Malayan Saturday Post, 2 February 1924

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  • 26 1 The Malayan Saturday Post ILLUSTRATED The only Illustrated Weekly Paper in Malaya Published every Saturday. Vol. I. No. 3. SINGAPORE, FEBRUARY 2, 1924. Price 25 Cents.
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    • 122 2 Mc ALISTER Co., Ltd., (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) AGENTS FOR:— UNITED STATES RUBBER EXPORT Co. Ltd., SINGAPORE. NEW YORK. PENANG Manufacturers of: Royal Gord Tyres IPOH and Royal Tubes r^TxnT n t nwriTTn Dominion Motor Cycle Tyres KUALA LUMPUR. United states Solid Tyres Keds Footwear &c. i SUNLIGHT SOAP
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    • 96 2 CORONA The Personal Writing Machine Retail Price $90. I. —CORONA'S years of service i^ your best suarantee of its reliability Firs>t marketed in IMb, it is the only Portable Typewriter which has withstood the Test of Time •2— It is the simplest of all Typewriter^ and for that reason seldom
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    • 12 3 Rates of Subscription. month tl.tS i Smooths I 6.00 Inclusive of Postage.
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    • 184 3 INDEX 10 PRINCIPAL ADVERTISERS. Front Page. Messrs. Nestle Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Lactogen Philip Thayer k Co., Peppermint Chewing S\v« t The Standard Oil Co., Socony Motor Oil. Page 1. McAlister Co.. Ltd.,— Motor Car Tyres k Tubes. Hntienbach, Lasarus k Sons, Lid. -Sunlight Soap Huttenbaeh. Lazarus A: Son9,
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    • 149 3 Page 10. Ko.lak Ltd. "Kodak" Camera* Page 18. Leo I). Gosling k Co. Aitken's Falkirk Ales. S. M Bixby o\ Co., (New York i Shoe Polishes. Vienna Cafe. Confectioners and M. Manj.Mir Saiboo -Gent's Outfitter. Page 19. John Little o\ Co., Ltd.— Toots! Dress Fabrics. Page 21. Sime Darby fc
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    • 20 3 77, BRAS BASAH ROAD, Cafe Adjoining the Dining Room. Large And Well Furnished Rooms, With Private Baths, Tel. No. 1986.
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  • "The Malayan Saturday Post."
    • 74 3 Illustrations «»n PogOi 5, 6, 13. 16, I>X and 24 lot 4. Spurts notes Science of Keeping Fit 6. S. Andrew's Dedication Festival. 9. Rockt'eller Foundation. Cure of Sleeping Sickness. Marriage Superstitions. 10 Laboar*i Rule IS. Rt Hon J H. Tin.mas. 14. Labour Govt, and Rubber. Municipal Orders. Malav-
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    • 18 3 Will contain pictures of: THE NAVAL SQUADRONSINGAPORE SCOUTS HOCKEY MATCH SINGAPORE vs SELANGOR. LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS
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  • 1102 4 A Review and Commentary. BY ARGUS." The decks are being eleared fori general action. That is, the football season is at hand. Teams that did will last season are confident that they will fare no worse upon further test, and teams that did badly are determined
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  • 937 4 A great deal of discussi 'ii has taken ice SS to the amount of exercise in which it ig site for a middle-aged man to indulge. Some suthoritiee lune suggested that exercise need not In limited: others that absence of limitation i] -.lis danger. It i<
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  • 143 4 :o: Tlie wife of a certain fiery Army officer, during her husband's frequent absence from home with his regiment, was in the habit of mending much of her time with friends, being invariably accompanied on such visits by her son, a small boy of five. One day at tea, during
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  • 1402 6 Friday January 25th, the Feast of the Conversion of S. Paul, was the 62nd. anniversary of the Dedication of S- Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. The Dedication Festival was observed at the Cathedral on that day and last Sunday. At the Choral Eucharist on Sunday morning Stainer
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 231 7 I FREE BOOKLET How to Paint a Car with "ROBBIALAC" To paint a car it pays to paint it well, for tbe destructive forces to which tbe coacbwork is subjected will not permit of inferior enamels being used. Robbialac is specially prepared for renovating cars, and because of its easy
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    • 66 7 RONEO tm (DCCOEfOEATSS IN UNCI. AND) ii iii i n Jlre actual Manufacturers of Loose*Leaf Ledgers Steel Letter*Piling Units Card*lndex Systems Duplicators Copiers. Sole Jigents for: The Royal Standard Typewriter Sub-Jlgents: CORONA PORTABLE. IL Collyer Quay, Singapore. D'ye Ken John THE ORIGINAL The Clubman's Whisky since 1627. Singapore Agents The
