He;- “I should have thought that, as it is my birthday, you would have considered my wishes and had lemon pudding.” She: “So sorry, dear; your birthday falls on the day we have the charwoman, and she so much prefers casabianca pudding.” One and a-half -million hours’ work is represented by a miniature pagoda in green jade now on exhibition in New York,. It took 150 Chinese craftsmen 14 years to carve it out of solid jade, eight tons in weight.
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Evening Star, Issue 21709, 2 May 1934, Page 13
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