MONDAY, MARCH
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
The Latest in
- Gentlemen'n
OutAtting
AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE.
PERFECT FIT
AND
RELIABLE
SUITINGS.
WING HING CO.
Gentlemen's Outfitters
04, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
lat floor, No. 74, Queen's Road
, Central. Tel. 21255.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
LAU PAK-WAY, DENTIST, has re- mored his Hong Kong Office to GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped- der St. (New Building next to Heng Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.
TANG YUE, Dentist. Successors to
the late SIEN TING. 14, D'Aguilar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO. LTD.,
Kowloon Bay.
New Work & Repairs. Call Flag “L”
14, 1932.
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
*Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central.
THE
IMPERIAL EDITION
OF SONG BOOKS.
Songs of the Highest Class
POPULAR, STANDARD AND CLASSICAL.
Teaar. Baritone. Bass.
Soprano. Mezzo Soprano. Contralto. Elizabethan Love Songs. Songs of Ireland,
Welsh Melodies.
National Song Book,
German Folk Songs.
Golden Treasury of Songs. (Children's).
Sacred Songs (All Voices).
Sele Agents for Kelvin Motors. TSANG
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE,
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers.
No 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
SHOES.
Pois
Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00.
Brown
Black or Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots or
Shoes from $2.00.
Best styles, most complete stock
at all sizes. Repairing a speciality. WONG SIU WOON
21. Pottinger St.
OUT
Phone 21474..
obtainable at
FOOK PIANO COMPANY.
8. Des Voeux Road, Central.
(Entrance Ice House Street)
Telephone 24648,
Job Printing
REASONABIT
PRICES
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE LYD. KRIKA MAN OLDU.
JA WYNDHAM SY
DAILY CROSS-WORD
PUZZLE.
(Phis cross-word puzzle has been made by an experi but
ronders are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
20
46
151
155
156
60
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THE CHINA MAIL.
FRILLS THEY HAD
IN
THE ARMY
TOMMY'S FASHIONS HAVE SEEN MANY CHANGES.
11
HONG KONG MARKET · PRODUCE.
with rich gold lace, about nine You can't surprise the army! Not even the recent suggestion bars.on the breast over blue lapels, that the present Service dress hooked in the centre. It was also the should be replaced by a new jacket thickly covered with lace on
All the with a turned-down collar, open at collar, cuffs, and skirts. the neck in front, collar, and tle, officers wore rich-braided scarlet East Siriein plus fours and gaiters, could dis-waist-coats, and frills plaited very Prime Got
small, the shirt collar well exposed) turb its equanimity..
Sky- Even feminine fancy is not se above the black silk stock.
blue cloth trousers with a. broad fickle as military fashion.
Many Changes,
stripe of gold lace edged with scar- But after all, this suggested let was the usual parade uniform. Service dress would not be so much A feathered bonnet completed it.
The gold-laced trousers were of a novelty.
There's very little difference be abolished in 1823, and blue grey Bullock's Brains tween collars and tics and the substituted without lace, which! stocks and frills which our soldiers was continued until 1829, when Sir! the used to wear.
Charles Gordon introduced
*
APPROXIMATE
Mar. 1, June, June,
EX
RETAIL PRICES
1982. 1918. 1814.
Butcher Meat.
Ots. Cla. Ota.
4 X 8
16.
34
24
12
80
か
#
≫ Corned
-
28
11
n
Rosrt
34 24
22
"
Breast
$2 20 18
#
Soup
28 .20 18
2
Steak
34 24 22
#1
#
Atenk Africia ... Sausages ....
40 80 85
*
16 2:4 EO
per set 17
10
18
Tongue, fresh
esch 80 60
00
M
Tongue, corned
# 1.00
80
Head...
W
1.60 -$1.20
Heart
Ib.
34 18
Hump, Balt
2:4
B
H
each 12
10
Kidneys
#
18 10
Tall
44
27
Liver
lb.
26 18 14
"
8 6
↑
Almonds
And it is quite an easy matterjirews of regimental, tartan. to trace the decent of the gaiters) Before the adoption of tartanį from the spatter-dashes worn a trousers the officers' dress was century and a half ago.
strange mixture of Highland, and Men got varicose veins in those line. In 1819-20 at a guard mount- days through wearing them tooling parade in Dublin the officers! tight.
for the Castle guards appeared inį Tripe
*
It is quite correct to say that full Highland dress, and the five Cale” Hand & Foot ...... army dress has known a bewilder- or six officers for other guards in Mutton Chop
an white cashmere pantaloons, short ing variety of changes, often incomprehensible as
feminina hessian tassled boots, and feather- Hashions. Yet there has undoubted bonnets? jedly been a tendency in the last
quarter of a century to simplicity odditles which have distinguished
the Black Watch at various stages!
and comfort.
