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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1919.

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WHITEAWAYS! THE STORE FOR THE MILLION!

FOR THE

THE MONTH

MONTH OF NOVEMBER

SPECIAL VALUES FOR

TIES

Excellent Selection,

Exclusive Designs,

DRESSING GOWAS All Wool. Grey, & Fawn. $30.00 $32.50.

GLOVES

Chamois, Doeskin. Mocha & Cape-

Putty & Brown Shades

$5.00. $5.50 & $6.50.

Fashionable neckwear,

$1.50, $1.75.

$1.95. $2:50.

GLOVES

Plain Woollen. Gent's Fine

Scotch Knit, Grey & Brown

$1.75

PLAINSHMER SOCKS

OVERCOATS

Fashionably cot heavy Overcoats, London made. Leading #k $30.00. $32.50, $37.50.

WAISTCOATS 'JAEGER PURE WOOL. Smart Fey Heather Shades. $16.50 ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄$18.50

HOSE.

Fancy Top. and Plain

Khaki Golf

Stocking*. Ribbed."

$2.25 $2.95 & $3.50

SCARFS.

Silk and Cotton Motor

Scarfs. Club Striped

Ends. Very Smart 56.75.

BOYS OVERCOATS.

Smartly cut. in Plain Sponge

Cloth. and Scotch Tweeds, Velver Collare.

514.50 & $18.50

SCARFS.

Jaeger Pure Woollen

Scarfs White, Fawn, Grey, and Lovat Shades.

$3.50 & $3.95.

HALF HOSE.

White. Plain Coloured

Cashmere Socks.

Also Heavy Woal.

Ribbed.

1.50, 1.95, 2.00 & 250

MEN'S COAT SWEATER GOAT SWEATERS. Inger Fare Wool, is Good Plain Shades Grey. Fawn, Lori and White. $13.25, $19.00 & $19.75.

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD. HONGKONG.

EUROPEANS IN THE EAST.

NIGHTMARE OF RENT. FOOD AND FUEL.

used to shriek in that popular! Paradise of New York, and 20 American usually added the remark. "Ain't it hell to

Japanese beins flavoured with onions or nuts, or cooked with cheese.

he poor anywhere?" It is certainly not heaven to be a man Mr. McCay Special Correspond- with a limited salary in one of ent of the Sydney Sun writes:-Japan's big swift-growing cities. Hongkong July 15th.-If an We shall not pretend to the Australian Government.company.democracy of Australia that a" or firm contemplates sending a man with six hundred a year in salaried representative to East Japanis worse off than a labourer ern Asia, a fair piece of advice at £3. 8s. 61. in Austrialia: hut Iting any meat. may be offered concerning the would be less anxious to have salary which the envoy should be £400 a year even in Sydney, the paid, and it is this-

most expensive Australian city, First the generous salary which than to have £600. a year in you think you ought to allot to a Tokyo. man whom you send away from A few months 270 a frugal his friends to a far country, with European housewife, who herself a climate which will probably was facing the tough problem, ill-suit his health, and then-add | wrote in a Tokyo magazine some at least 60 per cent. to the salary hints to help her sisters, whose which you have determined.

Otherwise the Government. or firin may feel certain that it is treating its employee unfairly.

to rent

a

houses and make the flats avail- able for their employees, but many men search in vain for something! within their means.

BREVITIES.

Few wearers of bracelets know that they were used to distinguish the insane, before lunatics were One-seventh of the land sbr-conned in asylums. face of Ireland is covered with

The only animal that is really dumb is the giraffe, which is un- able to make any sound whatever.

Rubber artificial eyes invented in France are said to have other advantages in addition to being

glass ones. more comfortable to wear then

Kid gloves, with hand-painted some of the European countries. of chalk annually in the shells of backs, were once a great craze in 100 hens will produce 137 pounds

It is estimated that a pen of

Earth receives only about two-their eggs. billionth of the heat the sun radiates.

most comfortable, but the cheaper | of the big firms, rent apartment hotels are grubby, at £ a week you cannot be sure of a hotel Japanese Inacaroni, cheaper being clean. The boarding houses than the imported, and Japanese are so few, you could comt them tinned fish, also cheaper.

on your fingers. The readiest The Governor of Hongkong peat. The cheaper kinds of fish, usual-way is for two or more single said Married men with incomes ly left out of European marketing.women to combine

below some 600 to 700 dollars a The sweet potato ("sato-imo"), Japanese house, putting in some month cannot get houses of the which is slighty known in Aus- European furniture, engaging size and convenience essential to: tralia as "Taco" or dasheen. made in croquettes, without us-becoming messmates like the out of all due proportion to their their servants in common, and health, except at rents that are bachelors.

