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THE
CHINA MAIL:
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8 1926
LAMMERT BROS. C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD
AVORISEENES, ÄFFRAICHES,
AND SURVEYORK.
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INDIAN COURTESY,
LORD WILLINGDON PAYS TRIBUTE.
TIK SHY ENGLISH,,
A into to mutive Induni coxir- fosy was paid by Fort Willingdon recently in replying to the toust at a his heilt at the outplimentary luncheon, of ade,, British - Indian Union, heid ut the How! Cevil, under the presidency of the Duke' of Conaught."
The Chairman, in welcoming | bord Wilingdon, with whom was Faidy Willingdon referred to their: I fears werk in Bombay and Madras, and shid tint it hud. been clameterized by phủ human touch. Englishmen wens sny and were in- Telband to hâle the Touran tunch. which, after all, was most useful this world. Most of them
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blity which festes me the Go-Dealers in Postage Stamps, Prnois of our proat Dhpendencies. and the people of India, and Eng- land had a criage to be gateful to fuse men who had jani, mué, oiten at great inconvenience, to occupy ahose high positions.
Land Willingdon, replying, said he considered India was a land of extraordinary courtesy, and "even when the Non Co-operative move ment was at its height, individual- ly he met with every consideration ard countosy, The British India Union was an organization entire ly after his own heart, - “At one Who fund striven to ereal? a hefter utuiosphere in agind to serial re- lations between British and In- dins, le believed" those tanions. were the bedterk basis tif all their combles ie tada. The ideal of Very B wis surely to secures
·Tribulship, goodwill, and o spirit heather among all the gaimas of the world. As a begi
ng they might week to maintain that result in the British Rrapire.f Jesus unt the colour of the man tim ented. but the cluiracler,
nd be eneld Innestly say that no squestion of racial distinction bud | ever entered his mind in àng, of hing adminiative duties, livers
st
The Indian when he game to England found himself extremely well revived, but he regretted that the same was not always tre when he went back to India', „The¦ reason, he believed, was that there were still some Britolise dieg werd becoming fewer in number-who still held the view of superiority" and inferiority of rices, and not, as he held, superiority and in, Teriority of character,
RQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, The British Bampire contained a large number of rices which were developing rapidly, and they would find it difțienie to hold the Empire. together unless they, "established, ence for all, entire égality of op! portunity. The difficulty of estab Bshing friendly social relations in India was partly due, as the Duke. of Conndigist iùd observed, to the Englishyman's reserve, in the Indian was just as reserved, too. I was extraordinarily difficult to meet on jarely social lines, bit The Willingdon Club in Bombay. Whird was purely cosmopolitan in chanieter, was, he believed, the most popular club in Bombay, and had done an immense amount to improve the general strial relations and Teeling between Englishmau
Indian, and
(('heurs).
The ladies chic, founded on similar lines y Lady Willingdon in Madras, bad, he thought, done' bqpally good work. If they only realized there was a human side to their relations with each other, and multiplied these opportunities for social meetings in all parts of Tidin, be believed sincerely that their relations with India would greatly improve. If they could only revognize equality of oppor- tunity and citizenship, and in- ereas the opportunities to meet, he did not believe that they were instinctively, BA two racks posed to each other in any form. Minal tolerance, mutual good- will and mutual friendship would be of inestimable value in India," and if they could achieve those things East and West would.con tinue to work together in that grent, country for long years to ' come, to the benefit of India and the unity and concord of the whole Empire. (Cheers).
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Lord Olivier, Secretary of State for: India, proposed the health of The Chanan, and the Duke of Connaught, acknowledgment, said that he agreed with every word' Lord Willingdon had said.
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HAT does it matter where muj böðy √happeride be?" said the Knight es Alice dragged him out by the feet. my mind gets on working “Just the same In fact she more head downwards "Tak the more I keen on inventing thingi
"Now-rest thing I ever did,” he went » de was to originate the idea of smoking a Trege Castles between the soup and the flaki. Trist was a goal thea to invent, certainty and Alas (What sise did you invent?" "Srckeq em between the fish and the entree chuckled the Knight, and then parkingiem, sqain between the entre and the pudding" "In faci The 'went an invent an excuse For
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pipe!'—and such a thing as more work-upon-the-play was utterly ignored and forgotten until, at last, the old, well-seasoned, and probably gurgling briar was discovered, returned, reloaded. and back in the quietly-smiling mouth of the title Master of Thrums, the man who belleves in fairies because they are his god- fathers and godmothers,his friends, and his playmates."
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Here in Rosario, 7,000 miles away from the British G.P.O., wo never argue with the telephonie operator, for the simple reason that she never gives the wrong number. The death of Sir Dighton Probyn is a reminder of the aptitude of
The explanation is that the autorn- the British reigning House of
atic system is in use, and the sub- attaching their servants with an
scriber puts through his own call unbreakable bond of personal
without assistance from anyone! affection (observes the Daily
else. At the foot of the instru Chronicle." Queen Victoria had
ment there is fixed a small several such retainers from John
round enamel disc marked on Brown ubwards. The devotion
the edge with numbers 0 to 9. Lord Suffield to King Edward was
The Qugen reeived at Windsor Above the dial is a revolving touching, and Sir Dighton carried the other morning the news that a disc punctured with holes over each out to the letter the trust bequeathed of £18,000 had been placed number. To put through a call, the to an by King Edward that he to her eredit. This is the total to ear-piece is removed, the finger would never leave Queen Alexan dute of the fukings of Her inserted in the hole of the disc dra as long as he could be of Majesty's dolls Ise at Wem- above the first of the figures requir service to her. There is a type of tey resetting the Rissed, say a seven, and the disc re- Royalty which is served only by people tint lave paid to volved until it completes the circle place-seekers; it has been the the fut pluce in miniat a fixed point; then the finger is happy fate of the last few genera-
ture. The money says the Daily removed and the disc allowed to tions of our Royal Family to intimphie) is at Her Majesty's en The succeeding figures are dealt slide back into its original position. spire devoted affection.
