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With all the world between. shakespente?
A little drinkit now and thenkit,.. Is relished by the wiseest menkit.
STINK Cars,
Cheery dir own bearth firen!
Pleasant our places_of_birth Why do our hearts' desiran *** Dio at the ends of the earth?
WEDNESDAY OUTOBER 31, 1983.
CHARIVARIA. SATURDAY TO MONDAY FEELING.
The fact that there are now many motor cars in the Colony-han led to the suggestion that the place be called Honkhonk.
Arewa to understand from the fact that every seat in the Theatre Ind been sold for Jascha Heifetz's violin recital at prices beyond the ordinary that Hongkong las again answered a certain oft-repeated quation; and that she is indeed timsical, or must we assonis that, the fame of the young violinist an mn expert technician had gone before anal that to hear the young man. bud
beautiful-motor-The-wandering foot was astir become to be considered
lorry, painted yellow, with what Chousands of years before them! thing"?
They are difficult que looks like mosquito-proof molding p tions to answer and in any case de covers, rolls up to certain streets, Chin.turned east in pursuit not take us very far. It seeme to with men in livery in charge. "A suggest that as compared with the ship's boll is dangled and the heigh pianoforte, the violin has a greater|bourhood wakes up to collect its hold on the imagination of the ash-bins to deposit the contents in music-loving public. We remember the lorry, which shoots off on its that Mischa Elmun's recitals were health-errand without wasting a crowdel
whilst CRIT
Leopold moment of time. The affair is done Hlodowsky's, landed as the world's with quiet precision and dispatch greatest pianist, were sparsely and in a credit to all. concerned in attended. We take.courage. With The idea of these lorries and those | advertisements adventitimis aid, and who carry out a very distatesful, if
free from fataons patronage fra honest, job, those in high places our musical | genines may still hope to find! Bongkong sympathetic and eager to pay for the privilege of being so.
Outlying districts seem to be well served in the matter of collecting rub- bisht by the Sanitary Abram went up out of Urs Department. Each morn- Yot bine not the sons of Bliomed into a Canteen.' Runny! ing
Educational Films.
| Hasdwnerise,
Of a star-oyod damsel of Nod! · Adam, for loveher fruit,
Left his groves--and his God !
DANIEL M. HENDERSON,
WEATHER CALENDAR.
1770.
QCTOBER 31.
A Church at hotno has been turn-
FREE $50 WON.
VOTING CONTEST RESULT.
EXCITING COMPETITION.
Our popular cinema actress vote ing contest met with a pleasing response. In spite of the numeri ous entries, competitors were not Film rotor Mary Miles Minter's as successful as in the previous real name has come out in a law contest in which a number of com- action in Los Angeles.
petitors came near to guessing the It is Judy O'Brien!
fully correct solution. This week The local landlord is keen as the coupon with the selection near-zi raisor.
Fest the correct one-was sent in by
MR. A. PLACE,
Lily Conan Doyle, at a recent |apiritualistic meeting, declared that there will be work to do in Heaven. That settles it.
S.S. "Hear Shan," He is therefore the winner of the contest and to him we are sending the prize of $50.
CORRECT SOLUTION, The correct solution, i.e., the него placed as the result of all coupons sent in, was as follows:-
Mr. Lloyd George, has dined at Washington with President Coolidge. The senson has been so sereno! and the members of his Cabinet. In general, that I think the We understand there was no allu equinoctial tempests like the sion to the story of George Wash-order in which the names squadrons, lave passed the ington and the cherry tree, autumn in harbour and that they will all come forth together.-Walpole,
MAXIMS AND PRECEPTS
We understand that script writingin the local schools, u thing introduced at home months ago, is making headway. This means The fact that way were made to that the writing of the future, if attend the display of educational ny is done by mad, will be muler- stood without the effort, which is fius precludes as from the province now required in very many cases. of activo criticism, but we can at
Ours has been criticised in no uncer- least say something in connection tain fashion. A padre at home once There is as much variety of pluck Ltd. with the suggestion that because
these films linil from America they fe us that we both would take in writing across a sheet as in riding medals for handwriting. Wo should be burred from the use for answer criticians by tremacking which they were nude. That test that our handwriting slows should not apply, and particularly character. and a well known resi-are written in that so fon people The reason that so few good books as no educational has as yet are dent assures us that what is termed that can write know anything. being made in England. The ques" writing denotes character and tion to be answered is: Are theso
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films likely to be of servies in the intelligence and a great amount of intellect. Our own experience of cause of education? Non percourse bears this out! Numerous he he a member of the Education stories could be toll of what has Board or not, questions the value of happened to the illegible "fiat" of the Montessori form of education, or some people. We know of one man but which professes to bo Christian, the value of the script style of who had occasion to witness, p writing which our local education marriage certificate. It was return- authorities have initiated. Yet thesexl by the local. Registrar's office wore not British idens, but Italian, with a note asking what the name Critics of the type we have indicated was!
