1901-05-25 — Page 5

IN PRAISE OF GOVERNESBES.

Even before discovering that there was an old, gabled, lower town at Cassel, I felt the ⚫special gladness of the touch of Germany. It was an autumn moming, bright yet tender. sped along the wide, empty streets, across the sanded square, with helges of sere time trees, where a big, periwigged Roman Emperor of on Elector presides, making one think of the shouts of "Hormh, lada. for America!" of the bought and sold Hessians' of Schiller's "Cabal and Love." At the other end was a promenade, terraced above the yellow tree-tops of a park above a gentle undulating country, with vi lages and siceples in the distance. "Schöne Assicht" the place. cailed itself; and the view was looked at by the wide and many windows of pleasant old-fashioned houses, with cocked hat roof's well pulled down over them, back in its little garden of standard roses, all quiet and smiling in the autumn sunshine.

-I felt the special gindness of beitig in Ger many (for every country has its own way of making us happy), and glad that there should be in me something which answered to Ger many's special touch We owe that many of us, I mused, and with it a deep debt of gratitude, to our governesses. There is a particular possibility for good in the relation between a developing child (not, of course, a mere grow! ing young brute) and a woman still young childless, or separated from her children, a little solitary, most often alien, differently brought up, and whose affection and experience must therefore take a certain impersonality, and tend to subdued romance. We are lored, when we are, not

趄

maiter of

course and habit, not with any claim, but for ourselves and with the delicate warmth of feel. ing necessarily one-sided; and whatever we learn of life in this relationship is of one very different from our own, and seen through the feelings, the imagination, often the repressed hume-sickness, of a mature and foreign soul. And this is good for us, and useful in correcting family and national, tradition, and the rubbing away of angles (and other portions of soul) by brothers and sisters, and general contem poraries excellent educational items of which it is possible to have a little too much.-

Be this as it may, it is to our German gover. nesses that we owe the power of understand ing Germany, more than to German literature. For the literatue itself requires some intro, duction of med tor its romantic, homely, senti- iment 1, essentially German qualities; the mere Anglo-Saxon or Latin being, methinks, incap-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, MAY 25. 1901.

the special pleasure of being again in Germany. And I determined to take my pen some day I should feel suitably happy, and offer up thanks for all of us to our govermesses, to those dear but not forgotten, our spiritual foster-mothers women, dend, dispersed, faded into distance, who put a few drops of the milk of German kindness, of German simplicity and quaintuess and romance, between our lips when we were children.-Vernon Lee, in P. 4. G.

A DEAD LETTER.

BYEFFIGY:"

NORTH WEST FRONTIER, April, 1897. My dear Edith, baven't called you Edith, since when? Not after the day I heard you you're a Countess now, and I shouldn't dare to were married, I think, except in my heart. And.

call you Edith if I thought should ever see you again. I'm sure I won't for I feel "fey," as our countrymen call it; and I think that to morrow night's moon will be looking on my up turned face. But that's how I should like to die, with my feet to the foe. I always wanted to be a soldier-all the more because youused to date on the military, as the old-song-says-But-Im to have my chance now. I'm political officer attached to the troops, and there's to be a big fight to-morrow, and we're in rather a tight place. Colonel Malcolm's my cousin, and commands a regiment and I'm going with him. He tried to put me off, but I insisted. "Blood's thicker than water," I said, and he replied, "And a fool's head is thicker than both, but have your way. Your family were all fighters, and you're the only one who isn't a soldier",

It's Spring time here, Edith and the weather's like April at home--violets out too-so 1 see Are they still the your eyes wherever 1 go. same colour? or have they changed like you? For you must have changed. You haven't written to me for more than a year. You used to write regularly till your tnarriage, I had quite a heap of your letters--the last had a piece of white heather in it. But I've burned them all. I had to travel light up here, and I didn't like the thought of anyone else reading them, if anything happened to what I always used to all you. "We twa ha'e paidled in the sun many a time, haven't we?. What preity feet you had, Edith. I used to dry them with my handker chief; do you remember that? But that was when we were boy and girl. Only once after- wards I did it. Don't you recollect that day in August, the year I passed my examination,

a day that was for me!

me.

