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FRIDAY, MAY
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
particularly merciful and there has been an absence of explosion, followed by rapidly spreading ignition, possibly involving whole buildings. Because of enhanced land values, space in any conveni- unt spot is always expensive. Accordingly, 'places will be found. side by side with crowded tene- ments, in which men live, smoke and cook in close proximity to motor-cars with tanks being soon after his death. No doubt fréquent in the north of England. filled. This latest instance that Mrs. Conrad and the executors had It was called the stock-race and has once mere drawn attention to the danger, occurred in a godown. good reasons for the sale: but, females for a smock. The prize, a was run on Acension. Day by After sunset and using candles looking through the catalogue, a fine Holland chemise, was usually because the godown lighting "little regret was felt that a library decorated with ribbons. facilities were inadequate, a young largely made up of books given European gentleman was having to him
D. B. Knox who his motor-cycle cleaned.
tribute by
CHILDREN'S complied enclosed atmosphere,
SAVINGS lighted authors should be broken up to candles, inflammable substance-make, a book collectors' holiday ecdotes" has published one called
funny book Quotable Children's Funny The merry humour of a child is
Some comment has
Our sports SELLING been raised by Mrs. SMOCK RACE. organisers have. OFF (1.) Conrad's sale of her to go. They might well copy a yet a long way' husband's books, so race that is sold to have been fairly.
The Bums.
An
In
their
that of An-
Sayings"
and the cycle was badly burned. Some of these autographed Authentic details are lacking and copies show that Conrad was happily, it is learned. the gentle- man was not hurt but he is stappreciated by other authors long perhaps the most amusing of all looking for a purchaser for the before "Chance" in 1914 made his forms of fun. This book contains remains of his bonfire!
work widely known. Some people, sayings, Many of them will give hundreds of children's whimsical thought that was hearty laughter and entertainment his first book to those who love children and "They.. did not enjoy their drollery. Each fond know how long parent has treasured the funny or the retired ses other saying, of their "pota." Woe captain bad been betide the person who is in the writing with company of such an enthusiastic very little re one. But here are few children's cognition, and sayings, not necessarily from smail financial Hongkong: results. Those who have talked about the money
Property owners last year lost at least $80,000 in unpaid 'rent.. Six hundred and eighty-five of them were put to the necessity of "putting in the bailiffs," for this number of "distress warrants was issued to try and get $100,843 bupaid rent. Only $20,709 was recovered and the difference re-
he minat bave
presents a dead loss. Hongkong made out of his recent books, and inclined only to think of losses have marvelled at the demand for in general trading, share speculat-
ing and the like; to think little, his first editions, know nothing of if at all, of the many who find it the long, lean years. How many so difficult to make ends meet, as people bad heard of Joseph Conrad to be unable to pay house, shop, in 18977 In that year Mr. H. G. or cubicle rent. Statisticians and Wells, then himself not so very those who deal professionally or well known, sent him a copy of "The Plattner Story, and Others," otherwise in graphs, will be able
to tell us if the amounts mention-Inscribed "To Joseph Conrad, with ed are "reasonable" and not affection from H. G. Wells." Every unexpected in a place almost year after until 1908. Conradi wholly given over to material- received one or more.antographed. pursuits. Whatever implication wells. One of them,
copies of the works of Mr
little disturbing to find that the Joseph Conrad from- may be placed on them, it is a Space and Time" is inscribed, Tales and
-" follow
The China Mail unfavourable light not warranted figures for 1924 are well above ed a tiny sketch of the author on a
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present the subject in a most by acual facts and not so harsh those for 1923 which show a total bicyle. One wonders how long it is when the mentality of those who for unpaid rent amounting to the wheels of chance. And one of 467 distress warrants issued since Mr. Wells trusted himself to take part in what is abhorrent to $62,709, of which $14,610 was cannot help wondering why there the foreign mind, is taken into recovered. account. The clerical mind is as
purpose.
SELLING
There were auto- graphed copies from Henry James and
W. H. Hudson:
Muffe sat scrutinising. ber grand-mother's wrinkled fores. head
"Eh, Grammar! You've got writing around your eyebrows."
•
The moment, when it was con- venient for Peggy, aged four, to see her naw baby sister had arrived. She gazed wide-eyed at the tiny sleeping figure. Ever so, geatly she patted the little stranger's cheeks, and thrilled at the silk-like touch. The thin, fluffy covering of hair on the infant's cranium next attracted attention.
