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Mary had a passport But quite forgot the visa And so got tangled in Red Tape By Bumbles who did tease her.' An atrocity. I admis; but, all the same, Passports Must Gĩa.
--NO BLONG MY PIDHX.
MA FRIEND MOWHIRTER.
SATURDAY, MAY 21. 1921.
the
"Huntsman" (gneer pseudonym
for Hongkong) sends in this repine,
hoping it may be deemed
distinct thrill. We steal back un Or angging tent în camp. By George, manifestation of public duke most Religion" especially Shanghai Eng-latter are more difficult than simple · observed to our private beach, and but bose si, pours! (Forgive the alang carry weight. You don't like 'em, fishman. It could do them no harm, figures Pose! Bogusarana! with paddles throw up "earthworks." these sultry storms Afflict me with do you? They cost, you money, O SEE THE CROCODILE WESP. Logarithms are not more difficult of wet sand, behind which we can, if neurosis: rumbling thunder. Shakes which you could spead on things more I was greatly moved yesterday than figures, Space, he says, is no, necessary, defend OLE hives my belief in academic forms) pleasing. They cause you bother, by the leading article in the Mors-longer an absolute. Space, he says Childish, or boyish, if you like, but Stevens blue black atmospheric rum- which is unnecessary. They do no ing Post, which opened as follows: is negatived by the new theory fun. Why should the very young pus Beats up to blot the sodden day good. And they are foreign, un-“Without wishing to discourage I thought it always was a negation, have a monopoly of all the fun to light's writings Against the cloud- British things, anyway. If you agree the enterprise of Mr. M. Y. Saz, a negation of natier. He says New- the two days pass, healthily, happily, crammed sky of bursted haggis Stand to that, keep on saying it.. Passports who is reported to be contemplating to assumed the existence of ax and it is time to sail back, out of the many-storied blocks of office build- Must Go. It will belp
the establishment of another sugar absolute, evenly flowing time.", realm of pure romance into the realisings. Verandahed lavishly to imp the Mary had a little lamb. refinety bere, one is impelled to de- Newton is ad. The Scientifc tic world of ledgers and chit books and rain. And, hand it cut again," As 's She had it with cucumber. plore this further evidence of a corresponds of the Tiry. Should other stupid things, including collars teller in a bank, takes in and pushes
It didn't have a passport,
characteristically Chinese inclina-remember 6. ortuis nil. Nexton and ties and socks and shoes and back The filthy lucre that ties us all And so disturbed her slumber. tion to follow in beaten paths indus-wasn't that kind of ass. The cosmos to this cannot see it, but I know That classic trifle, composed re-trially. The trait is to be observed becomes ruerely a set of relations the Peak, Stands back of me, as iz 2 gardless of expense for the Swastiku, in many undertakings,”; successful which can be comprehenied in m Wow! When I jerred at Parting Turkish bath, Enwrapped in steam, and refused by the editor as being too pioneers in trade finding competi- formula." Indeed? I'll, bet him a ton's paper, read to the Royal Colonial and sweating like a dank and distal sectarian, may help ran to remember tors planting themselves text door, dozens donghusts it cannot. Blech Institute, and said in effect that it eat horse. Out on the pattering that Passporta" Must Go. So will We have two refineries here. able of this nonsense hangs on the velocity was punk and fudge, I did not know side-walk people hurry, and bend to this one:
to supply the Colony's needs and of light, which is hypothetical. There that David Fraser would write to the meet the weather, and rush along-
to export their produst. Admitted-is no way of demonstrating it. This Press to say that the whole thing, if the expression's not too profane
ly they have, made big profits expert also think marks. word for word, was from his pen, and | like · bell-for-leather. The hissing
but that is due to world coupurest form of thinking. It isn't. appeared in the Trans-Pacific deluge splashes down to beat The
ditions. Local demand does not MYSTERIOUS DISTINCTIONS, Magazine for February 1920, over a darkly glistening flatness of the street.
call for a third refinery nor is it The Manchester Guardias headline year before Mr. T. Partington read it to Only the ear groan on through
likely that any resultant competiNews and Politics. Letters and the RCI as his own! My criticism rain-hashed twilight, and coolies in
tion would cheapen sugar for local art," caught my eye this week What is not affected, of course. I ssy of their palm leaf rain-coats force à The world may be out of joint, but (consumption."
