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"TRUTA, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"
BORGEONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1990...
JOY OF FOLLY.
When we reuil Tom MacInnes" volume of poetas,The Fool of Joy," and reviewed it in this colunin, we took the liberty of sug- gesting that The Joy of Faily***
O utterance. futile but sweet !" Like a parrot I pause and repeat, In delight of my own, and for
nothing,
To myself I repeat and repeat:
ï
6
J
Last night, in a hnd of triangles,
I lay in a cubicle where." A girl in pajamas and bangles
Slept with ber 'hands in my bairt
ADVERSARTA.
JEROME'S NOVEL.
Mr. Harper will lend you for twenty cents Jerome K. Jerome's new
"All novel.
Roads lead to Calvary. Here is a quotation: Power derived from
THE CHINA MAIL.
MENTI.
Show rooms int DISAPPOINT. side," said a print-|
ed card in a store window in Fedder Street, and "show me your rodina" said a party distructed by a vain search for lodgings. The housing question once more.
LOGAL. ANE. GENERIL.
To-day's dollar is worth 45. 11fd.
Carge by the "Swarf," becomes subject to rent it undelivered after today..
Consignees of cargo by the "Van Waerwick are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after to day are subject to rent.
This is the medical Notifiable disease has dwindled Asasta. term for lapse of to one case of cerebrospinal fever on memory especially each of the last two days. where the forgetfulness covers. D marked period of a man's life. It is said to have been frequently a sequel of shell-stuck in the war It is intely growing more marked in the Adversarian, who for two days has been tortured (the word is deliberately selected by inability to recall the nasie of an essayist kaartalist who wrote on scientific anbjects, especially ethnology. He
worldly sources can only be car played for worldly purposes. The
had white hair and a black, mou- Power conferted by popularity. bystache, and was a contemporary of wealth, by that ability to make use R.L... Grant Allen, etc.
What
Charged before Mr. N. L. Smith this morning, with the unlawful possession of 42 po piu lottery tickets, an elderly Chinese was remanded for week. Bail was allowed in the sum of $150,
FRIDAY, WARGI 15, 120,
"CORRESPONDENCE.
JUVENILE MUSIC.
PROFESSOR DANENBERG'S ANNUAL
RECITAL,
ments.
THE CHINESE SALENDAR.
[To the Editor of the "! China Matt,?*] The sixth annual pupils' concert was
Sir,Your editorial of yesterday given by Professor Danenberg last night, assisted by Mrs. H. A. Jones, has touched upon a much discussed "Bella Spree reports it for the point-the abolition or the retenties China Mall. She writes:
of the old Chinese Calendar. Not We gathered in the big hall of the having seen the original artiols in the City Hall in respectable numbers. Far Eastern Political Science Review, The only empty chairs were two that I cannot exactly say what the writer were broken. The young buds of the thereof means by saying that the old shrub of genius had a sympathetic | Chinese Calendar helps one to choose; audience. We marked the fruit of auspicious days for all one's move- This writer seems to be cont- much patient study and teaching.
Miss. Elfrida Osmund and the Prstounding the old Chinese Calendar lessor phayed the overture-a piano with the Almanack-Tung Sting duet. Good music to begin-Weber's issued every year and procurable from **Freischütz." Then one of the every bookseller at from ID: 20 youngest pupils, Miss Eileen Lam-cents a copy. This T'ung. Shing is When charged before Mr. Irving men, with a light touch, played two reputed to be the yearly work of of other men that we call organiza was his name! By the way, the this morning, with picking the pocket Forest Fantasies by Carroll, Master Cheung Tim Shi-the Tavist Astro- tion-sooner or later, the man who word amnesia is only another form of a compatriot outside a brothel in George Bond lollowed with Poldin'snomer Royal living at Lung Fu Shan wields that power becomes the! Devil's servant. So long as King-proclaimed toward the Germans.
of amnesty, which the King has Water Street yesterday, a Chinese valse, "Sylphes." He kept beauti-in Kiangsi.
