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THE CHINA MAIL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Today's dollar is worth de
TUESDAY, DEUEMBER 16," 1919.
SENSATION AT CORONET THE CONSTITUTIONAL
THEATRE.
FIOUS LASCIVIOUSNESS..
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
A DELEGATION TO HI. THI GOVERNOR.
or two exhibit a great deal; the rest izuzfaltious effort in No. 2)” an almost fill in enough to make an exhibition. | life size study of a classically attired One does not find Hongkong Impres-lady. The drawing is passable, but sions from all sort of eyes, or picture the painting falls. This is not fesh. dozens of happy Add. Industrious That is not life. The chiaroscura is 24d members studying, Improving, going to seek. on frem strength to strength. That ·A"second" "walk” round "discoverd Mr. A. S. Sorensen, manager of is what a sketch chib should do for Nos. 115 and 117, two clever and quite) Messrs. Thoresen & Co., left the
For three nights: the Coronet has artistic efforts overlooked before.. Colony on Sunday by the s.a. ”Tean.' been crowded to the doors by people On the other hand,
We hope our remarka
gloating over the story of Thaia, an The reply given to Col. Jahn Ward WORTH SHEL 'O. as a show to ga
The manager of Messrs. Wise Alexandrian courtesan. So far as is by the Under Secretary for the and see it is well
ORIGINALITY, about originality will
man & Co., announces that a tea known at present, none of our Colonies, in the House of Commons, not be misunderstood. worth while On the right as you so far as subjects go, it is absurd to dance will be held this evening,.com-puritans have protested-not even on December 12 last, to the effect
mencing at 5 pm. enter are several charcoal studies
the Philistines who made Hongkong that Sir Reginald Stubbe had been that are good. No. 141 looks as if it expect originality since everything
ridiculous by causing the removal of asked carefully to consider the ques- is probably a good likeness, though was to originality of treatment. It the as. "Kalfong," a Chinese was station. All the resources of photo more popular form of govern
has been painted. Our reference
For the theft of a portlight from the art poster from the Peak Tram tious involved in the petition for a as a drawing the colour is not is obvious that a copy of another this morning sentenced by Mr. Wood graphic art have been used to make ment worked in as in the foreshortened painting is easier than a study from
Hongkong, after he face in No. 139. No 140 la a capital
this Tha's picture attractive, and it is į had gained Rome experience study of a native of India, Suddenly nature. The tricks and dodges of the to four weeks hard labour.
artistic. Much capital has been of the Colony, tells us nothing more other worker are thus reproduced. after that, still keeping to the right. It is tricks and dodges that we get which were announced to be sung in been an expensive business, Beyond membered that prior to his departure The traditional Christmas Carols spent on its production; it must have than is already known. It will be re you come upon pictures that remind from art schools. No teacher can S. Joha's Cathedral on Friday next that you of the difficulties of landscape teach us to see. Having seen, we try will be sung at Evensong on Sunday, upon
there has been employed from Hone, His Excellency's in- here. So much atmosphere is required, over and over again to reproduce December 28 instead of on Friday.
it the shrewdest know.structions in the matter, which were especially where the subject is sea our impression. A faithful copy of a
ledge of human nature, for identical with the above reply were and hills from a height, as in No. 129. Raald water colour is comparatively
without being pornographic)(in which cabled out and published. Here the colouring, is good, but the
case the Censor must have stopped A China Mail representative inter- picture seems to lack depth. No. 128 casy, for Ruskin'e methods can be
as
ia
REFORM.
KEETH WEST,
Hig
"Neleus."
Charged before Mr. Wood with the unlawful possession of 105 taels of non-government opium dross, a Chinese who recently arrived in the Colony from Singapore, where he followed the profession of a hawker, was sentenced to a fine of $750, or, in default, three months' hard labour.
for
ANTI-ADVERSARIA.
