THE CHINA MAIL.
BATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921.
Pyeris
I had to say that I had forgotten,
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bodies have been distributing for as the one of knowing where to start.help by requesting curtain books. Marseille, instead of Marseilles, the service of the public, and gover- SPARKLING MINERAL WATER. to bring home the chicken, crIf there is an horest amah, it is almost We should want an honorary secretary Danzig, not Dantzig, and so on. It ment shall imply governing. In fact, pair of chickens, in. Ons aah a certainty that she has a left nostril to do the ordering, and a hired says we should write of Frankfurt, everybody seemed to feel that is was. crammed five chickens into one of First, as Mrs Beeton might say, custodian to record the borrowings not Frankfort, but with that I cannot pleasant surprise. these humane baskets! This catch your honest amah Kenelophon Who'll be the secretary, please agree. It is permissible to give an
MA China Mail leader specialising on the carriage of chickens says there are none, but she has bad Meanwhile, I will accept and file English form, which, preserves the ANSWEA writer asked läst even- is Bungkang idhwynczary. At disappointments I would expect names and addresses of those willing meaning, of such a foreign rame. If
ing, How do we Home, where they have a very strong ber, given a trustworthy auditor, to to join. I suppose there ought to fart rather than fort, why not
know that Mannix is N.S.P.CA. the people still carry deny the existence of honest, has be a meeting?
Rhein " instead of “ on the Rhine 7?
not one of the pro-* chickens in the old-fashioned way, hands. I promised her a gardening
Rat-tat-tat! At the Why not Wien instead of Vienna. phets ?" The answer is easy to-day, by the legs and no one dreams of trowel in the spring: Several times
door of the soul the which old-established for the after reading the Daily Press report objecting. There is so much real
postman's knock, and R.G.S. approves ? Why not Lisbos of his sermon. In the dark we may cruelty about, that it seems ridiculous as indeed I had, Then messengers ego not at home. Tragedy and tears; instead of Lisbon ? Many of us will hear the trampling of hooves and to fuss about a hypothetical rush I sent forth came back with unsatis- time fies; the governor discovers not be too careful to abay this anth- think that perhaps it is a thoroughbred of blood to the poor fowl's head. factory excusen One, anned with rack-renting; long deferred blue skies ority in this matter. We shall race horse, but if the beast brays, we A rare week for pie-a sketch I dow, brought back a stretch over grief; the burden of the continue to spell foreign names just are sure it is only an ass. This man PREJUDICE judice. collectors, coal shovel I decided to devote an grasshopper resounds in the golden as our soldiers insisted on pronouncing Mannix referred to the authors of.
this has been. Thereafternoon to the search. I tried all bowl; empty kerosene tins tumble them, that is to say, as seemeth good recent correspondence as was the motoring case, about which the big stores. Not one bad a garden- down stone stairs; strafe all evil to us.
contempt." That fits the arrogance sue of our own leader writem showed ing trowel. I conclude that Hongkong men; when shall the work be done, his prejudice against local motorists. Ladies do not go forth into their and what become of the worker?
Someone at the tiffin of an ecclesiastical "prince," but not There were the letters about the gardens, with washleather gloves, and Now on the airs of summer, the
MANNIN. table started it. Was the night point of view of a Christian. visit of the Sinn Fein Archbishop a trowel, as ours at Home used to languid aim of summer, driftingcogitation, a rhyme to Mannix his Master's saying about
there, he asked after it goes dead against the point of Mannix. They were funny-if you do. Anyway, I haven't found rather than blowing, beating like The marine officer from the North sparrow, etc. laugh at human faibles-and sa-Xenelophon her trowel, and according shadowy sarf upon the silent shore
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that out. At last we unitedly the loyalist objectors of bigotry. list, and don't know. I say that an bogs; of committees; of talk and of Fancy a Roman Catholic calling any amab, paid a fair wage, and reasonably whitewash; of the homed wings of Lody a bigot! There was the argu-fed, might acquire the habit of the angel of death arising above the ment that though Mannix's politics honesty. Why not? It is, at least, horizon, a far threat, and the light were not approved, he was being hypothetically possible. Assuming sweet, and the eyes glad, though welcomed purely as a Churchman. her occurrence, I conclude that her greed prosper, and the serpent bite Well, suppose he had committed a left nostril would not twitch.. Let without enchantment. crime. Would they say that his ¦ me explain, ~~ morals were disapproved. but that he must be welcomed as a Church dignitary Take the other sile. Ltd. Suppose he was welcomed as a Stun
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It is all bunkum BAROMETER about the eyes be
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in the face, etc.
