MONDAY, JULY 20, 1931.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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INDOOR GOLF.
Manufacturers & Exporters of ALL KINDS OF
Entirely Redesigned.
SWATOW DRAWN
WORK
AND
ART EMBROIDERIES
SHAWLS
UNDERWEAR
PYJAMAS
KIMONOS.
SWATOW TRADING CO.
6. Pedder St, opp. Hong Kong Hotel Phone. 23303.
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in Gentlemen's Outfitting
AT PRICES TO ¡SUIT ANY PURBE.
A PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Outfitters
64, Queen's Rd. C.
Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
lat floor, No. 74, Queen's Road)
Central. Tel. 21255,
TANG YUK, DENTIST
Successor to
the late BIEN TING, 14, D'Aguilar Street. TERMS VERT MODERATE Consultation Free.
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES,
THE GLOBE FOOK CHEONG ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO. LTD. .72, Queen's Road C. Tel. 23270..
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L". Solo Agents for Kelvin Motors.
FRUITS.
JUST ARRIVED Sunkist Oranges...$1.00 per doz. Sunkist Grapefruits $3.50 per doz.:
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Coffee, Tea, Hawaiian Jams, Jelly and Fruit Preserves.
WING COFFEE CO.
139, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 25869.
HAIR DRESSERS
ONLY
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You.
MADAM KATIE'S
BEAUTY PARLOUR,
31, Wing Lok Building, Kowloon.
Tel. 60841.
LEE YEE,
Tel. 56851.
Have You Made a Hole In ONE?
The most enjoyable miniature
golf course Imagigable.
in the fresh air, tool
There will be at more "What Shall We Do Tonight?"
KING'S MINIATURE
GOLF COURSE.
On the roof in the fresh air
50 cents a round.
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BOOKS for
All
Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery,
General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality, THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street. Next to King's Theatre.
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SWATOW DRAWNWORK.
2
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Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawn Work. Embroideries, Silk Shawls, Irish Linen & Grass Cloth, Handmade Laces & Ladies' Underwear.
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OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL-
COMPANY,
'Phone 22252.
53, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
Pale Black
Brown Shoes from $6.00. Black
Brown Boots from $8.00... Children's Boots or Shoes from $2,00.
or
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. WONG BIU WOON
Phone 21474.
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SPORTING GOODS,
ATHLETIC GOODS
AT
WHO INVENTED "GOOGLY ?"
THE CHINA MAIL.
CLOTHES - AND THE EX-KAISER.
HONG KONG
Probing the History of Our New Words.
MEANING OF "GADGET."
"Like An Over-Dressed Stockbroker."-
AN OUTSPOKEN BOOK.
Beaf Sirloin
1)
Corned
Ronst
Breast
ˊ sometimes
Some of the difficulties of find- Autobiographies are Ing out the origins of new words cramped and incomplete because which have crept into the Eng- the authors impose upon themselves lish language were described to reservations where the stories of me by Mr. C. T. Onions, their lives touch those of other the editor of the new English people, living and dead. Dictionary Supplement, writes an This restriction is 'not conspicu- Evening News Correspondent. vus in the personal record of Lady
There is the word "gadget," Constance Malleson, a daughter of for instance. "Gadget," early in the fth Earl Annesley, ("After the "g's," has only just been Ten Years"; Jonathan Cape, Ltd., reached after something like 78. 6d.) She deals not only with three years' work... Investigation herself, but with many prominent has shown that it was known in men and women she has met in the the 'nineties, when it was applied course of an interesting career in to a barge fitted with steam downright fashion and entire frank- winches.
ness.
Soup... Steak
Stank Birloin Sausages
Bullock's Brains ....
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Cla. Ct. Cta.
OR ANKAR SELESSER
DRK
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cach 60
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lb. 78 36
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KONG MARKET
MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
Prime Cat...
4.
July 8, June, Juno,
1981. 1918. 1914
lb.
89 24 12
Poultry.
Chicken Capons, Small Capons,, Large
Dores
Eggs, Hen (cooling)
Egge, Hen (fresh).
Fowls, Canton
Fowls, Hainan
Pigeons, Canton
F
Holhow
Turkeys, Cock Tarkeys, Hen
Snipe ".. Pheasant
Quall Partridges
Almonda
新
Fruits.
Apples (California)
Bananas (bride's)
Coconuts
-Lemons, China
*
金山陴繫
July 8, June, June,
1931. 1918. 1914..
Cf. Ct. Cta
Ib. 64
62 28
Tongue, fresh.. Tongue, carned
#
Head
Heart.......
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Hump, Balt
Fork
Tail
Calves' Head & Poet..
Kutton Chop
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each 30
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30 28 11
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83 24 22
Duck
80 20 18
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27 20
18
88 24
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40 80 95
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per sot 17.10
12
Geesa
Beach 75
50
60
60
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-$1.20
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b. 24 18 14
20
18.
4 #
each 12 10 12
Kidneys
15 10
12
27 20 22
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Liver ...
Ib.
