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BETWEEN OURSELVES. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

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(Continued from Puge §.) our civilization without their run. ning the risk of being put in jail: The same sort of thing applies in the studio during the study of the nude. Spare me your blushes. They're wasted anyway, for. 1 studied, sketched and painted the

nude for two sessions.

Suggestive Clothes.

AGO.

A Glance at our Files.

(May 20-June 4, 18973.

MOUNT AUSTIN HOTEL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JUNE 81929

DAIRY FARM NEWS. J.T. SHAW

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take the combined offices for the {salary payable to the Colonial Secretary, would now like to be off of his bargain, and to get a VOY considerable increase of salary in [consideration of the very heavy and responsible duties attached [to the higher office.. Wa sincero- ly hope that he, will be held to the, bargain. he made with. his The Military Authorities have, eyes wide open, and gut nothing. after prolonged negotiations, pur-We hope too that the Commission chased the Moont Austin Hotel when appointed will sit with open from Messrs. J. D. Humphreys doors and let the public, through. and Son for the sum of £30,000 the press, hear from day to day The fact is that man can never sterling. The negotiations were the evidence put before it.

CHINESE LAUNDRIES. be strictly moral until clothes are conducted in Hongkong and not

When 18 laundry proprietors universally discarded. Oh, keep in England as had been rumoured your seats and don't get excited. Mr. Hart Buck, as the local head application for registration had Just think of our domestic of the firm, carried through the been dealt with by the Sanitary animals and you'll see my point arrangements on behalf of the Board, Capt. May

said bel ΤΟ baro Let me put it, another way Hotel proprietore. The Military would like Which is the more conducive to Authorities will probably take attention of the Governor drawni immorality: a pair of legs bare to over the land and buildings in to the laundries. In many cases to the knees showing the effects September next, but possibly an when the water got scsice the of last season's mosquito bites, extension of tire may be granted supply came from what were incipient varicose veins, feet till the end of October. In his simply mud holes. The washing twisted and toes ali nobby through Weely Share Report Mr. Erich arrangements for the Colony) tight footwear, and the same George to-day says:- floog- generally were unsatisfactory, limbe seen in

aice, amooth, kong Hotels sold at $41 to $42 in large numbers of articles being Bitesny Bilk, walking about the early part of the week, but on washed in the same water. He in natty high-heeled shoes? Thursday the rate jumped to $48 asked that the matter be brought Carry the matter further, but no at which figure and at $47 fair before members at the next -even I lack that much nerve.transactions have taken place; meeting. The Medical Officer of Think it oser, though, and you'll this rise is caused by the Mount Health said many of the laundries THE DAIRY FARM, IGE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. agree wit me that it is covering Austin Hotel baving been sold to were merely used for getting up wi its attendant suggestiveness the Military Authorities for a and to the absence of it tha: sanatorium for the troops." makes us think vers naughtils

at times.

ACCIDENT TO DR. NOBLE.

the

linen, the washing being done on the hillside.

PIPE BAND.

The friends of Dr. Noble will

We are pleased to learn that our) Ye see, I'm inclined to regret to learn that be met with very own Corps is to have a band] Buspect it is the glad legs a serious accident on Wednesday of its own for the Jubilee celebra-i (because covered) rather than last. In company with his astion. Inspector McEwan, of the the glad pecks that is causing all sistant (Mr. Bowers) the doctor Naval Yard, being now engaged this pather. We cannot change was driving a dog-cart along in forming a bag-pipe band for the the spirit by a change of stockings Shaukiwan Road from Quarry occasion. The matter was very and letting down & hem. Some Bay, and soon after starting the warmly taken up by H. E. Major- women, though covered from head horse fell and grazed his knees. General Black and Major Sir to fool, would still suggest naugh- | Dr. Noble beld the reins and was | J. W. Carrington and the unforros tiness, while others again, though thrown violently down to the are now ready. There are now a clad in the scantiest of attire are ground. He sustained an ugly number of pipers in the police and above suspicion. In some count-wound on the nose, which was it is to be hoped that their services ries where the dear ladies are split open. and also a cut can be secured, in order to make tripping over themselves wij over the left eye. The wounds as good a show as possible.--Mrch draperies, their moral code does bled freely but the doctor was McEwan reckons upon getting & not compare at all favourably wi`able to get into his trap again to band of 13 players including the women of some nativa races return to town with all possible drummers and such an incova- where undress is the rule. Wspeed. As the borse, with his tion should be an interesting all due deference to prelates who broken knees, might have feature in the review. There is contend that clothing is required stumbled again Boy moment this nothing better than good pipe to protect virtue and to remove was a dangerous undertaking. music for a "march past and it temptation, I would suggest that Fortunately, however, Mr. Hart is to be hoped our gunners will morality isno" so much a matter of Bock, who was also driving along throw their chests out and buck! clothes as of self-control,

the road, met Dr. Noble and at op in fitting style. once brought him back to town,

Measuring Naughtiness.

Worke

Dr. Noble's horse apt dog-cart being left in charge of Mr.

