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SORRY.
TUESDAY JUNE 8 1924,
(Passion Song.)
ABBOTT, THE DAREDEVIL
chaunt-READY FOR THIS AFTERNOON'S STUNTS.
"This Morning's Thrill.
This year's bathing India?" "Yes," "Well you must To-day's Poem. costumes for women have had an adventure with a practically every material, says a
are being made in tiger." "I never saw a "tiger.”
Did you go to Bengal ?" "Yes," Skylark, when I list your fashion writer. It makes no And never saw a tiger? "Oh ing, material difference.
I passed through Bengal at All my music tums to dross, night."
Gone is all tay lyric vaunting As I watch your shadow haunting. Sketch upon the field a cross,
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last, England and the Empire in safe: and the wish is that many profitable years of service to his people lie before His Majesty, And the feeling is not centred ulone
An American expedition, which Next morning the journalist's in the person of His Majesty. To is going out to the Malay Penin- came out with a lengthy interview Her Majesty, the Qason will also sula, is said to be milking the with scare headlines: "How the go the united and forvent wishes journey in order to photograph Wily Britisher Dodged the Bengal
fish which climb trees. of a vast lost. The example that proves more than ever that prohibi-
This Tiger."
Her Majesty has sat has not marely tion has not been a success. been queenly it hus been-
A contemporary complains that womanly. And, bearing in mind with the exception of the Cup the, admitted influence of women | Final and one International match in all our welke of life, that, surely is the best tribute that can be paid. God Save the King and Queen.
Amaha.
A Canton newspaper has devoted a leading article to the question of Amahs. Thus have the mighty risen! We gather, there is an amah problem at Canton': that these hussies want more than the $4 per month they have been getting, and that very often they depart without giving notice "leaving their employers in a very embarrassed situation." The Amah problem is not confined to Canton. Whenever we buy a pair of socks--and, without undue boasting that is fairly frequently, we buy them a size or two too! large for our moderate under- Ltd standings. It mystifies us as well as annoys, to find those socks in the course of a few washings fit only for our infant possession, so shrunk have they become. At every "tremendous sacrifices " sale, we invariably buy a dozen or two handkerchiefs. Sales are fairly frequent in Hongkong and for that we cannot be too thank ful, for the short intervals between see those handkerchiefs "fade away and gradu-a-lly die." Buttons on our favourite shirts are like the apple that proved evolution or re-volution-always falling; they never, except under strict, orders, get replaced. So much for the Wash Amah. Of the dog Amah the child Amah, and the sew Amah, much is said, and a lot more might be written. Like the poor they are always with us and until such time as women- but let us quote the concluding words of the leader in the Canton raper on "Our Amah problem":-
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| "Art in Every Home."
"Art in every home" is the ambitious aim set for itself by the
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WILL AND
Vindictive
wills,
When you beat your wings 80
madly
Keeping time to trill and stave. Even as the notes come tripping
gladly,
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I foresee you dropping sadly
To your nest, so like a grave.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
JUNE 8.
If Mr. Harry Abbott, the nerve- lese skylark had felt like we did when he nosedived in his Curtiss Biplane to within two hundred feet of the Hongkong Hotel roof
this morning, he would now be suffering from an eighty-horsa power attack of nervous debility' and be medically unfit to look at an aeroplane again, let, alone per- form even more hair-raising atunts over Happy Valley this afternoon. It was a thrill for tho public; yet apparently for him, all in the business.
like the one recently admitted to probate, WCNT'S. wherein the testator bequeathed to each not a single big sporting fixture is of two relatives 24 fathings, and to be held in the Wembley to another legatec, "a shillings. Stadium. We understand that worth of the smallest postage the next Hongkong motor stamps," are by no means un- Gymkhana will be held there.common.
Even the great Duke of Marl- Mr. Bernard Shaw'says that most borough could not resist the
Abbott and his of his plays have been written on temptation of having a posthum- 1771. No bosts on Sunday. never assistants are to be congratulated army. 'of train journeys. It that why they cus slap at his duchess by rattle some people?
so was forced to walk, and so on their pluck. After four bequeathing her £10,000, where-
hot by the time I got to accidents, smashing a propeller with to spol! Blenheim in her "The Communists at Frankfort own way, likewise £15,000 to go.
Ford's lodging, that I was each time, the plane and its'air........ yesterday threw a bomb into ato law with, and to buy soap to
quite spent; I think the man soared to their ascendancy" pau-Germas meeting," says a keep herself clean-which I
on Saturday morning when for the wouther is mad.—Swift,"
first time since it was smashed cable message. Thereby mincing know she will never do." matters considerably.
As an offset against these spite-
up over Happy Valley with Mr. ful bequests are those contained in
Lim On, the Chinese pilot, in it, ladies wore dresses to harmonize wills.
