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SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 23, 1926..

DAY BY DAY.

OF ALL THIEVES, FOOLS ARE THE WORST; THEY RON YOU OF TIME AND TEMPER-Goethe

CANTONESE WOMEN.

Walk through the Streets of the City.

[of annoying tariff barriers against the free flow of commerce that could, without the loss of much revenue or the risk of "dumping be removed. The arguments in favour of free trade all round are

The E. and A. Company's 8.8. Almost the first juxury which a generally, their object in appear unanswerable, but it is to be | Arafura loft Moji yesterday and Northern Chinese allows himself, ing at the dinnera, is to earn a doubted if that can be bored for is due here on the 27th instant is a Cantonese wife, I use the word for dollars by their songs. ''Be« | luxury with deliberato Intent, for sides, there is the ever-present QUALITY & DURABILITY In our time, so widely during are According to the old Chinese she cannot fill a very useful post hope, that they will be purchased the viewpoints of the world an enlendar to-morrow is the festival tion in his household on account from their owners by a rich man Para important factors in

tions. America, for example, will of the Frost's Descent (Shuang of the completo difference in tlie and be added to his establishment. Typewriter Ribbot Firms

dhiang). continus to cling to her high

spoken language and the habits of The Burd paid would possibly the two peoples. Whether just amount to two thousand dollars. aro often judged by the

tarifs as a protection for her There has been added to the re-fably or not, Cantonese women With the sing-song tir), we say appearance of their lettere workmen against the competition gister of chemists and druggists have a wide reputation, far excel-good-bye to coloured feminine and whore Romtico Ribons

or lower-paid

the name of Mr. Wán Iu-shing, of ling that of their sisters in colder clothes in the streets, Ihbour which lives

| 12, D'Agullar Street.

climates, for beauty, for good cook - Working women of every type. are used the cleancu, im.

on a lower social plane, and it is

ing, for galety, and for their softwear full, straight hanging shiny pressions are such that Kidicult to argue against that

mplete ash black trousers of a thin non-tran- Lottor the stamp of

of quality.

titude But trade

Perhaps it is mainly a matter sparent material meatly made in between

of climate. The women of southern Manchester. The trousers ard as European countries would an-

countries of Europe are famed for neatly cressed as those of any doubtedly be stimulated to the

much the same attributes. Un Bond Street beau, The tunic coat, benefit of all if there wore whole-

fortunately it had until recent double-breasted, is cut generally years-been almost impossible to to the lines of the figure, and stops dale fiscal reforms aiming at free

meet, or to see, a young Cantonesc about four inches above the knee. ing the flow of commerce. The

lady before she was married. It la open at each side for a space freer flow of money and credit is

Usually she was kept in great as high as the waist, and you often also deqiruble, and the formationNO

seclusion, with many household catch a glimpan of a peacock blue duties to perform, and arts to silk linking, while every movement of banking syndicates prepared to His Majcsty the King has ap study. Once having attained the discloses the neatly fitting under- finance commercial enterprises is proved the appointment of the age of fourteen and having become tunic of whita calico. Her hair a proposal in the right direction. Hon. Mr. A. Q. Lang to be an Unaffianced or married, she passes will be glossy, and colled, or plait-

official Member of the Executive you in a crowded street, discrected, against her head Her daugh At the basis of this new move is Council for a period of five years, y peeping through the curtains of ter swinga by, making music with the fact that confidence has largely with effect from 7th April, 1926, her chair, carried swiftly by four her wooden clogs against the cob been restored confidence that the

coolies. She is clothed in figured bics-her long plait swinging as With regard to the Hongkong silk of some pule shade, a tunic, she strides, A fine healthy girl. world is in for a period of free-local storm signal codo, it is not and a skirt to her knees. Pearls Her good fortune in having been dom from war, That is the most fled that after December 31st à

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The Telegraph

We are asked to state that the voices. at-

"Flat" car (model 609) advertised In to-day's Motor Supplement is priced at $2,050, and that the fuel consumption is 85.mp.g.

