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LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

AVOPROMISES, Appraisers

AND SURVEYORK.

Public Auctions-

TIRE. Undersigned have received 10. structions from O. D. Wilkinson eq., to all by Public Auction

ON

MONDAY, October 1, 1828, commencing at 11 am.

at bis residenca No. 82 The Peak "The Falle."

The Whole of his Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising:-

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stind, chesterfield couch re, (cretoune covered), curio ok casr, music cabinet, fire Ed tables, teak overmantle od mirror, brass and bronze marble clock, curtains, Tarpsia, rugs, eurics, etc., etc.

Teat extension dining table, chairs, teak side board with borelled Dirror, dinner #oggona, crookery, glasa ware, cutlery, out glass, E. P. wore, table fane, desks, etc., etc.

Double and single teak and iron bodsteads, ak dont la and single wardrobes with glass doora, dressing table, marble top wash stands, chest of drawers, toilet eois, dir, elc.

Cooking store, cooking utensila, plants, faras, garden sea'e, ote.

4180

A Largo Quantity of Blackwond

Waro.

And

One Grend l'ian by John Broad- wood & Son.

Ou View on Day of Sale.

·Catalogo will bo ieued.

Torms --Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneris. Hungkong, 2 September, 1923,"

Undergoed have ILÉDIVOO LUBLINo.

A to sell by Public Auction,

נ!

THURSDAY, October 4, 1023, commencing at 10.30 am.

at the promises of The Hongkong Eteel Foundry Company, Limited

(Shauki who Read.)

The Complete Foundry Plant,

Comprings

and

Melting Furnaces (complete), gealing Faces, Heating Ovens, Cranes, Ding Machines Scrowing Machines Ivr Pipen Bolts, Double Gour Stidha.. Surface Screw Cutting Machine, Plasing: Machine, Fan Hluwer, Overhead sling Flogging Hemmers devils, etc., etc.

Alao

Ons Electric Furuare complete with all equipment and extra Transformer, Office Furniture und Fittings including Drawinga.

And

The Steam Launeta "Peggy." Terms -Cash on delivery.

For Further particulars apply to the undersigned

LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1923, -

PUBLIC AUCTION

The Series ol Auctions at. "KINGSCLERE” Kennedy Road with commenca oa TUESDAY

2nd October 1023

at 11 a.m.

and

WEDNESDAY

3rd October 19:3

at 11 a.m.

The dates of Subas quent Sales will

be announced later.

LAMMERT BROS.

Austinuore

Pongkung, 25th September, 1923.

SANITARY," ENGINERİLƏ

MUNUMENTALISTS

ices and Onslow,

chal itoar, stongkong. Tul. Control®Na, 100

ALL KIND OF BUILDERS' REQUISITES IN БТООК.

| SOIL, VENT AND RAIN WATER PIPES.

GRATES--HANGES-STOVES.

INDICATING HOLIS-LATCHES, HINGES—LOCKS--FINGER PLATER.

OIL AND GAS WATER HEATERS. BANITARY INSTALLATIONS. HOT AND COLDWATER SERVICES,

| MONUMENTAI¿WORKS A SPECIALITY,

IN

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ITALIAN MARBLE NDIOX HONGKONG GRANITE

TO, OWN DESIGN OD FROM SELECTION

ARTIFICAL WREATHS IN STOCK.

BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME.

Flowers beautify and make- attractive the Homo as

bolbing else can do.

FOR SALE.

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE

SEEDS.

GRADA & 00,, Dealers in Garden Seeds, Fostago Stamps Post Cards, Toya, Etc. No. 10, Wyndham Street, P. O. Box 020.

Hongkong.

SHOEMAKERS.

Japanese Hand Made)

Every hind of Footwear. MADE TO ORDER.

CHERRY & CO.,

DAGUILAR STREET,

pposite Kayaŭully & Co. Telephona Central No 491

Hongkong. Blarch 20, 1914.

WHY BUY FOREIGN

MADE SUITCASES,

..

ODDS AND ENDS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,

Henrik Ibsen,

Adventurous Boys.

