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NEW LONG-DISTANCE PHONE

MANILA-CEBU PROJECT PLANNED.

Postal officials in Manila are contemplating buying and install- ing at an early dale equipment for a long distance telephone which would make possible telephonic conversation between Manila, Cebu- and Hollo

...An appropriation of Pesos 1,000,000 will be asked of the next Philippine legislature when it con- vones in June for the parchase of the necessary cable lines and up- paralus, it was stated.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WOMAN'S WORLD

Notes.

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

·FROM A WOMAN'S DIARY.

Girls with jobs have three times the chance to get husbands that In accordance with cable advices stay-at-home girls have. At from General Frank Mcintyre, the whole set for the Maniln-Cobu and least that's true, in Germany Holle service would cost from where marriage burenu statistics Pozos 1.200,000 to Pesos 1,600,000.prove it. More stenographera The Bureau of Posts, however, it and office girls were married than was pointed out, will need an up-cooks and other house servants, propriation of only Peans 1,000,000 st, having already a standing yearly

appropriation of about Peros 300

000.

The equipment will be bought from the United States where ap paratus for sending long distance telephonic messages by cable is be- ing perfected. Permalloy enble. It Is sult, will be used. It will be possible, it was pointed out, to send cable and telephonic messages on the same line with an efficiency

making the analysists of the statis- tics believe that a girl's pay enve- lope in `n greater attraction than her ability to keep house,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928.

Fuller Frocks.

A NEW LUMBER COMPANY.

MILLION PESO SCHEME

IN MANILA

To exploft the lumbar riches of the lalands, several businessmen of Manila, headed by Mr. Deo C.. Chuan, a prominent Chinese have formed a corporation to be known as the Philippine Lumber Manufac turing Company with a capital stock of Pesos 1,000,000 and with principal offices in Manila. In-

beon filed with the bureau of com"" merce and industry, ji

Sheets and pillow slips to match your personality, such as pastel shades of lac and cream for an Ingenue, jade' green' sheets to harmonize with the hair and skin AND HIGHER WAIST-LINES, corporation papers of the firm have

of some Italian boauty, evon black for dignity, and old age.

Dresses have a tendency, It is Can you think of anything said to be made on rather fuller white left anything which has lines, which is, of course, obliga chlored, in declarers? Old-tory, with the continual tread to fashioned, indeed, is the woman wards a higher waistellat. who still clings to white under- wear.

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Youth not so Brave. Judge Bon Lindsey makes an especially interesting: comment in his thought-provoking "Com- panionate Marriage" on the sub- ject of this "free and independent Younger Generation."

The latter, is seldom placed at the norma nebut very slightly below, a style which is much more becoming to the majority of wo men, as-It producça a more grace- ful line, and an effect of greater

alimness...

The Philippine Lamber Maunfac- turing, Company will engage in general timber and lumbor business. It will operate sh

mills in Luzon and other parts of the islands, where big forests are located. For the purposes. of its business, the company may con- struct and operate railways, boats, chips and other means for trang- porting lambor

On the total capital stode of the The very low walat-ling has company, Pasoa 600,000 have al- completely vanished, although ita ready been subscribed and paid in. Onal disappearance was very slow. The following are the incorpora The normal waist-line is seen torn together with the amount Our apparently free and inde sometimes, but this mode in rather each paid of the capital subscrib- pendent Younger Generation are difficult of achievement, asted: Deo C. Chunn, Pesos 228,800; ne more free from this coercion necessitates a return to the old Calixto Dryco, Pesos 131,000; Dy of custom than their elders," he boned carsage, and an 18-inch waist: Fac, Pesos 168,600; Dee Hong Luc. Lucien writes. "It is merely that they

Waistlines are decidedly indica-Pesos 71,600; W. W. Harris,

Watch the Weather. One more beauty tip hurled at usi If we would aspire to be at all well-dressed, chic, beautiful, wo must match our make-up and gowns to the weather.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Acroas.

1.Unite by treaty. 3 Minute openings, 6 Measure of land. 11 Move aside.

ten, times greater than those in Lelong, a designer of French have a different set of customs.ted, on jumper suits, and bolts are Posos 9,800; Francisco Gochinco, ia Congoaled water.

fashions, at present in America; Youth defies the shibboleths of very much in favour with the Pesos 100; and Marcelo Tansenzco, 14 Fertile spots to denorts.

Pesos 100.

Three very Becoming fur

Models.

"HUMAN OSTRICH” DIES.

actual use in the Philippines,

The plan to build a long distance telephone service between Manila and Baguio is understood to have been abandoned as costly and not warranted by the volume of bus- iness between these places.

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The negotiations for the furnish- ing of the equipment with United States firms is reported going on in the hope that the legislature would aet aside the amount needed for its purchase. The bureau of insular affairs whch is in charge of mak- ing purchases requisitioned by the insular government has also been' urged to buy one cableship for the bureau of posts. A cablegram was sent last week. to Gen. McIntyre in- quiring of the progress in the negotiations for the purchase of the ship,

CABLE DEADLOCK.

