SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930.
BUSINESS
DIRECTORY
AUTUMN FASHIONS.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
SPECIALISTS IN BEAUTY,
PLUS FOURS
AT
THE SMARTEST
TAILORS
IN-
TOWN.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Tailors
64 Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417
*-BEAUTY - SALOON
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10 A.M.
LADIES'
AND
GENTLEMEN'S
HAIRDRESSING
SALOON 17- Expert Barbers.
HONG KONG PUBLIC BILLIARD SALOON
191-193, Des Voeux Rond C
1st & 2nd Floors.
Tel. 200€6.
BOOKS.
XMAS CARDS
. from.
'THE BOOK AND BIBLE DEPOT. Wyndham Street,
CURIOS AND ANTIQUES-
THE JADE TREE Inc.
Peninsula Hotel
Arcade.
Tel. 25431,
DENTIST.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
Central. Tel. 21255.
TANG, YUE, DENTIST
"Successor, to *
the late SIEN TING,
14, D'Agullar Street ..
TERMS VERY MODERATE
Conanitation Free.
DRY - CLEANERS
20% DISCOUNT at
THE BEAUTY
DRY CLEANING, & DYEING CO 48, Nathan Road, Kowloon
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES,
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO. LIB.
12, Queen's Road, Central Tel. 28270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS,
W. B. BAILEY & CO, LTD.
Kowloon Bay.] New Wor
& Repairs.
Call Flag 1 Bole Agents for Kalvin Motors.
:
FOREIGN GOODS STORE
YEE HING
TOMEY
* Lailored
at
BROWN'S
FOR PERFECTION IN
WINTER SUITS,
2nd A., Balton Bldg., 7. Buddell St. (opp. Gospel Hall). Tel. 21056,
Evening Wear
for
Gentlemen.
-
Tallors af the
Highest Class,
-
TUNG HINE CO.
62, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 24037.
We have
Suitings
to please
"all tastes
TAAI HING & CO.
24, Pottinger Street.
Winter Suits
Made to Order.
Our Measurement
in Guaranteed Perfection.
*
Prices Within
the Mrana of Everyone.
YEE SING
Gentlemen's Tailor, 18 Wellington St,
Tel. 21882.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
The Far East
Har Dressing
Saloon. 148 Nathan Rd.,
Kowloon
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers, No. 12. D'Aguller, Street, Copposite Quem's Theatre).
ON LOK
10, Wyndham St
Art Boor.
Entrance Or Lan St.
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JEWELLERY:
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from*
NEW YORK:
The only killed specialist in Hong Kong who is skill.
ed in the art of Permanent
Faving
THE AMERICAN
BEAUTY SHOP.
Wing Lok Bldg., Kowloon.
56213.
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LATEST STYLES IN WINTER DRESSES.
- AND
OVERCOATS. Large Stock of Good Materials.
FOR SALE
Ladies Stockings & Knitting Wool. THE CHINESE SILK HOSIERY STORE
Tailor: Lee Mow.
1. D'Agular_Street. Del. 25801,
OPTICIAN.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232. 53, Queen's' Road Central,
OPTICIANS.
GLASSES STYLED FOR YOUR FACE.
The Sino American
Optical Company.
83, Queen's Road C.
PERFUMES.
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WELCOME & CO.
6, Kowloon Hotel Bldg. Phone 67320.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
PHOTO
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DEVELOPING, PRINTING,
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$71, Des Voeux Rd.
RADIO SETE
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WHOLESALERS IN
Swatow Drawnwork, Art Embroideries, Silk Goods
AND
All Novelties.
Retail Business Executed at
Reasonable Prices.
THE UNION EMBROIDERY CO. No. 16, Wyndham St. .*lat Fl. ̈*
Opposite "China Mail.” Mall."
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GREAT. REMOVAL SALE
AT THE
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6, Wyndham St.
*Tei, 26138.
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no order too small
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New Felt Hats Just Received
From Paris.
New "Colout Schemes For Autumn Dresses.
CHEONG SHING
Ladies' Tailor. Nathan Road, Kowloon.
QUALITY PRINTING
With Quick
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ATHLETIC GOODS!
XMAS
·TOYS {"
THE LIANG YOU COMPANY 479, Quén's Road C::
CRICKET
WISDEN BATS, BALLS, STUMPS, LEG GUARDS, ETC. Inspection Cordially" Invlied.
The Hong Kong Sporting Arms & Ammunition Store. Bencanadold Aresde..
ATTRACTIVE PRINTING:
OUR business
ting of my morerouts
THE
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WORLD OF BOOKS.