Leg
Shoulder Saddle
*
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Brains
Some Changes.
H
Fry
than it is to-day appearance was
kilt.
of scientific preparation In 1821 the fashion originated of] wearing the white jacket with the
Hond
#
Heart
20
Originally it was served i
H
Kidneys
Liver
16
In the days when war was more in its history. an affair of chivalry and less a ¡mutter
everything.
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Gaiters and frills were taken in- to daily wear and for guard in White leather pipe clayed the 1826,
20
#
83 18 80
48
#1
g
$1
per dos. 88
.b
40 25
20
Ib.
76
94
Н
#
45
each 55
*
50
lb.
80
70
each 80
11:
Chicken Capons, Small Capons, Large
Duck
Dores
Poultry.
Eggs, Han (cooking) ....
Eggs, Han (Fresh)
Fowls, Canton
· Fowls, Hainan
Greet.**
Plewna, Canton
Hothow
Turkeys, Cook Turkey, Hen
Balpa.... Pheasant
Quail ... Partridges
PRE
口味症
# ***USIEM
Fruits.
*
Apples (California) 金山輝裏
Bananas (bride's)
Carambola
Coconuts ...
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Mar. 1, June, Juna, 1932, 1918. 1914. Ctr. Cia. Ota.
lb. 66
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each 22 31
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60
24
60
80
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15
80
16
20
20
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10
24
15
10
lb.
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60
82
215
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Leg
40
H
Loin
44
60
Fai or Lard
26
91
Sheep's Head & Furi
Heart .. Kidneys +
Liver
par set 00
60
each 12
8
15
12
45
26
lb.
25
80
80
26
20
29
20
29
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We mourn the departure of pic without sleeves, and when sleeves Pork Chop fure-queness and glamour from the became general the soldiers were
That is, all of us except, charged 1s. 3d. for them.
H White leather pipe clayed gloves the army; soldiers know exactly
Atocka how uncomfortable
and were part of the soldiers' dress at frills and three cornered hats all parades. would be in everyday military life. Life Guards' Love Locks, Here is a description of dress of the Lite Guarda at the gloves were an additional tribula- Sucking Pigs, to order F
Bust, Beat time of the Restoration, when the tion. In short, says A History of Merry Monarch "came into his own the Scottish Highlands, "what with again," as Britons said. If we shoes and buckles, frilla, a stocki clothed even our C.O.s to-day the up to the cars, about six yards of way the troopers were clothed in garters on each leg, muskets with those days there would be a great clear locks (burnished in
cases), and well bees waxed stocks Barbel hole in the army estimates.
and barrels, they were a most singu- Bresci larly-equipped set of soldiers."
Many
Mutton
Voal
P
Ma. 1.
P
Fish.
Canton Fresh Water
The men wore wide-sleeved scar let coats, ornamented at the wrist with large silk ruffles, and "frogged all about, both front and back, with gold Ince, a very brave show.” in the ranks when frills and buckles Catfish
Their boots were of brown Cor-disappeared. dova leather, reaching to the mid-
One can well imagine, as this historian goes on to say, the delight Carp
Question of the Kilt.
Codig Craba Cattle Fish
Dace....
dle of the thighs, and from under- Even the kilt has undergone com-i reath immense felt hats, decorated siderable change in the past hun-Dab with ostrich feathers, their tongdred years. Up till 1840 never "love-locka" floated down over more than four yards of tartan Dog Fish cuirasses of polished atcel, the lat-were put into a kilt, and about the Bels, Congr iter similar to those now worn.
'seventies this amount
As for the officers, they were 80 creased to 4 to 5 yards. To-day "richly dressed in cloth of gold it is even more ample.
and silver that they might have
預 was in-
Fresh Water
Yellow
Frogs
Away back in 1804 the question Garoups
have been under consideration, and Herrings drew forth a stinging letter from Halibus
been knights all armoured in conts of abolishing the kilt seemed to Gudgeon
of mail of the same."
Officers of the Black Watch,
But it is not necessary to go out-Colonel Alan Cameron, colonel of Labrus
side the Scottish regiments to see the Camerone, who was naked
to Loneb
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肚水
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35
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12
each 14
10 10
18
Lemona, Chias
Ib. 10 25 80
Lemons (American)
Lichoes, Dried
leach 12 ## lb. 1,00
8
35
Oranges (Canton)
26
Orang
20
18
Fears (Canton)
#
30
Peanuts
#
4
14
10
Persimmons. Largı
*
12
Plantain ...............
大巖
B
Pumelo, Blam Walnuts ...
each 18
12
# 19.
80
Grape
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80
Artichokes
Beans, Sprous
Long
Vegetables, &c.
IN
each 12
lb.
lb. 58 18 24
#
88 20 18
Best Roos.**
12
Bitter Squash
8
24
34
Briujals, Green
B
88
18. 16
21
*
Bad
38
27
84
9
#
Cabbage, Chinese ....