Look, Mummy, look sher cried excitedly Little sister....... got shingled: hair
+
•
Ploughing our way through the heavy sand on the beach Joan's voice broke in plaintively : "Oh, dear, this sand is heavy : my feer's is tired aureis':it!"
•
Asked whet he liked best, Master Five-Year-Old promptly replied," God and watermelon."
NAMES THAT ARE SIGHS.
Modern housing. problems seem to be having an ef
fect on the chris-- tening of ronid..
settle at Home; although we know only of one man who has called his house Kowloon.
After seeing the THE EPIC. film "The Eple of Everest," a not us-
were no more autographed copfes after "New Worlds for Old," a rule not given to plain business.
tersely Inscribed To Joseph "Truth" records the statement of "She."
Conrad from H. G. W." in 1908. That is the last, anyway, recorded the noncomformist Dr. F. B. | "This ere progress" says one in this catalogue. It takes one Meyer-not unknown in Hong- of H. G. Wells' characters, "is copy of "Anna of the Five Towns," back a long way to note here a kong-who has said that "many always going on." The same may inscribed "To Joseph Conrad from thousands of Armenian girls be said about death. It is always E. A. Bennett, Triolly Hall Farm, ences. Just outside London two under 14 years of age are being going on and removing those who Hockliffe, Beds, September 11, recently-built breeze-block houses kept by Kurds and Arabs until had become settled in
1902" If it were not for our did have just been named respectively, Our friend Anna who would recognise So Soon" and "At Last.". The they reach a marriageable age, more kindly of those who have author who so recently as Christ- but there is surely a touch of irony, thoughts. We perhaps think in E. A. Bennett. the now famous latter sounds like a sigh of relief: then to be sold to the Turks for created for us characters that mas, 1923, sent Conrad a copy of "Satis" and "Nil Desperandum their harems or worse." The have become part and parcel of the American edition of Ricey- echo the sigh of relief. Housing girls, he says, “may be bought and ourselves. We met them in early man Steps." inscribed, "Joseph problems have no effect on some set free at the cost of about £1 life when the great world of books Conrad from his faithful admirer, of those who leave, the Colony and
became revealed to us, and there Arnold Bennett." each," and British women are opened out a vista on life that exhorted to provide funds for this made it more alluring, more full of adventure, and peopled with. The plight of the Armenian women and children has hitherto only dreamed.
men and things of whom we had
OFF (7.) Rider excited universal sympathy, but Haggard who is now dead, the difficulties in 'the way of the gave us
from Stephen Crane and John kindly commentator thought then
· and from Galsworthy: from Violet Hunt the moment of Ayesha's appear for the good you have done name was quite right: Ever rest.. consuming fire, she was for us all and one or two, it is rather amusing ance to her shrivelled finish in me"), and many other celebrities; that connoted beauty and "who to note, from nonentities, who, of Hongkong has rid itself of the
must be obeyed." "King Selo- course, may have been animated occasions.
mon's Mines" was but another of only by sincere admiration la Dr. Meyer "slavery" stigma and Singapore
proposes is to follow suit. China generally Kurds and Arabs shall be paid £1 be compared more than favour-hand, may have hoped for at least that through private agencies brought the mysterious Africa to negligible novels, or, on the other those clean, healthy yarna, that sending Conrad copies of their may follow the example given, but per head for the liberation of "the ably with the modern world. The a word of thanks in Conrad's the following will be a slow pro- many thousands of girls who, hand and mind that created own hand: to show round to their cess and in fact may never being now under 14, have presum-probing dark and secret places, all is afraid much contact with minor
adventure loving eventuate. There is the age-long ably been captives since they were too soon ceased developing a vein novelists and poets makes one a Englishmen envious friends; pour le swank. One prejudice against Chinese females about five years of age. It is not that seemed inexhaustible. His little cynical. Some of Conrad's and a miserable economic situa- easy to believe that this is a interests were not solely those of books included in the sale were
This is not an CX- DAMMIT pression of profanity, tion that condemns. a vast number practicable-scheme, but, anyhow, agriculture was such as to prove copies: for they show clearly how of people to live in the most the offering of a price for the cf great help to his own country he worked over his stories to get Nevertheless your first thought His knowledge of more interesting, to Conrad's real is deburred from this paper by because such a thing admirers, than all his presentation precarious way. The slow advancë
reason of the Editor's objection to redemption of the girls would and when called upon to exercise those effects at which we marvell- might be that there had been a of enlightened opinion:
the use of
such phrases. it, he was not found wanting. Aed-often for their very simplicity.
lapse;
Hongkong. Friday, May 15, 1925.
