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THE CHINA MAIL.
the story so often, you see.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1921
they grinned, had no comment to should pay for them, in interest on ne he has any shadow of a nation, I am moved to protest vehemently the P.W.D. men did good work offer whatever. They have heard loans, and sinking funds. I don't and never will have, of how or against the Sanitary Board sugges Now that they have finned, if het
agre
I think our predecesso where the human race "origin- tion that any good can be achieved takes another look he win see the should pay for them, for neglecting sted. It probably originated in by numbering" the cubicle fats, work proceeding faster. Incidenta to make them when they had the more places than one, and if we and enforcing the air-space allow ally, I heard a P.W.D. man there chance. Det all the fortunes sc- could discover traces of the very ance. The real remedy is more saying that the roof had collapsed cumulated in Hongkong, and eldest known, we would have no fists, cheaper rents, and a better first of all. I don't think so, in view the fat pensions now being said. proof that this "primal" tribe did and cheaper tram service to out-of the queer meas inside. If the he confiscated and used for this not have predecessors. As for the flying residential areas. purpose. I am rather proud of this missing link, I am weary of out that when by a stroke of the would have rested on that, and ther I point party wall had stood, the rood bit of financial research, and had pointing out that Darwin himself pen the compulsory allowance of fallen more or less evenly. There my picture taken while I was think-scouted the idea of snch a thing. air space per head was reduced from was, judging by the interior, an One of the local 50 cubic feet to 30, an admission extraordinary lateral crash. An : papers splits more was made, that the hygienic red-awfnt sight was the iron bedstead, INFINITIVES infinitives in a tape had been too tightly tied. and the dead woman found in it. day's issue than would be a monstrous shame to A horrid emmple. But it isn't any I ever saw. I do it once in start
otherwise nice to talk about. Let's change a while myself, "chiefly to give a harassing the poor people now, the subject. few friendly critics the pleasure of with accommodation limited, and alling my attention to it; but it rents higher than ever. I suppose is wrong. W. Murison, M., of this Sanitary Board palaver was Aberdeen, has a chapter entitled designed on the principle of similia Changes in the Language," in similibus curantur. That is to say,
WILD BEASTS THERE.
Cheungchan
of
minds me Ephesne as Pauli knew it. One has j
to fight with wild beasts. Every guest is supplied with a fly-swai- ter, and-invited to participate in the sport. Our bag on Sunday
ing over the details. Here it is. Observe the studious expression.
SPLIT
prosecuting or
ני
PRECIOUS PERSONS WHO DISLIKE TRE OBVIOUS.
Ever niet one? He chases ori- ginality lika
an ignis fatuns, and scorns
No. Foreman. Not that one. Volume XIV, of the Cambridge huddling means hot air, and hot salatitude as I do a starched shirt
History of English Literature, and cannot remedy it. he says therein.
morning was very large, but there was one fly, evidently much shot over and wary, that we didn't get. Once we both thought we had it. You have made a stupid mistake, as it stood on one leg in mid-air and pat in the picture that was between us, and buzzed ribald in- taken when I got my last bonus- suits at us. We both had a shot This is the one I want. Thank at it, siniltaneously, and slapped you, the studious expression is each other on the nose, the fly having sile-stepped. Well, in the afternoon, we proposed a fiesta. and that fly called in 14,381 friends and simply refused to perinit sleep. My hair, although early, as you scê, is thìn on top, and those 197,541,636 flies did the newest dances round it. I got up in a frenzy of age and bate, and tele- phone the District Oficer to tell the policeman that 701,154,636,351)
there I sat down and said several
ing.
WASTED.
PROFITEER- ING.
The
tobacconists front. There is nothing more ob Another innovation, involving
put up prices when tious, and commonplace, and un minor change, a the split in-
exchange goes original, than one's morning bat finitive, when a word or phrase is
down. They give water, yet into what a state shoo! inserted between the to and the the drop in the dollar as the reason we get if we scorned it and wou verbal part of the infinitive They have passed on the new doty have none of it? Certain trat Though existing in Middle English to the consumer fairly (not like there platitudinous enough, but ▾ this construction seems to have beer people referred to earlier, who mast bathe in them to get o become most common in the second imposed a double increase) but souls clean. Of such are tha half of the nineteenth century. It although the dollar has gone up which denounce militarism, at has been defended on the ples of tuppence, they haven't taken any political jobbery, and caste, al occasional superiority in clearness notice of that. As far as I can see, snobbery, and intolerance, ad and emphasis. Purists, however into local profiteering, every hypocrisy, and narrow-mindednes have energetically denounced it and body's doing it." sometinies branded its presence as a sign of stylistic depravity. And certainly many examples are ex-
and ignorance. It is unoriginal o No one has a good deporuce these: but it is also u word for the agita original to take a bath.
