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A New Shipment
of Fashionable Designs Silk & Cotton Prints
for
SPRING
Inspection Respectfully
Solicited.
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China Emporium
LTD.
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for $25,000
in 1936 to continue its work for
sick and destitute children..
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..
P. GO. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong.
MAKE A POINT
OF VISITING
GORDON'S
SHOE SALE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
SOAP KING WEDS U.S.
ACTRESS
Mrs. R. B. Foster, European director of a firm of beauty product makers, who searched the whole of Britain and Europe three years ago for the most beautiful girl- is married. His bride is Miss Barbara New- berry, American dancer in the recent Hippo- drome show "Love Laughs.”
The tall, dark, soap king-who is reputed to be one of the best-looking men in commerce-- married Miss Newberry at Coldwater, Michigan. She has announced her retirement from the singe.
They plan to settle down in London after a honeymoon in Egypt.
Mr. Foster is a golfer as well as a beauty expert. He has tied with, King Edward VIII for the enp- tain's prize of the Sunningdale Golf Club. He has beaten the King on another course.
Beauty Quest
it was in 1932 that he set out on his tour to find! the "beautiful girl." As director of the Colgate | and Palmolive concern he was looking for examples of the "keep that schoolgirl complexion", slogan. His cholco foll on the girls of Mottram, Cheshire. He said of them: "I have never seen auch beauty in my life."
His bride was formerly married to Eddle Foy, junior, who appeared with Ramon Novarro in "Royal Exchange." She obtained .0 divorce three years ago,
SO A MONK IS BURIED
No Mourning No Flowers
No Coffin
Father Malachy Dunne, the monk who died suddenly at the Monastery of St. Bernard at Charnwood Forest, Leicester- shire, was buried in the shadow, of the abbey cloisters which ho had never left for thirty-three ycars.
Seventy monks attended the funeral, The ceremony was carried out
the with..all mediaeval rites of the Cistercian Order. There was no mour- ing, there were no flowers, there was no coffin.
Death In The Air
FEBRUARY 6, 1936.
A MODERN REBECCA
A little girl from Libya, who is fetching water,
not from the well but fnom n modern water-condult.
Mr. Baldwin
Once In
The Dock
The Prime Minister. Mr. Baldwin, WAA once in the dock of a police court.
He mentioned this when he made a presentation to Mr. Stanley Hemingway, who re- Ured from the office of magis- trates' clerk to the Stourport (Worcs) Bench.
He told Mr. Hemingway, "I have been in the dock during the time of your father.
"It was in the time when. muzzling orders were about. I had a dog which walked, out to get the early morning -nir, sat on the grase and tore its muzzle off.
"Inspector Walker saw that it was insufficiently clad, and It cost me ten shillings.
SKY TRAVEL SAFER
-
LAST YEAR
London, Jan. 28.
Both in the Air Force and in civil flying the accident mortality in 1935, estimated in relation to the greatly increased aggregate flying time and flying distance, was less than in previous years. In our expanding Air Force, the figures for the past two years are:
1934 1935
THEY CALL IT
A WISDOM
TOOTH
YET IT IS KNOWN AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY
THE CURE-
JUST A MATTER FOR THE DENTIST THE latest people to take an interest in your teeth are the Lunacy Board of Control.
Mental experts at Birmingham University found that wisdom. teeth are in many cases the cause of insanity.
They extracted the wisdom teeth of forty-eight patients and now thirty-seven of these people have returned home cured.
The other cases are making pro- gress, too.
Quick Cure
A nineteen-year-old giri had been ill for five years. She had insomnia, and for ten months before being admitted to the men- tal hospital had been unable to work.
Onco she tried to commit suicide.
Her two lower wisdom teeth were found to be badly infected. They were taken out.
The second night following the extraction she slept without a sedative for the first time for eight months.
She received no other treatment. The pains, in her head dia- appeared, she became cheerful and was discharged from the hospital within one month of the operation. She Is back at work.
A man of Hero is another case.
thirty-three was admitted to the institution. He was depressed and suffered from delusions.
Two Boys Of 17
Fatal Accidents. Deaths in these accidents there Was one The Institution's dentist
them.
20 25
31
44
cured.
ex.
wilder fatality. It is not yet pos-tracted all his teeth, which were sible to give even approximate
gures for the amount of civil bad. He is now back at work, flying. On all sides, however, Another case was that of a It is estimated on a conservative there have been considerable in-seventeen year old schoolboy basis that Air Force machines creases in regular air transport, whose health gave way just before flew an aggregate exceeding while there has been an acceler he was about to take his matricu-
50,000,000 miles in 1935. In no ted increase in the
number of
lation examination.
Air Force in the world is the civil machines registered. Through
He became worried, suffered amount of flying per the years the causes of accidents from Insomnia, and was ill when average machine to great.
vary scarcely at all. The fallibi- lity of the human factor is still admitted to the institution.