They do not go the whole hog. doubtless read American magazines, because they are unquestionably the And it best that are published. they drink beer it is doubtless n
fares, are 'refused by the Up form the silent night emerge light German lager. And until
conductor on the grounds O'er sleeping cities tower; Great Britain is able to excel in that they are muspicious, or look bad. To find where Nature's lines con- these and in other directions weIt has been a not uncommon experi- vergo,
Something
TRAM MONEY.
should be done in the maiter of the coine which very often when offered na
OUR
AN ENGINEER'S HYMN.
LOCAL POETS.
do not blame them. Doubtless the ence to offer a coin on one car which And fuse them into power! old country will take her place in has been given us as change on f
A beginner at the game has sug gested the namo is all wrong. It | should be a golf curso:
Anxious enquirer --No, cricket is- not a love game even if sunie players are out with a duck.
Vaccilation in the enemy Vaccination.
grieved to hear that Channel swin- Temperance reformers will be mera get well oiled before starting
.out.
The prospectus of a new Hotel, which has come our way, atatea that it will have accommodation for 500 goests when full. This might have been differently expressed.
1. MARY PICKFORD
2. NORMA TALMADGE
3. CONSTANCE TALMADGE
4 NAZIMOVA
3. ANITA STEWART
6. BEBE DANIELS
7. PRISCILLA DEAN
8. LILIAN GISH
9. KATHERINE
MACDONALD
10. MABEL NORMAND.
Very few of the coupons were entirely wrong and only a very small minority did not include at least half of the names in the cor rect solution. The difficulty, how ever, was in correctly forecasting the respective positions the stars would occupy. Less than ten per superiority of the 'world's sweet- cent of the entrants disputed the heart," while only eight of the total coupons sent in omitted her Prices we still going the rocky name entirely. A fair number road to Doublin.
seemed fairly sure of the positions the Talmadge sisters would occupy Dairy Farm butter enables one to but, as in the case of the winner, have a spread.
Some business people who use the tram cars say that they very often give them the creeps.
The end of the bathing season naturally puts an end to brine-fover.
some placed one above the other. A curious feature was that they were generally assigned next to one an- other irrespective of what numbers. they were put in. Nazimova and Anita Stewart, who finished fourth. and fifth, respectively, did not seem. to present any great obstacle to voters but the others presented. stumbling blocks to many. On the whole, entrants did well in judging. Personally we always make a point the upper half of the list, but poorly of breathing it when visiting then the lower- place.
THE RUNNING.
They say the air is purer on the lust-Peak than it is on the lower levels.
the ranks of those who are another car, and to have it declinAnd striving find no time for putting ideals into very practical ed with thanks." The experience To exercise the will; shape, but until she doce so, do not annoying. The Tramway Com-Behold, there's ethics in the dust let us despise the efforts now being pary should exploits more than it of our beloved mill4. made or refuse to take advantage of sons to do itg system of books of
in adding to the welter of words them where it suits our purpose so trans-tickets, and there should be 'Tis bere where Art and Science The more waist-the less speed.
The China Mail. which have literally engulfed the to da.
BONGIONO WEDNESDAY, Cer: 30, 19.3
GOOD EUROPEANS.
Two of
questions so befoged but very much nt issue. Senor Mussolini, the Fascist remnant of what might have been a goal European, now figures prominently in the world's limelight, making himself, so it would seem, a shade too seriously. For
.TRUE..
FACT.
How does a Scotsman
drink whisky? In any given quantity.
A wife is a passing fancy that takes a long while to pass.
tions.
offered, as they were in pre-war blend
days, at reduced krites. The con- Our point infinity; ductors should have a supply, of Without beginning, without end, these with them and the booksTis our Divinity. sbould be made up into one dollar, two-dollar and five-dollar lots.
BONAR LAW's IMPROMPTU SPERUDES.
For this we forge and melt and
grind,
And rub and turn and measure; For this and not the gold we find- Precision is our treasure.
1923.
spoke
land
JOHN KYOTO.
KISMET.
