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HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
May 22, 1939. :
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated' in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & DURMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E, & 8. AFRICA, AUS- TRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
(Under Contract with HIM. Government.)
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route, and the route and all *oafing are subject to change or deviallon with or without, notice.
Steamers | Tong | From HXong about ]
+RAJPUTANA
"RANCHI
+BHUTAN
KANPURA *BEHAR
RAWALPINDI CHITRAL CORFU CANTON CARTHAGE
• Cargo only,
SIRDHANA
17,000 27th May, 17,000 | 10th June [8,000) 17th June
17,000 24th June 0,000 1st July
17,000 Bth July- 15,000 22nd July
| 14,500 | | 5th August
18,500 19th August
14,500 2nd Sept.
† Calle Casablanca,
Destination
Bombay, Marsollles &c London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, M'aeilles, Havre, L'don. Hu, Hbя, R'dam & A'werp. B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'Bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, Hg. R'dam & A'werp. B'bay, Marsellies & London. B'bay. Marteilles & London. D'bay, Marseilles & London,
'bay, Marseilles & London.
| Bombay, Marseilles & London,
All vessels may call at Malta
BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (SOUTI1)
10,000 3rd June.
SHIRALA TILAWA SANTHIA
TALMA
8,000 17th June. 10,000 151 July
8,000 15th July
10,000 | 29th July
S'pore, Port
Swettenham,
Penang Rangoon & Calcutta.
DO,
DO.
DO,
DO.
B. I. Apcar Line Steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd Class Passengers,
-TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (BOUTIL)
7,000; 3rd June. -
7,000 30th June
7,000 4h Aug
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
& Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghal and Japan and H'kong to Australta.
RANPURA
SHIRALA
"BEHAR
Hong Kong to Sydney-1 days.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
7,000
17,000, 25th May
8,000 25th May
30th May
NANKIN
RAWALPINDI
5th June 17,000 6th June
*SOUDAN
7,000
TILAWA
000'or
8th June 8th June
CHITRAL
15.000 22nd June
• Cargo only.
Shanghai & Japon. Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghol & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan,
Shanghai & Japan. Japan
Shanghal & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alleration without notice, Parcels mensuring not more than 5 c.ft, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.
For Passage Rates. Handbooks, Freight, ete, apply
Aren!s
1.&. B'ding. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Pho
Connaught R.C.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Strong Muscles Essential to Good Figure
THE "Hitle girl" look so much stressed by make-up, enitures and fashions this spring is difficult to achieve if you have round should- ers, a sway-back or overly prominent hips, for nothing adds years to your age sooner than such figure faults.
Posture, rather than overweight or underweight is often to blame and now is the time to check up and do something about it.
You can add that needed Inch to your height by stretching your body to its full height and developing the muscles that aid in good posture. You can ndd length to your diaphragm and youth to your waist, remove the hump front the back of your neck and bring your toe-prominent reur into line.
There Is still another excellent
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Good sitting posture for the typist, which will prevent round shoulders
is demonstrated by the girl, left. Sitting in this erect position enables a girl to work all day without ring, There is a rizat and wrong way. to sit in a chair. as shown by the girl 'below..
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I'll Dance No More
TOW
SAYS A HUSBAND
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reason for taking a look at your Now that our social season's nearly Miss Thistledown, didn't like to re- figure now. Many of you' (may be
over now that I've dipped and fuse you." out to look for your first Jobs. Per-
shumed, swayed and sild for the last. "As a a matter of fact. time-(7' hope), I can lean back and And there was poor Miss Awk- cants for position on their posture od sympathetically If a trifle inward. Hardly and personality as indicative of such sincerely as my wife
danced the whole qualities as alertness, tidiness, energy deplores the ever-increasing blanks jasked her once. Besides. I think it's energatiently evening. You might have at least and good nature.
in our calendar.
TO HONOLULU, CANADA, UNITED STATES el directors often check appli-
and EUROPE
via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohama
EMPRESS OF ASIA via Honolulu
EMPRESS OF CANADA -vis Honatulu
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
EMPRESS OF JAPAN via Honolulu
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....Noon, Fri., June 9. .7.00 a.m., Fri., June 23. Noon, Fri, July 7.
Air-conditioned equipment en C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacife Atlantic saffings to European Poris
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EMPRESS OF CANADA
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
. Union
Building
....Fri, June 2.
.Thurs., June 15.
Canadian Pacific
Telephone
20752
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positively horrid of you to sit for My wife declares that my dancing yours and never as much a say how hours with that stockbroker friend of days are by no means over: she innin- do you do to anyone else." tains that dancing is as much an old have your
you
inna's relaxation
Not that I am old-merely fortyish.
ns anything else. Useless to Object
I don't mind an odd dance, with a
Useless, of course, to point out the
KEEP BODY BALANCED
To-day's illustrations show how to sit, when you Interview with a prospective employ er and how to sit comfortably and orrectly at your typower after you have landed a job. If you train eper and decent interval between exaggeration; futile to say that if I yourself to sit erect without tenseness, when our season is in full swing, friend, we, my wife and I might be it and the next for recuperation; but didn't talk with my stockbruker You are bound to frel confidence and you will unconsciously into our letter-box every other day. If a husband is unwary or unwise
mart self when there are invitations dropping singing in the streets for a living. impress the interviewer.
when I have to race home, struggle enough to protest The law of gravity applies to into that rasping and
against this human beings as much as anything of armour which is a dress shirt, and
rattling vials
terpsichorean holocaust, then the else. The centre of balance of the
of a wife's wrath descend upon amp my dinner, well, it is almost his head; he is told that he is dull, body
approximately the hip joint. too much. Long ago, I learned that selfish, and lazy, and nee If you take a side view of your it was unwise to
needs a little figure and draw an imaginary versmile a little when I hear an in-
polut this out; exercise, anyway. tleat line from this centre, it should.
