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THE IMPORTANCE OF A DATE.
SATURDAY, - JANUARY 8, 1929,
It is pleasant to read Porsax in the papers that the GAS. British Government. is consulting expert chem-
ME. MOSON
AND
dreadful,
As acting president
remember, the hero used to laugh. lated to our tribe. But he kept understood, his going to sleep charm of it is the emancipation that is not measured and doles out
from time. It is all one radiant in, as I put it just now, rudigima. and fing his purse at the landlord, me chained up on a verandah, and under t
and enjoyable Now, especially
The other papers My pen runs only
HARBOUR and jump on his horse, and gallop street boys threw stones at me.
have been talking away, purseless. That was 'lar-There were so many stones on that
THE SAME, CUTTente calamo; and when you are as busy as Robinson gesse. I shrays worried about that verandah that it looked like a peb-
I seem no nearer, to! Crusoe was.
MASTER AND of the Harbour I remember being FOO SIGNALS. Master inspecting purse in the romances. I wonder.bly beach. I couldn't always dodge the ethics of the story. Be pati-
the diaphone SVT- ed what the hero did, for a drink them all. When he took me on the ent, as I am, and it will surely
in a witness box when he came to the next inn, or yacht I suspected his purpose from come. Let it be remembered shat
and in sore trouble tem of fog algasis at Vancouvár when he wanted a packet of Wood- the very first. He meant to draw the man was under the table. It
to installing it as once. A lawyer" with a view bines. I admired him, but I wish-ne in that big water, which wasn't will be impossible too emphatically f
was examining and Waghan. As it has been already ed he would be more sensible about good to drink, for 1-tried it is or too often to emphasize the fact trying to get a date out of me. definitely contracted for will money. So now you can see what true he took off my collar and that he was not on it. In that The date no doubt seemed import- no help us much for him to look I thought, and still think, about the chain, so that I could keep out of case, the annorance of the com-ant to his legal mind, and heat it. He is gaing on holiday, editor who changed my simple, his reach and climb the mast plainants would have been more thought I was wilfully evading his that's all.
understandable. One has to be question, for he began to bully me. definite and quite believable and Bot every now and then, when I true penny into the indefinite and was thinking of something else reasonable in these matters. Had Finally. I turned and harangued unlikely largesse. It isn't as if he ripped the boat over, so that he been fat, and they cannibals, the judge. I said I could not sup they threw langoss themselves had to grab, and grab quick. Once it is conceivable that even on the ply the date asked for. I said I In ideas they are parsimonious, as be nearly had me, when I grabbedable he might have been, like the was a literary man, not a business lists with a view to perfecting the you may see by searching their a rope that was loose, and that let little ship on the sea in the hymn, man, and that I never bothered my poison gas method of warfare. It Half an idea is as sacred me down. Then, when I tried to a pretty sight. He may have been head with dates. I said my is to be hoped they may discover papers. to them, and as carefully eked placate him by an affectionate de-fat, for there are fat Chinese, but head was constantly full of such something even more ont, as a Scotsman's traditional monstration, sitting close Beside we may assume, if only for the long vistas of time, going back to The aore horrid war is made, the bawbee. I don't know how far the him where he steered, he shovedsake of argument, that they were the first appearance of life on earth,sener will it become unfashion- Japanese have changed since the tiller at me suddenly, and not cannibals. So on the table he and beyond that to the unntterable able. dwelt amonger them. I hear saw his game. I dodged, of course, would have been de trop (pro silence in which God need to live. many changes But they may not but I determined to defeat him if nounced chiraw). He may have before He thought of making a
of the Keal St. have changed the custom of cha vigilance would do it. After a long been a handsonte Chinese, for there universe, that ordinary calendar
Cleorge's Sxiety dai at Hotels. When you gave time we came near land. It was are such, but he could hardly have figures seemed unatterably trivial
TOLERANCE making a speech at your tip to the hotel servants, fascinating to see the trees on it. harmonized with the general effect do me. I asked His Lordship to
the andel ball on you gasit in advaner, when book. I thought of all the lavicus insects of the table decorations. Besides, protect the from the hectoring law Tharstay night, Mr. Mosen spoke in one remy, and you wrapped it and ratillars and cons and one of them might have wanted to yer, seeing that I was villion of Laerance as the chi chiraser- te in varor if your uished to do it buds. I could and there, if only I write a poem, and he would have toll all I knew, and one refusedistic of Englislemen. He calls it