His lower wisdom teeth were In civil flying accidents in Great responsible for more than 95 per pressing against ether teeth and Britain and to British air cent, and it is often, said in fly- linors on the air routes abroad ing circles that most of the acci- could not come through the gum.
They were extracted.
the figures are :---
1934
1985
dents would be avoided if all pilots were of the long-experience con-
Fatal Accidents. Lives Lost tinuous-duty class. Steadily, if
24'
in them.
48
21
48
were two
He is now back at home, plays tennis and golf, and studies shorhand and typewriting. slowly, improvement is taking When a factory worker, aged. place. And there are curious changes, as for example the almost seventeen, was admitted to the complete didappearance of the institution he could not talk, was parachute fear of lightning and the sup-depressed, and his mind was fatalities at air circus displays, planting of that dread by realish confused. and two successful parachute ton of the danger of ice forma- escapes. In one accident, that of tion on wings and propellers, were taken out," and the boy is the City of Khartoum, twelve danger now being successfully back at work, lives were lost. In addition to fought.
healthier than 'over.
Thero
SALESMAN SAM
(GOOD GOSH, A $2,50 GOLD PIECE FER LUGGIN'UP
TH RAJAH'S DUDS! I CAN'T KEEP IT! "THE OL
·RAJAH MUSTA MADE A MISTAKE!
teeth Wisdom
again. They
happler. and
Silence Is Golden
PARDON-ER-UH- I. BE... LIEVE YA MADE AN ERROR. IN THE TIP YA GIMME --
1600
1600
Just Received.
A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS.
Also. VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE-BASS,... GUITAR BANJO, TENOR BANJO, MANDOLINE. |AND UKELELE STRINGS AND ACCESSORIES.
-PRICES TO SUIT EVERY PURSE AND PURPOSE.
TSANG FOOK PIANO Co.
9 Ice House Street HONG KONG.
OUR BRITISH CrossWORDS.
133
1
ACROSS
14
1 These types of ships have always a fourth on board (5, hyphen 7). How conspicuous a foreigner is in the little street!
10 This might describe a huggis,
but you'll say it's nonsensel 11 Doesn't know when she gets the
ware and
12 she's
d'oeuvre.
the hors ready for
13 Such screams only carry a short -
distance,
in Bloomsbury don't come from here,
14 The marbles
16 nor is this suitable attire for
topers.
18 Sharper.
20 The Russian port for songs. 22 Make-of-car 24. Measures.
27 is willing to comproming.
29 Slow in time.
30 If she is, she may not powder, but she certainly paints.
1 Send Lee (anag.).
32 You must take a drop, but it's
quite wrong! 33 You can't bank on the aged in- habitant of, this famous street being able to.
DOWN
2' Makes equal shares, having
about fifty,
3 The Spanish lady who studies in
France.
4 In roturn.
5 African hunting expedition. 6 You'll always find a nobleman
in good time.
Avoiding colds
means taking-
EVANS
ANTISEPTIC Pastilles
THROAT MADE IN ENGLAND
Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori
MASSAGE
Acoponature, Moxocarale and Bone Betting Holder of Japenes and Hongkong Gowent ment Llenowe Car Sprained Ankim and Wrista. Katamended for many Joker, be Local Hospital and Doctorm. -
Wyndham Street, (Ixt door).
Tel 16051.
SORRY! I NOT FA-
MILIAR WEETH AMER- ICAN MONEY! GIVE. ME BACK I GIVE YOU LARGER COINĮ
Notice
WOWL A $.5 GOLD
PIECE
MAYBE NOT HUH?I GIVE
JENOUGH YET,
YOU STILL LARGER COIN
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17 Describes the night the-Zep-
pelins liked.
The house in which to koupa party?
9 Epithet for lowly, people and sinted fare (two words, 5, 7). 14 Can you guess this? Try. 15 Found in packing-eases and
gloves..
17 This sock doesn't need washing. 10 The vessel to take for a journey. {21 Mountain.
23 Shorten this, though already
short to start with."
25 U.S. territory, though there's a
query.
20 Render ears useless. 28 Sunny.
20 French town.
Yesterday's Solution. MEGALOMAN 1 AU DENINOVAEGNE
NGENUE FADDIST SEA OR ANIL A CAGED T T A T I ET RE HOTEL NE EDOZEN DESIGNS
ANGERED BLFOG E NT AXOSH OUR LEN X" OLOBE
ELFETKE OVERSEA BENCH OBCE L
HEREFORDSHIHE
CANTON AGENTS
Thongkong Gelegraph.
WM. FARMER & Co.
Victoria Hotel Building. Shameen, Canton.
Tel. 13501.
By Small
A SILVER DOLLAR! SOME DAY I'LL LEARNI TA KEEP THIS MOUTH.
OMINE SHUT!
Teething troubles-
Because SCOTT'S Emulsion contains 44% of pure cod liver
ail and. Ilmo salis
for bone formation,
It prevents teathing troubles, rickets and soft bones. Ask for genuine
SCOTT'S EMULSION
·DO NOT
DISTOID.