DO WE EAT TOO MUCH? | ́ CORMORANTS PERCH
Indigestion on the Increase.
One of our most famous
no
ON BIG BEN,
POINTS.
physicians recently stated that DAY-LONG VIGIL ON TOPMOST many people now-a-days eat far too much. As the body has means of storing food. that is no assimilated, this undigested surplus is positively harmful, for ferments, creates gus, and polsons the system.
In nearly every case Dr.
there
of
Unprecedented developments are expected in the political altuation (writes a Political Correspondent) owing to the appearance of the strangest portent--two big birds which settled on Big Ben.
seen.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928.
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
Longer Skirts.
FASHION CREATON'S
DETERMINATION.
The still highly controversial question whether women's knees shall be hidden or revealed has cropped up at least twice a year on the agenda of coming fashions for many seasona
Over-eating, however; in far from being the only cause One perched on the golden bail Indigestion: other factors help to on the top of the spire, over 300ft, account for its present increase, high, and seemed so pleased with faulty his vantage point that he stayed such as hurried meals,
there all day,"save for a few short mastication, an unsuitable diet,
Alights. overwork, worry, lack of exercise: any or all of these may start the Hundreds of people stopped to trouble.
look at the great black bird, poised Wil-on the metal-work which crowns the tower. At 10 pm, the police Hams pink pills are most helpful had to clear the pavements. fn overcoming Indigestion, for
Once again it is agitating those n is invariably. rapid During the evening he found a thinning of the blood, and before more comfortable resting place on who legislate for the dress require any permanent relief can be look-a ruil eft. below the golden ball. ments of women, and one Paris ed for it is necessary to improve There he was when the Ilouse rose. dress creator has taken the bull by Of the other not so much was the horns, or, to employ a more ap- the condition of the blood. Re-
It is believed to have spent propriate simile, the tape measur member this: without good blood most of the day on the ornamentato the skirt, and firmly announced that In the Interests of art and is impossible. ton below the cross. parfect digestion
beauty knees must vanish from As a first step' you must enrich
the public gaze, your blood, and you can readily
It was thought at first that they do this by taking Dr. Williams! pink pills. These, pilis actually were cormorants from the Green blood, which Park, but this pair were reported create new, rich
the digestive not to have left the park. quickly restores
Membera from time to time stop-
A recent visit to London convert. organs to healthy nelivity.
So if you suffer the nilseries ofped in Palace Yard to gaze at the
strangers, and a pair of binocularsed him to the longer skirt polley. "I came back from London with uncertain the was produced to species of bird which close auch one fixed idea in my head to make longer skirts. We have really had an unusual perch.
enough of leg display. Ankles mal The general diagnosis was that the just a little morgy are charming. visitors were cormorants, but the Knees are always ugly, species could not definitely be above the knee are not only hideous certained,
Whence they came is not known; but vulgar," he declares forecasting
coming fashions. how long they will haunt West. minster is obviously equally wrapt in mystery.
Indigestion, you should try the einamonsense method of enrich ing the blond by taking Dr. Williams' pink pills. All chemists sell them, also post free, $1.50 per bottle, Ghuttles $8 from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, Kinng- Be Rond, Shanghai.
FREE: A booklet entitled "What for to Eat," specially written indigestion sufferers, will be sent free to all who write to the above address.
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M.P.'s Interest.
A correspondent writes:--- It is most likely that the Big Ben LOT- hirils were common British morants (Phalacrocorax Corbo). which are found in many parts of Europe and attain a length of about
3ft.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
ATTRACTIVE HOLIDAY'
PROGRAMME.
warow it
He has already introduced long- er skirts into his mid-se can collee- tion and when the time of his au- tama display arrives the skits will be all longer.
Skirts
Other dressmakers are taking a strong line on the knees question. Longer skirts, they consider, will greater give the art of the dress designer more scope and women charm.
Voices.
our
People are always to be found who will say that they can see our
faces, in characters in our clothes, or in our houses, but I often wonder if our voiena do not bo- frag us quite as much as any of these.
