1935-10-31 — Page 14

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH... THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935.

HELEN'S

PERMANENT WAVING

"SHELTON"

"DUCHESS"

"'EMPRES""

SHAMPOO and SETTING

MANICURE

WHEN WAS THIS CARD POSTED? |

$15

$18

$20 Dated 1889

$2

$1

But Reader

By Specialists personally. Supervised by Helon from San Francisco. BEAUTY 306 ASIA LIFE BLDC.

SALON

Opp. Tyeb's.

BRILLIANCE

Kodak

VERICHROME FILM

Tel. 34055.

• That's what you went in snapshots. That's what you in- variably got with VERICHROME FIlm. Como only in the.

yellow box with chockerad stripos.

#8LX

KDBAR

VIRENCES

IIIN

EXTERMINATE COCKROACHES

BY USING

GATOR

COCKROACH. HIVES

AMAZINGLY SIMPLE DEFINITELY EFFECTIVE.

NOW ON SALE AT ALL DISPENSARIES

AND LEADING STORES

MENTHOLATUM stops the agon-- Izing pain and hoips provent blis. toring. Apply it liborally to the affected pants to bring quick rellot. It soolhos, cools and elds greatly

in hoaling the injured surfaco, but baware of worthloss Imitations.

MENTHOLATUM

THE

HONGKONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL: PEAK HOTEL

SHANGHAL·

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking

RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, LTD., PENANG.

CRAG HOTEL,

Penang Hills

(2,400 feet above sealevel).

Refreshment looms. (near summit station)' Hill Railway.

"THE ISLAND'S MOST EFFICIENT SERVICE." RUNNYMEDE HOTEL

On Sea Front.

Private Cars for Excursions Anywhere.

Caterers etc. to Imperial Airways.

Men are interchangeable, no extra cost wherever you have, your broakľant, luncheon, tes, or dinner,

Rooms of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Runnymede _cach tươm has its own publia telephone

The Runnymede Restaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotels of the Esat with its culaine, and Justly claims by la association to offer the traveller auch Ka Ja not to be found elsewhere.

Finds Error

On Monday the Telegraph. published a photograph of a post. card, stated to have been posted In Hongkong in December, 1889, and only recently received by the addressco in North Finchley.

The postcard was addressed to Mrs. E. Ridley, 7 Myra Grove, North Finchley, London, N.12.

An observant reader now.elnims that the letter, if addressed to London, N.12, could not have been posted in 1889, na North Finchley was not then part of London, Nor were postal district numbers, such as N.12, in existence last century. "The address gives Itself away,” writes "Old Finchleyan,"

"The Posial District numbers were not introduced until about the time of the war. In 1889, and for 15 years and more after, the address of Finchley was “Middle-

sex,"

A SELECTION from our stock of EDUCATIONAL WORKS FOR THE MUSIC STUDENT.

C. F. Reddie:

With Hints on the Renderings of Preludes and Fugues.

TIME, RHYTHM AND EXPRESSION'.

B. Prout,

PIANOFORTE PLAYING. On Its Technical and Aosthetic Sides.

WORD PHRASES TO BACH'S 48 FUGUES.

HONAKONG 953 Bow of

SEP

THEORY AND COMPOSITION OF MUSIC. ELEMENTARY HARMONY.

COUNTERPOINT FOR THE BEGINNER,

VIVA VOCE.

Rugland

Pou

Postcard, supposedly posted in Hongkong In December, 1889, and delivered only this year. Render now claims this was ini possible.

SECRET ARMS PAPERS

No one would have dreamt VANISH: WOMAN SUSPECTED

of addressing it as "London, N."

in those days, when London has spread, no further than Hamp-

:

Strasbourg, Oct. 12.

stead, then separated from Finch- SECRET documents relating to a new explosive known as "manurhin" have disappeared from

ley by several milen of open cour-

try"

The reader concluded by stating a munitions factory at Mulhouse, France. that he was born and bred within Other documents, which are in his house photographie re- a few doors of this address on the also missing, include those re-productions of secret documents postcard.

lating to national defence works which had been closely guarded The original photograph of thend to material being tested in at the factory. postcard was published in a recent issue of the London Daily Sketch, the manufacture of Ons of the Hongkong postmarks cartridges. have been obliterated but a second- is dated "December 25, 1889." The stamp, as can be seen, Is a "Queen) Victoria."

guns and Six other employees at the

factory have been questioned.. Suspicion has fallen on a high Their houses have been searched. official of the factory and his One man, whose name is kept

· woman secretary,'

secret, has been detained.

It is alleged that polies found (Reuter.

Homage To King Canute

TRIBUTES BY PILGRIMS

OF MANY NATIONS

Shaftesbury, Oct. 20.

In celebration of the ninth centeriary of the death of King Canute, which to place here on November 12.*1036; miembers of the Viking Fociety for Northern Research made a pilgrimage to the town this week.

They were received by the Mayor 721' Mayoress of Shaftesbury (Alderman R. and Mrs. Borley), with the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset (the Earl of Shaftesbury) and the Mayors of Peole and Blandford.

The victualling of the Abyssinian

shown above. Mulos, loaded with Corn incks are driven to the front linet.

