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"BLUE BLOOD."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

“LÜCILE’S” DESIGNER

WEATHER REPORT

Dean Inge on the Aristocracy. Lady Duff-Gordon's Severance.

What if your ancient but ignoble blood.

Nov. 2d. 11b. 53m-Pressura Lady Doff-Gordon, known to is highest to the north of Korea women throughout the world as It has increased, considerably Has orept through scoundrel."Lucile," the founder and inspirer from Vladivostock to central and Pope of the famous dress bouse Lucile, S.W. Japan. It has decreased ever since the flood!

Ltd., has broken her association moderately at Haiphong and slightly from Hongkong to For- with the firm.

"Bluntly, I have been dismiss-mosa, the Philippines and Guam, ed." said Lady Daf Gordon to a Moderate monsoon may be ax- Pailythronicle representative. "It pected along the S. coast of is really too absurd, but no more China and over the N. China Sea. absurd than true.

In the Patrician Norman blod of our old families superior to the generally considered Plebeian Saxon?

This, in effect, is the interesting question raised by Dean Inge in Nineteenth an article on the Century" in the current issue of the Edinburgh Beview,

"Figuratively speating. I am penniless. Yesterday I filed my The movement towards social petition in bankruptcy, and the equality, which has not yet ended, private examination will be held says Dean Tuge, was one of the to-morrow.

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, 123 inch. Total since January at 68.44 inches, against a Average of 81.73 inches..

ORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District

Forecast.

NE winds

! Formoss Channel fresh.

South coast of] N.E. winds,

best features of the 19th century. "There are certain business Those who fear that the aboli-claims against me which I sm tion of class barriers may destroy disputing, but I am not at liberty, that fine type, the English gentle at the moment, to discuss them in man," he adds, "sometimes forget detail. The whole matter will be how much that type needed-and threshed out in public later.

"I am alleged to have broken my still needs-parifying." The most

contract under which I received characteristic work of fiction in the English language, he says, are £6,000 a year. My salary has been the "atout red volumes of the "Pearage, Baronetage, and Land-stopped for some time, and this side of the affair is serious enaugh. ed Gentry.""

Otherwise, in my family, certain 4 South coast of improving other aspects of the break-away are regarded as a joke. Lucile, Ltd., without 'Lucile, strikes one as somewhat Gilbertian.

EGGESIC LOVE MATCH. Observation, he contends, does not bear out the theory that the so-called old families have any intrinsic superiority.

"Only a few of them have features of what is called the Norman type, and it is not easy to see why Norman blood is better than Saxon.

Then beauty, when they have it may often be traced to some very ucaristocratic but eugenic love match.

"The origin of the trouble dates back to 1917, when I met Mr. | Otto Shuloff, who was prominent. ly connected with the running of a large wholesale drapery busi- ness in America.

"In 1910 I had founded the New York house of Lucile, where I repeated my London success The same good fortune followed ame in 1911, when I took Paris by "As regards fine manners-

Our annus! turnover it public school and university storm. education will often efface all Paris at one time amounted to

a £100,000. traces of plebeian origin in single generation.”

AN AMALGAMATION.

Commerce and capitalism also

"By 1915 I was surprising, and come in for some hard bitting-delighting, Chicago. This Was Says the Dean-

the biggest venture of all. It was hard work, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Success is a wonder

Many millionaires have render ed no public service whatever. They or their ancestors have bought land under which, as was

ful thing.

"Then Mr. Shuloff appeared on

afterwards discovered, lies the scene and wanted us to

Chins betwean moderate; H. & Lamocks, į overcast

to and rainy 3 Hongkong

at first, Gap Rock..

Chins between later. ELK. & Hainso. }

1. F. CLAXTON, Director. .K. Observatory, Nov. 24, 1922.

TIME SIGNALS

The tima ball on Kowloon

am, and 4 p.m. except on Satur Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 lays when it is dropped at 10 .m. and 1.p.m. and on Sundays and Holidays when it is dropped

10 a.m, only. ·

The ball is hoisted half mast sti :he 55th minute and fall mast at the 57th minute. Should the ball fail to drop at the correct time, it will be lowered at five minutes: past the boar and the ordinary. routine repeated at following nour if possible.

Should the time ball be out of order the above rantine will be the stom signal mast.

seam of coal. Others have seen amalgamate. I shall never forget carried out with flag "Z." on!

their fields increase fifty-fold in our first meeting, as he seized me value by the expansion of some by the arm and addressed me as The signal are also given at night by means of three white large town, which they have Girlie." done nothing to promote. Others:

1918 Mr. Shuloff pat lamps mounted vertically on the have become great capitalists by forward & scheme, which I foolish Observatory wireless mast From outwitting and frequently ly accepted. He was to manage 8h, 55m. Os. to 9h. Om. 03. p.m.

robbing ether capitalists.

by

It would be difficult to name any large fortune which has real- ly been earned. The bloated in- come of the successful barrister is simply a measure of the incompet- ence of our tribunals. The heavy fees of an operating surgeon are

of the scarcity of reasure operators in whom the public bas complete confidence. The profits of an author are often in inverse ratio to the solid value of his

books.

