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FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1925.

RELINQUISHING BUSINESS

MADAME LILY,

begs to announce to the ladies of Hong- kong & Outports, that owing'. ill-health, she is closing her business.

She will therefore dispose of the whole of her valuable stock in every department at enormous reductions, including fixtures.

The SALE will commence on MONDAY, 15th JUNE, and an early inspection is invited.

The business of the Dressmaking Department will be permanently carried on as heretofore.

PRINCE'S WRIST.

HOW IT WAS SURMINED.

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AULD ROBIN GRAY "

CENTENARY OF LADY ANNE BARNARD,

WOMAN'S PLACE:

THE RULER OF THE HOME.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NOVELIST AND MEN'S SKIRTS.

Lincoln's

SCOTTISH STORIES.

HOW A SICK MAN WAS CURED,

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An old carter in a' tertain rure fund of village had eloquence, and the children used to gather round him for the sheer delight of hearing his lurid language.

Mr. William Harvey; F.S.A. Scot, gave a talk from Dundee Is woman's place the home? Wireless Station and told many This question was debated by-good Scottish stories. Miss Rebecca West, the novelist, and Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, M.P. (Con., Oldham), at the London School of Economics, Clare-marker,

Ina-fields, So con troversial was the reasoning that people who had gone to help the King Edward's Hospital Fund-in One day Jamie was driving a sid of which the debate had been'cart of sand up a very steep hill, arranged-went away debating when some mischievous bairns, I the question themselves.

seeing their opportunity. slipped Miss West declared that men up behind, knocked the tailboard are in some ways becoming more out of the cart, and then,, taking like women, and added:

a near road, reached the top of the hill to hear what Jamie would say when he arrived there.

I have known men, quite often, so feminine that they wanted to wear the skirt, but i

When the cart got to the top have never come across a woman Jamie drew rein, filled his pipe. who wanted to wear two skirt- which is practically what the and then sauntered round the Oxford trousers art.

(Loud cart to see that everything was in laughter.)

order. When he got to the back, and beheld what had taken place, his eyes passed from the empty cart to the expectant children, and he said, "Run awa' home, laddies; run awa' hame. I'm no equal to the occasion."

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LAKE DRYING UP.

Nearly 300 years ago the village of Autronsplans, in the Saas valley, on the Italo-Swiss frontier WAS carried away by a landslide, all; the inhabitants being killed.

The lake which formed. aftre warda began to subside a few weeks ago, and homes sub- merged since 1643 are now clearly visible,

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In past ages men did a great deal of useful work and showed Initiative and. courage. But man's present-day sense is at war with his primitive sense, and he has become excitable and hysterical. (Laughter.) A workman went home feeling. E

If men want to go back to the very far from well, and his wife Hr. and Mrs W. R.Mr & Mrs O. B. J. home we should be sympathetic.bundled him into bed and sent for Farm r Men have been running the the doctor. After an examina-Mr F. W: Fockend E. B. Popa world for centuries, but woman is tion, the doctor told the wife Montious ignettamir Issac Poppo Been to be a more satisfactory that her husband was very ill,

Mr and Mrs A.B.A. Mas M. Paties article. : (Laughter.)

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Mr C. C. Punirt Kra E. Pym and instructed her to take his Mr Brank intimating that he would be back, temperature during the night, Mr and Ms P. D. Mrs Pysut

Mr T. Carr RamUAY Hr G,Olayton GallopMr and Mrs E. Dr. . D. R. Gawia Roantelo day, expecting to sign the man's Kiss A. Grimm Mr Joseph Batohy When the doctor returned next. & Mr. J. Gould Ms. A. B. How

Mr and Mrs W. death certificate, Macdonald was Capt. T. P. Hall sitting up in bed smoking a short. Schofield

Mr D. Hasted 'Sher· cutty pipe, and belching forth M.G. A. Harriman man great cloņis of black smoke,

A. H. Hasland Capt. I. Skquiland "Dear me," said the doctor, |

Mrt, R. Hollman Miss F. M. nugge "this is a very wonderful

E. Holmes Mr R. W. E. 1. rea HERE

Dr. H. 7. Bolwers Mr A.