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    • 170 8 The "Garrick" Cigarettes By virtue of their general excellence constitute THE PERFECT SMOKE." For those who prefer smaller size cigarettes, Special Size No. 2 are now on sale everywhere. Ub5 if-feltei li -anuuclurcd frcn, .^;;\:..l f^K^^= I "<« rrow,),, r;pe Tobaccos, which w |W |tf, ■,I J ■^^EJEfcMinM mjr- V"
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  • 633 9 iThe Rockefeller Foundation. H>j Thomas Cochrane. •The well-being ot Mankind throughout the World," ii thc motto and objective of thii great Foundation. The China Medical Board, which ii one i»f the departmental agencies ol the Foundation, has, nnce iti creation ten yean Ago, K
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  • 463 9 German Experiments in Rhodesia. Over two yean ago a chum was made for a drug under the name of Bayer 805" by certain Qerman investigators as giving remarkable results with experimental animals is a trypanosomiacide. British workers at the time, reading the evidence supplied from Cologne
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  • 601 9 Marriage is such an important affair in human life that we can hardly wonder many superstitions have grown up around it. Not only in this and other civilized countries' if we journey to centre of Africa or to any of the outlandish parts we still encounter queer
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  • 1528 10 THE EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONALISM. Mr. Philip Snowden, M. P., writing in the "Morning Post" says many people who have confidence in the Labour Party to manage domestic matters have grave doubts about the ability of a Labour Government to run the Empire and to conduct international affairs. This
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  • 154 10 Lord Ineheape, Chairman of the 1' and u, who baajaal been promoted to visc'.untcy is <n the whole, the biggest business man in the United Kingdom At seventy-one he is ;«s keen und efficient as ever in the direction of the huge shipping, banking, and commercial interests that
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  • 168 10 One of tiie most valuable remedies discovered is quinine The drug has been known liuce 1666, when it was called "Jesuits' Powder." The bark lias been used in England since ItiGO. Charles H !>• ing considerably relieved by it during a bout of fever. Two Freuch
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  • 124 10 Twelve hundred children from the niL--ion ichools and cripple parlours of London were entertained to dinner at the Guildhall hy the Hamilton, Ontario. branch of the Shaftesbury Society. Thej made mors noise, according to a veteran Guildhall official, than has ever been heard before iu
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  • 123 10 Mips Helen If. Burnside, Sged 82. has just completed her fifty-first successive year as a com]X)ser of verses for Christmas cards. She is 6tone deaf and lives at Windlesham, Surrey, with her niece, Miss Anketell. u When 1 was a young girl," said Miss Burnside to
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 140 11 LAGER BEER. Jlsk for tdis Popular SBrand at L'Europe Hotel, Raffles Hotel, Sea View Hotel Adelphi Hotel, Van Wijk Hotel. High Street Stores, 45-46. High Street. Kian Tai, 30, Robinson Road. Lim Khoon Heng, 54, Orchard Road. Chin Guan Hin, 113, South Bridge R<ad. Kim Ann, 55, Orchard Road. Lim
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 174 12 SERVICE Our Repair Shop is fully equipped to deal with any and every repair required on your car IN THE SHORTEST TIME AND AT THE KEENEST PRICE. Battery Charging Station. Vulcanising Shop. Electrical Repairs and Rewinding. Trimming, Painting and Body Repairs. Coodye.r Tyres and Tubes. Simms and C A.V. Lighl-
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    • 85 12 &£3*e£> The Economical Car Chassis, $970. Touring Model, Complete with Standard Equipment $1,205. SELF-STARTF.R ANO LIGHTING SET $140 EXTRA LIGHT DELIVERY 3SST Upholstered as on N Touring Model V r\lN %p %±*jD paper Dealers Ett. Ford l=Ton Truck $1,195. We can build the very body to suit your business. -<"
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  • 1750 13 in time to come, when a new generation itock of the troubles of the one of rl li we are a part, it will be compelled rider the personalities that exercised greatest influence through the stre- seasons. Then I think that James
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  • 189 13 GROWING PART IN PUBLIC LIFE. The year 1923 has marked a steary growth in the numbers of women taking advantage of the rights conferred on them by the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, 1919. The number of women members of Parliament has grown from two, at the beginning of
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  • 92 13 Miss Margaret Bonfield, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, writes a correspondent, was born in China. Her father, the Rev. Dr. Bondfield, was a missionary in Amoy and afterwards minister of the Union Church in Kong Kong, and for many years the Agent of the British and
