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HYKES. On February 27, 1924, at Chengchow, Honan, Mrs. Rebe S., widow of Rev. John R. Hykes, D.D.
1924, at Shanghai, Arthur Dabelstein, aged 50 years.
JJORGE. On March 4, 1924. ut
Hongkong's Only European Optician.
of the foreigner to such an extent as to plan and work for his extermination, bringing about a condition of things which the Chinese in their mad lust neither anticipated Australian, Commonwealth safe guards itself, as does America, by the procedure it adopts in admit-
THE CHINA MAIL.
MAD
WEATHER CALENDAR
MARCH
The weather is so very .March, that I cannot enjoy my new holidays at Staw berry yet. I alt reading and writing close to the fire.
Walpole
SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised
their countries by France and.
People who ro':'mad” Belgium. Both countries have
on certain things had better take hood- enacted that only those of French especially those "mad" on games.
inay An enthusinet has just died in 1768. and Belgian extraction operáto on the Exchanges of their England on hearing that game was going against his team; The respective countries. In this way inte president of the Blackburn they hope to eleminate the unde- Rovers Football Club had a seizure sirable class of speculator whose on hearing that the Corinthians had scored against the Rovers in concern is for his own success and the Football cup tic, and he never. monetary prosperity, and who recovered consciousness. Statistics stops at no effort to gain his own have yet to be compiled showing the number of hats lost through ends oven if it endangers the throwing them in the air by value of the currency of the excited enthusiasts, or the sprouts country in which he is operating.ing corns or bulging bunions, "(of other people) crunched into The principle seems reasonable, pretesting painful activity by until it is realised that the excited spectators. By all means implication is that only French take your pleasures sadly but don't and Belgian Brokers are above take them madly. suspicion, and that it at once cuts of off those representatives Foreign Houses whose probity and method of business is without question. Spasmodic attempts
WEDNESDAY MAROH
1924
THREE KINDS OF LOVE. HONGKONG'S PRODIGY,
ALL SEEN IN LITTLE "DRAMAS IN HONGKONG.
T
[BY JOHN SINCLAIR.).
MASTER DANENBERG'S
RECITAL
·NOTABLE OCCASION.
Of the three hundred people It is with much trepidation that I venture a dissertation on love, who assembled in St. Andrew's Bachelors at forty, they say, have Hall yesterday, we wonder how loved and lost or not loved at all. many stayed a moment to con Admitting that I am neither consider that so far as they knew, quered nor conqueror, I will they were present at what may frankly put on one side any heart henceforth be considered an
*occasion. breaking spasms with Cupid which historic
It is a may have come my way, and as a tremendous thought this fact of a keen observer of human nature boy but six and a half years of tell of what I have seen of the
In The Mall.
ENTERTAINMENT 3, March 12-Coronet Theatre; effects of the emotion in those age able by some unknown Pola Negri in "Gypsy Blood."
nature, to sit down and for wonderful matrimonial agencies perhaps unrealisable fact of known as boarding houses. March 12-Star Theatre;
Love, I have found, is of three unforgettable moments, play from Douglas McLean in "Thundering kinds. It is best described as a well stored memory compost- Dawn."
March 12.-World Theatre; lav, lerv and lav, if you will tions from the masters of old and of the the moderns of the present. Ethel Clayton in Can A Woman permit my corruption
language. Luv is the primitive, Several questions pressed them- Love Twice?"
March 13.-Theatre Royal; the blunt, forceful and sweeping. selves to our notice as we sat and Lery, is sentimental, conventional, watched the less than youthful are being made to introduce bills adopted here. It is simply the Grand Orchestral. Concert, 9.15 and as per Lady de Whytingmore performer, without an outward
ELS
canı
method of dispatch- Is murderers A NEW, ing
announced which would-be takers away of other peoples lives would do well to note, although it is not likely to be
p.m.
well victed murderer, with Kreat
nervousness which March 14.-Theatre Royal; fare and Lord du Cascade. Lav is of trace of
have occasion might of Kaal's the luv species, primitive etc., but the return visit
has rushing air with, a sort of warranted, play compositions Hawaiian, Troubadors, 9.15 p.me
touch..