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Have you ever been misled
SOLD! by those people who seem to
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
beneath
not, one
At the Government Gunpowder Depot on Monday morning, Messrs. Hughes and Hough will auction 181 packages of saltpetre.
Commisioned to pro
know everything? Heard a One lot of Crown land near *TEDDY ** eure a lady a puppy, Iman mention that a certain yacht was Wongreichong Road will be sold on aent up a little thing for sale, that she had fetched no bid Monday afternoon, according to an about a month old. Its mother was at auction, but could be got for $700 advertsement is this tsue. a good fox terrier, but its father was or $750. First of all I talked it over
traping a liar, that MENDACITY. he does not look you Feiners here. I take it they would Mostly that is due to perfectly honest a young lady dog But a bunch of it would be nice to own a weekend MS Cadmus, with engines, bol- a sort of a Japanese spaniel. It was with Xenelophon, who admitted that Tenders for the purchase of H. have as much right to entertain a shyress and nervousness. Indeed, ladies, assisted by the amah, investi- cruiser, but added that it was a lot lers, and various auxiliary machinery Sinn Fein visitor as we would have there are some eyes so horrid. so gated the little creature and decided of money. We talked it over all in board, close at the Commodore's to entertain Sir Edward Carson who badlisk like, so hard and unsympathethat it was a gentleman dog, and they the evening, and finally, on the Office at noon on Monday. set the fashion in bish rebellions. tie, that I myself (who have never named it Teddy. Learning their understanding that I would demand So far as I understand it. Mannix told a he since my seventh birthday) mistake, they have consulted me as fewer truffes in my pates, and give Among the passengers who left has not taken up arms against my hate to look into them. They make to whether they should change the up poker. I persuaded her that we by the C.P.OS. "Empress of Russia country. He has only spoken against me feel uncomfortable, and take my name or change the dog. They could afford it. Of course," I said. Testerday were Dr. and Mrs. G. M. it. I allow him the right to do that. thoughts away from the thread of cannot do the latter beneficially, this is contingent on my liking the Harston, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hump- We British believe in free speech, my talk, so that I pause, halt. stam- because the litter consists entirely of boat after inspection. I haven't, dr, Paula Davis, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Dyt. or pretend to. If he thinks the mer, betray all the symptoms of a females. After all, if quite fortai had a look at her yet. The next English have cot done right in Irelia breaking down. A good liar will tously, I think I can reassure them land. he is not alone in that. store you out of countenance, with as to the propriety of the name they myself don't think we have done a face as bland as a cherubs. If chase. In Japanese it means shining, the square thing in Ireland, and you want to watch for symptoms of or shinyness, (from, teru) and as whenever I feel moved to say so, flying, watch the nose boles, About shall exercise my right. I am not two thirds of the way through a lie pretending to be free of prejudice that is to say, when the lic is 60 myself. I find on reflection that I per cent. completed, the nostril will have a prejudice against Roman expand, and the wall of it will flutter Catholicism, and against bishops and The lie finishes with a sort of saiff. If Rider Haggard were naming it, and and I pointed it out. Then I wrote be cigarettes in his possession. archbishops. I feel that this body the amab says the savies everything, knew Japanese as he knows African offering 5500 as a starting bid, for brought from Canton on the train. has worked in plenty Eolopean house, words, he might suggest Ameya, the you never know your luck, and $200 The defendant was smuggling them and asks 313 per month, whereas Rainmaker. It sounds romantic, and saved would pay for the extra gadgets into the Colony when he was detected. she is really a leam-piljin, whose only is not too remote from the facts. I meant to put in. "Any answer The Magistrate imposed a fine of $25 experience was washing baby linen The habits of puppies are so em-yet? I replied so often in the or one month.