incomes. There are married men The visitor did not hear how in Shanghai and Hongkong who are paying as much as a many European housewives were salaries estimated following the "economy cookery sterling will leave the man of income in

in pounds quarter or even one-third of their book" in order to make ends molest means extremely miser When you remember that

rents and taxes." meet, but he did gain acquaint-able, because the rate of exchange present exchange rates 600 dollars at ance with men who were forced of the dollar is now from 5 to 514 a month is about £1.300 a year, by rent and fuel and food to fall to the £. Salaries in China should you see that it is no joke to be a back on their savings, and pray be fixed in dollars, not in Eng-low-salaried man in Hongkong. that easier times would soon lish currency. Once the salary is For the poverty-stricken at £1,000

received the prices of necessaries a year the Government is goingsway, without danger, as much are not as high as in Japan, to spend from £250,000 to £300,000 as ten or twelve inches in a though style of living conipals in the erection of flats, either for strong wind. more expenditure,, At the mo- bachelors or for families. ment: Hongkong's special trouble

Female workers in Japaness whom 300 are under 20 years of With these facts in view, let us factories number 500,000, of

Halley's comet, last seen in 1910, takes about 75 years to make one trip around its orbit,

come.

husbands were steadily, going A real difficulty presents itself broke. She suggested:

to European or American girls Toasted "fu and salad. "Fu" who earn their living in Japan. is the food used for goldfish, and A stenographer who would be This is true whether the man is sometimes mixed with seaweed paid £3 10. a week in Australia is the scarcity of apartments in hope that no unfortunate Austra-f be sent to Japan, to China, or to be the Japanese. Of house-though more in America) receives which men on "middling pay"lians will be asked to live in the the Philippine Islands, though of keeper said that it was delicious £5 or £7 a week in Eobe or Tokyo. may live, and the Gaverament East on incomes calculated ac- the three the Philippines are phelalong with a poached egg. and But where is she to live? There are has just outlined, a housing cording to the cost of living in cheapest for a quiet-living'man. Iwent well with fish.

very expensive hotels which are scheme for Europeana" Some our own country:"

Even in the Philippines, how- ever, the sidiple householder will find it much more expensive to satisfy moderate needs than it was in New Zealand or in Australia.

In Japan, I met Europeans at many standards of income and if a man had several thousands! sterling a year for his family's spending, his lot was exceedingly happy. He could have a delight- ful mansion, either European or sami-European ("fifty-fifty," &S the Americans have already christened it in Tokyo), with plenty of servants, and could run one or two motor-cars, according to his wife's whim, and could be proud of a handsome garden. But I also met men whose in- comes would be reckoned in Australia very comfortable for a family man-£600 to £800 a year! --And, those men, forced to live in cities like Kobe or Tokyo, were hard up indeed.

Ain't it hell to be poor in Coney Island?" the legions!

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS,

OH, HELLO MR.DUFF! MRS. DUFF AND I WERE JUST DISCUSSING THE HIGH COST OF LIVING BEFORE YOU CAME -

AREN'T PRICES A FRIGHT

HOW DAYS ?.

YES, EVERY~ Tuus 13, VERY HIGH-

Tom Had a Good Start But Didn't Get Very Far.

DO YOU KNOW THAT IT COSTS TWO DOLLARS OR MORE EVERY DAY FOR OUR MEAT ALONE - CANNED GOODS ARE TERRIBLE - LOOK VISST A CAN OF PEACHES COSTS TODAY! I PAID AHETY LET ME CEFITS FOR ALL APPLE PIE YESTERDAY- (ASK YOU

COMPARE THE PRICES OF TODAY TO

"THOSE TEN YEARS'

ACO-

SOME-

THING

Egyptians developed the measure land areas. science of geometry primarily to

Envelopes were invented in seller of Brighton, England, 18 by S. E. Brewer, a book-

A chimney 115 feet high will

age.

WHAT HAVE. YOU DONE TO REDUCE. "THE HIGH COST OF LIVING? YOU BUY PIES AT HITY CENTS KISTEAD OF BAKING THEM YOURSELF-

YOU BUY CANNED PEACHES INSTEAD OF CAHNWG|| "THEM YOU EAT MEAT TWICE A DON. NOW ~DID}] - YOU DO THAT TEN YEARS AGO? YOU ENCOURAGE

THE DEMAND-DEMAND REGULATES

PRICE !!

SUCH IMPUDENCE | NEVER HEARD BEFORE!

In Cuba the Earthquake plant grows wild. It is said to forecast cyclones, storms, and especially earthquakes by changes of color.

"Old Paddy" died in a Chertsey. workhouse after a residence of 30 years in the institution. He was sent there an outcast gypsy baby.

steamer coming into San Fran-

A heap of sausages on cisco harbour looked so toothsome that a customs inspector lifted contained $10,000 worth of opium." one to admire it. Altogether they

Eskimos of Labrador learned of the armistice four months after it was signed and celebrated with bonfires on the ice.

BY ALLMAN.

SAY, YOU CUT OUT THAT NELUNG AND GO IN THE OTHER ROOM - REMEMBER YOU WERE MOT".

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