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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919.

Photo: leruo! uvi Umleri aut.

A typical Chinese family in Siberia, which lives in the hut shown in the background, amidst the most atrocious hygienic and sanitary conditions: An Allied soldier is seen on the extreme left.

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John Shell, a native of Ken- tucky, who has just celebrated his 131st birthday, and is suppos- ed to be the oldest man in the World. His oldest child is 91 years of age.

Above are seen the Queen of Rumania and her heautiful daughter, Princess Illiana.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY LITTLE MAN -

HERE'S A PENNY FOR YOUR BANK*-

-THE OLD LADY DOWN AT THE

CORNER PROVED THAT SHE WAS VERY MUCH BEHIND THE TIMES

WHEN SHE GAVE JIMMY A

PENNY. FUR RUNNINĊ AN ERRAND ---

AW GEE

SHE QUIY GAVE WI

A PENNY

AW.COME ON- THEY AIN'T

MUTTIN' DON' WITH A PENNY

WHAT YUH CONNA DO WITH IT?

GIVE IT TO A

BUND MAN?

Photo: Undericvod ană Underwood,

Capt. Pat O'Brien (aviator), who has fought under five Flags, in five Armies.

DEPRECIATED CURRENCY.

Iron's HE GRISH

Photo: Underwood and Underwoods.

Here are some of the Boston stores wrecked by mobs during the recent Police strike.

MEN'S DRESS.

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A BOLSHEVIK SUGGESTION.

A correspondent writes to

Номе рарет. -

left off their stockings? cours?.

1

know. don't whatever these ladies

some ren

SCOTLAND'S LOWEST

BIETH RATE.

Of mere article of clothing. That is do not, with a transitional class lamentable-I cannot help that ed. Those people, qua reformers. time ago and

reasonably wore their coat jacket sleeves but why I have just laid such stress who wear them on Sundays and but it is a fact that, take it big might have moze were on the word utilitarian. I will bolidays. The men who wears and large, the Briton's sheet-attacked our hats or our boots. turned up, as if they were medite anxious to display. I do not be even admit that, strictly speaking, no collar wears a scarf, with anchor in life is his respectability. Bat the hatless brigade and the sting a walk on their hands in lieve it was their patriotism. I do the collar is hardly clothing at all. equal decency. If he rises The foundation of that re-wearers of sandals in this coun- the mud. But, after all, these are not think we can be bluffed out of But, as I say, it is much more. in station, be assumes aspectability is his collar, and in try seem for the most part to be, trifles, and we must never forget our collars on that ground. Leav- The collar is an emblem. To collar, and if he be not justified collar I include scarf for if they a mild and harmless pack of nut- that the Dendy has ever been a ing the collar on one site for a modern man the collar is what in doing so, woe will betide him abolish the оке they must eaters and lentil digesters. And good fighting-men. I am told that there is a move-moment, just think what goes his shield, his lance, his eword. among his scarf-wearing peers, obviously abolish the other. And if that be the effect of no hats and ment afoot for the reform of with it, and, in another sense, and his armorial bearing were to it is just the same with the when the majority of Britons sandals, it would be quite useless have lost their collars and their to the bloody-minded Bolshevik. men's dress. That, and the fact would go with it. In the first place the medieval knight. Think of occasional collar-wearer.

the necktie. And with no collar a madera knight, think of a K. B.

Then what is there left? The that, in order to save the

And, then, what more tragic respectability, the end will be E. without a collar!

During 1917, 97,441 births were fall in life than from collar to no nigh. The Briton without collar waistcoats of the Nut may be a inordinate charges

or tie, why keep the shirt? of the

We all know the story of the collar! Abolish the Garter, and or scarf will be far worse than little extravagant, but how cheer-registered in Scotland, which is laundries, the abolition of ecllars From a strictly utilitarian point į

the sans culottes of the Frenching! A certain amount of fewer than in any year since is suggested, is all that I have of view. I suppose our under-Prime Minister 'bo said he liked fall its proud wearers would re- Revolution. And that's where material might be saved in our 1856. The birth rate was 20.07

as worthy people as beard of it. It is enough. I will clothes, if we are to retain them. the Garter, or some such order, main just

because there's no damned they now are. But strip them of the wily Bolshevik comes in. Hetails," but they frequently afford per 1,000, which is the lowest yet stand up for collars so long as would be made to serve whatever

No their ordinary collars, with the knows what will happen when a kindly veil for where we do not recorded. The marriages register- starch will make collars stand up strictly utilitarian purposes the nonsense of merit about it."

