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THE
PASSING OF CEREMONIAL “
DRESS,
SURPRISINGLY SMALL CHANGES,
CHINA "MAIL.
His boots are admirable and un- exceptionable. His trensors appear to lack cronses, but otherwise' are well fitting. His morning coat but- tons rather higher than ours, It buttons over a walsteoat, not quite 20 severely sober as our favourite pearl grey, but not noticeably out jet plane on the jeune, prámler In a
moderno musical comedy. "
The spiral stock had already In!
MAYA SECRĘTS.
A GIANT NATURAL.
"CATHEDRAL,
TEN TIMES THE SIZE OF ST. PAUL'S.
Dr. Gapin, the discoverer of two To give the world, the flesh, orj the devil his dre. the dictates of 1844 succumbed to the collas, aprained chies in Yucatan. the in- IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that fashion are not quite so stg asingle collar worn rather high un trépid travelles in Mexico, British: ".
we sometimes like to protend. Even the chin, and the cruvat was worn Honduras, and fincemah, gerived and after WEDNESDAY,
in the case of women, the exigen- either Uke a modern stock or in i London in mail week. the 18th instant, a continuous
rather flowing art! It had been expected that h water supply will be attempted in ties of the day's sport, transport, form a n
etc, play and always have played artistic bow th. Both the fast would travel via Jamalen. but 1th Peak. Copdit Robinson
a much larger part in deciding tons may be seen to-day in Bade'slowing to the bite at a By and, the Bond Districts,
„His contracting of leishmaniasis, Pr. All Brée quarters of the total what those fashions should be than Club or High-brow Chelsen.
top hat is slightly higher than ours, Gana fohind it necessary to`ge not Formal supply will then be avall men care to sulmit.
Ite, at any rate, true that wh and tapers to the top very slight); New Orleans for specialist medicat fable and consumers'mingt reduce
ther it be utility or sentiment thi Such hats were worn at Aucos the lention. He subsequently evoss. their consymption to three quariates
for the Atlantic from Bluntreate a new fashion, it is year, n tors of their normal supply.
On being asked what was the Ceremoniul Dreses, In the event of this average pronomie pressm be utility tha
Meat picturesque discovery he had kills it.
The chief difference between made, Dr. Gann character dienly avallable supply being exeredød, "No doubt the retreat Tromland our grandfathers in the mat.-
repling that it was something he Moscow gave our great-grand-lee of ceremonial dress is no had sensed," but had not seen in mothers the idea of the Palish the shape or character of the gaits entirety. It was in the vast Witze hori, and the fursedgediments, but in the practice of wear unexplored cavern of failen. Russian mantle and for-topeding them. Our grandfathers loved had were said Dr. Gann.
AVI abhor it. Ting (Top Floor), Coronation. The slantages of a contina toot, but this fushing judicialy ceremony.
ruberoic deures, nearly double life Fafter the passage of 1883-young or parades, we carry ont par sorial. size carvyd in the walls. Then T
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Hongkwa. 14th August, 1926,
BASEBALL
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Bruincided with a rage for skating grandfathers welcomed full-dress;
anum, stretching before me, aa “no”. so the Russians wrote another page rutles in fatigue dresse Th
mous chamber of which my elect women operi eluthes remain the pan, but patrie torch only revealed 4 part. ¦in history, and our
more adopted Kassian-e costumeiraße time in wardrobes.
From roof to ceiling great siglaet-j
bu, the fashion coincided with Yru, reenli, there. Varsity nerOUPS ites strel like columns. That, un-" (some particularly wet springs anding your "undles in the righties?! twinters, and the Bussan have the stubble and dosen fromrground chamber was like the proved a blessing in disguise their chins and cheeks, and bend save of St. Paul's Cathedral, bet ten times its size. I have seen nothing When George H11, discovered? Wey-[downwards the tips of bheir,collars,
more imposing." mouth and Plorizel invented and you have a rindern group Prighton the sævide habit begun, blanibless young gentlemen, tallar t and it was to counteract the rep' fed in, their county towns. For me. With regard to the criticisms of uzzle rather than primarily to still go hacking in a pair of my the theories which he has evolved dazzle mankind, that women fatri randfather's strapped trousers, in as a resuit of his discoveries, Dr. inced the straw bonnet with fraghich arrode up to his work in Gann sakkie- d projecting "gvern shady."
YS. ALE HONGKONG-
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, į commencing at 4:20 p.m. ADMISSION: Fifty Cents.
"oldiers & Sailors in
Uniform
Children
Ladies Free.
Roply to Critics.
Whitehall daily from Honda "I wish to reply, to the assump That all this is but empty prelude stabling his horse at the Glenton that the Maya civilisation came!
