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A Look Through The “Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
Alarch 28, 1880. W. S. Gert, it is well known, like to dealen the dresses of the women in his plays. Re says: "I'nbhor bustles, Improvements, tight-incing and all such abominatione, and I think that women's dress bould fall in natural folds to the gure."
It is stated that while at Eton Mr. Gladelour was only urged orce, und that was for refusing to betraya school-fellow who got into trouble,
Thus the Ban Francisco News Letter: -"Calnamen and ribbers xurm to ho running a race for unpopularity just at present, with the chances of the largest menstire of muccess being in favour of the Britishers."
The Liverpool Post tells the terrible fate of a congregation at church-gnora, who, on being called to rise and receive the benediction, found themselves glued fast to the seats with the new varnish that had not quite dried. Never before was the churelt no absolutely united, and never one no harmonious in pur. pase. A frantic crate resulted in sur. con but there was not a whole coat er dress in the congregation. Silk and broadcloth upholstered every seat, and the horrifed people rushed Salo the streets holding their hands over the most exposed pnets. The was a failure.
benediction
The Imperiouse has been on the other side of the island that week, practising har guns and torpedoes. Sho caused Rrent consternation amongst the vil rers at Aberdeen and Stanley when sho Triced up her torpedo netting-they thought she was fishing, and the bench was covered with groups of finkermen. brownlling the wholesale capture of thele lawful prey.
The greatest antional debt arawng the nations of the globe is borne by France, It is about 1,580,000,000. Lusiin contex next with £900,000‚ÐUG. then England with £800,000,000; Austro-ilungary "with £021,000,000; Italy with £550,000,000 Spain with £301,000,000, and Frankin with £250,000,000,
(Compare their with the present day. I France oven £2,680,000,000; Russia owes $1,425,674,000, what she will profinhly never pay: Britain owes F8,181,985,000 and in borrowing another $100,000,000, CAM much ngala nx the totni 'fobt GU yenra go}; Hungary awes £100,000,000; Italy awon £1,085308,- 000; Spain owes £180,000,000 before' the Civil War, sad Germany £204,450,000,-Ed.)
25 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1914. ARMY V. PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE
More Party Heat in the Commons FIELD MARSHAI. BIR JOHN FRENCH RESIGNS
Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
March 28, 1939.
LINED UP...
ALL
DURING
the
In-
nual spring clean In a good time to put bousehold wrinkles"
to the test, and though mosi homesmakers have their own pet. here are methods,
some of
my own
which may help the work
quickly.
along
more
They are arranged
in alphabetical order
Home
Maker's
so that you can cut them out to puste in a note-book or hang them up for quick reference.
ALABASTER light fittings can be cleaned with a cloth soaked in tur- pentine, then polished with floor polish or furniture cream. This produces a glossy surface.
Wax
A B C
-for the
or
SPRING
CLEAN
****
Brushos, mops and brooms come up for inspaction.
cream.
then rub with yellow soap. They will tlide easily and last longer.
TILES. Red quarry tiles should be well rubbed with soft soap. Leave Loup on overnight, then zerub with hot water and a stiff brush. Rinse, dry, then polish with red tite polisli to bring up the colour.
UPHOLSTERY,
Greasy patches will
usually yield to carbon tetrachloride. Brush well in so that it loosens the diri, then remove this with a clean, dry cloth.
tel-pieces and clocks. Use sparingly and polish with a soft duster.
NET curtains. To tint.faded net a
Upholstered chairs can be freshien- ed with hot creamy colour, mix u teaspoonful of remove surfaec dust, then rub with bran. Brush first to powdered yellow ochre with a little the hol, dry bran, finishing by brush- cold water, strain through muslin und ing again with a stiff, clean clothes add to starch or last rinsing water.
brush. OXYDISED bronze or silver. Clean with a cloth soaked in linsced or warm
VELVET and chenille. Wash in olive oil
BOAD with vaseline. After- umienia added to force out the dirt, suds with ti little wards polish with furniture
Rinse tepid water, squeeze out PAINT. Clean att paint with a cloth wrung out in hot water and the open. Press by drawing the Surplus water, and dry quickly in dipped in whitening, rinse with warm wrong side of the material over the waler and dry with a
Boft cloth.
edge of a hot iron. Add two Tablespoonfuls of am- monia to worm, soapy HEARTHS, Clean illed hearths or glossy paint. Dry, then pollsh with water Lor brick, clean with metal polish, then surrounds with a
* give a new cont of Jacquée.
