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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1925.

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

A VOTIONEERR, "APTRAINERS AND SURVEYORS,

Public Auctions

18E Undersigned havo received in-

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TUESDAY, 23rd June, 1995, anmmonoing at 2,45′ p.m. at No. 9, Broadwood Road

A Quantity of

Valuable Household Furniture. Comprising:-

Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Book Cason, Fire Brasses, Brass Ornaments, Bugs, Curios, etc., atou

Dinner

Tenk Extension Dining Table, Dining Chairs, Tesk Sideboard, Waggon, etc, eta,

Toak and Iron Single" and Doablo Bodatonda, Tok Drable and Single Wardrobes with Bavelled Mirror Doors, Dressing Tables, Marble Top Washaland, Tosk Chest of Dewars, Tables, Chairs, etc., ato.,

And

A Few Plocas of Blackwood Ware

+180

Fine Brussels Carpet "

Dinner Set

Glass Cabinet

Set of Table Unas-Ware

Fine ice Obest

Catalogure will be issued

On Vio from Sunday, the 2let

June 1925.

Terma-Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

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Districts during April 1914,

Intermittent Supply in Rider Main

SANITARY ENGINEERJ

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Hongkong.

Modora Sanitary Earthenware and

Bathroom Fittings.

Domestic Boilers and RadiasoTE,

Band and Electrically Drivez Pampe. "Instantaneous and Automatic Gan Water Heaters.

Tiles of every description.

JUST RECEIVED BRIGHT & SON'S

A, B, C. CATALOGUE

13th EDITION.

CONTINENT OF EUROPE AND ITS COLONIES.

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ODDS AND ENDS

Princess Mary in Town.

Bootleggers' Desperate Tactics. Aberdeen, submitted a new reading Princess Mary is passionately fond

A desperate fight is being carried and an analysis" of the ogam in of flowers, and looks upon them as on by the American bootleggers siption appearing on this stone. the greatest beautifiers to a room against the new prohibition navy, The inscription consisted of four **(3078

the London Evening and as the result of mbotage, words, which were divisible into two Nowa." Since he arrived at her and threats the coastguard feet in parts, one the name of a man, and town house the Princess has bad reporting daily the loan of vessels, the other a phrase of description, big pots of white, crimson, rose, crows kidnapped, assaulted, or kill Mr. Dinck suggested that theme salmon, and pink streaked with ed. The prohibition headquarters should be translated an “Ávuo white azaleas placed, ach an at Washington is Gooded with com- Anunno, Soothsayer of Dovenice different table, in her drawing-plante, indicating that the mug. That it belonged to the pagan period room, and the effect is most charm-glers are conducting guerilla war was ovident, as monument to a ing, as may be imagined. The fare on land against the coastguard soothsayer would not be erected Princess has her good taste in mak-patrol by boring holes in the after the introduction of Ohris ing rooms pretty by right of here-ramchasers hulls, sinking them in tianity, It could be inferred that dify, for both her mother, the their docka, disabling the motors Dogion was at least some local Quem and her grandmother, with sand, and tinentening or chief and that if we probably he Queen Alexandru, are adepts in the bribing the crews. New York boot himself who enues this monument art. The Queen prefera, the old leggers culmly admit that there has to be set up over his soothsayer.. pieces of furniture set in stately bem a decline in input of whisky Table Centres. Hurroundings, and she chooses her during the last few days, and they lours to tell their own story, advancing prices accordingly, Queen Alexandra, on the other but they confidently hit a lile Ind, believes in the brightest rough weather at sen which will colours, and if possible only three or caller the patrol and permit the four in conjunction. White, green, dating runrunners to replenish the and carnation pink mingled together supplies ashore, she prefers to all others. To har morise with the colours in her draperies and furniture she chooses

French Fashions for Men,

That Edwardian abomination the table centre scems to be creep- ing back to favour, but in very much improved guise (says the "Weekly Dispatch.") Soft sea green tulle clustered: about a valu- able antique mirror 'laid on ita` back raised on claw feet on one On a polished dinner table. mahogany board a line of old

If the Parisienne has taken to self-coloured carpets, and crimson lowering her skirts a little and lot velvet pile is her chief favourite. ting her hair grow longer, the youth With such a carpot very effective isf Paris is taking slowly and Dutch silver ships down the cautiously to the baggy trousers middle was an original and charm- (observes a Daily News' writer.)ing decoration. Unfortunately, there is a notion in "Margot." Paris just now that every English- man with buggy trousers is an Oxford undergraduate. Thus even not being touchy or impenitent her baggy trousers command respect-itself, she takes adverse evitician

a white carved mantelpiece in her boudoir, and on the shelf is set a long case of miniatures, Poetic Sundials:

