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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

PEKING AND TIENTSIN

CARPETS

15% Discount

X'MAS SALE

15th - 25th DECEMBER

Well-known for

Quality and Design

PEKING ART RUG Co.

IRIUM THRILLS MILLIONS WITH NEW LUSTER ON TEETH

PEPSODENT alone of all tooth pastes contains IRIUM which so amazingly re- stores natural brilliance to teeth!

Irium is the new modern way to remove dull, dingy film-make teeth sparkle, and keep the mouth clean and fresh.

So effective is IRIUM that one good brushing with Pepsodent tooth paste lcarca enamel cleaner and more radiant than you have ever before experienced.

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PEPSODENT TOOTH PASTE

known and sold around the world

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1937.

PRIZE-WINNERS

The Man Who TELEGRAPH”

Could Swallow Anything

HADJI ALI, the man who could swallow anything

-watches, lighted cigarettes, live goldfish, hand-

kerchiefs, petrol is dead.

He died a month ago, themarkable "acts" on the music-hall secret was kept until recently.

stage.

One of his favourite tricks was to

The Rockefeller Institute, it was drink thirty pints of water, then o claimed, had offered £10,000 for his pint of petrol, and set fire to the stomach after death. Now he les petrol. Another of his feals was to swallow three dozen hazel nuts and embalmed at Wolverhampton, walt-one almond. fle could always "find" ing to be taken in the Queen Mary the almond. .to America. There, after negotla-

He died without making a will. Mr. F. Ellis Lincoln, legal adviser to the

tions, he may be handed to the daughter, known on the stage as

Rockfeller Institute.

Princess Almina Ali, has taken out Hadji Ali, fifty-two-year-old a grant of administration on her be Egyptian, was one of the most re-half.

FIRST TOWN TO USE DECIMALS INSTEAD OF £ s. d.

Torquay, Nov. 14.

Mr. Edwin C. Riding, treasurer to the Borough of Torquay, has startled "official bodies" by issuing his ab- stract of accounts for the year ending March 31, 1937, in decimals.

HE HAD RHEUMATISM 15 YEARS AGO

But No Sign of it Now

How many men of 74 can say they are as well now as 'at any time in their lives? Here is one who can- although he had rheumatism Ofteen years ago. Kruschen Salts soon stopped that, and they have kept him ft ever since. This in an extract from a letter just received from

him:-

"I have been taking Kruschen Salis for many years, because I had rheumatism in my shoulders about fifteen years ago, I an now. 74 years of age, and have no sign of anything now. I am quite as well In that respect.as ever I was in my I have been an out-of-doors worker all my life in the bullding trado. I attribute my good health to taking Kruschen Salts regularly every morning before having any- thing else."--T.H.

Kruschen is a combination of alx natural salts which stimulate your liver, kidneys and digestive tract to healthy, regular activity. They en- sure Internal cleanliness, and keep the blood-stream pure, New and refreshed blood is sent coursing to every fibre of your" being. Rheu- matlim, headaches and indigestion all pass you by.

CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME

ROBINSON

CRUSOE

Presented by the

A. D. C.

December 21 to 27

Here are two of the recent Y. M. C. A. prizewinners in the Telegraph Children's Competition. Top is Helen Ng and below. Roy King (Photos by Photogem Studios).

To-day he expressed to me his enthusiasm for a system, which he describes as "infinitely more simple to use than our present pounds, shillings and pence method."

figures amounting to millions will not Mr. Riding's publication, which si|when there will be in this country a

bother about shillings and pence. the Borough's "blue book," giving decimal coinage-it is so simple.

"Thus a sum of £20 10s; Gd., matters detalled references to all

"I had considered the publication would be recorded as £20.525, relating to the use of public money.

in this form for some me, and,

"All calculations are done by the approval of many of my colis 1 and every penny .004.

is the first of its kind to be issued in with the consent of my Council and machine, so that every two shillings

Brliain,

Said Mr. Riding:

"All I have done is to publish this abstract of recounts in decimals of £ Instead of in the usual way.

leagues, I decided to take the first step to encourage the publlo to use the decimal system.

only accounts.

Matinces on the

22nd., 24th. and 27th.

Booking at

.Y. M. C. A.

and

Anderson Music Co.,

"At present the system is applied to the published We do not expect our contractors to "My abstract is purely a book of submit their tenders in decimal formD,

People quoting from it in yet."

"The time is coming, I am certain, 'reference.

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UNTIL 6 P.M.

CHRISTMAS-EVE-

UNTIL 7 p.m.

Merry

THOUSANDS OF GIFTS AND MORE AT YOUR

GIFTS

CHRISTMAS STORE

TO

MAKE HER HAPPY.

FROM THE LADIES' SALON

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Convey Your Compliments with Home Gifts.

FROM THE FURNishing deparTMENT. Fancy Cushions covered in Art Silk, in all colours and smart styles. Bedspreads, Tea Wagons, Card Tables and "Old Bleach" Bed Linen and Knapery.

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LASTING GIFTS FROM THE JEWELLERY DEPART- MENT. For "Milady Brush Sets in Silver and Coloured Enamel, Silver Manicure Sets, Scent Sprays and Vanity Cases in Silver and Coloured Enamel also "Rolex" Watches.

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