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Hongkong Daily Press.
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Post Office in the Utited Kingdom,
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Standard Magnifications." Prices to Suit Your Pocket. Buy Your Glasses for the Races
from
N. LAZARUS
12. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
A NAVÁL OFFICER'S
- IMPRESSIONS.
(DY JANET HALL)
Nietzsche uys that everything in mar- riage is trantitory, except a woman's conversation, and such a generalisation. might be matched with the statement a good wife! that a good shopper makes If this be trus, and applies equally to the sexes, it is also of interest to study some of the complexities facing the retail
FEAR OF BEING ASKED TO SIT
DOWN.
TRICKS OF THE MIND.
The extraordinary case of a man who was so baunted by the belief that he was made of glass that he did not dare enter certain houses for fear he should be asked to sit down is described by Dr. James Nicoll, medical superintendent of the Fountain Mental Hospital, in the annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums The old order changes at the very begin-Board for 1925-26, ning of barter when the shopman says
The following letter has been received from a young Naval officer on his way Home via Siberia. It does not give much of an insight into the "Boleherk political system but it is amusing because it conveys the impressions of the average | trade and its assistants, traveller who has no idea that his der cription of the journey will be made public
PRICE: $3 PER MONTH
BOOTH'S
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No. 21,295
號五拾九百式千登萬式第
日盛初月九年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
- WEEK DAYS
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Kowloom. Youmsti... Shatin
8,40
A.X. 9.15 10,30 11.40 12.00
4.3. Noor
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 718,
THREE DAYS IN "MOSCOW.
LETTER FROM THE TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
1926
拜禋號七月拾年五十國民中
CHANGE, AND SOME-
TIMES DECAY.”
MAN "MADE OF GLASS."
1.15 435
5.29
Dep. 6.50
9.24 10.30
19.09 124 444
5.38
7.19
f
Dep
2.03
9.38 10,51
190T
1:36 456
Depi
7.18
9.49 11.04
12.34
1.49 5,09
5.31 1.31
3,04 1.44
Dep
731
9.59 11.08
12.39
8,09 1.33 5.18
Fanling
...Dep. 784 10.09.11.18
19.49
9.03 5.24
Sheangskni
Shumchun
7.86 10,07 11.22 ...Dep. ***Att. 7.42 10,13 11.23
19.53
2.07 5,28
7.48. 6.19 7.58 8,02
12.20 19.38
2,13 18,84
6,29 8,06
Shamchuu
7.011
Sheungshui
Fanling Taipo Market Tripo
Yeansti... Kovicon...
Dop Dep. 7.48 7.50 ...Dep. 9.19 A 8,20
AM. 8,05 10,58 11,40 8.18) 10,45 | 11,47 8.16 10.49 11.51 826) 10,59 | 12,08 8.80 11.04 13.07 8,13--11.17 1221 8.65 11.29 12,33 9,03 11,87 12,41.
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
PM
1.56
8.31
3.2K
8.00
417 53S 6.09 3.07 4.94 5.20 8.15 $.11
3.34 819 4.98 5.34 6.29 4.42
5.38 6.33
3,984.56
3.50 5.06
2.37 9,581 5,161
3,31 848. 0.036,58 8.11 7.06
A
ALNOOK
Kowloon...
...Dsp 8.40
8.85 9.15 10.30 11.40 12.00 920
5.29 7.10
Ysankti...
Den 8.50 ...Dop 7.02 7.16
9.2 10.39
9.36 10,51
9.49 11.04
9.58 11,08!
