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LONDON, Decensber, 12. treatment is to visit Hongkong, that those who desire a longer halit
On the resumption of the Doug- The name Moutric is almost an life than they think is destined las criminal bel case Lord Alfred household word in the Far East for them will, presumably, have an Douglas gave evidence. Replying from Colobe to Shanghai, Manila opportunity of taking the treatment to Mr. Justice Avory in regard to ta Yokolama, and doubtless in It reminds us of a book on rejuvona the article which the Judge sald ing a deplorable state of affairs in "La Traviata" at 9.15 p.m.
December 13 World Theatre; other ploos that could be named.tion by a Dr. Jean Frumusan which suggested that Earl Balfour and to guitar unnecessarily, for goodness Priscilla Dean in "The Flame of the older resident it suggests one has been primarily written for Mr. Churchill withheld the truth lo word or phrase:-Moutries pianos. Trench readers and of which regard to Jutland on account of Sir These have stood the test of time, translation into English has becaErnest Cassel, hesaid it was written enka let us get on with the matter..15 p.m.
Grand of different styles and wrist strength made. In effect, it is a prolonged jocularly and sarcastically and as Derember 13.--The Theatre; Earle Williams in "The of performore, and perhaps what is argument against growing old, and the statements were not contradict more important still, of climate. an analysis of the causes of pre-ed we considered he had a prescri- Silver Car."
December 14-Grand Concert Fond lovers, doting husbands, those mature senility. It is in this intiptive right to helieve they were and Ministrel Show arStar Theatre, about to be married, might do worse innte analysis that the un-English true, The Judge retorted: That than give the question of the gift of character of the work is most insist won't do." Lord Alfred Douglas 9.15.n.m.
December 15-Theatre & Moutrie piano, more than a passingent. Dr. Fumasan pictures the on leaving the box passionately Royal, Hongkong Amateur thought. Several examples of the average child.as despatched hastily exclaimed that it was most unfair Dramatic Club presents the famous different makes are on view in the school every morning after an that he had had no chance of putt commedious and essentially artistic inadequate meal, and doomed to ing the case to a jury. It was Robot Play the "RUR."
showrooms at Mesars. Moutries spend the day "in dusty class-rooms,
Captain Harold Spencer gave December 15-Dmce at Peak whose old position is somewhat of licking the ventilation which would
landmark in the Colony. To have give him oxygenation. No rational evidence alleging that Sir Edward December 18.--Hongkong
the false report of Jutland was Mr. Philharmonic Society, Grand Con- plano, one must of courap have exercise will train his muscles which Pack told him on June 2, 1916 that music, and the stock of pieces to greedily clamour for work and yearn Winston Churchill's work. This select from include the latest in for space and light." "We will not Sir Edward Pack had previously cert. Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
January 24.-Fancy Dress Ballat
fight and classical pieces, including speaks." he continues, "of the gym denied. Captain Spencer also some famous nibns of collected nastic lessons taken once or twice alleged that Mr. Churchill at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
LAND SALES. December 17-A1 P.W.D. picces, as well as examples of choice week in halls filled with dust, for Dundee in 1919 told him he issued This is pot all they are merely parodies of what the Jutland report to get money Moutries are agonts for the more rational daily training ought to be. out of the Yanks. Cross-examined Offices, two lots of Crown Land, vocal music. 3 p.m.
than famous Victor" gramophones Nothing, of course, could be more by the Attorney-General Captain AUCTION. December 13.-Lammert Bros., which have brought their own joy like the ordinary English system, Spencer admitted that he had been at Sales Rooms, a valuable collect and satisfaction to the homes of miles it were the description of the twice convicted but did not admit thousands. They stock these con- day's class-work. In school," we that he was thrice certified as ion of postage stamps, 5.15 p.m.
December 14-Lammert Bros, veyers of sweet sounds in all sizes read. "bent double on his little suffering from delusional insanity. at Sales Rooms, a fine selection from the small, to the cabinet, to bench, his chest coutreted, should-, The case was adjourned. Reuter suit lengths, silks and tailor's the graceful period design which iters curved, at home bending over is the ambition of most of us to table to write his exercises and sundries, II a.m.
December 15-Lammert Bros, possess. In addition there arrive at lean his lessons. subject to the at King's Building, top floor, office quick moments supplies of the latest same irmational diet as his parents, records consisting of the classical in having learned neither to eat, drink, furniture, II am.
(From Our Own Correspondent.F December 17-Lammert Bros, orchestral, and solo playing the nor breathe, do you think he will be
Sales Rooms, household
vocal and the ever popular jazz. able to acquire that magnificent The Victor Co. have a call on some development, that integral youth
December 5 furniture, 2.30 p.m.