tire disposal for distribution among with in the same way, and almost such clarities as she may select. Millionaire's Saħd,
"Provincials."
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immediately after the number (generally of four figures) has been put through, will come the answer {ing call-Owen Roberts in the
Daily Chronicle."
French Sportswomen.
Much is heard every day about the excellent Women's Institutes
There are a maltitude of salads now everywhere established, and the Federation of these splendid just saw, and nearly all of the village clubs has just held its re gauthor I wonder (observes annual meeting, when great in "Daily Chronicle writer how dignation was naturally enough his London people have tasted
velial a friend ove?, here- from the Slowly yet, at a steadily ac aroused" by someone referring to
Sous describes as celerating pace, Frenchwomen are the rank and file of members of South
It made being turned into sportives' Women's Institutes as being Millionaire's Salad?
'stupid." The provincial mind is the heart of a young coker which, in English. means sports- really the backbone of the country, nut tree, and, as, euch salad means women, writes a Frenchwoman in writes Arthur Pendenys in "John the destructions of the tree, ut of of London's weekly All great" so my poleil cukernis, it is movements have started in the fan expensive iten in the men provinces, Ruskin and Carlyle
were provincials, and Shakespeare. Una of Pook's Hill. was one. George Eliot and the Brontes ali drew faithful and attractive pictures of village life. There are plenty of Mrs. Poysers possessed of wit and wisdom in country villages to-day, and they could well be the life and soul of the Women's Institutes, but some of them are a bit shy. They only require to be drawn' out. Nine
Te must be a curious experience to be a banter in a story," and kinly to outsiders no me who
out of ten of country housewives are full of "wise saws." They require to be tapped" in the right way. How many people dubbed
"stupid" who only are shy 7
are
the
"Daily Chronicle." Four hundred feminine sport associa- tions have sprung up all over France with an aggregate mem- So few, you bership of 10,000,
will say? But pray consider that ten years age only a handful of aristocratic girls rode, swam, or played tennis; that bicycling was ms enjoyed for endured) that rare considered "fast; and that it was distinction can ever seen to belong only in 1974 that the first of these completely is the trend world of associations was founded by M fact tromments the Morning de Lafreté, an eminent journalist, Test."--We may rod in the in understanding and pity of founal phases of the Fashion-the physical degeneracy under oble Intelligence at Miss gone by the middle class French Kipling is to be married, like girls from physical apathy. He inary mortals, but for any of met with tremendous opposition. she will reniain the little girl Most parents and all men objecting wito in **Volaterrae", received to sports which would thicken that shining visitant, und-score of ankles and either make girls too scores-instructed a Bornán en mannish or ruin their health. And furion in one of the minor arts of one and all felt that girls so war, the use of the modern obviously devoid of maidenty Sir James Barrie looks in to see etapult!-
shame would never find husbands. how the rehearsals of his play
And in truth those who first took shape with the air of a trespasser,
up lawn tennis suffered in their but, all the same, he has an amazing
reputation and found it difficult to **he inckiest maji in the British | marry. Then the war came to knowledge of the theatre and "the bristles of a" porcupine if anyone Any as he was once described, broaden minds, and, little by little,
Bard birthday parecis consented to their daugh touches his work with a vulgar or reclined
Eat Huig was called ters taking part in all the sports misunderstanding finger, (says reently. Mr. Cosmo, Hamilton in Unwritten the luckiest un hecause it tools and pastimes of English girls. History)"It was very amusing bit only eight years to rise froni Far from preventing marriage, and, at the same time, very instruc- the rank of captain to that of sport is promoting it.. tive, proving the deep affection Major-General the Daily News"
Sir James Barrie.
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Earl Haig's Birthday.
of all those who come · under teniínids us). As far as the cavalry his quiet, inarticulate personality is concerned, he holds the record to see what happened one day for speedt fromotion.
He has
Their Second Bammer" the
t Hardest
at a rehearsal when he lost bien neuily 10 years in the Army, his favourite pipe. Unable to | unul is untiring in his energetic rothing and hot weather make their take any further interest in the devotion to lie cose, of the ox-second scamera tering time for little. proceedings, he was joined in his soldier. he is something" of a of Buragane disorder of stomach and be feverish search, first by the military, writer. His best known boyola ad infantile pholars may director and then by every book is "Cavalry Studies, and he quickly controlled stud suffering relieved member of the company, and also collaborate with the Earl of Reedy, Hayito take is a little boot
Ty Chamberlain's Colio and Diario the teatre staff, The tragic cryYpres in the writing of the end water, always relieved. For sale
out; wont
*Barrie's lost his "Cavalry Drill Book."
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