1901-09-02 — Page 5

TO LET

TO LET SHORTLY.

TOUSES (now in course of erection and

Her completion) in a firad-class

business locality,DES VEUX ROAD CEN- TRAL, next to A Tack's Furniture Store. Upper Ground Floors suitable for Shops. Floors have plastered ceilings and walls, and are very suitable for Offices..

Apply to-

J. S. LEE & CO.,

Care of WING CHEONG TAL

240, Des Voeux Road West.

Hongkong, 7th August, 1901.

TO LET.

NO.26

10.96, WYNDHAM STREET.

Apply to

1099

C. F. DE CARVALHO. Hongkong, 31st August, 1901,

TO LET.

1920

1ST, 2ND, and Sun FLOORS of No. 35, 15

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, next to Messrs. LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., new nearing Completion. Suitable for Offices.

Apply toda

WING CHEONG, Nos. 1&3, D'Agullar Strest. [2218 Hongkong, 31st August, 1901.

TO LET AT KOWLOON, From 1st October.

HVENUS, Furbished or Unsanaised, TOUSES Nos. 2 & 11, SALISBURY

Very healthy locality, Beat and Taxes $44.90.

Apply to the

"OCCUPIERS OF THE HOUSES. Hongkong, 31st August, 1901.

TO LET.

[2219

DOSSESSION from September. THE POSSESSION IN CASTLE ROAD.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] LOVE, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE.

BY

REV. E. J. HARDY (Author of How to be Happy Though Married").

IIL

CHOICE IN MARRIAGE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPT. 2ND, 1901

to live with the person chosen. In many cases

martingo is a failure because people do not marry to please themselves, but to please others, to please fashion. Mon are ambitious of having what Charles Lamb called "furniture wives." Mon marry," he says, *for farlang, and some times to please their fancy, but much oftener than is suspected they consider what the world will say of it: how such a woman in their friends ayer will look at the head of a table. Heace wo sug so many insipid beautiesmado wives of, that could nothava struck the particular fancy of apy may An old constryman said to another. "If that had any faney at all; as many bay furni everybody had been of my mind, everybody ture and pictures, because they suit this or would have wanted to marry my old woman." that niche in their dining-rooms. These I all His friend reassured him by mying:-"If evory-furniture wives. Your universally cried up body had been of my mind no one would have beauties are the vory last choice which a man wanted to marry your old woman. So it is of tuate would saaks. What pleases all cannot that such oye forms its own ftoil of beauty, have that individual charm which makes this which is a capital arrangement for some of us or that countenance engaging to you, and to who otherwise might never have got married at you only-perhaps you know not why." The idea of the great electrician, Edison, marrying all.

was first suggested by an intimate friend, who said thus he needed a preside over the many servant in his large house Altough a very shy an Edison seemed pleased with the proposition. and timidly en- gaired whom he should marry, somewhat testily, replied "Anyour-that a man with so little sentiment as to ask such a question ought to be autistied with anything that were a petticoat and was decent. Wod to. the man who follows such enre-less advice and

Judging from the apparently unattractive wernen who are married it would seem that every girl except perhaps the very now and up-to-date woman is somebody's ideal. A young man said o his chum. "The fortuito girl who gets me must have thren qualificatious. She must be handsome, rich and a fool." Why all that asked the friend. "Well, he must be bend. some and rich or else I won't have her: she

must be a foot" or else she won't have me."

Even each a difficult ideal as this is sometimes

realised.

BURNS ON A GOOD WIE's QUALITIES,

mistress 10

The friend

marries anyone," for what was suit! by the fox to the sick lion might be mid with amal truth of Hymen: "I notion that there are many prints of test entering your cave, but I aes no trave of any roturing Will does old Roburi Bartos say, "If, as Plutarch adri-eth, one must eut n bushel of salt with him before he choose a

The post Burns, speaking of the qualities of a good wife, divided them into tes parts. Four of these le gavo to good temper, two to good sanas, one to wit, one to banty; and the other te parts he divided amongst the other qualities friend, what care should he had in choosing a belonging to or attending on a wifesch eife-his second self! How solicitans shonkl fortune, connections, education, family, blood, he be to know her qualities and behaviour. &. It is quite right to attach this mach And, when he is assured of them, not to profer Importance to temper when choosing a wife, birth, fortune, beauty, before bringing up and Sir David Baird and other British officers were good condition." taken prisoners by Tippoo Saib and confined in JUS. 1 to 8, WILD DELL, WANCHAL his dungeons at Bangalore. The old mother

ROAD.

