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CHICAGO

RDAY, MAY 10, 1924.

SPRING HINGES that the Government is

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tollkoly to fall into Huo with more modern centros in this ro gurd. All that we can gathor is

IDEALISM is THE ROOT OF ALL still

GENUINE AND CONSTRUCTIVE waiting" presumably for the REFORM, AND WITHOUT IT THERE Milleniuin, Whatever the rea-CAN BE NO : PROGRESS.—Cunon sons may be, the outstanding Alexander. fact is that in regard to two of

A Routor's message says tho the most important devolop Rangoon dock strike has onded. monta of scientific endeavour- aviation and radio-Hongkong is

Dr. and Mrs. W. B: A. Mooro miserably behind the times.. We returned to the Colony by the st.

President Plorco, shall wake up one day. At the momont our slumber is deep, not benoflolal

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It is noted that the name of tho. Canton Steam Laundry, Limitod, has been struck off the Rogister.

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Hot Weather and Health.

The Gazette contains particulars There are various elementary of the forry time-table in connec Prulok for kooping fit in hot tion with the Stonecuttore bath-

weather, of which sensible clothing beach. ing, rogulated exercise and proper Adiet are the main props. Loss

meat and more fruit is as good appointed Mr. J. A. Fragor to be His Excellency the Governor mottoo as one could have during District Officer in the Southern a Hongkong summer, yet we District of the New Torritories. wonder how many local residents take the trouble to follow that

Rural Building Lot 247, situato procopt. The variety of fruits to Ybo had here is fairly wide, but at Mount Cameron, is shortly to owing to nearly all boing import-bo guld. It contains about 23,900 ad the choice is always some square feet and the upset price what restricted, according to the is $3,366. season. The fruit with the most

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Day und family of Bradford, England, wish to thank all friends for the expressions of sympathy extand- ed to them in their recent sad bereavement.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 10th May, 1924.

BEHIND THE TIMES.

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Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts.

There is no truth in the rumour -Thoy must have lengthoned the that the PW.D. Players will hours of football at Home, judging shortly produce The Tollere," from the cable in a local con- with a spacial number by the temporary to the offect that rain D.P.W. ontitled "Yos, We Have causad play to be abandoned for No Verandahs."

the day after the South Africans ☐ ☐

had won by 6 to 0. Next thing we know they'll bo gotting up a club for returned ox- piratos' prisonors.

Moving pictures, thoy gay, ko back to Roman times.

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៨ ៥ We'd have thought some, of theso plots wore much older.

Provided mon-oxido gas is as doadly as they say it is, wo heartily approve of chauffeurs boing allowed to sloop in garages. ☐ ☐

When it comes to your salary ohoque you never quito ap preciate the word “only.".

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We know why Rookofellor is Borich. Ho gote his potrol at cost price.

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It's harder to make money first than to make it last.

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Wo wish all those flies would go round the world,

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Chamber of Commerce report: Ico blankots are firming..

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Talking of moving picturos, we trust that none of these local hotel bar scones will be sent tð: Wombley.

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News Items: Grecos has lost King and the French Aviation calendar to tell us when summor League an

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Folk are complaining about the

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Wo can tell by thù amount of

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valuable juice the orange-ie Mr. Carson Taylor, editor of high price of fruit in Hongkong, soap our old 'amah uses on the plentiful during the winter the Manila Bulletin, je passing Compared to what an apple cost glothes, months when its health-giving through the Colony by the 8.s.in.the Garden of Eden, we haven't qualities are toast in donand. President Pierce after a visit to much to grouse at,

Isn't it about time wo had a Pomeloes come a close second, the States.

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Kowloon conference, to scrap with acids purifying, to the sys-

Evory motorist should carry a' some of these busos? tem, and may bo obtained prac- His Excellency the Governor supply of Biogone. It helps that

D D tically throughout the your. hus appointed Mr. G. 5. Kennedy-run-down fooling.

The barglar who stole tho Mangoes are now coming into Skipton to be Assistant Hoad of

Singapore Magistracy clock is season, mangosteens are also to Sanitary Department, and Seere-

not yet doing time. be had in fair quantity, and of tary to the Sanitary Board. other tropical fruits from which a choice may be had are the Chi- The Gazette contains lists of nese lalchoe and the much-vaunt-stands for public vehicles, places ed papaya and pineapple. Evory- (at which motor vehicles may bo one who can read must know loft unattended and stroots and something by now of the qualities roads olased to motor traffic. of the papaya, which is boing

boosted" just at present in the His Excellency the Governor Home papore because of its high has appointed Mr. W. L. Leask popsin content and digestivo pro-to be a Member of the Liconsing portios. We remember several Board during the absence from years ago meeting 4 digestion the Colony of Mr. Albert Denison. expert-or porhaps ho wos á

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MacWhirter, he says, apropos of those aeroplanes, that landing home at night is a very difficult businesK.

