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A VARIETY OF LARGE AND SMALL HEATING STOVES.
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ger
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HONGKONG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPË,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1921,
SIMPLE LINES ARE ALWAYS BEST
D
A MIRROR OF JAPAN,
BY MARIAN HALE.
Though extremas may come and extremes maygo, there is ans thing you may depend upon. Simplicity in line always makes for artistic results.
frene Castle not only realizes this but in this gown she designed this simplicity is evidenced. The gown is of blus crepe embroidered in white with a roll collar and cuffs of whita satin and a white balt. The simplicity idea is alap carried out in the mushroom-poke hat, blue with white facing.
The loose-fitting coat of the street costume is not only good for the thin girlish figure but ig
is exceptionally desirable for the woman who is beginning to watch
hor weight.
The vanishing waistline" is completely defied in this costume which sports one of the now high collars.
It is of cashmere land the loose box effect of cost is trimmed with
broad folde of the material.
¦ foreign things have been imported are compelled to use it because into their system, but at hears the staff. like that of the telephone the people remain Japanese, service is inadequate and under- Old and New Tokyo.
living as their forefathers have paid. Telegraphs are not much lived, clincing to their own better. It is a public grievance. Tokyo is typical of new Japan, exquisite ideas of the fitness of not contined to Tokyo, that the srites the Times special corre things and to the old ways of period of compulsory education spondent in the Fat Ess. Here simple living. It would be wrong now six years, should be extended are few of the architectural gems to suppose that the Japanese are to eight years, and is not because of olden times and liste of the not changing. But, whereas in the Government is starring this lovely scenery that is character basiness and public matters they department as it is every other. istic of the country. Japan has have unreservedly adopted, the except one great plain, 900 square miles est, in their private life ther in extent, and of unsurpassed infinitely prefer their own man of the whole position. Japan is fertility. In the midst of it lies the iners and CUSTOMIS.
will spending all of her money that capital cits, a hive of modern assuredly retain them with all she can on army and navy, and industry and activity. It has its their strength.
there is not enough to carry on beauties, the Royal Palace and
that development and improve. meat which would round off the cial achieve- economic and
anc
And here we come to the kernel
grounds surrounded by a moat. Tokyo is evidence of the deter mination of the people to became The canals crowded by pictur#sque hoats and vessels, trees every. Crest and to compare with the
One cannot ments of recent years. Every- where. low his covered with nations of the west. exquisite gardens, the eternal spend a day in the capital of body knows it. everybody corn- quaintness of the hon.es of the Japan without becoming coavine-plains, every body excep: a certain prople, the dignified residences of ed that it is the centre of some. How would haze matters other- the one-time Daimios, and in the thing large and powerful. Behind Wise. But nobody is powerful or Fur distance, when the light the activity lie character, industry induential enough to dispute the serres, the delicate towering cone
persistence, all the qualities that central fact that the ultimate of Fuji, a jewel among mountains, make for greatness. Yet there are government of the country is in The city proper covers an area omalies, inconsistencies. There the hands of a certain few who of 31 square miles and within it are signs of arrested development. are above Parliament and the This grea. citr has its d people, and that those few are dwell well over 2.000.00 soule. But Greater Tokyo, of 200 square ficiencies, those faults which convinced that the future of Japan a new depends upon military power, and miles, has a population of 314 migh: be expected in
one would are determined to use all available millions, and the day is fast com- place. but which ing whan the whole shall be suppose were being feverishly resources for the building up of
corrected. under one municipal government.