youth pleaded "not guilty." Aful time, and I liked his poise: A I quite agree with you that there ship was merely a force struggling His loyal subjects throughout Chinese detective said he saw the pretty little brunette, Miss Alda is a trouble in adopting the Europea against anarchy, it was a holy wes the empire are not showing much plainante pocket, and extract some and "The Dancers" by Lemont. Both Royal appoint days suspicious and defendant put his hand in the com- Teixeira, gave us a Mexican Serenade Calendar and letting the Astronomer pon. As it grew in power, so it forgetfulness, though, are they? degenerated into an instrument of
thing. He grabbed the defendant as melodies were very pretty. I told inauspicious for people to take vives, tyranny. The Church, so long as
Half & column of he walked away, and in his hand 30 you that all of Professor Danenberg's ete. In fact, the Tung. Shing now it remained a scattered body of TO THE MOON. Solemn discussion cents was found. Six weeks'.
pupils, from the youngest to the most also gives the Solar as well as the meek, lowly men. did the Lord's
in The Times Enthroned Rome, it about. -an work.
American professor's
Ten Chinese were this morning expert, played their pieces by heart, Lunar dates side by side. From a thundered its siers against human scheme to send a rocket to the charged before Mr. Irving with would you not agree with me that Political and Commercial point of -the adoption of the Solar e Euro- thought. The Press is in danger moon suggests the need for em-gambling at No. 249 Queen's Road, they have developed a very musical view, there is no doubt that the change of following precisely the same bis-phasising that the joyous folly of a East. The first man was further car
Very quietly and without striving pean way of reckoning date is better. When it write in fear of the Foot of doy is quite other than the charged with being the keeper of a for effect did Miss Kathleen Heron But the trouble lies with the farmers.
common gaming house. He admitted Ltd pillory and the jail, it fought for serious foolishness and foolish seri- gambling. but denied the other render for us three Sen-idylls by Car- and the people in general.
Liberty. Now it has become the ousness that overlay's journalism charge. Sergt. Cockle said he was roll. Her technique was excellent, Accustomed for generations Fourth Estate, it fawns at the feet to-day. This famous journal now prepared to accept the plea. All the but we wish there had been a little reckon their sowing and reaping time of Mammon." The business of makes a feature of news in pic-other men also admitted gambling. more expression in her song "To s according to the Lunar dates the old the journalist is to destroy the times," instead of giving us pie A fine of $3, or 7 days each, Wild Rose." Was it shyness or lack Calendar-and, being most conserva- truth, to lie, to pervert, to vilify,tures in the news. But it does was imposed. $3.18 found on the mat of feeling? Perhaps both; the day five and unwilling to change the ways. to fawn at the feet of Mummon, to publish letter every day from the was confiscated.
some of these very brilliant performers of their forefathers, it is not an easy sell his soul for his daily bread. admirable Admiral Fisher. Here's
will let themselves go, we think they matter to make them accept the We are the tools and vassals of rich a taste of one: A threat to dissolve A Chinese was this morning will develope into real artists.
change. Moreover, the Republican men behind the scenes. We are Parliament makes its recalcitrant charged before Mr. N. L. Smith with Miss Marjorie Stewart played very Government has not inspired them with the jumping jacks: they pull the members feed out of the Prime harbouring an unmarried girl, aged daintily A word of love" and a that confidence which would guaran- strings and we dance."
