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Such a life, apart from up to date, should not how have an the charm of it to certain "iron beart." The music is written temperaments, has the in F sharp, but some people will be
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Severn are
the sand, on which we cook the still went down to the water and swam call Sure Leg "is pure devil, shoving kicking fish that the fisher folk bring out along the moon path. Then I her nose into the butter dish. rannies I like the job of bringing my boat to thought of diving so as to see how the off with the beefsteak, going in swim- archor opposite my busy looking moon leaks to the fishes. I locked ming and then emwling into the merit of cheapness. I do not think sure to sing it B'fat. carap, and making it all snug, and at it through a few feet of water, and middle of my blankets to dry herself. it cost me a pound a week in England then sitting down with a pipe at the it was dancing from side to side in the | Besides which she is musical at night that summer, but I wore out seven tent door to watch the sky darken, craziest way. When. I came to the time. She gets her name because pair of cheap shoes in five months. and to hear the cicadas open their top again, it was walking serenely she is an actress, and every time she in any case, for such a way of life pocturnal chorus, and to study the through its garten af vapours. I tried is reprimanded lifts a forepaw and some figures just published in the wisther signs. For several days and again, and again it was doing the limps as if lame. When she thinks Chamber of Commerce Journal have | | rights it was so fine that a tent seemed shimmy dance. drunkenly, a dis- she is unobserved, she digs holes in no terrors. The cost of living in to be congratulated on the birth of a quite unnecessary, and I caught my orderly will o' the wisp. It must the ground. frantically using both Hongkong is given by these Chambers02.
Mr. Eric Rice has been appointed Feli grumbling: What's the use of worry the fishes (those of them that legs. As for dogs not being injured of Commerce researchers as "prac-
private Becretary 10 HE the tent if it doesn't main!" Then. stay awake) quite a lot. When or vexed. Mason evidently nevertically a repetition of the Shanghai of course, the rain came, and my silly came out. I stood myself on a smooth knew a dog like Esau, who will howlgures," but I think most people Governor. question was changed to "What's stone of size to dry in the balny when merely bored. and sulk for a know that Shanghai is on the whole the use of a tent when it does!" breeze. thus managing to look silly week if harshly addressed. That a dearer place to live in. But what --
The death took place at Bangkok on August 11 of Mr. Misao, Japanese · But a little wetness doesn't matter again. had there been any to look. bit about being trod on by accident do you think of these figures, anyway!
Sore leg." In Hongkong. they say, it costs a Minister to Siam, when your sleeping costume is a do not think a nude human figure, the is the falsest of the lot. bathing dress.
periphery of which seems to have been when stepped on. swiftly sinks her young hachelor $283 a month if he' The non was gib-centrifugally affected. could look teeth into the offending foot. There's inesses with two others (in a rented
a lot of capboard love" about mes) $308 if he lives in a bourdingivae of one lot of Crown land at MOONSTRUCK, bous when I pitch-classical. Anyway, there was none
some dogs, as in some humans, and house, and Sifis if he lives in a hotel. Shamshiupo to be let by public ed camp, and soon to look. And it was a joss night for
auction at the PW.D. Ofices on came to the full, and one night I slept me as well as for the Chinese fisher-it is stupid to ignore it. Unless Details:-
MESS, H.H. HOTEL Monday afternoon. outside the tent, reckless of the sailors folk. Parting was soch sweet sorrow. carefully trained. their loyal superstition that to sleep in the that I could have worshipped there, affection" is apt to spread itself Sore leg" full radiance of that heavenly body till the moon went and the dawn came.among too many people.
so far has shown most affection to- is to invite insanity. Because, you But as, on the best authority, te see, it is nut by very many occasions everything there is a season: a tine ward a camp pilferer who came over the first time I've done it, and I think to weep and a time to laugh a time to from the village. I must have been moonstruck many mourn and a time to dance: a time years ago, if there is anything in it. to cast away stones and a time to Sonlight that has to travel all the way gather stones together; a time to to the moon, and then corne back to embrace, and a time to refrain from
crabracing, so this time to worship
me. (dreaming happily where the wind sighs tenor among the lantana and because there would come the time
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Among the passengers arriving; by the 3.5. Fushimi Mar жел Commander F. Fyne and F. Rogers and Lient. T. D. Westfall. of the United States Navy,
A quantity of household furniture will be sold at auction by Messrs. Lammert Bros, on Monday aftertoon.