ON THE IMBECILITY OF EDITORS.
perhaps the only genuinely respected deity. Thais, a wealthy prostitute, ! is also a public dancer, and the idol of the mob. Her progress through- the streets is a public affair. She is a beautiful animal, and we see a great deal of her as much, perhaps, as the photographer cared and the In the diatribe thrown off negli- Censor permitted. Paphnutius is gently in Adversaria of the 15th can young gentleman with a face be seen an example of the almost like a cast-iron door knocker. infantile credulity of the writer. He We gather that he has wearled of has taken as his motif the supposed wild pats, and is inclined to books intimacy between Miss Graham and and the counsels of a Christian priest. myself. Where did he acquire this His friend Nicias doesn't want him quite erroneous action? When "Toa to change, and thinks an introduction Photograph" was written, it is quite to Tha's will restore him to normality. correct to say that "she dashed it off
It very nearly did. We go with him in five minutes" She did. She set to her ornate brothel, and are fed full it down from memory in the presence We find of the two of us at teatime; her eyes.
of sex and amativeness.
The Hongkong Tramway Com is a failure, as the painter himself picked out in detail. To make a Pany's traffic receipts for the week it) it is most capably designed to viewed both the President and the were $12,788, or less than last year. The aggregate receipts for 50 is the "Sign of the Cross" over Reform Association, this morning, first to say. The aim was better earned of that sort of thing, intro more than in the corresponding period lascivious. Like some of Defoe's what further steps, if any, were to be will, however much he may have weeks were $724,550, or $34,795 again, but a hundred times more and asked for information as to than the result. A clever panel induce tricks of his own, in short, the poster style is No. 122, which originality. It is this which makes
of 1915,
prefaces, it is overlaid with plous pre taken by the Association. The Presi- should be looked at from a distance the difference between an artistic
tension, but throughout it is essenti- dent, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., to get the clever lighting. Some still picture and a tinted photograph. We and Acting Chief Armourer J. T.hypocrisy. It is beautiful (much of meeting of the Committee held Chief Petty Officer R. J. Brownally a carnal appeal. It is smut with informed our representative that at a life studies (125-127) were not good.. were surprised to find pastels
An ingenious and well neglected at this how. It is a good eueler, of H.MS. Ambrose," and it) but it is salacious. It is piously on the 11th inst It was HONGKONG. thought out concep medium for amateurs, though the Carlisle," have been awarded the
Second Clerk F. Newnham, of H.M.S. lascivious,
unanimously decided that His tion of Hongkong is results of botching may be very Naval Medal for long service and proves our case, although we must with a view to ascertaining whether A synopsis of the story almost Excellency should be approached seen in No. 114, which has a satisfachideous. Black and white and sepia tory sky, No. 123 has achieved work should also be attended to.
good conduct.
hasten to say that the spirit of the the Government is prepared to atmosphere, but the foliage in the
master. Anatole France, has been concede the points asked for. It was foreground looks scamped. No. 124
If there is one who Two cadets for the local Civil considerably departed from, especi- also decided that a date, to be fixed is a bright impression, with a better
CONSTITUTIONAL holds the opinion Service have arrived, and were sitting, ally in the ending. We are shown by His Excellency, sometime during idea of what they call balance. No.
