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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23 1924
MAH-JONGG-NOTES-
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MR. IRVING'S SUCCESSOR:
NEW
and
1000tarios may imagine they are, and
Smiles' character of self-Help, or hasten on before we put the
Cobbett's. Advice to Young Men. The perusal of books is varied by
WEEKLY COMMENT.
DIRECTOR OF horrible temptation in their way.
The overseas Premiers have dictation exercises, lessons an
EDUCATION. Our Legislative Councillors may been brought face to face with the grammar and composition, word- have or may not have a guid con- hopeless task of
reconciling bullding etc., and from time to QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. coit o' themselves, but it is quite opinion that so widely differs. time there are examinations po the
Readers of the China Mail desiring MR. G. N. ORME APPOINTED. They are not fatimately concerned work of the classes. possible that in their weak with European affairs except in so has two sections of classes-Junior information about the game in all
The "Government Gazette" an- moments-aided by the terrible far as they affect the Mother and Sentor, according to the its phases or wishing to have any examples they have before them, Country, yet, true statesmen as capncty of the members; and the point cleared up, are invited to send
they are, they realise that all the hooks chosen are those, which their inquirice to this office and ounces that His Excellency; the appoint Mr. Geoffrey Norman they may get to think that. & world Is one," and that shadows appear most suitable to each replies will be published in this Governor has been pleased to near approach to Demosthenes here and there have a habit of section. Sometimes the section column on Thursdays. Correspon- Orme to act as Director of Educa
tion, with effect from February itself chooses the book for its study. dence is invited.
Dragons or Faans. meets the case or perhaps it lengthening.
28, 1924. As adjuncts to its work the Club and
WHY THERE ARE TWO KINDS.
Mr. Orme. who succeeds Mr. should be Diogenes. Probably
"It will be remem has a Debating section
Q-On a very old set of Mah- the evil has spread to Canton and DEAD. bered that some time also a Dramatic section; and as a the Generalissimo there thinks he
ago we commented result of the work of these sections Jongg dominoes I noticed that the E. A. Irving in the post, is a from Government service in 1901 as a. is a reincarnation of all the on the fact that the result of a members have acquired a reputa- characters for the red and green Barrister-at-Law. He joined the
shooting outrage was allowed to tlon as speakers in debate connect- dragons were different qualities possessed by Napoleon- lie on the public pavement almosted with other associations, and as these usually seen in new sets in Cadet, passing his final language What do these examinations in 1904. He has been through the mill of Govern- the one who finished up at St. uncovered and. in full view of providers of dramatic sketches at the shops.
ment service. aa' is shown by his Helena. It needs little imagina- passers by until the arrival of a social functions. But the work of characters denote?
“Drugonite,'
Kowloon. record. Thus he has acted as tion to conjure up the evil effects high police functionary-the rule these sections is not allowed to being we understand, that no interfere with the regular weekly
A.You probably came across Acting Assistant Secretary to the to the community-and especially body is to be dealt with until a meetings for the study of books. Government servants, given over superior officer is on the spot. The Club has also a small library a set much in vogue before the Sanitary Board, Assistant Secre- to the bad habit of simile making. This rule appears to operate in of good literature. The leaders do 1911 Revolution and which cantary to the Sanitary Board, Acting The Government is assured in Japan also, whilst we read that the work voluntarily, and the still be made to order at present. Assistant Registrar General,' Act- in the Isle of Wight a woman was members purchase the class-books The red dragon in this set is the ing Second Police. Magistrate, The fee is $2 character "Loong" which denotes Acting Assistant Superintendent advance of the cordial co-opera-knocked down and killed by a for themselves. tion and good wishes of the motor-lorry and it was discovered for the session of six months and the Dragon from whence comes of Police and Police Magistrate, an the money is mostly spent in prizes the general denomination used in New Territories, Assistant Land enlightened section of the com- at the inquest that it was
hour before the body was extri- for attendance and class work. English for the faan or super Officer New Territories, Acting
of life is munity in any endeavour they cated from under the lorry be-A high ideal
pieces. The green dragon would Deputy Superintendent of Police, before the students; may make to put to an end a cause no one was willing to kept
be "Foong" or Phoenix and the Acting District Officer. Head of GROHEN MUZAM practice that leads to that very touch it until it had been seen by It is continually impressed upon white remains the same, i,.. the Sanitary Department, attached to
a doctor or a constable. The the members of the Club that the prevalent and very, catching form
coroner rightly described the idea purpose of education in all its white algnifying Beauty. Why Crown Solicitor's Office of phobia-swelled head!
