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Just arrived!

A New Shipment

of Fashionable Designs Silk & Cotton Prints

for

SPRING

Inspection Respectfully

Solicited.

(Silk Dept. 1st fir.)

China Emporium

LTD.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN The Society asks for $25,000

in 1936 to continue its work for

sick and destitute children..

Hon. Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A..

c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co..

P. GO. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.

MAKE A POINT

OF VISITING

GORDON'S

SHOE SALE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

SOAP KING WEDS U.S.

ACTRESS

Mrs. R. B. Foster, European director of a firm of beauty product makers, who searched the whole of Britain and Europe three years ago for the most beautiful girl- is married. His bride is Miss Barbara New- berry, American dancer in the recent Hippo- drome show "Love Laughs.”

The tall, dark, soap king-who is reputed to be one of the best-looking men in commerce-- married Miss Newberry at Coldwater, Michigan. She has announced her retirement from the singe.

They plan to settle down in London after a honeymoon in Egypt.

Mr. Foster is a golfer as well as a beauty expert. He has tied with, King Edward VIII for the enp- tain's prize of the Sunningdale Golf Club. He has beaten the King on another course.

Beauty Quest

it was in 1932 that he set out on his tour to find! the "beautiful girl." As director of the Colgate | and Palmolive concern he was looking for examples of the "keep that schoolgirl complexion", slogan. His cholco foll on the girls of Mottram, Cheshire. He said of them: "I have never seen auch beauty in my life."

His bride was formerly married to Eddle Foy, junior, who appeared with Ramon Novarro in "Royal Exchange." She obtained .0 divorce three years ago,

SO A MONK IS BURIED

No Mourning No Flowers

No Coffin

Father Malachy Dunne, the monk who died suddenly at the Monastery of St. Bernard at Charnwood Forest, Leicester- shire, was buried in the shadow, of the abbey cloisters which ho had never left for thirty-three ycars.

Seventy monks attended the funeral, The ceremony was carried out

the with..all mediaeval rites of the Cistercian Order. There was no mour- ing, there were no flowers, there was no coffin.

Death In The Air

FEBRUARY 6, 1936.

A MODERN REBECCA

A little girl from Libya, who is fetching water,

not from the well but fnom n modern water-condult.

Mr. Baldwin

Once In

The Dock

The Prime Minister. Mr. Baldwin, WAA once in the dock of a police court.

He mentioned this when he made a presentation to Mr. Stanley Hemingway, who re- Ured from the office of magis- trates' clerk to the Stourport (Worcs) Bench.

He told Mr. Hemingway, "I have been in the dock during the time of your father.

"It was in the time when. muzzling orders were about. I had a dog which walked, out to get the early morning -nir, sat on the grase and tore its muzzle off.

"Inspector Walker saw that it was insufficiently clad, and It cost me ten shillings.

SKY TRAVEL SAFER

-

LAST YEAR

London, Jan. 28.

Both in the Air Force and in civil flying the accident mortality in 1935, estimated in relation to the greatly increased aggregate flying time and flying distance, was less than in previous years. In our expanding Air Force, the figures for the past two years are:

1934 1935

THEY CALL IT

A WISDOM

TOOTH

YET IT IS KNOWN AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY

THE CURE-

JUST A MATTER FOR THE DENTIST THE latest people to take an interest in your teeth are the Lunacy Board of Control.

Mental experts at Birmingham University found that wisdom. teeth are in many cases the cause of insanity.

They extracted the wisdom teeth of forty-eight patients and now thirty-seven of these people have returned home cured.

The other cases are making pro- gress, too.

Quick Cure

A nineteen-year-old giri had been ill for five years. She had insomnia, and for ten months before being admitted to the men- tal hospital had been unable to work.

Onco she tried to commit suicide.

Her two lower wisdom teeth were found to be badly infected. They were taken out.

The second night following the extraction she slept without a sedative for the first time for eight months.

She received no other treatment. The pains, in her head dia- appeared, she became cheerful and was discharged from the hospital within one month of the operation. She Is back at work.

A man of Hero is another case.

thirty-three was admitted to the institution. He was depressed and suffered from delusions.

Two Boys Of 17

Fatal Accidents. Deaths in these accidents there Was one The Institution's dentist

them.

20 25

31

44

cured.

ex.

wilder fatality. It is not yet pos-tracted all his teeth, which were sible to give even approximate

gures for the amount of civil bad. He is now back at work, flying. On all sides, however, Another case was that of a It is estimated on a conservative there have been considerable in-seventeen year old schoolboy basis that Air Force machines creases in regular air transport, whose health gave way just before flew an aggregate exceeding while there has been an acceler he was about to take his matricu-

50,000,000 miles in 1935. In no ted increase in the

number of

lation examination.