I am the fate that guides your course That wrestles you in worldly grief The cry undoubtedly In order that your mortal loan
The thing about France is that there is too much Gaul thers.
to
We believe that Mr. De Val Em who is still under arrest fails undersland why Ireland should called a Free State.
be
This was another competition which provided the adjudicators excitement. with considerable Shuffling of positions was as fast and furious as in a game of musical chairs: Mary Pickford, Nazimova and Anita Stewart were included in every one of the first batch of coupons registered. Slowly but surely, the last-named two lost ground and Mary forged ahead. Before much of the pile had been dealt with, all doubts as to her final position were cleared although sho never was placed out of comparison "I always keep a table by my with the others. At the first call- bedside so that I can map on it when over Nazimova was second, Can- I want the wife to bring me a cup stance Talmadge third, her sister of tea, and a man at Willesder fourth. Anita Stewart had dropped- Police Court. One usually does to seventh place, closely behind table rapping for spirits.
In local property transactions, we have not heard of anyone taking the
word for the deed.
Bebe Daniels and Lilian Gish, who were some distance behind the A writer says that men dining out first four. In another group were in London are again resorting to Katherine Macdonald and Priscilla tails. In addition to the excuses Dean, with Mabe! Normand holding. they send home over the telephone, tenth place a few votes ahead of
of course.
Viola Dana
The next call-over saw the first Paper is now being made of four in the positions to which thing on which to print golf and and 4 never changed, but the two rubber. It should prove just the they were finally assigned. Nos. I fishing stories.
sisters were always overtaking one another as only two or three votes The Rev. G. T. Taylor, preach-separated them till the end when ing at a Wesleyan Chapel at Derby, Norma won by twelve. Anita up Stewart, Bebe Daniels and Lilian had just exclaimed: "I am against it; you are up against it," Gish were constantly moved about when a atone came through one of and they in turn always seemed the aburch windows which likely to forge ahead of Nazimova."
But this was not tobe. On the course pained them all.
ather hand Priscilla Dean steadily. moved up to seventh, place and stayed there. Mildred Harris. Gloria Viola Dana, Chaplin, Swanson,
Alice Terry and Dorothy Phillips, were too far. Mr. W. H. Taylor of Holyhead behind to threaten danger to Nos.
of
Bald Men Grow Hair announces an adverticorent. Pate de foie
Mr. Bonar Lnwel secretary writing recently in a home There are three stages in
magazine told some alemory of the world's worst the first time he nasures himself. STAGES. the average man's aspira-
interesting things tragedies vision for us the shadowy and although he is speaking to hús,
The first, when
of the way in which Mr. Bonar figures of men who took themselves faithful ones it is not difficult to he believes that one woman is better Law made his speeches. Ever since The second, when Mr. Law began to take an interest a little too seriously, who, seem-
realise that he is als heartening than another.
he believes that one woman, is as ingly out Heroded Herod,—and,
And the third politics, over twenty years ago, hhusett, Daly, ir tter seizure of
good, as another.
ho. never used notes either in the Tean, I will" suffered for it in the world's
Corft has taken an independent when he believes that one woman is preparation of his speeches or in In youth's bright lexicon these universal condemnation.
their delivery. For more than ten worde wont fail these figures occer to the mind instep. She fins denied the compet-better than one at all.
A wag points out that years after he became a Member To spur me on to high endeavour,
sae of Parliament all his speeches, even Transport my being across lite's Home evening this connection-Napoleum and the ente of the "Genevan Areopagns"
which he untruthfully declared is PIBRHOTS.
might well be made those delivered in the House of} dále Good Europeans they ex-Kaiser.
of the stand at the foot Commons, sera prepared verbully And gain me fortune's favour might have been Ind their serion opposed to proletarian nations, and ness taken on less of the self-cenas given an example of discipline of (inden Rond on which an Indian in his mind beforehand without any But where shall my purpose.be hedness that inevitably leads and shown a willingness to march policeman invariably stands, invari- part of them being put on paper. When fickle fortune takes her flight, Hisruption if not destruction. The had his actions, happily diverted by ably waving about, in mystic passes, in consequence of making speeches Ob say what shall becomes of me
a sort of barber's pole. The un-in this way he was always supposed When sorrowa grim foom into sight? storm-centre then, as it is now, was rightly horrified consensus of sightly sign has gone, never, to be to have an extraordinary memary, Europe, and the storm now in about European opinion, been in favour of reinstated he hopes (typhoons are but Mr. Bonar Law denied that From out the night then "Kismet such a course. We may thank the of some use after all if they can and said it was simply a question of we men who, writ appears to us,
demolish much unsightly things) concentration in preparation. After As ever father did to son, mistake in taking the Italian Premier for such a happy and he now suggests that on certain he became Lauder of the Conserva- 'Oh weak earthling call me a fake
description of the League of evenings it be used as a Pierrot tive Party it was not, of course, But not until your race is run- helves, and not the conditions which
Nalions as the "Genovan Areo-show. That is, get those who are possible for him to prepare speeches I am the way, the life and cross, le before them, a little too seriously.
