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FLOWERS Wherever these bright" blossoms are, the joyous Christmas spirit prevails.

Also Charming

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in our recently opened

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The Finest Collection of

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ART AND CURIOS

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at

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For a really happy Christmas

get

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W. R. LOXLEY & Co.

Making Bis Bounds Again!

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A BOX OF "SOCIÉTÉ" CHOCOLATES

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Manufactured by IMPERIAL CANDY CO,. Seattle, U.S.A

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BRITTLES-FRUITS - NUTS and CHEWING ASSORTMENT

the following Stores:

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MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS Gem & Diamond Merchants

Watch Makers

Gold and

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Etc., Etc.

Estd. 1902

1902

Sliver

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In Zircons, Opals and other Precious Stones

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ALL OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS-

Happiness, joy, the satisfaction of a holiday spent just

as you would like it most-in the old fashioned way--

THAT'S OUR WISH FOR CHRISTMAS.

Mother thinks he's BRING BACK THE

HOLLOW

he

What an appetite! eats and drinks as if he meant it. Two cups of cocoa at breakfast and two artea-not to mention the slices and slices of bread and butter! That's what gives him so much strength and energy-no wonder he plays so hard and works up a healthy hunger!

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HARLEQUINADE

By STEPHEN GOLD.

I suppose I shall take my children to the pantomime this Old habits Christmas as usual. are strong, and in spite of many disillusionments we shall still hope against hope that the Show will make some sort of attempt to live up to its title, and to tell the

Sinbad, story-Cinderella, whatever it may be without too many stupid falsifications.

But in any case I fear that the chief glory of the Pantomime as I remember it in my own young days will not be there. However thrilling the plot, laughable the Widow Twanky or spectacular the Transformation, the thing we all waited for most of all, the pinnacle of the evening, was

till the Harlequinade.

Que alderi tizers was 16rO it, that

was last?

complain thab

the great joy of

Pun

→nd

on the beas

Clown's notice at the circus, one knew just

ould antic

!

What a reviving of sweet memo |ries when-the-curtain went "tipl There stood the dear old Butcher Shop, with its red-faced proprietor in his blue-and-white-striped. apron, its juicy joints, its enor- mous sausage machine, and those delectable strings of succulent sausages, just the same as last Christmas, exactly the sani-hura ray 1.

etc., etc.

21, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

sausages jumping, as if, alive, humo

the at the little poodle Bingo, and from days of te-historic again the scandalous 'doings of the Greek comedy to its revival in unconscionable Clown, till the modern form-two hundred years had its public amongst children, both old and

Brown-ups forgot their impatience ago, it alway and laughed to see us laugh.

-little

utage

"moral" of the

that we

theme

Then Harlequin and Columbine, Young. flush of grace and, beauty float Is it th ing across the stage, stirring in us doubtful entions we could not understand, Clowm-Pantaloon How wo craned forward in our j seats, or even knelt up on them! adding the piquancy of contrast to find the Hittle too And how indignantly we protested the fare, And the ineffable cli

when the Butcher is tipped nurtured qila against the grown-ups pinning" on

sausage-machine and the their hate and fidgeting with their into his own ulsters Why, this was the best of comes out in the shape of blue-and-

white-stri (sausages | the lot this was what wo_came for

TAX,

red:

ogical

in our drawing

Alas! There will be no such Or is it that we are thinkin Harlequinade this Christmas, It Four, own, faster all,

petit

w

"Glorious was the Clown with his three tufts of hair, the scarlet gash of his mouth; in the pa face, and that red-hot: poker; of Au that

out of fashion, and children will come

the

it of old familiar, delig

trusted navelly much as our eldé

Phout

glori

the