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NESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1917.

"FORTIES" NEED

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHAT WOMEN IN THEIR

THE WAR.

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ANY women approach the critical

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THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction- (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED).

on

TUESDAY,

she 30th January, 1917, commencing

1.30 pm, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,

Des Voeux Road, Corner si

Ics House STREET,

A Lange QuarIIIT OF

VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BUNDRY BLACKWOOD FURNITURE,

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comes between the ages of forty and Efay inmindful of its tremendons importance to their fature health and happiness. Not understanding the funational I changes taking place in their

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bodies, they work beyond their strength (Router's Service to the China Mailį ufton break down become RACIOUS wrecks, their bodies suffering with fatigue and their weakened nerves trembling at every stap. Often in their weakened condition capillary hemorrh aga becomes excessive, this added drain compelling them to take to their bods from nervous ex

exhaustion.

What these women need is something that will instantly relieve the preamaro n the overworked nerve centers and give them the vitality to stand up under the grueling strain. Wonderfully effective results are given. in ecnditions.

them.

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THE WESTERN FRONT.

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raided

WAR-SHAKEN MEN.

HOW THE NEURASTHENIC ARE TREATED.

follows

restored to work.

home, with this difference, however, that an intelligent, interest would be taken in. supplying encouragement and useful and suitable occupation.

COX-

It is found that gymnastic azergines: performed to the accompaniment af musiq. have not the same value as those where „ PLEA FOR INSTITUTIONS.

in its absenco, the attention is

Voeful centrated on each movement. The Hon. Livut Cal Sir John Callie, work, however simple, which co-ordinatos M.D. Levites in "The Times" groups of muscles, is found to be much more rational and oralul than ordinary gymmaatle exercises. A carpenter with a It is the day of the special medical stiff wrist and fingers, is most likely to board for neurasthenia and functional make a rapid recovery if he is "ubmiffed nerve disease, of which I have the honour to a short course of vigorous passive. to be president, to examing man who have movements, and is then encouraged to de been discharged from the samy on account some simple work to which he is accus BRITISH FAID TRENCHES. of neuraathenis and functional nerve tomed; brain, muscle, and nerve.com disesan. The large number of esses shows operate with amsaingly satisfactory LONDON, Jan. 31. that many are urgently in need of re results.

There should be a competent staff (not Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigeducation and training before they can be į

necessarily large) of instructors and These men command our sympathy masseus under medical control. The Tablete, a tkillful combination of six of trenches in the forenco's south-east of though we must not show it. They insist institution shone also contains large

by the simple use of Sargol ports: -We successfully the best nerve and strength vitalizing Loos, and destroyed dug-outs tull of on viewing themselves in the wrong proportion of men recovering from dis- elements known to modern chemistry. These little tablets contain no dangerous Germans, inflicting many casualties. perspective, for their mantal vision is abilities other than zoumnathania, so that They do not the functional nerve cases would not be habit forming drugs and are entirely entered the German lines last temporarily distorted. harmless in their action but they quickly

Case which do not show respond to treatment in hospital; and segregated.

Д certain build up and strengthen the entire night north of Neuva Chapelle. The when progress, is not made, and they are marked improvement after nervous system by feeding directly to be sired devitalized nerve cells, in enemy's artillery was active as Ran- not discharged, they become worse. Many period-say, three monthe should be dis- artificial form, the very necessary court, Beaucourt Serre, and Epres eventually fall into an intractable con- charged, for nothing is to be gained by. elements of which nature is depriving We effectively bombarded in the St. tition, which is not so much due to the their detention. Many neurasthenics are, Pierre 'Vuast, Gomme Court, Arras national disease as to their environment, in the absence of such institutions, too The chief lesturs of neurasthenis and of long detained in Eospitals, and suffer in . Residence in ordinary and Armentieres regions.

the rescita of injury by high explosives is consequence. a loss of control by the higher nerve, hospital should, in this class of case, be centres over the lower-centres. The con- curtailed, and cases whish do not respond dition in the main is of mental origin, to treatment should be transferred to and, therefore, requires special psycholog, these special institutions in three months.. ral treatment. These cases do not recover In some districts, where large residences readily, even if sent to their own homes, are unlet they might be temporarily for their subjective symptoms are inevita occupied, if near enough to each other to A communiqué says:-North of shly reinforced and confirmed by the permit of central management, and

of their friends. Light, their surroundings were otherwise suit the Sorame, in the region of Mon sympathy

The wuscoss of such a scheme graduated work, which provante introspecable. St. Quentin, the artillery caught tion. is the best conater-suggestion. would largely depend upon whether those marching enemy troops. On the Unless the mind is healthily cecupied, in charge ara good judges of buman right of the Mouse, in the sectors of normal bodily stimuli are apt to be mis character, interested in the work, and Vacher-au-Ville, Chambrettes, and understood and are generally interpreted prepared to study cach man, and to offer. as evidence of disease. Even in the him not only the best kind of work, but Couricies Wood, there has been grestabeence of organic disasso there is always the healthy recreation which will best reciprocal artillerying. We carried in the neurasthenic a profcand mental develop an optimistic frame of mind. out a successful coup de main impression of invalidism, which "in the absence of appropriate treatment lasts for many months. sometimed' for years. The sooner the patient is convinced he is geing to recover, the sooner he will do so, The function of the subconscious brain is t very real factor in our mental processen. It is on this phase of consciousness that suggestion acs, and it is in this way that we must influence, the character and con- düct of these unfortunate men.