Mis R. Sparke

Wille South Allies becWate # A hundred years ago (ón May 6) math excoloured stion? Rarin died Lady Anne Baraard, the authoress of the Scottish ballad, Competition there

Mr. Cooper said that if the betweAuld Robin Gray." She was a wearing of two skirts were given mirođity of whites "und an daughter of James Lindsay, fifth as proof of femininity one had Earl of Balcarres, and was born on only to remember the hobble skirt, ereasingly majority of blocks in the issue December 8, 1750. When she was which almost prevented women

forty-three she married Mr. Andrew from walking at all. apperst in the minds-ut, its Barnard, a son of the Bishop of Women's function was that of Limerick, and accompanied her rearing children. Were women husband to South Africa in 1793, ashamed of that natural function? when he was appointed secretary It was a tremendous thing for her to the colony of the Cape of Good to see that the Hope under Lord Macartney properly cooked. Woman

in the morning. demonstrative fourfold

habiinuts.

.

The question forced itself upon the Price's notice, for his route at Simonstown Jed ou! Urongh Number Six district," the colour. d quarter of Capetown.

meals

were

Was:

Returning to England in 1803, she ruler of the kitchen as of thecovery. What have you done to Me Songs

on May 6, 1825, at the age of art of entertaining in the drawing- realded in London until her death nursery, and also displayed the seventy-five.

Lady Anne Lindsay Was a

one

room.

The home was the foundation of

There had been official misgivings alumt his driving through its na row streets, for Conumurusai is stip posed to be widespread among its in-vivacious young woman of twenty of our civilisation, the bulwark Iubitants. But they had nothing far the friendliest cheers for the Prince as he passed slowly thoongh the dense double ranks of fuc of every shade from lampsbhek to

lky-t.ca.

Thousands of ecloured school hildren Ened the bad. The blem of their future employms without displacing the white mus Fram 1h, skilled munstries of the Pantry, as sang of the most diffie tre Semih Atria

Though the charming residential į

famous ballad in the ancestral hall when she composed her of the Lindsays, old Balcarres House, near Colinsburgh, in the East of Fife. The ballad was written to suit un ancient Scottish melody of which Lady Anne was very fond; but soon after its publication a new air for it was composed by an English clergy- man, the Rev. Mr. Leaves, rector of Wrington, Somersetshire. It is to the English tune that the ballad has been mostly sung.

1. With of Wyabeg and "Muizen- The secret of the authorship was Fog, past Con Rhodes's private kept for more than half a century. Zen, Which stands in the open air Lady Anne revealed it only in The Badside this lions 1823 in a letter to Sir Walter Scott. 1 tail almost in the footpath in the year of Lady Anno's death,

Pinnai Surastown and there went ab the training hip General etten, who Dutels boys from the le, wito never saw the sen till they joined her, an trained for the

Mercantile Marine.

which threaten-and what was against the menacing things home.if deprived of its dominating influence and presiding deity, the mother and the wife?"

GIRL'S DEATH.

CORONER'S QUESTIONS TO FATHER.

DENIALS OF CRUELTY.

At an inquest at Westminster on Ellen Jackson, 13, who was found drowned in the Thames, James

him?"

"Weel, sir." explained the wife, "you telled me to tak his tem-

mometer, but the wife up the perature. We dinna in'e a ther-

gied me a len' o' it. I put it on stair has a barometer and she his breest just below the blankets, and when I looked at it in aboot ten minutes the lang hand was pointin' to 'Very dry, so I just gied him twa, gless o' whusky and a bottle of beer-and there he is." An old Scot called upon the local Registrar one afternoon and said he wished to register the death of his wife,"

"I'm sorry to hear that; I didn't know that Mrs. Robertson was ill. When did she die?" said the Registrar.

