10'
Monday,
HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH.
May 22, 1939. ·
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Comparites Incorporated in England.) ·
Taking Cardo on through Dills of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & DURMA CEYLON, INDIA, IRANIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & S. AFRICA, AUS- TRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED BEA, ZGYPT, EUROPË, ETC.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL BAIL STEAMERS (Under Contract with ILM. Government.)
All vensoir may call at any ports on or off the route, and the route and all sailing are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Steamers
†RAJPUTANA RANCHI ***BHUTAN-
RANPURA
BEHAR
RAWALPINDI CHITRAL
CONFU
| Tons | From H'Kong about |
(17,000; 27th May,
7,00 10th June -6,000|17th June
17,000 24th June 0.000 Int July
17,000 8th July 13,000 22nd July 14,000 5th August 13,300 1001 August 14,300 2nd Sept.
+ Calls Casablanca.
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellies & London. B'bay, Msellics, Havre, L'don, Hull, 'bg, R'dam & A'werp. B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'llay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, | Huil, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp.
'bay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, Marseilles & London. D'bay, Marseilles & London. D'bay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marselles & London.
All vessels may call at Malta
HIUTISHI INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (SOUTH)
CANTON
CARTHAGE
• Cargo only.
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA
10,000, 3rd June,
8,000 | 17th June,
10,000 1st July
8,000 15th July
! 20,000| 201h July
S'pore, Port Sweltenham, Penang Rangoon & Calcutta.
DO.
DO:
DO,
DO.
B. 1. Apear Line Steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd Class passengers.
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (SOUTH.)
7,000 3rd June.
7,000 30th June
7,000 48 Aug.
Manila. Rabaui, Brisbane. Sydney, Melbourne
& Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghal and Japan and 'kung to Aurralla.
RANPURA
SHIRALA
*BEHAR NANKIN RAWALPINDI
*SOUDAN
TILAWA
CHITRAL
• Cargo only.
Hong Kong to Sydney--15 days.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
17,000 25th May
0,000 25th May
A sun! 30th May 7,000
5th June 17,000) 8th June 7,000 8th June nogʻat: 8th June 35,000' 22nd-June
Shanghal & Japan, Japan
Shanghini & Japan. Shanghal & Japon. Shonghof & Japan, Shanghai & Japan. Ларап.
Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notier, Parcela measuring not more than 5 c.f.t, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing.
For Passage Itates, Handbooks, Freight, cis, apply
Agents
P.&. ing. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone 27721
Connaught R.C.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
TO HONOLULU, CANADA, UNITED
and EUROPE
;
Strong Muscles Essential to Good Figure
THE "little girl" look so much
stressed by inske-up, coutures and fashions this spring is difficult to achieve if you have round should- ers, a sway-back or overly prominent Jaip, for nothing adds years to your age sooner than such figure faulis.
Posture, rather than overweight or underweight is often to blame ond -now is the time to check up and do
Rething about It.
You can add that needed inch to your height by stretching your body to its full height and developing the muscles that ald in good posture.
You
can add length to your diaphragm and youth 10 your waist, remove the hump from the back of your neck and bring your too-prominent rear into line.
your
Good allling posture for the typist, which will prevent round shoulders Is demonstrated by the girl, lett. Sitting in this creol position enables a girl to work all day without irin. There is a rigat
ΑΓΙΕ and wrong way to nit In a chair, as shown by
the girl below.
I'll Dance No More
SAYS A HUSBAND
UFS
V
There is still another excellent} reason for taking look at your NOW that our social season's nearly, Miss Thistledown didn't like to re- figure now. Many of you may be|NN over; now that I've dipped and [fuse you.” cut to look for your first Jobs, Per-shuffled, swayed and stid for the last "As a matter of fact...” STATESsonnel directors often check appli- time (I hope), I can lean back and
cants for position on their posture nod sympathetically
And there was poor Miss Awk- if a trille in-word. Hardly danced the and personality as Indicative of such sincerely as my wife
whole energetically evening. You might have at least qualities, as alertness, tidiness, energy deplores the ever-increasing blanks asked her once. Besides, 1 think it's and good nature..
Hour calendar,
positively horrid of you to sit for KEEP BODY BALANCED
My wife declares that my dancing yours and never as much a say how hours with that stockbroker friend of Jays are by no means over; she malt do you do to anyone else." To-day's illustrations show you how to sit when you have
tains that dancing is as much an old
as anything else. Useless to Object interview with a prospective employ man's relaxation er and how to sit comfortably and Not that I am old-merely. fortyish.