is the news that excludes polities, Mr. Fraser's words just what I said | grin, and beckon to the ricksha's it certainly is not my job to put it I remember Hongkong when there letters, and art ? To me the most when I thought they were Partington's.vain delusive shelter. For days it is right. Last week I bad 遮 was to Morning Post, but I do not important news is noncemed with Bat what will the Colonial Institute like this: our rainy season lasts Penang grievance, which I turned remember that the Daily Press them, and with selence. What are do nax, Retract its vote of thanks too long. Outside there's fury in down, and now, all the way from 15, welcomed it by deploring its trespass the letters that are not att? The And how will Thomas P. explain it the firmament; But I at home in Rankeilor Street, Edinburgh, comes in "well-beaten paths," nor that it fart of literature interests me, bus I have every confidence in his ability my pyjamas, ant content Oa complaint about the medical depart-begged pity for the successful letters divorced from art do not. to explain.
Babylon, 0 Carthage Hongkong!ment of the University of which I pioneer thus challenge. We had Queer, that such a businy Taper PIGEON TOED.
am requested to "kindly take some already three papers, then, "able to should have such an apparently Why do we ridicule a pigeon-toed; I hear of a lot of ofses of influenza. notice." The matter
submitted supply (more than) the Colony's thoughtless slogan." walker? We have no right to do so My heartfelt sympathy to the suf-bears all the marks of personal spite needs," and local demand did nos A RHYHE OF NEWSPAPERS. whatever. It is the natural way and ferers. I've had mine. For those against an individual, so that I call for a fourth paper. But the the proper way. Anatomically it is shivering on the brink, this nass wouldn't touch it even if it were a Interests did. Perhaps that's why fitting and in practice it is convenient. spray can do no harm-Thymol gr.V. Hongkong matter. Nothing doing on Chinese enterprise gets this snabbing Jangle men walk with parallel feet. eucalyptol n.X. menthol XV, those Einres.
now?
| enough for adversarial" Almost say-' parting ode foot before the other. ollubebs m.XX of Rese que, parafin
IT. MIGHT HAVE SUPPLIED “RAWs." thing would be good enough this week, Ltd. in going along a narrow path, the liq. Like mosquito larvae, colds in My last reference did good. Have Just see how its own arguments for T'm in a hurry to go fi-bing : biki - Huntsman's" effort is worth it if conventionally correct" way of the head should be nipped in the you noticed that since it appeared are boomerangs. It advises, as we turning out the toes is instinctively bud
Robert McWhirter" is being already have two well established only for the cunning theme of the" abandoned. The walker who failed CONSTITUTIONAL EEFORM AGAIN. original, and not faking American refineries, which have to import first copplet. His epithets are to abandon it would constantly trip Thursday's D.P. pointed out that stuff for local consumption. I quite all their raws" (a suspiciously technical shrewdly chosen, ton, except, naște, in the growing things along both Hongkong is the home of strong liked his holiday item. Away fishing contraction of "raw materials"), that the D.P. one. The Press sein sides. Even in standing. heels to vested interests," and that these and getting wet." Did he catch the Chinese should cultivate sugar roads. Moreover, the Chin Moil is gether and toes cutpointed, the stance interests, under the existing system, aur? I did. And got wet too. But cane, and even obligingly tells 'em frequently, not Bippant. However, is less firm than with heels apart and get all the consideration." The realizing the truth of "similis simili-how. If the capitalists of the forming here you have it. toes in. It is one of those stupid argument is that Constitutional Rebus curantur." I took care to get wet Post had taken their own medicine. What makes a well read fellow unreasoning, conventions which form would alter that. Some of both ways, and so dodged the Fiu.we old established papers, who have Lugh? mway people help to maintain, þy us fear that, as we see it now, it it's all right.” I'm touching wood. fro-import at almost rainsus prices parroting thoughtlessly what they would mean merely swapping one
( our "raws." might have bought our have heard somebody else say,
set of interests for another, ousting, It was a pleasure to observe how per from them. Instead of putting to put it valgary, the bigger fleas in our streets and roads looked in the their money into a newspaper, they The Iily Press on Wednesday the interests of lesser feas-lesser, recent heavy rains. None of the should have put it into a paper mill. characterises as absurd the summestion but still firas, still bloodsuckers unsightly and foot soaking puddles and so avoided the characteristi that the Cabinet and the coal owners The Constitutional Reform to arouse we used to see. Everywhere beautically Chinese inclination to follow in
