WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1918
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE
QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
COMPANY.
TELEPHONE 1450.
Universal Providers:
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WE ARD
General Distributors.
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Woollen and Piece Goods, Boots and Shoes, Cigars and Cigarettes.
Ningchow and Keemun
Teas, Black Tes, Tea Seed, Tea Oil
sontbern stroots, ar to the dusty jungle
whora tha llon crouches, ce to the centre of some publio pageant whore megaly 20 trace the axpressions of the fuck is to be inst the making of history. The freet is only a low yards away, and Ave minutes. sgo, you worn cold and wind blown like' the road; but now that is nothing, or a
HONGKONG AVERAGE MARKET
PRICES,
Corrected to Thursday, May 15/No 1213
at 200 penta per Dollar utevicart,
Butcher Kant.
Urned-Ham Ngan Yak- Foes-biu
dream. You are now in the position 3 al Sirloin & Prine Cat-Môi Lang most comfortable to man-sitting að esse, observing, spocülsting, ruminating, Im agining with hardly say trouble to your 'self. All the work scoms to be dona för you. The marvellous way in which an Elusion, strong enough to defcas cireum-
Candies, Crackers, Biscuits, China Porcelain stances, is croated at once, without any
FOREIGN AND CHINESE GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Our Goods aro' of First Class Quality and are Sold at Moderate Prices.
In our Tailoring Department we have First Class Cutters and Tailors by whom Orders' can be Executed-in 24 HOURS !!
SPECIAL INDUCEMENT TO BUYERS.
Customers who purchase goods aggregating over $20 on production of the Chopped receipts can have these exchanged at the Office for a Certificate bearing 4% interest per annum which can be eashed in December of the present year. Selling Cigars or Cigarettes no interent
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Customers ordering clothes on Sunday, costing over $35, will be entitled to a first class. return ticket to Macao. Customers whose purchases reach 38 and 35 will bo presented respectively with a 3 juch or 5 inch photograph
kou on the spot and handed purchaser within one minute.
Chairs and Rickebus at the Service of Buyers of over $5 worth of goods
Orders through Phone or in Writing will be given prompt and careful attention.
CALL AND SATISFY YOURSELVES ||
The Queen's Road Central Company
(OLD SUPREME COURT BUILDING) NEAR CLOCK TOWER
HONGKONG.
It's for you to say
whether you prefer Scotch whisky in its seventh, cleventh or thirteenth year
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at which whisky is at its best.
"JOHNNIE WALKER" White Label.
Over 6 years old. "JOHNNIE WALKER" Red Label.
Over to years old. "JOHNNIE WALKER" Black Label
Over 12 years old.
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PERRIN COOPER & CO., Tiantais.
THE HANKOW DISPENSARY CO., Ltd., Hanków.. STEMSSEN & CO, Canton and Hong Kong.
JOEN WALELER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WRIGHT DISTILLKES, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.
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eflori of imagination, must be attributed chlafly to the fact that the pieturpa mOVO. ¡You never have time to be bored by one picture before it changes, beccines another picture, becomes not only a pisture but a story, something which has a separate life of i own. Meanwhile you are being worked upon, as indifferent music that go straight for the obvious emotion does work upon ene, and mids to feel without willing is rather more than is reasonable, or to 20.
But this is only part of the secret, for the stream of traffic outside has no such
power to please. A great part of the on
chantment must lie in the fact that tha mosh telvinë scoon-ich us say a macet of coaches in Eyde Fark-whon cut off from its surroundings becanes for some queer reason significant, ovan emotional, as it seldom does in reality. Looking up from an arm-chair in a darkened room you soo As you never seen before. The horses and the women and the troos appear on the sheot' as if they had nothing to do with the future or with the past, se if the whips would never descend, or the groczas ewing up behind, or the horses trot off down the road to Richmond. Lot alone the strange way in which wolating some thing from its content heightens the meaning, there is also the shoer cite
Wo tako the fellowing from The mont and curiosity of the sights them. Times"
solves. For the firsh time we see wild
drink, or ico-felde grinding noch other in beasta creeping down to the pools to
the Posar sea. We might places say that for the first time wo ac fowon unfold.