Thousands of women could testify thut Sargol Tablets strengthen the isded Derves revive the tired brain and put the energy and courage into your body that enables you to stand up under the unusual strain of the changing period.

All the leading chemists in Hongkong have Sargol Tablets for sale.

"Don't warry take Sargol."

AUCTIONS.

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PUBLIO AUCTION. DARTICULARS and Conditions of the

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A Follow Upholstered Suites, Arm-chairs and Sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furniture, Double Brada-mounted Bedstead, Teak latting by Fublic Auction Sale, to be wood Twin Bedsteads, Bax Mattresses, held on MONDAY, the 20th day of Sideboards, Dinaer Waggons, Extension January, 1917, at 3 p.m., at the Oficas of the Public Works Department, by Order of Dining Tables and Chairs, Tea and His Excellency the Governor of One Lot Occasional Tables, etc., etc., Dinner of CROWN LAND at Nathan Food, Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking Kowloon, in the Colony of Hongkong, for and Hosting Stove, Cutlery, Toilet Set, a term of 75 years, with the option of Bath Room Utensils, Large Bell-top onewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one Desk and Writing Tables, etc, Sagdry forthor team

усага Efostro Plated Ware.

Piano by Challeh and Sons, London, in good condition, Electric Reading Teakwood

Lampe, Blackwood and

Sweeca, a quantity of Blackwood Farniture, Pictures, Carpets and Rugs,

Clocks, Braas Fenders, Fire Brassos, etc. Aleo

1 Sewing Machine, Cent.'s Bicycle (new), Tennis Roles and Nettings, &c.

Brass Finger Bowls, Child's Cota, Parambalator.

(Fall Particulars from Catalogue) TRK-Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

·Auctioneers,

Hongkong, Jan. 20, 1917,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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THE Undersigned have received in-

structions to sell by Public Auction,

(POR. ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED),

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AN EARLY DATE-

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The following LIGHTHOUSE GEAR KEATINGS

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One occulting apparatus, complete.

Circular wick lamps.

Spate bumers.

Cylinders and wisks.

Incandescent Patrol Lamps and

appurtenances

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A quantity of gear pertaining to Mooring Buoys,

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A number of Locomotive wheels and Axles."

Further particulars may be obtainsä from the undersigned. Terms-as usual. -

BYO HKS & HOUGA,

Auctioneers

mangkong, Aug. 24, 1016.

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HISTORY OF UNION CHURCH

(1881-1905)

HONGKONG'S MUSICAL

HISTORY:quattuor p 30 NOTES ON WILD LIFE IN HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA" (by Far. 4. A. Bunbury, MA) in acti

Mammain and Birds

Part

Part II-Reptiles, Amrajhis and

THE MISSIONS ETRANGERES (History of the "5 Eliters Charakies)

ORINESE 80HOOL BOOK (Sam-Tax Ring," translate 1 by EJ Bital)

SIR ROBERT

MTAKA MEMOHANI

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Every kind of Footwear

MADE

GRE And

TO

ORDER

CHERRY &00

HEAVY ARTILLERYING ON FRENCH FRONT.

towards' Senoces.

PARIS, Jan. 2.

THE REBELLION IN TRIPOLI,

HEAVY REBEL LOSSES.

Rouz, Jan. 22.

A communiqué says:-- We caught up the fleeing' Trifoli tan rebels mentioned on the 18th inst. and again defeated them after

DANGERS OF IDLENESS.

The netrasthenic, sufers from bypar. sensitiveness of the various parts of the

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN

SHANGHAI RESIDENT.

The Shanghai papers record with deep regret the death of Mr John Bernard A Mackinnon, Acting Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Council, the sad event haying taken place shortly after four o'clock on the morning of the 13th inst at the Victoria Nursing Home

Deceased had been in the Nursing Home for about three weeks, suffering 4go, from typhoid fever. About a month a short period of leave from the office and a fierce three hours' battle in a sand-boxty and from neuralgize of all sorts, for the Shanghai Mercury says, he took a although his disorder is primarily this vacation be spent at Fooctow, where bankrupt condition of nervous force, it is apparently, he contracted his illness and be at the same time a hypersensitive state. on his return about three weeks ago

ursing Home, despite all the best

storm.

