THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 11. 1919,
NOTICES
THE UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER
The Machine you will eventually-buy”.....
HORNSBY-STOCKPORT GAS ENGINES AND. SUCTION CAS PLANTS. OVER- 10,000 EN DAILY USE
HORNSBY OIL ENGINES.
AGENTS - FOR: .
THE EXPANDED METAL CO., LTD. EXPANDED METAL POR ER-INFORCED CONCRETE
TABHYES' WARNIRE YOuts.
FAKRANES, MORSE # DO. AR Kinds of Machinery and Engineering Supplies.
BOUBLAS A GRANT.
Bon Mila and Bimum Ingines.
FRANGIS WEBSTER A SOR.
Charno Twines, ks.
LIDGERWOOD MALF. OP. Horting Engine, Pile Drivem, da
THE REBAND.COMPOSITIONS LTD.
Anti-Fouling and Anti-CorroŘÍ VA
Patri
AND VARIOUS OTHER MANUFACTURERS.
"Quatakiena for any descripsien of Machinery or Engineering Plant on application to
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Machinary Dept....
Maltheid. Reefing
BOLE AGENTS ***
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. (MACHINERY DEPT.).
QUEEN'S BUILDING, CHATER ROAD. HONGKONG.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:—
Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender-Value. No Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOR PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICOLARE TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF
ALEX ROSS C
MOTOR CAR AGENCIES.
BRITISH CARS:
The A-O Three-Seater, Britain's Leading Light Car. A wonderful HD) Climber. Forty miles to the gallon. The FORD Universal Car. Made in Canada. Fitted with Two or Fire Seater bodies.
The ARROL JOHNSTON, & illustrated above. The famous Scotch Car. One of Britain's Best. AMERICAN CARS:
The DORT Fire Seater. & small Car with quality in every part. "Own a Dort-You will like it." The HUPMOBILE. The comfort Car built for Hill Climbing. Grey Body and White Wire Wheels. 3 he CHALMERS, A delightful seren.passenger Touring Car, with the Chalmers Famous Six-
Cylinder Motor.
ALEX. ROSS
& CO.,
4, DES VŒUX ROAD CENTRAL,
ATD.
WAR CHANGES.
PURE MANILA ROPE
3
STRAND
1 to 15"
CABLE LAID 5" to 15"
4 STRAND 3" to 10" CIRCUMFKERADE
CIEGÜMFELENOR ;* OTBOUMIZBIROK
Of Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Prices, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co. General Managiri.
LIME JUICE CORDIAL. SIRDIR
SULE AGENTS:
CALDBECK
MACGREGOR
& CO.
No. 15, Queen's Road, Central. Telephone No. 75.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.
MPS. A SUGA Mrs. S. HONDA
Mr. U. SUGA Kr. I. HONDA
B Creen's Road Central
Hongkong.
METALS
of all kinds. especially for ship- building and engineering works, Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE
INSURANCE CO.,
in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. AND
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared
to
ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. *
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Casks of 375 lbs. not.
In Bags of 250 lbs, net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1916,
MASSAGE HALL
23. FLOWER STREET.
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THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO. LTD.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
General Managers.
THE ALEXANDRA
ប
CAFE.
RENOWNED THROUGHOUT THE EAST"
well in the language of ancient their use you must say "Pardon!" Rome.
or * Excusezi" There is the use- There is, for instance, the ful custom of introducing yourself, influence
the of
admissible in clubs even to ladies, A. TACK & CO., American language to be reckoned with by the simple process of raising It is certainly different in many your hat, murmuring your name, respecta from London English and custretching your hand. Change of some sort is sure to Keen-witted Continentals have Generally speaking, Continent- be found in our national life now long ago observed the difference: al etiquette is democratic and, that war is over.
"War never
I note that in Germany you can with the exception of one country, leaves where it found a nation. get several dictionaries of devoid of snobbery. The excep And among many interesting. "American," but I have never tion is Prussis. It is curious that possibilities is a Continentalisa- yet seou & dictionary of the average Continental should of England. Our soldiers the American language (8s class Prussia and England toge- will bring such published in English.ther as the native lands of the least B
familiarity, If you wish to realise "America-snob England is also still re- many habits and cus
E its highest temperature garded as the home of the hypo- toms which just make the differ you should read the New York crite. Certainly on the Continenti ence between Continental and journals Towa Topica, widely human nature and natural needs insular society (writes AEC. in circulated on the Continent. If are regarded frankly and without the Manchester Guardian). Every we add a considerable familiarity glazing. One of the most effective The more or less educated Continent-with Turks, Mesoptamians, pieces of German propaganda in al speaks two or three languages. Syrians, and Arabs generally, the last two years has been the You meet eved Roumanians, England will acquire, through exploitation of Iwan Bloch's Serbians, Greeks, Bulgarians, her soldiere, some measure of book on the sexual life of Eng- Armenians, Turks, who in cosmopolitanismo also.
land, "a study in hypocrisy.”
