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MY FUTURE.
WHAT NIRVANA, OUR FORTUNE. TELLER TOLD ME.
[BY JOHN SINCLAIN,]" _
A Dark Womma--Beware-Big Mancy Soon, (Happy Man-An
Iness!
Dark Woman Dark Woman? Big Money?
Ali! Mysterions Girauge-Uncanny And she never flickered noeyelid, nor even dis- played the fatalest suspicion of a
nilo.
The Frenchman Next Door: Ah! plonso, M'sier. Yes?" Chorus of Remainder (two clerks "Go, on, old man and we'll order another."
"Damm"!
Anyhow, I was prevailed upon and Nirvam startet the dirty work: Icut. She insisted I should cut with the right band three times,
EDUCATION BOARD,
"NOT SO LUDICROUS.”
THE CHINA MAIL.
:
DRIVEN TO MISCHIEF."
STOLE BECAUSE HE
WAS, STARVING. --
WOWAH, YAN · SCHOOL,
AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT.
Reporting on the year's work, MR. MACKINTOSH TAKES UP Mr. Ton, Headmaster of the
THE "CUDGELS”
Wah Yan School stated -nt the
Theft of an overcoat with a key annual prize distribution yesterday Speaking at the Wah Yan that the time had now come when and a pair of gloves in the pockets, English School's prize distribution without the support of the public, from motor-car No. 491, which Mr yesterday afternoon, Mr. N. the school would not be able to D. A. Scott, manager of the Texas Teesdale Mackintosh (Registrar at continue the good work it had so Oil Co.. Teft unattended outside the Hongkong University) took well begun. He appealed to those the Dragon Co.'s service station at up the cudgels on behalf of the benevolent gentlemen who were Wong Nei Cheong on Saturday, Education Board, of which he is a interested in education to give was the charge preferred against member, and made a spirited their support and much, needed Ahmed Caseum (36) before Mr.
J. R. Wood yesterday morning. reply to criticisms recently direct-i assistance,
According to Divisional”. In- Previous to the distribution of ed against it.
N. Teesdale spéctor Aris, Mr. Scott was walk- Mr. Mackintosh began blaspeech prizes by Mr. by congratulating the Headmaster MacKintosh, M.A., an entertaining round the valley when he (Mr. P. Tsu!) on the work of the ing mical programme was given met defendant wearing the coat.
Defendant who spoke, good school and after regretfully com- by the students, orchestral num-. menting on the absence and illness bers being rendered under the English pleaded guilty. He had Vbeen in the Colony three years, of the Right Rev. Bishop Fazzoni, able direction of Mr. A.
he said, but had not been able to whom he wished a speedy' re- covery and the absence of the Hon.
obtain work. Previously, he was an Interpreter at a Penang rubber state and he had been "driven to mischief as he was starving."
Borromeo!
Inspector. Aris. Interposed that, defendant had been in the House. of Detention, on and off, since his arrival, but had never been con- victed.
done by the staff and the pro gress made by the pupils had been very satisfactory. This was shown by the report of the Inspector of English Schools for
His Worship but the case back the year, 1923 and the results of the Hongkong University Ex till to-morrow to enable the police aminations. The school met 17 to go into defendant's record, times during the year. The average enrolment was 376 and the average attendance was 357.
