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Drink to me only with thine eyes,
For thou must guten again * If thou hast any wild eurmiss Of contraband champagne; The thirst that from thy soul dotb
rice
Doth lock to me in vain;
I cannot, darling, put thee wise-
Cone every drop and drain.
I sent thee late a quart of ryz, By so much pitying then- Which thou didst scarcely breathe
upon
Ere it had ceased to be-- Not giving thee the hope that I
Isd other quarts for the Thou sent's the rapty bottle back,
Without a smell for me.
With Old Tom gin at fifteen per,
And Scotch at twenty five,
We'll have to find some other way,
Beloved, to survive;
THE SENSE OF
FON
SATURDAY, JULY 29. 1822
CHILDREN'S corner.
Stamped
THE FAIRY SHIP.
wa the sea,
things for me,
די
The four and twenty sailors that
stood between the decks
Were four and twenty white mics
with rings about 'heir necks. The captain was a duck, a duck, with
a jacket on his back, And when the fairy ship set sail, the
captain he said "Quack"
WATER WORRY.
BASEBALL BATS AND BROKEN HEADS.
A quarrel over the drawing of water between the occupants of the ground and first floors of No. 10,-Prays East, resulted in an affray which ended in
killed, it was alleged, by a heavy blow a fatality, one of the contestants being
of the hand with a bassbali bat,
The sequel was heard in Mr. R. E.
Lindsell's Court yesterday afternoon when two youths appeared to answer a charge of manslaughter.
I paste this in the on the faithful motor's back, ness men to show interest in public A OLEVER hope that you'll enjoy and leave its wonderful homing affair. (I tell you again I am not it ra I did. It is a well instinct to find the right road." talking of Hingkong.) The proper known lyric by Ben Or like this one:
lars for a junior commercial man Jonson, rewritt n "in accordance
Ho had been thrown, were clearly understood to be work
"I with the Eighteenth Amendment, or had fallen, from bis Ford. He was within reason) outdoor sport, and the
ship a-sailing a-sailing on U.S.A."
quite dead when found, and the other usual recreations of a spirited. And oh! it was so ladon with pretty finders report that the affectionats wooliy-minded young rabbit. That Bibver re used to leave the body, but is how it was that Respectability in There were comfits in the cabin and stood over it in a protecting manner." undated the committee, and (as it
apples in the hold, I are in a Bhanghai paperero) castrated it en that there was The sails were made of satin and the WRONG. the headline "Road hogation to it. It was no longer likely to
no longer the slightest possible objec mast was made of gold. nbase ad lib," Tardly adit, Interfere. Bo that is why the place aurely? Ad nauseam so like Hongkong remained so like: would be more appropriate.
Hongkong. because the younglings Henri Bergson wrote that did think for a little while bo- a book full of the longed
to the Ancient Order of most atrocious pifle Wurruns. about laughter. I
Sensation, says the see that Max Eastman has written a
THE SKULL reporter, attended the counterblast, in a book called "The
According to the case for tho production of a buman Sense of Humour (Scribner, 10. akull in a police court case this week.
prosecution as outlined by Inspector Thit was one of the favourite songs Bd.). That's good. The Times ro They are not pretty ohjents, but of a little princess calle Radiance Blackman the prizoners occupied the viewer deals as fably wih it as he formerly were valued as remem- When the was a tiny baby the Court first floor of the house and the deccas- can; but I see that he is weak in the brancers. As you are now, so once musiciana
played it 62 fundamentals, just as Bergson was, was I. As I am now, so you will be." and at once she clapped her hands
heted was a foki of a Japanese curio He quotes Fraud on saying that a joke There is an old inscription in Happy and cried for more sad even when shop on the ground floor. The is a means of releasing suppressed Valley to that effect, though I cannot she was a big girl of seven she still trouble began because the shop people motives, usually sexual, from the un-remember the wording. Plutarch asked for it to be played.
kept the taps running all the time conscious and of giving them harmless tells us that at an Egyptian banquet I should like to see that fuiry the water was on, and the people on vent. He goes on: "He is a man of a servant brought in a skeleton and genius; and no doubt be gives the oried to the guests, Eat, drink, and
the other floors could not get a drop. Eine reason why many people enjoy be merry, lot tomorrow you die.
