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WATSON'S PULVOSMIDROSIS.

AN IDEAL DUBTING POWDER.

Keeps the feet and armpits cool and sweet in the warmest weather and removes any odour of perspiration.

Cures sore and blistered toes.

IN TINS 50s. EACH,

PREPARED ONLY BY

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Telephone No. 0 10.

Powell

Telephone O. 3146.

GIGANTIC SALE

WILL TAKE PLACE

ON MONDAY NEXT

of

MEN'S WEAR

HUGE REDUCTIONS

a.t

POWELLS"

PEDDER

FRESH

STREET.

MILK

The undernoted are being supplied with FRESH DAIRY FARM MILE twice daily and we recommend those of our customers who find it inconvenient to send to our Depot for sup plies to obtain same from either:-

H. M. HAJEE ESMAIL

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2 TIN LOK LÄNE

MORRISON HILL

THE INDIAN STORES

46 QUEEN'S ROAD, EAST WANCHAI

THE DAIRY FARM, IGE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.

REGISTRATION.

We have pleasure in notifying the Public that arrange- ments have now been completed by this Bureau for carrying out the Registration of Servants. A fee of $1.00 per head will be charged, for which a certificate will be issued giving name, photograph and thumbprint. At the termination of the present situation we hope to be able to supply servants of all descriptions for a nominal fee.

DOMESTIC SERVANTS EMPLOYMENT & REGISTRATION BUREAU.

Tel C1896

比

Address: 15-17, Queen's Road C.

Use COLGATE'S Ribbon Dental Cream and Handy Grip Shaving Sticks.

SOLE AGENTS:

The Hongkong Trading Co. Ltd.

HONGKONG.

SIMPSON

& CO.

Đây là Year Red Central Corner of Ice House Street

TAILORS

N LAND

C. 1840

OHO AGENTS

Telephone

THE CHINA MAIL.

Victor Products

THE MIKADO

and

H.M.S. PINAFORE

FULL LONDON CAST.

COMPLETE IN ALBUMS

:

WITH BOOK OF WORDS.

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

Morinaga's Ice Cream

AND

Cold Drinks

ARE

Exquisite

Nothing Superior.

ASIATIC BUILDING.

Overland China Mail

(The weekly adition of the "China Mail," Annual subscription, exalad- ing postage abroad, HE $12. payable in advance.)

Published by

The Newspaper Enterprise, Lid,

Printers & Publishers

No. 5.WYNDHAM ST., BONGKONG Telephones Central 22 & 4641. Cable Address:-Mail, Hongkong. "

All communicatione should be addressed to the Newspaper Entce. prise, Ltd., to whom all remittances Should be made payabl

London Officed---The Far Earthen Advertsing Agency (Loadoa), Ltd.,

Devonsaire 24.

Street. Bonm.bury, W.C1.

Wear them. If any further argu- ment is needed, it can be said that a man is Ukely to produce more and better work suitably clad, than he is in "longs," collar and tie. A local medical pronounce- ment would have a wonderful effect. Medical etiquette forbids doctors advertising themselves in this and other ways through the Press. But there nothing to prevent a doctor appearing as we have suggested. It may not suggest a bed-side manner, but Failing doctors there are heads of businesses. But why walt for a lead? No one waited for someone else to use an electric fan, before getting one of these aids to comfort..... The "China Mail could be Alled with argu- ments in favour of this much needed dress reform for men.

HERMES,

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1925,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The Govern- definite statement. "he had an CAPTAIN NEVILLE. ́or's A.D.C.adventurous life and saw many who has left new countries," while at 16 came on holiday, was slightly interested the reasoned statement, "he tra- in the proposed Stadium scheme velled widely, did his country that first saw the light in these great service by his discoveries, columns. He attended a pre- and was a noble man in his treat- liminary meeting in the interests ment of the natives." Then the of the Polo Club, and if we speak girl. At eight she said of Flor- truthfully, as well as charitably,ence Nightingale, "she had a was not in favour of the idea to lamp and went to war with it. build a Stadium on the Polo At 11, she had adventures in the Club's glorious ground at Cause-hospitals when she went to nurse way Bay. This is indeed a fine the poor soldiers; at 16, "yhe stretch of green, level ground. was a pioneer in nursing and did Let us hope when sanity rears its a Wonderful amount of good." head once again, polo will be play Dealing with ideals and the un- ed more consistently than ever conscious, Miss Macaulay says it before, and that the public will be was found that in every instance urged to attend the game in large where boys who had chosen numbers. It is an aristocratie Robinson Crusoe could be iden- game to which Captain Neville tified, they came from crowded, quarrelsome homes. who may fittingly be described as noisy,

Aristo-democrat. has given Stunted, sickly Boys frequently chose the policeman as their Ideal. "Perhaps here is a sub- conscious longing for stature and strength," writes Miss Macaulay, ed reasons are, such as he has a "though the consciously exprosa-

an

such whole-hearted service.