Universities and Drama.

prow

Three boya, Jack Gilbert, Aaron Coluni University, which Hecker, and Peter Filoal, were has had play writing and charged at Bow-street with being dramatic criticism in the tech- concerned in uttering, a forged nicht. 'courses of its dramatic cheque for £20, drawn in the name department for some time, intends The thesis of "A Doll's House," of Gilbert's father, a tailor. Mr. to include "the art of acting" in its that woman is the enslaved and Judge, prosecuting, said the boys curriculum, so that the whole field man the enslaver, popular as the knew an Italim who told them of the theatre may be covered. reaction against the smug Victorian stories of the son and adventure, Two strong organisations are to man for the sword and for the and they conceived the idea of co-operate with the University in needle she," was utterly opposed going off to America. They were this new work; the Academy of to human experience. The two apparently frightened to ask their Dramatic Arts, the direction of famous lines in the play-"No man parents' permission, and so Gilbert, which includes several of the fore- sacrifices his honour, even for one the youngest, took one of his most American-theatrical he loves," "Hundreds of thousands father's cheques and obtained £20, ducers, and the Columbia Depart of women have done it "are sen- They got as fir as Southampton,ment of Extention Teaching. The timental nonsense, and since Ibsen, but were stopped in the ship by latter is to offer courses Bricus, and Strindberg have the Consul. The magistrate bound students who wish to have specifie emphasised the fact that it is the | the boys over a id placed them on training in the art of the theatre man far more often than the woman | probation::

and courses in the history, litera- who is the intellectual and moral Modern Conveniences.

ture, and theory. of the drama. victim of the domestic life. There

Opportunity will also be given to Nowadays any woman who the student-playwright to see his wants a dress knows that if she has play produced under conditions the money to buy it and pay her practically identical with those of fare to London or the nearest big the professional stage. Simultane- town she is set of fluding someusly comes the announcement of

is, indeed already a revolt against trionphant feminism, and the new ruthless masculinity of which in

for

in Strindbere thing fil to wear one of the big the establishment of two schools

their several ways Mussolini and Lento are the exponents finds its inspiration and not in the Ibsen of "A Doll's House," Ibsen is a great artist, and is therefore more

drapery stores. But it was not al- In the past the mass of women had to depend on that

| ways so.

for opera, one by the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, the other by the American Institute of schools intend to develop actual opera-performing companies, at least one of which will tour the

often concerned, with the eternal untutored and uncertain thing, the Operatic Art at Stony Point. Both

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country, Over-Intimacy,

SATURRAY - SERTEMBER · 29, ~ 1973,

G. FALCONER &CO, CHONGKONG LTD.

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

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Dealers in all kinds of High-class Silk Shirts, Collars, Nocktics and Pyjamas for Gentlemen AND ALSO

Chemises, Skirts, Wraptors, Scarfs, Veile, and Night-gowns for Ladies ALSO MADE TO ORDER MODERATE PRICE

PROMPT DELIVERY Manager: EMILIO LAU

The human soul has its curious LONG HING & CO., Kodeks and Kodak Films, No.

law of attraction and repulsion. One of the traits of the soul is that it resents being crowded. Each life must have its integrity respect- ed. And many a passionate love has been wrecked because of an

seif-respect. In all our intimacy ignorant violation of the soul's We must remember that the other person must have and retain his own independence. You can main- tain the relation of master and slave, but you cannot maintain friendship or affection without mutual respect,

small dressmaker. One remembers than with the ephemeral.

the long, the frequent visits one he once said, character alone that can make us free. And in paid to her with one's mother when "Hedda Gabler" he describes the ghe was a child. One had to select tragedy contrived by a brilliant that were compared to those of to- "styles" fron fashion magazines young woman without faith or conscience. All that neert be said day, incredibly naive; and with on this head is that since the war such styles" what chances for character, co science, and faith an unskilful dressmaker, to go have come to be estimated at bunchily, uncomfortably wrong something like their worth by the No wonder that the women of the modern world. "When We Dead past talked a lot about clothes; but the chances are that their talk was Awaken" WHE written when Ibsen was 70. Artistically a great that it is made out, but rather the not the vain and complacent babble achievement,actually it is a moan, the moan of the artist who at the expression of a ceaseless anxiety. end of a long life, regards his Even when the servants of the past work and finds, it mere Dead Sea Stayed in their places the lot of the housewife cannot have been easy, fruit. Vanitas, vanitas omnia vanitas. To a tragically large Before the days of Mr. Forster's extent, the modern world is in Education Act the servant class was this latest Ibsen mood. And the not adequately civilised. Read dead can only he awakened by the Victorian novelists for convincing grown apart simply because they Thackeray or any other of the Many a married couple have quickening of faith and the spirit,pictures of the frowsty, uncomfort-have seen too much of each other. -SIDNEY DARK in John O' London's able atmosphere of the middle They have not had opportunity Weekly.

