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Children's Servlee, 10 a.m. Sunday School at Peak School,
LONDONERS
STRIKING INCREASE OF BOYS' PHYSIQUE
BETTER BEHAVED
The London elementary schoolboy of to-day is half an inch taller and three-quarters of a pound heavier than the boy of 20 years ago. He is also better fed, better clad, and better behaved. The children in the Matins and Sermon, 11 am.
secondary schools compare very Preacher: Rev. W. T. Feather-favourably with anything that the slone, headmaster of Diocesan most expensive public schools have Boys' School.
to show.
10 m.
Evensong, 6 p.m. Preacher: The Dean.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
This gratifying improvement is recorded in the report of the special services of the London County Coun- cil Education Department, compiled by its doctors and officers, and re- cently published.
Branch of The Mother Church, "The change in the little London- The First Church of Christ, Scien- | er," states the report, "is indeed
tist, in Beston, Masa, U.S.A.]
Macdonnell Road, below Howen Road Tram Station.
Sunday Service, February 23, 1980, at 11.15 a.m.
Subject:-"Mind."
on
The Sunday School is held Sunday mornings at 10 o'clock.
Wednesday Evening Meeting at 5.30 o'clock.
Reading Room at above address, open:-
Tuesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 12 Noon.
Monday and Thursday 5.80 to 7 p.m...
The Public is cordially invited to attend the service and vialt the Reading Room.
evident to those who have been accustomed to meet him, and such observers hardly need the confirma |tion of statistica." After the pass
ing of the Provision of Meals Act, In 1996, the medical officer found that 10.5 per cent of the children attending school in poof districts were suffering from malnutrition. To-day the percentage has dropped to 1.5 per cent.
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Bowling but he will have to in- prove to win. I prefer BABY FACE
:
Have You Heard?-
“My plate in damp," complained a traveller, who was dining In an Aberdeen hotel.
"Hush," whispered his wife. 'that's your soup.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930,
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Opening Daily Official Quotations 22nd February, 1930..
STOCK
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The Foochow 'Cup, Sitting Bull has won both the Derby and Champions, besides
Hong Kong Bank ....$ other blg races, and he appears
Chartered Bank.....£ Vegetarian (after being chased Mercantile Dk., AD. to have an easy mark here.
That's your gratitude, Adam comes from the Jardine by bull):
After this Bank of Asia $100 is it, you great brute? stable and a very fit. He is a long distance animal, who is also I'll eat beef three times a day!
Insurances. very fast,
President Hall can go the dis- tance in good time and, provid- ing he is not rushed in the first part of the race, he may get a place here.
Carnival Eve has a reputation In Shanghai and can go the dis- tance, he is a good outside bet My note boweave goes to
*** SITTING BULL
The China Stakes
c.
144
Customer: I must say, walter, Canton Ins. $145 this is the first time I've ever had Union im............. a really tender steak here.
Walter (aghast): Good gracious
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Shipping.
I must have given you the pro-China Fire las, prietor's portion.
Pat's job was to guard the en- trance to a Toad which led to an old and unsafe bridge. Seeing a large Douglasraş tar approach, he put up his hand.
H. K. Steamboan ...$ "What's the matter?" demanded tado-China (Pref.) ...$ Į
(Del....$
Apollo is a certainty for this the landlord.
event,
"Tis all right," said Pat. "My Shell Transport ........17.
through because of the danger, but scein' it's yourself, go ahead,”
-
Johnny: I tramped about twenty- five miles a day when I was on my
Mining.
.
Benglets
Boxing Eve is crack of the orders are to see that no traffic goes Union Waterboats....$23 local course, but I believe he will be beaten by the first named,
King's Courler will have a good chance of filling third place if started here, as he is one of the
vacation. best ponies in training.
Hughy: Yes, I know all about Young Pretender is fast over a
that. I bought a second-hand car, and will have a short distance very good chance of getting a place here. I nap
*** APOLLO
Kailan Mining Ad, if- Langkat (Comb.)...Tis. | (Single) ...Tls. S'hai Exploration...Tis. Loans......... T.
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Coupon No. 53 foar 30-40 Dec. 17, 99
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Docks, WharvOS, Godowne, &c.
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too.
Young wife: I cook, cook, and for the best thing at to-day's cook for you, and what do I get for
It? Nothing. meeting.
Husband: You're lucky. Indigestion.
Hopeful Stakes Wisdom Stog looks handy here and if the race is a fast one he looks a certainty,
H. K. & K. Wharves.....
Pending
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July 27, 23
A group of workmen was dis- cussing the evolution and origin of The Tiger has done nothing to man. One of the party remained speak about in training, till he is silent, and a companion turned to N. Engineerings ...Tls. 7.80
Shanghai Docks ...Tls, big strong animal whose dis-him and demanded his opinion. tance is about a mile.
"I'm not going to say," he re- Cotton Mille.
doggedly. "I remember African Eve is in one of theplied best stables to follow and if he is Henry Green and me threshed that Ewo Corton..... Tls. sent to the post here he has a out once before, and it's settled as S'hai Cotton (old)..Tts.s
far as I am concerned." great chance.
Marquis Hall is a sprinter and would be better off in a short
race.
Four Clubs should get a place if he is properly tuned up.
It may be a close thing but
• WISDOM STAG
is my pick.
The Tientsin Stakes The Pheasant does not seem to
be in the best condition, so I will allow him to pass.