pollsh with wax floor polish. Loose trace of furniture cream. Grained CARPETS which cannot be taken-illus in hearth
or curb can be re- and varnished woodwork can be EXTRA materials for spring clean cleaned with a cloth soaked with are ammonia, vinegar, turpentine, paraffin, carbon, tetrachloride, bran,
GLASS. Put ก 11tle washing blue in the rinsing water, and polish with a leather or pad of Ussue paper, The blue produces a lovely sparkle. BRASS
Clean frosted glass with a handful ornaments. If badly farnished, first clean with
of Epsom-salt in warm water. Rub cut. a leman dipped in coarse salt. Rinse, dry with n cloth or leather. dry and polish with metal polish. Clean off the old lacquer from shabby lacquered brass bedstead with a mix- ture of turpentine and powered bath-
܀
cut lemon,
up should be thoroughly cleaned with fixed with fire cement,
then
the vacuum cleaner, then rubbed IVORY or composition piano keys. linseed oil, then polished. over with a cloth wrung out in equal parts of bolling water
vinegar,
to
a
and
cou-de-
And
a
In the House of Commons, Mr. Agslen
Whiten with a mixture of lemon ately measured if you remember that wool. Start with clean maps and QUANTITIES can be fairly accur- powdered magnesio, borax, steel Chamberli
characterised
Cotone
and juice and whitening. Rub on care- Seely's resignation as a put-up job, and
fully, leave to dry, then brush off. the average pall holds two gallons of clusters and sprinkle them with all that Colonel Beely has prepared the paragraphs, which the Government Cover oil or grease stains with Slightly soiled ivory can be cleaned water, and that one tablespoonful of little paraffin beforehand. They wit now repudiated, in consultation with thick paste of Fuller's earth with methylated spirit or
liquid
a heaped inblespoonful of pick up dust and help to put on the Lor Morley. It then Ministers re-
shine. water, leave to dry, then brush out. Cologne sprinkled on u soft cloth. powder each equal one ounce. mained, then the paper
"YOU will and it helpful to make a which they DISTEMPERED walls. Hub down
RUGS, It is possible to wash fur JEWELLERY. To restore the lus- approved was hiding o (hele col-
with a
apad made of old face or net ire of pearls, real or imitation, bury and sheepskin rugs in warm soap list of soaps and polishes required, leagues.
ew flake lather. Remove backing, squeeze which will save running out for for- remove surface dust. Mfr.
д Washable in powdered magnesin for Winston Churchill, who WALK
out I surplus water, rub with old towels gollen items. Furniture cream, wax distemper can then be cleaned with hours. choored upon rising, Interrupted, and repudiated Mr. Chamberlain's "Insulta,"
Gold is put in a cup of warm water and hang over the line to finish dry- floor polish, red tile polish, metal warm water. Wring cloth fairly dry, He said that Lord Merely had never re- work from skirting upwards and pai with a few drops of ammonia added, ing. They can also be dry cleaned and silver polish, soup flakes and vised nor examined the two paragraphs
prevent which had liven referred to, men
then polished will Jeweller's rouge with hot bran, which is rubbed well powder and a non-abrasive cleaning
into the fur. Afterwards brush well. powder cover most cleaning jobs. tioned that the battle aquadron which
dry clean. damped with ammonia.
ZINC baths and draining boards was ordered to Lamlush" on the 11th
Brush
Stones, with the exception of opals
can be made shining with a paste of Inst. wou remain there during the sheets of newspaper thickly with and turquoisch, can be cleaned with crisis, and went on to declare that the starch, put the elderdown on
them sal volatile.
SASH CORDS. Rub over with a whitening and vinegar. Rub well in, grent Issue of the Army voraus Parlia and sprinkle more starch on
KITCHEN tables, to whiten. Scrub damp cloth when cleaning the paint, rinse with hot water and dry. maat-and-the-People-had-been-raised, and every effort had been made to show Rall igloosely in the paper, put with a mixture of lb-soft-soup, nway in a cool, dry place for two or lb. silver sand and six tablespoon- three days, then brush free of fuls chloride of lime. Rinse well starch.
with hot water when clean.
that it was always right to shoot a Radient or a worker.
Telegrams from Dublin and the Curi ragh state that the majority of the cavalry ofcers reiterate their determ ination to reign rather than net against Ulster.
Field Marshal Sir John French bas resigned.
10 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1920, The War Ofies aunguntes at the North and South China Commande will be amalgamated in the course of next month. Major-General A. E. Wardrop, at present commanding the British troops in North Chinn, will return Home And the combined Command will be an- med by Major-General J. W. Sandi- lands, C., C.M.G., D.9,0, who bus just taken over the South China Command from Major-General C. C. Luard. Major-General Sandilanda will remain at Hongkong with an augmented Sta. The Shanghal aron will be comn,anded as at present by Brigadier-General 9. C. Dorrell, who lins been in command of tho 14th Infantry Belgado, Shaforce, since 1997. The Tiontain ares will be summanded by Brig.-den. Ronald M. Heath, C.M.G, D80... who hom been Oficer Commanding, North China, sinco 1926.
