CHRISTMAS
IN
NEW YEAR.
1920/1921.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 301
*WEATHER BEFORT.
November 29th at 12.13-Xa returne from Japan.
decreased slightly over *Pressure has ABARET DINNER DANCES will be held Formosa and the east coast of Chins, and CABA
increased slightly everywhere: the anth exelong has moved into the Sea of Japan.
Loderate monsoon will prevail over the north part of the Chios Ses.
as follows. Desenian 24ru, CHRISTMAS EVE,
EKPULSE BAY HOTEL DECEMBER 25TH, CHRISTMAS NIGHT, AL HONGKONG, HOTEL. DECEMBER WIE; BOXING DAY,"
REPULSE BAY HOTEL DECEREA S1ST, NEW YEAR'S EVEAN
REPULSE BAY HOTEL Patrons are kindly regnested to make table reservations early in view of the fact that accommodation is limited.
Alterations at the Rarezan BAY HOTEL LIS being carried out with a view to doubling the
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Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. bo-day, 017-Inch Total dos Jan 16, 1060 inches against an STONES QË 81,85 inches.
The foreosst for the 24 hours ending apon day, is se follows:
floor capacity for Dancing: such altermons Hongkong to Gap Rook will be completed before the above dalek
J. E. TAGGART,
Managery
1828
Formosa Channel
A. G. DA ROCHA
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OHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
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NOVEMBER 297, A.M.
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Barometer
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at Sea Level.
Temperature
Humidity
| Dirpation.
Weather.
Force,
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THE FALL IN PRICE THROUGH SLUMP TO
TRADE
THE QUESTION OF LIMITENG SUPPLE
HYGIENE AND THE CINEMA. CARE OF THE CHILDREN'S EYES AND: NERVES,
The medical correspondens of a home paper writes
several medical considerations are involv ed in the muversal spread of the picture (BY BIR LEO CHTOZZA HONET.)
theatre Of these that most obvious Is ocular Expert evidence on this matter Ia Regent-street the other day I brought before the Cinema Comission tered a big crowd before a shop window which told the attractive tale that a West whion not in 1917, and the proper conditions End tailor was prepared to make une a suit of exhibition were laid down in the in
employed on or overcoat for the caxy sum of five guineas torstai, especialy of young ayes Wild paid in advance. An enormous business exaggertion has been
show: was apparently being done. I know nothing theme. There is abundant evidence to
the cloth used as the methode employed, that the modem morisshow does no harm stady Careful BATO the firm in question has ou oo to the eyes of young or old
that casion served me very well, but I am quite, has been made of the eyes of persons who sure that the cager throng of buyers are professionally required in their capacity whatever happened to them, was ropes as censors, for instance to look at this for sentative of the trade that ought to be, mang houtwerery day, and it is estabiuxbed and might be as distinguished from the that their eyes are no more liable to injury trade that is The market has been done than if they were employed in any other way to
death by high prices. If there is short In pass years the comments of ourists, we of time in Lancashire and Yorkshire, it is not other people, on this subject tended to show because the needs of the people hays fallen that they were nos personally familiar with Potential demand is always with us, but the cunctions in question, but doubtless even the rest of demand for cotton shirts at 206, and for ocalists haunt the movies like worsted units at £18, is
£18, is necessarily small. us nowadays, man
Children love these places, and constitute THE TURN OF THE TIDE T
a special problem in pygiene. The child's There is rly every
lly every reason to rejoice that
eye, for instance, demands especial care, but the turn of the tide has come, and that the cheapest rests are often too near the prices are falling here as in America: We shall eve
screen, and there the children are to be round. never win to a larger production until pro-Anything, again, that closely congregates
a fall in values. duction itself is liberstad
of the We have only to remind
the
Virtud of the respiratory infections of the
ung chidren out of the sun and air favours
and short-lived Acol 200, of
measles and whooping cough. A
and"
teen seventies, mas
understand that if a great.
high of trade
standard of ventilation rould there.
a distinguished from a great faxy vainafore be rightly required of the picture theatre; and, to tell the truth, the ventilation in these tion is to be arrived there must be an places is on the average, incomparably interim period of liquidation. Let us set superior to that of the school, the church, or down the price figures of 1673, 1891 and the home. MIND OF THE
and
1900. Each of these were your hat the "good" trade of 1873 was a feverish THE MIND OF THE CHILD, consequence of the Franco-German tawar, and while the booms of 1891 and 1900 were at much lower prices, they represented a much greater volume of trade, and brought much more real income to our people..
