THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1926.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ODDS AND ENDS
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ALBERT
FOR
DAINTY DISHES
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS
He. —Where are you going 1.
She Why To Albert, of course, where we are sure to get the
Gnost French Pantry and the best cooking.
He. That so! His French Cakes at $1.00 per dozen, hin Madario Cakon, his Big Cikes, his los Creams (combined with arcollant cuisine) are made ozolusively with the butter, milk and oroam of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. She-Quite sofandt he also has a new menu comprising fifty new dishes which you can enjoy any time from 10.30 am to Midnight.
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Queen's Road Central
(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building)
TUNG SANG
TAILOR
11A, Peel Street.
鄂利衖拾一號A
EXPERT FITTERS
HIGH CLASS
TAILORING SERVICE.
LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD
TILE CO'S
We have a large stook of White Glazed Wall Tiles, Colour Glazed Wall Tiles, Ceramic Mosaic Tiles, Geometrical Enoantia Floor Tiles, Grates.
Fire
Inspection Invited.
Showroom: 21, Wellington 8t
Tel. C, 1483.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
For the information of visitors. the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-
Island.
Test.
Victoria Paak
1828
Bignal Station
1774
Mt. Parker
1734
Mountain Lodge
1725
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel
1805
Talkoo Sanatorium
... 1000
Mt. Davis
877
Mainland.
Taimoshan
Kowloon Peak .....
8124 1971
Bowen Rd. (filterbeds); 227
SHOEMAKERS
(Japanese Hand Made)" Every Kind of Footwarr MADE TO ORDER
CHERRY & CO.,
# D'AGUILAR: STERET:
Folophons Central No. 491.. Hongkong, Marek 20, 1914.
Opposite Kayamally à: Ca.
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is not only waste of money. but it is causing Baby to run a dangerous risk, to give hum food that has to have anything other than boiled water added to make it. suitable for his little digestive
powerk
Far better to give your Baby Glaxo, which, when mixed with hot boiled water, only, in a complete lood, Every drop Baby swallowi ie all nourishment.
Give your Baby Ginzo the best food next to healthy breast milk and save money. Ask your Doctor!
Glaxo
"Builds Bonnie
Babies"
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Hongkong.
ASAHI
A New Vogue.
Silkworms by Machinery.
Dickens' Tribute.
Malia Lenglen.
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A vague forechina ornament", Charles Dickens saw the mar
Suzanne Lenglen has been in
1 at Paris frock buying, for when which would have been laughed atriage of Queen Alexandra
Windsor, and, returning from the saw her off at Victoria the other a decade ago, is enduring KUliF
ceremony, he wrote that she was week, although surrounded by six the Weekly Dispatch."). They something more than a pretty girl trunke and numerous hat-boxes- take the form of domestic animals, (says. A "Daily News" writer:)ake was lamenting that she "must and are smooth, shiny and Her face," he recorded, "is one get some new clothes" (observes realistic. They are used for table with character of its own prepared writer in the "Star" So she has |decoration, and some women oven to act a part greatly." I like to been bually preparing her equip- carry one about with them. A think of the Queen as Winterment for the coming season in the pink and white pig that its into halter painted her beautiful south of France. "Suzanne," by the palm of the band may cont and graceful girl with a sorene the way, is vastly amused by the fifteen shillings to a guinea. New face.
