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GENERAL NEWS.

TONIC FOR A JADED

MAN.

On lodia Etc.

A now baik by DF. W. F. Old-

ham, entitled "India, Malaysia Gardening Often Much Better.

W09 80-

and the Philippines, nounced to appear in America last month,

Transferred.

Going on Leave,

Than Medicine..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 1914.

sway construction work of some kind will be found where frag- ments of rook are easily to be had.Į The laying off of a road or walk soross the lawn, making a tennis court, constructing a home made | pool on the plase, either for fish or water plants; the raising of hens, pigeons, even the erection have known the virtues of the soil of houses which will tempt birds in healing there whose mind or to take up their residence-the body has suffered from ills which opportunities for the suburbanite are inevitable in orowded cities, are almost infinite.

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PROCURATION., is at present stationed in Taiping. | In mythology the idea was firmly Outdoor life, contact with the No. 6 Cameron Villas, No. 59

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crystallized in the old legend of earth, tim digging, the wheeling year from 1st May, 1914. The Klang Olub have withrawn him who was rendered all bat of a barrow, even the quiet con- from the Selangor Association invulnerable by the revivifying templation of unfolding animalTO LET till 1st October 6 the Peak (Bishops Lodge North) To from the 6 April next No. Football League, and all matches power of Mother Earth. Thrown and plant life are better tonics 1914, No. 64, The Peak, Apply PALMER and TURNER, arranged for them have accord- to the ground in any contest, he and restorers than any man has seven rooms and drying room, Hongkong. ingly been cancelled.

arose each time stronger than be-devized. There was one gardener furnished, including Electric fans fore. Which means that a return, who did worders for himself at and Telephone. It is understood that when fr. if only temporary, to the natural the very prosaic task of digging R. E. Oorset, Assistant Super-life from which civilization tends holes. Through a period of three intendent of Police at Penang, to wean man is like a return to yere he dug four cendred holes goes on leave Mr. S. B. Henson the well with an empty pitoker.for trees and shrubs.

He was will be transferred there from That this is realized now as rarely three times re Singapore.

strong, be

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HARTING and ROGATE, GL procent anxiety on every hand to of that than ever before, and he part of Kowloon Inland Lot 1154. The Government has granted secure the most possible of weighed, twenty Jude more. GLENSHIEL" 124 Barker to the Church of England medical country life. Who does not know The improvement in his attitude Road, 5 rooms, close to Tram mission in Singapore the use of people who openly bosst that toward life was too great to eeti Station. the building formerly occupied they have thrown physic to the mate. During all that time he

Apply to by the Cross Street shool, to be doge since they began to work had been working in the open

LINSTEAD & DAVIS, used as a dispensary for woman in some fashion on a little plot air, he had "found-although Hongkong, 2nd Ct., 19:3

Ert Floor, Alandra Building. and children. Two nurses and of ground, however small, some two compaunders are being train-where in the country? ed to help in this work, and a

TO LET-Two room Flats in And if the recrudescence of this Chinese lady doctor will shortly old idea which prompted Horace come from Obins, who will reside to flee the populous Rome to the on the premises and attend simplicity of his Sabine farm maternity and other cares.

acema especially strong to-day,

The good to be derived from Shorter Hours in City Offices, when numbers are being used up digging in the ground in the

Daring the period Aptil I to June 15, the office hours of all physically and mentally by the springtime, with the pleasant TOLET-from lat May, 191 Manila departments will t from treas of city life, there is notice odour of fresh turned soil in one's ed. Apply to S. J. DAVİD'& Co., ! No. 1048, The Peak, furos- of the chief Prince's Buildings. 7.30 in the morring to 12.30 in able, too, a more modera idea. postrils, is one the afternoon, when, in the judg- the watchword in medicine and dweller,

Prevention, which has become the benefits awaiting the country

And many are the To. LET.- "LA HACIENDA ment of the heads of departments,

To the transection of public business social welfare work, is also in the excuses he can Gud for this pas-] 1 E.", No. 74, Mount Kellett will not suffer thereby. Heads minds of many who, to keep time-planting flowers and vege Road, from 1st April.

Apply CHATER & MODY. No. 9 Queen's Road Central.

this particular gardener was no noot, and didn't express it in just this fashion-tongues in tre 36, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything," including himself.

bles, atting poste for fences and unways for the chickens, opening ditches, spading in.a towing garden-even digging

of departments are authorized to themselves fit, have turned to again extend at any time within country-life pursuits. And as the eaid Friod the office hours preventive treatment; what is here for any or all employees under meant are the humbler forms of them if in the discretion of the country-life activities, available fish bait. department head, such extension particularly to tuota of modest. be necessary.

Quite Ingenuous.

a

means who will entrust to no too often neglected in favour of Setting out trcsa is a practice gardener. or. horticulturist or landscape artist the tasks which smaller garden tasks. This is they themselves can do, with the great mistake, for there is nothing Besurance of gaining thereby health and peace of mind.