GIRLS FOR SALE.
the
rescue work which was under taken by representatives of the League of Nations have been explained in Parliament on several
the novelist.
She"
ONCH ONLY.
The clock of life, "is
wound but once, And no man has the
power
To tell just when the hands will
stop,
At late or early hour. Now, is the only time you own; Live, love, toll with a will;' Place no faith in tomorrow, for The clock may then be still...
ww
SLOD-ONE DOLLAR-ST influence of foreigners; the spread surely be an encouragement to part of that good-natured couplet Some of them are almost rewritten Missionaries who were motor
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of education and those ideas
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Besides, there does not seem to be to a spiritual and material progress together with any definite evidence that there. are actually "many thousands" of the development of China's vast natural.
girls awaiting rescue. resources may be
All this expected to bring in their train but illustrates the absolute neces- a reform wholly to be desired. It sity there is to "go slow"! on a is not good that any child of very important question leat in nature should be in bondage. In seeking to right what apparently China the position is difficult by is a great wrong, ovil is brought reason of some of the matters to those whom it is intended to stated; but it is not insuperable. fiec from their slavery. As the system is an age-old one,
it follows that its abandonment
cannot be procured at once. But Garage Dangers. every serious suggestion made
has alas! been realised:
Kipling
no
and you can see how he tightened ing recently through Tondo, a When the Rudyards cease from to express his exact shade of district of Manila, in which there
up his phrases and changed words
And the Haggarda Ride
meaning. And it is interesting tote many small Filipine and see that The Arrow of Gold Chinese shops, were surprised to more.
was originally entitled "Rita several signboards. One of the
Bee the word "dammit' Lastaola: a Tale." Did we over women of the party expressed before hear Dona Rita's full astonishment that the Filipinos name?
POOR SILK CROP.
BAD OUTLOOK FOR CANTON.
Do Hongkong' EFFICIENCY firms offer their PRIZES. employees prizes for being efficient? Awards totaling $39,531 were paid FIRST CROP FAILS.
to 3244 employees of the Generál Electric Company during 1924 for While the silk industry has suggestions which increased the How Hongkong is still far been seriously affecter! In recent efficiency of the company's opera- should be considered on its merit behind the times in connection months by the labour troubles lons. The suggestions ranged and those called upon to carry any with fire-prevention for motor-
arising out of the workers from safety devices for the suggestion into effect, should propelled machines, is once more demands for shorter hours and protection of workers to im- receive the cordial sympathy and revealed by a story now using higher wages bad weather and a proved methods of manufactur approval of the many who can
round in cycling circlesThose severe spring have militated ing. electrical apparatus and the Lonly he looker on the ARK dangers to a minumum have often sik, reports the Canton Gazette.
who are interested in reducing fire Cop of raw du 1973, 21,988 was auributed to
against the production of a awards ranged from Srio Ston bishop of Canterbury says that spoken of the nonchalant attitude The outlook ahead for the silk award was $500. Of all suggestions 1752. employees and the highest the revelations regarding Chinese of garage coolies and even producing districts is, therefore, ffered, 21 7 per cent were accept slavery are most startling." The building, pour petrol into a car's year, and with the fallure of acceptances was 16, showing
chauffeurs who will, in an enclosed by no means as satisfactory as Inst ed. In 1924, the percentage of startlingness is not detailed, and tank the while holding a lighted the statement is made on what cigarette in the mouth As In
first crop, caperienced considerable increase the right reverened gentleman expert once remarked to the Jag rippill also not conia, nj
prophesy that the succeed interest and awards. In the ggestion system over the has been told by a
China Mail the danger of that tone my expectations. The preceding year. There seems an eminent which com Chinese. Such a statement, by being
off from
riction inferry trees have suffered from rolling like such a public figure is bound to Providence has
remendour hight this spring and the harvest people to do
Hongkon
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had adopted English profanity to- such an extent as to use it in their signs. It was then explained that Tagalog dialect.
dammit meant clothing in the-
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