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A connaisseur in fine myself by brute force, called out of is palpitations is the following The fatherhood of God is a bigger isl, are not more careful, they will ART NOTEN has borrowed the Have you worn it? I suppose Limerick see the rise of the United States

woodents from the he thought that funny. Anyway, of Hongkong F rather fancy my Chino Mail and is having my ad I shall never attend another gober

I knew an old man in N.Y

thing than the things that divide chance of being first President, versaria pictares printed an ari natorial function, unless they let

The finest who ever Dr. C...

as, and it should bring us together. His name. it was Menzies-

The more we realize this as in- became, like George Washington, paper and framed. I have no me go in kilts.

Bas the enrions Thenies

dividuals, the less will we favour I simply cannot tell a lie. " doubt they will be vaizabla sobe (2 ገነ -

The husband of the

He never was known to Ch. P.

segregations, such Sa In the welter of day, and that after I'm perman- THAT MADS pretty say, and It is a little confusing, at first, no2 segregations are good il regarded nations, tribes, claus, or "sets" but these not always veces ently lodged in Happy Valley, and IT 0,1.

Adversanus, and the Especially the double rhyme at the as steps towards a larger unity, WIRELESS. sary laws and or- is can do me no good, they will be.......

Quiet and Shy Mar-end of the second-line. Br the and continually so dinances that our shout The Art of Adversarius. A doesn't really matter to the story nounceding is"? I thought and common perils, and in so

writing and talking eulogistically ried man, and another chap who way, is Menzies really Patriotism sees mutual interces regarded. legislators give us, I do think they box of good cigars now, or a se were playing bridge, on the system it was minge is." might find room for one making of whisky, would encourage me whereby one player moves one seat "wireless" compulsory on certain

Last week 1 happened to see that these spread more wide-

is indulged wisely. Bat if it f ships. I am thinking of the coolie far more. Watch for my next round every rubber.

The pretty WINE to remark that had 1s than within the nation, and that carrying steamers, which

pictures. They'll stagɣer you. lady, who for some unknown rea-

The world of son likes ber husband, would patVictor Clicquot, which seemed necessary, it becomes petrified and had some wine labelled fellowship on a wider scale is 1,700 coolies, have boats and rafts for perhaps 150, and no wireless. REVERIE thought, the world of his head or bite his ear as she went to me a colourable imitation It is awful to think what would

dream has no strife, by him on bar domestic occasions of Veuve Clicquot, (Ponsardia) happen in case of accident. In-no Bolshevism, no discontent that one time, not noticing that a the wine that is world famous. On

Nothing is more 213- cidents reported on the Hongmah is not divine. Books are in sol-change had been made, she put her. Monday the enterprising agents for

tural, or more right. recently would be worsened. With diers and police, and dreams its arm round the neck of the Q. and the latter, Messrs. Ruttonjee, sent

than for workers who wireless," the officers would be great navy. Its inhabitants are S.M.M. whose wife; by the way me some of the real mere ro

do the same work to less helpless, and their passengers monarchs of all they survey, free was present. Discovering her mis- staff Talk of bottled sunshine

GUILDS. get together. The perhaps more amenable. It is men that scorn passports and eus- take, the blushed very charmingly from Reims O boys and girls, it rombination should be unselfish prime idea of such s wicked to let human freight go tams, happy, adventurers in the and explained that she thought it would have done you good to watch news, the rupture of the moon of out with such inadegnate provision pristine jungle of mind. For them was her husband.

Adversarios me drink it, with sacramental sera-thinking only of self interest, and for its safety, merely to save ship no darkness or dullness, the sun (engrossed in the play, impatient-ousness, after proper incantations the development of, sympathy and owners profits. Shipmasters and by day, by night blooming great 1): "It doesn't matter.

He's at my private altar. I wanted to esprit de officers on these ships share my stars. Immigration is free, and nany."

write Anacreontics in praise of it,

corps and community views, but they cannot fight with citizenship, the only test literacy,

My French friend and tried, but failed to find words se as a cult. Beginning with their bread and butter. The Gov-in the United States of Contempla-

Hilaire de Cartaret worthy. The bouquet of it trans-you understand each others difficul- any one trade, naturally, because OF SONGS. passed through again ported me to a plane where words ties and needs most, it should lead erament must intervene.

this week, on his are nothing and gestures all; and eventually (in your souls, if not aa HONGKONG is the wonders of way back from Shanghai, and be the Editor refuses to pay for the a political institution) to a coma- HOUSE metempsychosis in spent à few hours with me. We artistic reproduction of my ges-munity sense as of all wage estn- HUNTERS, the insect world, talked mostly about women.

