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HONGKONG HOTEL

ROOF GARDEN BAIL ROOM

(on 4th floor.)

TEA DANCE DAILY:

Admission:

4.30 to 7.30 p.m.

..

$100

Exclusive of Refreshments.

DANCING NIGHTLY

9.00 p.m. to 12 midnight.

Admission Non-Diners

3200

Diners in Hotel ...

Tables may be reserved,

$150

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD.

A SPECIAL SALE

OF

COTTON DRESS

DRESS GOODS

AT

WHITEAWAY'S

FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. Monday, April 16th. to Saturday, April 21st.

A FEW LEADING LINES

1000 yds.

TOOTALS TOBRALCO

Plain Colors and fancy designs.

95 cts. yd,

1500 yds. MERCERISED LAWN

in all colors.

45 Inches wide.

75 cts. yd.

500 yds.

COTTON CREPE

in various colors

40 inches wide.

$1.50 yd.

2500 yds. STRIPED

COTTON SHIRTING

32 inches wide, 75 cts. yd.

400 yds.

COTTON CREPE. Specially Suitable Tennis

Frocks, etc

34" wide. All colors. $1.25 yd,

2000 yds.

YOILE..

in Plain colors and fancy designs

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31 inches wide. $1.00 yd,

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HONGKONG.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, : SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1923.

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.

A Glance at Our Files

(April 6-19, 2001)

DRINK AND YOUTH.

Medical Evidence on the

Special Risks."

NOTICE.

HERE'S A LIST

OF DANCE RECORDS

A Home paper by the last mail! states: Shortly, the one-clause Bill which proposes to raise to eighteen the age underi WHAT RAIN IS. which young people may not legal- } For the information of the ly be supplied with intoxicating Water Authority we may as wall liquor, is to come up for second state that Webster's Dictionary reading in the House of Com- describes rain as Water falling

mons. It is backed by Unionists, in drops from the atmosphere: Labour Party, and is likely to re- Liberals, and members of the the descent of water in drops from the atmosphere. We fear thatceive general support irrespective the gentlemen in question cannot of party divisions when it comes be acquainted with rain, for on before the House. It is difficult Sunday night the water was still to see on what grounds resistance Phi Phi

he has not yet bad sufficient time measure which does not reise ADF | I want some money ... turned off at Kowloon. Possibly can reasonably be offered to a Caravan

Įto unite the red tape with which of the main issues of licensing

FOR YOU

the water cocks are so tightly on the larger questions might be Let's Dance Thru Life

controversy. All sorts of opizion Dancing Time.......................... bound up.

NEW U.S. CONSUL. By the last American mail information was received of the appointment as Consul-General

expected to agree on the desir Stumbling ability of protecting adolescence

before the years of discrimination Coal Black Mammy... are reached. The Medical Com-Way Down Yonder mittee appointed by the Govern- Nothing But......... st Hongkong, of Horace ment during "the war to inquire Rublee, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, into the physiological effects of Coaxing The Piano to succeed the late Mr. Wildman.alcohol found that is strictly You Tell'em Ivories ... Rubles as Consul at Prague moderate use did no discoverable Tiger Rag from 1888 to 1892, under Presi- good and no discernible evil. The

dent Harrison's administration, risk for the adult is the risk of The Memphis Blues... and since that time be has been excess, which, scientifically, is Down in Mary Land.. editorial writer and principal bot aguonymous with the com-Think of me

tock-holder in the Milwaukee plete loss of control reached in Flower of Arsby Sentinel. Mr. Rubleo is a graduate an actual state of drunkenness. of Harvard College and speaks French and German fluently.

For the adolescent the risks of Rose of Rio Grande alcoholic consumption ara pecul. New Hampshire iar and demand special safe-Saw Mill River Road... guards.

