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· TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927.

Phone C.22

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three inser- tions prepaid $1. Every addi-. tional word four cents for three insertions.

WANTED.

COMPRADORE WANTED, - An old-established firm requires the. services of a Compradore who is thoroughly conversant with the Import Trade of South China and who

can furnish substantial

NOTICES.}

PEAK CLUB.

LADIES' HAIR DRESSERS.

Its the way you have your HAIR

done that makes it

THE ROWLING GREEN is now attractivo.

Tanitable for play and a

Our barbera are experts in Bobbing, Shingling and Wav

Notice is being, sent to all Mem- bers. and Subscribers regarding conditions of membership and play.

The Groen will be Informallying, opened on WEDNESDAY, 14th September, at 5.15 p.m. and all Members and Subscribers who are interested are cordially invited to attend.

Players must wear Rubber Soled Shoes without heels.

E. B. C. HORNELL,

Hon Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th September, 1927.

security. Please apply Box No. HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. 503, care of "China Mail."

TO LET.

TO LET "Bellevue" No. 6 Peak Road.

Fully-furnished from 1st December, 1927: Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.

2A

ARMEND

DR Forms for

RAFT Programmes and Entry the SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held on SATURDAY, 8th October, 1927, & MONDAY, 10th October, 1927 (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Race Course, Hong Kong Club and Causeway Bay Stables.

TO LET-No.

Entries will close at Twelve BUILDINGS, KOWLOON. Four-O'clock Noon, on SATURDAY, roomed farulahed Flat from 15th 24th September, 1927. October. 1927. Apply to Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming.

FOR SALE.

Hong Kong, 2nd September, 1927,

THE

HONG KONG CLUB.

NOTICE.

.SEVENTH YEARLY OF TWENTY of the Hong

DRAWING DEBENTURES

FOR SALE-Essex 6 Cylinders in perfect condition. Only 5 months' use, and only driven by owner, who gives it away for $1,800, on nccount of his leaving the Colony. Apply Kong Club (1920 issuc-$500 Duro Motor Company, Kowloon. each) was held in the Club House

on THURSDAY, the 8th Septem-: FOR SALE. Chefoo Stampa. Un-bor, 1927, when the following Debentures were drawn for re- used. Set of six stampa:-2, 5, 10,

demption:- 15, 20 and 25 cents.. Price $2 per 600, e/o set-Apply Box No. "China Mail."

26 280 434 545, 721 160 303 447 636 780 214 332

484 651 789 274 347 499 664 838

FOR SALE-One brass "Hung and will be payable at the Hong Ming pan of the Chinese Han Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- Dynasty with automatic springs.poration on Friday, the 30th Sep- Price $1,000.00 Apply Box No. 487,tember, 1927, in exchange for sur- c/o "China Mail."

render of same,

MISCELLANEOUS.

YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed--"China Mail" Office, No. 6.. Wyndham St., Telephone Central 22.

By Order,

A. H. ABBAS,

Acting Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th September, 1927.

HONG KONG CLUE

*

CAMPBELL MOORE 19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 15!

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHEN WORK PAYS.

In

EFFECT OF STINTING "

ENERGY.

VITAMINS.

TREMENDOUS IMPORTANCE IN A HEALTHY DIET.

Professor Sir Frederick Gowland RAMOS RETIRING. Hopkins, the distinguished blo- chemist of Cambridge.

COLONEL OF CONSTABULARY

Different Kinds of Vitamins. (a) Fat-soluble vitamin A, frat

TO QUIT MANILA, ` detected in butter and yolk of egg, is abundant in cod-liver oil and in most instances, ваув The little things of this world many vegetable oils. Its primary Reports that Colonel Aurelio "Engineering," the effect of often count for more than the large. source is in green leaves and ava Ramos, chief of the intelligence The invisible microbe 'kills the weeds. It seates to promote growth † division of the Philippine conatabu- stinting energy deprives the in-giant; the minute drops of hormone and to have something to do with lary, leaves the service this month, dustry of orders and the equiva-regulate the health of the body: the utilization of fat in the body. were confirmed by Acting Governor (b) Water-soluble vitamin B is General Gilmore on September 5. lent means of livelihood. It is in tiny quantities of vitamin make all industry what poorness of blood the difference between food on found in cereals, pulses, eggs, The acting chief executive said he is understood to be in the in- which we thrive and food on which yeast (marmite), lemons. It coun- approved the colonel's application dividual, and goes from bad to become diseased. Indeed, it is teracts beri-bert disease and works for retirement some time ago.

