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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, ÅFFRAIRIES

AND SURVEYORK,

-Public Auctions—

MIX Vodernlgued have received issirao- Mone to hell by Pablle auction,

03.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 9, 1922,

at 11 am.

at the Taikoo Dockyard

(40% ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED), ex a.s. "Chiro Maru"

3 Boilers

dimensions:--

Diameter over all

10' 2"

Length

11' 8"

weight about 55 tone

Form: Cash on delivery.

Inspection orders on application to

LAMMERT BROS,,

Auctioneers.

Hongkong, July 29, 1022.

CORSICA.

INTIMATIONS

JUST RECEIVED

SUTTON'S Special Collection of

VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS

arranged for HONGKONG

nt 810, 25, 85 and $3 per tin.

GRACA & Co.,

1

Dealers in Garden Seeds, Postage Stampa, Artistic Post Cards, Toro, &c.

No. 10, Wyndham Street, P: O. Box 620, ·· Hongkong

SHOEMAKERS.

(Japanese Hand Made)

Evory kind of FootwoAX, MADE TO ORDER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE CIGARETTE

OF DISTINCTION

ACKNOWLEDGED BY "THB CON. NOISSEUR TO STAND ALONE FOR PURITY AND CHARM OF FLAVOUR

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4; 1822

NOTICES.

G. FALCONER & CO., LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS.

Hotel MansiorS

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, BENSON'S ENGLISH WATCHES,

ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery,

KAM HING KNITTING COMPANY.

σε

Manufacturers of:-

Socks, Singlets, Jerseys, Sweaters, etc.

24, Haiphong Road, Kowloon,

Telephone K £77. Manager. WONO KAM FUK.

AN OLD WORLD MEDITER- RANEAN ISLAND.

Why is it that so few out of the majority of tourists who go suaually to the Riviera visit Corsica ? aske a home paper. Perhaps they view with dismay the eight or nine bours' sea voyage from Nice. It can be mostj unpleasant sometimes. Possibly they imagine that there is still a certain scjourn nmount of dauger involved in a

in this beautiful island. As a matter of fact, Corsica is far safer than many Tourists places on the Continent. need have no feat of brigands" nor bandita." Such bandits" as there are so entirely through force of circumstances brought about by an affair of bonour. Frequently pedestrians while exploring the forests and mountain paths of Corsica Eave had unknowingly as a guide or companion one of these heroes of the Corsican Maquis." They would du-to-molest-or-rob-anyone. There are no thieves in the island,

SOLICITURE FOR VISITORS,

Should you lose your own way in a forest or mountain paes and nek to be put on the right track, a Corsican will go with you for miles for fear leat you should miss the road or misunder. atand bis directions, expecting nothing in return but your thauke and gratitude. The streets in the old quarters of Corsican towns are tortu- ous, narrow, and dark, paved with huge slabs of stone. Flights of stove stairways, warn smooth with age. lead from one alley to another. The quain architecture of the dwellings is chiefly Genome.

in

During the morning the natives ply their various trades sitting in the open doorways, while the women pture the middar meal, or make their way to the market where the j Pants from the mountain vlinges congregate each morning, bringing fruit vegetables, poultry, not game in gesint casts drawn by mules or

ented with musicnf bills. The Women's head dress picturesque consisting of a shawl worn over the bend and reminding one of the Snatch and Lancashire lassies. Every th`eg is carried on the head, water- pote, baskets, and so forth. Many of the peasants from the outlying dis tricts ride to market on maleback. the wife sitting behind. The fisherleik in the coastal towns bring op derp baskets of freshly-caught fiel.which may be purchased for a mere trifle.

ROMANCE NOT YET DEAD.

The inbabitants of the old parts of Corsican towns go early to bed, and as 20 us night falls the streets are de. | merted, and silence reigns, eave for the footfall of a late passer by or the sing- ing of a Condesa love song, accom- panied on the guitar by an amorous ewala serenading his lady-love-for romance is not yet dead in thia wonderful island.

The men are a fine, sturdy race, proud of their island descent and ancient traditions. Their hospitality | is proverbial. They will give you of thair best, a night's lodging the choicest wins, Corsican fare, and the- warmest of welcomes. They are polite. with old-world courtesy and ecru pulously houcet. Trent then as equals and never refuse what they offer you. Above all refrain from patting them in a false position by offering payment. Send themi a 2204]} priest na a token of gratitude and friendship when you reach home, and it will be treasured by these simple folk in memory of your visit.

