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DCL

tillers Company

EDINBURGY

THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 1925

D. C. L."

MALT EXTRACT

with

COD LIVER OIL Is made from the finest selected Barley and malt- ed with the greatest care on the Company's own premises by the most methods of scientific manufacture.

THE

DISTILLERS COMPANY, LTD,

ן:

EDINBURGH.

PRICE: Per I lb, Jar ... Par ib. Jar...

$1,00.

1.80.

BOLE AGENTS:

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD

Tel Central No. Las

ST GRORGE'S BUILDINGS. Icz Horse STREET.

DAIRY FARM. NEWS.

The Cheese that Pleases

IN LOAVES

KRAFT TINS CHEESE

IN

The Perfect Food -Eat More of It

It costs less than meat, eggs, fish on potatoes, yet contains more nourish ment, pound for pound, than any of theas.

Serve it to the children also. Their growing bodies crave such a food and they thrive on it.

Sold by the Slice, Pound or LoatTM- FREE RECIPE BOOK

KRAFT CANADIAN CHEKSI

KRAFT

CRRADUAS CHELEN

Tins Loaf

60 Cents each.

80 #7

per lb.

THE

FRENCH STORE.

JUST ARRIVED. POULTON & NOE. LTD.

POTTED MEATS In Glass Jars. ANCHOVY, BLOATER, SALMON, SALMON & SHRIMP. SMOKED CODS' ROES, CHICKEN & TONGUE, HAM, GAME, CHICKEN & BAM TURKEY & HAM. 45 cts. per Jar.

CHAS. SOUTHWELL & CO. LTD.

SALTED JORDAN ALMONDS, SALTED SWEET ALMONDS & WHOLE JORDAN ALMONDS. Io FANCY Glass: STRAWBERRY JAH, English Home-Made ORANGE MARMALADE & RED-CURRANT JELLY..

PHONE. 794.

No. 9, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE

TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY, 3.15 & 9.15 p.m.

THE PICTURE YOU'VE BEEN LONG WAITING FOR

MERRY-GO-ROUND

(IN ELEVEN REELS)

ZEATURING

MARY PHILBIN, NORMAN KERRY and A GREAT CAST. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SEE TAIS GREAT PRODUOTION. THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD YOU'VE NEVER SFEN A PICTURE LIKE THIS. IT'S A PICTURE THAT YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.

DON'T FAIL TO SEE IT.

TO-DAY TILL SATURDAY, 230 & 7:15 pm

PRODUCTION THE LATEST CHINESE SUPER

“ TWO VALIANT.

BROTHERS

IN TEN REELS PRODUCED BY COMMERCIAL PRESS, LTD.

Also "Mr. NOBODY' "Ep. 12. WORLD THEATRE

CHINESE SERVANTS. DISLIKE TO BEING TREATED

MACHINE.

י

THE BACHELOR'S" BOY.

Directly one arrives in England from the Easi one is greeted by all one's acquaintances and friends with two stock

questions. The fist usual's cakes thu

torni of You come from Laina, don't you? Then you must know the Smiths. who live in Rangoon The second is Ah, you live in China Lucky people! You have no troubles with servants."

ao trouble with servants!

SOCIETE TRANCAISE DE GERANCE.

DE LA BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE. ETABLISSEMENT FRANCO-ORINOIS," (lacorporated in France)

5, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong.

HEAD OPrice:

Faris, 74, Rna St. Lazaru.

Capital.....

Frs 10,000,000 Reserves... Frs. 10,790,600 Working fund provided by The BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHIxz: Era, Sugboju!).

