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TIME-TABLE.
WEEKS DAYS.
AMAS.A.2. 7.1. TX, P.M. P.X.' P.X: | 7.X, 1.2, 910 10,00 12,00 1.18 2.35 3.00 435 6.43 7.10 9,20 10.07 19.07 1,22
Dep. 6.40 9.05
9.83 10.19 12.18 1.34
Kowloon
Tarmati...Dep. 6.49
Shetic
Dp7.01
Taipo
Dap. 7.15
0.48 10.32 12.35 L47
Taning Dep
TaipeMarket Da30
9.83 10.38 1936 1.31
Bisangabut.. Dep. 7.25
Canton
11.50 5.38
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10.05.10.46 1944 2,01 10.10 10.61 1251 2.063.14
447, 5,50 7.25 4,84 8.03) 7.85 5.07 6,137.49. 5.116.197.58 5,21 6.80 8.09 5:26 6,38 8.07
Shamakun...Ari, 7.41 8.45 10.18 10,57 12,57 2.123.20 3.40 5.39 6.41:8.13
8.37
A.X.A.M. ·A.M. A.3.
8.05
A.M.P.M. PMP.M. FX FX
9.20 11.37 9.58 4.41 5.49 6.24 6.48 11.44 8,05 1.49 6.58
€ 63
11.49 3.10 4.52 6.00
18.00 3.27 5.03 6.10
13.05 826 5.07 6.15
Canton Dep. Shamshan...Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.34 11.08 Cheungshui. Dep. 7.5 8.12 10.41 Fanling Dep. 780 8.16 10,13 Talpo Markas Dep. 7:40 8.26 10.48 Tsipo
.Dap. 7,44
8,3111,00
Shatin Dep. 7.57 8.44 11.19 Yazmati...Dep 4.11 8.56 11.23 Kowloon At 8.17 9.02 113 11.49
*Kowloon
12.19 8.39 5.20 6.29 12.31 8,51 5.32 6.40 1237 8.57 5,98 6.46 7.04 7.29
SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.
Yanmati...Dap 8.49
LY
... Dap. 6,40
Shatin
... Dop! 7,01
... Dap. 7,15
Market Dep. 7,50 |
Fanling
..Dep. 7,30
Sham Ohon. Arr. 7,41 Canion Arr.
Sireg hai..Dep. 135
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AMAMA.M.; 8.03 8.30 9.04
A.K.
A.X.
4.31,
P.M., F.30. | P,M, 9.10 10.00 12.00 2.94 8.00 6.187.13 920 10.07 12.07 2.31 -6.26 7.23 9.33 10.19 12.19 2.45-
-5.38 7,36 8.52 7.48 9.49 10.3 12.32 3,56-
|6.56|7,52 9.53 10.38 12.36 9.00
6,07 8,03 10.05 10.48 12.483,10 10.10 10,51 12.51 9.18 16.12 8.07 8,45 18.47 10.16 1057 12.57 8.21 3.408.188.35
8.88 11:50
Canton
.Dep.
Summer thai. Dep 81% 104
Fanling. Dep. 8.16 10.48 Talpo Market Dep. 8.28 10,58
19.071
2.00
8,47
A.M.
18.05 Bham Chan Dep. 8.05 10.84 11.09 11,87
4.3, I.K.
Ysumati... Dep. 8.87 11.25
Taipo ...Dep. 8.81 11.00 Bastin
...Dep.
2.63 5.00 5.94 $68 11.44 8.05 5.07
5.11 11.49 810 .12.00 3,21 $.21
7.M. AN. .P.M.
320 6.24
5.41
8.03
6.07
6.17
8,45
11.18
12,05 12.19 8.89 12.81
3:28
6.25
6.21
5.39
6.34
8.61
5.50
6.46
Kowloon 9.09 11,31 11.49 12.37
8.57 5.50
6.17
8.52
7,04
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THE BEAUTY OF MIDDLE AGE.
VANISHED, FOUND, AND SENT TO GAOL,
VARIETY OF INTERESTS." PIQUANT MYSTERIES *** OF
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Equanimity is the secret of growing old gracefully."
THE PAST.
“ANGEL IN 'WHITE" "AND. A LEEDS PARSON,
Mysterious disappearances, of varying importance and interest, have a habit of cropping up perio dically. Many of these have creat ed the most extraordinary concern in the public mind.
Perhaps the most glaring of all during the present century was the case of Violet Charlesworth.
THE,
DIARY OF EVENTS. HONGKONG
To-day.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.. ¡ King Edward Hotel, 5
1.m.; Lane, Crawford's Restaurant. 4.30-8.30 P. Cafe Regent, 1.20-6.30 p.m. Yocal and Piano Recital by Mrs. P. Younghusband and Mr. Harry Ore, City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Volunteer Lecture by Major F.
Roberts, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., Yolunteer Headquarters, 5.30 p.m.
Steel and Coulson's Billiards. League: R.A. r. R. E. and R. Sigs. D.R.C.. K.O.S.B.; Police Revenue: Warders v. Garrison Sgts. Mess.
Cafe Regent dianer dance, 8 p.m. R.E. and R. Sige. Junior Dance Club carnival dance, Royal En gineere Theatre, Wellington Bar- racks, 8.30 p.m.
Jt is when one is harassed by the bogey of growing old that the pro cess becomes pitiful. But the way to eat the bogey is to look it in the age. If you protest against growing old and dress in short kirts, have your face lifted, your hair dyed auburn, and shudder when your real age is even hinted nt-well, sooner or later you be While motoring near Llandudno cour rather a foolish and sorry in January, 1003, with a sister and spectacle. People can always tell | chauffeur, Miss Charlesworth was
H.K. Male Voice Choir Re- when close to such a woman; she reported to have been thrown overhearsal, St. John's Cathedral Hall,
8.30 p.m. defeats her own ends..
the "cliff, and her body was said to Queen's Theatre: “ Valencia.” Walte Hair Often An Improvement. | have been washed out to scž.
