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SATURDAY, ' ODTOBER
"Dow is the tibe." I said, speaking to Mr.-
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the
8. 1921.
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tarer is profis, production and employ noisy wedding. Pretty but quiet "The must be laay, physically lazy; but ment will not be increased if this was the weird phrase I noted recently. that attitude would be sufficiently peruits a raising of prices that will Now, the damnable reiteration in the covered by the word lounger. He is allow the desired gain on a smaller local Press of that phrase, a Quier [not, for instance (as so many apothecary (China oil art, rates tom-over, and it is likely to increase Wedding, begins to disquiet me, hence energetic, industrious, fussy falk are) on application)" to tague thad briddy the cost of living. Wait and see. this inquiet hote. I must insist for mentally lazy, for intellectual effort is bedsad you hague for coughs. I will "No, you Down in Malaya, a my own peace of mind on pointing necessary to successful loafing. There tagua ted boddles." THE REMEDY. European police out in the reporters and subeditors is no idleness in quiet thoughts, in won't," he said, "you'll take one.
meditation, in othee went into generally that there are
contemplation. That'll do the trick." And it did. Interesting weldings Douglas Jerrold's hurber's shop, and while there chatoul
argument in
There are watch-dogs Happy
defence of the angler, or his para- with two other Europeans. In the
as well as dog watches. Inecessary course of the chat, those two allege
phrase of Walton's still more eloquent}
All the week chits Vulgar
defence (if you'd have me purticalar) that he said the nurses at a certain
have been pouring in to Dignifiel Government hospital
Lis just ** good A
remind me that the dog watch is so
A record number of accused ap were bot
Soleme stuf.' He, they say, uspersed the
of the loafer. Loafing is in itself called because it is cut-tailed. These Peared in the International Mixed Merry
system of morality. The loafer wacht-hunden chastity of those ladies. There are
are waggish ones. Court yesterday when 109 men were Remarkably men in the East who say such things!
annoys no one by fussing. He rokes The pun is a good one, if an old one charged simultaneously with running about ladies, and who apparently are!
Populat
his finger into no foreign pic, shoves It has helped me to think of a like or frequenting hores lotteries. All Belated unaware that it is enddish. The two
his stick in no one's machine. Helier derivation than Dr. Brewer's. were rounded up in a police raid the reported the matter (instead of telling
barus pone. He makes no mistakes. That which is eartailed it docked. previous evening. The principals the police other what they thought
sius, perpetrates 20 May not dog watches have originally were sentenced one to three months, crimes. He is like unto that one in been docked watches? of him) and the Solicitor General
and the other to one month's im- The gentleman was
the scriptural image, that expected a
prisonment, respectively. Nineteer prosecuted.
WAW! He came with stealth among jorleited sio bail and the rest were fined $200, but appealed and got the
Guest, and swept and prepared a
rem! our apple trees.
fined $3. conviction quashed. It appears that and ever so many other kinds of guest chamber. He is like the lies
A murderous Red Msu, sepipiretion with a sensational find of opia
Five Ren in such cases the aggrieved party weddings beyond, more than, and in that neither toil nor spin. and take no must be one of those slandered, and addition to their boastly monotonons thought, no worry, no fret, for the
Life at knees, party unaggrieved can and inevitable Quiet Weddings, which morrow. Indeed, it is hard to loaf prosecute on their behalf. So here I do not believe in anyway. For how properly, completely, entirely, and loafer was another case of good intentions does a Hongkong reporter hear of who
large claim. and bad results. The private slander anything that is really and truly kept makes
I was once arrested in an Austra was made publ, and the standeter | quier ? wins a Pyrrhic victory.
