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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE:8, TUESDAY, JUNE

19ra 1943.

NAPIER JOHNSTONE'S

N. J. CLUB' SCOTCH

"The "Peg"

of Ages 1745 till to-day

OBTAINABLE FROM

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

AND ALL WINE MERCHANTS

This para old Whisky has had, rimos 1745, great repulation amongst connoisseur a

10 ila mellow flavour, and still maintains a world-wide identical quality.

Peps

For THROAT, CHEST & LUNGS

To ward off coughs, colds, and night chills,

and to protect throat, chest and lungs against climate and disease, everybody needs Peps:

As Peps tablets dissolve in the mouth they give off medi cinal fumes that carry soothing and healing benefits to the entire breathing system. Inflammation or soreness in the throat or bronchials is quickly allayed, coughs and colds are alpped in the bud, and the chest and lungs are strengthened medicine

against Bronchitis, Asthma, and Pneumonia.

all

vendors,

I.P.

“A PINE FOREST IN EVERY HOME”

AGENTS: Wakefield & Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai,

COLCATE'S

Cleans teeth the

right way

COLGATE'S İRİBBON DENTALCREAM

Agents:-HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD.

WONG SIU WOON

& SLIPPERS FOR LADIES, GENTS. & CHILDREN

BOOTS, SHOES

BEST DESICAS, PRICES MODERATE 21, POTTINGER ST

THERES A LONG, LONG-TRATA

Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes, etc.,

all killed by

KEATING'S

MADE

BRITISH

PRON 1474

SEE SAW OF FASHION. SOME METICULOUS OBSERVANCES,

[uỶ THE OLD STAGER]

A sentence and a scene from the past come back to me and label very concisely the period round 1900-4 time of meticulous social observances.

A girl of nineteen calls from the writing. table in a Londou tack drawing-room to her mother in the drawing-room: "Mother, ant 1'sincare' or 'very sincero' to Captain Tashford !

Observe, she does two antediluvian things. She consulta her mother, and she sees 101- portance in the form and wording of a letter. We considered it of the first importance yours in the slow gradation from very truly

youre sincerely, and thence for the recipient--to -oh, pulsing triumph f

yours very sincere.My dear Mias de

Dear Miss do

Vere, Dear Miss Dora" (greatly during over the Christian! barge, ons reverts to plain "Dear" as a sop), "My dear Miss Dorn," an then-suicide or settlements:

Incredible to day! There are no surname The debutante writes to Captain Bashfork

Dear Bertie, lunch, 1.3), Thursday. Ranelagh Yours Molly

she only met him first in May

ཨབྷཡ, ,,at『

And another thing, In 1900 it was the

fa bounderi

(or of one on the boundary

mark of a

line) to talk of a wonati in her abuance by ane, if one dressed her her Christian nane,

One would not forally in her presence. have dreamed of saying: "I sat next Molly Brune last night" face to face one called her Lady Molly". Nowadays it would be voted stupil in the extreme to speak of her as Lady Molly, unless of course, she was not a contemporary. Fino slindess!

•

And titles held wonderful distinecina, insoluble to the foreigner and the novelist of high life, illogical to the last degres. For example, the Honourable Charles Starvextre (Lord Mortgage's younger boy) would be announced in

into the drawing room "ir. Starvencre. "Mr. Charles Starveacre"

would be

printed

on his visiting-card, but

on his envelopes you would address him

The Honourable Charles Starvengou.” But his father, the seventh Viscount Mortgage of Broke, would be described on his risiting-card is "Viscount Mortgage,"

249 his envelopes

"The Viscount Murtgage, and announced Mortgage.

