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Extension Room 34. PENINSULA HOTEL
IODINE-MEDOL
CLEANS AND HEALS WOUNDS CUTS, BURNS AND
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ALL SKIN TROUBLES.
FOR INSECT BITES
Allays Irritation, Prevents Poison.
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FOR YOUR
RADIO NEEDS
SHORT WAVE EQUIPMENT AND ALL SPARES IN STOCK.
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TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND
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THE WORLD'S COW
HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
LOOK IN LANE, CRAWFORD'S WINDOW.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1929.
This Baby's Stomach. Troubled Her Until Baby's. Own
Tableta Set It Right.
Another Mother In Burma 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 cfficiency with which they restore alling infants and little children to cheery health.
For example, Ma Mi Sa, a Burmese mother who keeps a little shop in the Zendow Bazaar, Rangoon, statca:-"A few months ngo my baby was far from well. Sho had stomach troubles and cried every night. Having heard of Baby's Own Tablets I got a vial and gave them to baby,
The resuts were very pleasing, Baby as soon cured no longer suffers now from her stomach and seldom cries."
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No mother need hesitate for a moment about giving Baby's Own Tablets to her little one, for they any guaraniced free from injurious ingredient and absolule- ly sato even for the youngest and most delicate infant. As a remedy for infantile indigestion, constipation, colic, there nothing else like them. They quickly relieve toefbing, paina, croup and colds, check diarrhoea, allay fever, expel worns. Chemists everywhere sell them, or post free, 60 cents per vial, from the Dr. Williams' Medleine Co., Klangse Road, Shanghaj.
COLLECTED £250,000 A YEAR.
A TAX OFFICIAL'S
.DEFALCATIONS.
Formerly collector of taxes for the parish of the Liberty of the Rolls, Lennard Walter Purdun, 35, 1 fof Cursitor-street, W. C., was sen- tenced at Bow-stract Police Court to three Imonths
the second division for embezzling mony rereived by him from tax- payers,
Mr. W. Spencer, prosecuting.
Pardon was charged in res- peet.. ms totalling £195, hul an mudit re.. a deficiency of £740.
Parton's net ry in the last three years had bee.. 225, 1215 and £210. He had contro. • About £250,000,000 a year.
Mr. J. J. McIntyre, defending, aid that in 1926, when Purdon's salary was £219 a year, he applied extra for an increase owing to work, but the Inland Revenue an- thorities found that his pay was higher than it should have been and reduced it by 17 a year.
WOMAN'S WORLD
FOR OUR LADY READERS.
The Jewels of the Moment.
The girl in the top left corner is wearing necklet and bracelet of rhinestones eut into bars and circles; 'the one in the right wears a complete, 'art' comprising necklet, bracelet and white lacquer squares., Below is a pendant in coloured enamel with silver chain, while some new beads of red and dull blue crystals and rhinestones are seen in the jewel-box. The set comprising necklet, butterly ear- rings and bracelet is carried out in grey and pule green hequered meta).
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Today's Problem.
WHY DO WOMEN HAVE
UGLY KNEES?
This question, "Why In it that almost every woman has ugly
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rubbing In ย rotary direc. tion round and round the skin feels. warm and glowing. Then with the tips of the fingers, pinch and knead the sides of the knees gently.
Stand erect, keeping the leg quite stiff. Bend the knee, quick- perfectly straight and the knee
plication, with the result that his known actor, and it set me taking wards, bending the foot at the In 1927 he made a similar ap-knees?" was put to me by a wally, raise the foot, and with a sharp jerking movement throw it for salary was still further decreased, stock of my neighbour's knees in anidle and curving the toes down- but in 1928 he was granted a rise bus and tube. Certainly I was wards. This exercise, besides of 16 a year.
forced to acknowledge that there improving a thin knee, dovelops a was ground for his remark,
too thin calf, and generally im- should be practised from ten ta proves the shape of the leg. It fifteen times with each leg.
Not a "Prineely" Salary. This was supposed to be a part time occupation, but the work oc- cupied the whole of his time, and even his wife had had to assist him with clerical work.
ture (in it a feature?) can be im- The knee, like every other fan- proved with care, and even after very short time will show results, if frented systematically, Massage and exercise will work wonders The insurance company would with a too plump knee, and mas refund the whole of the defalen-sage with a little cream will turn tions to the State, and in order the thin, bony knee into a pump to make restitution to the company and dimpled one. Purdon 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- ceived. Purdon's salary way not a princely one,
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
Here is the solution puzzle on another page.
RUSHI, RUST, REST. SENT, SEAT, SLAT SLOW.
CRINOVIN
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A Hair Tonic
removes dandruff and prevents loss of hair.
Too Thin.
For the Too Plump.
