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FRIDAY, APRIL 23RD, 1926

Normal working of the cable traffic unknown to primitive races living in their natural environment. Many doctors tell with Shanghai and beyond has been re-under the influence of liquor, fell into the harbour at Connaught Road West on ns that these troubles are due to a lack established.

Tuesday. She was rescued, and sent to of hygienic knowledge, impure lood and

A Chinese was admitted to the Govern the Government Cisit Hospital, air as well as wrong feeding. Cancer,ment Civil Hospital on Wednesday suffer- rheumatism and intestinal troubles are ing from injuries sustained through common.anough to make us consider any falling from a wall on which he was Middle School of Canton, some 18 girl suggestions concerning their elimination, working for the Naval Ordnance Depart-students of which are now in Hong-

ment

It is understood that the Naval Yard Branch of the Ministering Children's

The doctors tell us that if only we will be reasonably careful about what we eat, adopt regular habits, and take sufficient exercise, we should be able to keep well. League has secured the services of Worry is one of the greatest enemies of the Imperial Concert Party to appear in good health. The carefree and the joya pot-pourri programme in aid of the

ous can do a vaat amount of brain work, above charity... experiencing but little mental fatigue,

whereas the unfortunate victims of worry. A latter mail from Hame and Europe

The Lai Chi Society of the True Light

keng, gave a delightful concert at the Chinese Y.M.CLA, last night, when. many Chinese ladies who wore at one time or another students, of the institution,

attended. It was more or less a co-union

old True Light, or Chen wous Middle School girls in Hongkong. The

entertainment was augmented by some

local talent enlisted from the mixed

and grief soon and brain-fag" added via Negapatama. arrived yesterday after choir of the To Tani Church and." The The latter part of the to their disabilities. In such a condition noon by the 3.5. Taima. The letters Serenaders."

by about Sve o`olack.

the only remedy is a holiday or a hobby, from Home were dated Loudon, March programme consisted of a playlet acted Happy is the man who can forget his 20th. The mail was ready for delivery by the True Light girls. business or family anxieties while pursu- ing such bobby. For the mind is like a muscle, it needs a rest when tirëd

There can be no doubt that, during the humid days of a Hongkong summer, all af us are effected by the atmosphere Conditions. Europeans who come out to this part of the world quickly find that, in the summer at any rate, they must

Mr. P. Perbies, who has been for The sales have been carried out by adjust themselves and their way of life twenty-offe years the manager of the private treaty by Messrs. Deacons, to local conditions. They cannot main-Shanghai Land Investment Co. and has solicitors,

A Chinese assistant baker employed on LATE MR. STEPHEN'S ESTATE. the Empress of Russia, was sentenced to

LARGE NUMBER OF HOUSES SOLD. six weeks hard labour at the Central Magistracy, yesterday, for the theft of some sheets, blankets and towels from the cabin of Mr. C. Rimmer, the second make of the vessel.

Several lats included in the estate of the late Mr. J. D. Stephens, who prac tised as a solicitor in Hongkong for. up- wards of half a century have been sold.

tain the same strenuous mental or phy a fine record of work for the community Stephen's Building," which has for sical output in the tropics that is pos-to-his credit, departed for home last some time past afforded temporary sible in a more temperate climate. The week on retirement. Both Mr. and Mrs. accommodation for the Central Fire great difficulty is to make up our mind Peebles will be greatly missed in Shang-Brigade, has been sald to Mr. David, of Messra 3. J. David & Co. The price not to worry about the things that are bai.

In the hot and not very important.

humid days we are apt to magnify our

troubles.

Despite the fact that the mazzling has not been divulged. The building order has become operative, a large covers an area of 0,200 square feet.

To-date $1,719,200 has been realized by number of unmuzzled dogs sra still to

When we reflect upon the amazing com- be sech daily wandering in various parts the disposal of certain lots, and the plexities of the human body we ought to of the island. Every day a number are whole, property will, it is said,, fetch be astonished that most of us enjoy such captured and taken to the compound at $3,000,000. splendid heaith We hate a vague idea Police Headquarters and if they are not blood circulates through the claimed by the next morning are shot body, but do we realise that the heart From one to six on an average are being

thus disposed of daily. is a little torce-pump, six inches by four, that beats sorge seventy times a minute

that our

China

A special ceremonial parade of the or, say, thirty-seven million times in a 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, fear? We eat and we drink, if we are will be held at 10.30 this morning by the in health, painlessly yet what a com- General Officer Commandi? plicated, business it really is, although Command. The parade is to commen we think so little about it. There is the rate the Second Battle of Ypres. Silver threefold digestion in mouth, stomach Drums will be presented to the Battalion during the parade. These Drums will and intestines which is' absolutely essen-

be consecrated by the Chaplain to the tial for our daily life. Then we bave the Forces and will be presented by Mrs. apparently simple affair of breathing. Laard, wife of the General Officer Com-

EBERT-At Shanghai, on April 15th, to Until something, such as bronchitis or manding.

Mr. and Mrs. EBERT, a daughter,

pneumonia reminds us, we almost forget TAYLOR-At Shanghai, on April 18th, to that we breathe. Yet the average man

of a daughter

The Hongkong Lodges of the R.A.O.B.

All the houses which are part of the estate in Connaught Road, with the ex-

sold: Messrs. A, S. Watson & Co., Ltd., caption of Nos. 21, 22, and 23 have been

have bought, Nos, 37, 37, 38, 384, 30 and 40. They have there therefore be come owners of the four houses hitherto occupied by their aerated water town office, compradore department, etc, along the waterfront, just beyond Pottinger Street. Nos. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 35, Connaught Road, have also been sold,

Other Tots disposed of are:- No. 9, Shelley Street...