(Shanghai)
10
19
12
12
63
17
80
20 26
Cane Shoots, bench Caulifower (Large).
each 18
28
16 7
#
10
22
14
#
(Medium) (Small)
12
14
12
肉
Carrots
ib.
в
B
70
78
Celery, ChinaSE CLIUes, Dried
12
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10
18
25
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10
#
89
80
Green
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8
8
1.05
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32 25
Carry Staz, Englis
10
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24
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Cucumbere
H
32
18
Gerllo
36
23
Ginger, Young
"
10
88
15
Old
8
90
82
18
Horseradish, Shanghai
60 8
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70
24
Indian Corn
each
44
21
Lettuce
Ib.
48
20
Water Chestzube-
16
2
P
46
2
Mashrooms, Fruch
24
0
80
15
Onions, Bambag
10
46
2
Green
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10
*
50
20
77
Shanghal
66
80
'Parsley T
25
48
45
+
Potato, Sweet
88
14
Гарадим
24
14
American
26
13
Pumpkin
88
10
Radish
04
80
80
Rhubarb (Fresh)
22
10
Shallots
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22
10
Byfnach
Skrimpa
70
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Заарраг Solos Tensk Tuzbos
50
13
80
TAFON
€
7
52
29.
Tornips, Punti (Long)
42
58
Vegetable Marrow
#
Turtles, small fe, water
40 1.58
19
Water Cross
12
1
Water Lily Best
the great changes that have taken give a private opinion. place in army dress.
Lobstern Here is one of the Colonel's ob-Mackerel
The Black Watch provides an ex-servations: "I sincerely hope hta Monk Fish collent example.
Royal Highness with
never Mult
In 1817 the officers had a short-acquiesce in so painful and degrad-Oysters skirted costes, elaborately covered ing an idea (come from whatever Parrot Bish
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
SLAT ODEA
FR 13
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FU
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quarter it may) as to strip us of Perch our native garb... and stuff Pike us into a harlequin tartan pan- taloon."
Platoo
Portret, White
The subject dropped before the Pomfret, Bisak
Prawns heavy artillery that the Colonel brought to bear upon the origina Bay.
Rock Fish tors of the idea.
Bouch
Saimon
Jack
KE.
PRRAROONA⠀⠀⠀⠀❀***8*8882-****≈ 820 822
HORIZONTAL
1-Long sharp tooth 5-Once mora
9-Bmall sweet fruit
Ple
HORIZONTAL (Cont) | VERTICAL (Cont.) 44-June-bug 45-Receded, as the tide
|47-Combining form-
serpent
49-To antice 51-Prefix-back 52-At right angles to the line of a Yousol'a keal 64-Three-toed sloth. whoj55-The saving of
18-To place in a
datschad situation 14-Gulf between Sweden and Finland 75-Lice 16-An Irish patriot
was hanged
18-Calf (abbr.);
10-Bread brownind
before a flame 21-Half a dozen 22-Battle -28-Shört for Samuel
26-German for tha 20-A kind of sweet
conserve of fruit -28-The sm-COW 29-To mistake
31-A country of 5, E.
Aala
88-An actinet bird of
Mauritius
ahip from loss [57-Variety of grape
59-A walter |60-A seaport, Hondo
feland, Japan 101-Largent of plants.
VERTICAL
1-Authoritative
command that
- something be done
Z-Famous dam site on the Nile, Egypt- 3-Negative
24-Imposing conditions 4-Mirror
35-Vaty black
37-Agreeable,
[#P-A heavenly body
40-Moved
Took fabu
6-Precious stones
12-A president of the
U. 8. 17-One who hates hie
fellow men 20-A Scottish cap 22-Payment for professional
servidan
24-A command 25-Deprived of official
rank
26-One, of the sporties 27-A city of Georgia 129-A distriòt in
ancient-Greece |50-Familiar flower (pl.) j32-Combining fórm-one
38-A tribe of lerast {86-An imaginary -
object of terror |88-To İlken
40-Turf
41-Short for Dorothy 48-Ponderous
48-Ta sot'in responses 46-Formerly 47-Charme ar fatishas (Wart Indies) {48-To cut at random }60-Periodio rise and
7-Alpina wild goat"..*** Tall of the beau B-A negative
62-8ince 1.Possessīts pronoun 63-Extinct bird of New
|44-Distress algnal at^{10-Indefinite artiolette - Zesfandiy
11-Lien-hearted king of 56-Musical note
Z-A garden tool.
58-Conjunction.
Pop Decides For Plain. Steaks.
POP
HERE LIE THE BONES
OF UNCLE BUNNY
HE THOUGHT THE
MUSHROOMS
TASTED
FUNNY
(Copyright, 1932, by
Ball Synd
By J. MILLAR WATT.