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Trouble with those May Day affairs is that thoro are too many processions and not onough labour.

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Talking about these Hankow most pics, has anyone soon U black cat with a kink in its tail?

What's in a name? Much If

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stations is awful. The Daily The power of theas broadcasting Press hoard Mr. Cecil Alexander a violinist, quite plainly at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night.

B Observatory returns show that Mr. Alexander has boon at during April the average mean Home now for the past throo tomperature was 74.4, the highest months..

belleve in rationing.

Rationalista cortainly don't

Judging from the advertise. monts those days, Hongkong has no use for birth-control.

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Hot weather hint: Novor put off to to-morrow what you can discard to-day.

Sooms to us that the Throe Party System, in politics bears a oloso resemblance to the Three Card Trick.

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Now definition: A Cabarut is a place whero the jazz band takes the "rest" out of restaur- and puts the "din" into dinnor.

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DO The baseball season mences soon, when wild 'gamo will once more become plentiful.

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Home hint: After outing onions, look at your wife's dress- making bill. It will take your breath away.

Summer will soon be hero. · A petticoat was soon in Kowloon last week.

Police figures reveal that our motor cars aro becoming thicker. So are some of the drivers.

The height of the Prince's ambition, it seems, is to be able to fall. Perhaps he'll take up

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Judging from their figures, somo of our bathing beauties would bo

dyspeptic crank-who induced us A Chinese was admitted into it's on a' bottle. to chew and swallow the woods of the Kwong Wah Hospital yostor- In spite of all the progress that the papaya in addition to the day suffering from injuries ro- Those writing tennis champions of keeping cool those days. this Colony has made in rocent juices which have been proved kok Road, when he was run into racket with their pens.

pulp. Tho pineapple bas, acid colved in an accident at Laichi- seem to be making a great deal of years and there is evidence of it to be of great value as diges by a motor car. on all sides-it has still to be tivos and correctives, and also.

desorves far ΣΠΟΙΕ said that

Like the plaster off our calling, in many

oncour. The nanle of Dr. Shin. Lok-Walchow is still falling. respects

than it has ugoment Hongkong lage far behind more hitharto. However, an

had shang, of the Government Civil Excoss Hospital, has baon added to the progressivo centres. The public has to be avoided, in fruit-eating list of medical practitioners. De curiosity shown in regard to the as in anything else. That is a Sbin is a Bachelor of Medicine flying "stunts" which have been it seems to us, have not laid Hongkong University.

point on which the Home writers and Bachelor of Surgery of the advertised to take place at Happy sufficient stress. Valley has set us on this train of thought. The sight of an noroplane in this Colony is a

But having discussed the sub-being 85.4 and the lowest 57.4. novelty we must be one of theject thus far, we might add that There wore 101.4 hours of fow civilised contros of the world the principal obstacle to eating sunshine and 6.21 inches of rain, whore that is trup. Down in plentifully of fruit in this Colony whilst the average humidity was

is the prohibitive price. This is 85. Manila, to Come near home,

due-to-nearly everything-being machines have for years been imported, "An apple a day The Gazette notitios that Polico engaged on military work: they koops the doctor away" does not Leave Regulations published on

used for conveying pply very aptly to a tropical pages 429 to 432 of the Regula

climate, where several applies a tions of Hongkong, 1914, aro Our Observatory will be pleased maller from that city to Cavite, we day are necessary. Uf Chinese rescinded, and the subject matter to learn that a new Evening Star believe. In Canton, too, we now pours and apples there is a small theroof will be dealt with in has been seen at Canton this week and again road of aeroplanes and not very tasty supply.. Wa future under the General Orders past, onployed in connostion with have to import our apples from of the Government,

Australia or California, tho samo

Or is it merely another satellite no uso at mathematics.. military operations. Yet here with grapos, and pay according in Hongkong, a naval and mili-ly. And, you wo bave bananas. Pierce reported on arrival from In view of rocant piracies it's a to

The master of the Frosidont of the Sun'?

tary station, there is not The ubiquitous banana is, always San Francisco to-day that a

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with us in a condition good, bad passenger named Chan Ah-fat pity our Philharmonic Booloty solitary machine in official sur or indifferent, according to the died on April 17th. from heart couldn't produce "The Yeoman vice, and the one which is due extent of rough usage to which disease and that the body had of the Guard" every wook. to give a public exhibition on it has been subjected by growers, been embalmed and was on board.

