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FAIRPLAY.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Pure above thy 1860, and when, he was elected with him to the Colony. That, we JAPANESE fellows; then be President the same year, seven thou content to have slave-owning states seceded from hope, will be the wisdom of a
The word "Fairplay" represents town planning but few as friends; the limpid the Union. The result was the generous system
civil war. Simple, tolerant and in my judgment the grestent con- Nothing strikes the visitor to stream feeds but few fishes..
honourable, Lincoln ranks among tribution which the English-speak Manila so iuch, once he gets
When the bow is drawn to the America's very greatest men. His ing world has made to human pro- eity, outside the walled
than utmost, nothing is too hard for the memory also lives as one of her grens-Lloyd George.
noblestorators, the speech he made glorious wide ronds, and the open arrow to pierce
at Gettysburg in 1863 being among spaces which the American has
the finest in the English language. Fourscore and seven years ago" planned aid supplied. True it is|
he sald," our fathers brought forth But in point of years, the American
on this continent a new nation, Adminismtion is much younger
conceived in liberty, and dedicat ・than ours and to point es nior! would seem ridiculous. To do so
ed to the propostion that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in'
great, civil regarding Hongkong would bej absard, but a reference on similar!
war, testing whether that nation, or any. nation so conceived lines to Kowloon would not be so.
and so dedicated, can long Coddle." A City without "hungs" becomes a
Our present endure. We are mer in a great festering sore. Our prophets pro- |
FORGETTING. Secretary of battlefield of that war. phesy and our young men dream
State for the come to dedicate a portion of Colonies is as is well known, a rail- that field as a final resting
who here dans. The practical
lives that that dream of a line of factory stacks way man and therefore knows all place for those
about shunting Local officials gave
men
Where is Paradise? Why, at the ate of every man that's honest, just, and pure.
In death a tiger leaves behind him his skin, à man his name.
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THE MERE BRIDEGROOM.
A COMPLAINT AGAINST.
THE NEWSPAPERS.
[BY JOHN SINCLAIR.}
I have started a raging argument from which it will not be easy to extricate myself without a scar or two. The Old Lady is my chief opponent with Miss Winterbottom her inevitable ally. But I will stick to my convictions, Imbued as I am with a sense of responsibility The argument to my fellow men. concerns bridegrooms and it all
of her wedding. arose over Miss W's announcement
Bachelors, married men and widowers will support me in what
from end to end of the plice boleh-fond of shunting questions should nation might live. It is altogether Dick Norton and The Glob have argued. One or the other is
ing forth-progress. By all means, note that fact. Mr. Thomas seems fitting and proper that we should' but let the visionaries picture roomy to be a very human kind of person. do this. But, in a larger sense, we houses and dads, wide ronds and We have just been reading that he cannot dedicate-we cannot con Recital at City Hall; 5:30 pm.
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A Book
spent his Christmas Holidays with secrate we cannot hallow-this the avowed idea of banishing all ground. The brave men, living thoughts of politics: How did he and dead, who struggled here, go about it? How did he do it? have consecrated it far above our By simply conducting his own poor power to add or detract. The Thomas played the big drum, or remember what we say here, but it family jazz band" Probably Mr. world will little hote nor long perhaps the trumpet As a rule can never forget what they did It is for us, the living, politicians if they are not thum here.
rather, to be dedicated here ping some mythical drum are sounding a loud trumpet. At any to the unfinished work which rate after this constitutional reform they who fought here have thus It is far so nobly advanced. cannot now long be delayed.
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by
Is this new? One A RECIPE. glassful of tawny port, one small pony of pale brandy, one spoonful of raspberry syrup, four lumps of ice. Grate a little nutmeg on top and call the whole a Blush Rose Cocktail.
