1924-12-15 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1924.

Christmas

Sestions

FOR HER

GAUNTLET GLOVES IN THE NEW BEADED EFFECTS,

HOSE IN THE LATEST COLOURINGS.

VANITY BOXES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.

GREPE DE CHINE UNDIES.

HAND PAINTED GAUZE FANS AND FEATHER FANS.

POWDER PUFFS AND BOWLS.

MARABOUT WRAPS,' -

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CONFECTIONERY.

Marquis Fancy Boxed Chocolates, Crystalized

Marzipan Mixtures, Swiss Chocolate Liquers.

PERFUMERY.

.

Fruits

Morny's Perfumes, Complexion Powders, Vanity Cases,

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Boxed Perfumed Soap.

Coty Perfumes (and Powder Boxes.

OUR TOYS & GAMES SECTION.

NOAH'S ARKS

FOOTBALLS

TINKER TOYS

BOY'S OWN ANNUAL

COROD SPONGE TOYS

FOR THE LADY.

Diamond Broochies. Gold Bracelets. Gold Hand Bags. Gold Vanity Cases. Diamond Pendants. Diamond Rings. Onyx Earrings, Gold and Silver. Cigarette Cases.

CRICKET SETS

A.B.C. BLOCKS

YACHTS

CHUM.S

COMPENDIUMS

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THE

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WHAT SHALL I GIVE?

HORNBY TRAINS

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INDOOR GAMES

MOTOR CARS

FOR THE GENTLEMEN.

Gold Cigarette Cases,

Silver Brushes.

Dress Sets.

Links.

Cigarette Boxes.

Match Boxes.

Ash Trays. Bridge Boxes,

Fitted Travelling Cases.

LANE, CRAWFORD,

LIMITED.

FOR HIM

SILKIKNIT TIES. SILK WIDE END TIES.

SILK SCARVES.

PURE WOOL GOLF HOSE.

PURE WOOL SOCKS.

SILK AND WOOL SOCKS.

} BROWN KID GLOVES. FUR LINED GLOVES. GAUNTLET GLOVES.

CORONA

UMBRELLAS, WALKING

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POCKET WALLETS. LEATHER CIGARETTE

CASES ETC.

New Four Bank Model ·

The Aristocrat of

Portable Typewriters

DOWN QUILTS.

12, FANCY CUSHION CASES

Cushions, Table Covers, Tea Cosies Printed Bedspreads,

Sideboard Runners, Table Centres, Framed Water Colours,

Poufees,

CADDY BAGS

GOLF BALLS

FOOT BALLS

BOXING GLOVES

CRAWFORD,

Etc., Etc.

GIFTS FOR SPORTSMEN

TENNIS RACKETS

DRIVERS

BILLIARD CUES

MINORU

CRICKET HATS

ROULETTE WHEELS

HOCKEY STICKS

MANIFESTO

INDOOR GOLF IS A FASCINATING PARTY GAME.

LIMITED.

WITH THE NOVELISTS.

Varied Pictures of Christmas.

Christmas Day, "in lonolinosa, But George Eliot's Christmases when shut-up-with-bim in-har- eating his meal in sadness of however picturesque, lack the own close carriage"; wolks to sometimes dirty and heart, and looking dolefully out joie de vivre that dances for Moryton

cold";

and on the black frost that seemed to shoor joy of being alive, in sometimes prese cruelly on every blade of Diokens's pagos; and this noto of appetising suppors of chicken and grass."

irrepressible gaiety oven Thack- scalloped oysters, loavo vs 10-

moved. Rather lot us turn to the "Milleray rarely strikes.

ovan

kissing under the mistletoc, and kissed in turn.

busiest, and choorfullest ani- involuntarily riso to Mr.

