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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926.

YOU reds and boundary problems has been specially taken in hand, and, MUST

thero is much less room for Ameri ca to talk of muddled Europe to- duy than there was a few yearn ago... Britain has been actively at work, and men in America who are minded like President Coolidge have not been slow to acknowledge the tremendous progress achieved, If Amerlen has been given cause to think that the peoples of Europe do not like her quite so much as

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DAY BY DAY.

THE INFLUENCE OF WOMEN MARS NEARLY AS MANY MEN AS IT MAKES, A. St. John Adcock, "

Cabled greetings were received. by the Basma on Armistice Day from the Penang Branch.-

The name of Mr. Tong Li-ta, of the China Distillery, has been added to the register of chemists and druggists..

An election of Justice of the Peace to serve on the Licensing Board is to take place at the Supreme Court on the 30th Instant.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Li Yau-tsun to be

Justice of the Peace for the year. Colony of Hongkong,

There was one Chinesa case of diphtherin reported yesterday. Otherwise, the Colony enjoyed a clean bill of health.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. J. P. Braga, J.P., to be a Member of the Sanitary Board during the absence on leave of Dr. w. v. M. Koch.

ON LIVING COSTS.

The Bachelor and the Grass-Widower."

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Why do mon, all the world over, polish, matches, brass, Jam, fats, shun any practical call on their silver polish and, furniture cream, domesticity? It may be a fear of soap and all and every item of dertálon; it may be that domestic obvious necessity. A third part management is busienlly dull and deducted enables the factotem to sordid. Domestic labour, in Eng-sell a new tin or packet in overy land, with none of the electrical third consignment. "Robots of America, Is certainly Going on to food, there are three a sorry fate for man, woman, and grades all the time in the market, child, but ten minutes out of the like the egg, many things can be, day in Hongkong applied with con- and are: new-laid, freak, and just they did, it is because of the cold

centration to the household ac- egg! How often do we get the and superior tone with which the

counts, and one hour monthly to cabbage with the dew-on it? checking clothes, pantry, and linen Practically never, unless we have spokesmen of that grandly-isolated Country have often referred to

would save most male house-to be in the market when the troubled Europó. The lack of

weepers one month's salary goods arrive. Fish are kept alive until yesterday's... etocka ura ab- This is not an appeal for a com-sorbed, but there is a big difference" cordial friendship has doubtless

pulsory store-cupboard; television between the two prices, though been greatly exaggerated, but it

would Indeed show a pitiful ple- only the cook sees the profit. It fs true that the United States has

tura, on every morning after the is hard to believe that local, Ash lost something by Its insistance

night before. It is a very serious caught within, eight miles of the appeal to men, who are living as staly, with rarely any danger to on aloofness. In the matter of war

bachelors, to insist upon a lower life, should cost the same sum debts it has adhered to the prin-

It is notified that the names of rate of squeeze, in their own in- per pound as salmon brought from ciple of payment (even though the the Yee Lok Company, Limited,terests, and in the interests of so Canada on a twenty-one day's amounts owing have been gener- and E. F. Cox and Company, many young couples, who are now journey. Yet such is the fact.

The standard of living in Hong- ously reducedy as against the prinLimited, have been struck off the hit all round by harder conditions, and find it difficult to keep scr- Register. ciple of renunciation desired by

vants within the bounds of decent kung have long been in excess of Europe, and it has kept outside

expenditure. The aim and object of income, and the calls upon income. the League of Nations on the

every servant in the Colony is to much wider margin is necessary acere that it will not be a party to

become factotem to a mess, or to a hero, than in a healthier climate, There could be, no or, in a Colony which is only a single man. better time than the present to as-fortnight from Home. Distance "entanglements." And In all

alst a campaign of economy, per-lends no enchantment in this case, these matters there is great hon-

Inspector R. Marks, formerly insonal and individual; servants are and adds greatly to the holiday esty of purpose and a conviction charge of the Peak district, return-plentiful owing to the fact that expenses Transport generally is that the course chosen is the beeted from Home-leave yesterday by many strikers have returned an a big expense, and should the dól- not only for the United States but the P. & O. s.. Delta. It is under-xions to turn out their brethren far remain under two shillings; as for the rest of the world also stood that Inspector Marke will who worked during the strike, and is generally expected, it la inevit supplies are easier owing to the able that every imported product That fact is becoming more and now be stationed at the Central.

