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THE CHINA MAIL

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Connoisseurs

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INTIMATIONS

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S

LEAGUE.

SALE OF WORK IN AID OF CHARITIES, FOR CHILDREN,

o be held in the GROUNDS AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE by kind permission of His Excellency thu Governor on 'SATURDAY, 3rd Novem Baz. 9 to 8 PM.

Entrance only at the Garden Gate in Upper Albert Houd.,

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Price of Admission Adult › ...20 cents. Children 19 cents.

all members and associates pearing M.C.L. badges free.

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A CHILDREN'S CHINESE

·PLAY...... CHILDREN'S BALLET and

VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT 5 PM

AND Reynestments — Leexy WELL-XMan"Tase-Hopp La-Swartz -useful and attractive articles on the various stalls for children and grown-ups. Prices moderate. No Chita taken. Dongkong. Oct. 13, 1917

HONGKONG GOVERNMENT 5%

WAR LOAN OF 1918.

COUPON NO. 2, PAYABLE 1st NOVEMBER, 19%

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thes

not

as the DEFINITIVE BONDS have yet arrived from England the PAYMENT of the DIVIDEND DUF on 1st November, 1917 will be made by a provisional coupon Scrip Certificates should be presented at the HongONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, Hengkong, on 1st November, 1917 when the relative provisional coupon will be issued.

E. D. C. WOLFE,

Colonial Treasurer.

Hongkong, Oct. 26, 1917,

Golofina

The

Smoke

Try

2240

Perfectos

THE PENANG HARBOUR BOARD.

APPLICATIONS NT Invited for the

position of GENERAL MANAGER of the PENANG HARBOUR BOARD

Applicants should have a thorough. knowledge of all Shipping Matters, ine uding the loading and unloading of curg and cosi, and warcheusing.

Applications, stating salary required. should be addressed to the Local Chair- man Penang Harbour Board, Penang.

Hongkong, Oct. 26, 1917)

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THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE

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INTIMATIONS

THURSDAY, NO

1917.

INTIMATIONS

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MASSAGE.

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Much fun bashrea indulged in

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Bouquets

SOLD EVERYWHERE

the

natues. B: I'defy any Chinemer over fr discover the meaning of a large num- her at signs so proudly displayed by many fereign firm in Shanghai. Notably are

Another calls itself The old laughing. one," presumably at the profits it makes clothes boss is at the dog The great **The old servant, summers" The

stag Handsome in due time "—mat

|expense of those Chinese who put up sis any of them utterly devoid of scase or a hairdressers: We benefit China

in English for this beboot of those who know no Chinese. Though their native names are always sensible, sometimes poetic, und never ende, their descriptican of business. In the English langíngë, are, hilierous in the extreme. Buch errors are exeusable, when we remember that the sign writers and shop owners have never been outside their native land; and have had no opportunities of acquire

raning but some are grotesque and silly in the extreme. Being in China one would have expected such crudities and absurdities" to be easily avoided.."

Some foreign firms have adhted the Chinese custom, viz., withcut any regard for the names of individuals concerned in the business, they have adopted "bong amis which have a meaning, often of very beautiful nature, and never nis

| its English ameng. English-speakinglyuling but theng are too few..."

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this is good news for the stuff sold is soap. Then We hare "Heavenly horse," Horse and the Seu, Horse teaches hers. Horse is bows here," Or," Mr. "South Cate" Eight pulus of profits " there must be several members of the firm: I finished my father's profits." appeals for more for himself: Life is a bubble quite worthy of Tennyson : Loquacious pen "not editor: Palm, hemp, pilis "not doctors: "We hold virtue like clothes "to be changed

at will we suppose.

ho

The pity of it is that the firms who have adopted such unces are quite obl

peoples. It is wonder that they have] The Chinese have a proverb which says picked up so much, and that they love that the two hakiest men are Mr. Profitvious of the mirth thay cause.to all and Mr. Ambition." It is remarkable Chinese, and of the contempt with which |seqüred such useful scraps; and ends.

they are regarded by educated Chinese.. of all kinds, especially for shipbuilding at all. Chines: who have emigrated and that among the names" transliterated by

How came they to adopt such-Indicrous and engineering works. Largest, and others who had local training, display as many "foreign firms, hu Shanghai the and senseless names?

Ask Number best assorted stock in the Colony.

charseter for Untold profit appears One Boy or the compradors." And now remarkable aptitude for mastering other

SINGON & CO, languages theu their own, and they sein inanmerable instates. Take the we all desire to cuplare trade in China.

(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1880),

"KING LUNG ST.

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Does anyone in his senses think that anch | them with grest' facility and seemacy. following our of a nuch larger list, na

names as I have quoted, and there at What of foreigners in Shaughat? They examples, and, remember, they are names dazem more equally absurd, can give any Prosz 616. have an advantage over Chinese who have of foreign firms as they describe thens adequate idea to the Chinaman of the never been outside the confines of their lives in Chinese: "One hundred profits."nature of the business carried on, or gain "We control profits."ay respect for firms which are so lost to own land. irasmuch as they hear the told proßte."

are appreciation of Chinese Tearing | Chinese language spoken dails, and have We make profit

of guests. and eustom as to tarnish themselves i

No wonder the Chinese every chuney of avoiding similar pitfalls " Frosts" are corning." Ve plaz to this fashion?

Our profta sra-good-light And rightly so, And before to those into which Chinese stible who make profity," have never been in England or Americe looking It natural that firms here We sweep the mind. from before our How few foreigners here know Chinese,should it at making profie, for is not And yet many indulge in speers at Chinese that the main object of their business, who attript English. How many of but to declare to all and windry se them are able to understand their own inblushingly this to be their elin is amus

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An ugly scholar," or of a certain awo-

servants or assistants who speak Chinese Jing to Chinese." Just fancy wifirm collination saying that it is All kingdap only? They prefer the vicious lingin itself in English, News. Virtuous foreign runs atriking target company know as pidgid English. Some have a Profita," or "Profits in time of peaces he a certain light-giving company called and Company!-yet we have such in this itself. The spontaneous light house"

howing acquaintance with a few words, such as "man ma "which they think. means "to stop whereas it means y slowly."

I remember as irato Briton sweating at a ricksha. coole, and, fearing some thing worse. I offered my services: 108 interpreter, si Johc: But raved becsline -d fool does not speak a word

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