$32,000 EDITION of the Baptist Union, preaching REMARKABLE BOOK
al Folkestone, took -Mr. Shaw to
Only for Idiots and
Speculators."
task for his' frankness about his father's drinking.
. "It would be anay to forgive Selling at 1,000 Copies
G.B.S. his manners if he had anħ worth talking about, but we pre fer him without the family skele
A Week.
Mr. Thomas Wolfe," whose
re-
Mr. Bernard Shaw's complete ton. Why should he exhibit his works are being led In a limit-father's nakedness as an excuse cently published "first" novel, Ted edition of 1,025 copies-30 for his own "shortcomings?"
"Look Homeward, Angel" (special- To a News-Chronicle reporter ly selected by the American Book volumes at 30 guineas, which means that a total . £32,287 10s. who brought this criticism to his Club), has been selling at the rate is being paid for the books by the notice, Mr. Shaw replied: "From of 1,000 copies a week, was born his point of view I probably have in Ashville, North Carolina, in not any manners. A Baptist 1900, and graduated at Harvard in minister's idea of good manners 1923. Mr. Hugh Walpole, who has is probably not my own. I have lately been pronouncing-in his been perfectly... frant about my somewhat pontifical manner-on father. Anyone could find out all the prospects of American
subscribers:
Mr. Shaw, according an in- terview with the Observer, sald;
This edition is only for idiots
and speculators."
Perhaps Mr. Shaw will be bold enough to publish a list of them.
In a new auto-biographical pre-, face to the first volume, Mr. Shaw writes his life story with great frankness," from the time when he was in the nursery and painted his bedroom with frescoca of Mephistopheles, and later when he came to London at 20 after be ing a cashier at 18s. a month, tilt the period when he wrote novela no publisher would put into print.
His Father's Habit.. Explaining his unsocial, and uh- saciable, outlook when he first came to town, he writes of his father that:
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
A. H. CROOK, OBE, M.A. H. HAY. HA.
W. L. HANDYSIDE M.A., ́B.Sc. PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd.
China Mail Ofices.
about me. I thought it better that I should tell my own story than that ↑ Baptist minister should tell it for me."
A Naughty Boy. Mr. Shay, confesses that he was naughty boy. He said his pray era in bed!"
novel: been
literature, Anda genius-a much abused term-in Mr. Wolfe's "it does what I have longing for someone to do here (in America)- it restores poetry to the American scene, and poetry that is not mera-, ly contemporary. The real rich- ness of America, its fecundity, .colour, vitality, stains deeply these pages." These encomiums are, od the whole, Justifiable: there is, In- deed, a surprising quality about the book, in spite of a certain im- maturity of thought, and a, per haps, too florid, or too great su exuberance of, style. The author wrote most of his books during' a sojourn in Britain; when he was on a lengthy visit to the scenes, not far from London, where his forbears lived, moved and had their being bofore they migrated to Pennsylvanis nearly a hundred years ago.
em-
"Unfortunately. my father had a habit which eventually elox ed all doors to him, and conse quently to my mother, who could not very well be invited without If you asked him to dinner or to a party he was not always quite sober when he arriva ed, and he was invariably sean-
In the preface to "Look Home-
Wolfe "I cannot recall the words of ward, Angel," Mr. dalously drunk when he left...
autobiographical We were finally dropped the final form (o! prayers) 1phasises the Bacially.
adopted, but I remember that it nature of his work, concluding "After my early childhood I was in three movements, like a with the following words: "But cannot ever remember paying a sonata, and in the hat Church of we are the sum of all the moments visit to a relative's house. If my Ireland style. It ended with the of our lives-all that is ours is in mother and father had dined out Lord's Prayer, and I repeated it them: we cannot escape or conceal or gone to a party their children every night in bed."
it. If the writer has used the clay would have been more astonished. "I had been warned by my of life to make his book, he has than if the house had caught fire. nurse that warm, prayers were of only used what all men must, what My mother rescued herself from no use, and that only by kneeling none can keep from using. Fic this predicament by her musical by my bedside in the cold could-Ition is not fact, but fiction is fact talent.
hope for a hearing; but I criticis selected and understood, fiction is "My father reduced his teetotaled this admonition unfavourably fact arranged and charged with Ism from theory to practice when on variass grounds, the real one purpose. a mild at, which felled him on being my preference for warmth our door-step one Sunday after and comfort." noon, 'convinced him that he must stop drinking or perish.
"His reforma cine too late to save the social situation; and I was cut off from the social drill which puts ons at one's ease in private zociety, and was utterly Ignorant of social routine."...
