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́HOLIDAY TRIPS.:

Completo arrangements made for tours of North - Chiha, Koren, Japan, including steamship and railway tickets, Hotel and sleeping car reservations. Sight-seeing with native guides, etc.

Other holiday trips arranged to the Philippine Islands, Java, Indo-China and India,

Baggage and Accidentinsurance.

Carry American Express Travellers Cheques.

Other Offices in the Far East-Shanghai, Tientsia, Poking Kobo, Maoils, Calcutta, and Bonbay.

Representatives at other principal'points.

For comploto information apply THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., Inc.

4A, Dos Voux Road, Contral,

'Phone C.4625.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SMELLS OF CITIES."

Material For A Volume.

No one since Rudyard Kipling has attempted to classify the smells of the world's great cities,

Yot oach city has a smell pucullar to itself, so pronunced that the traveller Is immediately. concious of it.

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS. It is not such a uniform smell an

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SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD. HONGKONG – MACAO LINE

Bailings to Macao-Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundays 9 a.m. only) Bailings from Macao-Daily at 8 a.m. & 2 p.m. (Sundaya 4 p.m. only)

Further Information may bo oblained at the Company's OMIço, 44. Des Vœux Road Central, Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son Lid,, or the American Express Company Hongkong.

One of the most treasured possessions of friends far away is a photo of their dear unes overseas. The Ming Yuen Stude is fitted with the most modern photographic equipment and will be pleased to show you specimens of their work.

THE MING YUEN STUDIO (Battery Path.)

Official Photographers to the "H. K. Telegraph. "

If a blind man who has trayolled about the world word suddenly transported to various great capitala te would be able to distinguish Paris froin Berlin, and London from Ráme entirely by smell. It moola tho traveller as 3000 as he steps out of the Gare du Nord. London emolis of hot lubricating oil and potrol.

the smol of Paris. Horo and there other oharacteristics creep in Its smoll value has greater body, perhaps, and a kind of maturity, but not ha Dame stimulating offoot. The aroma of Parisian scont-n perfectly uni- forin smell from one and of the olty to the other-lias a ramark- jably brightoning offect. It tonus up the nerves and suggests that at any moment a brilliant pro- cession might take place.

Berlin smella of oil, potrol, badly-groomed horvos, and old leather. Rotterdam anells of strong, fresh-ground coffee and {stagnant wator. That is

generalisation.

A

No castorn city could possibly possoas a uniform smell like London or Paris. There are othor adventurous smolls which defy classification; Somo vaguely suggest. dead cats and chemicals, other suggest rowe gardens anl jasmino; othora suggest newly-baked HWBols and cakes; and they all overlap and mingle here and there. That is why woman in Cairo always keep smelling salts in their dogs, A blind man could probably write a thrilling Bontimental journey of the world's cition-if ho wore not found dead of a brokon, heart in Naples, or of asphyxiation in Wanchai.

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