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MRS. DE LEMOS RESTORED TO HEALTH BY POO ON CHINESE HERBS.

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Suffered from Complication of Discase-Several Doctors Fail to Relief-Poo On Chinese Herbs Give Immediate Relief- Now Well and Strongly Recom- mends This Simple Treatment to Friends.

.plication of many

THEATRICAL. PUBLICITY.

THE WRONG KIND FOR BUSINESS.

(By Edgar Wallace.)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

he is intruding and taking part In la private quarrel,

Also the publicity apolla tha. illusion of the theatre. Miss Twinkletoes is no longer beautiful Mary, the squire's daughter, but just Miss Twinkletons, who is tak ing the place of a lady who has quarrelled with the management.

SATURDAY, MAY

KING JOHN -FORESTALLED.

GREAT CHARTER OF 2,000 YEARS AGO.

LAWS OF SHEBA..

Now York, Apr. 29. Examination of an Inscribed

Arabla revcala that Shoba was the stone record found in Southern first limited constitutional mon- Constitution in a remark- archy. It "foreshadowed the Bri- tish able fashion, "Professor James A. Montgomery, of the Pennsylvania University, informs the American Philosophical Society.

This ancient "Parliamentary

Probably it belonged to a period document" of Sheba is undated. considerably later than that of the Queen of Sheba called "Bal- Solomon early, in the 10th century kia" or "Maqueda," who visited

the theatre; every management in London wanted me to release mem-B.C. bers of my cast-they applied for each one separately about three times over!

where

Even amicable reshufflings of cast produce most unpleasant effects. I have a very high regard for When Robert Loraine had an offer Mro. J. K. De Lemos, who re Press agents, possibly because for to produco films, and left the cast | oldes at 618 Sixteenth-street,

nine months I was one myself. of "The Man Who Changed His Modesto, California, U.S.A., suf-But the good Press agents can be Name, there was no sensational fered for many years from a com-numbered on the Angers of one quarrel to intereat the public. discases, hand. They are peculiarly interest Nevertheless, on the bare announce Doctors told her she was suffering ing and hard-worked people, whement that a change was taking from heart and lung trouble are expected to perform miracles. place, business dropped with a thud. To make matters worse, it happen- After trenting with several That in part those miracles are ed just before holiday week, when doctors she finally decided to try performed at all is due entirely to theatrical business drops naturally. the Poo On Chinese Herbs. She the extraordinarily generous at I knew too much about the busi- says: "I treated with severaltitude which the Press Adapts to ness of the Press agency to want doctors, but none seemed to give wards theatrical ventures,'

reads any reference made to the change me any permanent relief. I had From time to time one been suffering for a long time bitter out-bursts on the part of dia- at all, but when an actor of Itobert with entarch of the head, indlees-appointed managements against Loraine's importance goes out of a tion, gastritis, constipation, the

tyranny and unscrupulous cast, it is impossible that the fact should not be known. People nervous headacho and bronchial vindictiveness of Fleet-street. To asthma; and also suffered severe say that any bad play would have thought the play was coming off pains in my cheat, my heart also run, if it had not been for the was inundated with offers for giving me much trouble with notices, in as ridiculous as to sug- pains and at times seemed to stop gest that a cab horse would have beating, which seemed to give nie won the Derby if the Press writers fainting and smothering spells. I had been unanimous in praising could not eat anything that would him.

A Two-edged Axe.. 'not give me distress, turning sour Managers have a childlike faith

Another error that is made all and forming much gas. I started in the power of the printed word. the Poo On Chinese Herb treat-They believe that if their play can too frequently is that the wide an ment just in time to save my life. only be mentioned in newspaper nouncement that the Censor has I now consider myself well and paragraphs, business will auto banned a play gives the plece an am much stronger, and gaining matically follow. They are easily especial value when the ban is overy day. I am able to take care outraged and depressed by uncom-lifted. The other day a gentle of my household work and can plimentary references to the goods man announced his intention of put- work around the yard without the which they are offering for sale: ting on a drama, in which there least discomfort. This eure has they are unduly clated by extrava-was a sensational scene been simply wonderful in my case gant praise, even though they may a lady is stripped to the waist and and I have recommended the Poo know the praise is wholly unde-nearly burnt with a real red-hot On Chinese Herb Treatment to served, and will not be endorsed by iron. Whether the Censor objected several of my friends who are re-the theatre-going public after per- to the lady's decollete or to the

som inspection.

realness of the red-hot iron, is not explained. colving the most excellent results.

Spolling the Illusion. The truth is that certain kinds The result of this wide advertise of publicity are very bad indeed ment is that, when the play is for the theatre, and particularly for eventually passed, and the lady, de- the play which has induced that cently attired in an artificial sük Thousands suffering from publicity. The theatre-going pub-nightie, is burnt by a property Catarrh, bronchial troubles, throat lie is curiously sensitive to the at-iron, the people who would have When it been thrilled if no fuss had been and lung trouble, cough, taber-mosphere of a theatre. culosis of asthma, hay fever, is announced in the public Press, made about the burning will yawn malaria, stomach trouble, in- with or without sensational head-and be disappointed. digestion, constipation, gas-lines, that "Miss Blossie Highkick tritis, piles, diarrhoea, fintula, is leaving the cast of The Blue- they're missing. And never, never nosed Baboon' owing to a quarrel take the trouble to explain that an insomnia, obesity,

with the management as to whether act of any kind isn't as good as it kidney, bladder trouble, Bright's he shall wear stockings or appear might have been, owing to that in- Cromer. It is diabetes, rheumatism,

in her own natural and shapely terfering man, neuralgia, dropsy, pyorrhea, legs unadorned by silk covering stupid to dash into print and tell epileptic fits, paralysis, dizziness, and that "Miss Dolly Twinkletoen the public "We were going to show headaches and many other chronic taking her place," it is quite pos- you something awfully good, but to be diseases, have been restored to sible that the news will thrill a anfortunately you have Health and happiness without section of the public, who take a satisfied with a pale imitation." poisonous drugs or the knife by morbid interest in the covering of

All publicity that concentrates the Poo On Chinese Herba, legs, and that It will inspire upon a stunt or some special fen- enthusiasm in the breasts of Mise ture of a play is bad. The stunts Twinkletoes' followers. They will in "The Spider" killed it, as I res- irather on the first night to how) pectfully suggested they would, be

·YEE FOO LUN, Chinese Herb-a welcome, and scenes of the fore the play opened. They killed

alist, Managing Director. greatest enthusiasm may follow the "The Last Warning." Over Twenty-five years prae-final curtain fall; but the average tical experience In America man and woman tokdes aside the curing the sick with Chinese paper and says, with a groun, "Oh, Lord! Don't let us see this show" Herbs.

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Professor Montgomery, indeed, expresses the belief that the new- ly discovered legislativo. enact- ment of Sheba in South Azabia took place not long before the Christian era.

Besides anacting fundamental laws for the realm of Sheba, the document states that the will of the Legislature or representa- tives of the Estates of the King- dom-will have equal force with the decrees of the King of Sheba. As in Simon de Montfort's Day.

The record ordains that the law shall be published "so that he who asks shall find out." This is regarded as a remarkably early anticipation of the English prin- ciple...

Since the document refers to two earlier meetings of the Par- lament, it is considered as in- dieating that the constitutional system of government was established.

well

I asserts the rights of the EB- tates of the Realm with a vigouri the Bill of Rights, and it refers like that of the Magna Charta or to the "submission and devotion"

Throughout the text there are! references to two orders of the realm-roughly, the nobles and the commoners.

of Parliament to the law.

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