Again, habituated to the metric system You English," said a Hollan-| Returning to Continental' in- of weights and messures and to der to me," spoke more French a fluence, one notes little differences the decimal system af coinage. hundred years ago than you do in the methods of politeness. You The Continental postal order and now. An Englishman had to raise your hat to man as well as post check system is simpler than discuss an important matter with woman, and to every person of ours. The difference in the rule Swiss whose five-tongue. your acquaintance. however of the road has caused several vocabulary did not include Eng-humble, chimney-sweep, or char-fatal accidents; it may cause lish, while the Englishman was woman. You also raise your more on the return of men babitu- innocent of all tongues but his hat and give greeting on enter-ated to the law of "keep to the own, save and except his ing a club or restaurant, and right.” schooldaye Latin. The discussion on leaving you say "Adieu !'; W34 carried out indifferenthy On every imaginable occasion for
public invariably speak French
and expect you to do the same.
METHODS OF POLITENESS.
PIANOS
FOR
HIRE
'AT
$10
PER MONTH.
ROBINSON'S
our
men are
STANDARDISATION.
пот
The standardisation of man- ufactured articles is A War- imposed principle fully appreciat ed by English, Americans, and Continentals. Its development, should be one of the most far- reaching changes produced by the war. Mr. Ford, with his motor-cars and tractors, bas ledi tbe
Way.. Swisa firms AT?
utensils
ap-
now ex-
Alexandra Cafe (next door to Hongkong Hotel) for Tiffin and Dinner. Our famous filleted Haddock as a light Summer Snack is unsurpassed. Choice-Ginger Cake a speciality, try it.
FOOK LEE & CO.,
Established 1871.
IRON & STEEL PRODUCTS, `HOUSE & SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING MATER ALS.
HEAD OFFICE:
Non Hillier Stres
. Phone 1174.
BRANCH OFFICE: York Building, Chater Road. Phone 1950,
PRICES SENT ON APPLICATION.
instance, the
villa
basy with the application of sharing a common washing-room For
ar 1. on the roof, a common discards its strip of lawn and the principle all round; boots and
Parquet floors [flower-bed, and installs a chicken shoes, and clothes; windows, drying-ground, chairs, tables, beds, crockery, with loose carpets are the rule, run, a pigsty, and perhaps a cow- In the fields, intensive in the interests of cleanliness and shed. of all kinds-to be
Moreover, such a gardening is a Continental "in-" standardised. The principle, of sanitation.
Both in town and in course, is not new; printers country has no slums. Dwellings stinct applied it centuries ago, and approaching this condition are country schemes are afoot for hosiers, glovers, tailors, hatters, condemned by the inspector; all utilising sewage, the waste of and bootmakers have used it for plans for new bildings must which is a blot upon a scientific be submitted to the city author-civilisation. The sewage farm, years. But universal
2 plication may be
ities, and in the country to the so called, is so far merely a muni- Standardisation pected.
will parish architect. In the coun- cipal muddle. All this will not assist informing new habits try, again, there is no waste of be lost on the British who have
an inch of soil. In England one seen it. of economy-economy of pro- duction, distribution, consump may estimate by millions of acres tion, and utilisation of waste the soil lost by the custom of products. There is a German hedges, with which all English magazine entirely devoted to this farms are entangled. Here cows subject, and all Continental eco- out of milk do horse-draught work. nomists are busy with the problem Big and otherwise useless dogs of lessening the enormous waste also do horsework even in the which is the crying defect of towns.
civilisation waste modern material; waste, of laboury, waste- 4. of brain,
of
JAPAN AND FAR EASTERN
OLYMPIAD. The matter of a Japanese partí- cipation in the next Far Eastern games to take place at Manila on In the country, again, there is May 10th next does not appear movement towards self very promissing at the present sufficiency of the household-in time. In a letter to Dr. Marquardt, cottage, villa, and hotel This, secretary-treasurer of the P.A.A.F. in a way, is a reversion to first and the Far Eastern Association, From a businesslike country principles, to the ideal of "Three Professor Jigoro Kano, who is
and ✡.
"Why President of the Japan Far such as Switzerland hints may be acres taken. The fine mansions you Socrates," said Adeimantus, "you Eastern committee, states that see in an average town are, with are making a city of pigs!" (8 unless the date of the meet is The Republic). It changed from May to August it is the exception of a few belonging Plato in
the complement of very probable that Japan will have
HINTS FROM THE SW188.
Ito the very wealthy, divided by is
COW."
floors into flats, self-contained and State-rating and State-monopoly, to withdraw from the Association.
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