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MENTHOLATUM

My

Head Is Splitting

Rub MENTHOLATUM gently on your temples and forehead, You will immediately feel the cooling. soothing effect and gradually the pain will stop.

MexTOLATU, healing and cooling, is a safe remedy for neuralgia, celda, cuta, bur, skin cruptions and insect bites. Beware of ftatfors,

By Mary!_Waremores ad Ascombe (1 274

JEYES

FLUID

THE

BESTE

DISINFECTANT

Obtainable from

ALL THE LEADING CHEMISTS, STORES AND PROVISION DEALERS.

Brand

New

Pianos

For

Sale

or

Hire.

CHINA'S NEW TARIFF.

MANY DUTIES-MORE THAN DOUBLED.

Shanghai, Dec. 30.

A closer examination of the 647 Items of the new Chinese Import tariff schedule shows that the

In-

creases and decréance are irregu- tum

nr. Luxuries, howover, in somb cases suffer prohibitive increasca,

particularly such curly Chi

nese delicacies as which

Ans,

have been increased two and a half times. Bird's nests have been

nearly doubled; and ediblo seaweed increased one and

half times.

Canned goods, James and butter have been doubled, while duties en luxury foodstuffs generally are up from thirty to 100 per cent.

Medical opium, cocaine, mor phine are increased from 12% to

20 per cent.

Brown sugar under elevens is increased from 1.01 gold units to

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

WOMEN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

"BED-MAKING

FIENDS."

Hospital Patients' Sleep.

If ever there laa bed-making contest, it will indubitably be con- tested by the nurses of a certain hospital. I know, because I have Here is a typical pro- suffered. gramme of a bed-patient in my

word:--

Kro

1.90, whites elevens to seventeens 4.30 am- All and sundry is now 2.40 gold units, over eigh-roused from alumber, given a eup teens 2.90 gold units, cube fond of steaming tea, and ignominious- 9.70 gold units, sugar candy 6.80 ly turned out of bed whilst the their worst. Kold units, (the gold unit being might equal to 19.7265 pence, 40 cents From top to bottom the Toar- gold, and 995 guilders), molasses justers are overhauled, with the peevish patient 10 per cent and unenumerated 25 result that the

fier cent.

Beer and stout henceforth will be 50 per cent ad valorem, gia, rum and unenumerated wines 50 per cent.

AcVen

Duties on cigarettes and cigars are increased

fold, All materials and apparatus used in the tobacco industry will hence forth be subject to 50

per

cent

duty.

On the other hand chemicnis show few increases and some re- ductions.

Carolene

and kerosene are slightly reduced. For obricants in some cases the duty has been halved.

Paper gonorelly suffers ten to 20 per cent Increase, Woodpulp ban been more than halved.

Laumber shows slight increases and

decreases. Glassware has been doubled.

nurses

goes back to cold sheets. If he is a newcomer, he consoles himself| with the thought that he can still have four hours sleep before breakfast.

Alas, for his hoper! At 630 the nurse taps his cherk and takra:

He settles in his temperature. to rest, only to awake and and the diligent night nurse fucking the cntbes about him, before going off! duty about half-past seven.

They

Then come the day staff. begin the day well by Tumbling beneath the mattress for the white bedspread, which they draw ap over the I was nearly going toj say sleeper.

•

follows..

Ductors

Breakfast usually follow breakfast, and so the bed comes in for another tidy-

This time the patient is tack-i 1.12.

The dinte of the enforcement off in tighter than a strait-jacket. the schedule has not yet heen he Alls his lungs with air and] promulgated.--Reuter,

Effective Te-morrow.

Nanking, Dec. 30.

It is understood that the new

Larit schedule will be

effective

as from January 1 next.--Router.

Mukden Opposition?

Shanghai, Dec. 30. Rearing out recent rumours, a Japanese report from Tientsin states that Chang Hauch-liang has iasued a declaration that the aboli Lion of likin will be effective in Chibli on January 1, but the deci sion regarding Manchuria must be delayed, pending the forthcoming financial conference at Mukden.

While there is no question of Chang aneh lane's Inyalty to the National Government, it is under- *tood that the "old guard” in Manchuria is showing consider- able opposition to his policy, which undermines their prerogatives.--- Reuter.

Octroi Offices to Close.

Peking, Dec. 30.

All the branch offices and the head office of the Octroi in Peking have been ordered to wind up their affairs and close, after to- morrow, It ia understood that' this will throw out of work about a thousand officials.

It is understood that similar instructions to close up have been given all the likin offices all over Hopei-Reuter.

HOTEL TRAGEDY.

