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MONDAY NOVEMBER 19 1923.
BARNUM,
P. T. Barnum. By MR. Werner. (Jonathan Cape, 16s. net).
Barnum was the man who thought of it first. "It" with the famous American showman, whose
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VILLAGE GIRLS,
BISHOP'S REMEDY FOR THEIR GOING WRONG..
Are country people, less moral than those in towns?
Another speaker stated that in many parts of the countryside a woman would rather dlo a mother than a maiden,
The Bishop of Norwich, who took a leading part in the subject, said three points emerged from his study of the subject.”
blography Mr. Werner has written
The subject was discussed dur at length, was the thing that ing the sitting of the Church Con- ordinary men would pay to seegress at Plymouth. Several rea though they did not yet know it sons were put forward for the lack It was apt to be in itself trivial the of morality in the villages, one negress aged 161 who was the first speaker urging that it was due to person" to put clothes on the uncon the fear country people had -scious infant" George Washington of making a childless marriage.
{ftalics, explains Mr. Werner, ars always Barnum's) Was on example; other instances Tom Thumb, Jumbo, Mermaid, and a whole muscum full of specimens of the elephantus-hippo-paradoxus. Peo- ple called Barnum "the Prince or Hunbugs," and Barnum gloried in the title. Even those who are most contemptuous of his medium must recognise his primacy. His dodges are stale now, like the googly and the American service and the Confidence Trick, but they were, not stale when he invented them. They indicate what no one can afford to despise, an extra- ordinary knowledge of human nature; and to make them effective he possessed lucidity, energy, and the detachment of the most mo- dern of philosophers.
"Those who go wrong in the country, to a far more common ex- tent than in the towns, eventually come forward to be married. After marriage loose living is rarer in the country than in towns,
Townspeople, who are more sophisticated, keep secret their unchastity before or after mar- ringe, and evade general sus- picion by securing that there shall be ao tangible evidence of their wrongdoing,
"The chief remedy for this kind of disaster in the country," added the Bishop, "les, I believe, in two things. First, when young people are growing up, teach them with some useful book the meaning of ; marriage, so that it may not be at the wedding that they first learn) what the Prayer Book has to say
This appears to have been his whole equipment. He seems to have had no special knowledge; for his art of showmanship was knowledge of humanity. He was not even a good business man; his instinct for the profitable gave him such an advantage over his com-upon the subject, petitors that he could afford losses in detail. Barnum was brought up in an atmosphere of deception; deception was-says the author
'the common practice in the country store business," which was one of several trades in which Bamum was concerned in his youth in Connecticut; he was a member of a community in which profiting by
'Secondly, let fathers and mothers give their boys and girls the opportunity of bringing their friends of the other sex into the home.
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Scotland is in the throes of a local option osmpaign, and both sides are displaying the ufandet energy.
The anti-prohibition party has circulated 15,000,000 leaflets and 8,000,000 copies of a publication entitled "A Tiny Newspaper."
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The American Consulate-General, Hongkong, bas issued Trade Inquiry "If they treat their own family as List No. 166, as follows:- children still, with no permission | The following is a list of Ameri- to choose or act for themselves, can concerns in the United States when others outside are treating! which desire to establish connec- them as responsible and grown up, tions with marchants or exporters they will drive them from home to in Hongkong. No responsibility is Shopkeepers have been given free be landed into the hazardous and for seek their friendships and their assumed as to the business standing 2,500,000 paper bags inscribed kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown interests outside.
of the persons or firme named. But it is sad to think that often the parents feel little the-disgrace of such loss of virtue. Perhaps this is due to the way they accept what has come down to them from the past.
"Indeed, the reliance upon the way of their ancestors and their respect for them make it very difficult to convince a countryman of sin provided that his standard is no worse than that of those around him and his forebears. This hold ing on to the past makes their ideas of goodness and worship very simple."
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POPULAR CHRISTIAN NAMES.