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Tripe
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set $1.50 $1.00 $1.00
lb.
44 26
Leg
44
20
Shoulder
40 24
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Baddle
44
Pig's Chitlings
ав 27
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Brales
21
Per set a
Fort
lb. 16 15
Fry
28 15
18
"Bond
18 20
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Lemona (American)
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Oraogus (Canton) ·
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Leta
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30 20
18
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90
"We are always up against Even her father and mother come such problems," said Mr. Onions, in for caustic analysis. Of their "but I find that there is a ready marriageWhy my father married willingness to help. We are get- my mother God alone knows! I ting a vast body of quotations to-suppose he was lonely-as a widow- day. I get a regular batch fromer with two children."
a man in Australia, for instance,
and there is another man in the
A Great Beauty,
Isle of Man who regularly sends Her mother-was-a-great-beauty, to me. Others come from Ger-and had many admirers. Count many and Denmark. Foreign Seckendorff was one of them, and students are very much interest- Lady Constance writes: ed in the English language. been chamberlain to Emprese Frederick and, according to gossip Slang, Too.
(which still persists), the Em-
We invite information as to press's secret husband. Seckendorff the dates of words, and three or gave my mother most of the jewels
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We are including almost all her, or make love to her and she slang, and are making an import- certainly would have liked, if hot Buckdng Pigs, to order ant feature of Colonial phrases. marriage, en elopement or two-Sust, Beef
"Words from Australia,. South with one or other of her very at-
Mutton Africa, and Canada, besides atractive, often extremely intelligent, Veal large number of words from the admirers. But she never did. The SAVEROS
R U.S.A., we shall have to treat Annesley blood in her was diluted.": fully. As you know, a great Lady Constance mat the ex. many American phrases have Kaiser on several occasions, and been drafted into our language. describes him thus: "I thought he "In the new dictionary we looked like an over-dressed stock- cover the last half century. The broker." dictionary, was commenced in the late eighties, and naturally there are omissions. Words could not. be included because they were not in existence. A famous example is appendicitis.
"Barracking."
Wilhelm's Jewels.
She dined with him once on his yacht and gives the following ac- count of the event:-
Nat
Fish.
Barbel Bréam
Canton Fresh Water 4
Carp
Fish
Catfish Codfish
"At dinner I sat on the Emperor's Crabs
Dab Daco
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Fresh Water Yellow
Garcupa
left and so came in for his famous Cuttie Fist pink champagne which is served "Then there is 'barracking only to the ladies on his immediate which is an interesting word be-light and loft. I couldn't take my
Dog Fish cause it comes under the head of eyes off his hands, which were
smothered in ringe. His watch Bela, Conger Colonial uses.
"There is a tremendous in-chain, too, was weighted down with crease in the vocabulary. You Jewels, numberless trinkets of jade
and amber, and turquoise-every- Frogs have 'wireless,' 'which is an abso- lutely new thing since the dic. conceivable oddment of trash.
"The band played loudly all the Gudgeon tionary was begun, and the new psycho-analysis, with all its ter-time. It consisted of forty picked Herrings
musicians. Conversation was fm- Kalibut minology.
"Another interesting word is possible. He took us out on the Labrus 'googly Sport has contributed gilded sternwalk and stood looking Loach a number of new words, the ori- down upon the great golden eagle Lobsters gin of which will have to be in- Just below. Striking an imposing Mackerel
attitude, he held forth upon the Monk Flak vestigated."
Lasked Mr. Onions when his objectionableness of modern danc- Muilet
The Ing. Behind his back, little Captain Oysters work would be finished. compiler of a dictionary is unwise Karpf actually winked."
if he thinks he is going to finishi by certain datea, nor do we know how long the dictionary will be,' was the reply..
CONUNDRUM BIRD.
Or Is It a Fish or a Serpent?
Recollections of “F.E.”
Parrot Fish
Perch Pike
Lady Constance met the late Lord Fisice Birkenhead during Sir Edward Pomfret, White
Frawns
Carson's Ulster campaign. "I have Pomfret, Black still a very clear recollection of
F.E. mounting the staire to his Ray
Rock Fish bedroom at night, balancing a very
Rosch* tall whisky and soda in a perfectly
Belmon steady hand. He was, In those
Shark days, an attractive bronze faced Skate person, with
an incisive manner,
Shrimpa good. figure, and an even better
Snapper brow. He spoke forcibly, without Solus that sinister-cum-sentimental thea- Tench The Hoactzin has arrived-two of tricality which characterised all. Sir
Turbat Edward Carson's public utterances. Turtles, smal, fr, wadar him or her or him and her.
They reached the Zoo at Regent's "In later yeara, Irene Hart took]? Park a conglomerate and peculiar upon herself to demonstrate with arrangement of feathers and beaks F.E. on a particularly eccentric
AT REGENT'S PARK ZOO."
