THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.
NOTICES.
Phone C.22'
FOR
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions."
WANTED.
WANTED. Two Young Gentlemen
CALENDAR DAYS.
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SOME FASCINATING FACTS '
REVEALED.
Twill be CLOSED on THURS-
THE LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS WHY MAY DAY IS PLAY DAY.
DAY, 16th June, 1927, at 5 p.m.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th June, 1927.
HOME TUITION,
—
May Day in Britain goes back to the days of the Druids, when the mistletoe was ceremoniously cut and huge bon-fires were kindled.
It is even suggested (says a writer in the "Weekly Mail"). that human sacrifices were offer- ed in burning cages of wicker- STEVENAGE, Work, though these may only
have been human effigies.
to board with private family. Within an hour, from London.
Terms mederate. Apply Box No. 494, c/o "China Mail."
TO LET.
TO LET.-Unfurnished end October five-roomed house on The Peak. Recently renovated. Rent moder-1 Box No. 493, c/o "China i Mail."
ate.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE:-Chefoo Stamps. Un used. Set of six stamps: 2, 5, 10, 16, 20 and 25 cents, Price $2 per set-Apply Box No. 490, c/o "China Mail."
FOR SALE. One brass "Hung Ming" pan of the Chinese Han Dynasty with automatic springs. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487, c/o "China Mail."
MISCELLANEOUS.
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed."China Mail" Office, No. 5. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.
LAMMERT
BROS.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVIVORS.
-Public Auctions-
HE Undersigned have received Tnstructions from Mrs, W. Shewan, to sell by Public Auction
ON
WEDNESDAY, the 22nd June, 1927, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at her residence, Westbourne Villa (West) No. 86, Bonham Rond- opposite King's College
A Quantity of
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
Comprising:-
In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb. Higher Local). (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER
(National Frodel 'Higher Certificate).
FAMOUS ECZEMA REMEDY. FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY.
GLOPGE YLEE
Thousands pralas this wonderful remely, Used for cen tarian with amazing A sift, ne relief for Kezem Itcb, Tetter, Baile Ulcerated leg and all Skinnies, No
atter how long standing. (re trini.
Generous Jar only $2.00. On Sale at:
No. 10 Queen's Road, C., Hong Kong.
NOTICE
TO SHIPOWNERS, MASTERS & AGENTS.
The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has en available to ship as watch- men. seamen, &c.
Our men are employed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.
Please phone or call: K.661-No. 2, Saigon Street. Yaumati or
C.2560 No. 38, Tung Man Street.
WATER SUPPLY. Level and Storage of water in
Teak Hatstand. Teak Bookcases, Reservoirs on June 1, 1927:- Chesterfield Couch, Armchairs,
Brass Fenders CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
Carpets, Rugs,
Pictures, Engravings, etc., etc.
Teak Extension Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Teak Sideboard, Tytam
WORKS LEVEL.
1920
1027 18' 5"B. Level
Level
Dinner Waggon, Glass Cabinet, Tytam Byewash 17 4B, 2 "B Teak Desk. Electric Plated Ware,Tytam Intermediate Level Crockery, Glass Ware, etc., etc. Tytam Tuk ... 32 8"B. Do.
Teak Bedsteads, Teak Wardrobe Wong Nei Chung.. 21'10"B, 3' 3"N. with Bevelled Mirror Door, Teak Pokfalum
20 GB. 3' 4"B. Chest of Drawers, Teak Dressing Table, Box Couch, etc., etc.
ALSO
A Fine Selection of Canton Binckwood Ware.
Comprising:-
[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow"
A denotes "Above Overflow."*}
Storage in millions and decimals of gallone.
Tytam
*020
246.65 4.27
Beautifully Carved Desks, Jar-Tytam Byewash dinieres, Marble Top Table, Curio Tylam Intermediate.. 196.90 Stands. Opium Stanls, Carved Tytam Tuk Chairs, etc., etc.
AND
Two Enamelled Bathe
Catalogues will be issued.
Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum an
The Festival of the Fools, celebrated within the shadow of Notre Dame, is vividly protrayed in Victor Hugo's famous novel,
THE CHINA MAIL.
Notre Dame de Paris," the French having clung more tenn- ciously than in England to the celebration of the first of April. The Japanese, with their love of children, celebrate a "dolls" festival." The Chinese reveal thair love of the strange, grotes- que, and magical in their popular festival of the "Dragon Boats."
