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THE CHINA MAIL.
a
·WIMMEN
SATURDAY,
APRILE 15, 1922
AT THE BARBERS.
AN INTERRUPTED HAIRCUT.
to know why the shop was being kept
open after 6 o'clock. They told the barber to stop cutting the customer's hair and be raid that he would stop
bit beavy when it is considered that Well, well. four cents per lb. is added to all naughty story I
Reminds me of selves. He bad, with a vengeance, the capacity for joy enlarged. I am standard cuts of beef and much more a certain rather merry gent, who The vigour with which he threw off is a vice, if the real world be neglect. beard about *co clerical nonsense about him, fond of reading, but too mach reading on fancy cats. The reason given by butted into a Peak hen party and the parson and pat on the man and ed for it. An art gallery may uplift. the guild for this increase is the called for beer. Every lady rose to the brother did not always strike the but never as the great out-of-doors scarcity of cattle resulting from the serve him. It is probably not true, original men and brothers as it was can do. I prefer sunsets to pictures
bat ( such as
If you go to a Chinese barber to "Artemus" be intended. Your virilist chaplain was of them, and the summer sky to most get your hair cat go before six p.m. I have been reading authorities) it is not impossible. this week the mate
spt to overde, to their mind, bis jay poems. So far as leisure goes, insot. Otherwise you may find yourself LITERATURE Acript ci a book
Last year I wrote an implied disclaimers of any compromis-ion is better than action, which tard adrift with the tansotial written by a local
WILD, WELD article in reply to a ling connection with kingdoms not of (though often camouflaged as sport operation only half completed. That man dealing with his experiences, and
roung man who had this world. For one thing, he was, may be mere fidgets. For to see and happened to a customer who patronis- those of the London Rifles, in thin his love affairs. I have not looked carnage, a shade too fussily blood-right use of leisure. Keeping fit is not Sanday. Towards 7 pm. he was asked me for advice for the taste of people, versed in for to admire is enough as regards the ela barber's shop in Yanmati last Great War. I found it exhausting to ee what I said, for I never want thirsty. Notody made such a point a job for leisure at all. reading, not because it was ill written, to see again anything I may write for of aping your little trench afectations and the hours given to it are wordic barber ran the clippers over his pate It is working back in the chair, while the or dry, but because I was so often the Press; but I heard of it again, of callonsners; nobody else was so hours. Those who fuss to make their when a dozen or so members of the moved to strong emotions. After a months after. I me: at a dinnera anxious to keep you assured that the neighbours spend leisure wisely
+ Barbers' Guild rushed in and wanted" long series of such shocks, there is slip of a woman with a bonny face, of blood of the e emy smelt as good to in effest desire to rob them of it, weaker re-action, and a sense of that beauty which is commonly writ his nose as it could to any of yours. Leisure is really "your laze", though weariness. Yet I could not lay it spirituel," though why we do not In the whole blood and iron province I doubt if you will find it so said in down. A big story well told by a spititual at once and be done of talk he would not only outshine the dictionary. mar one knows, about matters as to with it I know not; and this soalfal any actual combatant-that is quite which one, earnestly CLAYES the young woman told me she liked to easy to do but he would outshine! TRUS Is Manchester, writing to would not do, they told him, "and Dr. Temple, Bishop or when he had finished the jcb. That unvarnished truth, has the greatest read the China Mail, but could not any colonel who lived at a base." fascination. In this book the horror approve my ideas about women. This
FRANK the Manchester Guardian, they snatched his clippers away. of war is not touched ap, as by Henri nearly, but not quite spoled my
I was once entertained
ya: "As Piato lorg: After that there was a proper dust Barbusse. There is none of the Celtic dinner. It was so adjust. All my
for a weekend by a find age pointed out, the principles of sand for some moments the a sentimentalism of McGill. Bat is Efe (since about thirteen, of course)
MEMORY who said there would be accepted social order tend to implant was ek with hair clippers and other grips. It is a pity that the author I have been a devout lover of women, And no women. So I utilized cost efect personal character. It is fatile counters. A stool aimed at a shop 20 ne but ourselves, themselves in the citirens and so harde missiles lying about the shop. completed it so late. No publisher is and I made enemies by my champion of the space in my suitcase for tins to teach brotherly-kindness to people follad likely to consider it now.
