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Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godewus of the Hongkong Kowloòn Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be ob tained immediately after Innding.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before 19th December, 1939, or they will not be recognized.
Tuesday,
We're quite ready
for the
EATING SEASON
W
11AT a pity if our Christ- bas festivities were spoilt because we had put off a visit to the dentist.
A nagging toothache, can mar the most delicious pudding of mince ple.
If you are one of the many who suffer from that nasty sinking feel- ing which récompanies the ordeal
of the dentist's chair, It would do you good to visit a dentist,
No need to be afraid of the dentist, especially when he is deft und light-handed in his movements.
Painful Talks
I do beg of you who are parents ever to discuss any painful visits to the dentint before your children, aut never to lead them to expect pain when they have to no themselves.
In almost every case it is entirely unnecessary, thanks to modern methods, but I have seen quite uny children on the occasion of their first visit to the dentist yelling all the way up the stairs to the walling-room.
*This can only have been caused by unwl handling of the attention on the
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No Broken Nails
Attached to the phones in Lucille Damaged Packages will be examin- ed by
Surveyor Ball's home. and dressing-room are the Company's Messrs: Goddard and Douglas in the slim silver pencils all equipped with presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a round knob where erasers usually ori Friday, 15th December, 1939. grow. Lucille uses the penell for Consignees must have a Revenue note while phoning, uses the knob Officer in allendince when any dull-for dialing numbers. Saves broken able goods are examined by the nuts, wear and tear on nail polish. Company's Surveyors.
a.m.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,
Agent.
LAUNDRY TIP
Since men's dark-coloured hose often run when laundered, they are
A CHILDREN'S FANCY likely to stain other clothing. So
DRESS PARTY
in aid of the
B. W. O. F.
will be held
at
The Peninsula Hotel
Ton December 22nd
from 4 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
DANCING MUSICAL GAMES,
etc.
Dance Band of 2nd Bn. The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). by kind permission of Lieut.-Colonel D. J. McDougall, M.C., and Officers.
Prizes will be given for Fancy Dresses.
Tickets to be obtained at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.
Children $2.00, Adults $1.00.
THE “TELEGRAPH” will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public interest. Requests should be addressed to the Pictorial Editor,
COMING to the
KING'S
The World Renowned Violinist
Cascha HEIFETZ THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC
WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE
wash the hose sepurately, hang them up' quickly and don't let them come incontact with the resi of the laundry,
A
part of some grown- up. thus turning quite
simple affair into a norve racking ordeal for some highly- strung youngster.
Nothing could be more disastrous,
Actually all children's teeth should be examined regularly once a quarter. for tiny zepairs or slight abnormalities. You will never be able to put this wise rule into force If 11 means hysterical crying. and the up- setting of other patients. every time you bring the child to the clinic.
Treat your children to look upon ientists,
doctors and nursea as their very good friends. By doing this you will train them to a common. sense handling of the ittention which WI stand them in excelten! stead all through their lives.
Toothing
Now for a few word.. on teelling. The uge u which a baby cuts first tooth varies very much. One bears of babies cutting one or two teeth an early na the age of four monthis. Very occasionally a child in actually born with one or two teeth through the run
On the other hand. perfectly healthy and well-developed children may not cut a tooth antil they are ten to eleven months old.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 12, 1939.
BETTY
In trying to decide whether a chiki 13 really backward in development one cannot therefore go entirely by the progress in cutting teeth. Other mal- ters need consideration.
Does the child move freely, sit up by aimself and make efforts to stand?
Is be bright and contented, and is *e niaking regular Increases in weight? If the answer to such queries is in the affirmative then there need be no enl olur if the child is a little late teething. The tech are likely to
Demure and ultra chio is this cornelleted evening frock of champagne marquiseite and sequina, Completely covered up from neck to toe, with full, long sleeves to achieve the Hoovered up look" so fashionable lo-day, it rains further elegance through the requin outline of midṛiff, as designed by Myron Herbert.
come in fairly rapid succession once te does make a start.
By the time a child renches his second birthday he should have cut
most of the twenty milk teeth. •.
Complete Set
Ideally, they should all be Utrough by then, and he should be calling plenty of solids and little or no sloppy food. the drinks being reserved to ille end of the meal,
If you value your child's teeth as well as his digestion you will never sanction the “blë nud sup" method of eating.
Neither will you agree to the crusts of his bread being left, and you will encourage him as he grows older to enjoy the well-buttered' crusts at the ends of your Joaves.
Through the process of baking, cer- tan important chemical changes take place in crusts, which make them „of nutrilivé, value, to children
Many parents complain that their children's front teeth tend to show early signs of decay, and some dentists ascribe this to an earlier and most
Good gifts for Chrisimas ure handkerchiefs, kerchiefs дей belts. We include here some of the novelties of the
They are three outstanding hand- kerehlet patterns of the season,
PHYSICAL TRAINING
Regular visits to the dentist mean strong, even teeth
LOVEZ C.S.F
undesirable wa of dùnimies. Never forget that the child's first and second sets of teeth are niready. Inid down in the jaws long before birth, and that injuries to these tooth can therefore accur before they have ever appeared through the gums.