Remarking that the Chio-lan mining town, and run in, ese to-day are not in the and when the Inspector asked Another reader quizzes mej
Edison class, one of theme what I did for a living. I said I for writing last Saturday of
China Mail leader writers did nothing, which was at that time woundest **mortally
suid on Wednesday, by way of illustra- true. geraning in a lodging-house tion, thit for 3000 years their farmers have ben contens to till the soil Ltd. window string and growing
toward the light. In the Srst place. after the 1ation of their fathers and assuming that there is something reap the abundant harvests." Well. silly in that let me point out that and why not? Tilth is a means to on money." since my sentence was offered as end. The end is the harvest. If
On my own, that was hard burlesque of a silly sentence about a the line CAT the abundant earned and honestly got. You ap mortally wounded pigeon, it should
harvests by the cheap and pear to think that a loafer must be not be too strictly examined as an simple old means, why should they sponger." example of my care in the not be content? Why should they try
That's what it means." words. But
in LOFF,
more elaborate means only to achieve
Do you, Indeed it does not. ir
the same end? Scientific" improve-
there policeman. pretend to of agricultural methods is
Tillers. waste unless it produces better resuits. teach me, au direitus authority, my Much of China's soil, the famous loess, own language? ** is so rich that any old methods work. You tickle the earth and it laughs into harvest.".
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that Do
A
second
place,
WHY NOT?
the so very far wrong? I always own Epment when caught napping, as you know. My critic argues that a mortally wounded geranium does tot grow How does he know that? Not all mortal wound involve immediate death, and while there is life I'm entitled to sa-peer growth. Let him send me another chit, and say if this is not at least a debatable point.
COSTER.
THE
ralls himself
"Ah! A loifer, eh ?"
Yes."
-Huh! Loaẩng on better men's
- No.
It is a good job there were wit- nes es, or I believe he would have hir me. He looked as if he wanted to.
Another of our leader! Finding no charge against me, he writers (on Monday) was released me, and I went back to mr BORSE almost dithyrambic on a loafing. Now, of course, I am a back- SENSE subject that I for one slider. I loaf only at I rief whiles, and OF IT. would not care to try to should perhaps withdraw my boast write about, namely, the made at the beginning of this note. respective merits of rival systems for Yet that I do not care to do. My the disposal of nightsoil. Seems to me instinct bis ze let it stand, tells me all these arguments about the economic that somehow I may rightly do so. preciousness of manure, about the Let me, then, qualify it. I am a spread of diseases, and so on. though loafer by profession, a graduated and sound enough on both sides, are not properly qualified loafer, at present really to the point. We all want huemployed. But to-morrow is waterclosets for comfor's sake. the day I keep my hand in, by Scientists may be quite right in telling practice. us that mere stink is not dangerous;¦ but that isn't our trouble: We do not like stinks. we are glad to abolish them, and the water-closet comes nearest doing that for as. After that, Pacific is far away but the German so far as we laymen are concerned,
London. I see. has THE LONDON two agitatious, oar to abolish the custer- monger, and one to denounce the agitators who are soul less enough to desire that. Open alt oratory is the ammunition being used in this civil war. The People's Fairplay Lengue delightully named corporation of which I haven't heard before-is espousing the cause of the Mokes Masters. These street bawkers, it argues, are keen business people who watch the markets in small wares and keep down prices. selling often for 25 per cent. of shop prices. That, probably. indicures the origin of the movenient to abolish there is only the one further factor boundaries are close to France. It
them. Incidentally, I fancy the case for the London roster (apart from sertimental association) must be largely the case for our Hongkong
street hawkers.
Bad luck, mate.
to undervalue the opinion Generally when poensappear rire" in that way they are not poems.
dog watch' is a corruption of
WHAT.
CLEMENCEAU's
ARGUMENT,
Talking of dis- armament. Cle- menceau dryly observed that the
And tomahawk uplifted, peering
round,
While I in ambush dared not make
a sound.
I bent my bow, and grindy drew a
bead
(An operation known to all who
read
The proper books) and how
thrilled!
My arrow reached its mark. But
bad it killed!
My savage foe leaped round, and
rushed at me.
My turn to scalp you now" shrilled she.
So sisters always played the Indian
game,
For realists in art they are too tan.c.
They were, in truth, too much like!
lady-killers,
Afraid of earwigs, ants, and cater.
Here, however, are some TBE SAME much superior lines on OLD GAME. & kindred theme. They are by D. M. Wright of Australia, and appear in Squire's last Mercury:
He strode across the schoolroom in
Joly,
Great Hector, clanging in his brazen
mail:
And all the cringing Greeks, with
faces pale, Creaked into jabbering Ks and
turned to fly. Achillea, safe because he could not
die,
I
Cheated and won; and all the lines
grew stale.
