THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1921.
NOTICE.
The Experienced Hostess Counts on Her
Victrola
She knows how it entertains everyone 1 It enables those who love music to hear their favorite music and their favorite artists.
It furnishes an orchestra for the dancers--an orchestra that keeps perfect time, takes up little room, needs no rest between encores.
Appropriate for all occasions, it fills in intervals of conversation, and brings together people of differ- ent tastes and interests.
We have a large assortment of the best instru- ments and records, awaiting your approval.
MOUTRIES
SOLE AGENTS,
Chater Road.
L&C HARDTMUTH'S
MASTERS, MOGE
KOH-I-NOOR
MADE IN CZECHO SLOVAKIA
KOH-I-NOOR
THE
PERFECT PENCIL
The First Postwar Stocks
in Hongkong at
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD.
3 WYNDHAM STREET.
SPECIAL WHIT-TUESDAY
OFFER:
FOR ONE DAY ONLY.
SHIRTS. To make room for & new stock of goods coming forward we are offering a number of Oddmente in White and Fancy Shirts, assorted sizes and ranging from $4.00 to $6.50 each.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $2.75 each.
SOFT COLLARS.-Soft White Pique Polu Collars; Cream Tussore Polo Collars, and White Mercerised Double Collars, also a few Fancy Coloured Double. Collars.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $4.00 Dozen.
WASHING TIES. Full length Eummor Washing Ties. A Large Selection in White with very neat Coloured Stripes. Usual Price $1.50 each.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER 90 cents each
SUMMER: UNDEL WEAR." Bombax " Cream Cotton Net Underwear, Vesis 4 Sleeves, Button Front and Drawers Knee Longth. Usual Price $3.75 garment. SPLCIAL WHIT OFFER $2.50 garment $4.25 Suit.
GOLF HOSE. Superior grade, all-wool. Golf Stockings, plain dark colours, with nonL turn-over tops; tropical weight Hose. Usual Price $7.50 and $8.50.
SPECIAL, WHIT OFFER $6.00.
"MATTAMAC" RAINCOATS.-Genuine "Muttamac" Raincoats, in three different Shades. The light weight, 19 oz., raingoat that is light and cool and keeps you dry, Usual Price $30.00.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $25.00.
PYJAMAS. Men's Summer Pyjamas, made in a light Soft White Haircord Fabric, low neck,sleeves and Short or long trousers as preferred. Sizes 32 to 44 Usual Price $5.50.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $3.50 Suit.
HANDKERCHIEFS.-Men's Soft Linen- Finished White Arrow" Handkerchiefs, laundered and all ready for use; a really good quality and well made Handkerchief. Usual Price $9.00 dozen.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $6.00 Dozen.
SILK TIES.-A large selection of Silk Barathea Scarf Ties, in the following plain colours-Navy, Brown, Dark Green, Helio, Purple, Grey, Cordovan or Cerise. Usual Price $3.00 each.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $1.50 each.
SILK SOCKS.-" Luxite" Silk Hose in Plain Grey. Cordovari, Black or White. Guaranteed Genuine Luxite" Hose Bizes 94 to 11. Usual Price $4.00 pair.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $2.75 pair.
WHITE TENNIS HATS.--Very Smart White all Tennis Hats, with either White or Black Silk Band, soft reversable brim. Usual Price $7.50 each..
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $4.50 each.
GAUZE VESTS. Superior Quality White Gauzo Undervests, to button front or to slip on over head, Sizes 49 and 42 only left. Usual Price $2.50 each.
SPECIAL WHIT OFFER $1.50 each,
THESE BARGAINS FOR TUESDAY MAY 17TH ONLY.
AND EVERY ARTICLE IS GUARANTEED THIS SEASON'S DELIVERY..
Men's Wear Specialists. 16 Des Voeux Rd.
MACKINTOSH & CO. LTD.
'Phone 29.
PICNIC
DELICACIES
Scotch Boar's Head, Scotch Haggis, Eag- lish Brawn, Black Puddings, Galantines, White Puddings, Camp Pie, Chicken and Ham in Jelly, Picnic Pies, Stewed Kidneys, Pork Pie, Jugged Hare, Curried Fowl, Curried Mutton, Curried Rabbit, Curried
Prawns, Pate de foie Gras, Potted Meats,
Mackerel, Herrings, Kippers, Anchovies,
Hams, Fruits, Thick Cream, etc. in Tins
and Bottles.
