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Y.M.C.A., or Young Men's Club, (a Junior Club would probably be the correct title) is still in the air and it will probably remain there. The money is invested somewhere, and doubtlone in cárning good inter ont. We do not know, not having
Monday next, on the fifth day of
Pedestrians and others, acen a statement, regarding the pre-
the fifth moon according to the
DEAD passing the military lunar calendar, Chinese sont position of the rustbor.. Then
parade ground this there was the socialistic suggestion
the Dragon Boat Festival.
morning, were interested to see. of an Unsocialistic: Government off. The effect of the rest of the In Hongkong the festivities are the dead body of one of those
She recently attended cial who was going to help solve the animal kingdom on the mind of mainly confined to the Dragons patient beasts of burden, the
NAIVE. ait affair of local import Homing problem, by erecting man, and the associations add Boat races. When the late Sir buffalo, lying against the rails.
ance. A now organ had Communal Hotel in Kowloon. mental antipathies which certain Henry May was Governor he How it had got there and what was been installed in the Parish Church, There was to be a Communal Din animals inspire is an interesting seldom missed going to the races the cause of its demise are, so far, and a confirmation service held in
at.Aberdeen. During the last few matters of conjecture. Probably ing Room, a Communal room to problem in psychology, he
conjunction with the ceremony. sing in, and another to foot it on Certain mental attitudes and years races have been staged at the Legislative Council debate had Giving her impressions, she told a the light fantastic. A Communal euatious we eat naturally ex- North Point, where large crowds something to do with it. We can story of a youthful applicant, for The only express our sympathy with confirmation regarding whom a kitchen, whore the Communal pressed by a metaphor drawn from
have been attracted.
blouter could be routed in front of the animal kingdom-cattiah, dove purport of the festival is practically the suriviving relatives.
obsolete at Canton. Dragon-
An
It
Tobacco is a dirty weed;
I like it. satisfies no normal need;
I
like it.
་
It makes you thin, it makes
you lean,
Friend Stevens OPTIMISM. tells us that ELT
optimist is a man who lives with a pessimist, Good! We have just come across a man who hangs out in Queen's Road, surely the most interesting street in the Colony who deserves things. Walk along it in the Wanchai direction and on the left hand side of it you'll come across a little shop
It takes the hair right all your--such a little shop. The name
bean,
over the doorway is The Everlast- It's the worse dari stuf I've, ing Co. And if that does'nt take
ever seen:
I LIKE IT!
like that?
Now who can argue with a man
the bun for sheer optimism we don't know what does. It is worthy of the order of the onion in the 3rd, degree (unpickled). We intend broaching the matter at the next meeting of the Onion Society.
query arose as to his having been The effects of baptised. "But I must have been," the Communal fire-place--one-like, muliah. These expressions, boat races have been forbidden TOBACCO alcohol and nicotine, he protested. I've got the marks thing like a dogs house in a slum indeed, sean so stural that they for some time owing to the
AGAIN. upon health have on my arm.” at home. All it needed was the Com-require no explanation: the obvious fights usually associated with them.
provided a debate, minnal temperament, which is very attribute of the animal in question The Dragon oarsman's sense of able topic always. But here is a difficult to acquire in a place like is transformed without hesitation, sport is peculiar, in that one crew characterization of, tobacco, from Hongkong or Kowloon, It was the human displaying similar quali- would not hesitate to strike or even Froth, that scoms good enough to beautifully idealistic. William ties, Tre, different race may open fire at a rival crew that ap-win immortality. As follows:-- Morris, were he alive, would have bo, indeed often are not, equally peared likely to win. revelled in the iden. He probably familiar with the same species of The origin of the festival is would have designed beautiful Com-minal, and once the epithet au obscure but in South China the 5th muna! tapestries and Della Robbia familiar and expressive to one may day of the 5th moon is one of the files, frescoes, "and vases, so that be Tost: on, or meaningless to four settling days in the year. Ar home, the women with the Communal soul would not be another. aniled in the process of living inj But much of our animal pay-participate in various rituals but this Apostolic "state, We eagerly chulogy has deeper and less abvious the men's main concern is to awaited the fruition of that truly "note. Everybody must have arrange an appropriate feast.
