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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 24, 1931.
Christmas Day.
very
season has been reiterated over
era,
Club that "the "motor-car is the curse of civilisation," says a gossip writer. It would, of course, be quite easy to build up the case for the prosecution..
The physical disaster which the motor-car achieves in the course of a year, and all the ruin and heart-ache which it leaves in its train, would alone seem to justify Mr. Erighouse's propesi-
tion that, nothing in the world
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
PUREE DE POIS
By
BESOMORO.
to-day contributes Jess to the CHRISTMAS GREETING. welfare of nations than motor-car."
the
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dentist of Huddersfield, has reduc-
Nothing new, nothing origin-ed his weight within six weeks by al.. Just the old, old and conven- four stone, besides improving his goneral health in overy way. The tional one
secret is a diet of lemon water A Merry Christmas to You!
and nothing else. Following this strict diet for forty-two days of lemon water, Councillor Crossley has brought his weight down from 19 st. to 14 st. He claims that rheumaliem, lumbago, cirrhosis,
THANKS! MANY THANKS!
To the lady or gentleman who
Its tragedies and tribulations are "news" and are every where recorded and advertised as such, whereas the pleasures that it affords pass unnoticed.
After all, millions of people do was kind enough to make over derive a great deal of comfort to the "Star" ferry office a roll and pleasure from the motor-cur; of. manuscript which had been far more town-dwellers get far left on a "Star" ferry yester more often out into the country-afternoon. A good and kind deed, side than they used to do as a which is very greatly appreciat- result of its invention,
ed.
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and are trouble have been mira- culously cured by the fast, and he
has now been classed as perfect- ly fit by a life asurance company that, formerly refused to accept Though it is not possible to
him. Ho now states that he can strike a balance in such matters, HOW TO REDUCE WEIGHT,
| run about und, do far more work there are thousands of perfect-Obesity is the bug-bear, of elder-than he used to be able to. ly happy excursions to every acy men and women. How great a cident and if more people bug-bear is made clear by the re- would only try to drive with care cipes for reducing weight which and intelligence the accidents abound. But why not be philoso- ould be diminished without in phic about it? Right! I am.fat, the least impairing the picnics-What about it? I'll get slimmer Ceylon Observer.
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THE SMART AGE.
Wo are now told by the tailors that everybody is buying a dress suit. The Editor of the Outfitter said that at least twenty times as many are sold to-day as in 1914. One wholesaler delivered 3,000 this year. It is probably an understatement to say that 20,000 dress shirts a year are sold in the East End of London; and £50,000 a year is a fair estimate of the extra trade brought to British shopkoopers. Before the war 5,000 a year were sold; a hundred thou- and a year are now sold-most of them by deferred payments.
later. An acquaintance of mine was of such a philosophic turn of mind. At the end of 1922 he was News in Brief.
"Pickwick's Fat Boy." Did he mind? Not he. By the end of Yesterday the lowest open air 1923 it was inappropriate to refer temperature was 59 degrees, The to him as such. And he had not humidity at 10 a.m. was 63 and at materially changed his mode of 4 p.m. 65.
life. For three to four years he remained slim, then began to put Prompt work by three Service on weight again. In July, of this men prevented a serious fire in the year, he was very nearly "Pick Wanchal district last night, awick's Fat Boy" again, but once It is to be supposed the same partially constructed building at more has he shed it all. And he can be said about girls. Girls of Hennessy Road lost a certain has shed it to such an extent that all classes now have quite clabor- amount of its scaffolding but the he is positively thin. He does no- ate evening and dance dresses, before the . Christian
loss was only slight.
thing about it. It just doesn't and, of course, they all go in for December 25 was set apart as a
worry him.
He accepts what permanent waves and Took very high festival, and given over to His Excellency the Governor has comes.
smart and will not go out with Here, however, is another re- | their men friends unless they are certain rites and ceremonies, appointed Tuesday, January 26 at
It has also smartly gorbed. Some au- probably of a Saturnalian kind, 4.30 p.m. as the date of the annual cipe for reducing weight.