2210

Apply to

No. 5, BEYMOUR TERRACE Hongkong, 3th August, 1901.

TO LET.

Apply to

SANG KEE,

Hongkong, 10th August, 1901..

No

TO LET.

sion from: Let September.

Apply to

M. T..

1208+

Care of Office of this Paper. Hongkong, 20th August, 1901.

TO LET

a

WHO SHOULD A GIRL REFUSE?

Choice in matrimony does not as a rule came from the female side. A refined girl will not

of refusing those who are ineligible. On what principle should this be done? First of all, we would say, that however handsome and agreeable man may, he should not be thought of as

husband if his character does not coramend

of Sir David, when she heard the news..in Scotland, referring to the way prisoners were 298, Des Voeur Road Central. secured in those days, and also to the well-taks the initiative, but she has tho responsibility

known temper of her son, exclaimed, "God pity the loddiy that's tied to our Davis? It is indeed an unfortunate thing for any man' to i TO. 11, BELILIOS TERRACE, Poded by the knot matrimonial to a woman with bad temper, Berus was also right to put good sense before beauty, for though a mun 2008 may not miss brains in a daxen-haired, re- gularly featured doll in courting days; when he is being well plied with Battery, he will 10. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the before many many months of married life pass learn that a foolish woraan ia her husband's "con PEAK. Apply to-

tinual disgrace," and that there is nothing THE LONGEING LAND INVEST- more fulsome than a she-fool." Some one said

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD.

11799

to Dr. Johnson that it would be a privilege to Hongkong, 17th July, 1901. 0

be near a certain good and worty but foolish woman in Heaven. I would never like to be MODÓWN, No. 5A, DUDDELL STREET wear & tool anywhere," roared the Doctor. Apply fo

"TO LET

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD.

11692 Hongkong, th July, 1901,

POINT

TO LET. POESTESION. August 18z. WEST THE GODOWN in

T

(Kennedy Town) known as Feather Factory, now occupied by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Id.

For particulars, apply to---

LAUTS, WEGENER & CO. Hongkong, th July, 1901.

As to the ages candidato-wife should be, I am not going to burn my fingers with that yuration. All I elmil say is, if there are women. not worth looking at after thirty years of age there are quite as many not worth speaking to before it. Please yourself, only do not marry

cither a child or an old woman.

Still beauty is by no means to be overlooked (as it we could overlook it!) in the choses matrimonial, for it is the outward and visible sign of health. A rounded figure, bright, laughing eyes a clear complexion-these things, 11. 11730 | even if they were not good in themselves, are vainable because they show that the possessor is one who will be likely to have happy, healthy If you marry a dwarf, you will probably begot rygmies, and the children of parents with boreditary disease may be said to bo damned into this world.

TO LET. OUSE NO. 3 LOWER CASTLE children.

ROAD. Apply to

HO

T. EDWARDS,

No. 22, Stanley Street Hongkong, Hth August, 101.

FERNSID ROAD.

(9024

TO LET.

CERNSIDE No. 37, ROBINSON

Apply To

S. A. RANJAHN, Care of Thomas'a Grill Room, ∙Hongkong, 1st Angust, 1901.

1937 TO LET.

TO. SL QUEENS ROAD CENTRAL.

Apply to-

KWONG CHEONG WO,

Ne, 299, Dee Vanx Houd. Hongkong, 9th July, 1902.