A cottage piano and a typwriter will also be put up for auction.
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending August 6, 1921, amounted to $4,963 tons and the sale during the period, to 91,326 tons.
count The King has approved the
the sage growls & bass accompani- to work. mus: vield to the fine to small tent there is room enough ment. how can it hurt me? If at sleep. Not all these times are re-to fall out. In this one. lent by Ltd. all, it hurts tap by encouraging and sister
Parle Higby, to whose kindness
In the first place, where could estiming my impractical dream, ta moods, the horologe of whims. The am indebted for some of the healthiest get away as often as possible, and time of needs must sounds its own and pleasantest days I've spent here, to keep away as long as possible, our alarus. So, being more or less dry, I have had a companion who has three men get a mess for $45 a month. **roughed it without grumbling. Fifty is too much for food, though of range of the fussing and fretting of tiptoed hack to the tent so as not to selected him because he is a man of in a mess they are often extravagant politically minded men. But that awaken ny companions, and was is a hurt I hug, as also the hurtful very nearly nipped by the watch dog beautiful silences. He makes a re- Club chits and wires ete, should be impulses to poetry and art that its remarks to the dog and to the mark when necessary, but is not a lumped together. None
This beach kettle on which I stepped when 1 Chatterbox. He is a willing worker. I bachelors may spend $40 a month | appointment of the Hon. Mr. H. W. sende along its cool rays. of mine (which the Government jumped out of his range) awoke and I loathe work. In his quiet.on these: sonic spend more. some Bird as an unofficial member of ought to present to me, hozoris John Willie, whose chattering awoke rhapsodical way, he too is a wor-les. Clothes $300 a year is probably the Legislative Council during the the rest, who demanded what I was shipper of Nature in her own has near the mark for the young swells, absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. causa) is Shelley's
and I have even caught him quoting but they could manage on less, with EV.D. Par. silent wilderness up to. I said I had been taking a
What is the insurance I had to have a cow. I am a very carcle mess. Where the soul need not repres fish-eye view of the moon, and they pocas. Yet even with Phil Lamble care. I manage on much less, with Its music lest it should not rud said Shut up and go to sleep. You difficult man in get on with. He for? Do inany young bachelors at the local clearing office against An echo in another's mind. Filly ass. So even here 1 do not
been provisionally extended to How foolish to ear quite escape public opinion, as is one of these trained, scientific spend $25 every month on insurance? debtors of German nationally has smoky food when one boasted in an earlier paragram. Sanitary experts. and his insistence If so, the insurance companies must September 30,-after which no further FOOLISHNESS, could have meals pro- mast go and be a Crusoe soniewhere.on tidyness in the camp irked and be doing better than I thought. claims will be accepted.
finally annoyed me. We turned in Then here are the C. of C. figures for
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Now how is a married couple, with
perly dished up in a Perhaps I will apply for that new scientific kitchen. How silly to share island that the Wants Reclamation after a wrangic over some publishers a young married couple: iaits preparation, in such tedious tasks! has just caused to arise from out the catalogues I had scattered about, and which, in my opinion, were doing aswashing up. when there are azure main.
Met a small green snake, no harm to anybody. He was asleep! cheap servants prepared to do all that.