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and legs and crests, and-smell. project he was contemplating. His LETTERS AND RADIO
You may like the peculiar per reply was very characteristic: 'My fume of the heactzin or not as you dear, I'm "FE" first, and Lord happen to be a bird enthusiast, a Chancellor second, he said.. student of evolution, or a lover of rare aroma.. They do not "manu-
Mr. Snowden's Smile.
figures in many of her pages—
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Carambola
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46
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燕山香蕉
21
16
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12
10
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16
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✰ each. In
荔枝干 15. 1,00 新會我服
Vegetables, &c.
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Brinjuls, Green
Cabbage, Chiness
Cane Shoots, hunch
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14
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Chillies, Dried
78 20
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红辣椒
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85
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10
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Horseradish, Shanghai
62
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Indian Corn
17
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44 82 21
Lettuce
17
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Water Chestouts
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日本
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金山轉仔
28 19 18
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33
50
Rhubarb (Fresh)
*
21 8 10
干泡
21 10 10
Addresses Which Cannot Be Traced.
42 20 20
49 86 80
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Parsley
Potato, Bweet
22 10
86 80
Radish
54 33 80
45 28 28
Shallots
Splüsch
Turnips, Punti (Long)
Tomatoes
Taros
42 22
28
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(c/o H.K. Hotel), Mrs. J. W. Mor-
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Helps Thief to Escape.
A DRAMATIC PART.
Unpaid Correspondence. Capt. and Mrs. J. L. O'Strandeo.'
Radio Telegrams.
A mystery woman in black Shozuinan, Post Office, from played a dramatic part in the es
Ladies' and Gentlemen's HairTHE LIANG YOU • [you, don't like the spelling) is, the brave, and with a sullen disarming/ed correspondence, etc., waiting Takao,
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facture eau de Cologne from She came to know Bertrand Rus- EOST OFFICE LIST. hoactzin, anyway. Leave it at sell "B.R.," as ehe refers to him. A General Post Office notifica- that, part
The howetzin Comit the "" if Philip Snowden thin lipped, bitter tion gives the following unclaim- guess-and-guese-ngain bird.ly childlike amile," Mra. Snowden, nt the Post Office and also un- Tens of thousands of years age he George Lansbury, "ao big and kind claimed radio telegrams at the was even himself guessing who and and safe," and Jopiah Wedgwood, Radio Telegraph Office, Govern what he was. He is still guessing; "with His thin, hatchet face deeply moat Building: eo are the ornithologists. They tanned and his lean body voryaste Restante Correspondence. have put him in a family by him. Laut.”
C. Breyer, H. V. Bahr, Chung self. Mod
Tuck, Miss A. Cooper, E. W. Many learned men consider he is claws, he tries flying, and actually Diamond, Capt. Delabere, Mme. K. the missing link between the reptile develops a flutter of a few yards. Elzer, Dr. A. Fung, Peter Fandel, and bird. Professor Huxley, for This helps him to scrabble among J. K. Gardiner, R. Heinemann, instance, must have sadly discour the trees and bushes for leaves to Hong Kong & China Mining Co. aged him. That great
LG Hogan, Joseph Isaac, W. D. put him between the amorphm, In colour, he is bronzy brown He Johnson, LN Jensen, A. E. the turnicomorphae on charadrio has bristly eyelashes, and a crest of Jaffreye, G, H. Medhurst, R. L. HANDYSIDE, M.A., B.BCmorph, and the pterisferomorpha, plume on his head of yellowish Marcel, M. P. McCullough (General
the pterodromophe
etoro-feathers.He tries to sing like
Anlahed by
AN INTRODUCTORY
HISTORY
A. IL. CROOK OBE, MA. W KAYIMLAN
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5577, from Foochow Vanstrum, Hong Kong Hotel, from Clintonville Wis
Fook Kee, 89 Des Voeux Road W., from Celn.
3057, from, Foochow
"
cape of an alleged house-breaker at Victoria Park, E.
A man, stated to be between- twenty-five and thirty years of age, rang the bell a number of 2489 6037 0068 0602 6424 5894 times at the house of Mr. Louts 2887 0785 0861 0674, from Amoy Gardner, in Meynell Crescent, Tankayong, 296, Hennessey Road, Victoria Park. As there was no from Salgon.
Chuchelpen, Tatung Hotel, from reply, he began to force the
door. Canton
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Mr. Gardner, who was at the back of the house, heard a noise." He crept silently along the hall,' Motor & Acceptance Corporation), Fath Mohamed, 482, Des Voeux and suddenly opened the front
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Robinson Mensza. Eichardsons, The Tot value of retail sales in Gardner, threw his assallant to Sullivan, Canada Increased substantially in the ground.
Tangman, from Faifo..
The man attacked him and in. flicted a nasty wound on his face, but, in spite of his injuries, Mr.
RP Sim-March, according to the Index of Then the woman appeared on drew the Dominion Bureau of the scene, jumped on Mr. Gard- Paul Statistics The index, based on nor and forced him to release bis
Janu 1929, as 100,, rose to 99 in
March from 88,7 In February. The
@calculation is founded
from 85 departmenta
aki reports!!
d on the man Both fled
lugn "uri" adjacent street and dier being too
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