There was trouble, and in the affray improper etorics, but what they usual-There is a reference to this in Byron's Might I a hooker swift and straight ly en oy is the impropriety rather than "Don
which foll wed the turning off of the Juan," "Like akulls Bt Adowa my gullet pour,
the fun." That is the bummiest of Memphian banquets." It might not
For she lived in a beautiful palace taps on the ground floor by one of the Then with a heart for any fate, bum thinking. Why do we enjoy im- be a bad idea to put up skulls at all to the water's edge and looked out for bareball bats, which were one of the on an island and they had often gone young men living on the floor above, I'd promptly call for more; Or might I Ebret's nectar sip,
propriety? Because impropriety, when our strect corsers, with a legend to the fairy ship though for Marianas it lica of good-stocked by the Japanese I'd ask no drink divine;
su enjoyed, is fun. Fun out of place to this effect: "As you may be, was only a kind of game for she did el op, were caught up by at least two and season in an impropriety we do unless you do your bit to discourage not believe that they would ever real of the Oghtira and used freely on the not enjoy, and we complain of the the traffic in arms." Aud (in time ofly see it. funding one's perverted sense of hum-preparing for war) "All that is left
It was a misfy autumn day and deceased was fatally injured." Some en long for our. I draw a distinction between the of the tools of the professional there was a haze over the tee and It was quite evident that the de- fame, many for sense of humour and the sense of fun. politiciaus." Alse (near the stock Marianne shivered a little as she sat fendants were not entirely the ag money; others have The sense of fan is universal and exchanges) "What shall it profit on a rock while the Princess gazed grass rs n the affray, for one of them various ambitions, elemental. Every one has it. Like you?" The "grin" of a skull is
had a lanlaged-up head, and the You'd never mine, it is so modeet. It is that I } find vert, and any available material
other wore a shirt covered with blood. witnesses for the prosecution and Their story was that one of the might live through one month of our serves. We do not speak of the Hongkong summer without having to staple fool of mankind” because dif- blow my nose. or swallow coughferent races have diffreut staples,
But Radiance who was prering into the dece ad attacked them and mixtures. A moldest desire I called it chosen for them by conditions. The
the mist did not hear her, though the they were unlucky enough to be but is it? Summer colus ΕΔΕΙ sense of humour is a particular staple Mr. A. N. Lutey goes on the listext minute she exclaimed,Look: arrsted just as they had got the baseball bats away from their numerou enough
Marianou, do you see something com among Diy find of the gen ral sense of fun. It of authorized architects. acquaintances, and perhaps they most feed; it takes the food that
ing towards us near to the big cliffs?" assailants in order to save themselves
from further injury. Marianne turned to look and-yea, have to be. Perhaps they are as inhabit and convenience provide. One
sure enough, something was moving evitable as measles in childhood. I man's fun is another man's
slowly towards them. (forget what measles were like, but it noyance and ong man's annɔyauteis- seebs to be I'd rather have a beasle quite often other men's fun. To say thad this dab duisada.
of a man that he has “no sea e of
A kiss within the cup, indeed,
Dead poeta may revive, But living bards need stronger stuff,
Dear coz, to keep alive.
If but upon the cap my lip-
I would not ask for thine,
OUR HONGKONG
SUMMERS
RIGSBA
Just
guess the ведзе of beauty. it must dreadfully satirical.
LOCAL AND GENERIL.
Mr. N. L. Smith is to look after &B the prisc as while Mr. Franks is away
Mr. C. M. Ede is gazetted as taking Mr. Pollock's place on, the Executive Council.
humour" ultimately means caly that his staple is not yours. To say of a man that he has no sense of fun would be a capi lie, because it is an in-
The librarian of the Supreme gredient of human nature, just as Court who has been in that position admination of beauty is. Man must for eighteen years died during the reg zd something as beautiful, weck from influenza. wherever he be. So we say that baates
a reminder, We were to have AUTHORITIER good, tyres and clean covers on our ricable, and so wo did for a time. The usual thing is happening Possibly supervision has slackened. Perhaps the officer responsible is away on leave. May be I've been vary, which means that the staple In cassequence of the strike of unlucky in my observat ons. But I food of the appetite for beauty is also cargo boat men the Indo China e. a. whether the idea is right or wrong.teem to have noticed more badly conditioned. The mint is preoccupied "Yuen Sang" is tied up at the Tse one thing he ousiders of any im-wora tyres and mure filthy covers with sex, so no explanation is re. Osaka Shasen Keisha Wharf.
Wall quired of the fact that the appetite skal 4* | portance is wasther one believes it than the other sort lately.
for someone kindly check my audit i
fun forde
what this Dieself "— hat is, whether
he
Thin Mail
TROTH USTICA POSLO
Lowarawa Samoa SP, JeLy
.9 191 !