At a dinner in America thewhat may be called convivial
it was proved to all pessimists and with the different kinds of food. common.
These also are not un-
doubting Thomases that the It is never the people who make machine would and could fly. Yet The lady who represented curry There are some scores of Eng-war. Mr. Q. Mosley, M.P. was described as hot stuff,
on Sunday another accident again lish towns and villages where We are creating a generation put it out of action. Mr. Abbott free beer is distributed on varions with a hang dog look.-Mr. Jack narrowly escaped serious injury, anniversaries in accordance with Kay. the wills of certain testators, "And
the machine turning turtle and Some very big men I find per-running into not long since a London soliciter fectly idiotic. Miss Sybil Thorn-rising from the ground.
ditch before
bequeathed a sum of money for dike.
The pilot this time was Mr. Lim Wu, the purchase of port, wine, where- with to drink to his memory.
Mr. Lim On's brother.
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St. John's Cathedral Notes asks for a gramaphone for the use of Hospital parients. It is evident that some people do not know when they are well off.
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of
The bi-centeriary KANT. Kant, which was cele
brated at Koenigsberg
Such bequests are legal in this form, but when, a few years ago, a member of the Savage Club left £650, the interest on which was to
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'POINTS OF VIEW.
There is a certain bookishness about the word Socialism.-Mr. J. R. MacDonald, M.P.
R
Undaunted, Abbott, assisted by Mr. P. M. de la Sala worked un- The greatest function of teachers ceasingly since Sunday and at six is to teach children to teach them o'clock last night completed the repairs. Mr. Abbott started off trial flight and the 'plane. Vital ts are the salaries of teach-responded beautifully and flew
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on a
which occurred in the Asquith members in perpetuity, the law has recalled the following dialogue provide free drinks for the selves. The Archbishop of York. Cabinet in the autumn of 1914, decided that the bequest was iners, I am more interested in their perfectly for twenty "minutes.. when the Russians made their raid valid. Into East Prussia. Lord Kitchener
status and quality Mr. Trevel-after which an equally gracefully had reported that the Russian
yan, M.P. N forces were in the neighbourhood
Landing was made: Abbott took It is a sad fact that the more a the machine up in the clouds a of Koenigsberg:
Government does the less popular second time taking with him Mr.. it becomes. Mr. Lloyd George, de la Sala who distributed a thousand handbills over the city announcing in Chinese that the aerial exhibition would be given
:
Mr. Asquith: Have any of you
been to that town?
Lord Haldane: I have been
there.
Mr. Asquith: What did you go there for?
Lord Haldane: To visit the tomb of Kant.
Mr. Runciman: I have been there, too.
Mr. Asquith: What took you there?
Mr.-Runciman: To see about a cargo of timber.
Mr. Birrell: Very much the same thing.... Germany was obviously not Mr. Birrell's spiritual home.
MOVING.
Owing largely, it is stated, to there being po. picture.
-impossible to
The following is a A SONE. Song sung by Shang- hai Boy Scouts. We sincerely hope the music is better than the words:- We have got a gallant hero..
B. P.
His initials are B. P.. Baden Powelll Baden Powell! And he spends his life in working For a worldwide unity, Baden Powelll Baden Powell! And when at Mafeking he kept He had a great idea and it deve-
the other fellows out,
loped to a Scout, And boys are living better lives,
Baden Powell! Baden Powelll
no wonder we all shout
Chorus:
Scouting is the only life for me. Scouting makes our world go
merrily, Scouting is the great game all
agree,
B. P. B. P. B. P.!" Set It's initials are B. P. scrvants at the resort of
Federation of Arts. Long ago,theatre for them to go to, it is New we scouts have got a motto, there was no need to work for such almost an end, and we now squander large domestic sums for the art that was then a Devonshire" seaside matter of course in the peasant's Budleigh Salterton, and facilities cottage and the artisan's shop, are, therefore, to be provided in Its loss was the price paid for the the proposed new Town Hall for greater cheapness, and often con- cinema shows two or three nights venience, of the machine-made, | a week. with the result that what the people of old evolved for them-
of the Police
selves must now be almost forced
upon them. For their use of the
at machine-made gradually destroy-Tottenham: 'And when she threw
LIGHTER SIDE Courts,
"Magistrato
ed their habit of the beautiful, and the brick at you did it hit you 2.
am."