BANK RETURNS.

average

3askee what they wear though, when all is ssid and done, Bowers, who was nahurt. Dr. Woman to-day is Do better Atkinson had Dr. Noble conveyed and Do

than sbe to the Government Civil Hospital, ever was3. We may be able to where his nose was stitched and The returns of the tell wi' exactitude the superfluity dressed and he was then convey amount of bank notes 12 of number by means of a census ed to his home. Dr. Stedman is circulation and of specie in but no such means has yet been now attending the patient and reserve in Hongkong, during the devised that will discover her notwithstanding the nasty in-Impath

ended Bist. May, superfluity of naughtiness. On juries, be is able to get about the 1922, as certifed by the fanagers: this matte: ministers and mere house, although it will probably of the respective Banks are:- men may dogmatise according to be some days before he goes to their mental bias. Lots o' them his office: would be wiser if they didna' dozmetics at all.

Average Specie in Amout Reserve

Chartered Bant !

cd Shanghai Bank-

A YEAR'S SHIPPING. The total tonnage entered and India, Austra'ja, The sex naturally has taken cleared at this port in 1936an China. $9,532.177 $3,700.000"|| advantage of the freedom of

amounted to 16,515.953 tons, being Hongkong this war-enlightened twentieth

an increase over 1895 of 883,840. Wy women such & con Of British tondage 4,382,545 tons Mercantile Back century,

Ing Corporation, 635,057,573 26,000,000+ dition of things has always been entered and 4,375,748 tons clear-

of India,Limited. $1,999.437 350,000 the same after every war. Op-ed, white of the foreign tonnage! portunities fordiaplay are some-

1,786,795 tons entered and

Total$19.559,944 31,530,000 what thick around her but she'll

1,758,303 cleared. British tan- rettle down in time. The con

Dage, therefore, according to the *Sterling Securities deposited servative male deplores it all and Harbour Master's report for 1896, with the Crown Agents valued at can see no outcome, but the general rain of the race. Sucb.epresented 53 per cent. and £604,000.

foreign tonnage 2114 per cent. *Securities with the Crown however, is clotted and cobwebby During the year the increases Agents and Straits Government nonsense. All our mothers, wives, under faza were:-British 515 £1.800,000. sisters and dapper friends must not be judged by the barum.per cent. German. 23 per cent; Japanese 193 per coat. The Barum, pleasure-seeking. loose-

Japanese tonnage was 80 ships living few who are active in this

aggregating 144,493 tena. es iáll other ages. Selah.

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

استنضية

MORE PAY WANTED. We note with some astonish- ment and a considerable amount of disgust that several officers of the Government have peti- tioned the Governor for increase Born & year before Rodin (1839), and that His Excellency has ap Guillaumede Groot, the Belgian Pointed a Committee to investi and report. We thought scupltor, passed away a few weeks gate ago. One of the oldest of this that the very considerable all- school, be was contemporary with round increase granted a the great realist Meunier, with few years ago on the recommenda- tion of the unofficial members Paul de Vigne Vanderstappen and Jei Lambeaux, all of whom of the Council and the more died before bim. He succumbed recent allowances made by way of exchange compensation had

very

to a serious operation in a hospit-freed us from all demands of that al, having recently made over his house in the Avenue Louise, indescription for several years to come. We know that there were, Brassele, with all bis art tres-at the time of the last adjustment KÜNCE, to the city, which

of exlaries, some seriona inequal- in return Annuity of 3,000 francs." Hisities left unredressed, and one or two of the sufferers may be among

him gave

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works in the Brussels Royal the applicants at the present time, Masrum are "Work," the same but from what we have been able brance status which visitors to Tournai have seen in the entrance to gather, the Committee has not ball of the railway station there, been appointed for the purpose of redressing mistakes made in the and "Jeunesse," & marable! statuette. His statue of Charles past. The people then left out in Boxler is in the Place du Congres, the cold were too small pote

toes"

Committee and two bronze bas-reliefs in the Place Royale, while the Palace of specially nominated to look after their interests. We believe that

tural decoration.

-INTERNATIONAL PRINT

to have a

Fine Arts bears some of hie sculp the principal applicant for an in- crease of salary in the present instance will be found to be the Honourable Colonial Secretary and Registrar General, who, after Mr. E. Hesketh Hubbard, land-baving, with full knowledge, both scape painter and etcher, has been of the work to be done and of the saked to organise the British cost of living in the Colony, Bection of the International Print elected-volunteered,, we believe, Exhibition to be held in New would be the better word-to

AN EXHIBITION.

Securities with the Crown Agents £130,000.

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The song Lumpers Opticvin in the Colony.

THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST ME

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TO-DAY!

DAY

She loathed her hus band! She loathed him because he was bad- because bin "DOUBLE STANDARD” of moral- ity made his marriage YOW & farce.

Yet the was his "WIFE"--sold to him by a vengeful father-- bound to him by law patil death should end bor wass.

Then love, forbidder, caine to her wedded her in her heart to an honest man, her mate. And the world and the law cried "WANTON": and "covered bar with shame.

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