WEDNESDAY, MARCH
ALBERT
FOR"
DAINTY DISHES
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS
He-Where are you going?
She-Why To Albers, of course, where we are sure to get the
Anett French Pastry and the best cooking...
He. That is not Hi Frodoh Caken at 81,00 par dozan, his Mederie Cakes, Bia Big Cakes, his. Ice Creams (combined with excellent cuisine) are, made exclusively with the butter, milk and cream of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd. She-Quito so and ke alan has a new menu comprising fity new diebos: which you can enjoy any tifos from. 10.30 am to Midnight.
Queen's Road Central
(Opposite Hongkong Hotel Building).
SHOEMAKERS
(Japanese Hand Made) Every Kind of Footwear MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & CO.,
6, D'AGUILAR STREET,
41 Opposite Kayamally & Co.
Telephone Central No. 49.
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
LEE KEE
Agent for
HENRY RICHARD
TILE COS
We have a large stock of" White Glazed Wall Tiles,, Colour Glazed Wall Tiles, Ceramic Monnio Tiles, Geometrical Eneautie Floor Tilon,. Tile, Fire Gratos.
Inspection Invited..
Showroom: 21, Wellington St.
Tel. C. 1489.
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 builds firm flesh, plenty of bone, and a strong constitution. Ask
your
Doctor!
Glazos
"Builds Bonnie Babies
Write for Free Sample and Descriptive Banklat to
Bola Agenta: W. B. LOXLEY & 00.,,~ → Hongkong.
THE CHINA MA
ODDS AND ENDS
Crystal Ballroom Floors..
The glass floor le for the un- sophisticated who don't know whe- ther they are dancing on glass, marble, ook" "pine' birth, or ebony, (and for charming young women who don't care what they dance on Bo long as they see pretty frocks, have an attractive partner, and sat an attractive supper. With the wonderful crystal ballroom floor one may rank the marble floor which one meets on the Riviera Both tire the feet. hör ribly. They begin by enchanting and end by irritating. The perfect floor has yet to be devised. The best made so far is of Balkan oak, qut in segments, baked and sup ported on 10,000 spiral steel springs. It is periodically adjust- ed and planed, but, personally, I And it too vibrant fanya & Writer in the Daily Mail Another fine floor, in a famous" cabaret, is so vibrant that one night I had a bottle of champagne overturned by an exhibition dance couple....who spuri too close to my table on: the- floor rim. An unyielding floor the commonest type of bad floor. is the parquet block floor. This type of floor is generally made facial
Charton GuilMET Boston: "Millionaire;?? connection with h382 Colony
pril Farm
New Faces for Criminals.
Through the clever capture in Vermont of a burglar who had his
appearance altered
The Shingle Nightc
One can
||fashion wiLE
lone of the most. Pat
examples of this is the m which the intensely modern far of shingled Hatha
Tor won (saysGadaboutin the
Daily Chronicle Lam told on good authority that every ahingled woman who respects her single dons a sleeping cap, when sherrettres to bed for the night, to keep her hatt in position, te pro- toot the ward, and to prevent the ands at the back turning up. The new bad care are not so elabor- be as those of former days, but they are neaps for all that
Bravo Bo Fusay..
Even should the Prince of Wales consent to make the carrying of umbrella fashionable, he would certainly not be willing to carry one. when in uniform (saya the Daily Chronicle) Yet his great-uncle, the Duke of Cambridge, was occan sionally seen thus aquipped, and at least one instance, is recorded of British officers taking their um brellas Into an engagement. At Bayonne da 1818, Wellington, observed a company of the Gren adfer Guards defending a redoubt
and
the
worse by being polished too highly, surgery, attention was called re against Soult's troops; a heavy Log strain, with consequent legcently to the increasing de
plastic surgery by criminals seek ache, results,
ing to escape identification, says the "World Magazine" (New York.) On the prisoner was fours
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showet was falling. Grenadier officers had umbrellus up. He subsequently sent their colonel a "memo!" of characteristle einess Lord Wellington does a receipt for 460 dollars paid to anot approve of the use of umbrellas New York surgeon for changing the under fine, and will not allow the contours of his ears, thir, and nose sona of gentlemen to make them- He hail dyed his hai, too
selves riciculous, in the eyes of the Poet and Farmert
enemy
Yellow for Breakfast..
