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THE "HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

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Now On

Kowloon Dispensary.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME

TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

DOMESTIC

THERE ARE MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO LIGHTIEN CUBIC FEET STORAG CAPACITY,

OVER

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

DAY BY DAY.

- WE ALWAYS WEAKEN WHEN WE

EXAGGERATE.-La Harpe.

A TIME TO

Thoughts on

SEW.

Neglected: Art.

crisia, and they cannot expect a great deal of sympathy in their plight. They must have been fully aware of the dangers of the sftun tion, and they have been just as kuilty of reckless speculation na It.is notified that the name of their clients. Some of them no the Lee Wing Company, Limited,

It pleases me to have the appro- posses a full share. I do not see doubt, encouraged the gamblers has been struck off the Register.

bation of him who is styled "the how it could well be otherwise. with tales of possible substantial

Twelve pages of the current Preacher" for the all-too-neglected

Of the emotions that attend tho Issue of the Government Gazette art of sawing. Though given with monetary guins.

somewhat perfunctory and gentle art of sewing it may be in- There is a lesson in these hap-are devoted to the Standing Ora

sanction of a high authority for that of honest pride in work well penings for Hongkong, especially ders of the Legislative Council. lugubrious gosture, still it is the ferred that the most common is now that forward transactions

As they have ceased to practise a humble feminine craft. I recall done whether the work be merely have been resumed on the local Ex-in the Colony, the names of Mr. what mingled incredulity, surprise mending or of the highest form. and delight attended my discovery known to needlecraft. She who change. This is that brokers, in A. N. Lucey and Mr. W. E. Douglas of his statement in the seventh can make old clothes look almost their own interests, should see to have been removed from the list verse of the third chapter of his as well as now has been duly Book of Ecclesiastes. Sew! Was celebrated in verse as she has Sew! Surelyjevery right, to be; her feelings are I reading aright? it that ample margin is forthcom

The name of Dr. Shi Man-wal, I was mistaking it for the more essentially poetical and may rise Jug-in other words, that they

Medicine and favoured and familiar Scriptural to uncommon heights, especially should eschew dealing with people Bachelor of

The mending of a glove or the who obviously are mere specula Bachelor of Surgery of the Univer- word," "sow." But no; it was in when the service is one of love. sity of Hongkong, has been added deed the domestle verb and not

fronted 'me. It was the gentle, reflect n lyric mood, and is apt to tors hoping to make money with to the register of medical prac-its agricultural homonym that con-replacing of a button may well hearth-side task that the homilist be accompanied by a spontaneous nut paying any out. It is equally titioners.

¡Song of the Shirt represents an The forthcoming wedding is un- here assigned to. Its proper time loutburst of joyous song.. Hood's necessary that clients should steer clear of all but absolutely reput-nounced of Mr. Donald Skinner, and season under the heaven.

"A time to rend, and a time to abuse which it helped to abolish. According to my own observations fear nasistant marine superintendent, able brokera. There was a

Coward appointed works of mankind. To Mias Mabel Musgrave

is a proud happiness comparable- Calton, of Lane Cove, N.S.W., aowing, or planting as it is written forming of all kinds of needlework residing at Harbour View, Chatham here, is assigned a leading place with that inspired by the pursuit in the series, several counts above. However it is not evident that the of the so-called fine arts; nor am I convinced that the higher in the

of authorised architects.

at one time that the December residing at the Peninsula Hotel, to [sew," said he in enumerating the the prevailing reaction to the per-

Settlement in Hongkong would be difficult of adjustment, but it seems that matters have been more or less satisfactorily arranged, al-

Rond, Kowloon.

The Health Bulletin of Eastern order is significant, nor am I consthetic scale the work is, the

DODWELL &Co., Ltd. though not without the aid of sewing in-21st shows the following caues receives recognition and homage-

Sale.

ENE

THE NEW

Sole Distributors

The

JIYA

VICTOR RECORDS Hongkong Telegraph.

for DECEMBER.

Including Two New Musical Masterpieces

Album No. 60

Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) (Wayner} Complete on 18 Double-Faced Records (and with explanatory folder)

By World Famous Wagnerian Singers and Orchestras.

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Bizet's Famous Opera

"CARMEN"

Complete on 17 Double-Faced Records

(and with explanatory folder)

By Famous Artists and Orchestra of Opera Comique

"

Paris.

