WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.
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FOR
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THE ANNUAL MEETING of
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H. COPLEY MOYLE,
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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
MODERN CHINA.
THE CHINA MAIL.
A NEW RACE OF YOUNG WOMEN.
SCHOOL v. COCKTAILS.
Professor W. E. Soothill, the distinguished Professor of Chin- ese at Oxford University, refera in an article in "Contemporary Review" to the remarkable change in the status of Chinese
women.
"The modern Chinese girl and AMAH WANTED,-A LADY re-
young woman," he writes, "is the turning from Home in September
THE THIRD EXTRA RACE brightest spot on the landscape. with daughter of five years of age THE
MEETING will be held (wen- and the most promising nsset in wishes to engage in Âmah in Lon- don for the voyage to Hong Kong.ther permitting) at Happy Valley the national life. I am not re- Apply Box No. 488, c/o "China on SATURDAY, 7th May, 1927, ferring to the up-to-date fashion- cock commencing at 2.30 p.m. The first able, hotel-frequenting
tail-drinking, bell will be rung at 2 p.m.
dancing, ultra- The charge for admission to the modern society creation, but to Public Enclosure will be $1 for all the cheery, happy, tripping
school-girl. peraona including Ladies,
Mail."
TO LET.
TO LET-Ground Floor, A.P.C. Building. Suitable 05 Shop. Apply to Tabaqueria Filipina, A.P.C. Building.
SECRET MARRIAGE.
HON, I. MONTAGU'S TYPIST. BRIDE,
HOW
TALE OF SPIES.
EX-PRINCESS AND SECRET WATCH.
SHE HEARD SECRET WAS CARÒL & MORGANATIC WIFE,
OUT.
The announcement of the secret marriage of the Hon. Ivar Montagu, third son of Lord Swaythling, head of the great banking house of Samuel Montagu and Co., and Miss Ellen Hellstern, a typist was re- ceived with intense interest at the bride's place of employment, n' West End costumior's house.
According to
The
Evening News," the bride, returned to her work after the wedding at a Lon- don register office.
"Nobody suspected her secret,” the head of the firm said to an "Evening News" representative.
"It
Excited Errand Boy..
An affair of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, the former morganatic wife of Prince Carol of Roumania, is now before a Paris magistrate.
A Roumanian named Stefanescu and his wife. accuse Mme. Lam- brine and her cousin of insult and assault.
They say that before Mme. Lam-j Prince: brino's case against the came into the Paris court (she failed in a claim for 10,000,000
francs) she called on their Rer- vices to spy on Prince Carol.
Prince Carol, arter giving up his right to the throne of Roumania, was living in Paris in a house not far from that occupied by Mme. Lam- brino.
the Stefanescus, According to moment
they were ordered to do "little Jobs" they did not like.
was a wonderful when an errand boy, breaking all the rules of the firm, dashed into the showrooms, excitedly waving a copy of "The Evening News."
"He ran into the office where Miss Hellstern, as we knew her, was working at her machine, and said:
Is this really you?"
"Miss Hellstern grabbed the
One day they had to climb a lad- der in a house that was being built in order to see what was going on in that in which the Prince was staying.
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must be in plain block letters and legible,
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Smart Silk Stockings, half price.
"Twenty years ago nearly half Members are advised that they the population of the country, must ahow their Badges to obtain some 200,000,000 of women and admission to the Members' Enclo-girls, had crippled feet. The effect on carriage, happiness and Each member has the right to character is only made evident FOR SALE-One brass "Hung introduce 2 non-members to the now that a new race, absolutely a Ming" pan of the Chinese HanMembers Enclosure, tickets for new race of women, is being evolv. / Paper, read it, and then had to con- to barst the tyres of the Prince's 10. Solutions will be published with the results, in this paper, every
FOR SALE.
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sure.
:
Dynasty with automatic springs. whom can be obtained from Messrs. ed. Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487. Linstend & Davis at $5 each up to "If a sign be sought of progress
FRIDAY, 6th May, 1927..
in China, perhaps the most felicit The charge for admission for ous is the signboard of the Ladies to the Members' Enclosure Woman's Boot Store; 20 years will be $2. Ench member can ago it was non-existent, now it is ohtain, upon application to the found in every city. Then, every Secretary, Badges for admission of woman made her "three-inch gold-
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NOTICES.
