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Have You Tried This Tonic Treatment For Your Back-Pains?

When the nervous system geta

HONGKONG IMPORTS.

MUCH ACTIVITY IN THE PIECE GOODS MARKET.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929.

The fortnightly Price Current

morco, states:

run-down one of the cominonest and Market Report, published by manifestations of the nervous the Hongkong Chamber of Com- debility which results IA an aching back. When the blood is impoverished it not infrequent. . ly happens that the back muscles become afflicted with those

Cotton Piece Goods.

"The following reports have

rheumatic pains known as lumb. been received:

ago. Many women suffer back-

There has been much activity in

ache at periodical intervals the market since the last report, through reasons other than those named above.

sales having been reported of Brocades, Coloured Stripe and As a remedy for anaemia, or wenk watery blood, and for rheumatic Check Poplins, Shadow Stripe conditions arising from a vitiated Poplins and Limbrica. Deliveries condition of the blood, Dr. W-have fallen away badly, due to the liams' Pink Pills hold a world. lifting of the Japanese Boycott, uj wide record.. Through the blood (considerable quantity of Japanese they build up the whole nervous plocegeeds having been sent up system, and thus have earned country during the last few days. their great reputation as a Norve Tonie. Women everywhere praise them as being a unique specific for the backaches and other Irregularities of health which aflict so many of their sex,

Therefore if you are suffering from back pains due to any equre you owe it to yourself to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial. They will surely do you good, Chemists everywhere sell them, or past free, $1.50 per bottle, $8 for 6 battles, from The Dr. Wil- Jiums Medicine Co., 60, Kinngse Road, Shanghai,

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In the last fortnight cotton has slumped heavily and is cheaper. now than it has been for many months.

Another report states:

Some fairly large orders for cheap quality cutton Brocades, 3 Woven Check Poplins and Shadow Stripe Limbries have been settled. There is more enquiry for cottons for December and January ship- ment and some lines have been offered in Lawns and Art Silk Fancies. Manchester prices are a little easier but this is ofset by weakness of exchange. . herë, | Clearances are difficult on account of tightness of money and fluctua. tion of Canton money, which is [about 30/40% over Hongkong,

Woollens,

Baying of woollens is practical- over and business has be limited to a few small lines..

Cotton Yarn,

1311

The situation of our market has remained unchanged. and. Business has been put through,

Nominal quotations follows: No. 108. $170-188, No. 12. $180-190, No. 16% $190-195, No. 208. $195-200.

Are

Arrivals 200 bales. Shipments Sales 'bil. Unsold Stock 1,100 bales. Bargains 4,700 bales.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

Classle simplicity characterises the modern bridal gown, as witness this exquisite robe in oyster coloured satin beaute, which has an old lace train caught at the hip with a large pearl cubochon, The fine chiffon veit forms a most becoming

„head-ross under which peeps a dainty pearl bandeau.

Novel Furniture.

i

By Shirley Carèw.] The latest innovation in thei bride-playing, world is a set com- prising a take and four ebaive, all of whica folú up easily and futo little s;38(0,

Of black hardwood, ornamented

| "BRINGING UP'FATHER" NOW with painted Chinese designs to

SHOWING.

Beauty for the Eyes.

By Lady Nelsh.}

AClergyman's Views.

NEW VOTERS AND THE HOME.

At the present momout it is a mattor of importance 'lo members of all political parties to know some- thing of what the newly enfranchised women are thinking of the vota

A olorgyman gives bolow the resuļt of an attempt he has made to gain the confidenes of Evo in the matter and the revolutions made are not so Ivory startling after all.

Cortain facts stand out after con- sideration, of the views expressed.

The first is the utter absenco of hostility to mac, and the passionato desire to be allowed to live onco again the normal home life with husband and children that used to bo almost every woman's birthright. And the second is the amazing failure of the young women to realiso that the possession of a vote and it proper une may be effective in bringing about or in hindering the vory conditions they sigh for.

OUR NEW BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

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9 In what position. 11 Indigo shrub. 10 Finished.

12 Cleft.

13 Stretch.

15 Fint-dial.

17 Purport.

20 Care.

21 Confuse,

It is evident that they do not see 23 Alphabetic character. that housing conditions, unemploy-24 Scolded, ment, the cost of living, and, lastly, 29 Not apparent.

