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No. 21,222

號弍廿百弍千空萬弍第

日五初月陸年寅丙

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

WEEK DAYS

A.K Noor

Kawloan....

Dep. 8.40.

9.1510,90 11.40 12,00

Youmati...

Dopi

6.30 9.24-10.39

13.09

Bhatia

Dap 7.0%

9.3610,31

Tipe

7.16

9.49 -11.04

Taipe

9.53*11.09

Shanghai

„Dape

Market.Dep,'

7.31

...Dep. 7,39 10.08 11.18

...Dep. 7.30 10,07-11.20

AT, 7.43 10,1811.28 1920

تكاليف

Fanling

Taipo Market... Dep. 7.42 8.96 10.59 12.02

0.004136 5.29 7.10 9.81 4.44 5.98 79 2.43 456 5.51 $1 2.58 8.09 6.04 7.44 8.00 15.18 6.08 748 3.11 6,94 6.197.58 3.15 5.28 6.23 8.02 3.91 5,348,298.06

L

Shamchum

... Dep. 7,21

Bheungthui

Dep 7.29

..Dep 7.31

8.05 10.39 1.40 1.58 8.12 10.45 11,47 8.16 10.49 1151

8,00

417 813

6.09

3,07

424 5,20

3.11

209

8:24

Taipo

***

Dep. 7.18 -8.30 11,04 1907

3.25

Dep. 7.59

8.49 11.17 12.91

Dap 8,13

8.55 11.29 12.83

Am 8.20

87 9,03-11,37 12,41

438 6.34 4,42-6,88 6,33 8.96 4.56 5.51 6.48 3,50

5,086,03 6,58 7,06 9.585.168.11

6,15 8.19 6.29

Tanmate Kowloon...

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

T.L.

WEEK DAYS, Fanling.Dep. 7.45 11.30 1.20 6.95 Shatankok...AT. 8.40 12.95 3.15 7.20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STATIONK

Facling Dep, 245 11.30 8.20 6.25 Shatauket.A. 840 12.25 435 7.20

Lille M.

WEEK DAYS. STATIONS Shatankok...Dep. 8.30 10,15 1.05 5.00 Fanling A, 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.55

SUNDAYS AD PUBLIO HOLIDAYS, 1.X T.K. M

STAZIONE.

Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.15 2.05 3.00 FanlingArt 3.25, 11.10 8.00 5.35

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THE MAN WHO YAWNED,

Arelina Patti, who, at the age of seven, earned £4,000, and, refused to sing at Cincinnati until her manager had bought her a doll she fancied, was always very determined about the preservation and care of her voice. Though emperors and dukes awaited her appearance on the Flatform. nothing would induce her to sing unless she felt perfectly fit did not feel well, I went to bed and said there was no one in. I would not sing, she declared to a friend.

1926 参拜後

IODINE TREATMENT. DOCTORS REPORT OF WONDERFUL

RESULTS.

Wonderful results in improvement of the general health as well as in the cure of goitre by the use of iodine are record ed in the annual report of the School Medical Officer for Cumberland, Dr. S. B. Morison.

The Assistant officer, Dr. Kenneth Fraser, contributes a special report in which he says that iodine treatment will takes place in the progress of our race if it does not, more enlightened nations will outstrip us health, physique, ant efficiency.

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Forsaking the northern ocean lanes, and other countries iodine is being exten-way from Land's End to Montauk Point, sively used in drinking water, salt, and they headed down past Spain to the sweets.

Canary Islanda, where they sighted After that they headed westwards, Palma, after a leisurely two weeks' sail. Availing themselves of the equatorial currents, and, reaching the Antiller, proceeded up the American coast.

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Moreover, she spared her voice when ever possible during a performance. The chorus and orchestra crashed together as the prima donna's notes began to ascend. It really did not matter much who sang those final top notes so long as they could be resolutely reached, and so, for in-weets-are-being given to selected school stance, at the Covent Garden Opera children in Derbyshire and Somerset to

As regards provisions, the captain and It is believed that our white bread crew say that they bore with much re- House it was the part of the Bauermeister prevent goitre, to sing the top notes instead. of Patti, and nobody in the audience was ever the and boiled vegetables do not contain petition of bacon and eggs and a certain

sufficient iodine.

brand of English marmalade, but euffer- wiser.