It is hereby notified that the names of the Kung Lee Steamship Company, Limited, and the Tang Lee Steamship Company Limited fhave been struck off the Register,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925, hopeful sign Europe and the red "T" will be used as the No. 1r jade studs fasten the coat at the born free from bound feet has pos

HEALTHY SIGNS. "

Now that the world is emerging. from the maze of entanglements which resulted from the 1914-1918 war it is but natural that the lead ing economists should seek the re- moval of trade and intercourse

side and throat. In her black hair, sibly added six inches to her world has seen for yours, and it signal instead of the red cone at polished and brushed into its height, and she makes a striking modest flat roll at the back of her picture beside the frail-looking

is sincerely to be hoped that that confidence will not be found to

have been misplaced.

The New Battalion.

The Colony in general, and the Scottish community in particular,

present in use."

There has been added to the list head, she wears. a round Victorian ittle mothor whose whole develop- of medical practitioners the name nosey of patchouli buds or templement has been stunted by her in-

dowers; its perfect symmetry and ability, to take exercises.

of Dr. Bau Teu Zung, Government Civil Hospital, Bachelor of Media cine and Bachelor of Surgery of the University of Hongkong.

The result of the Open Air will, we are sure, heartily welcome Concert held in Quarry Bay in aid the arrival of the 2nd. Battalion of the M. C. L. was $124.97.

The

creamy tones seem reflection of

The lower middle-class daughter that calm sweet face. She is gone! A black coated guardian of Southern China is the mast mald follows in a second chair actively and consistently revolu with only two coolies and no cur-Itionary member of society-today. Her mentality has grown from tains.

In a shop a group of young wo-thousands of years of industrial hindered the industrial and com derers, who come here with a fine in Quarry Bay were 22: 23; 79 They whisper and flirt with each growth to help her, she is quietly mercial recovery of Europe, Tha military and sporting record. They 24.

aucceed the East Surreys "as the Manifante which has just been garrison battalion and thus have Huod. by

an international group of bankers and business men is one of the most striking moven

barriers which for so long have of the King's Own Scottish Bor-winning numbers of the Raffle held men are giggling over some silks, activity, and, with her physical:

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other. Even near at hand the usurping the place of her brother hair appears to be painted on their in many branches of industry. As During the twenty-four hours skulls, and only a fringe, cut at in every other country, her com- high traditions to maintain, for up to 9 o'clock this morning, one the nape of the neck, so that it petition and her Independence are the departing troops can certainly British vessel arrived and four sticks out straight for two inches meeting with bitter opposition, be described as one of the most departed. In all, four vessels ar below the coil, shows the hair in but the employers say, that the The separate strands. Fluttering but girls work more consistently than sporty and popular battalions we rived and twelve departed.

that have been made for more than have ever had in the Colony. For total number of yessels in harbour terflies they seem ceaselessly their brothers, and are easier to

decade to free the natural flow most of the residents of Hongkong from all the restrictions

It will be something of a novelty

was 16

and

to see a Scottish unit here, for it

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common ideal-eff-

In.

moving with quick short step to control.

A ten-house became involved in get nearer some special roll of ailk, Dr. Rufus Jones, professor of held by, her of the centre position. a strike, and several dozens of tariffs that hinder it. Of course,

is very many years since such was Philosophy at Haverford College, Their pale silken skirts are gather-slack, insolent, clumsy men down- the state of affairs immediately the case. We have, of course, a Pennslyvania, will lecture at the ed full on their slim hips, and bil-ed tools. The proprietor engaged after the war made restriction big Scottish community here, and; St. John's Cathedral Hall On Mon-low out and down to their ankles a similar number of young women,

placed them under an overseer," Inovitable. There had to be a re-very naturally, the advent of a day at 8:45 pm on "Building the and small, but unbound, feet,

New Civilization." Sir Henry:

