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we seek? What roads most lead, To rest in the Garden that men call what roads are sure and true? This is life's master question. We do In the Beautiful Land of Dreams not keep our rendezvous with life. in the mere possession of things.
-R. P, THURSFIELD, Things have their varying values, Hongkong, 1915, and a man would be either a fool' or a hypocrite to underestimate them. They are at their best the fashioning of dreams or ends unto a corporate faith. A civilisation may be very justly tested by the quality of its things. Finely tem- pered tools, beautiful fabrics, houses nobly built and furnished, are incarnations of capacity, dis- cipline, aspiration. More than that, We cannot live things of the soul. in a vaccum. There are inescap able relationships between posses- slon and personality. Not a little of our sense of life gathers around and grows out of that which be longs to us,
DECEMBER 6.
029
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Lighting up time-to-day...fs. ■
Exchange on London is 2/39%; on Shanghal 6934.
. The "Braemar Castle" is CX- pected to sail at 4 p.m,, to-morrow,
Commercial Notes in this issue of the China Mail give flour, sugar and rice quotations, and the result of the past year's working of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd.
Pod
Inspector Woodrer comnienced
In the Beautiful Land of Dreame eloquent and doubtless sincere state-observe it is to succeed to neglect | rapture, the lover in his quest, are ments, and to agree that a Nation ie it is to fail. There is a subtle all seeking the same thing--they, For the broken-hearted may ocaso)
to woop, entitled if she so decrees to resist magnetism of thought like that is too, would keep their rendezvous
the magnetism of ore. The secret with life. Where is that true And the weary and heavy-laden 5.39 pm, alliances and to commit itself in of the many so-called occult hiding-place of that fullness which advance to unknown contingencies sciences lies here and has been and to reserve to itself the judgmont Known to initiates and adepts in all ages. Miserable thoughts held to act as a sense of duty permitted, long enough in the mind bring which is America's position to-day. about misery; and universal joyous But it may be permitted to question thoughts bring joy in their train. The mind works automatically in what to others seems a blind sense, this manner, and we may say that of justice, to refrain from participat- the secret of personality is to be ing in problems that concern the found here also. Kindred minds best, associate because of the fact whole world: to heal the wounds that our thoughts possess, as it which even America possesses. were, a kind of social Instinct, a Thore a great moral questions bias towards communal existence. This fact is so important that it bound up with those which are cannot be impressed upon the political; and moral questions have student too much. Thought power no boundaries. The world of to-day is made negative or unutilised when we enter an uncongeniai is steadily revealing itself to be a
atmosphere. Our thoughts cannot world of identical mom interests. breathe, and fail to come to birth in
A cheery letter from the lato These are brave words; they are words and deeds. For activity of
Traffic Inspector, Mr. H. Garrod, true words; their truth cannot be mind and energy of thought we
Indicates he is enjoying his retire should seek to live in a magnetic
ment at Portsmouth and is in good ignomd. They are not our worde field similar to our own. This prime
health. He still maintains a comer but the words of a distinguished factor alone can bring about harm- | American citizen Bishop Brent, onious thought-vibrations lead-
ather gaze upon a THE TWO-FOLD WONDER in his heart for Hongkong and has been intensely interested to read of local happenings and visitations, uttered before the Advisory Coming to power and concentration.
Should we, however, find it more than listen to an ugly one, just as
From without no wonderful affect-typhoons, floods, etc. mittee on Opium of the League of or less in possible to escape from any woman would rather be in love is, wrought within ourselves, unless Nations. We would commend them the meshes of an environment; with a map than respect him, to the attention of the American foreign our impulses and springs of conduct, we can only find relief in adaptation to condi-
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Congreve and Delaval have a duties as an Inspector of the last prevailed on Sir Godfrey Kneller to interest me to let. S. P. C. A., on November 15. The report of Inspectors Fisher and him draw my picture for Woadrer will be found in this issue nothing; but I know not yet of the China Mail. when I shall sit. It is such monstrous rainy weather that there is no doing with it. Swift.
some interior, responding wonder At the Helena May Institute, meets it. That the starry vault yesterday afternoon, the Police
of the should surcharge the heart with all Branch
Ministering which lends itself to a splendid tions. Here again, the will alone Twice-Published Tales.
rapturous marvellings, is only be- Children's League arranged a cause we ourselves are greater display of the work done during isolation-the unmoral isolation can save us from both ourselves which looks on and does nothing.
and circumstances. The "I will" Now and again the bookish sigh miracles and superber Trophies than the year for next Saturday's bazaar. of the trained mind is an almost for a return to those artless days all the stars in universal space. The Branch has specialised this Irresistible power. Self reliance before the domination of the maga. Wonder interlocks with wonder; time on knitted wool-work and a based upon self-knowledge will zines, to that almost mythical time and then the confounding feeling number of beautiful articles were eventuate in self-control and com- when they might have opened u parative happiness. This stoic newly published-book with at least quiet of the mind is the one greata, decent assurance that boy were afloat in all times of stress, worry, thing is virtually impossible, be- power to keep the wavering mind turning virgin soil. To-day the
EAT rags.