ship of women's rights. I have sacri of tobacco, and shoved in only one who mast either starre or earn their riders instead and when the T.is manuscript, feed much for women, and I am not change of clothes. One pair of socks livelihood as members of a system of police arrived they found him neatly bound, had done yet, I hope. But I must get (damed) one shirt, one sait (much cut-throat competition.”
ying on the door and taking but been lent to others even with this one, by quoting other worn) sad so on. There were no before I was privileged writers of greater eminence than my women, eure enough, but there was a
That the proposal small interest in the subsequent pro- to get it. I wish people would not self. I like to see her in a tantrum, valet, who alarmed me even more.
to lay out a public ceedings. He and two others were pat pencil marks in books not their and these quotations should do it.
HAPPY VALLEY golf course in Rich. arrested and on Thursday they He grabbed my bag, and displayed
came before Mr. J. R. Wood at the own. In your own copy, for your Firstly, on Christmas Day, 1663 my poor wardrobe, preparatory to
receiving serious Magistracy to answer charges, under- own use, it is permissible and even the bonest Pepys wrote: Ltd. wize: but in a book to pass from
putting the things in various drawers consideration is both surprising and the Criminal Intimidation Ordinance, To church in the morning and and cupboards. My idea was to keep disconcerting," says the Saturday of threatening the barber with injury. hand to hand these things are annor. there saw a wedding in the church 'em in the bag, but he wouldn't allow Review. The plan, if carried into
The complainant told the Magistrate ing distractions. If a passage be which I have not seen for many a that. In the morning I could find effect, would entail a lees of freedom that neither he nor his fokis approved. really striking, it Leeds no underlining day; and the young people so merry neither the spares nor the things I to the general public quite out of pro- the rule requiring business to be stop- or marginal marking. It is not the with each other, and strange to see had cast the night before. He had portion to the gain accruing to the td at 6 o'clock which was incorporat previous reader's soal we are inter- what delight we married people have taken them away to brush them few whom it would
ed in the agreement made recently, ested in, but the author's. Besides, to see those poor fools decoyed into There I was, with three tins of Bet of coarse
He said that most of the master Barbers "did not agree to the new rules drawn up by the em- ployees. Only a few of the masters had eigned them,
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prove that the employees were trying prosecuting, said he would try and
to
intimidate the mastere into closing
threatening to do an illegal act," at The charge was amended to one of
after evidence had been heard, the the sugges ion of the Magistrate and,.
their shops at 6 p.m.
not these trespassing our condition, every man and woman tobacco and a sait of pyjamas, and now that it is no use talking. marka pat emphasis where the author gazing and smiling at them." wanting my breakfast. What the bad not meant it, and where one's
Secondly, Bernard Shaw makes valet thought of my possessions I own taste would not put it. Library John Tanner in Man and Superman did not know, but i did a lot of books are frequently spoiled for me in say this:
guessing. When I let I didn't this way. So far, the members of our "Marriage is to me apostasy, pro- know whether to write him a cheque Book Club seem to have more sense fanation of the sanctuary of my soul, for all I'd got, oz. to risk half a students of history. Here is a local
violation of my manhood, sale of my sovereign. What birthright,
a perfectly com-story exactly as clipped from a Penang ignominions capitulation acceptance were no women and no valets in it ug the Kowloon frontier ordered
surrender, fortable world this would be if there contemporary: The Police guard LITERARY 3athanhip are REWARDS small, though it is very man with a future to a man with a to roll as his trousers and use 'em as tempting to walk from Hongkong to very of defeat: I shall change from a When a fellow has been accustomed about 20,000 strikers, who were st difficult to convince past: I shall see in the greasy eyes of a pillow in his bunk, these valeting Cantor, as no steamers and trains would-be aspirants of that. I reall the other husbands their relief at stants are very trying. It is no were available, to balt. They refisert heating was adjourned to member cace arguing with a shipmate the arrival of a new prisoner to share earthly use pressing mine, because in defed and assaulted the Police, Mr. F.G. Vaux appears for who was writing a book of his ex- their ignominy." periences. He didn't see why he
half an hour I make 'em comfortable who fired wounding several
the defence. "of shouldn't be another W. W. Jacobs,
again.
them."" If 20,000 strikers had as- zor did I, for he was full of amusing
The body of "Roderick saulted the half dozen policemen I'm yarns of sea life. It was my trick at
Random" was disinterred
afraid they would have been too the wheel The old booker was dip
damaged to come back and tell us on Thursday. The about it. Of course the story is what ping her boweprit in every other sea,
planation of the delay in and squalls screaming in the rigging. I He stood on the other side of the whet! and argued as we do at sea, thrashing out every detail to the bit!