It is a popular fallacy or fancy we believe that a person who writes book and has it published becomes ther famous or wealthy, or both. It all depends of course. Mrs. O. Gornion Anderson, perhaps better known as Stella Benson was here a few days ago and in conversation with her we gathered that whilst CRACKERS, joy to us to read the people, for the people, shall books may be written it does not that a number of youthful de-not perish from the earth' necessarily follow they are bought.linquents have been fined for
It has been a great
firing crackers In prohibited She asked us how many copies
areas, although it saddened us of. her
Poor Man The
solt to read also that they took their thought had been wa in Hongkong. We thought a punishment lightly. As those who moment, and knowing Hongkong a perhaps suffered miserably and Bittle--or as we think we do perhaps more than others, we are Hazarded six. Actually five copics inclined to think that sufficient were sold. Let us say that "The culprits were not gathered in, and Poor Alan bas a large part of its that the punishmment should be setting in Hongkong and is, we increased. venture to say quite out of the ordin-: nry run of books, containing as it does come of the most choice verse
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a has-been or a probable. Briefly, I ask why do the newspapers, say so much about the charming bride and so little about the bridegroom The in their wedding notices? bride is always charming or pretty in her dress of orange blossom and white camelias and she always looks attractive in her going-away Hongkong costume of navy blue serge with
February 23.--Royal Air Force Re-union Dinner.
March 1-St David's Society Dinner.
SPORT.
February 20-23. Jockey Club race meeting. PUBLIC AUCTION. February 14-Lammert Bros., Sales Rooms, a quantity of miscellaneous goods, 11 am
COMPANY MEETINGS. February 23-Annual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation at City Hall, February 25.-Thirty-seventh 30 p.m. moeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine's offices, IT am
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February 28.-Annual Meeting Company, at St. George's Bldg., of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing
Chater Road, II a.m. Lincoln was March 4.-Thirty-fifth ordinary HOW LINCOLN assassinated in annual meeting of shareholders of Washington on the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd., DIED
April 14, 1865. at St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd., Accompanied by his wife and two II a.m. young friends, he went that evening
to
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sequine furs, and I don't doubt it. Very few bridegrooms don't. · But the poor bridegroom never looks handsome in his latest cut
tail-coat and his new white spats. If he does, it is never mentioned. All the newspapers do for him is to drag the weight of his Christian name round his neck. Sometimes they mention that he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. So-and- of Winkleton÷cum-Huggles- so towe, England and that he is
connected with the A.P.C." But that seems to go against him rather than for him.
The ladies will read with relish what Miss Winterbottom wears at her wedding. Some will smack their lips with delight; others will cut the dress to pieces in a few. slashing words. Miss W., has not yet decided what it shall be. Over the week-end her wedding dress has come up with the soup and to Ford's Theatre to see the comedy February 12.--Ordinary general lingered throughout the meals. of "OUR AMERICAN COUSIN," meeting of Marine Engineers' She has vacillated between white. At about ten o'clock, while he was Guild of China, at Sailors' Home, brocade, mauve chiffon and crepe
de chine and does not know yet seated in an armchair in the West Point, 5 p.m.
whether to carry a bunch of roses upper right-hand stage box, deeply absorbed in the progress of the February 24.H.K. Amateur or a handful of grass. I will bet An Ex-Frankie knows what he is going to play, a young actor named John Photographic Society, Wilkes Booth, a fanatical Seces-plaustion of Paget Colour Photo-wear and that to wear it, he will sionalist, having gained entrance graphy illustrated by Paget colour have to borrow one and tuck it In
.the. little corridor, lantern plates by Mr. Denis H.with a safety-pin. noiselessly opened the box-Hazeli. door immediately behind Lincoln, and, holding a pistol in one hand, and a knife in the other, put, the pistol to the President's head and fired. Major Rathbone, who was in the same box, sprang to seize the murderer, but the latter 2/4/6; on Shanghai 603⁄44. dealt him a savage cut on the arm. with his knife, and, advancing through the box, placed his left tive Council which it was proposed suppose. She said she still had
The meeting of the Legisla hand on the railing and leapt from to hold on Thursday next to her wedding dress in the camphor its front to the stage below. A spar further consider the Military Lands wood box upstairs and she grew that he wore caught in the folds award has been postponed sine die. quite upset when I asked her if she of the American flag which draped
had kept her husband's" wedding. the front of the box, causing
A lot of Crown land measuring trousers. As a matter of fact, I him to break the small bone of Is it possible to get one leg in the fall. Nevertheless, 10,000 square feet at Shek Shan, knew she hadn't, as she had once. enthusiastic over he raised himself to his fall height auction yesterday afternoon. Kowloon, realised $19,100, our trams; to and brandishing his knife as he
Our tame expert who has suffered miserably during the last few muggy, stuffy humid days says our Piece Goods people should be up and doing. He has been read- ing Aldous Huxley's Anctic Hay which deals with a man who in vented a pair of pneumatic trousers. He thinks we need some one able to invent a cloth suitable to the days we have been having one that will absorb the moisture and continue to make us feel cool and look fresh, instead of worn out, frazzled, bundles of sweat, reminding one of the cry that used to be in vogue at one time in the Isle of Man: "They've all get sticky backs!"