December 21.-Laminert Bros.,
Things in Peking are not at all property, machinery, plant and of the most eminent artistes of the which will defend his organism from tanning chemicals of the Hong-day; the result is that no one can injury? He will be an old man in
The trading sweeping cuts in the Govern best in ansic. Moutrio's bare will dog his whole life kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd., feel grieved at being absent from the his youths, and these hygienic errors well. The new President is mak at Sales Rooms, 3 p.m.
demonstrating rooms, neat and tional playing-fielde of Eton will ment staffs, cutting down expenses, December 18 and January 4-effective which permit the pur- hardly endorse this strange portrait, and in the long run this should not place some of his own people Extraordinary general meeting of chaser to hear what he thinks of Nor is the picture of young maiden prove very good-if only he does fire broke out the Kowloon Land and Building buying, and no pains are spared by hood more recognisable. Perched in safe jobs.
Club the Peking
the Company, Limited, at 5, Queen's the courteous staff to allow clients on high heels, which will induce the small
to "sample" any record that is in deviation of ber visceral statice. in
day and might have Road Central, Noon.
December 20-Fifth ordinary stock. The store of course has other compressed in a cuirass which will other
I Boy meeting of the China Light Power things besides those mentioned. At not only prevent the development of ended serously and disastrously. Co. (1918) Ltd., at St. George's the moment it is a hive of busy her thoracic, and abdominal mus- Fortunately the No.
bees with all that atmosphere of cles," and so forth the English gir detected the blaze in time and Building, Chater Road, 11 am.
the Christmas Spirit which makes of the enlightened public-school will had steps taken to extinguish the Bames. The fire was due to the shopping and present purchasing anrely repudiate the caricature. such an exciting and exhilarating It is not, indeed, until we reach fusing of an electric wire. The pastime. The window display is the consideration of middle age that club is insured for at least $150,000
The Loyal North Lancashires. pleasant whilst the mate but Dr. Frumusan'e stadies begin to
The evil that REPUTATION. men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.
they say is only skin as the BEAUTY, Cry Minstrel said deep, and, to his colleague-well, go out and get skinned". We cannot help but notice the numerons aids that exist for the prolongation of beauty, or the attempt to create it, where it does not exist and was probably never meant to. They call them Beauty Parlours. What they are
at
COMPANY MEETINGS.
WEATHER, CALENDAR.
DECEMBER 13.
Lady Kerry, Mrs. Pratt, Mre. Cadogan and I; in one coach, set out at ten o'clock this morning from Lord Shel-! burn's house in 'Picadilly to the Tower, and saw all the The sights, lions, etc.
ladies were all in mobs; how do you call it? undrest; and it was the rainiest day that over dripped-Swift.
PEKING PARS:.
A
apparently alive dog at the door apply to our own necessities. For. arrived in Tientsin last week and. remind the passerby and the when once the business man has received a great welcome. caller that this is indeed the home settled to his desk, his care for detachment was sent here a few of His Master's Voice.
SWEET CHARITY.
A TRIBUTE.
like, how those concerned go about their gland-like business, who free quent such places, we know not. fur only experience is that of the Robots Beauty Parlour, where they are not so much skinned as have skins fastened on to then in the shape of a wonderful assort ment of Pigments. The appur tenances of this Beauty Parlour are far from modern and as it is its clientelle must necessarily be limited for we cannot imagine Robot complexion is that the likely ever to become popular with our young men and maidens, 1710. old men and children." Deficate aromas float about this Parlour. The nostrils expand as the delicate aromatic flavours meet the air. Yes that was surely the rose de thrée star; that other the Johanny Jewar; whilst, this, this surely is the Gin de Gordon. There is also a sheen of smoke, fit exodus of cigarettes and cigars from numerous lips. Chairs there are alse, but as unlike those you would expect to see in a Beauty Parlour as you can imagine.. As we enter the chairs are occupied and two
Success is nothing but doing your victims sit silently and sphinx-like
notice од despite the
the duty to the best of your ability. Re- popularly known as the Prince of Creek, in the State of Kentucky, door which
says
Talkingwards may and probably will come, Beggars. The late Mrs. Frost was who celebrated his 180th birthday Robots" We do not wonder at but when all is said and done they known for her good and quiet work in 1919. Shell was born in 1788, their silence. A massive form
are only trimmings.
in the cause of charity. The Lon- and married his first wife when be
He lived with her for tion looms over them; in his hands are
don Hospital was very dear to her was 19. strange things and with them he
and her efforts in its behalf were, eighty years, and had twenty-nine Government would make Kong- seems likely to be fulfilled. The makes strange signs. On faces
and are, well known. How much children. He married again at 125, moon an important strategic centre they were appreciated is evidenced and became the father of a child, Wing Fung" one of the smaller that once were pale of ruddy, are
He has 200 It now 5 years old.
of the Northern Cruiser Squadron smeared the cosmetic stickophast and the rouge that is more than red.