Over $80,000

The god of secrets is one of the DEATH DUTIES. was paid to the descriptions applied to the Greek

deity bearing this name. There Death

Government in Duties put of the

"Other

away.

whistle,' he has nothing to think is no secret now concerning the estate of the late Mr. Montague about, he gets good pay and

short hours." purpose of His Britannic Majesty's Ede. It appears that in com

Sometimes the ship, Hermes,

Her. function in piling its estimates of income the surface. A little girl with subconscious longing is nehrer Far Eastern Waters has been fully and expenditure, the Government tubercular tendencies gave an divulged. She is to be in this part takes no account of the fact that apple as her ideal, because it is of the world in her capacity of it is likely to receive additions to round and roay; and a child who sea-plane carrier in the interests its revenue by reason of people shortly afterwards ran and protection of

British passing away and leaving estate from a strict, unsympatatic home, This is satisfactory on which Death Duties are liable. and was discovered making for residents. news.. To prevent unnecessary At any rate the words

de not the sea coast, chose 'Nelson, be- troubles is to be prepared for appear in the estimates.

They cause he stuck pains and died them. To be equipped with the may, of course, be included

like a sailor!" most modern of defensive and other figures, such as offensive weapons, or to be in close Miscellaneous Receipts" against call to them, makes residence in which $20,000 was shown for the disturbed areas little

current year, as against $25,000 less

Kuala Lumpur's in 1924.

DISCHARGED Visiting irksome. The trouble nowadays

Justices PRISONERS. have appointed is to kill a foreigner make some

committee to report trumpery excuse or trot out an

All this discussion on the formation of a Discharged argument that a murder was not | SCHOOLBOYS'

about Hongkong's Prisoners' Aid Society. political but one of robbery, and AMBITIONS. schoolboy strikers freshing

It is re- find some residents in the trouble is forgotten, 01

is very interesting. the East taking such an interest countered by.compensation.

Alt coincides with a fascinating diseturged prisoners to the ex seaplane or two may not stop that study on children's ambitions, ten of wishing to form a Society kind of thing, but it will probably which develop as they grow to vid them on their release. convince conspirators against the older, by Miss Eve Macaulay indongkong's

Visiting Justices peace of the world that lengths "The Forum of Education."

Aalionid copy this example, The can be taken which admit only of boy of eight wanted to be like community throws a man into prison instant reprisals, Hongkong in Captain Cook-"because I could and takes no further thought of particular should welcome the go in a boat." All 11 came the him. It is wrong

2

Conference

Earl

the main

THH STORY OF THE ROCKS.

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purpose of the Hermes with no uncertain voice. Only recently has it been divulged that the Imperial Government, through its representatives at the Washington Conference, undertook that there Chulogy is the geography of the ages conditions should be no air base at Hong-past, us Lord Avely has uptly changing, ever so slowly to be spe were constantly kong: that the Colony should not expressed it. '. ... The wonder-but ever certainly. Mountaing have those implements of ful restorations" adorning there from the plains, and then in modernism, s0. necessary in a walls of great museums, displaying the course-of time disappeared. economy. Wash amahs had gone. "sea-girt isle," and more so when the artists ceptions of the Continents repeatedly shifted their The China Mail" and washing had to be reduced that ive is so close to a chaotic and are at the Carbonifer, hondaries. Seas invaded the land and warring province. Repre- Permian swamps, with and then retreated, reinvaded and to the minimum, the kahki shortsentations have been made in the dora and Eu so different from retreated again, repeating this pro (Every evening except Sunday.

subscription.

and shirt, holding its natural press for the provision of aerof excluding Annual

thas of today

the css over and over. With ench postage abroad, K. $38, payable colours for a good number of and sea-planes. First as a compon- Messuie valleys, with their huge change in climatic and physio- in advance. Local delivery tree.)

ent part of a reasonable defence and goles dinosaurs, great graphic conditions formations of hours. The "China Mail" has, ere plan of the island and Kowloon tyles flying overhead; the different character were deposited. this, pleaded for a reform in the and the New Territories.

Mesozoic seus, Will their plesiosaurs Hence we have alternating deposit summer dress of men. So have a Balfour explained at the Wash and ichthyosaurs pursuing their of sandstone, limestone and shalt

not vain imagin-euch telling a different story of its proy-those are number of its correspondents.ington

ings. The records in the rocks origin. Some formations teem with The idea is a common-sense one. reason which prompted Britain to low unmistakably the general con-marine fossils, some are filled with acquire a lease, of the New Terri-itions of the region while the rocks and, fresh-water or brackish-water It needs a number to persist, in tories. In simple language it was were being formed, enabling the foils, according to the conditions setting an example for it to be to ensure the safety of worldartist, with the aid of the geologist, under which they were deposited. widely followed. That it has not trade in Far Eastern waters. to restrict the topgiphy in a The difference in the character of been widely followed hitherto may Territories the Colony was not plants preserved in the rocks en important influence upon modern

Before the acquisition of the New general way.