for it is justice that anble to sing to dog themselves in this way, and for a number of The light that shines on sea and pagna. It is a common failing, this matter League, should seek to disperse entertainment for an hour or two. for any speech was to think out the And ever as your frail barque tasa
up in Pierrot costuano and give an years the only prepamtion he made of seriousness. "Drust in brief
Nothing doing, we are afraid. lines on, which it was to be delivered. Upon the waves, no evil I portend authority," strutting on the stage] They tell us that Signor Mussolini. of life with all the glamour of uneducated blacksmith" over There are too many clowns in the wtibout making any attempt ut
throw by force of arms the Parlia-Place already. Try and suggest the verbal prepamtion.
ever-open door for, Government newly-acquired power, we "throw our weight" about, as it is somentary Government of his coun-Hou descriptively stated, until either wetry, and has ruled Italy for months
A reader sends us the YaceINATION. following:- guin reason from the many blunders by torror; the gained power by
Pussyfoot during his which follow in our wayward, track, preaching Nationalisan run mad, the
thy in Hongkong put up may do na harm to ventilate. The For all the sins that you have a lighthouse kooper. A shining separated each of them with many and come to sense, or head for the expansion of Italy, and the restors.
postar bearing these first is the alleged loss of time which freakers which in their very wild- tion of the Mediterranean Enipite words: Every corner in hell is those who visit the stations are put you can, you will
It seems likely, but if trus the weaked in Whisky."
An American to in waiting their turn to be As a good captain of your soul ness of destruction have for us 3,
programme is likely to be difficult traveller passing through from lymphed. In many cases it is Bravo life's reefs with a chcery nod, tiaven of oblivion from which we
undement the alleged that times varying to 45 of performance. Its end, like the Manila wrote
O, Doath, where is thy minutes-pass before the "milient" And I will guide you to your food. aught never to have been brought, ̈
logond
I, your Kismet and your only God. is attended to. Another complaint ating ?". Two there are for whom the many schemes of Napoleon, seem
H. M. BILVA. to be shaped for destruction, and of Tessons of the past have gone ite progenitor the harmly descrip
We sincerely regret is that there are no free stations to that reference which which Europeana may go, and that Kowloon; 31st October, 1928. unheeded. The great examplaretion of Artems Ward applied to
oma to have been Colony's health, as well as his own, the European noxious for the from their own country might have
made regarding the lived no died in vain for all the Napoleon is likely to be given, that
E.A.8.M.A., Club a is forced to spend $5 for the open being a drinking den. tion. To some $5 is but a nominal good that such have done. Poincards the man who tried to do too
michand did il. Over all Tingstha The officials of that Club nood not sum: to many it is the reverso. still burgeons on with verbal clear cut words of that great French worry very much. We have heard quibbles that lesser not despite the |man of lettere "Anatole Franca: the so thing applied to several To-day Poem. fact that the, unveiling of war
All wars are civil wars, and since other clubs in the Colony. It is the stock argument of certain well- memorials, ko the war itself, haw
the victors are a badly off as the meaning people. Whilst we do not spparently come to aaond. Portents there are that the game is vanquished, let us repair our ruina advocate oxcosa in drinking, and aro ut an end that yon can try, and together, and if possible let us take as bateanious as most people, na to know what substitute there is în out_clastic-sided tranquil pity of our oormon wealmase," soya it as shouldn't, we abould like But tionco amtil it breaks and recoils. Whilst the soft volop of Goatho still the place of horren which vante to avoid that happening says:-"Let us be good Euro can conduce, so much to affability, om to be maturing, na wo hoped Pony. There is still time to by would, weeks ago, and for the realise hub of the first state ne being we need spend no time ment and to act on the second.
STIs.
DRINKING DANA.
is "Get vaccinated," May buy a heaven's sweet relief-gras so to speak. TWO nutters of com- Sins of omission I condone plaint reach
the Of commission I forgive
Chins Mail which it But you alone must, then stone
weaved.
(A Long; Long Long Story,) Men in tho ountry yearn
For the streets of the town as
they till men of the city turn
has completed 43 years service eg and 10, but only a few votes
example.
Three small boys were ordered to be birthed at Southend-on-Sen for Adam and stealing a few plume. Eve's punishment through stealing forbidden fruit waa much more drastic
Today's Pulsating Thought:
PAY DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
There will be a Musicale, at the Helena May Institute at 5.30
changes in their positions as the votes were entered.
PLEASE NOTE. Competitors are requested, in their own interests to avoid mak-
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