SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1926.
ALBERT
FOR
DAINTY DISHES
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS
HeWhore are you going.
She-Way To Alhart,, of souras, where we are sure to get the
Enost French Pastry and the best cooking. He-That is so in French Cakes at 81.00 per dozan, his Masierie Cakes his Big Cakes, his Ice Creams (oomblood with excellent cuisine) are made oxclusively with the butter, milk and dream of the Dairy, Farma. Co., Ltd. She-Quito so and be alun, has a new menn.comprising. fifty new dietos which you can enjoy any time from 10:30 am. to Midnight.
Queen's Road Central
(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building)
SHOEMAKERS
(Japanese Hand Made) Every Kind of Footwear MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
5. D'AGUILAR STREET,
Opposite Karamally & Co.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
Telephone Central No. 493.
LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD
TILE COS
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We have a large stock of White Glasod: Wall Tiles, Colour Glazed Wall Tiles, Coramic Mosaio Tiles, Geometrioål Encautio Floor Tiles, Tile Pire Grates.
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wrote a doctor to us about his son, Hugh— "I would like everybody to know the value of Glaxo and use it." Give your baby Glaxo- the food the doctors give to their own babies-the food that build's firm flesh, plenty of bone, and a strong constitution.. Ask your Doctor !!
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Hongkong.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ODDS AND ENDS
The Tooth Brush
The Dental Board has been doing arithmetic and thereby ands that only a quarter of the population? uses a tooth-brush (anys the "Even-: Ing Standard). This is little surprising, as "tooth-brush drill in the elementary schools was in- troduced many years ago, Pro- bably the tooth-brush consus would have yielded, even smaller figures i just before the war, for many nitat"| learned to appreciate the tooth- Beush that was issued with their Ifrat uniforma A chemint in a manufacturing town stated in 1019 (that his anle of tooth-brushes had' trebled since local men came home" from the war. They not only re newed their own brushes but bought others for their families..
Test For Pearls.
A new process for distinguishing: between natural and cultured pearls was described before the French Academy recently, (snys the "World! Magazine New
York. The methods, very imp and Inexpansive, requires the in- Eserting of a miniature tube hu the hole Bored in the pearl for bending purposes. Within, the tube are two Httle mirrors very close together." at right angles to each other and at an angle of 45 degrees with the side of the tube. When a light is thrown into the tuba on the Arst mirror it is reflected on the second mirror if the pearl is composed of concentric yers. is is the case with all natural pearls. If the core of the pearl is not composed of concentric spheres the ray of Night Instead of stalking the second mirror. shines through the sub- stance of which the cultivated pearl is made and appears as a tiny spot of light on the surface..
Midnight Oil
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The former Kaiser Wilhelm in a. happy mood
Beetle" on the Wall:
Walking along the wind-awept, water logged lanes near Westward HOM (writes correspondent to the Daily Chronicle") I overtook an old man, now a house painter in small way, who used to "istivate!" Rudyard Kiplaga room when hel was satudent at the school, that la described in Stalky and. Cal" The building, after the College on evil, days, was empty for many years, and has now been converted Into vats. My reminiscent com panion told me how Kipling's room was full of curlo huntura. when the. Peonversion took place, anxious to
becure the famous munia scribblings.) on the wallpaper before it was. strippedu
Chlorine Treatment for Horse's
Cold
There is some dispute, it seems, about the efficacy of the chlorine.. gas treatment for colds and other respiratory troablos, such as "Aus” In human beings;, but it is certainly"| good for horses.. Houses are not "less able to "*' than people; and epidemica of it at United States cavalry posta have been promptly checked by these of chlorine gas." It is administered by tethering each afflicted animal in euch wise that his head is enclosed in a box into which the gaa la in- troduced in measured quantities, a rubber cloth being fastened about Still another new comet lathe horse's neck to prevent escape
Ensor at Pretoria.. been discovered, this time by Mr. of the medicinal vapour. A horse: ported to have a considerable tail, trouble may be entirely cured by It is re-suffering from "B" or bronchial boy is too far south to he visible in this means after three or four treat
·Sectland Comet Van Bissbroeck, monta of an hour daily.—“Daily of the conatellation Leo and is now fainter, is situated in the east Times Journal; Canada.
moving to the south-west.. It is Traffic in the Universe. well above the horizon by midnight, but a telescope is necessary for it observation-The Scotsman,"
Another New Comet.
Some interesting announcements concerning the operating and regu lation of the universe, were made by noted scientists at a meeting of American astronomical and physi- One thousand volunteers who cal societies at Los Angeles.. can be called upon to give their Professor McMillan, of Chicago, blood, in transfusion cases, are announded his discovery that the being enrolled by the London aun: would, in the course of every! Transfusion Service, a little known million billion years meet another branch of Red Cross work, (says star at a distance equal to the the "New York World" magazine.)distance between the earth and the This service to London hospitals aun When this occurred the was organized because doctors earth's orbit would be changed; found it so difficult to obtain blood bringing the earth to less than one- of the right type when a transfu-tenth of its present distance from alon Was necessary to save the sun, and thereby ending all life patient's re: The blood of each on earth Professor Stromberg, of human being belongs to one of four Mount Wilson Observatory, said he chemical types, and an Individual had made a careful analysis of the who is willing to transfer some of movements of all stars, and dis- his blood can be used only if he has covered that they did not move blood, like that of the patient. To under the influence of a local field date the London transfusion corps of attraction, but that there was a
This law,
Myself a somewhat indifferent sleeper. I was interested to see what Blood Volunteers. Sir James Crichton-Browne, the great jeurologist, had to say about insomnia at a meeting which re- cently considered the relationship of sleep to the health of school children; (writes "Colophon" In "John
London's Weekly" Sir James made
In- teresting point with regard to Hterary men. He observed that Dickens was w sufferer, and that his family were able to trace the fortunes of his puppets by the look on his face at the breakfast-table. When "Little Nell" died, tekens broke down utterly as if he had lost his own daughter. It was observed that the best of Sir Hall Caine's work had been done during periods of insomnia.
Sir James insisted
on the importance of indulging only in light recreation before going to bed; but this seems to conillet with his observations about the literary giants who certainly worked late into the night and whose maomnia, with its excellent results, was das to their expenditure of midnight
oll.
certain universal law governing traffic in the universe.
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association with the Grand Hotel.
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· Terme, moderate. Special terms to families on application: to
JH. OXBERRY, Proprietor.
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Telegraphio Address: "ASTOR Telephone Central 170. 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
A first class Hotel centrally located, large and airy: roomsį. completely renovated and refurnished.. New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiffing and Dinners: Under entirely new Management.
For further particulars apply to
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SINGAPORE
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THE RENDEZ-VOUS OF THE SMART SET TEA DANCES EVERY TUESDAY DINNER DANCES
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KING EDWARD HOTEL
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has served 217 cases, but calls from hospitals have become so numerous that a few hundred volunteer re-lhe declared, acts similarly, to theAtt., Pany Bud Lighting Baropena Bathe
serves are no longer enough The organisation states that calls come in at all hours of the day and night, Within an hour of the request the service has a volunteer of the pro- per'type' at the hospital
traffic, policeman on earth. He claimed to have discovered that there le a pivot of the universe, which is at absolute rest in space: and about which the universe
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