J
NEA
This picture of Mary Pickford was taken as she stepped off the trun in Pasadena en route to her home in Beverly 1. Misa Pickford's new headdress is hardly a bob, but is rather a close-fitting coiffure in which the surplus hair is worn in a small roll at the nape of the neck,
For the Bather.
THE UNSINKABLE SUIT.
A bathing-suit which will sup-
Stainless Cloth.
FOR THE BATHROOM.
Curtains of the ordinary type,
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
34
35
30
139
Horizontal,
1 Who is the Republican candidate for president of the United States?
6 Who will run for vice president
on the samo party ticket?
11 What In the largest known
species of the toad?
12 English money of account.
14 State of being comfortable,
|15 Everything that grows.
16 To moisten.
17 To Jet fall in drops.
18 Second note in scale..
19 Pepparnut
21 Syllable occasionally used in-
stead of "" in the scale,
22 Who is the most famous manu.
facturer of Inexpensive automo- 'biles?
24 To value,
27 Bill of faro.
28 What is the principal piece of
timber in a boat called?
30 Ridge on the flesh caused by a
bimu
32 Ta close with wax.
.
38 What is the name of the whirl-
34 Provided.
36 Edges of a roof,
Faroe Islands
21
which causes water spouts?.
wind off the
39 Festive array,
42 Opposite of high.
43 To contend.
45 Verbal.
10. Female sheep.
47 To border on.
48 Short intermission,
49 Vegetable.
Those who love Romething
I am sure that, very often, the hilarious in the way of cinema' entertainment should not miss voices of people whom I meet muke Che opportunity of seeing Charlieme anxions to meet them again, or
fearful lest I should. Chaplin at the Queen's Theatre,
It is not, of course, only the where that inimitable comedian voice that is revealing, but the appears on the screen in one of manner in which it is used, mul it his earlier efforts entitled "A Day's is rather a pity, think, that sport the wearer in the water seems soun get limp-with the steam of the Pleasure Charlie is
many women who have really pleas to be an excellent idea, particularly bath and lose their attractive fresh- favourite with the whole cinema ing speaking voices, forget so cum- fraternity and the showing of this plately that they may be deglecting as the secret of the sult is set airs. Many women are now, how- parent to the eye. In fact this un-ever, fitting the bathroom window stur on a holiday is most appro-one of their greatest assets by usinkable suit looks much like any with hangings made of proofed priate.
ing them badly.
ather, and can be worn without the damask or coloured oli-baize, so tout if desired. There is a little that condensed steam runs off them pocket inside the top of the costume as easily as from the proverbial which can be inflated by the wearer] duck's back, leaving them peren- in the water, and deflated before nially bright and clean. Golden #4 flowerpatterned, is coming out again. It forms an air-damask, cushion capable of supporting novelty in stainless cloth, and Oil-bize, which is of full-grown person,, and is helpful primrose. When learning to swint. The iden rather heavier make, but still soft has hem arranged very neatly and enough to fall in beautiful folls, is is the most practical form of bath-to be had in vermillion, canary, pale ing support yet seen. It is quite blue, and rich green. The making useful to a good swimmer when sen- of Eurtains in these labour-saving bathing, as, if not inflated until materials is of the simplest, and actually wanted, it does not inter- they will wear, of course, Indefinite- fere in any way with free action ly.
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Resides Charlie's antics, patrons will see a really good picture in "It is a story of a lively but impish shop girl whe dazzled mea of millions with "I". That "self- quality is described
without A welf- confidence consciousness" and Clara Bow, in the role of the shop girl, simply oozes with "11" She is abiy amp- ported by the wellknown Antonio Morena. The story moves with a swing and there is hardly a dail
moment. In view of the fact that "It has been cleverly advertised one watches every action of Clara Kow in order to discover the quality called "IT."
FORD AERIAL TOUR.
RESULT OF 3,600 MILE TEST.
Detroit, July 28.
The 3,000-mile Ford reliability airplane tour was wan to-day by John P. Wood, of Wausau, Wis- consin, with a Waco biplane.