ADVERSARIA.
pe sondly desires to believe it. The quotating is recalled by the reception in certain quarters of two of this week's China Mail leaders, the one
TAONY AMAH
од
Maka
ship" she said to her Lady in Waiting, who was called Marianne, Shall we go down to the sea and look for it ?"
out to sea.
"Come home again Princess," she arged, "It is too dull and chilly a day
to sit out hero."
At first they could chly ave a grey mass, then as it drew nearer, it took on the form of a visel and at last the Princem cried out,
others with the result that
tho
The principal witness for the proee: uti, n admitted that the second defendant was the first to complain and asked the polic man to arcest him (the witness}
The Magistrate: The second defend- ant had a broken head at the time.- in fact it is still broken.
Witness: My head was also very
"It is my own fairy ship at last !" For now they could are plainly that the sails were made of satin and the maat was made of gold. Climbing .pdunaged. and down the ropes were some white How was the defendant's head mice and by the mast stood a big broken?
I do not know. It may have been white duck wearing a blue jacket with bright gold buttons and on his head broken by the deceased, who picked
up one the clubs. was an Admiral's cocked bat.
Oh! the dicessed picked up a club? Radiance cried, "I must rail with the-You didn't?-I had nothing in hand. And yet this man was fighting with fairy ship!" and started swimming
you and not with the deceased; funny towards it.
"Come back. Process,' cried isn't it-These three shops com- Marianne wringing her hands, for she
As the boat came car the sbore
1)
could not swim and so was not able
municate and I ran over there.
Whatever answer is that? How
The Indian Recreation Club's reviewer mesat by impropriety. The "At Hama" fixed for to day is "off" An expression used by appetite for pornography is not the The weather is too bad. 8:e Mc. Chase in vulgar abuse, appetite for fun, but a very different Rumjaba's official notice in today's which I have area inter thing. The sex-etarved soul gloating
advertisements. preted as your mother over pornographio stuff does not on "Cruelty to Animals," and the is a grass widow." Which recalls the laugh. It ravens. Consequently, Suffering from injuries received I hnd occasion to seade on "Is Labour a Commodity." ancient jape that defines a grass though a smoke room story may be through a fall while attempting to
registered letter. In each there was an idea, but in each widow an a warried lady who has no somewhat "dirty" (ie. impropr) board an Aberdeen bds, in Pokfulam to them." for which purpass case current prejudices were stocked,ase for weeds, but likes to make bay its laughing teller and his laughing the French Mission's Sanatoriam, was Radiance had nearly reached the side head with your elbow, in fact; and so bought a special en- velope supplied by the Post Office Department. It was a good, tough envelope, and the fsp
LIVES
"
LATTLE
WORRIES.
while the sun shines,
Have you noticed when HOUKS you see a man reading AND FOOLS, à book on a tram or in a train how restless you
SCOTS
WAS,
because
bit of
He
hearers are after the fun of it, and I have always loved the not the filth. In short, they are Scots accent. There is indulging the impulse that laughs, ACCENT. Something endeating rather than the very different impulse about it. It is musical. that craves lascivious excitement.
ANCIENT
Road, a coolie employed at "Naz'sret,"
off a blow.
to follow her charge. What will did the second man's head get broken? your father and mother do without-Possibly I may have bit his head you. Perhaps you will never return with my arm in endeavouring to ward But her pleading wat in vain for The Magistrato: You broke his of the boat and the four and twenty bidly that it is still broken-You yesterday removed to the hospital. ·
white mice were throwing down a are not even a good liar!
After a carpenter had A 16-year old Chinese boy was rope ladder by which she could climb yesterday admitted to the hospital on board.
Mari.nne ran as fast as she could to
given
a clearer account of the affray, and Dr. D. J. Valentine bad described the
of her she was nowhere to be found. The hearing was then adjourned.
*
*
A year passed by aud the Queen
too.