But. accepting Nature's law that nge is not youth, there is a great beauty in middle age and old age. Many people are vastly improved when their hair grows white. The between stage, I admit, is often not particularly beautiful, but one can always have hair bleached, though
woman whose hair suddenly beto one firm alone! conies silvery must give her friends A shock.
The Greater Consideration In
The sister and chauffeur were found lying dazed near the oar. They said that Miss Charlesworth had been pitched through the wind- screen and over the off.
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There were discrepancies in the story, however, and is eventually. turned out that Miss Charlesworth had had extensive dealings on the Stock Exchange and owed £10,000
Found In Scotland. Fourteen days after the tragedy she was discovered at a small tem- perance hotel at Tobermory, under the name of Margaret Cameron McLeod..
She and her mother were both sentenced to three years' imprison- ment for obtaining money under false pretences.
Dress. Then the question of clothes. How few people realise that to dress in good style is more impor tant than to dress in the height of a fashion that does not suit them. An individual style solves many problems for the woman who is no longer young. Ellen Terry" tragedy, lived in a 65. a week | had an individual style in the house in Wolverhampton, and was
eighties and nineties with fow known as the angel in white ring draperies and softly falling owing to her beauts and bar faste
Tace. She dresses in much the same for white and cream frocks. style to-day and looks more attrac- tive than mang a young girl.,
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Violet Charlesworth, before the
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The Knight " Mystery," A vicar in Leeds; also caused a With fashions as they are at pre- sent, however, it is fairly easy, great stir before the war, by run- without being entirely independent ning away from his wife with a of the mode of the moment, to buy working girl, and incidentally try: clothes that are pretty and suiting to stage a similar
tragedy able. No need for the modern ex. to that of Miss Charlesworth. He -treme of frocks above the middle was reported to have fallen from aged knee, or the Victorian one of Flambero Head. He was after retiring into grandmotherly gar wards found keeping a poultry ments at the age of thirty!
farm in Kent.
His next move was to sail for
•No Misanthropic View Of Life.
Australia with the girl. He desert Yet I am no armchair philoso-ed her there, but came back and pher. Why shouldn't middle-aged served in the British Army during women dance if they want to If the war. they are fit and strong, the more exercise they take the better. Time to atup when they feel physical strain. Golf, walking, swimming, they can do all with perfect grace. Gardening is another source of
exercise at any age:
Lost Memory.
"Shakerley, of Beverley, Pateley Mrs. Shakerley, wife of Major. Bridge, went to stay at Bodmin. Cornwall, with ber nine-years-old daughter.
She left Bodmin on the Monday Keep Young By Housekeeping. to return to Beverley, but had not To some women I would seen heard of after the train left "Keep young by housekeeping,' Birmingham. for mental occupation matters ever. She was eventually discovered, more than physical. Interest in through an article in The Yorkshire an hotel at Harewood. the house and garden, interest in Post, in books, in plays, in travel, in all near Leeds, after many days of the innumerable things outside searching. She had lost her memory themselves that are going on in the and apparently had travelled all world, makes many women grow over the country. old gracefully because they are too A sixteen-year-old boy named busy to notice the fact of age. It Archibald Annal, of St. Mathias'- is a great, pity-indeed a calamity place, Leeds, suddenly disappeared -to be too self-centred the old in 1924, and was not heard of till age bogey is very real en egotista four months after, when the pro- Interest in other people's plea-prietor of a cocoa-nut stall in a sures is essential to an equable old travelling fair at Longton, Staffs age. Older women who really sym-saw an advertisement about him pathise with the younger genera and communicated with his father, tions do not envy them."
who immediately fetched him home. Never Heard Of Agäln. One of the most remarkable dia
Children do not make their nothers feel old-far from it. Their society keeps one young. It
is true that they leave home sooner appearances was that of a pretty or later, and that is snd; but eighteen-years-old daughter of a wherever they are their success will Birminghurs music teacher, happy make their mother happy. I know and are free, without any love it is usual to ject at the "old affairs, who, while at a dance, on Christmas Eve in 1912, at a friend's maid's cat or dog, But affection, house, asked her partner to excuse even for, an animal, becomes more
her for, & moment. She left the necessary as one grows older.
room and has never been heard of since.
When Life Becomes Simplor, Perhaps I'm lucky. I have my profession and my children. 1 don't play games well-but I walk and swim, and work in the garden, and I read all the leading novels of the day. My memory isn't ne good as it was. But life, on the whole, is becoming simpler. Small irritations are not exaggerated in- to tragedies, as they are in youth. And my recent Australian tour has given me a zest for travel.
middle-aged women who long for their youth realise how much they would dislike it if their dream came true,
When Youth And Age Uhanged Souls,
I read a novel once-its name escapes my middle-aged memory -in which a beautiful, young girl "and" a rich old woman changed:
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Each Age Its Own Pleasures., .. It is astonishing what profound souls. They both hated it. The old woman became bored to death
Queen's Theatre: "The Magi CONTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S pleasure a middle-aged woman can with flirting with young men and cian." extract from a book, fire, and a the young one detested ber World Theatre: Mons'eur comfortable armchair! But it is typical, for age has its own parti- part of chaperone, plastered with Beaucaire." zular pleasures. I don't think diamonds though she was,
That is very true psychology- (Continued on next Oolumn.) And what a play it would make
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