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  • 1019 14 The Malayan Saturday Post February 2, 1924. THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT AND THE RUBBER INDISTRY Rather a curious thought, is it not, that a Labour Government should be the saviour of the rubber industry? Yet it is not such a wild flight ot fancy as it may seem, at first, to
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  • 193 14 It was quite an entertaining debate which the Municipal Commissioners of Singapore held the other day on the Question of restricting their purchases to British industry and not going to M the cheapest market for their requirements. There is probably more sympathy than il generally realised with
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  • 604 14 (Coamnnicsted I The difficulty being experienced in finding a suitable Malay to represent that race on the Legislative Council has called public attention to the backward condition of the Malays in the modern world. It is, moreover, a poor advertisement for one hundred years of British
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 38 14 HARRISONS, BARKER Co., Ltd. SINGAPORE, PENANG, MALACCA, KUALA LUMPUR, KLANC&TELU: ANSON. RUSTON HORNSBY CAR TREADLE ONE-MAN SHEETINC MACHINES WM \mS •«> %2/ MORRIS LIFTING TACKLE MOTOR LOBBIES CATALOGUES PRICES FKOM SOLE AGENTS Harrisons, Barker Co, Ltd. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, SINGAPORE.
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  • 1245 15 Some Possible Developments. Hy Archibald Malaya may be behind the times, Kut not so far behind that it cannot a mighty effort just catch up if ii likes- There i« wireless telegraphy, for instance. One of the at amazing achievements of this century. Yet in this country most
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  • 826 15 Being Smiles of the Week. Hy Quit The mails arrive somewhat irregularly. One is never quite certain when one will be able to handle that bulky bundle of letters from home." The P. 0. people keep us guessing. But at any rate we can always be sure of our
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  • 914 16 Mr. Ramsay Macdonald. A pen portrait of Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, by Mr. Hesketh Pearson, in John Bull," says the Liberal Party is as dead as mutton. Its followers must now either bury themselves in the Conservative Party or be born again in the ranks of Labour. For Labour has
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  • 369 17 Gift to Found Travelling Fellowships. Mr. Henry Laming, of St. Wilfrid's, Kast Qrinitrad, and formerly of lx-aden-liall-street, has given 160,000 to the Pro\,»>t and MlflWl oi Queen's College, Oxford, of which he was an undergraduate, ;iii(l now an Honorary Fellow, for the foundation of Travelling
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  • 219 17 New Transfusion Method. A new treatment for serious and even apparently hopeless eases ol septicsemis is being successfully carried out at St. Mary*! Hospital, Taddington. It is the discovery of Sir Almwroth bright, the pathologist, who gave it the name of immuno-transfusion. In some desperate eases of septicaemia,
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  • 213 17 Builder of Famous Tower. The death is announced to-day of M. Eiffel, the engineer who built the Eiffel Tower. Alexandre Gustavo Eiffel, who was born at Dijon 91 years ago, leaves a record of many engineering achievements, including big viaducts in France and in many parts of
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  • 213 17 What is Possession"? Interesting Point in Chandu Case. Mr. W Pryile. the Kuala Lumpur police magistrate, raised a verv interesting point the other day in the course of hearing a chanda case in which a Chinese was charged with being in possession of 5,825 packets of chandu. The accused, Chong
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  • 161 17 The Salvation Army have set up at Southborough, near Tanbridge Wells, what thev Urm a Darby and .Joan Home. By these Homes the organisation seeks to bring comfort to aged married couples who, from their scanty means, arcin danger of ending their years in privation or
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  • 368 17 "Fiery Cross" Project by the Anglo-Catholics. A year of prayer for the conversion of England. This is the effort which Anglo-Catholics have decided to carry through in 1924. It will l>egin on the stroke of midnight on New Year's eve. and will continue uninterruptedly till
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  • 600 17 Com posi Mi n of the Party. London, January 9.—" The Times says that the arrangements for the forthcoming attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest have been completed. Bregadier-tieneral Bruce will again be in command, and wiil be accompanied by the following mcmlxTs of last year's
