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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1930.

SHOPPING GUIDE

FELIX HAT SHOP

7, Ice House St,

HATS

AND

GOWNS Inspection Cordially Invited."

Bolande Sarrault

MODES-COUTURE

HAS REMOVED TO Srd Floor, PEDDER BUILDING

ROOM No. S TELEFONE. C.. 2252

A SEK & CO. PHOTO-SUPPLIES

26A, DISVUI RD. C.

TEL. C. 3459

NAKAMURA MASSAGE

No. 4, Lis TONG STREET, 18T FLOOR, WANCHAL

HONG KONG.

RADIO SUPPLIES

Mackintosh's

Mow's Wear Specialists.

Alexandra Bldg. Der Faux Road,

Fresh Flowers, Fruit

and Vegetables.

The Clover Flower

Shop

10, ICE HOUSE STREET

REMOVED TO

74, QUEEN'S ROAD C.

DER A. WING & CO. (1923), LTD.

ELECTRIC GRAMOPHONES Madame S. LEITE

AND MOTORS

SUPER ELTO OUTBOARD MOTORS RUDGE WHITWORTH MOTOR CYCLES TENNIS RACKETS

RUDOLF WOLF & KEW, LTD.

54, QON'S ROAD CENTRAL. 1st Floor..

Tel. 0. 2173:

Ladies' Wear Specialist.

NEW SATINS AND LACE BRIDAL VEILS OF BRUS. SELS NET AND TULLE,

ASIATIC BUILDING. 1st FLOOR TELEPHONE C 4474

LIE

DAINTY SHOES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER AT MODERATE PRICES

ROYAL SHOE STORE

'No. 1, D'AQUILAR STREET,

Hora Kosa. Telephone C. 8237.

SHOP

AT

THESE

SHOPS

PERMANENT WAVING

The Most Up-to-date Beauty Shop in Town. MRS. BETEN. TEK. 681. PENINSULA HOTEL Ex. 34

A. YUN

TAILOR & OUTFITTER 40, POTTINGER STREET, CENTRAL

Hora Kong. TEL. C. 6060.

POWELL'S

Gentlemen's Tailors and Outfitters.

BESPOKE ORDERS Executed In 24 Hours. 10, ICE HOUSE STREET,

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the Best Perman- ent Finger & Marcel Wares. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladles & Gentlemen.

MODERATE CHARGES,

PIDDLE BLDO. 1st Frook Room 5. TEL. 0.5169. Opposite Entrance H.. HOTEL

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

FOR WAR HIRE

FOR Eon Koxe: 0.4758

For Kowloor: K. 681

THE DAIRY FARM

1cx House STREET

FOR PURE MILK

FARM AND IMPORTED FROZEN

MEATS. HOUSE F POULTRY

WITH INTEGRITY

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

THE DEPARTMENTAL STORE OF THE EAST.

TEL C. 4567 (6 LINES).

ESTABLISHED 1883.

Tak Cheong

Gentlemen's Tailors, Outfitters and Dealers in all kinds of Fancy Goods

'50, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL PHONE: CENT. 1317

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By

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Tel. 0.2232

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Alexandra Bldg. Chater Road,

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TEL. C. 1080

QUEEN'S BUILDINA.

BRUNSWICK HOUSE

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RECORDS

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he Chief Scout

Talks

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ORCHID HUNTING.

[By Un-Gr. Loan BADEN-POWELL of GiLWELL. }

[Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press," All Rights Reserved.]

Old people are always saying that there is no room left for ad venture in the world-that every thing is now too much civilised They tell you that young fellows are no good nowadays; that they don't want to go overseas, and that if they do there is nothing exciting for them to look forward to there.

Bat fan't there 1

I have spent a lot of my life in different parts of the world, and it is quite true that in some regions railways have opened up the soun- try, especially in South, and West Africa; consequently what used to he wild jungles full of big game and savage "enemies is now ploughed up, fenced, and turned into peaceful farmlands, dotted with white men's

homes and villages,

But there are other parts just as untamed and unexplored as ever, and as full of romance and dangers. I was in New Guinea a few years ago (you know where that is just above the rabbit's ear that marks the north-east part of Australia).

Vil

A Hint for Map-Making,

TODAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME,

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

1.43 p.m. —Weather report.

7 to 9 p.m.-Experimental pro-

KRAJINDE..

p.m.-Programame of Columbia records supplied by, Meears. Anderson.

"English Medley, One Step" (arr. Debroy Somers) and "Sea Songs Medley, One Step," Debroy Somers Band.

Dance music.

***Waltz Medley "

(arr. Debroy Somere), Debroy Somers Band, Regimental March Medley," H.M.

Grenadier Guards.

10.30 p.m.--Close down,

I found plenty of them in the jungles of the West Coast of Africa year ago, and if I had knows what big prices they fetched at home- and if I had not also been busy on a campaign to stop human sacri-1

ces-I might have made a fortune with them.

Hunting for Blooms. In New Guinea the orchids are particularly good and varied, and when I was there several mea were in the interior looking for them;

and though it sounds rather penceable sort of pursuit to go collecting flowers, I can tell you that these hunters meet with just ae big risks and adventures "as if

they had been hunting lions

buffaloes.

or

Mr. Freak Reid, who was out there, told in an Australian news paper the Sun how he met with a little wizened Dutchman who came staggering into Merauke very with swainp fever, bringing with him one little bulb, which was after. wards found to be a solitary exaJTI- ple of a certain breed of orchid. It was sent to London, where man paid £230 for it.

