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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1912.
HERE AND THERE
The Tale of a Missing Pig:
Oh where and Oh. wliers is
our little pig gone? The one that we tied to a
tree?
Rabbits for the Pot.
the stone somewhere in South Amerion, being quite unknown Jin England. He admired it so
Wozels.
greatly that he had the choices HONGKONG HOTEL
An exhibition of rabbits has and most beautifully coloured just closed at Hamburg. The well as some huge pillars for the slabs quarried for the staircase as object of the exhibition was the hall.
The work was enormously ox- cucouragement of rabbit culture
pensive, for not only is the stone with a view to providing cheap itself very costly, but it is ex- food for the people. Rabbit cul. tremely difficult to quarry in
A LA CARTE GRILL ROOM. Now Open.
Hongkong, 20th April, 1911.
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. [20
GRAND HOTEL,
Telephone, 197.
uro olubs from North Germany, large pieces on account of its MANAGEMENT & JUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT
had to be quarried, and after
oiont material for the work.
F. REICHMANN, Proprietor.
ASTOR HOUSE
(LATE CONNAUGHT HOTEL.)
QUEEN'S ROAD), HONGKONG.
the general scheme of the dress OUR AGONY COLUMN. artistic, and certainly desiguod
make the
woaror look lis host, but it is also furnish- lot, with 0110
two littlo devices which would pass for [Items of interval to women feminino vanity in England. notices of forthcoming and notes Thus the high-class Moor, when on recent social events, and in making the tea, which is a solemn dred paragraphs will be cordially ceremonial to which ho dovotes welcomed. The co-operation of quito as much attention as a man our lady readers is asked in order jus to a cocktail in this country,
Qua Hongkong hoight ho to make this feature at once ca
has taken his flight, turn's back tho slcoves of his pecially interesting and useful.}
And and and forlorn are wo. jkafinu, and, behold, the bit he
I have been moved to the above Belgiam and Austria were repre has to be overcomo in its final 62]
brittleness, and the same trouble tures back is exquisitely in doggorel by the fate of n porcino It is common knowledge that broidered with special regard to quadruped, which, in the first sentou. These care for the in- outting and polishing. The mar ouch your son an increase in the these few minutes of the day blush of early youth, hice sud-terests of 200,000, families which blo in the pillars and the stair- number of women who go out Blue-green is a very favourite only and mysteriously bren under the supervision of the va-case in Seaford House represents into the world of work either to colour with the high-class Moor. translated from the scenes of rious clubs keep the rabbits in only a small part of that which earn their livings or for the sale Nobody whe-notes this, and its childhood's days. Its epitaph their houses. Rabbit fical to successful quarrying had to be of the employment of their offect on his complexion of olive-if indeed it needs one-should energies, It probably few people cream, can doubt that any ate that it was on instrument of the value of $2,250,000 is con-prepared in order to secure suffi-EUTRALLY sitnatal, up-to-date Hotel, Brently roturated, and under realize the magnitude of the thing but attention to his personal Fate, which failed in its ano sunned in Germany annually.
entirely Now Maangewuol. Large and Co uforiable Rooms, Excellent extension of woman's sphere. appearance can live inspired it,
The staircase itaolf and its ela-Cuisine under the supervision of an Experionds! FRENCH 'CHEF, and The ordinary every-day profes‐{Indeed, a smart dressmaker might
great purpose.
Women and Pet Ants.
borate gilt metal work were both soprate Tables, Hot and Cold Baths, Electric Light throughout. Termi sions have long been recognized us get many hints for success by
Some time ago Hongkong was
Solomon's exhortation to
go designed by Lord Howard de roderste, Firat Class accoundation for Families and Tourists.
For paticulara and rates apply to
PROPRIETORS. - offering opportunities for women travelling in Morocco. The outer deeply thrilled by storica of a tiger,
Telephone, 170: workers. But, while the sight of garment worn by a Moor is of which undoubtedly did exist, and to the ant" is being followed in Waldon himself. a woman at work in a business simple construction, but ita folds which by the losses it inflicted Paris, where the latest craze office fails to arouse surprise are quite lovely, and its hood is so in its nocturnal perambulations, among fashiomble women is to these enlightened days, an infiplo that were this idea adapted seemed to have a strong pro-have an antheap. In eight out of teresting facts are given in the to that of the evening cloak ferouco for purk in the state ant 1012 edition of the Englishwo for English-women's wear, the prescribed by Charles Lamb. Atten salons a glass case is kept with man's Your Book, which show that hood would solve the difficult ang into the prowlings of the a colony of ants. By one of those the usual professions for wo qucation of head-rovering on blus-mysterious stripnd one aroused inexplicablo freaks of fashion the have become an elastic try or wet nights for thoan who the fire of Nimrod in many a manly works of tho aged ontomologist, terro covoring a remarlo ble varie-do not possess carriages. The bosom, and in one quarter at
of occupations.-
women's outer garments are so lost a burning desire was Tell to Architecture, for instance, does voluminous that they completely secure the hide of the midnight not a first glance appeal to one nu jobsmtro the wearer, but from the thief. If the tiger and oily popular profession. Buton's, both in colour and fold, known of the deep laid schemes quite a number of woman most successful adaptations might evolved tocompassits destruction, havequalified in various branches be mule.
it would not have considered ita lilo as an insurable quantity,
Just about Enster-timo, when Cynthia's beams made night decided to hunt the tiger, and a lovely, some onthusiastic sports"
mon
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of the ore; and although the Architectural Association of Lòm-.
don la declined so far to ndmit
women either as memberstor
TO DAY'S RECIPE.
