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Ho-Than to His French Cakes at $1.00 per dozen, bis Madoria Pake, hig Big, Cakos, bịx Ise Creams (combined with excellent cuis ns) are made. ozelusively with tho hut'er, milk and proam of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd::
·She -Quia and be also has a new menu comprising..
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THE CHINA MAIL.
ODDS AND ENDS
White Waistcoat Turncouts..
Utopia.
How to Manage It... Mr. H. G. Wells, who has just They do things better in! Men are notoriously conserva- turned sixty, has his own ideasCleveland, Ohio, than, let us say, tive about their clothes, they, too, of Utopia, and he is sometimes in West Hum But then they bow the kase before the stern de surprised to and that other folk have a City Manager an, able crees of fashion, even in such have theirs. At a dinner he was gentleman with a good salary seemingly unimportant details as discussing world-batterment with and no, political henchmen to ap-round cord shoe laces as opposed his neighbour, when the latter pease, says a Home paper. to the fat variety or three buttons solemnly asserted, "I maintain, There is something splendid on a cuff versus four. Until re- that all water used for drinkingly medieval in the gesturecently it was considered the height and culinary purposes should be with which he orders Chinatown of bad form to wear a white boiled at least an hour. Ah, to be razed to the ground as a waistcoat with a dinner jacket, presume," said the novelist, "that you are a physician?" "No" said the other, "I am a cont moréhaut."
Tattoo.
How many of the thousands who witnessed the Twilight Tattoo at Wembley realise that this im- posing spectacle has its origin. în an early restriction on the sale of liquor. Tap-to, or tatto, as it soon was called, was the drumbeat that notified to, publicans in gar- rison towns it was time to "hap- to," ke.. to close the casks" and shut the Kouses. In the Seven- teenth Century it sounded at after drura-beat was fined half-
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The Cigarette Picture.
Mr. J. B. Duke, whose death is reported, introduced a very durable if unnecessary article when he first put pictures into his cigarette packets,
says the "Manchester Guarulan." Packets in those days were of Stiff card board, and the cigarette picture did not perform the function, which it did later in England when the packets were of limp. paper, to which the card gave the required stiffening.
CARDINAL GASPARRI
Fardin Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State, has borrowed for the Vatican
$1,500,000 from a New York bank at the rate of 19 per cent.
but now it has become au acceptod rule for all self-respecting young, men. Meanwhile, the fate of the double-breasted dimer" jacket. hangs in the balance, but much depends.on gure and the tailor) of rse who are bold enough to lanch this new fash ion!"
That Chomsk Bridge.........
The angested bridge across the Channel would supply the writers | of sensational fiction with some. noble plots and the movie makersi| with a few thrilling films, but; would it do the world seventy-five million pounds worth of good? For a "fraction of that some. ferries capable of carrying-hun- dreds of freight cars from one radway terminus to the other could be colistructed, similar to but on a more extensive scale than the' one now plying from Harwich [Other vast shells into which a dozen barges could be floated, and [having a speed of three to five knots," could also be constructed ut a comparatively small-éést. } Passengers in a hurry sean fly, Others enjoy the present seh trip.. The seventy-five million would be better spent on rebuilding, the Southern Railway. Light.
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The cigarette picture by this
Eady. Francos Balfour's obser- time has covered nearly every
vation that "light is like drink;} subject of popular interest. MP.
the more you have the more you Duke began, I think, with stake
want," raises an interesting ques- beauties and since, then the Eng-
sion. I happen to live in one of the houses from which the para- lish cigarette-makers have pic tured famous sportsmen, horses,
fin lamp has not passed, and, politicians, soldiers, neters, ships,
though we have in one small room Tocomotives, motor-curs, uniforms, handy way of stamping out the two equally powerful in another, jan eighty candle power lump and flowers, trees, flags, birds, charac-local Tong feud. ters in fiction, historical figures, because putting the law, in motion rooms
Efficient. too, we all have the feeling that the castles, butterflies, "colleges, golf after the heathen Chinese is lighted, says
only about half Home paper. courses, old furniture, china, and about as useful as bringing the The explanation seems to be that badges of very, kind.
building into the house to keep electric light and incandescent The men whose job it is to de- the mosquitoes away.
It would mantles vise attractive new, subjects for be rather nice to be City Manager human eye to a white light and are secustoming the cigarette pictures must be feeling of London, particularly the razing the yellow fight of a candle or the strain. They have at any part of it. I would start on the oil lamp is ceasing to be light at rate compelled many family mair Christian Brothers who are doing all I can foresee the day when to smoke cigarettes that they did the hands-across-the-sua not over the striking of a yellow-flamed not particularly admire because the front door of Bush House. match will have no mora effect on of sons whose collections had to Sir Wilfrid Lawson on the Em-the retina than a snap of the be fostered through particular bankment would have to go be- fingers. bbands.
Lcause he wears Oxford bags. Curiously enough. the cigarette which I dislike, and the lower end picture has almost dropped out of Regent-st. is rather a mess. in America, while it is more pre-After that I think I'd pass the valentin England than ever, ixe to Prebendary Gough-on | although English smokers would condition that Rima and the much prefer no pictures but Albert Memorial perished toge cheaper cigarettes. ̧
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