Inspection of St. John Ambulance been tried and not found wanting. tharities put this down to the In- concerning which, however, no Brigade. All interested in the Councillor Norman Crossley, a fluence of the cinema. '
aro cordially been Order of St. John detailed description has
Our Sports Diary. preserved. The Venerable Bede, invited to attend. with that caution which was one If you must smile-and eveni
LOCAL of his characteristics as an his- laugh-during the Christmas holi-
HUNTING-Saturday-Fanling torian, or chronicler, has record-days, you will find ample scope for
Hunt Meet (Anandale) at 2.45 ....... 1/5% Theatre. You simply will be Bank, on demand.... 1/5 5/18- ed that "the ancient peoples of your risible faculties at the King's Bank, wi the Angli, began the year on rocked from beginning to end by Bank, 4 months' sight, 1/5 7/16
Credits, 4. months'
sight December 25 when we now cele-"The Girl Habit." brate the birthday of the Lord; and the very night which is now so holy to us, they called in their tongue 'modranecht,' that is the mothers' night, by
reason we
EXCHANGES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
On London
On Bombay...
1/6/
1/6%
€25
695
Nom.
24%
95
95
On Calcutta---
95 95
In attempting to write any- thing at all about Christmas, one is confronted at the outset by the transparent fact that everything that can possibly be said concerning this sacred and over again. Of all the festi-
The loss of clothing and orna-Documentary, vals which have been rendered
ments, to the value of over $60, months' sight sacrosanct to civilisation by re-
from 3, Beautiful Terrace, has been Un Paris- observance, ligious
perhaps
4 months* Samy, who states that the thief or Credits, Christmas makes the most direct
reported to the Police by Dr. D. K. On demand
thieves gained admission by open- sight appeal to a humanity that is
On Berliner wont to regard mankind collec-suspect of the ceremonies which ing a window in the kitchen.
On demand tively as "the herald of a higher in that night-long vigil they per-
The Eastern Extension Telegraph On New York---- formed." Here, clearly, was an Company announce that the estimat On demand race;" as, indeed, he must prove himself to be, if he holds the occasion for a judicious reticence. ed traffic receipts of the Imperial Credits, 60 days' night 26% fond belief "that somehow good The early Church found it a dif- and International Communications. will be the final goal of ill," and ficult matter to overcome the Ltd., for November: were £427,062 Wire
as compared with the receipta in On demand "that nothing walks with sim- prejudice appertaining to an-1980 amounting to £4,929,154. The
cient pagan superstitions and ob-aggregate receipts from January to Wire servances; and as late as the November were £4,887,500 a com-On demand
On Singapore--- On demand. 611⁄2 year 245 A.D. we find that pared with £4,929,154 during the
same period in 1080.
Oa Manila- Origen, in his Eighth Homily on
49 After sitting all day yesterday, On-demand Leviticus, repudiated as undesir
On Shanghal
T74% able, even sinful, the practice of it was found that the last cam
Assizes calendar On demand
... 14% dis. keeping the birthday of Christ, the December
more than a day to Dollar
On Yokokam B---- "as if He were a King Pharaoh," would, take
finish, and accordingly the Chief After a lapse of fourteen hun- Justice adjourned
60 Nom it over the On demand
(Bank's dred years the seventeenth cen- Christmas holidays until the morn- Sovereigns
1/6/ buying rate) This is the ing of December 28. tury Puritans revived the re-
19 16/16 case (reported yesterday) in which Silver (per: oz.) terrible remonstrance against charged with robbery at Kak Rang proach of paganism by issuing Chung King-man and Li Fat are Bar Sliver in Hong
Nom. ...Nom. Christmas Day," a manifesto village, Kowloon City, early on the Copper Cent
1% prem. Mr. H. Copper Cents which was strongly supported morning of October 16.
Somerset Fitzroy, Assistant At Rate of Native In-
............173% p.a. by punctilious precislans, Parlia- torney-General, prosecuted for the ment forbidding by law, and Crown, while Mr. Hin-shing Lo is Chinese Sub Coln.. 26% dis.
Hong Kong: Sub Coln Par.
