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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH, 1925

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SHOPS IN OLD LONDON. WHAT PRECEDED ART OF MODERN ADVERTISING.

We sometimes hear people refer to the "good old days” atride regretfully.

But were things as good in those days as The shops, for some of them imagine?

COD LIVER OIL example, asks a writer in the eximin-

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

of

THE DISTILLERS COMPANY, LTD.

EDINBURGH.

PRIOR Per 1 lb. Jar...

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Per 2 lb. Jar..

$100. 1.80.

SOLE AGENTS:

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Now that our shops buva peached such- a high standard of efficiency, when every need and taste is provided for, every purso

irso considered and suited, it is almost impossible for the modern shopper to realise the dificulties ander which our

CLEARANCE SALE

OF

All Millinery and

Knitted Goods.

MAUDE BRENNAN.

2ND FLOOR, ASIATIC BUILDINGS.

predecessors bought and sold their goods. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD

Betore printing had been abscovered and the art of advertising was still u known, a dealer shouted the quality of his wares, and invited passers by Ye stop- and buy them. Sounds rather confusing, doesn't it! Imagine buying a new hat under such conditions!

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Cheapside, one of the oldest streets in London, was the great centre of trade. early date people attended the "chepe" or market there, buying their goods at the open stalls erected in the street, which was bailly drained and very muddy.

The ery for custom "What d'ye lack) with What is you'll buy was kept up

monotcacus persistence. Not only Cheap- side teelf, but the adjacent streets were

SANITARY ENGINEERS. MONUMENTALISTS. &o. OFFICES) 31D, WYNDHAM STREET.

C. £69.

JUST

HONGKONG.

RECEIVED

A STOOK OF

×4 RECTANGULAR RAIN-

WATER PIPES, -HEADS & SHOES

the scenes of commerce Wood Street, H. P. WATER FILTERS, BATHS, Honey Lane, Bread Street, Poultry--the names indicate the produce that was sold

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD., in their narrow and congested shops.

Tel Central No. 188

Sr. GLOBEYS BUILDINGS, ICE HOUSE STRIPT,

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE WHO PREFER

HONEYSUCKLE BUTTER

SALTED OR INSALTED

(Made at the Farm)

STANDING ORDERS NOW BEING BOOKED.

TEE

FRENCE STORE.

JUST ARRIVED by S.S. "CHANTILLY.”`

GRUYER SUISSE, CHEESS, GENUINE ROQUEFORT CHEESE, OLIDA, LYONS

SAUSAGE, and ARLES SAUSAGE.

MORTADELLA DE ECLOGNE, BONELESS FINEST HAM, LAX SMOKĖD SALMON IN TINS. RUSSIAN BLACK 'CAVIAR, BLACK OLIVES and FIRST CLASS HOLLAND SALTED HERRINGS.

The following thes, from a curious or lack poem called "London repeay. peany, written by Joha Lydgate in the Afteenth century, describes the London shops at that period:

Taeu to the Chepe I began me drawne, WSB match people I sawe for

stande;

to

One offered the veivet, skylike, and

lawne,

And other he taketh me by the bände. Here is Parys thred the tynest in the

"dande."

SIGNS AND PALES.

The custom of marking inns by 'signa spread to the houses of traders, and in the seventeenth century sign-painting was an exceedingly flourishing occupa

tion.

These signs were sometimes placed on posts, as they are still seen outsid

More often they projected country inns. over the footpath, supported by iron work wrought in elaborate designs.

The mercers. batters, and shoemakers make their shops conspicuous by putting a pole at an angle with the shop-front

and hanging rows of stockings or lines of hats, etc. upon it.

On hoster's pot depending stockings

tide

"Flag with the slackened gale from side to side.Trivia". John Gag. 1710.

The signs increased in such numbers that it became a difficult task to find the shop wanted. Every tradesman had one. ard ench tried to outdo his neighbour by the size and colour of his own. In 1762 they were ordered, by Art of Parliament, to be removed or placed flat against the wall. The shops were soon afterwards distinguished by numbers.

WHAT TO DO WITH £500? TRAVEL DIAMONDS, CHARITY.

A correspondent in the finity Depress was troubled with the delightful problem: What to "do"with a sudden windia of .£500.

if a man is in dire need of Esub the answers simple. He would pay his bills and spend it in necessities. If ou the other hand, £500 descends suddenly on a man who is glad to have it but does not really need it, and must spend

more difficult.

USE COLGATE'S SOAP AND RIBBON DENTAL the problem becomes interesting and

CREAM

SOLE AGENTS:

THE HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD.,

BANK OF CANTON BUILDING,

HONGKONG.

WORLD THEATRE.

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TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ONLY, 5.15 p.m. & 9.15 p.m.

NORMA TALMADGE

WIT

THOMAS MEIGHÄN

In the Supporting Cast

IN

"THE PROBATION WIFE

ORIGINALITY OF PLOT AND SKILL IN PREBENTATION ASSURE EVERYONE AN IDEAL ENTERTAINMENT. USUAL PRICES,

BY SPECIAL REQUEST

i

"OVER THE HILL" Will be Shown Again on SATURDAY, $1st. ~DAY & TO-MORROW, 12.30 p.m., 2.30 p.m. & 7.15 THE LATEST AND BEST CHINESE PRODUCTION

"THE TEST OF TRUE LOVE

(I 12 BEELS) (PRODUCED BY COMMERCIAL PRESS, LTD.)