Haydn, Mozart, by Bach, March 29.-Theatre Royal, importunate splicing
think I'd better explain, but first Beethoven, to mention but a few Grand Concert, 9.15 p.m.
assure you that none has been of the old school, and Poldini, responsible for the downfall of nie.
...
in the French Chamber to prevent use of lethal gas and its first use the purchase of real estate by all has been tried on a Chinese con who are not French-born, to success, for the man is quite dead. restrict the rights of naturalisa-The man was locked within a tion, and to tax visitors to France. small lethal chamber, into which
SOCIAL, There is no need to elaborate the hydrocyanic gas was admitted
through a series of conduits. March 18.-Musicale at Helena sense of offensiveness which Officials and witnesses, through a May Institute, 5.80 p.m.
watched the March 15-Fourth annual dinner characterises proposed legisla- small window,
prisoner, who expired within a of Queen's College Old Boys' tion of this sort, which
minute, after which the gas was Assen., 8 p.m. tends to regard all foreigners expelled. The entire operation, March 17-Hongkong Football "undesirables," and which including the medical examination, Club dinner in the Hongkong Hotel,
only tend to reprisals occupied only three minutes. The 7.80 p.m.
whole thing is too attractive and and a form of Xenophobia which does not constitute a deterrent to must inevitably lead to war. The murder. Our own idea is best, We would preserve life even to the utter freedom with which Britain allotted Biblical span, and use it in has admitted all classes of people the world's best interest. Segre to the protection of her flag husgation to the world's undeveloped wastes is a paramount necessity. often invited sharp and bitter If the League of Nations won't criticism, but its freedom from debate it, we commend. it to the hate, its absolute disinterested-notice of the next Diocesan Con- ference. It is a splendid drawing beus, and the effect it has had topic!... upon the peace and prosperity of the world cannot be questioned. The matter may be summed up in saying that Hate is not a profit able proposition as those who indulge in it find to their cost.
dress has always WOMEN'S formed a topic of
March 17-Grand Carnival (din ner dansant), in Hongkong Hotel Grill Rooms, 8p.m. to midnight.
April 2-St. Andrew's Fete in the Church Hall and grounds, but. Kowloon, 2.80 p.m.
J
All three kinds of the epidemic Massenet, Godowsky, Macdowell, are to be seen in Hongkong hotels Tschakowsky, Moore Park, etc., for paying guests. They are easily of the more moderns. The first diagnosed, but a little difficult of was if the executant had the interpretation. For instance, there physical endurance needed to bear is Willie from Lancashire, the red- such a young frame through, the faced young blood of twenty-six performance of thirty-one pieces, summers in the attic room. Willie and the second having in mind accent, which all credit the limitations of physique, if has an due to him, he does not at Master Emil Charles Danenberg, tempt to disguise. He says besides merely playing the pieces, very little, especially nowadays, could invest them with an indivi-
what he does
say dual interpretation of expression means a lot. He has been which we have a right to expect smitten very badly but his appetite from public performers.
The Old Lady's niece down from Shanghai has worked the giddy oracle on Willie. Like a true Lancashire lad, he did not waste his time, but sizing up the damsel with a critical eye, he popped the question after a couple of months and now they are afani- ties and waiting to walk up to the altar. Willie dined at the same March 18-Lammert Bros., at table on the second night, moving
Duddell Sreet, up his chair with the explanation ful characteristics, designed to Sales Rooms,
The third test his son's abilities to the utter electric fumace, etc., etc., Noon.
night, Willie took her to the most. The programme opened pictures to see Winsome Winnie
father and son combining and on the next meeting at the with three items for two planes table, Willie was clasping hands.after, which the son proceeded
That is luv. No beating about the bush. no standing on ceremony. Just plain luva
SPORT. March 29.-H.K. Jockey Club is still intact. extra race meeting..
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. March 12-Lammert Bros., at the premises of the China Provi- dent Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd. Godown No. 5, West Point, 298 cases Canadian dry, salt herrings,
1:
Just for cumpany."