is becoming too strong and too active
evening I spent examining the vacht: Inspector Spear, of the Water was annoyed to find that there Police, this morning charged a ud be necessary a farther expenditure Chinese before Magistrate Orme with of a hundred or two on repairs and having had in his possession 20 tins Teddy is of Japanese descent on the renewals, but I decided not to tell of datiable Capstan cigarettes. The male side, she deserves a Japanese Kenelophon this. We talked it over Inspector said that the defendant name. I think she will live up to several more evenings, and once, who was out of work was it, as I noticed a lot of shiny places passing along the Praya on a tram, seem yesterday afternoon kaving
Tsimshatsui Which is our ship the
station with on the carpet. If my old friend she asked
The cigarettes had apparently been
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The funeral of the late Mr. J. G. T-
in a colony belonging to a Protestant country. But so long as they do not get in my way, and force them selves on my attention, they can in a Portuguese flat, this futter of barrassing. carry on. Nobody is obliged to the Rech. around the nostril will be
In connection with the lophon urged me to phone the, anc-i help in welcoming Mannix who doesn't apparent. If you disregard it, and Inverso denunciation of
tioneer. He was out. It was arrang- want to. There was one letter in the engage her, she will disappear at the
*pacious landlords by the ed that I must on no account forget Telegraph, replying to Loral end of the fifth day, with two of your Governor, and the announcement to call at his office, personally, on Catholic." by Catholic Loyalist, best towels, a borful of tes, soap, that their squeezes tre to be checked, the morrow, and complete the pur- which I feel sure was a fake. The and Worcester-sance, and the only I suppose the Goverment will now chase. By this time Aenelophon writer of it claimed to put his country pair of pyjama trousers the blaster see that it made a mistake in leading had grown keep, and was planning before his religion. An real Catholic really took any pride in. It is thus its house-building loan find to rich that our first trip must be to bacao. Pooley, Advocate and Solicitor of is likely to do that, No honest established, by the process of ex- corporations, instead of encouraging Regarding it as now happily settled, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, F.BLS, religionist could do it. I liked last clusion, that the left nostril of the the individual home builders who I arranged with the Boss for an ad-whose death at., the Goverment night's leader in the China Ma bonest amah would not do such things applied. Is it too late to switch that Tance of $700, on account of future Civil Hospital from acute malaria was Whoever wrote it, must be a truly It would remain immobile in speech scheme back on to right lines, and adversaria, and when he heard what reported yesterday, took place at religious man, though he may belong even as "yours or mine. But, of help people to erect their own homes I wanted the money for he was quite the Protestant Cemetery, Happy to no church. Anyway, he has my
course, and quite obviously, "The here! If so easy land terms, and decent about it, and said I could have Valley, last evening. blessing. Incidentally, his style Left Nostril of the Honest Amah "
The burial service was condutted smacked of Carlyle too much.
a broader mind as regards types and it Bat, he said, don't be in a hurry. ought to be the title of a thrilling styles of homes permitted by the Let me make a few enquiries first. at the graveside by the Rev. J. T Umptyrteen members of the detective story. That, unfortunately, Building Authority, should be in He did, and reported that it was safe, Hotmaat, Chaplain of St. John's TAX. P.WĎ. staff hastened to I have no time to attempt.
cluded along with the cheap money. to go ahead. Said there was so much Cathedral. assure me that I was quite
After dinner I heard's lead on the keel that I could get my wrong lastSaturday in suspecting them
Hongkong man recite money back by breaking her up and Dr. Claud Severn, C.M.G., (Colonial AXD SCOTT. this little rhyme: selling her piecemeal. Thus en-Secretary) who had known the de-
This book was written by couraged I went to buy her. The ceased in Selangor.
Liddell and Scott,
Among these present at the grave- auctioneer was quite interested," and heard my story from beginning to side were Dr. W. B. Moore, W. M. end with every sign of it; but he of University Lodge, Mr. G.-A. Watt, That is good which was written didn't look particularly grateful when Mr. L. E. Haynes, Major Humphreys, I told him I had made up my mind |R.A.M.C., Mrr E. E. de W. Abney,
"You and several local lawyers. That which was written by to buy the vacht at once.
see," he said, there's a reserve price Wreaths were sent by Pooley and "Co., Advocates and Solicitors of
A BOOK
CLUB?