Lighting-up time to-day is at by Ed Knutsford's letter.
affords some little comfort to those descendants, and frequently rides ships, arrived here this morning. Like the hand of a practised artist, 5.40 p.m.
bereaved and to those who appro thirty kilometres a day on borseback. This was one of the men-of-war due to the ordinary course of moves the "proprietor," until the
Exchange on London is 2/3;ciate the will to work for suffering He attributes his longevity and good that remained loyal to Dr. Stan health to the fact that he has worked Yat-sen in the June (1922) coup and humanity wherever it may be!
hard all his life; and bere are a few took part in the bombardment of precepts to enable others to follow Canton. It will also be recalled his oxample. Dr. Frumusan pro- that Sun stayed on board the pounds a simple programme. "Wing Fung" for some weeks at: Go to bed early and rise early. the anchorage off Shameen, before Sleep eight hours. Sleep on a hard leaving Canton. bed, well covered up, in an airy room with windows open.
hygiene is apt to languish as much days ago. The first night on duty, in England and elsewhere as in many of the guards were cold and. frost bitten and had to go to. France; and our author draws a not-too-alarmist picture of the rosy, Hospital. Our dear old authorities. plump an of something over 50, are now considering an issue of
for hats fur the winter. whose apparent vigour is entirely deceptive, and whose finne is par- meated with the deadly seeds of A melancholy interest attaches to decay. If we all took a Bi-annus] the letter a copy of which we are examination of our organism we Earl should be shocked by the revelations privileged to give below. Knutsford us is generally known, we received, and yet, there is no has spent years, almost without need for all this insidious disease, number, in pleading the cause of if only the world would follow the
is example of John Shell, of Greasy (From Our Own Correspondent.) the London Hospital.
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HONGLONG THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 19:3.
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The conditions bro un-
SUCCESS.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Sugar, flour and rice quotations will be found under Commercial Notes in this issue of the China Mail. The Route to America via the The teacher was giving Commercial Paclic Cable 15 in- a nature study lesson in terrupted. Telegrams are belug a fruit district on the forwarded via the Atlantic at the
Rhetorically, horates at present in force. questioned, "Can anyone think of
GRUB.
FROM THE VISCOUNT KNUTSFORD.
LONDON HOSPITAL,
WHITECHAPEL, E.X.
23rd October, 1923.
menta.
FLEET AT KONGMOON.
IMPROVED POLITICAL
SITUATION.
KONGMOON, December 12. Made some time ago, the predic- that the present Canton
Amongst other naval craft in
port is the gunboat "Kong Hon,"
dition which if it be economic behold. in whatever success the on Shanghai 69.
R.U.R. has achieved let a word be
Nineteen cases of small-pox been brought about by said for Mr. G. Falkner who "nuns" chmotic conditions in Canton and the this Robot Beauty Parlour and (all Chinese) were reported yester adjoining province, Property in the makes his charges the pride and day. Colony any he uinly in the handenvy of the Robot world. He never OSTRICH-LIKE.
lets his right hand know what his of Chinese but it would be interest- left is doing and his charges liter
On waking drink a large glass of flagship of Admiral Chan Chak, Naval Defence Commissioner, and "Where an opinion is general, ing to have figures ve to the number ally blush to find their faces all
aflame..
pure water. it is usually correct."- And in spite of bolders wla paeviously cantred
Jurap out of bed immediately, and the "Kong Tai" which is under- of what anyons may say to the con- their affections in things Cantou or
DEAR MRS, FROST,
Will you forgive me for beginning in full light, with unclatbed body, going, repairs. HM.S. "Cicala" trary there is general opinion that thicse kally who have fastered
The political tension in the 1 boom
like this and dropping the "Dear perform the internal toilet of the left on Monday. Madam," but you have been such organism by half an hour of physical the question of Reservations is, at and taken part in
a splendid friend to the "Loudon," culture, in regular rhythm with slow hinterland of Kongmoon has been relieved as the majority of the anti- the moment at least, on way out of that has been profitable for one todlin moth.
The farewell performance of that I am really moved out of inspiratory and expiratory move-Sun troops have been driven back. the vexed question of the Ifousing section has left in its train anything worse than to bite an
Your husband, in sending me a Then proceed to the external toilet 4 few are still in the Yan Ping and
Hoi Ping districts. and rent problem which embarrasses sense of dissatisfaction which it is apple and see a grub in it?" After the Italian Opera Co., will be given formality
CORRUPT POLITICS. a silence, "Yes," said a small boy at the Star to-night. The opera and harrases quite a number of hard to eradicate and which we What To see half a grub, will be "Traviata, which has been choque for £139 176. 8d., telle me by hydrotherapy (ablutions in cold
water) and friction with a rough A petty war has broken out in much In request by the general that it has been oallected by you.
the Hok Shan district, where two Europeans who have not acquired lapo Reservations will somewhat
public.