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CHATER KOAD.

Liverly Bennett Hats

Lineon

Bennell

HATS

There is no better hat for style, finish; material, workman- ship and wear than a Lincoln Bennett.

We have now a large and up-to-date stock of these premier hats, May we fit you?

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Men's

ear Stylists.

SATURDAY DEC. 28, 1929.

SHARE GAMBLING.

Despite an obvious

of

сане,

cause

=

a stitch, say I, whether plain or funcy.

131. Kome promissory notes

of infectious diseases: Plague of a kind-from a man of wisdom therefore,

and letters.

Certainly if I were a collector of stances. Fortunately,

Alexandria 4 deaths, Baghdad 1

Brontenna I would take delight in Hongkong is in no such plight as case. Cholera, Calcutta 40 cases

Rangoon .1

specimens of That this gentle art is often assembling some Shanghai is. But there is increas- 28 denths,

exquisitely #mail 6 deaths, саяся Tuticorin 32 ing need for caution. We com- Bangkok 1 case, From Penh 2 scorned and disdained by the guild Charlotte's

the collecting of the.. mend that thought to brokers and cases 2 deaths. Small-pox, Ber- of letters I believe needs no exposi-stitches holding it to be not far

bera 1 came 4 deaths. Baghdad 3tion from me. I am reminded of beneath clients alike.

cases 3 deaths, Bombay 19 cases It only too frequently as I make exquisitely hand-printed "ttle casca 5 excursive glimpses into the books books and magazines" now being 11 denths. Calcutta 7

Yorkshire moors,

While deaths, Karachi 2 cases 4 dentlis, about me. In the work of a well returned to their former home on

7. deaths, known writer which I otherwise the Madras

admire highly I find auch heresy stitches may not vle with literary deaths. Moulmein 3 enses

two arts. Rangoon 1 case, Batavia, 1 case, as this: "All forms of needlework products in general interest they

of the evil one for keeping the tionship between the Belawan Dell 1 case, Canton of the fancy order are inventions may often reveal a curious rela- foolish from applying their, heart That they may be graphic to a high degree is proclaimed by the ease; Shanghai 2 deaths.

to wisdom."

wonderful Bayeaux tapestries to e That a woman should so believe whose makers historians do not and write seems rank, rebellion to hestitate to acknowledge their the womanly traditions. Yet again

Nunking and Extrality,

The political clique holding the reins of Government in Nanking is apparently determined to in- dulge in a tilt nyith the leading: anxiety foreign Powers. Late last night

27

cases

EXCHANGE RATES.

in certain quarters to minimise it was announced that an emer- the serioueness the posi- geney meeting of the Central:

increasingly Political Council had decided upon Paris tion, It becomes

Amslerdam apparent that a grave crisis lins the issue of an official mandate Brussels

Berlin been experienced in sharebroking on New Year's Day, unilaterally

abolishing the system of extrater- Copenhagen. circles in Shanghai. The factsritoriality. Thus have all doubts Vienna

Helsingfora on this point been removed. Un-Athens which we published yesterday of the frenzied happenings on ""Black til now it was thought possible Rio Monday," backing up, as they do, that the earnest, representations Bunny

Hong Kong our own correspondent's, message of the most interested countries New York of Tuesday last, are sufficient to migin prevail, that ordinary com. Geneva, establish that point, So serious monsense might become a factor, Stockholm was the situation that it became and that China would necessary to suspend certain mem-template action bers of the Stock Exchange, and, while a generous offer of sym-Bucharest

pathetic consideration had opened Buenos Aires in view of the fact that nothing the depr to negotiation. A min-Shanghai

Yokalama like a real settlement could be ef-placed sense of dignity has in- Silver (pat) fected, it has been decided to hold stend dominated the Chinese out- Silver (forward) an extraordinary meeting of the Exchange on Tuesday next, when the question of dealing with de- faulters will be gone into and de- cisions reached regarding the pos- sibility of further action to assist

mullers.

Forward dealing is obviously res ponsible in the main. The system of forward transactions, of course, is perfectly legitimate and defensible, within limits. It is a common-

Milan

not con- Oklo RO ill-advised Prague Lisbon

I find the editor, or rather the indebtedness. Petit point proves London, Dec. 27. editrens, of Dorothy Wordsworth's serious rival of purely descrip- tive writing whether in poetry or .123.85 Journal speaking slightingly. of prose..

