SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931.
DIRECTORY
BUSINESS
AUTUMN FASHIONS.
PLUS FOURS
AT
THE SMARTEST
TAILORS
IN
TOWN.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Tallors
54 Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417
DENTISTS.
1
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No 74, Queen's Road
Central.
Tel. 21265.
TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to
the late SIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., LTD
72, Queen's Road, Central. Tel. 23270.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay.
New Work & Repairs.
Cali Flag "L
Sole Agents for Kelvin Motors
FOREIGN GOODS STORE.
GREAT REDUCTION ON
SHAVEWELL"
A Marvelous Shaving Creat Usual $1.50 now 75 cents.
AL YEE HING, (Tomey & Company) (Late of 24, Pottinger Street)
62. Des Voeux Road C.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Tel 23016
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Halt Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Agullar Street, (opposite Queen's Theatre).
JEWELLERY.
Lovely
JEWELS AND DIAMONDS
At
ISACK & CO.
84, Queen's Road, Central
JEWELRY SILVERWARE
AND
WINDSOR
We have o large Selection of Jowel- leries suitable for all occasions.
Awisit will convince you.
Established 1908.
BROS.
56, Nathan Ed Kowloon
BUROPEAN
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER HAND ENGRAVER. Sale and Repairing of Gold and Silver Goods.", "Any, kind of Watches Chronometers, Chronographs, Repeaters, Speedometers, Typewriter and anything in the line delicate mechanium, AI ordets executed « promptly vioderate rates
BOGDATSKY,
No. 58, Nathan Ed. Kowloon
THE CHINA MAIL.
GENTLEMEN'S TAILORS.
SWATOW DRAWNWORK
FOR THE LADIES.
Gorgeous Underwear Kimonos Pyjama Suits and Shawls.
ailored
BROWN'S
FOR PERFECTION IN WINTER SUITS.
2nd, Nation Bldg., 7, Duddell St. (opp. Gospel Hab). Tel. 23056,
Ready!
Winter Suits
Made 10
Order.
Our Measurement is Guaranteed Perfection.
Prices Within the Means of
Everyone.
YEE SING
Gentlemen's Tailor, 12, Wellington St.
Tel. 21882,
FOR THE SPRING.
A generous offering of Suits and Light Coais in the modes of the time-at reasonable prices.
MILLEN CO.
14, D'Aguilar St. Tel. 22774.
HAIR DRESSERS.
ON LOK
10, Wyndham S
1st Roor
Entrance On Lan St.
Telephone 22117.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S HAIR DRESSING SALOON.
Expert Barbers. Moderate Charges.
LADIES' TAILORS.
SWATOW WENG LEE CO.
52, Nathan Rd, Kowloon.
For Swatow Goods and Chinese Fancy Goods.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL SOUTH CHINA IMP. & EXP. CO. '90, Nathan Rd., K. Tel. 57757. Dealers in Hand-made Drawn-Work, Embds. & Curios. Prices are modernte.
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
PHOTO
GRAPHS
DEVELOPING, PRINTING.
ENLARGING
and FRAMES.
LEUNG YIK KEE
12. Wyndham 81.
SHOES.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL REVIEWS.
STORMY STRAITS.
["The Question of the Straits," by
FON SLEEPERS.
D'ANNUNZIO'S WORKS.
Vatican Protest Against Cheap Edition.
tore Romano,
["Sleep," by Donald A. Laird, Ph.D., Sc.D., and Charles G. Muller: Williams and Norgate, 6/-)
The announcement that a com- Though in the preface the Rumittee has been formed to bring thors declare that their aim has out a complete and cheap edition P. P. Graves; Benn, 10/6.]