Minister's hand. Did not some 17. Mr. E. J. Grist who appeared Minuet by Schelt. The star soloist of tee their adoption of everything recom- There is u most in hundreds of them send a telegram for the girl's father said both the the first part of the programme was mended by it. ANOTHER teresting
to Paris? They don't represent the complainant and the defendant were Miss Marie Lobato, and indeed ber Republican Government of China story, in STORY.
quite Another book, masses of this nation. It's the stewards on the same ship. The Woodland Sketches were appreciated of a Man who appear-
baldest. richest, effetest House of defendant who was admitted in they all.
complainant's house as a friend, ed before a Roman magistrate, and Commons we ever had.
betrayed the trust placed on him, I told him?" To this end was I born,
The over-night news and enticed the girl to run away and for this canse came I into the
THE XEWS. is for the most part from home. The case was remanded world. that I should bear witness
rather boring, don't until the 18th inst. Bail was fixed 'unto the truth." Now Filate was you think?" The Swedish and in the sum of $1,000.
not a newspaper proprietor, so be Portuguese Cabinets have resigned. found no fault in Him.
Others will succeed, them, so who
Fory.
MM. STEAMER RUNS ASHORE.
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For what does the
mean to the farmers and people in
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the interior. but an increase af bri- The second part was opened by the gandage and lawlessness? Professor's niece, Miss Elsa Alves of To the general people the adoption sumati, whom we had already heard of the new Calendar presents another at Mrs. Basil Taylour's. She played difficulty-religious. If the with a brio which was very much ap- Calendar is adopted, there axust be a plauded; her Butterflies were fy.complete change as regards the fersis ing around from flower. to Bower. 1 of the gods. loved the sweet melody of Lack's These are. I think, the two prin- In olden times, the cares? America will trade with the
Madrigal, but I think Bre'er Rabbi cipal points which prevent this com FOOLS, Panjandrums kept fools, Soviet without recognizing that
would have gained in quality if it had servative people from changing even or innocents," as they there is a Soviet, The Allies are
hopped about more lightly.
in their way of reckoning days. The were happily called. To the critic-doing the same clever thing. It
At this part of the performance Chinese people will come to accept fisms of these innocents it was cus- does not excite us. The Telegraph
Mrs. H. A. Jones stepped in (or up) the change, but not before many years toinary that even a tyrant should talks of a "grave situation in
with two songs: "Se Saran Rose by run by, and foremost, not before pesies listen. Bitter truth sugared with Turkey and of Allied troops occupy
Arditti, one of Melba's favourite reigns in this hapless' land.-Youre, (wres arep-acide 416 francang sentir so got swal- og Ca
officially stated that there is There has been a heavy fog out encores, and aHeppy Song. I liked etc.,
JOHN KESTREL. ing your properly. Zalinka-the lower, and sometimes the medicine Reader. The Reader-
worked. The only possible way to probably no need to send troops aide Hongkong for the past week her picture-hat as much as her sing- teach in these days is to play the from England there These things which has greatly delayed manying, and they both seemed to please fool. See to-day's almost intelli-are all obtions guesses, and they steamers due to arrive and has also the audience as well.
Miss May Choy gave a very good irritate. There is a little more ce been the cause of one of the Messa gent editorial.
finiteness in the message about the series Maritimes steamers going rendering of "Home Sweet Home. of Some
ashore, siz the "Commandant Mages." Fantasy by Thalberg. We see that Indian muslims” resolution to REFORMERS. people would per-
The bad weather conditions will be the Oriental mind can vibrate in sym- suade others
sever connection with the to provide rain-proofs for ducks; and British government and to boycott better realised when it is stated pathy with Western thought, at times. that the Blue Funnel steamers The Misses May Fincher and Ed-
ZALINKA.
By Tour Maclanés.}
1
Last night, in a land of triangles,
I lay in a cubicle where A girl in pajamas and bangles
→
I wondered if either or neither
OE us were properly there. Being subject to queer aberations--
these
while it is.
hot air.
MANY VESSELS DELAYED BY FOG.
17
ISN'T IT TIME TO BE REASONABLE ?
