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THE WUGE WALLED AFRICAN EMPORIUM.
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A FORBIDDEN CITY, abbarda An examination of the coke boiler manufacturers could,]
lastor will disclose the interesting perhaps, get one out in good style. fuct that the blades of the most Te is, for example, rather abasen- jexpensive specimens bar Solingering to one's ideas of human pres
mark, a curious example of the grows to reul of Remi Baths, dated → conservation of this interior African two or bluve hundred &D, being The King, the Prince of Wales, In Nigeria one is aware thas the trade, for a far as the middle of thug, up in parte of ingium where; the Duke of York and Prince country has a bistory and tradithe lust conbury, Solingen word there is a close season for Henry were at Victoria Station tions. On the borders of the New in mail week to bid farewell to the fact impress the newcomer across the desert,
Nowhere, perhapa does blades were imported into Kanobashing (from October to April 1). Forest there is living the duly King of the Belgians on his more vividly tha
We are only gradually discovering woman in the world who has ever wrn to Brussels..
Kuno Nox to the leather quarter you the buth As yet we have not Buti 1903 i wae pruotistall is a tufteritary surgeon.
almost for and silver. brass, und inware; mudes a vice of it, and are finding. King Albert heuvelled for a special bickden city. be in Miss Aleen Pass, daughter saloon auched to the boat traga Produk Eagard entered it witherings which would not disgrace fond of the bath because they Buy that year Sir among the former necklaces and it useful. Men a particulna...maa of the late Sir theopold us, lensing Victoria at 8.575 and pre-some of the Nigerian regiment, fr Landes jeweller's shop window, have found it Brother of Sir Charles Chak, uvedení zu Ostent
is the only placu BOTT the first train entered under bangles and anklote, partly where they can sing without being | aquerry to King Chorge, with whony the served as a midshipmen on the thinker Recompaten by his son.
King Veorge And King Albert, eds. And, what portale they in, partly silver, brus urns and askedi te
pub some
mera coal on The walls are ith fear thick boards, games bracelets from Bida the fire. Britain,
Prince Charles, drove
ton and miles enmference, fund neck inces of bends, Venetian For twenty years, Ming Custminades hofure the time scheduled hoy a pierced by 13 immense red local, of gutes imported from the novelists a sound, intelligent Personly, despite the pride of hey profession for the departure, the Royalloways, with platforms Fripeti and polished and cut at Puble clager Athleague, C. Roscommon, where party remained in the wattg-room houses a massive doors Bids, of different kinds of coral, or only on the edge of the bath, so th I think we are the brith up one of the largest until warned that the trair was fickly clamped with iron, Its bright colored local seeds, such as speak. Our present Baths will in practices to the Wost of Breland at a start. Then they walked written records go back 800 years. So huge, need, was in that she fast on to the phifor,
les mahogany, which in its polo few years" ime he tooked upor When the Erst Punish King loks hke a litle jewel case, Bud to have four horses to enable
ins antiquated and commons. Rung Albert look hands with reigned over Engiared. Basal her tes over the extensive area ever King and the British Princes WISH Conged by
Sheds und stalls in addition to those days there will be tem un unknown the booths are levoted to be and supply of hot water luid on which her practice extended. Only fall in saying good-bye to his own pls From the East, and the Tale of the constant Fairling of her house kissit, him wormly on
Anneris merchandise. by the wider companies, and one. the prosperity of the English towers here is a shalf containing the work will step ork of bed and go behind and the generally muti! state check, and said one hist words of was beginning `to FAVIVO undermanship of a locul smithy, stirrap-the rmekinkeh server; and pult, all the only caused her to come farewell before.stepping into the ery b. Hijimus, the Wirt kings, locks for doors, every kind the shower as hot or a cold as one) to England
the invading dyoakly, was et agricultul implement, axes and desires. 14 was at Eshnburgh" that she first Until the train had given on Building Kano- When Hevery uixos. *uced veterinary wouce; by note the plate King George and was lying the foundations of Before heurty all the stalks sit
*GOOD MMES, COMING, alik the passing of the Sex Dists sos dix, with their hats inng goresmang the rich fat and women selling their wares; Warm sheners > quatiction Removal) Act of 1930heir hands, booking, after it and chents and most covil peripay their sile, and apparently, no exactly common in baik comunbuy, gaud, mak yet Was Miss Cus oubled to take the the passed back through the Royna Ku ware entertaining Lemos ennelly watched him thespite the velists of well diploma of the Royal College of buiting room to their, care.