utter nonsense and prepose branches is to enable one to re Dragon and Phoenix were chosen Attorney General's Office. He der better service to his neig is not definitely known except has also been Acting Director of hours and the public, and thus a that something magnificent is Education, in all u varied field of Olive Schreiner in one high ideal of life is taught. There hinted to indicate their import work. In addition Mr. Orme has MUSIC. of her books has it that is proof that the members raspoidance as faan or super (multiply-ither taught or lectured at the There are more ways of carn-
"They made heaven to this moral influence of the ing) pieces. After the Revolu- University. By this appointment to technical ing money than venturing on right when they made it all music." Club. Some years ago, of their tion exception was taken to the the Government maintains its lucky numbers at the races, and When we can say that about this own accord, they began a bene dragon as being a legacy of the Cadet-appointing to our Chinese friends-the sug-present world we shall presumably volent fund for providing com- non-existent Empire hence the positions, in the face of public gestion we are about to make will be in another heaven. Thanks be forts for the poor in hospitals and change to Chung (red) and Faat protest. Mr. Orme's charm of delightful Jecturer on things not appeal to Europeens-we put then for the people who are trying for the help of sufferers by (green), signifying China and manner is well known. He is a before them the following "safe to make it so, not merely by the calamities; and every year they Prosperity, respectively.
Some restauranta and clubs Chinese and may also be, said to thing" and hope they will give it mechanical and mind effort of choose a charitable institution as their earnest and early considera-playing musical instruments, but the object of their charity, An have their own names as the red he the pioneer of living out in the tion. The other evening we came by radiating the sweetness of well other useful result of the Club is and green dragons but this is only New Territories. across four of the Criminal tempered minds. On the former the sense of comradeship it has a private fancy and does not alter Investigation Department's Cir- we have to thank those who from created among the members; and the value of the pieces. culars posted on a wall announcing time to time dispel the gloom and some of the members have been sweet helped to better positions in life rewards for information, as to treat us to concords of certain absconders to the tune of sounds glorious to hear. On by the friendships formed in the
Sunday the orchestras of meetings of the Club.. $2,800. Thus; Circular No. the Star and Coronet theatres offered information regarding a combined in
He used a programme of gentleman who had forgotten to music that pleased all who heard THE DREAMER. dream
things he'd do return with $7,000. Circularit and who ask for another recital. No. 21 offered $300 for news of On Monday over three hundred When grown to be a man, one missing with $2,000, Circular people listened to a matter of Beguiling boyhood's years away No. 5 "voted" $500 for tidings of thirty piano compositions--a feast with many an idle plan another who had taken $10,000, in plents! On Tuesday the And now, when grown to be a and Circular No. 4 indicated a Cathedral organist "held forth" willingness to give $1,000 if on the king of instruments and budding Sherlock Holmes would shortly there is to be an orchestral say what happened to the man concert a little out of the ordinary. who found $40,000 & strain on Truly attempts to make the world his honesty. Our Chinese friends right with music nre thus put in a position to serve themselves and the community
why To-day's Poem. and make this place safe for
those who
(Morality.) honesty, in a very practical way,
waters do and we trust they will be up and
bottle' We cannot kindle when we will doing with a heart for any fate.not concentrate
The fire that in the heart One or two things occur to us in sufficiently full to meet the often-
resides, connection with these C.ID. ordered whisky and soda.
states that his observation. leads The spirit bloweth and is still, Circulars. The first is the great him to the helief that there must In mystery our soul abides; discrepancy in the amount offer be a considerable waste in soda But tasks in hours of insight ed as rewards. A study of the water for the ordinary bottle figures we give will bear this out, seems too large for its use. We Can be through hours of gloom We do not suppose that the C.LD. cannot answer this. Doubtless the finds the rewards, but that they matter has been considered by
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VALUE OF A SELF-DRAWN PIECE. Q-Three Chinese friends who" NOBODY HAS THE BLUMS. had a game with me said that when a "chowing" card is taken
It is
Mrs. Taggart's gift for ligh from the wall, in other worda; composition finds abundant outle self-drawn to complete a hand in her latest effort happily called and not picking up a discard to "Nobody Has the Blues," as though I had drawn the card do so, I could count up my points safe to say that after listening which would give me the biggest total although I did not draw that card. Is this strictly correct?
are the sums that sufferers are those concemed in the best With aching hands and bleeding table, and then claiming that the Blues" will, we venture to willing to provide.. If so, we interests of consumers.
a
feet,
Matthew Arnold
(1822-1888).
