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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922,
Bat those quarters! The Sanitary Inspector is probably habituated, and po longer feels the shook that I folt! on seeing a typical floor of cubicles. Henceforth for me the word cabiele is a word of ill-fams, what the senti mental type of reʻormer (such as Chose who weep when the phrase wxi taes is spoken) would call "a disgrace and a shame to Hongkong," Perhaps it really is that; but I hasten to point
FOOTBALL
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
TO-MORROW'S LEAGUE GAMES.
The following games will be played to-morrow:
FIRST DIVISION. "Curlew" v. South China, Kowloon. ground.
Police v. Kowloon, Navy "A" ground.
"Ambrose v. King's, Navy "B" ground.
R.G.A. v. "Tamar," Sookumpoo
Kick off at 4.15 p.m. sharp.
assistance in this matter of the proof Economics and Political Science, Tessor from University College, Gower who claims to have detected a Street, W. O. With an onthusiasm motorological cycle affecting harvests. delightful for a teacher to watch, theyHis first sugges ion was that bad picked out words having the I sound harvests, with their consequent com and practised upon each other, mercial depression, recurred at showing off as we would call it.intervals of just over fifteen years and There are sounds in other languages that we might be in the verge of the which English students have to be next recurrence, but as the resalt taught how to produce. And our th of further inquity be would now sound baffles many educated con prophesy next year as likely to be tinentals still, probably because there distinguished by excessive rain and
Into the kennel in the early morn- out that the Government can Are so many professors" prating of cold with bad harvests resulting in ing the people are bringing their poor not be blamed for For a phonetics who lack the rudiments of scarcity and high prices the following lanes and penates. Why? Neat the fow moments, when I realized it. To suggest that the confusion of year. Sir William Beveridge admits narrow doorways that give access to what one of the Inspectors was doing, and rout here indicates that people that there is "hardly any enterprise their warrons we see big iron tanks, I was sentimentally angry wish the are "tongue-tied is ridiculous. The more deluding or more desperate than containing a dirty looking fluid. We Government for adding misery to Chinese attitude towards r is that of the search for weather cycles" Lot be see coolies wearing the uniform of misery: He was condomaing one of the Japanese towards i, bu any claims that the 16.3 cycle has the the Sanitary Department going in these cubicles as unlawful and super ground. tongue that can produce one can "ring of true metal" and seems to and coming out. In the vicinity we fluous, and my first thought was that produce the other, because the have maintained itself more than 350 are sure to see a uniformed Inspector here was a poor family which in a movements are so similar. Physiolo-years. Perhaps this unpleasant What does it all mean? The glibly fortnight or so would be compelled to gically, one would say is an ex-prospect will make the world a little informative, who have seen it find a new home, and probably a aggeration of t, or due to carrying more sympathetic towards those lands thousand times, eply: "House worse one. In this case a room 25 further one of the movements for r. now suffering the ravages of famine. cleaning. Sanitary Board Disinfecting. feet by ten was subdivided into four This partly explains why some cars Perhaps also it will not.
Didn't you know?" That, however, apartments and a long sorrider giving have to be trained to distinguish News at Soa.
is not what the Oking Mail asks for. access to each. For the smallest of them. (Our own ears have had this
That may be a trathful summary, but these cubicles ("too small" said the training since infancy, remember.) In
it is not news. What s the inwardness Inspector, and made a note in his of it all? May we not, like the delight book) the head of a family. a civil- ful infant in "Helen's Babies," "sce apoken young man, was paying $3.80 lous ground.
Cheap? Do you the wheels go round" Official per-nnthly sent. mission is graciously accorded. This ralize what an eight-by-eight piece of not quite touch the palate. (Or if it Now, however, they wil be able to department of the Government is Acor, surrounded by a flimsy six foot |
lock wise us gasp withamage, according doing a good work, that none now wall of match boarding looks like? to their wont, at the news of the world
two in it? With a woman and a couple of infants in it?
The simplest bird
Before the coming of wireles the production of r. the tongue, curled steamer passengers wer› jelt to find
their own news. i
Usually they did not seek far or carefully. When gossip failed they sought variety in scandal.