41
SALT WATER SAVES SOAP
Fisher, in his "Records," "we mid-
who summed it all us in two words, Thirdly, there was a Frenchman toujours perdris."
upi
be ballied by a woman, even a pretty This to give notice that I will not one.
..
which
HASEAS CO2PT3
bel
STEBNE S STARLING.
I am remembe.it with some sadness the old advice: If your business ever inter-
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I see that the
LOCAL AND GENERIL.
next
A subscription dance will be beld the exhumation is the Prince's Visit, they call "substantially" correct. at the Peak Club on Tuesday next in Harking back to that war but he had been daad far, far longer Except that the 20,000 was two aid of the Submarine Charity Ford Waz book which I am still read than that. I do not trouble to to Canton, but to the first railway Rusia" will provide the music.
thousand, that they were not walking The Band of the ss. "Empress of ing, I wish to say that I ascertain the date. My sufficient ter end. When I reminded him that found one passage which I would like evidence is the condition of the station in Chinese territory, that writing isn't a profession-that every- to beg the author to cut out. It gives cadaver. Olet.
trains were available, but not permits Capt. W. Davison, Marine body's doing it, parsons, old maide war the credit for the education
to use them, sad that they did not Superintendent oi lawyers, and even sailors and that of oble
the Canadian assault anybody, the Penang version Pacific S. S. Ltd, in Hongkong, and character consequently the wages must be low,į
is as early history as we are likely Mrs. Derizon returned from furlough observed taking place. These
to get from a fournalist. He went forrard with his spray stained phenomens were released by the
in Canada by the manuscript, and left me to my job hardships of war: and war hardship feres with your pleasures, cut out the
I see that the lead- Russia" yesterday.
"Empress of on the bouncing poop I took a are not the only ones. Think of the ba-iness. I have invitations (1) to
TRIPEHOUNDS er writer of the equint at the binele and found that Scott reheat from the South Pole. star at Tezing, Tsingtao, Shanghai, objects to be called a tripe-bound but March at the Botanical Gardens was
·Telegraph not only literature bad made me let her fall Think of the nobility of action re-and Java (2) for a free trip to Saigon, considers it "
The rainfall for the mouth of off her courte four points. Luckily Forted so often in bardships at sea.aud (3) for a cruise in the southern absolutely unjustified fault." Nator Hoapital, Mount Kellett, it was 2ins. the Old Man didn't notice it, being War is brutalizing. That is to say Pacific. Then there is the West River ally, not having yet been invited to 55 on 9 days, and at the Police gatuitous and ins. S on 12 days, at the Matilda below for his oilskins.
the business and the passions of war trip, which takes jus: too long for the dioner by him-an oversight difficult Station, Taipo, it was Tics. 03 on 5 are brutalizing as this book also Easter holiday. The next time I get to explain-I don't know what his days. Here's a bit about shows in places. It should not get the pack I'll keep it. You just watch attitude towards tripe may be Per- life at rea that may credit for the by-products of the me be new to some of hardships incidental to it. 31r. C. E.
sonally I love it. There is something YOU "When Montague in his war book, entitle
After much in tripe that appeals to me, and if on the "Atsuta Maru" to-day are Local residents sailing for home. The China Mail. Society, but the chronic casualties
joined the Navy in 1854," says Lord "Disenchantment," tells this story:
HELIOTHERAPY. tedious opposi anyone were to call me a tripehound Archdeacon and Mrs. Barnett; Mr- TRUTH, JUSTIOF, PUBLIO FEVICE" Would not have it. Eren aflation upmen were allowed only a basin of } during part of the war gave a lertare, committee to advise upon the promo- | long ago (absolutely the best of com-repaire; Mr. Bradbury of the Dairy "A General of some consequence Research Council have appointed a I attended a dinner on the Peak not keng Hotel Company, and Mrs. Beau- tion, the Medical I should accept it as a compliment. Beaurepaire, secretary of the Hong- they voted no good them, and inside one's sea chest ; and if anyone and others on what he called the actions of direct sunlight upon the course was a tripe course. As the and Mr. T. Petrie, of the South China water to wash in, and the basin was towards its end, to a body of officers tion of researches into the biological pany, I assure you) at which every Fan Company, and Mrs. Bradbury, Bongsong, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1999, they decided to struggle on alone.