the strains of the melody so one is likely to possess the blues fes any length of time. Unlike mosé Fox Trot tunes that have come be "Beginner." our notice, "Nobody Has the A. As Mah Jongg players will-Blues" is simple in structure and know, there is no hard-and-fast possesses no difficulties in its set of rules universally accepted, playing in any shape or form. The practice of allowing a player Music lovers will be glad of this who draws a card to "chow to and it will certainly enhance its But that is by no yet popularity. treat another card, as unexposed, in his hand, as having means its only recommendation. been drawn so as to increase his There is a singing tune that score, seems to have originated impels the feet to movement with the Northerners and gradu- in rhythm with it, whilst the ally to have found its way down catchiness of the predominating the coast ports to Hongkong theme soon becomes agreeably where it has been generally fixed in the memory, and is a adopted by the Chinese. It is distinct aid to the dancing of probably due to players placing and makes the Fo: Trot a more the "chowing" card in such a entrancing thing. Mrs. Taggart's position as render it undistin- "Repulse Bay Hotel Waltz" is. guishable by the others at the still remembered. "Nobody has some other card in the hand was think, be as popular and as last- suggest that the schedule be a
We dig and hear, lay stone on drawn. To avoid argument, ing as the dance to which it is fixed one. Another thing is--are
Hongkong has stone;
players were allowed to count as played. Copies are being eagerly these circulars sent to all the READING CLUB. got A Book We bear the burden and the heat they chose so that all would have bought at The Anderson Music
Co., Ltd. Guilds in Hongkong and are they
Club which Of the long day, and wish the same privilege. also sent to Canton. Foochow, proceeds along its self-appointed 'twere done.
For example, if a player has in Swatow, Amoy and Shanghai? task in calmness and a sense of Not till the hours of light return
his hand a pair of white dragons One interesting thing about these repose, but it has not got what All we have built do we discern. and the 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, of bamboos. Suppose the cards in hand are "dcar departed" which may Singapore has a Reading. Club.
He would chow if he got either a 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8. Therefore either intereat paychologists is that one (There can be a subtle distinction
third white dragon making a set 2, 5 or 3 of that denomination will Book Club
and absconder is aged 25, another 27, between
of dragons, 2-3-4, and a pair of chow and the 2 is drawn, making We have
4's as "eyes"), or the 1 of the complete hand as 2-3-4, 5-6, "A. Bill to prevent Government another 30 and the other 52, a Reading Club).
been at some paius to ket
bamboos (making 1-2-3, a kaan 6-7-8. The usual method would officials making speeches or liken- What are the deductions?
from one of the leading spirits of
of 4's and a pair of dragons as be to reckon 2 points for a self- the Straits Chinese Reading Club,
"eyes") or the 4 of bamboos ALLAN-HARVEY-On Saturing themselves to something they
some idea of its activities in the day, February 16, 1924, at decidedly are not." Government
hope that Hongkong may be Jarnes Robert Shanghai,
which
the interested. Here is a résumé of It 1711. Quaints are as briefly as it is possible ade- Angus, only son of Mr. and servants, it is well known, are not Mrs. R A. Allan, of Shang-permitted to do hosts of things.
to perform was quately to write about it. given 1146 hai, to Elsie Mitchell, young- They may go to church but they
The Straits Chinese Reading Club est daughter of the late Mr. may not write to the papers; but renderings at the Lyric Theatre, is in its 30th half-yearly session. and Mrs. John Gourlay Har- there is not word about Hammersmith and ended one of It has held weekly meetings (with vey, of Rockfort, Helens-
speeches. Thus it happens that, which the London stage can boast for nearly 15 years. During that the most extraordinary runs of the exception of public holidays) burgh, Scotland. ANDERSON.
in a weak moment, one likens a record. How is the remarkable time the membership fias varied in himself to a mascot on a bonnet longevity of the Beggar's Opera in number, but the average will have which may or may not denote its twentieth century vession to the beer about 30 and the attendance accounted for? There is no satis-at the weekly meetings about 20, where his thoughts are. It is the factory answer to this question. Some have continued in active deleterious effects that this Playgoers find it just "charming" membership for many years, and custom of similitudising mayor "fascinating," omitting perhaps others who have found them to acknowledge their (possibly selves unable to continue atien have on the moral fibre of the subconscious) enjoyment of ita dance at the mecilags havo community that is exercising the eighteenth century frankness of asked to be retained as asso-
the sheer clate members Old members SHADOWS BEFORE, minds of the Government, for like speech: Probably the wise men they are, they see oddity of the whole thing, its hold influential positions in the
utter remoteness in atmosphere city, and are not slow to acknow- Coming Events Advertised what is going to happen whole and treatment from the conven-ledge the debt they owe to the
In The Mail Colony wretchedly likening itself tional music play, the quaintness Club for their sucess. The Club
Was established in order to ENTERTAINMENT 3. to all manner of things. Think of its Hogarthian setting and décol and its piquant blend of of the gentleman who imagines the dainty and sordid all this has familfarise the Straits Chinese with good English literature, and
February 23.Coronet Theatre; the newspapers and anonymous helped largely to its success so to improve their education. It *The Mark of Zorro." Writers of letters to the news-There cannot be any doubt what-is an effort to counteract the
February 23-Star
Theatro: ever of the potent appeal exercised temptation young men have to "The Gilded Lily," papers, implacably follow his by the artless beauty of many of spend time over books that are February 23 World Theatre
Some day he the old tunes preserved from the inferior and profitiess. It has Reginald Denny in "The Abysmal every utterance. will get up and call himself "The original but Hongkong will soon never lacked a nucleus of very Bruty 23-Theatre Royal Butterfly on the Wheel," which be able to judge for itself.