Board of
Trade Wholesale Price Index Number $1900-1000
102 107 -100
Boom Years - 1873 1891 1900 Here the prices of 1900 are taken as 100 and the prices of the other years expressed as pertentages of those of 1900 The Liquids tion of 1678-1879 was the necessary precarior of the better and saner times to follow. The 149 of 1873 dropped to 120 in 1870 and to 107 in 1885. History repeats itself, but with varis tions, and no one can either foratall the extent of the coming fall or pretend to time its course. T
THE BOOK FOR REACTION.
The rise in prices has been much greater. than in the eighteen-seventies, and the con sequent reaction is likely to be "commen surata we write down the war and past war index numbers and compare them with those of former years, we can realise how great is the possible margin of movement ----
1873
The chikl, again, affords a special problem because of its susceptiblity to repressions and the danger of terrifying, equating, or otherwise shocking it unadly. Very many of the plays we see would seem, unsuitable for children from the psychological points I Lelieve Last of view. In fact, however, this has been aimust as much exaggerated
the
eyestrain theory. Some anxiety which I have entertained on various 'QUCSS= fans when favoured with the company or a highly intelligent nve-year-old giri, VOW of unexpectedly alarming or dreadrul si- ations, has been entirely uncalled for. The child speedily becomes aware that all will come right in the end, and does not distress herself unduly. Nor am so sure always told, that s child, as we are
is incapable or distinguishing between make believe and truth. Fortunately for oar self-estecin, we forget how intelligent we were as children. Of course, res ponsible person would take schuld to the pictures without trying to choose the pro- gramme, without careful observation of the child's sleep, in especial, therearter.
The extraordinary power of the living thing seen has suggested the use of the films for the teaching of hygiene, a well as many
other subjects. 11 Great Britain this development has been, and is very slow. Even now we are inquiring into the poun) - tility of this or that which has been proved Boart of and used in the United States for years past. Trade Wholesale Elderly teachers who have never seen a mov- Prices Index Numbering picture, and whose mental in largó,
are given demoration of films.
1000 (Bass Year of Inder)
1913
War Years.
1915
1918 Peace 1919
152
-100"
116
144
180
243
267
296
and declare themselves confused and deceived by what is flashed before them. Others as sure us that to learn without effort is not to of the thing is ita con- learn; the facility clemnation, the real thing must necessarily be laborious, if not actually painful. Under theso... conditions naturally progress is slow, But in the United States the educational uses of the cinema are generally, recognised and large numbers also of the churches, con- stantly increasing, are using this instrument regularly in their work. It is estimated that in five years eighty per cent of the churches vill have a cinema
THE END OF THE BOD
MELACHRINO'
THE CIGARETTE ELECT OF ALL ATIONS.
We have made a reduction
on the following numbers :——
Old prices
Revised prices
$4.75
$4.25
No. 4
3.75
3.50
No.
3.25
2.75
No.
2.25
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A return to the level of 1918 may be as complished within a comparatively short period, but different commodities will be 52 degrees, very unequally affected. In some cases pre- is cheswar prices will be quickly reached-indeed, are being reached as I write. In others, eg, Raw coal such a reaction is imposable.
& gen- materials and foodstuffs will eral but unequal fall, and manufactures will in many cases react sharply. It is not diff- cult thus to generalise with truth; what is impossible is to date the movements facts of venereal disease in a memorable, THEATRE Hence, the difficulties of the trade at such accurate, and decent fashion, and, which has time as this Judgment is paralysed by a done good work in Great Britain under the thousand uncertainties
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade, is Fahrenheit.
9. HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, the humidity of air, saturated with moisture being
100.
Scale
DIRECTION OF WID, to two points. FORCE 91 WIRD, according to Beaufort
6 STATE OF WEATHER, b bins sky, o detached cloud, il drizzing rain, f fog, g gloomy, ball, lightning, o overcast, p pasang showers,
que min, a snow, t thunder, viability,
w daw wet.
7. Bax, in inches, t tenths and hundreds. “
O. W. JEFTRICS, Director.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN -HONGKONG.
ROH NOVIMELZ.
Dato.
November
8unrise.
i pra"
RESISTANCE. TO THE FALL
An admirable example of the educational use of the cinema may be found in "The
medica-social End of the Road, an American production. which taught the main
*
gta of the Ministry of Health. It is high time that our teachers, hygienists, and moralists began to make full use of this Producers of the commodities already most influential of modern inventions Our mainly affected are taking action to stay business is to save the people.This we the downward course of prices The British can only do by means which reach them
The Possible Bearing and Dutch rubber producers, who control If a lecture on, says he neatly all the world's rubber, have unanini-on Sanitary Administration of Certain in the Entomology of the ously resolved, in council at The Hague, to Recent Advances cut down output to make the law of supply Dipters, he effered them on one poster and demand amenable to discipline.