Manders.
Dr. C. Carlile, an ex-president
ROUND
1.-
Mr. Shaw is proud of having learned nothing at school...
"I um
firmly persuaded that every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body. and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know la as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust."
THE CAMP FIRE
AWARD FOR BRAVE SCOUT.
Scout George Strand of the 1st Moseley Group of Boy Scouts has been awarded the Silver Cross for gallantry in rescuing a fellow Scout from drowning) in the Thames near Moseley bathing station last July
pina Strand, who is not a very good swimmer, was bathing after school with a number of schoolboys.when one of their number, Dick Hogben, was suddenly seized with cramp, and called out for help. Strand reached him and managed to hold him up for a while, but soon had to let go, MAAR NAA
Hogben, sank, but when he esma to the surface again Strand caught: him but could not move with him." He shouted to the bathing ‘attén-, dant who brought both boys ashore in a beat. Hogben was revived by artiicial respiration.
Strand went home and did not Bay a word about bla rescue. He martly said that Hogben had had i
"Dr. Johnson remarked that a man will turn over half a library to make a single book: in the same way, a novelist may turn over half the people in a town to make a single figure in his novel. This la not the whole method, but the writer belleves it illustrates the whole method in a book that la written from a middle distance and is without rancour or bitter intention."
TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN SCOUTING.
A tribute has been paid to the work Scouting is doing in the United States. Dr. James E. West, the Chlef Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America, has been appointed-head of the Committee on youth activities outside school. hours which is to report its find- LORD METHUEN ON SCOUTING.ings. to President Hoover's White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.
Lord Methuen paid a striking tribute to the Boy Scout Movement when he spoke at a British Legion Rally at Newquay,
"We want no long faces and weak hearts," he said.". "We want stout/hearts and courage to face the woes which exist in Britain at the present time.
AN INFLUENCE FOR GOOD.
Speaking at the opening of the 28th (Holy Trinity) Reigate Scout Headquarters at Redhill, Sir Jeremiah Colraan said that the Boy Seout Movement was a bright spot "It is not of war we are think and stood out as a satisfactory and Ing; but of peace. If there is one phenomenal development of recent Movement of more value than the times. The
spirit engendered. League of Nations, it is the Boy among its members would have fts Scouts, That is a force amonget' effect and influence · for good in the youth of the world which is both the near and distant future. establishing a feeling of peace.".
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.
"Co-operation" is spelt with two lettera-WE
a bad attack of cramp SCOUT AVIATOR'S JUBILEE.
The Bliver Cross, awarded for gallantry with considerable risk,
Major B. F. S. Baden-Powell, a
la the second highest award given |'younger brother of the Chief
by the Boy Scout Movement.
A USEFUL COLLECTION:
A Boy Scout walking along country; rond saw a nut, and
washer on the ground. He picked them up. Further on a bolt foin.
'B.P.,'.". HANDSHAKE.
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When the Chief Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, was at Reculver re- cently, he saw a boy wearing a Bedut badge in the lapel of his coat. He greeted him with "All Scouts have to shake hands with me to-day! I am a Scout, toà Come and have a look at my car which the Scouth gave me. The lucky Scout will not forget that handshake for a long while.
wate -STRUDWICK'S "TROPHY.
Scout, and Boy Scouts Commis atoner for Aviation, has just com- plated. flty years membership of
Mr. Harry Strudwick, the retir the Royal Aeronautical Bocletr and is believed to be the oldested Surrey wicket-keeper and Test match player, has presented a living member of the Society. He cricket trophy to the Beckenham was one of the first to experiment and Forest Hill Boy Scout Assocía- with kites and in 1894 conducted
Kons
Forest Hill will be the first holders of the trophy which will be personally presented by Mr. Strudwlok
ed his collection, or the first recorded fights raising a
A little later he came across mun by a kite, motor cyclist standing by his machin
fook of disgust Da BOY SCOUTS DISCOVERY 5 ipok of disgust turge astonishment when the Sebat United States Government arÅ YEAR AFTER,
nut,lebolt tand
chaeologists are now on their way the
to the wide of the State of Guerrero where Mexican Bey Bcould are reported to have found a new archaeological. The zone probably buried city, and hills are belleves new mental colòng - to novár" PYTRI Coleshill Hall opened recently have produced, amoni
roop of Hoy Scouts formed, kun the
Tutes)
HOMES BOY SCOUTS:
Just over a year after the great World Jamboree, Birkenbaad has revived its memories of the event with a showing of the official Fam
The Y.M.C.A HJE