19,09 19,21 12.84 256 12.88 3,00
2.31 2.43
-dacr***
10.08 11.18
12.48 8.11
Dep. 7.38 9.12 10.07 11,23 |
AT. 7,42
12.53
9.18 10.18 11.28 12.20 12.58
9.16 9.21
5.38 7,19 6.51 7.31 6,05 6.09 7.49 690 7.38 6,248,03 6.80 8.08
$.20
5.10 8.09
8.07 4.24
1.27
5.48 8,18
8.11 4.98
6.51 620
8.41
8.25
6,01 5.30
6,05 0,84
Dep. 8.51 11,17-12.91
Top 9.03 11.29 12.29
...Art. 9.11-11,37 12.41
8,98
6.19 6.47
3.50 5,07 2.37 3,68
6.30 6.59 8.04 6,8 7,07
Shatio
Taipo
Taipo Market. Dep. 191
Taning
Bheangahni
Shumdhan
Shamchan
Shanngehni
Fanling
1.Dep 8,13 10.38 11,40 ...Dep. 8.19 10.43 11.47 ...Dep. 8.23 10,19 11.51
Tipo Market...Dop, 8.35 0.59 12.02 Dup. 8.37 11.04 12.07
Taipe Bhatia
HI
Yamsti... Kowloon...
STATIONE
3.00 1.58
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH. WEEK DAYS,
I.X. P.M. Fanling...Dop, 7,4 11,80 9.20 6.25 BEstatic...Arr, 9.40.12.95 $16.7.20 SUNDAYS LID PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
FM, F.M. F.3.
BRAMONE
Fanding Dep, 745 11.30 9.208.25 Bhatsubok. Arr, 8.40 12.25 4.16 7.20
WEEK DAYS, .' STATIONS, Shatankok...Dep. 6.50 10.15 1.05 5.00 Fanling Am 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.35 SUNDAYS AND PUBLIŲ HOLIDAYS,
STATIONS.
AX AX ZIG-ZAG
Bhatankok-Dep. 6.30 10,15 205, 8.15 Fanling ...A 7.25 11.10 8.00 6.10 Farther information may be obtained at the Railway Offices, Kowloon, or from Maurs. Tros, Coox & Box, Lav., Boxexowe, or from Tax AxxxICAN Exam Oɑme PANY, HONGKONE,
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H. 'P. WINSLOW, Manager,.
HONGKONG, CANTON
STEAMERS.
DER FROOGIE,-We are just going through Cologne: you have no idea how wonderful the Cathedral looks in the twilight.. and the old bridge across the Rhine, with the City Arms still engraved on the huge gate-way.
The seven days across Siberia were
monotonously dreary; nothing but plain and forest, forest and plain, intermin- abs. At Manchouli, by way of variety, we waited in the station-from-8 pm lil 3 a.m. while they repaired the line washed away by rain. Consequently instead of arriving in Moscow at noon; we steamed in at 3 a. next morning. It was rather
à marvellous sensation driving over those historic cobbles as that eerie hour. When we got to the hotel the first faint streaks (as the Russian novelista say)were paling the heaveus, and one instinctively thought of murder, and crimsor, and the Third International, among other gruesome things.
Three days in Moscow, and quite enough they were. The old buildings catch the eye, but unfortunately we couldn't show our nose inside the Krem- in, which would have been a consolation for some of the discomfort en route,
Her
The man mentioned by Dr. Nicoll had business acumen and mental faculties of no mean order. He was aware that his
occasions was quite unable to combat it.!
Dr. Nicoll also deals with the problem of reverie. ***Instances are on record,"
he says, "of individuals being so deeply immersed in thought as to know nothing of their surroundings or to be entirely insensible to pain and danger.
Sleep-Walking.
have
DRY
GIN.
THE HEART AND SOUL OF A COCKTAIL
CALDBECK, HACGREGOR & CO., ITD.
loated under the Companies' Ordians of "Hongking?
THE
HONGKONG
HONGLONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL PEAK HOTE
Telegraphic Addres: KREMLIN, HONGKONG
AND
This case is paralleled by that of the article is the best on the market, and Haajianesti, Greek commander-in-chief In place of an in Asia Minor during the war with will wear"a life-time.