Ocean from The subject of Wonun's Wear is far Cross by Charing in the hungry across. the Pacif to hig and contentiota
forties, still wear"a cont of houb-enaters. Asia..
Let us take the obvions "obier- said an old stager.
or very special shieting expedi-;
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5 am concerned with male fish-friong. Its amenities would delight tons ions, and alm at proving that Colonel Hawter and its tahrie makseat cities and many millions of the Maya liviņ in Centrul utility has dictated their form and glisten the eyes of Savile Row, Creations, and has done so with
When they come to write the his. America before the beginning of turvellous economy of effort and tory of male fushions in dress, they the Christian oral Even if we ass Tensei-the-last--10--yued with—pilt ovenns of ink it theelsume that some boats or canoes dil When Men Powdered. reme to the time when William IV.Lcross the Paciße, how would that! 30 Cents. The eafly years of the nineteenti, sureveded his handsome brother, Jargount for millions of people, at
century were and times. for young and then for a hundred years, and of the same race and type and aj men of fashion with thin pursis. I daresay longer, they will be harririvilisation spread over auch a
Gronowelates how a young out to it to add an honest page hij large, aren?
is suggested that the Maga! officer in the Guard was relevant matter. threatened on parade with arrest |
Men eensed in that period 15 sculptures of the elephant-god and
30 Cents
Corns Stop
hurting in 3 Seconds
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Works like magic on any kind of corn, no matter how old, where it is, how bad it hurts. One touch and the pain goes. Almost unbelievable. Then the com loosens up and goes. A scientific way that dancers, walkers, actors, doctors and millions use. Beware of imb- lators. Get the real "GETS- IT" For sale everywhere.
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by the Duke of Cambridge because wear stars and orders on morning proof of their Asiatic origin, bed
no elephants his hair was insuficiently powder dress. (Not forty years ago the cause there are
But although" the ele : how powdering the hair was eighth Duke of Beaufort attended America. necessary twice a day in the season his grandson's christening in phant is not own there, the tapir] fat the Cost of guinea!) and every frock coat, brown boots, and the which has a rudimentary trunk, is inner in Mayfair cost him uno star of his order of chivalreja native of the country, and I havej that the so-called eles other guinea at least in tips to That is about the sum
of male to doubt the worvants In Pope's day, a din- fashion changes in the last Lephants' heads are really menm LAMMERT BROS.
1 found one mask in which this point was made quite vleur:
ner in Mayfair, cost five guineas in years. Quite a consoling reflection represent tapirs. Itips.
Small wonder then that even ind 1813 the fashionable roiffeur of St.) James's Street, Rowland (who in- vented Macassar nib, built up ak great fortune. Esen a haircut cost! five shillings. History repeatsj. itself. The end of every grond war brings in an era of economy ann
sense,
Powdering, because of its ex pense and waste of time; beenmel démodé, and powdering closets | were released for purposes; mprej, utilitarian, and from that day. Jars | !ward economy and comfort, begaa to be the keynotes of male costune. The Splendour of d'Orsay,
No one, I suppose, spent more time, and money. on dress than
"GETS-IT' Inc., Chicago, USA. Osar: yet in that famous 'print,
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Very refreshing in this hot weather!,
$5.-per dozen pinta delivered.
AGENTS:-
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HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
Hyde Park in 1824," you see him very sensibly attired in a costume! suitable alike for walking or mid- ing. From top to toe he was ex-j quisitely but serviceably dressed.) His top hat, tapering slightly from! the base, was and would still bel regarded as an admirable "alf- weather sporis mode."
in't it--for all but the tailor!
His glorious spiral stock in black salia was comfortable as well a. 1 graceful His rolling chocolate- coloured tail-coat was no doubt the Class of fashion, but it WAS besides-- supremely serviceable great cost and waterproof and apron all in one.
His strapped trousers had all the elegance of knee-breeches and.siik stockings, but all the convenience of Jodhpurs as well. Yet in what imperceptible details he differed from the buck of Almack's in Waterloo year!
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The Collar Emerges. How little his costume variet from that of Lord Yarmouth
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SUN'S PHASES.
Calendar for August.
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Sunrise and Sunset in Hongkong Lord Alvanley, depicted ten years for August, 1926. (Standard Time later! The top hat was shorn of of the 120th Meridian, East of! part of its crown, a limp white line Greenwich).
of linen had emerged above
the Date. stock (forerunner of our collar). August the tall-coat had grown longer and fuller, casting before it the shadow
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p.nt 6.54 6.73
of our frock-coat..
