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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

ALBERT

FOR

DAINTY DISHES

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS

He-Whare are you going 1

She-Way To Albert, of course, where we are sure to get the

Anest French Pastry and the best cooking..

He That is so His Fregoh Cakos at 81.00 per dozen, bis Madario Cakes, bis Big Cake, his Ice Creams (combined with excellent cuisine) are made azolnsively with the butter, milk and cream of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. She-Quise Bosad he also has s, now menu, comprising Alte new dishes which you can enjoy any time frum 10.30 am, to Midnight.

Queen's Road Central

(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building)

WHY

Do one ever recognize.

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will

The International · Cleaners will make these old, clothes. look. 10 clean and now, c everyone will think they've. just come from theltallors...

THE CRINA MAIL.

ODDS AND ENDS

At the Abbey.

Colourful Chelsea.

Earthquake Warnings.

Dressmakers have been saying

Professor Emilio Ungania, of the Chelses even in its back streets, that the Royal mourning will mean Bologna University, has invented realises its responsibility an an the end of short skirts, since an apparatus which, he claims, will artistle quarter, and wherever one dignity is essential to black gowns, give warning of the approach of stays in the "wonderful village" But I noticed at the Abbey funeral earthquakes one, two, or three there are unexpected splashes of Bervice how many Court ladiest hours beforehand. The apparatus, colour (writes Gadabout" in the In a dingy wore considerably abbreviated which is fixed on a magnetic needle Dally Chronicle, dresses (anys a Daily Chronicle and galvanometer, is able also to little strust of shabby old cottages writer.)" The Duches8: of detect the approach of storms in the other day I came across out- Sutherland's pleated skirt was an the same manner. The warning aide shutters of bright green and outstanding example, though she is given automatically by means of vivid blue, while Chelsea: houses, wore the deep black veil to her a large whistle if the shock is very large and small make a gay bid waist that Royal ladies and many near, and by a little bell if it is a for admiration with doors of rasp of the ladies of the Court word, great way of "Central News." berry red, jude green or orange. Mrs. Wilfrid Ashley's skirt was Travels of a Cofip..

On & breezy day, too, street vistas also far from being the long gar

are made picturesque with waving. ment threatenedt.

At Cadder (near Glasgow) is an banners of purple or crimson or Séveral ladies: wore their orders on their furron soffia, said to be over 200 gold, banners which, on nearer coats. Lady Lansdowne was one, years old (says a "Dally Chronicle" view, reveal themselves as the window- and Lady Haig another; both of writer.) It lay for some time bright-hued Chelsen whom had mourning veils covering side the railings of the burial curtains futtering out through ground of the family of Cadder-open casements. And, the soft the Stirlinga. It is said to have greys and browns of the old- been placed over a con inside a fashioned houses add the right.

rave, thus preventing interfer- background for it all. ence with the dead and it had

tham

Seeing Without Eyes!

There are three little girls living

Southern in Nay, in

France, eleven, thirteen, and fourteen 480 served as a water-trough for A' Choice of Colour.

When the kine were years of age, who are able to read cattle-

Mermaid Family.

the

Every

The wonders of. the colour world ¡ pages: of books, thread needles, moved into another field, their

increasing (reports and detect celours of cloth with-loving-cup was dragged after re them l

them. When the owner of this out using their syes, writes.

"Children's Newspaper.")); "Colophon" in "John of London's strange coffin (a lady) died it was Weekly Seemingly the only ex-bought by the minister of the month seems to bring a fresh dis- planation is that they see through parish, who had it placed in the covery. One of the latest develop- mante is dyeing with two colours the skin of the face, especially the churchyard as a seat.

