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AND SURVEYORS,
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Tour from Mrs. 0.4. Bachse THE Undersigned bave received Ja to sell by Pabllo Auction
ON
TUESDAY, August 7, 1093,, extemonning at 2.45 p.m.
at the Kingsclere Hall. A Quantity of Fao Furniture and Linen. Comprising:-
Wardrobes,dressing table,washotande, writing tables, armchairs, Korean -Cabinet ute., otc.
Liren face towels, hand homestit shod towels, hemstitched
Eheeta, pillow cases, counterpanes, dusters, Blankets, casament cloth.
Orope, ela, etc.
Also.
Boveral pieces Plate and China wate, Canton Blackwood ware.
And
One Georgian Dining Room Suite. On view from Monday the 6th,
August 1999.
Catalogues will be issued.
Tomas-Cash on delivery.
Auctioneers.
LAMMEBT BROS.,
Hongkong, July 28, 1923.
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Tel. Contral No. 2
Largo 'slock of
DATES and DATI ROOM FITTINGS,
LAVATORY BASING FLUSĖ CLOSETS..
COMMODES, BIDETS, 80, 80,
OPEN & CLOSED STOVES, COOKING BANGES, TILED GRATER
AMERICAN. & ITALIAN MARBLE MEMORIALS-Alao ia paliabod Hongkong Granite.
A large selection of Artificial Wreaths.
Prices on Application.
COLLECTION OF
POSTAGE STAMPS
mounted in books containing both aint and used stampe
500 stamps all different for 8.4.- 1000 do
$ 1500 do 2000. do
do
8 8.-
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4000
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some caustic commente upon his She is not in the market, and other "unofficial" Boswell. It ought to girls are. The love-story of a gypsy make pretty piquant reading. is a public affair-that is according Omelet Hints.
to custom, not to any fear of moral Keep & special pan for making lapse. It seems rather odd that with Famous Pictures Sold.
all these laws the gypsies should not omelets; one of the best lands to The vagaries of the picture use je made in aluminium. The great favour. They look upon such regard the church marriage with market were illustrated at Chris pan should not be too large and as merely a whim; but the strictly tle's, whela Holman Hunt's "Scape should be washed an seldom as pos-orthodox have a great objection to goat," a picture which may be sible. Rub it out with paper after inken as the most typical example use, and then with a cloth. Coarse going into the presence of corpses. of English pre-Raphaelitism. rose salt removes pieces. A new pan, or Newsboy to MiP. from £504 in 1876, £1,417 10s. in one that has been washed, abould 1887, and £3,940 in 1909, to the be seasoned by patting in a little imposing figure of £4,830. On the fat or butter, making it quite hot other band, Herkomer's "The Last over the fire, then pouring it off; Muster," which on its first appear finish by rubbing the pan over with ance at the Royal Academy in 1875 a paper. established the artist's fame' over-
A long pliant knife or palette night, receded from the £8.205 at knife is a great help, but not a which it was bought in at the Cuth-necessity. bert Quilter sale in 1900 to £2,040, See that everything is ready be The Spanish Farinyard." by Ffore beginning to mix the omelet. Domingo, which fetched £210 in
Never let an omelet stand, but 1876. brought only £5 58. "The serve it the moment it is cooked. Last Muster" was bought for the See that the butter is quite hot Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port before putting the eggs into the pan, and he was advanced fairly rapid- Sunlight by Mesers. Gooden and and do not use margarine for greasy. At 16 he was already an
Fox.
Purified Records.
Selling newspapers at Ludgate Hill railway station for a wage which worked out at a penny an hour was the start in life of Richard Fairbairn, MP. He found competi- tion keer, but as his” wages were. needed at home he often went with- out a meal when he was very hungry. While his father was 'ill and unable to work, the little wage- earner was dismissed. The situa tion was desperate when he at last obtained work in the publishing office of a newspaper, where his push and industry was recognised
amateur political debater and he helped his father, who had become secretary of the Lightermen and Watermen. Then he became a tramways manager, first in London, and later in Worcester. The latter town' he represents in Parliament as a Liberal, The Dream Life.
ing the pan as it is apt to burn.