No. 9, Mountain View, the Peak Nos. 147 and 148, Shanghai Street (now aumbered 255 and 287), Yaumati.

Nos. 132, 134 and 138, Reclamation

Kowloon Inland Lot No. 422—2,375,89%

Mr. and Mrs. T. E. TAYLOR, the gift docs breathe 1,000 times every hour. and held their concluding dance of the sessor Street, Yaumati.“

cach day he inhales about 14,400 gallons at the RE. Theatre, Wellington Barracks,

There was a large attend-f last night.

Non. 331, 333, 335, Shanghai Street (now anco, many of the dancers being in fancy costume. Prizes were given for the most numbered 439, 441 and 443), Mongkok. picturesque and original customes, as tsui."

DEATH BAILEY-At Shanghai, on April 17th, ANNIE, the beloved wife of CRA. BAILEY, aged 47 years

Hongkong Office: 1, Chater Road." London Office: 131, Fleet Street, E.O.

The Daily Press.

"HONGKONU, AJRIL 233b, 1926.

HEALTHY AND WISE

H.

14-18, Cocktpur Street, London, &W. THE Chinese thethod of making payments

EARTERN BRANCHEN:

Bombay, Calcatta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong, Canton and Shanghai

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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL

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to their medical adviser during good health and withholding such payments during sickness is one that is not alto

of air. He has no choice-be must take in the air if he would live. Fure air is essential for good health.

The brain with its 8,000,000,000 cells,

well as other prizes for "spot" dances, Nos. 531, 333, 335, 337, 557, 550, 561, the marvellous telegraph system in the etc. Many carnival novelties were intro- 582, 647, 649, and 651, Shanghai Street body called nerves, the delicate marvels

duced, and the Theatre, which was gaily (these are "new" numbers) Mongkoktsui.. of the whole mental system are beyond decorated for the occasion presented a

A vernacular report states that four description. Day after day and year after very attractive and happy scene. Danc-large shop buildings," belonging to the year we carry on through the plain-ing which began at 8.30, continued until estate at the corner of Pottinger Street less hours and almost forget that we ever the early hours. Barnicott's. Orchestra have been sold for $400,000. This, we are felt bodily pain. We want always to feel provided the dance music.

informed, is not correct; 5t, but we sometimes grow, careless. At times even the wisest of us, even the

doctors themselves, are puzzled as to whether this thing or that will affect the delicate equilibrium of our being. Yet each year knowledge is growing and it is an indisputable fact that, for the white The Corporation undertakes General gether based upon a fallacy. Indeed, in

man at least, the average length of life Banking and Exchange Business of every description and in addition to its Branches this Colony, European doctors often work increases each decade. Perhaps the new has Agencies in all the principal cities of under an annual

al contract system, which

society for spreading knowledge about the World.

LE HOPKINS,

suggests something of the same idea 13 elementary principles of gaining and that upon which the Chinese method is keeping good health will spare some of Manager. P&O Building, Hongkong. based We should be very grateful to the energies for educational efforts in the medical men for giving us such advice as tropics. This Colony has a public ser- will keep us in good health. We suspect vice of medical experts. The local that the European doctors do not accept Government, might institute an educa the Chinese system of payment because tional campaign" concerning the general they have not that faith in their patients principles of health amongst all sections which it implies. In other words they of the community. For health has been probably are not satisfied that the defined as something that is " the chiefest patients will always strictly carry out good bestowed by Heaven, but seldom their instructions shout regulating their understood."

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lives so as to maintain good health,

A number of medical men, with the help of scientific experts and leaders in commerce, have formed a new society Great Britain to teach the nation bo to improve the health of each and every individual. It sounds an ambitious pro- gramme, but the idea behind the efforts

The manager of a shop in Shamshuipo has reported to the police that one of his fokis has absconded with 895 which he had collected.

Mr. and Mrs. Birkett, Misa Birkett, of the sponsors is sound. It cannot be and Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Stewart were who left on the among the passengers. pro denied that modern civilisation has

diseases that are almost Empress of deia yesterday for Manila.

duced many

"FOR ENGLAND, FOR KING, AND ST. GEORGE!"

Are we thinking again in the loyal old strain Of our England's Imperial glory?

Of dragon and maiden and knight honour-laden

Who vanquished the foe fierce, and gory 1

Then it must take us back down the past-trodden track To the years when the stout souls before us, All homesick and weary, yet strove to be cheery

And toasted Bt. George" in brave chorus.

When the beckoning smile of this far-away isle

Won the first pioneers with her lure,- When for England and pride strong men struggled and died

In the hell that was theirs to endure.

But the heritage left to us pow is bereft

Of their toiling and hardship and sorrow,- We may frivol and play to the tune of the day

With no thought for the past or the morrow.

And though some of us say we would scorn to be

Are we say the better! I wonder, While we quibble and fight as to who may put right

Each profound theological blunder,

gay,

Oh, the dragons to slay, are more wily to-day

Than the monsters of story and fable, They are legion in name, and they fight for our shame

And their power to disarm and disable.

Yet, when all's said and done death our tropical sun,

We are just little children together, Sent off to our school, to play student or fool,

For the Rose, with the Shamrock and Heather!

Mother England has sent us, and strength surely lent us

Straight on, with heads upward, to forge,—

The dragons shall die,raise the eager toast, high "For England, for King, and St. George 1"

Hongkong, April 2ard, 1928.

GLADYS JACKSON