SEATTLE-JAPAN IDEA ABANDONED.

San Francisco, Jan. 23. Mr. Nowcomb Carleton, presi- dont of the Western Union Tele- graph Co., announced to-day the abandonment of his company's. plans to lay a high speed cable from Seattle to Japan, because of Its inability to meet the demand of the Japanese Government that the Kaodate terminal of the cable he owned and managed by Japanese. Mr. Carleton announced that his company was considering the Bouthern route' for a cable starting at San Francisco and touching Hawaii, terminating at the Phillip- pines.

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Negotiations will also be opened with countries, other than Japan to obtain permission to extend the cable from the Philipines, to Java, and French Indo-Chifu..

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SERIOUS EFFECT ON INDUSTRY REPORTED..

Three striking examples of fur at the peak of fashion (left to right): a muskrat-trimmed cloth wrap; black velvet coat adorned with ermine, and a mink coat.

DYNA

should ងទទ

RAZOR BLADES FOUND IN. STOMACH."

www.

16. Offspring of a black porson and

a mulatto, 18 Grast

20 Colling of boards in a mine,

21 Church dignitaries.

23 Delightful region.

28 Finest.

27 Has existed:

20 Natives of Denmark.

30 Descendant of Mohammed. 82 Equal

34 Repulso,

36 Air.

39 Thin,

43

41 Pipe.

Living. 46 Even. 48 Putrid.

New York, Jan. 20. Sidney Barnes, 51 year old "hu-37 God of love. man ostrich," has died here after an operation in which a cigar box full of bolts, carpet tacks, razor blades, washers and nails was re- moved from his stomach.

For 27 years he swallowed 51 Sayings of notable men. warious articles of hardware as a 52 Weird.

side attraction in efreuses and 53 Consumes. carnivals. Some weeks ago be be- | 54 Awake. camo affilcted with the "stomach 55 Small British duck.·. |acho" and went to a hospital where | · ·

an operation was performed, The articles wore taken from his stomach and at first it was thought he would' recover.

50 White poplar,

•* ̈Down. ·

1 In addition,

2 German geological term

4 Dish of atawed meat. 5 All time.

Preparing for his eating atunt, Barues would consume a loaf of 1.7 Dofraud., bread, a quart of milk and a dozen-8 Bimple, bananas, then after taking on the hardware would drink a gallon, of 20 Metal bouring velas.

water,

"THE TAXI DANCER.”

A TALE OF JAZZ LIFE AT THE STAR.

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0 Bearing weapons,

12-Consumed.

15 Gilder's tool.

17 Lost blood.

19 Days in the ancient Roman en-

leader,

22 Small fresh water fish.

24 Titles.

26 Instrument for measuring angles.

26 An Indo-European.

28 Before (Poet),

181 Spoil.

38 Upright cylinder `of winding

staircase.

84 Part:

85 Guide

$6 Imbecile,

138 Festivity.

40 Plant of the genus Alnu.

42.Choose..

44 Poetry,

45 Local tax.

47 Wild beast's resting place:

48 Dutch liquid moanurea,

49 Business transaction.

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OUR DAILY TALK ON body. This is an indication of

HEALTH:

PERSPIRATION AND ị PHYSICAL CONDITION,

THREE TYPES CLASSIFIED,

the fact that the nerspiration con- trol is not directly in response to heat applied at any given point, but alan by a general nervous mechanism.

The leading player in the chief

The physical condition of the picture at the Star Theatre to-day

individual at various times may and to-morrow, "The Taxi Dancer,"

influence the manner of perspiras is Joan Crawford, who plays tho

tion. It was found that during role of a girl who goes to Broadway

the summer weather, on the day in search of success. She meets

Some people perspire easily and after a heavy drinking bout, or with failure, however, and has to

some all over the body: others when the patient was in a weak- resort to the profession of a "taxi-"| perspire occüsionally and with encd condition after an illness, he say that blonde, for instance, its elders, but it has shibboletha waist an inch below the normal dancer," a girl who is paid so much great difficulty; atill others por- was likely to sweat at a lower orange rouge of its own which are us tyrannous line. Pleats, gathers, and waved per dance. She soon graduates inspire on only small portions of temperature than in winter or un- and crcam powder. "In cloudy na anything it has escaped from. waistlines, the latter dipping in a world of jazz, and there meets the body at any single time. der other conditions. DECLINE IN THE BIRTH weather, but ochre-red rouge and Most young people wear the same the back, are further innovations with many exciting adventures.

RATE.