20 Spade. wan, which has deprived thousand 30 First man. of women of the homes and hus-

31 Facts. hands they all have had, are all 32 Common singing bird. included in the activities uvered 35 Sea-tortoise, by that much misunderstood word 37 Shure politics,

best way

They do not realise that the very to help the woman who craves for better homes and bettor children was to place her nama on the Voters' List.

(Scot)

of

father's property

43 Evil spirit.

40 Article of footwear.

Oouze,

40 Glossy cloth.

48 Gain an clear profit. 49 Cry of a sheep. It is reassuring to find that home51 Not false

50, Greatest in number. is alii, for woman the supreme in 52. Peculiarity. terest, and this fact alone should 63 Revolt.. Batisfy all those who are fearful as to the results of extending tho franchise to the younger women that her weight will not be thrown on the side of those who advocate' revolu- tionary methods of solving her

A specialist told me everyone should gently massage her eyes. I never do it, for I am afraid of rub- bing them, but if you take a lesson in massaging your eyes I believe it | problems.. will save you congestion from over. tired eyes.

resemble ncquer, in vivid blues!

I exerclag mine. Eye exercises and reds and golds, and fitted with are easy, simple, and beneficial.

Relax, lean back, don't hurry or Parked houses yesterday wit,buuten copper ash trays, the set Bossed the comedy film "Bringing indoor use.

is devised for outdoor as well as frown. Just quietly turn your eyes The Labile is covered to the right-five times-then to Up Father," a celluloid picturiza- with a weatherproof cloth; similar the left, then up and down, then tion of the well-known Amerlear to that used for cars, and painted sideways up and sideways down. newspaper comedy Hirip with mandaria designs, to accord George McManus. Well-produced with those on the chairs. and with a continuity which is ex- cellently arranged, it contains, in pictures and words, much of the intensely human features which have endeared the characters con- ceived by McManus to many newspaper readers.

Jiggs, Maggie, Dintie Moore and the rest of the crowd are all there": seemingly appearing in real life what the author would have of

them in his cartoons,

The same set can be bought in red, and not only is it a convenient novelty serving two purposes, but it brings with it a wave of optimism that Summer days are not in very far away.

The most delightful originality in lighting has just arrived from

Paris.

Rest between each exercise, relax- ing each time. Lastly, screw your yes shut, hold them shut while you count, ten, and release the tension very gently. This will help to keep at bay the lines under your eves in time, but which, happily, can he and the barginans that must come

postponed.

but it will need regularity and It is you who can postpone it,

patience and you must It is in truth a standard lamp,help" and not miracles.

expect but of such unique design that it merits detailed description.

Useful and Charming.

Silver embossed designa necen- "Bringing Up Father," which It is contrived in the form of a tuate the beauty of the shagreen is being again shown to-day can small tree, whose “trunk" is of on the actual cabinet, and Inside [be' recommended as one of the oxklised silver, an are, too, its there are glass shelves all ready best humour-producers of the sea-leaves, Its "fruits" are three to receive cocktail shaker and

creamy globes, fixed realistically glasses. amongst the foliage, and they hold the electric lights.

Sort

WUHAN LEADERS.

COMING DOWN TO.

HONGKONG.

Shanghai, May 6.

It gives excellent Illumination, soft and clear, and stands about three feet in height.

Mirror from Parls.

For the bed-room or the draw-i ing-room nothing could serve suen

a useful and decorative purpose

It would make a charming and useful ornament for almost any entirely of glass.

as this delicate mirror, fashioned

room In the house, and costs.£iG. I has only lately arrived from Some cabinets come and some Paris, and it is hard to do it cabinets go, but those for cock-justice by bare description: Yesterday Hu Tsung-tao, stails go on for ever,

It has a glass frame and la Wel and Tao Chun transferred The most Juxurious and three panelled, with a bevelled Troni a British gunbont at Woo- dalnilest of its kind is one of frame of coloured glass (deep sung to a Hongkong bound ateam-shagreen that is just a convenient blue). Dainty cut glass' screwa finish if off exquisitely, and the They were conveyed to the height on a silver-gilded stand. gunboat" by arrangement with Dolphins' heads form Its feet, effect of the mirror glass, decen-1 Chiang Kai-shek by the British and to accord' there is a heavily tuated by the deep blue trans- authorities at Hankow, with the ornamented drawer in which to parency of its glass frame, is. liquid and distinctly concurrence of the Kwangsi army, keep all the "inebientals" pertain-almost

ethereal. ing to the cocktail.

er.

