To Add Sparkle To Your SPIRITS
THIS Christmas
INSIST
ON
WATSON'S
WATERS
WOMEN END YOUR SUFFERING!
BANISH THE CAUSE
Feminine Complaints Anæmia Irritable Nerves
are caused by lack of minerals
Don't envy those women who take their,' difficult days in their stride. Be like them. Banish the cause of your suffering instead of just re- lieving it. Just think of being pain- free. Fit to work. Able to enjoy playing games. You can banish periodical pain because the cause of it has been discovered-and that cause can be banished if you take Kalzana.
You suffer pain and discomfort. because you lack certain vital minerals in your body. Without the right amount of these minerals your blood becomes weak and your system can't work properly. But Kalzana gives you all the vital minerals you need in a pleasant and casy-to-take way. When you take Kalzana, you im-> prove the condition of your blood and as the blood becomes more healthy, so your system functions normally and causes you no pain. Suffer no longer-get Kalzana to-day. Kalzana is widely prescribed for anemia, weak children, etc., so don't feel embarrassed.by asking for it.
KALZANA
THE MINERAL FOOD FOR BETTER HEALTH
Of all Chemists, and Stores.
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1938
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training for persons between 21 and 30, and sentences of preven- tive detention for older persons. Corporal punishment for both young and old is abolished, and also penal servitude and the "ticket-of-leave" system:
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Four Tory members recently withdrew their names from motion in the Commons calling for a "united national policy" on arms, social reform agriculture, and trade. The four were Com- mander Marsden, Sir Alfred Knox, Admiral Sir Murray Sue- ter, and Mr. Hamilton Kerr. It is no secret that the Whips had been at work among the signa- tories, and their efforts to per- suade them to withdraw their names have been fortified by the way some newspapers have “re- presented the motion as an open
Hồng Kong, Monday, Dec. 19, 1938. move by Mr. Eden and his
TOMBOLA TAKES LONDON BY STORM
friends against Mr. Chamber- lain and the Government. ·
There is a big block of Tories and these four no doubt be- long to it who long for a bold The game so popular in army policy of national reorganisation circles in Hong Kong under the yet who will never join a revolt name of Tombola is now sweep against Mr. Chamberlain. (ing South London as a “craze":
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called "Housey. Housey." The Reduced Circumstances
game itself is played for the most part in London by housewives who are attracted to open-door
The Duke of Kent has
been
the
booths in shopping centres by a explaining that there was a time glittering display of cultery and when he had to give very careful thought to the best way of lay- chromium-plated clocks..
A visitor to a "Housey Hou-ing out "the last threepence" of any sey" booth in a South-side mar his allowance. If there is ket found himself in a large general belief among the public the that princes are like a certain room, formerly a shop, in centre of which was built a four heir to the dukedom of Devon- sided counter round which thirty shire, they may learn from that women some with shopping and other anecdotes that they are mistaken. "His lordship," baskets and some with babies on their lap
sat on wooden stools. said the Duke's agent, speaking of the eldest son, "seems inclin- Only seven men were present.
ed to spend a great deal of Each player in tombola had a square piece of cardboard, with money" "He will have a great five differently coloured sections deal of money to spend," was the containing twenty-five small complacent answer of the Duke. squares. A sum is paid for each Very rarely have heirs of "game" and the players are giv-blood royal had "a great deal of en a wooden ball to toss into a money to spend." If the Victor- large box divided into numbered ian Duke of Teck was not of the squares. As the balls drop into blood royal, he was grandfather the squares their numbers and of a future King of England, colour are shouted out, and the which gave point to his lament "Here I am, players whose cards bear any of on the occasion: those numbers with correct co-grandfather of the heir to the lour cover them on their card throne, and how much pocket with pieces of cardboard. When money do you think I've got to a player has five numbers of last me till the end of the month? any one colour covered she shouts four and eightpence."
It was another prince who "House" and is awarded a prize. Groceries were given at first to thought that his allowance was London prize-winners, but fol-most insufficient and wrote to lowing complaints by shop keep-Queen Victoria, his grandmother, ad- for more. He received .an ers this was stopped.
The number of the booths monitory letter of refusal which grows daily, for so keen is play he acknowledged by saying that that the "hours of business" on he had been able to sell the roy four days, including Sunday, are al signature for half a sovereign
and so was in funds again. up to mid-night.
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Penal Reform
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An Accomplished Chef
The Home Government's bill News of the death of Dowager for reform of the penal system Lady Granville turns back some It was she contains a number of important pages of history. provisions which have the back-who entertained Mr. Gladstone ing of public opinion as well as at Walmer, and may have been that of various departmental associated with the only record- committees. It aims at an exten- ed instance of Mr. Gladstone's sion of the reformative principle trying to smoke. It was cer- in the treatment of law-breakers, tainly she who kept so excellent and many of its provisions are a chef that people were accus- designed to keep young offen, tomed to make some rather dis- ders out of the prisons. State paraging comparisons between Remand Homes, Compulsory At the Gladstone menage and that tendance Centres, to which of the Granvilles. On one occa- young offenders must go in their sion a guest, walking away from leisure hours, and the extension a Gladstone dinner, remarked to to courts of summary jurisdic- Granville, "How different from tion of power to pass sentences yours which : are so excellent; and "I am of Borstal training are among this was so very bad.” the reforms proposed. For per-sorry, " said Granville, "especial- sistent offenders the bill pro-ly as this one happens to have vides for sentences of corrective been cooked by our chef." -
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