Both questions are easy to answer. The boy played as to the manner born which is the only clear and satie- factory way of putting it, and without a sign of fatigue. On the score of expression or interprets- tion there is little to be question- ed. Professor Danenberg is to be congratulated on compiling a pre- gramme of such vivid and change
complete a cycle of four pieces—. two by Bach, one by Haydn and another by. Mozart, varied
conversation and I am, debate, and a thing on which to offer zabuke or ridicule and often advice. Vatican circles have sub.
COMPANY MEETINGS. mitted decrees concerning it and bachelor priests have gotten" (as March 14-Extraordinary gen- the Americans have it) red in the eral meeting of the Hongkong face about it. We thought it was Land Reclamation Co., Ltd., at Woodbine Willie."
purely a denominational religious Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices,
ፀ question which 11.30a.m. Reputations were made and question, or
agitated only clerical minds, but a March 15.-A. S. Watson & Co., lost in the war. Poets sprouted Government has "gotten" fractious thirty-ninth annual meeting at the My next Hinstration concerns
the superior stenographer who examples in all consciousness. with a superabundant prolixity over transparent blouses and de Hongkong Hotel, 11 a.m. that was sometimes embarras collete dresses and a German March 20.-Hongkong & Wham boasts of blue blood. Through Haydn's Adagio in E. excited o
It seems to be a sing. The war, its sights and Presidential decree now forbids pos Dock Co., Ltd., ordinary yearly her boudoir window in the even interest. sourds seemed to awake a muse women and girls employed in meeting at 2, Queen's Building. ing I see a diffused red light, piece eminently suited for the that turned many of our warriors State and municipal offices to wear noon."
subdued, as it were for atmos organ-demanding qualities f into singing birds or makers of such things. The supervisors, March 2-Yearly Meeting of phere. Diana is from Huntingdon- dignity and stateliness on the part verse that was biting, stinging, who, ye gods! are men, are to re- Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels shire and her fiance who belongs to of the performer, as contrasted some bank here, is from Rutland with the sustained sprightliness und seared the imagination. port such cases of disobedience, Ltd. 11.30 am.
March 27-Fifty-fifth meeting of shire. They are stricken with of Mozart's Rondo in D. and an Personalities sprang up, persisted, and the, penalty is instant dis- and in some cases prevailed. Not missal. We always thought the shareholders of tho HK. Fire In- romance. They bill and coo and Invention and Gavotte in G miner Talbot was reconnoiter in the melodious intricacies con- the least among the vast number Germans lacked a sense of humour surance Co., Ltd. si Mesure. dream.
Jardine Matheson's offices, noon. ing for three months, attending mon to Bach. Young Emil satis- who saw fit to encourage thenow we know it.
Boy the office are i---
March 29.-Further extraordin- Repulse Bay every Saturday night fed us that besides executive soldiers and offer them spiritual consolation as army chaplains. The Mark may totter to its fallary general meeting.of the Hong as fifth in a party of five with Diana ability-which is unquestionedy. kong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd., a queen among a court of aristo he has, on his playing of thin The names of almost all of them
at Messrs. Jardine Matheson's crats, before he was accepted as
Adagio,.powers of interpretation are unknown; some found a
Offices. II a‚m..
the Only One. Talbot wears soldiers grave, hit by shrapnel,
March 29-Ordinary Meeting of remarkable socks and striped and self-expression which it needs or a bullet that could certainly
Dougins Steamship Co., Ltd., at collars and four evenings out of only the future, with careful not have been meant for them.
Company's offices 20, Dee Vaux seven is in evening dress. Diana guidance, to develop to the full. Road, 11 a.m.
loves him in a superior kind of Question of space prevents a One name survives in this section
March 31.-Forty-sixth annual way, bless her little soul, and now detailed analysis of each item of fighting men of the unorthodox
Our memory, and our meeting of shareholders of the I hear a faint murmuring at dinner played. kind. Whether the war produced
refusing to come forward to testify China Sugar Rofinity Coat of a House on the Peak. Their programme, is dotted with such against criminals or to lift a hand Masera. Jardine Mathesor's Offices engagement will be announced in remarks as "true perception," due course, I hear, in "the papers." | "fine feeling", "beautiful" and the example to the contrary occurs it
Lerv, like this makes society like. There were six pieces which to effect their arrest, that when an at 11a.m.
