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Gabrielie d'Annunizio. the master of Fiume, giving orders to two young officers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919.

This houseboat, anchored in front of the British Parliament buildings, is occupied by Mr. George Terrell, K.F.

KEYSTONE

GOPTRAKT PREM ILLUSTRATING ALIVET, SI

The Prince of Wales photographed with a Canadian base- ball team.

Field Marshal Lord Allenby and his aged mother.

OULU.

Julia Marlowe

Miss Julia Marlowe, who is now appearing in Shake- sperean plays in New York.

BUSINESS MANNERS.

ARE OURS THE WORST IN THE WORLD?

AN OLD ENGINE.

Radcliffe College, Boston, has adopted the above Chinese baby and presented him with a silver spoon. His mother, Mra. Yang-Mo-Kuo, of Cambridge, graduated six months ahead of her classmates. Next year, his father will finish his studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and take his little family back to the Orient.

BREVITIES.

A factory has been installed in Holland for the manufacture of sacking carpet.

Stuffing the ears with light The sagar production of the gauze is a new cure for seasick-province of Matanzas, Cuba, this

ness.

year was the greatest on record, amounting to 4,831,400 bags of 325 pounds each.

am mark airily," My train does not office are not the same. In the British merchant maintains the "But, my dear fellow, monopolising you!" Excellent. leave till six," and begin to talk drawing-room time is of no value quality of his goods I do not Was the busi- in the office it is everything. think that his customers will But Browning would have looked of the weather.

If the Englishman's word is his complain very bitterly if he When a woman in the Philip- Electric fog eirens have been very silly had the bore replied, ness man ill-mannered or selfsh

cutting the cacklepines becomes "a widow, the re-invented that can be heard for "Not at all-as I was saying if he had recourse to the only bond it is not surprising that be persists in

should put his word bleakly and and comin' to the 'osses'!"

assumes her maiden name.

fourteen miles. The British business man may weapon likely to be effective?

Civil servants may be denied nakedly in its place without any be excused if be declines to take Mr. H. T. Kemball Cook writes the risk. Business, like everything the title of business men, but adornments, without flowery to a Home paper:--

lelse, is a contest, and every their manners are generally ex-phrases which might be turned) The British business man is business man knows the type of cellent. Yet the war was not against him by the unscrupulous.

A privilege jealously guarded My goods speak for them- the worst mannered in the world caller who hopes that bis victim many weeks old before they found

for the Shah of Persia and his

An oil obtained from stumps of that is the verdict of the director will give him an order or promise it necessary to borrow from the selves," said an old City mer- "I don't need to wrap

It is reported that No. 1 engine son only is that of dyeing crimson of the Manufacturers' Agency, to try his scheme as a last resource City even to the decoration of chant.

red pine trees bas been found to who has just returned from a tour in order to get rid of him.

office walls with certain pungent them up in pretty parcels." now employed on the Shimabara the tips of their horses" tails.

The northern hemisphere has be valuable for recovering silver of the world,

of the "Our Time I do not claim that he is Railway is the oldest locomotive' There are people who under- mottoes Is there anything to be said on stand nothing

ajin Japan. It was used in the more than 200 public astronomi- from pulverized oro by the flats- but downright is valuable if yours is not" type, unassailable, but there is the other side? 1 think there is, rudeness. The British business in mere self protection.

politeness of word and a politeness frst railway built in that country cal observatories to less than tion process.

To prevent unnecessary move- for very much depends on the man meets a good many of them. I do not think that the British of deed, and the English mer-between Tokio and Yokohama 47 twenty in the southern. point of view.

I remember one who used to business man is ill-mannered, chant has been able to boast years ago. The engine has now In the interior of China nativesments a French gymnastic school many years that his been acquired by the Railway hatch both hen and duck eggs by has instantaneous photographs of I remember, for instance, being visit a country client at perhaps provided always that it be accept these

the world Board to be preserved as a burying them in lukewarm" rice, pupils made to study their ac- told by a London commercial three in the afternoon. He would od that the standard of politeness customers all over

which they reheat daily.

tion. traveller that, when be first sit down, take out his watch, re-of the drawing-room and the prefer the latter. And while the souvenir. visited certain busy towns in the great industrial area of the north- west he was repelled by the rudeness of business men, and almost in despair at his own failures. Eventually he discover ed that it was because he went; his rounds in a top hat and the rest of his London kit, and the. bluff manufacturers of the district resented this" swank." He did excellent business when he ex- exchanged morning cost for tweeds.

The point is worth making, be cause it explainá a good deal- among other things, that half the accusations of rudeness against the business man result from mis- undertanding. The proper study of mankind 18 still-man.

Let it be remembered that superficial politeness is not one of our national characteristics, to which must be added that super fcial politeness in business often

of time. Browning

DOINGS OF THE DUFFS

HUM, I SEE HELEN RECEIVED

AN INVITATION TO A THREE OCLOCK TEA-

These Are Times of Bring Your Own.

THAT OUGHT TO BE SOME SWELL AFFAIR IF MRS. VANDERGOLD IS GIVING IT! HELEN IS GETTING TO BE SOME SOCIAL LICHT –

IT SAYS DOWN HERE IN THE CORHER, P. BY,O.S. - WÊDER

WHAT THAT MEANS-5OME OF THAT SOCIAL CODE STUFFI

SUPPOSE

CC

SAY, HELEN, WHAT DOES THIS PBN,Q 5., MEAH AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AFTERNOON TEA

INVITATION ?

BY ALLMAN,

THAT MEANS, PLEASE

·BRING YOUR OWN.

SUGAR

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