minutes. Apparently the How foolish to sleep on a layer of SNAKES. barely a foot long, and of ferns spread on the ground, with a
the thickness of a lead keeters and sandfleas don't care for him as they do for me. I suffered prickly blanket over all, when a good penel. It was a very bright green. in silence for an hour or so, and then
only bed is available. (The simple life yellowing underneath. The is really a more complicated business other snakes I have seen here so far I woke him up. You are supposed lighting than those who only theorise about arethe big rock pythons. Can anyone it suppose it to be.) How foolish tell me if the little green ones are play childish gantes on the beach. poisonous! This one was so pretty chucking stones about, and so on. that I wanted to take it into cap. when one might be all dressed up and and domesticate it, but in the absence haranguing fellow citizens about their of knowledge I dkin't care to pick it dury to the empire. To be sober. up. I didn't want to hurt it, so there and yet carry on as if one were tipsy, was an impasse. It was going south Well, let me whisper to you a secret, and I north. We may never meet that may be useful to you. it is not again, but I'd like to know. in vase. so much the being silly, as the dread of appearing silly, that interferos with most people's happiness. There is a sort of self-consciousness that prevents people from being natural and happy. What will people think?do not know what the hermit crabs on my beach think of my carryings-on, and I do not care It is the not caring that permits me of the girls isn't exactly slavery "it is to be so very childishly happy in my childish ways. It seems to certainly not full citizenship." He own SEVERN-On August 19, 1921, at seems to be mixing up one agitation me that some Hongkong bathing Tanderagee 132, The Peak, twith another, and bringing Constitu- parties are formed on a mutual con- Mr. and Mrs. Claud Severn, ational Reform and Female Suffrage tract to waive dignity, banish self- into it. Quite right too. When Le consciousness, and to give joy free HOOPER-On August 12, 1921, gets full citizenship" for everybody riu. I omit the contruct as unneces Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs G in Hongkong, Ill give a beer and sary, and allow joy to be unconfined Hooper, a daughter.
send the money I so save to the fund by study of appearances. SIMOES-On August 12, 1921. xt
for the Bishop's new pastoral ring and Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs Alb.
thingamajig. But the Constitutional P. Sinces, a daughter. LONGHURST On July 31, 1521. at Reform Association does not really
Siden, Kent, England, Mr. want lady voters.
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For particulars apply to
BIRTHS.
E. MOW FUNG,
F. W. D. Automotive Service Department, 60, Des Vaux Road Central.
and Mrs. J. Hervey Long' ursi, a daughter. MUGLET-On August 12, 121, at Kaling, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Muzuet, a daughter.
ANDERSON-On August 13, 1921,
at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Anderson, 73 Hasheli Road,
son.
DEATES.
Cable Compar.
Kuling, Miss Esther H Butler
for 31 years missionary (Friends) in Nanking.
BANG
PUSTERITY.
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NOTHING
DOING.
My public is interested most this week in the Irish situation. I have a re-
quest to say something about it." What's the use! I know no more than you do. The only original idea I have on the sub- ject is that if ever the Irish wake up and learn that they have no grievance, then that will be the biggest grievance they have ever had.
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The time limit for tiling claims
The following passengers left by the s. "Dunera" this morning Lt. G. A. Wosley, Mr. H. Nielson, Mr. and Mrs. Dias, Mr. I. Alasakina, Mr. I. R. Longson. Mr. Broadwith, Mr. Staw and Mr. M. A. H. Atkins.
A telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the effect that an order of the King in Council was issued an August 10 fixing July 26, 1921, as the date of the termination of war with Hungary,
At midnight on August 31, the present" war will end, according to an order of the King in Council A former order fixed September 1 as the official termination of the war. The new order does not apply to British relations with the Oroman Empire.
red drowsily something to the effect that in his official opinion a wet towel night probably be found to be efficacious. I suppose he thought he was writing a minute to the M.O.HI. or something of that sort. $400 a month. going to manage?
Only a few weeks ago Shanghai These figures must be rather wild If you are not afraid
guesses by 2 well-to-do man who was congratulating Mr. J. D. Gaines of a spell of rough really knows very little about it. on his departure after many years eating, rough cooking. Some of the figures are too low, but service to a well-deserved holiday and rough sleeping: if you most are too high. The food of a rest in-the-homeland: last week the don't mind a bit of walking, and married couple should not cost $120. sad news reached Shanghai of his early rising, go you and do likewise Amusements. for those living in the sudden death, casting a deep gloom next hot weather. if you like sea average boarding house, would cost over a wide circle of friends. bathing and fresh air and Nature ten times the figure given, and even
GO AND D LIKEWISE,
A writer in the Daily and freedon. The last time I tented then they wouldn't be amused. The Mr. Oxberry, proprietor of the Mail asks What is. the it was in England, but that was a tent lady's clothes would cost far more. Palace Hotel, is promoting a cham team tournament and WEATHER ideal
weather and bed of my own invention, which Perhaps some married man with pionship LANCHES. lunch ?" and answers towed around on a pair of riesha $100 or $500 a month will tell us requests names of any team wishing The teams will be com herself that "there isn't wheels. I landed at Weymouth with how he does it, and correct these to enter.