HOW THE BRITISH ANNY ·

IS PAID:

the other hand, she should remove it very tenderly and carefully, recollecting the fact that the skin of the face is monumentally sen- sitive, and requires treatment that would befit Lind a paving stone requires.

piece of rarest porcelain, rather than of the

Apropos of this dictum, it has been noticed that modern actresses keep the freshness of their natural complexion to a remarkable de soners deduce from this fact a second, amely gren of perfection. Rapid but unsound rea-

brow darkeners are not injurious. But ue that paint, powder, eye brighteneis, and eye truth is that the copius use of boric acid, creams, and good pure soft water, are necessary to remove the make-up preserves and beautifiers of the cuticle; and thee, no actress whe docs justice to herself uses any but first-class cos metics.—The Advocate of India.

PRIVILEGES ENJOYED BY

QUEEN ALEXANDRA

(SOUTH AFRICAN MAGAZINE)

the Army ladder with the intention of climbing The man who starts at the bottom rung of

The powder this great specialist recom- deed, so long is it that up till now no soldier viewer the other day, rose-powder, be takening: to the top has in front of him a long journey mends is expensive. He called it, to an inter- has accomplished it in its entirety: In its purely vegetable origin. It must, he de-, other words, no Briton, living or dead, has clares, be applied "judiciously." First a cold been endowed with sufficient vim, grit, and cream has to be put on the skin, one that suits luck to start as a private and end a Field-it, not a haphazard choice, and the doctor de Marshal

The first step which clares that never should powder be applied the budding Major-General takes when emerg without this antecedent preparation of cream. ing from his original status of full private When the turn for the powder comes, after i to Lance Corporal. The life of a lance only a light dressing of cream, enough to fill corporal is not a happy one. Indeed, so little the pores, has been permitted to remain, the rest does he get that he is popularly supposed powder should not be plastered on as if it were to sleep with one eye open. He is at every the foundation of a piece of pastry, but be one's beck, and call; his duties are novel and lightly dusted over the physiognomy. At night trying; and, worst of all, his late comrades keep as has before been said, every vestige must a keen eyes on his movements, and are not be removed. slow to remind him of any lapses. In same corps 95 per cent. of all lance-corporals appointed, revert sooner or later to the rank of private Those who survive the ordeal are in due course promoted-to-Corporal-wear-two-white-cotton stripes on the arm instead of one, and receive a higher rate of pay.. A corporal is regarded as fairly on the road to regimental success, and the duties that fall to his lot are neither so wearisome hor so multifarious as formerly.

The next step that to Lance-Sergeant is, like the first, an appointment," not promo- tion. This is a distinction with a difference! A commanding officer can order a lance- corporal to revert to private, and he forthwith reverts. So, also, he can in the same way deprive a lance-sergeant of his lance-stripe, and bid him revert to corporal or a ser geant; but he cannot degrade a corporal or a sergeant, for these are promotions to actual ranks, and once conferred can only be taken away by sentence of court-martial. After serving his probation as lancesergeant for a period varying between two months and a couple of years, the rising or three young non-com." finds himself one day "in orders" for his gold stripes, which is to say, an important unit in that great family, the regiment, and takes a more or less prominent part in the social life that centres round the sergeants muss. It is, however, conceded on all bands that the man who marries while yet a mere

non.com." forfeits all future hope of a combatant commission, so our typical tanker resists the blandishments of the fair

his bachelor quarters, and in due course be- comes Colour, Sergeant.... From among the eight colour-sergeants of a battalion is selected as a general rule-the regimental Sergeant-Major, the chief non-commissioned officer of a corps, and the man who, in con. junction with the adjutant is mainly responsible for the maintenance of that strict internal dis- cipline, without which a regiment is worse than useless as a fighting machine. In his own realm the sergeant-major is absolute. The next step, that from sergeant-major to Second Lieutenant, is the most important of all, for it is here that the soldier passes that mysteri sioned from the commissioned ranks. To ous barrier which separates the non-commis many, too, it is a terrible trial, for it is the custom nowadays to gazette the newly fledged officer to some regiment other than his own. As Major most rankers finish service; but a few, a very few, add a star to the crown upon their shoulder straps, and become Lieutenant- Colonels; fewer still become full Colonels; while those who have actually served as Major Generals can be counted on the fingers of one hand,

*$

might think could be improved upon they may rest easy in the reflection that it is in the remotest degree unlikely that the question of her rights and privileges will ever cause the slightest difficulty. She is to all her Majesty, Queen Alexandra, and that is enough.-Cum fr Saturday Journal.