not been to produce a highly tech-of D'Annunzlu's works, which, na The Straits referred to are the nical book, but "to present to is well known, are on the Vatican'a Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, sleepers everywhere interesting, index of prohibited books, has call- and the author, formerly corres-practical, and valid informationed forth a protest in the Osserva- pondent of the Times in the Near about that third of their life East, knows what he is writing which is apont in unconscious- about. In this all too short bookness" that information is scientific Mr. Graves tells us the thrilling inasmuch as it is based on a long three-thousand-year story of these series of strictly conducted expert stormy straits, and shows howments at the Colgate University since the days of the Golden of New York. Fleece and the Eape of Helen the two channels between the Mediter- ranean and Black Seas have been the cause of wars, intrigue, and bloodshed enormova. Peace in deed did brood over these waters between the time of Constantine and the heyday of Turkish power, but with the decadesce of Turkey and the growth of Russia the question of the Straits became acute
more and kept on growing more and more serious until the Great War.
once
After briefly discussing the chief theories of the reason for sleep the authors procedd in Part 2 to expound the results of their inves- ligations into fatigue. its nature
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
by
A. H. CROOK, O.B.E., M.A. W. KAY, M.A.
W. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.Sc. PRICE $2.00.
NOW ON SALE at the PUBLISHERS.
The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mail Offices,
The existing national, and ex- pensive, edition of the peet's worke writes the Osservatore Romano, was already an "offence" to the principles of Catholle teaching. This new edition, on the other hand, will bring these works which are "corrosive" of Catholie moral teaching, within reach also
of
re-
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PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras. Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trini Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23469. 26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong.
OUR
LADIES' TAILORING
DEPARTMENT
undertakes to execute ordera
FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with-
In 16 hours
The the humbler classes. article pays an eloquent tribute to the "genius" of the post, but argues that a person "andowed with Buch exceptional mental: qualities" should feel greater responsibility in their employment.
The note concludes with a ference to the telegram of thanke addressed by the poet, "the reason obscure." to which seems
which LOVELY SILK STORE in Mussolini, Signor D'Annunzlo refers to the present No. 2, Stanley Street. Tel. 22100. time us beginning "his fourth
(Adjoining D'Aguilar Street.) period of youth as a writer." Thei Osservatore Romano drily remarks that "just as youth does not return in the life of man, so it does not reblossom in his works. either never departs from them or reatores their first
for
never
springtime."
YouthLJE: $190ÆLTETF...]⠀⠀⠀
Mr. Graves begins by taking us back to the far off days of the Hittites. frst users of iron, the Trojans, the early Achnens and the first Greeks, and shows how the Straits influenced early Eure pean history, and therefore con- sequent civilisation, for fourteen centuries before Rome took over command. Then comes the Otto- man threat, and we sce what stiff obstacles the Dardanelles and and effects,
ot and the benefits psychological research Bosphorus were to land lubbers modern like the Seljuk Turks. Follows a which enables factory and other chapter on the grandeur and de-workers, by careful adjustment of cline of the Turks after which we conditions, to do more work with have interesting glimpses of the less exhaustion. They tell us achemes of Peter, Catherine. Mah- how to spare ourselves unneces- mud, Nicholas, Beaconsfield, the sary fatigue, not only that which Kaiser and others. In the is caused by hard physical and Epilogue we are given the text of mental work, want of sleep or An appendix gives further ex- the latest treaties and a rather boredom, but that far more insidi-periments and diagrams. gloomy forecast regarding the ous and dangerous exhaustion of This is an interesting and read- and will be of con- future of what has been the most brain and nervous system which able book,
to teachers troublesome strip of water in the world.
This book is excellently written by one who has been there and has read widely before putting pen to paper, and would be great ly improved, were it provided by Pair
two good maps-one to illustrate Black or Brown
the first chapter and another at Shoes from $6.00.
Brown the end to replace the poor one Black
at present found there.
Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots or 'Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock
of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. WONG SIU WOON
21, Pottinger St. Phone 114TL.
SILK STORE.
GREAT REMOVAL SALE
AT THE
TAJMAHAL SILK STOKE
5. Wyndham St.
Tel. 26136,
SPECIALISTS IN BEAUTY.
New Felt Hats Just Received
ONLY
From Paris.
