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WOMEN'S

WORLD

MINE EXPLOSIONS.

How the Great Forces of Nature Work.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY MARCH 19 1012

little anthracite powder through It has been decided to widen a piece of tubinga poa-shooter the some of the competition. To will do into a gas flame only

tonds to pat the gas out. Blowing restrict it largely to active life in KING EDWARD finely ground resin-not real the Colony excludes many ama- rosin, but the colophony that tours who are not yet experien- musicians call resin-through the cod in this class of work. As the gas flame has a very different whole purpose of the competition offset,

Give Everyone a Chance.

A PRETTY CENTREPIECE. Women at flome are greatly

The forests of ancient times interested in a display that is, which have rested for millions of being held of quito a new form years, and gradually turned into It seems strange to say that the is to stimulate interest in photo- of ornamentation for a dianer coal, take their revenge when old dried up resins of the trees graphy in Hongkong it has been, that grow millions of years ago folt better to remove all restrju- iable. It takes the form of a they are disturbed, states the found their way into the minos large low vase made of silver""Evening Standard." The revenge and cause explosions. Yet it is so.

tion und to fashioned to represent a water is so torrible that even millionaires During the first few days when lily with leaves and buds, the have never tried to spend their the Science Department of the flowers and the buds being used money in fighting. it. Libraries Coronation Exhibition was being Pictures of activo life, then, no bowls for holding choice have been built, as wo know.shire miner who was outting recent or pictures taken months put together there was a Lanca-pictures of still life, pieturas, blossoms. The effect is absolutely Technical institutions have been sections of various kinds of coal novel and wholly charming. Such endowed, but we never get anytiny sections so thin that they ago, pictures of life or scenes in a decoration has the merit of nearer the great conquest of Appeared liko somi-transparent Hongkong or pictures taken in leaves. Many of them must have any part of China, pictures taken boing adaptable to a small or a Nature, which enables the minor been cuttings from the trunks of at Home any picture, general or large table, as smuller forms of to go down into his coal-pit with trees, giant grandfathers of thie the plant may be had for adding the perfect certainty that there will to the length of the new flower be no explosion, and that he will carriors when a very large dinner come back just as if he had gone to fable has to be decorated. The a factory of some other kind. His innovation lus the great charm risk is always great. Ho takes that does not in any way obscure it very quietly, and probably of allowing a low floral decoration

although it covers a good portion It is his ordinary day's work, and, of the board, this decoration is

so far as he is concerned, there is anything but houvy. It may be bad in real silver, in silver-gilt, no more to be said about it. He and in electroplate, any of which risks explosions without oven mako really original and accop-thinking about them. tablo wedding gifts.

the view of thoso at table and rover thinks of the risks he runs.

A New Shop Assistant,

When Sir Humphry Davy in- vonted his lamp to save the A model shopussistant whoj novor wastes a moment, and miners he had only one idea, and gives customers exactly whats vory definito one. He thought they ask for, has just been indeed, he know-that when discovered.

The now assistant, which is

a

com-

Motels.

HONGKONG HOTEL

Notices

HOTEL.

"Hongkong, 20th Apil, 1911.

Under Entirely 'New'

Management.

Thoroughly Renovated.

Excellent Cuisine. ·

H. HAYNES, Manager.

Hongkong, 16th Jan., 1912.

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THE TAIWAN RAILWAY HOTEL.

pine that had lived and died in local, may be sent along if it ages long before the chalk cliffe possesses interest at all. With of England were either laid down the competition of so or built up. As he shook his films prohensive a charactor there is a of coal a ruin of particles foll out, |

fine dust. Even when it settled chance for any amateur photo- lighted. No doubt these minuts of the prizes. The rules of com- Under the Direct Management of the down the heaps were easily graphor in Hongkong to win one

grains of matter, stored up so long ago in the colls of the giant petition appeared in the issue of carboniferous forests, have been the cause of many an explosion,

FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS.

A CHANCE FOR EVERY * AMATEUR.

