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NIKOTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE"
BONGIORG, Basseday, May 28, 1921.
ADVERSARIA,
EMPIRE DAY.
about Egypt and India, and the House of Lords, and Margot Asquith, and other blessings of Empire. So went into the darkest corner behind
did we but know.it.
THE CHINA MAIL.
DINNER WIER MISCHA.
Dized with Mischa Elman' one
P
RADY,
A COMMONPLACE AFFAIR,
SATURDAY, MAY 28 1971.
much that men should remember and ible. Tet there is nothing" relative"
parable which teaches my point. He in purple evening dress, and said observe May 24, yet be altogether about time so regarded; it is. We must already have had the tells of a man who, parsued by wild" he looked an astonishingly long ignorant of the natal day of Master absolute," that one minute passed total of our annual average rainfall."beasts, climbs a tree. A fierce bear way from Bethlehem."- Rabelais of Chinon in fair Touraine, before the present minute began, and suggests a correspondent. who has the climbs after him, and he crawls far which were indeed a day to reverence, that no matter what happens, includ- cheek to as me to verify it. Things out on a branch that overhangs a
ENGLISH, AS MONTIKOSGED. ing the dissolution of the universe like that are spoiled by verification pit in which poisonous serpents Knowing my pleasure in soch into cosmic dust, ne minute mast Suppose the figures should show, a writhe and his. Fairly rotten pasi- things, a friend sends me in a letter succeed it, and so, both ways, ad little less--a nice dinner table remark tion, what? And one that should just received from a Chinese youth night this week. Mischa is one of the infinitum. But suppose we stop is spoiled. The statement is spiri-monopolise his attention, but does who, apparently, had left his service world's greatest violinist, but that counting Stop talking of time?tually true, whatever, the figures not. The branch is actually beginning to take up a job less satisfactory. Experience (sensation) continues, may show. It therely means that to brzak beneath his weight, when he | By the date it must have been written little to me. The fact that he is a good fellow, and a bit of a thinker. Time is in no wise a factor, much less we have had a lot of raia lately. notices on a leaf near his face a spot in a downpour of rain, yer it begins as well as a lively table talker, means conditioning factor, of experience. Anyway, figures bore me.
of honey left by a bee. He puts out "As the time grinding fast away and Your mathematician, measuring-miles
his tongue and licks it up. Human the weather so pleasant." He apolo more. In several ways he reminded
We are very intimate, and I walked nature." saya Tokatoy, is like that.gises for hot calling on his former me of poor dear Dan Lezo, whom I in terms of light-speed, both here and wed to know. The satile refined on the sun, and getting quaint pars into his bedroom without knocking. I'm sure it is. Our lads in the bell master, "owing to my essential face, the sarue render smile, and tricks doxes from his pure "formule, could was at once struck by his extraordinof the world war behaved so, and I've works carried day-by-day without of expression sometimes startlingly play the same game here if he liked. ars anties. He stood on one leg seer everybody behaving so all my having a leisure time." He is "deep- reminiscent of the dead, Mischa For instance, a mile equals 15 minutes and, stretching his right arm over life. Human nature has a wonderfully remembering"
down "on Leain and his doctrines, of a man's life. (Pedestrian formala, his left shoulder, took bold of his capacity for joy, and never forgets it. fent after being money pressed." hut his present wage nearly not so of course I pretended to be a motoring ignored.) Let us therefore right leg and appeared to be trying
SOME MIGHT RE HAPPIER.
supplying of my family," repayment Bolshevik by conviction, and we had peak of a human-life-mile and call to lift it under his left oxter. He
Of course it is true that some must be deferred. He wants to come a Evely argument. No decisionit one two-and-a-half-millionth. If was as like the Lancoon as anything
we could take that mile into Suailtown. I ever saw. What's the game?" people, without any change of cir| back, at a higher wage, As regard given. but I guess Mischa won. On
we would and it necessarily expressed demanded I. Is it some new form cumstances but merely a change to my present situation there is no paints.
by the formula. 8121 lives, or 2452500 of calisthenica, or are you training of mind, could easily be happier than good to rue and I find out its work multiplied by that figure, which at to be a contortionist ?" He looked they are. We
as Miss being not improved to my life in the fature career. I beg most respect- fully to offer you to give a good look- ing after me highly pay than before under your services and you are aware that I was old employee so that my character has been known well in .... your consideration. Hoping this re quest is written to trouble you and mach parden
FROM MY POST KAG,
Yours admiringly
Peninsular."
