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CHINESE CRICKET.
NOT THE INTERPORT KIND.
AS AMUSING COURT STORY.
As we all know, the Chinese love
a little gamble; but few foreigners are perhaps aware of the native pen- cheat for putting a bit on the fight ing cricket-that. nimble
creature
AUTHORS AS DANDIES.
ECCENTRICITY IN DRESS.
STEVENSON'S SEALSKIN CAPE.
CITY PROBLEMS.
THE TRAFFIC MENACE.
The following article by an Anglo- American, in the Mail will be read with interest by residents of Asiatic cities: The time it close at hand when London, New York, Paris and Authors are frequently eccentric in every other large city in the world their ideas of dress.
will have to devise new methods of is not to become a notable figure in traffic control if "killed by accident" vital statistics.
known among the learned as a salta- his portrait to the painter Frith,
Charles Dickens, when sitting for tory, orthopterous insect, allied to grasshoppers and locusts. In Former rived at the artist's studio arrayed in years we do not know whether the a sky-blue overcoat with red cuffs. practice obtains now-it was the cus
"His dress was Borid," wrote a
tom to arrange regular " cricket meet-contemporary; "1 Satin cravat of ings. to which various fanciers deepest blue, relieved by embroider brought their champion to meet all and ies; a green waistcoat with gold flow sundry, and by victory gather in a fewers; & dress-coat with a velvet collar dollars for Master. Chang Su-ho's and satin facings."' garden was the favourite rendezvous. Alexandre Dumas once arrived at of these enterprising gentlemen, says an evening reception wearing a red the N.C.D. News,"
tie and a shirt on which were depicted A sporting event of this character, a host of little red devils disporting surprised by the police at the height themselves amidst Rames
Col.
Existing safeguards are quite in- adequate. They are makeshifts, and should not be regarded as solutions of the problem, in whole or in part. urbane City Traffic Commissioner of Dr. Rendel Harris, the capable and New York evolved an excellent scheme when be erected street light-1 houses in Fifth Avenue.
Ke has contrived, by the display of varying lights, to move trafic simulta- neously north and south or east and west over long stretches of crowded thoroughfares which otherwise would be congested locally at four or five) main crossings.
But this plan, while applicable to the rectangles of New York until the multiplication of motor vehicles fills a couple of miles of Fifth Avenue from end to end a condition of the near future which can only result in com- munal means of locomotion is not necessarily of much valge in London. Here the streams of City life flow
of its exciternent, was the theme of Lord Beaconsfield was a celebrated an amusing story told at the Shanghai dandy, and possessed an enormous Mixed Court, to the British Assessor wardrobe. He was much attached to (Mr. Blackburn) and Magistrate Kwan. a velvet suit with ruffles, and on one Two culprits in the case, Tsen Tsoong occasion attended a dinner-party wear? shing, unemployed, and Ya Sunging, green velvet trousers, a canary. tsu, a broker. were charged with coloured waist-coat, low shoes with gambling by means of cricket Sght silver buckles, and lace cuffs to his ing at No. 129 Myburgh Road.
We understand that, an additional |
He once
walked down Regent charge of "cruelty to animals" would Street adorned in a blue overcoat, have been p.cferred against defen- light blue trousers, and black stock-through many and tortuous channels. dants, but for the fact that the policeings with red stripes.
In New York except in the oldest were in perplexity as to whether a Robert Louis Stevenson often used part at the foot of Manhattan, the cricket comes within the statutory to wear a black flannel shirt. a Enised traveller may go uptown, down-town, definition of an animal.
rie, Wellington boots, and rather tight or cross-town, and these ways alone. trousers. This ger-up was completed But the New York of to-day can Det.-Inspector Cruickshank stared by a pea-jacket and a large white teach London some valuable lessons that, in conseruence of leners having sombrero bat. His most amazing in other respects. The people's food been received by the police stating article of apparel was a lady's sealskin is incomparably the most important that cricket gambling" das going on cape, which be draped about his of civil considerations, and the there, he visited this house, accom- shoulders and fastened with a fancy American system of restaurant in- panied by 2 -Chinese detective. brooch, into which a small bunch of spection should be introduced into They found about 300 people daffodils was thrust.
England without delay. present, and there was great excite- Honore de Balzac would affect the ment. The two defendants were garb of a Doininican friar when writ- bending over a table upon which ing, and Jean Jacques Rousseau was two crickets were, doing battle, "touch fond of wearing Court dress. ing them up with slender pieces of
IN THE ARENA.
bamboo to which a few fine hairs were
marched their object being to add
There is no question of penal law. Competent inspectors allot marks for cleanliness in kitchens and public rooms, sanitation, food protection; and the pride of the restuaranteer who obtains and exhibits a 100 per cent. gold certificate is even surpassed
to the fury of fight. The contest was passing the time away. He did not by the speed with which his 75 per sapped and the two defendants were mix up" with gambling; but was suf-cent zival tries to remedy the dam- arrested.
ficiently well informed, to be able to ning defects. The Inspector then "produced the add that on this occasion there was evidence cricket in a little cage, nothing at stake except some "paper a fine scale for "weighing in"
the Bowers" which the owner of the win contestants, a bunch of the aforening cricket received. mentioned "bamboo ticklers," and Perhaps paper flowers" was just
Ú
Again, the dirt so often seen on York by wrapping each loaf in white bread in London is prevented in New tissue paper. Glass, not metal, is of children is incomparably better in used for the milic supply. The care
'be found in a day's search of the city. Perhaps it would be well if repre sentative officials of the Health De partments of the two great com munfties were to exchange visits.
lg but not least, an account book Ya's pretty conceit descriptive of New York. A child in rage is not to
wing a considerable amount of bunch of dollar notes. However, the money to have been at stake, on the Court did not look upon the matter in fighting crickets,
a serious light, and let the defen- In answer to the Assessor, Inspec-dants off upon payment of $10 each. tor Cruickshank said there, had been The Court recorder was called upon no case of this kind before the Court to note confiscation of the following am not suggesting a new army of for some 15 years. On that occasion, paraphernalia "Two metal cages, officials. I am convinced that trade he believed one defendant was fined three crickets, one wooden dragon, organisations would provide the re S100, and another one $50.
and other gear already mentioned. quisite staff on their own volition if AN INNOCENT_ONLOOKER..... The wooden dragon was presum-the advantages of such improvements Yr. Sung-tsu told the Court that he ably a mascot. If so, it has played its were pointed out by the civic author vas an innocent onlooker, merely lowner rather / shabby trick,
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