LONG LIFE, LTD."
HONG KUNG.
Commencing MONDAY, December 6th, at 9.15 p.m.
WARWICK COMEDY
COMPANY
Presented by a distinguished cast,
MONDAY, Dec. 8th:-
Douglas Murray's Recent Success, "UNCLE NED.”
and a picture show on the next, they turn In a repertoire of recent London successes Indian and Ceylon Tea Associations have in to the latter. Why not give them there done the same. In certain manufactares, even a mere five minutes on the loath thus per short-time is being worked to the end. Most some habita of the house-fly and extraordinary of all, in America the cotton soude them, even if painlessly, to become planters are organising night-riders who active agents against such vehicles
notices that arson disease 1 upon the ginners notices serve will be the reward of those who produce too much. It is not a little remarkable that should be concurrent with all those things sho Buset the cry that we must Produce More. It is
U.E. MONEY TO DEVELOP GLAND' THEORY. pleasant to turn from stories of hold-up to the records; also available, of price reduction,
Several American Gnanciers and doctors Burels demand active. to make
potential nothing
is more certain than that, in the bave recently founded a company to exploit long run, the world of work will not tolerate the discovery made by Professor Bleinach, the existence of national and international of Vienna combinations to withhold essential materials The professor believes that after several What the world needs is plenty, years of experiments with human glands, for which cheapness is but another name he is able to prolong the life of an ordia- ary healthy individual of either sex to at least 100 years by his medical process
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12th
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Messrs. XXLLY & WALSH, IS Moure Barwan de Ouren
from use
THE MOTO-GAR AND CYCLE SLUMP.
TUESDAY, Dec 7th!
HV. Eamond's Delightful Comedy, "THE LAW DIVINE." From Wyndham's Theatre. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8th: Borace Annersley Vachell's powerful play, "THE CASE OF LADY CAMBER” From the Strand Theatre THURSDAY, Dec. 9th :——
Hubert Henry Davis' Witty Batire,
***DOORMATS.
From the Globe Theatre.
The motor car and motor cycle industries It is stated that if the coming interview are experiencing special troubles, but surely of the Americans with Dr. Steinschis they were to be expected. Last year it was satisfactory, the company will start opera remarked in these notes that bristling tions with a capital of a million dollars FRIDAY, Dec. 10th
attached to a luxurious sido- (nominally £200,000), with, beadquarters mor and costing in all, anything from
car
both in Vienna and, New York in order to HV Encad's Charming Comedy of Youth, to £200, could hardly represent permanent institution So with motor can give a wider scope to the professor's dis" WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-
Thecovery.-Daily Express,
number of rich people in Europe able
to maintain expensive cars is very limited,
but the rotor car makers of Europe proceed
ed after the war as though the rich market
REVIVAL OF THIGEATION,
ONE,
From the Criterion Theatre, SATURDAY, Dec. 11th
The Roaring Fercical Comedy, ELIZA COMES TO STAY
From the Criterion Theatre! the emigration from the United crudely measured by the MONDAY, Dec. 13th
were unlimited. The Olympia Show of 1910 One of the meataignificant and leash offered very little to the man of moderate noticed things is the revival of emigration means. So in a year we have passed from on a big scale. In the first six months of
no delivery promised at any price to th "prices reduced ;. immediate guaranteed.
acts of British nationality outwards
Here there is no remedy
CAPTAIN DREW
From the Savoy Theatre.” TUESDAY: Dec. 14th
Oscar Wilde's Batirical Mudderpiced,
save in the seeking of a bigger extra Hubert Harry Davies Successful Comedy,
from such places, was at the rate Coventry, whether as to motor cars – or sengers motor cycles, must either serve the million of nearly 140,000 a year. This is over one- and shows that or conduct a restricted trade. As Lore-
half the pre-war rate
revived as soon as shipping marked at the time, tha motor-cycle show emigradable and 20 spite of high are at Olympia fr November 1919, had only one machine priced at less than £40; yet the number of people able to pay von 240 for sach a purpose is small.
(Continued as "foot of neat Column.)
A WOMAN OF NO
IMPORTANCE.”
con crable majority of famales in the United the migrants are mainly men, the
The sub- Kingdom continues to increase. fect is of great importance and we shall plans Hous's. Book well in advance. have occasion to return to it-Observer,
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