in ona bath. This is possible be- forehead. "Monsieur Jean Labadie,

cause artificial silk mude by the the noted French scientist, has per-

Miss Angola. Barclay, who is acetate process will not respond to sonally tested these facts and gives engaged to Mr. Whitcombe, R.F.A certain dye-stuffs, which, how- some interesting observations. He is a beautiful brunette, favouring ever, will readily dye cotton yarn. believes that it is merely some in Tooks her noted mother, Florence Therefore, if we weave e fabric of peculiar sensitiveness of the skin Barclay, author of the "Rosary," mixture of acetate silk and cat- nerves which necefves impressions says the "Evening News. She is ton yarn, and prepare a bath con- ef light and conveys them to the not nearly connected with the well-taining the two different dyes, we brain the form of definite known banking family of that fan dye two colours at once. images. He precludes the pos-name, but is a daughter of a clergy-Placed in the mixed bath, the silk siblity of trickery, but awaits man who lived at Overstrand, yarn selects one colour, while the further investigation to find a Norfolk. Here Mrs. Barclay wrote cotton yarn Selects the other, and scientific explanation of

theher novels often in dictation to so we can get a mixed effect, We

"Remarkable what our scientific methods: can ac complish with last year's suit or wraps Andțit cost so Bttle to put new life and freshness: foto, old clothes- when you bave it done by

THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO,

19, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.

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Hongkong, March 20, 1914.

HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors the following list. of some of the alghest points on the Island and Mainland is published:-

Island!"

Teat.

Victoria Peak

1828

Bignal Station

1774

Kt Parker ri

1784

Mountain Lodge"

1725

The Eyrie

1725

Peak Hotel

1805

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds) 297

Mainland.

Taimoshan

Kowloon Peak

8124 1971

Never a moment sick!

"Never a moment sick" --wrote a doctor to us.

about his son, Hugh "I would like everybody to know the value of Glaxo and use it."

Give your baby Glaxo- "the food the doctors give

to their own babies - the food that build's firm

flesh, plenty of bont, and a strong constitution. Ask your Doctor E

Glaxo

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Hongkong.

phenomenon.

Salling Without Sails

Miss Angela...who was the heroine have all heard of a doubly-dyed in, Mrs. Barclay's last book. Mrs. villain; now we have in very truth For the first time in more than Barclay was a marvellous swim a doubly dyed cloth, 1000 years an advance is cintmed mer, and would often swim for Нам to have been made in the utilsa-miles on the East Coast. top of wind-power for driving daughter takes after her in this. ships. It is nothing less than the and may also emulate her mother construction of sailing vessels with her pen.

Some years ago.

WHY TAKE OIL OR SALTS?

when daily regularity can. be ensured by the occasional use of Finkettes, the dainty little liver and intestinal regulators which

andi are pleasant to take

PINKETTES

never

without sails. The inventor of When Meteorites Fall this new equipment is a German Meteorites: seem to choose the living in Amsterdam, Herr Anton ground well, but occasionally there Plettner. His small schooner is "are tragedies (says the "Montreal fitted out with two towers, nine Witness.") fect in diameter, as tall an ordinary stone fell among # group of gripe or purge." musts, and consisting of a series of grapepickers at Beziers, killing vanes which rotate under the one and wounding several; and a action of the wind 100 times 2 man was killed in 1827 at Mhow, minute. For some time past Ger in India. A labourer at Wold, many has been intently studying Yorkshire; escaped by only ten Are" laxative perfection. They the pssibility of obtaining electri- yards; and at Sharaonville -a "quickly. banish billousness, sick on power from the wind in order meteorite fell between two carters headaches. Hatulence, liverish to effect economies with her re on the road. At 'Madrid in 1886 ness, clear the skin, purify the duced coal supplios. On the trials "one, exploded over the city, break breath, relieve Piles. Of chemists, of the schooner in the Baltic it was ing windows, but apparently Caus or post free, 60 cents the vial shown that one raan could easily ing no injuries. The earth is not. from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., manage the new appliances electri- yet so overpeopled that the probe 60, Klangse Rond, Shanghai. cally where often hitherto scores shility of a chance boulder from

of men

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Sole

Agents:

BEER

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CAPSTAN

CIGARETTES

All new firms and all firms who

have not already sent in their

applications for insertion in the

DOLLAR DIRECTORY for 1926, are kindly requested to do so

as soon as possible.

THE HONGKONG DOLLAR

DIRECTORY

Wyndham Street,

HONGKONG