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SATURDAY JULY 27, 1912.

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Hongkong, April 11, 1912.

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Castor r becomes tasteless it bented and thoroughly mixed with the white of

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Copper may be beautifully cloned by rubbing with a lowon (a squeezed one' will do) dipped in salt. Rinse well after in boiling water and dry at once.

Remember when frying fish that if the fat in which it is fried is not quite boiling, the fish will be greasy, sodden, and un- wholesome. Never put in the fish til blue smoke is rising from the fa:.

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Coarse salt sprinkled occasionally on the Hoor before sweeping is said to be a grod proventive moth.

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Silver dress briumings which have be come discoloured may be clanned by cover. ing them with dry powderal magnesia, Leave it for three hours, then rub it well with anel, and brush off with a perfectly clean plate brush,

Table-cloths will last much longer it when they are washed they are fulded one week in three, and the next in four. If folded exactly the same way each time, the folds will went into holes while the rest of the elth is goes.

An old potato, washed, perled, and then cut in half, can be used to clean oil paint

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L ALMA TADEMA.

It is strange to the verge of impossibility, wote a correspondent of the London Standard," to think of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema dead; that the eyes which

closed

fot loved light we passionately aro over: and that his vivid, vital personality is effaced for all earthly time. It is a gx many years since I first met him an

the privi privi Admitted to Soveral since leged intimacy of his studio. As he always received me in the studia 1 ind the oppor tunity of

picture

WAS

to be on the easel I was with a damp cloth, rubbed with dry cotton-often with him when he was working on the "Finding of Moses," which he painted

John

Aird: Bis method wuol, and finally pelished with a silk band for the late Sir kerchief. An old-fashioned cleanser for was entirely opposed to that of his friend. the late Sir W. Orchardson. The latter oil paintings consists of warm beer.

once told we that he never painted out a single stroke when once he had laid hi on the canvas. Sir Iawrence, on the contrary, painted out a great deal.

ings. The surface should then be wiped which happen him about

Loops for hanging garments are always wearing out and breaking, particularly with children's cloaks and coats. Tu omako a durable hop, cut a strip of kid from an old glove, roll into it a piece of case string, d sew the edges of kid nently together This loop, fastened securely to a garment, will stand any amout ofalling without wearing or breaking.

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One day, as I sat watching him at work on the Mixes picture, I said something about the pleasure it had been for nie to

"Yes," h see him painting that picture, replied, and his eyes twinkled humorously As he picked up a cloth and began to rub out something which did not please hain... And what is more, you've seen use painting out that picture; and the painting out is often more important than the painting in."

Cont dust is wasted unless the mistress

Over and over I have seen him painting sees that it burned, and yet is makes

cowering

marive marble columns in a beautiful fires Bave a galvanised iron picture with only a piece of marble three" scuttle for the purpose. Add sufficient or four inches long in his hand to guide him for the colour, the contour, the play water to the cul to make it moist. When of light, and the other characteristics which. are is burning brightly, bank it up with the reproduced

des- marvelices with such this wet dust and you will have a clear breterity and truth. And what was 1210 f which will last for hours.

Casilea

marhle was no less true

"

was sunt to was sont

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To Let

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to Newfoundland, matured there for several years in ensk and bottled in Lendong Manzanilla Sherry is spesially selected for the China market.

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OFFICES. and ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

in

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\FFICES in KING'S BUILDING.

Silver OFF

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meta. When Heliogabalus his picture The Ruses

tha Aendeniy, the

the king table at the back had the legs quite plain. n varnishing day, Sir Lawrence at down

and without in front of the canvas, model to copy from, and only his own wonderful knowledge of the piny of light, Wed the way it

sy it is reflected from different angles, to guide him, he paisted a most

on the legs

of carving ou elaborate pattern of

table. As

averal Acade- he worked ver

And

And the

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Apply to

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TO LET.

ACTING MANAGER; Shangh G. STEPHEN. LONDON BANKINS-LONDON COUNTY AND WESTMINSTER BASK, LIMITED.

HONGXoxo--LNTERIST ÅLLOWEL,

Un Current Account at the race of Twol per cent. per annum on the daily balance. ON FIXED Darosta :-

For 3 months 24 per cent per konum.

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S. J. STABB,

Chier Manager.