TRAMS.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Old Lady, in betwoon her spasms of, asthma and twinges of rheumatics advises white brocade.
It will look so pretty on you dearie," she fawns, "When I got married, you know, I sex to my T.T. exchange on London is beautiful than I have ever done sister, I sez, that I shall look more
in white brocade.
SOCIAL AND, TANIONAL
The dear old lady must have been beautiful once upon a, time I
at let it out during an unguarded A moment (she has many) that she
first-born and that after Charlie had worn them through she gave them to her gardener's son.
The argument I started was a. result of my.. growing indignation from their continual talk about the
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The Ferment In The Balkans. The Versailles Treaty has noi, as imagine have there been "delicate was fondly Imped of it brodight,
peace to the Balkans. negotiations of any sort whatever hundred years this serion has been The visit just concinded has been «witches cauldron of political strife shall we say, from one friend to and military turmoil, and clearly the Mrs. E. G. Masters, a son, Jatin another-from are friend anned rod is not yet. Recent lupenings proceedings. I ever you are in a the audience was stupefied by the Lady Hewitt died as the result of I said, so, the concentrated looks
in Greece, in Bulgaria, und Jugo in the onerous task of governorship. Slavia are, to say the least of them, Greece is in the to another occupied similarly. If disquietening. we understand the characters throes of a political revolution, rela- tions between Bulgaria and Jugo both Governors aright the visit will glyvia are strained to the breaking not have meant merely an exchange point, and the discussions which are of views-doubtless that has rosult-taking plice touching a Franco
are of ed, but an acquisition of knowledge Czecho-Slovak alliance
sinister import. For ten years the
Crichton:
anyone could wish to read. Of Curse there may be other reasons attributable to such a poor sale in Hongkong: A book of fiction that strikes out in a new vein is pioneering adventure, and like all such things, is not likely to be greatly successful. On the critics' side those who hold themselves competent to judge a book-there is unanimous opinion both as to the merits of the particular book in question and Stella Benson. Fat instance The Poor Man" figures in the three British books selected by the commrities of the British Femina-Heureuse prize, which, so far as we know went to David Gar nett for his strikingly original "Lady Into Fox." Stella Benson's Intest book is in the hands of her | publishers. Aguin she has drawn on bor experiences or her imagination an fnt as Hongkong is concerned, enthuse about them and paint their turned to the audience, shouted Chinese syndicate bought it, the had cut them down for Charlie, her
in glowing the State and it will be intoresting to note julting weariness
motto of Virginia, upset price being $10,000. colours? We think not. what success it has here when it
TheSIC SEMPER TYRANNIS," and, famous George Russell did in cor hastening through the familiar appears.
