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THE HONGKONG DAY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1909

WAS DEAF,

BUT

NOW I HEAR.

FASHIONS AND PANCIES.

THE IMMENSE HAT.

The angle at which the head has to be worn anique multime din order to suit the exigencies of the shormons THE REMARKABLE STOHY OP A hat of the hour is quite a different one from „CLEVER INVENTION WHICH ENABLES any that has been hitherto in daily me. It is THE DEAR TO HERE. Y lewsk de

fatiguing to the muscles of the neck. And, it addition, all sorts of serpenting durves and glidings have to be accomplished when a number

large hatted worren are begether,

as, for instance, at an afternoon reception. The guests are not supposed to stand rected to one spot daring the whole period of their stay, bat

WIRELESS TELEPHONE

FOR THE EAR.

BY PROFESSOR HOFFMANN, Inventor of the Ear-Phone.

WANT to tell all thoses invinbers of the

publié who enfer from Deafs or Defective Hearing, that I have discovered a way whereby they can once again hour as well as

those who are not deaf.a

I want to tell you, if either of these com plaints is yours, that I can enable you to hear, unless yours happens to be an instance of deal Less from birth or of total paralysis of the sense tering you will communists with me and follow my advice (which will be gladly given free of all charge), I will enable you to fear as well and as distinctly as anybody could wish. I am sure of

of this, because I cured myself In just the same way,

of

JOINT STOCK SHARES,

Masers, Vormon and Smyth in their weekly "share" report dated “August 20th rate The business transacted has not been Large Barted market has been fairy active, but the volume ad in the early part of the week showed a slight inclination to weakness, but at time of writing Armer feeling proveils in most of our leading stocks. Exchange on London T/T 1/81,--on Shanghai 74

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BANKS-Hongkong and Shanghais leave. have ruled the market, and at time of writing changed hands in small lots et 1,030, bot sellers

airoulation is difficult, without writhings, and Alprobable that shares could be procured at a

twistings of the head and aboulders. To insinuate one's stance, gire splendid

Other C

or doorway for instanes, ox- ercise to the muscles of the nook, diflunlties connected with headgear cour when two smartly dressed wonten sit

non sit beside each other in a brougham. In an open carriage they can tilt their hands away from each other, and all is well; but in what is called in Ireland an "inside vehicle,” it

is

another matter. Collisions are frequent and free. To those who have attained a correct poiss of the hat, with more or less diffenity these collisions are exasperatingly irritating.

B

THE NEWEST BONNET;

lower rate Nationals contiano in

at 65 but without sales, for at 840 without inclusing any further business. MARINE INSURANCES -Unions continuoon of

Cantons have found bayers at 190, and Yang shares on the market. North Chinng have stres are enquired for at 227, without bringing any

bayers both here and in the North at 120, but shares dre of closing salos sro reported at 122.

not available at that rate. At time

FIRE INAUSANCES-Hongkongs have boon placed during the week at 350, but bayers now only moment. Chinese have changed hands at 115, the market closing with sellers at that r rate..

SHIPPING-Hongkong, Canton and Macage, after small a closing with probable, were placed at 31h,

at changed hands 360 and $61 cash, and at Tls, 45, 46 and 471 for December Settlement in Shanghai. Shell Transports

have declined to 72. Other stocks under this heading remain unchanged and without business.

1,

you know what deafness can be. I have tion to the very great variety of smart hoed. Indos haga. Probable veliers at the higher rate, known what is to feel my pense of hearing growing worse and worse every day, and myself becoming more and more unfit to carry on the scientifle work to which I was devoted. And it remember this so vividly that I am earnestly anxious to plac

resch of ovary within sufferer from deafness the very same means that gave me back my hearing.

is because

HOW I CÂME TO STUDY THE PROBLEM OF DEAFNESS. This is how I happened to make my discovery I happened, at the time, to be engaged in ver tain delicate telephonie, test-work when, wuildenly, I I became aware that I could not hear, as well as I had need to do. was growing deaf Words became blunted and blurred Sometimes whole santonces of conversation were completely lost to me. And as with every week the disorder grow worso and worse, I felt that in a short time I should be compelled to give up in despair,

Hut all the time this extraordinary fast held me to hope, that although it was sometimes most difficult to distinguish what people in the same room as myself were saying to me, yet I could hear she quite painly whenever they were speaking to me over the "phone," possibly from a distance of many miles,"

are selvet, à material

The straw aunbonnet is yet another addi- gear. Its trimming consists of a band of ribbon round the back part which stands for grown, just like a workhouse woman's bonnet, right side, just above the ear. More often than and an immense bow of similar ribbon on the not.. this and the strings that wed noror to be seen on summer hats or bonnets, but is now as freely need on them as satin. Tulle toques have wide, fat band of have often a hand of velvet round the crown. A velvet as trimming, and the light urinoline hate

banded round (the French milliner calls it pretty and becoming one has a high crown gartered) with gald embroidery as high as the crown itself. The only other trimming is a the brim on one side, and apparently intent on little bunch of feathers set on the very edge of getting a glimpse of the woszer's face.