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2 Ladies free of charge.
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1927.
THE HONG KONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY CO. LTD.
AYMOND ERNEST COXON| NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY
Rax This Day been authorized
to sign for the Company "per pro- curation."
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1927.
NOTICE.
'GENERAL MEETING.
NOT
en lilies' to cover what remained of her maimed feet. To-day the boot store supplies her with beautifully made shoes in bewild ering variety to wear over her fresh-coloured silk stockings.
JUDGE AND HIS LUMBAGO.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Judge Cluer, who is 73, is a great that an EXTRAORDINARY sufferer from lumbago, and often GENERAL MEETING of the above carries out his duties while auffer named Company will be held at the ing great pain. In the Shoreditch Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, County Court an elderly woman de Matheson & Co., Ltd. No. 18, Pedder fendant. having' had judgment Street, Victoria in the Colony of given against her in a possession | Hong Kong, on the 10th day of case, raid, as she was leaving the IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that May next at 12 o'clock Noor! for witness-hox. "I thank you, my Mr. HARRY OWEN HUGHES considering and, if thought fit. lord, and I wish you a happy new as This Day been admitted a Part-passing the sub-joined Resolution year."
as an Ordinary Resolution.
Judge Cluer: Never mind that; I ner in our firm.
That this meeting authorises wish you would take my lumbago the Directors to pay to the away with you.
IM
HARRY WICKING & CO. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1927.
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BOOK
Consult
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YEAR BOOK 1926-27.
Obtainable at
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.,
HONG KONG
Executor of the late Sir Cutchick Paul Chater, C.M.G., the. "Manag- ing Director's fees in suspense"} shown in the Company's last Balance Sheet, which represent the proportion, calculated up to: the date of his death, of the re-i muneration to which the deceased! would have become entitled, if bei had survived to the end of the year, under Article No. 95 (B)
of the Articles of Association.
By Order of the Board of Directors
L. S. GREENHILL.
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1927.
NOTICE.
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
TOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN
that the THIRTIETH OR
DINARY ANNUAL MEETING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, "St. George's" Build. ing. Chater Road, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, May 14th, 1927, at Noon, for the purpose of Receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the year ended December 31st, 1926; to con- 6rm the appointment of Two Directors, and to elect Two Direc- tors & Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, 11th MAY, 1927. until WEDNESDAY, 18th MAY, 1927; both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
Among the chief points of interest in the spring collections is found the combination of black and white D. L. KING,
in almost all fabrics and in all Secretary. modes.. Hong Kong, May 2nd, 1927.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.
The spring coat that appears so smartly for sports occasions finds black kasha materiala amartly com- bined with black and white calfskin In creating an Interesting sil houette. The more formal coats NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. that still prefer this black and white 'combination find themselves HE FORTY-SIXTH ORDINARY beautifully tailored in lines of in
GENERAL MEETING of terest in silks and woollens and in- Shareholders will be held at the troduce collars of interesting lines Offices of the undersigned on in white ermine.. TUESDAY, the 17th May, 1927, at Evening wraps of black with Noon, for the purpose of receiving white linings, or with white fur the Report of the General Agents, collars. follow the mode for black together with a Statement of Ac- and white. Evening dresses, too, counts for the year ended the 31st appear in no end of interesting combinations of black and white in The SHARE REGISTER and silks and chiffons.
PRICE $15.00.
HONGKONG HEIGHTS December. 1926.
For the information of visitors TRANSFER BOOKS will be The afternoon ensemble-holding the following list of some of the CLOSED from the 3rd to the 17th a place of extreme Importance in highest poims on the Island and May, 1927, both days inclusive.