Obscure for the formiguer, meticulous for the savant, and highly ittorienl

The Right Hon. W. E Gladstone was simply

described on his visiting card ns. “Mr. W. E ladstone." I regret to say that in ex-Minister who has not had leisure to ac quity knowledge in this describes himself on his pasteboards as "The important science

But there are Honourable Right 1 many people left to shudler at this Moleci. In 190 much as in 1840, there were things that simply aren't done or A To pronounce girl as "garl," to talk of Landon as “Town," to speak of lunch" instead of luncheon "--these nets damning in 1000

weru

In 1840 the language of great Whig lales would has been as Urcek to a modern débu tante. Here is sentence embodying some of the language common among ladies of quality in 18 oman stoppel at the left my gool brasalet, given me by

Lily

geot

Whig When my potecary', she

in The charrot, And

Luy Lock cheyney cavies-

pot on the bakony, suvarcign frommy

251151 53 & jala

loved's nuts"

This serious charge in modern parlance would Fan: "When my maid stoppel at the local doctor's, she left my gold incelet, given use by Lady Harriet, in the carriage,

and she dropped my lilac china coffee

on the falcony, and stole a yellow save-

| reign from my husband's servant."

and cere-

And here we all are in 1923 speaking comason language (debused at that), aiming. A conciseness rather than form, seeking rather than beauty, shortening, in almrt, your "yours sincerey" into "yours."

Bat whether, apart forma mony, Miss Dora of to-day is more or less sincere at heart, as her Acquaintance with Bertie Bashford unfolds, opens up a higer question, She has acquind (one seeks not. to learn how)s knowledge of the plain facts

het inter uf

194X). of natural history, and that is an advance fable Of the currant bush is a dead- letter: the stork has flapped his wings and gone to join the Fairchild Family in Limbo- Tat. The birth of a baby may be referred to without an interchange of hot blushes.

Jas that knowledge taught her the vital thing-the supreme importance of the choice of a mate on person and not worldly grounds? Does she, so young, grasp (at long fast) the supree truth of that wise bibli

Better as dinner of less

or in

in she still to learn it litterly with tears after five years of married life?

At the ball, do her eyes still quicken with interest (ah old and loathed bugbear

every

Jotany Eames and

slopes when Bertis Rashford of the user sun) languidily into the ballom, and does he thenceforth awer at random till Bertie has Bought her out and fixel a dance?

And if it is so may we hope that she is but obeying Tennyson!

"Don't many for fear aioner, but go where money is t that even recent experiences have taught no lesson here. I doubt even that papa- with thirty years of acquired wisdom and the revelation of postwar psychology—will substitute eugenios for yet agree ta tranomics.

O lovely daughter of a lovely mother, take an old stager's: parting mlvice.

If on paper you are no longer very sincere in your acquaintance with Captain Bash- ford, be very sincere in your heart.

Take

it frn ne, marriage can be done on a less kum than you have been taught. Take it from me that with an uncongenial Bertie it can't be done at any figure.

You have not your grandmother's patience nor her resignation. You expect more life than she did. You are wiser than elas, Bot

You have cut away the frills stronger. of Eurin and

Now ceremony,

cut away the poisonous tendrils that are rooted in a de- cayed trolition. Don't pine for Captain Bertie unless you are certain you can be

very sincerely" his.

Dealing with several cases of drunken- new following the payment of the dole, at Thames Police-court last month, the ma gistrate, Mr. J. R. Cairns, said “it was new disease-dola, drunk, and disorder. y. I have no hesitation in saying that the dole is debauching a big section of the public."

CUTICURA

CARES FOR YOUR HAIR

Nothing shampoos with Cu- ticum Soap and hot water, preceded by touches of Caticurs Ointment to apots of dandruff and itching, to keep the scalp and hair healthy. They are ideal for all toilet uses,

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90 22

WORTH

WHILE

Nothing that you possess is more worth looking after than Your comfort, your health: your happiness, your ellici- ency and success all depend upon it. Take good care of it Never negled any ailment of the stomach, liver or bowels but make a point of taking a dose of Beecham's Pills as soon as you are conscious of indisposition, from such

cause. Mary people find this an excellent way of avoiding the many disorders which arise from constipation and, A reliable Indigestion and

mesos of preserving health and strength.

CHAM'S PILLS

BL000 POLUN ANO

FOOD Trial best wither remanly Je način, enemiste Bet pillenős Formal Osk, X3, 3, London. HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION..

