XMAS AND NEW YEAR HAMPERS
Wo beg to notify Customers that Assortel Hampery suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the foliewing Reduced Rates -
No. 1 HAMPER-$50.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial, 1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
1 Pt. 0.F. Peppermint. 1.PL D.O.M.
Champagne. 2 Qts. St Julien Claret..
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy. 2 Qt. King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry, Black Beal. 1Q Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin.. 1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1. Plial Pomerotan Bitters. ‹,
No. 2 HAMPER-$45.
1 qt Guillomart Champagne.
1 Pt.D.O.M.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy,
1 QL Martell's XXX Brandy.
2 Qts. King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection WhiskyJ
No. 3
1 QL Burgoyne's Bargundy.
1 Pt. G.F. Peppermint..
i PL. D.O.M.
2 Q. Superior Rich Old Fort
2 Qis. Tawny Dry Port.
2 Qts, St. Julien Claret.
1 Qt. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin,
1 Qt. Vino do Paato Sherry, Y.S.
1 Phil Pomerantan Bittern.
HAMPER-$40.
2 la King George IV Gold Label
or Perfection Whisky,
1 Qt. Engmad's XXX Brandy. 1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry. 1. Puritan Old Tom or Dry Gin. 2 Qta, Medoc Claret,
1 Phial Pomeranzan Bitters.
Other Hampers made up to suit Customer's requirements.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
DIAL 20135.
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Hongkong to San Francisco: 5. S. TAIYO MARU 1st Class G: $340,00
S. S. SHINYO MARU Cabin Class 0.8 310.00
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NOTE CHEAP PRICES :-
In lots of not less than balf-ton; delivered to:--
Peak District (above Bowen Road) Bowen Road and Lower Levels ... Pokfulam Road: Kowloon ...
PIR TON. .$23.00
... $21.00
$28.00
... $19.00
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1930.
THE GREEN
PASTURES.
CHICAGO WEARS A THE FATHER OF
LOOK
NEW SUIT.
SARTORIAL CENTRE OF THE WORLD!
"WHAT DID GOD L
LIKE?"
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We give the following further extract from the negro morality play"The Green Pantura
"What did God look like, Mr. Desheet"
QUEEN ELIZABETH.
NOT HENRY VIII.-SAYS DEAN INGE.
The remarkable statement that
A Chicago newspaper' has pro- claimed the startling fact that Queen Elizabeth, the greatcat London is no longer the centre of woman in English history, may man's sartorial world; that English, have been illegitimate and had inen like their clothes "sloppy"; therefore no right to the Crown is
Bow Bright and Full of Eriergp,
"Well, nobody knows exactly and that while we do know "how made by Doan Inge in the currant This Boy Looks!
what God looked like. But when I was little boy I used to imagine dat He looked like de Neverond Dubais. He was de foest looking ol' man I ever knew. Yes, I used to bet do Lawd looked exactly like Mr. Dubois in de days when He walked de earth in de shape of a natchel man."
Mr. Doshee, a negro preacher, is telling Sunday school children about Heaven to him, as to thousands of simple, devout coloured folk in the Southern States of America, tangible Heaven, peopled, by happy singing negro angels; Eternity, a serica of earthly holidays with end- less supplies of fried fish, boiled. custard, gigars, or whatever else many appeal most strongly to the negro mind; and God, a just but compassionate patriarch, the con- summation of all the earthly virtues His followers have observed in the human beings around them.
The lights grow dim and this Heaven is shown on the stage. God wears a white shirt with a bow tie, a long Prince Albert coat of black alpaca, black trousers, and Congress gaiters, and speaks in a rich deep bass voico.
to carry our clothes" we only do so because "all we have to do in to hunt and play pole-wherena, in Chiengo, business men have to work for their living."
I have long wanted to get on equal terms with my tailor. I owe fin annually something more than
three figures, and here at last seemed the opportunity-particular- ly, in view of the paragraph in this American newspaper which said that Cheaga had become the contro of men's styles, and that the best workmanship belonged once again to Chiengo.
I called on my tailor.
He read the cutting and smiled, Trousers, I see, should never be more than eighteen inches around the ankle-otherwise no gentle.
WEN
could deign to wear them. One moment, sir!”
He bent down and measured my own. Obviously, sir," he argued, you cannot agree with that.” The ieasurement was something slightly more than a indi in excess of what Chicago considers, correct.
Thoso Hip Pockets.
He skimmed the rest of the article rapidly. "Plum colour," he read out, is one of the high notes in fashion. Grey will be used in the fall for overcoats. The fashionable man now shows his shirt collar above his coat collar in the back."
"Permit me," said my tailor, and exhibited to me a host of American garments in the process of being packed up and returned to America.
The miracle of the Creation is wrought, and the Lord visits His newly-created earth, He appears to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. To Caio, standing over, the body of Abel, he spenke" ain't sayin' you right na' I ain't anyin' you wrong. But I do any was I you I'd jest git myself down de rond 'til I was clean out of de country. An you better take an' git married an' settle down an' raise some chillua. Dey ain't nothing to make a man fo'git his trembles like
Here, sir," he explained, "you raisin' a family. Now, you bettere a Chicagoan fashion we have git."
not yet. adopted two hip pockets set to the front capable of holding
*
Cain, in exile, meets girl, wickedly pretty and somewhat flashily dressed, who has been ait ting in a tree.