Africanos, Veterinary Surgeons, such was the
In 1824 apperton Particles themselves, small piles of mining lot, a reminded of entered this great emporium of the fewries and ometimes the nickel those famous baths in Franke. prejudice against women in the pro-
Kingdom of Hansa, which Barth 40freuage, in tenths of pennies, and need, I suppose, in turn by nearly Eession. In the wake she did
years later termed the Tia's famed three-penny bits, representing the very officer and other rank of the plendid work in the chief veterinary
A a certain ligh school it wasntrepôt of Central Africa." akings of the day,
British Army. In 1915 one got a taborutory, trying to discover the domugy for price to be said begard, when he beheld it, sairt vatore of the disense responsible for musads.
ticket for 26r., and catered the The head girl was had. He had not "imagined such a for carrying of
Combicles with a heart full of song. many British
someve bust nervous nad cominerende frity "sisted in Africa, harms.
It is true that the soup, was only " Bard, give ur skrength to mak
Picturesque by day, with mumer-
1 millimeter, and This Fourl
188 and gyly dressed pedestrinals
tilled Jo go down the geaking: Horsemen pemmbulating its!
fre alse that ni one knew the the sand narrow skets, Busy ferowers "around 4 markets, tr
switch, the water supply alternated | bouwen BedBag hot aunt, le col, ials, Batumemes, and loome, Kano i
But a bath was bath in tho Par hoes the, she Minks, Eshould give the womum ""ref" a
atile more ueturesque when
Time, Beney, that our years. An intoxicating thing, is known of this side of veterinary Peapital opening.
moon floods its broad open spaces in velists crused making so much off P.S; to add to one's field carni nad As a profession E ( Pight, and frags strange bathom sevince, whe there is also a weste for women, the veterinary surgeon shadows nero, the sandy thorough- Therntou in the "Pudly Phonich," A-were every day inils of song. 4. hang the Censor. Those baths at Rekli eper for women who specialise has one great advanlige in Miseres. Then, but for the excusion No really up-to-date writer will Men up to the line dreamt of them in the disenoeg of pets and the fast's optators. It is not over- owl of a dog, shie diy hes wrap- smaller domestic animals. To deal Browded as most cccupations are put in impenetrable silence. Not his chururlers, but he is ex-The concierge. I key, and Pave vor grantee the morals, of any as part of their next rest loove. with: horses andi cattle requires con nowadays, ad there is plenty of me wake wawend. siderable physical seth no rem for anyone who will ready as you wauler with noiseless steps they all hath at least once a day, sequent ability to sland British Yet you know remely careful to point but takbeen chose for his deafness acad although Ming (ral herself treated wat them for every possible adtment, it
through its inbyrinth at behindThere were her haths in a novel Ffebord music Experience is really the most im- those thick clay walls and closed red recently.
in sixteen different would she considers, be beyond port thing.. A woman when doors the social world of Africa, is in the best weekly papers is qui a budh Ecannot imagine.
The most popular keys; and how the natives ever most women's powers..
the bas nisbet hey four years awake and stirring, guarded from the one wheth implies that there Willy pet dogs and eats it is, how theoretical work, must not consider the alien
When I heye of our British suptr ever, quite different.
fare yet people in England who only ority in the matter of soup, and Operations, herself truly qualified without When menssury, require lightness several years' practical work, of tomch more than strength, d soch aniruak wilt make friends with a women and let her do anything for hens when they with have modhing to wall a main
AWD FILMIN,
Biebericling research in videed one branch of the veterinary pro fession which, en Miss Cist's opin jon, women mgki adiantageously latte op.