beaten path." put their heads together to lower our enthusiasm would be that which ful smooth surfaces, that dried quickly miners wages. "The answer to would ensure consideration for the when the rain took a vacation. Good that, it says.is that the policy of greatest good of the greatest number. work, we said, and blessed the P.W.D. the Government is the fully consider. However, as regards the value of Well, now, what about leaving emporary's leg a little, let me now pat it ed policy of Parliament. debated in direction by trained experts," the that way awhile. "Let us enjoy them on the back for the note it has in the the hearing of all the world." In the D.P. scored beautifully. We've had for six months or so, without making same issue on Conscientious Objectors settled. Giorgio, a Levantine friend "Few will regret," it says, "the of mine, has it all taped off. Stopped same issue its London, correspondent some. We've seen 'em. The cadet haste to dig them up and disfigure pointed out as a defect of the Parta system does not produce any but them. The Tram Company has had pissing of the scornful feeling with me on the street, he did, and instructed mentary Labour movement that so Red-Tape experts and Panjandrums. its whack at 'em, but that's practically After all their record during the war be observed, der are wone din which they were once looked upon. me in High Politics. Dose Irish-a,” many of the delegates regard them- Real reform, by and by, will abolish finished with. I heard some men selves as mere registration machinery the cadet system, and the Crown talking of the bikelihood that the city was not as black as has often been Toorks What for hill-a da young on behalf of the various Trade Unions, Agent Aystem, and the system that Telephone wires were to be laid painted Indeed, it would be interest officer? Have got wife. have got without any freedom or power to makes Crown Colony officialdom a underground. The present posts have with the objectors who were not con- you what. Why he no takea dose ing to compare the record of the 20s small boy, only do-a his duty. I tell-a express any opinion except that of preserve for Public School men. done for forty years or more. I am not scientious, with the men who, in many Irish by da arm, and say: What for
cancus. If our con- Note that I said by-and-by. The denying that underground wires temporary will contemplate Parliz tocsin has sounded. but the people may be preferable; bat what I'm cases, were far more fit to go but were you killa me I am man all-same
indispensable." mentary debates and divisions in the have not yet got together. But they asking for is a breathing spell Let
you. I gotta my job. You go talia vid light of those wise words, by its are coming. Lloyd George has said us enjoy our present good roads for of the Conscientious objectors were strongly reminds me of another friend, Hear, bear! It is a fact that many my master, King George. My friend Loadon correspondent, it may dis-it.
a bit, just to see how it feels, before heroes, brave men who endured much an old Devonshire farmer I talked cover that between delegate and MP.
hacking the poor things up again. there is very little diference. It may, Self conceit is a queer-thing. Had If all in favour were to shoot are more than some soldiers did, and it is with during the Boer War. He was in fact. obtain a clearer idea of the a visit from a Shanghai journalist, at exactly 3 o'clock this afternoon, were not very heroic.
a fact that some of the indispensables disgusted with the time it took to value of the considered policy of Thursday, who paid me many com-I'm sure the Panjandrums would
lick Paul Kruger, and felt sure that Parliament debated in the hearing pliments. I basked in 'em as in hear it even unto Fanling. Anyway,
all the officers required was a little of all the world" The present House sunshine. My purring could have there's my plea: let the roads bide the Government about those obnox-self. "Why don't they."" he demand- Did any Chinese gentleman advise advice from a practical man like him- of Commons is a gross burlesque of been heard two blocks away. He a wee.
ious proclamations? If so, hased, "surround the old devil?" And representative govemment.
he any objection to my mentioning I could not tell him.
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WHAT IS TRUTH?
SILESIA
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Was
· OUR ROADS.
THE RUSSIAN COUNT AGAIN.
THE OLD INDISPENSABLES.
Having thus pulled our contem
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The rightly commonplaces of
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The mordant dignity of the
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The dippant genius of the
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ACCORDING TO GIORGIO.
The Irish question is as good es
FLY IN AMBER.
reminded me of smart, bright, clever] " things I had said in the past. things No doubt you know a lot about I had forgotten, and I felt as if angels Months and months ago I had a his name? I think I know it.
note about a Russian Count, de I am told that they were expressed I ought Silesia and the Silesians, but do you were putting their arms round my Savine, who was deported from Hong-colloquially, as
be happy I know. I'm to coplies. That, replete with blessings galore. My The China Mail. craft, and borrowed. Swish, swish. care as much as ye kant telexsaglie He said: "I have no hesitation kong in circumstances with which I however, pose, intended. Educated work it accuratis, por I've health
and sizzle, sizzle, comes the rain, but I feet towards the recent
not altogether satisfied. To the purpose never a bore. HAUTE, JESTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE" presently our four sails get us out of news as I used to do about the Balkan (impressive pause) is comparing round off the story it is necessary to Chinese would know without telling and I've wealth and I've friends the thick of the traffic and we can troubles. The Silesians appear to be your work with" (another pause, mention his latest appearance at what they could and could not do by And my spirits are normally high. grope more boldly for the white a fermenting mixture of Austrians, during which I had a sensation of
trends). I do long to see some blue
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WHY
BANGKONG, BATTEDAY, MAY 21, 1921 beacon that marks, Capsuimua. Rain Germans, and Poles, with religionslevitation)" that of the late Spencer/Shanghai Mr. Faithfull, formerly way of celebrating San Wen's in-But 0! (Thus my daily thought
ADVERSARIA.