What interest does was made to holystone it himself.thusiasm an anecdote of a captured Europe and Americs & great deal has be very glad to join a tripe club, if
spilt a drop of water on the deck he fighting spirit. He told with en-human body in health or disease. In Hop. Sec. of the Onion Club I would Morning Post, and Mrs. Fetrie.. our Government pay And has reminds me, as I once told trench in which some of our mea had been done by advanced physicians there were one. for the use of the Lord E-her, when I was a young first been killing off German appellants for with sunshine. It can kill some germs Telegraph writer doesn't know his D.3.0., R.N., is giving an ilustrated Widows' and Orphans' lieutenant, the First Ses Lord told me quarter. Another German appearing (in properly considered conditions) as New Testament, by the way, or he fantern lecture at the Taikoo Club on Savourers of literary style decided to raise the rate of interest it to ses, and he didn't see why the men the story went called out, your servants put out. There has to be wild beast allusion in the injured is "Scott's last expedition. Tickel Food? The Ceylon Government has that he never washed when he went and patting his hands up, one of our it kills fungi on the clothes and hosts would scarcely have taken up the Wednesday at 8.15 p.m. His subject Capt. E.B.G.R. Evans, C.E., may tell me who ware pays on the money of the Widows Devil the midshipmen should want to Ere! Where's 'Arry? 'E ain't ad commonsense used. You don't want way he did. He says the Mait isn't may be booked by telephone to Tai- WEOTE this bit: In my frisky and Orphans' Pension Fund invested wash now!!"
youth I could doubtless with it, from six per cent to eight per have allowed this chronicle cent increased rate as from 1920 and
one yet.". Probably someone had sunstroke, headaches, or fever, but respectable (thank God it's not) and koo Dockyard or may he had at the to go forth in the most fluent and accordingly a vote of Rs. 184,163,84
These Bolshevistic pulled the good General's leg, and the you do want to give free sit and he reproves it for slang, although the door romantical style in which it was first, is shortly to be asked from the
agitators keep thing never happered. But be eunshine a better chance at your body. I page be adorne was full of slang. benefits.
The proceeds go to naval written: but age steals the Postry Legislative Council.
pestering me about believed it, and deeply approved the Light and heat are enervating, but The idiom "dams all seems to have out of a man's joints though, to maké
the Feak Trams, in blooding" of 'Arry. That, he ex-light and cold stimulate. If there is a got him too. It made him confess amends, it sometimes makes Lis mood
From a Shanghai them only about four times a year.
which I am not interested, as I use plained, was the fighting spirit."" nice breeze blowing, in bright sun-ownership of a little bunch of italics: Mistes
At the Roman Catholic Cathedral, paper of April 8, When I get my motor car I shall that general was brutalized.
What I mean to say is, true or not, shine, and you can get a ship all to He explains (so far as telling Sir Paul Thursday morning between 5 and 8
were said as page 8: Generally probably we them less. have not left enough of tower of titude of the public seems to be that was a disgraceful scramble at the
yourself, it may pay you to dress like Chater what to do is concerned) that aim, and at 11a.m., His-Lordship speaking the at-Artemus" writes me that there However.
The same author Adam for a while. language, and if the most part be while it does not want to recognize Peak Tram station on the Prince's
his standpoint was: "Give where Bishop Fozzoni performed . BLOODY-
(Montague) re. written in a day and jor-tray, the truth of [the argumect that reception day. There were many
the I saw in one of the the need is greatest." Ia that case "Washing of MINDED calls the effect
Feet" ceremony. if, while the writer scribbled, be higher
OF LEISURE. Home NONCOMBATANTS of newspaper war
papers an the money must go to the coolie class. Faithfuls took turns of two hours miled at his own folly."
