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HIGH SHADES

Velvet Erst. Shown in the blackest black and in soft- hued, complicated Paisley patterns. These ace most popular, but then come brown and blue with all the bright light colours starring for evening wear.

Chiffon. Most fashionable for evening wear in high shades, of course. Velveteen. Sean only in black and Pue, but very popular for afternoon frocks. Charmeuse. A new incarnation of this heavy, supple silk that used to be black or brown and is now all the colours of a futurist sunart

CHINA TEA CLIPPERS.

Racing Recalled.

WONDERS OF SCIENCE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1923.

NEXT YEAR.

Putting Things Off.

Next Year has always been the most wonderful year of my life, writes a contributor to a Home

paper.

Next Year is the year of fulf)- ment, of fruition, of realisation. Next Year I shall develop the most amazing energies and per- form the most astounding deeds. Next Year I shall become an Olympian. Next Year I shall have done with dreaming. Next Year I shall live!

İyear

Last Year was always a rotten

What can you expect of Last Year? Look at the wasther and the income tax Besides, there was all the political unrest; trouble in the Balkans, and so on. No one could really do anything Last Year.

But Next Year Next Year I shall carry out with Linda that: journey we long ago projected—a tramp in the Cevennes, following the route taken by Stevenson in his travels with a donkey. I am not taking a donkey. I am taking Linda. We shall meet the good inn-keeper of Bouchet St. Nicolas

not Stevenson's, probably, but nother equally good, and, setting! out Iste from Bleymard for the range of the Lozere, we sball spend a night among the pines, did the begetter of Trotsune faland.

even

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We shall see the broad streak of orange melting into gold along the mountain tops of Vivarais,” that is, if there is gold still in cir- culation there. And we shall see the gradual and lovely coming in of day." We ware always go- ing to do it. Last Year But things happened; we couldn't get away together, or we were hard up just then, and once Linda weat to stay with an sunt in Scotland-but Next Year, youll see if we don't!

Malaria and Paralysis. Regarding the suggestion of a No one would bare expected

A COURSE OF READING. race between the Cutty Sark and the day to have arisen when a Next Year I shall read the Glory, Mr. Basil Lubbock, in his malaria infected person could"Decline and Fall of the Roman book on "The China Clippers," have proved of benefit to human Empire," John Inglesant," and ays: When"in 1670, the Cunsity, even if he was not himself re Smiles's "Self Help. It is Sark ran out to Shanghai on her liewed by the fact of his oap absurd to be so ignorant in the maiden voyage from London in auffering. Yet in the columns off classics. I would have read them 97 days, it was obvious that the the uteret a new treatment for Last Year, but what with servants Thermopyle would have to look gerera! paralysis, devised by Dr. and the bother with the kitchen to her laurels. In 1967 the latter von Wagner, is described by Dr. stove-I shall have an oil cook. bad made the passage from Foo- Alexander Pilcz, a professor in ing stove Next Year there was chow to London in 21 days the University of Vienna.

so little time, somehow. That against the monsoon-S record A email quantity of blood is reminds me Next Year I shall up to that time. In 1970 she re-taken from a person suffering start making jam. peated the performance, but the from tertian malaria, and this is Next Year I really must write Clyde-built Sir Lancelot the same injected into the back of the to poor Tom Gregory, who used year beat her home by two days. parsiysed patient. After one or to give me peppermint rock, and Leaving Foochow on Juls 17 she two weeks the paralysed patient went to Australia. I promised to passed the Lizard on October 10, has 23 allack of shiver-let him know all the news.every and berthed in London four days ing, followed by high tempers-now and then. Ister-85 days to the Lizard and ture. When ten or twelve how long ago? 89 in all. thus establishing the such attacks. bave occurred, will send him a record passage of any ten clipper they are checked by the use) Next Year. home.