TSANG FOOK PIANO CO. in a holet fire in Cochrane, Ontario,

8, Des Voeux Road, Central, (Entrance Ico Houso Stroot.) Telephone C. 24648.

TEN PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH IN ONTARIO.

Ditawa, Dec. 30. At least ten people were killed and it in feared that other victims will be found in the ruins. The dead included the owner's brother who first escaped and then plunged into the flames to save his wife and four children. All perished.-Ret- tor.

է

Of Amber Satin.

of

A tiny round yoke and gauntlet cuts of needle-run lace lend a pleasant finish to a graceful afternoon gown deep amber coloured crepe s- tin. The stitched band at the hip line, when the skirt flares out to dip low at one side, is an interesting new note.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

A Very Charming Model.

A new model which illustrates the revived interest in Expressed in mimosn-lenf an evening colour." green as Kreen silk lace, passed over a gold tissue foundation, it is especially charming with the slim skirt developing into fared train at either side.

M

on your

expands the bed clothes he ielinlf an hour's treatment, and this

A vigilant can be done quite easily while rost courting disaster.

if nurse will swoop down upon him ing comfortably in bed, like a wolf upon the fold, ingredients are kept in a pretty and

A short, sweet breathing-space conveniently fitted box -dinner-three o'clock tea, and bodside tablo. then the white-capped nurses are at their tricks again. The bed- spread is no longer necessary, so off it comes and the patient is again folded in.

A large wooden chocolate box with a hinged lid could probably be swoot shop. procured from any This should be attractively covered with silk or cretonne to tone with your carpet and curtains. You might possibly rob an old hand

1930.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

Across

131

1 "Rude spade" (anag). 5 Drivel I detest, but that mani-

festo I can endorse (hidden). 8 The period in English history between the, years 1810 and 1820 10 Many one is given by the

B.B.C.

11 Shriek.

12 Describes the netivities of Bal- bun, in a way, but in alarming In another.

13 The beginning of an aid to rest, 16 A brittle metal,

17 Here a nobleman comes in soon. 18 The cosy part of a milor's

garment.

20 "Your ruling-strong in death."

Pope, Moral Essays.

22 The flat when the sharp as

finished with him.

23 Ten this song--if you have a

leaning that way,

24 The colour of unbleached linen.

28 This ware in not costly.

20 They have a common

father.

grand-

29 Whoever is this needs cheering

up.

at "Met no mule" (anng.).

Down

1 Ward off this early Arctic

Explorer.

2 Feasts.

3 Superseded by teapots.

4 Starts with the sound of part of

a ship and rhymes with heir.

5 "Listen to this simple story, to of Hiawatha." Long-

thin fellow.

NEW KWANGSI WAR THREATENED.

CHANG FAT-KWEI SAID TO HAVE ENTERED YUNNAN. Peking, Dec. 30. Chinese reports state that

# Condition of the fat of the land 7 A danco.

9 A stuff that will not endure,

according to Shakespeare.

14 Corks

15 Hore faith includes us.

16 An affliction from which Milton

suffered.

18 Endanger.

10 "Cane hen" (anag).

20 What may ensue when fear busin

reason.

21 A slope soundly made by a

draughtsman.

25 Turn over.

26 Those apart from us.

27 A South African.

Yesterday's Solution.

MIDLAND SPECIA

L PRATE, UNUM E ERSE, U ST AL A A FROWANI |OTTETE A YONDER ERME EYE MEE USES ORIP PSU REⱭ N N RETORT, G FIDO E OO ERRATIC E ~ MINT IND LANEW YAWNS. STUNT" A

101 F T EPITHET BRISTLE

S

BRITISH FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

WELL SUPPORTED BY THE NATION'S WORKERS.

London, Dec. 80.

Aa day draws to a close the hog pital staff redouble their offorts to make everything spick and span before the sister pays her nightly g of a good sized flat mirror and visit. So about the hour of eight glue it is the inside of the lid Chang Fat-kwei and Poi Chung the grout voluntary friendly sosie they Act to work smoothing your box, and now you can tumbic hai. with an army, have pillows, pulling up blankets, and into bed, and need only extend Yunnan with the object of linking) numerically and financially, during generally fraying the patients hand to find everything within com

nerves.

fortable reach.

Essential Ingredients.

In spite of industrial depression,

entered tics have made progress, both

up with Tang Chi-yu, a brother the current year 1930.

of the former Governor, Tang When the National Health In- Chi-yao, and Hu Jo-yu, former surance was brought into axis And so to sleep? Not likely!