The earelessness of a watchman in dropping a lighted cigarettend among pile of inflammable decorating mate. rials is believed to be responsible for the devastating fire which has almost completely destroyed the great new German Inor Europa in the Blohm and Voss ship-yard.
*
streaks.
to
EIDERDOhly, then sprinkle
stain remover.
top:
*
LINOLEUM. Clean Arst with lur-
FLOORS. To whiten plain wooden floors, add two tablespoonfuls of glycerine to the pail of scrubbing water. If you are re-staining floors, remove old stain first with a special pentine, wash with soapy water, then rub over with boiled starch. When Composition floors in kitchen or dry, Polish with wax floor polish. bathroom can be cleaned with tug- Worn linoleum can be re-surfaced penline and steel wool. Leave to with a liquid preparation. There is dry, then wax polish. Clogged polish also a transparent grade for reviving | or stains on woodblock floors cun patterned linoleums.
also be removed with steel wool. MARBLE, Black shoe polish give Dust well before repolishing.
a glossy finish to black marble man-
Anglo-Russian Trade Parleys
Short Cuts
A dress that is to be remodelled
Moscow, Mar. 27. has to be ripped carefully. Use a
A communique issued after Mr. R.jsharp knife or pointed scissors · in
S. Hudson's talks with Soviet omelals, ripping seams apart and be sure you states that the foundation laid for do not stretch the material, especially trade negotiations will be continued at the neck and armholes. in London.
Vlows were exchanged on the in- Wrinkled neckties may be freshen- ternational situation, and personal ed as follows: Cut a cardboard form contact has been established for co-to fit into the wide or outer end of operation in international affairs-the tie. Cover with a dampened
cheesecloth and press with hot iron.
Renter.
U.S. Appropriations For Army
The National Government in a pro- clamation ofeially declaring War Atz Wuban accuses Marshal Lí Chai-xum, General Li Chung-yen and General Fel Chung-hel of conspiracy against the Nanking regime, and a velled throat of
Washington, Mar. 27. punishment to come. is causing doop
The Senate to-day pass concerns to friends of Marshni Li Chaf $513,000,000 army appropriation Bill sum, who is a prisoner at Nanking. which now returns to the House for
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, has left for action on the amendments. Kiukiang to direct operations Already It is also stated that President
the
tor
60,000 troops are reported to be moving Roosevelt has asked Congress ngainat Ping-bulung・ and Changsha,
additional funds, totalling over $14.-
against Wuchang.
Try putting yellowed ivory in the |sun to dry after washing with soap and water. After several treatments of this kind they should begin to Erow whiler.
Centenary Postage Stamps For U.K.
London, Mar. 27.
On the occasion of the centenary
whlie 10,000 others are to press forward 250,000 for the navy, for the purchase of the introduction of postage stamps Marshal Chiang Kalahek will person at further aeroplanes during the into Britain in 1940, the Post Office ally direct the right flank, and Hankow | fiscal year of 1040,–Router,
is to be atiscked"froin · Ankul.
5 YEARS AGO
Afarch 28, 1934.
Impastant developments in the diross tion of security undertakings: balween Britain and Fronco may, ppoalbiy follow!! the conference which the French Am- bassador, M. Corbin, had with Sir John Simion last evening.
Teie learned, exclusively, that the conversation centred round the question of what further guarants, France would require In order to modify her attitude towards the British draft" Die... armament Convention, and that negotia tists for tightening up Britian commits monta may follow...
This is interpreted as Britain's Anal -although there no effort to secure a settle stination of what concessions Britain may make to
meek, Franco's. 'demands. CATAL
will issue four commemorative stamps
[of 1⁄2d, id, 11⁄4d, and 21⁄21⁄2 denomina-
tions.
!
Designs have been invited from 30.
Chinese Currency artists, and bodies representing the
Bill In Lords
London, Mar. 27. The House of Lords to-day gave a second reading, with a division, to the Chinese Currency Stabilisation BILL
mat industry will be asked to advise in connection with the judging of the designs-Reiter, Special.
Gold Exports To Czecho-Slovakia
Lead Templemore drew attention to China's, repulation for high in- ancial Integrity, and Lord Snell, on behalf of the Labour Opposition; ex-
London, Mári 27. The Czecho-Slovak Nestriction' on pressed pleasure that this gesture to Banking Accounts Bill poised its third help a sorely-tried nation had been ronding to day, and served in made at last. Reuter
» Royal Assent. “Reuter.
The ever crisp navy blue and while combination is here again" in this lovely esembles The cost carries su all-over pattern of white on the bine;, the drisa is mowy while, the fabrió of both is a porn silk crepe."
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