DO Sunday was brought here by exporters, importers and middle-Deceased was 46 years of age." Newspaper heading "Sottling Chinese and has remained in a grow in this Colony. In the New Most tropical fruits will

Europe." That's what tho last The photographs of the s.s. Los war nearly did. · ·- godown for a couple of yours or Territories are acres and acres Fils do Paul Doumler and the s.8;

... 80. It might be argued that of land whore fruit plant-Paul Beau which wo publish on Poland's new Government

ations could be mado there is no utility in aviation flourishing sideling of the local the damage which those vessels Ough, penied Grabski.

apur Picture Page to-day, showing Treasurer is, appropriately on so far as this Colony is concerned. country industries. Orangoson the sustained in their recent coolll- We ontiroly disagree with that highor hill slopes, pineapples on aion, wore takon the Taikoo Bad news for boardors: Lai-' suggestion. What about tho

the lower and undulating arois, Dockyard, whero both ships are choos will bo plontiful this year, and papayas on the flats, would at prosant undergoing repair, sa possible use of aeroplanes for sorve to moot a want and lower

The only really popular balt dofensive purposes; or in con- the cost of the average houso- A report. has been made to the hero this warm weather is made nection with anti-piracy mea-hold's monthly fruit bill, which police of a collision which of napthalin:

Home nots: After lightly sures? Again, is not an aerial Perhaps it requires a little official day morning. At three o'clock, Health bint If you can't run camel hair brush, hit them

at timos can be quite formidable. occurred at Cap Sui-moon yester

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dusting the old records with a mall service botwoon this Colony encouragement to got things a junk laden with sand was run or fight, novor call a tan a llar. smartly with the coal bammor. and such places as Canton, going; so that should not be down byan unknown.steamer and

WOKOV Macau,, Amoy, and oven Shang, dillicult of attainmont. Possibly out in two. The crew of three waro Wo haven't seon Gaston Glass Maskeo where you are, always hai possible? In any case, what has been built a sufficient number about on-the wreck until resutied many gassed on the contents thousand miles.

we shall have to wait until thero thrown into the water and drifted in "The Hero," but we have soon, stop the car and oil is overy have we an Aoro Club fort of dwelling houses, beigro Barious half-an-hour, afterwards by an- thereof in other places, Aviation must eventually come attention.can be paid to each other junk The steamer steamed to this Colony; but nobody seems be frait-trees. In that case wo any ald

matter as more troon, even if they off in the darkness without giving to take a practical interest in the can leave the subject to our heirs, matter, and we continue to rub assigns and euccessors. along in the good old-fashioned

way.

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show up our bad shape. It takes a good bathing suit

These milk foods keep down the baby statics at night.

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A husband is a man who prefore hanging his coat on a nail instead of a banger,

It looks as if this is going to be the hottest summer aluce we

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camo horo.

Why not allow Rockefeller to win occasionally at golf? He might then reduce the price of pétrol.

The Fanling bogoy" had. In a local auctioneer'a cat Again been reduced. If this alogue we notice a "teak baby sort of thing goes on, golf will From the medieval Paris of cod for sale. We mot it again onse to have its terrors. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at the boarding houng after the There isn't much transpiring in to the modern South Africa of soup. "Ponjola" le a big stop, yet it is

Hongkong those days, but thoro's a lot parspiring

after them.

The same is true in regard to His Excellency the Governor one the Coronet Theatre has Thure will be no motor spoed wiroloss. Whilst others places, to not as

has appointed. Mr. D. W. Tratman taken wisely, since only a picture trials in Hongkong this year. A Some people are born to great-

Colonial Treasuror, entirely different in very way prizo may, however, bo givon including several Eastern con- Collector of Stamp Revenue, and could succoed here for Vistor to the most violent-coloured nos. Others get cocktails named tres, are enjoying the full benefits Assessor of Rates, and to be the Hugo's great romance. "Ponjola" dar on the road. of radio, Hongkong, is deprived Commissioner to carry out the is the film version of the recent

provisions of the Estate Duty Or novel of the same name, and ifits O of it, whether for business or dinano, 1915, during the absence success in book form is any

Nothing like being up to-di ontortaluing purposes. Nobody on leave of Mr. C. McL Messor, criterion, it should easily oppture Notice the No. 1 sorvico targets appoare to know when the Colony. O.B.E

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