What impelled Colonel Ramos to worse if the disease is not treat-characteristic of vitamins that they against certain forms of nervous

are present in very minute quan- degeneration. It is called anti- quit the service is not definitely ed and cured. Only in a very titles in the food, and that is why neuritic.

known. It is generally felt, how- UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS small minority of men is it both they are technically called "acces (c) Vitamin C, which works ever, that his recent recesses in voluntary and incurable. The sory food-factors." A very little against scurvy, is abundant in unearthing crooked dealings of poli- green vegetables, fresh fruits tiketicians of Influence have something to do with his decision to retire. Colonel Ramon will make his home with his family in the Asturias, Spain.

Small 3-Bank Portable Model New 4-Bank Portable Model

and

Standard Office Machines

Every Size always in stock Suitable for all requirements.

BOLE AGENTS --

Queen's Building,

great majority of cases arise goes a long way. from one or both of two causes,

A man's willingness to work as hard as he can, and to some extent even the amount of fatigue involved in doing so, de- the assurance he may pends on feel that he is increasing his share of the product his work is contributing to obtain. The praç- tice of preventing a man's earnings from increasing. with

DODWELL & CO. LTD. his production, whether it is in-

Ground Floor, Opposite Ferry Wharf. Tel. 1030 Central.

NOTICE

TO SHIPOWNERS,

· MASTERS & AGENTS.

The Yuen Wo Seamen's Institute always has en available to ship as watch- men, seamen, &c.

Our men are couplayed by the leading passenger lines. We guarantee satis- faction.

Please phone or call: K.661-No. 2, Saigon Street, Yaumati or

C.2560-No. 38, Tung Man Street.

NOTICES.

HONG KONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.

ONDERWDED & UNDERWOOD 34 V

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., san of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, is reported to have gone to Reno, Nevada, where, it is reported, he will seek a divorce from Mrs. Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilts were married on

April 20, 1920.

The constabulary record of Colonel Ramos is considered an en- viable one. He began as a sub-in- specter on May 25, 1902. He saw service in Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Tayabas, Pampanga; and the Visayas. He is the possessor of various decorn- tions, including the world war medal, long service medal, and an- other medal for the Luzon cam- paign."Manila Times."

HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS.

September 11, 1927.

Mr. A. E. Atkins,

Messra. D. Gordon Bell. R. J. Birbeck, Captain and Mrs. Bentham.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Clios,

Messra. J. F. Donnelly, P. C. Denroche.

Mr. Ch. Gerer, Mrs. J. Goldsmith. Messrs. A. F. Henry, H. . Hin- chille, Miss' D. J. Hill,

Mr. J. E. Joseph,

Mr. H. A. Keller.

Miss H. Lillie.

Mesara. E. B. Price, II. Postel. Messrs. L. Randon, H. H. Rogge. Messrs. H. M. Sevendson, R. Schoeper, H.D. Smith, W. 0. Saunder,

Mr. J. A. Varner,

Mesurn. G. Wragge, T. B. Wilson.

troduced by a disposition among employers to cut piece or equi- valent rates as output increases, or is imposed by a trade union rule or custom, deprives the worker of the tonic influence of this assurance. In most occupa- tions it prevents him conclusively both from getting the economic equivalent of his available energy, and from contributing his full share of the economic output by the offer of which cus- tomers are led to increase their orders and reduce the burden of overhead charges on the aggre- gate living of the workers. It is. perhaps not too sanguine to be lieve that both employers and trade unions have realised, or are coming to realise, how this restriction of incentive has work- ed and always is bound to work. Incentive, however, is not suff- cient to enable a man to do more!

When people or animals feed ex-lemons, and especially sprouting than he can. No man by taking clusively on polished rice, with the seeds. It is called anti-scorbutic. heed can add a cubit to his delicate cortex taken off, instead of (d) Allied to fat-soluble vitamin stature, and not uncommonly it on whole rice, the discase of beri- A is another with similar physical happens that a man is engaged berl, or something allied, sets in. properties and distribution, which in a class of work for which his The inference that has commended works against rickets. It is called natural abilities do not fit him. itself to most physiologisia is that anti-rachitio. But its work in pre-coluble vitamin E abundant in The consciousness of this inabili- chemical entity of some sort. is moting the proper calcification of ether extract of wheat embryos, and ty may well operate to counter- lost with the removal of the outer bone has to be backed up by aun-in-dried leaves of lectuce. It occurs

light. zone of the rice grain.