Men have been tälk- WHAT ABOUT ing to me about to issue order for his arrest. An of trying to annoy me. They say that
Hongkong's Public elderly Chinese interested in the case on the contrary they love and yenerate
Library, what a bunn rose and said; No can do, Judge. the old man who gives them something
affair it is, what it No can catcher." Judge: But we worth reading in bed on Sunday needs, ete. I regard it as useless must have him here. The Elderly mornings. So it's par, because Ito go over that ground again, but Chinese Then I tell you what, was able to assure them quite honestly an ides has come to me that has 6. 1921, a Judge. More better try Quiji board that I'm a bit of a liar myself, and relevance and perhaps practical in-
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Two men wrote a lexicon.
Liddell and Scott.
THE ASS HIS MASTER'S CRIB.
The War has not shocked them,
The chief moun was the Hon.
WHY
I asked an oil gentle-are going to fix up my trottoir, and Municipal Councillor (with only 15 » man for his views on a if ever I resume friendly relations years or so to go to be made an The book referred to is the well-on her." **And that is question of imperial po- with Lloyd George, I'm going to Alderman) I was put on the Library know Greek-English dictionary. “In Sixteen hundred dollars! I decidKuala Lumpur, and by the members litics. He answered that I, sal get them a bunch of O.E.E.6. Committee. We hit on a way of connection with the new editioned to buy a gramophone instead of "Makepeace" Lodge, No. 3074 Sunday: cewspaperman, must know more New York. about it than he. I said that this!
Feeling bene enriching the library, for which the recently published, I notice a general we can sit at home in the evenings, EC, and Belangor No. 2397 E.C. THE LEFT NOSTBIL volently dis-penny Rate did not supply sufficient resurrection of that rhyme, and the and listen to "A lie ca the rolling brer of Mr.
was not so, that on this particular Goldstein, of
posed toward funds. A few of us started a Book odd thing is the way it varies. I waves," and that sort of thing, for Aaron settled opinions, and that I found I question I was groping for some
the young and Club. The public library allowed us comt eight or nine different forms of far less money. struggling, edi. the use, rent free, of a small side it. Some of them have a rhyme; really knew little about it. He re tor of Swastika -the local literary room Members subscribed a guines to Liddell, like this: flected a while, and then admitted quarterly expected to appear within or so a year, and we bought every that he too found he knew insufficient a fortnight was trying to persuade new book of importance as it came npon which to form a judgment, a man to be a contributer, a man who, out. After all the members of the 8. 1521. at He, like me, read a few Home papers. I know, writes excellently when he Book Club had had a fair chance to He, hike me, read Beater's telegrams, likes. (The more contributors I can read everything bought with the We decided that this evidently lacked get him, the less risk do I run of being Club's money, there was a weeding e 19, 1921, pabulum; as mental food it was like asked to write myself. It is a journal process. We handed the books that dish called "trife," which has for the encouragement of amateurs, weeded out to the Public Library, for shape and size, but leaves a real and I suppose I must confess to losing the use of the public. Perhaps some in hunger unsatisfied. "And after my amateur statos a long time ago), such scheme would work here, and Jones all," mused the old gentleman, "out He said (the man I was coaxing) that the Government, in consideration of Jail.here we do not really care much about there was nothing he felt like wanting the very desirable additions to its such things. Our interest is largely to write about. I suggested, knowing library we should make, might lend focussed on the dollar and on sport." some of his interests, an essay on us a room. There is lots of space
My remark last week the unsatisfactory character of the in the City Hall. CRUELTY. that I am a supporter available."popular" books
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One was learned, and one Come tell me, my friends, and
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Which of them was Scott and
which was Liddell ?
or brought them 15. A PERSON'S SIDEFACE CALLED· to their senses. THEIR PROFILE"? Their emotions during the War have passed as childish tempers do. So
Usually, an examination of the way far from being the wiser and more in which word is made up, parti thoughtful for it, they are like babies cularly when its different parts are playing with shining nazors. They taken from the same language, will are gone away backward. Who is give us some hint of its original mean- for the lodge in a garden of cucumbers tig. But this does it appear to be that Isaiah talks of It is cf itself, trasfn the case of profile." from a great comfort to quote Isaiah, the Latin pro, in front of, and filum. tin-Vain oblations! The calling of as thread. What is the connection semblies! The solemn meeting! between a profile and a thread, we Your new incons what weight of until we examine, not etymology,
may ask, and the answer is not clear:- acorn there. It means You. Silver but the methods followed by the is become dross: princes are com-artists of other days,
the Tones Professor H. Stuart recalls a rhyme from Punch: Said Liddell to Scott, "What's the Greek for
pat?".