THIS, SMELLA OF RED TAPE:
The manager of Wo Ping Theatre
N. L. Smith with unlawfully allowing
Slept with her hands in my hair, Waro pigs of the dangers of garb-piecegoods if their wishes regard-"Antilochus," "Tyndareus," "Jason" vina Rodgers made a pretty pendant
age they make as much ncise asing Turkey are not respected, butland: "Teenhan," were compelled to in pink and light blue as they played was this morning charged before Mr.
even that is probably a clucting her on a kérimic egg. A dreary lot of items.
anchor outside, anything from two on two pianos very melodious varia- Ah! Here to five days. These vessels have tions by Sinding and batch no more. “
is one that has human interest. since made the barbour. Many
his actors to sleep in the theatre, Major Wimperis con- Prince. Joachim of Prussia insults local steamers have also been delayed. slender figure in red, began to attack defence, said that since the fast pre-
When Miss Elfrida Osmund, - a
Mr. "Agassiz, who appeared for the siders that flying two French officers in hotel, and The "Commandant Mages" left machines may yet ex throws champagne bottles at them, Hongkong homeward bound (Mar- the first chords of the "Convent" to secution against his client, he had ceed 156 miles an hour. and gets chucked out by the staff.seilles), yesterday. At four o'clock have seen the excitement of the Chi-outside the theatre. It was physically imitate the morning belis, you should secured accommodation for 52 persons If." he argues, we incesac our Good! Noske, has ordered Joachim a Wireless-message was received nese damsels in the audience! They impossible for his client to do more, speed to 600 miles an hour-the arrested. An intelligent jailer stating that the vessel had struck a
would have suited better the polar-Agera and thin aberations ity of his treatment. There were, as we indicated, vacillations by the ecule of his inspiration, but generally speaking his genins point
Which leave me no base to com-
pare-
to this as the true north of his literary leaning, that there is pure joy in pure folly as the sober world uses the word and that the. Fool of Joy is not suel: a fool as he looks. Fools were the preceptors of the tyrannus past, and they may well
No adequate buse to compare : But her hands, with their wristful
of bangles,
Were certainly fast in my hair,
While the moon made pallid equa
tions
Thro a delicate window there..
3
FLYING STUNTS.
be in the midst of the modern mad- I was glad that she slept, for I only necessary for an aviator of 30
never
Can tell what the finish will be! What enamoured nocturnal endea
Your
May end in the killing of me : But, in the moonlit obscuro
Of that silken, somniferous lair. Like a poet consumed with a far
last
ness the exemplars of the wisdom of to-inorrow. Even transitionally, with gory Bolsheviant piled or callous profiteering, and with venal politics on the larger lunacy, it is still better far to langh than cry. Had the spiritual home of the Teu- tonic reader been in Eulenspiegel rather than in the superhuman nonsense of Gobinean, how diller- ot had been the issue of the last Instrum or two. A story by W. W. Jacobs would better nourish British patriotism than many leaderettes in the Daily Mail. Punch in his utmost puerility is more wholesome the Primrose Folitically
Fell across ber in argentine bars, League. Your Chicots and Yoricks and Dagonets and Merry Andrews And I thought This is fine, but
then
Of things unapproachably fair I fancied her body of star, dust- Pound of spices and star dust-
Out of the opulent cir!
4
Then the moon with its pale
liquidations
to-morrow...
What cut of Dawn's cold scimi-
tars
Will sever my bold on this crea-
ture
I mean of this creature on me? Aprons creature of exquisite
aura
Marvel of dark glamörie!