class home disturbed by cooks who enough for the "independent de- Intemperate Language,

got belligerently drunk, and house-velopment of each. Above all There is nothing soporific about maids who were imbecile slatterns. things, we should allow the one Pussyfoot" Johnsen, to judge by The servant of to-day may be we love to have his own tastes, his the anecdote he has been telling a nomadic but she is also a cleanly own opinions, his own moral con- Cape Town audience. A stuttering and intelligent human being, and | victions. We should honour them sailor had been taught by his contact with her is not the wearing as we expect our own to be captain to sing what he wished to and alarming thing that contact honoured. Perfect and continued say. One morning he had to ex with the servants of the past must unity depends upon a certain plain that a man had been washed have been.-Rebecca West in the amount of independence. And overboard, and this is how he did Royal Magazine.

when we violate the sanctity of it:

personality and insist on rummag- ing through the depths of another Souf upon every occasion, and- knowing and judging all the secret places of the heart, we may well louk for resentment, -DR. FRANK

Should auld acquaintance ba

forgot

And never brought to mind? The cook's fell overboard,

And he's fourteen miles

behind!

This at a temperance meeting, too! According to the Express, the word which it modestly prints as has never before been used at la public meeting in South Africa. This sounds at tall order. Can it

When we sell Shanghaie that Bernard Shaw's influence Manufactured Suitcases?

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

CHAO CHEUNG TRUNK.CO.

(Opposite Yumati Tony, Prayn)

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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does not extend over South Africa? Cheated.

Life to the childless woman spoke

and saidh,

'Sec, I have spared you anguish,

fear, and loss." ↑

"Ah, but the soft weight of a help-

less head--

My had that--before she faced

the Cross!" Hearing the whisper, wise Life

questioned her;

"What when swali fingers, clut-

ching at your heart, Find strength to tear? Noi frankin-

cense nor myrrh

May heal wide wounds froma

which the red drops start.

"You have not felt that trampling

of feet That, eaver, spura the doorsil

for the wide Upturning road."

"Aye, but the

hurt were sweet,

And I had waited patiently!"

she sighed.

Bending the nearer, Life made low

reply:

f

What of yourman? You have

not shared, but kept

Each other's love, entire."

'You

de not know, as I,

How dear he would have been

with them!" she went.

And Life fell silent, musing on

this thing,

Watching the empty hands and

humbled head,

|

Heuring a voice niost piteously;

Ting

How you have cheated me and

mine" it said.

Faith Baldwin in August Gand

Housekeeping.

New Income-Tax Rules.

|

The Tinance Act, 1923, has been passed, and, now that final effect is given to the much discussed pro- visions, the following points of general importance to taxpayers] CRANE, in Pearson's, may be repeated ---

J.

-Tax is reduced from 5s.10 45. 6d. (reduced rate 2s. 6d. to 25. 3d.) for 1923-24, 2-Inhabited House Duty rates are now od. an values over £90. 6d. over £60, 3d. on and over £30, and under £30,

exempt.

increased.

Preacher Defends Suicide.

was

that a

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Preaching at St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Rev. Basil Bourchier, said there were times when suicide justifiable. deliberate choice of the lesser He spoke of the wrong becoming the actual right.

Better surely," he said, 3-Proceedings for recovery of man should die, even by his own any fiae or penalty may now hand, in honour than that he should be taken within six years of live in disgrace, and that disgrace 1920-21 and following years, not confined to himself, but attach- and certain penalties on ing to his innocent wife and taxpayers and abettors are children. Better ten thousand times that he should disappear 4-Repayment may be claimed rather than тепіан after for three years back on having forfeited the one account of over-assessment essential thing that makes life resulting from error or mis-worth fiving-wonour" Mr. Bour- tike in the return or state chier said that he personally thought it sometimes lawful to 5.-The annual value of property curtail life. There was farioo much may be appealed against in sentimentalism about. With re- any year where a reduction spect to the Coroner at Durham, takes place in the rent or capital punishment had proved it- value. 6--The new property valuation demanded a life. The specious self to be a great deterrent. A life may be appealed against plea that a man should be given until April 5. 1925, where no years of time to make peace with notice of assessment was his Creator carried no weight, since delivered. 7. The allowances for repairs to being merely transition from one it was perfectly obvious that, death property are substantially consciousness to another, the hang- increased.

Excellent Cuisine: ing of a man did not really take 8-Additional-assessments may This life.

ment.

now be made for six years from 1920-21 and later years, but for three years only ia cases of deceased persons' estates, -

9-Caims for general repay- ment may be made within six years of 1920-21 and Sub- sequent years: ia cert úja specific cases within one year of the assessment year, 10-Pubic servants resident

abroad, if binty as a resi- de 1 here arises, must suffer tix on emoluments, pensions and annuities.

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