Turkey four years ago. The general was immediate parchaser the poor man finds at one time cerfined in an asylum be a client who cause be was under the impression that himself confronted with wants the equivalent of small money and his legs were made of crystal. quick return The housewife, and she is the world's largest shopper, does not want her dress to last a lifetime, and idea was a wrong one, but an certain 15, Queen's Boad-CXxTRAL. TIL. CIFTIAL 5, do for a petticoat afterwards!" grandmother's ideas of durability firstly seam extremely unhygienic, and secondly monotonous. She wants to change ber cretonnes as often as her frocks; her
Reveric is an approach to dreaming undergarments are dependent upon the shape of her gowns, her hats lead a short
or sleeping, and with its onset attention life, but a gay one, and everything in her to surrounding objects increasingly fails kitchen must either keep merry and as the mind wanders over many vague bright, or give way to foreign competi- and unconnected ideas, tion. The Sunday joint, which lasts until Thursday, has disappeared; partly on
"How often," adds Dr. Nicoll, account of the initial outlay, and partly because British home cooking is in we looked at a watch to know the time, proving and the taste for variety, and and, after a cursory glance, replaced it made-up dishes, naturally accompanies in our pockets without noticing it? In an interest in food. Durability has lost reverie attention and imagination are its value in the public mind, and the allowed free play by voimatary surren
Dr. Nicoll, comuneding on the eerie criticism that this is an age of extra der of the will." vagance, does not entirely suffice. There. is a definite reaction in England against disease of somnambulism, makes interest- the dowdyness of the Victorian influence.ing, disclosures concerning the apparent This tendency is more noticeable in cloth rationalism of sleep-walkers. In a case ing because human interest is ever in quoted, the patient rose from her bed, creasing in that sphere, and there have and, on being met, gave quite rational been revolutionary changes-not altogether answers to the night nurse, who informed dependent upon public taste. The her of the time and led her back to bed. influential in this aspect; they educate
Another form of everyday peculiarity the community out of a rut of deapon- dency, and acceptancy, in regard to ill from which many people occasionally nesses, and with the aid of the Press, Buffer is, Dr. Nicoll states, that of those they have already seduced the entire who walk along the street taking parti- public from the theory that weight is in cular care to prevent their feet from direct, and equal, relation to warmth. touching the joints in the pavement. So much is this the truth that manufac- These people often feel compelled to touch turers and furriers are in a wild helter. certain spots on the walls they pass. skelter to surpass their own efforts of the previous year towards the elimination of causes of fatigue. In spite of synthetic, and artificial, this and that, the general trend towards health and comfort is undeniable. From the days, fifteen years LLOYD'S UNDERWRITERS TO PAY ago, of the heavy tweed coat and skirt, with its accompaniment of thick lined mackintosh and boots, we now have Madam neatly tailored in as few inches of Kasha" as is consistent with "line," waterproof of orêpe de chine to match,
& MACAO] (although I did get a berth to myself medical profession is becoming daily more In the morning she knew nothing of her
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and wasn't sandwiched betwixt two cor pulent, Jadies, as you promised me I wish you could have seen the Churches and Art Galleries; there's one picture that sticks in my mind-the famous one of Ivan the Terrible crying over his eldest son whom he's just butchered
The people look utterly miserable, and the houses are horribly unkept, the plaster pealing of, and bullet holes still peppering the walls of some of the oldest palaces.
You don't see one well-dressed man or woman in every handred-by well-dress- ed, I mean, other than in workmen's clothes. It is really nothing but a city of labourers in an unwashed state; any
a
nocturnal exploit.
BETS ON WOMEN'S SWIMS."
£8,000.
decent person has presumably been kit and well cut shoes of fine quality leather, the successful swimming of the Channel
ed, or driven away, if he was lucky,
It is quite the most expensive town in the world, and you get nothing but work men's meals for your money; stuff at which British miners would turn UF their noses. You really ought to see the Russians eating in a dining-car; a whole chicken or rabbit is easily consumed by a single ravenous mouth at one sitting I
restaurant or
The Russian considers it bad form not to eat with his hat on, while, the Mongols, Slavs, and Latts, favour the method of employing the end of the knife (tree chic). As for the waiters, they are keen for a spot of liberty, equality, etc. They fairly shovel pig's food at you, charg ing you double what you'd pay in any other country, take orders pipe in mouth, and sit down to dinner at the next-door table simultaneously as you are enjoying your own repast (
The difference is noticeable at once after crossing the border into Poland; all the men are well-groomed, and the women sport the latest Paria fashions, every other being a "lovely."
