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As Peps tablets dissolve in the mouth, they give off the balsamic lung healing fumes of the pink forest. This breatheable Tens medicine is wonderly strength ening to weahaued gas, i opens up the clogged air-intes, and has an invigorating,antiseptic "and "fortifying action on
entire breathing system.
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The dotted lines and arrows indi cate how Pepe reach visual inner puris,
inflammation and irritation of the debate lining trembrane is.. quickly allayed by Páps, stringy Phlegm is kosened and expelled, and oxious disease-germs infest. ing the throat and breathing-tubes ure,speedily destroyed.
Peps are the ideal and long- sought remedy for obstinate coughs, influenza colds, night chills, wheeziness and tightness of chest, sore throat, laryngitis,, children's chest weaknesses, bron- chial asthma, old-folks' coughs, bronchitis and other affections of the breathing organs.
Take Peps whenever you go.. outdoors into the night air, as a precautionsgainst colds and chills. Ako in a crowded assembly or travelling conveyance a Peps tablet in the mouth safeguards ` against infection from long sufferers, and agains: many "a deadly germ-disease inhabiting the dust-laden air.
PEPS are obtainable in sealed bottles of medialne dealers in Hongkong, Shanghai, eta, or from Agents-Mesara, Wakefield & Ca" (China), Ltd., Szechuten Loud, Shangha
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Mr. Baldwin presided on October 14th your physical endurance, but you will at 10, Downing Street, over the first certainly not damage your brain You formal meeting of the Cabinet Committed will never auccoed in, using your brain on Economy, and will continue, as he a up to its full capacity."
nounced in his Brighton speech, to act as
These were some of the striking re chairman of this body until it has com- marks made by Sir Arthur Koith in his pleted its' survey of the whole field of address on The Student Habit," de national expenditura livered at the opening of the winter session of King's College Hospital.
The student habit, ho said, was compa. ratively rare among the "peoples of Western Europe. They produced, hov. over, the highest form of students that the world now had. Learning thrived in Western Europe because is had fallen on
Other members of the Committee are Mr. urchill, the Earl of Birkenhead, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir W. Joye on-Hicks, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, and Viscount Peel. It will be noted that the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secre tary for War, and the Secretary for Air,
who are the heads of the three great
a strong and virgin soil, one which had spanding departments, dre net taking not been wasted by the exhausting cropa ture on the Services for which they are
part in the investigation. The expendi
of a long continued literate civilisation.respectively responsible is, as is well
known, under close examination by a separate Committee under the chairman- ship of Lord Colwyn.
later ture.
We had still in us the virility and the energy which were inherent in men and
The intention of the Government to women bred for life in the open air.
appoint a Cabinet Committes was aa- While it was not yet certain what the nounced by Mr. Churchill in his Budget brain cells lived on, it was known that statement, and he said that its purpose they needed very little to do the heaviest would be to overhaul blocks of recurring work thrown on them. Everyone had expenditure. "I believe that we ought been given the appetite not of the brain to aim," he remarked, "at a net reduc worker but of the muscle user. Sooner tion in the Supply expenditure of not or later, however, the stomach of the less than £10,000,000 a year." The Prime professional student had to pay the price when the Estimates for the next financial Minister has since made it clear that of his habit. Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley: year have been dealt with the Committee and Herbert Spencer suffered from the will turn ite attention to economies in student's disease. Modern physiology the field of policy. Really big economies, had given the stomach a secondary however, he has pointed out, can only be place in the hierarchy of bodily organs brought about by plunging into the field but, as students knew to their coal of a statutory and contractual expendi brain and stomach OCEFT OF reacted furiously on each other.'