To tures. Fariasy past may be rememers. At Home lately we have seen working on a kinema play that Ideed some are.. But can they beat is only a woman, but to us she is popping of that cork let out extasy,munity sense in the immature."

and wondrous in-you John Bulls, he said, a woman bered, but never reproduced. The bow trades anions bad this con hope to get put on by Mr. Ray the house-hunter in Hongkong? mystery and momance, always as Sinbad let out the genit: but limited form, how they were divid Ltd. Not having a camera. I've had to He for she) mentions casually and The divine enigma, the problem without the same desire to put ited as against each other, although

do all the pictures by hand, as well light-heartedly to a friend that ever fascinating. For me, as you back. as the rubric, or whatever they call house is to be taken. No. Not in, a long time I live a la carte, the letterpress that we get between Kowloon wouldn't live there forest ce pas, and I marry Madame the pictures. My play is to bel called The Faithful Cockroach anything. It must be in a nice little out of pity and much out

of curiosity. You have heard her! neighbourhood, have lots of accom- and to have a strong love interest molation, a garden, and (of course; story of the bad husband, Its poetic gem in a contemporary : The beauterus heroine (clase be a reasonable rent. This we see and for a while our bungalow was

Heavens! But how sad she was,! up picture will prove the bean-at once that the order of the trans- teousness is. owing to the death of both her parents in a church fire, migrations of the insect, from grub full of sad silence and mosquitoes. living alone in a cottage with house-hooter insouciant begins as hopeless. "I buy ber a canary, and to butterfly, is here reversed. The work hard to make her smile, other companion than-a-cockroach an ephemeris and ends 23 a worth.

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HONGTONG, Saturday, May 7. 1921-

ADVERSARIA.

a" minority" cannot mean 3 minority of that society.

I haven't had time THE FAITHFUL to do much Ad- COCKROACH. versaria this week

ally.

because I've been

middle, sees her and falls in love.

tion.

The books emphas

A HOUSE

and almost the cutlook becomes

SHIPS KEEP

AWAY.

Right, slap, bang reduction of wages.

faced with one common peril under

Regarding Shipping themselves, I fear, more na fight- Page" in very bising units than as loving units, they type. "I found this could not even unite to fight. I do.

The bridegroom sea

Is toying with The shore-his Wedded bride. "He decks her tawny

Brow with shells, Retires a space,

To see how

Fair she looks. Then proud runs Up to kiss her.

BETWŽEN OVESELVES.

than the editor,

not believe there ever can be an effective fighting cabination ratil ther is first a combination of real sympathy and love, heartfelt, and with the strength of a soul habit. I suppose you know already that. she had befriended when it fell on est day you learn that a garden it sing. That is the first song since

psychologically, all virtues and all its back in a saucer of molasses, isn't absolutely essential, and that we marry, and my heart it sing a

sins are a matter of habit. Isolated. carelessly left on the kitchen table there will be no argument about a little too, for it is a glad thing for

acts of goodness, and casual faults. by the negress cook, who was coller or two extra so long as the selfish, self-indulgent man to

of conduct, are not virtoons and Wesleyan. This cockroach, natur-place is suitable. Two days later Practise kindness. Then one day

Dat sinful. They are mere acci devoted to her. (Several you learn that you are not the only and I know that at last I have shipping 2 Nothing In the until engraved by repetition and in the house I hear her singing, What has that idyll to do with mark upon the soul or character dents or incidents, that leave no pictons of it ganbolling by her friend whose aid has been sought. side as she walks abroad.) Alger- If they beard of anything going, touched her heart. So the bird cumstances, shipping would be habit It is as easy to cultivate s non Bertran Halibut, a handsome they are to let them know, as there sing, and the wife sing, and my more de trop than a mother-in-law. habit of right thinking as of wrong, Fouth who parte his hair in the really seems to be a house short-heart sing, and now is is a bouse Perhaps that is why shipping, as easy to acquire the habit of sym-

of songs. I tell you I am in haste more discreet age. The following week the He breaks out in ties, socks, and stipulation for the higher levels has to arrive. Encouraged by her re-keeps away from the shell-decked Pathy and benevolence as of selfrb- fancy weskits.

ness, and hardness. Hence my (Another close been abolished. Acute interest is ed esprit, I ask her that day do taway brow. up.)