The Headmaster reported that Mr.E.Irving(Director Education), the School completed dis also indisposed, he went on to speak fourth year in December, 1923. about newspapers. He thought Since its foundation the work all boys should read the news- papers though, a certain amount of salt should be taken to take the taste away." Newspapers played an extraordinarily useful part in education and he would recorn mend a very regular course of newspaper reading, both for their Chinese and English studies. If they had been doing that they would notice that some of the
The class rooms are second to newspapers had been protesting against prize-givings: that there one in the colooy, but they are were too many of them and that too few. They were badly in there were so many that the Press need of a laboratory, without boys were badly could keep away from them. Some which the of the headmasters had been handicapped in the scholarship
Owing to terrified by this and had abolished competitions. prizes and prize-givings. He was limited space at their disposal, glad to see that the Headmaster of they had no sitting room, no com the Wah Yan School had been mon room for teacher, no library sufficiently old fashioned to carry and no playground. The staff on with his birthday party." He was composed of fifteen teachers only hoped that the children's The University results in Class parents would come to such func-were very encouraging Out of tions. He believed that this was eight boys three matriculated, one the great way in which they could with Honours and distinctions in get the parents of the boys to take English and Mandarin, and three a real live interest in the school, were awarded the Senior certifica- In this way also they could also tes, one obtaining distinction in hope to establish a connection Chinese, the only distinction in that subject obtained in the last between old and modern China.
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The results
something like a Ku Klux Klan your headmaster because you commented Mr. Tsing
the
FOOTBALL,
YESTERDAY'S “FRIENDLY"
MATCH.
A friendly match between the Communication Branch and the Royal Marines was played on the Navy "B" ground yesterday and resulted in a draw, each side scofing a goal. It was a fast and well fought game and the result fairly indicates the even nature of the play. Dargavel for the telegraphists and Emery for the madhes were the scorers.
The teams were →
Comm'n Branch-Logan; Mat- thews, Newman; Fole, Under- wood. Vasey; Harper, Durgavei, Roberts, Smith and Dickson."
Royal Marines. Heathcote;
Riddle, Connan; Wigginton, Wigginton, Armstrong: Kies, Crank, Emery, Thomas and Dear.
ALAS! THEY ARE NO MORE.
Alas they are no more, those
years,
cent,
Coming to his important pofat-examination. the criticism of the Board of Class 2 were slightly below ex- Education. Mr. Mackintosh said: pectation; fourteen failed and Mr. Sinclair (under his breathNow in case you have read the thirteen passed, with distinctions you may have in all the important subjects taught newspapers, noticed some facts or alleged in the school; viz., English, Chin- facts--about the people to whom ese, Arithmetic and Biblical Know- Tedge. These results showed that your education is entrusted. want you to have every confidence it was possible for Chinese boys in your Educational Authorities, taught by Chinese teachers to in English, Yon must have confidence in obtain distinction
I want you' The discipline, equipment, and have proved him. ceremonini. Sho juggled with the to have confidence in the rest sanitary-arrangements had been cards and then laid out my future of us. I don't want you to believe greatly improved since the last When flushed, full-blooded, inno- with as much reverence as an under--as you have been told to believe visit of the Board of Education.
The pronunciation of English Beneath the tropic sun I toiled, that there are non-experts guid- The Fortune Teller has blabbed i She has peored into my horoscope taker laying out a corpse. My future ing your education. I do not think words was still very weak. with a withering eye and has was there for all those gaping eyes they are really quite so ludicrous regards the study of Chinese in A dreamer of dreams.
classes, Mr. Tsłu divulged my future with as blissful to stare at. It was monstrous. as some public mea would ask the higher
I have been thought the books selected were an unconcern is ny barber when he
First of all, she said everything you to believe. blithely skims off the top of that looked all right; no troubles nor trying to make up my mind as to too deep, and he was sure al! wart twice a week. Yes, she has anything to send mo into hysteres.
words 'Educational Expert, so let the cat out of the bag with a Then she shuffled and the crow wengeance and now everybody in the held their respective breaths, the -Boarding House from the super- only ripple freaking the silence titions Old Lady to her frisky being the Old Lady's asthmatical grand-daughter is talking about ine. wheeze. I have taken the centre of the stage and the limelight which is blinding e shows through my Buttering cart like an over-dose of X-ray The Fortune Teller indeed, has
blobbed!
I have only myself to blame for these lurid revelations. I shouldn't, bave allowed her to turn over the pages of my future with so ruthless and greasy a hand. She said more, but the rest is far mine on ears, t sufficeth to say that what she did foretell has upset tue.
