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BATURDAY, JULY 2, 1997,
Sir Hamar was a knight Of stainless chivalry, He vowed that he would fight Till be set the lady free. The ogre rod defiant,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
who
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would have heartily agreed with him,venient habit of getting matty and
Editors are all and | What has this time with the novels if I had noticed him at all. By the doubling their fists and threatening
always conceited, off of Heary James? I was coming. way, how does the Telegraph know physical violence. That makes me
COURSE. There's to that. I was going to say, if you Under the provisions of the new. that he meant that, if it didn't write sore afraid-afraid of having to kill
some microbe in the | hadn't been so smart at interrupting, Stamp Duties Ordinance bank cheques the letter? I am justified in put them. It is such a nuisance explain-job which infects them. Once, long that the Bill referred to, like the now require an extra five cent stampe ting my loyalty before my religion in ing to the police all these homicides ago, the Society for Psychological novels of Heary James, has so far associating myself with your re│And then, of course. I don't believe Research received a well suthenticated not been read by me. I read only Among the passengers marks." Those were the words: they homicide is a good argument. It report of the existence, in a far off the "objects and reasons"-and on arrived by the ss. "Shinyo Maru," cannot carry the other meaning. finishes too quickly,
land, of an editor who wasn't conceited the strength of that give it a probic Thursday, was Mr. C݄. Ariza, of
the Mexican Consular Service. Let it be further!
My friend Stella Beasor, They instructed accredited and quali muinary pat on the back. kuown," roar these STELLA asked to interview herself fied agents to investigate, and these
Bontain" nothing to Ore lot of Crown land above THEY PROTEST sucking hons of the PENSON. for what she calls a "new-found that he was dead. This one
derange the peptics Bowen Road will be let by public Telegraph, "that
laid" magazine (not the informs us that people who reprobate
Of the scholars or auction sale at the PW.D. Offices what the Telegraph Sunstika) wrote "Misa Benson is a rhyme cannot attain to it (and)
the sceptica--Only on Monday afternoon for a period say in its leaders is never bolstered in, green-looking gitl. Her favourite truth)," cbviously meaning that he up by manufactured correspondence food is shrimps. "In imitation where can rhyme, and that all his poems useful antiseptics." Thus a Shanghai of 75 years.
Mr. H H. Tayler, Manager of 50. Peter. Tix a neat rhyme. Did to the Editor. We are not afraid to of, have been trying to get one of attain the Truth as it is in Poetry. correspondent. Sice of you to ssy say editorially all that we wish."myself. "Mr. Adversarius is a tubby, Unfortunately. I can find only one Ta-tit! It is news to me that the rusty-looking man. shaped like a poem in the Sicarita with this editor's it come out of your own head, or did the China Provident, Lean and returned by the "Shinyo Maru” from Telegraph leaders ever do say any dumb-bell. His favourite food is initials, and it is difficult to deny that you snaffle it? If the former, send Mortgage Co., Ltd. and Mrs. Tayler thing. I've not noticed it myself. onions." It jen't easy. Stella is has the truth because it is so blamed me some more. If the latter, kindly holiday trip to Shanghal Passing that, however, the gentleman | great artist when vignetting.
trite. Rhyme and rhythm do not state the literary pantry you have
been raiding. who states that the Telegraph rever
But, by the Solemn help us here. particularly, to realize
R. L in the Nation haa published any ** manufactured cor TALKING OF Sanctity of the that apple blossom petals must fall
HAMAR before the cider can come; but in
a brutal verse about Sir respondence" is, shall I say, mis-
Seventeenth Cere-
Greenwood's taken. His mistake is in supposing
stanza he does undoubtedly
IN ERIS. Hambr mony of Saint Saper-
bratal ways in Ireland. that I don't know anything about the lipopette, if I am conceited, what are present a clear case of the truth of inner working of the Telegraph office. some others? I have just been what be denounced as a dangerous It runs Letters that it prefers to call manu- reading that fascicle of conceited statement," namely, that trutà factured," and that I, in my low, conceits, the Sendika. Hongkong's is risked in the tangle of technique."" vulgar way call faked," have ap first literary quarterly, published to- The whole point of his poem is that peared in the Telegraph, and if I know day, and I declare it to have been life is just one damned thing after anything of the game, will do so again. produced, on the face of it, by men another-that nothing lasts, whether There are times when they are desir more conceited than I. What could flowers, or poems, or cities. And he • Sir Hamar changed his note:
Capt. Y. Marki, who brought the 5.9. able and necessary, to start things, be more conceited than the conceit
He couldn't slay the gisat.