The remains of the these macient formations has a very be put down to the fact that in immune from a successful attack ide the artist, with the aid of the scenery and is intimately related to certain quarters it has probably from behind Kowloon. Hongkong paleobotanist, to reconstruct the the welfare of the human ince not been considered "the thing.” was not safe and it followed that flom and . clothe the land The sandstones provide building The truth may be that some skipping and trade were not safe. with vegetation of types long ex-store in abundance, limestones The argument applies in these tinct. The complete skeletons provide lime for plaster and other have spoiled the work of days of the perfection of machines foul in the rocks ble the artist, pares: shules provide brick- reformers by overdoing it-by a of the air. There is to be no air with the aid of the paleozoologist making material; deposite of iron reconstruct provide indispensable construction combination of colours that has base in compliance with a promise and atomist, vied with the rainbow. A little made at the Washington Confer fatal, awam the seas and glided make it possible to work the iron nimals that long ago roamed the material; giat deposits of coul sense is needed; perhaps a little observed, without consulting the through the air, and thus to re-into shape for use. All these things

ence-a promise made, let it be expert sense. A pair of kanki voice of the people of Hongkong people the scene with its former enter into the construction of the shorts should if possible appear even through its branch of the formation before him, he may some ed the scenery of all civilised lande, inhabitants. With all this in buildings which have greatly alter- with a pair of brown stockings Navy League-but the Hermes what accurately present to us

will be in these waters with her leaps of swamps in a region tecture of our modern cities.

and have made possible the archi and a pair of brown shoes. Thus freight of 'planes, and we may say now rid, clothed with verdure, now a simple colour scheine is effected. that just as the word Hermes has unknown, in which the extinct

So when our attention is arrest- A white pair of shorts will look given us the word "hermetically," "Tong-necked lizards basked and may trachludly say that this was ed by a fifteen-story.skyscraper, wa Medical opinion strongly stresses better on some than kahki. the fate of disturbers of the

fought,

maile possible by the geological the fact that women's modern Reasonable thought should decide Colony's peace by warring means, And winged diagons rain wrought processes, which deposited those

is hermetically sealed. dress conduces to longevity-or the colour of the coat. Many

A faxnating story is the one wej materiale" so long ago and afterward read in the rocks, of the various tilted them up and exposed them rather to a state of health leading | have not found the garb suggested

stugee in the development, of the where they could be obtained when to it. Light and air, ature's as cool as anticipated. This has

earth's strface and its inhabitants, I needed. When the rank vegeta- health agencies, get to the skin, probably been due to the fact that

Where the earliest fossil-bearing Carboniferous and Cretaceous ages lending up to their present state, tion in certain regions during the and discomfort, especially in heavy woollen stockings have been

rocks have been upturned by the was filling the ancient swamps with climates like Hongkong's is worn. Mercers have risen to the

crumpling of the earth's crust and cont, it was preparing the way for almost unknown. A sense of occasion and there is on the

I know it will Be my fate to be totul absence of the types of plants ly packed cities, its steamshipe

then exposed by erosion, we find a modern civiliantion, with its donse irritability is avoided, and nerves market a product of silk stocking run down one dayJudge Cluer, and animals with which we are and its railwaya. Other deposits are in a continual state of control made for coolness. They should Sculpture is a hundred years now most familiar. No trees or deep beneath the earth's surface. Men are conservative animals and certainly be tried. Housewives ahead of drama-Miss Sybil towering plants adorned the labd have become available to man. the universal rule has been to may object that their men-folk Thorndike.

at that early period; no fishes through his finchustry and genius. swam the seas; no inammals roem. His drills are penetrating the earth cover up from neck to toe, are likely to appear at dinner in The art of being gracefully idleed, the continents; no birds winged to a depth of seven thousand feet generally in garments that tend to this dishabille"; but it is more has almost disappeared: Mr. their way through the air; there or more in the search for oil stored

G..D. Hill a state of perspiration, leading to likely that men will find an added

were no reptiles, no amphibians, there long ago. His shafts ara prickly heat, discomfort and a incentive in changing for the

A civilisation is largely judged Trilobites and eurypterids, long sinking many hundreds of feet be- state that helps to the aforesaid evening meal. The charge of by its table manners, Mr. Stacy since extinct, then ruled the seus low the surface in the search for

Aumonier

Tarticulate Brachiopods.. now re- the mineral wealth deposited there" irritability. During the early indecency. has been heard."

prosented by an insignificant num-) in bygone ages, an days of the strike there was

enough this proceeds We are spending about ber of living species and individuals, Whether or not we see in all this.

£1,000,000 a day on social ser constituted a very important elements purpose to provide for the com- who fail to rements vices. Mr. William Graham the ancient faunas In

ing of man, it is surely wonderful that all these things

for the comfor progress of kino kumsa éparad by Natúra vo witen bo na

Hongkong. Monday, August 10, 1925.

SHORTS AND CISSY'

SHIRTS.

on' “shorts," and the open- om wome

-the-tennis- shirt Men | ber the “fa

tasks that demanded hing that

ity” of their own

THEY SAY THAT— To change one's mind in politics is not an offence-Capt. W. Benn, M.P...

in inter formations wa fsudas and floris becomi

Women are no more the hope of and more like those of to

world than are met the Tertiary Goverdor

the

many generand which are not

"

thera

Avg. shundant

Glance that