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LAMMERT BROS. G. E. WARREN & CO., LTD
AVOPICERIES, APPRAISER
AND. BUžveros,
- Public Auctions -
THE Undersigned, have recerea insiens- Monst-bo sell, by Pablo Auston,
SATURDAY, 30th August, 1988. commending at 11 am.
at their Salon Booms. Duddall Street.. (for account of the concerned)
5 Cases Singlets Terpa-Cush on delivery,
-LAMMERT BRÒS.,
Auctioneers.
-Hongkong, 28th August, 1924.
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dreaming "nom Tweedledee. and what dayon thick he's dreaming about?”. „Alice, saldı "Nobody can guess that-- "Wayabout "Three Castles" Cigarettes, Texcodlodoes
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Within a few yards of the main Andover road at Winchester and only 2ft from the surface a com- plete skeleton of a man has been unearthed during digging opera tions. The bottom jaw contained six perfect teeth. No inquest is to be held as it is thought the skele ton is probably the remains, of a victim of the bangman's rope as it was found on Gellow's Hill, where a hangman's tree was recently cut down. Prison Governor Dios.
Sheila Kaye-Smith.
The novelist of Sussex, Miss
The rose which we wore on Rose Day in aid of the hospitals | Sheila Kaye-Smith, is engaged to long figured in the pharmacopoeia ? be married to the Rev. Theodore (says theDaily Chronicle.") Penrose Fry, eldest son of Sir John Pliny gives over thirty remedies and Lady' Fry, of Great Ayrton, compounded of rose-leaves and Yorkshire. Miss Kaye-Smith lives petals, and Heliogabalus used to at St. Leonards-on-Sea, where Mr. drink rose wine as a tonic after his Fry is curate at Christ Church. She periodical bouts while in much is an enthusiastle-Church-woman; more recent times sufferers from has spoken at the Church Congress; nervous complaints have been ad- and her deep interest in religious vised to seek relief by swallowing themes is shown in several of her rose-leaf compounds or sleeping novels, particularly in her. later on pillows stuffed with rose petals. work. Miss Kaye-Smith is one of Rose water, too, was at one time the best regional novelists living- widely used for flavouring food, She draws with a sure hand and the Chinese still have rose-Sussex types families whose fritters, while the Hindus delight roots strike deep Into that | ia rose-candy.
rich soil. It took Miss Kaye Smith some years to establish her position "Dally as a novelfat (say the News.") She finished her first book when she was 18, and after many rejections' by the publishers it got into print in 1908. It was not unt 11 years afterwards that, with her ninth novel, "Tamerisk Town," she achieved a really big popular seccess. Since then her sales have steadily improved, and she is to-day one of the most widely read of our women nove» lists. The force of inward .con- viction and sheer staying power has carried her through to fame. Her practice is to write steadily
Authors" and Handwriting.
| A Beauty's Thoughts,
Coming to more recent times, we find that many authors for some reason were addicted to microscopic writing. Charlotte Brontë, was one.
Miss Mitford another. Like Southey, she used 10 boast that she could send
more for her money than anyone else. Thackeray wrote a small but
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The death has occurred of Man have ten excellent reasons Major Raymond P, H, Monro, for going to Pears Palace of Governor of Edinburgh Prison. Boauty, and ladies must go to see Major Monro's death took place what attracts the men. I liked to suddenly. He had recently see the crowd entering-the men returned from a holiday, and had a little «determined to be indif been ill or only a fortnight, j-erent, and the ladies very though the Illness from which he determined to keep a strict eye on was suffering had been contracted their men folk (says a "Dilly on active service. A son of the Chronicle writer in an article on late Sir David Monro, H.M. Wembley). But when I was once Inspector of Constabulary for Inside I forgot to notice the crowd. Scotland, Major Monro was born There was Helen of Troy playing 10 1896. He was educated at knuckle bours very gracefully, and Edinburgh Academy, and taking Cleopatra-well, if Cleopatra were [up an Army career, served in the like that she would have been sure
Highland Light Infantry, the of a fortune on the films, and Nell | two hours a day. Devonshire Regiment, and the Gwyane captivating the onlookers Worcestershire Regiment, from with such success, and Madame which he retired to take up the Rompadour playing patience, and Deputy-Governorship of, Barlinnie the majestic Mrs. Siddons em Prison, Glasgow, in 1009. In 1911 broidering. One of the beauties I he was appointed Governor of Interviewed-wild horses will not Polmont Institution. He went on drag' her name from me—said, active service during the war with Inever knew what it was to be the Royal Fusiliers, and returned bored with admiration. I know in March 1918, to take up a staff Tm a pretty girl, and I like the appointment. In the following turn ofinen's heads as I walk year he became Governor of along the street, but this steady beautifully clear hand. He boist- Edinburgh Prison.
glare of admiring eyes bores meed that he would be able to writé Memorial Blunder.
stiff. However, I have my the Lord's Prayer on his thumb- diversions, I can lip-read a bit nail. Captain Marryat, R. D. Black- During the war many soldiers and often I know what the wife is more, William Klark, and many had the unpleasant experience of saying of me-from her lips, and others wrote in an extremely small being officially reported sup what her husband is thinking of hand. Charles Dickens used blue posed dead" although they had ma by his oy ca." escaped that fate. To fow, however, says the *Dundee
are several of his MSS. in the Advertiser,” has it occurred to
For His Little'Son's Hafety; have this official blunder per
| Foster Library ai South Kensing. petuated and, their names-inscrib. Thankful F. MS. Father Thanks ton.Sydney Smith described is own handwriting as "If a swarm BABY'S OWN TABLETS, ed among the list of fallen on a war memoral. This, however, has
Raub, in the Ferlersind Halay of ants, sacaping from an ink, been the experience of Mr. Robert State Mr. GM. Rajendram is clerk in bottle, had walked over a sheet of Calvert, coal merchant. Tayport, weitos Mr. Raj ndrum," my child, aged That of his friend, Lord, Jeffrey, the Court. “Following a sovery, cald," | paper without wiping their legs. " formerly of the Canadians, whose years, had a bough at night which was still more legible. Sydney, name appears among the 18 dilatarbed his sleep. This dough was inscribed on the war memorial of attended by difficulty in breathing anoh Smith once acknowledged one of Masonic Lodge St. David (No. 78), as you're in asthmatic, propie, and it is letters as follows-We are Dundee, which was unveiled The usual cough mixtures were tried should be still more so were t went on for about these month, wow much obliged by your letter, but recently. Mr Celvert, In
E but found telos, so I'obtained bottin legible. I have tried to read it interview, said that he was very of Baby's Own Tableta, & change for much puzzled over the matter. the botter was noticeable in the child from left to right, and Mrs. He had but rarely attended lodge before and then tablete hand boon used. Sydney from right to left, and we meetings since his retum to this Tam indeled to Babys Own Tablets for word of it.
Now in is quite free from the trouble telther of us can'decipher a single country, but he had been visited the quiet night he enjoys and for being taken tog m by members since he took up relieved of all the anziane Sesre we had business in Tay port. The about his health mistake no doubt arose from the Duaranteed-abeciutely pure, and fact that he had been reported perfectly harmless over to the youngost missing, supposed dead, in theoreoh allment of childhood we simple
Indute Baby
Baby's Own Tablets are a remedy casualty lists on:(6th May 1917 fevere indication calls postipation Hopresumed someone must have They check dar
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