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And gluttons old in Sin. Mistake themselves for carpet bags.
And tumble victuals Jn.
We have not so many CLOCKS. of these on view, that we can afford to miss
and care.
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MY.
We are indebted to our friends of the Japan Chronicle for the following A Chicago court recently granted divorce on novel grounds. The plaintiff stated that he was married in 1898 and lived with his wife till 1909, during which time she never took a bath, "and I couldn't make her." "That's plenty of testimony said the Judge, "You get a divorce."
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Scores of Dramatic Club presents the famous Robot Play the "R.U.R." 9.15 p.m.
SCKTAL,
December 6-Tea-dance at Helena May Institute, 5:30 p.m.
on view. In addition to the usual raffles there is one for mere man, the articles to be ga consisting of a cardigan jacket, socks and golf hose. Tickets for the raffles are still available.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
cause of the vast amount of material which is made to run the gamut of
The following appears in serialisation, republication in book
Command orders-No. 146 issued form, adaptation to the motion pic-
to-day, and has reference to the ture screen, perhaps even dramati
2/55 Coke's Rifles (F. F) The sation. Over and over we encounter
General Officer Commanding much one of them. Queen's Road had
the game story, clothed perhaps in
December 6-Coronet Theatre; regrets that this fine Battalion is one outside Sennet Frères' Store and with the removal of this old
embark upon the reading of Mr.
now leaving his Command. As a alightly different garb. Do we "Orphans of the Storm.”
December 6.-Star Theatre; fighting unit he had every confid- established firm the clock has gone,
Edith Wharton's latest novel, it is Italian Grand Opera Co, in ence in them. In this Command It is remarkable how eyes instinc-
'Madame Butterfly.
they have well maintained their tively turn to familiar sights, and
only to discover with a wry smile
December 6-World Theatre; discipline, the credit of the Army, when they are sights which
that we read the second and the
and the prestige of Coke's Rifles. tentli chapters 10 3 Maga "Through a Glass Window." help, our sense of loss when
has zine; do we anticipate the glowing Attention
Deramber 6--The Grand In saying farewell, the General they are gone, is more or less
Mary Pickford in Officer Commanding wishes the poignant. How often we have
again been drawn adventure of a new romance by Mr. Theatre;
British and Indian Officers and all turned eyes to the spot where the
to the question of Joseph Courad, it is only to be re- "Through the Back Door"
dress minded that our delight has already December 8-10-12-15.--Theatre Other ranks every success in the women's clock once was, we know not. But
Hongkong Amateur future. it is good to know that it still exists by recent Vatican decrees, and the been tasted by the readers of say Royal, (or perhaps it is a new one) and question arises as to whether a Good Housekeeping. that it will prove a boon to the woman's character is to be judged authors, of great and slight import- thousands who long for guidance by her dress or lack of it. A well-ance, welcome as a matter of course in correct time, and who will pass known artist says it is impossible the habit of forcing their work to by each day and search its face for to do so and that it is equal pay for itself several times over. the silent truth. The clock is now (ly erroneous to judge of the Especially with regard to those hung outside the store in Pedder morality of a period by its fashions. essayists whose work appears in the it, and confers a boon and a benefit licentious when the vogue consist lain an uneasy sense that the trick St. and adds to the appearance of France for instance, was the most daily and weekly papers we enter for which we cannot be too grate-ed of the most demure Shepher is being played with suspicious
Health returns for the 24 hours ful. Tempus fugil, and clocks re- dess costume. Medeco dress is cleverness True, one nowopaper
ended the sth. inst., show 18 cases mind us of thisnalterable fact. said to be complete barbarous. reaches a comparatively limited
Women no longer rely on their circle of readers and is short-lived: men's Guild and M. C. L's Grand fever-all Chinese.
December 8-Hongkong Wo- of small-pox, and five of enteric "There's a man own taste and have neither the while stuif of real importance de- Fete and sale of work in-the-- THE WAY HE outside, sir, that intelligence nor the energy to be serves a better fate than to be need grounds of Government House,
wants to see you original, but are content to accept to light a wood fire on a chilly 2 p.m. about a bill you the tyranny of fashion without con-
ovaning. On the other hand, ove him. He wouldn't give his sidering whether or not it makes obviongly much of this materiai December
them look foolish. This is very should be taken in small doses, and offices, five lots of Crown land, 3. startling, more than courageous; such of it as palla upon too intimate p.m. and very true. Smartness and flashiness are the products of the on acquaintance acarcely warmante age. But the bills are the same.
preservation between boarda.