SHALL THE HONEYMOON BE ABOLISHED?

The Lady's Rente discusses this point in au amusing symposium. "No," sps Mrs. Philip Agnew "Yes, very risky," saya the Hon. Stuart Erskine;"On the whole, no, says Mrs. Birch rather doubtfully, Mrs. Agnew urges --

That it is also, a-never-to-be-repeated ex- perience is alone a plea for its maintenance. Try as we will to reproduce its outward features, novelty, the sweet insouciance, of honeymoon no other period, no other holiday, can give the

days.

ingly. He says:

The Hon. S. R. Erskine vetoes it unhesitat-

more

You signed them all "Edith," just he is promated full Sergeant. He is now 1 joys powers and privileges which, no other lady love, of which there may be a satiety in the

As far as actual monarchical power and control go she is without authority; but, on the other band, she may consider herself part of the King himself, and the signature of "Edward Rex "at- tached to State documents may, in this sense, be taken to include "Alexandra Regina," but in no circumstances could the Litter sigmature be io English history when such an apparently er fling matter as this caused no small amount of difficulty, and the wedded consort of the monarcht proper bas contended for such a re- cognition of the dual throse.

able of caring at once for Wilhelm Meister," how we went up Ben Machree together? What daughters of the regiment, sticks tight to actually appended. There have been occasions Hikueru is not an impressive otte: Like the

or Siebenkas, or Gatz, of the manifold lyric of Forest and Millstream. To understand these The light's just waning now, and the blue means to have somewhere in us a little sam-and gold of the sky and sun temind me of that ple, some fibres and corpuscles, of the German day. And the grand old hills, they are here heart; and I maintain that we are all of us the too. Aht child, if the gold and blue of your better, of whatever nationality (and most, per hair and eye were ver me when I died, haps, weather ton-top solid Anglo-Saxons) for what a joy that would be! Do you recollect such transfusion of a foreign element, correct how you fell into peat-bog, and I waded in ! ing our deficiencies and fantis, and ripening (as and carried you out, and made you take off the literature of Italy ripened our Elizabethans) your shoes, and stockings to dry? Then i our own intrinsic qualines. It means, apart washed your feat at the fairy well. Didn't it from negative service against conceit and cant take a long time? You didn't mind that, ing self-aggrandisement, an additional power know: I remember, you saying, Aren't they of taking life intelligently and serenely, a power guite dry now, Dick ? And I declared they of adaptation to various climates and diets of the weren't, and held them in my lap. I had used spirit, let alone the added weather of such varied my own handkerchief and borrowed yours. I climates and diets themselves. Italy, somehow, have it still governs this by her mere visible aspect and her history: pure, high sky, a monit.in city, ora tow of cypresses can teach as much as Dante, and, indeed, teach us to understand Dante him if And as to France, then at lucid of articularly speaking lands explains herself in her mere books, and we become in a manner French with every clean delightful page we read, and almost every thought of our own think with definiteness and grace. But the genius of Germany is, like her fandscape, homely and sentimental, with the funny good ness and learness of a gond child and we must learn to know it while we ourselves are children. And therefore it is from our governesses that we learn (with dimmer know ledge of mysterious persons or things "Ulfilas" -Tacitus's Germania," supposed by me to have been a lady, his daughter perhaps, and the seven stars" of German literature) a cer tain natural affinity with the Germany of humbler and greater days, when no one talked of Teuton superiority or of purity of Teuton idiom; the Germany which gave Kant, and Beethoven, and Gocibe and Schiller, and was not ashamed to say "scharmant."