TEETHING CHILDREN. Tothing children have more or less disrrh ws, which can be controlled by giving Chamberlai's Colic and Diar iches Remedy. All that is necessary fa "to give the prescribed dose after euzli operation of the bowels are thin natural and they can or nil to e'nanse the system. I info and stre the must sororu an ) clanzaroun casos ar qyłekly muted by it. For sale by ald Chems is aud-ztoroko;pers,

CHERRY & CO.,

6. D'AQUILAR STREET.

Opposita Kayamally & Co. Telephone No. 491

Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

N. AKAJI, Graduate of Tokio Massage School, From 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. No. 2, Queen's Joad Central, 2nd Floor.

MASSAGE.

Mrs. HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI and R. SHIMIDZU, No. 24. Wyndham Street. (opposite to the "Chlo■ Mai")

SWAY HOUSE

HAT MAKER,

No. 16, Wyndham Street.

TANG YUX, DISZISS. Soccer M the lake BIEN TING,

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19, Wyndham Street.

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PHOTO SUPPLIES,

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DEVELOPING & PRINTING A SPECIALITY.

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SIDE-FACE SECRETS,

WHAT THE PROFILE SHOWS.

A apreislist in profiles is a discon certing person to talk with (says a writer, in a home paper). He has

WHAT JAPAN READS.

KOBE LIBRARY STATISTICS.

During lay last the Kobe Municipal Library recorded 15.429 visitors, of whom only 327 were

LETTERS TO A WIFE.

HOW A HUSBAND WAS "GIVEN AWAY."

"I do not know whether you are Mrs. Morley, but

if you are,

such a terrifying facility for discern- ladies. showing a percentage of 4.8. As I think you ought to know I stayed

ing eecret thoughts and reading tem-

peraments.

"The profile shows the permaneut expression which personality stamps

upon a woman's face when she is off guard,"

the physiognomist Bay. When you are studying a woman's proble you are studying Ler real self. You see her, not as she would like you to see her, perhaps, but as she really ia."

This deadly proficiency in character reading would not be so alarming it the experts bad as keen an eye for virtues as they have for vices. It ie our faults that fascinate. One wo man's profile, they tell us, is a zen- suous one, her lips being too full and ber nostrils too much inflated to

inspire confidence.

The envious person has a repellent profile. Thin lipe drooping at the

compared with the previous year,

there was an increase of 5,551 visitors, which is mainly atributable to the enlarged power of accommodation. The following are the classified average

daily numbers of books used:- Dictionaries

Religion, Philosophy, and Educa

tion..

Literature and Languages. Geography, History and Bio. Politics, Law, Economy, Finance,

graphy

Mathematics, Physina and Medi-

Sociology and Statistics.

cino..

Military, Naval and Engineering Arts

Industry

Traffic and Commerce Juvenils...

82

with Mr. Morfey at Chard. I should pot have sulten to you, but I really could not stand seeing him with another. Sorry to upset you if you

are really his wife,"

This, said Mr. Stern, appearing for! Mrs. Morfey at Stratford in a sum Tecna against her husband, Fred 78 Morfey, a commercial traveller, des 408 eribed as of the Richmond Hotel,

Exeter, for desertion, was a letter, 81 signed "Amy Heara," which she received soon after she returned from 71 Exeler, where she had been staying

with him.

74

42 Harrison," said that the writer bad Another letter, signed "Rose stayed with the defendant at Exeter 20 and Uracombe.

35

39

The above figures show 35 per cent.

Mr. Stern added that the wife 227 showed the letters to her husband, and he denied the truth of them. In October, 1919, he went away as usual, and sent his wife money until February last, when the allowance ceased. The defendant then wrote that he had no intention of resuming cohabitation with his wife.

corners, compressed nostrils, and aa of literary readings and only 6 per ineradicable sneer betray the possent, of Finance, Economy, Politics, cussion of that anlovely trait, Law, Sociology and Housekeeping.

The percentage of industry (closely connected with the development of Kobe) does not exceed one per cent.

The profile of a discontented, melancholy woman is more difficult to read, for the reason that it is different on the opposite sides of the

The Library authorities consider face. One eyelid is lifted higher than this tendency very deplorable, and the other, one side of the mouth is hope to find a means of getting drawn down lower-even the noce is visitors to make better use of the uneven, as though malformed by Library. Considering, however, that copatant sniffing.

the literature," which is officially

The Bench made an order for the

defendant to pay £2 a week.

BABY'S BATTLES FOR HEALTH.

And The Help Which Mothers Can Give.

No mother can expect that her child.

