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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.
This Baby's Stomach. Troubled Her Until Baby's Own
Tablets Set It Right. -
Another Mother In Buran
Gives Thanks:
The fame of Baby's Own Tablets continues to spread throughout the world, for parents in all walks of life find them unique in the rapid efficteney with which they restore ailing infants and tile children to cheery health.
For example, 31a Mi Sa, 'a Burmese mother who keeps a little shop in the Zendow Bazaar, Rangoon, states:-"A few months ago my baby was far from well. She had stomach troubles and cried every night. Having heard of Baby's Own Tablets I got a vial and gave them to baby. The resuls were very pleasing. Baby as soon eured no longer Buffers now from her stomach and seldom cries."
No mother need hesitate for a moment about giving Baby's Own Tablets to her little one, for they are guaranteed free from uny injurious Ingredient and absolute ly safe even for the youngest and most delicate infant. As n réted for infantile, indigestion,
there
in constipation, culic.
nothing else like them. They p (quickly relieve. Toothing paima, eroup and ealds, check diarrhola, atay fever, expel Wornis, Chemists everywhore sell them. or past free, 60 cerita per vigl. from the Br. Williams' Medicine Co., Kiange Road, Shanghai.
COLLECTED · £250,000 A YEAR.
A TAX OFFICIAL'S DEFALCATIONS.
Formerly collector of taxes for the parish of the Liberty of
the Rolls, Leonard Waller Pardon, Bb, of Carsitor-street, W. C, wat sen- need at Bow-street. Police Cont threb months fiz the
ta
equd division for malezzling į murley received by him from tàx-}; payers..
Mr. W. Spencer, prosecutihgr. said Purdon was charged in ros- peel of sums totalling $195, bat an null revised a deficiency of 1740,
Purdon's net salpry in the last three years had en 1925, £215 and £210. He had control of about £250,000,000 a year.
Mr. J. J. McIntyre, defending. said that in 1926, when Parton's salary was 219 a year', he applied extra for an increase owing to work, but the Inland Revenue nu- thorities found that his pay was Aiher than it should have been and reduced it by £7 a year.
In 1927 he made a similar plication, with the result that his salary was still further decreased, but in 1928 he was granted a rise of £16 a yea.
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
The Jowels of the Moment.
The gift in the top left corner is wearing necklet and bracelet of rhinestones eut into bars and circles; the 'one on the right wears a complete treť' comprising necklet, bracelet and white lacquer aquara. Below is a pendant in rolongéd mamed with silver chain, while some new benda of red and dull bluo crystal and rhinestones are seen in the jewelbis. The set comprising neckled, butterfly ear- rings and bracelet is carried out in grey and pale green
lacquered metal, jet.
Today's Problem.
WHY DO WOMEN HAVE" UGLY KNEES?
[rubbing in a rotary direc
tion rouid and round till the skin feels warm and glowing. Then with the tips of the fingers, pinch and knead the aiden of the knoes gently.
Stand oreet, keeping the leg This question, "Why is it that perfectly straight and the knee quite stiff. Bend the knee, quick- Thanat every wom has ugly knees?" was put la mto by a well-jerking movement throw it for ly, raise the foot, and with a sharp known actor, and it set me taking wards, heading the foot at the stock of my neighbour's knees in ankle and curving the toss down- bus and tube. Certainly I was wards. This exorcise, besides forced to acknowledge that there improving a thin knee, develops was ground for his remark." Not a "Princely" Salary.
too thin calf, and generally im- This was supposed to be a part- The knee, like every other fen- proves the shape of the leg. It Line occupation, but the work neture (is it a feature?) can be im- should be practised from ton to cupied the whole of his time, and proved with rare, and oven after fifteen times with each leg. even his wife had had to assist very short time will show results,
if treated systematically, Massage, him with clerical work.
and exercise will work wondera
For the Too Plump.
When the knees are too plump
The insurance company would with a too plump knee, and mas for beauty they should be 'mas- TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND refund the whole of the defalca-sage with a little cream will turn sured with fresh lemon juice or a
T. NAKAO.
Japanese Shoe Expert
CASES A SPECIALITY.
Hongkong Jotel Building,
Queen's Road Central.
THE WORLD'S COW
HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
LOOK IN LANE, CRAWFORD'S WINDOW.
tions to the State, and in order the thin, bony knee into a pumple white wine vinegar. Bathe I make restitution to the company and dimpled one. Kurdon had insured his life for the amount involved, payable in 12! years. A friend had guaranteed the premiums.
Mr. Mead said that considering the large amount of money he re- evived, Pardon's salary was not a princely one.
LETTER GOLF
SOLUTION..
Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.
RUSH, RUST, REST, RENT, SEAT. SLAT, SLOT,
SENT. SLOW.
CRINOVIN
A Hair Tonic
removes dandruff and prevents loss of hair.
Too Thin.
them in hot water, as in the case of the too thin, and smear the skin, after drying it, with lemon When the knees are too thin, and juice. or vinegar. With the tips this is generally the case in these of the fingers go over the whole days of strict dieting, they should surface, pinching and kneading be hathed in very hot water of five to break down the fatty tissue, minutes, dried and massaged either paying special attention to the with a dew drops of olive oil or sides of the knees, for it is there a good feeding cream. Olive oil that fat accumulates.
