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The Colony had u, demir bill of Freaky for the week-end,
AND
GENERAL.
The blind girls: of the CMS. Some of the more prosperous" Blind Home, Kowloon City, are to inhabitants of Moscow are excap- give a Carol Singing entertaining the restrictions of the acute Ceylon's Poppy Day collectionment on Monday next at 2:30 p.m..housing shoottage by forming co- operative building associations.. this your amounted to £6,000,
and building new houses on their which is nearly three times the
own initiative. They are entitled arh.ount collected last year, Malaya topped the list last year
to hold these houses on very long term leases, which practically as- wish £5,306.10.6. Kedah's Poppy
sure a life tenure, and they are Day effort
resulted In $3,056.56 being raised for Earl
exempted from the very severe rationing of rooming space which Haig's Fund.
practically confines the average Moscow family to a single room.
has
Chinese audiences are becom- ing just as critical of their operas us Americans are of theirs, ne-
pany.
The Government orgun udvo- cates the adoption of Sunday, in stead of Friday, as the day of rest in Turkey. The idea is to bring Turkey in line with the Western powers and also avoid the loss of two days weekly, as both Friday and Sunday have been rest days.
Resolutions calling for a re- designation of "Armistice Day"
ed by the Downtown Chamber of
Sen-going vessels touching at
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1925.
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cording to Miss Mon Sue. Fawn as "Wilson Day" have been adopt-American porta during the fiscal} to San Francisco to play the lead-bers of Commerce throughout the yearch bureau of the shipping who is on the way from Canton Commerce of New York. Cham. year ending June 80, carried near 1,550,000, passengers. The re- Ing role in a Chinese opera com country, chapters of the American board, in making public the
She was selected from Legion and other bodies will be among 500 contestants in Canton. asked to join in a movement to lay and more than 300,000 travelled figures of arrivals and departures, the request before Congress for first class, 316,000 second class Nahee is given Bul the official action.
and 332,000 third class. The re- "Shansong" Wreck Mark Bey
Tatively low figure for third class markep
position of 110 A pretty custom was recently passengers was ascribed to de- "Shanshing" week, which, fi exemplifted in Moxow when crease in Immigration. More metene of the Bairway in the Southļeveryone seemed to be buying and than 400,000 travelled between
Channel Esamneo lay the Yangisze wearing flowers. This was in the United States and Canada. River, has been withdrawn. Chart honour of the fabled birthday of afferbeak: Xlarine Department hurt the goddess of wisdom (Sofia) and
One of London's picturesque No. 1.
her three daughters. Faith, Hope figures, the "Muffin Man" wish a and Charity (Vera. Nady czhda hand-bell soon will be extinct. A newspaper published in the and Lubov). All these names are The "profession" has been invad- provincial, town of Ufa, Russia very popular in Russia; and all led by woman. trim, neat and' | rerently emerged into the lime-the Sofias, Veras. Nadyezhdas and
fquick. The muffin man carries light of publicity as a result of Labors were supposed to put on his head and covered board employing somewhat too vivin dowers in honour of the day.
balanced on his head and tinkles QaqoðsaðDonHUDUDUDGONO advertising methods. A Com-
la bell to attract customers. The munist satirical magazine called
Cel Vernon Willey, president modern sales persons are mostly Crocodile is published in Moscow; of the British Federation of In-young women with neät uniforms and the Ufa newspaper, in andustries. "deserves commendation and aprons. They carry baskets effort to beat up subscriptions for for his effort to combat the fat on their arms in the same wayxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX the Crocodile, announced that a bary, which he has said he found that "Nell of old Drury? carried m real crocodile had escaped from strongly rooted in the United her basket of oranges. the Moscow Zoo and was making States, "that Great Britain e
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its way along the Volga and Kama, "down and out," "This belief." | Paris, which is perpetually Rivers to Ufa. Every day the he declared on returning to Eng- bewaiting, the congestion of its newspaper published fresh de- land from America, " doing our traffic, has been rather cheered by tails about the progress of the interests much harm." And he the visit of Frank Eliot, the as- river monster. The credulous added that the average Americansistant commissioner of the Lon-
of peasants
the surrounding seems to believe that the old Bridon pelice, who came to study the countryside became terrified, tish spirit. of initiative and the Paris graffic regulations. They locked up their houses, and British capacity to battle against Paris public has believed that placed chickens on the road as difficulties have been lost. Well these things are managed better MA ANG MGA NA DAN MAN DAN MAG SA DAN AMERİKALILARIN DUNHAMMAMUNIWW`propitiatory offerings for the what if he does, provided it is pot in London. But now London dreaded crocodile. The news fact. It was an eighteenth cen comes to Paris to take lessons. paper finally disclosed the hoax; tury playwright who made one of The Paris congestion will not be but it is likely that the peasants his characters say that the people lessened by the knowledge that of this region will shiver at the of England are never so happy London, too, is congested, but e.ention of the word croccodile for as when you tell them they are somehow Parisians find some con- many months.
ruised!
