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A Look Through The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1889.

W. 8. Glibert, It is well known, kes to design the dresson of the women in his play. Hle ways: "I abhor bustles, improvements, tight-lacing and all such abominations, and I think that women's drees should fall in natural folds to the gure."

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It in tnted that while at Eton Mr. Gladstone was only logged ovee, an that was for refusing to betray school-fellow who got luto trouble.

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Thus the San Francisco News Letter: Chinamen and Britishers me to be running TACE for uppopularity Just at present, with the chances of the largest mensure of success being in favour of the Britishers"

The Liverpool Pont tells the terrible fate of congregation of church-goers, whe, on being called to ring and receive the benediction, found themselves glued fant to the xenia with the new varnish that had not quite dried, Never before WAY the church an absolutely united, and never one so harmonious in pur→ pone. A frantle craze resulted in muc- cos but there was not a whole rost orderan in the congregation. Silk and browdcloth upholstered avery sent, and the horried people rughed into the streets holding their hands over the

The most raposed parts, was a faliure.

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benediction

The Imperiapins has been on the uthor side of the island that werk; practising her guns and torpedres, his caused great consternation amongst the vills- Karn at Aberdeen and Stanley when she torpedo-nutting-they trited up her thought she was shing, and the bench was covered with groups of fishermen, howailing the whalesale emptyre of their lawful prey.

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The greatest national debt atong the walions of the globe is borne by France. It is about £1,580,000,000, Russia corner next with £000,000,000, then

Englanil

with Ex90,000,000: Austro-Hungary with 1621,000,000; Itnly with £850,000,000;

anil Prussia Spain with £301,600,000, with £250,000,000,

(Compare these with the present doyal France owes $2,680,004,880; Rutin owes £1,425,074,000, what she will probably never ny: Britain owen £8,184,085,000 and in burrowing another $800,000,000, (ኢ. inuich

M the total +lobt

Го yours hgul! Hungary

* £100,000,000; Italy owes $1,185,000,- 000; Spain owen £180,000,000 before the Civil War. And Germany uwex £294,450,000,-.1

25 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1914. ARMY V. PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE More Party Heat in the Commons FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOUN FRENCH RESIGNS

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Tuesday,

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH

March 28, 1939.

LINED UP...

ALL

ULLING

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the

nual spring clean

Home

is a good time to put Household "wrinkles" to the test, and though mot homesmakers have their own pet methods, here. ΗΓΕ own ITLY which may help the "work

more along

some

quickly,

of

They are arranged

In alphabetical order

Maker's

so that you can cut them cut to paste in a note-book or hang them up for quick reference.

ALABASTER light filings con be cleaned with a cloth souked in tur- pentine, then polished with Hoar polish or furniture cream. This produces a glossy surface,

WIX

A B C

-for the

SPRING

CLEAN

Brushes, mops and brooms, come up for inspection.

then rub with yellow soap. They will slide easy and last longer.

TILES. Red quarry tiles should be well rubbed with soft song. Leave soap on overnight, then scrub with a stiff brush. Rinse, hot, water and dry, then poitsh with red tile polish to bring up the colour.

UPHOLSTERY.

will usually

Greasy patches yield to carbon

tetrachloride. Brush well in so that

it loosens the dirt, then remove this

to

tel-pieces and clocks. Use sparingly with a clean, dry cloth. and polish with a sofi duster.

Upholstered chairs can be freshen- NET curtains. To tint faded net a ed with hot bran. Brush first creamy colour, mix a teaspoonful of remove surface dust, then rub with powdered yellow ochre with a little the hot, dry bran, finishing by brush- cold water, strain

through muslin and ing again with a stiff, clean clothes GLASS. Pu! a little washing add to starch or last rinsing water.

brush, blue in the rinsing water, and polish OXYDISED bronze or silver. Clean VELVET and elenlile, Wash in with a leather or pad of tissue paper, with a cloth soaked in Inseed ur warm snap suds with 1 little The blue produces a lovely sparkle.. alive oli or with vaseline. Aller- ammonia added to force out the dirt.;

Clean frosted glass with a handful words polish with furniture creant. Rinse in lepid water, squeeze out BRASS ornaments. If budly

Rub of Epsom-salt in warm water.

PAINT. Clean matt paint with a turplus water, and dry quickly in with furnished. Arst clean

a cut

cloth wrung out in hot waler und the optn. Press by drawing the lemon dipped in coarse salt. Rinse, dry with a cloth or leather.

dipped in whitening, rinse with warm wrong side of the material over the water and dry with a soft cloth. edge of a hot iron.

Add two tablespoonfuls of am- soupy. water for

dry and polish with metal polish. Clean off the old lacquer from shabby Jacquered brass bedstead with a mix- ture of turpentine and powered bath-

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brick, clean with metal polish, then surrounds with a cut lemon, then glossy paint, Dry, then polish with

give a new cont of lacquer.