JARDINE. MATHESON &
CO., LTD.,
General Agente, Hong Kong, 26th April, 1927;
OLD CHINESE VECZEMA REMEDY
For Kutsenu Use Only
Mainland is published:-
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Victoria Peak
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1828 1774:
Mi. Parker
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P.O. Box No. 1547, Hong Kong,
Taikon Sanatoriuni
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Mainland
Talinashan
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For maturing a wire cellać
the soring mode-finds 'many uses;
for black and white. Now that the vogue for three piece costumes has added itself to the apring list, black Blik georgette, or woollen coats aupeat very smartly over a two- Infoen dress making smart use of black and white fabrics. Some of the silks are printed and appear in behutiful designs..
fess that she was the Hon. Ivor Montagu's bride, and had kept her secret since January 10; The news spread throughout the building.
"Soon Miss Hellstern was being overwhelmed with congratulations from me, as the head of the firm, from every member of the staff.
Cenfidant of Other Girls.
her. Miss Hellstern, it is, no ex- "We shall be very sorry to lose
aggeration to any, was the most popular member of our staff. She has been with us a considerable time.
"Not only is she an efficient typist; she is a capable book-keeper and a willing worker. Her attracį tive personality endeared her to everybody. All the other girls brought their troubles to her and made her their confidant.
"She is versatile and well-rend: she is fond of classical books.
"A heap of telegrams is waiting for her when she calls.
"It is a great romance for a West End firm to have its most popular member of the staff as a principal in a secret weiding, and we all wish her the best of luck."
- Mr. Montague and his bride re- turned to his flat in Old-buildings, Lincoln Inn, and subsequently left by a back entrance,
Another day (they any) they had! to place broken glass on the road
car.
After Mme. Lambrino last her
case in the Paris courts (the Ste- faneseus say) she made their life) impossible in her house.
On January 1, after a violent
declare) cast out of the house.
9. The Editor's decision will be final and binding in all matters of dispute, and he reserves the right to enter into Correspondence regarding the Competition.
11.
Thursday following the Closing Date.
Coupons will be kept for four days after the results of the com petition have been published.
12. All letters must, be addressed, "China Mail" Cross-words,
c/o "China Mall" Offices, No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong No member of the staff of the "China Mail" will be allowed to
dispute, the Stefanescus were (they 13.
TRAINING ELEPHANTS.
NATIVES EAGER FOR "MAN'S WORK"
How wild elephants are succeNN- fully tamed and trained to labour as transporters of Congo cotton is disclosed in the report of an in- vestigation into the conditions. existing at the elephant training school at Api, Belgian Congo, which, after being threatened with extinction on the grounds of econo- my, was preserved and financed by the King of the Belgians.
The document describes the me- thod of capture of young elephants. whose mothers are shot or driven off. Native hunters then throw. themselves bodily on the baby ani- mal, which is taken to the hunt- ing camp and removed to Api for training,
Natives flock for employmnet, anys the report. because they re-
card it as "man's work."
With lines and silhouettes occupy is much used, also dark champagne ing the greater part of the feminine colours. Tilleul and grey greens} fashion world, Paris has seen to it
that many new shades are intro- are the two shades of green for day- duced to keep at fever point theme while evening greens lighten- interest in all her spring inspira-od and brightened in tone into grass and chartreuse greens are
Red is still important, and] seen. appears in tomato and raspberry
tions. -
shades.'
Blues are perhaps the most popular tones introduced in the newest ensembles. A point of in-
Mustard and lemon are two of terest in many of the ensembles is the number of varying shades of the yellow tones most often worn. one colour that are combined. The Greys appear from: the grey, blue blues range from navy to pale pas- to those that possess a rose tinge. tel blues and may be found in one A new shade called Ibisa soft or two tones in the blue ensembletone which is a mixture of salmon. that will grace an early spring ap- and peachle gaining in popularity.
Dark blues are also pearance. frequently combined with pinks and rose shades in very effective ways. But blue, particularly in navy or in the new Matignon blue, leads in popular appeal.
In most cases pinky rose tones which are old rose but a little more yellow in cast take second place in Paris collections, After this chade comes the soft silver, rose and grey, blues.
Black. while extremely fashion- uble with white does not by any means limit itself to this one colour combination, Black, so much used in the spring ensembles, finds it- self beautifully used with peach, salmon, shell pink. coral, sapphire blue, pale blue, yellow and grey.