LANE CRAWFORD'S
Established 1850.
Telephone 1741.
Invalids Enjoy
Benger's Food. Letters from doctors and nurses continually voice the gratitude of patients for it. Invalid after invalid writes to say "It is the one Food of which they never tire.” . The ease with which
BENGERS
Food
is digested and absorbed, makes it most welcome to patients, and it ranks highest among nutritive foods.
Benger's forms with milk a dainty cream, which is absorbed with little digestive effort.
From an Emisent Surpron,,
After a longthened experience of foods oth ́at horse and ja Indhu, 1 muwalber "Benger's Food incomparably azperior to any I have aver preribød.""
tine by Chemiste, ste..., averywhere.
Benger's Food a void
Full particulars and direction with each tin. Bole Proprieters und Mammfestoste BENGER'S FOOD LTD.,
MANCHESTER, England BRANCH OFFICES: NAW YORK (A) Beekman Street, SVIN@V (JW) 119, FIT BANK,
JUST
HALL'S DISTEMPER
THE KING OF WATER PAINTS
The Sanitary, washable, dad laugh disintent- imgaudytas make it 1 dead wallcovering for kiliz bratste or viline
Hallby all Contractorwned Pajzret Wrath for our Brichtare How to drewThIP A Mome
WILLIAM C JACK & CO., LTD.
Sele Apeale Hongkong & South China,
ARRIVED: BRASS AND WIRE METAL
BEDSTEADS
HOP CHEONG
mph to Have Furnishers,
Manufacturer & kap rturs of High Grade Forniture. Triphone No. 651.
·Sv. Queen's Road Central,
JUST
ARRIVED
A new consignment of.
HOLICK'S MALTED MILK LUNCH TABLETS
COLONIAL DISPENSARY
"THE LINER, SHE'S A LADY."
ufacturer's stock at less than cost carry our trade. That in itself) price, states a writer in the Nury, however, is not enough. A new (the organ of the Navy League). | national conception of the sea- Moreover and the landsman trader is needed. He must be is apt to overlook the analogy set in his right relation to our But Her Fuel Bill!
land trade is not carried, to any national life, not as a cypher in extent, by the great expresses, tabulated statistics, but as a man, The romance of sea-borne com-
the Flying Scotsman and the doing a man's work, under con merce is buried by our modern other famous non-stop trains. It ditions of peculiar danger and commercial outlook in tables of is carried by the goods trains peculiar hardship. A nation that statistics and economic curves. that average perhaps 15 miles an was worthy of its mariners could We invest with a highly ex-hour. So with sea trade. The not read unmoved such a story as aggerated romanticism the bulk of it is borne by the tramps, that which was tucked away on voyages of the Elizabethan mer-moving at their economical 8 or the back pages of our newspapers chant venturers, and by contrast 9 knots, They, too. are the other day. The Pacific Steam figure the ocean-going merchant-affected by the price of coal, and Navigation Company's steamer men of to-day as drab and com- consequently there are signs that Huanchaco towed the propeller- monplace creatures, There was
wo are on the verge of a new less British Peer 1,560 miles in 13 a sporadic ontburst of adulation chapter in the romance of the days in spite of gates. It took] for the merchant seamen during tramp, a chapter that the war, when they faced the some respects in
in more than 24 hours in the raging) a turning BURS to worst that man's hostility could back
pass tow-ropes from of pages. We may one
another, to begin invent with same cheerful see a new type of sailing marins with. Speed all the time was courage that they always grow up, the sailing ship fitted dead slow for fear of snapping the faced the antagonism of with an auxiliary motor that will hawsers. At times the seas ran so high that the master of the Huanchuco could not see the fun- nel of the vessel he was towing. And all throughout the last day
the elements. Those days are take her by its own power in and past, and national interest in the Merchant Service is, in a large measure restricted unce more to the Board of Trade Returns of Imports and Exports.