Said Scott unto Liddell, "I give up your riddle." Even if nothing comes He says that Dean Scott wrote
Said Scott into, Liddell "I answer your riddle
to
of the Society for Pro-geology, and some suggestions for moting Cruelty to those who are the improvement thereof,, from the
of that, we ought to Punch denying that he had given have a Book Club. If it up," in this way: Cruel to Animals has brought me point of view of a reader. He was 20 or 30 reading men subscribed some observations from a Begular only languidly interested I made (say) ten dollars apiece, we could im- Render, who asks me to put them in other suggestions. Finally, rather im- pore all the latest, have the exclusive of my own words, They are rather patiently, he burst out "I am use of them for six months or more, itish law cynical. He observes that we have not like you. I cannot write fluently and then sell 'em for the benefit of the
"immity
In two words as though 'twere
in one, Baggos Kasriderinon.
panions of thieves; did not one call him a prince? Maher shall hash baz-written with the pen of a man, truly.
Here, in a single word, we und revealed the craft of the ancient draughtsman in developing a trick of his art which is used even to this day. So weat they about some schools of drawing, in sket-- ***AS WHEN the streets of the ching the sideface of the person who TUNGEY HAN- city yesterday, the sitting for the portrait, the artist would drop a debcate plumb-line, or men of Hongkong,thread, in front of the face, touching i and looked upon the tip of the nose Against this
DREAMETH."
a bit over- had a Society for the Prevention of about anything whether I know Cub fand, from which, of course, If that is really the Greek for tin-pot, Ameri-Cruelty to animals for years, in which anything about it or not. I suppose we would be continually making it helps us to realize the cruelty of B, withoat no interest was taken, save by if you were called upon to do so, you fresh purchases. Books are so much the Greek joker who tied a haggor each other with round eyes. With straight line it was comparatively effective small few. He says that so long as would write about the the left dearer now than they used to be that kursierinon to a stray dog's tail, one accord they did remind each easy to calculate the precise angles dignity are not ban" This attempts to revive it were confined nostril of the honest amsh." explanon fa nooray for this little to socially obscure people," nothing
there is every reason for starting auch doesn't it 1 What a noise it must other of the excellency of His Ex-made by the forehead, the nose true story. A Tencouver Court re was done, but that as soon as the
And why not, cried La club. All we need is a small room have made, and how scared the poor cellency, asking: Is it not sonder and the chin; and thus make a much spired the evidence of a Chinese. Governor, and his lady seemed in
WELL, It is a charming subject. somewhere central where we could dog must have felt.
ful? Is this not a great thing that more lifelike drawing than if the eye He was nommored by titutionary terested; there was a rash of enthusi
WHAT Do you make me a present keep our books, and go to exchange
The Royal Geographical he hath done? Doth it not best alone were relied upon. It is from of it? He did.". It is thm, an address to which all the i. Mervice at start took place of astic workers. "More snobbery than
CAN YOU Society issues a list of Bannagher Then are the corners this flum, or thread. In front of the SPELL I abode. He did as ope when the sympathy is his naughty suggestion. Solo
certain he will search these · publishers would be invited to mail
*approved" spellings of their mouths turned upward, and face, that we obtain the word "profile"---á" term, which is truely columns for my views their preliminary announcements, ac
of place names. Some their eyes shine, and they dream descriptive, not of an object viewed e was called agat tawled He then tells a story of certain little thereon, so honour is at stake. The that we would know what to order, of them may surprise you. This happily of reforms yet to be, when from the side, but of one of the is name three tiJudge decided baskets which well meaning busy-subject olim no difficulty, so, great Every member would also naturally authority says you should write public service shall in truth mean oldest methods of artistry Itzelf
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