Grained

CARPETS which cannot be taken illes in hearth or curb cun be re- cleaned with a cloth soaked with are ammonia, vinegar, turpentine,

htly solled ivory can be cleaned water, and that on inblespoonful of pick up dust and help to put on the

sh.ne.

HEARTHS. Clean tiled hearths or monia to warm, polish with wax floor polish. Loose a trace of furniture cream.

EXTRA materials for spring clean be woodwork cun and varnished up should be thoroughly cleaned with fixed with fire cement,

linseed oil,

puraffin, carbon, tetrachloride, brun, then pulished.

magnesia, borax, steel the "nettum eleuner, then rubbed IVORY or composition plano keys.

and QUANTITIES can be fairly accur- powdered cloth wrung out in Whiten with

lemon a mixture of over with a

care- ately measured if you remember that wool. Start with clean mops and juice and whitening. Rub on Colonel equal parts of bolting water

leave

brush off. the average pall holds two gallons of dusters and sprinkle them with a to dry, then fully, vinegar.

tablespoonful of little paraffin beforehand. They will Cover all or grease stains with

cau-de- liquid and

heaped thick paste of Fuller's carth and with methylated spirit or

one ounce. powder each equal

YOU will and it helpful to make a water, leave to dry, then brush out, Cologne sprinkled on a soft cloth.

RUGS. It is possible to wash fur JEWELLERY. To restore the lus- DISTEMPERED walls. Rub down with a pad made of old lace or net tre of pearls, real or imitation, bury and slicepskin rugs in warm soup list of soaps and polishes required, fow Bake lather. Remove backing, squeeze which will save running out for for- Washable in powdered magnesia for

out surplus water, rub with old towels gotten items. Furniture cream, wax to remove surface dust. 'distemper can then be cleaned with hours.

soap fukes and Gold is put in a cup of warm water and hang over the line to finish dry- floor polish, red tile polish, melal warm water. Wring cloth fairly dry. work from skirting upwards and pai with a few drops of ammonia added, Ing. They can also be dry cleaned land silver polish,

then polished with jeweller's rouge with hot bran, which is rubbed well powder and a non-abrasive cleaning

into the fur. Afterwards brush well, powder cover most cleaning jobs, to prevent streaks.

ZINC baths and draining boards EIDERDOWNS, ter dry clean. damped with ammonia.

can be made shining with a paste of Stones, with the exception of opals thoroughly. then sprinkle

SASH CORDS. Rub over with a whitening and vinegar. Itub well in, sheets of newspaper thickly

KITCHEN tables, to whiten. Scrub damp cloth when cleaning the paint, rinse with hot water and dry. great insua ut the Army veraun Parlia "and"sprinkle""""more"starch-on-top:

1415, soft ment and the People had been ralski,

Roll up loosely in the paper, put with a mixture of and every effort had been made to show

away In cool, dry place for two or 1b, silver sand and six tablespoon- that it was always right to shoot a three days, then brush tree of tula chloride of lime. Rinse well

with hot water when clean.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen Chamberlain characterised Seely's rastination as a put-up job, und aid that Colonel Seely has prepared the paragraphs, which the Government now repudiated, in consultation with Lord Morley. If these Ministers mained, then the paper which they hiudding on their cot. Approved wAR leagues.

Churchilt, Mr. Winston

who WILM cheered upon rising, interrupted, an repudiate Br, Chamberlain's "Insults," Held that Lord Biorely had never re- vised nor examined the two paragraph Hemen which had been referred to. Honed that the battle squadron which was ordered to Tamlusli on the 18th inet. would resic there during the

Brush

with and

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„crisis, und went on to declare that the starch, put the eiderdown on them salrquoises, can be cleaned with

Radical or a worker.

Telegrams from Dublin and the Car

starch. ragh state that the majority of the FLOORS. To whiten pinin wooden cavalry officers reiterate their delerm.lours, add two tablespoonfuls of Ination to resign, rather than nel against Ulster.

Field Marshal Sir John Freach has rexigued.

10 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1929. The War Office announces that the North and South China Commands will be amalgamated in the course of next month. Major General A. Wardrop, British Kt prement commanding the troojis In North China, will return Home and the combined Command will be as. used by Major-Genern J. W. Sand}- lands, C., C.M.G., 1.5.0, who has just inken over the South China Command from Major-Genorai G 0. Luard. Major-General Sandbands will remain nt Hongkong with na augmented Staff. The Shanghal area wil be com.anded nant prosent by Brigndler-General Q. C. Barrett, who has been in command of

stain remover.

volatile.

soap-

glycerine to the pall of scrubbing water. If you are re-stalning doors, LINOLEUM, Clean Brst with tur- remove old stain first with a special pentine, wash with soapy water, then rub over with bolled starch. When Composition floors in kitchen or dry, polish with-wax floor polish. bathroom can be cleaned with tur- Worn linoleum can be re-surfaced pentine and steel wool. Leave to with a liquid preparation. There is dry, then wax polish. Clogged polish also a transparent grade for reviving

woodblock floors can patterned linoleums. or stains on also be removed with steel wool. Dust well before repolishing.

