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SAILOR'S SUNDAY.
RELIGION OF REST.
To the tarry-fisted shellbacks aboard the few wind-jammers that yarning.
NEXT QUEST.
CONTROL OF WIRELESS WAVES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
AND, YOU HORATIO 1!
"How old wore you when you first began to spoor}"
WHEN DID YOU BEGIN?
BROADCASTING PROBLEMS,
SOME
SPOONERS CONFESSIONS.
Now that wireless broadcasting The Rockefeller Bureau of Social has been established in this country | Hygiene has broken out in a new writes the Daily Mail) Senator place, and has addressed to a Marconi is going on an ocean voy nge in his famous yacht "Elettra startled New York the following with, the object of discovering a questions means of directional control of wireless waves. At the moment waves sent out from a station radiate in all directions. It is Senator Marconi's to discover a method where
desire by waves can be controlled so that they go in one direction only-in a straight line from station to station. Meanwhite the craze-for broadcasting is increasing by leaps and bounds, and the need for the solution of the problems of its organisation becomes daily mere argent.
on. There was unanimity in the Wireless manufacturers and experts discussed the posi- condeinnation of the broadcast
DOG'S LEGS.
SUBJECT OF SLANDER ACTION.
VETS." VARYING VIEWS. Mrs. Edith Conway Evans, of 16, Bush, W., was plaintiff in a slander Askew mansione, Shepherd's action brought against Mr. Theodore Marples, editor of Our DORS, weekly newspaper published in Manchester.
Mrs. Evans, who is a breeder and exhibitor of pedigree Pekingeso "What effect did spooning have dogs, owns a Pekingese registered upon the quality of your character"in the books of the Kennel Club
"If you indulged, how far did you Wu.
under the name of Pekeplan Wee goin spooning?"
She claimed damages for sons can you give for that fact?"
"If you are unmarried, what rea-cerning that dog published by Mr. alleged false statements con- After a disastrous beginning, caused, to be swears, by his ner vously putting the question to pretty girl in the form. Do you spoona Stancy Sun reporter wrote the questions down, and get a few
The defence was a denial that the Marples ja September last year. words were defainatory and a plea of fair comment.
Canton to-day must briofe of remain afloat Sunday is a day of pirate,"the man who makes his grandmothers as, "young blood." show in September last it was'
the most extraordinary places in the world. There is an astounding quality about it which takes the breath away. The western visitor
Clothed with a great weight of fun listening in set and does not canvas, the four-masted barque is pay the licence,
"It is the experimenter who is,
Mr. C. L. Henderson, who appeared with Mr. Dyer, K.C., for dinkum Aussie" opinions..
Mrs. Evans, stated that she bought. dividual of the sort known to our for £52 10s. At the Maidstone dog His first victim was a hefty in-the dog when it was six weeks old
He was loquacious, but nimble in awarded a second prise and a re- evading difficult ground.
Gerve place. In a report of that "Spooning," said the young show Mr. Marpies said the animal Evans wrote that the allegation is difficult to discover. Perhaps it lies in the impression gained of The wind shrills through stays and the numbers are still increasing. from a girl, the lure of a
Radio Society of Great Britain, action on the part of a young man, the dog had won prizes al leading It may be interpreted as direct was untrue, and pointed out that They hear more than the story:"There are 20,000 of them and in response to an intriguing glance shows under a number of judges, theming, multitudinous humanity. ' Sir Frederick Treves in one of his Reing. Froin overside conies the They are the class of amateur the moonlit night, or the sporting risk Marples himself...
hissing whisper of the swell. In
included among 'whom was Mr. of a boxed ear.
gasps and is left gasping while running her easting down. On the the real person who counts ir, wire blood, "is a vague and old-fashion- was unsound on all his legs." Min Canton continues on her centuries fore-hatch the bo'sun holds forthless development," said Mr. Leslie ed term?"