very

THE PEACOCK OUTLINE,

Irresistibly suggestive of the peacock is the outline of the more closely fitting tunics, especi- ally when seen on women with very pronounced frontal development. An embroidered

green voile, for instance, worn over dull groen sille has the pronounced outline corresponding with the broast of the bird, with flatness at the back and, below the waist, the very line of the bird's This fact held me from the first, I thought, tall. Being sleeveless, this faris carries out the I experimented, I studied the matter in all its resemblanco perfectly. The braiding of the bearings, And the more I studied why I would moment is all done with the braid sat hear people over the phoned the moright, and sow down with, the edge on the material. The effect is certainly rich and handsome. The designs are utterly different from any that were in rogue during previons seasons. The braid is never crossed, but runs in straight or faintly curved parallel lines get

scrapers with edges upturned..."

ordinary conversation, the more convinced. I became that some adaptation of the principle of the telephone would enable my deaf ears to hear again.

HOW I MADE MY DISCOVERY. It was while lying in bed one night that the

question suddenly flashed across my inner CONSCIONEZERS.

"Why not a "phone" for the inside of my deaf ears P

e

The inspiration was so strong upon me that I instantly rese, dressed, and fairly rushed to my workshop. Within twenty-four hours I had before fully completed, a minute, appliance, the effect of which on my hearing was magnificent that it made me ardisim aloud:

At last I have got it!" I found that with the "Ear Phone" "I could hear perfectly. All roarings in the head cased I no longer had to strain to catch every syllable or to ask my friends to repeat their remarka because I couldn't hear what they said.” My Moreover, it was simple to tear, gaite invisible, hearing was as good as in the days of my youth. absolutely safe, and caused no discomfort what

rather the reverse. And ac I determined to make known my invention to a wider circle and to give every man, womin, or child in this country, afflicted with deafness or defective bearing, the opportunity of making deaf ears hear.

tall.

of the week ruled weak with sellers at 37 REFINERIES-Chins Sugars in the early towards the close, however, the market hardened. and closes steady at 140 after sales at that rate. Luzons are enquired for at the enhanced rate of 24.

MINING-We have nothing to report onder Langkats to 1,040 in the North. The rine is this houding with the exception of a rise in reported to be gitributable to stort sales

DOCES, WEARVES, GODOWNS, &c,-Hong- steady with unless at 61 and 60, closing with kong and Whampoa Docks have ruled fairly buyers at the latter rate. Kowloon Wharfs show an improvement, and a fair number of sheros have changed hande 60, the market, how ever, closing with sallers. Shanghai Dook remain unchanged and without business. Hongkew Wharfs have improved to 148 in the

North LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS

-Hong- kong Landa have ruled firm, and satisfied demand the rate has improved to 105 with sales Ta the early part of the weak some sales, wore effected at 103. Hotels have also advanced to 75 (old) and 45 (new), but we hare no Shanghai Lands show i further advanod to 119,

to

COTTONS MILLA. With the exception Ewo, which have advanced to 1377 and Soy Chees which are now quoted at 432, we have no change to repert.

RUBBERS. The market has rated much quieter and we have only to report sales of

closely together, rather on the plan of the flat Castlefields at 37/ prens. Shelfords at 29/, 29/6,

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A TRAVELLER IN INDIA.

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when I attempted to walk I felt as though I tell you that lost two stones in weight, au should fall to tim groninh, This cruel state ofi indeed rampant in many countries, and has - driven many to suicide.

Some of our well-dressed women sro constant Balgownies, Ragalas at $26 and $27 and Christopher Charles Robert Tilley with soha goneral debility is not exceptional in India, it is

others, tired of it, eagerly adopt the draped effects. The result is variety infinite as that of Cleopatra herself. The contrast between the silhouettes of a closely slipped serge or cloth clad figure and the friend with whom she talks gowned in Bowing voile or foulard pigusat. Each sets off the other, in a way. shroad in points, is a good foil for her severely. The draped lady, with a paplom tunic flying outlined frland.

to the close and clinging styla of dress, while

A SERIOUS FAULT.

rather

little below the knees as a serious fault. It The straight hanging tunic which ends a robs the wearer of an inch or two of her apparent height. So does the half-length coat. These should be worn by the tall woman only. Or, the fault may be remedied by replacing the straight. line of cost or sanie by one that slopes, as in a man's cat-away coat. This is the real reason of the pointed mats of which so many have been ssen this season, one point at the back, one at each side, and an inward curve on the fronts. The Jong coat, on the contrary, makes the wearer look tall. It is seen in many of the linen sniff tuisora muita that the warm weather has brought out in auch quantities; and the long chiffon cost is one of the smartest gar. ments of the year.