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Twonky Christian samde ses fron below. Select the Low you consider the most popular and melts them out in the order of your skolos, Than eat the form out and send it to the “China Msi!" office, masked "Wota,"
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Therefore the secret of the content in Not to select ibe' ten most popular Items in alphabetical order toma' our It, But to select the ten most popular names from our list and judge what place each individually will occupy-which will come first, which second, and so on until all ten have been placed.
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MAKE YOUR CHOICE HERE
Below we give twenty Christian names, Select the ten you think the most popular.
Alfred Alexander Augustus
Edmund
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Bernard Christopher
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Donald
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Eric
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Frank
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Gerald
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Gregory
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Horace
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Jack
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Kenneth
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Owen
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Percy
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Ralph
Robert
a deception had no more to do with morale than "bluffing" at poker, We do not despise the successful poker player; he has to possess certain qualities-pluck, assurance, judgment that would take him far in more important pursuits. Morals have, in fact, as little to do with this Barnum comedy and our apprecia- tion of its wit and humour and drama as with a Restoration Play. His mermaid was not the siren de- picted on his posters; he made space on the spur of the moment in his crowded museum for the wait ing queue by setting his carpenter to work on a back door and marking it "To the Egress"; but he had given the extruded rustic good value for his shilling. The rules of the game he played were lax enough to give his genius ample scope; he seems on the whole to have observed them, whereas he was continually being, cheated himself by unqualified rogues. His trustfulness made him bank- rupt in his prime. For all his hum-
Wild scenes marked the public bugging he never lost his faith in funeral at Valencia, Spain, of the human nature. In this he differs famous painter, Joaquín Sorolla, from his biographer, who, while whose family opposed the desire of affecting impartiality, ́seldom | the dead artist's friends to carry the onits a damaging aside, which the coffin on their shoulders, instead of reader, if so minded, could supply its being borne on a gun carriage for himself. Some of these asides Súrolla's son struck a Republican illuminate the writer rather than deputy in the face, and then the object of them--as when in climbed on the gun carriage in with firms' importing the above Illinois desires to get in touch with informed that all Goods are being discussing Barnum's autobiography order to drag back the coffin. lines. Correspondence la invited. fumas handling X-Ray equipment,anded at their riek into the haardous Mr. Werner observes that Barnum The representative of the King No. 1664.— Surgical Rubber Correspondence is invited.
was himself Boswell to his own attending the funeral, intervened, Gloves. The Reality Rubber Com- No. 1600. Cassia, Adolphe and/or extra hasardous Godowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart Dr. Johnson and he wrote with even and during the succeeding uproar, pany, Massillon, Ohio, desires to Hurst & Co., Inc., 30 Church and Godown Co, Ltd, hence, and/or less critical perspective."
arranged a compromise, by which get in touch with firma handling Street, New York, desire to get in from the whares delivery may be the coffin rested on the gun carriage surgical rubber gloves. Cores- touch with expartes of cangia. Cor obtained. carried by the artists for the for half the journey, and was pondence is invited.
respondence is invited.
remainder.
QUARREL OVER COFFIN.
Local option does not exist in No. 1691,Safes and Vaults England. The first poll taken in Vistor Safe & Look Ca., Cincinnati, Scotland in 1920 gave an over- Ohio, desires to sock connections in whelming majority for "no change" Hongkong with firme importing the majority of distriota. Thirty- asfen and vanita. Correspondence is five districts voted for the limitation invited.
of licences, resulting in the cancella- No. 1692. Old Newspapers.tion of 400 of Scotland's 9,000 Louis Leonardis, 150 Nassau Street, licences. Now York, desires to get in touch with imparters of old newspaper. Correspondence is invited, "No. 1693-Flour, Canned Sat. non, Canned Fruits, Dried Fruits, American Bank Building, Seattle. Fresh Apples. Davis & Wear, 1002
Washington, desire to get in touch
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Standard X-Ray Company 1932 No. 1698-X-Ray Equipment. North Burling Street, Chicago,
Mr. Werner has given us a most entertaining book, for he has ex hibited Barnum, and Barzum was
No. 1695.-Gunny Bags, Burlap, No. 1700-Gunny Bags, Flaz always the greatest draw of all his
etc. J. Trenger, 606 Mills Building, Tow, Feathers, Peanuts, Boya Bean freaks; "Say, Pa," said the little bay (no doubt primed by Barnum), 14,200 FROM REFUSE. San Francisco, California, desires to Oil, Meal, Kapoc, Sesame Seeds, secure an agency for gunny bags, Wiping Waste, Waste Silk, Mohair, "what cage is Barnum in?" Mr.