"Most of us," he added, "who take to babitual study have to pay the price, and the more we give our stomachs to do the higher is the price we have to pay For your encouragement I would say
It is understood, says the Parliamen this, that I know of no stuflent who would exchange a regulated brain for the tary, correspondent of the Daily Tele healthy appetite of the mental sluggard.raph, that the. Committee had before it on October 14th the provisional estimates
· UNTAPPED TALENT.
of the various departments for the finan cial year 1926-97, and also an estimate of The majority of eminent scholars reveque, Ministers were therefore able to bave no scholarly lineage. They come form a comprehensive opinion of the from Highland glons, Welsh hill sides, financial position of the country and of the English country villages, the first of extent to which the pruning knife will have their kind so far as they can tell who to be wielded if fresh taxation is to be over devoted their lives to the cause of avoided. It is remarked in quarters learning. There must be throughout the which are in close touch with the Govern length and broadth of our lact immense ment that for some time the public have and virgin fields of untapped scholarly been led to anticipate substantial econo- talent,"
mies as a result of a reduction in the numbers and possibly in the pay of Civil servants.
The essential qualities of studentship were steadfastness, orderliness and prud epor," just the qualities which our best women applied to the management of their homes.
Let it be clearly understood, Mr. Guld- win sold at Brighton, that spectacular economics of that kind can only be achieved by real sacrifices which would have to be spread widely over all classes of the community.
There has, it is suggested, been much exaggeration and misconception on this head, which has resulted in diverting criticism from the real problem to be
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USEFUL CATS.
By habitual study," Sir Arthur con faced. It is contended that whatever Owing to the number of stray cats in cluded, you may outrun your physical fine departments large sums cannot being a proposal that all cats in their area pruning could be undertaken in the rou- Edinburgh, the town council are consider- endurance; you may damage your bodies saved in this way, as definite duties are should be licensed, 11 You neglect to SAUFCIBE them; faid on the departments by statute and but you will certainly not damage your have to be carried out. The Committee, brain. You will never succeed in using therefore, will find it necessary at an your brain up to its full capacity. For early date to consider possible changes in my own part I use sleep as my baro policy, and there is a very definite idea meter; when I begin to find that sleep that changes of such importance as to comes to me with aluggard, stepe, or if produce economies running into millions there is a tendency for my mind to race, of pounds may well involve the repeal of I slack off. There is no greater nonsense certain existing legislation. talked than that brain work may bring on brain fevor.
"Our brains have moods and tempora Like horses or the engines of motor-cars they have to warm up before they work smoothly and easily. The start in always
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FLOWERS IN EVENING LIGHT.
TRANSPARENCY AND SHADOW.
is likely to go through, but if it does it We do not know whether this proposal, will be a happy day for the local rata and mice. It is sometimes assumed that, because many people are fond of cata, these animals are essentially pets, but the truth is that they play an extremely im portant part in the economie life of the
country.
A shepherd dog is exempt from tax because it is useful, and as all cats aro useful we think they should be exampt from licenco. The problemn of stray cats is certainly a difficult one, but if cats had to be licensed it ís not unreasonable to suppose that stray, ownerless cats might. multiply rather than decrease.
most difficult phase to manigg It was no mere momentary impulse Often we are uncertain when our brains which once led a wise old gardener to ne sluggishly whether pressure will declare that gardens are only to be seen
The cat has been domesticated for at warm them up to steady pitch or wheat their beat at the beginning and end of least 5,000 years, and during that long. ther it is wiser to lay science or stis the day, but the result of years of keen period has been supposed to be a help to reading aside and take to fiction. The and sympathetic observation. Doubters, mankind. The ancient Egyptians would healing power of a debauch of action there are sure to be, but let these put not have held cats in such high esteert.. is often marvellous in its results. The the sage's dictum to the text, and even even to the extent of mummifying their best brains are not like cart-horses, which now when the curtain is falling on the remains, if they had not found then of will do a tarn at any hour; like race garden year, they must lain admit its value. But if we are all wrong and the
truth says the Times.
cat hae managed to deceive us for thou- horses they have their times off and their
The summer sun, when he rides over-sands of years, then it must, indeed, be times on.
head in a cloudless sky, is a relentless the cleverest animal in the world-Daily master, an inexorable leveller. Except fail.