TO LET

[1733

Herbert Spencer says that the foundation of all success in life is to be a good animal, and if it will not appear too unromantic to may so I would suggest that happiness in marriage depende not a little upon good animal health. If a young man is always ailing he cannot support his home as he ought to and if a woman suffers, or thinks that she does,

from a chronic sofa disease-well, poor thing, she may do something to manage her home from her mattres-grete, but she must fool that she mistook her calling when she became a wife. But how, it may be asked, is the purblind lover to know about the temper or other qualifica tions of one with whom he is thinking of

to the father and brothers of the girl An magistrate asked a prisoner if he were

Oh, then, married.. "No." replied the man. said His Worship, it is a god thing for your It is indeed a good thing for a woman wife," not to have to live with a-line-with-a-thief, with a drunkard, for twenty, or forty, or even sixty years. A lazy man will ruske but a weak baud or support for a woman's house: so will one deficient in fortitude-that is, the power to bear pain and trouble without whining. Beware of the solfish man, for though he may be drawn out of his selfishness in the early works of courtship, he will wattle back into itagain when the wear and worry of life come on,

To be happy in marriage, it la necessary to marry a gentleman ir the proper sense of the word, that is to say, one who is generous and salfish, who considers another happiness and welfare, and not merely his own. À man who is a bear to his sisters, discourteous to his mother, and careless of the feelings of servants and pour relations, in just the man to avoid when you came to the great question to be answered.

yes or no.

A duck of a maz" generally makes a goose of a husband, so it is wise to choose for a husband. ous with lasting qualities of heart and character. We would not state a truth so 'obvious were it not that some women say that they like a man to be a little bit of a rake, just a small garden oue. If he is not all he ought to be before marriage he is sure to reform after it, and so they marry in a sort of missionary spirit, hoping to turn him from the error of his ways. This is not wise thing to do, for people's characters do not as a rale after much after thirty years ci age, and if a man bas a bad character it is far more likely that he will improve his wife off the

ent again. What! a speaker is but a prator;

a rhyme is but n ballad A-good leg will fall THEODORO VAFIADIS & CO.

a straight back will atoop, a black beard will turn white, a earle pute will grow bald, a fair face will wither, a full oye will war hollow, but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or rather the sun and not the moon; for it shines bright, and never changes, but loops his course truly."

MANUFACTURERS OF

HIGH CLASS

THE AGE A HUSBAND SHOULD 16. As to the age a husband should be, wo need say little about this be on more fitted to differ so ruuch. Somo re take upon themselves the responsibilities f marriage at twenty-five years of age thun others are at thirty-five. It is not natural for a young girl to wish to marry an old man. father suce said to his daughter: When you BOMBAY marry I will not allow you to throw yourself. CALOUTTA away on one of the gidly, frivolous yoning fellows so about. I shall set for you a’stail, "sensible, middle-aged man.

A

What do you say

(OS7--1

EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES. FACTORY, CAIRO (EGYPT)

CLOSE TO HE. NUBAR PASHA'S PALACE.

BRANCHES:

RANGOON...

20 Esplanade Rom.

72, Marchant Street. 4. Dalhousie Square. LONDON... 19, Basingbali Street, E.0. ALWAYS FRESH AND RELIABLE AT THEIR AGENTS.

MESSES. KRUSE & CO.,

HONGKONG.

HATCH, MANSFIELD & CO., LD.

THE LEADING HOUSE FOR GOOD VINTAGES.

to one about fity years of agWell.

** father, was the ingonnous reply, if it is quite

five. Just so, but we think that hey husbands the same to you I would prefer two of twenty. are a mistake. They never know what they are pleased to call their minds, and it is not easy to

to do, or into what they are going to gr0%, discover from day to day what they are going Then a man is not able to appreciate a good CHAMPAGNE,

There are hearts all the better for keeping i woman until he come to years of discretion they become inellower and more worthy s won's accepture than the crud, eripe things that are sometimes gathered-nschildren gather green fruit-to the discomfort of those EXTRA QUALITY; EXTRA DRY who obtain them.

PERRIER JOUET

(MONOPOLY FOR CHIN.....

VINTAGE. 1893

PEB DOZ BOTTS, $46.25

PRE 2 Doz.

BUTTS. $48.25

A GOOD SELECTION OF OTHER WINES AND SPIRITS IN STOCK.

For Price List, apply to---

PROMPT DELIVERY OF ANY QUANTITY FROM ONE BOTTLE UPWARDS.

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, AGENTS.