'As the prosent moment the popularity of picture, palaces and the reason for it are directing a good deal of attention to the stato of the public mind. Bai thesaing and waves breaking on the beach. sudden crazes are not new; 30 years ago.
REAL LIFE. FICTURES WANTED...
Freast-Naga Lam Soup-Tong Yak
Stosk-Ngan Yuk Pw "Sirloin Cotons Banangor-Ngan Chang
Bullock's Brains
肉食
In
Shark,
Skate -
» Yu
Shrimp,--Ha
Susyper)=-1
Solo Tai Se Tu
Teach
Turbok-Cho How Tu
Turtles, small, fesh water,-Kork
White Bait-Ngan Yu Chal......
Praite.
Almonds-Hung Tab.
Apples (California)-Kam Ban Ping Kho
(Cheloo) Tia Chus Ping Kho
Emall-Hoi Tong
Know
Tongue fresh-Nga
serad Ham Ban
-19 - Dustard,—Wan Ini Côi...
B-Ngau Tau
60
Banana fragrant, Canton,-BalShing
Heart-Ngan Summ Hump, Sale „Fóst,-Ngáz Kark Eldaeys-Ngan Yiu.
Heung Chin
15
Bananas, (bride), Macroy
Tail--Ngau Mei:
Livor,-Ngan Kon
18
T 1
Tripe (undressed)-Ngan To Cars Hand & Foot-Ngau-chal-tao-kark, met Mutton Chop.-Yeung Pei Kwat
Pig
Leg,-Yeung Fai Shoulder, Yeung Shan Chitling-Cha Chong
Erains-Chu Know Feet-Chu Bark:
Chi Chas
Ecad, Chu Tanz
Heart, Cha Sum
18
each 10
Ffilney,-Oha Yiu
11
Liver,-Chu Con
Pork
•
Chop Chu Pai Kwat... Corned,-Ham Cha Yat- Log Chu Pal
23
Fat or Lard,-Chu. Yan
Sheep "Honda-Foot-Young Tas Kark
11
EartYoung Sum
Kidneys,-Yeung Yin
Liver, Yeung Con Sucking Pigs, To Order-Chu Chal Buat, Zeel-Sang Ngau Yas
501 Mutton,--Bang Yeung Yan
Bausaga-Ngau Chal Chaung......
Poultry.
Indeed, the only grudge wo have against it was croquet, 10 years ago i was the management of pictura palaces is cycling, ten years ago it was roller-skatthat they will go to any amount of troshla ing. It seems that from time to time, and expense in dramatising romantic "fike, a person lying long in bed, we turn stories which take place, we believe, in over and try a now position. Neverthe cardboard castles in the cutskirts of Paris, when the streets are full of pictures at leas whenever it happens, the more ace more comic, mora tragio, and pos thoughtful part of the race becomes sessed of the incomparable recommenda alarmed, collects statistics, and wonders tion that they are true. Suppose thak,Veal,-Ngan Chai Yuk what this development, which it chooses instead of laventing an improbable love story complicated by a couple of ferce to call back-sliding, is caused by. We brown beare In the Rocky Mountains, have fately been told that picture palaces which has to bo conveyed by tralaed are proventing us from going to church, actors carefully made up and chaggy from going to the teatro, from going to steeps that fail to convince, we had sim Chicken,-Kai Chal public houses, and froes reading novels. ply 12 o'clock yesterday in London,
Paris, Moncor, Madrid, New York, Rome, Capons, Largs, mall, On the other band, we may find excour-The effect would be far more striking. Ducan-Ap agement in the fact that the number of and we must suppose a tenth part 3 Doves, Pan Kau people who use works of reference is oponsive. Those halbdozen pictures of increasing.
real people going about their businessca in real streets on different sides of the world, with all the little oddities and Incidents that one would delight in de testing, would set up an image of the earth and mankind that would surpass
Ons need not be thoughtful, or speci- ally anxious about the future of the rate. or a great believer in the value of statis- tion, and yet one may wonder, as one walks down the Strand or Oxford Street or Tottenham Court Road why those arcessively brilliant doorways which star the pavement at such short distances apart prove so irresistibly attractive. Is
all the lovers and all the bears in America
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Tuo versions of famous novela, and imaginary adventures which fill three fourths of the programme appeal, od course, to our love of story-telling, and if they tend to be a little monotonous.
