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tz is apt toget annoyed at having Ita climb round the bunch.
especially if on the other side of them he cannons into couple of TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME brokers swapping lies with each
other. On the other hand, it's no nice to have some sab from the Hongkong, 16th April, 1919 Punjzub amble up and, after
Dear Alick,
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lot
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 17. 1919.
you'll get grass". If we're not too busy erecting memorials, the next | generation of children in the Central low level district will maybe get their chance. I see though that no sooner did the rickstia show itself on the Peak Distriot that that Government got started bright and early to make provision for the safety of, the children, the little darlings! That's just as it should be, of course, but I canna' belp buti contrast the situation wi' that of Kowloon where for many years no provision was made and where the kiddies bad only the roadside to play in, ehoek by jowl wi' strings of rattling rickshas, motors. Sunday pony riders and the Chinese trick: eyelists. It was only after a lot of Paterfamilas" was let loose in the papers that something in the nature of a matshed was put up. Since then the PW.D. has gone one better. which I believe is much appreciated. But why the distinction anyhow ?
....Aye, as I was saying, Hongkong is just now fale; in the throes of mental in- digestion. Never before in the
the history of
Colony has the thinking machine raced with such frequency. The man that gets through 12 or 14 hours of daily existence without having unloaded some ideas on his friends or in the newspapers, is as bad as the Boy Scout on the verge of going to bed without the usual good deed to record as a sop to his conscience and his cause. When an engine runs away wi itself it's time to have a look at the governor-the cost of even a tithe of the differen: schemes, if materialised, should be the oaly efficient governor in this case. But some folks are very careless w?' money--other folks money, that is. A show at the Theatre Royal can have a very successful run and get good notices in the papers and yet ex- perience great difficulty in pay. ing the bills. It's like a woman sailing into the dress circle in an ultra-fashionable gown. plus
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A WARNING TO MOTHERS.
COLDS AND INFLUENZA.
THE WAY TO AVOID THEM,
Some persons have been known
at
dazzling you wi his silver stripes, order VA to be on .......... As I was saying, you your Way 25 if ye were а won't know Hongkong when you coolie that had included Hong, come back. We've now got trafficking in his itinerary on the round regulations here. lad. Of course trip from Swatow. The traffic we've always had them, but up to regulations are all right in their lately, not so that you'd notice way, but until we're able to buy them. The owners of muter care some spring heel apparatus we've have got the hint that the earth got to cross the road via the road. sealskin cloak. The other. and the fullness thereof doesa" and the CS,P. would be wise if side of the picture is exactly belong to them even if he saw to it that some of his the compradore's shroff having they are handed together in an Indian waliahs weren't 50 to put in the best part Association. At the same time, damned consequential in their the
month trying mind you, some folks have crazy interpretation of them. But we'll to prize a few dollars on account ideas about speed limits. When settle down to things bye and from the dame,
In infantile diarrhoea never a man spends good money on and bye with the necessary Mind ye, there's a queer differ-give medicine to check the move car he doesna' exactly get the courtesy o both sides urence between & "want
and a ment of the bowels except upon îtch to make a Juggernaut of it streets and pavements should "need". Hongkong wants the advice of a physician. The to fall into icy water, and never for that's a messy job at the best be safer and more comfortable. terrible lot of things just now. right treatment is to cleanse the experience the slightest ailment of times besides the loss of time It's up to us try anyhow, even if but if folks could be got to con-bowels of the irritating secretions afterwards. Others travelling in attending the Coroner's enquiry-fit were for nothing else but to let centrate on the things that's which are the cause of the trou-a crowded train or sitting at home Again, to buy a fairly decent car Garrod get a decent sleep at needed first, we would get along ble. Many mothers have found in a draught, are laid up with a and then proceed to elimb lamp nights and give the new C.S.P. much better and at the less cost Baby's Own Tablets, the Canadian heavy cold, or worse still, fall posts and shave off rickshawheels more time for the reorganisation in the hinder end. One paper the children's remedy, immensely victims to influenza. is neither good for the car nor of the augmented Police that other day plaintively asked how valuable for this serious malady. The difference is all in the good business. The question of must come along soon.
all these needs are to be met and For example, Mrs. Geo. Foote, of bodily condition the time. the speed at which a car should but as ye will see for your where the money is to come from. St. Thomas, Ontario, says :-"My When a person is strong, healthy.[ be allowed to run, is, boiled down, self there 15 LES plenty of and it went on to say that the baby was troubled with diarrhoea able to enjoy a brisk cold day, merely a matter of competency talk 10 keep them from provision of some of them and was very restless and cross, chills and infections are set at on the part of the driver. A man wearying. That's one good must be faced by Government and got but very little sleep, and defiance. But when the system may run a car in town at thing in fixing the Council (Hear, hear. loud applause, I hardly knew what to do for her. is below par, run down, bloodless miles an hour and make things meeting for the forenoon; they've screams of silence and I got some Baby's Own Tablets and nervous, the germs of in- safe for the car, himself and the go to push off for tiffin sometime the rest). Some folks have a and after using them she could fluenza are quick to seize their folk on the street; another might and it gives the evening papers notion as the back of their heads sleep well and her bowels became opportunity. Go to bed at the be only going at 3 miles and get a chance onyway. Still in a couple that the Government has a plant regular. I am very pleased with firs: feverish sign of influenza, eat look like some of them convulsive of hours quite
of somewhere at the other side of the Tablets and think them a fine little or nothing and call in the cars in the pictures, and as business can be got rid of even if the island where it makes current medicine."