The life was gote from out the
shabby tele; And back in Homer's teeth we
Bong the lie.
We fought for Troy behind a mosey
wall;
We burned the Grecian ships below
a tree.
Ah, that great war was forty years
ago!
Yet still I know that Hector did not
fall;
Achilles, lying Greek, was under
-3.H
traffic
15
valued at Tis. 400,000 were dismissed owing to lack of evidence. The opiam was confiscated and will be destroyed.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. J. Hassam, of Messrs. Cur- imbboy and Co., Ltd., is leaving for Bombay. Mr. A. C. Peer-dina will mange the business of the firm from to-day.
Found in the main street at Shaukiwas in a state of collapse, a Chinese aged about 30 years, was yes- texday removed to Government Civil Hospital.
Sangron Lien-Commander E. Hefferman. R. N. has taken over command of H. M. S. Moth" vice Surgeon Licut-Commander A. Tandy Cannon, R.X.
An advertisement in this issue
requests members of the Royal Hong- kong Tacht Club to have their boats in readiness for the opening cruise ou Saturday, October 29.
A Chinese living at No. 21, Hollywood Road reports that his fat was entered during his absence yes- terday. Six pieces of jewellery worth $183, a suit of clothing valued at $14, and $25 in money were stolen.
The monthly water return shows
a storage in the reservoirs of the City, of 2,055 million gallons on October 1. The consumption for eptember amounted to 250 million gallons, a slight decrease compared with the corresponding month last year. The Kowloon reservoir bad a storage of 374 million gallons on October 1. The consumption last month was nearly 58 millon gallons.
surtar
was widely considered that be here of expense. If the Colony can afford scored a point. So thoughtless unen it, we say the Government should are. Were disarmament, per se, dues give us the sanitation we prefer, that not matter much, because men can
Prince Chaola Yugala, one of the is to say, the systera with the least arm again. They always do claim to
younger brothers of the reigning King stink. All these scientific and journ have been disarmed, for "unpre-
For when the bell rang truce to of Siam, and Prince Amoradhat, a
friend and foe, Hear again the Past on alistic arguers simply astounded saepared ans partially disarmed or
colonel in the Siamese Army, arrived in Hongkong yesterday "POST" poems. "Sometimes we quoting Hugo and Montaigne and insuficiently armed. Agree that WANTS feel that their sweetness people I never heard of. Now if I militarism (keen on being pre-
ing by the Messageries Maritines .8. VIRILE clays somewhat and we had my way, and wanted to quote the pared ") is the evil that is driving as
I am delighted to notice "Andre Lebon" from Saigon and POEMS. hanker for a mere virile literature of that subject, I'd plump to economic bankruptcy and racial TRAFFIC that the police are now Singapore. The Frince paid an
note. I know just how for Rabelais. He....
RULES determined to apply their official visit to Sir Paul Chater, the suicide, and that what we mean by the Past man feels. He wants virile
[Forty-seven lines deleted here, as a
regulations to local Consul for Siam. Both princes "disarmament" is any anti-militaris-
rigorousiy as to proceed to America aud later to The Relat.ves of the late Mr.
tic policy, then the nearness of Ger- Europeans poems, and is probably thinking of stera necessity.-Editor C..) Seliza Elliott Long disire to thank
Kipling's It"
The China Mail publica- many to France makes it all the more Asiatics. It is almost a pity, in view England.
of the C.S.P's announcements to WHAT'S tion, "Who's Who in the important. all their fritids for the kindness and
Let me attempt an
According to the Canton Times ympathy extended to them in their that
Far East," Las not been atalogy. Clemercean sees mac dogs the reporters, that they didn't
by prosecuting the the new surtax on tobacco and wine recent bereavment, and fot the foralf dodge watch "," writes one of 'em After all, poetry is not a virile game,
republished for
His begin about in Germany, and fears rabies. do you think you have given suffi- cient consideration to the opinion of not a man's man's jou. It is for fourteen years. I hear the manage-remedy is to keep dogs to fight them. haughty Mem-sahib who thought the went into effect on Wednesday. Mazzling regulations did not apply to her. If Consumers of tobacco and wine are another emitent authority-I think hairy athetes and hespectacled ment is considering the advisability Ours (disarmament) is it was Theodore Hook-ho said the spectators. Kipling was a newspaper of a new edition. In the Far East, Order. How does Clemenceau's mot they do make an example of a now required to pay for a
European the Asiatics will pay stamp of 20 per cent, ad valorem. The China Mail. real reason for the shorter watches reporter in an enervating climate and men auswer to their names more looks now?