TWO
1
TO
New Colour
Schemes For Autumn Dresses,
CHEONG SHING
Ladies' Tailor. Nathan Road, Kowloon
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL
COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
* 58, Queen's Road Central
OPTICIANS.
GLASSES STYLED FOR YOUR FACE. The Sino American Optical Company; seet's Road C.
HOURS
|Transfigure
You.
MADAM KATIE'S BEAUTY PARLOUR. 91, Wing Lok Building, Kowloon. Tel. 588$1.
Tel. 58841.
SPORTING GOODS.
ATHLETIC GOODS!
TOYS
THE LIANG YOU COMPANY 70, Queen's Road C.
CRICKET
" WISDEN" BATS, BALLS,
STUMPS, LEG GUARDS, ETC. Inspection Cordially Invlied.
The Hogg
& Ammun
of weather and aurroundings on the nervous system.
Part 8 is an analysis of what actually happens to mind and body during sleep, and the book ends with some admirable practical ad- vice on how to get the most out of sleep.
and
COASTWISE
by
"ALGIE" BENNETT.
An interesting book of Cartoons depicting "Happenings" on the China Coast
PRICE $1.00.
is caused by people whose per-siderable value sonality actually tires others-the employers, though it is so univer-Now on sale at egocentric, the enthusiast, the too sal in its applicability and so plea- BREWERS well-meaning, and the helpless-sant in its freedom from technical-
and we conclude with the writersity and exaggeration that the or- WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
dinary reader will find in it both EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE. that "there is considerable con- solation in being just an ordinary amusement and profit, especially person."
The chapter on emotional fatigue is particularly interesting, and so are those on the influence
ROUND THE CAMP FIRE
BORN OF THE JAMBOREE. READY TO "BE PREPARED." Ninety-four Boy Scouts and Gl The Silver Cross of the Boy Association, the second Wolf Cubs (Junior Boy Scouts) Scouts
and connected with the staff of the Bri-highest award for bravery, tish Insulated Cables, Ltd, of that with considerable risk, has Baden- Prescot, are the direct result of the been awarded by Lord
perhaps in the East where the and at the Publishers climate and surroundings make it
so difficult for many Europeans to The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. find refreshing sleep.
BOYS CAN BE MEN TOO! "They've All Got The Wind Up About Me."
How two Boy Scouts helped and: cheered their grown-up fellow
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with Provincial & Foreign Sections and Trade Headings in Five Languages, patients in the ward of one of enables traders to communicate direct London's largest hospitals was told with
the ward.
more
including
MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS in a letter received by Lord Baden-
in London and in the Provincial Towns Powell from one of the patients. and Industrial Centres of the United One of the Scouts by innumer-Kingdom and Ireland, the Continent able good turns throughout the day of Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and by his thoughtfulness for those Australasia, etc. The names, addresses in bed won great esteem throughout and other details are classified under than 3,000 trade headings, EXPORT MERCHANTS The other Scout, a London boy, fought hard against increasing with detailed particulars of the Goods Coming of Age Scout Jamborea at Powell, the Chief Scout to Scout weakness after a serious operation, shipped and the Colonial and Foreign
Markets supplied. As the Scout grew steadily worse, his father was allowed to visit him An official of the Company, inter- ested in boys' welfare, made a point
at any hour. of attending the Birkenhead Jam-
A few days after when the Scout bores in, as he confessed to Lord Bridlington, for rescuing four boys had become critically ill he made a enn be printed at a cost of £1. 195. Od. Baden-Powell, "a
sceptical who had been thrown into the very frame of mind."
water from a boat in Bridlington Harbour.
Birkenhead last year.
The Impression of that vast gathering with its 50,000 Scouts drawn from 42 nations of the world was such, however, that the official of the Company returned to Prescot and a Troop of Scouts was started amongst the Company's employees, the Cub Pack being formed later for the sons of the 'firm's employees.