Eggs, Hen-Kal Tau Fowla, Cantes-Bai
Bahan-Hel Nam
Jesa-Ngoi Kat Jeese, Wild5bal-Shang-hu Yea Ngoi
ask Doar,--Wong Hang Lare, Ehanghai,Tu Chal- Partridge, Che Khoo rhtasact-Shan Kai
Kup Figeous Canton, Pak
BohowHoi How Tak Kup
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is true that the management oftea pro- they have thy advantage that moving pic fusil,-Um-Chun
vide tee for nothing, and the carpets are turce are simpler, quick, more direct thanes Bick-Wo Fa Chenr very thick, and the attendante as findly the best printed pree can ever hope to grown as Royal footmen, and all these bo. Whether in this extraordinary greed Snipe,-Ba-Chuy
things are good; but without any such
attractions, when the doce is unfit, and down a back stress, and the seats are bard and the attendanta magra and peremptory wo gowa pay our sixpence, we ait there until the first picure begins to come over again, and directly the pro- gramme is changed, which is not as often se it should be, wo pay our sixpence and
go once mote.
But what is the reason of it? Why do wo invariably find the hall full of men and women, old, elderly, and young paying their sixpences, latoning intently, going away and coming again? No doubs wo are all fooling mach the same thing, and are driven to drop in by some such experience as this."
of the eye wo are to ace reason for alarm turkeys Lock-Phor Kal Kong or not, we do not know. Wo ́seò ind
clined to suspect that the eye in Eng
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pale
ཆལ་ཕལ་
我仔
生牛油
生羊油
牛仔肉
牛仔服
40
Chestnuts, Chilisse,
Carambola,-Yeung Tas
Coconuts,-Keh. Tre...
Lemons, Chiis,Ning Moong
Amarlas-Kam Ban Ning Moon
Lichens Dried,-Lai Chi, amal Stone Kwa Fresh me
Limes, (Saigon)--Sal Kung Ning Moong asch 19
Mango, Manila,Lal Sung Hong
Mangosteens,Ban Chak The 134,
TH
Oranges, (Canton)-San-shing Tin Ching Ib Changes Sweet
Pear (American)-Kam San Shoot In
(Canton), Cooking & Lay
Peanuts, Fang...
Persimmons-Large-Hung Chie
Pine-apples, 1stquality,Poca ParInwech
Dang wand
Plantain, Tal Cheu
Plans Swatow, Hung Kal...
Pamelo, Sim,Chim Lo Tas
Shanghal-Lo Kwas
Walnuts,-Hop Tuo
Green, Sang Hop Tao..
Water Malon,Kom San Bal
(China) Sal Kwa
Grapes, Sang Fo Tai Tre
Vegetables &
Artichokes, Shanghai, Cheung-hel Äh'
Chi Chenk
Boans, (French), Macao-Oh MocPinTa
(French), Shanghal-She
Pin Tau
Sprent Ah Cho
Long-Tau Ko Best Root, Hang Choi Than Brinjals, Green, -Ching Your
Red,-Hung Kar
PH
Cabbage, Chinese, com,-Kat Choy Cabbage Red-Hang Yes Chry Cabbage, Shanghai Yeh Chot Cans Shoots, bunch,-Kan Bhun Cauliflower, Large size Tai Yeh Cho Fa
Medium size,Cheung Yeà Chol Small size,Sai Yan Chol Fa Carrots-Kam Shun
Calary, Chinese, Tong Kan Chor
Bar
ish,-Young
Chillies Drie-Gon Lat Chin
dozen
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land has been rather cruelly starred. At Wild Ducks,Sha-Shang-hot Bul Ap the present momt, at any rate, it will take anything you choose to give it, as Teslui Ap Chai, long as it moves, quickly and is exactly Wild DucksCa like life. We are ready to look at places, people, animals, planta, waves, things that never happened; things that were
written about, things that could not pos Barbel-Ko Yu` sibly happen anywhers. What the brain Bream-Bia Ya
does with all this material it is difficult.