Civil Governor, in order to overtence, it was generally believed The day nurses vanish, and in aight nurac. Her comes the

The essential ingredients for the throw the presont provincial au- that the friendly societies would

thorities. glance travels round the ward and beauty box are a good cold cream takes in the twenty odd beds for cleansing purposes, a rull-of- Tekh! Whatever will sister think? soft tissue for removing the surplus She starts at No. 1 and finishes croam, and a good astringent lotion at 10 p.m., and then, unly then, for toning up the tired muscles of has the poor patient peace.

A PATIENT.

A BEDSIDE BEAUTY BOX.

By a Busy Woman.]

At the end of n tiring day, when ene's sole desire is to get to Tusk and sleep as quickly as possible, the rightly beauty treatment is apå to bocome a penance and in sometimes threatened with neglect.

the face and neck.

#nd

A generous supply of cold cream or olive oil should be gently man. aged into the skin, and this should be left on while you indulge in a little light reading. At the end of about 20 minutes, wipe the neck with tinue or cotton wool and all impurities will come away. Finish with

mild astringent. which lightly patted over the skin will be found wonderfully refresti ing.

A

Fonsista

Military movements are report-su.Ter, instead of which they are ship and have nearly doubled ed to be proceeding in the region to-day much atronger in member- of Kunming.

Some Chinese circles suggest their cash reserves in the few that the recalcitrants hope to ab-years they have had to meet com This Is tain support from other elements petition by the State. hostile to Nanking in Yunnan, largely due to the fact that the Kweichow and Szechuan.-Router. Bocieties, by careful husbanding of resources, are able to offer big- ger benefits to

to insured members. There are now above ten million workers making Independent In- surance against alckness and die- ablement, and their aggregate re- serves are about £100,000,000. Their payments in sickness and The Government has ordered the funeral bonefits, and to the bang- seizure of religious banners with volent fund, total about £7,000,000

TURKISH REVOLT.

ALL RELIGIOUS BANNERS TO BE SEIZED.

Constantinople, Dec, 30.

from tho Koran, during 1930-British Wireless

An excellent, home-made blenth- inscriptions ing cream for use on the hands iseually stored in Mosques. It is recommended by a well-known apparently feared that they might

of be used to fire the fanaticism of whole battalion of troops whose Yet it is just those last few little beauty specialist. It

which are

equal portions of olive oil and lemon the masses in the event of a popular loyalty was suspected had been in termed. The Government activities badline "Pussings

recent revolt if wo are to pre-juice, which should be well beaten outbreak.--Reuter. highly important

[A previous message stated that followed the serve a good complexion. The skin, together to a paste, and worked

The revolt purported re into the hands from the finger-tips already there had been a big round Menemen, in which several persons like the boy, gets tired and

up of suspects and that over a thou-were killed. quires a rest, and for this reason upwards.

sand arresta had been made by the to establish a "religious regime." we should remove all impurition

The whole of this treatment be authorities at Monemen, Magnesia, The authorities believe that and traces of the daily "make-up"

and

ing manipulated whilst in a recun-Kenia, Smyrna, Stamboul and else revolt was not an isolated incident, pores and leave the tissues

bout position will be found delight where, those taken into custody in but the first phase of a vast con- and spiracy aimed at the overthrowing free for the night

Shelke, dervishca To cleanse the face thoroughly fully soothing and is very inducive cluding

Imams and a number of women. A of the Kemalist regime in Turkey.] with cold cream is a matter of about to sleep.

THE BOYS THINK THIS PAYROLL COBBERY 15 AN INSIDE JOB... BUT TO ME IT HAS EVERY EAR MARK OF ONE OF THE BINKLEY

BOY'S TRICKE....

In a Nut-Shell!

Z HELPED CATCH THAT

BIG CROOK FARBAR AN' IM GONNA HAVE SOMETHING

TO DO WITH CATCHIN'

·THIS BIRD —-

23% GONNA

HELP...

By Blosser

NEW YEAR

GIFT GIVING

PRACTICAL and DAINTY GIFTS

AT THE

PHARMACY

A. B.Ú. Building, Tel. 20345,

I'LL BE GLAD

MAEN. FRECKLES AND OSCAR LEAVE FOR HOME.

ESPECIALLY

FRECKLES!!

REDDING, THE NEW

FOREMAN ON CLEM BROWN'S RANGH...... OUT, HERE FOR HIS HEALTH»'

OSCARS UNCLE CLEÏA..... OTHERWICE CLEIA BROWN WHO IS A MAN OF

·FEW WORDS...

FIRURGICLES AND OSCAR

WERE "THROWŃ FROM THEIR HORSE AND "THE BAG OF MONEY CUT FROJA

THEIR SADOLET

CLOSE-UP OF THE PIECE OF KNIFE BLADE, FOUND. WHERE THE HOLD UP TOOK PLACE.

the

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