EVE'S WAY OUT OF A
1 PROBLEM.
(DY A WOMAN COLLESPONDENT TO THE
"EVENING STANDARD."
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for shade, of which every scrap is pre cious then, there is no, escape from the downward glare, no refuge: shadows are hard, and colours lose much of their in- Gardeners do not all make enough of dividual value: transparency, one of the the play of light and shade, and though most precious qualities of mary flowers, the form and texture of some flowers, is gone, often along with an even great such as the Japanese "Iris Kaempferi." charm-fragrance. Then as the day with But, apreading petals, or as some lengthens there is a gradually changing think, the Ghent azaleas, gain little from picture till, by the time the tall poplars a change in the angle of light there is a stretch their ghostly shapes across the host of plants which never look so well lawn, the humblest garden becomes a as when the horizontal light makes their uss of fuller skirts there is again a query paradise of mellowed, rosy beauty. That transparent virtue clear. At noon of a na to whether woman will let her hair is the hour in which one may look, and summer's day that rulus-leaved Japanese grow. But there is nothing to support not in vain for undiscovered beauties in maple Acer sanguineum" is attractive, the notion that the bingle and the shingle dresses, dresses which are changed almost ing tree of marvellous beauty. "Rosa the garden, for old friends in new but at eight it is transformed into a glow-
Will women give up short hair? Periodically the question is asked and Eve answers with a unanimous "No."
Now that fashion has sanctioned the
will go.
On the contrary, haridressers tell of every minute. It is the time for which Moyesi" both in flower and fruit, is women who, even at this late period, the cunning gardener marshole bis plants, another example of the witchery of light.. come in daily
to have their long hair sure of the magic change to be wrought The blood-red flowered rhododendrons of shorn.
in them by the slanting western light the "arboreum" series become trana. The Paris woman wears sleek short which draws one from afar to the well-formed as fowered tree of Emboth- hair by day and long hair by night. It placed clump of "red-hot pokers." "Then rium coccineum" and is alone worth along is the easiest thing in the world to attack one may realize the beauty and effect of journey to sea. And though red-leaved, her own long locks mounted on a bit of transparency, and with a modicum of red-flowered plants gain most as the net to their short shingled remaina by imagination almost see the red blood shadows lengthen, rose tints and yellows means of a curved hair pin or two, and coursing through the petals of "Gladiolus run them hard. Who that has seen a bold the arrangement has the merit of enabling cardinals," for instance, just as it courses planting of Eremurus, Bengei in the woman to arrange for hair before she through the human hand held to the western light can forget it, of Clematis puts it on!
light. Then, too, each stem and leaf and montana rubeas clambering over an aged flower stands to its fellows in bold relief, apple tree, host and guest in bloom to- like the pinnacles of a tower in the
Though the long shadows mean so stereoscopic evening light; and with the gether while the sun sinks over the hill. glow fragrance has come back. For much, gardeners cannot have them for briefer spase it is much the same in the asking. There are many sombre days morning, and if the more Resting eastern when there are no shadows at all, days light lacks something of the magic of the and silvery things come to their own, west, it brings with it that indescribably And there are those delicious summer delicious scent of the waking earth which days when the lightly decked clouds chase many amateurs never know?.
across the sun and the face of the garden is as moody as that of a happy child.
DECEPTIVE SHINGLE. Faller skirts and fussier frocks de not affect the question of long or short hair.
* Even a shingled head can be curled and Arranged to look like an elaborate coif fure, but except in the case of the rather exaggerated. picture dress, the new fabions call for nothing drastic in the rearrangement of the feminine coiffure.
(Continued on next Column).
THE DIRECTORY
AND CHRONICLE
1926..
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, INDO CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLE MENTS, MALAY STATES, NE -THERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP
PINES, BORNEO, Ero.
'SİXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL
ISSUE
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Abridged Edition
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which Europeans' reside,
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Besides the real Alphabetical List of Forms the Directory given the CLASSTTED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres.
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