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papers, stid get most of them back again. I ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL think fearned thirty pounds my fir-1 year..... Adapost the little capital I had. The next your I made hundred and twenty End lived on it. The third year I should pro- bably havn-inde about two-hundred,
dly Mr. A. A. Milne, tho Istest humourist to 1 happened to he appointed amistant editor "arrive in English Journalism, makes no of Funch in the middle of it. How did that. I'd been sending things in happen Woll I'd prrence of being an authority m anything to Punch for some time. My first con least of all on what precisely constitutes tribution was rejected when I was still lanmur. Yet since the age of 24. when he at school. The brst thing I had in was Don ributing became assistant uditor of Punch, he has in 1904 by 1995, I was
in 195 pretty regularly; and
Somebody lived by providing the British public with was made as-latant editor. werkly supplies of this commodity. When had to be, and I suppose I seemed
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the contributions sent in from outside. It takes me shout four hours te th write my page, and like, I suppose, all journalists, 1 do it at the last possible on which the paper is add up. Then I moment, on the morning of the day do an article every week for the Sphere, Some day I should like to write a povel 'or the worst novel fills maiwith admiration for play: have tried both and filed. Even
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I asked him if he would talk to me sbout au table. No, it hun't very hard "Rejoice greatly" his work he replied :** I shall be glad to warstgs a week, and 'i weed out the i
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He began really to tale. And this is what he said:
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actual scene of the joke itself. That wESTERN CONVENTIONS TETUMPE OVLE dowsn't sound as though it meant mach, bant if I give you an examplo of this sort of | joko you will use what I mean. There was
Nothing could speak more forcibly for picture of Keene's in Punch many year ago of a Scotsman eating gun for the the extension and influence of Western first time at a tenants dinner. His English civilisation than the growing praction of neighbour, seeing that he was in difficulties of the Chinese to adapt Western makers and customs in the place of the traditionary with it, whispered to him excitedly practices claimed sometimes to have been Mac, Mac, you're eating it at the wrong handed down to them from the time of end!! And the Beotaman, who not for learning anything from « despised
Sazon, arawera haughtily Mou, ye dina kens Ah pru-furr 't. Now, the joy of that joke lies not so much in the Joke itself
Confciun Tain in particularly noticeable functions concerning the home life, auch as weddings and funeral.
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rried in a glosed chair to the home of A few years ago bride would have beat: in the picturs it brings before one's eyes of her fatore husband, and t gether, they
the subsequent c squct of the Sont, who would have done honor to his sncestral
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to justify himself. You say that many have been rigidly excluded from this.' people would not think of that? All the
Le ter. One doesn't want one's favourite Nowadays, even in Chinae familios where jokes to be appreciated by everybody. Christianity has not been accepted, the Perennally, I like to feel that the Western lines, with best man, a relative to wedding ceremony is conducted upon juke is private matter between the
author and me; which brings me to my give away the bride, bridesmaids, and with second favourite, form of joke the one in the utmost pomp and publicity,
Beveral weddings of recent years have which a good deal is left to the imagination. For instance, there was the picture of the hoen eslabrated on these lizer, the brides motor-bicycle and the empty sidecar, the wearing Western gowns with long trains, legend of which was simply: *Hold tight, veils, and wreaths of orange blossoTUN, Auntia, there's another nasty commas.com Each was apported by four bridesmaids ing.*. To have had a dismounted Auntie who were also attired in Western style and in the picture would have rained it. The carried bouquets, and the bride was given reader has got to imagine that for himself
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apple, ** '*'* going to stara making the | cider. *. That's the sort of absurdity that I
love an WE LI HON FAN, a Chinese graduate How du. I ́account for the feel that the versed in liberature, has been a teacher pub is no longer popular? Well, I don't. to European officials and merokaze the Bar Imagine that it is simply but of Colour for over ten yanın, fashion Ir the moment, and will come in He bays good msibed of training aro 1. I hope I ball not be live then, and 1 bone 1 abar, not be alive to use the Pesa to pass in the Chinese examination, mad
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