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22, Queen's Road, Central

is making hie namo batter known every day by his French Cooking, done exclu- sively with fresh butter.

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" The anatour 'gourmet" fond of "Marseille's Bouillabaise" "Escargots de Bourgogue" and all other famous French dishes can' go to "Albert" with confidence.

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DINNERS TO ORDER

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Tiffins and Dinners served from 10-30 a, m.

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French Cakes and French Chocolates made by "Albert" himself.

Nice selection of French fancy boxes just arrived from France by the "Andre Lebon."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926.

ELECTRICITY FOR ALL, PRIMITIVE MEDICINE. CROSS WORD PUZZLES

CABINET - SCHEME FOR

CHEAP SUPPLY.

The long promised electricity scheme of the Government, of which forecaste have boon given in these columns from time to time should soon be ready to be submitted to Parliament in the term of a Bill says a writer in the Daily Chronicle.

OURING WARTS WITH A

GREEN PEA.

When you have toothache yon consult a dentist. But if you had lived in Sussex a few generations age you might perhaps have tried

DEFENCE BY NOTED SCHOOL INSPECTOR,

Dr. Harold Wagor, his Majesty's Inspector of Schools, lecturing on

me aspects of nature study at

a home-made remedy, such as is the Educational Associations recalled in the Daily Neus.

conférence at University Collego, This was the smoke from burn- London, last month said that in ed senna loaves. When you Over a year and a half ago this inhaled, it was believed the little the hands of the right people urgent problem was tackled by worms that were causing the pain nature study was capable of be Mr. Snowden, who in the summer orawled out and you were cured. coming a very important and of 1924 announced that his export; Or, if you did not care for that valuable moans of education, but Committee had reported in favour you might have tried the simpler of the standardisation of fre- Doron remedy of carrying a quency and the erootion of large potato or a double nut in your superstations.

pocket! After an inordinate 'delay the Cabinet has approved a scheme differs little

which in essence from Mr. Snowdon's.

STANDARDISATION, "Standardisation of frequency' is to a scheme of electrical devel lopment what a standard gauge

In each district there is to be a

rather than teach it mechanically it had better be Teft alone. The danger of mechanical teaching If you suffered from such an was illustrated by the child who, unfortunate affliction as warts in in giving a correct analysis of the those days, you cured them by touching each with a green pos.spacific gravity of brass; called it Thon each pea had to be wrapped specific gratitude. in paper, and as the poas decayed

The real factor of interest in the warts disappeared,

education was the use of the.

Ono old book gives un even

Vanish."

NEW SHANGHAI

SCHOOL.

OLD FRENCH CLUB

CONVERTED.

The old premises of the French Club (the Corcle Sportif Franeals) at Koukaza Gardens are to be converted into a new building for the French Municipal School if plans being considered by the French Municipal Council are realized. The proposal to utilize the old Club buildings for this purpose was made some timo ago but the Council has agreed with the plan in principio roalizing the adaptibility of the club house for the purpose of a how school with beautiful and airy surroundings which make the choice ideal. As further feature of the schome the French Council offices in Ruo Consulat will be transferred to the promises of the French School in Avenue Joffre.

Several factors affecting muni- sipal improvements have tended to bring this schome to a head." When the Corcio Sporitif Fran cais moved into the new premises

on Avenue Joffee the question of the disposition of the old building.

was discussed.

Leading froni

this the other changes were con- sidered. One fact affecting the school in Avenue Joffre was that this road carries a large volume of traffic which compromisos en olement of danger to children

stranger remedy for warts. Put brain. The pleasure of the use of is to a railway system. It enables three drops of blood of a wart the brain was seen in the case of current to bo transmitted from into an Eldor leafe and burie it in the cross-word puzzle. Nature station to station by interlinking the earth, and the warts will study developed the spirit of cables.

A bygone cure for a stye on the enquiry and tended to the rejec-which fronts on the Fronch park,

tion of authority, Human credu- Auperstation, generating electri-eyelid was to rub it with a black lity was, perhaps, a much more city at lower costs for all the cat'e tail. The other old remedy serious menace to, the race even outlying stations, many of which that of rubbing with a wedding than human mondacity. Tu will become merely distributing ring, is still practised:

prevent this credulity, people contres..