.
The Fit of Your Stocking.
is excellent, but it should be slightly warmed before being ap- plied. Pour a few dropa into the And do remember how important palm of the hand, stretch the leg in these days is the perfection of out straight in front, so that the the fit and the quality your stock- ankle is on a level with the knee, ing. The legst slackness resting the heel on a chair or stool. suspicion of tightness at the bend Fit the palm of the hand over the of knee can be so very far from knee, cupping it as it were, and charming. Stockings must be good work the oil into the pores, ones, J. E. In Exchange.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
NOW THAT MY ELEPHANT AND MY MONKEY ARE GONE, AND THEY 607 THE MAIL OUT THAT TAG SWALLOWED, YOU'D THINK ANY TROUBLES ..WOULD BE ONER ANY
OLD DAY THEY ARE !!
or
Handbags.
SOME INTERESTING FEATURES,
Handbags have a never-ending fascination for women, and somo of the new leather bags embody interesting features.
new
The straight line is illustrated by a bag with one of the three-tier frames, a device which provides two separate handbags in one, by enabling the front part to be opened quite independently of the back. The two interiors are again sub-divided into sections. This not only makes for safely, but for tidiness inside the bag. Another safety motion Lo have a banknote pocket inside the flap. Many of the newest feather pochettes are fitted with this pocket.
OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.
152
154
Across.
1 Fragments.
'5 Rogues.
10 Telegraph.
A practical workaday handbag 12 Exclamation. manages to keep its figure in spite 14 Boundaried surface.
of the fact that it houses a mani-15 Permission.
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cure set, a mirror, and a comb. 16 Fury.
17 Banquets, This is a useful type for the woman who has to be out all day. 19 Ancient musical instrument, For people who prefer a plump 22 Mentally sound
21 Painful. handbag, and there are still some 23 Portion of an opera.
who do so, there is the bunch bag 25 Fix.
cut from a single skin and gather-27 Bird's habitations.
ed on to a curved frame. The ad- 20 Entering.
vantage of such a bag is that 30 Alutage.
since the skins have to be per- 11 Misuse.
fect, and there are no scams to 32. Fashion anew. come undone, It wears inde- 4 Social position. Snitely. A hair-brush, mirror, 17 Peep. and pocket-comb are accommodat- 38 Command. ed in small pockets inside the 42 Fling. bunch bag.
Sprigged Taffetas.
This piquant, old-world ma- teral looks its best when made into a piquant, old- world frock, for which the accompanying design is ex- cellent. The square neckling and the long, fitting sleeves are finished with rucked bands. of plain taffetas to tone.
A Wandering Mind!
FIRST THING YOU KNOW BETTY'S DAD WILL BE BOUNCIN'|
IN FROM AFRICA AND ZIP-BETTY'LL BE
GONE!! OH, WOE
IS ME!!
GEE BUT YOU LOOK THOUGHTFUL THIS MORNING, FRECKLES RIGHT TAIS MINUTE
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OF ?
44 Bellow.
46 Parochial.
47 Bear,
40 Wicked.
50 Think.
61 Image. 62 Matured.
68 Erna.
54 Halo.
65 Fastoned securely,
1 Parent.
Dotun.
2 Malny dagger,
J Motive.
4 Bent.
6 Salad vegetablo.
7 Used nt 103.
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8 Smooth surfaces.
B Wish.
10 Buoy's up.
11 Mode of performing.
13 Blocks of granite.
18 Treacherous female.
20 Old male garment.
24 Dried cocoa-nut kernoi.
26 Imprint.
20 Slow.
28 Palate.
38 Decree.
34 Prank.
35 Streak.
30 Dressing-table,
39 Bono of fore-arm.
40 Work hard.
141 Lively dancer.
43 Demonstrated.
44 Bailiff.
40 Enger,
48 Filled with roe.
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Yesterday's Solution.
THE SCREEN'S GREAT EMOTIONAL ACTRESS
IN THE CROWNING TRIUMPH OF HER CAREER!
NORMAALMADGE
The WOMAN DISPUTED
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
AT
THE
QUEEN'S
BERLIN BAN ON RUSSIAN FILM.
CENSOR & LUNACHARSKY'S
LIBEL.
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
I
A
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man haunts, and is in fact, a sheer piece of anti-German 'pre- raganda. It is accordingly ban- ned by the Censor on the ground that it is calculated to discredit German intellectual life."
It would be interesting to know Borlin, Jan. 25. what the Censor sald when he The German film Censorship saw that other Soviet propaganda has prohibited the public exhibi-film, "Storm over Asia," which is tion in Germany of the film "Sala-a scandalous libel on the British uniform, munder," of which Lunacharsky, Army and the British the Soviet Commissar for "Cul-yet it is allowed to draw large ture," is the author, and in which crowds every day in Berlin. It his wife plays the leading femi-would be still more interesting to Imagino what the Censor would Line role.
This film pours scorn and ridi- have said if the officers and troops cule on Gorman professors and in this film had been wearing students among their own Ger-Reichswehr uniform.
By Blosser
I WAS JUST WONDERING
IF A WASP GOT ON A NETTLE, WOULD THE WASP STING THE " WETTLE OR WOULD THE NETTLE
STING THE WASP !!
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. T61, 0, 1877.
RES, UL. I. PAT.OFF.