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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

'Phone 20022

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three Inser-

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tional word four cents for three insertions.

All replies under this heading must be called for.

WANTED.

Know.

WANTED. Good House Bey. ledge of Valeting essential. Apply Box No. 687, c/o "China Mall."

FOR SALE

FOR SALE Victroln Cabinet Gramo- phone in excellent condition with 200 records. No reasonable offer refused. For further particulars apply to Box No. 688, c/o "China Mail."

TO LET.

TO LET-Ground Flour, No. 8a, Des Voeux Road Central, recently in the accupation of the Netherlands India Commercial Bank. Can be divided to suit tenants' requirements. Apply to David Sassoon & Co., Ltd.

TO LET To prospective visitors to England ideal accommodation in the West End of London, Centre of theatre land, etc. Good English face. Moderste charges. G1, Clarendon Road, Holland Park, London, W.11. G. B. Colson.

TUITION GIVEN

CLAREMONT

PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club, Four minutes from ferry by bus.)

Suiter of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.

EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.

Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible,

Terms very moderate. Reserva- tions by letter or cable.

CLAREMONT

Tels.: 57369 & 57386 (Private). Telegraphie Add.: "Fern" 1.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."

SEAMY SIDE OF THE ANT.

"Slave-Making and Warfare."

AN ILLUSION DISPELLED.

goes to Na- not to do, as With all his

When the eugenist ture he learns what well as what to do. vaunted industry the ant has many į

faults, and some of these were laid! bare by Professor Sir J. Arthuri Thomson, who told the members of: the Eugenica Society about the warnings that man may take from N; ture.

The occasion was the annual! dinner in commemoration of Siri Francis Galton's birthday, held at! the Rembrandt Hotel, with Dean Inge in the chair.

"Has man nothing to learn," ask- ed Prof. Thomson, "from the seamy aide of division of labour among animals, wher great officiency is often secured at the expense of the individual, a when certain mem- bers of an ant community are The specialised as honey-pota? red flag waves when we see how an ocensional animal society automati- cally shields undesirables who could

on a week

in- not survive for dividualistic lines, euch as termite soldiers or master ants, who have to be apuon fed by the workers.

60. Eggs A Minute.

"We are told to go to the ant, and what do we see in that marvellous communal organisation? Amid much

TUITION--Private Lesions given in LAMMERT BROS. that is admirable we see a multitude

Book-keeping. Shorthand, Typewrit ing. English, Musle and French.- Apply to 6, Aimal Villas, Kowloon.

to

ENGLISH LESSONS given Students with particular attention. to pronunciation, by English Barrister (Middle Temple). Apply Box No. 680, c/o "China Mail."

HOME TUITION,

-

AUCTIONEERS. APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

- Public Auctions

of non-reproductive females and a apecialised generative caste. We look longer and we see slave-making and warfare. Among the termites the exaggeration of maternity is almost grotesque when the single queen lays eggs at the rate of sixty per minute for days and weeks on end.

THE Undersigned have received I instructions from Mr. John 3.

"In other forms of life there may Smith, the proprietor of the Sta-

of the Within tion Hotel, to sell by Public Auc-be found such over-eexing WESTOVER-STEVENAGE

In healthy tion,

males that they have not room for an hour from London.

even a food canal. The red flag neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLE and SMALL BOYS. A Low Boarders

flaps when we are confronted with received in the House of the Principal

pigmy parasilic males, carried Individual care and attention.

about by their mates, and entirely dependent on them for sustenance.

Particulars apply to:

MISS RUTII CULLEY

For

(Camb. Higher Local), Camb. Teachers' Diploma)

MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,

(National Frodel Higher Certificate).

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE

BEAUTE

ON

THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY,

April 23, 24, and 25, 1931,

commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. In certain communities of ants and

at STATION HOTEL,

Nos. 65 and 67, Nathan Road,

Kowloon,

A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

au

ar over-

termites there are physogastric' guests, which have lost eyes and of their in- wings in the couree dividual life, being the victims of

over-sheltered life, generous hospitality, and a depress- ing stuffiness. of environment.