The wise man was right a thousand times over when he said: After I have worked at something I always regret the | beautiful wasted time.
LOOKED..
name."
"What does he look like?" · "Well, he looks like you'd better
pay it."
Here lies the AUTO-MANIA. body of Jim Lake, Trend softly all
who pass; He thought his foot was on the
brake,
But it was on the gas.
At sixty miles
Drove Willie Smidder;
He lost control
His wife's a widder.
Here lies what's left
Of Henry Glenn;
Match, in gas tank-
•
Up went Hén.
Bill Turpin' sneered
At careful folk;
He hasn't sneered
Since his axle broke.
passed,
Ben Higgins never would be He bragged his car's endur
He passed six cars with back-
ward glance- His wife has his insurance.
ance,
WASTED.
FROM A
December, 10.-Social evening The dance arranged for Saturday and entertainment in St. Andrew's next at the Peak Club has been postponed till Saturday the 15th. Philharmonic Society, Grand Con- Church Hall, Kowloon, 9 p.m.
December 18. Hongkong inst. cert, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.,
BAZAAR.
Lady Jellicoe was a guest at the Caledonian Ball at Shanghai, and LAND SALES,
was taken in to supper by the Pre- 30.-At P. W. Dsident (Mr. C. H. Rutherford).
AUCTION.
Chinese are dissatisfied with the Government's proposed chan- ges in its building laws. The matter is dealt with in this issue of the China Mail.
* Madag
December 7-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, valuable leasehold property at Kennedy Road, 3 pan, December 8.—Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, suit lengths, rain There will be the usual Saturday night dance at the Palace Hotel coats, etc., II am
December 10 Lammert Bros., at this week. The popular band of Rooms, Chinese silk H.M.S. "Despatch" will play. The
Yet this is not a matter opon which we can make sweeping de nunciations; for, just as soon as we do, we are confronted, for example, by such a series of biographical sketches as those who Mr. Lytton has been contributing each month Sales to the Nation and Atheneum, un- embroidered and grass cloth goods, dance commences at 9.15 p.m. Of course it is questionably of a quality which 2.30 p.m. true that the demande a second reading. The December 12-Lammert Bros., a' Forthcoming marriages are an- NEW BOOK, average profes same might be said for the articles large selection of toys, at Sales nounced of Mr. Egbert Anthony
sional and of Mr. Philip Quedalla, Mr. Aldous
Rocm,2.30 p.m.
Lees, to. Miss Dorothea Emily December 21.-Lammert Broz, Curtis ; Mr. Brian Edwin Bidwell, business man is almost totally un- Huxley, Mr. J. C. Squire, and so intellectual, but is not the average on through a long list. Much choice property, machinery plant and to Marguerita Henrietta Reinfeld, woman equally so? Listen to a material would bave been lost, to tanning chemicals of the Hong- Mr. L. G. d'Oliveira Sorrazoila, to group of educated, intelligent posterity bat for this practice of kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd. Miss Zilda Maria Xavier.
at Sales Rooms, 3 p.m. women talking. Can anything be collecting random essays and mak
Mr. L. H. King has arrived in more abysmal than that brand of ing them into a book. But the December 10-Queen's College | Hongkong asGovernment expert in conversation? To be sure, a similar question does present itself: What Old Boys Asscn. meeting in the wireless telephony and radio. Mr. group of men scarcely speaks at will be the future of the essay if, in College Hall, 5.30 p.m. all, but burles its collective nose in so many cases, it is written for the December
King has come from Tanganyika the newspaper, or, if it does con-
12-Hongkong (forerly German East Africa) and is verse, discusses passing events should be a thing af delicate savour, meeting, in the Board Room of the same as
magazine-reading public? An easy Jockey Club, half-yearly general already at work here. His rank is
an Executive Eng From The Secret of Woman by to be read leisurely, and its lovers Messrs Jardine, Matheson and Co. ineers in the Public Works Depart Helen Jerome,
may doubt sincerely whether it in a Ltd, 5 p.m.; extraordinary general ment. He will eventually advise medinm suited to two audiences.
"I have a ren- RENDEZVOUS, dezvous with life."
We are all knep" Emma: "All these new-ing each in his own fashion To-day's Poem,
rendezvous with life. Wo
а
MEETING.
meeting, 5.15 pm..