When the knees are too plump for beauty they should be mas- aged with fresh lemon juice or a little white wine vinegar. Bathe them in hot water, as in the caso 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 bathed 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 in there a good feeding cream, Olive oil that fat accumulates.
is excellent, but it should be The Fit of Your Stocking,
slightly warmed before being ap-,
plied. Pour a fow drops into the
or
And do remember how important palm of the hand, stretch the leg in these days is the perfection of to the out straight in front, so that the the fit and the quality your stock-
ankle is on a lovel with the knee, ing. The least slackness RENT, rosting the heel on a chair or stool. | suspicion of tightness at the band SLOT. 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 GOT THE MAIL OUT THAT TAG SWALLOWED, YOU'D THINK ANY TROUBLES WOULD BE ONER-ANY
OLD DAY THEY ARE !!
Handbags.
SOME INTERESTING FEATURES,
Handbags have a never-ending fascination for women, and some of the new leather baga ombody interesting features.
The straight line is Illustrated by a bag with one of the new three-tier frames, a device which provides two separate handbags in one, by anabling the front part to be opened quite independently of tho.back. The two interiors aro again sub-divided into sections. This not only makes for safety, but for tidiness. Insido" the bag. Another safety notion is to have a banknote pocket inside the flap. Many of the nowest feathor pochettes are fitted with this pocket.
OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS:
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1 Fragments. 5 Rogues,
10 Telegraph.
Across,
A practical workaday handbag 12 Exclamation. manages to keep its figure in spite 14 Boundarled surface.
of the fact that it houses a-mani-15. Permission.
cure set, a mirror, and a comb. 10 Fury.
This is a useful typs for the Hanquote. woman who has to be out all day. 10 Ancient musical instrument.
21. Painful. For people who prefer a plump 22 Mentally sound handbag, and there are still some 23 Portion of an opera.
who do so, there is the bunch bag 26 Fiz.
cut from a single skin and gather-27 Bird's habitations.
ed on to a curved frame. The ad-29 Entering. vantage of Buch a bag is that 80 Ajutage. since the skins have to bo per- 91 Misuse.
fect, and there are no seams to 32 Fashion anew. come undone, it wears Inde 34 Bocial position. finitely. A hair-brush, mirror, 37 Poop. and pocket-comb are accommodat ed in small pockets inside the bunch bag.
Sprigged Taffetas.
This piquant, old-world ma- terial looks its best when made into a piquant, old- world frock, for which the Accompanying design is ex- cellent. The square neckline 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, WHOE
IS ME!!
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42 Fling.
44 Bollow.
45 Parochial,
47 Boar.
49 Wicked.
50 Think.
51 Image. 52 Matured. 68 Еган.
64 Hate.
55 Fastened securoly.
1 Parent,
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8 Smooth surfaces.
10 Buoy's up.
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11 Modo of performing,
18 Blocks of granite."
18 Treacherous female.
20 Old malo garmenti
24 Dried cocoa-nut kornol.
25 Imprint.
24 Blow.
23 Palate.
38 Decree,
84 Prank
35 Stroak.
30 Dressing-table.
39 Bone' of fore-arm.
40. Work liard,
41 Lively dances,
43 Demonstrates,
44 Ballif.
40 Eager.
48 Filled with roo
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2 Malay dagger.
Motive.
4 Beat.
6 Salad vegetable.
7 Used at sen,
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Yesterday's Solution
PRICELESS
A. A LATER
THAT
SUGAR MENTESTA!
THE SCREEN'S GREAT EMOTIONAL ACTRESS
IN THE CROWNING TRIUMPH OF HER CAREER!
NORMA
TALMADGE
The WOMAN DISPUTED
UNITED ARTISTSˇPICTURE
AT
THE QUEEN'S
BERLIN BAN ON RUSSIAN FILM.
CENSOR & LUNACHARSKY'S
LIBEL.
THURSDAY TO
SATURDAY ·
man haunts, and is in fact, a sheer piece of anti-German pro- paganda. 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 Berlin, Jan. 25. what the Censor sald when he The German film Censorship saw that other Soviet propaganda has prohibited the public exhibl-film, "Storm over Asta," which is tion in Germany of the film "Sala-a scandalous lol on the British mander," of which Lunacharsky, Army and the British uniform, to draw large the Soviet Commissar for "Cul-yet it is allowed ture," is the author, and in which crowds every day in Berlin. It his wife plays the loading femi- would be still more interesting to kino role.
imagine what the Censor would This film pours scorn and ridi- have said if the officers and troops cule on German professors and in this film had been wearing studenta among their own Ger-Reichswehr uniform.
GEE BUT YOU LOOK THOUGHTFUL TAIS MORNING, FRECKLES=
RIGHT THIS ANNUTE,
WILAT ARE YOU
TAINKING OF?:
By Blosser
I WAS JUST WONDERING IP A WASP GOT ON A NETTLE, WOULD THE WASP STING THE NETTLE OR WOULD THE AETTLE
STING THE WASP !!
THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY. 13, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Tol, O. 1877,