Barbara Budden. I was glad to
I saw in the Daily public opinion in civic and kindred disputo. Although no wattlement has she was, into the arms of her faithful long competition though I daresay it
friend.
was well gammed. I placed confidence are until you have seon what it is that But I think I never admired it so Vary often we fail to sen where the suffering from lajuries to his head re- in it. Then the youth behind the ho is reading? It is a bare said I must seal it in three places, inquisitiveness of which no one feels much as when walking one day this fun is, but that only repea's the proof caived through being knocked down the palace calling for help but by that deceased's jujuris, the Magistrate de- with a private seal: and I went away ashamed. Indeed, "what are you week. One of those playful motorists that sense of humour varie, while by the Revenue Department mater time the fairy abip had disappeared cided to reduce the charge against the Borrowing, for I had no private seal. reading? is accounted a legitimate who, with the full width of the high- the sense of fun does not. Men may van No 1, near the Central Market. into the mist and though the King at second defendant to one of disorderly. I believe my ancestors had, but the question among acquaintance. It way available, delight to brush a argue their respective preferences for The injuries are xot ecrious.
once ordered boats to go out in search conduct. last three generations have not used never sanoys me, if the party be pedestrian's elbow in the hope of apples or for oranges, but they never seals. The adhesive wafer supplanted satisfied with the information; but his caring bio, whizzed by him from quatrel about the merit of fruit as Two factions of Kowloon ricska wax, and the adb rive envelops aup- ensuing comments frequently enrage behind. I may not report verbatim fruit. They may differ as to what coolies had a fight in Canton Road,
lanted the wafer, and I had almost me. There is a type of omniscient the things he said. They were too things seem funny, but they agree yesterday. Poles and stones were hud nearly given up hope of seeing with your prizes and bape that you forgotten what eling wax was like, and infallible ass whose talk of books eloquent for print. I admired, I that the quality of funnynses exists assd. Heads were broken and blood her little daughter again. I could not seal the thing with a new amounts to conduct calculated to cavied, I endorsed all he said. One somewhere.
flowed fr.ely. One man was so badly
Marianne went down to the sea will be lucky in the long competition dine I had, beraus, obviously, the provoke a breach of the peace. On of his phrases struck me as remark-
injured that he had to be taken to the sbor every day and eat for hours
Maude George. Thank you for design on a dime is public-it is not a
Once, in a place very Kwong Wah Hospital by the police. wate' ing for her return. one occasion on board ship I had to able. He spoke of the motorist's PUBLIC like Hongkong, although ocal private to myself. I tried a wood confess that I was reading Darwis "foolish, fulvous face."
That was
And at last, when a year and a day your nice letter. I expect you will 'OPINION. I beg you to believe block, but the wax stuck to it. on coral reefs. Darwin! Du yoa apt. It was le mot juste, the race and
that I am not meaning
Negotiations are etiil proceeding had gone by, and it was again a dull accing all those tresa at home one
day. Eventually I sealed the seals with the read Darwin? Don't you know that close epithet that lightens gloom and Hongkong, there was a keen but the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for and Radiance came swinming to hear that you were going in for the
between the partics concerned and misty morning the fairy ship returned buckle of my belt, which seems B Darwin has long been discredited? esses suffering.
email attempt to arouse and interest the settlement of the cargo-men's private sort of thing, and it was I've never read him myself, and never
shore and flung herself, dripping as accepted. Now, I am of opinion that will. If I had my way I would destroy
NOT VERY Press that Mr.matters. It had a committee. At
does seem a long time until November very few poople nowadays are likely all his books. They exercise a
Lauritson had been first it was composed of young or
yot been reached it is hoped that to have private seals. To get one demoralizing influence, Materialism is
FISTORY telling the interviewer youngish men, who had been thinking,
"Oh Marianne," she cried, "I will 25th! I could not quite understand matters will progress considerably
by your letter whether you had meant made in order to send perhaps one the bans of the age."
never leave you again but it was a about the early days it was like unto a brave green plant during the week end. registered letter in a decade seems
magic ship and it drew me to it and to enter for the hidden trees one too of course, &
of motoring in Hongkong. I rode in that comes up in the early spring. It missionary; superfluous, somehow. I do not think but
my chcecience tilf pricks motor car here long before the looked healthy. But a frost came
"Peeping into the Editorial cub I had to go. We sailed away until but hardly think you can have done wax, in any caso, offers the security me
also your letter came after the com- chinasd for it. I have heard that a obvious duty of throwing him over-ride far, because on the Prays East, he seemed to lose in- Topiciat in the Singapore Free there, was no night but always bright petition was over. I am always glad throtected the earliest year he mentioned. I didn't and nipped it." One by one the push by hole the other day" writes the we came to a beautiful island where as you did not enclose the list and
et beyond the Corinthian Yacht ferent. They became strangely silent Press, the Topiciet espied his learned sunlight. The whole place was cover- Club, the car turned suddenly to the about things on which they were colleague tearing up a trenchanted with apple trees on which grew the to bear of new competitors. The Hongkong and left and dived off the wall into the known to feel deeply. This was die article entitled "Why make friends reddest apples that you can are adde MALAYA. Shanghai Bank in Sing sea. With swift visions of the car cration, not apathy. It was Fear, with the Germans." He had just of comits, yellow and red and white.