This nearly insular correspondent's second question is surely supertizons since he himself has told us on what ground the resodding is being done. If however, the job is being don with puble money, we ought to he told was this club so favoured Tarting is a serious drain upon the finances of other clubs. This particu- lar cricket ground is public land, of course, but in effece the junior taipuns have the exclusive private use of in and should pay for its upkeep. There must be no favouritis. However, before I Lish myself into the desired fury of moral indignation. perhaps we'd better have Question No. asked first. Well it that re-turting being paid for out of the public funds R.S.V.P., any ofrial that knows,
EGYPTIAN BIOTs.
OUR TRANS.
COMMON SENSE.
NAVRY PAMBY, ESQ.
respondence with a wider, richer world. a more real order than that in which we suppose ourselves to dwell That is well put, but obscure unless
certain moneys
the newspapers, I'm
That young man will get write for
scre
BLOWING DEBLES,
30 Thursday's Telegraph ....... hau
Canton bubble
"Dear and Precious Adversarius- once gives relativity. But if at me over hisswalder, and remarked, Underhill truly says.fitted for cor NB that the H.K.C.C. ground is for purposes of marine sounding we~ Prickly hear.” being re-turid Suggest you ask buy piano-wire, to cover the same (1) if this is being done at the expeasemile, we find it absolute by the Commonsense is not common, sans of the Government, and (2) if so, seller's yard measure, which records the cynic. It is a word not easily on what ground.
1760. Does this prove that the yard defined, and its derivation is ɖoubtful, you ponder it. The order in which measure was elastic, or that the wire Dr. Brewer does not think it refers you suppose yourself to dwell is had stretched, or that a susil lives to the average capacity for judgment often unreal. Talking of my travels longer than a man instein could common to men. but to the judgment to one Hongkong resident. I nment that is based exclusively on the five ber, he said how nice it must be to senses that are common, to men see foreign countries. He, alas, had tell you. I won't.
Seeing is believing" is in that come straight out to Hongkong, and A local paper had a whole column about the recrudescence of riots in a commonsense remark, and never been anywhere else. I kinted Egypt, and yet in some speculations we know that appearances are out that Hongkong is a fascinatingly as to the causes quite overlooked the deceitful. No doub: Robert Me-foreign country, but discovered that editorial about
obvious connection between Whirter" "thought his attitude this he couldn't see it, and had not seen bursting. Having played sedulous cause and effect. Winston Churchill week towards the Einstein debate ait since his first: fresh sensations were ape to the Chien Mal by saying commonsense one; but it wasn't. worn down by familiarity. It is possible over again in an undistinguished way recently visited Egypt.
It was that of a baby playing with a to see it "afresh every morning. It what our Lads had already well saki. I'm afraid I will be beld personally watch, or of a monkey with a cork-bas never staled for me, and its street it has the cheek to talk of busy- responsible for the tone and diction scres. It might amuse the baby, scenes are a perpetual interest of bodies who laid this trail of foolish. or mamma, but it wasn't otherwise mine. Coming out of a morning ismagats." If they were entirely of the letter by Wet, but Happy,
to me like landing on a foreign shore:foolish, how comes it to blame our in Wednesday's China Mail: have sanctioned.
there's always something new and Government for them? It does that already corrupted the style of the
The subject of our sketch is 3 strange and jolls. It would be in effect, though it does in one place other three papers, and new, as witness two exampes this week, even journalist who has attained venerable affectation to pretend that I am not say we are not inclined to think our staid old frend Pro Bono years, and whose writings are warmly aware that some men do not get as that the blame for that mystery Publico is deserting dignified verappreciated by that large body of the much fun out of it all as i do; and I lies on the Government so much as bosity for satirical persilage. Per-public which enjoys a comfortable have thought much about why that it does n others who, at the haps it will do no harm. Seriously, measure of intellectual inadequacy should be so. I fancy the solution very outset of the Governor visit quite a lot could be said about the prefers the safe. non-committal, and lies in those words of Miss Under to the north, began asking questions was our street cars are in no way obvious, and retains its infantile hill's that they dwell in an unreal and making conjectures.” See why designed with an eye to the comfort conviction of the digestibility and order, that is to say, that they manu- that sentence was peaued? The or health of the public. The very nutritiousness of pap. His skill and facture, for themselves an unreal Telegraph remembered that the China is not necessarily a valuable witness steps are too high and too narrow. dexterity are noteworthy. It is he horizon, and miss the wonders about Mal was the first to call efective regarding some other branch, is Insufficient knee space is allowed. who keeps in the forefront of public their feet. Perhaps they live too attention to the mysteriousness of afforded by a letter from a local The driver should be absolutely attention and consciousness the much in plans for the future, and so the affair. That was journalism--a chemist, who says that the Ching Mail fenced off, instead of as now, standing eternally irrefutable truth that so miss the present. A man who is little Packish perhaps, but quite case against Einstein rests upon a on the toes of passengers. And the long as it does not fair up the weather marking time" till se can go House good journalism. Does the Telegraph misconception. The theory of re-awaing over the top should be ridged is likely to continue wet.