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6.52
There can be nothing very ridi- culous, about that frock-coat since
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the most For the Information of visitors it is still adopted as
by the most the following list of some of the utilitarian wear highest points on the Island and strenuous corps of fighting men is
the world the Foreign Legion. Mainland is published:
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.6.03 6.50
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6.03 0.49
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25
Lord Yarmouth still showed his!
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Island.
Feat.
trousers strapped below his boots,!
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Victoria Penk
1828
Signal Station
1774
but the base of the trousers has widened to more modern dimen-
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Mt. Parker
1734
sions.
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Mountain Lodge
1728
1844 and 1926.
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The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel.
1805
Taikoo Sanatorium 4. 1000 Mt. Davie ...
877
Bawen Rd. (filterbeds) 297
Mainland. Talmoshan Kowloon Peak
Exodus from Asia.
"It is quite probable that the Mayu did originally come from Asin. But if they did they must, think, have come overland, when
A DUTIONEERS, APPRAISERS:
AND: SURVEYORS
Public Auctions-
The two continents were not separ- THE Undersigned have received
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"I think that all the evidence] Auction available is in favour of the theory
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that the Mayn civilisation was an WEDNESDAY, the 18th Aug. 1926, autochthonous civilisation. The
Mayas appear to have descended|
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
from a people which, in archait their Sales Room, Duddell Street. times, inhabited the highlands from
Mexico to Peru. They came down
to the more fertile lowland, and
[eveloped their civilization there!
during pro-Christian ages.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
"Our knowledge of their historyTank
FURNITURE comprising:--
Hatstand with Mirror,
is very vague, but in support of Teak and Tapestry covered Draw- this theory there is one outstanding Room Suite. Leather Covered ing fact. In the Vera Croz die Sofa, Teak Desk and Chairs, Teik trict of Mexico there is a race o Bookcases. Pictures, Oil Paintings, Indians known as the Huasteca. Ornaments. Large Carpets, Rugs, who speak a language closely alliedj etc., etc. to that of the. Maya. They have the language, but no traces of the Maya civilisation. This, surely. suggests that the Maya came from the highlands, left their language on their route, and developed their Utensils, rte., etc. civilisation after reaching the low- lands.
Teak Dining Table and Chairs, Teak Sideboards with Bevelled Mirrora, Tauk Dinner Waggon, Cooking Crockery, Glass Ware.
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Dr. Legard's New Life Tablets. A FOE TO OLD AGE.
Imparts to the Old and Middle-aged retarde mental and physical decay, Youthfulness, Energy and Fitness,
Pre- thus promoting longevity. serves the arteries and tissues. Sufferers. from Deafness with its many distressing accompanying all- Teak and Iron Double and Single
ments as head noises derive almost Bedsteads with Mattresses, Teak immediate benefit. Calm refreshing Single and Double Wardrobes 'with
sleep is assured. Gloom, Depres- Mirrors, Teak Dressing Tables with
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A Few Pieces of CANTON BLACKWOOD WARE
lines and blemishes diappear. The akin becomes. clear, tight, and elastic, and the Complexion bright. and smooth. Think of the bleas. inga of perfect health, the posses- sion of few; the Joy of a clear Youthful appearance and tagling blood, of lustrous hair, bright oyes and health tinted cheeks-the beauty of radiant life and the
The Giant Causeway. "My discovery of the great stone Causeway between Coba Chichen Itza has been instanced Drawers, Chamber Stands, Side giving Tablets. Wrinkles, hard supporting the theory of the Tables, Toflet Crockery, etc., etc. Asiatic origin of this civilisation, because such roads are common in Eastern Asia. But to me auch arguments seem illogical. If these roads were frequently built in Asia. and the people, who made them came from Asla, we ought to find many similar roads in Contral America. But we do not.
"Again, is it, likely that a 'people' coming from Asia would have for- gotten the wheel, which the Maya) never utilised, or the use of milch- Asiatica animals, with which the were familiar, but the Maya never used?.
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Rev. J. R. Coates left on the 10th instant for England by way of Suez. While at Kuling he was the guest of Mrs: Arnold Foster,, Mr. Coates, at Dr. Hodgkins' Invitation, camo) from Cardiff, Walee, especially for the summer, conferences at Mokan- shan and Kuiing.
THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE HARDEST.
TEETHING and hot weather make their second summer & trying time
If you glance at a print of Ascoti Racecourse in the year 1844, you will sen boy astonishingly small has been the change in men's
Music Critic (to sweet young for little ones. Bummer disorder of ceremonial dress in afghty years. thing): "How did you like the stomach and bowels, and infantile Place the buck of 44 beside the barcarolls at the musicale last cholera may be quickly controlled and buck of 1926 and he would excite night?!
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I didn't stay for the 1ments, Mr. Cleff-Life.
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