But, as
said, Ue season's prac touch the other supporting joints dear, you know it's an early start. clubs; I can be leisurely over my junction, "Don't waste time, now,tically over. I can look out my golf the knees and ankles: As the ne Extends upward it touches the mid-I am-let me face it-too old for next winter with almost equanimity, evening meal; I can look forward to dle of the shoulders and posses the tango, too rheumatical for the even though I've promised to take through the neck and to the top of rumba, though not too old, for the tessons in the slow fox-trot, even the skull. When you slump, the surreptitious enjoyment hend is dropped forward, the ab-"Dashing White Sergeant," as my ing a litle dance club "Just once a of the though my wife is thinking of start- domen thrust out or rear extended wife pointed out,
week, though, dear, and we can roll
so this inc. In klaked and the body
is thrown out of balance.
MAKE MUSCLES WORK.
Any good general exercises which
I can't get any pleasure from sit-up the carpet." ting at a tiny round table where! there's no room properly to stretch! are as shy, as bored, as nervous as ne's legs, and talk with people who
help strengthen the back muscles I am,
will also help improve your posture.
Make your back muscles work for Recapturing Youthful Energy you by putting them to work
through exercise. To get the good It is a different matter when there posture position, stand against the are young people at
our parties.
woll
with your head, heels, shoulders Occasionally, then-and if I am and spine all touching. You should clever can steal a dance with just be able to slip your hand befrenature who-miraculously-con t tween the wall and back at the her steps to my labouring ones, who waistline. If there is more space who seems to be made of a particu
laughs. as though she meant to laugh. than this, move your heels, out little from the wall, relax the knees larly resilent kind
of elastic.
and and force the small of your back who though I'll whisper tile-makes closer to the wall.
me feel about twenty again, and not slightly bald, blase, and bad-temper ed. But then, of course, I pay for that later. And "Why didn't you give Mrs. Lendenfeet a dance?" asks my wife in the seclusion of our 'bed- room.
Long Life For Home Plants
Well
"You know perfectly well that that
PRING and summer bring many green and flowering plants for the house, and a little knowledge of their dally care will prevent disappoint- tepld water up to the rim, leave It ment at the withering of alant. until the bubbles cease to rise, then Practically all plants sold for house place.. it on the draining board until decoration are grown in a cool green- the excess water has drained away. house.
so they need light,. moderate warmtli, and freedom from More water than usual will be Braught in their new home. The needed for watering when there are bastition near a window a number of new shoots, or several thought got directly under an open
buds about to flower.
and
Peats" occasionally appear on the
.u
All plants have the habit of turn leaves. These are easily got rid of ing their follage and stems towards by completely immersing the plant their position should be for a few seconds in a bucket of soapy allerge Occasionally to prevent a waler, or, better still, in water tinged lop-sided growth?
Premature decay is caused more by manganato of potash.
to a pale rose colour with per- Indiscreet watering thon anything else. All plants should ba.. kept It warms appear, which is not an moist, and this is best achieved by uncommon occurrence in long-lived watering the roots a little every day. innls such as aspidistras or palms,
Tap water is too cold, and apt to the roots should be carefully give the plant a shock. Use tepid spected, and repotted in fresh soll. water, or leave a jug of water in a This rufe also applies if the plant warm room all day, when it will be becomes root bound, and will be found to be the required temperature found more effective than the, nd-tion of black linen skirt wilb by the evening.
dition of fresh soll or the use of a
the plant has been allowed
allowed to larger, pot,
become too dry, immerse the pot in
Kathleen Morgan.
A frock that is proving very popular for spring is the pal- terned top and belt with plain, akirt. This frock Is combina-
checked pink and black and, gray gingham for the top and bolt.
...have Yous
TRIED
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MALTONIC
You have!
but have you tried
MALTONIC
with AN EGG!
with HILK!
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with HEAT EXTRACT! This combination providas
the fullest nourishment in a roost agreeable form.
with SODA WATER 1- A sparkling and palatable
refresher,
MALTONIC
cannot be made better, but it cam be made "different.",
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MILD, MEDIUM AND FULL STRENGTH
PACKED IN
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I HAVE NO WIFE TO LOOK AFTER MY CLOTHES SO I just phone for ZORIC service!
This service not only gives you Odourless Air Condition Drycleaning but also sees that missing or loose buttons are
on and open seams rostitched.
sewn
Drycleaning is essential, during this time of uncertain weather conditions to prevent clothing from getting mildewed. Don't just leave your clothes to the care of yo› Boy.
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