When she left her native many reports of her engagement, fashions Bre always expensive. Flund to come to England, "the sea and she is credited with having rb- Possibly it will be an era of was covered with pleasure boatsceived at least five propásala dur- samplers and plush-framed mirrors, filled with people, eager to catching her recent, stay in England! next
first glimpse of her. The As a matter of fact she confided: Princess, standing on deck in ato me that in node of the instances A veritable nightmare is in stora eling, with a startled look, to her the romanti. gossip, and she had aimple white frock was seen to was there a agment of truth in for allkworms If the project now mother's arm." The remotenes not even hourd of two being examined by the Italian
of that scene, Ministry of National Economy accentuated by the thought that
82 years ago,ja į sultors mentionedi - carried out (observes the "Childickens described it and Jenny One More Shingle. ren's Newspaper,") By the meLind sang the bridal hymn at the chanical method now suggested
wedding. The great Sir Charles the changing of the badding and allé, who was the Queen's music spreading. of the silkworms will all be done by machinery, and the gathering of the mulberry leaves on which they feed will be mechanical too. The mulberry leaves are to be cut by a sort of mowing machine working vert cally. The silkworms will hardly be touched by hand, and the proto give." cess will be continuous day and night, so that enormous numbers
of cocoona may be produced at a Every low cost as compared with the cost of present methods. An interesting thing is happening at the Canton Christian College, where there is. "a special research department devoted to silkworma China, India, and Japan have been searched for the Arent specimens of silkworms, and it is hoped shortly to produce a "superworm" that will be free from the attacks of the many diseases which cause loss at present, White Flowers,
The walking that ensued gave time to wait on vision, and invited meditation. The grass fringed edges had not rankly grown, and so fermfronds among them stood up with dignity. The hawthorn bloom was thick
upon the hedges. bordering the fields distinctively with white. White, too, prevailed among the owers the green wayside adorned, the white-stirred petals of the stitch- wolt outnumbering all, with, later; round-head garlic by the Wye. Remembering, the snowdrops. and the earlier bloom of fruit, it seem- ed the earth had captured, the purity of snow, and thus express- ed that beauty for the purging of its stains. White is acknowledged the seemliest robe of Spring, as Whitsuntide is ita festival. Youth is the spring-time of the race, its time of festival, garmented with. freshness, and with clean, white flowers, unsullied fa the well- spring of its soul. As it com- mands our country, and our hom it breathes the very benison of God, and something of the clarity of snow-A Land of Far Dia- tances. William Stanford (Allen- son.J
of the
HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL
PEAK HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: “KREMLIN, HONGKONG."
AND
SHANGHAI
'ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL: KALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL" Telegraphic Address: * CENTRAL, SHANGHAL"
HOTELS,
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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons. Eits, Peking.
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel. Addre **Palaca"
Tal. Kowloon
No. 1. (Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station) Entirely under English Management. Electric Light & Fans Throughost. Every Room with Private Bath. Lounge Bar & Billiard Rooms. Varilled Catslas under the personal supervision of the Proprietor. Terms moderate. Special terms to famßion on application to
J. EL OXBERRY, Proprietor.
Yet another young girl has fallen a victim to the shingling craze, and that is Miss Marcella Duggan, master, considered her one of the Lady Curzon's only daughter. Miss most brilliant of his pupils. had also considerable gifts as a hair, which used to be tied loosely She Duggan had very thick and lovely painter, and one of her landscapes. back with the orthodox black bow. showing Windsor Castle, she con- and then hung in sheets to her XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX tributed to an exhibition on behalf waist (says a "Weekly Dispatch" of charity with the motto "It is a writer.) When the time came to icy to receive, but it is happiness"put it up," however, the other day, Miss Duggan decided in favour of cutting it off, and the. She is result is most becoming. staying quietly at Hackwood with her mother this winter, only com-
"AFTER MY BABY WAS BORN."
Mrs. McCully Tells How Whening to London for one or two days
Strength Was Gone and Nerves Were Broken Down She Built Up Her Health With
in the week. She is to be present.. ed next spring. Lady Curzon was jone of those privileged to enter
taim the Queen of Spain,, for whom! she gave.
most. Buccessful Fanshoon intime.
in
F.
DR. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS.