theatrical
article in which one of But our leader writer tells me he will each as Guard of Honour before the. charges are civilians and many soldiers justified by higher costs] it is latter don't count for as much as at the first Battle of Ypres;"
propaganda on a those atrange men who want to do put the Kindergarten Paper in its Blessed Sacrament all day; and all No need to tax your gradually being compelled to do so they did when the other Big Push
The little blond Regular subaltern maimed good and make one blade of grass proper place when he returns from night watch was kept up until Good BUT AS FOR wits grossing the At last, there has been a great was on, and in the Tram Pash they
grow where before only an onion his Easter boliday, on Tuesday. So Friday morning when a balf Mazs" THIS
authorship of this one. change since, like one man, the con-
"Pretty measly sample of the grew was complaining that so many It is clipped from the munity rebelled against the extrait were Car after car buzzed off,
ain against the Holy Ghost!" the men "waste" their leisure at street advised him to withdraw the expres when the crucifix was exposed for must not queer his pitch. I have was said, stopping at the Communion, are expected to wait is reserve, as charges demanded by the ax and these soldiers stood waiting.
one legged child grunted eavagely, corners. I kept my temper, reflecting sion "tripehounds" and call 'em all veneration. In the afternoon, large showing a London paper's comic that as things are more fools must crib suckers.” fortunate Miss Marie Tempest's The civvies who preceded them
sketch of a corpulent German ras-appear in print than wise men.
numbers attended the tenebrce and impresario, judging by the recent had been pleasuring; they had
ning away. The first words I ever fool wanted these loafers to attend success of some high-priced. stare. been oa daży, working, parading
Way of the Cross." Rev. Fr. heard uttered in palliation of good plays and Now assuredly no one is looking for and waiting for hours. It did not
Augutia of St. Joseph's Church Garman misdoings in Blgium came music!
hear
good excuses to add tu "H.C.L", certainly sera fair to "Artemas," who then
presched from the pulpit as each of To me leisura is from a Regular N.CO., & Dragoon soil for roul growing. The lilies that of having quitted the Colony in 1920 The service was most impressive. It Remanded for a week on a charge the fourteen stations was reached. forgotten that, in all countries and at inaid-some tipan's lady got on to a journalist. But it should not be goes on: One emancipated house
Guards sergeant, holding forth to a Jesus made such a point of are lilies with the chject of defeating bank was followed with great devoting. all times, people have had to pay a full car and was requested to get
sergeants' mers behind our line because they have leisure, and I can ruptcy procedings E. A. Beaumont This morning the Allelujah Mass was handsomely for the pleasure of hearing cff. This because since the summons
"We'd have dans every dama not recall that they were described as applied to Magistrate Wood on Thurs-sung, when doves were released in the thing they did," he averred, if it loafers because of their habit. musical stars,”
had been we." I thought him plays and good music are only artif- 8. Russ), to have his bail of $5.000 altar and statues were unveiled..
Good day, through his solicitor (Mr. C. A. Cathedral amid peals of bells, and the From the same paper, same day. been more strict. But she wouldn't There was also the famous frater and there never was a good play more would have great difficulty in raising for overcrowding the Company has rather extravagant, then.. cial modes of passing time agreeably, reduced. Mr. Russ said Beaumont Butchers' Guild Squeeze get off. They were to note that she mining and football oss Christma interesting or mere mentally profitable 95,000 unt it he were kept in jai he lut published bras-4 personege pertragrof the Rec Montague, by the way, wass combat than what a refiictive Joaler can would not be able to go into his
Fecords another Ticket is and I must go up in ant. He is rather good about a watch from his street corner. I am accounts. other kinds of meat. Taking male wriggled out to make room for
the ust of beef, mutton.hisar' she said, and clung. A mere chaplain: ither a members or borste, effect from April 1. This increase, het makingthong
URING the rammer months children "His seemed to be only too much deny that without it contigall would not consider the sppitation looseness of the bowrie is conced myself interested in botany, but I The Magistrate intimated' that he bowels and should receive the most cate
are subject to disorders of the aptube!
ayat atraid of hering fought that he cannot be enjoyed and good got of it, unless the official Receiver were con-Chamberlain's Colic, and
was anything more than one of our the sense of teanty sharpened, and sulted.
Diarrhoes Bemedy should be given. For sale by all Chemists and torekeepers.
more humorous and ironic. So blame
the rusty jade Time, if you fad I
Edinburgh Dispatch; Should Togal bap lae tak' the 'fa, Gif him ges of Hidan dew; As if he perdit g him two
The mak' bimeter;
him fa-
If tat's Lae guid.then Should tat nae cool biered proo, Then he's nae worth ta pallin' tro,
He's nae, whatefer.
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