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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1930.

SHOPPING GUIDE

FELIX HAT SHOP

SPRING SALE

FRIDAY FEB, 7 Wonderful Bargains for Every Woman. 7, Ice House St.

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MODES-COUTURE

HAS REMOVED TO 3rd Floor, PEDDER BUILDING

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Fresh Flowers, Fruit

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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

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1st Floor.

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DAINTY SHOES

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER AT MODERATE PRICES

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. Home Kong.

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The Most Up-to-date Beauty Shop in Town. MRS. BETEN. "TIL K. 681, PENINSULA HOraz Ex: 34.

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POWELL'S

Gentlemen's Tailors and Outfitters.

BESPOKE ORDERSTM Executed in 24 Hours.

BABY GIRL'S SAD DEATH.

SHANGHAI INQUEST.

REPARATIONS: BANK PRESIDENT.

REPORTED OFFER TO AMERI- CAN BUSINESS MAGNATE.

[United Press.]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.. Mr. Gates McGarrah," of New York, who has been generally credited with having devised the international acceptance system which is now common banking prao-

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At H.M. Police Court, Shanghai, before the Registrar, Mr. I. T. Mor- ris, sitting as Coroner, an inquest was held into the circumstances Kurrounding the death of Lillias Howe, aged four, the daughter of Mr. and Mre, E. B. Howe

Evidence of identification having been given by the father, Mr. tice, has been offered the presi- Edward Bingham Howe (says the dency of the International Settle- NC. Daily News), Ching Mingment Bank provided for by the WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, Kwei, amah, deposed that, en Young Plan, it was learned to day. January 24, she was cleaning the stairs and deceased was playing ĮALEXANDER'S INSTITUT]{with the handle of the bathroom

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door. Just prior to this, hot water had been prepared in the bath. Quite suddenly, witness heard the child scream so she went inside and saw deceased kneeling down in the bath. Witness took her out and removed her clothes and, a few seconds Inter the mother arrived and took the child into her room.

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Mr. E. B. Howe, the mother, said that, at 7,45 p.in. on January 94, she prepared a bath for her Three buckets of hot water had been put into the bath. The child at this time was upstairs and witness was downstaire. Sud- denly there was a scream so wit ness rushed upstairs and found the awah undressing deceased, Wit- Des sent for Mr. Shoulevaky, the pharmacist whose shop is at 557, Avenus Jofre, who attended to the baby, and the latter was sent to hospital soon afterwards, crying all the time

Dr. E. L. Marsh said that on the night of January 4, he saw deceased, who was in a conscious atate. He was told that she had fallen into boiling water. Witnces made an Examination and found that she was suffering from shock. She was almost pulseless at the wrists and had extensive burns about the lower limbs such as would be caused by boiling water. She was too ill to be in great pain. Owing to the shock, she died within 36 hours of her admission to hos- pital,

"Coroner's Domment.

el verdict that In returning deceased died as the result of shock caused by extensive burns from boiling water and an accidental fall,. the Coroner remarked :---

The mother of this child has had enough troubles now without my adding to them and I do not wish to say anything that might seem unkind and harsh but I do think that, in view of the child's age, she should have given definite instructions to the amah to remain in the bathroom until she returned: if she had done, so, this terrible accident would not have occurred.” Prior to rendering big decision, the Coroner asked whether Mr. Shouleysky, the pharmacist," was in Court, and he was informed, that this man had refused to attend Court because he was a Jew and, it being the Sabbath, he had to attend the synagogue, C

Mr. Morris then said that it was fortunate that this man's evidence did not amount to anything at all, otherwise he should take the proper steps to get him to attend through

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SINGULAR CONGRESS

RESOLUTION.

PROTEST AGAINST ALLEGED

INREVERENCE.......

[United Press.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Alleged irreverence on the part of a member of Congress to-day caused a tumult in the House of Repre zentatives."

Representatives Charles R. Criap Charles. Brand and Charles G. Ed. wards, all from the State of Geor- gia, joined in demanding pasanga of a resolution directed against Re-1 presentative John C. Schafer of Wisconsin, who had introduced a resolution censuring Jesus Christ for turning water into wine.

The Georgia Congressmen naked that Representative Schafer's re- volution be expunged. from the re- corce:

Officials here consider that Mr. Melarrah would be the ideal man for the position, but it is known whether he will accept.

not

Mr. McGarrah is chairman of the board and federal reserve agent of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as well as having con- nections with "the American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., the Associat. ed Dry Goods Corporation, the Air Reduction Co. and the Eagle Indemnity Co

From 1917 to 1910 Mr. McGarrah Was president of the New York Clearing House Association...

The New Premises.

ON

COMMENCING AT 2.30 P.M.