must lose much of Hongkong's charm presume to criticise it! If so, behold" lativity," he saII, states that (a) At present it collects water that
A man who is thinking intently of its qualifications! Even yet there our present space-conceptions, hased could be simply made to flow away, and Although well-meant and intelli- what he will do a year. a week, or has been no official explanation of on an immovable world, are wrong, distributes it on seats and passengers gent, and for all I know doing some an hour hence, must slide unobserv. the Peking visit. That since no one can know exactly whither long after the air has stopped. The good, the Sanitary Board's campaigningly through the living now. Well, purely departmental, we have good he and his universe are tending; (b) single-deckers shoot of the water in against the mosquito, in view of the that's bad, and I think Jesus must grounds for believing." What on that since Time is one of the condition concentrated waterspouts exsetly newest information, strikes me as an have meant something like that in earth does purely departmental" ing factors of all experience our sense where the front seat people sit. With emulation of Mrs. Partington sweeping the advice to take no thought for the mean? What can be the good of Time is probably (by analogy) as only a little thought and contrivance, back the Atlantic with a broom. 1morrow-advice that puzzles many grounds" for talking such arrant relative as our sense of space, and and practically to expense, all these fear it is a waste of money and energy cross bridges till you come to 'em." by a Hongkong governor be depart- good and prudent folk. Don't nonsense? How can a visit to l'eking possibly as erroneous. Hence the very real discomforts could be abo If the unosquito can ay long distances, Past-in-Future cry. Einsteinished. In an American city they if it can breed in briny pools along Never trouble trouble till trouble mental in any sense of the word? tells us that we have no definite would not be tolerated a week, the shore, mech of this costly work troubles you." Quit worrying. Cr Peking isn't in his department. I catt knowledge either of Space or Time. Here they will probably last for years, is waste. Cutting down the under cumspice. There are pleasures in really claim to have good grounds Both are relative, and we bave no because the public is habitually brash on the hifkides in view of the anticipation that I cannot honestly for believing that the Telegraph was, starting point from which to measure."scomed even by those who live by it." plentiful lurking places left--is rather dear but they often entail cor as usual. talking through, its topee,
That is bosh. It Einstein does say
THE CYESSERA.
like that vow of Tom Sawyer and his respondingly heary disappointments. talking childishly.
TIME.
A striking illustration of the need for the China Mail leader of Tuesday, pointing out that a man of certain attamment in one branch of science
SKESTER SANITATION,
C
it d
that we bare no definite knowledge The Japan Chronicle most certainly mates, when they got religion and here are joys of retrospection "in May I say that the Chira Sfail, of space or time (though I don't made a wrong guess, and one unjust decided not to steal fruit. In practice which. being old, and having had having done most to force the very think he says that) he talks nonsense. to the Japanese, when it suggested later they decided to apply the vow to
more than my share of fun. I revel. necessary assurance to the Cantonese My conception of space is not based that they, and not the Chinese, one particular fruit, and chose persim-But the joys of contemplation-Hee (and so saved Hongkong's already on an immovable world. I conceive probably started the rumours about mons. because they were not ripe, and Now-those are the joys you dull trade from the extra handicap space as nething, or no matter, and the Hongkong Governor's trip to and they didn't care much for them should grab. They're the real ones. of a boycott) has not in my opinion my world moving in it. I do not try Peking Thursday's Morning Post anyway. This left a wealth of fruit You need'nt be an artist to appreciate thereby exhausted its duties. It still to measure space, but the things I said it wasn't sure that the Chinese for their sinful depredations, just as form and colour. You are not owes something to the Hongkong perceive to be present in it. So far started them. I am afraid there is the Sanitary Board campaign leaves a obliged to be a poet to cultivate the people. Have they no right to have as pure thinking is concerned, the un doubt that the China Mail set million facilities for Madame Mosquito sense of wonder. And it isn't such mysterions word "space" is unnecessary, and the ball a-rolling, with its facetious to continue her maternal prolifica necessary to be 3e to see the humour plained ?" It does the idea of it. It is merely a turn of suggestion that the Governor's trip tions. speech. Space is like not having and Sir Robert Ho Tung's were not toothache. I cannot tell you to fortuitously corridental. That was what extent I have not got toothache the first yelp; the packat once joined
it is an absolute no-got--but in. Thus is history made. can try, in my feeble human way.