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HR ne it is not easy to turn them from Man (scornfully): It was
the ugliness to which their eyes woman who throw the brick ! .. have grown
accustomed with
A defendant was invited at Tot ⚫years. The difficulty has been
realized before this In England, tenham to go into the witness-box as long since as the eighties, the to give evidence. Home Arts Association was found- You want me to tell the truth," ed with practically the same he said. Well, I'll stay where. I object, to be achieved, however, by other means. The idea was to revive in the village the old indus- tries, to start the people again, when winter brought them leisure hours, to weaving and carrying and fine needlework and kindred minor arta, that they might again All their cottages with the linen and embroideries, the chests and chairs and tables, for which we ransack the antiquity shops. Some
Mr. Percy L. Hughes good was done. The society's i A WILL Garbeft, at West Looe, yearly exhibition was frequently
Cornwall, whose estate
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aar China Mail.
BoxGEORG TURDAY, June 3, 1921.
M.P.
It is too much to suppose that we hold very much of the affection-
ate regard of other nationa.-Presi- at 8.30 this afternoon. dent Coolidge.
An individual is always opt to get |
Up This Morning. Twice again early this morning
his heart broken in a struggle with Mr. Abbott ascended into the
I would rather help to build friendships than battleships. From Scots point of view they are more economical.--Sir Harry Lauder.
& Government machine.-General heavens and with the brothers Sir Ian Hamilton.
Claud and Reg Earnshaw as passengers, more handbills were dropped from above the roofs of Hongkong's business houses. During the King's Birthday parade, the machine circled over the Murray Parade Ground and added a fitting touch, to the ceremony. It was during this last fight that pedestrians had a thrill. The machine suddenly nosedived and looked to be head- ing straight for the Hongkong Hotel roof. Chinese (and many others) gasped. Death seemed to Theatrestare the airman in the face. But with an upward sweep and a roar of the engine the machine sud- shave the flagpole at the top of denly rose just as it appeared to
Alexandra Buildings.
Mr.
SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS,
June
3.- Coronet
June 3-The Star Theatre "Nomads of the North."" f
Be Prepared! Be Prepared! And we want to give our service"Neighbours." Through the Scout Activity, Be Prepared! Be Prepared! We're just 4 merry brotherhood
and friends to everyone, We strive to do our good turns and won't stop till they are done, And when we hear the Duty Call.
we answer at the run, Be Prepared! Be Prepared!
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The
June 3.-World Theatre; Girl Who Ran Wild."
Jane 3-Queen's Theatre; "See- ng is Belioving."
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During the forenoon, Abbott intended to take up his wife and scatter flowers over the ! June 7-Whitsuntide Carnival harbour in memory of Mr. Col-.
SOCIAL
at Repulse Bay Hotel.
in
June 12.-Mr. William Heughan, died
well, an airman colleague who well known Basso-Baritone, will from whom he gained much Hongkong and sing at the Peak Club, 9.30 p.m.
(Chorus) Mr. Charlie Chaplin, CHARLIE. writing on "What does the public want?". comes to the conclusion June 7-9-Fourth Extra Race that the public does not know what Meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club. it wants. He says:
SPORT.
PUBLIO AUCTION.
valuable advice and instruction. Following Mr. Colwell's last wish, his remains were cremated and the ashes taken to San Francisco There was no idea to the public June 5.-Lanmert Bros., at and scattered over the city with mind that it wanted to see the Sales Roonis, one Cleveland reverent ceremony, the whole of character that I have played in 5-senter motor so many filma and through so noon.
Far 6-cylinders, the Air Force attending.
This Afternoon's Stunts. many situations. Before I could June 6.-Lammert Bros., at
For this afternoon's perform- get that character to the public! Sales Rooms, household furniture, ance at Happy Valley, Mr. Lim On met with every discouragement, 2.30 p.m.
will pilot the machine while · One of Chaplin's first pictures
Abbott will prove his right to the a comedy
"daredevil "Twenty
Abbott
of
walk on the wings, Love," and hes admits that in the making of it he completely dis regarded the public. He had
A woman 'said at Willesden that asked her if she would care for a her husband came home and dance,. Being very fond of danc ing, she replied that she would.
called He then said: "Very well, I'm going to lead you one," and he Minutes struck her behind the ear.
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of
Jane 11.-Lammert Bros., at the title premises of the H.K. Tramway Co., Ltd., Bowrington Canal Road, East, intends steam driver electric generating nosedive the machine and drop from a parachute from a height of plant, 8 p.m.