Every pradent mother will keep

The profile of a mercenary woman considered frivolous and indicating a gives the expert considerable un-want of serious thought and basineES casiness. It is a peculiar profile. The ambition, also means a great deal of lips are tightly pressed together, with study of foreign languages, the will escape all the illa to which babyhood the upper lip drawn down to an Library authorities would not appear and childhood are subject, but she can extraordinary length, the eyes are to have very much to complain of. to make baby's battles for health easily do much to mitigate their severity, and partly clored and the forebend is The "literature" presumably include woo. wrinkled between the eyes. Thers novels also but where is a public can be little toftners left in the heart library to be found which does not of a woman

who has seguined give out an overwhelming proportion mercenary profile.

of novels i Then there is the stupid profile. The are shilty and the cheeke sunken, as though etretched over parted teeth. The stupid profile may be pretty but it is never attractive.

The best of all profiles i. the pose Madonna type. The Madouro face

ayes

.DOSE

constantly at hand he means of aiding bor little ones, when emergencies arise. In every house where there are infants and young children Baby's Own Tabluts should be found, for theas Tablets are mother's ever ready bolp and baby's friend.

thorough but gentle. They care infantile The action of Baby's Own Tablets is indigestion, colio and constipation, check and colds, allay teathing pains, erpel diarrhoes, reduce fever, relieve aroup worme, quiet the nervos, quickly bring boath-giving sleep in a natural way. Are guaranteed sbsolutely harmless oven

More important than the mouth in profil sending is the nose. A that relatively late, is well develo- ped about the red projects bas eyes over which the lids partly ownwards over ibelip, and has the fall, though not spiciently to veil middle partition exiting below the to the youngest infant. Your chemist their straightforward gaze; it has full ridea of the nosttils indicatie a bold, sells Faby's en Tablets, or post free at lips that do not part, an oval chin, original jpgericus mind. The form 60 cents per vial, from Dr. Williams i and outline decide want direction the Medicine Co. 80 szechuss Road, In studying prales should be mental puwersake

Stangkai. remembered bat a big mouth in the Ong good ngabou profles is sign of a good-isposition. tis from that toy armor what they cught Very small mouths that plleful words to they cen Ee improv d. The

and level brows.

KEEP IT HANDY,

sad cynicians area, to issue. The profile not uxalterable, but it is. Immediate reef is necessary in wide monthed woman who show Lor surceptible tormfatal and moralintiseks of darilo a lamberlain's

1 olies and shoes Remedy abould

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LEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS

Peak Hotel

Hongkong Hote!

Repulse Bay Hotel

Astor House Hotel

Palace Hotel

Grand Hotel Kalee Grand Hotel des Wagon Lits

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In conjunction with

The Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

Bod

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(Two minutes from Star Ferry),

PALACE HOTEL

KOWLOON

Recently renovated and reformlabad, slectrio light and fans throngkonk and entirely under now management. Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietor. Bar and Billiard Rooms Terms inoderate. Spsolal bermut, to families on application to

Telephone K. J. Telegraphio Add.: "PALAUT."

J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietor,

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AMERICA CO., LTD.

Cafe and Dining Rooms.

(90 and 32 Des Yeux Road, Central.) Confectioners, Bakers, and General Caterers.

Weddings, picnics and other

partice

Wedding, Birthday and other cakes made to order. Ships supplied especially catered for by arrangement.

HOTEL

66

ASIA”

WEST BUND, CANTON.

Leading Hotel in South China

First class Accommodation. Electrio Lights, Fane 23 Elevators.

Hairdressing Saloon,

Roof Garden.

Splendid Views

Excellent Cuisine.

of City and Pearl River,

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KING EDWARD HOTEL

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Central.

NEW MACAO

HOTEL- -M*the comferta of a hamna, combined with moderate prizes. Beautifully alinated facing the son opto-date Hotel, Large and Comfortable Hooza, Krak Jest Unisima under. Experiansed, Bopervlatan, Beperste till, Flot, Cold and shower Bathr Electric Light throughout. Pubile and Priesto Hard Dildsed Boom, Mast Clasa sorocam

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rbalment.

Chemists and Blockrepens,

L. W. MAN, Menggo

SHUN TAI HONG

SILE,

Dealer In SHANTUNG -PONGEE

Lace and Straw Braid. Gintang, Door's Horns sta No. 70, Lower Lascar Row Telephone No. 887, Hongkong.

HWA LEE & 00. Shanghai and abantung Hand Made Laso, Hair Näta Embroideries, Eco,

No. 70 Lower Lescar Row, Tel. 862

YAN

KEE.

7 Tit Hong Lane, Entrance from Jubilen Street. Coal Contractors for the Household.

Tel. 3828.

YEE SING.

GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR

13, Wellington Street.