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BBETISH BATHROOMS AND NOVELISTS.
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A nigger sitting by the roudşide we asked how he passed the time. He replied: "Massa. Ti just sits here and lets the time pues me
A visit to the native market is he once a week, and it is be-scaler, 1 think of her beins Miss Cust is keen on hurting. amaituous spa of humanity hat with a bath us it is to open a revic occupy a honourable niche in any to bewildering experiener. In this rating as cranes to open a story daires, They will verlangt iấy and has ridden with most packs in with brilliant colours details are with the fall company. England and Ireland. Her chief wamped at best in genergh in-
Hook of the Bath with which 1 bouest to day, howevert in entrepressions. You are aware of a vast aowadays that they are not novelty associated
So many people have baloons few the gas company) might be" for breeding pocket cooker-apuniek. Eeteuse of men and women, clad they once were: bathrooms have Diseases of poultry, rubbits and and she is the only person in the in robes of many hu-white lensed to be the exclusive prevogn- goats are in many cases little world who has established a sirain carious sludes of bhe predomina five of the rich. derstood, and Ms Cust thinks which breeds fro to type.
Bing; of tossing arms od tebreed the novelista in fine" body of bens; of long lines of eiay-built | rilizens) is, I suppose. He fact that booths where piled up merchandise we are still rather proud of our awaits the customer of incessant baths, h. und c. As a nation we movement, of many tongues, of have only been bathing with any drange scents, and over all the regularity for the past fify years blue sky and hot su.
We look down upon the rest of A SEA OF HUMANITY,,
the world (which never bathos) as interly lost.
Sans pour of sans Keen featured men, women with reproche, on shield is a bath towel elaborate coiffures resembling pie-with sponge donchant. titres of okh Assyrian bermats. The rest of the world does not bush by Other Hans visitors understand the reason for our con from Katsona, Sokolo, or Ilorin, tempt, and puts it down to our ob with the distinguishing facial alive idiocy. The rest of the mark of his clan, six strokes with world. I imagine, does not conceive | a dot for Kusina, three for Sokoto, itself as being unwashed to any and or pale Filani from the extent. Perhaps it in botter in country, the women wearing their formed on the bath question, than straight hair in ringlets; the Nupe we think, for I use it on sound with his characteristic headdress of encyclopaedic " nuthority that in red black and yellow straw; thick-England) ipped Kauris frem Bornu
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CONTENTS.
1 League Cricket
Page. 18-19 .19
Even now the habit is limited
One day a clergyman was attrael- ed by the industry of two boys who were playing in the mud in one of the back streets of his parish.
On approaching he said: "Well. boys, what are you building?"
**A church, sir," was the reply. "Could you tell me where the pews and the alter and the choir Balls ure?" asked the clergyman.
"Yes, sir," they replied, aned. after pointing them out, added: "And that is the pulpit."
Very good," said the parso1: "but where is the prcichop?“
We did not have enough mat for him, sir," was the unexpected
to a comparatively small part of teply. the population Each trade has its
quarter, and (touching the question of 22-23 Beneath the shelter of the booths public baths)--
vendors sit cross-legged, their Iwares. spread out before them. Cloth of every hue and tes bure
Allegations Withdrawn...24-25rder the sun form the most im
The comparison between. Eng- lily great towne and those of the Continent is not in favour of the former.
the inhabitants of England were sober class), but I would point out still savage tribes. Perhaps the he
most beautiful of all cloths is the Victorian predecessors on this im
Page.
15 Murder Charge..
Heavy Loans
C
Rugby Cup-Tie
20
Bedding Lost
"White Winge"
.20
6.