One day he notices her shown in any rumour of a vacancy like me a little-this very anxious- she think it possible presently to

faith in the method of Fabius, faithful companion, and remarking even in a purlien. A day or twa

Some of which looks painfully slow, but friends agree with which works and is working. There's a cockroach," tries to more, and you hear the house and fearful of putting the foot put his foot on it. Picture of the hunter admitting that there is much inside and she smile, and mor

me that Robert Kindly feelings roust be much more McWhirter fan't foot descending, nearer and nearer to be said in favour of Kowloon sex that she do not think; she who he used to be, and that he before.

common now than they ever were the faithful cockroach, should thrill the audience. Quick as light-as to flats follow. In the third as a cold Englishman, cannot ourselves, the way it is done it -place of residence. Enquiries know. Ah,- M sien Radversarias, probably never was. Between

You know how it ning the bercine, seeing the per week you are consulted as to what was the use of telling him an American syndicate, and to low men, since we grew out of

comprebend such finesse.

THE IDEA works. Our normal to take American humour, sold by of her pet, seizes the foot in the ther your friend-so-and-so could be I could and did? Bless him, he's localize" it by altering a word

attitude to our fel- nick of time, and unbalances Alger- persuaded, as a matter of urgency old enough to be my son, but I'll here and there.O SEE THE GEN all hatred comes of fear) is one of non Bertram Halibut so that he to sub-let the room he doesn't use never grow old enough to be his TE-VAX has gone the rounds of indifference. But there are excep savage distrust or even fear (and site down, hard, on a rock. Pic at the back of his office. ture of the rock, looking very this stage you learn no more, as father. He's the chap who did the the American Press before it gets tions. It any crowd of strange hunter, whose agonizings are now dame be talked of is a dainty and some others over there. Was of interest. I am prepared to like Algernon Bertram con- you begin to dodge the house pic blamed for his-review. The is very much between ourselves i men, if I find oze that is a journ

Dunsany plays for us,, and got here, and Between Ourselves depressing in the extreme.

little Annamite, a demure little the idea that no one would detect him better than the others, because alist, I am aware of a little thrill stage, and would be only too glad of a lady with hands-like the fake? A great mistake.

as a journalist I know at least a I want my police part of him better than I could So that's

mer rivulet gurgling unseen amid what tall bracken. I'd have felt like

A CRUELTY friends to realize possibly know (say) a strange. GOVERNMENT they are like? I

CASE? that they must not grocer. I have nothing against marrying her myself-if he hadn't. HOUSE had often wonder- But he will treat her better, than siderations to prejudice their duty.y; and I am not prejudiced against

allow irrelevant con. RECEPTIONS. ed, until Mrs. I could,

grocent, so long as they groce fair- There should be no discrimination them, because they are not journ- Although the newe- paper reporters kept against a complainant, or neglect alists, as

Seely "patriot" is of the complaint, merely because prejudiced against foreigners. silence, and no re- they do not approve of everything Theoretically, I know that I ought port by local medic else connected with the party. It to love the grocer as quickly and al men was offered,

startled.

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cludes that she does not like him, and enlists as a census collector. He will leave a paper at her out (or she) has reached the worm tage on which she must confess her tre age. Picture of heroine, to be a cocoon. reading the printed instructions, and weeping Cockroach sym- pathising. At last, drying her eyes and wetting the pen, she puts down the fatal figures, to avoid the penalty. Picture switches to show Wednesday's "Morning Post re- Grant Smith in Algernon Bertram, sitting with his evil companions at the Census Somehow, I don't think I shall poignant curiosity. effect dating with them over her worry any more about being out of expected discomfiture. Switches night to point here, little queue to see Henry Irving as Ham-regarding remarkable cures by the oblique approach by a writer usual journalist; and if I found that my back to show the heroine, in her it. I, who wouldn't stand in a there was dinner table testimony, as you may guess from this easily and well as I do the brother

mie, or Marie Lloyd-as Mammie, Mission of Healing. bed, cockroach listening with an

believe most direct, a little difficult to spark of predilection for journalists At the Kowlcon Bowl-She puts out the light, so that the DC. and a pro-consul. I was able-case known to me personally gated; and I expect that it will be. grocers, I would kill it., But it

intelligent look in "its antenna, certainly would not do it for a mere them all, because of one remark it. I think it should be investi- mind) was tending to make me hate " pat; but this is the story as I get (like patriotism" in a marTOW BOOLS. ing Green Club's an audience Day not see her ankles at a Government reception once, in This was the case of Mr. A resident of Hollywood Road in needn't do that, and it shouldn't. nual opening reception, as she dives into bed, and a beauti-another country. It was in Kedah, taipan resident here for over 20 forms me that her attention was It doesn't. By yielding to and the Craigengower boilers were the ful harvest moon shines in at the Malay country we had just taken years. who in all that time never attracted by the cries of a small indulging and encouraging that Lordy, lordy. A body fuked a win against the Civil Ser cockroach is