nection with some-cars-we-wot-not-passages to the rear door of the af. Probably they were Dublin's. theatre, mounted a saddle-horse. We remember mounting a car in waiting there and galloped certain part of Ireland not knowing away. The ball fired by the A Reuter cable from London blushing bride. Nobody mention- word about what where it was going, paying four-assessin had entered the back of announces the death of Lady- rence, and after a glorious ride the President's hand on the left Hewitt, widow of Sir Thomas Frankie would wear. As far knew he would be finding ourselves in "dear dirty side, and, passing through Hewitt and mother of Lieut as I
attired in a bathing costume Dublin." It was a fine thing and the brain, lodged just behind the Commander H. G. Hewitt, now on
cyc. For an instant his way Home from Hongkong. with sandals to match, and when imparted a spirit of adventure to the left
the assassin's a fall.
that were thrown at me would strange place never fail to take one pistol-shot and
have frozen an Eskimo. or more tram rides. But here is dramatic exit; then followed Russell's outburst-very fine in clamour and confusion in the effort
How does the bachelor, embark The hearing was continued toring in the frail craft of matrimony to render assistance and in the day of the Supreme Court action in for the first time know exactly deed:
Mine eyes begét new ma cagerness of pursuit. The wounded which the Bank of East Asia is what to wear? His previous ex--
jestiest my spirit greets President, breathing but uncon-
suing Mr. J. H. N. Mody, the experience is no good because he. The trams, the high-built scious, was borne to
a house glittering galleons of the across the street.
change broker, for the recovery of has not had any. The newspapers Before such a streets,
hurt the skill of the surgeons was $77434.86 in connection with a won't tell him. The books of
with the he China Mail, hat should prove of service in the history of Greece has been u strange
That float through twilight unavailing; yet his strong-vitality
Banque etiquette mislay the bridegroom | Industrielle de Chine which rivers from galaxies of light. was slow to surrender life. The
in their analyses and merely he guaranted. We do not advance the medley of comedy and tragedy,
Glittering galleons" will recall family and State fiture.
The case for misinform him how to hold his dignitaries stten it that the British Admisis- Two Kings of the Hellenes have becon the big double-decker trams of watched by his bedside through the defence, which is being heard knife and fork at the wedding tration has anything to learn from deposed and one has died from the Dublin vividly to those who have the night, and at twenty-tworst, had not been concluded when
this edition went to press.. that which at present rules the bite of a monkey. A republic has seen them floating along the Howth
succeeded a monarchy and the or Kingstown routes. Philippines, alhough there may be monarchy now looks like giving one or two matters on which this place to a republic. The Serres
Those who do Colony, might well follow the lead Treaty exalted Greece almost to the
THE BLUES dance, those who Today's Poem.
think they do,
To Gild Refined Gold.). her vast territorial domains, wrested those who are learning and those Fierce is the light that beats given by American enterprise in Tank of a great Power conferring on about a throne. Fierce is also the these waters. What the peculiar from the 'Ottamanian Empire, but who want to learn may well heave To gild refined gold, to paint the Fight that beats about, the actions of problems of the Philippines may be the Treaty of Lausanne has restored a sigh of relief and release. The one whose powers although limitiv only the Americans and the Philip use to tiro, conlist Thanks, and Blues" has never caught on To throw a perfume on the violet,
more begides. In the meantime the to mali i prowaribed area as in that pines really know. Certainly the Greek any suffered a debacle in properly and is rapidly disappear. To smooth the ice, or add another
Ing-from-dance-programmes alto. bus - with t of this Colway. yet has greater question of Filipino independence Anatolia, while the nation has unce gether. It was an ugly dance we Unto the rainbow, or with taper-panies, and has helped bring the do Borrow one, If he cannot
suffered humiliation at the bands of poware than i said to be possessed has loomed largely on the borgen Italy. But yesterday Grecos counted are told.