She does "go a bit too far for,

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why the truth should hurt others (writes A. G. C. in the "Daily. News," of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith.) She sees everything objectively, including her family, whom she discusses in their pre- sence as one might discuss one's next door neighbours or the pictures m the wall," "and she sees herself with the same detachment and candour, as if she were a fellow- mortal. She admires Margot in cer- tain of her aspects with the dis she would admire any thing of passionate suthusiasm with which beauty, from a horse to a woman's hair, or from a flash of wit to an act of sacrifice; but she has an

Sundials are incrensing in popul- arity (writes Alice B. Anderson in the Daily Express." It was in the daye when primitive men wor-wom by an Englishman. As won very well, and does not understand shipped the sun that amdiala were by the Frenchman, with the new invented. When Herodotus wrote high double-breasted vest, reaching his ancient history, when earlier lost to the collar, they give the yet, the eternal Pyramids stood, impression of the Louis Philippe four-square in Egypt, sundials were period, just before man finally known. In the Bible the first men indoned the attempt to look tion of aundials is in the time of picturesque in his dress, Isaiah (B.. 7319, when God let Rodin' on Sargent, the shadow return backward ten When visiting Landon in 1902, degrees a sign to Hezekiah, Rolin made a tour of the Royal King of Judah, that his life on earth Academy Exhibition reports the would be prolonged. Sundials are "Morning Post.") The year was first heard of in Rome in B.C. 293, koown as "The Sargent Year.' Here one was set up in the pagan The distinguished French scalptor, Temple of Quirinus for the first who had literally darted about time the day was marked off into the rooms of Burlington House, bours! Nine hundred years later halted for some momente the sundial is recorded in Christian front of Sargent's "The Misses acute eye for Margot's abundant churches where, with "the" Hour Hunter."

Enthusiastically did failings, and through all the gallop glass, conspictions on the pulpit he exclaim, speaking to

of self-expression there runs a vein ledge for many a century it timed English friend who the dreary length of the borailies of vileged

wasp of disarming humility that makes to acecmpany

him, the period. With striking clocks "Voilà le Van Dyck de l'epoque 1.

her personality at once so bewilder- She will live ing and iridescent. rare and costly possessions sundiala Sargent n'a jamais rien fait dein history ne a legend and as the remained in favour up to the begin- mieux que cela! C'est un bouquet most brilliant woman who ever dwelt ning of the fourteenth century. de fleurs. C'est une composition de in 10 Downing Street. Perhaps she Many there were that had mottoss, maître, sans efforts! Il y en a une, a favourite one translated from the mutsou

was too brilliant for a part which ne peut pas a'en Latin in which it was originally apercevoir."

wae subordinate, for a personality Trully a magnificant the sunny hours, transcribed) being "I only connt compliment from one great artist incisive and romantic could not

Sundials were to another.

escape the limelight. It may have been this thought which prompted the reply of Mr. Balfour, recorded

to be found everywhere throughout A Pagan Relic.

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the Middle Ages on the walls of The last meeting of the session of in the "Autobiography. The gossipe

cathedrals, in the courts of honour of fendal castles, and on the humble village greens. Some of the mot- foes, the concentrated wisdom of monks, philosophers, and poste,

were veritable sermons of stone."

ly rich in them.

Castles

the Society of Antiquaries of Scot of the Press had been busy and was held in the Library of the with his name and that of Miss National Museum of Antiquities, Tennant. "I hear you are going to In a marry Margot Tennant," someone Queen Street, Einburgh.

paper on the Old Caltic Inscribed said to him. No, that is not so,"

Kincardineshire, ME. F. C. Dinck, ing a career of my own."

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Telegraphic. Address: “ASTOR.” Telephone Central 176. 18 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

A Frat clase-Betel oentrally located, farge and airy roma, completely renovated, and refurnished. New Dining Room fur Mela and in Carta. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets for Tiflis and Dinners. Under outirely new Management.

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TOP FLOOR, CHINA BUILDING,

Commencing June 1st a Jazz Orchestra will play between 1 pm and 2.80 p.m. and 7 p. and 9 p.m.

Patrons may indulge in open air dancing on the roof which is exceptionally cool during the summer months.

The best Chinese meals are served at all times.

n additional charge of 50 cents each, will be made for dancing

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