must be wise men all, shrewd as Archie the fool of James I, "that was to be banged for a sheep, and had a reprieve till he had read his Bible through for his soul's weal. (See The Fortunes of Nigel," by Walter the Scot.) The limbu fatuorum is no purgatory; the joy of folly may be a Fool's Paradise: so long as it is a paradise, where's the bell of it? We have digged in this mine before, and must not overdo it; but when we think of rhyme: the uses of men like Gelett Bar gess, Robert J. Burdette, Orpheus C. Kerr, and all their joyous com- pany, in hard-headed America, and | Of reaching and zooming serenely
|
speed of the earth the sun will would shorten; sweeten, and sim-rock 20 miles from Hongkong, near thought that Berodice had been in- in view of the present shortage of appear to stand still in the sky; plify matters by cutting this prince. Saimoon. Later, another message spired by the sounds of the native houses. They had done their best, The Skylark by. Balakirer- and cannot do more. Surely, the and if we go faster and start only pig's throat. We are not an-was received stating that the posi Fong Monday we shall find ourselves noyed at him for his rudeness, totien of the vessel was 22.02 lat. Glinka, also rendered by Miss P.W.D. did not expect the people to back at the previous Sunday. So the French officers, but for his 114.01 long. A tug from the Taikoo Osmund, appealed to us all; it soared sleep on the Praya? His client had Wells' "Time Machine" was not cheek in pretending that be counts Dock has been sent out, but up to full of feeling and melody. Here ap- gone so far as to apply to the P.V.D. so wildly fantastic after all. It is any more in Germany.
tiffin time no further news had been peared Miss Winifred Robinson in for permission to make some rooms received.
white, to play the Narcissus" by in the theatre for the accommodation The "Commandant Mages" car-Nevin and a fascinating Irish Lullaby of the actors, and what was the re- ried no passangers. She had a gen" Lúlalu." Professor Danenberg and sult? They were forbidden to do any eral cargo and was from Japan and Miss Lilian Chenalley performed the thing of the sort. He did not know Shanghai.
valse of the Wedding Cake" is why the P.W.D. and the Police should which there was joy and merriment, be down on his client. The other as well befitted its title..
theatres could accommodate their We must congratulate Miss Marie actors on-the premises, why 'nor his Souza for the brio, technique and client's theatre?..
to go fast enough round and round the world, in the right direction. to find himself in the year 1890 again, a puling babe. But who then will handle the machine? He had better take a nurse of GO with him.
+
To encourage others,
OUR LOCAL POETS.
BAG OF MYSTERY.
GENEROSITY, a correspondent sign. Sausage well-spiced When viewed
at hungry morn, ing himsel A.M.**
has written to The Times announc. With greasy skin agape, and shown
inside ing his intention to hand over for
Funding Loan, this representing
Trotski's pride
fruit of over 50 years' unremitting 20 per cent., of his fortune the What were a breakfast reft of thee,
forlorn P industry."
ELECTRIC FITTINGS
WRONG.
agility she displayed in Liszt's Rhap
Mr. Edwards of the P.W:D. `ex- sody. We followed with enthusiasm plained that the other theatres were Mr. A. H. Crew appeared before the Hungarian riders galloping in the in existence before the new ordinance Mr. N. L. Smith this morning to Danube plain putting to fight innocent me into force, and the ordinance did
groups of ducks. Liszt is not an not touch them.
The defendant's cancellation £120,000 worth of the The luscious meat that" once was defend the Bon Ton" Company essy composer to interpret: he was theatre was built after the ordinance who are summoned by the Hongkong. Electric Co., for having an excess of very proud of his unusual virtuosity, came into force, and therefore came lights on their premises, it
and delighted in the difficulties he within the provision of the ordicance. Counsel said the offence was a sowed in every page of his. Did he. A hasty calculation For eggs and bacon must be dubbed
His Worship asked if there was any shows that he will have 5430,000 outworn.
technical one. The contractor who not once place a note that nobody difference in the construction of the did the fitting was really to blame. could play and that had to be attacked buildings, or His clients thought that the-con- with the nose?
Mr. Agassiz-Only that my Cheat's tractor had got the necessary permit Yesterday, I saw Spring on the theatre is much better, and is built on
platform. A pretty display of youth-modern lines. before doing the fitting. dangerous Installation, especially in white and red, the latest hats from
Mr. Bannerman said it was aful figures in tender pinks and blue, in A fine of $25 was imposed,
left, which, divided by 50, repre- You conquer appetite, that else had sents £9,000 per annum pay for his
- died,
unremitting industry. Not bad. And tempt these avid lips to What was he? A coal-miner, or
NEXT
vide
*~ unborn
open
it
a railway-worker? Certainly not To taste such raptures as are yet a newspaperman. They never give
In poetry's rapturous realm; and so anything back.