doctor. Remember that when result of his trip produce enough | many of the answers to questions coin of the realm from a mixture
Baby's Own Tablets contain no the fever has gone a long period surgical cases to start a new do nothing more than prove that of air and sea water. In spite of opiates and are a proved remedy follows during which the system Memorial Hospital. At rock some of our legislators are still everything we say, it must be ad- for teething troubles, constipation, remains low and depressed: there bottom the cause of complaint. keeping their end up in the gentle mitted that if we are to have all colic, indigestion, simple fever is a great difficulty in regaining with half of our Pro Bono art of Hogging a defunct horse. the things we need, they must and worms. Publicists, is sheer envy. At the Right here if I knew any Latin inevitably be paid for by the
strength, and the victim is usually Of chemists, or from the Dr. unfit for a normal amount of same time
Automobile I think that I can fix up quite people-maskee the channel Williams' Medicine Co.. 96 Sze-work. Association should be the first to decent tag about" playing to the
or method of payment. Ifchuen. Road. Shanghai, at 60 recognise that the Police by gallery" but what's the odds:our needs and tastes have be-cents the vial. post free.
The way to avoid colds, in- fluenza, and all other infections enforcing the traffic regulations you'd never understand it onyway, come more expensive, we've got are their best friends. Of course. I sometimes think that some of to pay for it in some shape or
is to keep the health up to the mark, the nerves steady, the regulations are no exactly made four Unofficials must get wind of other. Aye, who else but the whole Chinese community an-digestion in good working order, like standard ships. They must what the Government are in the Government should pay for these other pat on the back and tell the veins full of good, red blood. be tried out first and trimmed up midst of and shoot their questions things, for don't you see if it's their readers how they came up Because they make good rich from time to time. It took 12 in chop chop. The chap in the done that way the whole com-to the scratch and acted like the blood, and so help the body to years, to properly fix up the Docks doesna' know any better of munity contributes evenly, has an fine fellows they are. Aye, that's resist attacks of colds and in- traffic regulations in London after course and his pet Unofficial very equal right in the expense and alright but I never saw a do like fluenza, thousands have praised the motor car became common often gets credit for being a very use of these things? Never for- that yet that did as cause an Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale in its streets. Who are we anyhow far-seeing man. I was pleased get, lad: this primary and import- increase in the price of pork and people. that we should expect perfection though that he gave some thought ant fact: that it is the consumer beef and the like, and the devil of For the same reason they are overnight?
to the kiddies. The wee things that has to paz for everything: it always is that once they are even more valuable in restoring And the side-walks and "keep in the central district have a the trouble in the world is to get put up, the prices never come strength and fitness for work to your righ:
on the roads, hard job to find some place to the contributions equally divided, down. It sometimes pays in the after the system has been Well it's just about time that we play in, for though the Cricket Take
our forthcoming Peace long run to be a spender and not weakened by such attacks. If had something of the sort onyway. Ground is all right in its way, it's Celebrations. I haven't the slight to be the recipient. That reminds you want to be well lose no time: When I look back and think of either one of two things; the
est doubt but what the Chin-me of the story of Biddy buy Dr. Williams' pink pills from the stiffs that for years stood at sun's to hot or the grass is too
ese will be asked to con- Malone. She had got into any local dealer to-day, or send the corners of the Hongkong damp to play around in wi' com- tribute to the gaiety of the place some kind of trouble and sent a $1.50 for a bottle, $3 for G bottles, Hotel, Jardine's and the Post fort. The Botanical Gardens are by the pocket-book route and letter in ber extremity to the to The Dr. Williams' Medicine Office, I really wonder that very well in their way but it's a some tuggt person at the head of local member of Parliament. Co., 96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai- something wasn't done long long weary drag for the wee things will see, when it comes *Honoured Sir," it ran, "I write Besides the side-walk's things, even if they do see the to the question of getting up to you for justice. I am the girl по the place for old wives fishes and the birds when they Chinese processions and fantastic that split the policeman's head to congregate and exchange get there, besides the kiddies are archways and the like, that the open with a spade, and they got moans about the ailments of no' exactly perema grata in that Pork Guild, the Chicken Guild up & subscription for me, and Mr. Bonar Law announced in Jeanie of Jock, the fearful de-spot; it's very disturbing for the end the "Cut off the Round then gave it Betsy McFee the Commons recently that the linquencies of their respective watchmen, forbye the gravel is Guild and the Salt Fish Guild who only throw hot water over a Government were demanding the cook boys or the latest rumour too sparingly laid on to be of much antes up good and strong at the bailiff...
return of all British guns captured about the Empress boats. The use in the spade and pail line right moment. They will, too, and
Yours truly by the Germans and now'display- man rushing for his forenoon gin onyway. But live horse and the newspapers will give the
ROBT. MacWHIRTER. ed in Germany,
ago.
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