The Jamaica is going very well and I would not be surprised to
see him come home.
"But what conclusion did you come to ?".
"Well," he said, slowly, "we didn't arrive at the same conclusion. Henry arrived at the hospital and I arrived at the police station."
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A man who, after a long day's tramp after game, was returning Flamphreys empty-handed, walked into a shop H. K. Realues ........
Chinese Estates'.......$ and bought two rabbits.
"There, my dear," he said, when
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Skinfaxi is able to do the dis-you shot them to-day, Jack," she ro-Sur Ferties.
marked. #To-morrow it would tance and should therefore
have been too late." well.
run
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medical inspection, "when children were actually found sewn into their clothes for the winter." Prejudice
Noukhall may go to the post but against medical inspection on the part of parents no longer disturbs do not fancy his chances in the school routine, and in 1927 there feld. were only 150 refusals out of a
Armony can go over a long dis-hospital surgeon said soothingly: HK. Telephones ....$5.80
there's nothing to worry China Duses.Th. 17 quarter of a million of children tance if the pace is slow, if Tast "Now
about. In fact, you ought to be S'poreTraction Ord. examined.
he is out of it.
My beat pick for this event is able to get a considerable amount
of damages." THE APE
Selections at a Glance
1. Plecy.
A striking testimony to the value of the school medical and nursing service is afforded, the report states, who should win. in the Improvement in the personal| hygiene of school children during the last 15 years. The school 1st Race:- medical service, it is claimed, has become the greatest factor in re- ducing infectious disease, which, in the past, has decimated the popula-2nd tion of great town. "For the first time in history the child of the great town is becoming physically, no less than mentally, the equal, if 3rd Race:--- not indeed the superior, of the country-bred child.”
Valuable help is being afforded by the Children's Play Centres Com-4th mittes, founded by the late Mrs. Humphrey Ward, in meeting the danger from street accidents to children.
Decrease in Juvenile Crims
2. The Jungle Book. 3. Hong Kong Beau
Race:
1. Winsome Stag.
2. Young Pretender.
3. Chesapeake Bay,
·
1. King's Bounty.
2. Baron Hall.· ́
3. Witty Stag. Race:
1. Baby Face." 2. Torbridge.
8. Shanghai Beau. ath Race
1. Sitting Bull. 2. Adam
3. President Hall.
1. Apollo
2. Boxing Eve. 3. King's Courier. Race:—
~1. Wisdom Stag.^\
2. The Tiger.... 3. African Eve." Race:
1. The Ape.
2. The Jamatoa..
The Pheasant.
"Damages," anorted the old wo- man. "I've got plenty of damages! What I want is repairs."
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The report indicates clearly the decrease in juvenile crime, Truancy has fallen off as the methods of 6th Race instruction have become more en- lightened. Welfare clinics and other agencies working for better physical Poor But Cheerful. conditions have all contributed to 7th
On demand "We find," said a school doctor
Credits, 60 an improvement, which is still recently, "that often the children notlecably gathering momentum.
sight who are badly, nourished are the Two of the Industrial schools
On Bombay children of the very respectable malatained by the County Council 8th
Wire type; but the income goes in keep-are" for boys, respectively at Port
On demand ing up respectability. The parents alade, near Brighton, and at. May:
On Calcutta of these children will never ask for ford, in Surrey, and one for girls
Wire help," she gets at Gisburne House, usar Watford.
On demand A comparison of a number of Uniforms had bean abolished at
On Singapore photographs of children 20 or these institutions, a larger measure
On demand years ago with those of to-day of trust was shown in the boys and
When a woman looks at her re- On Manila shows the child of those girls, and there was no prison or dection in the glass and sees a On demand.. days looked much older for his punitive atmosphere.
pleasing, clear-complexioned face, On Shanghai---- age than the child of to-day. The "Mrs will be glad if the secre- | older clothing fashions compare un-tary will send her a prospectus of she feels at peace with the world. On demand favourably with those of the present the college, wrote a Watford real. But when a sallow, pimply, melan 80 das hight (prive day, and the Insufficiency and un- dent, to the Gisburne House Indus pities herself for its unsightliness. On Yokoh
choly visage confronts, harshe paper) suitability of the footwear is very trial School "Impressed, no doubt marked.
by the dress and good bearing of Such unhappiness could be spar dn deman Professor F. G. Parsons found the girls she had seen on their walked many women by the occasional Gold Lex London has been, honoured lately that, even in the poorest districts, In the neighbourhood" comments use of Pinkettes, for usually these (per
Keppel, in the children were on the whole the repos
ter had formed blemishes to beauty Indicate only Bover
the need
Drive a Trusty
"TRIUMPH"
the Moter that never fails you
Mrs.
- Urillant | cheerful and fairly healthy, and that 4 Justifiably
Court a wonderful sunderstanding existed
standarda "and
between them and their
Bachera,
school.
hom he sat as 1
Woman And The Mirror.
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B. ind. O.$ Bonds 60% H... Govt. Loans...$ 51%
Stockholm
+
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Paris
101
101%
Brussels
Geneva
25.195
65%
Amsterdam
12.12%
Milan
92.85
74
Berl
20.885
18.12
Copenhagen
18:16
Onló .
-19,185
Vienna
84.517
Prague
104%
Helsi
108%
Mad
89.35
Lisbon
-106,27
Athens
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12.55
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Rio
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