Shinyo Marn," dawn from America, lett the vessel at Yakobama like a china egg in a hen's nesting box. of the conceited ass who presents
So he cat the lady's throst.
where be was succeeded in command Londya papers do it. Does' cur the imitation of Whitman. at the same
A simple reform, a very of the vessel by Capt. H. Nagano, the parochial organ think itself superior time arguing that Whitman wa' &
AUCTION nevesas:y reform, an forroer commander of the Siberia great poet? In the argument be Ltd. to the raetrapolitan Press?
obvious reform, in Auc- Maru." What is this buz cowers behind the initials T... but
REFORM. tion Bridge bidding, a his name appears in full, as Tom zing round me.
reform that the expert Itself shall grow old and decay. anyway? At | Wright, in the poem. Observe!! first when I was This egregious ass Wright first praises Enduring foz aye" would not have writers on Bridge ignore, is suggested the back alleged to have been received to me as a result of studying the in the course of a fight with another reading the Telegraph's note I thought a dead foes, and then presents a occurred in the context if he hadn't deserve to be. I have lots of vulaer-1 in imitatios of the poet (which he decay. After all, he is less offensively instead of bidding "four clubs" Ispital in a critical condition. His I was going to be bitten or stung as I poem of his own, not only avowedly needed it to rhyme with display and psychology of some local callers man on Thursday, a Chinese is now able places. Yet this is the best the itself were gros presumption; but conceited than the others, because gest they should be made to say alleged assailant has absonded
ten clubs." In contracting a tour Telegraph could manage. This con- actually offered as spoken by the he doesn't call it a poem; he presents hid, they.. undertake to take tea Arrivals in the Colony, by the spirit of Whitman: That must be it as a metrical version of another risk, but do not seem to realize it as "Golden State," include Mr. and clading bit-
the record in sell conceit, though man's prosy thought which fits it as they should. The new way of Mrs. C. H. Rowell and family, of some of the other contributers are like a tight boot.
calling.Seven no trumps" where California; Mr. and Mrs E. R. Mor- Darkness, and the these as I proceed to intervene in fairly rank examples. I will mention
they now call "oce," and "eleven an, of Manila: Mr. C. Rodreguez, NIGHT IN silence underlining diamonds where they now say five, member of the Philippice Senate, and their argement about the definition WANCHAI. noises of night,syncopat might help them so awareness of what Mrs. Redregues, and Mr. R. C. of poetry, which argument is the
ed, unlike the clamorous
general agent of the industrial fugue of day. The swish when playing with some people,
they are doing. I insist upon it Morton,
and
Co at Manila, whe is proceeding to the US. on furlough. it does check over-calling. Nothing, For instance. Keith hawker. The swish of rain. Always of course, could care some others of West declares that rain. The clack-clack of wooden that, except toul abstention. They matshed at Mongkok was walking NOT HARD. poetry rauzt be me- clogs. The lote whine of a Porta should give up Bridge, and learn to on Shanghai Street, Yaumati, about
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so much perish.
When Adversarius " gives himself a pat on the back on Saturday for something he wrote during the week in the form of a thing Mail leader he ought to give his public a little more credit if he opening article of their magazine of rain. The recitative of a belated i
thinks that the transparent trick works. A dual per- sonality, when used as + cloak to bestow compliments!
(out to-day, price one dollar).
METRE
trical, and conceitedly guere lad languidly proclaiming his
BRIDGE
on oneself, savours a little informs us that "to write in metre is habit of blowing bubbles. The much play on a harmonium. over much of conceit, more not hard if you have song in your more musical barking of a tied-up
a pouring
especially if one is, at the same time, trying to dis-art. I call that conceited. not dog. The swishing of rain. The Fredit other people.
only because it belittles all the poets starless inspissation of who rest their claim to glory on doing night. And once in a while, to say They should drop in some Saturday: the thing not hard, but because that Wanchai is not all the world, the and let me show 'em how to bite. this mar Keith West submits in this far fsint hooting of a steamer. That's not the way. When they very magazine no less than seven or speak of my "transparent tricks they take the barb off, because tricks eight metrical contributions to show that are transparent are not dishonest, (a) that it isn't hard, and (b) that he
'savours."
have said it in this way
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ventment that fel-
SERVANTS.