These editors I was could reach those trees. It awaken in the way. A true poet to tell what I didn't. He walk a
jan admirable quality. My heart talking about wrap up their half jeand ancient and nkasurable mem-needs elbow room. Experientia nice, kind judge, and he did it. an iha in a clutin of type, and aries. Then the fool played right docet. al ex cathedra. These He asked the lawyer what his point went out toward the utterer of such present it to their readers as if it into my hands. He sailed close in foreign phrases with which this was. The lawyer said it was where wants, such tensible seni Were largesse. But it isn'. It I ran forward and watched for my paragra is larded are not really ther in the correspondence referred tents, for though I fear English- chance. When within leaping disnecessay, but I personally like such to the witress first wrote to the men are really more folerant than anybody else, not even so This from the virile tance. I inaped, and got clear polyglottic pleasantries. They in defendant or the defendant first ad-tolerant as they ought to be, it is COMMON Strails Echo, needed away. I fell in the water after at a suggestion of erudition, and dressed the witness. The Judgesething gained to virine, when
saying, and is here landing, but that was nothing-add tone. But fer us once more said I could no doubt answar that. well expressed: "The sun was shining, and I was inake this quite clear) the man was and I hastened to assure then that virtue is recomized and profess But then,box can I break Now the only I could. I said that we both wrote to yon gently--I rememb zel. vaig areount of twaldi is uttered soon dry. He came ashore and under the table. and sentiment wasted over the man called my back. Nothing dong parts of a moral man sitting at a simultaneously and that our letters who is alleged to have given the What do you think. I watched the table that go on the floor under the crossed. So you see why I think that was this sans gentlemen Services of a lifetime to a nation, sail as he sailed away, and when table are his feet. In this cold dates are nuisance. and whe who only a short while go wrote in to say that he would drita natha waning in this instance the bold-it came back again I hid deep in weather-you begin to guess my Robinson Crusoe was foolish tong more to with the China ing of civil resitions of high degree the greenery, she gorgeous, homearife? Quite so. Why a month's bother with them. As for counting Mail. He would not bay it or read either as a civil servant or a poli-like greenery. No more verandahs hard labour? Were I rich man, the number of days he spent on it. for it was a Bolshevistic paper. tician. When it is considered that yachts for me. I am free, free.I would hire a nice warma Chinese the island, whatever for?
In one of those conscientious. such positions bring to the cecupant | free.
to lie under my table, as a foot cannot calculate happiness or work trath-groping articles I sometimes financial ease, comfort of body, free
They meant well, but warmer. Being poor, I can only for into simple proportions. IF. on write. 25 advocatus" diaboli, in pleasure trips under extrionlinarily THE OIL when they put an oil afford to invite this man, when he the other hand, he was unhapp-order to clarify, a picturs clouded desirable conditions, social posi
STOVE. stove in my room, te comes out of jail, to come under where was the sense of recording with the fog of passion and pre- tion, political power, more or less
make it warm and my table. I cannot promise him and multiplying unhappy days?! endering fame, and, above all, the
CuSy for me, they put my soul in wages, but while he is under my As an old friend of Robinson Cru-judies. I managed to say things opportunity to play a leading handel. It was being discoloured he table. he will be heartily welcome soe, one of the best friends a boy which annoyed him. did not reason with the Chine Mail. He in the great game of the State and the adjectives I spat at that stove.to the crumbs that fall from it. If ever had. I like to hear him wrote in to say that it was so wick- the Empire, the most fascinating The store smoked and the smoke only he had had enough candour to praised, but please. Peter, not fored that he would henceforth have excupation in the world, it is trifling stank. If I turned down the wick. tell the magistrate that that was the wrong things. It is like prais nothing to do with it. foolishness to talk of a
debt of the thing went out, and left a chill why he was there, to act as a foot ing Nelson for being a Free Lover,
acteristic tolerance was gratitule, having been incurred by to be much more acutely felt than warmer. I am sure His Worship or Napoleon for having a paunch, moment like the god Baal in the the people who base conferred the cold temperature previously would have let him go. But he or John Buaran for having a wart, Fire Book of the Kings either it these special privileges upon an in- unnoticed. They trimmed it and must tell that unbelievable story or or me for writing nonsense, as dividua!. The pushing, struggling, tinkered with it and it is again, of going there to sleep, and make, I do sometimes. But I prefer to
call' it 'burble. envious mob of those who from but there aas, no happy medium his good case worse.