Hongkong, lay 20, 1912

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HINTS ABOUT CANDLES,

should be purchased some months before they are used, and should be stored in a cool, dry pince and kept covered, so as to prevent them becoming Stiled. When candles become soiled and discol ure from being kept lung in a

'FE business of the abors Bank is con- candlestick, they can be cleared by rubbing them with

ducted by the HONGKONG AND a piece of flannel dipped in

the should methylated spirit. Fluted candles

TION. Rales may be obtained un ap- never be carried about, as they gutter micisus gathered round and watched ON 2ND FL001, No. & PEDDER SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA

STREET, much more than these which amazed at the brillisues of the featand the

in the skill with which it was carried through.

plication. One-Roined OFFICE. Apply Pre-

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at! How. the minimum monthly balances 31 PER CENT. par annum, Depositor 6Lagħra. may transfer at their option balances of Karachi. $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND Rang

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Kanuy, FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 PER CENT, per

are plainly moulded. Economy

matter of candies can be effected by prowl with necular personal interest deals perty Office JARDINE, MATHESON &

viding each candlestick with a save-all, no that the candles may burn to the end. If this is not done, there is no need to waste odds and ends of candles. The small should be scraped and shredded, and pices a ten-spoonful of the candle-takes added

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I Another incident in the studio which with a picture which in public. It was a commission and wa

which was never exhibited in public.

without being purchaser delivered to the seen at the Academy. It was a typical Alma-Tadema subject of two girls in gios delicately coloured robes by a marble seat,

over which

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each bowl of boiled starch to give over which hung a flowering tree, looking NO. 13, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

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and prevent the iron sticking. Yet an other use may be made by melting the small pieces and pouring the liquid fat into pill boxes, and when yearly sut placing night-light font (such as can be purchased at twopence halfpenny per hundred) in the middle of the surface of each.

TO IMPROVE. HANDKERCHIEFS.

out on a blue sea. Sir Lawrence had sent

for me to see it, and he asked me what I

Hongkong, April 30, 1912,

TO LET.

Top Floor. ROGATE Austin Road, Kowloon,

Akum

ME

No. 10, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. First floor.

For the Hongkong and Shanghai- Banking Corporation,

No. 13, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

1.

(Godown D.)

1 SMALL GODOWN in Duddell Street No. 14, MACDONALD ROAD 'Ca'der,- 0-roomed House. Fine situation, from 1st Agust, 1912,

LARGE ROOMS to let, central posi

bad to say about it. What it makes me from 1st April. think of more than anything else," I words: Ob to be be replied, are Browning's word in England now that April's hero! and the song in Pippa Passes, beginning: The First floor.

*It is carious you

LARGE GODOWN" in No. 3, Dud- year's at the spring

hould нау

that," Sir Lawrence replied, dell Street, 1st floor. 14 Delicate bandkerchiefs can be washed for every live I used to send him

year on his birthday when easily at home, and careful handling causes Brewing was

the

tree! very then to wear much better. Wet them, rub branch of blossom from each gently over with good, whito soap, which I have painted in that picture." and soak in tepid water over night. The strong physical resemblance between

cut. (du net wring). pat them in

the late Mr George du Sir Lawrence enamelled

Maurier led to some smaking incidents. A tion, cheap rent.

at dinger

To Let at the Peak, FURNISHED And half paz, cover with cold water

A teaspoonful of powdered borsx. lady sitting beside Lu Maurier st Boil slowly, pour into a basin, add cold refused to see the resemblance. You HOUSE. & Rooms for two months, August

and squeeze out all soap Next know, Mr Alous Tadema," she said, "I and September. immerse them in clear tepid water, rinse think it is absurd to eny that you and Mr about in this. then plunge into cold

awfully alike. There is. WALEF Ju

Maurierblance at all, Don't you"] tinged with blue. Leave in this for half an really no resembl (one cornflour come teaspoonfal of Coradour to a cupaing Agron with a

Quite," said the author of "Trills," betting

water). Squeeze

I happen to be Mr Du and roll carsfully but you see, ench handkerchief in .towel, and iron Maurier." with a moderately hot iron. For drop 1883 to a French lady. Marie, daughter of For ordinary Sir Lawrence was twice married. In handkerchiefs it is a

* god mie drop them before washing into cold water to Eugene Grevin de tois Girard, with whom he lived in Brussels until her death in which has been added a little borax and

1669. She left him two daughters, plenty of soap. Boil thoroughly. Rinse in two waters. They will be white as snow Laurence and Anns, both of whom bave and perfectly

cican.

To whiten handler made reputations, one in literature the chiete which have become discoloured at her in painting, Miss Laurence Altan- Tadema has pablished novels, poems, through careless washing, dissolve

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pipe-clay in warm water and leave them to and "Songs of Womanhood." She

soak in the solution all night. Next day wash and buil the handkerchiefs in the usual manner, and they will be won erfully improved in appearance.

A NOVEL IDEA.

To keep mats in place at bedrooms doors, try this plan. Sew a small brave ring at each corner of the most, and put two tiny rounded cup-hooks into the corners of the doorway close to the floor. Slip the ringe over the books and the mats will be held in place; and, as there-are-rings at each of the four corner, the mate may be tarned frequently, so as to wear evenly. The looks must. very small and rounded, or dresses will catch on them........

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has also translated Masterlinck's Pelléas | and Méli-ande" and "and |

Paderewski's Chopin"

not the received a second medal for painting at the

1871

Sir Paris Exbilition of 1883 ณ

Laur Lawrence married Miss

Eopsy daughter of G. Napoleon Eppe, .R.C.S., an artist of great talent. She died in 1909, and in the following years there was n memorial exhibition of her works' at the gallaries of the Fine Arts Society.

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