release of produce in Canton, and will rise thirty to forty per cent. more realised in Europe, for al- In addition to the interport also because local gardens and in retail price, and this despite the GUMLEY-HALL-At the Union Church, Hongkong, on

the though there is still a difference in cricket team from Shanghai, the farms can compete against the fact that some shops have been, President Pierce brought to Hong-coast, and Shanghai supply, in the charging dollars for shillings ir- respective of the exchange. Those 12th November, by the Rev. J.ideas, there" is agreement on the kong, Mr. M. J. Quist (Consul in cold weather, Kirk Maconachie, Franc worthiness of America's ideals. Hongkong for the Netherlands) 1, feel sure that this antipathy families having charges payable towards household management is in England or America will have Stewart Gumley, eldest son of So long as the great free Repub and Mr. C. H. Benson.

not based on a total lack of in- to add thirty per cent. in dollars Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gumley, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth Marlie of the United States follows a

His Excellency the Governor has terest in good living. Men are to the draft, to send the same raret G. Hall, only daughter path dictated by such high motives appointed Dr. Hermann Balean to famed as epicures, and often jibe amount for schooling, etc! of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hall, of

as have netrated her in the days be a member of the Advisory Com-nt women for their supposed in- If.local prices are going higher, Selkirk.

since the Armistice, there is little pittee of the Penk Hospital, difference to beat cuts of ash and there is only one way of meeting It is a fetish of the East these costs and that is by cutting during the absence on leave of Dr. fowl. danger of her actions resulting law. V. M. Koch.

that a bachelor's "boy" takes com the standard of living in half! If plete control, and only the "boy" the whole Colony would make a anything other than the eventual

simultaneous attack; if women knows how completo! good; even though there may be

Taking an interest in these would do their own.shopping this temporary differences of opinion.

sometime mundane, and now fa-winter in detail, and try a two- cinating, affairs, I asked two men course tifin, and dinner, watching President Coolidge's speech is a very healthy reminder to the rest

how they arranged their house every item, they would possibly. holds. The first, a rich grasa part company with their present of the world.

staffs, but would that be an un- widower, smiled. happily-Oh, I

Our present get on very well; my boy is so benzable calamity?

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BERG-At the Peak Hospital on the 13th November, to Mr. and Mrs. Sverre. Berg, a son.

"

The Telegraph

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1926.

AMERICA AND EUROPE.

"The Interport.”.

Notice is given of the accession of this Colony to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United Kingdom and Austria. The stipulations of the Treaty will apply to this Colony as from the 26th of June, 1926,

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A decree prohibiting the export awfully good. I have one tifth system, which has grown up from from France of chloride of potas-party a week for about ten, and the days when money was easy to The fact may not be generallysium, sulphate of potash, and live vory simply, and my bills como come by, and people did not look known that it was exalty sixty fertilizers containing 7 per cent. to a trifle over eight hundred a upon the Colony as a home, will years ago that Hongkong and more of pure potash has been month in the house. That doesn't not bear any analysis, and is sim- Shanghai first met in an Interport published in the French Official include coal and servants, of ply ridiculous. After all, it is

Gazette. cricket match, so that the 'fixture. which begins to-day marks the

like sixty matches between the two

."

course, I never have to think of

a thing!" The trouble is that nothing but handing money to na- It is notified that, at the expira- quite a few of us have to think tive servants to buy goods of which

Diamond Jubilee of these populartion of three months, the Chung of everything, and in terms of we know neither the quantity nor World-wide interest attaches to contests. It is, of course, true Kwok Restaurant, Lirit and the cents instead of dollars. I to the price. It is amall wonder that the speech which was delivered by that there have not been anythingTai Tung Company, Limited will, him he was a criminal, and a dan."John" has seized this opportunity President Coolidge on Armistice Day, because it is very rare indeed ports, for it is only in lutter years unless enuse is shown to the conger to less fortunate folk, and he to build up an organisation, so re- birds are plucked according to our trars, be struck of the register answered: "What of that? Their munerative, and efficient that we that they have become frequent.

plumage. for the present head- of the great we believe we are right in saying and the companies will be dis- turn will come." "

In the second case, which is,

The merchant is, in these hard American Republic to express him that, in all, there have been solved.

I think the normal attitude, the self so frankly on the European twenty-five games between Hong-

The China Light and Power young man was sharing a peak times, content to take a profit of situation, and also because at the kong as proamt en dsbyton Company Recreation Club, which ress with three others. He seem, seven dollars on a parcel of mats, booking commission, present juncture in international ing won 13 as compared to Shang-recently opened its now clubrooms ad sincerely interested, and told ten dollars on some embroideries,

at the Power Station, Hunghom, me the food was very poor, the ten per cent, of some interport, politics America's attitude is of hai's 11, whilst one

drawn. Hongkong also leads the gave a dance last evening, a most house badly run, and they felt steamer very vital importance.