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ne of the Labour Mongicok, when taking a short cut members has intro-across an isolated piece of waste duced in the House ground, he was accosted by two men. The strangers attacked him, and of Commons a small Bill making it a throwing him to the ground, relieved legal obligation upon employers to him of a silver watch valued at $2. give domestic servants a I doubt if it will do any good, as it works both ways. Out here we want something-not necesarily a Bill-to make employers fairer to servants. I am thinking of an amah who has but merely humorous. My uncloakeds song in his heart. Ile ought to a circle of industrial surf."
see a heart specialist, and have the
Have you ever been a year and a half in the employ- habit of complimenting myself
song cut cut, if it works as it seems lo. to them, of conceit. For instance, after saying on page?
perienced the yearn.!
Water polo has been added to the ment of a Europear family. Recent- Good Lord! In their place I would that the poetic conventions to which
ing for a giraffe, and
ly they did a great deal of packing, Royal Hongkong Yacht Club's list of felt the aching resold a lot of their furniture, slept on sporting activities. Since the pro- the past has bored should be respect-
forward by the This mean, censorious, profes-ed and that all rera fibre in particular lows the world's refusal to gratify
a shakedown on the verandah, and posal was put
committee 2 week
От two- sionally jealous Adversarius is a
ate their meals off a packing case.
members something other than poetry," your desire? Life is not sweet then, Arab, not being a fool, concluded the matter up enthusiastically and
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taken detected frand, who ought to be he jeers on page 24 at the rhyme not joyous, not the glad song is that they must be on the point of already enough artepective players detained. The admiration or Battery Tacked octette-sestette stunt
of should be. For after all, who has of a few fools in his obscure social filton. Moreover, he quite fails to more right to own a giraffe than not troubled to tell her so, locked out possible the formation of two or going away, and although they had have banded in their names to make circle has bred in him an arrogance see how he gives his position away by have, you who are so fond of con- for another job. She found one, and three teams. Keen interest was which is as unpleasant to observe as it must be injurious to himself. His asking us to "fancy Richard III in diments, and were never really un-
informed her mistress that she had taken in the first practice on vers libre. That work of Shakspere kind to a spocaful of marmalade in done so, and would start in it on the Thursday afternoon when a self-conceit is colossal. To read his is no "rhyme-racked stunt." It is all the years you have lived? What first of the new menta. The mistress, match between two scratch teams. weekly spate of egotistic logorrhoea bank reise, in which, as his opponents is the use of a giraffeless existence, is painful. He suggests and sometimes thought I was making a frontal at blatantly proclaims that he is the argue, the truths of poetry are safer what the satisfaction of having 1400 she says was very angry! It ilust provided a warmly contested game. rates the meek ways of our local It is hoped that further practices tack. I suppose if they saw me bit-enly possessor of brains in the Colony rhyme. Blank verse, like vers libre, have no giraffe to share them with servante, that this one should go to afternoons in each week and members- than in the intricacies of metre and safety razor blades on deposit, if you
may be arranged on two or three they would no one knows anything but be; he is does not need the "polishing" that you
her new employer, and say: "I who care to take part are invited to SWASTIKA-This morning, in the
China Mail Publishing Depart accuse me of trying to poison his always and necessarily right, and the conventional verses seem to get. the poets tell us, when unto every longer, but she say I no can come committee. There will be a practice There were, halcyon day think my mistress no want me much hand in their names to the swimming Honest coffee. Believing them. that they others always wrong. What are the It is less liable to what he calls child a giraffe was given as of right, number-one day. Suppose she pay game on Monday at 5.45 p.m. Parents, the Swastika, Hong did not fake that particular letter. I facts? He is more interesting tong's First Literary Quarterly, would now offer my unqualified apology pathologically than literarily. Al "Twaddle." Apropos, regard his aye, and an album in which to dry it me my full wage, maakee, I come as Fator E. W. H, and child both for a rash misstatement, only that fenists would undoubtedly recognize liquid through the frozen trees." nicely then, its mornings made cheer half, I must stop." Evidently some verse on page 27, Moonlight falls and to press it; and the world went I promise but if she pay me only