Dr. Fraser says that as a result of bised no food shortage. successful treatment of a man who suf- fered from severe ptomaine poisoning he recommended iodine to various friends. The aspal comment after a month or so was, I never felt so well in my life."

CARUSO'S PLAINT.

Mabbrar, another famous prima donna, refused-to-be worried about either her health or her voice. She was very fond of horse-riding and would gallop about tirelessly all day in the Bois de Boulogne, even when she was due to sing the same evening.

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"Marie," he said "you'll be tired to death. You'll never be able to sing to-night."

A PARIS WINE SALE.

PARIS, Jure Sth The wines belonging to the late M. Paul Dutasta have just been sold. The total obtained for the 9,000 bottles was ~ Shall I not? Ziske cried. “This is 130,000f. [about £813]. Three bottles of and before 1808-Duc de Montebello brandy went for anyone could interfere she seized the 2,000, and 1847 port realized 2001. | what will make me sing

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It is well kown Caruso was very tem- peramental, and this often showed itacu when he was engaged at a rehearsal,

On a certain occasion he was rehearsing in conjunction with Signora de Nuorina, a famous soprano, and he was so con cerned with the music and action that he had omitted to remove, his bat

The prima donna, resenting the omia- sion, snatched his hat from his head and threw it on the stage, crying, in her anger: "When you sing with a lady, take your hat off

SINGING FOR A NIGHT'S LODGING, "Poor Caruso had many troubles Yes, poor Caraso, though he earned im mense sume for a single night's engage- ment.

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"People expect circus tricks from me, and it is natural enough they should,"

Enor- be once exclaimed to a friend. mous promises are made on my behalf by those who charge enormous prices to If they charged double the usual rates they would cover expenses. Why then charge four or five times the usual rates? These things excite me dreadfully, and I am not master of my resources. The feeling that unprecedent ed things are expected of me makes me ill, and I fail to do half as well as I might otherwise do." -"

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STRIKE THE GREAT S

* CONFOUNDED NUISANCE " BUT A SPLENDID EXAMPLE. News of the general strike is worn out but the following graphic picture of what want on in Londen, given in a letter received by the last mail, is in- teresting enough for reproduction even

· now:--

The strike was a confounded nuisance of the mucous membrane. The saliva re- fuses to flow properly, the vocal cords and no mistake, but we managed to get lost their beautiful coating. The throat over it. The public who had cars were of a tenor is as sensitive as highly-polish- begged to do what they could towards ed steel, which is affected by the most.

first day I absolutely could not get to minnto speck of dust, or the least breath giving a lift to those on the tramp. The of air. Way, if you bend down for any office, but on all the other days I managed me the mere contraction of the muscles to get a pick up for at least part of the produces a feeling of huskiness."

PIANIST AND PRIME MINISTER.

It is not generally known that the famous pianist, Paderewski, who was for a time Prime Minister of Foland, is also a doctor of philosophy of Lemberg Uni- versity. His philosophical qualities, bow, ever, do not prevent him from an un- restrained contempt for whistling people. Any man," he says,ought to have the night to shoot a whistler at alight.'

',

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The best of all the trampers were the girls-I don't mean, the wall to do lot who toil not nor spin-but London's! great army of girl clerks, typists, work girls and factory girls, in short, the girls who matter. London rarely saw ach a happy set, enough to break any. strike, and yet some of them had their daily tramp in and out, and no luck of a pick up,

"I knew of two who tramped 15 miles Judging by his comment in the visitors' to their work! And one evening just be book of a London hotel, be has the same fore the taxi men were called out, three to New Cross were fortunately able to kind of feeling towards people who talk of us in a taxi coming from the wharf when he is playing. Caruso, of course, was not always pros They talked here when I was play.give a lift to three girls who were tramp

Piccadilly to Eltham I perous and popular, End as a youth knew ing," was the brief comment, accompanying-without a word of grumbling-from what it was to sing for the price of hiring his signature.

A well-known musical man, after one The great sport began when the Hos board and lodging.

at Leghorn, Caruso had managed to rench Milan, where he hoped to raise suficient money to take him back to Florence. He tried to borrow a small amount, but failed. The singers, conduc tors, managers, all turned him down.

