POMMERY et GRENO
The Jackdaw of Reims uncorking & bottle of POMMERY
CHAMPAGNE
The Wine of Kings The King of Wines
Now is the time to stock for Xmas. SOLE AGENTS:
CALDBECK MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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C. 75.
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Ninety pounds of axe handler
packed in an unreinforced box
weighing 43 b. and costing 90c.
Fifty-five pounds of carbide in cans, packed ina box reinforced
with two wires, weighing 8 pounds and costing 19 cents,
Boxes carrying 48 poundi and 25 pounds of pump parts, re spectively. The large one welths 39 pounds and custa $1.07. The small one, weighs 13 pounds. and costs 39 cents.
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This redesigned box, carrying the same load, le 17 pounds Bghter. Reinforced with Acme Naliless Strap di destronger then the old box and 26 cento Icos.
Reinforced with one Acme Nallen Strap, this box carrica the same load, is 2 lbs. lighterarul costa 5 cents less than the old one. It is stronger by actual test.
Hedesigned and strengthened with Acme Nailless Strap, these bxes carry the same loads. The larger box now costs 47 cents less and in 17 pounds lighter--- the small one cusis 20 cents less and is 7 pounds lighter.
Demonstration from the Sule Agents for
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,2 Connaught Road, Central
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ABOUT NOTHING IN
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CARBAGES FOR KINGS.,
[By Sidney Dark in the
Morning Post
The year dies beautifully in England. There is a soft mellow- ness of colour with the falling of the Teaves, and the suggestion of rest and pence in the light haze of November tarly evening.
Autumn, so it is said, breathes melancholy in the souls of the sensitives. But for me it has its own peculiar joys. Summer, alas!, is over, and I love sunshine with a lova altogether unwholesome. for a dweller in England. But the walnuts are in season. Thero is [again in "R" in the month, though: that is a fact which interests me very litle with Whitstables at seven shillings a dozen, and I can sometimes afford a pheasant for my dinner. Life always has its compensations,
My only quarrel with autumn is that it brings lack the cabbage, of all vegetables, except Its first consin, the cauliflower, the mont Ionthly. Slightly to change a famous denunciation of Mr. Ches terton's, "cabbage in a vulgari best, cabbage in a cad," and, like
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1928.
THE NEAREST WAY TO
A MAN'S HEART.
is through his stomach, so wise! wiven tell us. But unless the digestive tract is in proper work- lag order the efforts of the good lady in this direction are able to miscarry. Therefore keep Pinkettes handy in the house, 48 a prompt corrective of intestinal or liver-torpor, to nid digestion, And ла П Safeguard against billous attacks, sick headaches, and those little rifts in domestic' harmony so liable to arlar there- Sold by chemist .overy- from. where.
PINKETTES
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MRS. MOTONO
HAND & ELECTRIC MASSAGE
Hongkong.
alf vulgar things, calhage is insis No. 51B, Top Floor, Wyndham BL fent. It grows large and arrogant, like a bumptions proßteer, and when it is boiled in the kitchen its existence is all too evident in the garrit.
When the Walrus, invited the oysters to talk of "cabbages and kings" he was inviting them to proceed through the whole gamut of possible conversation, from the lowest subject to the highest. Humility is happily to be found among the exalted as well as among the lowly:
Hearts just as pure and fair
May bent in Belgrave Square As in the rarer air
Of Sevch Dials."
Similarly, pride rears its un- pleasant head In Peckham as well as in Park-lane, and these quailties of humanity are to be found al through
self- Creation. How
offacin is the pea! It grows with pretty dignity. It in cooked, with out offence. And with a sugges- Uon of mint it makes dinner lime
joy. While the cabbage....
Still, just as there is a chance of salvation for the greatest of ainiera, so even the cabbage may be, as it were, coerced into modesty and succulence at some expense and with considerable culinary akili. There is n dish called Faisan a la Flamanda which I re- call when life la particularly hard to endure, and which I buy when my bank manager has been com- placent. The cabbage plays its part In Falaan a la Flamande; but it is the pheasant that mat-; tera. It takes the cabbage and simply makes it behave. Faisan a la Flamande, indend. Is Nietzs chernism in action, the strong pro. perly dominating the weak, the Proletariat sternly put into its: place.
It may be--who can say?--that Nietzsche. or perhaps his pre- decessor, Count Gobineaut, once ate Faisan a la Plamande, possibly, in the Lion d'Or in Brassels, where win ents it at its best, and from the experience of the complete suppression of the unpleasuNA qanlities of the aggressive cabbage one of them evolved, the philo suphic theories, in which they had long before been anticipated by Macchiavelli, who may have had the same comforting experience.
But the cabbage cooked in water and served as a hard wedge a la Anglais is a thing at which the judfelous' may well shudder, It has its human counterpart in, a Trade Union secretary of the baser sort elected to a Town Council,
I
LORD STANLEY FINED.
CHARGE FOLLOWS ACCIDENT
IN NARROW ROAD,
Lord Stanley, M.P., eldest son of the Earl of Derby, was fined £2 and ordered to pay £2 14s, costs at Bromley recently for negligent driving.
be-
The allegation of the police was that Lord Stanley "cut in" tween two other cars in Becken- ham-lane, Hayes, a narrow road, at a very fast speed. The driver of the first car applied his brakes, causing his car to swing round and kneck a pollee sergeant off his bleycle. The car afterwards came into collision with the second Car,
Lord Stanley stated that he had held a driving licence for 10 years, and had never been involved in an accident in which injury had been sustained. The first he knew
of the accident was when he heard
a crash 60 or 70-yards after pasa- ing the cars. He went back to sec what had happened. He did not think he was concerned accident,
Mr. Sanders (for the poll You were merely acting as a
Samaritan?-Exactly.
in the
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