WHY they do not appreciate my surprise, in him the sure symptoms of egomania, Moonlight is something more fluid fui with the barble of long-necked Bill or other here may be necessary and that they back up the unprincip!- or megalomania. His frequent than liquid, and to any one who has music, its evenings full of the content to teach inconsiderate Europeans DOES "OK." MEAN "ALL RIGHT?" ed writer of the letter. If they bloomers" or blunders show that known moonlight, Keith West's line of giraffish cravings sated. But now? say, "it surprizes Adversarius to know he is not so highly educated as he is not a picture, not an interpretation, Well, if you happen to be more in that all money earned should be paid, HUTCHINSON-PENNEY. On June there are Catholics who are sufficient pretends to be. Careful study of his not even a definition. It would be terested in giraties than in literature, reasonable notice. Ever hear of a lacomic method of writing "correct"
and that servants should be given) While this abbreviation, 19 a 25, 1921, at Shanghai, by the loyal to criticise one of their faith writings shows that his interests are Rev. Fr. C. Baumert, SJ, who is disloyal, then we must leave comparatively narrow and his range just as true and poetic to say that do not trouble to buy a copy of to Christian European asking the police is undoubtedly traceable to the Indian
Water falls moonlight from the day's Suastika, for which by a re- Thomas Henry, son of William him to recover in his own good time." limited. He repeatedly contradicts bathroom tap." He is supposed to [markable coincidence both Brewer to lock up his boy because he said he okch", a number of extremely in- and Elizabeth Hutchinson, to That, if these young gentlemen will himself-accther symptom-he is be evoking the image of night in and Kelly & Walsh's are asking No! Well, I have.
must attend the funeral of his father teresting legends have gathered around it, dating all the way from allow me to remind them, is not what crudely sentimental, often hysterical Hongkong, mind you. In addition actly the same amount, namely, one
the early Calorial times, to the days. the surprising letter said. It said and his attempts at logical argu- to half frozen chunks of mocnlight dollar. Yet I warn you, as one
of Andrew Jackson. (inter alia): "As one of the great ment are invariably absurd. A majority of patriotic Catholics in the severely plain diet, with six months
having full experience, that if you he catalogues branches EMBERLEY-On June 28, 1921, at Colony, I think I am justified in put-bard labour, might possibly save him
where, in high-pitched don't your giraffe will cost you more.
rum and tobacco were formerly in- 126, Siara Road, Shanghai, Wilting my loyalty before my religion". from himself, and others from the
Mine did, and fused the moment I keys,
ported from Aux Cayms, in San liam Henry Emberley (late of
I could not believe that any infliction of his ravings:
turned the handle, and its backic came
Domingo, and that the casks 'con- Mackenzie & Co.) dearly loved real. Catholic would any that. nothing else is likely to be of any use.
Cicada-wings clash choruses right of. But the Swastika (being husband of Clara Emberley, aged could believe that any journalist It is hopeless to argue with such a Choruses must attend something: it different. [Advt.]
taining these products were always- edited by Mr. E. W. Hamilton) is
marked with the name of the town would fake a letter. We've all done twisted mentality, such an arrogant is the nature of a chorus. Why
by the letters "o" and "k". Others which was later phonetically rendered it when it seemed necessary.] So idiot, such an enormous self-conceit mention it? So
Winston Churchill, to rhyme with now I believe that the Telegraph as Adversarius betrays."
drops of moonlight that hung pendent.
SECTIONAL that great statesman members of the H. B. Waring Com- maintain that the abbreviation came fellows were honest (on this occasion) Now if they had said something Same again. All that hangs is pen-
GOVERNMENT. Whom I admire so pany were able to establish when they into vogue during the presidential. and that "Loyal Catholic
campaign of 1828, when Andrew Jack- much, was speaking visited Hongkong earlier in the son was alleged to have marked a was not, plain sad simple and direct like that, dent, and all that is pendent most in the sense that he was not and could it would have been same job for me hang. It is a temptation to wish recently. He said: "Let me say year should ensure a crowded "house" number of letters not be a good Catholic while having to come back at 'em, wouldn't it? Keith West were pendent. Perhaps this speak for everyone the com- that opinion. I even add that his Why didn't they? They think it, a naturalist would tell us that cicadas mumity is greater than any section-it when they reappear at the Theatre Impression that these were the "loyalty" could not be worth mach. every bit of it, and they boast they are do not make their chordaes by clashing cannot be ruled by any section." Royal to-night. "Trilby" has been While Old Hickory was far from A man who would sell his God for not afraid to my editorially all their wings, but by tabbing their He was berating the miners, of course; selected for the opening performance being a learned man, it is doubtful if thirty pieces of silver would sell his that they think. Libellous ? Tush 1 anterior legs together, or even with but let me say this-I speak for and theatre goers will look forward he would have been guilty of this king and country for less. I have my 1, hereby give notice that Adver the thoracic mandibles, as a blow-fy great many more than a been rated with keen anticipation to seeing Mr. day several legal papers on which error O particularly as there exist to- religion, and I have my patriotism; saring" does not believe in libel buzzes.