"alo' custom" attached to the Part Sunlight where--but it is no noticed how the very inention of the festival is the practice of making to be. Kowloon has its new hotel, word "spider" sende a kind of
packets of prepared rice, this being but it is for sale. Here then is anshudder through certain persone traced to some event in Chinese excellent opportunity to acquire a not always females either. Now,
mythology. [place to be run on Communal lines there is nothing in the anatomical From now onwards till Monday, where the Communal bloater can structure of the spider to make it some of the strange craft may be Ltd be cooked and eaten in truly Com-more objectionable than, (ay) a ber seen on the harbour, making their
How many of us, manal fashion, where the lioneless Rather the reverse. Its means of way to various rendezvous to race set out to report a meeting of the
WHY NOT? we wonder, have unes, yea even those who have bostike opproach approximate more one another. One that was local Theosophical Society Hist
often made the earned the Government's disappro-to a one-dimensional sphere thon & launched at Causeway Bay geography. was at fault and he bation by making" or letting three.
Yet civilised man has a yesterday is typical of those in found himself one of a few attend- welkin ring with our attempts at furnished flats, can rest and be at horror of spiders far in excess of Hongkong. The dragon-boat ising another kind of meeting. Asked singing a rousing chorus from a know if our local University peace. We have no interest at all anything he suffers from bees., 'This always a long affair just wide if he was a convert, he replied "No" | University Song Book. We don't in the sale of this particular Hotel is probably an "organic reflex" enough for two men to sit in ma reporter. That is a true story 8 are doing the right Communalis-banded down to us from our primi- abreast. Each oarsman will carry as is also the one of the scribe who students ever indulge in this ex- and we remember assisting" tic thing in mentioning the matter.tive and prehuman ancestry when one paddle and in the Hongkong attended one of General Booths cellent habit. They did years ago,
the nocuous and "creepy members boats there will be about 25 pairs meetings in London and on being them on occasion, in some of this order formed a more serious in each boat. (At Canton the boats asked if he was saved, replied No getters" from the Scottish Students A Stadium?
foe to the quadran then they do were generally longer, having I'm a reporter.
room for about 50 pairs of pad-
The London "Morning Song Book. There is not the
should. Our Fistics correspondent pleaded to-day. One very curious thing dlers) Each boat includes in its SOLOMON'S Post" waxes frivolous: slightest reason why our students
not make earnestly yesterday for the provision about this spider cult is the super-complement, a drummer and a man
· JUDGMENT. “A little girl was be-
"Let me make the of a Stadium where boxing contests imposed respect almost amounting to beat a gong, these taking the
'ing questioned this songs.
University's songs" soid could be witnessed in comfort, and, to apotheosis which this uninial has place of the cox who sets the pace. week on Solomon's judgment on well-known
"and" I presumably where training could be received from "advanced yroman Banners won in previous years will the ownership of a child. 'Oh' she done by would-be contestants in notwithstanding this creepy dread. also be put in a boat to urge the said, he ordered it to be cut into care not who makes the law
Wa bave one this One modern novelist describes a men on to greater feats and on the twins."" proper fashion. suggested the necessity there is for modern-woman-movement-society us whole, the sight is well worth
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CRIME.
a recognised place where sports con- "Arachnoid" (Greek, Arachnoa secing.
A story reaches us this TRUE. week concerning one of our knights of the pen who
WOMAN'S
WAY..
man,
go.
their own
governing our Hostels." Down When business falls under, which is Australia, the indie largely into students at the Sydney University, songs and the hands of women, compose their own tests which attract large crowds spider), and I believe there have
there will have to be publish them each year. Here is could be held, and where there actually been societies of this name,
taken into consideration certain one effort which will appeal mostly would be space enough to allow The meaning of the name is obvious. spectators to see what is going on The spiders us a group are marked Why is it that fish should always factors of failure or success which to those who conduct and the many in comfort. Happy Valley in the more than most by one characteris. be associated with that peculiar form are now negligible. Take, for ex- who read The Caduceus, that ex of lying called the 'tall' story. This, ample, this story of guaranteedcellent magazine of the Medical football season is an interesting tie--the females are larger and more of course, is a comparatively harm-authenticity, though the incident] Faculty. Hold your breath nowTMTMTMTM sight. It is safe to say that thou- pugnacions than the moles. An lese forms of exaggeration, the worst did not happen in Hongkong. A". Pour young Johnny Hunter sands are content to stand and put arachnoid society is one whose implication of which soon to be lady entered a bank, and an- up with disconfort, watching the object is to propagate this
Savage Beliefs.
concerned.