Smoking lazily, the crew
ronad about listening.
the galley a rattle of tin pans. The cook is making coffee, a pleasant odour mingling with the tang of the sea breeze.
books has aptly described this by saying that if une rubs the wall in Canton it seems that it must bleed The immunorable narrow cobbled alleys, bordered with shops and incessantly crowded with people do sail-making; only the trick at the No holystoning, no splicing, no indeed seem almost to be compost wheel and the look-om. Nothing ed of human lives rather than but cheerful relaxation Sunday bricks and mortar. For centuries, does much to prevent the roof a uncounted and countless millions hard occupation from cati have crowded the city. The spirit the sailorman's soul.. of the dead seem to inhabit it still. ONE ROAD.
1
In tramp scanners queer ports with ro from Papeete to Cal just as happy a da
into
for
manufacturer likes, because they but curiously enough experimenters began it?" said The Sun man. are always buying different parts, do not like broadcasting because I can't remember," answered How old were you when you
it interferes with their own experis the young man reflectively, "Uut
custoni, art, science, until it has ments and transmission."
become a habit." well-defined stages of adventure, when it started it went through the
is a suggestion that the wave length used for broadcasting should be To get over this difficulty there
reserved for that purpose only.
WIRELESS "TARGETS, ".
.
On September 22, Mr. Marples
not satisfied with his reporter's published a reply in which he suggested that if Mrs. Evans was criticism as to her dog's soundness
Pekingese experts ocd at the Maid- mitted to of limb the dog should be sub- three acknowledged Kennedy, who judged at the stone show."
IMPROVED MIND AND FRET, Counsel said that the dog was There is a third class of person"What effect did spooning have on on one day, 3 for Mrs. Evans and.2 The next-question was a-poser. examinedby 5 veterinary surgeons es, who considers himself affected by the quality of your character?" is wireless and he, as a mile, directs
for Mr. Marples. The dog came "Well," said he, à depressed air out of the ordeal with credit, and his complaints to Senator Marconi.setting on him like a dust-cloud on no trace of infirmity could be found number of letters from all parts swift of wit, fleet of foot, and dent for her livelihood on such The senator produced a large a green lettuce, it has made nem it Mrs. Evans was depen of the world in which people optimistic. In the kindergarten fees as she could obtain from the the complained of being affected by stage of parlour spooning Iwashard services of her Pekingese dogs. the wreless waves. It is all sheer put to it to invent excuses for being She had fost all her savings in every-igination," said Senator Mar-discovered suddenly in proximity Farrow's Bank failure, and it was "The issue of a new sort of wire-excuse, ranging from chasing that she was able to buy Pekeclan to the daughter of the house. Any through the kindness of friends ess licence listenefs-in under official control is grips, was used on the spur of the
to bring licit mosquitoes to trying on its Wee Wu, M., now being considered by the Post moment. master-General, says the London Evewing News.
Yet Canton is changing, for it boasts now one wide read buit on the debris of an oil wall and the
Newly washed, cromes sites of houses, whose myriad from the rails: the chief engineer owners received little or no picks at his mandoline; the steward
is cutting "Marconi's". shadic of an awning bridge; and, oblivio thing, the youthful 1 snores in his hammock styg in the starboard alleyway.
J
mate coni.
Rest is the only religion in those weather-beaten, must-caked, was dering vessels of the seven seas,
SIR ALMERIC FITZROY,
pensation for their vanished homes, The road is even now no or than a rough track, but it is at least a breathing space in the maze There are other clunges also, one of them being the practical tisuse of many of the temples for pu poses of worship. Sun Yat Sen Fand the other political leaders of
South China consider that the The Navy dors things rather ancient superstitions are a differently. Sunday mean's "No. Siclop tu progress and the i rig, with gold badges and
spread of new ideas and there- general smartness to match. More discourage their followers Every man From practising religion. It is even church service provided
off duty attends uggested that Sun Yat-sen, who weather allows such a ceremony. may have been a Y. M. C. A. But even on the days there may leader in America at one time, is be interruptions. encouraging the
of spirgad
In fact, there is a story of a padre Christianity with its less reaction who was unte greatly disturbed ary ideals. These same dishsed during his sermon. temples are not the least fascinat had been placed near a man-hole
The lecter ing sights of Canton. Spentangled in the deck. And while the pardre the meshes of lanes are they was reading the lesson there came at the meen tiled ronis with their violent thumping-from-beneath Council. naments of porcelain dragons the man-hole cover. and dogs are scarcely to be descried
patient Chinese craftsman's' shops. le to decorate.
the
5 YEARS AT THE PRIVY
“COUNCIL.