Mr that two hundred a month could which between here and Canton way so far as the biggest innings enjoyable time being spent. matter of International peace, re-score is concerned, this being 455 J. II: Donnithorne, the Works be saved, and comfort gained, if means about sixty cents per head. Manager, who has just returned there was some system of catering These business, designed "Much garding which Président Coolidge for nine wickets, made in 1909. from Home Leave, was amongst and management other than the and Truck," are built up of such

those present,

On the

and Shanghai, that Hong-

has been

delivered himself in no uncertain That there will be great rivalry Shanghal's best being 391 in 1921.

“boy's.". A fact which astonished small amounts, with infinite pains, I fear the answer to my appeal ao many people in Shameen during terms, it ought to have a caution-in the match which starts to-day

A proposal is afoot for the the late-strike was the small total will be "That is just why a man ing effect for all the other Powers we have no doubt, but it will be erection of a new hospital facing of their messing bills. Five men doesn't want to bother with stupid to know that the United States is in that same spirit of friendliness Bonhamn Road and adjoining the in a large flat. found their total little niggling thefts when he gets

which has always characterised present Nethersole Hospital, at a

head. Everything one hundred, a month is worth committed to a policy of prepared-the contests between the two ports. cost of $80,000. The new build. expenses seventy-five dollars a home." But again I say, that if ness and would not hesitate to There are tried veterans and new ing, which is to take the place of month ner mobolise the full resources of the blood in both teams, and, on paper, the old Alice Memorial Hospital bought from the Dairy Farm, or inaking in the office, it is worth the prospects are that It will be a formerly in Hollywood Road, will Hongkong steamer, and this sum saving at home, and now is the nation, both as regards man power keen and fairly

The most urgent requirement in even tussle for have thirteen wards, a nurses' Included. "Oh, most prodigious time to begin... and outpat. There is, to our mind, honours. The value of these lecture room, small operating quantities of beer!" However, nothing incongruous in referring matches, in the way of promoting theatre and an out-patients' room against that, it must be remember-Hongkong to-day is a house-to- friendly intercourse between the which will accommodate from 80 ed that it did not include the same house economy campaign, in which to the possibilities of future war

two centres and in the opportu to 100 people. It will be known amount of cleaning materials, the rich and the comfortable-off sponsibility with the poor. The on the anniversary of the closing nities which they present for the as the new Alice Memorial Hos- which is where the money slips rub shoulders, and share the re- of the great European conflict, renewal of old friendships and the pital and the contract for its con

It is not generally known that boycott is not over. A visit to old because it is only by a display of shows no sign of declining popu

encouragement of a sport which struction is expected to be signed away in most houses.

over the week-end.

this system of squeeze is almost haunts in Canton meets with poor entirely one of quantities, and not reward these days. Old friends determination to make war unpro-Trity, are known to all-Hong-

ons of prices. No-one is better neem anxious to hurry past in the fitable that the nations of the kong gives a really hearty and

equipped to make a little go a long streets, and merchants have no- future are going to avoid drifting sincere welcome to the Shanghai

way, than a Chinese: His own thing of value to sell to the Brit- team, not doubting that its mem- inte it. The United States stands bors will in every way uphold the Paris.

140% food is judged to a fraction, and he tider. The whole atmosphere is past. Win or Brussels

84.84 makes use of every waste product, most unsettled. We are not out for the limitation of armamenta traditions of the

12.12% providing the initial expense is of the wood, but we can almost all

20.48 but also ready to throw the whole lose, we know that both sides will Amsterdam

his own, and not his master's, dived hundred pounds a year by 18.20% 34.424 There is nothing easier to necomp-playing the game of economy in 192 lish in the average household than the house, If that eum is not 2.17/32 the deduction of one-third of worth seving, it is not worth mak-

every article bought. Floorlog

"play the game."

May the better

of its great weight into any war team come out on top:

EXCHANGE RATES.

Helsingfors Lisbon

Buonos Aires

in which it might be involved. The knowledge of that fact should be a guide to others. Britain's

Ports issued by the League of Na policy has been one of open re- tions for the week ended November New York conciliation over since the days of gives the following cases of in-Gogova August, 1918, and it is not saying fections disease: Plague, Tama Milan

tave one. Rangoon four, Colombo Stockholm overmuch to claim for the leading one and Sourabaya four Cholera,

Progue: British statesmen the lion's sharo Calcutta Bix cases, Rangoon one,

Saigon one, Tourane Ave, Bangkok Madrid

The Health Bulletin of Easter yokohama

In bringing about such satisfactory enc, Amoy one and Shanghal one. Bombay outcomea of th

the Locarno and Small-pox, Calcutta two cases, Dur-Hongkong Goneva, Conferences. The clean-ban seven, Bombay, five, Singapore Silver (spot)

ina, Bangkok three and Vladivostok Silver (forward). ing up of Europe's tangle of bat one."

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