-Reuter,

Mackenzie 8' Co's

MOSQUITO LOTION

--both a preventive and

a cure,

THE COLONIAL DISPENSARY.

*

13. QUEEN'S ROAD Central

Tel. 0. 1877,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

DON'T TALK TO US ABOUT OSSIE AN' HIS AIRPLANE –– THAT'S A LOT OF APPLESAUCE!!

YEAH THAT THING OF

HIS IS NO MORE A AIRPLANE TUAN I AM........ 7 ONLY WAY IT WOULD FLY IS TO DUT DYNAMITE UNDER

لدون

THEY DON'T THINK SO MUCH OF OSSIE'S AIRPLANE - WE'LL HAVE A HARD TIME SQUARIN' HIMSELF- WITH ALL THE

FELLAS!

•

woman The home-loving cautions. She knows that reforms much as she is waiting for cannot be brought about swiftly, and ale will instinctively suspect those who offer her untried remedies

The jumper of fine wool lace is Lp Mode's present fancy. This model is carried out in cobalt blue wool, with a pale grey suede belt and a pale grey georgette jubot fastened with a blue velvet how.

A Promise?

64 That which discourages.

Down

1 Not here.

2 Morry trick. 3 Tear.

4 More pleasant.

5 Flatfish.

6 Beraft,

7 Go Into,

10

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8 Meshy fruit,

13 Unreliable,

14 Resound.

16 From a datance,

18 Naked.

19 Attempt again.

21 Benighted.

22 Glue.

24 Bendle.

25 Fact.

27 Covered waggon:

29 Conl product.

3 Tidy..

4.

34 Measure of duration.

16 Old English pronoun.

38 Mook.

o, Walk unstendily..

41'Ward off.

42 Fearful,

44 Rain, and snow.

46 Masticated.

47 Heed,

49 Destroy by fire.

Saturday's Solution.

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For the Beat

LOCAL VIEWS

and

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS

Go To MEE CHEUNG

Studio, Ice House Sajna

"THE CROWD." ANOTHER OUTSTANDING

FILM FOR QUEEN'S.

Branch 2: Beaconsfield Arcade"..

The director has cut a cross section from middle class life, and placed it on the screen' in such a manner that millions of picture- goers will, in some character of the King Vidor's great production, cast, recognize themselves. "The Crowd," starring Eleanor The story begins with the life of Boardman and James Murray, will an ambitious

institution

clerk,

more

young be shown at the Queen's Theatre employee of пи from Thursday to Saturday next, which

hundreds bos according to a special advertisement exactly Ilko him. He be- In this issue,

comes enamoured with a shop

The picture takes in backgrounds girl and the two romantically marry from the amusement peers of without thought of the future, Venice, California, to Coney Island, spend a honeymoon at Niagara Includes a honeymoon aequence at Falls, return to New York and fall Niagara Falls, street scenes from into the rut occupied by so many one end of New York City to the young married couples who fail to other, steamer excursions up the emerge from It despite all their Hudson River; and dramatic action puny efforts against the circum- shot against the backgrounds of the stances which life throws about great steel mills of Pittsburgh, them.

The featured roles are played by Pennsylvania, the bir kodak fac tories of Rochester, the Loop dis- Eleanor Boardman, long a popular trict of Chicago and the great screen player, and James Murray automobile manufacturing plants of an "extra" man and "Protege" of

the director of this great picture. Detroit, Michigan.

YOU GOT YOURSELF IN BAD WITH "TH" FELLAS FOR ANAKIN' *THEM YUINK YOUR AIRPLANE COULD FLY WHEN IT CANT AT ALL YOU BETTER GIVE IT TO THE JUNK

MAN

GNE IT TO THE JUNK MAN ?? ANY AIRPLANE CAN'T FLY

??

By Blosser

SAY!! YOU TELL THEM TO COME DOWN TO MULLET'S BARN AN' THEY'LL SEE SOME-

THING... THEY'LL SEE SOMETHING !!

WHAT?

15

OSCAR

REALLY

GOING

TO

MAKE

A

FLIGHT

FOR

THE

BOYS

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