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DETACHABLE SPIEIT COOKIE.
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STUBBORN COUGHS
BRONCHITIS
WEAK LUNGS
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THE LONG CHAIR
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL ✨ra, 1913.
It is the earliest purchase made by a griffin with the English gold in bis Lon don-cut pocketa; in the last article that the veteran worn with battle sells at the final auction of his household goods before he quits the East for the calm of slippered retirement. It is not a mere chair of somewhat unwieldy dimensione. It in the Soul of the East.
Many, nay most, if asked to name the one indispensable piece of furniture out. here would plump unhesitatingly for a long chair We once heard of a man who refused to leave a cannibal island on which be had been cast away for several years simply because, on being rescued, he was not allowed to take on board with him a wired contraption of bamboo, attap and string which, during his long exile, be had fashioned in the likeness of a long chair. The captain of the resening vessel had no grent discrimination in art or aesthetics, and though fully appreciative of the ingenuity of the marooned man, and willing even to confess that the contriv ance might, in time to come, succeed in vaguely resembling a chair, was neverthe- less disinclined to take it aboard his over- loaded ahip even as an article de vertu.
So the offer of assistance was refused
by
that castaway with some heat, and the misguided fellow continued to plough his lonely furrow, content, when the labours of the day were done and over, to return to the soothing arms of his long chair.
Thia touching legend illustrates an in- disputable fact. A fool and his money may or may not be soon parted-it de- penda on whether poker or a kindred game of chance or some lethal weapon be the But means used for extracting the ore. even a fool will not part with a long chair once he has found one that fits his elegant shape, one that yields to the contours of his gracefully disposed limbs. It is better to die of a broken heart or indeed of a broken purse than to tolerate a broken. back when the mercary is melting in the thermometer
Probably was gradually evolved, from the idea of an occasional bed, a couch that in emergency Would serve in a twofold function-for sleep at night and by day relaxation. Certainly it could never have. sprung suddenly and complete from any brain, for in its present perfection it re- presents the crystallised experience of many generations, and embodies the accre- tions and aabtle improvements in the shape of folding arms and legs, hond-reats and paper-racks, and (most important of all) tumbler-holders that have suggested themselves to divers ingenious if slothful persons.. If we were to be told now that the long chair existed in ancient China, where indeed most modern contrivances had their genesis, or that, say, Cleopatra reposed on some such seat as this in her wonderous progresses down the gorgeous Nile, we almost think we should pine away and die. No. No. The consummate artis- try of it could not have been the outcome of any but the Anglo-Saxon genius for adapting comfort to climate. Without it, India and the East would never have been held so long-in-fee by Britain, for it is the only thing (now that one can get fresh curries in London) that reconciles the white man to his years of exile in laride of the sun.
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WINE MERCHANTS,
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Wherever one goes out of Europe one meets the long chair. On the other hand, it is curious how, in the West, it seems to crumple up and fade away. Somehow or other it does not seem to fit in with the scheme of things in England. We have reen one amid the doles far niente sur- roundings of an English lawn before a bungalow by the river, or more rarely per- haps on the deck of a houseboat under the trees. But all these long chairs wore a forlorn look, and most people seemed. suspiciously to shun them, even on the hottest days of summer. Anglo-Indians is prepared to purobase for carh existing, or to KAUNEU who have had sufficient determination to be ornated, issues of Bonds or Debentures well
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KOWLOON MARINE LOT 43, Tammati Area: 15,200 aquam feed with 255 feat Sms Frouf age. Especially suited for Storage o Coal, timber, do,
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526
THE KOWLOON HOTEL PREMISES THE
with Flower and Vegetable Gardens Suitable for Mess. Immediato poriscendon.
Apply to
THE SPANISH PROJURATION,
2. Beymour Road. Hongkong, 14th February, 1912
TO LET.
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GODOWN, No. 4 New Praya. Kenned,
Town.
Apply
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST
MEFT & AGENCY CO., LD. Bongbong, 1st April, 1912.
1120
TO BE LET,
ON OR ABOUT 18T MAY, 1912.
SHOPS and OFFICE, in Alex andra Buildings, adjoining the Hongkong Dispensary, at present occupied by Messrs. Wm. Powell, Ltd.
A. 8. WATSON & Co., LTD.,
Alexandra Buildings. Bongkong, 29th August, 1911,
TO LET.
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*AUDIOBA First Class Boarding House with
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bring a long chair back from the tropics |essured on sound revenné-produeing properties 公各群理磅頭安有於街
have almost invariably ended by relegat ing them to the lumber room. And we have remarked, too, how the deck-steward appears to keep his stock of long chairs discreetly in the background until Suez or Adon lies behind the steamer's wake, for the good men knows full well that, even in the languid airs of the Mediterranean these articles of ease are, so to speak, depaysh, out of their element, not exactly in the picture.
But behold them under warm skies in the high ceiled rooms that the trades blow through," or under the alter-awning of a vessel slowly cleaving tropic seas. What more graceful and natural portion of the mise-en-scene with their outstretch- ed arms inviting: slumber or repose! Cradle of our fatigue, essence of sublime ease, refuge from the weariness of these lands of sternal regrets, whereon we lie and muse in the half-sleeping, half-waking stage that precedes digestion or that follows répletion? Here we can dream of an endless succession of triumphs that would have been ours, had only the other man not been there, or had we said the proper words at the proper moment. Here we can plan and map out so well the great things we are one day to accomplish when we can find time to "begin." Here, too, we can meditate on the comforts at Home that those lucky rubber shares are one day to provide for us. From its depths at early morn or dewy eve we can survey the whole of Life, the past with its disappointments, the pre- sent with its necessities and the future with its possibilities, our friends and our enemies, with their good qualities of mind and heart and their trifling meannesses of word or pocket, and, last of all, our- selves a wander in dim woods with our own steps meeting us. Viewed from such a point, things take an aspect they would otherwise never wear. Thus only ran we behold life in true perspective., This only are we philosophers. resting in our long chairs we never grow old.
