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GREAT REDUCTION SALE

SWATOW

OF

DRAWN WORK

SILK EMBROIDERIES

MAH-JONGG SETS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 778, 1923.

HÅND-MADE LACES IVORY WARE MANDARIN "COATS

All Kinds of LADIES' FANCY GOODS:

CHRISTMAS IS FAST APPROACHING

Those desirous of obtaining VALUABLE XMAS GIFTS

Should not fail to Visit

SWATOW DRAWN WORK COMPANY,

16, Des Voeux Road 'Central.

AGENTS

THOS. COOK & SON BANKERŠ

With 150 Offices throughout the World. OURSHIPPING & FORWARDING DEPT.

Offers Exceptional Facilities for the General TRANSPORTATION" of Merchandise and Private Effects and Curies.

REGULAR SHIPMENTS TO ALL PARTS. CONSIGNMENTS CLEARED A LOW RATES. INSURANCE EFFECTED. INVOICES COLLECTED CURIOS PACKED FOR EXPORT. AGAINST DELIVERY OF GOODS. DEY STORAGE ACCOMMODATION FOR ALL KINDS OF NON-HAZAR- LOUS GOODS.

HEAD OFFICE:-

LUGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, EC.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS; COUTON.

CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN-BALM

REKUMATISH

LANE BALL SIMBACA

OUTE, ARUTEEN.

DURNS *** SALDƏ

DORA THROAT,

TRADALNE,

TOOTHACER

i..

CLARY OF TE HUURĻAS

Mandarin Kolent Day

TOES WORKER BOCE ANAL G

SMALL BIZE

LOCAL ADDRESS- HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDING.

TELEPHONE: CESTEAL Nos. 524-*

Chamberlain's Pain Balm

Cures

Rheumatism, Lame Back, Pains in the Side and Chest, Burns, Scalds,

Sore Muscles, Headache, Toothache, Cuts and Bruises.

Sold Everywhere

The Ideal material for Hot climates. For roofs, partitions & celllags.

It is light & strong.

It does not conduct heat.

It is practically indestructable.

It does not rust or corrode.

It is insect & vermin proof.

We carry large stocks and shall be pleased to quote prices ar d

give you particulars.

SOLE AGENTS :---

DODWELL &

.co. Machinary Dept

LTD.

Telyna C. 1030.

ASAHI

0

BEER

ALLY BREWED FOR EXPOET

PON BREWERY CO.

LIMITED.

TOKYO, JAPAN.

KAISHA LTD.

BOLE AGES IB:

BUSSAN

HONGKONG,

FASHION:

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CLOTHES. LIFE-BLOOD OF TRADE,

[OY JOHN BLUNT IN THE BABY MARK"] Judge Sir Alfred Tobin has been decir ing in Wistaiinster County Court that wemriz de not buy things because they need them, and that, indred; the contrary is usually the case,

It sets to me that it all depends on Did the what you mean by are judge refer to what is needed to key s person alive or what is added to make life

if

women only bought what was pleasant nel! the strict interpretation of the word, this world would con biome a very dral and melancholy place

*!

Su for a history relates, wonen

P.&O.BANKING CORPORATION

DER LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND 1920)".. with which is adflisted? THE ALLAHABAD BANK, LTD

INDIA".

AFTHORISED CAPTITAL SunscRID AND PAID UP REEVE FUND

...+£3,000,000 £9.504180 £115,000

HEAD OFFICE 122, Leadenhall Street, London, E.Ca

WEST LONDON BRANCH: e 14-18, Cockspur Street, London, S.W, 1

EASTERN BRANCHES: Bombay, Calcatta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong and Shanghai.

་

hal apassionate lors of, clothes for, un-

The Corporation undertakes General Banking counted centuries. Cliopatra was a great devoted of the fashions of her day, and,

and Exchange Businessof every description and coming to a mere recent ern, Queen Elin addition to its Branches has Agoncios. în al. both hul wardrobe which for extens the principal Cities of the warld variety would put to shame that of a modern beauty.

"Clothes always, have had and atwang will have facit fer og AL the jesin of th mloes. in a philofa- phic as apart from a narrow interpreta tion of the word, fult) a need of their

THE INHERENT DESIRE

I have often heard cynical people say that the constant changes in fashions are brought about be interested partīm, but there is only a median of truth is such a remark. The people to whose advan

10. CHAMPKIN

Manager

2. Des Voux Road Central, Hongkong.

THE

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. INCORPORATED.