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It is reckoned that the rebel losses in two days wounded.

was 820 killed and,1,300 In the process of time bodily stimuli comé went to the Victoria Nurse-

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THE LONDON EXPLOSION.

HEARD NINETY-SIX MILES AWAY.

Losos, Jun. 22. The explosion at the munitions factory was heard at King's Lyan, ninety-six miles distant.

to fill so large a portion of his field of consciousness that he genuinely believes that he is seriously 1, and this belief is fostered by the absence of all incentive to work. The fundamental and underlying cause in all cases of neurosis is paychic in origin.

Want of cecupation, fatoupee tion, and misplaced sympathy steadily demoralise. To add a pension to home treatment in this particular class of case is definitely to postpone the date of recovery, if not to make it impossible.

The change from idleness to modified congenial and graduated work under supervision in a fresh environment is the An eye-witness stated that it only merna, after the patient has left the occurred half an hour after the fire hospital, of substituting healthy for started, and was followed by a fame unhealthy angggestions. Hemedial mes a thousand times more intense thansares should be directed towards altering or adjusting the mental attitude of the anything he had ever seen. Almost

patient towards his condition and his mediately the air was filled with environment. To retain such cases in the Aébria, billions of sparks, and a sickly army is a mistake, for they can never smelling gas like a yellow fog. The to made efficient soldiers, and to seek crash of collapsing buildings and fall to cure them in military hospitals is to king materials continued for at least waste much-coded

eight minutes.

The death roll at the factory where the explosion occurred is probably trifing, as it is understood that only

Bocommodation.

There should be some organised method of after treatment in civilian life designed to fit them physically and mentally to take their part in the world. Most of these cases require training and re-edues.

a small staff was employed, but the tion in institutions of a special kind.

The caly practicable way of efectively destruction of the crowded small

treating this class of case is in an inalitu. houses in the vicinity was terribotion specially staffed and equipped. The

tion,

became a In

be passed:

as a 37 years of Deceased, who was about

oat 37 age, vas educated at Downside College, England, and he came out from home to join the Indoor Staff of the He was in this service for several years the Customs. and there studied the to such good suit the language very fuent speaker of the language. 1905 or 1906 he

he joined the Shanghai Municipal Council and has been a Senior Assistant Secretary ever since, except for brief periods when he acted, d'aring the a tecnice of Mr Leveson, as secretary. Mr Mckinnon was devoted to his Coun cil and by his death of S.5LC. loses

- splendid worker.

"Outside the offce, deceased's only recreation was riding, in which sport he was very keen and enthusiastic, and in paper hunts and meetings to come his absence will be very noticeable and much regretted.

He was carried and leaves both parents at home in Londos and one roared sister in the Far East. To his relatives the deepest sympathy of deceased's many friends in Shanghai and the Far East will be extended in their bereavement.

The funeral took place on Sunday the 14th inst A requiem service was held at St. Joseph's Church, and afterwards a procession was formed to the cemetery, headed by the Municipal Band playing funeri marches. The attendance at the

fantnl was very large.

IN CHINA..

NEW REGULATIONS.

It is stated that three streets of ideal institution is on the lines of detached TRAFFIC IN OPIUM AND MORPHLA cottages were practically wiped out. residences, or farm colonies, with, The task of extricating the injured gymnania, workshops, and agricultural, or from the debris was difficult. The garden lands attached. But if institutions police, special constables and Volen of the kind are not immediately attain. able, it would be preferable to establish? teers worked the whole night long, muy from of institution, provided is but the military took possession in filled the essential purposes stated. the moming, guards being posted at all the approaches.

THE KIND OF ISTITUTION."

The institution I have in my mind The cause of the explosion will would include facilities for training in all kinds of outdoor work, handicrafts, etc

The Government ha submitted to Farliament a new set of regulations con cerning the traffic in opium and morphía. These provide for much heavier punish- meats for offenders than the Grimizni Code, in explanation of which the Government, points out that the com

probably remain a mystery, but it is I would, besides gymnasia, contain a plete prohibition of the importation of noteworthy that many prosecutions department for paycho-therapeutic treat pium will shortly be enforced and there have recently taken place of muniment. Cases of stammering, etc., could for is necessary suppress entirely

the opium traffic in China. tion makers who were found in be treated contemporanenosly with the possession of matches.

ITALIAN LOAN.

training and treatment of other disabili tise. Although the institution should be mainly on industrial rather than on medical lines, the selection of the right kind of superintendent and of his staff is a matter of great importance, for the Personality behind the treatment is more determining than the treatment itself The ex-soldier must be made to sppreciate to the full that his army experiencés, aza. over for over the object should be

BOME, Jan 22 The issue has been authorised of a five per cent loan, at ninety. Pay ments will be asepted in foreign gold and Goromment Securities, mainly to tesist the men to work out their

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