THESE COLD maturity to death are striving and about that stove. So I gave it to intriguing day and night to secure a poor woman that was going to for themselves the perquisites of a have a baby.
MORNINGS. highly placed public servant would soon dislodge a man who did not hold grimly on to the ship of State.
most certainly is not that.
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Sometimes I pray
as pursuing, or it was on a four- ney, or peradventure it was sleep, ing, and needed to be awaked. At It is such cold any rate it was now at that time Into our private
mornings rooms, and out, on
have been having TELEPHONE. to our private ver- It is true enough that
lately that make andahs, uninvited NEW a Sanitary Inspector,
me loathe the tyranny of clocks and BOARDING Mr. Leigh, has and unannounced, without so much the bullying of time. My boy as a by your leave," there some wakes me and says the barfu is OFFICER. been appointed a
per se is not a virtue, not an ad- Boarding Officer, but times stride industrions looking ready. I don't want the bartu, I mirable quality. Had the Chri in his position by those who bare 1 is not true that there is an ordi- men with coils of wire and tools want to finish my beautiful dream. Mo ever done wrong, Mr. Moxon the power to select their col.Dance which stipulates for certi- sticking out of them like penhold- where beautiful things happen in a would have been quite right not to ficated officers of the mercantile ers on the fretful porcupine. They timeless and wholly satisfactory tolerate it. Tolerance of sin is as marine having this job. The fact are telephone compary men, de way. He comes again and says it sinfu! as sin itself. To be toler The Telegraph, appears to be that it has long been signing to put up brackets on our is breakfast time, which is about ant of ignorance.. is to neglect ** nobbled "* by the custom. to insist upon certi-building, to carry somebody else's the most foolish announcement that education. To be tolerant of an- those interested in icated officers for it, as there are wire. We chevy them of the pre- can be made to a normally healthy truth is to be false. To be toler the Kwangtung duties which they only can perform, mises, and then we permit our man. I know he must be wrong, ant of hypocrisy... what need coal monopoly scheme, and loyally and that the Secretary of State bas selves to wonder-merely to won for breakfast time is the time to go on? To telerste means to anxious to do its feeble best for the not only recognized the custom but der, for it would be mean to go so want my breakfast, and I don't endure, and when we speak of interests, keeps on squeaking edithas himself in the past insisted for a suspicion--whether that is orial paragraphs asserting that the
warm bed, and look at the we mean tolerance of opinion, of in certain quarters on it. So there you are. That's 20 many months and weeks nice want to stay in this tolerance as an admirable quality the position. Someone will have to and days have gone by without our cruel gray sky through the window, opinions differing from our own. were quite wrong. As the China Mail doesn't know whether the/do the technical jobs tha: the new application for a desk telephone and think about the people who Mr. Moxon could not tolerate John Wilkie, or Vox Populi, or at Office does not offer all the projI haven't got one yet, so don't ring the world is well aired, to go to mine, and he wrote to say so. Telegraph means the China Mai man cannot. Luckily, our Harbour receiving the slightest attention must get up at five or six, before mine, or what he thought were work, and reflect what a splendid Tolerance means to allow freedom three, it lays low and stays mum, and we manage to rub along,
bleas that it would in other ports, me up. It will be no use.
Perhaps Peter Pan" world it is, and jolly, because of action and of speech and of judg- content to know that in any case Hongkong fashion. Some day we DATES. will forgive me for call- am not as other men are in that ment to other people. It means ing attention to the fact respect. But supposing that, not the patient endurance of dissent the improper agreement has beep will have a perfect Harbour Mas cancelled. I know now exactly ter who will have it otherwise that to-day he emphasises, in the to hurt my boy's feelings, for he from our own or even from gener-
Putas. who were behind Major Cassel, and No doubt he will revert to the cris-Children's Corner, the most foolish is a good boy, and I think my very ally received opinions.