BANK MAN'S DEATH... We regret to announce the

In a published lecture. Mr. When you & I were) death of Mr. C. E. Noble, of the Arthur Evans, F.ROS., surgeon

young.....) Hongkong and Shanghai, whose to the Westminster Hospital, dis-Only Just Suppose ..... connection with the institutioncusses the danger of alcohol to Whispering Pines was a long and valued one. Mr. adolescence. It is the time when Love sends a Gift of Noble joined the Shanghai branch the instincts of manhood and

- Roses

ft of }

in 1866, and in 1881 became Chief womanhood are coming into play.

fanager. In 1890 owing to ill and when it is most important Good Night, health he retired from the East that the higher regions of La Paloma and served on the Committee in the brain, rapidly developing to Sole Mio... London. The flag on the bank should gain Lod maintain buildings is flying at balf-mast. control through judgment, social My Baddy).

sase, and moral sense. As a Sweetheart of Sigma į physiological fact," be quotes, Chi

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The rain of the last few days from the late Sir T. S. Clouston, Dream Girl of Pi K.A. bas done an immense amount of an expert in mental disease, all. good to the Cricket Ground, which these toxins (alcohol, opium. bas donned a very bright and cocaine, etc.) act first on the attractive coat of green to cele-power of control and the moral brate the advent of the rains. sense, which are the highest and From the sixth to the ninth latest evolved qualities in man." instant 4 88 inches of rain fell and. If alcohol can have this effect As an inch represents a bundred upon the adult brain, what must OPP, WNEMAN'S tons of water to the scre, curbe its effect on "a young plastic readers will be able to calculate brain with all its bighest powers the weight of water which soaked just developed? He summarises us so thoroughly.

the situation thus: "A life opening out into manbood new powers coming into maturity and The Star Ferry Company evid rising into consciousness; mul- ently ave no intention of allow-titudes of men in whom the ing their boats to crash into the impulse to gratify these insistent Praya wall on the Hongkong side passions is almost more than they and have constructed a neat can withstand; a drug-alcohol "funnel" for them to run into,which can excite animal pas with a most substantial-looking sion and can dull the moral sense buffer athe end of it. Judging and the powers of intelligent) from the bumping which now discrimination and self-control. takes place as the double-enders Surely our duty is obvious: come alongside, we should say we must protect these lives from that there will be same severs the perilous action of alcohol rrials of strength between the boat during the period of adolescence." And the buffer. It will adi quite

ADVERTISEMEN IS.

EFFECT ON BRAIN CELLS.

a sporting element to the pleasure

In a further passage the very of the trip across, particularly it your boat gets jammed in the

definite opinion of Sir T. Clouston "funnel" and bas to call in the

is cited: The brain cells of the assistance Of one of the adolescent are entirely unfit to battleships to pull her out again tolerate alcohol with impunity. If this falls in getting the boats Peychologically, emotion is longside with "Deatness and strong, inhibition, is weak, the despatch, "might we suggest that moral sense is fluid, and the he Company sells them and social instincts are keen, at that bu lds a bridge. The Star Bridge period of life. Physiologically. Cmpany. Limited, would round the brain cells are then in- equally well, and the bridge complete, and the whole body couldn't colide with anything has not reached full development. At least, if it did it could not be. It is the period when, if there is proved in the wrong, as the ferry any bad heredity, it shows itself. hoate sometimes are.

It is the period when the moat serious of the nervous diseases are apt to appear. Alcohol" is Mr. C P. Chater issues a notice then specially dangerous, so calling a meeting of owners and dangerous that I think it should agents of lots on the Prays at never be taken at all." Wanchai to consider proposals; That is the modest purpose of embodied in correspondence with the B. coming shortly before the Government regarding the re- Parliament. It embodies one of clamation of foreshore there. the four points of licensing reform It is notified that Mr. J. Wackerlapon which leaders of all the [+]+==+#+++ and Mr. L Glissman are authoris Christian denominations in the

ed to sign per procuration for country are agreed. Those me

hers of Parliament who are pro- posing the necessary legialation have therefore a united mandato WHAT IS EYESTRAIN?

from the leaders of organised religion. Clergy and laymen who Theeye hascertain tiny muscles wish to make the voice of the When objecta we look at do not Churches beard on questions of come up to a sharp focus in the social policy have an opportunity eye, these muscles exert them. of showing that they support their selves unduly and enable us to leaders and of making their views see clearly in spite of the defect. kaown to their Parliamentary rep These muscles tire and relax resentatives. The Charchas are Causing the objects looked at to commonly reproached with become blurred and indistinct. failure in leadership. Where Upon closing the eyes for a few clear lead has been given the seconds the muscles become more reproach, if it were to be justified, or less rested and objects are would fail upon the apathy or clear again for a brief period timidity of subordinate leaders Properly fitted glasses correct and the rank-and-file. eyestrain, whether caused by.

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