A sampler, however crudo, has a 34.855 the numerous entries regarding 12.08% the mending of William's shirts higher emotional value than

20.385

and boldly deleting them as un-copy-book. It seems with its re- .18.10

34.0 worthy of a gifted sister's pen-curring and varied patterns to helong rather to the category of .194% and the reader's attention.

formal verse. Indeed, I should

.375 57/10 Holiday

.4.88 7/32 .25.005

4

Now I held with neither the hardly be less proud of producing scorner of fancy needlework nor an artistic one than of producing the disdainer of plain mending. fan equally meritoritloue odn or muat believe that sewing in all sonnet. Some quilts with their 93.25 its branches has its appointed dollente repetition, of colour and 18.10 place under the sun and that not pattern are suggestive of the .18.10 for beneath letters but rather triolet, the rondeau or the vil 164% somewhere close beside them and lanelle, and are remembered with 108.20 often happily conjoined with them. no less delight. As for the gar

.817 It likewise is a type of artistic maents of infants with their in- .46 11/16 expression. Even in its humblest finitesimal stitching, what poem .2/0 shirt-mending and sock-darning surpaases them in tendernens of 2/03/32 phase, which is clearly the one feeling?

Even more striking resemblances 22 indorsed by the lugubrious Pres-

to the enthusiastic .22 3/16

cher, it may prove not only utili-may occur

sho plies her Wirrican.

(arian but highly inspirational. needleworker as Instead of being cause for apolo. pleasant task beside the blazing gin, it may be the source of that hearth. I offer these merely for race what they are, not expecting them

to prove overpersuasive with the. goes marching on. of the manylate will end the matter, LADY HEATH TO PAY. very power by which the

Let cditors disdain it as they acornful. For if they heed not the the lenders are amazingly optimis-

our dear Miss much less they heed me who fic. It will be only the beginning. HUSBAND'S AMPLE PROVISION. Will, I know. this to be true. In much it will scriptures, how The hearing was concluded by Mitford 'I must account all needle-have no alluring book titles to Bench Division recently, of the prepares the heart for wisdom and Nevertheless I venture to qualify

look in their handling of the grave problems involved.. If, however, Nanking anticipates that the Issue

Nothing is more certain than that the Powers will vigorously resist

into

which have

convinced

-British

place of ordinary commercial trans-covering litigation between Chiappearance, nor was sho

common

with

wisdom..

At the back of the crisis, of unilateral action of this kind Mr. Justice Talbot in the King's work to have a soothing effect that offör along with my course, as is usually the case when which strikes at the heart of action in which Sir James Heath, Bong. After the day's stint with the words of the wise one accord- these upheavals secur, is unhealthy every provision made for the safe- now living at Hill-street, Picca the pen or the typewriter, or aught ing to my conviction: "a time to and reckless speculation, attribut- | ty of foreigners living and trading dilly, W., and his wife, Lady else for that matter, it is a restful dew" follows as Jogically and as able to the get-rich-quick spirit. in Chinar We need not again go Heath, the nir-woman-who is at and refreshing task. With the properly after a day of literary present in America were sued by setting of repeated careful stitches composition as after "s time to the various circumstances Christabel Russell, Ltd., dress- and the handling of pleasing rend," and is made doubly enticing the by the presence of a fluent reader.

at the hearthaide: every makers, of Curzon-street, Mayfair, colours and materials and

F. H in the Christian Science foreign resident and every foreign W., for £239 88., money alleged to development of artistic shapes Government of China's unreadi- be due for cloaks and gowns sup and designs comes that repose Monitor.

for the new day-and incidentally nean for the abolition of extrality,plied to the order of Lady Heath. from which springs the strength Lady Heath did not enter an the thought for the new page. The mere issue of a code of law

repre- Under the happiest circumstances sented. netions, and it is difficult to see how

nese and foreigners. Is not suffi- business can be conducted without cient. There must be

Sir Jamek Heath, in his defence, Bome as denied liability. the operation of some such system.surance of impartiality, some Mr. Justice Talbot, giving judg-