2,000 feet. It will be a double June 4-Meeting of the Hong- parachute drop, according to Mr. kong Lodge The Theosophical | Abbott, for half way down he will. Society, at the Lodge, 16, Queen's throw away one parachute and Road, 5.45 p.m.
open another." After, his courage
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MEETINGS,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Silk forwarded from here: by "Empress of Asia" on the 8th May arrived in New York on, the 31st May, having been 23 days in transit.
of interest. But it is yet to be is valued at £18,450, left to his been told that he seen whether that which was done housekeeper, Florence Kate would receive an
June 16-Bible-study circle at and his perseverance during many spontaneously, without self-con- Carnick, in consideration of her extra 25 dollars
Helena May Institute, conducted by trying weeks and faced with con- sciousness, can be accomplished faithful service," £2 a week for life if he could tara
Rev. G. R. Lindsay, (open to all tinual bad luck, the public will consciously and with effort. The and £50. The trustees are to pay out a short comedy in one day women); 10.30 a.m.
join with the "China Mail" -in. "I had federation's project is quite differ- the rent of a cottage or rooms for
high regard for the 25
June 7-Half-Yearly meeting of wishing him every success and · and my job Members of the Hongkong Jockey the best of luck. democracies that more or less, are ent. The question, is not one of her to live in at a rental not ex-dollars," he says,
was to please the man who had Club, Hongkong Club Annex, 12.30 autocracies. Contrariwise the the home, so it is argued, by Phyllis. The will then reads:
revival. But beauty can now fill coeding £50 a year.
He left £100 to his daughter | asked me to make the picture, and p.m. British monarchy has entwined means of reproductions of the
not the public."
June 11-Second annual meet- When Chaplin had an establishing of the Peak Residents' Assen. itself in the very roots of popular world's masterpieces, and the
Whereas my daughter Phyllis has joined the Roman Catholic ed reputation and began to think at Peak Club, 6.15 p.m. feeling. The King can do no people who get foto the way of Communion, and I have felt I he really did know what the public H.M. THE KING.
wrong in the hearts and minds of ably no longer pervert their taste
looking at fine things will presum- have neither the right nor the wanted, he got a shock one day in bis people. In him the people find by hanging on their walls the
desire to forbid her doing so, the form of a letter from a mad he believing that In matters of had never seen, who wrote: The King can do no wrong is, symbolised all that is great in glaring colour supplement or the
religious faith all adult and have noticed in your last picture a we believe one of the anomalies of Eritish character and prestige; and pretty girl magazine cover.
intelligent people should be lack of spontaneity, I am afraid British law Study the history of whilst that simple greatness lasts will scarcely train the eye as Cheap colour prints, however,
left uncontrolled, nevertheless I you are becoming a slave to your
The usual weekly Meeting of have felt it necessary, with her public, whereas in most of your
Hongkong Lodge The the British monarchy in this and whilst the ideals of the Empire it should be trained Tho
Theosophical Society, will be held knowledge and consent, to make pictures the audiences were a slave this present will in order that to you. The public, Charlie, likes China Mail that he has already at the Lodge, 16, Queen's Road "Mr. Salisbury informs the on Wednesday, June 4 at 5.45 p.m. artist's colour is too subtle to singular fact is displayed that no the things that are true and of good cess. The ordinary photograph
she may not have the power of to be slaves." ANDRO
completed arrangements for the Central, Subject: Sowing and wrong in any sense of that widely report continue so too will the gives a truer idea of the original
my, estate to institutions or Chaplin, "I have tried to avoid early next year. The new Com Advt. applied word has been done by British monarchy continue to be and does not encourage a standard Roman Catholic Church
charities connected with the what I think the public want.” „
pany has the latest material | those who have been something the inspiration it has been. The of colour that will only have to be
A Doctor was attending from London, one or two new ** Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C. has more than the gure heads of the ceremonies and wishes of this day,
revolutionized if the originat-ts
DEED, a dangerous.case On|faces—in addition to the old been nominated to serve on the. päd Sir John Foster tella ever seen. Besides the artist's greatest world Empire of all ages, are no het of formalitica-gohe lithographs, etchings and wood- WILY ONE to America he was hope your master's temperament is theatrical enterprises Mr. Salls seem likely that another.nomina="
calling in the morning favourites, and this Company Legislative Council during Mr. THE that when he went he said to Donald, the butler, I have no connection with any other Pollock's absence, and it does not Dynasties of other countries have through because it is the proper cuts can be had at not much
inevitably, inter- much lower to-day than it was last hary is not interested in any other tlon in opposition will be forth crumbled in the dust to the sound and recognised thing to do but greater expense, and If the people viewed. The Yaukes journalist alght of the age-old cry of "away with because deep down is the feeling to educate them in the right w
are to be educated it would be well saked him to recount his adven-Fi pae are sure about that." Qualots
Company other than" The coming. Mr. Alabaster has had him to give place to alleged landled
way tarot Fraser said he had had replied Dobald, He deed this Singapore of the Quaints has been has done, quiet but meritorious The re-opening in previous Council experience and by love, respect and rom the beginning. Singlady none S. Bak żyou yoį been «in morula, 135,0
I tremendously successful
during May.
15.97 Inches. of rain fell
the
the years that have gone, and the the beauties of home life, and all be mastered by a mechanical pro- giving any part of the capital of Since I got that letter," says New Quaints to open here very Reaping," All are welcome.