The fisherman, set the ball
and
soon will be a married man
Feed him on jam and parsnips,
And if you find him awfully shy, Massage his liver with spicy egg
flips,
His deodenum just oil with steak and kidney pie.. Though hearts he is always break- They're only dead ones, so don't
you scold,
always handling, They're like the legs that he's.
They're always dead, and pretty
fairly old.
This is sung to the tune of "Look
-
play that is going on. Very often characteristic in the human species. how little the scientific spirit has nounced her intention of opening We thought he would ne'er grow
up Gjust like Peter Pan) displays of partisanship take place So perhaps the creepy repugnance entered into the mind of man. But an account there. She explained
how to feed her man. which is all against good sportsman- of our feminines to the spider will why should the association of 'fish' that she had had an account for We must tell his future wife just shup and which must bring the in time disappear... ⠀
seem to bring out this characteristic. years at another bank close by, and If the Jonah story in the Old Tests. the usual inquiries at this institution Listen while we now unfold our name of clean sport into disrepute.
plan. There is also the question of the
meat is in any way responsible for brought the reply: "Highly re- spectable lady. Good account. different Interport games which are Much of our attitude to the the association of tallnges and Has taken her account away be- wow becoming such a feature of animal kingdom is bound up with fishiness' the coincidence is one of cause she did not like the face of sporting life in the East. There are curious primitive custom called the most ironical things in history one of our cashiers."" also our boxing contests. The need totoniem--a savage belief associat-In the first place, the swallowing
- "Why does my panting for a fairly large sports meetinging the human being in living rela part is rejected almost universally
A heart so loudly beat? place cannot be ignored. Hong- tionship to certain animals. This by all the authorities on Biblical
SPRING Is it from love or some- SONG. thing I have eat? Oh, Forer night reasonably be improv-kong should have auch a place. It relationship may be either one of exegesis; in the second place, the
can it be that Cupid ed. It is eccorded that the behavi- should be large enough to enable the avoidance or attachment. It lies zoological relationships of the whale
ing, ore important local and Interport the foundation of the disrespect leave the interpretation unsatisfac. has my number or is it maybe that our of the Chinese contingent with Cricket matches to be held to in which the pig was held by the tory. But the very mention of fish last piece of cucumber? Ah, who an average strength of 550, "was slow of Bowls Interport matches: Semitic peoples: it probably hes at seems to call up the improbable, can tell with feelings such as these, fair and that 977 reports were tennis tournaments, and of course the mot of the worship of the cat and to give birth to the mythopaic whether it be emotion or just nude against them (a slight de- Football matches. There should bear modern Cleopatras. The faculty in man. About a year ago cheese? How can I know if Love crease on 1921 let it be said. The provision for the Stadium that is so bat is selfish, stealthy, and uude the present writer sat in a train is this strange wizard, or if there's except where its travelling from small fishing insurrection in my gizzard? Oh, much desired, and there might also monstrative
It is village to a large city in Ireland. gosh, but it is fierce to feel this way, number seems formidable although be room for rifle ranges, etc. The stomach is The notable increase in crime the majority of them are described idea may seem utopian, but it is not nocturnal in fact the only noc-fisherman from one of the snacks not knowing if it's Love or if your for the silver lining." Here is a catside the realms of practical turnal animal ever domesticated in the barbour sat opposite. We hay ain't settin' right; oh, hully sample of a drinking song which violent crime) during 1922 is attrius "for minor offences." The
politics. It only needs the various (and hence not half domesticated). were the only passengers. Presently bully gee, Isure would like to know may help inspiration. buted by the Police Authorities to C.S.P., is probably the one to sports bodies getting together to Indeed it is essentially an unattrac-two elderly Roman Catholic priests what's biting me."