The proprietor of the "Hong the gas, fire-damp was mixed | kong Totograph "has decided to designed for drapers' shops, is with air a light would cause it to continue during March his tlie latest form of automatic explode. Moreover, he knew that offer of two prizes for the bos machine, and instead of rotailing a thin shoath of copper gauze photographs submitted to the chocolate and butterscotch or wrapping round and covering in editor by amateur photographers, matches and cigarettes, will duce in return for a ponny a card his lamp-flame would prevent the during the month. of buttons or hooks" and oyos, a mixture of air and gas from catch- packet of needles or pins, a carding fire. Hence one the Davy

pro-

The first prize is one of

$10

of mending wool, or other small lamp. The tiny flame used by and the second is one of $0. article to be found in the habor-the miner was kept cool by the dashery department.

The New Sleeve.

March 1.

Photographic Competition

Coupon.

I

March 10, 1912.

agree to enter the photographic competition on the express understand- ing that the editor's de cision shall be final, and that he may, at his discro tion, uso tho print sont horowith other in the "Hongkong Telegraph "or" the "Weekly Telegraph,"

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Unlike the ordinary shop sheath of copper webbing. The assistant, the nowcomer has no miner 'was protected, and explo- objection to long hours, and from sions were supposed to be things his place of vantage outside the of the past. The ronsoning of shop will go on selling the useful | necessary to articles long after the whole thing was the shop doors are closed and the Coal, or any other carboni. shutters up.

forous deposit always gives off some kind of gas or oil. In Although dresses of salt in Pennsylvania-it hus broken up brics such as, ninod or mousse-into oil, so no one tries to get coal; lino de soie are much fuller, the the oil bubbles up too freely. brocaded designs still rotain a slim, straight effect. Embossed The same thing happens in Baku, in velvet, the new brocades of on the shores of the Caspian Sea. shot-metallic texture are simply Here some of the oil wells caught swathed to the Gguro, with a fire thousands of years ago, and square-cut docollotege softened are still worshipped by the poa-

with folds of tuile, and one of the

noticeable changes in dresses of aantry.

"

this kind is tho sleave.. Made But in England the dead forests long, the now sleove for evening that make the mines are so old wear is of the same material as that vory little of either gas or the dress, and it is perfectly oil is to be found in them. Gassy inoulded to the arm, ouding in a point which falle well over the mines are the exception, and even hand.

in the driest there is very little The long sleeves for the evening chance of any gas explosion. have been suggested by the Yet when the explosión does dresses in beautiful gold and happen the effects are gigantic, silver Renaissance brocades worn It is no tiny thing like the explo- by recent brides. Othor sleeves of sion of a 13-5in, naval gun, or of softor fabrics reach to the elbows, a hundred such. The broadside where they finish with narrow of a super-Dreadnought is a bunds of fur under wider bands quick, ovanescent thing, that of lace or embroidery. Sometimes makes 9 big noise, and the elbow-length sleeve in slashed may possibly do considerable up to the shoulder almost, and it danger. It is caused by concen falls away from the arm with a trated explosives working different-coloured lining, us in the through little tubes called guns. case of a black panne gown When the great forces of Nature embroidered in emerald Royal are set to work in a small way blue iridescent beads, with eme-they send their slow, deep-throat- rald revers on the decollotogeed terrors through a few miles of and emerald lining in the sleeves. tunnel under the ground. Tho The skirt is opened up in the explosion 45. a rule moves some way over an under-dress of slowly. Experiments have often emerald satin.

been shown in our lecture halls,

|

From Paris comes the news inside glass tubes, and it has that white satin is to be worn in boen ahown how the WAVO the daytime for winter dresses, front of the explosion, a white This novel idea has already boon sheet of fire, can move forward carried out, one gown being in slowly or quickly. In the gun of ivory charmeuse, with a crossed the battleship it moves quickly, bodico and a belt of Dresdenblue There came an explosion near taffeta Touches of the same Glasgow many years ago in a flour coloured taffeine could be seen mill that changed all the old op under the yoke of fine lace, which niona. Flour is a substance that was scooped out in Dutch style burns easily, but it was not known at the neck. The dress otherwise before then that flour, ficely was quite plain aaye for a hem of dispersed like dust through the skunk, and it was worn with air, could burn in a flash like gun- long coat of black plush hemmed powder. When this great objecilee with skunk and finished with a son was seen, experts turned their storm collar. and large revers of attention towards coal dust. It was the same fur.

found to be a very unfiory sub Pale mauve satin, another of stance. To grind up Welsh an- materials for thragite very finsly, blow it

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