THAT WET HOLIDAY..
gets through the cabia porta, drips and politics equally mixed. I almost Leigh Hughes." Heavens ! How may him, applying for his deportation to
here, appeared, for the police against auguration. Bat can cookies read?
I hear, though it has been kept out sky. through the skylight, and even into think it redounds to the credit of the face dropped. I could positively feel our tea; but this is the life, and we Prussians that they kept them quiet it sag. Hang it all, he had me on the Russia. The old man, who, accord- of the Canton papers, that Yunuso are happy and make a jest of what we all these years. Now, since the war edge of anticipation that he was going ing to the Shanghai reporter is troops are already in Kwangsi. That cannot prevent.
to end war, with the world made safe to say Shakspere or Shaw or Mark for democracy, et setterer, they are Twain. It was then I told him he boiling over again. Well, let 'em. had better go, as I was busy.
OUT OF THE WORLD..
There is hardly a bay within a thirty mile radius of Victoria where one can count on being alone. I have had parties come into the exposed bays on the windward side of Lantao. 1o But a wet holiday does, improve the chances of solitude. The idea is to
If the news from Silesia, -Should seem to displease ye
Whistle an aria Read adversaria.
And don't let ut tease ye.
COMMUNISM.
ANOTHER VISITOR.“ „
Venerable looking and " not unlike province is therefore, now sandwiched. Tolstoy, said: "I ask it. That weichow sits on the fence, waiting is where I want to go, away from this for the right moment to jump down Anglo-Chinese pigsty" He has on Sun's side. It is, of course, at spirit, and spoke disrespectfully of heart solid for the Canton government, King George in open court. Shang like Yunnan. Probably part of hai pat him in jail for six weeks for Awangsi will be added to Kweichow writing insulting letters to the later on, making them more equal in Russian Consul (who was no longer a size:
Another visitor was 3 Russian Bolshevik, presenting a letter of introduction from an official of the Chinese Republic in Peking I looked wildly round for a weapon, and hoped Consul) That was excessive. Then THEY SAID IT WOULD, HAFFEN.
. IS THERE A "BEST MAN”
AT A WEDDING ?
4
When we dig back into the origin
of many of the custors which sur
round marriage, even when it is re- garded in the light of a religious
shut out the old life altogether, aud The "extremist "Labour leaders that when the bomb dropped they gave him 18 months for They prophesied fer poster that ceremony, it is surprising to find the No doubt many men would have be natural, except (of course) as at Home have proved my contention wouldn't suffer much; but he smiled, forgery, about which I know noth some day the chill would ask. "What number of signs, which point directly regarded it as foolish, a sily endur- regards tobacco. So to jybe round a that as Britishers they would never and shook hands, and talked, and was ing. He made himself a nuisance did you do in the great war, Daddy 2 to the days when wedding was since of needless discomfort, to go headland, and run into a deep and swallow anything like Bolshevism. altogether a normal gentleman-per: in jail, giving all the trouble he could, It is, bound to come, and seeing the merely a matter of agreement between yachting on such a wet holiday, as we lonely bay, where, a white strip of Now it turns out that comunizin hape a little more gentlemanly than which, by the way, an honest man formation of the League (of men who a man and a woman, and force, rather had last weekend. Chacun neon sand shows far in, and to cast anchor has failed in Russin. If the politicians gentlemen are as a rule nowadays suffering from a serse of injustice did things, either in Flanders or than courtship, was the principal goat. I like getting wet about as a biscuit toes from shore, is in a way had held aloof, and given the Russian in fact, quite a pleasant companion might do. My own opinion is that Stonecutters) I propose that we mute, argument used. xouch as a cat does, but that is when to get out of the world First we experiment a fair field, as I thought Took my chaff about Lean's defeat he was not quite sane, and that he inglorious heroes who didn't should The first, form of marriage outside I am-all, dressed up in the stupid catch fry for bait, and then sit on's and said was the best policy from the by the agricultural peasants in the was not quite fairly treated get together and forms our own of a tribe was the marriage by and complicated costume that con- rock in the warm rain, in bathing start, it would have failed all the most amiable way, taught me a few owing to the popular passion of fear League, so as to agree on an auswer capture." The bridegroom simply vention imposes... Wel clothes are dress, catching gaping fish with a sooner. Oppression