HEAD OFFICE NEW YORK CITY. INTERNATIONAL

Eighty Offices are established in the Principa Chica of the World to provide Commer

tage it is that for his should change” BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL merely interpreting the inherent feminina They desire for variety in derudent, many direct the fines of the change but they are only able to do so bect Organisations and Private Individuals with a women like a chang

Long and Malerate description of the complete World Wide Banking, Shipping and

Travel Service deeg te wers in the two forthcoming post weddings have recently been app

women have j Jug, and ro deght "many" drived inmense ati-farting from staly

these details

I fees that I met vula find wich themselves devoriptims why thegare lo

hust that it is intuit ly hard for me to sew why it is that they are of such algérbing |

But just benu it ints rest women, iharil I feel quite sure that if I could understand the reas should understand

Tennis

psychology that Something abont

prophet tied met,

Cluthes like fxxl the other prin necessit-have had grafted on to them a When our ancestor ymbale sigaifier uge wore the king of wild animals this fore thens oily to keep warm.

In the next stage they added to that a wish to make themselves more attractive is the other sex. But now people' wear clothes just as much to plonger hunselves. asta pleas other people

COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF OFEDIT DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS,

FOREIGN EXCHANGE. LETTERS OF CREDIT.. TRAVELERS CHEQUES. LETTERS OF CREDIT. STEAMSHIP PASSAGES. HOTEL RESERVATIONS BAGGAGE INSURANCE, CABLE AND POSTAL REMITTANGE: PURCHASE OF KILLS OF EXCHANGE

Every spproved Banking Shipping and Travel Transaction.

P. J. VANHECKE

Manager.

RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.

One cannot doubt that clothes has the perwer of expressing to the people who wear them something of themselves. If CAPITAL (FULLI«PAID) fashions were to disappear and won RESERVE FUND... were to settle down to any fixe mods of CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY THE

CHINISE GOVERNMENT dress, how many of them would be thor oughly dissatisfied in their immost being:RESERVE FUND

IF PASHION DIELA

And-inst think what an appalling eficet It would have upon trade. Eashion is the very lifeblood of a large part of the trader of almost every country. It is all kinds of whin motion. It vitalis society, and because it gives a zest to the existence of so many people it is to vitalise the whole of life's activities,

Of course, it can be overdone and makke to defeat its own cous-but in this equally true of nearly everything mine?

People who deqise fashion forget that the strongest, influences in fe are put always the most, logical. The things that guvern human nature are this abscure te explained away in at term and the things nesary to life ara not merely--

with the animals the primary, sect nition

as

HEAD UPFICE Parin, Eue Boudrna

LONDON OFFICE;

64, Old Brond Street, £0.4

BANKEES

WORLD THEATRE

WEDNESDAY, äth, to SATURDAY, 8th Dec., at 5.15 r., and 9.15PM

MAY MCAVOY

in

"THROUGH A

GLASS WINDOW"

诅

Right off the Girdle-fresh and fragrant-a Delivions Romance of a Pretty Working Girl who found Love and a New World through a Glass Window

SEE it-and feel Good All Over.

USUAL FRICES.

Hotels

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE

JAPAN" AND

MANCHURIA

Members of Japan Hotel Association

0/0 TRAFFIC BUZAU, DIPE, or RAILWAYA, TOXTO.

Average Rates for Single Rooms (without Bath) including moale Y. 10-13 in cities and some popular resorts, V. 8-10 in country distrista.

Chazenji (Nikro) Lakeside Hotel Kamakura

Kaihin Hotel Karuizawa

Mikaan Hotel

Mampei Hotel!! Kobe

Oriental Hatel? Tor Hotel

HLN CHOSEN

Eyoto

IN JAPAN PROPER

Kyoto Hotel

Miyako Hotel

Park Hotel

Miyajuta---

Miyajimu Hotel

Miyanoshita:

Fujiya Hotel

Boavier

65,000,000

Fasan Station Hotel

88,960,000

Keilin (Front)

Kup. Th

3,500,000

1,750,000

Shingishu Station Hotel

LONDON: Mesara, Glyn, Mille, Curris & Co. Societe Generale pour Favoriser Developpement du Commerce et de lads- trie en France.

PARIS: Societe Generale pour Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'indus trie en France

Banque de Paris as des Pays-Bas Lrogs: Soolete Generale pour Favoriser le

Developpement du Commerce et de l'Idun trie en France.

NEW YORK: The Irving Bank-Columbia.

Trust Company

SAN FRANCISCO: The Crocker National Band

of San Francisco.