"to shine before men." ed numbered 30,482, or 2,180 Thus, with the one can say that truly about the accessories of tie and shirt, and the Briton forgoes his collar, his wish

We might knock off a few fewer than the man of the pre- Nay, more. Rather than have abolition of the collar we speedily tordinary collar, and yet it is, I the accessories of the Garter, the tie, and his shirt.

Having laid bare, I trust in buttons, too-I have seen six on ceding ten years. The marriage no collars, I will champion every and almost inevitably arrive at a should think. the only self-con- Star and Riband, would have to collar the soft ones that lie down, collarless, tieless, shirtless man, ferred decoration or honour we go, and in twelve months or less time, this ingenius and hideous & cuff. Passing fads may some-rate was 6.28 per 1,000, which cause the employment "was 0.62 below the mean of the their moral deterioration would plot against our Constitution, it times

years and the and the soft ones that, with the the whole dastardly plot is at once have.

with very great be horribly obvious. Even Lord hardly seems worth while to ex- unnecessarily of a little material, preceding ten help of safety-pins, nearly stand revealed. Sheer Bolshevism!

amine the camouflage of reform as the always-turned-up trouser lowest marriage rate in Scotland up, and look like bandages. The collar, as every thinking accuracy, be divided into men Grey of Falloden's.

not be under which it has been forward-lend. This fashion crept up some since 1887. paper ones. if they still men knows, is much more than a who wear collars and mea who

for me.

be made, and even the celluloid, and that strange piece of harness rather than haberdashery, made of some- thing that has all the worst points of patent leather, linoleum and oil-cloth, generally display! ing vertical stripes of blue or red and almost white. When such an attack as the present is being made, the only collar for which I have nothing to say is yesterday's. But, after all, it is really quite tribute to man, as a dressing animal, that when a reform in his dress is suggested, the would-be reformers have to start off by proposing the abolition of a part of it. That in itself shows that there is not very much that needs reform.

And of all things that a man wears, why abolish the collar? Do these reformers think to in- fluence ns by the praise which a distinguished Frenchmanrecently. bestowed upon the “patriotis in

ench ladies

shirt serves.

We may,

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS.

>NOW LISTEN DARKY AND AUST DOROTUN WILL TELL YOU A STORY - ONCE UPOU A

TIME THERE LIVED A LITTLE BOY WHO LOVED TO RUN AWAY FROM WOME—.

SO ONE DARIC AND 1Z0ught. HIGHT:HE.. GOT UP WHILE HIS PARENTS WERE.

ASLEEP AND STARTED DOYBE

ROAD - HE WALKED AND WALKED AND

WALKED

It may or may

Tom Got a Thrill as Well as Danny.

FINALLY HE CAME TO A RICKETY OLD BRICK HOUSE. VERE HOBOON HAD LIVED FOR MAIN YEARS HE WENT UP AND TRIED THE DOOR AND IT WAS OPEN-HE WEXT W-THE DOOR SLAMMED BEHIND TIIM AND LOCKED ITSELF-THE LITTLE BOY STOOD AND

LISTENED, HE WAS FRKHTENED- SUDDENLY HE HEARD

ASTRANGE BOUND ON "THE STAIR-

WAY-

HE RAN TO THE BOOR BUT THERE WAS NO KEY TO OPEN IT-BE WAS LOCKED IN- THEN CAME ANOTHER, SOUND- LOUPER THAN THE FIRST AND YET IT WAS HARD TO

TELL WHERE IT CAME FROM – SUDDENLY HE FELT A HAND-IT TOUCHED HIM!!

"ANOTHER HAND AND THAT

TOUCHED HIM!

BY ALLMAN.

THE HANDS SHOOK-HIM AND SHOOK HIM AGAHÉ- TREN

·HE-HEARDS MOTHER'S VOICE.

TELLING HIM TO GET UP

"THAT IT WAS TIME FOR

SCHOOL-

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