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 222 18 BEST BULK BEER BREWED. i Delivery from Stock. 3f y '^x^m a^atj^MHif-f-'^fciiJ^ 1 <j i nammmm&jwan&TammjS*^^* I «I *J €t Prices Per Hogshead On Application. I M jP t: u ___ftV m w m iHI ""■L Is^^^l ftnr 1 IM^ ft" •>M ~M L^-di Sole .\qents:- lIHM SINGAPORE. '^"Ov '/7a|3^KC«
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  • 1057 19 By Lady Fielding. The spirit of mutual happiness and ontentment which surrounds a Bother pUyiag happily with her children is a sight of such vd y day occurrence, that it does not p much as enter one's thoughts to lake special comment. So rare is it few
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  • 493 19 A contemporary asks, M Why ;s a motor-car called a she Presumably because a motor-car s'kios. Judge Cluer (to a solicitor at Shoreditch) You a r e putting evidence into our witness* mouth not with a spoon but with soup ladle." Beth Does your husband confide iiis business troubles
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 192 19 Tootal Famous Fabrics THI COTTON FABRJC THAT CLIAHSM TOBRALCO provides reliable wash wear for all the family. Easy to wash —no starch needed. Now double width— 3s ins. wide for women and children*! wear. Price $1.25 per yard Alt* 33 ins. for Men's Shirts «k Pyjamas $1.00 per yard. TARANTULLE
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  • 1194 20 COPTIC MS. OF ST. JOHN. Earliest Version. (BY THE REV. R. KILGOUH, D.D,) j I.>ast winter when ni; tubers of the British School of Arducology in Egypt were exploring at Qau-el-Kebir, a headland of the eastern cliffs up the Nile, about thirty miles south of Assiut,
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  • 127 20 3,000 Miles Journey. I To ship a dynamo and 1,000 miles of wire weighing 70 tons, destined for Canada, the White Star liner Canada had to leave her berth in the Liverpool docks and go into the basin Manufactured by the English Ehci tried Co.. of Preston, Lanes,
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  • 283 20 On a flat plain, fourteen miles from Atlanta, Georgia, rises Stone Mountaiu, which slopes on three sides to the plain, but rises in a sheer perpendicular face on the fourth -ude. This mouutain will soon become the I scene of an interesting photographic i experiment. The
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  • 13 20 Vienna possesses an orchestra all the members ol which are doctors of medicine.
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  • 120 20 English Student Wins Prix De Rome. Mr A. K. Lawrence, student of the Royal College of Art. South Kensington, has been awarded the Tux de Home for painting, the high, st distinction an art student can obtain Mr. Lawrence waa a student at Armstrong College, New-castle-on-Tyne. before
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 86 20 Tan Kah Kee Co. RUBBER GOODS MANUFACTURERS, SINGAPORE. We Manufacture Various Kinds of "BELL BRAND" RUBBKB SHOES BUBBKfi SOLES RUBBER HELMETS RUBBKB BALLS RUBBER TOYS RICKSHAW TYRES CARRIAGE TYRES Etc, Ere. Head Offices No. I, River Valley Road. Rubber Manufactory i 44-46, Sumbawa Road. Sale Departmental I 215, South Bridge
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    • 97 21 THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ASSURANCE CORPORATION LTD. I MARINE MOTOR-CAR Messrs. Sime Darby Co., Ltd., At Singapore Penang Malacca Ipoh Kuala Lumpur Seremban. A Motor That Improves With Use. fTHE WILLYS- KNIGHT j WITH SLEEVE-VALVE MOTOR Piles up the miles with a freedom from upkeep expenae because that is THE PRIDE
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    • 223 21 Tennis Rackets TWO PERFECT MODELS j I i BY SLAZENGERS LTD. "G. L. PATTERSON M M J- <>• ANDERSON M (AUTOGRAPH) J^is^SHOT^n (AUTOGRAPH fiCtCCD P'!j_C'. 1 -'_C\ 1 Weights- tL IH niffl^^-a Weights I SJ to 1 4* ozs J^f fflra S 24 to 1 4i ozs. A beautifully designed
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    • 102 22 6 BATTERY ROAD Telephone 88. Telegrams SWEETS." WEDDING CAKES OUR SPECIALITY CATERING j CAKES, ICES, SWEETS Etc. FRESH EVERY DAY, We bave I The Tea Kiosk in tbe Botanical Garden* CHARMING SPOT OVERLOOKING THE LAKE. G. H. SWEET SHOP. FOR |M fit, style f WING LOONG, 1 i 21 22,
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  • 419 23 H. E. General Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.B., D.S.O. Forthcoming Departure I H. E. General Sir Neill and Lady Malcolm Staff. His Excellency General Sir leill Malcolm, K.C.8., D.S 0 Officer »mmanding the Troops in Malaya fill be leaving Singapore in a few I; vs on retirement. Neill's is a brillant
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  • New Chinese Institutional Chruch.