But no such thing. power. Just as the growib By their works ye shall know The Japaness are accepting the of this great commercial and in- them. Looking upon Tokyo as a state of their capital with philodustrial centre may be said to be mirror of Japan you may see re- Bophy, almost with fatalism The expression of the genius of the flected in it much of the character streets and roads have deteriorat Japanese people, so it may be said to be typical of them that ibey bow and temperament of the people. ed into a riot of potholes and The city has grown on modem other irregularities, owing to the down before the military authority motor traffic. No other attempt
which. in another form, they lines. Railways. tramways, electricity, and motor traction is being made to improve them obeyed for centuries. are employed here 2.3 freely except by the almost futile ex- pedient of scattering gravel. The z! centre. Monster building. fram service has become a scan- ings of reinforced concrete towerdal, and the endeavour to travel by skyward, not to the height they is little better than a free fight. do is America, but as high as any The number of cars is totally in London or Paris. Broad inadequate to the immense traffic which has arisen. Yet the scandal streets that shame the city of London, planned and arranged with mathematical exactness. Public parks make open spaces, and scholastic establishments by
The conduct of the State tele-[director of lands, director of their numbers prove the thirst phone service makes a story that forestry," and director of science. for learning Temples
and would grace the pages of the for the purpose of making an sarines periodically visited by Arabian Nights. When you put extensive and detailed study of crowds of pilgrims testify the your name down for an instalia-the natural resources of the Phil- existence of devontaess, but it is tion you pay 10 yen and are ippines and recommending from a deficiency in the city from the warned that you must wait your time to time steps for their devel- foreign point of view that the
turn-seven years hence! Aopment. is the aim of a bill intro- spires and pinnacles of little later ryou learn that your duced by Senator Teopisto Guin- churches and cathedrals
Breturn can be anticipated and at gona at a recent session of the lacking,
instrument fixed in your house Pbilippine Senate.
in
other any
nation-
old
has existed for several years and is still unremedied.
KERNEL OF THE POSITION,
RESOURCES OF THE PHILIPPINES.
National Development Commission Proposed. The creation of a National Development Committee," com- posed of the director of public works, director of agriculture,
3
NOTICE.
COAL VASES
IX
BRASS AND COPPER
NOW ON SHOW
ALSO
PATENT ADJUSTABLE BRASS
KERBS.
WILL FIT ANY SIZE HEARTH
FIRE BRASSES
SHOVELS
COMPANION SETS.
CAULDRONS
FIRE DOGS
FIRE GUARDS.
LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
CARPETS! CARPETS
We have decided to continue
our SALE of ENGLISH MADE
TAPESTRY, AXMINSTER and
VELVET PILE CARPETS till
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5th.
33-1/3 % DISCOUNT
Those are all new carpets but as the Manufacturers have reduced their prices we are determined to clear our
present stock at practically cost price to make rooze for
new goods.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW our carpets as they are all laid out for inspection in a spacious show-room on the
first floor.
Electric lift.
COME EARLY. FINAL DATE
NOVEMBER 5.
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HONGKONG
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GETZBEST
CONTRASTS AND LAPSES. or office within six months at a The duties of the committee as One thing about the city that cost of Yan 500! Anybody who set forth in the bill are as follow: immediately strikes the visitor is has bad telephonic connection for "(a) To explore, investigate, that while the Japanese in their three years may dispose of same and make all necessary inquiries public buildings, business offices, to whomsoever he will, and it is of the various natural resources and manufactories have entirely the astonishing truth that people of the islands so that the inversion adoped western architecture, in tumble over each other to pay of capital for the exploitation of their homes they have retained | Yen 3,000 for the opportunity these resources may be made their own ancient rasDDET of to buy. Witbal. tbe actual advantageous. building. Tokyo, therefore, pre-service is abominable, for the "(b) To investigate, make an nents this curiouk contrast-that | reason that the staff is estimate ofnecessary expenditure, innumerable great buildings are insufficient and shockingly un- and make all necessary inquiries] "(d) Investigate and make a land is to be presided over by the of foreign style, while the houses derpaid. It is not as if there were for the establishment of inter-study of rivers and fails and cas-director of public works who is of the people crouch round and any shortage of material, for communication between the cades.
determine their force, authorized to employ all technical
bous, little wooden bungalows Japan is doing a splendid business various important points of radius of action and the possibility personnel necessary for the com of one or two storeys, with paper in the export of every variety of Mindanao, especially the proof their being utilized as motive mittee's work. The committee is windows and projecting eaves, telephonic equipment. There is cluces of Agusan, Bokidnon, power for railroads, electric cars. to act for three years or until new veritable cottages in size, charu no underground sewage system | Cotabato, „Dayso, and Lanso,
electric plants and other in-ones or the same members are appointed. The sum of P40 000 ingly quaint, inexpressibly old-in Tokyo and the cartage of night (c) Explore, investigate, and dustrial enterprises." ~ fashioned. This contrast affords soil is an offence from which the asks all necessary inquiries in
The committee is to be under is appropriated from the insular glimpse into the wind of Japan city is never free. The porist regard to the abundant-rainers the control of the department of treasury for its expenses for For expediency's sake many service is the despair of all who deposits in the islands.
agriculture and natural resources, 1922.