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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY.

ALBERT

FOR

DAINTY DISHES

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS

He. —Wäere are you going li

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

finest French Pastry and the best cooking

He. That is so Elias French Cakes at 81.00 per Jozen, hin,

Madorie Cakes, his Big Chicas, his Ice Creams (combined with excellent cuisine) are made exclusively with the butter, milk and oroom of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd; She-Quito so and be sled has a new menti comprising Afty now dishes which you can enjoy any time frum 10.30 am to Midnight.

Queen's Road Central

(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building)

WHY

NO one:

THE CHINA MAI

ODDS AND ENDS

stry of the Stare

has

turda

Cheshire Cheese when sparrows were sacrificed as

At the Cantral Hall Telleros, The science of the atom Edinburgh,

on December 11, been born and has developed. ■ eyes under the auspices of the Wesley vigorous growth, that dwarfs all Guild-the Rev. George Grieve, The power of this newcomer to

recent claimants for public favour BA, B.Sc., presiding, Mr. George combine and to harmonise a boat stitutes in the pu for the Pention, FR.A.S, City Obser- of intricate and baffling details, traditional larks (says the "Morne vatory,Calton Hill, Edinburgh, of the most beautiful conceptions

seems illimitable and makes it one jag Post) Beyond a doubt, if

said that astronomy was the old-

gave a lantern lecture, A Ramble of modern times, The atom in he had been there she would have among the Stara Mr. Pearson vites us to pursue a new line of stimulated Catullus into the writ- est of the sciences. It was depen. study, by substituting the Indi-ing of a vitriolic ode. "The reason. dent, however, at the present day chemist la familiar with the atom newly incorporated College

vidual for the aggregate. The for the sacrifice was that the on the other sciences for its great ness, and not the least on that of in the mass, but simply as a con Peatology is carrying out a vigor- chemistry. The chemistry of the venient unit, not dreaming of the stars was now a branch of astro-energy within its tiny compass or us campaign against the various. nomy which had progressed far the mechanism hidden in its posts which constitute a drain on since the days of Newton, when minute girth. He has weighed it

the wealth of Britain. If rats, that mastermind declared that

and tested it in various combina- stara were great earthe vehement tions and by various methods. He sparrows, cockroaches, death- Ly hot.

knows the proportions in which watch beetles, grey squirrels, mos- The analysis of a star with the spectroscope, was now atoms combine with other atoms,quitoes,, and the other pests that: made as easy as an equally com- and the conditions in which they the College wishes to reduce or plex substance could be analysed refuse, but of the manner in which

exterminate could be eliminated brow in the laboratory. With the the individual atom worked he was

spectroscope a star's velocity could ignorant. Till the science, or the as they can be a substantial re- be determined, also its tempera-romance, of radio-activity opened duction might be made in the ture, and now, by an indirect new avenues for investigation, income tax. Why not? method, its distance from the this key to so many enigmas was earth.

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Island

Victoria Peak

Fest.

1828

1774

1734

Mountain Lodge

...... 1725

Bignal Station

Mt. Parker.rnered

The Eyrie.......... 1725

Peak Hotel!.........

Taikoo Sanatorium

Mt. Davis

1805

1000

877

Bowen Rd (filterbeds) 297

Mainland.

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Kowloon Peak

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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 Claxo

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Mannequins And Shows.

Mannequin shows in Paris, are on the whole less sensational than in England probably because they are rather more in the day's work. At the same time there is this season a marked tendency to increase the features of a dress

any

unsuspected. Now the services

of this atom that has never been seen and never will be seen in the ordinary sense of the word are re- quisitioned in every direction with feverish anxiety, and perhaps in no branch of science more eagerly than in crystallography. "En- gineering."

An Empress's Souvenirs,

GASSED IN THE GREAT WAR

An ExGunner's Plight.

Many of our ox-soldions are still

suffering from the privations they

red while on active servies: the constant exposure and nerva racking, experiences have oft their mark on many a man, and some indeed are little better than human wrecks How ex Sunner Robert Wm Hopwoody of U Palgrave Road, Yarmouth, was rescued from this fate was recently told to n newspaper reporter

"I served for three years in Bulgari and the East in the 65th Brigade Machine Gun Corps, and never once got

gassed;

internal pain, and was operated on for

often when I came home from work

The dispute between the late collection and to make of it some Empress Eugenie and the State thing very like a theatre display concerning certain articles of A few of the big designers take a great historic interest has now theatre from time to time, and the been definitely settled. The State mannequine parade to slow music claimed that the articles belonged or with the accompaniment of a to the national collections, a pre- dress lecture. Seats are paid for tension which the Empress Just as they would be at

Eugénie contested. This affair ordinary theatre, though the price sions given in 1902 and 1920 were home on leave," said Mr Hepwood. goes back to 1880, and the deci is not quite so high except on very in favour of the Empress, the "On the Vardar front, when 5,000 poison: special occasions (says, the "Man-Courts Hnding that the articles as shells came over, I was badly chester Guardian.") A few firms should be considered as personal ap for twenty-aight weeks in the 49th As a consequence I was laid have adopted the ten-habit, and a great many of the opening days souvenirs of the Imperial family General Hospital near Salonica, and I are accompanied by ten, especially their legitimate owner.

and ought to be returned to came out suffering from disordered Prince action of the heart and dubility. After where American and English cus Victor, the heir of the Empress came back to Eng and I suffered from tomers are in the majority. Here Eugenie, reduced his claims, and appendicitis. Then when I came out of und there sensation is produced by the State decided to make restitu-hospital Iased to have owful pains, some very daring or eccentriction. In a few days, two cases particularly at the back of my dress. One mannequin this year will be despatched from the shoulder. I was so week, too, that paradas in a complete tiger skin Louvre Falace to Prince Victor telt unable to take off my boots. after the manner of the most The first will contain the sword purple heroines of romance. Eye of the First

Consul, which glasses are left for the most part figured in a ease in the Museum to the English. netual dancing or other realism Napoleonic relles. It is a re Nor is there of Decorative Arts among the

I took a nerve medicine, but it did not do me any good. Night after Sometimes the mannequin is ac-markable piece of silver work, night I could got no rest.

Then I rend companied by an animal of sorts and was given to the "Sover-thout Dr. Willams pink pills, and who more or less tones in with her eign's Museum" by the Countess been taking the pills long before there determined to try them. I had not dress. Here and there she wears Camerata. When this museum was an improvement. I could ent amazing, jewellery, but here again closed in 1871 it was deposited in better, and was able to get a good realism is not resorted to as in the Louvre. In the second easels I could feel my strength returning. night's rust. As I continued with the England, and nobody thinks for as the famous musical clock on day by day. My work was no longer a moment that the jewels are real which reposes the "nymphe burden to me, and now I enjoy Hfc. I The training of the mannequin is couchee," by Clodion, extensively am certain I owe my present fitness to becoming steadily more exacting. reproduced. It belonged to Queen ba without them."

Dr. Williams pink pills, and I would not The "wriggle" still obtaina here Hortense, and for a long time re- and there, but-probably owing to mained in her château of Arenen-ailing or weak, Dr. Williams' pink pills: Do not delay, but begin, if you are the very tight, dresses-a sort of berg, in Switzerland. Afterwards now. Of chemists, or $1.50 per bottie, easy glide is now adopted, and this it was taken to the Château at $8 for six bottles, post free, direct from is very much more difficult of Saint Cloud, and was, fortunately, Road, Shanghat Good for men and Dr. Wiliams" Medicme Co., 80, Kiangse accomplishment.

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