British Legion Settlers Arrive
ne of the finest single parties to swell Canadian population this year, O arrived in Canada recentis at Quebec aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer Montrose. The party of five lamilies numbering about 100 persons in all came to Canada under the auspices of the British Empire Servico League, being the first to be sent to Canada through this immigration achama.
The men are all ex-service veterans and are highly desirable types of setiler on account of the fact that all have been trained in farm work at the Ministry of Labor's Training Farm at Brandon, Suffolk, England. They have been Instructed in various branches of agriculture to enable them Lo meet conditions in this country as they find them.
The above photograph was taken at the C.P.R. station in Winnipeg snt shows a number of this party waiting for the train that will carry ther Farther west to their new homes in Saskatchewan.
The United States play-days or festivals are chiefly associated with persons, seasons, or national events. Washington, Columbus, ¦
A woman stole. a watch from Lincoln, Independence Day, the shop of an acquaintance in Armistice, and Thanksgiving Paris, and then gave the alarm Day.
that she had caught a glimpse of the thief in action. The town was ransacked without discover- ing the man she described. Then suspicion fell on the woman her- self, and the watch was found in a drawer in her own home.
Irnmediatly she raised the cry of "April Fool," for it was April 1, but she was brought before the magistrate, and it was found that she had intended really to steal the watch, and to protect herself, if discovered, in the way mentioned.
come
In Great Britain the three gen- eral holidays at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide have be- so extended that other festivals have almost disappeared, It is welcome news that Valen- tine customs are likely to return, now that the crude and vulgar forms of Valentine have been ex- terminated, and it is understood that future February 14ths will see many tasteful and beautiful Valentines for sale.
Ireland has one great festival day dedicated to its patron saint, St. Patrick. In reality St. Patrick was not an Irishman as many suppose. He is claimed by Scots, French and Welsh. He illus- trated the doctrine of the Trinity by using the trefoil, a three- leafed grass like the clover, and this impressed the Irish, whom he baptised in large numbers. From this tradition, the Irish derive their custom of wearing the shamrock and the green on St. Patrick's Day. The day is one of jollification, parades, and pageants.
Some April Fool Dodges. April Fool's Day is said to have various origins. One is that it arose as a comment. on the Biblical incident of Noah sending out the dove from the Ark before the waters had abated, on the first day of the month, which among the Hebrews corresponded to our month of April.
Those who forgot this incident were reminded of it and thus it was commemorated-by sending them on some fruitless, or even foolish errand.
The most plausible explanation of the festival is that when in the 16th century the New Calendar was instituted and the New Year began on January 1 instead of 1927 April 1 as hitherto, slow witted 3818 and absent-minded persons were 18.52 for some time misled, and when April 1 arrived, received and gave gifts and calls, or were cajoled into customs associated with the New Year by their friends, and then laughed at for being caught napping.
195.00 744.08 1,430,00 8.64 20.24 23,50 58,78
Toia) ....1,223.64 3,103.2:
On View from Monday, 20th and Hill District in millions and de Consumption' of water in the City June, 1927. *
cimals of gallons during the month of Muy:-
Terms: Cash on Delivery. N.B. For information to intending Purchasers, the University Buses pass the House, stop
at King's College.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneera.. Hong Kong, 15th June, 1927.
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following unclaimed tele-
1026
There is no doubt that the "Poisson d'Avril" ("April Fool," or more literally, "April Fish"), 1927 8 the French call it, has added 264.99 245.7 considerably to the gaiety of Consumption Estimated population 401,600 411.010 nations. Consumption per head
21.3 23.1 per day (gallons).. Constant Supply, in all Rider Main Districts during May 1926 and 1027.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL.
1928 1927 Kowloon Reservoir 6'11". Lovel Shek Lai Pul
Reservoir 19'11"B. 20′ 4′′. Reception Reservoir ..
Storage In millions and decimal- of gallons.
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: 1026 1927
grams are lying at the office of The Kowloon Reservoir.. 233.00 352.50
Shele Lai Put Reservoir 32,63 Reception Reservoir..
Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited):---
Bercovitz, from Antokeihoku. Tamasarki Fungsick, from Kobe. Pauline Emmett, from Kobe. Hung Hopik, from-Tokyo, Tyeamco, from Shanghaf
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent
Hong Kong Station, June 9.-
EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA. & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.