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or reptile skin.
A Home paper of September 4th states that cables received from New York stat ing that enthusiastic Americana had won fortunes of £20,000 or more over bets on
by Miss Ederle and Mrs. Clemington Cor- The new era in footwear may have its son, turn out to be grossly exaggerated. origin, in asphalt, which seems a cor-
The bets were placed at Lloyd's, and tradiction in terms, but out of the strong from inquiries in the City it was ascer certainly came forth the frail as well as tained that the liability of the under the sweet | The cemented surface of our writers is approximately 3,000 against large towns and the tarred faces of our Miss Ederle and -£3,000 against Mrs. main roads, and streets through the Clemington Corson. British Isles allow young and old, rich A member of Lloyd's stated, that the and poor, to indulge in any fantastic make premium paid in the case of Misa Ederle of shoe without economic regard for the was £19 125 per cent. and £10 10s. for materials employed. Stockings keep Mr. Corson pace, and speak for themselves in down right and often loud tones!
This is equivalent to odds of 100 to 13 and 10 to 1. The guineas represent brokers' commission.
FOR
SALE..
'TANLEY · GIBBOJS' MONTHLY JOURNAL
JANUARY 10 SEPTEMBER, 1726,
• WITH
CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS AND MANY PRICE ALTERATIONS."-
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SIDE, TOTS, &c
To return to the question of durability, it cannot be denied that the black alk frocks of cat grandmothers were heir. looma; and the trade can give us no satisfactory reason for the deterioration in quality of that material. Priçe, which precludes general consumption is surely not capable of driving perfection com- pletely out of manufacture. A silk com. parable to that of 1850, and guaranteed as such, would have been eagerly sought after at Wembley, whatever the cost, and Macclesfield might still hold the world's market for this line, if they had never I spent & Joren" on feeding lost, the confidence of the public. As it pretty Polish wench on British cigarettes is, no matter what class of goods are (as opposed to Russian), at the end of Bought, there is no guarantee of any the corridor train, but when she'd finish thing beyong style, cut, or anticipation ed her second she suddenly became vio- of next year's fashion; this influence ex- lently agitated, twirling her wedding tends far beyond the realms of clothing. ring, and pointing to a large priza. It used to be argued that there was 4 PO. Box No. 830. fighter who was making his way towards justifiable mason for buying a superior us. As she rolled her eyes wildly, and make of car than the income indicated, gesticulated disapproval, I gathered it since it would fetch a much better price wasn't done to feed a favourite wito on proportionately when sold as second-hand. alien cigarettes, so promptly desisted. The faults and frailties of mass produc They ought to publish a pamphlet on tion may not have contaminated the bet socialist aliquette for unenlighused ter motor works, but the whole basis of travellers!
such a ples is wrecked by the frequent Having read thus far, you will my I introduction of auch improvements as B.B.A. Air Rides, and Miniature Bides, am a necr relative of the Mad Hatter four-wheel brakes, and sleeve-valve en 19 Calibre, Repeating and Automatio." frankly, I am feeling a bit disjointed gines. No owner likes to be behind the SPORTING CARTRIDGES of all des after eighteen days of hooliganism, or times, and many a small boy has been sriptions socialism, or whatever they call it. But disappointed with his mechanical engine Agents for W. W. GREENER, LTD., we'll be in London to-morrow morning, at Christmas, because it had no whistle,--- | BrumINGHAM. and already Europe mens good-stells | we, are, all erudite small boys when it
A double R. on quite different from disso away with comes to buying a car.
le lagard, and the little black dog that the "chop or the white spot in the
sits on your shoulder.-Yours, (without stem of a favourite pipe still stand for etc.),
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