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THIS WEEK'S ART EXHIBI TION

The public is reminded that on Thursday next. 24th instant, at the City Hall (St. Andrew's Hall), there will be opened a French exhibition of war pictures byd celebrated artists. Those to be present include His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, Major-General Ventris and M. Hanchecorne, the Franch Consul, who have given their official patronage to this exhibi- tion of art for charity.

collection bas visited the whole world has been successfully everywhere. It in-

The exhibition will remain open for five days only, on Thursday from 5 pm to 8 pm. and there- after every day up to and includ- ing the 28th instant from 10 am. to noon and from 4 p.m. to 8 p... The price of admission will be $1 in its proportions and distinction in its design. The quaint old]

each day."

The Portuguese city of Macao calls almost itself" the gem of the East," and Manila claims that it is "the shown

and pearl of the Orient." but the jewel cludes 500 pictures, compris city of them all is Hongkong.

ing paintings, drawings, sketches, Out of the city you ride in a motor-car as high as a motorcar of them originals and some re- water colours and cartoon, some can go on the climbing, winding productions. road, or you pay thirty cents to artists, while serving at the front, Foremost-French mount on the Peak Tramway, have tried to capture on canvas, which hauls you straight up the for the benefit of the world, some declivity, on a gradient which of their impressions of the great To peuple who have heard of tilts you back till your heels are conflict. Their work makes a Hengkong only that it is one of nearly in the same horizontal pictorial history of the war. add- the world's great shipping cen plane as your head. So much ed to which is all the tragedy. which also is true-its splendid askew are you, that as you pass glory and pathos. These artists' beauty comes as a stunning sur-by a gulch the houses on the prise.

The chances are that other side of it lose their perpen-art lovers, and the size of the names are all well-known to when you visit Hongkong you will dicular, and inrch towards you art community in Hongkong as- gain your first glimpse of it at at the angle to which you rares a big attendance on each

Communicated to the Telegraph" by Adam Cay Enfor of

The Sun". Sydney).

daylight, because a vessel generar tipped.

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ally approaches it at reduced eight minutes, and the fare is men whose work is shown are The climb takes day of the show. Some of the speed in order to time her arrival about equal to a shilling each Henileu, Jonas, Forani, Danphin, for early morning and the immed-way, but it is as good a shilling's Poulbot, Renouard, de Groux, iate service of pilot and health worth of sight-seeing es you will and Bansi. Then there is the officers. Then, if the day is one find; for when you reach the top collection of cartoons by the which is going to be clear and and look down on the city and Dutchman Raemakers, sunny, you are fortunate; because the harbour, once more you lose stinging pencil induced Maxi- in that event, the white mists will your breath with the admiration milian Harder, the be swiftly curling away from the you can scarcely express. You publicist, to say that his drawing Summits of the giant Peak, almost stare sheer down on that grand had done more 2.000 feet clear above the bag, and White City with the innumerable Central Powers than all their while you watch, the great hill-ships of all cations in its day, and defeats. side will be laid bare, revealing you feel thankful for a sight the dignity of the big white and which can never be forgotten.

When exhibited in London this gray mansions resting

Seventy years ago Hongkong more than 300,000 visitors. With collection attracted in one week the steep slope; and, bathed in was an island rock inhabited by the Peace Celebrations so recent sunshine at the level of the pale a few hundred Chinese fisher- blue sea, the noble facades of men: to-day it is such a city forget the men who made them a memory Hongkongites will not the waterfront will greet you face as we have been trying to to face. At the same time a describe.' Iis.. wealth is such

possible. The proceeds of the ex- moving kaleidoscope wil salute that

its government revenue fortunate victims of the war, the hibition will go to help the un- you from the water, great exceeds three millions sterling; blind, of whom France alone had steamers and little steamers, ly its value as a seaport i kn wn to 55,000. All the works exhibited ing at anchor or moving in and all the world: and it is fast be are for sale, the prices being fixed out. ferries running to and fro coming & great manufacturing by the artists themselves. like waterbeetles. junks with centre as well. The Australien," their brown sails patched or torn with his eye on markets for the lumbering on their unwieldy way, and an upcounted swarm of sampans and lighter and barges ereeping hither and thither. At that first glimpse, a Sydney man shuts bis mouth tight, and tries also to shut his ears to the unkind comparison in harbours made by his fellow-traveller from Melbourne.

produce of his own country, and quarters of Hongkong are well- upon the progress of its own built and properly paved, are not manufacturing industries, deeply impressed by the great are no dirtier than John China- is dirty out of doors, and indoors purchasing power of the East, man requires for his happiness, and get more deeply impressed and their streets are generally by the advance of manufacture wide enough to take an electric employing Oriental labour in the tram. Orient. Hongkong has great

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By means of the trams you' shipbuilding yards, and they grow can see a good deal of Hongkong Go into the city, and begin to greater: will by-and-by be a in a single afternoon; and the move about it: come back to it centre for British "ship-con- cooles will not walk over you if again and get to know it wellstruction.