December 18 and January 4.7 Extraordinary general, meeting of the Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited, at 5, Queen's December 20Fifth ordinary Co. (1918) Ltd., at St. George's meeting of the China Light Power Building, Chater Road, II am.
the Government on questions of wave lengths, Interferences, and other matters. One of the subjects to come up for consideration is to be the equipment of lighthouses,police
wireless telephony apparatus.
the weak link of the Longue is remedied by the inclusion of America in the Councils of the League, the work of the League must necessarily suffer. The plain man may be pardoned if he fails to anderstund the strict adherence of The fact that the centenary of the our American cousing to the letter Monroe doctrine has been allowed and law of this Monroe doctrine. to pass unobserved by the American The nations of the earth are worth community in the Colony, seems trading with their'idegs of art and little startling. Perhaps they take literature are copied, idolised even, their politics and national obser. but the nations which have pro- vances, as do other sojournere induced them are no concern to the
Mr. Secretary | this place, in large doses from United States. home papers, and are content to Hughes has thrown much needed
R.U.R. fangled things are an are, as were, pledged (The Beautiful Land of Dreams.)Road Central, Noonam Pa stations, and police launches with road about them and observe what light on the question in his states-
offence to the Lord. It's to keep an appointment which Come away, children, come away
To the Beautiful Land of Dreams; us with the hope of others say and do concerning them. man-like address at i centenary downright wickedness. Wanting haunts. It may be that the Monme Doctrine meeting. Its policies he said had to improve the world after He has it, and draws us by the promise of Away from a world of dingy gray
it. It is always sending us down To the Beautiful Land of Dreams: is now auch an accepted fact in harmonised with other policies of
some road or other at the end of Where the rainbow tinta of Morn-
STAR TO-NIGHT. American political life that there is the nation, including the open door.
attracts | which there awaits us what we are ing stand, no need to emphasise its benefits and the integrity of China and the ATTRACTION like" is a saving endlessly seeking, and, may be, And Laughter and Love
as old as the hills,) always missing, but without which in-band
"MADAM. BUTTERFLY,” anew, and to gild or paint a national For Last The United States! fily. Like a coy lover adamant emerged from the War with the yet how few realise what potent our days are empty and life solf In. that intimate exquisite mist-veil-
agencies for good or ili are wrapped only a frame without a picture. lover is perhaps the better phase, same aims as those with which they up in that phrase. We sometimes It is one of the contradictions of
Booking is very brisk for the The Beautiful Land of Dreams..
BROADCASTING MESSAGE Italian Opera Company in "Madam America lins been deaf to all the entered the conflict. Though wonder why certain things trans life that what, we do blinds us to
Butterfly to-night. Of course, the Blandialmente showered upon her, victors, they had not caught terri-pire in our own dally life; why the meaning of what we do. The The sunshine streams from a cloud- The following was broadcasted, opera is exceedingly well known
reason is here in this well-worn to us who obey them, but through and all the entreaties made to her tary or general reparations. They centon events come upon us. The forces which Impell us are strange
ble from a cl
9 pm on December 4, from the and contains music more of the In the Beautiful Land of Dreams: Kowloon Hotel, and pleked up by ballad order than do many of to enter the field of World, or desired to nes France prosperous phrase, and we shall do well to pay all the Interplay of Interest and There are myriad flowers of every the "President Jackson bety cen others European politics and conflictes: to and secure, with her, wounds, bealed special attention to it in our study occupation there, is this desper here are my
of the law of mind control. If it is an thing the passion of life striving In the Beautiful Land of Dreams: reaching Manila.
400, and 450 miles out before Mile. Ambrose will sing the
chief role takse her part in them; and help and her just demands satisfied astom that an evil tree cannot to fulfil itself. The sallor putting The star-strewn heavens, gleam, and ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS CO. right the world's wrange. It is now Germany united and prosperous, bring forth good fruit," bow then his ship out to sea, the farmer
glow,"
Rossum's Universal Robots an accepted fact that her deliberate was, Mr. Hughes said, making can we expect to give the best turning his furrow, the explorer
Robots fully Bothed for intention to refrain from member agende to the full extent of her the needful montat component song out for the arctic regions. And, the rod moon rises round and Co. announce that they are ble to l mental, the amountaingor a climbing whe
creates Matterhorn or mount Everest, are From the ses whence the scented $150, C17. Hongkong. They are ship of the League of Natkins, the power. They wished to see the fires for their reception
guaranteed to stand. south winda blow ere were like, and if we
aðir rendezvous with life, result of the advocacy of one of of hatred quanched.
his comrader
In the Beautiful Land of Dromana siimata aud to last 203
Da
that look
America's presidents, is the cata
littlowes mess in that wholly
able, clear and concian the
made it."
"Like
ed Land
Lond-
R. U..R.
Giselle on Sunday next, it all Othello" is well
land and the Continent he cou known on concert stages in Eng- bines magnificent singing with no mean desmatic ability, and Home' vities unfd many ser) favourablo-,
out his performance in this
and Mlle. Am-
evidence of the outcome of Wide
avimonary dream. A chain is de which ata bey
Unk and until possible to no