nised club, ship, mess, army, or navy. "I heard a rather good story the The prizes will be six gold medals - Of course no one wants to circumstances is two thin slices of wherever sundown caught me. My other night, which might be suitable for the winners and six silver medals be silly all the time. It bread and butter, with slices of fresh-only companion then was a yellow for your column, writes a reader: for the runners up is a mood. It is really ly cut raw onion sandwiched between.cat, which I brought out of Normandy. During an election petition arising a healthy rent to be silly mere fragment of ripe cheese, and a and called the Duchess, out of come out of the 1918 elections an allegation
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one. She's wrong. However but it in the Spring of 1914, and walked Egures for the Chamber of Commerce. posed of six players from any recog- it is, one wants, by habit, a snack of 800 miles with it. camping on the "Dear Adversarius, some sort. My own ideal in such green strip beside the highway
The report that a dog suspected
"Hang posterity.
at times. A little non-cold beer. That allays the craving.pliment to the lady reputed to be was made that a number of rosettes of being infected with rabies had What bas pasterity done sense now and then. The thwarting without causing fullness, and ny chiefly responsible for the Bayeux or marks of distinction had been bitten a Chinese boy and had been for us?" The old joke of any impulse whatever has results doctor friend tells me it is quite whole-tapestry. Bath was too big to cir kept in a table drawer in the Central sent to the Colonial Veterinary Sure ruises a chuckle, and is that are catalogued by the psychosome. The Daily Mail writer talks cumvent, so I trudged right through. Committee Rooms.
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Osaka Shesen Kaisha, "Shoshu My old friend Maru" (1,531 tons), while on her way to Hobe from Java, whence she "Eaanip," the poet sailed on July 9. was caught in a has sent me a sheet typhoon on August 11 of the Loo of music, a song, choo Islands and wrecked there. Up for which he has to the present, only one man bas-
geon was cfficially corrected at the Central Police Station this morning. felt to be one of those true things said analyst cranks. Sinful or unlawful of salads, but that's no use in Hong-with my equipment trailing behind To meet the charge it was thonght The dog did tite the boy but in jest. There is also the saying, impulses, of course, must be; but it is kong. The paly Chinese servant here (the saucepan regrettably conspicuous] desirable to call the evidence of it was not actually suspected of being
Apres nous le deluge," to show that neither of these things to "look silly." who ever knew what a salad should be and the Duchess perched on my several witnesses to swear that the infected with rabies the feeling, or a kindred feeling, has Presently, when you have let the died in 1905, and has no successor. shoulder, mewing and spitting at only table in the room consisted of the CV.S. merely as the usual pre foreign safety value alone, and have yielded I haven't seen a salad in Hongkong the unfamiliar crowds. I felt rather planks laid on trestles. "So the caution taken when a dog has bitten CLEMENTS—On August 13. 1921, arisen spontaneously in
az Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E breast. I read recently a claim dead to the impulse to "bay the moon," since, though occasional messes have like Eoyalty as a big policeman table had no proper legs "said Counsel a persoD.
against that. The writer said "What your soul, careening like a yacht in been put before me under that name.stopped the traffic at the cross roads cheerfully. W. Clements, a son.
each of us cares most for is the fate of squall, will right itself, and other There used to be a cheerful book by for us, but he spoiled it by whispering "Never mind whether it had An Eastern News Agency tele- mankind." Is that true in your case? moods will follow, in which you may Harry Quilter, entitled "What's hoarsely, behind a cotton-gloved band, proper legs or not said one of the gram reports as follows: Tokyo, Or just humbug? I have examined appear as dignified as your most What," which had a very sound essay"I see you've got Ginger with ye, learned judges "the more important August 13. The cargo boat of the
Guvnor." We went to Stonehenge question is, had it drawers?" GAINES-On August 11. 1921, Johny own internal works, and find that censorious neighbours, are supposed on salad making."