that there is not with the Police Magistrate yesterday the streets of pagan Alexandria, next month would be appropriate. 119 is apparently a portrait not yet
need here for some morning. One is Mr. Fraser who, when (as in Hongkong to-day) the The result of the conference will, of finished or else roughed reform of our constitution, we would arrived by the s.s. "Tenyo Maru" people sacrificed to gods in whom course, be published. hastily for the show. "Her bright like to have a look at him. With and the other is Mr. R. A Dermod they no longer believed. They were smile haunts. me stil." There is crime as rampant as it is, and the Forrest who came in by the ..frankly bedonistic, and Eros was power in another chalk study (por. Government as unreasonable as it trait No. 118) but the foreshortening has shown itself to be toward the of the hand and wrist has been police recruits, we sigh for reforms bungled. A small wash we liked even more sweeping than those ask very much was No. 120, showing aed for by the Constitutional Reform house, on Cheungchat. There is Association.. Leaving "Imperial work in it, although for gallery matters to the Government, we purposes one would not call it a yearn for a Municipality to spead picture. There are two clever panels our money for us, and give us the about here, which, if original, show business administration we need. real talent. Nos. 111 and 108 are The subject has as many difficulties terapting subjects, and very very as a porcupine has quills, and in 'try. For the benefit of guests from hard to execute. Both are successes. ing to frame a reform scheme of our Kowloon attending Commodore and The best picture so far met (but it own, we were forced to recognize Mrs. Gurner's At Home" at 9.15 must be looked at from a distance, that the scheme of the C.R.A., imper. p.m. on Tuesday 16 December, steam- it is hung too low) is fect as it is admitted to be, was a boats from Tamar" will leave No. 110, the lights of Hongkong, clever compromise and a first step Police Pier at Kowloon at 8.45 and It is a fine study, apparently of towards better things. In fact, the 9 pa. Arrangements will be made moonlight. Near by, almost the same Constitutional Reform Association is in a similar manner for the return of idea, is No. 112, in which the light in exactly the saine position as guests to Kowloon. seems to be that of dawn, with the Bairnsfather's hero. There's а
our moral fibre weakening, for instead meeting those of the Adversarlalist artificial lights paling before it. In barrage on and it can reasonably say A copy of Harveys Christmas of applauding the chaste resistance between the Enes, effectually dispell- between No. 107, a typhoon of colour, to its critics; "If you know a better Annual, a volume published by Wal- of Paphnutius, we discover ourselves ed any hopes I ever had for myself.
ter Harvey's Advertising Agency of regarding him with contempt, as a Identity of lines is more difficult and "a.light that never was on land. 'ole, go to it. or sea surely. In No. 109 we have
The impudence of Shanghai has just come to hand. It sissy-man. Coming out, he is attack than variation, for the simple reason. a fine mountain and marine study,
Keith West passes contains a good selection of readable ed by a jealous lover of hers, that it is harder to say different CHAN KAI-MING:-The family of 25 thus:
OURSELVES, "So far as we have been able to coloured with restraint, and showing the late Mr. Chan Kai-ming.
understanding. We stories as well as cartoons and and kills him in self defence. things in identical words than in AND A LADY are genuinely dis humorous paragraphs. There are! It was the clearest case of self non-identical ones, however varied. desire 10 tender their grateful ascertain, the officers and engineers, excellent brush handling. No. 117 thanks to all friends and sym-who are in this instance acting tive, with no. much work in ita in which a purely artistic discussion lish" towards the end.
is a striking conception, very effec
tressed at the way some good examples of "Babu Eng defence, of justifiable homicide, we Truly any one can repeat a line, once ever took part in: yet his conscience it is written, but not always so as to pathisers for their kind expressin
through their
bothers him. He goes off into the convey sense to the hearer. Mathinics sion of condolence in their recent respective organizations-the China shadowy female figure on a cliff path has been twisted into scandal calcu- The Association of Men of Kent desert to be a monk. Monkery the
adversarialist suffers sout lated to be displeasing to the lady in bereavement, and for the fioral Coast Officers' Guild, etc." The four looking at the sunrise,
words we have italicised give the
In the marine section the case; and we fear that for this and Kentish Men celebrated Victory doesn't improve his personal appear-what by comparison with Miss real subject of the Temark SHIPPING, proper there are junka we must in the first Instance take and Peace on Falklands Day, Decem-ance. Some ill-bred people laughed Graham in this matter. Her's, at misquoted. It is 23 if from
on junks, an eye-catch blame ourselves. We did facetiously ber 8, when they entertained the and giggled. He becomes a very least, is the silence of dignity. He heroes of the Falklands' fight"— | holy man, indeed, and in chosen by a fills four headings with rather over. the following sentence they had ing subject, which naturally tempts suggest that Keith Graham might be omitted the first five words: "The the amateur, who puts in too much trying to "cury favour" with her the officers and men of HMS. bunch of Father Christmasses to go done abuse of myself and hardly criminal, in custody of the policeman, detall in the junk and too little work when he brandished his so-called Kent," who recently returned Home. back to Alexandria and save the city velled hints as to the lady's amcurs had murdered a man." To give "the in sea and sky. Sea and sky can rapier; but anyone knowing the leaving their vessel in Hongkong, from the notorious Thais. It is much with him. This indulgence of the more piquant to see a monk in a sex-pride so marked in the solitary policeman had murdered a man" as be smudged in or "faked," but not parties would have seen the where its fate is still in the balance.
brothel than any other man, and this male is, I fancy, better kept out of a quotation may be legally right, but to win prizes. Very different is the saving absurdity of that.