approzobed THE WEEK. it has been, so far I know how they
as likely topics go. the newspapers. But I don't keep ton of insisting on certificated act of that very wise man Robin good friend, I go to barfu and to shortly as possible, we may call it son Crusoe. If I were eligible to breakfast. I usually have eggs, tolerance of dissenters. As a race, The Government does not seem to on barking after the pussyfooters
During the week write letters to Peter Pan, which and the morning newspaper, and as Englishmen, can we boast this have misbehaved this week, and no have gone. Does the Telegraph
UNDER THE the reporters bave would really be a great joy to me, a book for breakfast. Well, the as our chief characteristic **? In conspienons folly has faunted it elf suppose, that because no one takes
TABLE. been Birting with I would make answer this time: eggs don't last long. nor the morn the sure and certain peril of incor- before our eyes. That's bad. I the trouble to contradict it, in a
No, sir. It was not a good plan ing paper, "s you know. The ring that valgar reproach that I humour, squeezing ALLAN. On December 31, 1920, must have somebody to annoy and matter that has been settled, the
at Kearny, N.J., U.S.A., Mary provoke me, or how can I give 'em correctness of its inspired views is the last drop of fun out of the case of Robinson Crusoe's to cut notches piéce de resistance, it it is properam defiling my own nest," I sm Allar, wife of the late James the gingery stuff they like for established? If so, how character in which a Frenchman found an in a stick so that he would know to have such a thing at breakfast, compelled to answer that we can
istically naire.
oninvited Chinese under his table. what day it was, or bow long he is the book. Something seems to not or not without humbug.
When I tell me, just when I am enjoying Allan of Kearny, NJ.. and, Saturday fare?
I made a yachting toy. The magistrate started it, by sug had been on the island."
WE ARE AND for certain good mother of Mrs. Bernard Firth, of
When I was a free-
MONKEY age recently with agesting that the Chinese wanted to call Robinson Crusoe a wise man it most, that it is time to put on took ABOUT A lance, editors
air his French."
He was one of the my boots and go to office. That Shanghai.
It was hard I mean it.
WE ARE NOT. old English in- AT SEA. monkey as sole, com-
tolerances, which MORGAN-On December 31, 1920, WOED. liberties "with my
pration. She was no lines, by the way, after the raagis wisest I ever knew. I never can is my tragedy. I want to finish the at Shanghai, William S. Morgan,
copy. As they were use as a crew. and she grossly mis- trate had announced that the Chi sufficiently admire the way in book, and then go fishing. I could aged 57 years.
paving for it, I suppose they behaved on the quererdeck, bat nese spoke better French than he which he drew up a sort of balance understand Robinson Crusoe notch were our glory as a race and made JACKSON. On January 1. 1921, thought they had a right to, like otherwise she was a good sailer. did, that the French complainant sheet of bis fate, its advantages ing a stick to keep tally on how and would not endure encroach-
et 3.50 2.m.. at Shanghai, the rich man Lord Leverhulme, What steamer passengers call their should announce that the man and disadvantages, to see whether much longer he must go to a ments on our liberty, Rosalie Adelaide, the beloved who had his portrait painted by legs! She had all right spoke very poor French Being, he owed fiod or God owed him. office, before he need never tolerate bureaucratic tyranny, and wife of Wm. Sanford jackson. Augustus John, cut out the face, when we were sailing close to an as you know, an essentially serious! If we all did that, and did it honest- again; but not on a desert island, mob tyranny, and class tyranny. WATSON-On December 30, 1920, and sent the great artist back the island with bir rocks and trees on person, I am not referring to the ly, I am sure we would find the where he could sit thinking about Once we would not tolerate graft at Shanghai, Percy Arthur Wat- rest of the work of art. I could I noticed that she was interest-case in order to find occasions for balance on the right side, as Robin, what he would do next, just as in our officials. Now our standard - son of Dunedin, New Zealand, understand and forgive them ord. As we approached more closely more jokes. I am impressed by soti Crusoe did. There was one long as he liked, and then after a for statesmen is much lower. We and late second officer, s.s. lopping off a pereration, to fit the she was plainly excited, ran for the subtle ethics of it, and the advantage of his desert island that do something quite different. And tolerate, we wink at, things that article into a column, especially ward to the howe, and crouched, stupendous symbolism which all he omitted to score to God's cre- so it goes on all day. I am inter would once have broken them. But I sometimes resented it when in still more close, meaning to was found under the table, not on with dates. He could have seven burble when it comes tilin time. Once we were intolerant of foreign they were prompt with the cheque. staring intently. I tacked and ran the fun makers ignored. The man dit. He was, if he liked, done ested in writing some paragram of The China Mail.