'Pilau of Fowl.
Togelionts.A good-sized pupils, two ladies have boot plant fowl, 1-21b. of rice, loz. necoptod az miombers of the Rayal of butter, 10 slllots, 1.1-2oz. party with that ond in view, was]
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J. H. Fabre, have suddenly be-
come widely popdar in society, and everyone is interested in the ant and its ways. But, adds tho chronicler, there the craze stopa, Nobody in society thinks of fol- lowing out, King Solomon's in- junction to the ond.
The Lady and the Garter. A prominent member of the Government, who much resembles Sir Edward Groy in appearance, has just had an amusing ex- perience. Ata public function he was seated next to a vivacious
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BELLE VIEW HOTEL
Shaukiwan Road.
Telephone No. 907,
W. GALLAGHER, Manager.
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By kind permission of Captain Dixon the Band of lady whom he did not know. To S. S. Manchuria" will play at the above Hotel on his surprise she turned to him Monday night, the 29th inst., commencing at 9.80 and enid, "I should like to see p.m., sharp. your garter. Ilo blushingly explained that he did not wear garters, whereupon the lady said, MEE CHEUNG. HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN.
I mean the garter the. King ART PHOTOGRAPHER PLUNKET'S GAR. gave you the other day." "Ah, he replied, "you have mistaken me for Sir Edward Gray; my garter is yet to come."
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Notices
By Order of the 'Courts. Recently the salos by auction of
of the KING EDWARD into the possession authorities of the French courte
HOTEL. undor various circumstances took
Under Entire'y New
Management.
Excellent Cuisine.
Institute of. British Architects, of sweet ahninds, a fow raising ado up to spond a night on the property seized or that has come and another, who applied for admission to the Schools of the three or four cloves, an inch of hills, hoping that the dawn would cinnamon, salt and cayenne 10|
shine on a dead tiger and a proud Royal Academy did probationary
marksman, work that is reported to be the Laste, que quart of stock.
Method.-Prepire the fowl, pút Lato one afternoon a party of} best aver sont in by a staviont,
Again, factory inspecting
it in tlio boiling stock, and cook men armed with guns, mackin place in Paris. It was a hotoro- strikesone as a masculine parait, for thirty minutes, then toshes, whiskey-and a donkey, to geuous collection: Implements yet a soparate branch of the Facak out. Pat the batter inte bring homs the carcase-might of fishing loft behind in their stowpan, and when hot fry the have been seen wonding their way flight by river poachers, a wooden tory Department has been organiz-blanched and shredded almonds, inland accompanied by the pig og forgotten by its owner, od, and Miss A. M. Anderson, the stod raisins (which must around which the whole ovent as His Majesty's Princip proviously be cut in halves), revolves. The pig doos not ap
curiosities of various descriptions, Thoroughly Renovated. Lady Inspector of Factories, has and the minced shudlots. When pear to have been consulted in gold coins and medals found in now under ber diration Brenthese are nicely browned strain the mattor at all, and willy-nilly the pockets of housebreakers and teon women inspectors. The zonl
them and put them aside. Pat he had been chosen to make one of the women inspectors, coupon the rice into the butter and fry of the party and by no means not claimed, bicycles, a, mortuary | with the excellent system of)
it a light brown colour, then the least important. Arriving at a crown, o pallinsse half open, n organization, enables them to perform a vast amount of work strain off the butter, add the suitable, apot arrangements wore piece of ormulu furniture, card stock to the rice, nul cook made for the night. The "most tables, roulette machine, conditions of labour of others of gradually until tender. Now stir important member" the pigcroupiera rakes and armchairs and porcaptibly to improve the ther sex, und it appears that there in the soasoning and spices, Ly was tethored to a tree, up is a good opening for women in the fowl in the centre of the rice the disciples of Nimrod clamber which came from some secrot this direction at salaries ranging five minutes. Serve the bird in night, hoping, of course, that the
and cook gently for about forty-od and sottled down to pass the gambling den. from £200 upwards. ⠀
succulence of the most import- But member" would attract the object of the quest.”