BRANCHES IN ARIA:

And do not let us overlook the fact that thest persons who stand aside, from the. frivolities that amuse, and interest the Changchun Hankow Manchouli Tiantain majority are not usually wiser than other Chefoo Harbin Newchwang Urumchi Yokohama Hongkong Foking people. If they are not subject to som Dairen weaknesses the pleasure for lar ཉྩ4⪜༣རྐ བྲ*

Kashgar Shanghai in the possession of a new frock P& new suit they are frequently th slaves of a much more fundarental illusionth illusion that they are letter and more evilly than the rest of s

BURGLARS" AT VERSAILLES PALACE TAPESTRIES STOLEN. Two famous Gobelin tapestries, valued at about £30,000. were stolen rrently from the Salon de Mercure in ne Versar Paber The tapestries, which are excerd- ingly fue represent the siege of Duxi and the entry of Louis XIV. into Dunkirk: They were made in 1678. During the Great War, they were taken, for safely to Toulouse, together with many oder, works cl_art

The burglars-it is believed that there four-entered the Salon by climbing along the lightning conductor and them cutting s hole in a window with a diamond.

All the Customs stations along the fron- tier and along the coast were communica ted with and a complete description of the tapestries has been circulated all over the country

The this displayed the greatest anda. eily and everything shows that their plans city had been very carefully laid Patro aarch the grounds and the palace, every two hours, and the robbery must have taken place in 020 of the intervals of the

·round. The thieves left behind the an- other piece of Gobelin tapestry of great value called Use!! Defeat the Spanish Army near Bruges Canal

It is pointed out. that each of the inpestries weighed at least 160lb. and they had to be carried a considerable dis tance out of the palace, rounds.

A high official of the Ministry of Fine Arts said that there could be no possibility of either of the tapestries being sold, s they are for too well known and no Duplicates exist,

HONGKONG BRANCH:

Interest allowed on Current Accounts an Fixed Deposita. Terms on application. Loca Bills discounted.

Foreign Exchange ou the Principal Cities of the World bought and wold.

RA. BODGERS.

Don't worry. I'm here!

Manager.

A * Welcome Visitor

at any time in

every

HEITISH...

bousehold. Every

Bug Fica, Beetle,. Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into

proper contact with

KEATING'S

THERAP THERAPION THERAPIC

WOMAN TOWN CHAMBERLAIN.

The vacant post of Town Chamberlain in the burgh of Fort William has been filled by the appointment of Miss A. C.

A Court Cirentar now describes Princess Macfiregor. She had been for some Maud as Lady Maud, Carnegie.

This is presents

years an habistant in the Town Chamber- | lain's offes, had acted as interim chara- I think the present generation will berlain for six months, and fulfilled the probably see human institutions put to na dutica, ou pell that, although there were Rogerh test as they have ever seen many med applicants, the Town Council General Smule,

unanimously appointed her to the post.

Chosen Hotel

Shingisha :--

Hotel

ル

Nagoya

Nam

Nagoya Hotel

Nara Hotel

Nikko

Kanye Hotel

Nikko Hotel

Osaka :-

Omnia Hotel Shimonoser

San-ye Hotel

IN TAIWAN (FORMOSA) Taikoka :--Taiwan Bailway Hotel

Shizuoka-

Daitokwan Butal Tokyo

Imperial Hotel Omari Hotel

Tokyo Station Hotel Tankiji Seiycken Hotel Yokohama

Grand Hotel

IN MANCHURIA

Changchun-

Yamato Hotel

Dairen

Yamato Hote Hoshigaara *Taniabo Hotel

Haten (Makdon) Yamato Hotel

Byojun (Port Arther):-

Yamato Hotel

"Falconite

WHITE

ENAMEL

Used in all Parts

of the

World

by the

Finest Craftsmen

for

Finest Results.

"Falconite" is easy to work-dries with a brilliant lustre.

that keeps glossy and white.

Falconite" is made by expert and practical men that

know how Enamel should be made.

"Falconite" Undercoating-gives the smooth, hard surface

that is ideal for the lustrous finish.

Stocked in Hongkong.

WHO

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Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark, Ltd., fanpersand in the Unišad Kampdam)

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.

K.

K

Yamashita Steamship & Mining Co., Ltd.

Steamship Owners, Shipping & Marine Insurance Broker Coalmine Owners, General Coal Merchant.

REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE: KEELUNG HONGKONG & HAIPHONG

BAILING FROM HONGLONG

For HAIPHONG vis Holhow & Fakhoi

TAIKWA MABU" - .

on or about 13th D

For KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy

NANYO MARU’

on or about 13th Dec,

For further partemlers, please syply komm

Brzach (fon j'

No. 17, Bonham Strandy West

Toll Central S[G, 155,

8. MITARAL 'AGRIT.

Top Floor, King's Building.

Tale Center No.140/