"Such are samples of the red Teak Hatstand, Chesterfield flags' in the animal world, surely Couch and Chairs, Large Arm-suggestive of warnings to man, chairs, Bookcases, Side Boards, aurely giving us hints towards Folding Screens, Long Mirrors, better understanding of the origin Pictures, Clocks, Brass Fenders, of evils.

comprising:

Brase Ware, Ornament, Carpets,

For the best Permanent Finger and Rugs, Curtains, Flower Stands, etc. "Beauty and Health."

Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and

Manicure for Ladies and

Gentlemen.

Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room 5. Tel. 25169, Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.

PHOTO-SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras.

Films, Plates and Papers, etc Developing, Printing and Enlarging.

ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.

A Trial Order is Solicited.

A. SEK & CO.

Tel. No. 23459. 26A, Des Voeux, Road, C. Hong Kong.

AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by

A. IL CROOK, O.B.E., M.A.

W. KAY, MA.

W. L'HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.

PRICE $2.00.

NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS.

191

The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. China Mall Offiões,

OUR

LADIES TAILORING

DEPARTMENT

undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles

‚16 18 hour.

LOVELY SILK STORE

2, Stanley Strees. Tel. 22100.

(Adjoining D'Agullar. Street.)

Teak Dining Tables, Round and "Yet this Illustration of red flaga Square Tables, Dining Chairs, or warnings must not obscure the Teak Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, larger fact that the animal world' Ice Chests, Filters, Dinner attalne in many ways to an excel- Crockery, Glass Ware, E. Plence that mankind may well envy. Cutlery, Table and Ceiling Fans, Apart from man's intereferences etc.

there is almost no disease in wild the animal Teak and Iron Bedstead, Tenk nature; throughout.

of Double and Single Wardrobes with world there is an exuberance

There is a practi- | Bevelled Mirror Doors, Mantle positive health.

Sex Pieces, Dressing Tables, Marble cat omnipresence of beauty. Top Washstands. Chest of Drawers, pathology is very rare, and the Desks, Rattan Ware, Linen and animal love making is often at al Blankets, etc.

high aesthetic level. Through the Electric Lights and Fittings, ages 'there has been selection of Porcelain Wash Basine, Shanghai types with nimble wits and the raw Such as- Baths, Cooking Stove, Gas Stove, materials of the virtues. Water Tanks, Plants and Ferns in pects, as well as those of genetica, deserve the attention of the wise Pots, etc.

eugenist."

also

Chubbs Safe. Plano by Moutrie,

and

A Quantity of

BLACKWOOD WARE.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

On View from Tuesday, April 21,

1931.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, April 18, 1931.

YOU

ARE INVITED TO INSPECT OUR STOCK OF

WANDY

ASIATIC FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

POSTAGE STAMP IN SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS AND IN, APPROVAL. SHEETS.

GRACA & CO.,

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Philatelic, Goods, Picture,

Postcards, Toyn, &c.: 10, WYNDHAM" STREET, P.O. Box No. 620, HONG KONG.

LOD Printies

HOTEL GUESTS

AT THE HONG KONG

April 19, 1981.

Mr. N. Appleton.

Mesare. A Bunch, G. Baron, J. E, BarnEL.

Messrs. A. Aug-Chen, W. B. Christian, C. F. V. Clark, 8. 8. Collins, C. F. Cheong.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Dowding, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Demuth, Mr. Irving Denton.

Mr. H. H. Green.

Mr. P. C. Hsieh, Mr. and Mrs.

M. Hendry, Miss L F. Hudson.

Mr. O. Italloner.

Mr. J. E. Joseph.

Mesars H. Krebs, E. C "A. Kenth.*

Miss H. Lillie, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Legarda and child, Mrs. Lea Choon-yuan, Mesare. Lee: Chin- tuan, Lee Gim-bin.

Messrs. H. H. Muller, 0. Morgenstein, Miss M. Maltby.

Messrs. B. Nichos, AE Nobbins, R 8. Norman.

Mr. and Mrs. Ramer Orial and child.

Mr. A. Fressel,::/:

Messrs. R. E Reid, P. ́E Robertson.

Messrs. H. V. Stokely, H., L Stubbs, W. W. Stark.

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