MEDIUM HERE.
this lady's business.
O! Caroline,
It would be fine
Journal
NOT TRUE.
obsessed by
occurrences AT- no! come
certain Members of Parliament are on the qui vite, so that even if there was anything more than "depart- mental get away with it.
behind. they cannot now
of the incongruous. All these things within cur Governor's ordinary await your pleasure-Forms, Colour, departmental work to go off in a Wonder, Fan. Help yourselves. warship to Peking. Other governors Evelyn Underhill, who mystified Stop calling Hongkong a dull hole. did not do it. A smart newspaper- us before the war in s then popular Come out of your unreal world, and max (remember the Blowitz story?) way with a book about Mysticism, look-see this real and jolly one in is obliged to take notice of such the almirah in the back room, where to describe to you the extent of the A local advertisement, giving the goes on writing. In the Hibbert which the ricsha coolies and the unusual occurrences. If the Gor-
had recently she the big spider Eves, so that my sedition pain ("relative") when I have it. I Post Office as the address, announces article that was more intelligible, up, and live in Hongkong, rather rumours, and has nothing to hide. an mynahs and Ilive. In short, wake ernment does not like guesses and thebigst be overheard by any one do not know whither my universe the advent in. Ebngkong of a Spiri- professing to interpret the dominant than in the melancholy dream that it can very easily and simply stop I don't know that it is tualistic Mediu, who calls herself mood of the civilized world-rather must be yours if you feel as Evelyn them. In this case it was unfortunate aware of the newest Order in Courcil, is tending." and I there repeated certain, comfort tending anywhere, or that there is Sister Caroline. She would like to a big order. We are told that Underhill says you do. This only to that the circumstances were such as ins bad words that serve me custom- anywhere for it to tend to. For all meet other spinitialists. Any chance humanity's present prevailing mood whom it concerns: I know that to give rise to mischievous rumours; arily as a vent for ill-bumours, and know, or can know, it is eternal.
of an invitation for some of us who is one of "unhappiness, depression, most of you are joyous, all the time, but that was all the more reason for As I got me no holiday on Tuesday belched them forth so that the spider I do not regard Time as a
are not spiritalists ?. I fear not. unrest that was Empire Day, and it rained ran quickly up to the cornice, itditioning factor of all experience." Now that there & heavier duty on xieties and suspicions, uncertain in why be such regular attenders of the promptly and frankly communica an-even if you do not announce it. Ele the Government being the more hard and had a gloomy sky, I could suspecting imperialistic designs on It is only a factor "conditioning the importation of spirits, I suggest its hold on life. It has forgotten joy." synagogue of Adversarins," whose live. Every circumstance of the not succeed to feel, patriotic. In my part. And I lifted my voice & attempts at describing experience. the authorities should investigate Evelyn Underhill must have been preachment most of the time is incident has gone Home now, and fact, I did feel a most strong desire Little and asked it what it supposed The word time, like the word space,
reading the ordinary, newspapers, the Cheerjo"? to say something ill-natured about the Empire meant to the London is a mere turn of speech, a convenient
calamity howling. Jeremiah-Press. it, and about the morning papers dock labourer with six children and formula for recording sequence of
Bless her the world is not fairly
VANITAS VANTTATEM. which did crow concerning it. Sooäly two days work ia tix, or to the sensations. These "scientists"
represented by them. It has zot, Talking of Einstein-no, honest, I read the Daily Press article with agricultural labourer with seventeen (with their light-speed and clocks
never has and never will, "forgotten I'm not going to debate that again more care, and saw therein the state- shillings a week and his meat, or on the sun) use as factors various
joy." The Labour Leader goes home but talking of Einstein, how do you ment (in no way hostilely commented to the booking clerk with 40s. a week clock times, Greenwich time, Standard-
from the meeting at which he has like these crisp lines by Thoreau? upon) that the great and gal-orious and a wife who cannot be happytime, local time, solar time, and so
frothed at the mouth, and grins empire on which the sun never sets, without cretonne curtains and so on, and get “relativity," but they and Lord Meath never shats up, and aspidistrum in a bine pot on a plush overlook Universal Time, which is
widely at the antics of his youngest, while sniffing appreciatively the crapping never stope, has only 65 table cloth on a bamboo table. And conceivable and absolute, and in the
adours of the meal his Mem prepares. Prancing pro-consuls involved in millions of self-governing citizens out the spider could not answer me, ne, nature of things must be Eternity, of a population of 500 millions, nor any other, and I was thereupon because there is no moment thinkable
grave affairs of state, have their moments of private joy, perhaps Thirteen per cent, of citizens"-more at ease in my mind. Yet was which is not preceded or exceeded the remaining 87 per cent. are sub I not altogether quit of my distemper, by another. We measure time by
chucking some lady under the chin and muuring the word "darling “ jects." And I wondered greatly why until I had told the cat, monopolising day and night, for convenience, and The Daily Press, that is strong for my favourite chair, that this day, by moons, but universal time (which
in the most heartfelt way.. Governors Constitutional Reform, did not seize being the birthday of a woman who alone the metaphysician should, re-
spare a moment to bend proudly over What a bitter letter that was in compary between March 2, 1920. this opportunity to point out that we strove to retain flogging in the army, gard) tradscends those phenomena.