Frank Hawkes, ploting a tri- mntored Ford, was second, and Ran- dolph Page, Jr., piloling a Stinson Detroiter, was third,
The flight started on June 30. Thirty-two cities were visited. There were no accidents.
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A voice that is allowed to give free expression to all the thoughts
A
Very Smart.
two-toned bluo jersey bathing suit has a white silk kerchief set in with a point, matching the white bands
that divide the blues.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
(GEE-WE CERTAINLY } NOUN'WE'LL MEANDER
UP THIS STREET AND
TOOK A NICE LONG
WALK PAIS MORNING= } SEE THE STRANGE
THINGS HERE!
I WISH ONCLE
{HARRY WOULD
BUY ME A SODA!
1
in the water, but is ready in case!
of emergency or if a rest should be
desired. The unsinkable suit is.
"Take cover" In the watchword perhaps, more likely to appeal to of the hygienist as regards every- those who enjoy sea bathing but thing Lant enters the mouth, and are not expert, swimmers.
It
nikes swimming easy and creates the tooth-brush is, of course, no confidence in the water. It also exception. Very attractive to the takes the fatigue out of bathine, fastidious. In the novel tooth-brush and makes it far less of an effort for people who are past their first youth and cannot indulge in too much strenuous excretae,
that come to a really womanly woman in all her many moods can be a wonderful instrument of com- munication between soul and soul.
But many modern women seem to ignore this fact completely.
A GODA CERTAINLY WOULD GO GOOD RIGHT
ASON!
·
H. M. IN Exchange,
Vertical.
1 What is the largest seaport in
the north of Franco.
2 Type of molding.
Possessive pronoun.
4 Tanner's veskel.
5 Propelled a boat,
6 To provide food,
7 Senflot.
8 Sailor.
9 What cow-boadod goddoen was
the wife of Osiris? (Myth.)
10 What pigment is secured from
the "custic bone flak"?
13 To rot flax.
10 On what river aro President
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and Mrs. Coolidgo sponding their vacation?
Large bodles of water amallor
than seas.
22 Not many.
23 Unit.
25 Afternoon meal,
26 Snake-like fish,
20 Strength.
31 Stories.
32 Drain.
33 Tusks.
35 To happen well or ill,
37 Promise,
38 A set of musical componitions.
40 Reain.
41 Beer.
43 Low, vulgar fellow,
44 Kimono sash.
Saturday's Solution.
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DARING BRIGANDS.
HEAVY RANSOM.
M. Melas, ex-Deputy, both Cafan- darists, were kidnapped by brig zelos delivered a campaigning ands near Yanina, where M. Vexi speech yesterday. Their captora demand a ransom of 10,000,000 Athens, Aug. 5. drachmae and threaten to kill the that the brush can be kept in perfeet hyglenle condition. The
There was an exciting laterlude captives if they are pursued by the fixture, which is very strong, may be had. fitted either for the into the election campaign how in military, M. Venizelos is person- dividual or with three or four tubes, full awing. M. Milonas, the ex-ally directing the operations for for family use.
Under Secretary of Finance and their release-Router.
Uncle Harry Treats
AIS IS THE MARKET PLACE, FRECKLEG-BERE ALL THE TRADING AND BUYING IN CAPETOWN
16 DONE!
SAY, UNCLE HARRY,
IZ WAS JUST THINKING
TAAT IT WOULD BE NICE TO SIT DOWN SOMEPLACE-NY FEET ARE SETTING
TIRED!
ALL RIGHT-WERE ALMOST TO OUR HOTEL WELL DROP IN THERE? AND SETTLE DOWN IN LOME OF THOSE BIS SOFT CHAIRS AND REST AVKILE/
By Blosser
·BUT, YOU KNOW "
I REST BETTER IN ONE OF THOSE NICE, HARD KE CREAM CHAIRS IN SOME DRUG STORE !!
WHY SURE!
HOW THOUGHTLESS
OF ANE!
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