encouraged it. things I didn't know, and left me and hatred of Bolshevism. Mr, to the inquisitive offspring. Person went out, accompanied by a friend uncomfortable; a wet body is not, handline. Then back to the boat to Now it seems that the Russian agri-feeling more kindly towards Russians Faithfull thought it necessary to shock ally, should any of my own brood or two, seized upon some woman who It is, on the contrary, and especially clean them and fry thers on the cultural producer will have none of than I've felt for a long while. In the Court by mentioning that he was ask me what I did during the great appealed to him, and carried her off in & warm temperature, rather jolly, galley store. It is curious that every it. He does not take up arms to cidentally mentioned that "adver: imbued very strongly with Socialis war, I am going to boast that I re to his home. In modern marriage- So merely for decency the swimming time we get back on the bost, and fight it. He merely ceases to produce, saria" had not been overlooked by tic and Bolshevistio ideas, as it that frained from falling any of the the very name of "best man" bears. costume is donned, and the rain, so are busy, the main stope and a gleam and thereby makes the others helpless certain great people, and wondered were unlawful. However, the old numerous Jack-in-office who were witness to this custom which ante- far as physical feelings are concerned, of sunshine shows, while each time Lenin hae confessed, failure. In the why I should be vegetating in a man should perhape be thankful he basolent to me during that crazy dates Christianity by many hundreds. does not matter. It does matter we scmper back to the bench the end the producers must decide, in backwater like Hongkong I could has been kept safe in jail. If he had period. It required stern self control, of years, for the best man" is little, however, to the helmsman. Tosin pours again. Some men would say comby Experiments that not explain, of course, that I am hiding got to Russia earlier, the Red pro- but I managed it, so as not to ema-simply the successor to the strong- go tearing down the harbour, through begin to resent that it looks so make production proalless always from the police, because I didn't letariat would probably have killed barrass the Government, which might armed warrior who assisted the groom The crowded shipping, in rum that pointedly spiteful but we laugh, and faily I wish to goodness the anti- know him well enough, and in such him. The reporter at Shanghai has have felt obliged to replace with men to carry off his bride, just us the blote out like a fog everything sare congratulate ourselves that we have Bolshevists: would keep their heads cases it does not pay to take too many an erroneous idea of Tolstoy's appear the puppets I might otherwise justi-wedding ring symbolized the throngs that which is close by, is tricky, work no painful sumbara to fear. Ouce, (if they ve got any) and let commu- people into confidence. When the ance, if he thinks, de Savine not ably have stain
with which the bride was bound, There is hooting all mound, of we go up through the wet herbage to nism have its head that's the little affair for which I am wanted alike him."-Tolstoy had an in- A SCIENTIFIC CORE DEDEST. and the old shoes thrown after the launches and motor boats, invisible the ridge of a hill, to see what may lie quickest way to get men back to has blown over, I shall take my tellectual look, this Count didn't. The London Timer has a "scitati couple, take the place of the missiles: until almost upon us. And the way beyoud. We approach the top with nature and to facis,
rightful place in metropolitan society. He had a beard. but any fool can wear fic correspondent." It prints his hurled by the pursuers of the past: in which a silent junk will drive up the care of deerstalkers, playing at AFTER SIEGFRIED BASSOON. As commissionistire at a picture beard De Bavine's cranial register scientific remarks. He has said some The honeymoon itself is nothing
white-clad boy brings my palace! Well, why not
was much lower than Tolstoy's. things apropos Finster
Ex more than the space of time when the
out of the muck, and leave us to dodge romance. The country beyond may
it at the Isst moment, is heart pal- be inhabited by fierce, wild men Porterhorse pitating. This all the more because. We desery a thin thread of smoketers up the day The Bocking Boyes -u a valuable kisingiza a duns of trees,
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Moreover, Tolstoy ideas were very cision by the Editor). He says, the captor had to hide his prize from her- Most of your different. I":"ish" more English gaussian functions are sa much kinsmen wtal their consent had beenx
land: every | zen: would read. Tolstoj
Boom shute PASSPORTS MUET, GO, ht with a plaque. Keep on Y twilight like a pall have no use, for.