The annual Sale of Work of the is some brothel. Then there is a print it does make a moral and material light and atmosphere of a ship in impudence shows in referring Industrial Institution for the Blind party. to which Thals and. I have communicated with Miss difference to the meaning, doesn't it? mist, with seagulls, and smaller to her as Miss Graham, whereas craft just looming. This (No. 84) he knows that Mrs. Graham is far A reader has sent in a is strong work.
example of sensuality the advances of this unprincipled Somehow one re beyond either his or our hopes, being THE JOKE dollar, a real, genuine, calla Turner's "Fighting Temeraire," happily married and the mother of ing days, in the Rhenish Church is held up to view astersibly adventurer and wrecker of homes.
Finally, I can bring witnesses to NOW ON US. Spendable dollar, in and murmure as one passes on (after two charming children, a boy and a Hail, near the University. The main pointed out by Paph to convert
connection with our another admiring look)
"On est girl. Our respect for her is as pro tenance of the work, bitherto under Thais, really to tickle us. There was prove that the Adversarialist only Now approaches the "insurance scheme" of Saturday, toujours fils de quelqu s." And found as our admiration, and his foul German control, depends upon volun a long kiss entitled "Lust," but there learnt the nature of a triolet by VOLUNTEERS. end of the year and which was really a bet of 50,000 to one then, and then, No. 80 strikes suggestion that our regard for her is tary contributions and the sale of were details of the picture much applying to me personally after the
more lustful than that kiss “Ghat; publication of his tactless remarks. the end of our local against the world coming to an end the eye. This (for us at any rate) other than Platonic indicates the pro work done by the blind inmates. form of conscription. Soon now the on Dec. 18. In sending his "pre- is the
tony" was humorons and vulgar,
KEITH WEST.· outstanding picture. It bability that he himself has bad.
'suicide' * A European named Bowtkes, a
W29. funny without Defence Corps will be a memory, mium," the gentleman writes: "Re is a highly successful study of a thoughts in his immoral mind from
The Adversarialist has been per- pleasant to some, less so to others. your offer in your Saturday's issue, breaking wave, with spume and foam which, as a married lady, she should visitor to Hongkong, got too much vulgarity, "drunkenness" was (for mitted to reply to this today; but it Then must its successor be consider. I beg to enclose $1 and shall thank lace. The translucent lights and be protected. We admit that he is a drink last night, and hiring a ricsha, Hongkong) an anti-climax. They must stop here. Such a quarrel is ed. Men will feel that it is good to you to include me in your Insurance shadows are just right, and the foam clever writer, sometimes abominablywent to sleep in it. The coolie toek were respectably drunk. Thais, out quite unsuitable for public print know how to handle a rifle now, even Scheme. The name of The China is not petrified. It satisfies us. If clever. Although on literary grounds him to No. 2 Police Station where he of love (or desire) for the man in 2. C. M though they may not be called upon Mail is sufficient guarantee for Yours it is an original study from nature we may feel obliged to publish further was awakened by a constable. He the monk's dress, follows him to the 45 they were before. During faithfully
(not, that is to say, a copy of another contributions from his pen, we shall was allowed out on bail of $5 and the war many a member of
William E. R-man's work) the artist has nothing refuse to meet him on our former bstructed to attend court this morn the awkward squad" regretted We sent him a pro tem guarantee. much more to learn. He (or she) terms. We shall also make it our ing to answer a charge of drunken that he had
When his name was called not doac some The parchment for the proper one is has arrived
business to give the lady's husband | Res. volunteering, so as to be better pre- | being prepared.