In a letter to Lord Baden-Powel the Company's official in question reports:
"We are glad to be able to say that we are definitely noticing an Improvement in pha bakaviours of the boys in and around the Works,"
J. V. Gautier of Bridlington.
The award was made to Scout Gautier, a member of the Trinity Church Troop, Congregational
Scout Gautier, who is 13 years old, learned to swim when he was 7 and has applied himself very specially to the art since the age of 10, thus equipping himself to carry out the Scout motto, "Be Prepared."
brave
attempt
to
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cheer his for each trade heading under which they harassed father. "Don't worry, are inserted. Larger advertisements at dad" he smiled. "They've all 16 per page. got the wind up about me; but I shan't die."..
The next morning when the Scout was obviously worse, he told his father, "I'll win through yet."
The Scout's father remained by his son's bedside all that night, and just after he had left, the Scout
50,000 SCOUTS HELP COMMON passed away?
WEALTH.
"The impressions the boys have left of service and courage," writes The Chairman of the Australian Lord Baden-Powell's correspondent, Federal Council of Boy Scouts As- "remain as examples to men." sociation (Councillor H. D. Luxton
the Lord Mayor) issued a request | 'NOTHING VENTURE: SCOUTS
by telegram to the head of the Movement in each State that the whole of the resources of the Boy Scouts be placed at the disposal of the authorities handling the Com monwealth loan.
As there are more than 50,000 Boy Scouts in Australia, it is ex- pected that their assistance will be of material value.
WHEN "B.-P." PLAYED
MOURNING POLOK "Scouting lu a game," says Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, but sometimes I wonder if we do not appear to be making of It too serious a game. When you come to look on
us something formidable, then you misa.the whole spirit and the whole joy of it; your boys catch. Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief the depression from you, and Scout, and Lady Baden-Powell, the Scouting, having lost its spirit Is Chief Guide, have left Home on ho longer a game for them.
their oversea tour to New Zealand "It becomes like the game of palo Australia and South Africa. which was suggested to me by a They embarked on the Rangitata General under whom I served. A at Southampton and were accom melancholy occasion had arisen panied by Lieut. Col. E. P. Le when the Troops in the garrison Breton, Scout Commissioner for: were ordered to go into mourning West Dorset. This happened on the very day
The Chief Scout and his party that an important polo match was were due to arrive at Auckland- to be played. So I was sent an a New Zealand on February 18. From deputation to the General to ark New Zealand they travel to Aus whether the match would have to
SECURE H.Q.
Mr. H. Garliek, Boy Scout Com- missioner for the Chiswick district
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The following unclaimed telo-
of Middlesex, inquired of the Coun grams are lying at the E.E. Tele ell if they had any available land graph Co. Office, Hong Kong:- upon which Boy Scout Headquar- Coard Squarey, Cunard Co., ters could be erected.
from
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from London, Po. Rétransmitted As a result, the Highwaya Com- mittee of the Council recommended Jovino, Hong Kong Hotel, from that premises, vacated by the Shanghal. Animals Diapensary in William Street be leased to the Boy Scoute at the nominal rent of one shilling A year.
SCOUTS' OPEN CONFERENCE, 1931.
The Boy Scouts Association's Open Conference this year will be -
Tyebally, from Colombo.
$. LACK.
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1981.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD. OF DENMARK,
held at Brighton: from April 100 The following unclaimed tele
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gram is lying at the office of The last Open Conference of the the Great Northern Telegraph iraila, being due to arrive on March Association was at Birmingham Company (Limited) of Des be cancelled. The General, with a
Jast Spring. It was attended by mark:- porting. Armas
twinkle in his eye, replied:. I think If you played very slowly and usid a black ball it might meet the oc- casign
16, subsequently visiting South Africa, where they are due at Durban on June 9.
They expect to return to South- ampton on July 18.
1:100 Boy Scout workers and was Vendor, from Shanghaf the best attended Conference of the Movement sluce Its Inception in 1908.
F. V. JENSEN,
Buperintendent? Hong Kong, March 4, 1881,