is less virile than the note of his verses readily to "Here's How" than to
greater heed to the requirements. It The surtax stamp is required to be is that they are cur-tailed."
We have a lecturer in our is or of his political propaganda. Henley "Who's Who."
a fact that the majority of pasted on every package of tobacco but unbowed")
midst. I didn't go to hear Europeans here believe themselves and every bottle of wine. Twenty- ("bloods
Then it is really and LECTURE. him, and I have to gather privileged. me if the bather who physically unit. It might make an
literally true that every
what he said from the jumped into the sea interesting article to run through the with his wrist watch on virile" poets on these lives, but I
ANCIENT long drive by a Hong newspaper reports. He is reported to was doing it to kill don't think my readers would be in-
kong goiler is followed have explained the cause of our by a good lie," even social instability as the ill-distribution terested. Like this pillar of the Post, when the subsequent lie refers to the of wealth, that is to say, a material Have the V.R.C. they are mostly too virile.
length of the drive-Answer to cause. He is reported to have ex- officials ever tried the Rere is a clear case where the Heather Mixture," who thinks I plained the failure of the Rossina at-Forest Officer. EUGGESTION. effect of putting THE "Lursing local poetry, the
TRE rule, De mortuis nil nisi might make a joke out of it. I never tempt to amend conditions as due to electric lights at the
AVID bonum, applies to men still joke on serious subjects. Moning Poir on bottom of their swimming tank,
RICH. living. They are rubber com. Monday hesitated under water, for night fetes? The
pany directors, and if dead to express an opin-results ought to be pretty for the could be spoken of well. Living, ni
worth nisi malum, because ion because is believesi "there is only spectators. It should be one man in the Colony who knows trying, I think. anything about the subject. This DESCENSUB
"IKUJE JUSTI, PUBLIC SPEVICE"
BONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCT 1971.
AND THE
WRIST
WATCH.
ADVERSARIA
time.
Reviewing" some
A
POST" AND
TOETRY.
little gibe at me was based on the fact
AVERNI
that I demonstrated that there was
of it.
While another one asks
listen to this.
Was
well
THE
GAME.
I am a loafer. This
THE VERB
TO LOAF.
is a boast, not a con-
fession. I love loafing, and I believe in the
THE
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. B. E. G. Spinks is gazetted
its being based on a mederialistic
Mr. Chau Pui succeeds Mr. Lam philosophy, that of Marx. Society suffered from lack of purpose, it was Kwun-yau in the Forestry Dept. the first duty of statéarmen and re- ligious leaders to fill the lives of the Mr. P. J. Taylor is gazetted Third
www
This week's Gazette includes long
The recognition of Mr. F. O.
nine different kinds of these surtax stamps have been issued by the Bureau of Stamp Revenues. These different kinds of stamps range from 5 cent to $10 a piece.
KINEMA NOTES.
HONGKONG THEATRE,
Rossignol, the Nightingale, outlaw of the north woods, spurred a foam- The downward road to "I should like to say in conclusion morality of it, and the spiritual value people with a sense of purpose, bat Assistant Govt. farine Surveyor.