As
Under the shadow of a full-
grown man,
what is the real meaning of the educated Chinese who had had, or Uttering
had come into contact with,||
some dialf-mysterious, babbling tongue,
majesty:
Puzzled, wondering how some God
benign
this morning. I telephoned to western education would agree I sab, ovejawed by his demeanour's the Editor of one of the four that the "Se Shu," the four books leading papers of the Colony, of Confucius and Mencius, were asked him if he could give not suitable unless they were me a definition of the words, revised, for boys of a secondary The Queen of Clubs came up.educational expert Oh yes, the school, though they may be suit- She was the "dark wonian." Ten Editor replied, an educational able for the of Diamonds loomed out prominexpert is a man greatly experien- university. ently. This was big_norey." ced in the education of the young."
a
students of
Owing to the lack of a play- ground the physical education has been much neglected.
Everybody gasped. Then the If that is all you want you can be illuess came out; I think it was the quite satisfied with your Board of Ace of Spades, which looked, more Education. First of all you have Among the factors which helped like a coffin than an illness.
got on that Board Dr. Pearce. I am the young school to make such sorry he is not here this afternoon. rapid progress, went on if there is any one man in this Headmaster, were:
1. The zeal of its founder and Colony, who can lay claim to being
he
sits ΟΣ your Board
its birth.
the
Would condescend my brains o'er-" lapping membranes to unfold.
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Time, with her over-outspread
wing,
Flow by, closing the portals of her.
crumbling bodes,
And op'ning those of others, over
changing, ever now;
And with them Life's ennumbered
sands ran fast, Till, Time had oped the final portals
of Life's joys,
Ushering in the new with worries
and with woes,
All hideous and grim, grinning awe
⚫ some with
satyric features and Botanic
pose..
Nirvana foretold trouble with the Dark Woman. I was still unshake but the vulgar crowd registered shocked surprise. The Big Money an educational expert, it is Drts staff,
2. The kind help given by pleased then all and the fellow with Pearce (applause) and so long Messrs B, Tanner, A Morris, "the dark hair ordered champagne'on as the strength of it.
of Education then you are in the F. Tse Yat, Cheung Chuk-ling and Nirvana was one of a harmless
After three more shulings during hands of an expert and the meet Lau Po in recommending the little party, an after-dinner affair in this mysterious rite, Nirvana hndings of that Board are not allo school to the public at the time of
Hor roore (with eliminated all the cards except gether ludicrous. And then you one of the best
3. The kindness of His Lord-4 randuls and hot and cold). When three. This was the tance moment have Mr. Stewart, who has been ship, Bishop Pozzoni, in letting in the dram, the moment when a headmaster for many years, and this building to the school, and the gmdéphone needle had worn Kown to vanishing point and the the happiness of the heroine if the definition is in any shape of the Reverend Brother Director records were loudly complaining of depends upon the discovering of the true then he is an expert. You of St. Joseph's College in evacua- Hore throat, some brave fellow risked villians belind the curtain. Stinin- have also Father Valtorta and
Flit the ghostly shadows of my. 4. The grant given by His Childhood's imageries-- Of these I would say neither of Majesty's Government. affending our host by suggesting in their necks with painful pro- you used to have Father Maria, ting it at the critical time. another liqueur and cards. Two of us tuberance, the Old Lady sighing them are inexperienced in the
Youth's pleasances reduced to 5..The sacrifice on the part of | barren wilde cord play pontogus, brag, crib, the frightfully, they all waited as still matter of education nor are there Mim Hoy-lan who gave up at The fattere heifer of my dreams, good-old-sergeant-major and German as death. Nirvana was unmoved.
occasions on which they are better-paid post and numerous Frolicking 'neath the sombre shades wyhist. Somehow, the others didn't I thought the business Lad gone too likely to be ludicrous.
of groves, een so keen on "those vulgar Army far and protested, but no, Nirvann
So my message for you, and other offers to join the school.