Killed by Cannibals.

(I will give you a useful way to The Dutchman slowly recovered remember the outline of the map from the fever, and started out of Australia which will come in again for the little known cannibal- valuable some day in 4 school hunted

Diegul country. upper examination. Your map would be When he returned again he was roughly correct if you draw a lion's | curried on a litter by two men-all head looking towards the west and that remained of his party of a rabbit's towards the east, with 's twelve-the rest of them having tit-bit in the shape of Tasmania for both eaten by cannibale. But in n the rabbit to eat.)

dirty rice-sack, clutched tightly in his right hand, were two wonderful orchids, with twelve blogms apiece. These flowers measured nearly six inches in diameter, and were re- markably beautiful specimens. They foud their way to America) and were sold there for £200 each. But you will réalise that they had not been obtained any too easily.

AUSTRALIA

THE LESS AND

THE RABBIT.

A useful way to remember the outline of the map of Australia.

Well, when I was in New Guinea there were several men out there in the dense jungles of that coun- try looking for--what do you think

Orchids.

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A Terrible Experience.

SUNDAY,

9.55 a.m.-Morning Service relayed

from St. Joseph's Church. am, to 1 p.m. (approx.).-Chi-

nese programme.

148 p.m.-Weather report.

9 p.m.-Programme of H.M.V, and

Victor records supplied by Mesers. Moutric, L'Arlesienne," Prelude (Bizet), Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden.

"L'Arliesienne," Farandole (Bizet), Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden

The Music of Ethelbert Novin." "A Day In Venice "; 1, Dawn ; 2- Gondoliers; 3, Venetian Love Song; 4, Good Night, Victor Salon Group.

"

Shepherd's Tale" (from "In Arcady","Lullaby (from "In" Arcady "Narcissus (from "Water Scenes" and "Coun- try Dance." Victor Salon Orch. My Desires" (from "Songs from Vincacre" and "Mighty Lak's' A Rose, Lewis James, Tenor, and Oliver Kline, Sopranc. "At Twilight," Oh That We Two

Were Maying" and "At Rest Wilfred Glenn, Buen, Victor Salon

of Group Direction Nathaniel Shillaret. "Little Boy Blue," The Night and Has A Thousand Eyes" "The Woodpecker," Victor

Salon

Group Direction of Nathanie: Shilkret.

"In Winter I Get Up At Night Every Night," "Beat Upon Mine, Little Henri and A Life Lesson," Edna Kellogg, Soprano. Victor Salon Orch.. Direction of Nathaniel Shilkret. "The Rosary Robert Simmons,

Tenor: "Barchetta," "Serenade," and "'Twas A Lover and His Lass," Elliott Shaw, Baritone, Victor Salon Orchestra, Dires- tion of Nathaniel Shilkret. Gosu Bambino "

(Yon) Nazareth" (Gounod). Peter. Dawson.

Narcissus and Spring Song,"

Victor Concert Orchestra, "Petite Suite De Concert," De

Groot and the Piccadilly Orch. 10.30 p.m-Close down,

WHAT DYSPEPTICS SHOULD EAT.

STRICT DIETS UNNECESSARY

A few years ago there died at Merauke an old man named Tom Groers who was one of the fast disappearing school of old-time

It is a well-known fact that some reckless adventurers. He had join- foods have a greater tendency ed another orchid collector, named than others to cause. indigestion, De Jongh, and together they had and that by limiting one's diet to certain tasteless, unappetizing many thrilling adventures and were foods, stomach troubles can some

Nine times out finally attacked by cannibals in the times be overcome. Diegul country, and De Jongh and of ten, however, indigestion is due to excess acid and food fermenta- his natives were killed and devour-tion. Instead, therefore, of going on starvation diets, stomach auf- terers cau cat what they like if they will only get rid of the excess acid and stop the fermentation. To do this quickly, safely, and surely,

ed.

Orchids are, as you know, plants

Greers, however, happened to which live more on air than on food

have D very handsome yellow from the earth. They grow on the beard, and this so appealed to the take half a teaspoonful of "Bis- outside of trees, and in many places savages that they did not kill him urated' Magnesia or two or three produce exquisite flowers of strang-but took him instead to a large tablets in a little water right after est form and colour. They gener-village which was ruled by a dusky This instantly neutralises the acid, eating or whenever pain is felt. ally grow in warm climates and are native, queen. Here his right leg stops the food fermentation, and difficult to get. They are therefore was removed at the knee with a heals the inflamed stomach lining. Get package of 'Bisurated' highly prized by people who col- hoop-iron knife, with the idea of Magnesia from your chemist to Meet them.

preventing any possible escape. day; use as directed, and you can

Three Collectors are willing to pay very

weeks later, however, cat what you like without fear of

pain or discomfort to follow. large sums for them, and this in- Greere, using a forked stick for a duces men to face all sorts of hard-crutch, escaped into the scrub and ships and dangers to find them.

eventually get away.

NEW CHIEF SCOUT FOR SINGAPORE,

SIR CECIL CLEMENTI HEADS LOCAL ORGANISATION.

The last issue of Scouting in Jalapa, contains a copy of a letter from Mr. Frank C. Sands, Commis- sioner for Malaya, congratulating HE. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., upon his appointment as Governor of the Straits Settlements and High. Commissioner of the Malay States, and expressing the hope that he will become Chief Scout for Malaya. Bir Ceeil Clementi's reply, in which he expresses his pleasure nt accepting the position, is attached,

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