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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931.

CLASSIFIED

WEAR.

A Conde Ladies and Gentlemen's Comprobersive Hange of High

FOOTWEAR Made to Order. Pro menade Shoes in all Britable Leatbars. Dress Shter in Silver and Gold Tinnol, Brocades, Sation, ore-For Prompt Brvice PHONE 26293, THE ORIENTAL co., No. 17. WELLINGTON STALAT.

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DFAMILY RESIDENUE, 3, BOWEN

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APARTMENTS TO LET attached. Modora Banitation.-PHONE:

LADIES Large Airy and Coin-

fortably FURNISHED ROOMS, with Full, Board, from $76. Apply to the SECRETARY. THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE, KOWLOON Blasen, 38, AIMAI VILLAS.

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

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HOUSES TO LET.

LET-From 18t NOVEMBER,

1981 No 104, WATERLUD HOAD-4Boomed Semi-detached European HOUSE with All Modern Convenience and GarageApply to: OREDIT" FONCIER D'EXTREME- ORIENT, FRENCH BANK BUILDING, TEL, No. 2,003,

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TEL BOUNDARmed Remi 10_LET-BOUNDARY STREET, well established Firm, good A in referencon detached European HOUSE with a ofer thirty years' experience in Modern Convenionors and Garage.

to: CREDIT commercial lines, looking for a joint Apply relation in business with manu-D'EXTREME-ORIENT, FRENON BANK factaron and merchants of different BUILDING, 4TH FLOOK

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Chine Bilk Pioc Goods, Complete

Buits, Pyjamas, Gowns, Shawls,

FONCIER

1023

Enamel Ware, Boots and Shoes, IVE Roomed HOUSE in MIN- Sooks and Stockings, Colton Pleco | L DEN AVENUE, KOWLOON, Woy suitable for

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OG lovers repairing a dog should apply to the DOGS" "HOME, KOWLOON between 2.30 and 4.30 p.m. daily, or

by special appointment. (Telephones: "Home" 815, Inspector 56804). There are at present a few Crossed Terriers, Japanese Poodles, one Fox Terrier, male, and one thorough- brod Samoyede, female; about 5 months old, is nood of good homes.

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FLATS TO LET.

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LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

TO SELL BY

"PUBLIC AUCTION

THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 1981 COMMENCING AT 11A.ME

AT THEIR SALES ROOM, DONDALL STREET,

1 CASE CONTINENTAL COTTON

TROUSERINGS

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19 GARMENTS

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A QUANTITY OF LADIES

DRESSES AND HATS

and

A QUANTITY OF “MISCELLANEOUS 'GOODS.

TERMS: CASH ON DELIVER?

·LAMMERT BROS., AUCTIONEERS,

"DON'T BE TOO HARD ON AMERICA.”

[[fontinued from Page 1.) Another primitive trait. is the power of convention and forma lism. It is said that life in " ...$1,850.00. America is free and easy Nothing

could be more untrue. No other

For Further Particulars Apply:country is more bound by conven-

HONGKONG USED CARS, LTD. 2nd Floor, EXCHANGE BLDG., PHONE 26485 SHOW ROOM: WHITTA'S MOTOR AUCTIONS, CAMERON ROAD, KOWLOON.

PHONE: 56720.

Proprietor.

DAYS OF OCEAN TRAMP

NEARLY OVER.

WORLD'S TRADE TURNS TO OCEAN LINER.

London. The

tramp

tion than America. The code of manners there is a hundred times more exacting than in England. From his University days the American is a member of clubs, secret societies and fraternities, which impose upon him oaths and customs. Social life is of a strict- nere difficult to conceive, Snobbery is on the grand scale and expressUS itself in strange ways. To have a small telephone or car number is" a sign of aristocracy. A box at the Metropolitan." Opera House is like a coat of arms.

The older an aristocracy is the more easygoing it is. The Amori- enn aristocracy, which is of recent sl'eamer origin, is much more exclusive than which used to ply to the strange the English. I hays been told that ports of the world seeking cargoes at Hollywood the old families are probably son will join the sailing those of the Douglas Fairbanks. vessel in near-extinction,

period; they have English butlers, and they

A calculation made in London quietly furnished houses, and shows that linera, both passenger speak with regret of the good old and cargo, as contrasted with the days of the silent film. In addition there are the parvenus, the families tramp, comprise about 70 per cent.

of the talking film, who form a scin

but tillating, cosmopolitan act, whom the "old families" do not

the "o receive

of the

of the world's tonnage. Liners totaled but 20 por cent" world's tonnage in 1,013.

The change has been pasticular Jp noticeable in the port of London,

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America's Separate Tongue.

And now for my third impres- thero now are very few trumpa us compared with pre-war days. Near.sion. It is often said that America ly everybody prefers to send goods and England until the middle of the last century shared between in "parcels" up to 10,000 tons or more on one of the regular lineation, but that they are now se them a'unique Anglo-Saxon civili-

ships..

parating farther and farther from Canadian "grain for instance, us each other. I do not altogether ed to cross the Atlantic and Paci agree. It is true that, if one takes, fie in tramp, steamers.

Now a language alone into consideration,- large part of it comes across the American tends more and more to oceans in the Canadian Pacific's become a separates tongue it in. fast cargo linora or in the bolda vents its own words and images, of passenger ships. There aro and, that is all to the good But half a dozen regular lines on the if one studies customs it seems to north Pacific, formerly

me, on the contrary, that. I perceive a tramp area, and even the River Plate Americans an astonishing attrac

among the younger generation of

on

the schedules of tion towards an English habit of mind. In American Universities the student magazines extol the football and tennis manners of the English."

ports are now the liners.

Sen affairs in general have been changed considerably by the shift

Mr. Douglas Woodruff, inhis from tramp steamer to liner. The charming little book, Plato's seaman no longer signs on för a | American Republic,,, does not con- ..

code to the Americans the taste for voyage "not exceeding two years,""

leisure which, he says, is the orna but can tell his wife almost to the ment of the English He is right, day when he will return. Jobs are but this taste has developed rapidly since the end of America's heroic atcadior, for cargo liners stick to

pioneer period. As some children, their schedule? 967

in growing increnss their.. react blance to their fathers, so America moves towards an English type of civilisation, gen

'But with the passing of the tramp, steamer passes some of the last vestiges of the pioneering of

The American, of course, is not an Englishman, and England is not awther day and "one of the last America, but in the eyes of a links between the ship, owner, and Frenchman: the two peoples-rozem the merchant adventurers of the than they resemble any other na ble each other much more closely

seventeenth century is broken. Lion.

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