BX-KAISER AS BLUNDERER,
VETS WHO DIFFERED. Gerald Herbert Broad, Shepherd's Evidence was given by Mr.
Mr.
Leonard Balls,
When lingering a little longer at the gate I developed fair speed Bush;
in sprinting for the last train, and, Brixton Hill; Mr. Thomas Finch, the few rebuffs I encountered made and Mr. Frederick William me an incurable optimist.
Cousins, veterinary surgeons, who had examined the dog, that it was sound and perfectly strong on all legs.
"No! How far did I go is a ques tion that cannot be answered ja one. I would have to think.
Unmarried! Yes! he said For the defence Mr. Alfred gleefully, his eyes lighting up. Joseph Seweil, Eaton-square, S.W., Sir Almeric FitzRoy, who is to buy a Ford, and I can't afford the the Kennel Club, said he also ex- The reason is I am saving up to veterinary surgeon to the King and Mail reporter of some of the out been lucky in always cooling off disease, but he thought it was rather retin on May 31, spoke to a Daily luxury of a wife. And then I've amined the dog. It was free from standing features of his quarter of a before the business got serious: century's work as Clark of the Prone can put them in the garage and Sewell said that Mr. Frederick "The advantage of cars in that In reply to his lordship, Mrs
weak in the legs.
ing badly or wearisome."-
evidence for Mrs. Evans, was his. MODEST, BUT SHE KNEW. partner at Eaton-square
THE EX-KAISER.
A typist was next put to the third
A FREAKING S
Sir Almeric mentioned that the
A gay old bachelor next toed the mark.
V den "Because I never spooned until
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" ain 71 year old," he mid,lock the door when they are spark-William Cousins, who had given The court yards are used for billet. Then a wild-eyed stoker, black it lay present intention, when I Ing Sum's soldiers, the shrines are with almost incredible grime, stuck have handed over the office to Sir degree. She took the hurdles in one said that when he saw the dog in LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. dark and dusty. Cleanliness gut his head, giving one horrified
Professor. Frederick Hobday, means nothing to such worshippers glance round the deck before re-Maurice Hankey, to retire to a little leap.
veterinary surgeon, Kensington, come, so the dirt is left to gather turning to the pit.
• estate I have in Hampshire and on the intricate and wonderful car.. When naval meh tell this story Spend the year that remain to me she said, "depends largely on the
"Spoonlag, like everything else," February its fore Tegs knuckled
A TIGHT CORNER." ings which literally crowd the into they always say that the padre was in the country."
over when standing and its knee kra. The temple of the Fire reading an appropriate passage at
nature of the persons concerned. joints were prominent. It was
ARRIVALS. Tindred
VOLUNTEERS' SATURDAY Genii
Sir Almeric said it was rather Some people simply wouldn't know cowhocked, and there was a where the the moment when the head appear-uarkable that it was only a few how to spoon if they lived to be a peculiarity in its gait when it ran
་་ Siropean visitors look for and find ed.-Daily Mail,
NIGHT SHOW weeks before the Great War, in exist if they were notallowed to ins efigure of Marco Polo in his
Inundred, whereas others couldn't Mrs Edith Conway Evans, carry-
UNRESPONSIVE" WITNESS,
Tango Maru (NYK) from caction hat, contains five hundred
June 1914, that the Departmental dulge in this pastime occasionally, ing her dog under her arm, then Bayard. Co's Wharf.