we ever

Oh yes, I can still see the little wee blue veins in your ankles, as 1 held them. I tried to write sonce verses about them that night, I can only recollect part of a verse marked what cunning work was, in the little veins of turquoise, in the marble of her feet. I don't know that I got much further. I tore the verses up as I couldn't say what I wanted. And don't you remember the bunch of bog.. myrtle which 1 gathered? And you gave me back a sprig and I said I would wear it as my crest. I have it still, It's lying on the table swrite, but I hardly dare to smell it. That horrible power of old familiar odours! You know it how it brings back everything except the gladness. Isn't it terrible? wonder how it is. Odours are so impersonal and so unconnected with anything but then selves, I may say, and yet they bring back almost everything There is no knowledge or science, of smells; they are the most hidden things of all we feel the pathetic power of sense. Who has ever classified them or given them knowledgable existence, apan from the objects with which we are accustomed to ass¢- ciate them? I think they must be wafts of incense from the altar of the dying sun; they

are both so sad.

higher commissioned ranks of the service. The One word in conclusion as to the pay of the

figures given are approximately correct, but there are numerous extra payments--or "allowances, as they are termed in army parlance-which occasionally more than double the nominal daily rate, Thus, in time of peace, a colonel may be drawing forage allowance, fuel, and light allowance, lodging allowance, the allowance in lieu of rations, &c.; while in time of wer many more similar "extras"are tacked on,

Rank

d.

Rank £ a. d.

Private... oa day. Captain...

Lance Corporal 1

Corporat

Lance Sergeanto, a o Sergeant...

Colt. Sergeant.. 3

Serge-Majora and-Lieu.... a 5 3 1 Lleat....61. 6d. 96 #

Major.. Litat-Colonel.. 20 Colonel..... Brig. General..... Major General, Lieut-General. 510 General Field-Marshal_d

POWDER-PUFF WISDOM.

a day.

The use of cosmetics has antiquity to recom- mend it, for it is as old as history, but how should and should not be used in their manu such should be applied, and what ingredients facture, are points over which wiseacres have quarrelled all through the ages.

The puff-box in all cases should contain tint ed powder; creamy white to suit the naturally fragile and delicate-looking complexion, pink to tone in with a robust visage, and a slightly browned brand to glorify the olive cast of countenance. The French, as a rule, are artists in powder, and advise its use as a protector of the skin against extremities in temperature andi sudden variations of the thermometer. On the contrary, the average Englishwoman recoils with horror against make-up of any kind, and her doctor tells her that our climate, change natural cosmetic, particularly on moist, humid able and freakish in its behaviour as it is, is a days.

across

Consignees.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

S.S. "BENGLOE" FROM LONDON, AND STRAITS

CONSIGNEES Of Cargo are hereby

at their risk into the Codowns of the Hongkong informed that ult Gouds are being landed and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained. "

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods livered after 28th instant, will be subject to rent. have left the Godowns, and all Coods unde

sented to the Undersigned on or before the th All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- June, or they will not be recognized.

All broken. chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 28th instant,ut 11 A.,

No Fire Insurance has been effected.. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 21st May, 1901.

1547€ AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA-

TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

"INDIA,"

informed that their Goods are being landed at. having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, This Vessel brings. Cargo:

From Venice, er S.S. Massimiliano tran-

shipped a Trieste.

From Levante, S.S. Poseidon and Imperator.

transhipped at Port Said. Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless notice to the contrary be given inimediately."

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 38th instant, or they will not be recognized,

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 28th instant, will be subject to rent..

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 21st May, 1904

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

terrestrial happiness consists in mutual under- That Arabian poer who wisely affioned that

exchange for his philosophy; but it is apparent standing deserves the crown of immortality in

flourishing Western institutions and customs. that he wrote in complete ignorance of certain He couple hardly have heard of honey mooning, for instance, or he would surely have warned his disciples Against that particular form of diversion as being fraught with peril To all such as sincerely desire to live on good terms with their possessions. The honeymoon is prolific source of broken marriages than the Divorce Court is of "separate establishments."