List of Unclaimed Telegrams lying in F. E. Telegraph Office. Hong Kong.
.
Crukka, from Bangkok. Joaquin Gonzalez Hotel Metro- pole, from Manila.
Wilgan, from Haiphong.
· E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent
Hong Kong, 9th June, 1927.
*Total
71.60
..320.32 424.00
Consumption of water in Kowloon
in millions and decimals of gallons dur In the month of May:-
Consumption
126 1627 72.88 87,08 Estimated population 165.200 160,240
Consumption per head
per day (gallons)..
16.1. 17.5
Full Supply in all álatrlets during May 1926 and 1927.
The Government Analyst's reporte show that the quality of the water in satisfnatory.
Total relafall to May 31, 1925, 80.35) May 1927, 41.77.
SPILLS
MARTINS
MELAPIOL STEEL
Baig and vertain for sil Pamala complaints, recy lady should keep
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than
Ball Ehita Shevochens the work
Banff Flak Hatchery
The 1930 harrest for anglers in the
Canadian Rockies is just hatch-| ing out at the Banff Fish Hatchery, The finny youngutera, who are mak-i Fax their initial appearance,, aro; breaking forth from sight: hundred thousand brown trout eggs which were shipped to Banff by Canadian Pacific Express from Wisconsin last February,Shea, an
The magistrate had a sense of humour and told her he felt that her joke was such a splendid one that he thought she ought to have a year's leisure in which to laugh over it and enjoy the thought of
In Britain there are still horse shows and labour day celebration on May 1, and also the children's pretty dances, ribbons, and
pageantry.
Day celebrations were the most
But in the old days the May} important festivities of the whole year. May Day morning called out every maiden early that she might bathe her face in dew ere it departed. The maypole, the games, the prizes filled the hours from morning till night.
An old English custom to secure a girl's gloves on May Day and to exact a kiss as a forfeit seems to have been the outcome) of a lawsuit based on a law in the colonies by which our austere relative across the water pro- hibited love-making in public. Jacob Marline seized the glove of it, and so she would go to jall Sarah Tuttle on May Day, 1660, until the following April 1, when and they sat down together on a she would be let out in time to seat in a public place and kissed clebrate "Poisson d'Avril" by an-for the space of half-an-hour. Sarah Tuttle's father "had the other less criminal joke.
A Valentine for Mother.
It is said that Francis, Duke law on" Murline, but Sarah de- of Lorraine, and his wife escapedclared that she was to blame, as wanted to be kissed. captivity at Nantes on a 1st of she had April by dressing as peasants. She was fined and warned to Some persons realised who they mend her ways. were, and gave the warning to the sentries, but as it was April 1 they took the warning as a joke, and fearing to be made foolish they passed the peasants on without interrogation or ex- amination.
Why the Easter Egg? Easter-time is a time of revival, of dressing up, of customs sym- bolic of the renewal of life.
The Easter egg is a sort of symbol of resurrection; out of the egg comes the chicken. So in England, France, Germany, Spain, Persia, Italy, egg customs at Easter prevail. They are rolled, coloured, eaten, or given to individuals, to the poor, to the churches, and hospitals.
Eastern has always been a chosen time, not only for dressing up in strange, weird, and fantas- tic garbs, but also for casting off old and well-worn clothes, and arraying in new attire. To go to church in new garments is a custom not only associated with the Easter of Christianity, but it is also a survival custom from the days of the old calendar when Eastern or April was the begin- ning of the New Year.
A Lover's Kiss on May Day. Lingering vestiges of the May Day festivities still survive.
̈‚'Promising · Pool ·
11itle fish were ready to be placed
The eggs, which had developed to in the waters which they were to ro the "aye-stage" before being shipped, stock
The streams in which these young
were packed in shallow cheesecloth trays, Insulated by damp moss, with trout will be placed have been plant- a supply of toe to provide continued od three times previously, the first, mclature. Beveral weeks after they planting being doue in 1924. The had been received at the hatchery former planting were Loch Levan the young trout"broke thair shella trout and the results were more than And began another period of their satisfactory. It is expected that the growth, which lasted some weeks marvellous growth of the 1924 plant- longer. During this time they ob- ing will be expanded by the one now. tained their supply of food from a hatching for the crossing of the. "; sack attached to their undersides, two spoción han developed a trout
and when this had boon itsed up the larger than the Loch Leven.