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Mr. F. J. Ling of the P.W.D. Amongst those who left yester. Mr. G. H. Elliott left for the
left for Home in the Morea on Saturday.
Mr. J. 11. Way of the Hongkong Elenirie Co., Ltd. and Mrs. Way
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The Rev. E. T. Loader of the Church Missionary Society. Pak hol Station, left for Home on Saturday by the Mörca...
Mr. Erie. Rice, formerly Private Secretary to Sir R. E. Stubbs, and now Special Commissioner of the Overseas League, will visit Singa- pore (care of Messrs. T. Cook & Son till December, 20th) and Hongkong (care of Messrs. T. Cook and Son till January 15th). It is hoped that his second world tour will be as great a success as his first.
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day by the "City of Baroda" north in the Macedonia.
i for Plymouth. were Major
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and Mrs. Milner-Jones and
family, Captain A. E. Watts and Captain Oxspring.
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This year's youngest mayoress is Miss Sylvia Densham, who,
only 15, and still at school, entering on her second year of office, her father being re-elected mayor of Kingston-on-Thames..
Mr. R. H. Pinhorn, head master of the Penang Free School,' who is in England on leave, has been advised medically not to return
the tropics, and has retired. He counts twenty years service
Ferang.
Having rung a peal at St. Paul's Cathedral Edward Horrex, Pavlova and her company ap-87, bell-ringer, of Stockwell,. peared at the Grand Theatre, died of syncope, due to bronchitis. Birmingham, last month; under "A wonderful old chap, bell- a warning that bare legs and ringing at his age," was even bare feet on the stage were Brixton Coroner's comment. prohibited by the magistrates.
Honoura
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The literary output of Sir King on the occasion of the visit the words of his songs: and now conferred by the Harry Lauder is not confined to of the Prince of Wales to South that he is. back to Britain after Africa include: Vice-Admiral his latest tour of the world, he Sir Lionel Halsey, Comptroller may complete the three-act play of H.R.H., K.C.M.G.. Major the that he began some years ago. It More than thirty years ago
Hon. Piers Walter W. S. Clark, eighty, a Civil War
Legh gives a picture of Scottish life, in veteram, made a vow he would not Equerry, C.M.G., Lieut. Col. Sir which there are no renegade sar- have his hair cut until William John Robert Chancellor, Govern-saparilla-sipping Caledonians with Jennings Bryan was in the Pre- of Southern Rhodesia, Knight Oxford accents and Oxford bags. sident's chair. The recent death Grand Cross Victorian Order, Sir Godfrey Thomas, private of the Commoner, however, wea- kened his resolve and the a bar. Secretary, Knight Commander bet cut the hair that hung about Mr. Clark's waist. "For years Mr. Clarke was a picturesque per- sonage nt G. A. R. national en- campments, his keen eyes and dis- tinguished appearance leading many to mistake him for Buffalo' Bill.
Scores of men in London' were showing last week their gold Sandow-watches, saya u London
Victorian Order.
writer. When the strong man opened his cocoa works in South London he gave a lunch, at which,! in front of every plate, there was a small cardboard box, which, he said, was not to be opened. Sud-") denly, during the speeches, the boxes all rang with sound at the same time. Each one when open- ed was seen to contain' agoid !!! alarum watch, which went off at- any time fixed. They had all been set for the moment of San- dow's rising to his feet. To the last days of his handsome life. Sandow was, strong. I remember This former publicity manager-de- ploring to me the fact that the day before, when his, car had gone into a ditch on the way to Brigh ton, Sandow insisted on pulling it out himmself, "He was wast Ang his strength," said my friend. "There wasn't a newspaper photo- |grapher within miles. Fancy risking hurting yourself for nothing
Claudin Dell was awarded the silver cup as “Misa Apple of 1926.*
"Never agala fervently, and with an added "No!" for einphasis, is the way Rudolph Va- lentino, movie sheik and avowed cynosure of feminine eyes, feels about another marriage if there is no reconcilliation with the pre- sent Mrs. Valentino, the former Winifred. Hudnut. All he knows about whether he will still be a married.man a few months hence is that he wants Mrs. Valentino. to be happy. "I do not know what Mr Valentino wishes to [do," be anid, shortly after arriving from Chicago. "But all I wish to do is oblige her. I shall await developments and try to keep my sense of humour."
Queen Mary famous for her domesticity, shows how she manages the various palaves with but very few changes of maid servants. One of the first things the royal mistress does when a |new maid arrives is to start a | bank account for her. Friends of the royal household consider the Queen as an example for all mig- trences where her maid ser VIITES are concerned, and there as come 30 or 40 of them. Judging the Queen purely as a woman, her friends aver, she would never be likely to come up against the ser vant problem as, encountered by most personis owing to her! thorough understanding of human nature
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