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XMAS HAMPERS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1STE,
We beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following Reduced. Bates —
No. 1 HAMPE~$36.
2 Qta. St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial
1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
Champagne.
1 Pt. Blackberry Brandy, 1 Pt. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.
2 Qia. King Geo. IV. or Perfection
Whisky.
No. 2 HAMPER-—$30,
1:Qt. Guillemart Champagne.
1 PL. D.O.M.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brands.
2.Qts. King Geo. IV. or Perfection
2 Q18. Taway Dry Port.
2 Qts. St. Julien Claret.
Whisky.
1 Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin,
1 Qt. Vins de Pasto Sherry.
1 phial Pomaranzan Bitters.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry B.B.
1 Qt. D.C.I Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.". 1phin! Pomersazan Bitters.
No. 3 HAMPER-$26
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1 Pt. G. F. Peppermint.
1 Pt. D.O.M.
2 Qts. Sup. RO. Port.
2 Qua King Geo, 17. or Perfection
1 Qt. Engrad's XXX Brandy.
1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry W.9.
Whisky
1 Qt. D.CL. Old Tom or Dry Gin. :
2 Qts. Medoc Claret.
1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters,
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HOW TO KEEP FIT.
THE JOY OF LIVING.
"NO BUNY. LIKE WORK.“
[BY THE MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT OF
THE TIMEST
There are certain men whom we avoid by crossing the street
The mere sight of them roujures up visions of misery-complaints, grievances, grumbles. These are the people who see no future for British trade, who consider that the day of the small man is end who count the number of bank- ruptcies in each year, and know, with lugubrious certainty, the number that may be expected shortly.
They are, also the sea who never had! a chance themselves because Irom the outset they were, hampered by lack of. capital.
A very great physician, with a prac tice arong city men, once advised a young girl in the writer's bearing never to marry anyone who used the phrase: "If only I had a little capital of ty Such individuals, he de
ere the male counterpart of the who say that they were misunder stood at home.
On the other hand, there are people whom wo meet with peculiar delight To meet them is to taste the fullest Bavour of life and to see everything in
light a brighter
They are not always agreeable fellows Some of them are decidedly aggressive, that But they possess Fude. even magical quality which is strength. The great in all walks of life belong to this Category
The energy they radiate suffices for the needs of a hundred others.
SALT OF THE EUTI..........
Such men are not only the leaders of enterprise; they are also a tonic to the world in which they live. In some strange and subtle way; they seem to con- fer mental and physical fitness on those associated with them.
fit
And yet only the
few ever pro-
in their own lives by the example which these big personalities display Their secret is, so obvious that most of do not even trouble to read it. We at second. inward strength prefer our
S
hand.
That secret is not so much will-power and determination, as the joy of living. The man who always needs a little capital is the man who lives wearily, without mirth or adventure.
Could he suddenly open his eyes and he so often big men see life as the reviles see it he would complain: no longer. The less capital he had the getong greater would be his enjoyment in
"There is no fim like work," is the secret thought of the people who cant in this world.
All men cannot be big. But most mers would be bigger than they are if they enjoyed themselves more in their work The first step in that direction is to avoid grumbles fist as one avoid's grum blers. Once the little capitak at titude of mind has been abandoned per manently all sorts of things become possible.
For business henith differs very little from bodily health. Those keep it who refuse to be ill and who refuse to think in terms of unfitiées"
Moreover, bodily health and business health are very closely allied. The sock-
e a little capital is usually a weedy
No doubt that fact affords him another grievance against fate, hut more often than not if is his own fault.
Were be to change his frame of mind and get capital instead of regretting its. absence he would, in many instances at least, get health with it. The idea that self-made men ennoot enjoy themselves by reason of unhtness is a mytu.
OHARACTERISTIC OP SUCCESS.
Indeed, it is common knowledge among doctors that the distinguishing mark of successful men and women is their robust strength or rather the vast amount of energy they contrive to get out of their physical frames.
Even delicately-built successful people pocreation..
sess astonishing powers of work and
of
It is the mental attitude which counts first, last, and all the time.
When we have put grumbling bebind us we can take the positive step of put ting an am in front of us. The, nature of this malters but little
What is really significart, is the foel that the mind now possesses a means of the measuring itself, day by day, against
which inspires it.
доре
Very similar is the attitude of the athlete training for some."
event.
be
grows stronger than his former sell enuse he has. set out to grow stronger than his opponents or competitors.
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Any science of fitness which omits this business fitness 2 failure, Happiness foredoomed to
famods. cocap
definition, consists in a congenial
with a sense of progress r
Most occupations are vided that they are recognised as means to
follows end. The happiness which
recognition transfused throughout the whole being
And happiness but another name for. 1 health.
A. UNIVERSITY NOT A SOVIET
In connection with an", setign" before Lord Darling, which was sattled, the guy Cam erning body of St. Peter's College, hridge, granted permission to a plaintiff to resume residence at the college next term without any imputation apon his. character, and plaintiff, withdrawing
admitted that the plea a ultra vires, complete control of discipline must remain in the hands of the governing body."
Lord Darling remarked that the statute gave practically unlimited authority to the people in power. Otherwise, what was now a college in a distinguished university. would be governed by a Boviet which would not be an improvement on any form of British Government.
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IT IS THE
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Simplest and most trouble-free type of motor ever invented.
It has the most distnctive and gracefully balanced body of any car
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The Willys-Knight car is the four cylinder motored car that makes the six
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The Knight muter is stealin principle. The calves on two cylindrical aloeven with rectangular alota or ports which when they register with each other and the porta in the block allow the ingrese and egreas of the gases without obstraction. These wide open passages, particularly on the exhaust aide, permit a more thorough cleaning of the barat gases from the combustion chamber than any other type of mater, so that every ounce of energy available Malized from the explosive mixture, which gives na sack tremendous power
2-It has no valve to grind and no carbon to clean.
The combustion chamber is completely surrounded by water and an alloy piston noted for its great heat radiating qualities is used so neither the combustion chamber nor the head of the piston gets hot enough to bake the residine from the exposed gases to form carbon while there is still enough heat maintained to handle the explosive mixture effectively.
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-It is the only type of motor that improves with use,
While carbon can not form in the combustion chamber, still a certain amount of the residue from the burnt. gases works up behind the wide sealing ring in the cylinder head and as this building in process obtains, it keeps pushing this scaling ring more tightly against the inner sleeve until it completely seals the compression obamber developing more power with every mile the motor is drawn.
It is the only type of motor that wears in while other wears cut.
All parte in the Willys-Knight car se assembled with wide clearance between each other and oil is forced into these clearances under heavy pressure so that the entire assembly is lapping or wearing in on these heavy. Bime of ail instead of wearing out. In other words, every bearing in this motor is as oil bearing stead of a metal to metal bearing which is necessary in the construction of a peppet valve motor in order to keep it quist with subsequent quick wows and noise,
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It has eliminated one hundred and sixty two quick wearing paris necessary in the operation of a sylindered poppet, valva motor. There are no hammering parts such as came ririking against push rods, paah zada againsi valve stems, or valve heads mapping back into their seats through the medium of heavy springs, etn
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