only visitors who lost. As they had window. By its light the faithful over from the Siamese, without once walked up the Peak. On the dog outside her house. She looked warmth that I instinctively feel ROMAN that writes for the Press vice the week before, they were table leg. Ife gets to the top sccident on the way to the party went right up to the top station in leg. She remonstrated and the seed of kindliness for all men. The seen Climbing the consulting the Malays. My dress eccond evening of the mission, and saw Chinese policeman No. toward brother craftsmen, pre- DATES. needs eyes all round his not satisfied with the Kowloon runs to the census paper, and was too much for it. I felt a the tsum.

suit was a bit ancient, and a motor although he is well on in years, be 300 carrying a small dog by one pare the garden of my soul for the head, and

extra result, and attributed it to bad joss. nibbles away the age part. Foiled! an clutch or something on his power challenged their conquerors to a evil companions, poisons himself

Beginners are like that. So they Saved! Halibut, ridiculed by his draught round about the fails, bat

man merely swung the poor little fellow feeling that makes us manual investigation left me still

I made no rendezvous beast, grinned, and asked "Blong" wondrous kind" comes naturally of poncentrated attention. When spoon match on their own ground, with a hairbrush. Heroine's long fague as to the extent of the dam-

PAPER with another. yachts-you? The lady was so moved by in the one case. In the other it I jeered at the people who and it took place Wednesday even lost lover in naval officer's uniform fails to save my honour while as-

CRASE age. I trusted to the dependent

man on Sunday last; the incident (as any person of de mase be fostered. After all, the put MDCCCCXIX instead

of ing, just before the deluge. The comes, and we see them walking cending the stairs. At the top Sir

DX SEA. as I wasn't sure of cent feeling would have been) that grocer and I have so much in com- tration of a very careless Satan with about eight points to nothing, dral, Faithful Cockroach in receiving. I made my most grace fashion, with beer bottles emptied to regard the matter lightly, so she the and his drinks, Both of us MDCDXIX, I provided a fine illas Craigengower pirates started off hand in hand to the village cathe John and his two daughters stood understood that if I did he would station. She got the impression warranted. I have lumbago and going out: but it was she went and reported it at the toon that a fellow feeling is quite reproving sia. When I informed while their Kowloon visitors were inde-away) holding the bride's ful bow, a little sidewise, and

Day 3 trail, paper chase that the officers there were inclined he has dyspepair My wife nags. the ignorant architects" that wondering whether they had distrain. I had meant to give the attempted to go by like a crab, so by himself and guests. Really this came to me. Now, P.C. No. 300, have to die, and neither of us is M.D.C.D.XXI was the correct covered a green. or a switchback pictures here this week, but the that the Governor's girls might not is a fine sport, less enel thau fox if he sees my cook carrying in a hurry. He is worried about, form for 1921 I was not laying a railway. They increased their lead wood engraver has had trouble be shocked. There were people hunting, and, quite as exciting. chicken by the legs, will probably money, and I'm worried about the trap for them. It was pure asini- to about eleven or twelve to one, with the cockroach's legs. They behind when I bowed, and I heard The scent was good across run him in, on a cruelty, charge: lack of it. There is more to make which I was arguing, I should have "roused the burghers of Wong do not propose to inflict upon you sion that there was something rot-in Lyeman Pass, but picked it up sol, and thinks it funny, I want join the journalists institute and he nity. Following the very rule for and the happy roises of their skip don't look right, and I certainly titters which gave me the impres Kowloon Bay and beyond. Chan. If he carries little dogs by one leg, us sympathetic toward each other put MOMXXL (100) from 31 neicheong. The visitors looked any inferior cockroach legs, if the ten in the state of Denmark again on the stretch towards Cape him to learn better. I am sorry the grocer's guild, and we should nel Rocks. We were af fault" and swings 'em about like a para than antipathetic. Nevertheless, T (1000) is CM (900), of course. grim. They called for a bucket of best kind can be got.