Melbourne, Manila.-K. Wharf ch figures, all remarkable for the
Curomifice set up to ordináto
Taiszem, (Yan Fat) from Fort Backing is going very well for fing expression of the features; these are Every tiniest shop has the outbreak of war of which he few years' experience we realise the dog on his bench. His lord-
the work of civil dopiricants on a ridiculously carly age, but after a suggestion of the judge she placed chow-wan, Macho-Co's Wharf.
"Iagree that we learn to spoon at entered the witness box. At the Sun Li, (Po Qa), from Kwong-place at the Headquarters of our the Dramatic performance to tako de old temple of medicine where its worker busy making the wares was a member, ad completed, its that we couldn't go on for ever do ship, holding the lead, tried to in-Keelung, Swatow-Co's Wharf.
faithful used to receive a which his friends are selling, work.
Volunteer Corps on Saturday even-. rescription to swallow, u practice Ivory carvers, silk weavers, jade mittee's work the civil departments our caresses to a privileged few. but as it did not respond to his Bangkok. —A 30.
Amakusa Maru, 10.S.K.) from ing. The play is a farcical comedy As a result of that coming this sort of thing, so we restrict duce the dog to ran along the desk, Hervar, (Kin Tye Lang) from with plenty of humour both in bw largely superseded by the use cutters, embroiderers, artists more potent drugs, the templo of on rice paper, furniture makers, with the chaos existing when there tion is 100 personal to be discuss was invited to step up beside the-042) (Kueh Sang) from members of the Quarry Bay A.D.C.
on functioned smoothly in comparison owers, the temple of the Shan basket weavers, makers of silver was fear of war over the Fasboda ed."
"In my opinion this sort of ques calls of" Come along," Mrs. Evans Amherst, (Or Fat) from Hoihow." A Tight Corner," by Herbert word and situation, The title is mily, every one is rich with a filigree of kingfisher feather incident.
fusion of carved omanent jewelry, shoes, stockings, coats,
judge and put her dog through its
Swears, and the caste is filled by ich covers walls and roofs inside fans and countless others of the
Naining, paces: d'out. Nothing is too small, nu laxies and necessities of life can ex-Baiser was the most disliked of
Swatow-B26. perfectly healthy and had always Saigon,-B31
Mrs. Evans, said the dog was co too hidden to make it worth be watched at their work in the tiny great foreign personages" "by the reached the mature age of 22, tions the shows at which the dog
Cadaretta, (Ad. Line) from who have previously staged the been lively and full of fun. She
same show with brilliant success. denied that with one or two excep- Keelung Wanchai,
Meldai Maru, (M.B.K.) from Tight Corner" was first pro THE SAMPAN PEOPLE. officials who had to meet him in other chaps reckoned I was a freak had been exhibited, were small Dairen. Off Stonecutter.
duced by the famous Kendals at England. He never was a gentle And so I was, because everybody shows.
Muran, (Pacific Mail) from 1006. The great actress, Mrs. The river population which man," he declared. He world does it in Australia, and I doubt the A number of men and women Bangkok, Koshichang. A20,
the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, in exceeds two million, lives entirely by to say what he thought would veracity of those American giris who had acted as judges of Pe- living in Canton. The Cities on sampans. Families of twenty pleass the person he was speaking who deny that they indulge in this kingese dogs at various shows gave
Gweneth, (Kin Tye Lung) from Mrs. Hyacinth that subtle, clever, Kendal, herself played the part of the Dead are their special crowd in a space which could not to and because of his inability to world-popular hobby. The old-evidence that they had seen no vations. Here, temporary lodge accommodate them if a fancy took junge character always made mis time way of seeing pa and asking unsoundness in the dog's legs.