I don't mind an odd dance, with a Useless, of course, to point out the orrectly at your typewriter after you have landed a job. If you trainoper and decent interval between exaggeration; fullle to say, that if I yourself to sit erect without tenseness, when our season is in full swing, friend, we, my wife and 1, might be
it and the next for recuperation; but didn't talk
my stockbroker you are bound to feel more self-
inging.in. scnfidence and you will unconsciously when there are invitations dropping the streets for a living. Impress the interviewer.
into our letter-box every other day, If a husband is unwary or unwise when I have to race home, struggle enough to protest
against this The law of gravity ap es human beings as much as anything of armour which is a dress shirt, and vials of a wife's wrath descend upon Into that rasping and rattling type terpsichorean holocaust, then the else. The centre of balance of the body is approximately, the hip joint. too inuch, Long ago, I learned that selfish, and lazy, and needs a little amp my dinner, well, it is almost his head; he is told that he is dull, you talte a side view of your it was unwise to point this out: exercise, anyway. figure and draw an imaginary ver- smile a little when I hear an in- ticut line from this centre, it should function, "Don't waste time, now, touch the other supporting Joints ear, you know it's an early starty over I can look out my golf
via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohama
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7.00 nm. Fri.. June 23. EMPRESS OF JAPAN via Honolulu
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Fri., June 2.
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the knees and ankles. As the line
with
But, as I said, the season's prac-
clubs; I can be leisurely over my
evening meal; I can look forward to
extends upward it touches the mid- I am let me face it-too old for next winter with almost equanimity. dle of the shoulders und passes the tango, 1oo rheumatical through the neck and to the top of ruimba, though not too old for the lessons in the slow fox-trot, even for the even though I've promised to take the skull. When you slump, the surreptitious enjoyment of head is dropped forward, the ab"Dashing White Sergeant," as my ing a little dance chlb "just once a domen thrust out or rear extended wife pointed out,
to this line is kinked and the body
is thrown out of balance.
MAKE MUSCLES WORK
the though my wife is thinking of start-
week, though, dear, and we can roll
I can't get any pleasure from sit-up the carpet." Ling at tiny round table where there's no room properly to stretch ne's legs, and talk with people who
Any good general exercises which are as shy, as bored, as nervous as
help strengthen the back muscles am.
will also help improve your posture.i
o
Make your back muscles works for Recapturing Youthful Energy you by putting them to work through exercise. get the good! It is a different matter when there posture position, stand against the are young people at our parties. wall with your head, heels, shoulders Occasionally, then and if I am and spine all touching. You should stever—I can stept a dance with u just be able to slip your hand be- creature who miraculously can fit tween the wall and back at the her steps to my labouring ones, whol waistline. If there is more space laughs as though she meant to laugh, than this, move your heels out a who seems to be made of a particu little from the wall, relax the knees, larly resilient kind of clastic, and and force the small of your buck closer to the 'woll
Long Life For
Home Plants
CIPRING and summer bring
many
at 12.00 Noon green and flowering plants for the house, and a little knowledge of thele
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who-though I'll whisper this-makes me feel about twenty again, and not slightly bald, blase, and bad-temper- ed. But then, of course, I pay for that inter: And "Why. didn't you give Mrs. Leadenfeet dance?" asks my wife in the acclusion of our bed room.
"Well
"You know perfectly well that that
daily care will prevent disappoint- tepld water up to the rim, leave it ment at the withering of a plant. until the bubbles cease to rise, then Practically all plants sold for house place it on the draining board' until decorallon are grown in a cool green-the excess water has drained away. house, and so
they need light,
moderate warmth, and freedom from More, water than usual
will be draughts in their new home. The needed for watering when there are best
position is near a window number of new shoots, or several though not directly under an open buds about to flower.
One
plants have the
Pests occasionally appear on the ha habit of turn-leaves. These are easily got rid of ing their foliage and stems towards by completely immersing the plant the light, so their position should be for a few seconds in a bucket of soapy allered occasionally to prevent a water, or, better still, in water tinged lop-sided growth.
to a pale rosa Premature decay is caused more by manganate of potash,
colour with per- indiscreet watering than anything che. All plants should be kept If worms appear, which is not an molat, and this is best achieved by uncommon occurrence in long-lived watering the roots a little every day, stants such as aspidistras or palmy. Tap water I too cold, and apt to the roots should be carefully: In- give the plant a shock Use tepid speeted, and repotted in fresh soil. water, or leave a jug of water in as rule also applies it 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 ad- by the evening.
dition of fresh soil or the use of a
-Kathleen Morgan,
If the plant has been allowed to larger pot. become too dry, Immerse the pot in
A track that is proving very popular for spring is the pat- terned top and belt with plain skirt. This frock is a combina tion of black linen skirt with checked pink and black and gray gingham for the top and bell.
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