Bising tall, majestic, "neath the gathon, you know," but we were not said "Vait," this is finish."
all others in the Colony, is to have
Bun'a enliv'ping rays That kissed that verdant foliage, is equally enthusiastic about Bridge. So we degenerated into card tricks
mo foote srbich were exhausted in five
komutes.
Then Nirvana picked up the cards and my fato was #alod:
Wag
Sho turned up the card. There confidence in those who are guid-ment of the rand in which you they were. The Dark Woman, Biging your education and your ve Money and an Illness, revealed to destiny. I suppose it really comes
Mr. Mackintosh, continuing his the world.
down to this: What do we mean exhortation, advised the students We dispersed after that and as I by education? Education, means, bade "Good Night" I could hear the I think, something a great deal to alm, not so mucirat making the ladies saying: "Dark Woman, more than the mere imparting of world safe for democracy but I was dragged into the conspiracy Dark Woman-Mr. Sinclair, and knowledge. I don't believe that rather to make democracy safe for influence with Chinese labourers y a majority of seven for there were the fellows gurgling "Big Money, education is an end in itself the world. (Applause.) Their
y elght of us. The lady with the Big Money."
although many educational enthu
would be valuable if they respond. sigsts think I ought to belleve that to the call to work for the, bobbed hair cut the cards and bad or future life dissected first. It
I think it is the means to an end, betterment of the world. If you sn't very pleasing at all.. Nirvana
belleve it is a systematic instrucy do this. they would thank id not fatter anybody, but simply
tion given to the young in pre God for the courage of xplained in broken English that
paration for the work of life your Headmaster and those He and I don't believe education, is he was going to read the cards.
worth anything at all unless it is him who refused to shrink, from their task 'Bềélake of fie Being & Continental she added a
ich of mysticism to the business When I wake up this morning, 1 given de a preparation for the howling of the wolves. and what she did they all believed extended my heartfelt thanks to the work of life and that is what (Laughter.). If they gained auccess. want to impress unen you students and ban. Balds" Make me a After the south life had been gods that Nirvans only told fortunes here to-day Nearly 2,000 years croken for my head that men my rabot that of a dark-complexion and did not read pasis. I can face gh the educational expert of the worship the or ordered your broung man who brayed like a the Dark Woman now, without day wrote a letter. In it he said dent saying: Come dance as when he was told that he would giver.
this: "I am writing to you young berore me that I may be meet a blonde,they all looked
men because you are strong, and at me.
The Old Lady: Ob, Mr. Sin- clear, do have your fortune told.
Her Grand-Daughter: "I should miniply love to hear it.
The Dark-Haired Fellow: Be a wort, Mr. Sinclair and outag
The Perronial Typist Don' reak up the party, Mr. Sinclair.
In bed I reflected and decided the
thing whole
tommy-rot. Nirvana had been deadly serious She was not a professional oldir soyante but just se ingeniously dragged into it as I was.
ROXOR
I am not at all dure that Hf St. Joba Ton, that is the "gene" con-
cluded the speaker,. had lived in modern times that he better that, the day tad nor dawnda would hot have the same on which ych, where božictor the soft at Moskagö dha, that he
Blant had never been on t would not hare based bla bellef bbon the baths. Cost of argament was said - Behold a man kchli
Hledá conceived. (AnpäähP
Mutike med 2,000 years ago. Just
aventvis.io.anpent to you to the price use-your-strungth to the, better
In the Light of Life's grim and
hard realities
Instead, a lean and ribald abudów, ghastly and profane, Sick ning my heart to death. Yet I live on, that I My Destiny fulfiya
Dances wild funtastic fantasies,
Berving to the Childhood of my
ken The same mysterious overawing
thing
That was to me,
In Childhood days,
Babbling
tangue
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