turn

Seeley Bald

www.and horse was drunk; battleship. You have to look He'd just bought his pler and it round and another to work the

He said he given the horse, some beer

closely at the piermaster's but worked out a five-year plan, to put forefinger and thumb. quench fld thirst. The horse's roll- tons to tell he's not a captain on a sound basis when the war The ninth motor turns the table came and the Army took over. with the prizes. Finding prizes is a' made him wobble | R.N. The

*ataff work in They, blow two great gupa in it, in' problem these days, In the caddle, he explained.

Ruober balls, watches and talk about gofrig case there was on invasion. and that were three ha'pente before the ashore.

then, stacked oll: hombs at the pler-war, are now 10d, and penny whistles head.

are id. There are 230 men and women

The bomb fuse went off by mistake

One of the biggest money-makara in the "crew." They. indlude

In a storm and set the pler on are. of the penny-in-the-glot business is plumbers, painters, black- Because of the anti-invasioa gaps the weighing machine. Mr Gom has engine no one could get there to put it out. hundreds of weighing machines in and they had to send to Harwich for strateghe parts of the country and he

keeps satistics about them,

Unfair to men

SOME

cute femdle wiles are be-smiths, carpenters, ing revealed through beauty culture sessions on New York radio drivera, electricians, waitresses, stations, This bit; for instance; a sign-writer and a diver.

"Carole Landis puta perfume in

The

¤ fire-float,.

For these reasons the 'pler häd

the crook of her elbow. The per- The pier also has its fume walls up to her nose when she's sitting. When she's dancing, private dredger to keep one scented ann rests on the man's shipping berths clear. shoulder and makes him defence sand it draga up is dumped

Who would want to argue, any the beach for children to play don't get worm trouble In the fair seva on automatic machines,

with.

own changed quite a lot when Mr. Goss · January is the off-season when few

the took it over again..

people weigh themselves. After Then there were the worms. They that the figures creep up month by on because in the ordinary way you people/a week are weighing them

were something new to Mr.Goss month; until, by August a million;

how?

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The announcer" added to this thoughtful little piece: "IS you've been wearing a greasy face for Tho winter, change to a light foot now

From L. J. MILLER.

Last summer 1,784,000 people

paid 3d. each to go on the pier and 288,000 of them paid

and roundabout business. But you

a

pler.

do when you put your, fun fair on where young men and women get

I'm told that plers are stro places

Cacquainted with each other, but as

The worms cat the wooden plies an old married man that's a subject

and if you don't do something about I wouldn't know about.