Do not beat the eggs too much, An ordinary tulking-machine re- and if inexperienced practise with cord was being played at "2LO"two or three eggs at first. It is not with the usual little mechanical wise to use more than six eggs when noises in the background-a slight a large omelet is necessary. ries and a tinny "far" now and Strange Gypsy Customs. then. A reporter was asked to go In a waggon near Norwich the to an adjoining room and hear the gypsy wife of. Charles Baker, the record as it arrived via the other fescaped convict, who was re-cap- Putting aside the "Dream Book" after being purified by wireless and tured in Hertford, has been deliver- and similar humble and rather retransmitted by Marconi House.ed of her first-born child Among superstitious publications, there is a The improvement was really re- the British gypsies motherhood is whole world of wonder and my- markable. The very ordinary record governed by customs of a very strict stery about the dream life, Light Even some of those was transformed through the "loud- order, a Daily Chronicle writer tells tells us. apeaker" "into music of much ua For a month and day after the dreams which are described as aim- greater volume, but almost .com- birth of her child the woman is less and incoherent fancies may be distorted shadows of real experien- She is pletely freed from the disturbing ceremoniously. tabpoed. noises which murred the original. allotted her own cup, plate, knife, ces in sleep. But in any case, we Those who heard the demonstration fork, and spoon, and these are are convinced of the truth of the Scriptural passage which, correctly were warned not to speak,, or the subsequently destroyed: She is not rendered, should run, "He giveth special modification employed would allowed to prepare or even touch his beloved in sleep that is to have broadcast their voices as lion food, except her own. In bygone say, that in sleep are received in- like roars. It is now possible to times a special tent, was set apart spirations, visions, and instruction,Į select certain sounds for transmis- for the child-bearer, and this wae There are people who show a mon by witeless while other noises destroyed su soon as its use was at degree of knowledge not to be ex- coming from the sine source are an end, In some families the plained by anything they have suppressed.
woman had to wear gloves for a seen, heard, or read in their waking considerable time after child-birth. lives. And this is to put aside the Bottomley To Be Released? In extreme cases she was not allow many instanced of verified visions A strong movement is on foot, ed to touch dough for a whole year and fulfilled dreams in which the and is now, reaching a culmination, The British gypsies have no special literature of psychical, research to press for the release of Horatio christening custome, taking their abounds, and also those cases Bottomley- A memorial is to be children to the parish church or known as "travelling in sleep," in presented to the Home Secretary conventiclo according to the desire which the spirit appears to visit pointing out that this state of tho of the parents. In other lands there other regions, whether of earth or convict's health grown steadily are elaborate ceremoniais, including spiritual realms, retaining some re- warse; that he suffers with in-the acceptance of the infant into collection of the places visited and somnia, gout, and neuritis; and the family and the tribe. No gypsy the things seen. In short, in the that ho is unable to do any work, regards the dog as other than lives of thousands who have no but spends the greater part of his unclean servant. One of them lick, clear-perception of their spiritual time in the prison bospital. I doing a frying pan, the utensil was love that they gather much instruc experiences there is reason to be not think the memorial will succoed, straightway put into the embers to tion and inspiration during the time Bays : Glasgow Herald writer, but burn away the evil. Another, more
it is more than possible that, the strict, drove's stake through the of bodily slumber fallen idol will receive a pretty bottom of a bucket from which his.
Cissie
liberal remission when he draws dog had lapped a drink. There is factory operative, into the later 'end of his sentence. no gainsaying the true gypsy's Le M'Keown (21), was proceeding Those who have been brought into gard for these ancient customs. He back to the works at Lurgan, when touch with him in prison Ray that is terrified at the slightest departure she was run over by the ha, retains his old humour and from proper methods and precau from Belfast and cut fo optimism, and has already sketched lions. His women must not act in a level crosalligWhen the out his plans for a weekly journal - der slick manner of the gajos pulled up at Lun
word covered Bottomley's Own"—when ↑ be argand them. An engaged girls or comes out of jail. Also, he proposes instance, must at outside the camp. tangled remains
sented a horsifying to issue an official life-story with circle when suitors are announc
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