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ATSON'S

CONCENTRATED

Grape Juice

FOR

HEALTH & VITALITY

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION Prices per metric ton delivered, as follows:-

Peak District

Bowen Road & Lower Levels

Kowloon

Repulse Bay

Pokfulum

Shek-O & Stanley

$31.00 29.00 28.00

32:00

81.00 32.00 Clients are hereby informed that deliveries of Household Coal can only be made if cheque or cash for the supply is sent with the order.

Eat at

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents.

Parisian Grill

VARS

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The China

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1938.

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pillows. In Paris, evening head- dresses are already more fantas- tic than In London, which will no [doubt, copy them to-morrow, for some of the smarter English- women at the Fete de Nuit at Longchamp-a sort of mid-night Ascot vied with their Parisian * Notice To Contributors.

sisters in the extravagance of All communications intended for the decorations with which they publication should be addressed to surmounted their evening frocks. the Editor, and be accompanied by Bouquets of flowers the Writer's Name and Address, that is the word) of tulle in con- bined with huge pompoms (if not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith, i Nordi

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were com-

trasting shades, sweeping bird- of-paradise plumes were poised upon the head at almost incre- dible angles, but the really new note was provided by head- dresses of ribbon, wired and con- torted into strange geometrical |designs and worn so that they seemed either on the point of dropping on the nose or else fly-

MASTER CRAFTSMENing off the back of the head.

London, as we sometimes have

occasion to remember, is nothing Sun Burn but a collection of villages which

happen to have coalesced LYON G700's. rather haphazard fashion. Vil the more troublesome stage of We are now nearing the end of lage life still goes on to a surpris the sun-bathing season, and doc- ing extent, but probably the tors have had reason to claim of Mr. Sam Rex to be Lon-with alarm the lamentable defi- don's last sword-mäker and arm-

mark

ourer will not be challenged. Mr ciency in our knowledge of the Rex, who has just retired (busi proper use of this means of res- ness not being what it used to toring or maintaining fitness. be), worked daily at his ancient The cult has attamed its present bellows forge near Seven Dials, the last ten or fifteen years. The remarkable proportions. within and his craft had come down pioneers were the people who from father to son through gen-

of

erations. His best customers in started going down to the beach recent years were Americans, at the first onset of summer and who bought swords and spears to often by painful processes. decorate their ancestral halls, achieving an all-over beetroot ex but now the demand has fallen pression. With some the pursuit of the sun has become a whole- off. Then there is a Mr. Metcalfe, time occupation. They fly from whose great-grandfather was in business as a glass-worker and one beach to the other solely in

order to divest themselves engraver at Clerkenwell in 1800 their clothing and lie for hours bis descendant:is still carrying on with the same. hand working on end in a semi-comatose condi- tools, 188 years old, and he claims tion exposed to lie sun's rays. to be one of the only two crafts-t is quite seriously suggested men of the kind surviving in this that this obsession tends to melt country. In Black Lion Yard, E.1, away any mental faculties that just off the tumultuous White its devotees may originally have chapel Road, Mr. John Evans possessed. Other fodine oil, in- keeps a herd of fifty dairy cows, troduced from the Riviera to mi- and some eighty gallons of milk tigate the effects of sunburn, is are daily sent forth from this now on sale in every chemist's remnant of Whitechapel's long shop. Children, even babies, are vanished rusticity. Paddington mercilessly exposed for hours on can boast of a village black- end upon beaches. Severe burn- smith who has his smithy nearing, often serious illness, results; the busy Harrow Road; Mr. Wil doctors indeed fear that perman- liam Tanner and his two sons ent damage may sometimes be

done. make and fit on an average over

a hundred horseshoes every

week. Mr. Fossey is possibly the

last of London's independent har-Heir to a Throne ness-makers; he plies his trade

in a loft over a stable at Shad-

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well, and can remember the days Prince Mohamed Aly, who was when the traces of London's rur-in England recently has gained al origins were still visible to the an added importance since his naked eye. In Botolph Lane, E.C. last visit in 1935. Upon the death 3, the Davidson family still make of his uncle, King Fuad of Egypt, baskets, using the implements he became heir apparent to the which have now served four gen- Egyptian throne, and will re- erations. Battersea has its wheel-main so unless King Farouk has wright and Limehouse its family a son. Prince Mohamed Aly is the of mast and oar makers. Such younger brother of the ex-Khe- people are only heard of now and dive. He has always been Ang- again by chance, but research lophile in his sentiments, and has would no doubt reveal scores of known personally every member similar cases.

Fantastic Fashion

of the British royal family back to the days of, Queen Victoria; but for a serious illness, he would have represented his country at last year's Coronation. He gave The new feminine fashion of a wonderful, party at his pala crowning, the hair with blossoms on Roda land for Princess

Athlone at evening functions is develop-and the ing to such an extent as to in-they were in Cairo last wi spire fears that we may see a re- Prince Maho Alya English turn to the days when the female is perfect and so are his

hen

was adorned with models of which he buys in London, but in full sail and other such unlike most Englishmen He still antions, and "women"""" of

affection for, and

fon, in order not toʻxlisturb rears upon occasion, the straw creations, lind to sleep wi ster whic was once our fäv- their heads on special oden ourite mmer headgear.