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to conceal even from the most notorious Faul Pry of the Press.
Dest
A
entwines
Where she may lean her lovely
breast
Couched in the silence of the tree. But this poor man, what home has
SECOND DIVISION.
University Club ground.
"Curlew" Res v. St. Joseph's, Navy "A" ground.
v. South Chipa “B”,
South China "A" v. Club Res.
South Chins ground.
Kowloon Res v. King's Res, Kow.
Kisk off at 2.45 pm, sharp.
The Club wrre due to meet the
Chinese in the First Division on the
this game could not be played, so an outstanding engagement with tho "Curlew "has been arranged.
The Chinese played poor football in their Shield match against the Police last Saturday. There is un doubt that Robertson's adoption of the "one back" game demoralised them. They will have to improve very much if they want to win
up and reaching towards the palate, flatteus or widens at the root end to cover the side teeth, and the tip does dots, it is be transient as the touch of a flying swallow on the surface of a pond.) In the production of 1, this while it is little less old than when dreams of denying, and it has nothing With a bed and a table and a box or Club Oround but owing to the Races flattening of broadening is omittert published in the newspapers ashore, the curling tip is elongated, and taps for regular ws services are now in
Long ago, when the system of the palate unmediately behind the operation from several large radio house-to-house cleansing and disia- Ltd. front upper teeth. You may make centres. A bulletin is despatched fee ing began, the poor people did not these experimentu for yourselves. daily from l'oldhu, and retransmitted like it. Perhaps even yet they do not At first you may fail through in
all enjoy the necessary adjuncts and sufficient concentration of atten-
concomitants, the intrusion upon their tion; but with patieace
messages treasured privacy, the disturbance of you may ascertain the mechanics of
their pseudo-peace, the exposure, every sound known to
you.
messages perhaps, of their little gadgets for Incidentally, you may take a hand from foreign governments. A station comfort that are not in accordance that bas less real privacy than a to morrow. "Curlew" will play the wirror, and satisfy yourself as to the at Leafield in Oxfordshire traits with the official regulations. We should sty. A cubicle-too small for even same team that defeated Kowloon last absurdity of trying to see what hap- Foreign Office messages thrice daily not like it, even though we recognized amati ors to box in, no bigger than I week and I should not be surprised pens when you are saying "lily of and these having dius of 2,000 ite benevolent intention and its have kept garden tools in, yet the to see them annex the points. the valley. Say it now. Thanks wiles can be read 49 far east as Suez, ultimate benefit. That we would not.compass for a complete family circle, You bove (1) poked with tongue tip and many times when conditions are 1s not the home of an Englishman bisa stage for the drama of birth and The Police played a fine game last
favourable at much greater distances. Like the Foreign Office news most of the credit of these poor people that a place soon grow dirty. Wall might done them good. A win for them at castle ? Quite so. It is therefore to struggle and death. Well wight such Saturday. Their rest seemed to have these messages are sent out broadcast they are reconciled to it, that they vermin haste and harbour there. Call Kowloon's expense will be expected. for any steainer to pick up. Only one unanimously acquiesce and co-operate, it cheap if you must.
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at Shan bai, Agnes Elizabeth, wife of A. C. M. Andersen, aged
from Teneriffe to serve the South Atlantic. Both the United States and Canada, send; out daily, and (inevitably) there ore innumerable propaganda
observe?) an odd phrase. "Pseudo- peace." That
considered,
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A cubicle the final infamy of our present social conditions. A cubicle
ocen it.
I have my
the back of your top front teeth. (2) nearly clenched your teeth," (3) rounded your mouth with the lower lip stretched tightly on the lower teeth, (4) dug your top teeth into thing is necessary, the vessel must be and that so many of them (this is own name for it, now that I have your lower lip (that for the sound equipped with the necessary poftic al) actually appreciate it.