PELLE FOR THE

IYETARZO

B1. LE CLERG'S LEVER & KLONKUR

INVALUABLE FOR NIMEAÇA) and there IMPORTANT URGARI GRAVEL BACHACHE.CHY. EHTEMATI

Past From „PRICH J., Waing Chemists a l'a DALE CLEX Mod Collavernach BAN,W.3, Lazkan

BOWERN & CO.,

No & Musun Evad, SHANGHAI

Members British Chamber of Commerca (Shanghai). Mr. T. W. ROWERN, Felow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Incor porated by Royal Charter, London.

STEAMSHIP Agents And BirDA©1113.

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For the Purchase, Sale and Charter of Vessels of any Tonnage, Passenger and/or Cargo, Now and/or Old, with delivery Ubina at Very Low

Prices

SALVAOS OPERATURA, MAKING SURVIVORS

AUCTIONEERS, COAL MERCHANTS, FREIGHT BROKERS, MET MARCHANTS. Machinery For Sale, New med Old in First- Claas Condition.

IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS, SHARD-BRO

Member Shanghai Share Brokers' Arous tion).

CR134-

Sora AGENTS FOR GREEN'S PATENT ANCHORS. SAMUEL WARrem & Co., Lro. (Shafield). High-Cla Steal Manufacturers (Fanà Brand).

Catalogues and Price-Lists on application

(Enquires Welcomed

CABLE ADDEDSe: Bows, Shanghai,

Coors Bentley's Scott's, A.B.C.

5th Edition and Improved.

INSURE WITH THE

OCEAN

ACCIDENT & GUARANTEE CORPORATION LIMITED

ACCIDENT & ILLNESS MOTOR CARS, MOTOR CYCLES T FIDELITY GUARANTEES BAGGAGE, BURGLARY EMPLOYEES INSURANCE

£15.

DHANGRAI OFFICETM

6. PEKINO Boan. AGENTS La Hongkong

and South Chira !DODWELL & CO. LTD. THEXPE. C. 1980.

2, QUEEN'S BLD.

CHAMBERLAINS

COUC

MARRKEA

AKE FLUID OUNCE CONTAINS 45 PER CENT ALC8856, 10.7 PER CENT ETXER (A BERSYAIDE OF ALCOHOL), 19

RAVENS EXLOROFORIL"

*FOR THE RELIEF OF

Pain in the Stomach and Borals, COLIC, INTESTINAL CRAMP,

DIARRHEA

PHAMBERLAIN MEDICINE CA

Hi See Haber, 1000, D-3. &.

●.. SMALL- BIZE.

Motor Car storing, washing and cleaning

Ta' this, our new Concrete Malu Garage and

WODE

Service Station,

Nel Chong Road (Happy Valley), upper end of Race Course.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES: THE PENINSULAK AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.S STEAMER "MALWA

Arrived HONGKONG.On 15th Jena, 1923- FLO ANTWE, RP LONDON,DIBRALTAR: MARSEILLES, PONTSAID, ADEN;.

BOMBAY, COLOMBO & STRAITS

CONSIGNEES of Carge by the above-named: ressed are hereby informed that their goods - are being landed and placed at TY 8-in the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company Godowas at Kowloon, where cach Contigament will be sorted out Mark- by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods kre laridad.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless · instractions have been given to the contrary 8 hours before arrival of the Steamer.

Good not cleared within 8 days, including: date of arrival will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us - Any case whatever. Damaged

packages, must be left in the- Dodowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company' surveyors, Messr GODDARD & DOUBLasat 10 am, en Mondays. and Thursdays.

All claims must be presented within ten. days of the Steamer's arrival here after which dale they cannot be recognized

No claims will be admitted after the gooda hare left the Godown.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Agonte.

Hongkong, 15th June, 1993.

BIGA YANTRA,

#4 GREATEST TALISMAN,

LOVE CHARM, the

and Maupload

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vatunded. (“.

apachary and wanền li vêt

bring joy and grunden wate

merything you and was,

To letu mokyti

MIT KALA TO DO ILL WE GUARANTEE, ME

an err

Carter, Chapt

A. SECRETARY, ENI JEIKARLÓM SURHAT LI GUILATA CHAND AMULETA URATOR, INDIA,

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