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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1921.

Hughes & Hough

“AUTIONEERE” TO THE GOVERNMENT

AND ADMIRALTY,

Coxl Contractors General Brokers.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS

95 WORDS & INSERTIONS, $1. PREPAID. –Evory 'additional word & Cents-

for. 8 haustioño.

TO LET.

–PUBLIC AUCTIONS TO LEP-FLOORS in the new Bank Building, 4 Des Voeux Road Central. Apply to The Hongkong T Undersigned have recaron inssino-Land-Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.

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Mona to sail by Publia Auction.

(For Account of the Concerned,}

ON

THURSDAY,

December 22, 1921, at 2.30 p.m., at their Bales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice Houso Stroot,

Valuable Jewellery,

Comprising:

Single Stone Diamond Rings, Ear- ringe, Brooches, Diamond Cluster Rings, Bracelets, Gold and Silver Orna- ments, Pearls,

B00..

&a..

kc., Terma --Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong,, December 16, 1921.

(Por Account of the Concerned),

ON

THURSDAY,

December 22, 1921, at 2,30 p.m., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of

Ice House Streck,

A Valuable Selection of

Jewellery, Comprising:-

Diamond and Gom Brooches, Neck- let, Bracelets, Ringe and other Crna- -ments. An opportunity for suitable

Xmas Gifts,

Terme :---Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & BOUGH,

Auctioneers.

(For account of the Concurred.)

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FRIDAY,

December 23, 1921, at 2.30 p.m., of their Balas Room", No. 8, DES Vaux ROAD, Corass of Too House Street,

MISCELLANEOUS SALE,

Fancy Good?.

Térmx-Cash on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.

Hongkong, Decomber 14, 1921:

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE. One Oldsmobile Sevca

6

Seater alotor Car, brand new,

Cly Hudson wire wheels two apare

INTIMATIONS.

BRITISH LEGION.

HONGKONG & CHINA BRANCH.

AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL

MEETING will be held at the City Hall, TO-DAY (WEDNESDAY), 21st December, 1921, as 5.15 p.n. with the following objects --

1. To accept the Constitution of the

"British Legion." 2. To confirm the existing Rules of the Branch, except in so far as the ion, pending the adoption of Bye Laws to be drawn up by the General Committee and submitted to a General Meeting. ·

samo conflict with the Constitut-

3. To appoint Anditors.

By order of the General Committee."

H. K. HOLMES.

Hon. Secretary,

Hongkong, December 15, 1921.

POLO MATCH.

LT-COL JR. WYNDHA, Reginent T-COL JR. WYNDHAM and the

will be "At Hume" to their friends on the Polo Ground, Causeway Bay, at |4.p.m. THURSDAY, December 2nd, when the final for the K.O.Y.L.I. Cuo will be played. CIVILIANS v. .THE ARMY. The Regimental Band will play selections during the afternoon,

RACE WEEK.

A FANCY DRESS BALL

in aid of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

MONDAY, Feb. 20tà, 1922, ut 9.15. At the

Tickets

CITY HALL.

3. Booking at Moutris's. $1 oe for non fancy dress will be collected at the door.

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2 Lucky number Prises for those in Fancy Dress.

Hongkong, December 19, 1921.

NOTICE.

bebeers and complete Equipment WE have this day REMOVED our

in thoroughly and runing condition. For price & particulars apply

HÚCARS & HOUGH,

Auctioneers.

MARTIN'S APIOL &STEEL REFILLS

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THE CHINA MAIL

GLANDS DECIDE WHETHER able." We are indebted to an active followed in the wake of chemical dis

YOU ARE A CRIMINAL

thyroid for Shelley's lyric master-covery, then indeed men shall be as

OR A GENIUS,

NEW HOPE FOR RACE IN STUDY OF BECRETIONS THAT CONTROL PERSONALITY, SAYS" BIOLOGIST.

pieces.

goda.

Caesar was not the kind of great Closer at hand are the results to be man that Darwin was, but only a achieved in the realms of vocational muddled careeriat, because he had too education, public health and crim- much adrenal and post pituitary." inology from researches and experi The careers 1

is the curse of modern menta with the all-powerful glanda, life, the man who seeks his own ad The old hopeless saying, “You vancement at any cost. instead of can't change human nature," devoting his abilities, to the common will soon take its place among The old line, "I can tell your for good; as for the female form, the the discarded bogies that have tune by looking in your hand," is careeristina," "consider the unim stood in the way of human changed by modern science into "Iportance of a collective purpose to the advancement, if all that Dr. Bermonn woman whose career is a mate, and hopes from further study of the can tell your fortune by looking at then the male's career!"

lands of internal secretion is true your gland,” according to Dr. Louis The traditional womanly woman, "When man comes to realize himself: Berman, who explains the individuali- who always marries the hero in as a chemical machine that can, with ties of those peregrinating chemical stories, sullers from a post-pituitary in limits, be remodeled, overhauled mixtures, men and wouieu," in "The oxcess, while the most advanced type and repaired, the era of the first real of modern feminist heroine is an civilization will properly be said to Glands Regulating Personality," pub adrenal type. "Nowadays these be born.” lished by The Macmillan Company, women are striding forward and will Instead of focussing on the down- New York.

attain a good many of the masculins fall of civilization, the decay of the heights, commanding responsible ex-race, as so many comtemporary An adrenal type will probably be the looks upon the work that is already ecutive positions and high salaries, scientists are doing, Dr. Berman first woman President of the United being done in the physiology of in- States."

ternal secretions as the forecast of a new utopia-a-utopia, not of dreams, but of science.

These little ductless glands that look so unimportant are in reality at the basis of personality, creating genius and dullard, weakling and giant, cavalier and Puritan." Given This theory of that the shape and the formula that shows the relative action of both body and mind depend activity of a man's glande, and."one on the internal secretions "inspires may predict within limits his physical of his life, diseases, tastes, idio and psychic makeup, the general lines syncrasies and habits," and even bis future may be outlined.

"The internal secretions," he con- the hope of a hitherto inconceivable el des, "are the most hopeful and the future. When geniuses can be yet come upon by the human mind. controlling power over human life in promising of the reagents for control made and unmade by doses of gland They open up limitless prospects for extract, when chemical control has the improvement of the race."

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December 20th, 1921.

Genius, an infinite capacity for taking pains? Not a bit of it! Without a congenitally superior pituitary" and an active thyroid, no amount of pains will land you above mediocrity. Was Napoleon a "Man of destiny?" "Given the kind of pituitary he possessed, plus a remarkable thyroid and adrenal, plus the military educa- tion he had, and the character of the revolution into which he was plunged, of Stelon-Mef Lacy Pa.... th. 201 and we have the conditions out of

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on the 1st October, 1921

GETT AND HILL DISTRICT WATKE WORKI

1920,

LEVIIM

1927.

Tyssmu, Below: 4ft. 7 in. Below orezdow

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in. Below overflow i

Tyler Loterdinta

Laval with orordow

eft.In, Above overflow

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32

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(almond iced and prettily decorated) from $2.49 each,

CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS

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DUNDEE CAKES

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MINCED PIES $1.20 per dozen

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and a large variety of beautiful

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1923.

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12.88 106.07 1,410,00

3.21

100.70

MILK

1,418.00

20.21

2641

13.06

2,093.46

7,030,20

Consumption of water to the City HDtrict in millions and decimale.

of gallons during the month of September.

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