they altered my words. Editors shave a point where I knew the lit. Has it not occurred to you how Sundays week if he liked. He and I have to break of. At night, ways. Now we copy them. (Please do not yesterday's I remember writing ar article
and private life are appreciably *TROTE, JUSTIVE, PUBLIO SZEVICE about slum life, in which a poot the outlying rock, büt slipped into and yet he was under the table. At any moment, he could pretend to able to understand and even sym: lower, and the fact that we do not.. six feet or so she sprang, reached to suggestion that be was drunk, rationing into hours and minutes. Peter Pan's little friends would be prisals. Our standards of public woman gave a penny to an itiner the water. I thought she would Spirits rap on tables and turn the pull out an imaginary watch, and pathise with me; comes that awful resent this lowering and fight it **Ah! It is now time for me thing they call "time to go to tooth and nail means that we are ant musician. It actually was a now need rescuing, but she swam tables, and spirits (of the more say penny she gave, and the common well and climbed out. To see her tangible sort) send men under the to do what I have the impulse to bed. I am always most alive just too tolerant. But of tolerance far, "Whereas e hare to watch then. · Most charged as mere opinion, for mistaken views, word was le mot juste." The scarapering over those rocks and up table; but here was a sobez man editor, perhaps, afraid that such to the trees was to realize that it found under a table positively with the time, and do things that other Americans say, with pep. I want for argumentative dissent, English. valgar trifle would offend his reza is a shame to keep an active animal out the intervention of any spirits, people want us to do. We have to to play another rubber, or go and men must not bosat. Certainly Well, here we are on ers, crossed out “ penny
and in- tied up. I was only, half-hearted low or high. He said he went observe dates, and sometimes count, talk with the moon, or listen to Hongkong Englishmen must not the eighth day of an serted the word largesse." FAVOUR. other year. That's a isn't that I object to foreign intern my attempts to coas her back. there to sleep, thereby confessing our fingers and recite a borrid jingle the sea, or build a bonfire and dance boast of it. It is admitted by Hongkong Clab men that if Ad- but good friends as we were, she his deceitful purpose, because ex beginning Thirty days bath.religious dances round it, and I fine thing rightly re-lopers: Largesse is a gracious made it quite clear that she was perience teaches that Chinese boye Instead of notching stick, and have to take off my well, never versarius were to put up for the garded. Everybody uses curves word. I like it. But it didn't fit one with me. She showed her sleep on fables, and not under trying to retain the time system mind, I have to go to bed, and try Club, he would certainly be pilled.
life no longer to sleep. when I, am as full of Why? Intolerance. Perhaps and averages nowadays, to ascer what my woman gave the musician, teeth when I approached, and then them. He gets a month's jail, appertaining to s tain the truth that is concealed in Her gift was
as liberal as the scampered out of reach I left her which will seem a..further con- is, he, would have been wiser to wakefulness, as a kitten. So I get had better sesure them that I have groups of figures. Now, for my widow's mite, but it wasn't large, there; marooned: That is my story. firmation for some people of his divide his time naturally.. part, I have an unbroken record for it wasn't munificent, it wasn't I have been wondering how she galt. Bot let us refrain from could have talked of Warm sun nearly time to get up. When To intention of so testing, their Bearly half a century. I have lavish
mears. Largesse is the change like this Lahat largesse
season when goats have am going to take my watch (if the be wishful to search their con Spoticed, without one single excep-
to judge a fellow.creature unless of the
infolerance, let them ask them- tion, that whenever I have man. you chack at the basket man at
He wasn't a bad chap, we are in possession of all the facts, kids," and so on, just as bova falk pawnbroker has let me have it back sciences as to their tolerance, cr eged to surtire over the erreuth of Macao. It is the drinks round"
as these clothes-wearing and we do not even know whether of marble time, kite time, leather and throw it on the ground and selves what they would do were I January; I have always lived till of the Ecessful gambler I
He was this was round table or a square encher time aiming time, and jump on it, as a symbol of my the end of thật year.
the spending of the savings of a So there
generous in the matter table or an oblong table. Had it so on. But having lived on a de-emancipation front line. Then la candidate and they on the ballos fifty-one more dollops of adver-
* Wollowra."
Bokarong, Saturday, Jan. 8, 1921.
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clerk on his, annual holiday. In of bananas, and bad affectionate beer the multiplication table, or sert island myself, I know by ex-, shall taste the sweets of eternitying committee. That will gre seems to be a reasonable certainty some of the old romances, you may ways that showed him closely re-the table of affinity, we could have perience that the glory and the for eternity merely means time?
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