Min, he argues is prone to get tired even of the most charming object, as the greatest deli We have now a King and a Queen in Great cacy palls at last. A short honeymoon is a THE Steamship be a good deal of doubt in the public mind flying in the face of Providence and an act of Britain, and it is only natural that there should delicate experiment; a long one "a veritable when there are thus, apparently, two to a throne. As a matter of fact the position is aa fussy Legislature should be promptly invited madness on the part of the individual for which very curious one. Queen Alexandra is not to discover a drastic remedy."" but then she is really different, not merely in couples should take a bridesmaid with them- really Queen at all like Queen Victoria was; Mrs. Birch suggests that newly-married rank bat in many other ways, from what she not too prefly and distinctly inferior to the was when she was Princess of Wales, and en-bride in attraction-

Endearments which might pall after a time in the land does.

honeymoon, will acquire an added zest in the discretion necessary in the presence of a third party and in the constant fear of interruption ---B. of Reviews, DIVING FOR MOTHER-O-PEARL. The first glimpse of the little island of majority of the Paumotu coral atolls, the land is so low as to ho barely discern ible at a mile, and invisible at five, A long. green band of verdure" first rises above the not to regard herself ns in any sense the equal the reef with its rumbling breakers... A Then, again, though she is Queen she has sca-rim, then the yellow line of sand and

of the King, but, as far as the Constitution can

short walk of two hundred yards make her so, she is his Majesty's subject, just glaring sand patches brings you to the the same as any other subject, and in case of edge of the lagoon, where the inevitable inpie any real difficulty arising in regard to the point, begins to din itself into your ears, Slicil-shell THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship she would undoubtedly be treated as such.shell. What these worthy folk ara fishing There is, however, one respect in which she is for is not the true pearl, but its mother, the regarded in the same way as a Queen in her large, flat, iridescent shells with the rough as much as Queen Victoria was, and that is in occasionally found, but the shell is the true own right, just as much as the King, and just black outside cover. Real pearls are, indeed, connection, with the law of treason. The article of Paumotu commerce-ita valtie run- monarch is supposed to be the only person in ning from 50 to £75 per ton. What you are the realm whom it is high treason to plot witnessing is the genesis of a million shirt against with a view to injuring him or her, but studs. The seasonal output of the island is at in this case it is also high treason to plot present computed at from 1,500-3,000 tons, against the Queen" ›

Should improvements be eventually introduced into the working operations it is probable that even a higher figure may be reached. About z mile or so towards the centre ofthe lagoon rises a tiny submerged island of coral, just visible as a pink shadow under the blue surface. The edges and caverns of this strange place are choked with pearl shell. Our mentor beckons to one of the nearer skiffs in which two men are sit- ting. Will they dive for the gentleman with Many others of her rights would disappear the camera? They will. The elder of the two, upon constitutional law even holds that shety of a short brown rag, rises to his feet, sways at the same time, and one eminent authority a tall bony Kanaka attired in the sweet implici- | could not marry again if she desired without and-plamb-over he goes; the neatest the special licence and permission of the next header ever witnessed.

And now A full King, who in this case would be her own son. minute has elapsed and we begin to look Perhaps the strangest part of the whole mat anxiously at our watches. Seventy seconds, ter is this, that in some important respecte the eightly, nirety a splendid dive .that.- Queen is not recognised as a married lady at a hundred, tan, Twenty-he must have the lungs all. She has the unique privilege of conduct- of a grampus-thirty-fifty-he's drowned to ing her own private business affairs just as if a certainty. No-all's well; for here he comes, she were single, or a man. Her Majesty is puffing and blowing, with draggled trails the only lady in the land not amenable to all of seaweed clinging to his hair, and a black the provisions of the Married Women's Pro. something in his right hand, His-assistant perty Act. The law argues that the King is splits the something open and discloses two not like other, married men, and that he has beautiful pearl shells, one of which he holds far less time to spare than they have, and triumphantly up for our inspection. Two minu. is so overburdened with affairs of State and the

tes and a half! A very fair dive that, but mat transaction of public business that he must not the record by any means. Cases are known affairs, but that the whole management of them, water for the space of three minutes and a half be troubled in any way whatever with his wife's where the Hikueru diver has remained under and any legal responsibility which may attach How he does it is only known to himself. thereto must devolve upon her alone.

EDWIN PALLANDER, in the Royal Magazine.

all other consorts of our monarchs, at least at This is a privilege which was not enjoyed by

the outset, for it was not treason to encompass the death of Philip of Spain when he married Act of Parliament was passed to make it so." Queen Mary Tudor, though later on a special Moreover, if the Queen should survive the King she would no longer be entitled to the protection of this law.