A very interesting festival has recently been instituted in Amer- ica on the first Sunday in May.
This is known as Mother's Day. A white carnation is worn by everyone in honour of his or her mother, and if the mother be alive flowers are sent to her, roses being the popular choice. The idea of adding to this gift is growing, and often a book or a box of sweetmeats is posted or taken to the maternal home. A holiday is fairly generally ob. served, and there are proposals to make the Mother's Day a general lega! holiday. A Father's Day is also being sug- gested with much acceptance in America.
There are some States in America where the discovery of America by Columbus is cele- brated by a State holiday, but this is not universal. Columbus dances and suppers are given, and the homes are decorated with flags.
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1. To collect, as a harvest.
6. Refinement.
9. Second tone of the diatonic scale.
10. Card-game.
12. Standard measure of electrical
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Chalking the Teacher's Back. Hallowe'en, a sort of autuma! festival, was once upon a time a very popular holiday, but the passing of many of its supersti- tions has robbed it of its attrac-19. Three-toed sloth. tiveness,
14. Chinese denomination of money
(plural). Ghosts, witches, spirits, and 18. Brings forth. hobgoblins made a fascinating 10. The grand division of cryptoga- time for those who sincerely be mic plants. lieved in them, and most of the 20. A medley. customs were forms of propitia-21. The price paid for carting. tion. The black cat, the duck-24. 14th century knife or dagger. apple, divining a future husband 27. To make known,
26. Town In France.
by sleeping with bridescake under 28. Gentle heat. the pillow, and many other cus. 20. O. Y. (Actual). toms still extant, are remnants 32. Turkish arrow (plural).
130. To come fully up to. and adaptations of the mystic 34. S. G. (Actual). customs of Hallowe'en:
35. Compass point. In the old days Hallowe'en was 17. T. R. (Actual), 16. Word of dental.
"chalk-back" day for rough 39. A thing not directly aimed at youths out for a lark; and41. Girl's name. children are still fond of this lark.45. A. A. (Actual),,
44. Recompenso,
A 1926 schoolboy managed to 48. Doomed. chalk on the back of his teacher's 47. Kiln to dry hops (plural). black coat the words "I am a 49. Compound formed by the union of water with some other sub- fool!" which convulsed, the class
stance, generally forming
every time the teacher turned to the blackboard and displayed the legend to the scholars,
V neutral salt.
52. Made of earth.
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1. A staircase.
Down.
2. A. E. (Actuál).
.3. Handsome.
4. R. O. L. A. G. (Actual),
5. The barbed iron head of a dart.
6. A kind of pancake or fritter made chiefly with eggs (plural).
7. S. A (Actual).
8. A Linnan genus of coleopterous
Insects.
11. Bone.
12. D. T. (Actual), ›
14. Stop.
15, Part of music between tener
and soprano.
17. 5,280 feet.
18. Flatters.
22. Same as ADVOWTRY.
23. Likewise.
24, Troubls.
25. Allied by blood.
81. Kellow, as land.
38. To know.
88. A steep elevation.
39, Fine.
40. E. F. E. (Actual). 41. Yes,
12. A Japanese palanquin. 49. Mado of ash.
44. A lancat.
46. G. R. L... M. (Actual), 48. The aromatic principle, 49. Abounding with knots. 51. Long winged aquatic
(plural).
53, Smoky,
67. 8. Y. (Actual).
fowl
65. Reilgious ceremony. Ghost parties are still held by 60. Arablan military commanders. candle-light on October 81, when 58. An evil spirit. guests are invited to a feast.er. The upward curves of the lines
69. Mother. They arrive about eight p.m., and of a ship, as they recede from are advised to garage their the midshipa. troubles before entering. The 62 The Lion, 5th sign of the Zodiac.
(62. For example' (abbreviated). password is "Good cheer" or
34. Burrows "Fan," or some such word, and a 5. Full of knots. white sheet or pillow case la pro- Competitors are reminded that the prize is to be awarded vided by, or for, each to wear for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct Something Interesting, and, "if
58. D. L. (Actual). 60. Same as
acroad.
63. The termination of many Eng-
words, denoting an agent.
possible, startling is arranged to solution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, eveni happen at the stroke of twelve, you have not done the cross-word puzzle in full, send in what you but none but the host and hostess have done it may prove to be the nearest correct solution. are aware what it will begin sta