"From grave tɔ ga; CLEVER from Irely to severe,"
THE COMPAS
tor," the **extrem
SIONATE.
ist; and his infamy (in the eyes of his
erities is enhanced" if he happen
RHYMES. I want these, weekly
columns to appear;
Ltd. ties were being guilty of conduct quite noticeable. I look in thatremely ugly and for very bad
calenlated to cause a breach of the one rather like a University protaste." peace, and would he please come fessor, don't you think? Which To immediately split" an in- chop-chop and arrest them; but you!!
professor? Ah, that ould be tell- finitive after reading that would be to be well-off himself, and fighting and so I have no hesitation i know what District Officers and.
unwise. Don't. policemen are. They never came.}
for others. They say be is a trai-stealing, for your benefit, anything After I had broken two swatters!
Wanted, 2,000)
Aristophanes laughed tor to his class," and "defiler good that comes to hand. like these. VOLENTRERS Volunteers, fully HEMOUR. at the huge joke of of his own nest. I don't know. verses by Lucio in the Man I ran to the top of the seventh kill, where the wind is sharpest, anļ
armed, to accom
one man being beaten I am an ignorant, common fellow; chester Guardian. At the opening paay me on a com-in mistake for another. Sir Hamar but I sometimes think that these of Parliament the Guards wOTE Bring Greenwood has a sense of humour men we hate so may be high above their prewar scarlet stopics and collects, for the good of my soul, Faign against profiteers.
every clothes-line you can com-equally keen. A member was us, and that sind because it was Sunday.
bearskin busbies, and the poet mandeer, and we'll hang the swine, illustrating the decadent manners Is Mr. L. Simpson.
as well as wreck their places "of of the police in Ireland, and men-
thereapon says: -WELL PUT. the famous Peking journalist, a Seat?
business. I was charged 90 centstioned that a Judge of the Irish How did he come to choose his for what was a 70 cent bottle of High Court was ordered off a tram pen name of Patnam Wcale, which 50 cents per dozen of that size, this leader of whom used this formula: Many a dirty, selfish dog has bark beer. The new duty being only by a posse of Black and Tans, the sounds like a rapid Scottish ways a clear case of proSteering. Come down, you Irish bastarded at his betters, without being of asing Putting theru (ideas) Parade outside China Mail office put up your hands.' well I met this week in my
Greenwood aware of his own inferiority. When
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From a discourse in figurative
speech By some learned Indian
LEGAL
None can usurp this height But those to whom the miseries
of the world
Are miseries and will not let
them rest.
reading a case of deep ideas well for drill ob first Sunday after Lenti-rose with an appreciative twinkle curs ran in packs
... But let's put, the patter being W. B. Yeats.phany:
and said he happened to know that be jovial rather than bitter. Here's Two of my Peak Judge, who himself told the story little story about Will Crooks that Those few who are acquainted with Eastern metaphysic will recognize
friends, knowing my with great glee."
It was Mr. bas point: the tremendous concentration
OPINION acquaintance with low | Justice Wyle. Hm. Ha-ha. Of) Mr. Will Crooks, who has re- achieved in this reference.10.60me-
WANTED.. life, and desirous of course. I see it now. Very funny signed his seat owing to ill-health, seeing how the lower But I hope no Hongkong police has a fine sense of humour," says one who had
.ravelled out
orders devour their food, invited man will try the effect of stopping the Church Family Newspaper. themselves to dine with me at the Sir William Rees Davies when he During an election campaign at Hawkanspit Restaurant, which has gets back, with any such humor-Woolwich, a friend telephoned to no liquor licence. So to cover Gua saintation. I don't know, of will: Do you know that your deficiencies, I carried in a coupla course, but I do not think he would opponent has two brothers in the bottles of sparkling hock Boy said be promoted for sprightliness of Army, and that it will make it hard is whirled about the women can reach.