I have written above (did you in "of") (5) put the tip of your paratus. When that becomes general, tongue between your teeth, almost the writer, as a neweps; er man, will gently biting it, (6) pouted your lower lack the necessary apparatus. ■-
travel in sailing ships or tramps-tnat lip, (7) dug your top teeth again into lower bp, (8) pulled in your tongue as a turtle does its head, (9) tapped your palate again with the upcurled tongue and (10) finished by clenching your jaws again. Ail that (and wo have omitted some minor movements) to say "lily of the valley," This ' professor "with his mirrors is going
A Chinese fell from a scaffolding Lo puzzle these peor Japanese teachers in the Contral Market yesterday. He too much, and quite unnecessarily. It is now in hospit..l. should not be expected of a Hong-
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
One fatal case of small por. Chinear, was reported yesterday,
kong newspaper to teach a prof esor Having fallen into the hold, a of phonetica his businese, but if he Chines was brought ashore from the will use his mirrors for shaving, and steamer Lackow" and taken to do as we suggest, he will get along hospital.
tip of the tongue, and while keeping
it there, to say riri. They can't do it, divostok, has decided to but in trying they will produce a word down in Shanghai. remarkably bike lily. And there they bave arrived.
Troubled Portugal —
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A small fire broke put on the second flour at No. 18 Central Street yesterday. Fire and water caused damage amounting to $80.
A very even game should be seen on Navy "B" ground, between being a likely result.
Ambrose" and the King'e, a draw
A good game should be seen at Sookumpoo between the Gunners and the Depot ship. The latter were fortunate to draw with United in their Shield Match and unless there is a lot
the cubicle is this. For its own con- Usually, I was told, the stiology of
venience a rich property owning com- as indeed ali phrases should
pany will let for a fixed sum to a be. It had a meaning and
speculator a whole block of house intention. The peace of these poor property. This speculator may sub people, of the people who inhabit such let it, taking, of course, his profit, premises as I was permitted to see, and house by bouse or floor by floor. which it will presently tear and rond If by house, there are sub-tenante of of improvement in their play, the my heartstrings to describe, can only the floors, who must pay still another he a preado-peace. Why Pray middleman; and it is usually the do. not be shocked. Let the tenant of a floor, himself now a mid- hyper-refined reader drop this journal dieman, who sublets these cubicles, right here, because I cannot help squeezing in as many as (and some myself. I am obliged to speak of times more than) the law will permit. insect parasites. Of (have I not As I came down the dark and broken it as gently as I could?) buga narrow stairs, that were still dripping and fleas. This is the central from the disinfectant wash, I felt that idea of this campaign of cleanliness, my job was done. I had seen enough.
inspect the condition of all licensed
while.
Gunners should win.
morrow promise some close results. The Second Division games to- University should win against the Chinese B" team. Curlew should also win their game
Res
South China"A" should have no
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better. Just ask them to touch the Captain Kovalsky, formerly As to attack these pests. I looked into But the pompans had bean courteous; difficulty in defeating the Club second back of their top front teeth with thesistant Port Commandant at Via a two hundred gallon tank of the it was due to them to show a little string. Kowloon Res. will be lucky if
sette fiquid that had been, and was still more interest in their work.
they manage to draw with the being, used; it is a one-per-cent solu-
Soldiers' Second String. They showed me how coolies with tion of kerosene emulsion; and on lanterns search in dark places for the surface there Boated many desiratholes; and seal them up with bugs.
plaster. They showed me what a How often," demanded I of an variety of drain traps must be seen inspector of long experience, do you to. They showed me how the people reckon to clean these places?"
will persist in blocking out light and Portugal seems to have developed
"Three times a year. It takes us air. And so on. This is only one of The Dairy Farm advertises re- into a sort of European edition of exhaust the knowledge of a "Daiver Mexico. Since the latter part of the duced ice and butter charges from four months to do the whole city. their jobe. They must especially
The local office of the tippon Yusen March 1. la spite of the atrike its We do it section by section." sity College Proteseor." But, of war she has suffered from a disrup: other prices remain analtered.
"I see. These particular places places, of the markets, of eating Kaisha has received cable information JORGE-On February 16, 1922, at course, the reporter may have garbled tion of her economic and political
were done not more than four months houses, bakeries, lodging houses. from its Head Office, Toyo, advising Shanghai, to the wife of J. Fer even dreamt what they told him. stability and yesterday Reuter called Property worth $2,327 was ago, and have been done thrice a Epidemics sometimes cause extra that it has been decided to transfer Jorge, a daughter.