Lab Wah Cup
.21
Intimidation
€
Launch Sinks
21
Past Hockey
7
Asylum Case
.21
all the Taurags from beyond i Sokoto, or Asben,
"Kowloon" Win
7'
Found With Arms
Found ...
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7
"This Fabric"
Taikoo Concert
7
Bribery Charge
Harbour Mishaps
7
Cycle Thief
23: 23
Ship's Fire
Street Mishap
123
Home Mail
7
Chamber's Tribute
Baby's Milk.
8-9, Tobacco Seizure..
.25
priankurticle of sale. The people
I don't want to upset our novel-
Examinations
.25
Out in the Cold"..
of Kano mude splendid cloths when is a hard-working, tax-paying,
Motor Collision
.25
Loafers Convicted
4.
[Cheung Chau Notes
.26
extreme silence of their
"One of the Best"
10
Gamblers Caught..
26.
The Fire Menace...
.10
Sun's Eclipse
.28
Kono riga, a sort of boodless clonk
The Flower Show
portant question,
11
Steamer Fight
.26
universally worn by the batter
Air Joy Ridea
11
Missing Leather
.26
classes, covoring the body from
Office Routine
11
Clan Fight
Obituary
.26.
11
Peak Trams
.26
The Hotel Fire
11
Canton School
27
Rugby Interport
12
Dress Auction
27
School Cricket
12
Snatcher Caught
.27
Lawn Tennis
12
Boxing Challenge
.27
Salvage Work
19
Pony Auction
.28.
"Something"
13
Fanling Golf
28.
A Forged Receipt
13
Hockey Match
.28
Volunteer Orders
18
Yachting
Final Scenes
18
"Bombs" Seized
Friday's Fires
.13
At the Gaol...
Sanitary Board
19
$1,000,000 Hospital
14
9.8. "Taiping". Motor Accident
City Fires
14
Missing Lady
14.
Au Revoir
14
Foreman Ill
A Strenuous Time
.16
Stolen Goods
Two Murders
Cricket Nye
Soccer League Boxing Political Motive?.
Soccer Row.
Mr. Sun Fo Here
Varsity Tour Water Supplies
Cheaper Coal
Four Honours
15 Kowloon Summone
Steamer Ashore-v
Truculent Youth
Passengers
$900 Bracelet
Negligent Act
"Improvements"
Three Days Dolay
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Opium Sairuras
.88:
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THE RETICENT VICTORIANS. "Punch, in the fifties and
neck to knee. The products of a sixties, I believe, used to regard sen tive looms from hundreds of miles
In those
distant and enjoying special rebathing as a humorous matter. nown for some attractive peculiarity: Thackeray's ladies and gentlemen, are to be had here, together with I remember aright, seldom
never mentioned baths, the manufactures of Europe; the white bullan or gown from Rornu, days the climate was considered the arigiddi, or
woman's cloth against bathing, and earlier still, the whole business was regarded as from Zaria, the faringodo, or plain white cloth from Torin, the maja, ach a hazard, that only men of For webbing made by the pagan refer to those old days when the proved valour went in for it. I tribes of Bauchi, and used by the Order of the Bath was instituted Filant for girths; black, white, Only heroes were fit for baths i red, yellow and blue gowns, caps, those good old days, and any fezzen, expensively embroidered
knight called upon to receive fina trousers, sleeveless under-vests great, but desperate Order, always velvet all in endless variety
made his will and allied forth in
LEATHER AND HITAL ABT
da ne per fuil a nonpply attended by his In the leuther quarter you will anxious retainers.
find great quantities of saddlery But if our novelists, are over- from Inpol and also of local bathing their people, I do not say manufacture, highly ornamented that the subject is not an intereel bridled, atitrup leathers, dispatching one, treated scientifically. If Bage, Korans in leather cases, red there is no Book of the Bath, slippers, purses, sandals quilted think It ought to be written pretty hort cloths,
The gas companies or the
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