But it has also you travel first-class. You will and your admiration will be not sugar-refinery and ropeworks, not see a Chinese city, but you less but greater. There is cotton

mill -and fourmill, will see a good deal of swarming nobility in the architecture of tile works and cement worke Chinese life. by climbing to "Hongkong whose European and in common with the rest of the centre has street. on street of tall the Orient is going to find much double-decker and travelling to together in their anchorage, made by ricksha

top of the electricall. The boats lie humped Jas any little journey that can be buildings, all handsome and well of its future prosperity in the Kennedy Town or proportioned, their upper stories development of more manufac- Causeway. The Chinese tene- handred yards each way you which the English have made on along the and' in an area measuring Such are a few facts of the city usually resting upon col n-tures. nades,

ments are usually of many stories, could count the population of & a bare rok in two generations. within which the The Chinese section of Hong-and each of them ie as full of life respectable Australid town with But they who live in Hongkong sidewalks enjoy a edol and kong is built better than are grateful ghade. At the end of Chinese cities which have "just at

as an anthill On every balcony, a Mayor and a War Loan Com-do not boast about it. They are almost every street you see the growed" without European super-fourths of the family clothing and very own The, men and the in terms of admiration they say, any moment, fully three-mittee and a political pull'all its English; and when you burst out green gardens of the Peak rising visi 2.

Canton is not cursed bedding seems to be hanging out women sake are ready, for coolie "It isn't a bad town." steep before you, and the sky- with the indescribable squalor of to be aired and dried. line is the Peak's edge. What- Amay, and boasts that it long

worls; tcarrying anything and ever corner you turn, your eye since lost its right to the title of loading or unloading a barge, any corner of the island Hong-

On the waterfront John is everything on their shoulders to HOW TO MAKE BABY SLEEP rests either upon the glittering the dirtiest big city in the toting its sacks of flour or tins of kong has no animal transport

/WITHOUT OPIATES. water or upon some lovely avenue world"; but native Canton is oil on his shoulders. The coolies except a few ox-wagons for The baby that cannot sleep and or plantation of shady tree and still the old city of "impassable march in palm, or an isolated building streets and impossible pave- from the barge, to the godown and from this canse the streets are ing these symptoms without an unending line, municipal or military services, cries half the night is not display- rises. before you, with harmony Iments, whereas even the Chinese (or waterside warehouse), each excessively clean. quiet except reason. They show that it is not man has a sack of flour for the shouting of coolies, and well. In such cases Baby's Own on his shoulder, or swings two singularly smooth in paverent. Tablets, the Canadian children's tins of oil.at each end of a pole Since we are talking of Hong-remedy, act like magic and are a from the godown to the barge the kong as the City Beautiful rather blessing to mothers, for they make streaming ants have dropped their than the City Commercial or In the little one sleep happily and burdens and seek more. John dustrial, let us not forget one wake up well

LET'S GO!

Bo, we went and licked them Germans

From the Marne clean to the Rhine. When we stepped in we were needed

Like a beggar needs a dime: And we didn't ask no questions,

We just dug in 'til we dropped. If there's any doubt who done it,

Ask the Heines that we stopped.

Now the job done and finished.

And we've cleaned up on the fight: Do the Frenchies and the English Hand us out the big delight? -Quit your kiddin'. You know better.

Tie the bull and travel slow-- They're the guys that want the credit.

Come on, Yank it's time to go."

We ain't wanted now in Flanders,

Where our doughboys fought and died. "And in Paris, where they kissed us,

Now it's Take your duds and slide." We're just Yanks where we was heroes.

A the glamor's off the show. They're afraid we'll hog the credit. Come on. Yank-it's time to go..

HARRY WASHBURN

Chinaman in Hongkong is mostly particular gem in its collection. There are no injurious drugs or a coolie or a shopkeeper. While The name"Happy Valley "opiates in Baby's Own Tablets, as John humps cargo, Mrs. John should tempt you to take a rick is proved by the certificate of Dr. and the children are on board asha to the Avilion so suggested. Milton Hersey, MA, &c., Official sampan or row-boat (the sampan When you arrive, you will find Analyst to the cities of Quebec in Hongkong carries a sail also) yourself at the racecourse which and Montreal, of which the and she looks for a job with a encloses the golf links. The following is & copy passenger or his luggage. If you links look an easy course, OVET MONTREAL TESTING have some luggage to shift from level grass with artificial bunkers, LABORATORY steamer to steamer, you will but the spot is amazingly beauti-Me St. James Street, Montreal readily engage for little enough ful Steeping-rising hills enclose hereby certifi money a sun-tanned woman and a it on three sides, and on the made girl or boy of ten years old to fourtir side is the flat road into of 2 shove the sampan round the the city. On the hillslopes on harbour.

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