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MARTELL'S
ONE STAR
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TWO STAR
V. S. O.
THREE STAR
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1984.
BRANDIES.
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RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK There was once a Man who wished to AFWAL (FULLI«PAND) build for himself a house. Sa ha hied | Exsnava FORD
Cantate GovELIKES:
Rouble ... 55,000,000 ***$8,840,000 Kep. The 2,500,000 1,750,000
BOTTLED IN COGNAC] him to a Master-builder and said "Brüd Capital ConTRIBUTED AT TER
AND GUARANTEED
me a house" which the latter readily con-BERKATE FUND sented to do. The House was built, and the 'Man went to live therein. Unfortun
PURE GRAPE BRANDY ately, the master.builder had omitted
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both doors and windows, while the roof he had made of paper-this latter being an experiment which the master-builder re. garded as moet interesting. The Man on
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ing paid the master-builder no little part of his fortune, the house costing only some twenty-five per cent more than he had bargained for. But the roof was, of course, an extra, while it was clear that the bricks which the master-builder had supplied and placed in the windows and door cost him vastly more than the holem | which he had undertaken to provide.
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As time wore on; the Man again thought that he would have himself built a house, hut, yielding to the advice of friends, be took himself to an Expert. The latter gladly undertook to design the house and, after Que labouring, produced a very pret ty picture (incading a pony phaetona Hels-Royce motor-car and a forest of E zabethan yew-trees). The architect was
ighted with it. ns, indeed, was the i
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without delay gave orders to commence building-n little mortifed, per- haps, when the lowest tender was a quar had es
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timated and the tender
the architect was exactly double. It was
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inter that the urapecessful (and lowest) tenderer described by the architeci us an fellow and in no way to be re-
Barried out a work for the anme architect shortly afterwards next dloor;
that architects-very properly. in order to safeguard their clients-are paid for what they spend, not for what they save.
The house was duly built and was a great success. Unfortunately, within a week after it had been built, a wind came and blew it down.. The contractor-who most sympathetic about it had by an oversight which no one regretted more than himself emitted the foundations, lime and cement in the mortar and nails in the wood-work. As the architect, when re- ceiving his fee for supervising the build- ing, witsily remarked" You know what thave
contractors are." Which he did, and That was That.
A trifle discouraged, the Man went to live in a cavo, where not being used to being a caveman, he fell ill. Having pro ted by experience, he realised the ad- consulted specialists of various excellences of seeking expert advice. So ho und specialities. Indeed, their excellence and the gravity of his illness are manifest when I say that he had his appendix, all his teeth and three metres point five seven of colon removed, was treated for Freud's Complex and prayed at for sin ning in respect of an enlarged Masteid. Feeling, however, little the merrier, which was strange, he read The Doctor's Dilemma" and, after a pleasant month on a diet of lentits and nut-steaks, hied
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This doctor, much to the relief of the Man. ridiculed the specialists as a set of Cranks and Quacks; so treated him. haring the influenza, for mumps, vac- cinated him and gave him an injection of Moseatin (against the Yellow Fever) for luck. As he remarked with much comman sense:You never can tell.
Feeling no better, curiously enough, the Man at length came neross a Fellow of
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Common Boxse, one about whom there Pottinge Street. Tel. C. 3212. was No. Nodwense. This fellow said "Don't, béliete a word these Doctor chaps ll you. What you want is a ten mile walk
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Which advice the Man took; except that be missed the port, having unfortunately died half-way through the pudding."
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CANCER RESEAR H
GERMAN DOCTORS! - CLAIM.
Many disappointment January 6th.
impose the great-
rst caution in the reception of reports of alleged substantial progress in cancer r search. One gether the pretensiell be recorded that cannot, however, ignors alta! of acknowledged; scientists. Thus it in the latest number of the Wiener Alinis- che Wochenschrift, Professor Freund and a lady doctor named Kaminer claim to have established that cancer can be pre- vented by suitable dieting. Their con- clusions are the result of ten years' inve tigation.
Experiments carried out during period have satisfied them that the blood serum of healthy persons contains a e absent frum that of cancer which destroys the cells of malignant growths. This substance they found to consist of
an-called saturated dicarbonic acids, which are present in the intestinal canal and the thymus glands as wall.
ng in the blood serum. The action of the gland mentioned is believed to play La large part in counteracting canocroar tendencies. It was discovered that the bload of infauts is whom the gland is still fully developed was twenty-five times toare
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