BANKERS:

it is quite true that there is a never ending file of Chinese, extending from Peking to the borders of Burma, who are ready to come, and sanoke and play cards and gossip, at one's expense, but of ser- vants in the English sense of the word France: Societe Gouersle, Banque Nationale de how few there are! To, begin with, a Credit, Banque de Faris et des Pays Fas atmosphere of distrust is usually enger London: Midland Bank Lid dered by the totally opposite conceptions New York: Irving Bank, Columbia Trast. employer and employee have of their

Business transactel unable to speak the late respective positions. The foreign on. Every description of Banking and Exchange ployer, usually

only for a quiet and

and Correspondents throughout the World. wishes guage.

provide

M. FITZ-HENRY, punctual automaton who will

Manager. him with food and drink at regular in- terals, brush his clothes, and learn his

Hongkong, 12th July, 1924, habits, and for the rest of the time not exist in any audible sense. The Chinese,

EQUITABLE EASTERN BANKING CORPORATION. on the other hand, is intensely sociable. het He wants really to join the family is ready and willing to take the deep- est interest in all his employer's affairs, all and he would like to be consulted occasons. To be treated as a machine chills him; it does more. brings out all that is bad in him and suppt. Chinese best and most human

it

servant bas his weaknesses. To sym- pathisers he makes no bones of theit. He ore than Syneezes, course; rarely more ten per cent.. and never less than five, would like this business of and he

the begin- squeeze, to be recognised, at aing of his connertion with his employer, decided in his favour, and then not referred to again. After that, the ordin

to join ary Chinese servant is ready the round of family life, do his own work with fair regularity, and anyone else's with the greatest guste. But these are only under favourable conditions-when talked by rime, he is recognised, called to, and allowed to talk in return. If he

is

AN AMERICAN BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS U.S. $2,973,000

HEAU OFFICE:

37, WALL STREET,

- NEW YORK.

BRANCHES :

41 SHANGHAIT. - General Banking and Exchange Business. Interest Allowed on all Depoets. Rates on Application.

LONDON AND PAMIS AGENTS.

D. M. BIGGAR, Manager.

is treated like a machine he becomes THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED. different being. He may develop into a very perfect machine, but beware! In exactly the same proportions as he attending to your business perfectly, so he is attending

to his own business per business consists in and his own

fects your inoney into his mopey

by L

thousand little imperceptible chan

nels, none of them affairs of more than ten or twenty tents, but these little rivulets of cents swell into a noble-river

The Bache

of dollars as time rolls on.

Boy Jor's is well known to all house- wives as quiet, considerato of his master's omfort, efficient, and a squeezer to the

degres.

Established 1912,

R. N. & R. M. BOXING MEETING. MURRAY BARRACKS.

NOVICES MEETING, Thursday, January 8th.

M

Afternoon Session

Evening Session

4.

÷4,30–6.30° p.m.

8.00 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING, Saturday, January 10th.

Fighting Starts

8.00 pm.

Booking for both Meetings at MOUTRIE'S..., $4. $3 and 82 40 Cents. Civilians Admission to Unnumbered Seats Naval and Military Ratings... 20 Cents..

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING

CORPORATION, LTD.

14, PEDDER ST., HONGKONG.

SOLE AGENTS FOR

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Tel C. 215 & 9351.

W. & T. AVERY, LTD.,

W

A

EQUITABLE TRUST Co., or N.Y.

E

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UNIVERSAL SQUARE PLATFORM WEIGELL

P

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HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG

Authorised Capital

£1,200,000

21,079,580 $700,000

G H

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Paid Up Capital .....................

Silver Reserve Fand............

Foreign Exchange and General Bank-

ing business transacted

Interest allowed on

CURRENT ACCOUNTS

2% per a um on daily credit balaurea

of over S...

nth

SAVINGS

In Chinese families the

pert

the

ПЕРОЗДА

of the household. The join conversation, come and listen to anything that strikes them as interesting, ald contrive to know as much of their, mas ter's affairs as he does himself. It is for this reason that in Chinese history the rise of major-domos or personal If they servants, to power is so commer are intelligent they have unexampled opportunities of gaining influence with Few

Europeans are to accommodate themselves to such it

their masters.

miliarity, but they will gain greatly they allow their head servant some license. If the servants are happy the

house runs

for 12 months 5% per annum for 6

for 3

on damand

BRANCHES

41.

Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, Bangkok and New York.

LONDON BANKERS

The Lloyda Bank, Limited,

LOOK POONG SHAN

Chief Manager.

tented the holy; if they are discon-C. B. WARREN & CO., LTD

lives in an atmo crockery and

nhere of smashing the back for m

VOICHU

pare disputes re Chinese servants breed with

ity; they appear

trom

great

nowhere, and one

10

SANITARY-ENGINEERS, MONUMENTALISTS, &c.

becomes an employer many times over OFFICES $1D, WYNDHAM STREET, without knowing it. Every Chinese has

a family watching him; so soon is ho receives a regular salary the family desTx. cend on him for a portion of it. Ho naturally thinks that it is better and

for bi cheaper

his employer to pay rather than he himself; so he purchases peace with his family by procuring ink for some member of it. The house is full of vague cousins, relatives by marriage, and connections. The employer soon finds

tha

he is surrounded by a clan of which

he is not the hand. ladced, in reality

C. 269.

HONGKONG.

JUST RECEIVED

A STOOR OF

4 RECTANGULAR RAIN-

WATER PIPES,

HEADS & SHOES,

ho is a queen bee; he is attended and H. P. WATER FILTERS, BATHS,

fed by

retinue of slaves, but with a

very deunite

purpose;

BASINS, Etc.

ESTIMATES FREE FOR ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL WORK &c., I

ITALIAN MARBLE-POLISHED OR FINELY PUNCHED HONGKONG GRANITE.

To Oxx on SELECTED DESICS.

he is the producer very

and mainspring of the bive, and must be kept going in order that all the depen Idents row, he is milked daily, and the on him may thrive. Like some he milk divided by families in villages

ever baza has never to, dotted among the trees some twenty miles from Peking. Cow or bee, he is happy in his ignorance. He kicks from time to time against the size of the retinue be is supporting, for everyone sums to hire at least one

work other person to help him with he finds in his kitchen, besides

the cook, two grimy acolytes of whose existence bo was not wäre.

inquiry ong proves to be the assistant cook and the other is

friend a learner

of

friend my cook will remark with ambiguous con- clusiveness. The number one boy has number two boy, and the number two boy bas a coolie; the same extensive hier archy prevails in the stables, and there really seems to be no reason why every servant should not have another beneath bisa ad infinitum. But the Chinese are a cautious race; they gauge the limits of their master's patience carefully, and Having

ascertained exactly

how much 300, Peak, or Phone Feak 32. he may be bled without provoking too disagreeable consequences they seldom

A LARGE STK OF ARTIFICIAL WREATHS.

the

PREPAID

**WANTED ADVERTISEMENTS

Lettä are lying at this. Offer for Bozce-XE, XL, XS, YL, 89, 40, 880, 979, 1609, 1890.

Age-Apply Mss, F. A. PERRY,

YANTED A NURSE for Child 21 Years

621

overstep these limits, unless some calami-OST ON SATURDAY EVENTS About BLAZ

a bad night at mahjong ty, such as

PIEB, DIAMOND THE PIN an addition their

ment makes to it, domestic establish- Apply Box No. 61, 0/0 Hongkong Daily

OF

Pross

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with its attendant inevitable sów, lutely necessary. They prefer always to

the What will always prevent complete move slowly, piling the straws on camel's back 20 gradually that the camel mony between master and servant is the hardly notices till he is fully loaded. A clash between Eastern and Western

honesty.

Ва friend of mine, the best-natured of men, thought on the subject of some time ago bought some few tubs of long as the East remains incurably and goldfish; attractive monstrosities with shamelessly dishonest in the opinion of goggling, protuberant eyes and many the West, and so long as the West. re- wavy tails. Some days later be met a mains incredibly crudo and narrow- strange servant in the courtyard and minded in the opinion of the East, there asked him who he was, and was gravely is an ever-present canker in their rela informed that he was the goldfish coolie! tions once money strays into them. Continued as foot of neat Columg.) M.E.W in the Manchester Guardian,

AND

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