to
out of harbour, and will move her slowly onwards when the winds fail her. The marine oil-engine of to-day for this purpose can be of that long tow a howling gale built up to 800 horse-power to razed. We want a new Hakluyt to function reliably. Working costs 'Ye gentlemen of England, put the story of the "tramp ” are lower than with coal-fired, that sit at home at ease "what vividly before us. For it is the, steam-driven ships, and much have you to show equal to the tramp steamer that is the back-lower than with ships that burn oil stout heart that made that feat bone of trade. Three-fifths of the in their furnaces, admittedly the possible? mercantile marine consists of most wasteful way of obtaining It was only a "record" in the ships with less than 12 knots power. The cost per ton of cargo | distance towed.. No doubt it speed, and in these days carried on a sixteen days' trip is would have passed unnoticed but when aeroplanes spin along computed to be 9s. 1d. in the for the statistical interest of the at 150 miles an hour motor-driven ship, 158, 4d. in the mileage. No doubt it has already when motor transport on land old-type reciprocating steam- passed into the lumberrooms of covers the ground at an average engined ship with ooal fires, and memory with all those stories. of 20 miles an hour, and luxury 178. 11d with oil-fired boilers, that should be deathless, of the travelling by motor-car touches The cost with the Bailing-quiet courage of the merchant fifty, when the newspaper-reader auxiliary would naturally be seamen in war. Who can tull. forms his idea of the mercantile lower still, since the motor would to-day, the story of Coquet? marine from descriptions YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM.Atlantic Greyhounds," the slow-most of the power would be valiance of the boy-officer of the of only be used occasionally, and Who remembers the unflnching moving tramp appears to be an obtained free from the wind. Thracia? The dogged defiance insignificant survival of a slow We have dealt at tus much of danger by the orew of the length wih a novel aspect of the Colarwood that others might goj "The shipping world knows bet-"tramp" because in some safely? ter. It has learned by hard measure that toiler of the deep Those names, we fear, conjure experience that speed is a costly has suffered in public estimation up a vision to but few of commercially it becomes use very name has in it a suggestion spirit that animated the merchant thing, so costly, indeed, that from an unlovely exterior. Her those who read them now. The less if pushed to extremes. It of reproach, of slovealiness. The service then is the spirit that is a noteworthy fact that the sailing ship, to a generation that animates it always. That spirit biggest ships completed since 1918 has rarely seen one and knows ia oriceless heritage from the do not exceed 22,000 tons displace-fit mainly from the idealised merobatit venturers who leid the
Telephone 1877.
14 Queen's Road, Cantral.
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestive food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot Weather: (2) LACTOSE (Milk Sugar) for aweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-McGRATH FLUID INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fleas, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Pesta in Summer days; and (4) JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping overything clean in Houses.
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PRICES are Very Moderate. Inspection and Enquiries are Dordially invited.
肇理代糖粉奶牛廠素孖
SHIU FUNG TAI & CO.
ate Agence, for Hongkong and South Chins.
47 and 48 Connaught Rod Central, Hongkong. Telephone No. 1239.
age.
WHITEAWAY'S
PRICE SALE
HALF PRICE
VOILES
ON
TOBRALCOS
PIQUES
'GINGHAMS
MUSLINS
COMMENCING ON
TUESDAY, May 11th
• FOR
5 DAYS ONLY
ALL NEW GOODS
NO PATTERNS.
The above goods will be sold for cash at time of purchasement. £4,000 worth of Summer dress material will be offered at HALF PRICE. These will in many cases be con iderably loss than makers' cost.
SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY.
ment and that their speed has works of Royal, Academicians, foundations of our sea-borne WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO. LTD
come to 18 knots from the 25 ja Д thing of
knold of the Mauretania.
beauty, trade. It is but lip-service to
"Tho grad and neatness, That tradi- the glory of Sea Power to vaunt
liner, she's a lady." but there are tional belief should go some way the fame of Hawkins in doublet tramp". If and hose, and to forgot the fame
no January sales of furbelows to rehabilitate the for her. The fuel bill knows any large number of sailing a thousand Hawkinses in duffel nothing of clearances of a man- auxiliarles, come into service to coats or dungarees.
HONGKONG.