Buttercup yellow. or bright orange is the right colour for the breakfast table, whew nerves
are
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ata Special formato Familient, man kifa
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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 Timing and Dinners. Under entirely new Management,
For further particulars apply to
H. TELLES JORGE, Manager..
ADELPHI HOTEL.
SINGAPORE
Remodelled and Redecorated;
THE RENDEZ-VOUS OF THE SMART SET
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EVERY TUESDAY
DINNER DANCES
Imitation "Scotch" Tweeds.
The extent to which Scottish tweeds are imitated in America Is fattoring to the skill of the man- facturers in the Border towns, but foreign-made tweeds sold as Scot (tish not only dolade the purchasers,
but threaten to east, discredit..on When Scotsman const the im- an industry which is admittedly un- mortal memory, few of them are rivalled. The foreign analyst may likely to recall Buras as one of identify the yarns and pick out the the most progressive farmers of colour blendings, and the cheminthis day (according to the Daily may secure an almost exact. ap. Unronicle. Yet as a pioneer of on edge and the senses cruve for proximation to the dyes, and the scientific farming, he was recog-sunshine (says "Daily Tele manufacturer may reproduce the nised by his contemporarius, and graph writer) Breakfast to the patter of weaving, but they can-Colonel Fullarton, in a raport in meal that really needs the most not produce "tweeds corresponding 1796 on. "The Agriculture of care in preparation-though it in quality and texture to the home-Ayrshire," refers to the poet's seldom gets it and lukewarm tea, manufactured article: The blend farming operations in compliment bacon as brittle as glass, ond ing and preparation of wools and ary terms. Amongst others, Major Rabby toast are too many people's colours are secured by something unlop of Dunlop, a prominent portion. By lunchtime most of us more than mechanical processes. agriculturist, expressed surprise ut: are feeling brisk and businesslike, The time has come when Scottish the excellent crops grown by Burns and at dinner the lamps are lit manufacturers have concluded that stony Ellisland. His prize and a pleasant evening looms they must protect the American cattle also were well known. Atahead; but breakfast has none of purchaser, and their own interests a time when cows averaged $2. these artificial aids and must suc- at the same time, and a scheme has 10s, he obtained the then record ceed or fall on its own merits. been evolved whereby every pur price of 218 for a cow with her! While the day is util) uztried, alll chaser will have an identification calf. Had the dong of the Chair one's work and worries atillate device as a guarantee of gangineo. Agriculture then ablished at come, the mind is peculiarly open, neas, Whether this plan with prove Edinburgh University not, had a to impressions. More people than |completely satisfactory remains to friend for the post, Burns in all admit it feel a sense of dread or be seen, but if the circumstances probability, would have been. ap.: nervous apprehension in the morn- call for the registering of trade pointed to the new professorship."ing: which breakinat can do much marks in countries where tweeds To him more than anyone else le to soothe of aggravate. Bright || KING EDWARD HOTEL are in demand, the manufacturers, due the credit of fouïding in 1753 drawn what is believed to have been the will unquestionably be together to act in co-operation for first farmers' society in Scotland. that purpose,
that of Kilmarnock.
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yellow is not only cheerful in itself,
but has a mysterious reassuring quality very grateful to the nervy temperamerit.
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EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
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Palm Court -Cinema-
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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 of 200 feet long,
Towa Ollies: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong. Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Shain-Sul-Po.. Kowloon, Hongkong. Tel. Kowloon No.9.
Estimates furnished on application.
Hongkong,, April 1, 1924.
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