First of all, the Japanese are no that a fresh insurrection had been stolen on Wednesday night from the year for years past. Then why work and dislocation of back to the European ne the four HANSELL-On February 17, 1922, more "tongue tied" than we ara. nipped in the bud.
The assertion house of a Chinese woman living in these?"
programme, They are, it
is big steamers on the Trans-Pacific at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mre, W. They happen to have a different was mad recently by a contributor Wongneichong village, Happy Valley.
He looked blankly at the tank for clear, very busy men, doing joba that Line. "Katori. Maru "Kashima N. Hansell, a SOD.
language, to the sounds of which to the London Times that Portugal
a moment. He did not at first catch are not nice to do, but well worth baru," "Suwa Maru" and "Fushimi- WOĦLGEMUTH.-On February 17. their tongues and ears are habituated, was on the verge of Bolshevism
Maru," which will reface the 8.9. An exciting story of a modern the allusion. When he did: foreign intervention 1927, at Shanghai, to Mr. and rather than to ours. Many of them and
Maru," was haunted bouse, "The House of} "Oh," he laughed, "The casual- Tell me, please," I said, looking at "Iyo Maru," "Bhidzoka Mrs. A. Wohlgemuth, a daughter, may say "fries" when they mean duggested
remedy. Whispers" which comes to the Kow-ties? You should have seen the bag the biggle-piggle, it seemed to me,
"Yokohama Mara" "Yoshino DH, PIANO. On February 14, 1922, "flies," but not one will (as this clip Professor George Young, who was loon Theatre this evening is a picture in the old days. It was much bigger of furniture on the road, “does not
Maru." at Shanghai, to Mr. and Ms. A. ping seseits) say "liver" for "river." formerly attached to the British Em-with a strong mystery element and a then. We are improving. We are the property of these people get The proposed sange of the Del Piano, a son.
When "Professor Daniel Jones" tells bassy at Lisbon and later resigned his dramatic climax.
winning." Indeed, that is believable, mixed, and is there no squabbling European Liners from Hongkong for the world that "our word hat they post as British consul at Arobangel
for one reflects that it is much easier about it
Europe will be as followe pronounce as hart or het," be talks because he disapproved of the methods The usual Hongkong Hotel Grill for man to exterminate lions and Very rarely," was the answer "Katori Mart" on of bout Mar. 31. foolishly and falsely. But what could of the Allies regarding Russia, has since Room dinner dansant will not be tigers and large snakes than it is for The stuff is too well watched. They Kashima Maru" on of bout Apr. 28. we expect from a "professor" who written to the Times declaring that held on Monday, February 27. The bim to get rid of his smuller enemies, all know their own, and there is usual-
"Sowa. Maru" en or bout May 26. thinke that Japanese audiences will there is no possibility at present of dining room (Old Grill Room) will be whose powers of multiplication are so ly someone looking after it."
"Tashimi Maru" on ofbout June 9.. learn by "watching his mouth and Portugal following Russia's example used as grill room on that night and great. Let, then, the good work go Then I saw that it was 60. Mostly and the Trus-Paciff service will tongas"?
Another extremely silly and that foreign intervention would will be open from 7 to 9.15 p.m.) on, and let these minute disturbers of youngsters. Two youngaters, played hereafter be maintainedby 8.s. "Kaga statement is that the professor will be even leas successful against re-
the peace be arrested oven at the cost chequers on a table that would
"Shidzuoka Maru."Iyo Maru, pre- at Shanghai, Frederick Albert give mirrors to teachers, so that they volutionary tendencias there than it The Chief Justice, Sir William of a temporary disturbance like this, sently go back to its place. There was Marn" and "Yokohan Maru. Johnson, intant qen of Mrs. V. can watch their own mouth and was against the Bolsheviks, The Rees Davies, made an order for the which comes but three times a year a woman nursing a baby, and stand-
tongue as they speak." Any teacher Republican Guard, according winding up of the Kwong Fook 8.8. not every night and which
ing sentry over her little lot. What who needs a mirror to tell him how he to Professor Young. was Company in the Supreme Court this brings health instead of disease a pity they could not stay out here, was averted. Hero win public bath-, forma sounds in a queer teacher. It originally set up for the defends of morning. This petilida was presented or liability to disease. Besides in the wholesome open. Those awful house, and free! Herman might would not work, anyway. A com- property against the proletariat and by Mr. Eldon Potter instructed by:
I find myself apologia cubicles were still rankling in my go and get all the hoteater he needs plicated system of mirrors would be has now become praetorian. It Mr. Johnson.