LONDON EXCHANGES under pains and penalties, all for the defence. Christmas observances, both re- ligious and social; moreover, they enfolded that the day was to be kept as a strict fast.
less fest." Just as all sorrow and suffering, the necessity of which in the Divine scheme of things we are sometimes prone to question, belong to the great mysteries of our earthly exist ence, so too, the vexed problem of the good which is often the outcome of events in themselves inherently evil, has been, and still remains, a stumbling-block to the faith and religious aspira tions of many who are account ed among the wisest of mankind. But, we read, at that first Christ- mastide, there came to the vil- lage of Bethlehem of Judaea certain wise men bearing free. will offerings to lay at the feet of One whose star they had seen afar off in the East. "And there were in the same country shep-
Charles II, to his credit, soon herds abiding in the field, keep- ing watch over their flock by altered all that; but the dour night." So it came about that and recalcitrant Scot was not to the wise men, with their gifts of be denied the virtue of a long face when other people were gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, and the unsophisticated making merry. Even now, whepherds who had left their Christmas Day, north of the flock intended upon the lonely Tweed, is not regarded as a par- Syrian hills, together worshipped ticularly festive occasion, the in the little straw-strewn shed at true-born Scot preferring to re- Bethlehem. And, to-day, all serve his capacities for enjoy- aorts and conditions of men alike ment until the New Year. unite in the celebration of the nativity of Christ
From Other Pens, With the constantly changing | suv conditions of modern life, many For and Against the Motor, of the old customs peculiar to the A nice little debate could be arranged round the assurancé Christmas season have fallen into from the South-west Lancashire desustude. We know that long) Córomer to the Wigan RA
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
on
The following British warships were in harbour to-day:-
Bruce South wall. Cornflower-Went wall. Cornwall-No. 6 buoy. Cumberland No. 8 buoy,
Herald-East wall
Hermes-No. 1 buoy, Kent-North - arm. Marazion South wall. Medway and Sub-No. 2 buoy. Olympus-East wall. Orpheus-In dock. Oswald-In dock. Ferdous-East wall. Phoenix-In dock. Sesmaw-Balt wall. Serapis North wall, Sirdar North wall - Sterling North wall Suffolk-West wäll. Tamer Basin, Fore
Jedvanese transport.
Gunboat.
Kong
terest
Parla New York
Rugby, Yesterday.
87%
*** 8,42%
Montreal
Brussels
4.17%
24.60
17 9/18
Goreva Amsterdami
8 17/82
Milan
671⁄4
Berlin
14.40
Stockholm
18
Copenhagen
18
Oil
18
Vienna Prague
80 Nominal 116
Hemingfore
240
Madrid.
40%
100
Lisbon
Athens
***Montevideo:
Bucharest
Ra
Bombay Shanghal Hong Kong
260 31 nominal
670
p.m.
GOLF-To-day to Sunday R.I.K.G.C. Christmas Meeting,
Sunday Completion of First Round of Kowloon Golf Club Junior Championship.
FOOTBALL-To-morrow-Sun- day Hereld Cup Scotland England on Club ground.
Saturday-Sunday Herald Cup -Wales V
Y..
Portugal on Club ground; Chinese League-Chinese- Athletic "B" Y. Yee Woo; Bouth "A" v. South China "F"; Chinese Av.
Ching,
China
CRICKET Saturday-Kowlcon 0.0 v. Navy (F.) at II a.m.; University v. Indian R.C. (F.) at 11a.m.; Hong Kong C.C. v. Army (F), at 11a.m.; Craigengower CC-Married v. Single; Indian R.C. II. v. University II. (F.) at. 11 a.m.
SPORTS Bunday - Craigen- gower C.C. Children's Sports.
WILL IN SOLDIER'S PAY BOOK..
"6ft. by 2ft. of Soil."
A former private in the Machine Gun Corps, Mr. Henry Amphlett Prasser, of Mortimer-road, Kerisal- rise, made his will in. a soldier's.
Dated pay-book.
December 16,
1917, it readsi
"In the event of my acquiring. Gft. by 2ft. of French or English. soll, 1 leave everything to
tay
wife, Daisy May Prosser." The estate is now valued for pro.... bate at £185.
To-day's Thought.
The highest price you can pay for anything is guilty con- science.
#
Ten Years Ago..
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[From the "China Mall" of
December 24, 1921.3
To-day's dollar is worth 2/71⁄2..
..
+
The fire at Third Lane, Shektong- shul, yesterday gutted eight houses: on both sides of the narrow alley. way: It originated in a glass. blower's hut and spread to several godowns used mostly for the storing of blackwood, sandalwood and cam- phorwood, causing damage to the extent of $98,000. The glass works suffered to, the extent of $2,000. A couple of two-storey dwellings suf- 2/4fered: slight damage before the 1910/16 firefighters exilnguished the flames. Insurance la affected only to the
1/69/64 1/11/
Buenos Aires
141
... 17/01/
Yokohama
Silver Spot
"Silver"Forward 20%
-British Wireless Servión, extent of $18,000.