In No. 106 we have an caller. We have been tactless, and the bail was estreated.
a hint about his undesirability as a however, he falled to answer it and
pure and holy women, all elderly, Something has happened! What pared than he found himself. Many
Our 34 page edition FLESH. attempt, on a small scale, perhaps indiscreet; he has been un
and plain. Then he and she dream is it! Something is missing. Where men who have enjoyed their soldier.
on Saturday had 35
to give the true Salon
A Chinese who last week was of what they have seen, so that we is it! It was there last night. It ing experiences will want to keep
pages; but we don't touch. We have a pretty nude, quite atimanly. We apologise to Mrs remanded on a charge of theft of get some of it again. She runs out has been there for many, many what they have learned. There wik
Graham. have to brag about minately well done as regards colour.
some vegetables from a plactation in into the desert, and is brought back nights. It has been there for many, be no scarcity of volunteers for the trifles like that. It is quality that and texture, though the drawing of
Kowloon City, because his behaviour to die. Paphnutius, also "evidently many mornings. But this inersing new volunteer corps, we think; and
in Court did not appear to be normal, in love with the woman, comes on it is not there. It is missing. For geon for observation, was again be apparently bites her leg just above it has never failed. It has never fore Mr. Wood this morning, and the knee. She embraces him and disturbed the peace, even though it the prison surgeon having certified be her, and the holy symbol is much) has monotonously disturbed the that the defendant's mentality was in evidence. The cynic, recalling elements for years. below normal, his Worship dis-that it is also a phallic emblem, to keep to the necessary minimum the good luck of the warder done from nature, it has high merit. the tiresome and least popular fea with
murmurs to himself that in this Before Mr. R. O. Hutchison thin charged him with a caution. tures of soldiering will greatly help man exchanged duties that fatal studies of Canton scenes, very, chro-morning, Mr. E. Davidson appearedy
picture it is decidedly appropriate. Vice Admiral Sir Montagu: And that's "Thais," as she is at the the formation of a keen force. And night. He due for Home leave, matic, and as pictures rather flat; but to represent Fukukawa & Co.. Above all, let the volunteering be and we believe is soon going. Had very interesting. Four silk pancis by Ltd. coal merchants, who were Browning, G.G.M.G., R.C.B., M.v.o. has Coronet Theatre I..
been promoted: Admiral. In. 1900 oluntary. That is most important. he not exchanged duties, his leave Au Sha Yang Bower studies must charged with receiving the sum he served with the International
Any person des might have been long leave indeed, on no account be missed. They are
which irous of writing like poor Speed's. On the other hand very fine. In the middle of the room Mr. Davidson said he would plead Sh. E. H. Seymour, for the relief of receipt was tatamped. Expedition, under the command of an essay on the we have the victim apparently on is some remarkable modelling. There guilty, and asked that a nominal the Peking Legations, being mention Gentle Art of the flood tide of the best of luck. He ara small Chinese heads that refine should be imposed. He pointed ed in despatches and receiving the Misquotation has been provided escapes all the perils of four years of quired genius to produce. The neat out that the firm was recently sum China medal and clasp. It will be with an excellent example by Messre. war, and gets married. His wedded brush work in Nos. 23 and 24 shows mozed by a Chinese firm at the Sum. remembered that Sir Montagu Brown: Flying of Samakuipo, were charged the. end. Yet this morning, it is Deacon, Looker, Deacon and Harston. happiness produces the crowning joy big promise. This artist only In the first batch of correspondence of a baby son. Soon he was to have requires to "see" better; the power mary Court in coal contract case, 10g commanded the first British they sent to the Press, they had a his family with him. When he went to execute seems there already. The and the question of the $500 was Squadron to enter the Kiel Canal letter which gave excerpts from on duty that night, ́such a reversal of defect is in the conception. Just the He understood that one of the em
argued before Mr. Justice Gompertz, after the Armistice. Press references to the Shipping luck must have been farthest from reverse is the case in No. 15, a verployees in the firm was invited to a The Admiralty has sent a Dispute." The first one said "The his thoughts, an