Soft slithering o'er the tongue, Winston Churchill,
downward slips alarmed by by Soothing as dew from summer morn GOVERNMENT, election results, ing sky, pika",
wrote in a Sunday Fragrant as any spicy winds that blow paper an article meant to show tha The magic of hot pig is on my lips, Is beyond my expression in Labour men could not form a
government that would be of any The piggishness of magic in my eye.
That naturally provoked re
-THE ADVERSARIAN. plies, and the The Times of Jari
5
What joy of fully then followed
And I do not expect you to take me use.
When I speak of expansions of
time:
16 says "the Labour leaders had
by no means the worst of the argue
of the pancity of wise fools on our As it were at right angles to ment. Whatever are we coming
side, it is a temptation to go a-mis- sionarying pantagruelly preaching not only the joy but also the wis dom of some well-considered fool- ishness. However, the immediate occasion of these musings is the receipt from Tom Maciones of the following poem, in acknowledg
pont, he kindly says, of our tribute to his published work. Let us,
-time
your level,..
A FAMILY NECESSITY.: INVERY family should be provided to? Even the Lord Chancellor, with Chamberlain's Pain Balm at Coalition is doomed. He wants i nach la's time when promptly treated:
Knowing well you may think, on whom the Coalition made, says the all timer Sprains, may be cured
view of the fact that the firm's staff our clegantest shops, frills in baptistes. consisted of 50 people. There were and voiles.
CORPS.
no fewer than 35 lights on the "I don't think the masculine part of HONGKONG VOLUNTEER He did not know what material the am told-are more partial to pretty premises nine on the ground floor. the audience disliked that. Some, 1
wires were made of, but they were frocks than to torrents of harmony. very flexible and dangerous. This Taste and sight, psychologists teach kind of wiring was not allowed to be us, are the first senses that develope used in contact with fron.LES
in infants, and are not men nothing A fine of $50 was imposed.
but grown-up children?
CRICKET.
CRCvRE & LA
A
P.S.-The programme will be re peated next Wednesday, 17th, at 5.30 sharp, with an entrance fee of $1.00
DESPONDENCY DUE TO CONSTIPATION.
despondent-When this is das
In the above match to-morrow, This was only a dream indis-new Party to oppose. Labour. Lame beo, lame Thoulder, petas in be the following will represent the
creet
That's like the Kniser sppointing side and cheat and theamaid pains and CRC on home ground-Na Sze WOMEN often teome nervous and new generals to win the war for some of the diseases-fur which 18 is e-Kwong (Capt.), H. Ching, Un Hew to constipation it is easily corrected by Or experience quite indiscreet,
pecially valuable. Try this liniment and But it's little 1
him. The Kaiser now murmur room gesinked with its a lifes and Rane Wong, Geo. Lee, Shin M
Lee, Shin Man taking an ocasional dos of Chamber Amerongen. (I'm a wrong un) you will never lah to be without it. Puis, Lo. Man Pub, Hơ Wing Kis. Lin's Tablota. These tablets are easy to Winston and the Lord Chancellor For sale by all Chemists and Store Choa Man Ping Wel Lee Son and take and pleasant in effect. For sale by
Ali Chonglater and Btorekeepers.. keepers may repeat it.
Woog Kwok Kwanz
· stance
this in
What you do or do not think din
creet 1
Orders for Cadet Company by Lieut. A. D. Brawn.
STRENGTH.
Cadet L. T. Chresley Joined on March 6, 1920 and is psied to Section 2.
PARADES
All Sections, Band and Instructors at Headquarters on Monday, 19th instant stand intercon
N.CO's nod Instructor on Thurs- day, 18th instant at 5.15 p.m.
O RESTEWART Captain, Adjutant, H.K. Volunteer Corps. Hongkong, March 12, 1920.