unhurt in dried leaves of peas, in act any incentive, and to prevent

Nobody has seen a vitamin! Four Japanese bio-chemists claim seeds like cotton and Indian corn, him from putting out his full

D. for in some fruits like bananas, in egg- This inference is confirmed by to have isolated vitamin energy on a task in which experi- the fact that the disease can be which they propose the name yolk and many animal tissues. Its ence has taught him that he can-checked and health restored by re- Biosterin. gr Life-oil. It is a red- special interest is that It seems not succeed. For such cases the placing what was removed, or by dish-yellow oll, so, potent that an necessary for the successful deve- IN LIQUIDATION,

remedy is plainly to find the man adding to the polished rice diet a ounce will last a man all his life!| Jopment and normal birth of off- an occupation for which his small quantity of some other kind But it can kill as well as cure, spring. It may be called the ENDERS are invited for the abilities do fit him.

of food, which is therefore believ. except in Nature's dilutions. vitamin of reproduction.-Prof. J. ed to contain the missing vitamin.

(e) Of great interest, but cloud- Arthur Thomson in "John 0' Purchase of the following as

Most men, however, do not The various kinds of vitamins have ed in uncertainty, is a new fat London's Weekly," now stand in storage:—

decline to incur fatigue in their been much studied during the last Citroen Taxicabs recently over-work, and both for them and ten years, but we do not yet know hauled and in good condition. their industry the problem is how their chemical nature or how they Citroen Taxicabs requiring to get full value for the energy tained in

work. No vitamin has yet been ob small repairs.

a state of indubitable spent and fatigue incurred. purity. Large quantity of used spare Some part of the solution may be

Taxicab Body and Engine found in modifying the details of out vitamins? The obvious fact is How did our forefathers do with- Parts, Wheels, 215

the operation, and some in revis- that they did not, for vitamins are Also large quantity of New Citroening or attending to the complex present in the natural mixed food Spare Parts costing approxi-works' circumstances in which that sensible people usually eat if mately $15,000.00 ·

they are performed. The im- they get a chance. A deficiency Inspection can be arranged on portance of economising human arises when the diet is too mono- Tenders, accompanied by Deposit in the United States than in Bri- part of it used. "The most strik energy was naturally felt more tonous, or too artificial, or when the food is much broken up and only of 5 per cent. of offer, will be retain from the time its indus-ing evidence for the evil effects of ceived up to 15th October, 1927 and tries began to increase faster the artificial treatment of food first A. H. ABBAS, should be addressed to the under-than the population that

Acting Secretary-signed.

was came from rice-eating districts of available to serve them. It is the East when they had been in- Hong Kong, 8th September, 1927.

not surprising, therefore, that it yaded by milling machinery from

the Weat." Was in that country the first:

Vitamins and scurvy, steps were taken not only to in-j

When our sailor forefathers went vent labour-saving machinery, but also to economise the energy staple food, they did not get on

a long voyage with salt beef as aj of those who worked either on without vitamins, for they took the machines or by thmselves. It acurvy. We have changed all that, was not, indeed, until close on to and scurvy has gone by the board. the outbreak of war that the Apart from the shortening of voy- subject began to attract atten- ages from port to port and the in- tion in Britain.

NOTICE.

LAMMERT BROS. Drawing of 20 Additional

AUCTIONEERS, 'APPRAISERS AND SURVIVORS.

-Public Auctions-

THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction

ON

WEDNESDAY, the 14th Sept., 1927, commencing at 11 am,

at their Sules Room, Duddell Street.

2 Bags Haricot Beans.

21 Bags Split Peas.

5 Cases Clocks.

7 Cases Wash Basink.

1 Case Aluminium Pots,

7 Canes Spittoons.

15 Drums Composition Paint,

16 Cases Canned Sardines.

2 Bales Old Newspapers,

AND

A Quantity of MISCELLANEOUS GOODS Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 12th Sept., 1927.

ON FRIDAY, the 16th September, 1927, | commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. A Large and Valuable Collection of Curios.

comprising:-

Peking Cloisonne Bowls and

Vases, Old Bronze Vases, Jade

Table Ornaments, Blackwood Screen with Old Chinese Paint- ings, Blackwood Clothes Hangers, Chinese Dressing Sets, Crystal and. Amber

Ornaments, Ivory Figures, Lacquered Fire Screens, Lacquered Chairs and Teapoys, Old Metal Pictures, Mandarin Uniforms, Embroidered Skirts. Old China Vases, Flower Pots, Bowls and Plates, etc., etc.