Orang Puteh," in calling atten- usquebaugh, the national beverage tion to my bowler, says the ceno of the Scots, and dipped their

Presumably Major-Gen- bow. I had to go.

was not allowed to go by with a

Collinson, and then, where the this kind-hearted and public-spirit both learn and practise there the sph recently erected in London is heads in it, and after that they

eral J. E. B. Seely, has bands. More ifter. When I hares" had doubled, across into ed resident did not get more con habits of thought and feeling that

titters rso dated. I need no evidence of monopolized the jack for six or

SEELY brains, or he would not was seeking the corner behind the Junk Bay, where we ran them sideration, and I ask the police should make us better heighbours. That kind. I know it is right, and seven heads running. Inspired by when he talks, as reported in yes wishing I were in dungarees on a

be able to talk. Yet piano, and hating the world, and down and demanded beer. Alas! officers concerned (I don't know In this sense the best of nation I am at a loss to account for my demoniac cries from the Pit, the terday's Daily Press, he does not schooner somewhere at 80s, 8 mar

It was all gone.

which they were) to reconsideralists should be a good internation slip. I think I must be fail Craigengowers scored a few more seem-to use them. He did not, he red lady I knew came up smiling COMPLIMENTS Ching-Mail get

Where will the their attitude. ing" age beginning to tell, and so singles; but the other dogs went eaid, believe in wishy-washy in and invited me into the billiard

alist, but in practice we find it, on, because the other night, though off with the bone in their mouths, ternationalism." Why so obvious? room. There she produced a needle

The way I think of pans, out differently. The Irish FROM ALASKA to next? A local quite-sober, I trumped dummie's so to speak, and rubbed in the les-Under- internationalism invented and thread, and I bent over theme letter from friends of his in

GETTING it is this. A party Nationalist does not love English- man has shown master heart, on which I needed to son with fours and fives: It was and patented in Heaven), there billiard table while she did things Juneau, Alaska, asking that the eigners, though they may be of emi Seely, unless I misjudge his TOGETHER, of Englishmen be- men the better because of his devo get a heart away, and thereby lost a great fecht, and a great triumph would be no use for major-generals with the needle. When she said China, Mail weekly be sent them different social sets, and normally sentiments, could cheerfully see a set by hostile for- tion to Trishmen, and Major-gen doubled contract by a stupid for the lads from over the watter. Their occupation would be gone. revoke, of which I was quite un whose skip, by the way, is a holy As an argument, his wishy the rest of the evening "I kissed given that they want Adversatia, together, to stand or fall together. helped England to come out on top:: There! I think you are safe for regularly. The usual reason is split up, will get together and stay whole foreign race wiped out if it -conscious. I suppose I ought to terror. He never cries Kamerad, washy" one has no greater force her hand, and went and had a lot which are brighter and more Common perils obliterate other dis I am an English patriot, too, and retire, before I do worse; but I but fights to a finish than mine, that I do not believe in of whisky, and H.E told me all human than most of the now- tinctions Mutual interests often I want to see England on top but. cannot afford to. One of our can.].

Twigged you the splishy-splashy patriotism. His about the weird Malay orchestra spapers, we see. aries has laid an egg, which I ex

LET HIS dark threat in one land of patriotism, as all history (he knows esoteric things like that) letter and laid it on the Editor's make guilds and trade unions and I would like to see my countrymen I borrowed the have like effect: These interests the top Fthink of is the moral top... pect means another mouth to feed

EXCELLENCE of yesterday's pa- provee, fosters more hate than love, and I forgot my troubles. But desk, and if it decan't mean an professional corporations. As to regarded as the noblest and most BEWARE. Pers? Britisher, more jealousy than justice, more when I got to the house where I extra dollar a coloms to me my internationalism, we all have honorable race of men. He calle 2. It is not generally Ex-Www.known to foreigners fact that we have so little gay cares what a major general thinks turning in, I coulda get 'em off.

complaining of the war than pesce, Bat tahab 1 Who was to stay the night, and was first guess is wrong, that's all motilal interest in trod, and we all that wishy-weby." He wante that Sun Yat Sen in Government matters here, in-he thinks, anyway? It doesn't That well me

Down in Java the share the common (inaugurated Southern Presidentcidentally observed that we lost need any intellect to become a em to m

erils of life the world map to be as red as pos fairly A húmsekind, wei this week) held and holds a much America through such treatment major-general, except perhaps in Chrysalid

all in perillible, and is a Predominant Word more powerful position than any The moral is plain If the Gov-the Salvation Ar

nger Becidant, {Power^anche thinks that almost “ orque magazina Death zi Whes Lare bigger things (any mesna Võsanchi-an-indlalə Palpitator One than the things that dividene.

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