tion-it England had not and I address my country somewhat actions. Anybody can say anything
Quartermaine's Svengali the letters "OR", meaning "order" Keith West's by action, Winston Churchill Charles as the lover did his lady—
they like about me. If they charge
conceit runs would not have been an eminent and Miss Jeanette Sherwin's appear recorded," may be seen in his hand- writing. The burried manner-in- ance in the title role. Wherever which some of the letters He Wright's closely. Another form of
The Government they have been during their tour appended, makes some of the "'"
·Bill to protect tens- ment tenants from in China the success they won here look like "k's," which probably gave
tise to the tradition.connecting him ;) HENRY JAMES. Capacious landlords Inst May has been repeated Shang with "Oll Korrect."
looks all right to hai received them enthusiastically
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The China Mail.
"EUTE, JUSTH, ́ ́ PUBLIC SERVICE"
HOJGLIMO, SATVEDAY, JULY 2, 1917.
ADVERSARIA.
They say "insinuated" OF TEX “TELEGRAPH" something. In
Monday's Tele grpl they say
THE YOUNG LJOKE
AND I.
bat
I could not love thee, dear,me" with some fool crime, I try
so well
either to prove that it im't a crime at
attendant.
ARISTOTELIAN
CONCEIT.
1
statesman
THE NOVELS
OF
There are some who claim that it
H. B, WARING COMPANY. originated in the fact that the best
"TRILBY” TO NIGHT..
The high reputation that the
If a plain assertion like I feel
Loved I not honour more.. all, or that everybody't doing it. And, conceit is that of the contributor sure it was a fake" be an insinuation, God wants no man's leavings, and the of course, I might bring 'counter ac posing as a strict logician, insisting on I must plead guilty. That's what I King cannot valne the loyalty of any cusations. But as for me, hard definitions. He claims that the name. „mad, and what I thought at the time, man who-is-zoo-loyal frst of all to his words break no bones. want of poetry belongs exclusively to the
Though I am inclined by the camest religion. Hemember that I was at people to be more tolerant of men hythmic arrangement of windsly radical messure, or Utopian, or Tientsin were both to let them-go, me. Nobody could call it an extreme-with packed houses and Peking and one of their demal" to accept their tacking the letter, in haste, because words, and it is up to me to set an with “the quality of repetition word for it that the letter did some of what it said, and not of what it may examples. Honestly, of course, as an essential. In that case all Bolshevistic, or anything like that. Hongkong'i welcome it is sale to say, from a member of the public. An have meant to say. If the writer desire this tolerance largely for my rhythmic zhymes whatever are Poel
However, prepared in a hurry, and will not not he found lacking in jammustion a flank stack, or a meant merely that a man could be 's own sake! Unlike the Telegraph, I including "Bas bas, black sheep, presented in a week that includes two warmth.
surprise in the rear, and when I said good Catholic and yet disapprove om afraid to write editorially all that which has “the quanty o imply that I felt sure it was a "fake" openly of Mannix, and had saxi so, I|I think. People have such an incon: Is the Book of Job poetry
a.k.", under the:
Initials of "all correct"-"oll korrect."
The Democratic party, however,
tanners during the election, and the took up the lettera sa a slogan, using the letters O.K.” on its caropalgu abbreviation was brought into pare minence again when nearly a century later, President Wilson, endorsed the
half holidays, discussion of it here, During this afternoon booking will majority of his correspondence with as in Comcil can afford to wait. be at the Hongkong Hotel.
the proper Indian term “okeh #