th, the Arsenal men?" Who is this He replied: Tell them The got nz Alice that they aunts in the workhouse talk about?" ask-
Listeners do not ed the legislator, and
THE EAVES hear good of them-
selves. So, somewhat so,
On the soul's journey. How it
Entil it plunge into the sun; And there free and yet fast, Being both Chance and Choice, Forget its broken toys And sink into its own delight
He said I didn't under stand: They had no licence, there-
fore I must not open them. I told him that so long as he did not sell liquor, he'd be all right. Suppose
LEGISLATORS I WONDERLAND.
at
last.
→
I don't know Ital
PUT.
fronde
nasca.".
the
Mad
.
DROFFER.
ΟΙ
an
(which I did, in my hip pocket) servant, said it seemed to him that adage goes. No adage is true for I carried a pocket fask of brandy Hatter, disguised as a Government could I not pour a spoonful in my he seemed to remember that she
I overheard some men) LESS WELL ian, but it doesn't coffee? Or take a nip? He, sup was a character in a book, "wri- talking yesterday, about property!
always. Then, demanded ten for children, dontcherknow." sales. and related things. Said need much Latin to Posed I could.
1. where's the difference? And Like the other evening. paper," one: "It seems to me that the gather the sense of Come l'augello intra l'amate still be answered, woodenly, that roared Adversarius, through the Interests know the game is up. I must not. So I had to chevy 'em keyhole. When the keyhole was The China Mail bas given them Fisco guardando, pur che l'alba to the Toto Sin, which (as, every plugged up, a legislator remarked notice to quit, and they're quit-
body knows is ok. in every way. how naughty the staid old D.P-ting." Now I have seen an attempt at I had insisted? As soon as expose, by the example of the China honest. Said the third: Pooh! But what was the legal position, was becoming. Infected, I sup the papers were not always so Said another: "It's a pity! an English rendering which starts
As bird amid beloved leaves, change goes up another penny, I'm Mail. That bit about everything Honesty be (somethinged). of Esan, taken as he was coming waits for the climbing dawn willing to pay the 6s. 8d. to gratify going up...
Hush!" cried isn't bonesty.
.I: out of a cheap Chinese restaurant. That phrase hits me as would my curiosity, but if I can find out the Panjandrum.
That Adversarius You forget fellow happens to have nothing to He was remarking that though the Like kippers cherished for nothing, why not? Picture of that I am a married man. Let lose, and so nothing to fear. More- SCHLEE On April 8, 1921, at chow was good enough the attend-plates," or "As fried egg upon thee, trying to find out for nothing.us return to the orders of the day,
Shanghai, the wife of Robertance was bad. He had to bark darling toast."
Surely friendly Notice the wheedling look? Schlee (née Alix Fisher), of twice for a second Eelping of bris foliage" is the idea, and not be --daughter.
ket.
BIRTH.
11
DEATHL
PRICE. On April 8, 1921, at Shang- hai, T. H. W. Price, of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, late of Smith, Bell & Co., Manila, son of the late Rev. T. Price, Rector of More- ton, Oswestry. Shropshire, and of Mrs. Price Moreton,
.try, aged 49 years.
on
loved leaves. The bird puts no value on individual leaves. It is, as I read it, lurking in the friendly | shelter of massed foliage, etill and watchful, waiting for the birth of dawn. If it be argued that the exigencies of English metre de- manded some such liberty, I reply: that
As bird amid beloved leaves Waits for the climbing dawn, With fixed eyes and soul that
cleares
To one gold morrow's morn
Visited Cheung- VISIT TO chau last week. CHEUNGCHAT." end, and had tea, OswesMayor. The etc. very good. Quite etc., with the
a lot of houses there now, all very. snug and jolly, and gardens begin- isn't poetry good enough to have ning to show results. Cartwright's a right to licence. "boy," evidently a humourist (a. less C. put him up to it) brought me in a mug of bot shaving water, with s piece of paper to wipe the
The China Mail.
#TROTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE
EGYSZONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1981.