ing for the Sanitary Board, although mind, you see.
and a clean tub, in smly surround- I am not invited to do so, and now I **SUTE, CURTIUE, PUBLIC SERVICm." required to let a man ace all the cannot govern itself and cannot be
A HAPPIES DETAIL.
ings. The Governme tapenda a trifle movements that produce the sound governed. "The peoul ar interest of Boatmen along the Japanese know it is not necessary besides, My guide thought of showing me on coal, and the play requires only *OneCONG, FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1982
Portuguge politics" be anys lies in const between Ounka and Kobe are these people are always given timely something to take away that bitter two attendants. At present, I was It so happens that the Japanese their presenting a sort of highly said to be organising one big reamer's notice. The minimum of inneis. Very few people seem to told, we have ave of hese free public #alphabet (to call it so, for con coloured caricature of the conditions union. They have already invited convenience is caused. Back inspor know about them, he raid, although ath-houses, some of hem for women. TONGUE AND EAR, venience) includes no such sound as that other countries are approaching. 10,000 sestren employed by the tar dues about forty floors in a we have had them since Sir Houry I naked If I might it one of these; *" which means that to their ear it the breakdown of the Parliamentary Osaka Bhosen Anisha and other big forenoon, which means that he calls Blake's time." In Bullock Lans ha but was refured permoton. Evidently Wanted, more information about is únismi:ior, and that their tongue party system is only an exaggerated steamship companies, to join. «
upen 100 or 160 families. All their ushered me into an institution I was the Government has something to diversity College, Gower Street, are not accustomed to move in the example of what is happening elso-
Hooks are washed with the solution cheered to see, because (in my ignor hide there, W. C.", about "Professor Daniel ways to make it. The avenge Japanese where,"
With the izoention of seven named, and everything washable ance) I had been blaming the Govern. However, that strested to me James, chief of its Phonetics Doparl." will repeat "'lily of the vallay
" AS
registered litters, two sacks of mail without, injury, their had boarda, ment for quitractiveness. Remem another enquiry,bt there not „mumit,'' and about “Professor Palmer," "lid of the varri." But, this is
their benoboe, stools, tables, and so bring the cheap, bath houses of Japan, to be one or two male sanitary from Hongkong for London and one mud to have been borrowed from this important, "on having his attention The misery of war has left the world from Hongkong For Paris were on to rinsed in the disinfective I asked long ago wh with do tors 1" Inske I think so, antitation by the Japanese Govern called to the difference, on getting his calicus, and the nations Lave largely destroyed in a Canadian Pacifle misture. Then, when the Lapsap many
ssid my guide," but is not för më mams for three years. Also about the or to distinguish the sounds, and on guns their diven ways little Railway mail eat burned near Haig: Polpan has gone away, to take » we had
to say so. We had pão during this exter who introduces us to these being told how to produce the incund, perturbed by o famine horrors of British Columbia. The apply for bellece demanding babe told that bre
bath, to write up bin report, and to a Shiga and people, in a clipping head- he had and doce anliteve it successfully ituals and buller quiloken lands, were despatched rom Hongkong on clipping is apparently
yor, these disasters will acquire November 8, 1991 and conik ded only mens of irregularities, is may be ve sticky about now and festiul interest letters specially marked,
found, the doar people may re, aikat tions. Litebode provany, Ardo, the
Ꮒ . predios denders for despston parks, William Feridge, Maruk-Türiber Latulla, ara
to day's misli noticeria
32 FORTS. JOHNSON.-On February 16, 1922,
Johnson.
The China Mail.
pongue tied Tapadima dan and namily nahi pressat writerdiscovery.
Moine ed this whilsten hing Engli Lodda paper, and it glyes un the men in Japan, twent
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