Curiously 1 find this calm, con- The mischief is, when we come to guarantee of non-interference by ment, said that he was clearly of dabbling in shares, that all too often politicians or military chiefs in opinion that Sir James Heath did structive atmosphere prevailing not authorise his wife to buy these wherever sewing is being done. the stock which is "bought" and the decisions of judges, some scan-goods on his credit. Sir James Machines instead of dimming.or seem rather to destroying it "sold" never really exists. Then blance of justice, Instead of copy made effective and ample provi- again, as happened in Shanghai, book maxims regarding China'ssion, assented to by the wife accent it by their pleasant, whir- people who are known to be unable sovereignty. If we needed another which he (the Judge) could not ring songs that are not unworthy daubt was intended to enable Lady rivals of the melodious spinning illustration of matters of the high- Heath to provide for her personal songs of old days. A roomful of est importance, we have it clearly expenses.

machines at work is not, as might

the work and the thought may be WHO WAS. pursued quite independently of cach other.

to meet an adverse situation, are accommodated by certain types of

in the objections to the appoint. "I find therefore," said Mr. Jus- be thought, disconcerting but brokers, and, when" the time of

ment of Mr. Obata as Japanese tice Tulbat, "that she was not Sir even provocative to meditation; in reckoning comes, they are faced Minister to China. Nanking re- James's agent to order these goods, fact, the garment and the shoe with real trouble. We are told that fuses to accept his credentials be- and, she had no authority from factories that I have known have him to do so. There will, there-offered in my estimation a truly in Shanghai ellents purchased on cause, apparently,, he had some fore, be judgment for Sir James Ideal environment for posts. I have looked somewhat longingly "margin, or without any margin at connexion with the presentation of Heath." all, shares running into tens of the Twenty-One Demands. The Mr. R. K. Chappell, K.C., for on the busy, skillful, happy thousands of trels. Thus is the objection is, of course, untenable, Christabel Russell, Ltd., asked for operators and indeed dreamed of emulating them were. I permitted system abused, and thus is con- and Japan has let it be known judgment against Lady Heath.

Mr. Justice Talbot-I hope you that privilege. fusion created. How badly some of that she will sever diplomatic re-will succeed in getting the money

True, the only poerd that lations entirely rather than sub-out of this lady.

recall as having derived from such the brokers were hit may bo

mit to such a deliberate rebuff. Mr. John Hortin, a member of a setting was written by a glove- gathered from the fact that

We forecast an extremely busy the firm of solicitors acting for the worker, or perhaps a former glove- one Was prepared to Bell

time for Dr. C. T. Wang in the plaintiffs, gave evidence that he worker, whose activities on behalf bcen for Tis. 3,000, in cash, promissory next few weeks.

took out a writ in the action for of organized labour have service on Lady Heath in America. duly chronicled by the press and notes to the face value of three

He had received the writ back with whose charming lyric is to be lakhs which he had been compelled. to take. Mombers of the Ex- The solicitors for the liquidaan affidavit of service from an found in certain anthologies of

modern verse. However, I needs, American representative.

Mr. Justice Talbot gave judg must suspect that hidden among change who had so readily accom-tors of the Hongkong Develop-

ment, Building and Savings ment against Lady Heath for the the ranks of the amalgamated modated men of straw are now

Society, Ltd., notify that legal £289 8s, claimed by the plaintiffs garment-workers of the world are reaping the results of their folly.roceedings, will be instituted, and made an order for her to pay portfolios containing no less They have, without any doubt xainst contributorics whose calls the costs in the action, including worthy and inspiring poems. Ar

the costs payable by the plaintiffs for "mute, inglorious Millons,"

believe the needle.. trades to been instrumental in creating the remain unpaid on December 81et, to Sir James Heath.

I

SWEET ANNE PAGE?

Anne Page, daughter of one. of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was wooed by three suitors Dr. Cafus, an eccen- tric and tempestuous French- man; Slender, a most exquisite idiot from the countryside, who calls her the sweet Anne. Page" and Fenton, the young man of her heart.

Cain's and Slender each. have the support of one or the. other of Anne's parents, and both parents arrange for the. rival of their choice to carry: off Anne Page during the mid- night 'revels in Windsor Park, when Sir. John Falstaff is 'to' undergo his last punishment,. Although priests are com- missioned, both plans are frustrated, Cains and Slender finding themselves "married" to a pair of lubberly, boys, after which Anne and Fenton come charging upon the scene to inform Anne's parente of their marriage. Both Page and his wife accept their respective defents with a good grace, and although Shake- speare does not inform un further, there can be no doubt. that Fenton and Anne lived happily ever after