GOUGET-On February 16, 1924, at Shang hai, Norman Walter Anderson, of Liverpool, to Gouzet, only daughter of Monsieur and Madame Ernest Gouget of Shanghal.
DEATH
BERSOUZA On February 18, 1974, at Shanghai, Alberto Bersouza, aged 42 years.
The China Mail,
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THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
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FEBRUARY 28.
(making. 2-3-4, a kaan of 4's and draw of one end of a sequence. Under this elastic,system, it could The snow is gone every bit, a pair of dragons as "eyes.") be claimed that the 5 or 8 was except the remainder of Suppose he draws the 1; his com- drawn to make a pair of "eyes" some great balls made by pleted hand would then be a the boys-Swift,
DIFFERENCE. Between a thinker and a learn ed man there is the same difer- ence as between a book and a table of contents.
Jean-Baptiste Soy..
(1767-1882),
enthusiastic members; and the February
Tenders feel that they have causeThe Nine O'Clock Revue"; 9.15 The fact that General for gratification with the result the Pebruary 25-25-Theatre Royal; SMUTS. Smuts refused to impart their efforts. The desire of the
We are not quite sure, but
a farewell message on leaders is not so much to have "The Beggar's Opera" 9.15 p.m. but believe the Government is
a picker up of unconsidered the occasion of his departure from large numbers in the membership 12 SOCIAL either about to introduce a special
England is regarded as significant ds to bring together those who February 129-At · City Ordinance, or sand round written tries. Our Vice-Chancellors are of the assumption that the General take the work of self-improve- Fancy Dress Ball, in aid of the instructions to its Officials that men of intelligence, but there is was not altogether satisfied with ment seriously. The books adopt S.P.CA 9.30 b.m.
ergo ed for study by the club have been - - March 1-St. David's Society they must in future on no account no knowing when one, copying bls visit.
He found conditions much thore such plays by Shakespeare; essays Dinner, example, may liken himself R
Murch I make speeches in Public. It may be that the the Attorney to Horables who held a bridge in staveshan he had anticipated, and by Emerson,, Bacon Mas Took matters to heart. To him the novels by Scop, Dickensia Instructions rhymed metre, --We shudder to
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General has
pair of dragons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4 of or the 3 or 7 which filled a middle bamboos. In addition to what he sequence (kaan dong) 'for each has already laid down on the table of which two additional, points and the base points, he would can be reckoned. When the other cards which have already been score 2 points for the pair hald on the table are all sequences of dragons, 4 points for the kaan of 4's and nothing for the or chee's then it would be to the player's advantage to neglect the sequence 1-2-8. Ordinarily, he claim and merely say "Ping Woo" would get 2 additional points for which is a nominal or non-scoring drawing the 1 which is one end hand for which one gets (on a of the sequence. But he could, for basis of 10 points) 20 by chowing purposes of reckoning, claim that with a discard and 24 with a one of the dragons and not the self-draw. By claiming that the 1-was drawn although he had or 8, and/or 8 or 7, it would not the pair in his hand. (This, of be a non-acoring hand and, course, cannot be done if he accordingly, reduce the score. picked up a discard to chow.) the case of all the exposed cards Therefore claiming that one of being sequences or chee's, even if the dragons was drawn he would one did draw the. 6 or 8, the reckon an additional 2 points for player should point to there being a self-draw, 2 points for pairing more than one way of completing. off an "eye" to chow, and & the sequences and therefore claim further 2 points because it is a a non-scoring hand which would dragon." (N.B. In some clubs for give a bigger result, chewing with d pair of minor "eyes," ie. 2s to 8a, 2 points are given: 4 points for major "eyes," are not one's own nor that of the Le 1s and 98 and winds which
round: 6 points for super "eyes," that of the round; and 8 points ie.; dragons, one's own wind or
FIRST MAHJONGG STORY.
In.
There has just come to Hong- kong the story of the maid who said she feared she would have to went to the lady of the house and
for double-super "eyes, fe find another place. ALKANE pair of a wind which is one's own But why ? her alarmed em and at the same time, that of the ployer asked. round. Two points more in Because," the maid replied, addition to foregoing, for self-r fear your husband is losing his had mind. I found him on ble hands and knees in the living-room, and when asked him, what, he was
the Past Wind.”
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