"

"

number

Here are a gathered from MCB London.

of solutions

and wornen

it

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A man of fifty: I would give up work for three months and winter in Egypt. going there Bway, of Gretee, which have always longed to see."

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A man of sweaty-live: If I had to spend it and could not invest it in Savings Certificates I would buy diamonds, and hold them until I could make a profit on them.

Another man of twenty-five: I would like to live.for three months

so in the most expensive hotels in Europe. go about in perfectly made clothes, dance in the best places, and all that sort of thisg When it was over I'd be quite content to come back broke and ind

a job, for I should have seen 'life.

imp A girl of minteen: I would take s. round the world, starting next week!

A woman of thirty-one: 1 would give 460 to my father and mother, who are old and poor, and I would spend £100 on myself, buying things I have always want- ed and will never have I have always wanted a £30 beaver coat and a set of tortoisesheft-backed hair-brushes and manicure. set in real jade..

BASINS, Etc.

ESTIMATES FREE ron ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL WORK &c., IN TTALIAN MARBLE-POLIBHED or FINELY PUNCHED HONGKONG GRANITE

To Own as BILBOTED DINIGY:

A LARGE STORM OF ARTIFICIAL WREATHS.

SOCIETE: FRANCAISE DE GERANCE.

DE LA BANQUE : INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE, ETABLISSEMENT, FRANCO-CHINOR, (Incorporated is France),

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5, Chater Road, Victoria, Hongkong.

READ OFFICE:

Paris, 74, Bue St. Lazare.

Capital....

...Fra 10,000,000

Reserves ......Frs, 10,790,000 Working fand provided by THE BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE: Fra $30,000,000.

BANKERS: France: Societe Generale, Bangue Nationale de Credit, Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas.. London: Midland Bank, Ltd.

New York: Irving Bank, Columbia Trust.

Every description of Banking and Exchange

Business transacted. Correspondents throughout the World.

M. FITZ-HENRY,

Manager.

Hongkong, 19th July, 1924.

EQUITABLE EASTERN BANKING CORFORATION. '

AN AMERICAN BANK. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS U.S. $2,975,000

HEAD OFFICE:

37, WALL STREET,

NEW YORK

BRANCHES :

SHANGHAI

General Banking sad Exchange Business. Interest Allowed on all Deposite.

Bates on Application.

LONDON AND PARIS AGENTS. EQUITABLE TRUST Co., or N.Y.

D. M. BIGGAR, Manager.

THE BANK OF CANTON, LIMITED.

HBAU OPPICE: HoxGxond

Established 1912)

.:

£1,300,000 £1.078.380

$700,000-

Author Capital...... Faid in Capital ...............

Silver Benetto Fund

Foreign Exchange and General Bank-

ing buyiness transacted.

Interest allowed on

CURRENT ACCOUNTS

per annum on daily credit balances

R

of over $100.

SAVINGS

A

4%, sanxim

DEPOSITA

A middle-aged womun: 1 week-end cottage,mear "London, whien A would let most of the year.

A man of thirty-fivo:

I would go straight to Monte Carlo and put my money on the tables in the hope of com ing back really rich.

LINER AS DANCE- HALL,

The most important of new attractions at Southend sext summer will be a 10,000 tona Orient liner converted into an amusement palace, which will be at

for 12 months 5% per annum

for.

for 3

on demand

BRANCHES

Canton, Shanghai, Hankow, Bangkok

and New York

LONDON BANKERS

The Lloyds Bank, Limited,

LOOK FOONG SHAN

Chief Manager.

SAYINGS OF A WEEK. Blackmail is quite as bad morally as anchor about half a mile to the east of murder.Sir Ernest Wild,

the pierhead. Its main feature will be an elaborate dance hall and a cabaret.

hibitions, and things are

until two o'clock in the

I want to see London become the air

There will be many side shows and ex-junction of the world-Sir Samuel

to be kept going oare

on the

Tea

A gentleman is a man who knows not thousand people can be ship at one time. They will be taken only how to have but how to misbehave.

-Mr. Robert· Lynd; · from the pierhead by special ferry at all states of the tide. The liner will be towed to her moorings a few days before Good Friday

In view of the fact that women bare votes today, it is a wilful waste of raw material to kiss babies-fr. Sexton."

JUST THE DIFFERENCE that means so much

EYE

STRAIN

Unshaded lamps, a flickering light, or cast shadows, are causes of discomfort which often lead to eye strain and ultimately a visit to the oculist.

J..

EYE

CCMFORT

Can be readily obtained by using electric light and correctly de- signed shades Let the light fall on the subject-not on the eye, your eyesight will then be pre- served, and reading, writing, or sewing becomes a pleasurable task. USE ELECTRICITY—the light

flicker without

or flame.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918), LTD.

SHOW ROOM-62. NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON. Phone, K. 677.

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TEL. C. 4759.

TEL. C. 4759.

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

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"Wilheycla

$2

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IN

Stains

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Can be applied by anyone. Always reliable, never sticky. Non-poisonous and Durable.

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