Never think that first teeth don't matter because they are not pernia nent teeth. They matter enormously. seeing that neglected decay in the milk teeth enn so quickly aprend to decay in the permanent set which is form beneath them.
About the age of five to six children, begin to cut permanent six-year-old' Inolars. This process in sametimen attended by a certain degree of unrest, both bodily and mental.
Esrecho is often an accompaniment. as la also enlargement of small glanda in the neck. Extra rest and, careful attention to the bowela should put things right quickly.
Too Many Colds
My baby appears to cut every fresh tooth with a heavy cold, How can I avoid this?
TRE complaint that babies cut their teeth with a cold or will a mild attack of bronchitis is fairly common. I am afraid that it is dimeult to avoid the symptoms entirely.
Much can be done, however, by keep- ing him or her in the same temperature for a few days while the tooth is coming through.
The room should never be ever-hot but the temperature should be oven. Rub a little vaseline on the bridge of the nose to relieve nasal congestion. and rub chest and back with a mixture of olive and camphorated oli
Keep head and shoulders raised on
a fairly high pillow. Regular amall doses of fish-liver oils should be given to all bables while teething.
Over-Crowding
Our girl, aged 11, has an eye-tooth shoicing through the gum, and the dentist advises me to have another second tooth drawn to make room for
Do you think this is really neces sary?.
I WOULD certainly advise you fu
abide by your dentist's decision fu this matter if he is a qualified member of his profession.
Very often overcrowding occurs f the second teeth are large, and this necessitates the sacrince of one or two teeth to keep the set evenly spaced.
Hats With Back Interest
more
the the
A silver fox trimmed coat with pockets worked beneath
fur tuxedo. The
above waistline is wider and free of the body, slenderising the walst itself.
ALL CHILDREN LOVE THIS HEALTHY
TONIC LAXATIVE
★C.S.F is the safest, surest, naturul And Isxalive for young systems. there's no need for “medicine bribes".
when you give the kiddies delicious California Syrup of Fige
A blending of elixir of
syrup made from
1100
of senda in rich "Califig" is gentle. rom lige. yot thorough in its action, harmless and non-habit forming guards
agains constipation and kindred illa, purifica the blood stream and creates healthy. hearty appetites. Give your children a regular course of California Syrup of Figs. Obtainable at all Chemists and Store
CALIFORNIA
SYRUP OF FIGS' Made specially for childron.
ROUTE TOO LONG
Cheung Chau residents are labour-
·|-|-|-|-|-|-||||||||||||++++ Ing under a sense of grievance and are shortly to petition the Gavern- ment,
SHORT CUTS
The complaint is in connection with the new ferry service Introduc- Hed after the outbreak of hostilities
When cooking in a double- boller, be sure that the top_ree- tion is partially immersed In water in die section below.
Baked, stuffed onions should be parbolled first. Then remove us much of the centre as desired, All with a bread or vegetable stuffing and bake In a moderate oven until browned,
When shopplar for a cooky far, remember that a low, wide one is best..
some rice muffins for
in Europe which necessitated the laying of mine delds in Colony waters. The West Lamnia Channel mine area is in the direct route of the Cheung Chau ferries, with the result that the ferries are diverted. This journey takes two hours, about double the time of the direct route.
Cheung Chau residents are asking why they should be put to, this in- convenience, particularly when the West Lamma Channel could be effec- tively mined, and still allow ferries to use the direct route, A bamboo pler could be erected opposite Cheung Chou Hospital passengers and particularly the large for the landing of quantities of ice used for preserving fish.
Curtalled Service
The present route is so long that it only allows of two, ferries running Hongkong, whereas ave ferries were per day between Cheung Chau and considered inadequate formerly. The
Wilted vegetables will taste better By ELEANOR GUNN
if they are crisped and freshened by New York-Checking up on the soaking in cold water before cooking. football girls 1 and that small hats. less fantastically miniature than a cooked in porridge form how about When children grow tired of cereal Inst winter, are millinery, Pillboxes
the ruling class brims for
1 exclusive ones), change, or nut bread in which bran
(with bumper baking Scotch caps, flat muftin berets, and and graham flour are equally mixed high and low crowns, are but brim with white flour, or ontmeal cakes 7
In making tea, a teaspoonful of considerably worsened the situation. big rush of refugees has meanwhile less favourites. Pastillons with both draped turbans represent the brim-grated orange or lemon rind for each The present population of Cheung med type of the
But with the four to six cups may be placed in the Chau season,
Is about 12,000 Chinese and exception of draped turbins, practi- teapot with the tea before adding 200 Europeans. cally every hat has back interest boiling water.