For the future. Dean Inge has few words of hope. "England," he saya, "will live in bistory as the last and greatest of the world empires resting on a "small territorial base.

to

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are extinguished the business, and I was to receive the lamps £6,000 a year as dress designer, in momentarily at the even seconds addition

profit-sharing expect at the 2nd, 28th, 50th; arrangement. I am not going to 520d and 54th of each minute. apportion the blame for what has since bappened.

"I started designing clothes when I was eight years old. My sister, Elinor Glyn, and I were as children in both dressed clothes made from my designs. The dolls, too, appeared in early Lucile! My higbest fee in those days was a bag of peanuts.

"My first busband died in 1893. I had no money, and started designing in real earnest in order to keep myself and my little the Countess daughter-now World-

power in the future will be with the large countries.and especially with the United States,"

Halsburg.

The hours refer to Hongkong Standard Time (8 hours of teas Greenwich).

METEOROLOGICAL

Barometer......

My first dress was a tea-gown Temperature. I made for the Hon. Mrs. Arthur, Humidity Brand. Having no table in my Wind Direction single workroom, I cut the design wind Force

That was & out on the floor. SWINDLE ATTEMPT FAILS. lucky tes-gown for me.

dresses soon became the rage, as they have been for nearly 30 years. Do you know, I was the first to employ mannequios?"

Men Arrested after Search for Hidden Treasure.

The story of hidden treasure

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T. F. CLAXTON, Director. H.K. Observatory, Nov. 24.

"And how is your world to do without 'Lucile "?"

"Ah frary expressively) we was made an instrument in an shall see what we shall see.

attempt to swindle but the attempt Good-bye."

failed, according to a report to

constabulary beadquarters, says

the Manilo Daily Bulletin.

Julian Pumarcha, tenant of ELECTRICAL SCALING HAMMER. Buenaventura Arrieta at Liho,

A new Swedish invention is to conquer the world,

Laguna, told his landlord on Nov. about

During tests it was found that

TIDE TABLE.

24th. to 30th. Nov. 1922.

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ember 11, the report says that namely, an electrical ship scaling: one evening he saw a white hen hammer, which is most economic- with bee brood disappearing in from the point of view of time, a bole in the land of Arriets.labour, and money. This was interpreted by Pumar- cha as a sign indicating that in five Sandblows bammers produced FL 24 m 2 14.8 the hole great treasure could be more and better work than 70

men in removing the scale from Sat. 25 m 0 40 6.8 found.

Pumarcha brought Arriets, his a leamer. landlord, to the place and began

3 50 5,0

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to dig up the bole. While digging Sweden to study the patent, which M.27 246

has resulted in the formation of was in progress. Pacifico Bara- gola and Gabriel Virtudes, who the Electric Sealing Hammers, were declared to be working in Ltd., in London, for the exploite-wed. 19 m 5 20 collusion with Pamarchs, uttered tion of the patent.-

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Tiwoo Taiping Street, from Sbanghai

in an unusually horrible voice a WOMAN AS TYPHOID CARRIER. question as to why they were try. For some years the town of ing to rob them of their treasure. Ashington, Northumberland, Pumarcha replied it was the congested mining area of about. owner who was doing so. The 30,000 inhabitants, has been sub-

5480, from Chefoo. TRADE voice said they would consent to ject to periodical visitations of GERMANY'S OUTLAY TO HELP

Longshlusing Wankow Hotel, let him do so. provided they de-typhoid fever, the source of

Germany in September raised posited in the hole P.700 to attract) which has bean untraceable.

Taichung 81 High Street, Convinced that there was a 7,937,300,000 marks, in founding from Peking. the hidden treasure.

Arrieta, not having the amount carrier of the disease in the new companies, increasing the

1717, from Shanghai. The total for demanded by the hidden voice, affected ares, the medical officer, capital of existing companies, and from Peking

Tungtsi, from Shanghai

64 Wyndham requested that he be given time Dr. Bruce, made investigations in bond issues,

Poonsamtal to look for money. This be was ou the spot, and these led to the August was 2,408,300,000 marks. granted, but instead, be reported discovery that the carrier of the The total for January to August

inclusive was, for new companies Street, from Peking, the case to the municipal police disease is a woman.

It is expected that she will 8,333,200,000 marks, for the in- of-Pils, and the three-Julian, Pacifico and Gabriel-were voluntarily submit to spacial crease of capitalizations 1,495,- neutralise the 400,000 marke, and for bonds: arrested and charged with swindl. treatment to

19,009,900,000 marke. bacilli. ing.

10263/16th Liontradeo, from San Francisco.

4823/8th Pont 248 Robinson 4 m/s 1/0 Roxt, from Piree.

6079/9th 'Prosperity,

Calcutta.

5401/8th T. W. Lawran Co. Kelborine Wanchal, from Forlouis, Mau-,San Francis- ritius.

N. LUND Superintendent. Hongkong, November 23, 1922.

M.EF. AIRY,

Superintendent,

Hongkong.

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