artistic idea (and a hard task) în China Coast Offices Guild and the
THE ART local art is on the awanting. If No. 31 is original it the $500, which was a part payment the officers and men who returned To-day's exhibition of which the technical ability was restaurant, by the Chinese firm and message of congratulation to Rear Markus Engineers' Guild of Chica
Admiral John F. E. Green, C.B, and
A GERM DESTROYER: are determined that their salaries BHOW. whole, disappointing. deserves praise. We ought to men-was handed over. A receipt was
THERE is no dan er whatever from shall be raised to the scale demanded.” | |-
The exhibitors are too tion that we know none of the given there, but his client had told from service in the White Sea
– lock jaw or blondinium resulting That, looked so extraordinary, few, and the transition from one or artiste, and had no catalogue Pass the Chinese to call at the office the Admiral Green's fighting record dates
from a wound 'what Cheraharlain's "ain BILIOUS HEADACHE, :: even for the
Balm to promptly applied tix an A extraordinary two artists of compicuous quality to ing over some mere sketched next morning for the stamp, back to 1882, when,; as, a middy on His Worship Imposed a fine of $1. the "Achilles," he smelt powder in diction to which, our kindergarten a small tall of ineffectual amateurs perhaps overlooking, some of merit,
Egypt. During the Bater troubles ALL that is needed is to correct the tis ptica destroys the germs which kiloumess and the hosdačbo dies | scuss there, disco-fish, CLOSI contemporary has accustomed us, is too abrupt. There is no general we bring up opposite the two large
of 1900 he commanded the "Pizmy". Smears, lake Chamberlain's Tablets wounds to heal without ma nestinho sodīji that we had the curiosity to turn up average of painstaking, members, portraits-No-1 is quite recogniz
For the Calas Station and was met band yan will mån be li well as ever, is one third the tram reqnimed tg the Sie. The lawyers had ignored each contributing a single work, or ablar portrait, and the work in It Spend your Evenings in a "WALEA tioned in Sir Edward Sagzhour's For sale by all Chemists and Wisen samal treatment. For sale by all Chemistest a parenthesis, deleted a dash, and at most two, as we had hoped.. One standa close inspection. Not so the
despatches,
and Storekeeper
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, Des. 16, 1319.
ADVERSARIA.
- SATURDAY'S PAPER,
14.
we hope that the authoritics will so tells, and good judges have been act as not to discourage the free generous in their comments. Influx of recruits. Some drill there must be it is still useful in moving men, if not on the modern battlefield
the right arm does not pleasé us. She
City, will be held to-day and follow possible (formerly "Blindenheim"), Kowloon Paphnutius go. . Here every Graham in order to warn her against
desert, after he has made a bonfire. of her possessions. She goes into the desert with a diaphanous dress that proves she has legs, and trailing a long train, He puts her into a camp of
A TRAGEDY.
kneels on quite passable rocks close AN unstamped reCEIPT. and was referred to the prison sur the run, kneels by her litter, and years it has been present. For years
to sea that is not so good as the wave
The story of the horrible before mentioned. This is presum
LUCK. murder of Warder Speed ably a copy. No 77 is a worth-while has a queer side to it, for study of pine trees, and other foliage, --but we suggest that an undertaking believers in luck. Consider first with vista just deep enough li
THE SHIPPING
DISPUTE,
whom the
murdered Opposite are a number of careful
XOHO OF SUMMARY COURT PROCEEDINGS.
of $500 from s Chinese firm
WALLA" Launch.
Yet this morning it is missing
All windows are securely fastened,
all doors locked. No burglar has been in. (There's nothing for him if be came-except it). For years, in the deep stillness of the night, it has been to me a friend. It is appreciated, by millions. It is so necessary that without it life would be too long. It makes life shorter and sweeter. It happens between the beginning and Fire Chinese belonging to a junk the end. It is the beginning; it is
AVOIDING DUTY,
before Mr. R. O. Hutchison this mor missing. Something has happened. ning with having in their possession What it was I do not know. 1,603 gallons of wine, which-duty. But the truth is—I forgot to wind up had not been paid to the Revenue the clockw Department. Mr. Taylor, said, "that
The case was remanded. the casks of wine were discovered concealed on board the junk.
WILLIAM HILL.