ADVERSARIA. -
The rocky coast at Cartwright's, How panoplied its pride! Shouldering back the ocean Where the white horses ride,
It takes the shafts of Bofeas
QUE
I have received, presumably for pub- MOTORISTS. lication, a printed paper labelled "for the private information of members only, and not for publication or communication in any way pre- The most noticeable dif-judicial to the interests of the "As- MOTOR
ference between myself bociation. The only thing I ROADS. and Mp Pollock is that notice in it that sounds new to me I am always willing to (and "even that may have been
I
pray.
State epistles, dull and grand, Mustn't contain the symbol &. Cadete must ever write & as and As nice as the characters Cadmus
planned
over he is too crazily cantankerous
to bribe, so cannot be squared. All the same, I agree that the China Mail has done, the place good. Graft was quite brazen and shame- less cntil the paper started to run amok. It has improved matters a fof. About this time I think I therefore move that the motion to them, for they dried up. I saw someone must have pointed me oct
For & is Latin and Latin's
banned
stand.
Rejoice. Te
nursemaids who patrol the parks.
And cringe, each taxable and
captions varlet!
Before that House of legislative
larks
Behold drawn up the bearskin
and the scarlet !
Winston has gone, but Winston's
whim has held
Behold (ere Winston's bill sr-
rives for payment)
The winter of our khaki sll 'dis-
pelled
In this glad summer of a
braver miment i
Was there a war, I wonder?
Was it fought
By muddied oafs who lived in-
holes and trenches,
Whose undistinguished costume
never brought '
The old. wild thrill to cooks
and serving wenches? Can it be true that that inglori-
aus mob
Pashed Jerry
Rhinewards,
home to Mainz ar Munich, Without a single bushy on the
job,
And unrelieved by even one
'red tunic?
Too true, alaa! But they were
humble men,
Soldiers because the world was
off its axis;
Drably they did their modest bit
and then..
Returned to England, home,
and rates and taxes.
But these, the true professionals,
-abbor
The garb that brings this
amateurish grievance
And, anyway," the togs that won
the war Would never do to serenade
St. Stephen's.
Thursday's Legisla them looking at me, with a cer- I might have said that myself,
FBOM GAY tire Council provided tain expression, I knew only one said the Mad Hatter, jealously, to of them, or I'd have butted in, and Tweedleofficial and Tweedleanoff told them that I'm not honest, of Constitutional Reform in the TO GRAVE. an inpleasant ink- ling of the futility cial, who thereupon sang:
but that my price is too high absence of a class of candidates who We're as like 28 two green peas
for Hongkong men. Also, it was could be relied upon to take at all What one says the other agrees Those who think they can tell loee, for I'm a capitalist. I own selfless view of local politics. It idiotic to say I have nothing, to times a broad, public spirited, and us apart
.Esau and a yacht, to say nothing will be remembered that no dissen- of my castle in Spain. I am prob-tient or criticising voice was, raised ably the richest man in Hongkong when the first new to-day, and could well afford to rushed through, taxes that hit you but I don't want the proprietors little creature comforts. This time, write your adversaria for nothing; and me, in our rents, and in our
Are
this very rapidly] Constitutionalreformers. left in the cart.
Nor should he then, in accents
stero Refer to Mr. Cland Se-verse.-- I think myself the name of
Bevern
taxes were
razor on. As you may now see by confess my mistakes. I thought, published) is a statement that the The noise woke up the Dormouse,
portrait, I have had no right and said, that the Government police do not desire to enforce the who complained that it wasn't right of the China Mail to grow rich when a very reasonable impost is to expect respect from razór manu- should not waste so much money speed limit." It says nothing to take such a liberty with the faster than they are doing. It proposed on the turnover of rich facturers for years past. That full on roads for the motorists; but about the number of pedestrians name of the Executive. "I'm wouldn't be good for them. and handsome cascade of facial when I noticed that no one, not killed or maimed since last meet sure," be murmured drowsily,
men, the cry is raised that it is "a moss was not grown in a couple of even Mr. Pollock, did or said any-ing, so I'm not interested.