cradles, and even editors may have Wednesday's China Mad, drawing and January 31, 1921; alternatively enlightened Hongkong folk are merely and who was a Germaness of singularly Drop all that, and measure time by
their bestial jays between peals of a contrast between the Bishop's (or with criminal breach of trust in subjects. What a chance missed! narrow mind, was no holy day for me, heart beats. Do not regard your own
literary thunder. In short, almost his following's) desire for an expensive respect of $11,706 84 beztreen the And then, my breakfast not con- and that it must vacate my chair. first heart beat as. No. 1, nor even
everybody is Eumasa, and living as episcopal ring and thingumbob and same dates. The judge held that the taining the ingedients I prefer, and Whereupon the cat yawned, and Adain's, but assume that heart-beats
it were two lives the one, it may be, the attempted suicide of some of charges made against Mr. Tottenham the main still coming down, I. fell looked at me soorafally, which dis are constant. It would be impossible
anxious and stzennous and visible, Hongkong's very poor. Perhaps not bad not been established and acquitted thinking about what the D.P. called closes the interesting fact that cats to use the cumbersome figures then
the other domestic and intimate and altogether a quite fair letter, some him, and Mr. Tottenham 'was the our pardonable pride" and about may be patriotic, which again may nezary for dates Adam's first
instinctive. However worried, how will say, Yet such reflections, are recipient of many congratulations. Winston Churchill, and Horatio be considered as confined by the heart beat might be (ssy), number
ever poor, however busy a man may often forced upon us. I am reminded him, asked for the costs to be paid, by Mr. Shelley Thompson, who defended" Bottomley, and the coal miners, and noises they make at night time in the one of series Zof the millionth million.
be, he does not forget joy, nor find of a passage by BV Lucas, in the prosecution under Section 432 D. the Irish, and about Westimen like yard that is called Back So I fared The number of your own heart-beat
it far from the sanctuary of his heart" Verens in the Midst, where some Criminal Procedure Code, but this Lloyd Georgs and Billy Hughes, and forth upon the street car, sorrowing as you read this would be inexpress-
To bring in spirits free ;- But I don't drink," And I dont think Your spirits I shall see. **BESSIBLE VERSES.
copying and keeping: These by Robert Loveman
"What care I for cast or creed? It is the ded, it is the deed! What for class, or what for
worth
clan ?
It is the min, it is the man
It is of love and joy and woe, For who is high and who is low, Mountain, valley, sky and sea Are for all humanity. "What care for robe or stole It is the soul, it is the soul! What for the crown or what for
chest
It is the soul within the breast, -It is the fadb, it is the hope,
It is the struggle up the slope, It is the brain and the eye to
1
Man say they know many
things;
But lo! They have taken
wings,
The arts and sciences And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows, Is all that anybody knows.
THAT PASTORAL THINGUMBOB,
(Continuet on Page 5.)
Mr. B. Nunn, acting District Judge, Singapore, delivered judg- ment: in the case
in which Mr, W. L Tottenham, late of the Arghan Company Ltd stood charged with having com- mitted criminal breach of trust in respect of $6,750 belonging to the
One God and one humanity" at any time or place. Tolstoy has a one at a State banquet saw a Bishop was disallowed.