All colours in all combinations are to be found expressing unex- pected beauty. In the printed silks w the combinations of colours are giver special opportunity to ex- breas themselves and are relieved by a coat using the dominating
Black and white are used to create many of the most interest ing, ensembics and are combined in intricate fashion.
All befge in somewhat pink tones
shade.
Corinne Griffith, who wears her clothes with exceptional distinction, has provided herself with a ward. robe which includes many of the black and white combination by now shades Greens, belge and Billic Dove, in aelecting a charm carrying an interesting pocketbook poach, tones are much used by ing ensemble for early spring days of black and white in unusual lines, Miss Griffith in addition to black is seen appearing in a black kasha white gloves and a single button and white combinations. Corinne GEORGE Y LEE cant, trimly talldred and smartiv of black and white calfskin on her Grifth (wears many new and in using a collar of black and white coat. Miss Dove may be seen in tereating clothes in new shades in calfskin. Cuffs of the same fur are this ensemble in the First National, the First National film, Three used. Miss Dovo has added to the Palm The Tender Hour."| Hours.
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14. Solutions are held under scaled cover and in no way will be
opened until the close of the competition,
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To "China Mail" Cross-Words,"
c/o "China Mail" Offices,
No. 5, Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.
DEAR SIRS,
I agree to abide by your rules, and I enclose..
for
Name
Address
.solution (s) which are attached.
[Please Write in Block Letters.]
CLOSING DATE FOR COUPONS, MONDAY, MAY 9. [Coupons received at the "China Mall Office after mid-day:
on Monday will not be included in the competition.]
1. As.
Horizontal,
A short piece of rope or line. 9. To know."
11. A fish of the shark kind...
12. An eruption of the skin. 18. To dissipate,
15. A large antelope of South
17.
Africa.
Crabbed,
18. Nothing..
20. Self.
21. A deliberative convention.
22.
Divisions,
24. Hastily. 25. Eldera.
27. Compass point.
28. To line the top of.
20. Petitions..
80.
Printers' measure.
32. A grain.
39. To kindle.
34. The nominative plural of the
36.
second person.
mineral capable of being cleaved into elastic plates of extreme thinness.
88. Volcano in Sicily. 39. S. L. (Actual).
40. Quartermaster (Abbreviat
ed).
42. One to whom a legacy is
bequeathed.
44. N. U. (Actual); 45." (Same as 29 Horizontal), 46. A small roll of tobacco, Cal 47. Girl's name.
49. A small pack saddle. 61 To, knit..
63. R. O. L. (Actual).
54. The awn..
67. A planetarium. 69. To plunder.: 01. To reacha
62 R. Y. L. (Actua jes. Light sword with a narrow
blade (Plural)..
Vertical.
2. To make useful.
3. Furnished With Aislea.
4. Poison.
5. A word of denial.
6. An exclamation.
7.
Formed with a surface
closely corded.
8. To, haul.
9. Welke or withers..
10. An introduction.
13.
Performed.
14. To wear out
16,
A spring.
18. Sixteenth of a yard..
19. Unless,
22. Sovereigns.
29: To stammer.
25. To jeopard.
26. A large net for catching fish. 27. Denial.
28. C, O. M. (Actual). 81. Not any."
35 A large stable for horses. 87. Another time.
38. State (French);
39. Procures by callusion, 1412 Mçan,
43. (Same as 37 vertical).
44. A morinė chatopod worm,
•1 45. A spring of mineral water,
48. City in Cambridge.
50. Bustle.
52. Tradea,
55. S. P. (Actual)!.
568: An equal quantity. (Medical). 57, 0. T. R. (Actual).
58 Sun God.
00. E. P. (Actual);
61. A. E. (Actual)
64. Military decoration (Abb.); |_ Competitors are reminded that the prize is to be awa for the correct solution, or if nobody succeeds in getting the correct solution, for the NEAREST correct solution. Therefore, even 1 you have not done, the cross-word puzzle in fall, send in what you have done it may prove to be the nearest correct solution. W
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