    • 277 24 A Church of three itoriee, a^ re preseuted in our il nitration, ii now in eburac of erection at the corner of Telok Ayer and Cecil Street* Ui* .in entirely new plan in (lunch arehit-cture as I'ar as this part of the world is concerned an.l
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    • 312 24 The ceremony <>f laying the foundation stone of the new Chin se Institutional Church at Telok Ayer Street was oerformed on January 9th br IttshopG. H Bickley. Representstives nf many brandies of the Methodist Bpiaeopel Church in Malaya who were in it tendance at the annual conference
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  • SUNDAY PAGE.
    • 199 25 Here is something to be cultivated ihe New Year; something which must grow cheerfulness, magnanimity, Parity— -fruita of the Spirit indeed. lmt fruits which need tending and cult lest ihe weeds choke them. Cheerfulness blessed spirit of shine; if only mora of us would reflect lta
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    • 175 25 The charm of Christ is tbe glory of od As the stars feel the tug of tbe tn, 80 ali men feel the gravitation of od Our souls stretch out tendrils it the infinite imperfect, we crave r perfection divided and fragisenry. we hunger
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    • 121 25 here are various conditions rsquisto a trustworthy flow of happiness, eli cannot be reduced to fewer than following four I A man must live in harmony, with his own economy, of which the result is intrinsic peace, or a harmonious activity of all the faculties. He must
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    • 322 25 lhe local home does nut leave out i God. By what right do we leave out God who ordained the family f When artists are learning to paint pictures, they sometimes go to art galleries, where the masterpieces of great artists hang, and copy them. By having an
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    • 230 25 It ought to be possible to live our daya in such fashion that we shall find much p easure and satisfaction iu looking back over the journey we have come. Too great self-satisfaction is not <rood, yet if we have tilled the days as they
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    • 189 25  -  J. R. Mott Devotional Bible study is the test of true diecipleehip. Wo may call ourselves His disciples, but that does not prove that we are. Our namet may be on the roll of His professed disciples, but that is not sufficient proof. The real test is the
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    • 243 25 My own feeling is that I word of warning is gravely needed at this time, a word of warning to the whole country and to public bodies in particular, that if Sunday were to be given up chiefly to pleasure-seeking and if facilities for such pleasure-seeking were to
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    • 203 25 From physicists, psychologists, chemists and biologists we hear in plain language that nightly rest affords only partial recovery from daily labour, and that the supplementary rest of one day in seven is necessary iu order to maintain the physical power at the level |of the highest
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    • 356 25 o: A scar nobly got is a good liven of honour. Do your duty and a little more. A repining life is a lingering death. Never let anyone have you discouraged. A principal part of charities is happie to be. Man flies from time, and time Hies from man. Not
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 491 26 The Malayan Saturday Post -SHOPPING GUIDE." M. EZEKIEL SONS. OPTICIANS Raffles Chambers. Raffles Place. Singapore, THE RIGHT PLACE for Stamps and Philatelic Accessories. THE GEM PHOTOGRAPHIC Co., 63, North Bridge Road, Singapore. THE LION SOAP Co., 43, SHORT STREET, SINGAPORE. MANUFACTURERS OF HOUSEHOLD and LAUNDRY SOAPS. PRICES MODERATE. VIENNA CAFE,
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 425 27 Stage Favourites' Election. Who is the most Popular Cinema Actress A COMPETITION FOR ALL. j $100.00 for 'Film Stars." Ihe Malayan Saturday Post offers $100.00 in cash prizes to bc divided as follows Ist Prize $50.00 2nd Prize $30.00 3rd Prize $20.00 to readers" of this journal who succeed in
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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