"Dear Trinity Where so many studes have got
Dear little pub round the corner, "the change of Government in decide if the calibre of the Chinese devise some acheme which would be tive animal. For reasons into which entered and sat beside the Esher-
SECOND-HAND of fatheads who
stung,! run the 'Shreds BOOKSTALLS, Canton twice during the year and contingent can be improved, and if of a practical nature and which we cannot enter here it was early man.
have a wide appeal. The cost of worshipped in the Nile Valley. rolling by a garrulous account of
Where so much good money has Patches' the consequent fighting." the out so how. An increase in the scale upkeep seems to be a not very in. Hence the modern respect for it; recent catches and how the fish had
writes a disgruntled "been made look so funny break following closely on each of salary given might have the superable difficulty. The charges and honce possibly the appearance left the vicinity since the war. Then column," series of fighting. This may or may desired effect of attracting wen who for admission--which should not be of, and respect for certain feline he told the priests of the great reader," will you not put in a plea By our dear old friend Mr. Bong.
peculiarity of the mackerel-It's for second-hand bookstalls? A not be an injustice to another "dis- can be relied upon: Then there is excessive, would be a help, whilst characteristics among humane.
ing comes after, the sale of refreshments should But there are certain peychologiaa sure as you're living, father, and second-hand bookstall, to a book Though we swear when the morn- thressful country," but the reason one other suggestion that has bring in a fair am. Municipal cal associations of the human and na plain as a pike-staff, there's the man is like old wine to a bibulous That no more to that pub we'll sounds credible. But that excuse exercised the minds of many who bowls and tennis might also be the animal which do not seem to be work of a man's finger and thumb connoisseur. This old burg wants brighteneing up and this is one cannot very well be used in the case view with alarm the increase in tried, sa many, who like these accounted for either by obvious on every mackerel you take out of way of doing it. Always be a The old Lalla stands still; we sup
I naturally pricked up brightener. Now there are places of incrasse noted in other forms of crime in the Colony. Some time site onions from those who sions in our blood or the totomic my cam at this piece of natural his where you can get second-hand
games, do not belong to Clube. We similarity or by the hereditary repul- the sea." taw-breaking, unless again Canton ago it was decided to do away with favour a Hongkong Wembley as we practices of our ancestors. Some of tory, though my eyes still nominally books, but they are in furniture is to be made the scapegoat for all the placing of prisoners in stocks. have indicated. If anything is these are peculiar and unexplained followed the page of the little shops in Wellington Street, and in the delinquencies of our criminals. We do not know the reason for this, going to be done, it must be done peychological phenomena There were numerous highway and Lut question very much whether the speedily. The Government is now worthy of careful study. armed robberies, many of them move was a wise one. Loss of face giving land away, which means that
purposes outlined above, being tmced to ex-eoldiers, or un-has ever been a terrible thing in the soon there will be none left for the employed seamen (who surely do eyes of our Chinese friends, and the not necessarily come from Canton?) public display of criminals with a *The large increase in armed rob-record of the crime for which they beries and murders testifies to the were being punished, must have had seriousness of those waves of violent a salutary effect. crime."" Mention is made of the succesful use of restrictive mea- sures," but what these are is not todicated unless it be tho closing of certain Guilde, and the creation of Criminal Investigation Depart
Gone but not forgotten.
Chau.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
repair,
pose it e'er wvill–
On that spot on the corner, it's
just on the corner,
The corner of Varsity-square.
well Shakespeare I was reading. "You the questionable purlieus of Lascar It is very likely our students know said the elderly priest, Row. The main commodity could improve, on the above ex- Shany Horse."
"What those imprints are they consists of Nesfields grammar,and amples. As our fav'rite bymn has Perhaps the most remarkable of are the imprints of St. Peter's finger erudite works on arithmetic, alge-it, "There's nothing like a happy these is the association of the horse and thumb when he took the fish out bra, and school text books, galore, song to cheer the way."