paragraphs.
we have called "Little pictures"- such as "Elephant in the Jungle," And then there is my third "Crocodile," "What the, 'cells species, rare indeed in Hongkong, said " etc.-all, perfect little The hero is a merry little ship's vignettes leaving no doubt as te engineer from dear Old London what they were. "By moon- Town, an unadultered Cockney shine" was an involved piece, with hardly a trace of the enervat- intricate a little, but beautiful in... ing Far East in his system. Bella's its creative effect. It received mother was a highly respected adequate treatment. The items land lady of Shaftesbury Avenue from a happy little house near the for two pianos were full of com-
The sausage lose its skin But to look like Eve before
the Fall
To German ores is sin.
So much has been SAGACITY. said in regard to the Chinese habit of
the personality we do not know; it was probably deep-seated and the war simply quickened it. But soon there was evidence of spirit a little beyond the ordinary a spirit of fervid optimism that had a deep Christian basis. It of 16, is therefore deserving of all was shown in verse of a more or the good things said and to be lees doggerel character; of said of him, and his command- exhortations that made no pre-ation to the C.S.P. approved, in his
DOG AND CAT SHOW.
should be noted and commented March 15-In the Parade on with a considerable degree of Ground, H.K. Dog and Cat Show, satisfaction. Hung Kwai, a youth 2p.ri.
and a dangerous
LOGÄL`AND GENERAL
or desired. The tence and went to the subject in sagacity and courage in rounding
a straight from the shoulder up a man now discovered to be a A cable through Reuters manner. "Woodbine Willie" was banishee
character. How Hung Kwai American Service reports that 78 the name either assumed or given intercepted the man, conducted" bodies have been recovered from to this live personality. The war hire tosafety has been told by the Utah fuel mine where an DABELSTEIN-On March 4, ting occidentals to a share of the is over but the owner of it is still the papers. It reveals an amount explosion occurred several days Ivanhoe and Bella herself has fort. Durand's "Chaconne" was
good things which presumably known by the nickname which of enterprise and courage which ago.
inherited the spirit. Harry is wait taken at, the right speed and gave" residence in these two countries denotes a cheap kind of cigarette. places our young Chinese hero in
ing for promotion. They love great joy. Ten Burke's "Gavotte". His methods are still unorthodox, the front rank, and deserving of A Washington cable through with the fierceness of a 'Arry and created more or less of a. furore, Shanghai, Emilia, widow of implies, although it may be argued if we believe all we are told the Commually's appreciation. It Renter's American Service states Arriet and had Hongkong a and the concert wound up with
that it does so on certain economic Prosaic congregations are apt to should not stop at a few words of that Senator Lenroot has resigned "Ampstead 'Eath, Harry and Godowsky's "Military March grounds in which the question of be shocked at the sight of a figure praise and a gift. There seems to the chairmanship of the oil com- Bella would get married and very spirited piece of writing. To race hatred finds no place. An that literally jumps into a pulpit be a place in the ranks of the mittee, giving ill-health as his settle down here. They talk of say that the audience was pleased George Robey and Albertis only half stating the case. It acquaintance with either of the and hurls invective at them, tells detective staff for Hung Kwai
Chevaller with a reminiscent was unstinted in its applause,to them in plain words what they
One Chinese was sentenced air and though they dare not which the boy replied with several so six months hard labour and mention Billingsgate and Covent encores and charmed with Emil's another was found not guilty by Garden at dinner-time, I can entire absence of ostentation. Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday on see the longing for the dear
-years.
the late H. Jorge, aged 76 LOPES. On March 5, 1924, at Shanghai, Francisco Xavier (Chico) at the age of 45.
The China Mail.