"A that it doesn't rhyme with
Passer By direct attack on Free trade," which jiffeys. However, I found a pencil thing to back me up, I had suffi-
One of those people seven." **He's right there," sang
HOCSE writes asking me to must be urgently resisted even in Pictures do help, and used the shaving paper for cient savvy to realize that the good
COLLAPSE go to "Old Bailey defiance of Standing Orders and COAL MINING, Who regularly in the Walrus: SICTORIAL don't they? The the really fascinating view from the me, and that my opinion must be
these impromptu lines, inspired by sense of the public must be against NOTE. stract-us remarks, He'll never, never go to heaven
and take a look at regular procedure. Let me put it I notice, that the
the languid way in which the debris in concrete form so that you may Who speaks of him appearance of my bedroom window: ART.
Mr.is being shifted. wrong. Mr. Pollock, who started coal misers ought to recognize Seven:
He says No see it as I see it.→ portrait (by an Old
behind me, keeps on,-and at the the fact that wages must bear some
saving the lives of the unfortunate presentative tacitly agreed. That it doubt there is very little hope of The Chamber of Commerce re- „Master) at the top of this column
Legislative Council meeting on relation to the cost of production. Thursday asked for a plebiscite of Some relation? Are not miners" last week fetched me quite a lot of)
victims, but surely the cooles tras fair that I should pay 80 cents Peak opinion. The Government wages the price cost of production,
might take more than two bricks extra to the Government for every correspondence. Some kind friends
at a time? knows well enough that silence the first charge?. If not, as the
The road should be round of tobacco Istoke." said it seemed to help them to know.
gives consent,' and there is a per- legislative querists say, why not?
Should rhyme with what he is money saved." I was on the job that the telegraphic transfer of cleared much quicker; and public} He almost vehemently objected me better, to bring us closer to'
fect typhoon of silence always- gether, as it were. One reproved
I can only surmise that blowing here. So now I, being as MISSING the reporter who wrote Whereupon-but why continue this what he saw. He must forgive me tribute 10 cents to the government. hefore I got his letter, and I saw $500 could not be expected to con Te for being vain of my personal
Dr. Roy Chapman An- folly? The Daily Press began it; if I add that I saw more than be He was willing that house rent appearance; but of course I can-
The sea darts in nad tries to bite, a slave to pig-headed consist
drews statement," so the China Mail most finish it did. So long as there was a chance should cost me more; he is unwill- not help it if I am good looking. Slinks back, and baffled, growls ency," take the hint and demand referring to the American-scientific If you don't know what I'm talk of saving life, all the bustle was ing that wealthy men buying and aut.ler correspondent suggested All of which, like most poetry, is motor road up Taimo-shan. I be search of the Missing Link, got Press. If you don't like the first spector Lamble and his Sanitary to pay a trifle of stamp duty.
more, motor roads. Let us have a expedition into Mongolis, in ing about, get Thursday's Daily put in that could be. Chief In that readers should be given some stuff and nonsense, dictated rather lieve the air is good up there, and it wrong. Otherwise Dr. "Andrews two columns on page 3, go and see coolies, worked hard enough and
selling local shares should be asked ides of my appearance when writ by rhyme than reason. As a mat-if the road doesn't open up sites, is a bus scientist. He is reported a doctor. ing a situperative and sugry para-ter of fact, there was no one out it should cause an opening up of se saying that previous expeditions drain, en here you are. This was when I awoke, and I overheard the throttles. Bome people think that testified that the human race taken while I was penning the sea telling its old, old story to the as posterity will get more use of originated in Mongolia. Even piece about Hongkong house rents. rocks, and chuckling and rumbling these roads than we will (who die Mr. Tse Tsan Tsai knows better Lower down you will find a portrait to itself, because the rocks, though soon or go Home) so posterity than that. Smattero barse-rense, Our leader writer called it haddling, before they were shored up. Here
Beauty is only skin, deep, anyway.
Upon its bossy shield,
And grins, and shows its ugly
teeth,
As one that must not yield.
its spite.
willing to learn as anybody, and not
LINKS.
a clever un:
OVERCROWD
ING
Hong enough" So did the postkas I was all right to double the
The China Mail What Passer By didn't notice price of my beer; it was all wrong word for it, on was that the remaining walls were that the Government, should have Wednesday even so unsafe that it would have been a bagatelle commission on property ing, was better. dangerous to remove much debris sales.
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