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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1928.

WOMAN'S WORLD

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Lord Rosebery's gift of rare books to the Scottish National Library brings joy to the heart of every student of literature and of antiquities. In most cases the joy Is tinged with a shadow of regret that, though the scholar live a hundred years, he can probably never hope to read them all. That is a regret which grows with' thei years, as every book-lover knows.

In early youth books are the doorway to wonderful new worlds. Baths atretch in numberless direc tions, each enticing in greater or less degree to the young reader. Gaily he follows whichever appeals to him the most, choosing light-heartedly enough. "Plenty of time for the rest, another day,” he says, for one of youth's greatest possessions is the sense of plenty of time ahead. It is when middle age is looming on the

WHAT TO DO WITH THAT OLD CABIN TRUNK horizon that he wakes up with a

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jolt to realise that time is precious, Much of it already has gone past never in his whole life can he follow all those book-paths that

A glimpse into an old-fashioned English garden.

tantalise his vision. He must Cleaning the. Curios. Cleaning Kid Gloves.

give up the dream of wholesale conquest, and concentrate on one

or two with a definite goal. That,, SOME USEFUL HINTS ON THE

at least, would be the counsel of perfection, and probably it is the

SUBJECT,

TWO USEFUL METHODS EXPLAINED.

While the general cleaning, of Light kid gloves are a necessary course adopted by the world's a room presents fow pitfalls, only extravagance to complete some greatest scholars and its most proven methods should be employ- toilettes, but are expensive items of successfully men.. They devoured in the freatment of objcia d'urt dress, as they quickly soil and con- the books that help them along or irreparable damage may result.tinually require cleaning. To be Ivory may be washed in tepid elegant, they must be immaculate; their own particular Hue. To the water with plain yellow soap, anothing looks worse than dirty, rost they resolutely shut their soft brush being used to remove shabby gloves. minds.

Horizontal

1 Who invented the gasolino motor

for the automobile?

@ What tunnel pierces the Con-

tinental Divide near Denver?

12 String of railway cars,

14 Foolish act.

15 At one time,

10 Individual root stock of a illy.

of the valley.

18 Ball of medicine.

10 Stald.

21 Printer's measure.

23 Commenced,

25 Measure of area.

20. Region.

27 Bartered.

28. Near,

29 Lattice work,

32 Correlative of either.

35 Shiny silk.

37 To satiate.

40' To knock.

41 Verbal.

43 Lubricated.

45 The first part.

46 What great English admiral

was killed in the Battle of Trafalgar?

47 What famous Roman general conquered Gaul and Britain?

Vertical.

1 Who was the first attorney- general under the Coalidge administration?

2 Sea engle.

3 Decorative mesh.

4 To perish.

5 Half an em.

7 Preposition.

8 Fashion,

To flutter.

dirt from intricate carving, and For cleaning white kid gloves, INSURANCE TEST CASE|

finally rinsed, dried, and polished one excellent method is: Take a

The dilettante rauder hins with a chamola leather. If the handful of flax seed, add a little CHILD ENDOWMENT POLICY much more entertaining time, | ivory is stained it should, after dissolved toilet agap, and boil,

ILLEGAL. | nibbling at books of every known washing, be rubbed with a little making a thick mucilare: When

as before.

110 Every.

11 Who was the tenth president qe

the United States?

13 What strait connects in the Modi

forranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean?

10 Blue grass.

17 House cat.

19 Heavenly bodies.

20 Amber,

22 Verb of permission.

23 To place

24 Dower property.

26 Stir.

28 What essayist is alleged by some

people to be the author of Shab

130 CB works?

of hearing,

31 Part of the mouth,

33 King.

[34 'Register' of electors,

38 Coloured portion of the og0.

38 Falsehood.

39 Afirmative.

41 Rock containing metal.

42 Eucharist vessel.

44 To accomplish.

46 Dad.

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variety, tasting now philosophy, salt and vinegar, or salt and the mixture cools, put the gloves on Mr. R. A. Griffith, the Merthyr now science, and now the realms lemon juice, and rinsed and dried the hands, and rub them with a Stipendiary Magistrate, gave judg of fantasy.