Artistic House Decorating. llouss decoration hardly seems suitablo as a trade for odontoc women. But it is the art, rallier than the trade of interior house decorating and furnishing that has stood for 'somy years as ono which women have adopted, in many cases with conspicuous
Buccess.
the contre of a dish with the rice round, and garnish with the raisins, almonds, und shallots)-
LONDON HOSTESSES AND FREAK DANCES.
sibilant note of the scissors-
H HAYNES, Maunger. Hongkong, 10th Jan., 1912. (94
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THE FAMINE IN CHINA:
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Nesting Boxes for Birds. The Bolborne Society state that it is not yet too late to put op nesting boxes, as the birds which The moon rose and east the build in holes, with the exception glamour of lier beams on as peaceful a spot as any post could of a few robins, have not seriously well wish for. The sighing of begun to nest. A most important the wind in the trees, and the point to bear in mind is to seo that the boxes harmónise ne far London hostesses, following the grinders added a soft romanticas possible with the surroundings, and all newly-exposed wooden
its way into tho saying "Write a
"lulled by the chant, monotonus
with burnt umbor mixed with that must prove astonishing to
of the sonorous letter to the Times," "are letting and doop'
beer) or rubbed with mud. many people is that a considor-
An Ancient Mine. able number of women are en-newspapers know that they will bullfrog, the little pig was soon in resist to the utmost any effort to
slumber's chains enfolded. Up
Tho Brora mine, which was re- ployed in the printing trade a introduce the grizzly bear hing the tree, these charms together
"Balm of Gilead gently ascerted to be the oldest in compositors. "The work," and other American dances into which the thoughtful hunto Scotland, establishes an interest-
with the the book, "is suitable for gitle English ballrooms The now- who are intelligent and carofu); and who are able to spell cor- papers themselves do not share bad brought with them, produced ing link with the world of ro- rectly." An apprenticeship of the fear that these freaks of the the same effect, and, as in the tale mance. The credit for initiating three or four years is essential, here, but one of them says that land lay dormant.
waxod floor will gain a foothold of the sleeping beauty, all the the enterprise rosts with the lady whom Bothwell divorced in order that he might marry Queen Mary, but, although n premium musl
But there is an end to all things Undismayed by the result of her 17 WILL HELP TO SAVE LIFE. be paid, the apprentice begins" though the craze for freak to earn small wages after the dancing prevalent in America has even sloop-and in the course frat matrimonial venture, Lady first fow months, Ront colles.not yet invaded. England the of time the. hunters awakened Jean Gordon married: the Earl of sunger, -Interzati sal Banking Cor-
American influence, is plainly Their first thought and natural- Sutherland. By the death of this oratio, Shrazboi ing and estate management of visible in many English ball-ly so-was of the "reost important nobleman during the minority of Hongkong. 24th Jan., 1919 working-class property is com
eccentricities in member" but on casting their their son, the management of the of London and other towns in dancing seem to be gaining eyes around they found-Lo! le Sutherland estates devolved on ducted by women in many parts rooms, and
favour with a section of the had gone! Their only hope had the clever Countess. In 1598 the England and Scotland, It is a
vanished! Not a trace of him was grora mine was opened to sup dancing public," work that is spreading every
One correspondent has express-left and I understand the rope ply fuel for a salt-work. The year. Thero is an increasing demand for women sanitary ined herself indignantly in a letter and all had gone.
There can be only two explana-pans were situated "a little by- weat the entry of the river," and spectors; their work has proved concerning the now dances. She
tiana. Either the tiger had come satisfactory, and more appoint ments are being urged and doubi- For young men to hold their like a thief in the night and the salt obtained, we learn from less will be made. There are partners na they do in some of the taken a monn advantage of them the "Glasgow Herald," "served forty-three women working in new steps (if they can ho called all by kidnapping the "most im not only Sutherland and the this capacity under the Metro stops) is what would never have parlant member" or piggy, neighbouring provinces, but also
elsewhere." politan Borough Councils, and been allowed for an instant in thoroughly disgusted with the was transported into England and over ninety in the provinces. any house when I was a girl. To whole business-it had come on
800 thom gazing into one another's to rain and rain is always a bad Millionaire Lord'sLondon House. Large numbera of women con- tinue to qualify for the appoint-ho i paelic wall, for at variety off to do the necessary hunting London home, Sonford House, is Lady Howard de Walden's eyes, as they do, after the style of thing to sleep out in--had gone mente, so that there is keen com-
"on his own look."
the largest of the four detached petition when a post in advertised. theatros, is revolting to the sonso
of what is becoming.
At all events the mighty houses built at the corners of HINTS FROM MOROCCO.. "It is this aspect to which I Nimrods returned to Hongkong Delgravo Square: It was origin Englishmen, by virtue of their take exception more than to the minus the pig and minus the ally known as Sefton House, but sombre clothes, are fond of calling ungracefulness of these stupidly tiger.
on passing into the possession of women vain, overlooking the frot named and altogether unneces Enquiries are rife, now, as to its present owder was renamed that in other periods in England, sary variations of dancing. In the whereabouts of porous minor after his ancestor, Charless Rose and to this presont day in many no good house in Paris, by the and should the above lines Ellie, whom Canning crested Lord other countries, the dress instinct way, are they tolerated. My come within his kon, he is earnes- Seaford.
is found quite as strong in men friend the Marquise do Bsaid ly implored to return to the bo- One of its most conspicuous
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