Ar No. 13, BROADWOOD ROAD "RIDGE HOUSE"

"",

A QUANTITY OF VALU- ABLE BLACKWOOD AND HOUSEHOLD FORNITURE.

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Or View From TUESDAY, the 11th FEBRUARY, 1980.

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BABEL, Jan. 30. The international Committee of bankers entrusted with the work of organising the Bank of Interna- tional Settlement have departed after inspecting the premises which the Swiss Government has placed at the Bank's disposal. It is re ported that the premises have to. undergo substantial alterations to render them suitable for the Bank's purposes. In order to be able to start functioning on February 15, the Bank has to find provisional THE Undersigned have received quarters pending the completion of these alterations. These provision- al quarters, however, have to be large enough to accommodate the entire staff of the Bank which will be about a hundred persons. It is said that the Committes is being. awamped with applications for posi tions from people of all parts of FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, the world.

DEAN INGE ON.

"' GENTLEMEN.”

"A RELIGION OF THE HEART."

Dean Inge gave his definition of

Instructions

TO SILL BY

PUBLIC AUCTION

ON

Commencing at 10.30 A.M.

Ar No. 460, THE PEAK, BARKER ROAD,

A LARGE QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

PROPERTY Comprising:

Teak Hatstand, Chesterfield Couch

the ideal gentleman in an address and Armchairs, Glass Cabinet, Teak at the annual meeting of the In-Pedestals, Statues, Card Table,--- corporated Association of Assistant Brass Ornaments, Pictures, Curtains, Masters in Secondary Schools at Carpots, Brass Fenders, etc. Bristol last month.

He said that the ideal of an Eng. lish gentleman had been for cen turies the lay religion, the week day religion of a great part of our nation, and it embodied those quali. ties which were most. distinctive of our national character.

Teak Dining Table, Sideboard. Dinner Waggon, Tables, Desk, Screens, Community Plate Cutlery, Crockery, Glass Ware, Coiling and Table Fans, Electric Fittings, etc.

Teak Bedstead, Teak Wardrobe with Glass Doors, Teak Dressing Table, Teak Chest of Drawers, Sew-

Basin,

Even a bishop would be much more angry if he were told he was no gentleman than if he were tolding Machine, Enamel Bath, Porcelain he was no Christian.

Cooking Store, Kitchen

The only unpardonable sin in Utensils, etc. England is to be a cad-that is to say, to fall short of the standard of honour to which all gentlemen have to conform. The ideal is no

sacred to us that we do not like to talk about it, or appeal to it.

It seems almost indelicate to. drag it out. If we lose this and writers like Wells and Bernard Shaw are never tired of girding at it we lose the sheet-anchor of our national character.

"Rather Absurd.”

I

Also

Ons Cabinet Victroia, One White Frost Refrigerator, One Fairbank Scale, Aviary Plants in Pots, etc.

and

A QUANTITY, OF BLACK- ·

WOOD FURNITURE.

"We lose what for most English-TERMS:-Casa ON DELIVERY, men is the religion of their heart, whatever other colours they wear on their sleeves.”

ON VIEW From WEDNESDAY, the

12th FEBRUARY, 1930.-

He discussed the essentials of a kentleman, and asked was gentle birth one of them? The whole cult of old families was perhaps rather CATALOGUES will be issued.

absurd.

At any rate, it had decayed rapidly in the last 100 years. Only

few of our noble families had shown unusual ability for more than two generations.

Wealth would not find many de fenders, but fine manners were cer- tainly an ingredient.

Vulgarity, not rusticity, was the There A ruling by the chair stated that opposite of good manners, the Georgia resolution was out of was no sort of reason why a gentle- order and that Representative man should not be a working far. Schafer's measure must be referred mer or any other sort of working to committee before it could be man." altered.

The moral qualities which belong- Explaining the background of the ed to the English ideal were truth- difficulty before further action could fuless, courage, justice, and fair be taken, Representative Crisp said play, abhorrence of meanness and that the affair started when a crooked dealing, and respect for

wet lawyer from Charleston, the personality of all human be West Virginia, placed the Schaferings as such, resolution in a newspaper as a paid "Contempt for the intellectual

advertisement, making it appear

that the Ministerial Association had side of life is making the upper classes, as such both useless, under adopted it. Y

Feeling was growing warm when new conditions, to the community, Representative Schafer voluntarily and helpless to keep their own posi sought permission to withdraw his tion. It is a vulgar mistake; it im- resolution. embodying its contents plies a want of sensibility to the instand simply as a part of his higher and finer values of life,

The beefy foxhunter who never speech.

Unanimous consent was "granted opens a book is a pathetic by the House and the resolution anachronism only fit for a muteur was accordingly withdrawn..

of fossile."

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