"Oh, she's no deed yet," ex- plained the husband.

"But you can't register a death was the reply.

"Can you 'no' querled the man. "Man, I'm sorry aboot that. I'll be busy the morn, and thocht if I could have dune it this afternoon it would save time.

the Pain motored to the naval Sir Walter Scott editedɛthe ballad Tackson, the father, a steel worker, before it takes place,"

for the Bannatyne Club, with of Latchmere-grove, Battersea, sald several additions, which, however, his wife died on March 6, and are pour. Lady Anne herself had since then the girl had been written two additions to the "trying to run the house. There original version.

were four other children at home. Ellen had been going to school every day and the children had their meals at a relative's house.

The Coroner (Mr. Oddie): Can you explain why this girl should drown-herself? No, except worry- There was something else for her to worry about, wasn't there?-

inn fannel it

Al Admiralty

After lunging from uniform Hause, the Prince appeared at the wires in the afternoon with his padre---lordaged. He strained-

Lady Anne wrote other poems, none of which are remembered, and some of her prose la preserve

the pages of The Lives of the Lindsays."

i playing squash ricgnets the Repulse, and all the handshaking That girl was an enrapted I smacked her because she had of the past two days has made it that presented him with her only a few shillings left out of £3 painful. To-day he is using his legal as a venir, which theor £4 I had given her. She had and only for greetings."

Prie geively accepted. During drive it Constantia

paid the rent and 12s. 6d. for the To spite of the crowded nature children's food. Nok a pitoresque sat on the jar i engagements, the Prince amtains, the Prince of Wales tend time to call on tengral Sir have hit her?-Never before that, It was not the only time you nored a tiny girl who was hugging henry Lakin, who commanded a

y rabbit and cheering him Suth African Infantry Brigade in You have thrashed her frequently That is not my information. vociferously.

Egypt and France, who is lying and without sufficient cause-No. seriously ill at his residence near Did you ever threaten to kill the Kenilworth mcecourse.

hor 7----No.

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The Prince stopped the var and placed the child upon his knee.

WOMAN. GOVERNOR PARDONS' HUSBAND.

& VIRETTORE, AL

"Ma Ferguson will pardon la Farguson! This message from Texas Indicates that Mr Mirium Ferguson, the weman: Governor of Texas, will support legislation granting a full amnesty to her husband, who was onstad. from the office of Governor some years ago on Impeachment proceedings charging him with malversation of public funds. The question of the validity of the contested in both Houses of the Texas Legislature but the chances | propemed impešty will he are that Mrs, Forguson will win the seven year fight to free her kaband's name from the stigma hitaching 10% Governor, Judging from the despatches, seems to be almost a

it, albait the former influential with his wife Governor as when he himself-held thu reins of the State Executire. Mr. Ferguson himself always alleged that he was the victim of political unscrupulouspoes. Both the are bitter enemies of the Ku-Klux-Klan, and to that

For on the husband attributed the failure of his campaign,tol

enter the race for the Presidency of the United States on the Tezas, Repablican-ticket This was two years after he had been removed from once and Texas had, refused to re-elect him: Governors

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*Bridger Mr J. D. Lord. Didn't you flog her on Thursday answered cheerfully. Ob. not at Capt. Mr J. D. Logar the day before she disappeared?all, so long as an hear the -No.

I am told that you used to knock your wife about. What do you say to that That is a direct lie.

Jackson said that he only hit the girl with his at hand on the face. ..

The Coroner: Why did you do that? She had already got enough trouble, having lost her mother and being left at the age of thirteen in charge of the house hold, Wasn't it a brutal thing to do? She ta dead now, you know, and that is the cause of it. That will do.

Sergt. Nichols, the coroner's officer, said he was informed that before his wife died Jackson was a confirmed wife boater and a very heavy drinker; that on one occasion, whan the father had threatened to kill all the children, the "girl said she would-drown-berwalf, and akuz few days before her death, when her father was abouting and raving, the girl appeared obviously terrorised.

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