Hesh powder in bright weather, clothes, they do the same things which will be developed as the Her career culminates happily in Japanese investigators in the When the ability to perspire and that brunettes should use in the same way, and are so scason progresses.¦

marriago with a reformed gambler, physiological laboratory of the easily is high, n vary slight coral rose

rouge and brunette lacking in individual initiative Sleeves are extremely, varied ably played by Owen Moore, whose Manchurian Medical College In stimulus will provoke perspira powder in cloudy weather and and originality in their relations and interesting this season. destiny in little less strange than Mukden made a special study of tion, whereas, if the person does blue rouge and cream powder into each other that I count it one They are long and light for her own.

various persons with a view to not perspire easily, a strong ordinary weather.

of the clearest evidences of the tailored frocks, and in the after-

classifying different tyres of par-stimulus is required, sometimes painful crudity and want of cul- noon frocks they are quite bou

spiration.

the most intense emotion. Mr. J. H. Jackson, Clerk to the ture which are an outstanding fant, and gathered in at the wrist.

The Japanese Investigator characteristic of their present Sometimes sleeves are the chosen West Ham Compensation Authority, People were placed in a room stage of development."

place for decoration, with the rest has sent out two cheques for in which the temperature was listed three types of people in re-

and then the

lation to perspiration: those who of the gown plain. The double £8,305 and £16,348, the amount as-raised rapidly. "I'd Die First!"

sleeves, with an undercuff or purf sessed by the Inland Revenue amount of perspiration in various have little ability to perspire so Youth, for instance, has so in a different material is used on Authority as the sum to be paid areas of the skin was measured. flow of orders, while the Leicester the little machine who are required to cope with the take our buffer time for keeps much to say about the prejudices (rocks; and three-quarter sleeves as compensation for the extinction Profused sweating, all over the that they barely sweat with a very

in repair, spending lunch, hours to tramp of their mothers in the way of are seen on coats, showing the of the licence of "The Angel" body, it was found, could be high temperature: those who around to repair shops, etc. dress. They laugh at their long under cuff of the frock under-public-house, Broadway, Stratford, checked out not only by the sudden sweat very easily and far beyond ard as a result "The Angel" ceased, lowering of the temperature, but any necessary amount, and finally normal people who sweat just when the Excise also by the application of an ice enough to keep their tempera Funniest thing in the world Is skirts and feathered hats and neath.

The hanging, wide cuff, and the In October,

tures regulated normally. the complex "Lime savers" folsted bustles and shirtwaists. But just

try getting any flapper to be brave kind that is tied over the hand, Authority notified that the com- bag to any part of the skin.

People of the first typo should Nervous Control. of £24,653, the Compensation enough to wear a long skirt, long are smart; puffs of a different ponention to be paid was a total of

not live in tropical. countries, underwear, and colton stockings colour, over the elbow, are a good Authority had not so much money In the same way, the heating since heat accumulates in their

alecves, She'd die first, which is all her feature. The slashed.

in hand. The house, accordingly, of any portion of the body may bodies and they are likely to have and inde-with a different colour; or em.

continued to trade until the sum provoke-sweating all over the heat strokos broldered lining, is evidenced.

London, Jan. 13. The decline in the birthrate dur- ing the War period is seriously af fecting the supply of young people In industry.

A Northampton silk Arm says that it has vacancies for 300 girls,

boot, hoe and engineering trades

are also short,

The local Chamber of Commerce has referred the subject to a com- milter for investigation.

An offcial of the Ministry of La- bour suya that the decline in the birthrate is arute now, but the failing-off will be felt more in 1929-30,

Finger Nail Machines. They've now made a "finger nail polishing machine" for busy

can't modern girls who

get time to wield a buffer. So we'!!!

upon us.

Green Sheets.

And did you know that coloured "daring and bravery bed linen is the very latest? !pendence" amount to!

VAPO-HALINE

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

IF MY POP WOULD

LET ME, I'D SELL MY

RELIEF TO

GIVES INSTANT GOLD IN THE HEAD, IN- FLUENZA ETC.

A FEW DROPS ON HANKER- CHIEF OR IN HOT WATER TO BE INHALED FREQUENTLY. Prepared by

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY

14, Queen's Road, O.

Tel. 0. 1877,

DONKEY AN' BUY. MYSELF A NICE

BIG DOG!!

AW-I WOULDAT 'BUY A 'DOG--THEY

ALWAYS GET

FLEAS!!

OA, BUT I'D GET A BLACK DOG AN THEN I COULD KETCH

ALL. TU' FLEAS EASY!!:

was available,

Fleas of Fleeco!

HON D'YA- MAKE THAT OUT?. WHY WOULD FLEAS

BE EASIERTO...... GATCIL ON A

BLACK DOG?

WAY, IF TH DOG 'WAS BLACK ALLTH

FLEAS WOULD BE EASY TO SEE BECAUSE THEYRE WHITE!! SEE!

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WHITE? THERE "AIN'T NO SUCH' JVINGS AS WAITE FLEAS! WHATS

EATIN' AT YOUR?

By Blosser

CH,ZHERE AJAYY, JUAL WHAT ABOUT TAIS....*** MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, 17'S FLEAS

WAS; WHITE AS

SNOW!!!

7 BY NIA LENNICK

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