burlap, etc. Correspondence is Curled Hair, Cocoanut Oil, Copra Wemer has exhibited him, but not What is described as explained him. We can well be satisfactory record of the inaugura-
a very invited.
and Oil Seeds. Burnett Export and No. 1696.Dement, Bricks, Win Import Co., 117, North Broadway, lieve that such a feat is impossible. tion of a new system of refuse. dow Glass, Iron and Steel. Remus Los Angeles, California, desires to Barnum was always acting Bar collection and disposal, which at its Export Corporation, New York Pro- get in touch with firms handling the seats for clergymen meant free mental," will be submitted to the York, desire to make arrange invited
He made plety pay; free inception was largely experi- duce Exchange. Building, New above articles. Correspondence is advertisements from the pulpit of Marylebone Borough Council. The ments with a reliable agent in Hong- No. 1701-Flour, Great West:
Tuin.
a moral entertainment; but there record has been compiled by Alder-
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are indications that his plety may man I. T. Watson, the chairman of long for the sale of the above Mill aul Elevator Co., Amarillo, ed by have been sincere of its kind. the highways department of the articles. Correspondence is bavited. Taxas, desires to get in touch with
USE Mr. Werner's phrase, conncil and shows that during the
No. 1897-Carbon Black. Eugene firma imparting wheat flour. Oor-
· To
in his stage plays he substituted year ending March last a caving of Buter & Co., Inc., 160 Broadway, respondence is invited.
'slush for smut"; he made a great £14,200 was effected as a result of success with an obviously nauseat- the new system. Instead of 66,416 ing morality play, The Drunkards tons of refuse being conveyed the but he was genuine teetotaler-shoot," at a cost of 8s 6d. për ton, in fact, first as usual, he preached 22,428 tons were sold or used as Prohibition to.. his countrymen fuel for the salvage plant, maldog decades before they thought of a total saving of £9,531 in the cost adopting it. He was often gener- of barge transport, while £4,669 was ous; but to accuse him of making realised by the sales of paper, profit out of his generosity is metal, rage, bottles, and other. superfluous, for he gloried in it marketable refuse "that had been Indeed, one difficulty in arriving at salvaged.
an estimate of his true character is
that it was impossible to accuse
him of anything that he would
deny. In fact, be would put up his readiness and wit redeem- people to attack him for the sake his Impudence. The tale of any of the advertisement: He had been one of his stunts" in a feast called the father of publicity and of fat things. He made his friend his means of obtaining it will Genin, a by no means mad hatter, keep the reader chucking through buy the first ticket for his first 372 pages. He held that if a man Jenny Lind concert for $225-and had goods for sale and did not adnext day the newspapers informed vertise them the chances wore, that two million potential purchasers the sheriff would do it for him. He that Genin was a hatter. "He pro- acquiesced in beingshused for moted the pitests in England that meant mentioning him; he against the sale of Jumbo to him- know that what sticks is the name self; and when Scott, the keeper, and was indifferent to the adhesive save. Jambo his usual bottle of being nasty so long as it was cheap, News was there any personage or ion so sexalted but that he
whisky, the prohibitionist walled that he had stunted his growth. On his leaving England the Bishoy of London saldito - kam zweit
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To the Editor
China Mail,
Sir,
Hongkong, November 12, 1923.
Hongkong.
I consider the following the ten most popular Christian names from the above list, placed in the order in which I think they are liked best
Please write clearly in block letters.
Name