In some parts of Southern should be taught to develop their Choop electricity will thus be Franco poultices are made of powers of judgment. at the disposal of industrial un-swallows' nests, dertakings. It is further proposed Gerardo in his "Herball" tolle |to oxtend the cablo systom into us of many floral remedies, one of

the rural areas,

the strangest being for gout. This The cost of such a schome has consists of lilies of the valley been giving the Chancellor much stopped up in a glass and put in anxiety. But it is hoped to an ant bill, where they are left obviate burdening the taxpayer for a month. The liquid formed by guaranteeing interest on the applied outwardly helpeth the money raised by the Trade Faoi- 'gout."

lities Act.

An alternative suggestion is

that the cost should be met by OLD BOB OF OLD VIC the issue of Electricity Bonds,

A WEAK POINT.

A FAMOUS STAGE- DOORKEEPER.

The weakness of the schemo is that compulsory powers are. I understand, not given to the

"Old Bob," the stage-door- Electricity Commissioners. It is

keeper at the Old Vie, whein hoped that the offer of cheap March next will complete "45 electricity will be a sufficient in-years of service at the theatre, ducement to bring all private or delighted hundreds of poor chil municipal authorities into line.dren of the district a few weeks Everyone knows that the real ago by taking the part of Hurle- reason why we lag bohind other quin in "Harlequin Jack Horner" countries in the use of electricity, special entertainment put on is that thore is a mass of vested for the occasion. interests, including municipal

The little ones had been invited

interests, which have thwarted a by Miss Lilian Bayliss to a Jab bold forward policy.

berwock tea party, and "Old Bob" Rowland Langthorn

The admirable Electricity Bill-Mr.

of 1919, brought in by the Coali- Robinson in private life-helpód tion, was rendered partially in-about a dozen colleagues on the effective by the action of the theatre staff to entertain thom. Lords, who cut out the compul- "It was not my first appear- sory powers of the Electricity ance on this stage," he fold a Commissioners in the Bill, which Daily Chronicle representative." Conservativas in the Lower House I have been on before many had sanctioned.

timos as a super, but never in a speaking part. So I was not ex- actly suffering from stage fright. In their last report the ComIn fact, I enjoyed it as much as missionors admitted that much the kiddies, and I'm sure my pals of their efforts had beon wasted did.

NEED FOR COMPULSORY POWERS.

owing to the absence of any such "I have been most things that one can be in this theatre, except

powers.

If the new Bill, after yours of owner or manager. I came here labour, throws aside a principle when I was 19 as a ticket-collac- which oven the Conservatives, tor. After that I was in the savon years ago, thought essen-gallery as 'chucker-out." tial, it will be stillbora.

"They were a tough lot too. I Mr. Baldwin's bold promise often got kickod, and it was whon he took office, to hack his nothing for rowdy ones to draw way through vested interests, knivos: Once whon Sims Rooves has been fulfilled in no single was singing a man lit his pipe instance.

and refused to put it out. A It is not too late for the couple of costers threw him down Government to tackle, this vital the stairs.

"After that I was given charge problem,on the lines that Mr. Lloyd George and others have of the stage, and hold that post for years been advocating. Noth-32 years, until last year.

ing but the bold policy of "Coul One of "Old Bob's" proudost and Power" will put us even on equal terms with our foreign competitore,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

noments was when the lato King. Edward, then Prince of Wales, shook hands with him.

leaving the school. Again the French Council offices in Rue du Consulat aro old and are growing too small for the purposes of the Concession and a desire for a larger building has been exprossed.

PLANS BEING PREPARED. The old French club promiseos are larger than the prosent school building and another advantage is the beautiful situation overs The looking the French park. plan now being discussed there- fore seems to be a solution of all the problems involved.

No date has been set for the roalization of the schome but the Council has agrood to it. in prin siple. Plans and estimates of expenso entailed in the conversion of the two buildings are being proparod and the Council will pass final judgment when these plans and estimates have been submitted and considered.

Several schemes have boen mooted in recent months for the use of the old French Club build- ing which is now empty. One was its purchase and conversion into a museum, art gallery and library devoted to Chinese and

Oriontal culture.

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