1335

JAPAN

...When a girl has been taught by her mother hot to beusekeep and manage money, this goes far to solve the question of the ways and means of matrimony. Still a proposed or rather pro- posing bushant shoul !use come mens, or any sared way of vaning it, unless we are to think that murtility is one of the effects of marriage, as a certain servant girl was to have thought. The lady with who she fast lived, meeting her in the street, sail. “Well, Mary, where are yon living now . Please. na am, I'm not living anywhere I'm married" THE Some of us who are married have survived the operation, and End that we require something to live upon, and therefore we sympathise with the girl who said, after experiencing a forein. cold water made but a poor breakfast. It is. a-cottage dietary, that a kiss and a glass of

however, much better to marry a good and wise man though poor, than a rich fos) who New will give gildad misery. The best kind of husband is one who is a fortane in himself, and has the ability to make mon

A friend called Barlow was describing to

Douglas Jerroll the story of his courtship and warriage: how his wife had been brought up in

convent, and was on the point of taking the veil, when kis presence burst upon her enmap. tured sight. Jerrold listened to the end of the stary, and by way of cement said, "AL1 dhe evidently thought Barlow better than van." When girls have been given work in the world aird an object in life, they do not think that any husband is better than none, and they have not time to imagine themselves in love with the first man who proposes. How often is it the case that people think themselves in love when in fact they are only idle!

Next Week Proposing."

THE

ROBINSON

PIANO CO., LTD.

PIANOS.

BY ALL THE LEADING MAKERS

2053 Hongkong, 31st August, 1901. NEGRI SEMBILAN GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

earth by bad treatment rather than that she will auch alter him. The poor-houses are full of women who thought that they could reform their husbands. A husband need not be hand- som, but he should be good locking, in the senso of looking good morally and physically, It is a risk to marry ons in whose face the ten com

sdments ére conspicuous by their absence. APPLICATIONS will be reared for tire Assistant Surgeons in the Negri Sembilan Governmost Service wife and I meet on open, ingenuous anfum, with annual increments as specifiet The Assistant Surgeon appointed must sign countenance, I think of the happiness of his hereunder and free furnished quarters. friends, his family and his relations,"

should his service be satisfactory, he will be need hardly say, however, that we do not recomment for 5 years, on expiry of which, mend a professional beauty who thinks that hepat on the Fixeionable Establishment.

Why should you have the

"When I see a man," says Addison."with a

HOPE, OFFICES, and BOOMS in appear all that is charming during a lover's song, rivelled face. I cannot forbear pitying his Federated Malay States. Salary $1,080 per

BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. ONE GALLEGODOWN in DUDDELL STREET.

For Particulars, apply to

TURNER & CO.

[2118 Hongkome. 20th August, 1991.

TO LEP.

HOUSE 10 RIPON TERRACE,

THE RETREAT," MOUNT KELLETT, Apply to

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST

MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.

Hongkong, 13th July, 1901

F66

R GILLANDERS

BOARD AND RESIDENCE.

M

*GLENWOOD,”

41, CAINE KAB.

(869

Hongkong. 20th September, 1900,

BOARD AND RESIDENCE. COMFOURLY FURNISHED

ROOMS with Board,

Aply to Mrs. MATHER,

Hongkon, anuary, 1892,

Wo

wedding? Before marriage a girl talks with her eyes, afterwards with her tongue, She cau

visita, and theu become so different after mar riage that her husband feels that, like Jacob, babes courled sun women and married mother We know the old conundrum: Why are lading bella? Because you never know what metal they are made of until you ring them. As a ady killer. friend of Robert Hall, the famous preacher, trouble of keeping a Eusband for the exclusive once asked him if a certain lady of their benefit of other women? When I marry,” ecquaintanes would make a good wife for him, said a budding schoolgirl, "I will want a fine, tall, broad, handsome run that everybody will "Well," replied Hall, I can hardly say-admire. There's where you are wrong," said never lived with her!"

her elder and more experienced sister. have much less trouble in watching a los good- looking max, and would enjoy a great deal more of his society." Nerer to marry a gent WAR the advice of Mrs. Carlyle. As the supply of geniuses is very limited this advice may szem

** FURNITURE" WISER.

Ia teference to marriage, perhaps the word choosing implies too much calculation and de liberation. Eu this matter, more than in most others, "we do not will according to our reason,

+4

You'd

Candidates mist, Foi a diploma from a re- Applications with copies otsest testi cognized Medical College. monials will be received by the State Crgeon, Negri Sembilan, Malay Feniusula.