*
Cain's Girl: You got two bad lookin' eyes....
I bet yo' bot coffee 'mong de women folk.
Cain: I ain' never find out What was you doin' in dat tree i
'Cain's Girl: Jest coolin' myself
in de element,
Cain: Is you a Nod Parish gäl1 Cain's Girl: Bo'n an' brod.
Cain: You know yo' kinda pretty. Cain's Girl: Who to you "dat!" Cain: Dese yere tow bad eyes of
minc.
Cain's Girl; I bet you may dat to everybody all de way down de Toad.
Caia: Comin' down dat road didn't talk to nobody.
Cain's Girl: Where you boun' for, Beautiful1
Cain: I'm jest seein' de' country, I thought I might settle down yere fo" spell, You live wit' yo' people 1
.
Cain's Girl: Co'se I does, Cain: 'Sposo dey'd like to take in a boarder?
Cain's Girl: Be nice if dey would, wouldn't it?
Cain I think so." You got a beau 1
Cain's Girl: Huh-uh 1
Eath one was being accompanied by at least six utterly different gar mata, born, created, and built in his own workshops,
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all we say, chewing gum He picked up and held at arm's length an obvious Chicagono pair of American troueers.
This pocket, sir, is to my mind crented for a resident of a country u which the only distilleries that exist are perambulating ones.
A hat I had left here seems
J
...
more suitable to a wireless receiving ot and a waistcoat te a portably armoury,
"However, sir, should you, desire to adopt this now fashion and this new decreo I shall be only too happy to show you our latest line in even- ing trousers which permit the car- riage of spare machine-gun barrels inside the braiding of your evening
trousers."
With that he secreted the Chicago newspaper behind a roll of" Scotch tweeds, which the newspaper itself und blatantly proclaimed would not be worn much this season
DEAFNESS THAT CAN BE CURED.
SOUND DEADENED BY AIR CURRENTS.
Surprise is often expressed that some deaf people are able to obtain a Hegreo of hearing by treatment while others fail entirely.
Cain (Smiling.]: 'You has now, Cain's Girl: I guess-I guess, if you wanted to kiss me an I tried to stop you, you could pretty nearly crush me wit dem stout arma
Cain: You wouldn't try too much, } helped. would you!
The fact is that all dealstas 38 not due to the same cause, and only certain forma of deafness can be
Eometimes the deafness is due to
Cain's Girl: Maybe for a little the receiving part of the car,
while.
Cain: An den what Coin's Girl: Why do we wait ab scof
the drum, which gets the pressure of the air against it from the out sido and bus air coming into the mouth or nose and up a small tuba itno the ear which makes" "ñ pres- supure against the inside of the drum.
Cain: When would dat hat Cain's Girl: To-night. After per Think you kin walk a little further now, City Boy t
Dain: Yeh, I ain't so seary tow,
She takes his hand.]...... Cain's Girl: What yo' name1 Takes his arm.]
Cain: Onin;!
Cain's Girl Then I'm Caio's Gal. Come on, honey, an' meot de folke.
[They exit:]
Any inflammation or any-growth can interfere with this air, and so the inner side of the drum does not have enough' air to gounteract tho air striking outside the drum. The removal of this irritation or inflem. mation by medical or surgical trent- ment, or by the use of the little finger in some cases, allows the air
Sometimes an infection from bad The Choir is heard singing teeth or tensile may be causing trou- You Better Mind," -as ded ble in the ear, and the little bones, enters. God watches the vanish. which should move on one another, ed Cain and his girl.
actually become fastened together God After shaking His head. almost like one bono Thego :con- Bad business I don't like de way ditions can also be helped to reme
chocou bastant hy the ear specialist
The slogovi dakond, Another type of deiner. The for The Choir continues singing óxcessive bano formation is some until the lights go up on the next times helped by proper diet, and acete.]
glándular treatment.
number of The Bugenica Reviers.
"A careful study of the por traits of Henry VIII's putative children has convinced me that while Queen Mary and King Edward VI. reproduce some of their father's features, Elizabeth's faco bolongs to an entirely differ- ent type," writes Denn Inge. "I do not believe that she had a drop of Tudor blood in her veins, If this is true, the flighty Anne Boleyn, and sama person known, gave us cur grenteat sovereign."
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This suggestion from such an authority as the Dean of St. Paul's will rouse a storm of controversy.
Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne as the child of Henry VIII. and his second wife, the beautiful Anne Boleyn. Henry ried Anno Boleyn Bocretly in January 1539. In the September of the name year Princess Elizabeth, who became the great queen, was born, Anne had pas other child, a son, who was bora dead in 1636.
RoJealousy.
Henry's quarrel with his beauti- ful wife, which led to her execution on Tower Green, is said to have been due to jealousy. In May 1530 the King rodo off in a temper from A tournament held at Greon. wich because, so the legend goes, Anne Boleyn dropped a kerchief to
a lover in the lists.
history is the fading of the commis One of the mysteries of English sion which examined charges of adultery brought by Henry against Lis consort. Among those cited as her lovers were the young Lord
Sir Francis Rochford,
Weston, Hery Norris, William Brereton, musician called Mark Smea. ton. All these mon were executed. and
But the documents relating to the trial have never been discovered.
If Queen Elizabeth had not, as Denn Inge suggests, a drop of
Tudor blood in her veins," who was the father of our greatest queen ?
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