XENOPHOBIA.
lowers,
two countries mentioned proves are and what they should do. His that an element of phobia exists, baptismal and other name is G. and at times becomes a form of Studdart Kennedy and it is this To-day's Poem. dementia. The war which pro-vitriolic personality who has been
(The Natural.) |suggested as --- the---proposed phetically was proclaimed as missioner for the proposed. Miss Stoop, and there it is; HongKoso WEDNESDAY, MAR 13, 1921. opening a new era in international ston of Help for Hongkong. Whe Seek it not right and left,
amenities, has not justified the ther the object of the Mission All roads lead thither propheta. The feeling of hate, would be gained in engaging One touch and you have spring which any war must necessarily "Woodbine Willie" is not for us to As though curaing upon opening germinate,, has veered from our assemble to hear what the gentle sny, Crowday would doubtless The dislike of the foreigner still principal protagonist, to become man has to say, and for a space of As though gazing upon the new seems to be an obsession with an almost dead thing, But with time we should feel a sense of year, sertain nations-it might almost regard to those who were firm invigoration and have a topic of Verily I will not snatok it,
Pas conversation as lasting as most be said, of all nations. If it is not friends and allies, in the prosecu- things generally, are! As Willie Forced, it will dwindle away. fostered by Acts of Government tion of that mighty struggle, can intrigues us when he comes, we I will be like the hermit on the bodies, it is, in a great number of it be said that the feelings which shall take him by the hand, show hill,
a seemingly inherent pre have predominated since the war judice of peoples, who, for a ended, have been of the friend reason they cannot, or do not licat? They certainly have not, the land invite him to a hand in attempt to analyse, take dislikes And it does not seem that a our favourite game counting I will leave them to the harmonies to those not of their own country friendly feeling is likely to be the number of derelicts who sleep Examples abound on all hands, created by recent legislation which him down Ice House Street, and out. We shall most certainly take The Chinese of another day hated has either been contemplated, or on Sunday he will come with us (Nin the foreigner-or the intrusion placed upon the statute book of for a foursome at Fanling,
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him the houses on the Peak, and Like duckweed gathered the click of Mah Johng is heard in
then, when the lights are low, and
on the
one crowd upon
reason..
a charge of kidnapping a boy old scenery. This is the lasting Playing to him seemed as natural from Canton and bringing him to lavi which makes London what it as talking. At the close there, Hongkong to be sold to And these three kinds of love
is to-day,B Ce was a montent or two of sustain
ed applause and later. Professor According to a Reuter cable my dear readers, make the world and Mrs Danenberg were con- gratulated on all sides. · Of" one from Shanghai, the North-China go round. Hongkong may be a Daily News learns that a Chinese Crown Colony, a Fragrant Isle and other performer, a tribute must recruiting campaign on behalf of all the rest of it, but its little dramas be paid. Mrs. D. J. Brown offered Sun Yat-sen is being actively of love in its homes and residences two songs by Teresh Del Riego, pursued at Shanghai: A thousand are just the same an those of "Crooning Water," and "Horning" men have been enrolled and Bloomsbury, To see life one need and with such acceptance as te apparently will be despatched to not go no farther than the dining be asked, without hesitation, te Canton
room of a Hongkong boarding concede ancores. Singing with house,
remarkable freshness and reveal ing a flexible voice of much range At yesterday's meeting of the Sanitary Board an objection by
and sweetness, Mrs, Brow Messrs. Butterfield & Swire to, a
proved herself an artiste of whor For Children's Bruises
Hongkong should be proud. proposed flush urinal at the junction of Austin Avenue and Foblack and bino" bruket spratos Amongst the delighted audience. Kimberley Road was considered, of write and ankles, cabrains of cords we noticed Bir Claud Severn, Rey. After discussion it was decided to and muscles stabbot torents, burne K-Maconachie, Dr. and Mrs.
other mishaps of childhood, Char inform the firm that the objection Bodatne Pal Bole always gros refel Koch, and Mr. H. A. Lammert. was «not sufficiently (cogenti tó, Does fast, să much, for nidar, people tod: The Fathering was also notable in warrant the Government abandon-Bases their rheumatin paina, backaches that there were present four ing the project. Suitably screened and neuralait. Fast rab is on the sare Foxite and entries would, however, spots. Bold and frommended every generations of the family on the
Fruätärmäl side,