His Majesty can do no wrong, and therefore cannot be proceeded against in the courts, but bis august consort is amenable to the law of the land. Furthermore, she can bring actions against anybody she pleases, she can acquire under contract, and in a word, she may do any and deal in property, incur rights and liabilities thing with the utmost freedom of a man, bear King. It is noteworthy that in any legal trans ing in mind always that she is a subject of the actions in which the may be concerned indi- vidually, and in which her own name is used, the addition must always be made to it of "Queen of England,"

I too was taught to say "scharmant" and "amüsiren." It was wrong, very wrong; and I feel my inferiority, every time I come to What's the Earl like? I never saw him. Is Germany, and have to pause and think by he as big as I am? You know you used to what combination of words I can express the call me your gentle giant. The last time was true Gerinante functions and nature of booking when I carried you out of the peat-bog, that affices and bicycle labels. For it was long ago,day. The gold and blue of your hair and eye Count Bismarck was still considered a dan were about me then. But I don't repine or gerous upstart, and we reckoned in kreutzers, blame anyone, Edith. (How full of" Ediths" blue and white Austrian bands played at Mainz this letter is, though there is only one Edith and Frankfurt-it was long ago that I was,

in the world). I never told, that I loved so to speak, a small. German Infant, fed you. I didn't dare to I had nothing to Take for example milady's powder-puff box. on Teutonic romance and sentiment (and offer you then. But I thought I might make a

Any other wife could go shopping and run also funny Teutonic prosaicainess, bless it!) name, which you might be proud to wear some

Dr. Casserode, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's beauty up bills in her husband's name, and, if it came by a dim procession of Germama's daughters day. I was content to wait. But, Edith, I want

doctor, says that while he recommends the use to the point, he would have to settle them of face powders, no white ones should be unless he had beforehand advertised his inten- There was Franziska, who could boast a to ask you now, though it's only on miserable bought, especially in countries where electriction to do nothing of the kind But' Queen Rhineland pastor for grandfather, a legendary paper. Did you ever care for me? I am sure light is common. pastor bearding Napoleon; Franziska, who you did and would have answered "Yes" and

Alexandra could give orders for the whole of read Schiller's Maria Stuart" and "Joan of

the contents of the Regent Street shops to be have joined your lot to that of a poor man. Yet

sent to Windsor, and if she then declined to Arc, and even h "Child Murderess" (sometimes think that among the bachelors

pay the tradesmen they would not be able to remember every word of obloquy hurled at the may be found the best of man. Some men hangman-hangman, craven hangman, canst

get a single farthing from her husband. But value women so truly and sa dearly, and value

the could be sued for the amount due, and that thou not break of a lily) to the housemaid only what is best in them, that they know their

is an important respect in which she differs and me whenever my father and mother went own worthlessness in comparison, and are