After my baby was born and I re-Old Chelsen china. turned from the hospital I did not got
the "Victoria and Albert my strength buck as I should," says Mrs. John A. McCully, of No. 28 Mt. Museven there may be found the Pleasant Street, Lynn, Mass. "My original Shepherd and Shepherdess, blood was poor and I suffered especial (writos: Violet King in the "Daily ly from nervousness. I was thin and: News.") thought I would never get my strength black. My complexion was willow, I got excited unatly and it seemed that would go all to pieces when the children cried. Night after night my rost was broken by nervous attacks and in the morning I would be simply all tired out. My appetite was not good and I had indigestion.
It is marked with the anchor in gold and the (Roubillac) impressed, and it is a singularly fine example, of old. Chelsen china, now excessively rare, and of which the most beauti- by collectors. The first known ful specimens are greatly prized
Hated pieces of Chelsea ware were the Bee and Gant jugs (1745). Later on, china handles for walk- Through friends who had us † them ing sticks became very fashionable, and said they were what I weded I was and, indeed, they are copied in our led to give 'Dr. Wiliams' Pink Pills a town day, though the imitations are trial.
the Soon after commencing them 1 casily distinguishable from felt like a different person. I recovered 'criginals. At first the elegance of
"Cheiser china- strength and colour quickly, my
WAR perceptibly traceable to foreign influence; but appetite improved rapidly and I had no trouble in digesting what I ate. I subsequently both colours and de- sleep well now and the improvement in
signs were invented by the makers themselves the colours including a my nerves has been so great that I
peculiar shade of claret which is can handly believe it. I can gladly re-
unknown elsewhere. The marks command Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as a
are very often missing or mislead- remedy for the blood and nerves.
ing and, as collectors know, it is Get a bottle of Dr. Williams' Pink safer to study the nature of the Pills to-day from the nearest drug store glaze and paste. The latter is if you are not feeling as well as you light cream in coldur, with dark should and see what the lonte treat-spots inside, while the original ment will do for you. Also obtainable glase is very enally rubbed away"] post from $1.50 per bottle, six bottles and in some old pieces is seen to $8, from the Dr. Williams' Kedicine Co., [have given out"altogether at the 60 Klangse Road, Shanghal.
corners,
AUBURN
Models: 4-44, ́6-66 and 8-88.
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ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.
Telegraphic Address: “ASTOR" Telephone Central 170. 18, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
A first class Hotel centrally located: large and airy rooms completely renovated and refurnished New Dining Room for Meals and la Carte. Excellent Cuisine. Monthly Tickets: for Tiffins and Dinners. Under entirely new, Management.
For further particulars apply to
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
AL LOCATION.
ALL ELECTRIC TRAMS Patinrco, Elestela A Lifte, Fans and Lighting, Rumpens Baths ant Banitary Fitinga, Bol and Cold Water System throughout. Bond of Rouch and Barrios.
Tel. Coat. Felographlu Ask-TORIA
J. WITUHELL, Manager.
H. TELLES JORGE, Manager,
MASSAGE
Mr. 8BIMIDZU Mrs. HONDA No. 2 Wyndham Street.
Zel C. 4945.
ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE
Remodelled and Redecorated.
THE RENDEZ-VOUS. OF THE SMART SET
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EVERY TUESDAY'.
DINNER DANCES EVERY WEDNESDAY · AND SATURDAY Specious Lounge Palm Court Roof Garden-Cinema The ONLY HOTEL IN SINGAPORE atted Taronghout with Modern Sanitation
Cable: Azalphi
ADELPHI HOTEL: LTD; HARRY H. WILLIFA,
Managing Directr
LEE FONG ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHERS No. 7 Wyndham Street, HONGKONG..
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN To Developing Amateurs Negatives Printing and Enlarging.
Tel No. 4028
Tel No. 4028
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is' guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craft et 200 feet long.
Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tel. Central No. 439, Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hongkong. ''. Tel Kowloon. No. 1. Estimates furnished on ́application. Hongkong, April 1, 1924. V
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While There Ta Yet Time-
Firms Clubs, Schools and Residenti
Are requested to send to.
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(No. 4. Wyndham St.)
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