THE DIAPHANOUS DIRECTOLEE This season, one of the wettest on record, has

HOW I CAN HELP YOU. My "Ear-Phone" is a scientific, but quite simple aural aid. It fits easily and comfortably into the outer passage of the ear, where it con- stitutes a perfect sounding-board, 'concentrating the sound waves upon the ear-drum. In fact, it note to the ear of the hard-of-hearing much se a pair of spectacles act to the eyes of the short-sighted, "It is an ear apsoracle.

Unlike many hearing devices, this Ear- Phone" is quite non-irritating. In fact, after a few hours you quite forgot you are wearing nevertheless been remarkabte for the light, anything at all. You can keep a pair in all day on ceremonious occasions; and for the great gauzy, diaphanous character of the dresses worn and all night, and as there no unsightly anil dangerous outside attsakment, nobody can tal length of the trains. At the same time, short you are using anything at

skirts grow

shorter, and will be shorter still, Now,

you are a sufferer from defective reaching only to the instep. This mesas very bearing I need hardly

how very pleased I eat boots and shoes, and always of a colour to say shall be to have you write me on the subject on the subject of footgear, let ur enumerato

harmonise with the gown. But before ontering and give me particulars of your case. Naturally, aerial materials that drape without concealing the

would care to peruses book I have written ap deafness and ear trouble, and how such com the lace with which it is striped, and hoe itself silk velle, scheme, ninon, moraambatanijal than plaints are at once relieved the use of the

Ear-Phone," I will send you Along a copy by are a few of these Grenadine in some of the ratars. I think it will interest you, and there thinner qualities has its share.” fore invite you to accept a presentation copy from me. I am barnestly desirous of doing anything in my power to help any man, woman, or child in this country, suffering from deafness, to recover, as I did, this most precious gift of hearing.

The following are a few of the distinctive features of my "Ear Phone"

1. It eures deafness and arrests its progress, 2. It relieves.bardness of hearing.

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THE RETURNING TURBAN, When winter comes again we may expect the turban to retain for evening wear. The beginning of it is to be seen at the opera on many s dainty head, the folds of tulle aressing the top with very hcoming effect. The tarban is known at Ranelagh and Hur Bagham, and is pronounced one of the most becoming of the many various sorts of head. gear worn. A very pretty woman wars one in & soft tone of Gobelin blue, carried out in very soft crepe. She is much admired in it, and has not made the rather common mistake of choosing. the blue, too bright.-X. AND Z, in the Globe.

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i The C.P.E. str. Empress of China arrived·

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and 30, Highlands and Lowlands, partly paid st £2,7

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AT A CĂLCUTTA GYMKHANA. "I lift England about ten years ago, he said, “in the pink of condition; I arrived in India in the early part of December, and on Christmas Day von several prizes at the gymkhana in Calentts. I was the repesoute five of an English commercial house with large interests in Indis, and had to travel long dis tane-ranging from Calcutta to Lahore- calling upon the native rulers and influential officials. My powers of endurance were often severely taxed, though I I was wiry, full of energy, and could usually stand any amount of fatigue. Is time there came a sudden and in explicable change. I ought a liver chill, sed then followed a period of terrible lassitude and languor, All power for work left me; I simply wanted to rest and be inactive, I recovered somewhat after treatment, but remained de- bilitated and pervmis:

PERIOD OF GREAT FERIL "At last I got to such a pitch that I was morbid and despondent to the last degree and, Army Officer suggested that I should take Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pala People. He in- formed me that there was 'no medicine more prompt and effective in earing Asiatic maladies, and was extensively used by any mer

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and debillig.... know that I could rely on his recommendation so I got a supply of Dv. Williams' Pink Blk I did not experience any appreciable borit from the first bottle, nor, candidly, did I expect to for J. was in a 'perilous state."

After taking a few bottles I realised that au improvement was being effected; the weakness was being arrested, a sensation of calmness canie over me, and my nerves were considerably improved. The pains in my houd warp, less severe, and I was able to take my proper rast, As I persevered with Dr. Williams Pink Pilla my appetite returned and all feelings Of dyspepsia and natisen disappeared. dappusr and despondagey did not now affect me: I put on flesk and gained weight. It was not difficult perceive that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were forming now, rich blood in my veins, for there batsmfort, and I had new strength and vitality,

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This shock, in my already enfeebled state, rednced me to one of dire

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