of quinine. Of 141 paralytic Next Year I am going to write a The year before the same ship patients treated in, this way 51 book. It will be a wonderful pook hart done the sime run in are said to have completely re--a best seller. I forget what it 103 days. while the Normanicovered and is greatly imused to be called, I think its first Court, and Thermopyle, which proved. It is claimed that good title was "Only an Orphan." both left within three days of her. results have also been obtained Later, when I was derouring took 104 and 105 days respective. in other forms of paralysis. Edna Lyall, I called it "Darinda's

That was. Anyhow. I really nice long letter,

snatches of irrelevant quotations:

ly. This is sufficient to show that It thus seems a curious thing | Ordeal.” During a period of devo. the Sir Lancelot was "er.in nature that to be cured from tion to the Realists it became And she in her turn, was more one serious failing a patient quite simply "Gulpe." Now thet] than once beaten by the Norman aflicted with another complaint Court-on one occasion (ie 1871) can be the means of affording re- by as much as a fortright from lief Gravesend to Shanghai. I don't think that either the Sir Lancelot or Norman Court ever had a straight race, either out or home. with the Cutty Sark, but if such had taken place it would not, have been "odds on" any one of the three, for they were all capable of wonderful performances.

EINSTEIN IN JAPAN,

Women Disappointed. It would appear that Professor Einstein's lectures in Japan have caused a certain amount of dis appointment at least, to a por- tion of the population.

WIND TURBINE.

A Japanese Invention. An ingenious wind turbine, said to be capable of utilizing air currents in the generation of power with far greater efficiency than its predecessor, the wind mill, has been invented by Mr. Yukitera Ozaki, the youngest son of Mr. Yukio Ozaki. Japan's famous liberal leader. After three years of experimentation, a successful model on a large scale has been erected on the roof of the Central Club at Osakı According the claims of the

are the fashion, I am calling it That Many Weat"-Next Year. These are some of my New Year resolutions. It is my proud boas: that I have never ye: broken them.

may have deferred them a little, but that's another matter, and. anyway, only till Next Year!

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Fill in the dots in the diamond

It appears, according to Gerinventor, his turbine in operation shown above, so that you will man reports from Tokyo, says a turns into power 50 per cent of have four words that read alike Reuter Berlin telegram. the the force of air currents striking from left to right and from top interest manifested by Japanese its planes. The ordinary wind to bottom, fast

89 the word women in the professor's abstruse mill utilizes only 20 per cent. of "Diamond" does. and difficult theory caused at first the power in the air.

Yesterday's answer: considerable surprise. A firm of When the velocity of the wind When the storekeeper sold & publishers had announced a is eight metres per second, the pair of shoes for five dollars, he Japanese edition of Einstein's model erected at Osaka develops received

A twenty-dollar work, and orders for the book four horsepower and, depending This was changed by another came in rapidly. When the book upon the wind's velocity. is merebant, and the storekeeper appeared there was, however, a capable of developing at gare the shoes and fifteen dollars general outburst of indignation | maximum 30 borse-power.

mong fair subscribers, who wanted to send their copies back. It appears

bill.

to the purchaser. When the bill proved to be counterfeit, and the that in CUNARD LIBER'S WORLD TOUR storekeeper was forced to give the Japanese there is no specific A world's tour of 30,000 miles, merchant twenty dollars, the word to accurately define rela. calling at twenty-six porte, will storekeeper's total loss was fifteen ivity, and the translator had, be the itinerary of the Cunard dollars and a pair of shoes. The therefore, coined a word. The liner Samaris, which sailed from fact that another person changed the counterfeit bill does not in- work employed, unfortunately, New York on January 24. From was generally understood to have New York the Samaria will plohe received twenty good dollars crease the storekeeper's loss, as some reference to the problem of ceed via the Mediterranean, Buat from the merchant when the bill the relations between the sexes. Canal, Indis, Ceylon, China, and

So, as a Sunday paper suzgeste, Japan, across the Pacific to Sen was changed. feminine Japan finds itself very Francisco, returning to New York mach in the mood of the man via the Panama Canal

Her

who, with imperfect recollections passenger number is to be limited of "The Spring Chicken" at the to 400, and passengers will pay Gaisty, drifted in to see Ibsen's from 2,000, to 10,000 dollars "Wild Duck."

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