America set him on his feet, and he never forgot it. The ex-Kaiser once said to him: Caruso, why don't you turn your back on America, and stay with us always in Europe?" "Your Majesty," exclaimed the tenor, my gratitude to America will only be extinguished with my death."

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On one occasion, after a brief season of Paderewski's wonderful recitala, ex-pital students came forward to drive-

The can imagine. They had to run the claimed to him: Now, I know what trains and buses. The folliest chaps you you are. You are the devil." famoua-mau-was greatly pleased and re-gauntlet too as the roughs made a prac "And you are an angel for tice of breaking the bus windows when

they got the chance. torted:

The students would chalk all sorts saying so."

The well-known sensitiveness of Fa derewski and other modern artistes is as of things on their buses On Mother nothing in comparison with that of the dear, we have no pane,' or "The Freah famous pianist, Rubinstein, who, when Air Bus for Beauty, As of course, these playing Chopin's Funeral March in St lade didn't know the actual fares; the James's Hall, was so disturbed by hear trains that ran and the buses had a fare PALACE HOTEL. ing a post-horn sounded suddenly from a coach in Piccardily, that he took his hands off the piano and dashed them down again with a crash on the keys.in a fit of anger.

LOST HIS VOICE,

The famous singer, Tetrazzini, is very fond of telling of the days when she and her sister shared rather humble rooms; as they went from place to place. One landlady had been very kind and mother- 15, and the sisters thanked her on leav ing..

...

He sat for a moment quite still and then began to play the piece again, but it was a very tame performance, as the spirit of music seemed to have forsaken the great man.

THE MAN WHO YAWNED. Rubinstein confessed that the reason he She was busy over her washtab, and looked up at them with benign compassion never looked at the audience was that and said :'''That's all right, my dears; once, in doing so, be saw, as he was I'm always good to theatricals; for I playing a stout man in the front row never know what my own children may in the act of a most exceptional yawn. The action upon his state of mental When Winckelmann, the great tenor, ecstasy was so immediate and acute as was taking the part of hero ma perfordwell nigh to ruin the rest of his perfgrm mance of." Lohengrin " in Vienna, beanca de

come to:

"From this you can get some little of 3d. anywhere to anywhere else. idea of the splendid spirit they all put into their work. I am sure they enjoyed themselves and we the public, owe them our sincerest gratitude. I am any... thing but conservative in polities, but I do admire old Baldwin's absolute refusal written, behad written." to give in. Like Pilate, what he had

IMMORAL PLAYS. QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

Notice has been given by Lord-Morris, supported by the Bishop of London, that he will ask the Lord Chamberlain :

1. Ibiszattention has been called to the production of certain plays in Lon- don which have been described in the had reached the middle of the last Act, Brahms and a very decided prejudice Press by dramatic critica and others aU when he suddenly and completely lost his against women musicians, and confessed immoral degrading, and demoralising 4- voice. A violoncello in the orchestre in that He had tried-to-make his two no Wilthe make inquiries into this mat stantly continued the voice part, and concertos prohibitive for women players.tor and take appropriate action to sup Winckelmann proceeded to the end of the One day, in company, he expatiated on press what is deemed indecent sad.objec this point with Teresa Carreng, sitting tionable) 3. Will he state what are the Acene in dumb show.

next to him. Alas!" he concluded," I principles upon which the CeasOF UT thought I had succeeded, but women will Plays acts,andaupon which plays are granted a licence for performance 1.4 play them.

Carreno, with her ready fact, exclaim-Will he state if he objects to the licensing ed" My dear Maestro, I sit here over of the theatres in London, placed under whelmed with mortification.". "Ah" re- his jurisdiction by the Theatres Act, 1843, plied Brahms, “don't suppose I mean being transferred to the local authorities you; I always regard you- as a man as is the case everywhere else in this pianist.

Sima Reovee was notably faddy" about his voice, and he himself once de- clared that his extreme conscientious neas about his voice had cost him no less than £80,000 --

When asked what his test of unfitness was, he said:" You get a peppery feal ing, a dryness in the throat, an irritation (Continued on next Column).-

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