Catalogues will be issued. On View from Thursday, the 15th September, 1927,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 12th Sept. 1927.

FAMOUS ECZEMA REMEDY. FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY.

GEORGEYLAT

No. 40

Thousas de praised this wonderful remedy, Bæd for ge turier with "AMARRE success. A swift, nuro Talist for Eciems,

Itoh, Tettar Boll Ulored Leg and all Blin Cissance, Ne matter how long standing. Dirai = triak

Generous Jar only $2,000

Queen's

On Sale at:

Rond, C., Hong Kong.

De-

TN Terms of Debenture Condi- tions Nos. 12, 13 and 14, the

bentures (1920 issue-$500 each) they was held in the Club House on 20 THURSDAY, 'the 8th September, 1927, when the following De- bentures were drawn for redemp- tion

20

19 234 ·361 609 726 · 33 261 480 623 745 147 271 515 655 806 224 341 566 691 831 Those Debentures will be payable at the Hong Kong and Shanghai | Banking Corporation on Saturday, the 31st March, 1928, in exchange application. for surrender of same.

By Order,

HOME TUITION.

TESTOVER STEVENAGE.

WWithin an hour from London.

In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS, A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local), (Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher

Certificate).

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned, have received Tinstructions from The Regis

trar The Supreme Court, to sell by Public Auction

ON

MONDAY, the 19th Sept., 1927, commencing at 9.30a.m. on the premises The Goods and Chattels of Marie Flint, J. L. Durand, The Europe Asia Trading Co., and The Cafe Restaurant Paristen of No. 12 Pedder Street, Ground Floor and Rear Portion of First Floor. comprising:-

Dining Tables, Dining Chairs,| Nicé Carpets and Rugs, Oll Faint- ings, Pictures, Electric Ceiling and Table Fans, Table and Bracket Lamps and Fittings, Cutlery, Glass Ware, Liner, Ice Chests, Blackwood Ware, Wines, Liqueurs, Type- writers, Adding Machine, Mimeo- graph Machine, Desks, Safes, Fil- ing Cabinets, Clocks, Teak and Glass Partitions, Fixtures and Fit- tings, Dresses and Materials, Hats, {Trimmings," Hand Bags, etc, etc.

ALSO One. Baby. Grand Piano.

AND

One Kelvinator.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 13th September, 1927.

JOHN FLEMING, CA... Liquidator,

Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, 3, Queen's Road, Central..

Hong Kong. 8th September, 1927.

BY ORDER OF THE OWNER.

DUBLIC AUCTION of the un-

Valuable Pro-

perties Situate in the New Terri- tories in the Colony of Hong Kong.

creased possibilities of carrying varled food, the deficiency disease of scurvy can be kept away by serv- ing out lime juice. In old days no one understood scurvy,.but it is curious that sailors should hava

New Kowloon Inland Lot No: 53 "MY LITTLE ONES LIKE THEM" chewed "ecurvy grass" when they

on which is situated the Tai Wan Glass Factory.

"

This Lot is situate at Kowloon Bay.

A Fish Pond. situate at New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 8 in the New Territories.

Lot Nos. 5908 and 5918 in Survey

Another Mother Tells why She Finds Baby's Own Tablets Splendid For Her Children,

reached a shore. Some of the vagaries of appetite among animals and children may be unconscious groping after vitamins, which are formed primarily and mainly in the tissues of green plants.

The precise role of the Indispen- All the trouble and tears former-sable accessory fond-factors is still District 1 in the New Territories ly associated with medicine-giving uncertain, but there are two pos- Agricultural Lots)

and medicine-taking have ceased in homes where Baby's Own Tableta vitamins are essential constituents sibilities. It is possible that used. Parents everywhere of the living matter, just as pro- testify of the antisfaction these teins are, and that they cannot be THURSDAY, the 15th Sept., 1927, Tablets are giving them. For bulit up in the animal body, but

to be sold by

PUBLIC AUCTION

оп

at 3 o'clock, p.m.