However am I to thank you! Altowel.
To the organism which, has thus rival leaders contend for control. vast wealth or inherited any sufli- dissipate.
The Acting-President and the sum like this in these hard times is
of positive. Golsand over hore when been regenerated give a substantial. It is stated that Saam Chow has Committee of the Ministering
I hardly know where to turn for but light breakfast, suitable to its been broken into by troops who indulged in looting and other Children's League express then sincere thanks to the press of their help
I wonder if you can pass on some- Sally forth to business, using excesses.
EXCEPTION TO THE RULE A new battalion of troops: has Colony for support given in con-
appeared at Pak Kal, the port of Elsewhere in this issue will be very great deal for yourself) to all ways, carriages; lifte) as little as
Avoid artificial and exciting Kongmoon, and they have the ap- nection with the recent fête. thing of my gratitude (intercepting artificial cans of locomotion (tram- raffle and other ways. All deserve
pearance of a well-trained, and found the names of winners in the who gave a molding hand in the possible. raffles.
rowards of the very best, but I can tonica.
Eat slowly and moderately; do uniformly equipped lot. They are After many days of lengthy only offer thanke-not mine anly- legal argument, the hearing of the but those of our sick people whom not drink at meals; chew conscien- an exception to the rule in that charter party case before the Full this splendid gift will enable us to tiously; and leave the table with a they are disciplined and behave
sensation of lightness, with the well.
STATION RORBED, f Court of Appeal was concluded help,
Last nightthere was a robbery, on the railway yesterday, the Chief Justice (Sir-In view of your keen interest in ability to eat more. William Reca-Dayles) announcing the "London," it occurs to me that Dr. Frumusan closes his survey at Bak Sek,
and Kongmoosu that judgmest would be reserved, you might perhaps turn over, and with a list of striking case which between-Pakk The other Judges on the Bench having done that, to pass round at have yielded to his treatment, many were: Sir Skinner Turner Judge little books: am sending under of which have been described by the of H. M. Surpreme Court, Shang-gepatter cover as the most trifling relatives of the patients as "amply bal) and the Paisne Judge of Hong af gifta My Secretary had the miraculous. His experianon "has kong Mr. Justice Gompertz)
cient to make them indifferent to equal. The Europeans presumably
the needs of the day and to adopt are to blame because in the main To-day's Poem. the attitude of this does not affect they are wage earning and not profit
(Apologia.)
me in the least." We find it there sharing, and if this fact is acknow fore a little difficult to be patient ledged as it must be, those who Say not of me that weakly I declined
the ses with a line of action that suggests differ must come to see that the The labours of my aires, and fled Hogregation that because an opinion has pre proposed
not The tower we founded and the
lamps we lit, Aviously been expressed an a certain antagonistic to the true spirit of Itopic, it should be adhered to, forbearance and the recognition of To play at home with paper like a because to recant would be an act differing national characteristics, child..
In the afternoon of time uf whildishmeen Buch an attitude, but mado imperative by the extra. Eut rather say: to my the least, is pure childishness ordinary conditions which, Ge We A strenuous family dusted from ite and antagonistic to ordinary pro maintain are not, so much econcile hande grees of thought and action. Neither as they are chaotic. The suggested The sand of granite, and beholding can we be patient with statements Reservations are not advocated Along the sounding const its pyrs which prove nothing and serve only cause there is any racial projudioside to suggest thoughts of mind pro-but because "British residenta.... And tall memorials catch the dying judice which we are certain do not aro, generally speaking, less wealthy,
childish taak exist. It may be kindled if it is and consequently less able to pay a smiled wall orient, and to this proved, as it probably of be, that high rent. Any attempt to Around the are addressed its even-
ging bourn zdiff valtion under which many ignore these facts and to make wilful
*Bomale Louis SAIVEISON.
far
BOOLAL. AND PASSORIL
The Peak Club le to hold a fancy dress ball ost:January 24 at 9.15 p.m.
avocation.
check to write it about my doings as led him to assert with confidence a quarter on half a century over and a hegger, and although there is too that there is no caso too bad for the above the conventional limits of much about me m it, there is quite possibility of a real and lasting youth and longevity. For Loose alas that in interesting and amusing rejuvenation. To react intelligently who desire to prolong their existence against the damage caused by our his little book in certainly full of as regards Hospital work.
anrdmmable life is sufficient to gain hope