SCALE OF SALARY, 1st year

ACREMENT

($1,099

End A

1.19

3rd

1.189

4th

1,948

य

1,320

6th

1,980

-7th

1,452

8th

1.584

9th

1.71ti

19th

1,848

11th

3,930

EXAMINATION.

12th

2,316

13th

2,316

14th

Final

2,316

EXAMINATION,

we reason according to our will" But reason superfluens. It is not so, however, for there is may have at least a negative iudaence. If our enough and to spare of men who think that hearts tell us when wo should marry, our heads they are geziuses, and that as such they fool at inay point out thom with whom it is not ex-liberty to be tad tempored, and otherwies dia. pelient to wed. ·But, is not marriage all a agreeuble. These are generally only sons of lottery "it is asked. We think not. When a food but foolish mothers, who have por young man. obeys his healthy instincts and guaded them that they are not made of marriei the young woman whom in his own

common clay, and that the girls who get interest, and in the interest of the human

them will be bleed. From snoli a blessing race nature designed for him, marriage cannot young women should pray to be delivered. be called a lottery. If Darwin had boon naked, And while then livest, dear Kate," says one OSTLAND CEMENT “Is marriage lottery " he would have an of Shakespeare's mouthpiece, taken follow of DAMERHAVIS PORTL

swered, It is a sexual selection and natural plain and areoined constancy; for he perforce. selection, and by no means the naphasard thing must do te right, becateo he hath not the gift We understand by a lottery," Choosing a life to woo in other places; for these fellows of partner is sath an individual matter that it infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves fato 1509 should be left almost entirely to the one who has ladies' favoure, they do always reason themselves

2 Pedder's H

J. B. WILTE & BEOS

SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA,

FOLLIDAY, WISH & CO. Hongkong, 16th September, 1889,

€ 2,520 W. LEONARD BRADDON, F.R.C.S.,

State Bargeon, Beremban.

T2135 Seremban. 10th August, 1901.

CORSAR ASON'S

NAVY BOILED LONG FLAX

3190]

CANVAS

RELIANCE CROWN TARPAULING

ARNHOLD, KÄRBERG & CO.,

Sole Agente.

COALS

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

(OR MITSUI & CO.)

HEAD OFFICE -13, SAKAMOTO-CHO, TOKYO, LONDON OFFICE :-M. LIME STREET, B.C. HONGKONG OFFICE:-, Ics HOUSE STREET.

BRANCH OFFICES:

York, San Francisco, Hamba Bombay, Singapore, Souralaya, Manila, Amoy, Shangtai, Hankow, Chefco, Tuntain, Nowelwang. Fort Arthar, Seoul, Chemulpo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kuba Kure, Shimannoseki, Moji. Wakamatsu, Karatau, Nagasaki, Kushinoten, Susobe, Milk, Ifakodate. Taipeh, Sa

Telegraphic Address for all the Oños: "MITSUI,“

A.B.C and 1 1 Codes used.

CONTRACTORS OF COAL to the Imperial, Japanese Navy, Arsenals and Railway Bureau - Principal Railway Companies and Industrial Works; Home and Foreign Meil and Freight Steamery.

SOLE PROPRIETORE of the Famous Mike, Tagawa, Yamano and Ids Coal Mines; and SOLE AGENTB for Fukowo, Hokoku, Ishiques, Kanada, Kishima, Mannours, Onours, Otsuji, Tolmiyama. Taubakuro, Yoshizetani, Yoshio. Yunokibara, and other Coal Mines.

N. INUZUKA, Manager. Hongkong, It August, 1001.

PUT

VIKING NAVY CUT

YOUR PIPE

Smoke it.

[1391

Manufactured only by LAMBERT & BUTLER, LTD., LONDON ENGLAND). [2653–1

NAVY CUT

MAVY CU

ATC

ATC

AGENTLEMAN'S

SMOKE

Supplied in Three Grades. Mild Medium & Strong.

·· Packed IN AIR TIGHT VACUUM TINS

HANUFACTURED, BY

THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.USA

HILD & EXTRA FINE

178