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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE
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"FORTUNE FROM U.S.A.
GERMAN TOWN'S DEBTS AND TAXES PAID
Outside the gates of Berlin a festival was celebrated in mail week which should warm the hearts of those who write the libretti for musical comedies. The getting was the supremely beautiful Spreewald country, the Spree woods-forests eut by so many waterways that the rowing boat is used in precisely the sume fashion as the Venetian gon- dola.
The reason for this festival was such as to satisfy even the most romantica citizen of the little town of Vetschau went to America years ago and has left his native place a very comfortable fortune in dollars. So much, indeed, that, after letting the citizens off taxes this year and paying off the debts incurred during recent bad seasons, Vetschau had sufficient over to ar- exhibition of the native range an produce and feast and dance for three days.
Students of European civilisations still delight in these Wendish villages.and towns which form cases in the of archaeological interest flat wood-and-water country of the Brandenburg plains. The pictures- que costume of the Spreewald in- habitants has survived, it would ap- pear, chiefly through the difficulties of outside communication before the days of the automobile. The mén are fishers; the women of the family have always contributed to ita sup- port.
Owing, it is to be presumed, to the bealthy country life and the survival of the tradition of Rousseau, the wet-nurses of former generations in Berlin were all drawn from the neighbourhood. Later, ordinary
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Buzzes adopted the costume.fo-day the voluminous starched white petticoats and large white lace caps are making way even among the most fashionable for the English children's nurse's uniform. But they are still a delight to the eye, if not to the washing bill, and they will never vanish entirely as long as wealthy parvenus look upon a menial clad in such luxury of linen and lace to be an outward and visible sign of prosperity.
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INDIAN PAINTINGS
EXHIBITION OPENED IN LONDON ON JULY 15
The British Indian Union's ex- hibition of loaned paintings wi opened by Sir Atul Chatterjee at the rooms of the Union on July 15, prior to a luncheon under the pre- sidency of the Duke of Connaught in honour of distinguished visitors from India.
The proceeds of the exhibition were to be sent to the fund for the Children's Welfare Centre at Delhi The exhibition showed the evolution of Indian art from Ajanta to the present day..
Mrs. Patrick Villiers Stuart, in Laurence co-operation with Mr.
the Binyon secured
Joan of many paintings from public and private collections, representative of all the important periods.
It was the most comprehensive Indian art exhibition ever held in Europe, and the chief Indian social. and artistic event of the London season.
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Mr. S. A. Marteyn of the Charter-Watsons ed Bank, Seremban, left Seremban on July 17 for Ceylon, where he is to be married to Miss. Hilda Crammer.
Baroness Loses Her Job
When Baroness Elona de Fekete i de Galantha of Hungary became plain Elena de Foketa, artist, de- corator and connoisseur of antiques. in New York, she didn't bargain for scrubbing floors or the side. Yet that was what she was asked to do by her employer, and when she refused she was fired.
Fired! Just as if she wasn't the Baroness Elena, etc, whose great grandfather was Regent. to Queen Maria Theresa of Austria and her. great uncle proclaimed the youthful Francis Joseph Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary in 1848. The charming noblewoman pursuing an art career in Vienna; when the world went mad and dynasties crumbled, burying in the rains their chosen favourites. So, putting aside her background, her noble birth and her titles, she came to America to shift for herself like most of the American women
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STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong for August (Standard time of the 120th Meridian, East of Green- |wich), are as follow:--
Sunrise, Sunset.
a.m.
August
p.m.
17
6.53
was
18
6.01 6.53
19
·6.02.
6.52
20
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21
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6.61
6.03
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6.47
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6.04
6.46
6.04 6.45
6.04 6.44
6.04 6.43
6,06 6.42
6.05 6:41
As the newly titled Miss Elene de Fekete, she found employment in an exclusive costume shop catering to the socially elite, and established herself in a modestly furnished apartment in the heart of Manhat
31
CONSIGNEES NOTICES
Consiguees of cargo ex 3.6,"City of Kobe are reminded
delivery of their goods which will be
answer him. Then at the end subject to rent after August 18 the day,
not
of
he
She smiled ruefully,
Well, now I am not working."
Consigaces of cargo ex MY.
Pre reminded to take
She had charge of the fashionable establishment, loved her work, and was a diligent worker. She tried at all times to please everybody, as difficult as that was sometimes, Loping some day to have a place of her own. She claimed that she.
of their goods which will be designed costumes, adding little
She said this without a trace of abject to rent after, August 19 artistic touches to the settings of
Consignees and waited on bitterness in her softly modulated "Benlawers are reminded
ees of cargo the estat patrons a for a salary that was voice in fact, she showed a de- delivery of their goods which will be
lightful sense of humour as she re subject to rent after August 2 derstand," said the late her story, laughing at times ess, what should despite the fact that she has lost oprietor ask me to her job, which Is as much a tras
the dress edy to the Baroness Flona de of so many Fekete de Galantha of Hungary as
darribly fort but I did the U, S. A
very, very s
cannot
chagr
CHINA MAIL
At the Provisional Court, Shang- hal, an armed robber who was Charged with stealing, by means of threats, property to the value of $50 Tibet Road was sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Conrad Nageland Myrna Loy
The GIRL from
CHICAGO
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Ducted by BAY ENRIGHT
They never quite knew
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