This is a matter on which the Good pot holders are large-feels-very-strongly," said-an-official-
Cheung Chau Residents' Association enough to protect the hands com- pletely, flexible enough to hold things casily and easy to wash. They should always be tmmacu- late,
snoods, or streamers,
--An-occasional,-but-very-occasional, vell blows across the picture but the snood or the so-called 'bustle back hut le suelently Interesting in itself and needs no floater.
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Looking toward Jackets, whether I'm not right about the following:
Separate jackets galore...mono- fone and plaid woollens with the bright red separate jacket definitely dating such costurnes as of this win- ter. Newest in separate jacket styles is the addition of fur collar in the mood of feminising what was former- ly just a casual saçque.
Longer jackets become an actuality. Wrist "length, with closely fitted linea which means curved-in waists and snug hips, describes these new jackets usually in four-button single-breasted styles. The coupling of these longer jacketa with flared skirts gives an en- tirely new character to tailored suits, which are, by the way. wom by the swankiest set, becoz, becoz, they are nice under für shortees.
Don't Take It Too Literally
Paris, Dec. 11.
A communique Issued this morning says there is nothing Important to report.
When an official communique states there is nothing important to report does not mean there is no fight-
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In making fruit salad, choose smoli oranges for slicing large oranges for segmenting.
For a schoolgirl, the gloves sketched above are just the thing for an appropriate Christmas gift. The novel pinked-edged, furer- free gloves -top are good for overyday wear, while the big warm woolly glove, ef lambakli would be ideal for spori
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LOST CAVES AS
guished patronage of Lady Northcote (ber 22, at 0 m. nt Hongkong Foot-1,000 to 2,000 men cach, are in con- been found again and now they
of the Association yesterday. “TIC- mendous hardship has been caused to the Island folk and it is our. inten- lion to petition' the Government, I am certain that when the Govern- ment sees how easy it is they will rectify matters."
It is understood that a petillon signed by all the European residents and leading kaifongs of the Island has been drawn up, and is to be pre- sented to the Government during the next few days.'
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are
A plyalcal training competition 'ing, declares M. Charles Morice in open to local Vernacular Schools has Le Petit Parisien,, regarding the boon arranged by the Education Do-[fighing on the Western Front, SMALL MONEY VARIETY CONCERTS partment as follows:
Kowloon Schools Thursday, Decem- The fighting is different from the RAID SHELTERS French. Police Discover The Hongkong University Women ber 21, at 9 a.m. at Kowloon Football Inst time, but still there is fighting.
Daily from one end Club ground.
of the battle Undergraduates' Club will hold a
LONDON-The long-lost front to the other some 40 units, 20 Hongkong Schools Friday, Decem- Car Full of Coppers variety concert, under the distin-
on either sido, totalling between caverns of Blackheath have Shanghai, Dec. 11. In the Grent Hall of the University ball Club ground...
tact. The final will take place at 11.30 In the midst of the small money on December 14 at 8 pm. for school
The fighting occurs in unoccupied may be turned into an air raid Advertisers shortage which has forced business children, and again on December 15 on Friday, December 22, when territory between the two advance shelter for suburban Greenwich.
His Excellency the Governor will be tines and the defence, which in some throughout the city print their at 0.45 pm, for the publle.
The caves-four rooms The proceeds of the concerts are in present. There will be a short places is separated by four or five chalky earth under the site of one
in the requested to submit own trails coupons, the French Police hallod a
motor car carrying two ald of the British War Organisation monstration by pupils from Senior
miles. Schools.
of the world's first golf courses- Chinese, and Baron Gros, of the Fund, the Hongkong University Union
Both sides fight with the aid of were open to the publle for rea copy for display adver- French Concession. for a routine | Chinese Medical Kelief Association,
machine guns, hand grenades and ar- but in 1853 they were closed as up- search when they discovered 160,000 (and the Chinese War Orphans.
tillery. A test of strength
takes safe. Fallon material blocked the rising not later than copper coins which had no been in
place in the open ground which is enclosed by small posts occupied dar-entrance and they were forgotten. ing the day and almost evacuated at Workmen have sunk a 40-foot 2 p.m. on the day before night time,
EX. Morice concludes that often it Borough Council is considering in publication. la. Torocious fighting-Reuler. Bul='stalling some timbers to make'a.
bombproof shaltor.
peal creuiation since shortly after
GOLF CHAMPION WEDS
the outbreak of war, when the The Chinose have so far 'not dis»].
London, Dec. 11. Japaneso allegedly purchased the closed what they were doing with Henry, Cotton, British golfer, has I malerity of the coins for the purpose the copper coins, which have been married Mra. Maria Isobel Moss, a of extracting the copper for munition devained, in the Franch. Police head, wealthy Argentinian he met while on manufacture.
quartors/United... Prtas, ¡y
la golfing tour--Router.
lasin.
sbaft and rediscovered them. The