Thus
But we grow very sleepy sometines. I'm off to bed.-Derrick Dire in the Singapore Free Pres
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Large Dining Room, Thirty Badreoms and Alghteen Bathrooms. Flans to be seen at our
Office.
Apply-
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Alexsudrs Bulblings. Hongkong, 20th March, 1912 [481 OFFICES TO LET.
CIRST CLAS8, central accommodatiou,
No. 12, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE First Floor,
No. 13, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, First Floor.
WESTWARD HQ," No. 13, Banham.
with Ga den.
Rord,
"KOGATE" Austin Road, Kowloon, from let April,
EGGESFORD,"
No, 114, PEAR. Fornished or Unfurnished from 1st April, 1912 6 ROOMS.
No. 57, PRAYA GRANDE, Mass. Apply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
3rd Floor, Alexandra BuildingA Hongkong, 3rd April, 1912
1122
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
TOTO KISEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
8.8. "SHINYO MARU.”
FROM SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS and MANILA.
THE
THE above-named Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified to send in their Bills of Lading for Counter- signature, and to take immediate delivery of Cargo from alongside..
ths .
Cargo remaining undelivered on WEDNESDAY, 3rd inst, at 8 P... will be landed at Con- pignees' risk and expense and delivery must then
o whatever will be offested, No Fire Insurance No Claims will be recognised after the Goods
be
taken from Company's Govee wall
have left the Steamer or Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered on WEDNESDAY, the 10th inst afternoon, will be subject to rent and Innding charges.
All chafed and otherwise damaged Cargo to be left on board or Godown, and examination of same to be arranged,
All Claims must be fled on or before SATURDAY, the 13th inst., otherwise they will not be recognised.
Hongkong, 1st April, 1912.
K. MATSDA,
Agent.
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FROM EUROPE.
HE HAL. Steamship
THE
"C. FERD. LADISZ,” Captain Selmer, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the bazardous and/or extra-hazardous Goduwas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Smallest transactions considered, £40,000; EN EEight and airy, on First, Second, or Third Co., Ltd., whence delivery may be obtaine
No speculative propositions entertained,便欸及交金跌有物干
程款本度意息股百燕 設 JDARIKUAR
largest, £400,000, Only principals or their rapresentatives corresponded with; Agents ignored. Booklet explaining how millions of Founde sterling have already been invested; advantages offered to borrowers and particulare required, will be sent only to principals or their representatives, on application in English, French, German or Spanish, to the-
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Floor, in new milding being erected for MESSES, WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW & 00. LTD. Entrance from Des Voeux Road. Electric Lift to all door, Electric Light 行 throughone;
obtained at the Offices of MESARS. FALMER The plan can be seen and all particulars TURNER, Alexandra Buildings, 3rd For Hongkong, 15th March, 1912
I
Purchase Department, INVESTMENT REGISTRY, LTD, 2, Waterloo Place, London, BW,
England.
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CALVERT'S
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is a healthy habit, for either personal use or household purposes-and it is not expensive. 469
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TO LET
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against Bille-of-Lading countersigned by the Undersigned.
to
of
Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice the contrary be given TO-DAY.
All Claims must be prosented within ten days
the steamer's arrival here, after which date
they cannot be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th inst. will be subject to rent
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods must be left in the Godowns, where they will be
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in Any case whatever.
OFFICES on 3rd Floor, Hotel Mansions examined on the 10th inst., at 9.30 A.5.
Harbour.
OFFICES on 1st Floor, Hotel Mansions.
Apply to
HENRY HUMPHREYS,
Alexandra Buildings.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1912,
TO LET
OFFICE in Alexandra-Balldings
388
Apply
'A. §. WATSON & Co., LTD.,
Alexandre Buildings. Hongkong 26th February 1912. [367
This Steam or brings on Carges.
Ex 8.8. Germania" from Gothenburg,
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, "Hongkong Of66" Hongkong, 5th April, 1912.
(648
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
TO LET WELLBURN TEBAR 6 ROOMS
from June, 1918. STILLINGFLETE," No. 4, Peak Road, 6-Roomed House in healthly locality with good view of Harbour.
Apply to
PEROY SMITH, SETH & FLEMING,obtained.
5. Queen's Bead Central.
(417 Hongkong, 5th April, 1912
OFFICES TO LET.
POOMS on the 1st Floor of Wm. Powell New Building, Des Four host
Central; suitable for Offices; Electric Light, Lift, Lavatories with all Modern Conveniences
May be inspected on application to
---WM POWELL, LTD, ・・・
Alexandra Buildings.
[383 Hongkong, 29th February, 1912,
TO LET.
FFICES in. KING'S BUILDING.
Apply fo
THE HONGKONG 7 AND INVES) MENT & AGENGY CO. LD Hongkong, 1st April, 1912.
(12)
"KLEIST." laying arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception. of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the kassadous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery" may be Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees BEFORE NOON TO-DAY requesting it to be
landed here.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining andelivered after the 12th inst, will be subject
to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods aro to be left in the God as, where they will bỡ I on the 12th Inst., at 9.30a.m.
As must reach us before the 19th-
or they will not be recognized. No Fire Insuranco will be effected,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
This Steamer brings Cargo
· Ex Le. "Orsoolo” from Venezia vis Port
Suid-
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Ca,
General Agente..
Hongkong, 5th April, 1912.