Utilizing the Preventive idea.

which becomes so much a real

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A Singapore lady happened to be shopping the other day in one of the leading ical stores-ladies' millinery department She could not help overhearing an amusing dialogue barron another lady who was al shopping, and the modern helpful view. Let the young lady nasistant who was in city dweller ur workar bear that Jin mind, and go to the soil bafore charge of that special depart he has to. Even a temporary lies, each child has a tree planted four roomed house in Wanchai] WANTED.-A Compradore for

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part of a home and the back- ground of all its finer sentimentsas ines a trea planted with care. It separately. The 'preventive idea is the

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April 15th next, furnished ment. Holding up a set, or a pair (the neurator of the story relief to a broken man.

return to nature gives comfort and

on its birthday his own tree throughout. Nominal rental-appointment to E. J. DAVIS, Road. Electric light and fans!

a good business. Write an was a male who understanda nothing of those things-the dropping back into simple and cherished as his particular pro- "B," c/o "Hongkong Telegraph."

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL lady, remarking upon the airy, natural ways of living is efficacious party. In some parts of Switzer- land the people have a custom peek a boo, diaphanous texture of still greater is the benefit if

of being obearved, the articles, said indignantly to some interest is cultivated which worthy

of planting treea on family the assistant, "No respectable bringa one into a knowledge of woman could wear that sort of growing plants and flowers and holidays, in observance of happy Castle and Buckingham Palace blissfully unconscions that garm- Something there is about the way the setting of the tree, and the amount to £6,000 per annum. At

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In this con- solidated system of sik insurance impressed upon one how surely a garden and indeed it is the Chronicle, an amusing, incident,

Although the amended and con-ness and contentment. It is

"God Almightie first planted nestion, says a writer in the in the German Empire came into and deliberately, according to force only on January 1, the pro- season, and contrary to the pell Part of human pleasures. It is occurred one Sunday morning visions for the insurance of mell uncertainty of cities, natural the greatest refreshment to the during the last stay of the Cours domestic servants the most im phenomens unfold. Perhaps the spirite of man." this is the opin-in the Highlands. The weather. portant of all all the new classes suggestion will be got not on expressed in the sixteenth had been had, and as the indoor bad one for self-century by the philosopher Bacon drying accommodation is limited, of workers involved have al altogether a ready broken down. Within a centred urbanites-that in this and it is good counsel to-day..

quite a quantity of linen was un- Nothing is more web of your con- vory few weeks the Prussian steady recurrence of Beasons and Even in the outskirts of a city dried on the Sunday morning. Adoration than the welfare of your eyes Government, at any rate, has succession of plant life man or in the small town much is brisk wind aprang up, but the trouble that to-day is small and easi

romediod, if neglected may get beyond

14, GRESSON ST., PRAYA EAST. on hardly figures at all. And there possible. One family added vastly Queen's rigid ordera prohibiting single measured. Be on the safe side and recognized the fact, and February 13 the Praesian Minis comes a new and more accurate to the sum total of its general unnecessary work on the Sabbathit your eyes are giving trouble call on us ter of Commerce issued to the perspective to the man working health and vigour, by means of a kept the laundry maide inactive and have them examined. No charge for insurance authorities and import in the garden, which is in no vacation spent outdoors, not in Preesntly, however, her Majesty, ant rescript. The long and the small degree responsible for his the north woods, nor at the sea-with the rest of the Royal Family, N. LAZARUS, short of the matter is that domes regained peace of mind.

shore, but it the back yard. Their drove off to chutob, and no sooner OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. tic servants will have to ba It does not seem to matter actual sleeping and living ar- had the carriage diappeared Tel. 1292. insured as a separats class in whither one's energies are direct-rangements were concentrated round the bend then cat came separate Krankenkassen, and on ed, so long as there Le enough upon a roofless verands at the the linen, and soon every line

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has arisen in this way. The law beautiful flowers to admire, or made ocul when nursary with as the doxology time approached, CHINA COMMERCIAL Co., 3 Duddell S leaves it to the municipalities to raising vegetables for the table, an awaing and redolent with the decide whether they will found the pursuit recommended as airs blowing through rounding rural" Krankenkasten, or sim-far and away the boat for keeping fruit trees and stabbary. A ply put the new catagories of off the ills the flesh must bow to, brood of summer birds batohed 31, Queen's}. insured arsons into the existing there are many other 3, Reclaim in a near-by bush became inti

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•For some time past the Vic-invite the man who owns even a practical sida, their appetites torian Government authorities tiny plot out of the city's limits grew, they found themselves go. have had considerable difficulty will repay his responce many ing to bed earlier and getting up in coping with urgent dredging fold. All the possibilitie of earlier, which resulted in falfil- work at the various outporte and landscape designing are his on ling a part of the old proverb. have had under consideration' the a small scale. Maybe big wife question of obtaining another would like to have a rookery. powerful sandpipe suction dred-in which to plant her ferns. ger. It has now been decided to There is no difficulty, except that build the vest al lolly, and the of healthful physical oxation, in work will be ont asted to the calling stones enough from the IF you have lost your appetite State Shipping Yards, Williams surrounding woods and brook- town. The estimated cost is said bade, or if the country-side affords to be in the vicinity of £93,000: no stones, somewhere not too far

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