Coming down the social scale "Just to stop them flirting with the battalion whose men wear the tar- tention of the elaborate passport tan and which has its own Pipe Pollock will be in the chair, the on a fine morning you will meet customers," and to his great de system and also of high tariffs, the Band arouses a degree of interest lecture Is under the auspices of groups of "Sing.song girls" taking light he found his list of break- a forenoon stroll. Arm through ages on the first month reduced Intter to avoid the evils arising which amounts to enthusiasm. It the C. E. M.. S.

arm, three or four abreast whereby seventy-five per cent. There from the inflated, currencies of the Borderers have reached Hong- is a happy circumstance, also, that

Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Canton Villas, space permits in these very narrow young women of South China neighbouring countries. Germany kong well in time for the St, An-

on Kowloon Inland Lot No. 610, streets. They are not like other are splitting up into various were sold by publle auction by women. was still outside the comity of drew's Day celebrations, and we Mr. E. V. M. R. de Souan at the and most startling patterna ofther by one

The brightest colours groups, but they are bound toge- nations, great countries of Central may expect to see the annual ball China Auction Rooms yesterday silk are chosen., à mauve coat ciency. They work, as nurses,

rade all the more attractive as Europe were almost hopelessly ima result of the presence of the afternoon for $70,000, the upset will top rather tight trousers of doctors and dentists' assistants, poverished, and Russia was the K. O. S. B.'s Here. It was a grace price being $60,000. The purchaser sky blue. socks in another shade waitresses, shopkeepers, etc.

of that colour, and the heel-ices the universities and schools, they home of a political belief which, ful and most appropriate little was Mr. Lam Heung-lung.

slippers made of soft brocade in eagerly study science, chemistry, in its application, had brought the pany of the Volunteers paid the Police retifies that the round the scheme, her face is painted pink ways cheerful, clean, and possess a

The Captain Superintendent of rainbow hues. To complete the history, economics. They are al country and the condition of its newcomers by providing one of people down to a level never be the Guards of Honour on. the Bat-sland road will be opened for and white and her eyebrows plack-sense of speed and of the value of

traffic from' to-day, but that drivers ed and prolonged". In

these time.

This last is quite alien to' talion's, arrival yesterday, and wo

must proceed with, baution at modern days her hair will be young labourer who always gives disorganised and at sixes and effected maintained in various

or Weary to lift his feet from the sevens, and all manner of restric-ways during the stay of the Bor-Were made by the recent storm, as ear in the shape of a shell,

ground and of longing to return to tions had to be imposed at nationalderers, in our midst. The new only half the roadway is available smoothly plaited.

Battalion comes from a regiment for traffic at these points.

Most of these girls are daughsleep-anywhere and in any post-

tion. boundaries. But we have slowly with a wonderful record to its

ters of some poor sampan or good On Thursday afternoon, at about class coolic better state of credit, and we are sure that it 1.45 p.m., a boy named An Young-years of age they have been sold gestion of women becoming event- woman. At four It is easy to smile at the sug emerged into a things, thanks very largely to the every respect it will live up to ste fui, aged 14, fell on the ground for something like two hundred ually the dominating sex in labour faith engendered by the existence derers, a warm and sincere wel-St. Paul's Hostel, with the result gards them as an investment. They to suggest, that, this nucleus of while playing football outside the dollars, and the purchasor re-and public affairs, but I'venture

tribute which the Scottish Com-

fore known. The world was al may expect to see the contact thus places where broaches in the roud nently bobbed, or coiled over each one the impression of being too

name: Hongkong bids the Bor

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.3.50 ea

of the League of Nations. Cen. come.

.4.50 ea 5.00 ea

STEW-POTS

1 qt. 2 qts.

3,50 ea 4.00 ea.

Hot Water Jugs

...1.50 ea.

2.00 ea

Cocoa Jugs

1 pt.

pts.

1.50 ea

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1 pint.

1 qt.

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tral. Europe is back on a sound financial basis even if it is still impoverished, Germany is a mem- ber of the League and buck on her feet industrially, whlist Russfa, if still the home of Bolshevism, is less of a menace than formerly. Europe has shaken down after its violent upheaval and there should be an era of stability and pro- sperity ahead.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SOLICITOR EXPLAINS.