apore has lowered its tursing over and pianing me down, which is worse than Fire when one learned that some of the beer drunk The sailors filled up the hold and the string. all, and charge for it. To rate of interest on fixed deposits to I did my own teoord dive, leaping out wants to insure Good Worke. Some at the ESMA's dinner, while ago cabin with them and then we sailed
into the three per cent. This le au indication as we went over, and swimming under how the idea spread that the junior was of the throughgoing. Garman back again. But oh I am so tired of HIDDEN NAMES COMPETITION. twentieth century world looking of how bad things are in sy water until I couldn't hold wind any who talked too much was apt to get that if the gallant warriors of the war apples and comfits and I never want
braat, and he had rightly concluded for a private seal is a heartless sort of Those with money osunot invest it is longer. When I emerged. I saw the the Sack. The frost figure must now could stomach the Han liquors, it to see any more and though it was
the usual ways. Another indication back end of the car well out of the be discarded. Our little sociological proceeding,
In the June number is the remarkable rise in the market water, at
my companion hanging society did not perish no a plant that was not for him to preach on the need a wonderful journey and we wont fas- BEAUTIFUL of the "Overseas "quotations for Government loans. on to it. e explained that the steer is nipped. It still had a committee for a dry and frigid reception of Haus ter than the wind I will never leave
magazine the frontin-
I take a clean sheet ing gear had gone wrong. Personally but now most of them we taiping, Winkelstein and Co. when he returas Father t piece is a pretty
HONGEONG of paper on which I'm an old fogie in this matter, and excellently skilled in the passing of onos mor to these shores.
to write beautifully in full sympathy with all who tried plons resolutions which resolved noth mautioned in my recent tramping |
shout the sweet in. to discourage the motor car from ing. The dog was still a dog, but it ekebohen. I do not know how people nocence of babyLoad. How charming coming here. The world is wide. was muzzled. The fortress was still can carry on looking at the pictures in are these infants of tender years, how They could have afforded to leave us a fortrons but it ** Over>eas." They make
one peaceful haven. My main objec bands of the enemy. The reform com me engaging their pratile. How -besick,
But just here is bystander reports totion-to-motore-is-the-change-they-mittee: wax atil a committee, but á, The last soreoning of "Every Oscar Wilde in one of me faithfully something he actually will affect in literature. We will be committes that did not desire woma" will take place at the Coronet his stories said: "I heard on a hill road in Hongkong. A getting stories like this now. one puts forward so thin youth aged six was boiling & fat
reforms. The juniors saw that it was on Sunday. Monday's programme Night had fallen, the good to back up the opinions of the will feature Blanche Sweet and Harold ides to a traa. En-youth aged e. Look out, Fatty traveller could not see, and was hopa Taipany, or at least that it was Lloyd in a couple of tip-top comedies glishman-always a rash thing to do Arbuckle," said the mito, hero's lossly lost. All he could do was unhealthy not to. It was understood and a film of the 1922 Derby with
he haver dreams of considering your b--amah."
to throw the steering wheel that it was not good for young busi- slow motion plotures of the finish.
hot thin blade can lift the scal in a board.
condition to allow of its replacement, } But aasuming that the Department thinks wax necessary, I wish it would
do the waxing and realing it-
chase
SURREY
******
out
pic ́ara of Abinger Hammer, a place I
A WILDE NEWARK
:
INFANTS,
1
Was in tho
THE CORONET.
and the of theas
What is a hammock 1
A lot of holes tied together with
LASTING 10 WEEKS.
THIRD WEEK.
Whether the fairy ship ever came
to draw Radiance to it and she lived
near that island again was not known name:-"I rode on a camel said the man." (The answer you sos is Elan.) but it no longer had any magic power HIDDEN NAME.
This is an example of a hidden
Thid
Is my
ANSWER.
for the rest of her days happily with parrot. I call him Poll you know. the King and Queen and Marianne.
PETER PAN..
ANSWERS TO CORRES 'PONDENTS.
Elsa & Edas Batalha. I was to glad to hear that you were so pleased
NAME. AGE.... ADDRESS.
Cut this out and keep it carefully until after Saturday, November 20th. when I want you to send it to "Peter Pan, c/o The Editor. The China Haïl Office,"
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