from the King. out of an evening, and described Papageno, ashamed to ask them to be their wives. This in Mozart's ape.a which she had seen, seems a little like self-praise and conceit, does all dressed in feathers, and was tempted it not? But it shows, anyhow, what a high to strum furtive melancholy chards on my idea! I had, and that Ideal was you. mother's aither-den: Franziska, whose comfort. And do you recollect the day I began to able blond good looks inspired the enamoured tench you golf, and how you swung the iron upholsterer in letters beginning "My dearest too freely and cut my head? Oh I can see little goldfish "Franziska, what bas become your dear pale face and the dew in your violet of thee? And the Frau Professor, who averred eyes. But how glad I was to make nothing Awith rhythmic reiteration that teaching such of the pain, and selfish too because you be child was far, far worse than breaking me my debtor for the moment. I believe a high road in what stany fainted (What an absurd thing for a boy regions may she have found an honoured to do!) And when I recovered I was lying atony grave? What has become of genial with my head in your lap and you were Mme, E., who played the Jupiter Symphonie crying gently. with my mother, instead of hearing me brow. Now, Edith, tell me, was it all There were drops on my through my scales, and lent me volumes' tears? I dreamed, you kissed me. Did you? of Tonkunstler-Lexikons to soothe her con- 1 hardly dared to believe it. Yet I got to be science, and gave us honey in the comb out lieve it, and always awore to myself that I had of her garden of verbena and stocks? But my lady's seal on my forehead. And that bost of all, dearest, far above all the others, gentle moisture became the fountain of many and quite different, Marlo S, charming en proud and happy thoughts in my life, and I thusiastic young schoolmistress in that little tried to keep it pure for your dear sake. town of pepper-pot towers and covered do you remember how I couldn't find my hand- And bridges, you I have found again; I shall soon kerchiet, though we both hunted for it 7 see your eyes and hear your voice, quite unchanged, I feel certains and we ill at the myrtle, it seems to grow into a girl, a I wonder what you're like now. As I look sit and talk (your big daughter listening, little myrtle maiden i ance knew, oh so long perhaps not without an occasional smile) about age, but not a bit changed. Do you like being those hours which you and I, a girl of twenty a great lady? Or do you sometimes sigh for and a child of eleven, spent in the little room the simple old days? They were good, were above the rushing Alpine river, eating apples! they not? Now, Edith, it's getting late. I am and drinking café au lait; hours in which a pressing the myrtle to my lips and imagining whole world of legend and poetry, and scientific that it's you. It's hed to-night shall be this fact and theory more wonderful still, passed letter, which is all that is loft of my heart; but from your ardent young mind into the little it always belonged to you. Good night, Edith, eager puzzled one of your loving pupil. Wal love. sball mest very soon, a little awkwardly at first, perhaps, but after a moment talking as if ho silence of thirty years had ever parted us as ifi nothing had happened in between, as ifall that might then hays come true. well,

Alones on

could come true itill,- --

DICE.

Written on the envelope a month dater; Yes Dick, I did love you. did kiss you then and it was I who kept your handkerchief with your dear blood on it. I have put it be

side the myrtle'to-night How brave you were, These thoughts came into my head that and how bravely you died. It is too, too sad. morning in the promenade at Cassel, brought-But I am proud of you, Dick. so the surface by the mellow autumn sun and|—7he Straits Timer".

EDITH

the powders sold are nothing less than paints It should be clearly recognised that many of disguised under attractive tilles, for their com position includes bismuth, talc, chalk, alabaster, oxide of zinc, and carbonate of magnesi

THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY

"PEKIN,"

[sa&c

FROM BOMBAY AND STRAITS. Consignces of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo →

From Persian Gulf, or B.I.S.N. and B. & P.

S. N. Con Steamers. Goods not cleared by the 28th- instant, at- 4 P.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in. my case whatever.

All damaged Packages must be loft in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's anival here, after which no Claims will be recognised,

H. A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent. Hongkong, 21st May, roor.

NOTICE TO. CONSIGNEES:

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

THE Steamship

"ARRATOON APCAR," having arrived from the above Parts, Consignces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered fro.n alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed

at once.

risk and expense into the Godowns of the instant, at 2 P.M., will be landed at Consignees Cargo remaining on board after the asth

Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside i will be landed and stored at Consignees risk and such Cargoimpeding the discharge of the vessel expense.

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co, Hongkong, 23rd May, 1901, Agents,

For Sale.

NOW READY.

THE

SPECIAL DESCRIPTIVE

AND

STATISTICAL EDITION

*CY THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TEN PAGES.

PRICE 50 CENTS.

AND HER CHILDREN.. The Empress of Germany, though she seems as securely isolated as most royal personages, is not exempt from strange and startling Gastle, her majesty was greatly alarmed by encounters. A few weeks ago, at Potsdam two men unceremonionsly entering her boudoir, inquisitive members of the new fire patrol, Very recently she had an unexpected inter- with a chimney sweep. This time she did not scream, as it happened, but was no less surprised to see a little-black figure appear in the fireplace. The boy was much the more frightered of the two and tried in vain to climb up the chimney and out of the knows, Augusta Victoria is the most kindly terrifying "presence." But, everybody: and motherly of empresses. She called the and the Princess Victoria Louise. The "back- little fellow to her, then sent for Prince Joachim man" had been the terror of their infantile: world, so their mother meant that an introduc- tion should dispel all fear. And so it did, för the little sweep went down the palace stairs clal notice has to be taken by the courts of Acts princess, the other a treasure which Prince Her Majesty is a "public person," and judi- with two honey cakes-one the gift of the little of Parliament concerning her. Moreover she Joachim had been willing to sacrifice for friend, represented in the courts by her own Attorney ship's sake. General and Solicitor-General. Then, as far as the social observances of the State go, she