Air Force in the world is the civil machines registered. Through

He became worried, suffered amount of flying per the years the causes of accidents from Insomnia, and was ill when average machine to great.

vary scarcely at all. The fallibi- lity of the human factor is still admitted to the institution.

His lower wisdom teeth were In civil flying accidents in Great responsible for more than 95 per pressing against ether teeth and Britain and to British air cent, and it is often, said in fly- linors on the air routes abroad ing circles that most of the acci- could not come through the gum.

They were extracted.

the figures are :---

1934

1985

dents would be avoided if all pilots were of the long-experience con-

Fatal Accidents. Lives Lost tinuous-duty class. Steadily, if

24'

in them.

48

21

48

were two

He is now back at home, plays tennis and golf, and studies shorhand and typewriting. slowly, improvement is taking When a factory worker, aged. place. And there are curious changes, as for example the almost seventeen, was admitted to the complete didappearance of the institution he could not talk, was parachute fear of lightning and the sup-depressed, and his mind was fatalities at air circus displays, planting of that dread by realish confused. and two successful parachute ton of the danger of ice forma- escapes. In one accident, that of tion on wings and propellers, were taken out," and the boy is the City of Khartoum, twelve danger now being successfully back at work, lives were lost. In addition to fought.

healthier than 'over.

Thero

SALESMAN SAM

(GOOD GOSH, A $2,50 GOLD PIECE FER LUGGIN'UP

TH RAJAH'S DUDS! I CAN'T KEEP IT! "THE OL

·RAJAH MUSTA MADE A MISTAKE!

teeth Wisdom

again. They

happler. and

Silence Is Golden

PARDON-ER-UH- I. BE... LIEVE YA MADE AN ERROR. IN THE TIP YA GIMME --

1600

1600

Just Received.

A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS AND CELLOS.

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9 Ice House Street HONG KONG.

OUR BRITISH CrossWORDS.

133

1

ACROSS

14

1 These types of ships have always a fourth on board (5, hyphen 7). How conspicuous a foreigner is in the little street!

10 This might describe a huggis,

but you'll say it's nonsensel 11 Doesn't know when she gets the

ware and

12 she's

d'oeuvre.

the hors ready for

13 Such screams only carry a short -

distance,

in Bloomsbury don't come from here,

14 The marbles

16 nor is this suitable attire for

topers.

18 Sharper.

20 The Russian port for songs. 22 Make-of-car 24. Measures.

27 is willing to comproming.

29 Slow in time.

30 If she is, she may not powder, but she certainly paints.

1 Send Lee (anag.).

32 You must take a drop, but it's

quite wrong! 33 You can't bank on the aged in- habitant of, this famous street being able to.

DOWN

2' Makes equal shares, having

about fifty,

3 The Spanish lady who studies in

France.

4 In roturn.

5 African hunting expedition. 6 You'll always find a nobleman

in good time.

Avoiding colds

means taking-

EVANS

ANTISEPTIC Pastilles

THROAT MADE IN ENGLAND

Mr. & Mrs. Y. Mori

MASSAGE

Acoponature, Moxocarale and Bone Betting Holder of Japenes and Hongkong Gowent ment Llenowe Car Sprained Ankim and Wrista. Katamended for many Joker, be Local Hospital and Doctorm. -

Wyndham Street, (Ixt door).

Tel 16051.

SORRY! I NOT FA-

MILIAR WEETH AMER- ICAN MONEY! GIVE. ME BACK I GIVE YOU LARGER COINĮ

Notice

WOWL A $.5 GOLD

PIECE

MAYBE NOT HUH?I GIVE

JENOUGH YET,

YOU STILL LARGER COIN

129

17 Describes the night the-Zep-

pelins liked.

The house in which to koupa party?

9 Epithet for lowly, people and sinted fare (two words, 5, 7). 14 Can you guess this? Try. 15 Found in packing-eases and

gloves..

17 This sock doesn't need washing. 10 The vessel to take for a journey. {21 Mountain.

23 Shorten this, though already

short to start with."

25 U.S. territory, though there's a

query.

20 Render ears useless. 28 Sunny.

20 French town.

Yesterday's Solution. MEGALOMAN 1 AU DENINOVAEGNE

NGENUE FADDIST SEA OR ANIL A CAGED T T A T I ET RE HOTEL NE EDOZEN DESIGNS

ANGERED BLFOG E NT AXOSH OUR LEN X" OLOBE

ELFETKE OVERSEA BENCH OBCE L

HEREFORDSHIHE

CANTON AGENTS

Thongkong Gelegraph.

WM. FARMER & Co.

Victoria Hotel Building. Shameen, Canton.

Tel. 13501.

By Small

A SILVER DOLLAR! SOME DAY I'LL LEARNI TA KEEP THIS MOUTH.

OMINE SHUT!

Teething troubles-

Because SCOTT'S Emulsion contains 44% of pure cod liver

ail and. Ilmo salis

for bone formation,

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