-CERBERUS. with all that is disreputable and of the water to extract the tribute given up by school boys, who, Of course there were having graduated' have sold the ebay The hores e naturally a money." respectable and very intelligent dozens of questions barning on the hated things and raised a few cents animal, yet for some inexplicable tip of my tongue--but I dare not to carry them on life's long journey: The Government is inviting reason it has got into bad, company spoil the story at thebstage. What What we want is a jolly second- The P and Q, 8.8. "Delta" is WON the distribution of the hand book shop. A real second salling from here on June 27 and tenders for the ferry service be- ond has unenviable associations.
mackerel? And was it found in the hand book shop, right in the centre will take a number of troops home tween Hongkong and Cheung do not refer to the pale horse or Sea of Galilee? Could not this of the place, where a man can go Among them will be Capt R. B. the grey borse of the apocalypstory be used as an argument for the and, Autolycas like, pick up some Cartwright OBE., (RAP.C.) and It has worse relationships. Harold Lloyd appears at the horsy person is another name for heredity of acquired characteristics? unconsidered trife, and carry it Mrs, Cartwright, from Shanghaft Grand, Wanchal, from today, in as sharper. This may be due to Was it not much superior to the case away under his arm, content that Lt. F.C. Ager M.C. (King's Re The schemes of mico and man; five-reel comedy).
Grandma's the betting and gambling which take of the midwife toud? Indeeft, is it he has found some wonderful thing, "giment,) CQMS. E. Patrick not really the beredity of a mutils no matter how forlorn it may (King's) and S-Sgt. C.H. Scouler wo are poetically informed. very Boy."
place at moss. But if so, this on tion tough mouthful even for the siree, so don't wrap it up and prese
look. This is my own. idea R. A. P.C often como to nought. That isla
throws the explanation a stage für- ment. We have are this comment what evidently has happened to one .. About 88,000 sq. ft. of Crown ther buole. Why should the approb whole-hearted Lamarckian? sent it as though you alone had Then what would not there thought of it. Always a brightener.
Command Orders notify the fol ed on the extraordinarily difficult or two schemes which have engaged and facing the new mo'or road rium of this particular form of sek our police authorities have in those who rule us and which, if from Gap Road to Wanchai Gap rascality havo linfood Hoolf ms with Galtonian give for a genuine fuger Adopt it Ascerberus, and you'll be ous they are not moribund, are dead. will shortly be nut up for sale at the horse rather than the cut or the print of St. Peter?! Might, not Scot bettermen. See you in the Saacke oping with the tremendous phere was the scheme of a Emo- an upset price of $14,7000. () elephant? Every novel that deals and yard prove confcitively that holds on Saturday blems involved in the strict observ peun Y.M.C.A., dear to the heart
with the animal from Nat Gould to did not belong to the Criminal ence of law and order, and we of our late Governor, who, in the The China Mall has received Day Harum has the same flavour classes and had never used the in offering a midst of much opposition (there was The Studio for May. The Triumph Every man who judges horses has sword And my thoughts went
a war on and certain people said of Unarmed Forces tor4-8 by note of criticism that might be the money should be used for war Rear Admiral M. W.W. P. Comab the same jeputation. Hominess back again to Jonah and his great comendered fatuo The read purposes) valiantly, took an the and vol. 2 of the Official flies and honesty soon to be mutually responsibility in history,
Priceless Finger ing of the shuuni police report, in gauntlet and got quite a number of of Air Hain the war of 1912-6 exclusive terus
by H. S Gullett These have.
Anothér clines us to the belief that the tombeeribe to a scheme, white bren passed for review and ex
the past had, through defective tended notices will appear in dus innocent in their way hay calibre of the native section of the leadership, been a failure.
That
an, unenviable
Laitate much
lowing appointments-Captain E, Grenadiers (K.E.Q.), op vacating. R. S. Dods, M.C, 2/4th Bombay
Yours
the Adjutancy, to be Officiating Company Commander, vice Cap BABBIT.
tain H. Bloxam, relieved; Cap PS. What's this PEN Club tain R. M/Newton-King, al4th.
Bombay Grenadiers (K.E.O.), to be Officiating Adjutant, vice Captain: There are other aspects, too. of
To all true lovers of E.RS. Dods, M.C., pelleved; Capé three paychological problems. Why TIDOTE unconscious sari B. S. Hey, 24th Bombay
you're rambling about?
gorenga e donte kamour - 18: for instance, should shoe-lcalder and quite atheism farm, in fiction or all events, following advertisement clipped Grenadier, 1K-EO), to be Officiat- a sort of symbiotic association?--but from an American paper will ing Quartermaster vice Captain
RTM Newton-King, relieved I must desist,“
sppeal
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