piece of white flannel wet with the ment recently on a novel point aris- I heard a comforting saying the

Marble statuary should be mixture. Care should be taken ing out of an endowment policy of Insurance for £128, granted by the other day (says a writer) for washed with plenty of clean, warm tot to wet the gloves through. those who suffer heartache be- water and soap which must be A second method:-Take a fine, City of Glasgow Friendly Society cause they cannot find the time to free from grit, a small brush be-dean, soft cloth, dip it into a little In respect of a child. read all those lovely hooks that ing employed for the crevices. sweet milk, then rub it on a cake It was stated to be in the nature) dapgle just out of their reach. It The soap should be thoroughly of soap, and well rub the gloves of a test case.

The policy, he anid, purported toj was to the effect that human rinsed off and the marble polish with it; they will look like new

secure a certain sum payable at the thought, as expressed in hooks, ised with a chamols ieather when again.

fixed perlod, but To clean any coloured kid gloves, expiration of n not limitless, and the same thought dry. If it has becomes discolour-

insured person is necessarily many times repented ed, the following treatment will pour a little benzene into a basin, the company had reckoned on the in the world's literature. Who be effective paste made of and wash the gloves with it, rub-possibility of the ever, therefore, has read one hook 1 oz. of powdered chalk, 1 oz. of bing and squeezing them until dying before the end of the period; If very dirty, they must be and in order, no doubt, not to dis- thoroughly has read more than powdered pumice stone, and 2 oz. clean.

with benzene and courage business, they had inserted one. He sliares the thoughts that of sodu, pounded together, passed well washed run through many others. through a sieve, and made into rinsed in a fresh supply. Hang up a clause providing for the repay

Why do people read? To cata-be spread over the marble and these

a paste with boiling water, should in the fresh air to dry. Any of ment of 90 per cent. of the contri-]

methods are simple and butions at death,

It was contended on behalf of the Jogue their reasons would be allowed to remain overnight, be effective,

defence, he said, that this was long task. There are those who ing Gually washed off, and the

subsidiary to the main purpose of read in search of truth such as the marble polished as before. An

the policy, that there was no con- scientists in all their branches.alternative paste, which should be sponged with a little anion water. tract of assurance, and that the re Other readers are in quest of used in the same manner, may be This can be prepared by removing payment of premiums was a mere beauty, like the poets and the made of equal parts of pearl ash the skins of two or three onions, act of grace on the part of the artists. Others, again, say thut and whiting.

bolling them in about a pint of society. they rend purely for amusement or

A Oil paintings should be thor-water, and straining through "I think, however, that the docu- whole," to pass the time, but they too, perourly rusted, sponged lightly fine strainer. It should be used ment must be looked at as hapa unconsciously, require sonic am! quickly with Juke-warm while warm.

he added, "and the questions I have standard, either of truth or beauty, water, and finally dried with a Bronze ornaments should be to consider are whether the society in the books they choose. It may chamois leather. This treatment dusted with a muslin or silk incurred a legal obligation to pay be a high or a low standard: that is only suitable for paintings with duster, a soft brush being used a sum of money on the death of is another matter.

a perfect coating of varnish, and for ornamental parts. If very the child, and whether the sum is Books to some are a means to in, no circumstances should soap soiled, they may be sponged with in excess of the maximum per- an end. They will be amused by be used. English gilt frames, stale beer, and polished with a mitted by the Friendly Societies

a soft leather when dry.

Acts, which, in the case of a child, them, or they are the means of after being dusted with

Mirrors that have be sme over six and under ten is £15. I gaining knowledge. To others brush or silk handkerchief, may be they are an end in themselves:-gently washed with a fine sponge smeared may be rubbed over with hold that this policy is in part an: moistened with equal quantities a paste consisting of fine whit insurance on death, and a breach of "A book of verses underneath of methylated spirits and water, ing and methylated spirits, which Section 84 of the Friendly Socie-

and dried with a leather.

should be wiped off when dry and ties Act."

He imposed a penalty of £5, and Gilding which has become dis- the mirror polished with a chamois said he would be happy to state a Ne. 313, Top Floor, Wyndham St. coloured will be improved if leather,

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