"American" "professor,TM Robert "God--Those-attending-included. Prince. dars, shown above with a model of and Princess Van Deminski; the troops is executed in many places rocket ho has constructed and which he intends ending into stratosphere with various instruments for physical and astronomical measurements.

PERRY WILL TAKE HIS BRIDE HOME

WILL RETURN ΤΟ ́ENGLAND BY DECEMBER

Counsellor of the Swedish Embassy; the Attache to the Danish Em- bassy; Mr. G. F. Collin, the Secre tary to the Norwegian Legation: Mr. J. Stefansson (Iceland); the

Rev. J. Ursin, Pastor of the Nor FORGOTTEN KEYS representing, the Latvia Legation. FLOWN TO LINER

wegian Church; and Mr. Alberts,

Hosts and guests went in pro- cession to Holy Trinity Church" for

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commemoration service, Con- MISS DISMORE, of Cranford, ducted by the Rector, the Rev. H. Middlesex, went to Water- H. Coley, who was assisted by Rev. 1oo Station to bid good-bye to J. Urain, Pastor of the Norwegian her sister, who was catching the Church. The Rev. J. K. Sundberg, boat train for Southampton, Chaplain of the Swedish Seamen's the Majestic, and New York. Church, London, preached the ser-

New York, Oct. 10,,mon, paying tribute to the work Miss Diamore went home-to Fred Perry, the world tennis of English missionarles in Sweden. find that her sister had left the champion, and his bride, Miss Helen Vinson, the American film Gann. President of the Society,

At the luncheon. Mr. A. Rugg. keys of her luggage behind.

Miss Dismore lives near Heston star, who have now arrived in presiding, the Earl of Shaftesbury air port. Hollywood. announce their inten- proposed the "Minni"-memorial tlon to be back - in England in toast-do "Canute the great." December.

After that they will probably Later the visitors heard lectures make another visit to Hollywood. by Commander Frank R. Stagg on When asked where they hoped to the life of Canute, and by Profes- make their home, Mrs. Perry re-sor J. M. Helweg, of London plied, "Wherever we hang up our University, оп "Canute Reen hats"-but they look forward some through Swedish cyes." day to a permanent home.

Explaining their marriage, shej They also inspected Shaftesbury said. “It's very simple. We happen Abbey ruins and other historical to be in love."

places connected with Canute,

SALESMAN SAM.

An air liner was just leaving for Cowes. The keys were put aboard. At the Isle of Wight an airplane, chartered by telephone, picked up the keys and flew them to Southampton.

The pilot dropped them on the dockside, and the port officials picked them up and took them aboard the Majestic.

He's No Bitter

C. Egerton Lowe.. Preston Ware Orem.

C. H. Kitson.

..C. H. Kitson,

250 Questions and Answers for Piano Diploma Candidates.

·

THE CANDIDATE'S GUIDE.

C. Egerton Lowe.

CAEgerton Lowe, "

Questions and Answors, Preparatory to Higher Local.

FORM IN PIANOFORTE MUSIC, PIANOFORTE EXERCISES FOR BEGINNERS.

.C.Egerton Lowe. Grados 1 & 2.

C. Egerton Lowe. ...Maude Guilgault.

.B. Burrows.

63 MUSICAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. INTERMEDIATE HARMONY. COMPLETE SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS FOR PIANOFORTE,

Bradbury Turner,

COMPLETE SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS FOR VIOLIN,

PEDAL SCALES FOR ORGAN

JUNIOR STUDIES FOR ORGAN

INTERMEDIATE STUDIES FOR ORGAN

SENIOR STUDIES FOR ORGAN ORGAN TUTOR

Bernard Carrodus.

C. W. Pearce..

C. W. Pearce.

C. W. Pearce..

.C. W. Pearce,

C. W. Pearce,

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not synonymous,"

The winner in the 6ght of life (two words, 3, 3).

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with one in company

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11 Valued in trade.

12

Wake up finally in a river.

14 Scarcely a poet.

16 European country.

17 When discharged they never

seck another situation.

18 Supple.

10 You may take a pint of its though it is mostly a pound,

23 One of the early "Dont's", 20 Tell a story.

27

Bucks town.

28 Donate (anagram).

20 Does this Essex town exist on

flesh?

30 A

A very valuable mixture of mud and air. 31 Vegetable.

32 Invest, though it hints at your

finish.

33 Just menn after a shilling. 34 An old instrument.

DOWN

1 Slack fellow.

2 Complete failure, so why shout at the end? (hyphen, 4 and 3), Reparation.

A number seem to go through evolutions in part of a plant.

128

115

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7 Sti ohl Eighteenth Century

material, mate

13 Apparent.

16 Keeps locks in order (hyphen,

and 3).

19 With altered results.

20 Sometime in Rome,

21 One can get home in 24 hours:

from this part of Afrien.

22 No laughing matter.

23 He would more appropriately

fire a Colt revolver.

24 A horse in general condition for

weight.

25 Fish that possessed a weed,

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・WHY?

PITCHER? WELL,

PITCHERS, ASYA KNOW,| AIN'T S'POSED

TA HIT!

SO YA

WANNA PITCH, KUH 2

SURE WHY I` MIGHT EVEN

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WELL, I DUNNO KNOW ABOUT PITCHIN. A

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