Sang-Shing Bul Ap
Canton Fresh Water Fish-
to say. Judging from personal expori. once, we should be inclined to believe Carpd fa that it remains quiescent during the grouter part of the time, amused but not Catfish, Chik Yu stimulated that there are scattered Codish-Man Ta moments of pura revelation; and that, Grabe a for the rat, a marvellous confusion
Cattle Fish-Mak Yu reigns, welter of music, o facte, ofte Action, of forts. It is not life, it is not Dab,--Ba Mang. Ta art, it is not music. It is not literature. Dece, Wong Mei Lun Whether, all the same, we see fumbling towards some now form of art which is
Dog Fish-Tit Tu Sa
discriminata.
LOSING WEIGHT BY THE POUND
Gadgson,
Tien Kal
Halibut Okeur
Kap
Ya.
ESCAPE FROM: THE STRESTÉ After trudging for an hour and a half in and out of tuben, shops, omnibuser, to have movement and shape, to be lice | Cals. Cong:,-Hol Mann hard patement for the feet, gray-zky belle and yet to be selected sad arranged
Fresh tween the houses, wind blown, with un- me a work of art, who can say ? In the charitable people to confront, there cques menatino we have a fury for socing, and Eole, allow ong Shn 'a moment when. It is no longer to be remain happy, greedy, and ferribly" "B- borne. Whoover you are, whatever your tastos, you stop at some street comer and declare that you must immediately cape. The only question is whether it shall be to a church or to a picture gal: lory or to a publicbouse or to a library, Each of these offers some kind of relief from the stony superficiality, the in hospifntity, the impersonality of the stroet. Esch offers some iced of rosting. room where you may recollect your human soul. At the same time och da mands a corlain offort, a cortain chafing and stamping if one insy so call it before 000 is comfortably aglow. It is now that the lighted doorway proamte itself. The picture palace offran immediate escapa with the least possible forpanditure, of energy You have only to lean back in well-wadded chair; and you are footed up some ambling danco tone down
YSTERS; Fresh, Fried, or Slowed.
Findon Haddocks, Hipporo, &ri
KLEXANDRA CAFES
Under Weight a condition of ill-bealth, shows your assim, flative powers are decreasing
WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED: COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND
La brus--Wong Losch, Wu Yu
Lobstere,Lang Ha Mackerely Monk Fiab, Mullot C
Oysters
Parrotish
Kung-Yu
Parah,2
PG-F
Suppile the blood with the wanted zourishing and healthy Mesh building materials.
"pastabiąg"
Pomfret
Bak Chong
Pomfret White
thong
Pawn Ming's
BANK OF ALL, CHEMISTS:
FS102 $1.25 and 1925,
|Høy--Phl Pa Bá
Rook Fish,Sex Be mug
Chan Yuko31
བཧྨག བཙའབབ་མསཀ༤སོ
每鲜
加飯 偏爱
en
机甲象
Rod-Hang Far
Green, Ching La Chia
Curry Stuff, English-Kat Lee Obr
Cucumbers,-Ching Kw
Bitter Byaash-Fi Km.
Garlic, Que Tea
Ginger, young, Eun The Letty
ald-Lo Keung ****
Horse Radish, Shal-Lik Ku Indian Corn,Bak Mal
Lettuce,-Young Bang Chel
Water Chesnata,Ma Ta
Mandarin,-Kral Lun Me Tri
Mushrooms, Fresh-Ba
Uso Koo
Bach 25
Musk Melon, Amer---Kam-man Hong Ewa sark- Olcroen
Onions, Bombay,-Young Chong
Green-Sang Chong
Tsu
Shanghai, Shang-hoi Obeng Tre
Pepa, 1st qual,Tai Man Ben Kas
2nd Chin'?
Parsley,Ken Cho
God Peas,Ching Tau Potatoe, Sweet, Fan Sha
Shanghal,
Japan,-Ynt Poon San
American, FKI Foochow Fook-chow Sha T Pumpkin,Tong Kwa Radish Huny Lo Pak Dal Lhubarb (Fresh)-Tal Won
Gua Ohi Tha
(AME
Pak®
Chit b
白租
飛智沙
Turnips, Panti, (Long),
English, Yeang Lo Pab
Vegetable Marrow,--Chit Kwa
Water Urese-Bai Yering Che
Idly root,o Vgán
ma-Ta Shu
The prices arersally vary from asy to day A
114 tury Board has no power to compel ata Tholders to sell M 13-
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