Light Even the man who by His Majesty the King. No for many years past. It has been in the concils of Europe. Today executed it skilfully reminded one To seck the beauteous eye of herventional position in the manufacture get married at the Corps' expense. reason has besa ascribed for the aggravated by the manner in which there is none so poor as to do her of a person trying to convey a sack visit paid by His Excellency the General Leonard Wood's ection reremnce. Her very weakness con of coals in his arms across the deck Is Governor and Lady Stubba to the has bow taken in certain matters of stitutes one of the danger factors of of a heaving ship. When badly the Balkanu. The cables have danced, as it mostly was, it was Philippine. It has been carried Administrative control. That is no brought news of a grave situation the last word in ungalaly hideous- Laut with that quietness and restraint affairs of oure, but pretending to between Jugo-Blavin and Bulgaria ess: So there you are!
which we have come to regard as know something of General Wood's In the former country as defined by the Peace Treaty, there are soma the happy manner of the present character and the high regard in thousands of Bulgarians whose fosidents ut Government House; which he is held by his compatriots alleged invidious treatment is Wet it has aroused not a littlo intarest generally, it is somewhat dificult to threatening to provoke the Gotern and, we venture to think, a great believe that what he has dons her ent nt Sofia to make military Abraham Lincoln, the 16th reprinqli. The French alliances President of the United States.
LESLIE-On February 6; 1924, at Shanghai, the wife of Norman Leslie, of a son.
BONGKUNG TURDAY, FEB. 19, 1924.
THE GOVERNOR'S VIBIT,
past minutes.
seven the next morning, Abraham Lincoln breath- ed his last.
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lity,
contract
feast. And the timid young-fellow cannot afford to attend every wedding in Hongkong to see Mr. Frank Bestow Wiborg, what the ntale victim is dressed prominent New York clubman is in. If he does sneak in at the en route to the Orient per 8.8. church door, he will find nine times "President Cleveland." Mr. | ont of ten that the variety of styles Wiborg is a member of the Union in trousers Is so great that any League and National Golf Clubs, attempt at imitation would be New York City, and of the Metro grotesque.. His married friend politan Club, Washington. He is will probably say “any old thing! one of the founders of the Ault and tell him to borrow one. and Wiborg Co., and allied come And that is what I advise him to
organization to its present interna; borrow one, and he is a Volunteer,
and sale of nuting and lithogra-. Wear out the Government's to garnish
phic supplies. Some of the versa- trousers in the taxi-cab: Any old wasteful and ridiculous excess,
(KING JOHN," Act iv. sc. 2.3.tile travel experiences of Mr. thing is good enough to have rice...
Wiborg are embodied in two books carrots, and old boots thrown at it. under his own pen "The Travels And in a military rig-out, the WEATHER CALENDAR, of an Unofficial Attache" and "A groom will be fortified with that
Commercial Travalier in South accessary amount of pluck to ¡face", America.!?
anything. He will want it..
To-day is TO-DAY'S NOTABLE the anni-
ANNIVERSARY.versary of 1660.
A the birth of
FEBRUARY 12.
We wont and walked half an hour in Moorfields, which were full of people, ii boing so fine a day-Pepys.
A Favourite Among Athletes
Stops Stubborn Bronchial Coughs. The Golfo, the foot ball, player, And When chanceable wother or exposure.
Chamberlain's Puíry Balm." (It is just the start at ones, taking Chamberlain's Arno-it is hot enough. here things for a rob down after's hard game: Cough Remedy. Bon need for over fifty to battle in the Thaman 41 sorecase dimppear like magio, and yours and tongy recommended for was literally forced to throw sprains and swellinge are cured, in one, brynobial and lofted cough, stubbor a on the quii of my bed the third loss time then by any other treat weakening coughs and troublesome night
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dough. Fold overywhere. night before 1, alppia.
Samoans of plaanure, as wèli ne given not been characterised by the with Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-who was born in 180g. Beginning 179. You talk of skating on the the all rosad athleto know the vales of to cold and wet regalts in bronchicks.
sasuke-at imut we hope so. No highest possible motives. Slavin, can only tend to complicate his carest 48 a clerk in a store, political ognitarnos de attached to We diverge somewhat from the the situation, since their effect in Lincoln soon turned his attention
the event of war among the Balkan to law and politics. He made fouter The fate of Nations point, we wish to make about our would inevitably be to involve great speech, against slavery In
hung upar ♬ meither we own Governor's visit and a lesson as Western Hurope, V