IN FOUR LOTS

by Messrs. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

at their Sales Room, 8. Duddell Street, Hong Kong. For further particulars and Con- ditions of Sale apply to:-

Messrs. HASTINGS, DENNYS

& BOWLEY; N Vendor's Solicitors. 8, Des Vœux Road Central,

or toda Messrs. LAMMERT EROS. The Auctioneers, No. 8, Duddell Street. Hong Kong, 19th August, 1927.

RINS PILLS

MARTINS

ADIOLA

& STEEL St. Sure and pertain for mil Fronala Comidants. Evay lady should keep

Hiền box in the botes. Chemists and Stok

(sell them throughout the world, butoanee

Probefrier: Martha, Chrall) Cancha

are

example:-

have to be borrowed, as it were, "I think Baby's Own Tablets from plants, or from the milk of splendid medicine for constipation vegetarian animals, and so on. in children. They also quiet the nerves and produce restful, na-

All flesh is grass! tural sleep. My little ones like the Similarly, on land, all flesh is, in Tablets and. I shall always have the long run, grass. The point is the remedy in the house, writes that vitamins may be obtained from Mr. M. Lallbere, of 16 Middle animals which have not, built up Street; Pawtucket, U.S.A..!

vitamins themselves, but have de

Baby's Own Tablets are guar-rived them at first or second hand anteed free from opiates or other vitamine owe their potency. to some

from plants. Another view is that! harmful drugs and to be absolutely dynamic, influence that they exert safe for even the youngest infant on the everyday metaboliem, or Chemists everywhere sell them, or chemical routine of the body. They pont free, 50 cents the vial, from are not ferments, but their virtue The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60 may be "catalyctic"; that is to say. Klangse Road, Shanghaf

they may accelerate associated chemical reactions.

POLAR CAKE

FTS QUALITY: THAT COUNTS.

A fine account of vitamina, edit- ed by Professor Harden, will be found in the second edition of a report by the Medical Research Council (His Majesty's Stationery |Office, 4s. 6d.), and strongly to be

THE

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JULY-DECEMBER ISSUE

THE BUSY MAN'S STAND-BY

Arranged in Numerical Order:

Specimen Page:

Central-22 The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd., 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 "China Mail" (Newspaper), 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 The Dollar Directory Co., 5, Wyndham St. Central--22 Telephone Hand Book, 5, Wyndham St. Central-22 "Hongkong Sunday Herald," 5, Wyndham St.

Peak-22 Bellamy, L. C. F., Res., 358, The Peak Peak-22 HK. Tramways, Ltd., General Manager's Res.,

358, The Peak.

Kowloon-22 Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., Cement Works,

Kok-un.

Central-23 Aubrey, Dr., office, Alexandra Bldg, Central-23 Macgown, Dr. J. C., Office, Alexandra Bldg. Central 28 Anderson, Dr. J, W., "Office, Alexandra Bldg.

Peak-28 Knight, C. C., Res., 184, The Peak. Peak-28 Butterfield & 'Swire, Mr. C. C. Knight, Res.,

184, The Peak.

Peak-28 Little, J. H., Res., 188, The Penk. Peak-29 Butterfield & Swire, Little, J. H., Res.,

188, The Peak." Kowloon-28 Ye Fong Chan, 186, Temple St., Yaumati.

Central 24 Tak Shun Bank, 155, Queen's Road C.

Peak-24 Stewart, Rev., A. D.,.Res., 112, The Peak. Kowloon-24 Dixon, H., Res., 4. Lycemoon Villas, Chatham Rd Central 25 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Aberdeen Dock,

Aberdeen.

Peak 25 Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Chief Manager'e

Res., 508, Magazine Gap, The Peak. Peak-26 Dyer, R. M., Res., Magazine Gap, 508, The Peak. Kowloon-25 Eastern Store, 814, Nathan Road,

Central-20 Alice Memorial Hospital, 72a, Hollywood Rd.

Peak-26 Matilda Hospital, 187-189, The Peak: Peak-26 Sanders, Dr. J. Herbert, 187-189, The Peak. Kowloon 26 Tiu Chan, 91, Alpin St.

Central 27 Ross, Alex. & Co., (China), Ltd., Prince's Bldg, Kowloon-27 Bond, C., Res., 106, Kowloon Tong,

Central-28 Police Station, Shaukiwan.

$1.00

On Sale at the Publishers:

recommended is a luminous book! THE HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY CO.

"Vitamins and the Choice of Food,

by Professor and Mrs. Plimmer (Longmans, 76 6d,). It may be noted that vitamins were practical- ly discovered twenty years ago

5, Wyndham Street.