of it, with all my heart. It ought to (he is reported to have said, in effect}
flecked horse through forests primeval Hell is paved with that your directors regret the neces-be a respectable way of life, and that the Haves have too little purpose, and
and drank laughingly of the hemlock- polished intentions. Asity for a policy involving the termi- it is not, merely proves that the public the Have nots too much. [D.P. Orders in Council relating to the war, cup of crime. A queer figure of a complete record of nation of the agreement of your has a false idea of it. They use the the comfortable classes might need
man, half Indian, balf French. Tal, Que man in the Colony who knew well-meant scheres that have gone manager, who has shown himself word loafer as a term of reproach more of the spirit of resolution and
dark, handsome man whose laugh nothing of it. nd could know nothing agley would require an enormous faithful servant of the company even whereas it is a compliment, too often the others lese." Obviously, if Seidle as a vice-consel for the USA was a danger eignal. A strange
library to house it. For sa immediate to the extent of voluntarily reducing deserved. Half a loaf may be fably reported, this man cannot
admixture of M'rieur Beaucaire, Bea is gazetted. The gentleman who is example take the pretty Chinese his salary by $20 per month since the better than no loafing, but your teach anything. He is himself in
Turpin and Robin Hood; an Admir- able Crichton of the north country. 4 BAD acting locum tenens for custom whereby in the season of the beginning of this year.
temporary, spasmodic. intermittent bewilderment. Granted that Purpose The directors' fees for this com-loafer is not the real thing. He is of is the spur of progress, how can any
Motor bicycles with sidecurs Pretty Rosine Delorme was to marry BLEATER. the Rick editor of the moon festival good-hearted Chinese
Strois Echo (and I can purchase caged sparrows, and release pany have been fixed for some years the dilettanti. Says the dictionary have too much of it? How care must now carry an additional light on Sergeant O'Farrell of the Northwest always tell when one goes and the them. This custom has led to the past at $4,000 and for the year under (forcing me to recall Dr. Johnson's "materialistic" ilis by remedies that the side car after sunset..
Mounted Police. The wedding was other takes over) is a Mr. Chesney wholesale capture and cagemet of review they propose to draw only definition of the man that makes one, are not? I should say the trouble is
rudely interrupted by news that Louis, Duncan, formerly of Hongkong. He sparrows that would otherwise have $3,000"
"a poor drudge") a loafer is "a too many purposes--what we call "The Salvaging of Civilization" her brother, was in trouble and that. seems very fond of one phrase, the rujoyed uninterrupted liberty.
Long, long ago, in vagrant who subsists by shifte." How "divided purposes and a diffusion is to be the subject of Dr Hodgkin's Sergeant O'Farrell was under orders some place where very little thought was here devoted to of effort. I say that if we first put address in the Theatre to-morrow to track both Rossignol and the boy. ceremonious weddings the matter. At the very ontset; material conditions more nearly fair. (Suaday) at 9.15 p.m. H E. The Monroe Balisbury depicts the roman- were the rule, some a vagrant is of necessity an energetic the spiritual progress will ensue. But Governor will preside. business to be in the howling wilder
intelligent reporter person, who moves from place to these are big and wide questions, ness, and no intelligent person would
Howe, in politice. noted an exception, and dubbed it a place. What time he is vagranting, which cannot be dealt with in a note Richa fares have been altered. rock them there. This is only one of Meaning well to certain "key" in quiet affair. Ever since, the parts he cannot be loafing. As to subsist or two, I make this one merely to They are easy to remember now. Up numerous and persistent idiosyncra-dustries, our politicians have imposed of the Press have written of all weding by shifts," we all do that. You show that this lecturer's audiences to the end of a quarter of an hour, sies that convince me Mr. Duncan is an ad valorem import tariff of 331 dings as quiet weddings, just as they do it. The things we do to earn a will have to do a bit of thinking for the fare is a cest a minute. Over himself a bleater. The re ding of his per cent, on six thousand articles always call a funeral procession a living are all shifts to subsist. Nor is themselves, as he cannot do it for that and up to half an hour, 20 cents.
| As the concern of the House mannier-cortege. —-1-sera_r25 cce-repoeta aloofer seccarly idle. Ta se sense them. *friders gives me cólic pain z
bleating of lambs in a howling wilder-
Dess." It is not an image to be proud
The bleating lamba have no
In the course of the next year and a balí we may be able to point BETRAYED to another example at
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tic role of "Possignal" in bis latest Universal saccess, The Man in the Moonlight." Collcen Moore, William Stowell and Alfred Allen are the widely known and popular Universal players who support the star.
It will be shown at the Hongkong Theatre to-day