STOCK MARKET REPORT

MARBLE. Black shoe polish give

a glossy finish to black marble man-

Short Cuts

A dress that is to be remodelled

In

the 14th Infantry Brigade, Shaforce, The Hongknog Stock Exchange has to be ripped carefully. Use a winec 1927. The Tientsin area will be official summary Issued at 4.00 p.m.sharp knife or pointed scissors commanded by Brig-Gen. Rould M. yesterday, says: Heath C.M.G. 1.9.0., who has

been Omeer Commanding, North Chinn, since 11:20.

The carelowance of a watchman in dropplug a lighted cigarette od among aple of inflammable decorating mate. riais la bulleved to be responsible for the devastating fire which has almost completely destroyed the great new

German linor Europa In the Bluhm and Voan ship-yard.

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The National Government in a pro-

war iz clamation offefally declaring Wubun accuses Biarshal Li Chal-sum, General A Chung-yon and General Pål Chung-hai of conspiracy against the Nanking regime, and a yelled threat of punishment to come is causing deep concerns to friends of Marshal Li Chal- sum; who is a prisoner at Nanking..

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has left for Kinklang to direct operations Aiready 00,000 troops are reported to be moving

Ping-alang and against

Changahu,

walic 10,000 others are to press forward against Wuchang.

Barshal Chiang Kai-shek will person- ally direct the right flank, and Hankow is to be attacked from Anhul.

5 YEARS AGO

March 28, 1034.

Important developmente; in the direc tion of security undertakings between Britain and Francs may possibly fullow the conference which the French Am bassador, M. Corbin, had with Bir John

Simon lant avening.

It is learned, exclusively, that the conversation' contred round the question of what further guarantors Fans would require in order to modify ber attitude towards the British drote

tions for tightening up Brition commit ments may follow,

The market was quiet, but prices ripping scams apart and be sure you remained steady. Sales were re-do not stretch the material, especially ported in Banks at $1,380, Docks at at the neck and armholes,

$17 und Old China Tights at $8.20.

nayers

Hongkong Bank #1,370

Canton Insurancs $220

Douglases $60

I. S. Totals $5{{

HK. Electrles $35

Canton Ices $1

Cements #13%

H.K. Ropes: $1

Why On (18.) #42

Entertainments 1011

UK Govi, 4% Loan 40% prem JUS Govt. disto Loan par. Dairy Farm Rights $15

Sellers Unton Insurance $475 1.K, Lands $50 kutions p.10

Balen Hongkong Bank $1,300 Union_Insurance. 8673jā 173C, Docks 41735 China Lights (Old) $8,00 Dairy Farme #21 Ex TMD. Dairy Farms Rune sien. Antamoks P. ALS Benguet Consolidated $12.50 Coed Grove 42. Consolidated Mines 03

Atoks 35

1. A. L. 1

Porscale Gumaus :17 San Mauricio Suyoca

United Paracale 1

Wrinkled neckties may be freshen-.

led as follows: Cut a curdboard form to fit into the wide or outer end of the tie. Cover with a dampened cheesecloth and press with hot iron.

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Try putting yellowed ivory to the sun to dry after washing with soap

and water. After several treatments of this kind they should begin to grow whiter.

CROWN FOR HITLER Ancient South Russian Relic for Birthday

A Gothic crown whose history goes back for hundreds of years, is to be presented to Herr Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, to mark his fiftieth

BRIDGE AND MAHJONG birthday, on April 20.

The last Bridge nid Mahjong Drive This news is confined locally, and

of the M.C.L. financial year was held it is ascertained that local Germans yterday afternoon at the Peninsula have already forwarded their

seriptions to Berlin.

large number of ladies attended,

sub-

Armament Convention, and that negotiating up tables of Contract Bridge. Unfortunately the history of the Mahjong Clear Game, and Mahjong crown itself is not known hero. Al Chinese Game; and helped to make that can be learned is that it is very to function a complete success old and formerly belonged to a. South “Attractive prizes were on display Rusalan ruler The object of the during the afternoon, and in the subscriptions, it is presumed is 10 evening were presentcu.

purclinse it from the present bolder,

This is interpreted as Britain's final effort to secure a settioment in Europe

although there is no indication what concuinions Deltain may make

· Moot; Franco's: demandez -

The ever crisp navy blue and white combination is here rain in this lovely ensemble. The coat' curries an all-over pattern of "while on the blue; the dross in snowy white, the fabric of both is a pure zilk brepeso in NON

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