Dickson Gaines, le Shanghai I am more in agreement with Desmond to re,uire. The mood of the adora-
Jerome Kderame long for the Midsummer Day sun-worship
ESANIP" Manager of Cominertal Pacific MacCarthy, who says "it is far casiertion of beauty, the mood of long, long THE DOG, Ago did it far better, bat by some long-haired cranks, and to A. E. Benson in a re-the New Forest for the annual meet to become reconciled to the death of thinking, the mood even for intellectu- BUTLER On August 8. 1921, at the race some millions of years hence," al vacancy, these with the others cent book has felt obliged to praise of the Caravan Club, and after that
than to our own more surely earlier make the life, and not the eclectic the ding again. He describes him as wandered finish as individuala.
balance of the actor who never permite" the one member of the household Surrey, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, written the words. The music is defied ashore; the rest, forty-five in I am living in a tent now, himself to appear save in the pose of who was nevessick or sorry, who was Lincolnshire, etc., up to the Broads, so easy and "suent" that I could number, including Captain Kondo, REAL like a patriarch. I moved repose. All of which meditation, always ready for play or for compan- and zound the Norfolk coast from play it myself, if someone would are missing. In consequence, some LIFE in last week, with all my done on those surf-washed rocks, inionship, never résented anything, Kings Lynn to Yarmouth. I was send me a piano. It is by E. 8. 8. lifeboats have been despatched from
family, including the last new bright moonshine, may seem merely only claimed love; who, if he was encamped in Epping Forest when Huntington. The title "But Naba, on the islands. terrier pup andJohn Willie the monkey. silly you. Well, even that I shall punished, bever thought anything the war broke out, and busted up why?' * (RUTA, JUSTICE,
The teat is pitched in a little bay just not mind
but forgiveness never lost patience my nomer life. After I had been above high water, and cone of the
Wednesday night was was never injured or vezed; if one arrested the fourth or fifth time as Songkong;. SaturdaY, AUGUST 20, 1921-bathing launches come to bother us A NEW VIEW a special joss night trod on him by accident was aurea Gezian spy, I decided to lead a because the beach is stony, and the OF THE MOON. for the Chinese. It that one did it for the best and came more sommingly respec able existence. stones covered with shells that cut
is, apparently, on this to be pardoned; who saw one depart I have lived out-of-doors sine then, the feet. Bo these marine creatures night that graveyards yawn, and with sorrow and welcomed one back but not in tents In Australia it are the guardians of my privacy, spirita retin to see how the living with overwhelming joy." I like dogs was in "hampies, in the Islands I am told that several This has nothing to do with the house me, getting on Torches and are myself, and understand 'em. Did it was under a tree as often
not, TALK IN of the Chinese te shortage. Nor is it due particularly crackers were used by my bahing A. EL Mason ever take a young dog in Florida it was in a negro cabin. papers tmailated last to the hot spell. I do it because I like thienda: Their noses, and the moe into summer camp with him? Let A sleeping bag, with a little mosquito- wock's advenezia, and it. I like to wake early and watch quitoes and sand flees, to say nothing him try it, and see how his admiration net gadget to cover the face, is really inflated the stuff on their readers. I the dawn come, and the Pacific Ocean of the beauty of the night, forbade is tempered with justice. George," all a man needs in warn countries, #se that one of Padre Maconachie's makes such a convenient bathroom sleep. I smoked fitdously in the the old dog, save that he has to be if he scratch a hollow in the sand for reasons for preaching against the mui I like the smell of the smoke of the opening of the tent. About half past constantly restrained from monkey his hip, and use his rucksack de his fasi custom is that though the states driftwood fire in its narrow trench in three, my ocupanions all asleep, k cide, is a dog angel, but the one we cost as his pilot
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But why should I worry If you cannot love me? I will only be sorry, And sighing and yearning, The day when you love me The day when you love me. For you my heart years, For you alone it dies. Yet you will not believe me, Till your on Beart leans. Over my heart that sigh Õpar my heart that sighs. This is the 20th century, and don't see why a stony-hearted lady,
Word has been received in Shanghal from un-river, that on the night of August 6, four Chinese soldiers in civilian clothes, bar with concealed weapons, boarded the str. "Robert Dollar" which was lying at anchor at Wanhnien. At about 2 a.m. they seized a Chinese passenger, sccused him of being a bandit, thrust "him inté « sampan, and then abor bim dead, ur der preferi that he was attempting to escape. They thert returned to the tramer, seized the man's widow treated her roughly, threw her acres the deck, and took ber ashore neu-prisoner.