[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.}

Sir,In your report of an as- bault case heard at the Central Magistracy and headed in your But Europe is still clogged with issue of yesterday "Chinese Stab- prohibitions and

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taken homo in a motor car,

that the radius of his right arm become maids in the house, and, young women succeed in rearing was broken. First-aid was ap-having learnt the charming arts daughters, free from the vices of plied by a momber of the St. John and the art of charm, they attends many of their brothers,gam- Ambulance Brigade, and after be-feasts in public restaurants, by bling all hight, yawning all day, ing bandaged up properly, he was arrangement with the proprietors. and the insolence bred of child- The lucky ones are selected by hood's indulgences (never permit- rich patrons, and during the long ted, to the girl-baby), the laws The Health Bulletin of Eastern meal stand behind their chairs, of economy will tell, and that the Ports published by the League of Nations for the week ended the lighting their cigarettes, or sing-tale told will be that of the gradual ing songs of birds, flowers, subsidence of the male into a posi artificial falsetto voice. Speaking

16th inst., shows the following brigands, and love, in a high tion of luferiority and dependence.

cases of infectious disease: Pleague, at Mauritius two cases, Rangoon one, Cholera: at Cal- cutta eight cases, Bombay one, Bang rak one, Shanghal three and Amoy thirteen. Small-pox: at

so is, largely, the rest of the world. gaged to defend two of the defen-Bombay four, Madras five, Colom-

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danto but that I was not present in Court.

Your report omits to mention that a letter had been received by

The persistent survival of the passport nuisance has been a fea- ture of post-war history, and the time has long since come when the people of the earth should be free to travel without the irksome and costly system of passportą and

visas. Men and women should be taken more on trust, and there is no valid defence (in theso days of peace) for the assumption

The P. & O. liner Devanha left that all travellers are undesirable

Singapore at 10a.m. yesterday and and must therefore produce is due here at 6 am, on the 27th credentials. And there are lots instant.

bo one, Belawan-dell one and Bangkok two.

CANADA'S PROGRESS.

AN OPTIMISTIC BANKER.

TISTHENES:

As for the Prairie Provinces, they might well, and without ex- aggeration be decribed as the rich- est of all gold mines, and the com parison is appropriate when one The following is a summary of stops to consider that these pro- n special interview with Sir Freyinces produce of wheat and other derick Williams-Taylor, general ropa, a total exceeding in value manager of the Bank of Montreal, the world's total annual output of on his return from a tour of Inspec- Fold by 270 millions of dollars.

the Magistrate from me intimat Dr. Dhirendra Nath Roy M.A ing that I would be unable to at- Ph.D. (U.S.A.) is to give an in- tend owing to business in the Su- formal talk Sunday morning at 11

The estimated value of the fold, tion of Western Canada.

crops of the Prairie Provinces for preme Court. This fact was men-o'clock in the morning to the local tioned in Court by the Biagistrate. Thecaophical Society, on "Fellow- Vancouver is expanding at a re-the year 1925 was 660,000,000 dol →Yours, etc.,

ship of Faiths."" Dr. Roy has been markable rute, dus in part to the as against the world's output of A., J. O'DONOGHUE," in the U.S.A, for about four years agricultural and Industrial pro- gold last year of 800,000,000 dol, Hongkong, Oct. 28rd, 1926.

and has specialised in education gramme in the Interior, and in Gold minos become exhausted, but and philosophy. He studied in part of its growing importance as farm landa, can produce for ever. the University of Iowa and also innseaport. Vancouver is, of course, Winniper and the large cities teaching Philosophy as a Fellow the gateway to the Orient, and, in and towns are all growing, bush- of the University. He is staying view of the developing trade withness is active, manufacturing is with Mr. Lachmandas, 38, Wynd Japan and China, as well as with increusing, and, though all may ham Street, and will shortly leave Australasia, it would be difficult to not be equally prosperous, there is for India.

texaggerate its importance in this little poverty and no unemploy

respect.

ment to speak of.