witty, rather mischievous woman, as it were, can be taken them to sleep all at one time. Lakin an entirely suitable site Happily this never seems to be the a permanent grave can be case. Some sleep while others the Privy Council under, whom he
Of the nine Lords. President of handies" is a wash-out:NA
her to marry you before playing The hearing was adjourned nd Coffins sometimes remain work the sampan or fish for a hus, serted, Bir Almeric was mgat sible for my being on the shelf, APRON-STRING KNIGHTS. Years in the little houses which living. Shopping is done from impressed by the late Dyke of though Spooning recklessly near- the paved flower-scented walks other sampans. Babies are safe Devonshire, fioid Morley, and the ly got me hitched, in fact, incon hese silent cities. Silent by guarded by pieces of wood tied to Earl of Balfour, Lord Morley only, the guardian assured their backs 16 act as life belts if and I," he said, had many inter-months, and nearly said the fatal At night a bell is sung accessary. The dead are con esta in common. He would discuss word until one night, when she hadKnights of the blacking brush he spirits of the departed are veniently disposed of in the river, litaratare, hooks, and other teatters a cold and I discovered she didn't and apron strings from far, and divery politely to shake up for the sampan folk are a tribe in will me.The Eart of Balfour, was have two ideas in her head near ascombled at the sequestered minds whether they will themselves and seldom if ever go most charming man to work was put off other girls, though, hilltop village of Waistalls, Your Bin or not. Even so they ashore
hummer at the gate all night Cut off from Carton by the canal with
is the island of Shameen, the
by reason of the fact that they miles from Halifax. They were frane of the cities of the Dead European reservation, a strange President should possess, Bir What effect did spooning have on their annual outing, and in the
Of the qualities: which Lond-Couldn't kiss properly
members of the Henpacked Club Yamen, once the private contrast to its crowded busy Almaric placed culture first He on my character? cey and stronghold of the, Chinese neighbour. It has the air must be a man of the world, with RUINED HIMNA
linle Nonconformist Bethel they Swat general, now allotted to of some forgotten provincial town full and sympathetic knowledge of Absolutely ruined it..
held high revel, unfettered by eta of the Hongkong and in north Europe. There are no the ways of men He must be a longer truthful or faithfu
domestic worry and beyond the Governments who are roads, since wheeled vehicles are courtier, and at the same time àthing the good
call of women's tongues d Chinese. A charming unknown, and the wide, paved man of high resolve and firm pur-night and a new girl finds me tell
After djaner the offici mis, surrounded by high avenues between the rows of pose, for there are many
meeting was beautiful and neglected houses are occupied by hard tennis cult natters to deal with
diffing the fame did story all lies, surrounds the ruins of the courts and rows of trees, It has what may be described as for
1.lies and doing the same, old conqueror's palace. The been proposed that the dividing work
CITIES OF THE 'DEAD.
il
The dead are ever present
"
I don't know that it is respon-
had a gorgeous time for
HENPECKED CLUB REVEL
S
Sandukan Kowloon Wharf. It with a heart of gold... The now
Hinsang, M. & Co.) from Foolee, (Li Bing Kee) from Bang Lohr, then under the wing of the popular actress-manager, Marie kok. C21.
Apdey, (Wo Fut Sing) from Cane Kendals, was also in the cast. ton-Off Stonecutters.
In spite of counter attractions.it Dur, (Li Bing Kee) from Bang is hoped that the general public. kok C21
will give their support to this effort to offer much-needed amusement - DEPERTURES;
in Hongkong, where too many of us complain of lack of entertain
New Mathilde (Vik Tai) for E. The Governor and Lady ment and never think of trying 10-
Haiphong. May 17.
Hara Maru, (Dodwell & Co.) for supply the want. Everything AfoiMay 17
points to its being a great success. Hydrangea, (Chm On) for Swaand of course, it is unnecessary to Stubbs are expected to be present, add that is certainly not a show for Volunteers only, nor for men only
tow
(B&S for Shangh
3. & S) for Dairen,
Hop, Fat) for
Q.
mardian is still a Kanelu, cabal be filled up, but the proposal
O
gh brad ngitine features is not smiled on by Sham
king-contrast to those of which eve
Yanging thestugs of the mai
this haunt of peacer Canton
chief interest lice in
and how manifold
enjoy