Can't you hear Scrooge's "Amation." The three big lampe Wardle's bidding. Fill up ! It merry Christmas, Bob | A merrier were lit and all the Chinose lan- will

hours ho two

good Christmas, Bob, my good follow, torns; and the rovels begun. Were there ever, we wonder, before you 900 the bottom than I have given you for many Dodor and 1'Zouzou stood up to

Buch of the low through the deopja year. outside his own pageR

Bob, make up the fire, dance with Trilby and Madame glorious Christ mares as Dickens, rich colour of the wasanit.' and buy another coal-scuttlo ba- Angelo, and executed a serios of conjures up for our delight with It must, indeed, have boon fore you dot another 'i, Bob Much grotesque steps as convulsed on the Floss," and watch Tom No, the Christmases upont by the magic of his pen.

good to be young in those daysCratchit!" To feast with Bob on everyone with laughter. Then and Maggio enjoy that plum pud- these bo-whiskered, pag-topped But a truce to dullness 1 Wo How gleefully the flames leap to look on as Mr Pickwick, in all his famous goose is a banquet followed mimic cook-fighting: ding which was of the same men, and crinolined women in have little patience at such a up the chimney of the snug, cur- the glory of speckled silk stock indeed, though it be but in fancy; and the fun waxed more and more handsome roundness as

usual drawing-room of magenta top time to dwell on that dramatic

дн howings, loads out the old lady in and it is an intoxication to join riotous until the gens d'armes and came in with, the symbolic aro

'littlo attractive tain-drawn inn-parlour;

38 Christmberday earmon in which gratefully the incenso rises from rich brocado, "saluting her with in "Sir Roger" as led by Mr. and made their appearance only to bluo flames round it."

the making of endless wreaths Maxwell Gray makes Dean Mait- the steaming punchbowl; and all courtesy and corum" under Mrs. Fezziwig "after the cold be trussed in turn and made to Here wo catch some of the for church decoration must bavo land break his long silence, to how merrily the church-bells the mistletoe, and the young lady roast and boiled."

join in the cack-fighting until most Christmas spirit; as also when been to Trollope's young ladies.

unburdon his guilty conscience to clash their chimes through the with the black eyes, and the other. MERRIEST OF REVELS.

In Jano Auston wo get an of the company were rolling on wo smile at Anno Kimbla's an-

an awed congregation.

Let us crisp, clear air, over a landscape to watch the young ladies maké One of the marriest Christmases the floor in paroxysms of mirth.. uval failure to "follow suit" or occasional glimpse of "the

ratura to our beloved Dickens. agleam with its fresh mantle of a sudden dart forward, and befors in fiction is that donoribed by Du But all our novelists do not treat a measure in fancy at the gaieties which Christmas gener- and re-live in his pages a few of Mr. Pickwick know distinctly Maurier in Trilby, in which, after picture Christmas in such gay ball at the Rod House, "provisionally brings"; but the glimpses the Jovial Christmases, when know.

One's pulses beat to the lilt of what was the matter, surround the bolated hamper had at last colours as the genial Baz. ad for the occasion as if for a are tantalisingly fow. The rod ovory heart was gay and all tho. his music and the trip of dainty him, and with one consent arrived, Suddenly the studio We havo по with to join siego," and stocked with feather armed Misses Bonnet-"Emms, world was young-W. Green- feet. Wehwatch with envy the present their pretty lipa to be became a scene of the noisost, Silas Mammer as he spands his beds enough to sleep a small army. rofusing the forward young vicar wood.

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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

ARENT YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF FOR DULLING JUMBO'S EARS LIKE THAT 22 HOT BOYS TRY TO BE GOOD AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME-YOU'LL BE MIGHTY SORRY ON CHRISTMAS

MORNING

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YOULL JUST GET

A GOOD SPANKING FOR THAY- ANY BOY THAT BEHAVES AS YOU DO

DESERVES A WILIDDIN 6.

OUCH!!

It Is Funny, Tag

BY BLOSSER

ALOM SPANKED

AKE, POP-GES "I DONT SEE

WHY I ALWAYS

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