3- It is not long since Prince. Joachim learned a lesson of still more practical value. Every offices, and officers distinct from the King's. has her own separate court and ceremonial mering from the nursery, came screams and the sound of violent struggles. The prince her position is now very simple, and her pecuni. been tried to reduce hint to silent submission As faras her Majesty's finances are concerned, objected to his bath. So, when every way had ary affairs need not necessarily affect the King and in vain, the royal mother gave orders to was to all intents and purposes in a business morning Prince Joachim left the nursery for in any way. There was a time when the Queen let him have his own way. In triumph text

It was prescribed by law that she was entitled taunting remark to his nurse died on the partnership with the King upon the throne, and his walk, unbathed and happy. A little. to a certain proportion which was, roughly, boy's lips as he noticed that the sentinels theyRi about, a tenth of any sum of money which were passing did not present arms, The blood was paid to the King by subjects of his in return for a grant of an office or frat his checks, but he walked on. When & accond of his punctilious millitary race rose hot ju chise. This proportion used often to yield sentinel failed to walute, the little fellow weat very substantial amount, and the revenue proudly up to the man and said: "Do you which the Queen thus, obtained was described know who I am "Yes, Hoheit came from Queen Gold," The Queen also formerly the erect figure "Who am I insisted the derived à revenue from the demesne lands of child. "Prince Joachim," replied the sentinel, the Crown Nowadays, however, all this is Then why don't you salute? Because we To be obtained at the OFFICE of This Paper, swept aside, and the contents of the Queen don't present arms to an unwashed prince." put to his clients, alf and every vestige of single transaction by a special grant by Pascom the soldier. No sound came from the As Mme. Bernhard's beauty doctor points Consort's purse are settled year by year in a The child was silent; two great tears came

removed every night. No one should try her "make up, be it paint or powder, should be menta

Parlia into his eyes, but he managed to bide them Such is the peculiar, and in many respectsa nursery next morning at the hour for the bath, complexion to breaking point; therefore noons little anomalous; position of Queen Alexandra, from which the empress knew that her scheme should sleep in the mank she wears by day. On | but if there is anything about it which people had succeeded.

Rice powders, considered so safe, are often womanly trust, yet are rice powders in same vended to catch the feminine eye and win the only: Orris powder, too, sounds sweet and desirable, yet has been proved a very beauty prey, most irritating to the cuticle, both when used alone or mixed in too large proportions with starch powder. To many feminine intel. ligences a powder that is pleasantly scented is one and all, remembering that experienced a safe and happy choice to make. Refuse them

doctors have traced to these very fascinations one called "constant headache by its victims. many nerve ailments, including the tortuous

and were used only by the woman whose com

If powder were treated merely as a softener plexion is hard, marred in some way, or aged, it would not merit the thunderous condemna tion it does from a vast proportion of the civilised world. For a girl whose face tints are fresh and pretty to desecrate her countenance by such an application is a thousand pities, seeing that though good vegetable powder may ba, her choice, instead of an injurious mineral one, its effect is in the nature of things coarsen the texture of the cuticle. Ta to dim the natural tints; clog the pores, and

THOSE desirous of obtaining copies should order early, as only a limited number has been struck off and a Second Edition can- not be printed.

The Special Edition will be mailed to any, and Postage. address on receipt of 50 cents to cover cont

Hongkong and May, rob

- NOW READY.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PTION OF H.M.S. TERRIBLE,

HONGKONG

AND THE A FESTIVITIES CONNECTED

THEREWITH.

HA, WITH ANE,

WOODCUT OF THE "TERRIBLE,

!

PRICE 30 CENTS

intending purchasers should send their Onders As only a limited number have been printed

early, for the issue of this interesting souvenly will soon be exhausted.

Hongkong, 1st June, 1900

Page 5Page 6

Entimations,

BANK HOLIDAYS.

will