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wa, century, and a poor mother 'ad a bad time with THE GREAT ha ago this year, my father E was a cruel The sporting stadium advocated JOHN SMALL, the first cricket isband, and be aved to er like a in these columns has not yet come.
century of which medicated scoundrel." Anne- It is coming. It cannot help but we find any record was scored by "Well I never!" Jane - E was come. Delay in settlement of the John Small, in the 1,000 guincas Per second "usband, you know, and matter, makes it worse, and more match between Hampshire and we never liked im.
My poor, difficult when economic forces-if All England. The redoubtable dear father died five years ago. we may use that term-bring Mr. Small was official bat manu-Is sufferings were awful; 'e ad matters to a head. The tennis facturer to the Hambledon club. a couple of uisters in "Is inside."" tournament attracted so many He lived at Petersfield, and on & Anne: What two of 'em?" contestants that games had to be board in front of his premises was Jane: Yes, so 'e died." Anne: played in Kowloon When inter- the inscription: port cricket and football matches are played here, there is generally a sense of crampness No Far Eastern Olympiad is likely to be held in Hongkong for there is no place to stage the events. incidental to an Olympind. The TO THE EDITOR. more often than place that sport takes in the
not, is a feature affections of the populace; the of some letters written to the calibre of the Colony's sportsmen, Editor. Here is a piece on demand that there be provision "Subways" written to an Ameri- nothing but a nurse. First 'e ad
for a Stadium to meet all classes of sports-from bowls to boxing. The Colony should get ready, soj that the Far Eastern Olympiad of 1927 can be held here. A Stadium would prove a good investment,
The Sally Army,
A branch of the Salvation Army Army, in Hongkong seems un thinkable. ⠀⠀ The street · corner) fervour and the banging of the drum and the testimony in Hong- kong! But as the villain in the penny gaff might say, "stranger things have happened." In Japan they do what ia stated, whilst in the north, social and evangelistic work on the lines laid down at Home, is carried on. We may yet gather round a big drum and respond to an impassioned cry of
"now brothers we're 96 centa short of a dollar"-by flinging our contribution to swell the others. This may be meeting trouble half way. Our troubled dream is due. to reading a Reuter cable which tells us that the Salvation Army intend to erect new buildings at a cost of over £200,000 in 1925 in celebration of the seventieth birthday of General Booth, includ ing a new training depôt and hospitals in India and Ceylon, also extensions in China, Japan, the Dutch Indies, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and East Africa.
tions of the Navy. that has made Britain truly "miatrese of the seas." That our "sailor Prince," who is the guest of His Excellency the Governor and of the Colony A Peace Plan. this afternoon, will by sheer merit. "A Practical Peace Plan for climb to the highest pinnacle in China" written by Mr. Chen the Service to which Nelson added Yueh-fu has been awarded $1,000
Here lives John Small Sells Bat and Ball,
I should think te did,” Jane: "We didn't wish mother to re- wed, and we up and told 'er one And will play any man, in day that if she did we should go
England
out of the 'ouse, as any "second 'usband we should look upon as an antelope."
Anne "Why, 'o course. Jane: "Well, she did marry again, and 'e was a punish. ment to 'er, for 'e was always ill and complaining. Mother was
Information,
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an Dustrated sore throat, and London was the first city in was awful bad when the influen-“ the world to have subways for, tial gales was blowin'; but 'e died vehicular travel. In 1853 a of various veins in 'is legs a year two-track underground road ago, I 'am 'appy to say for le was built from Edgeware to "ated us, and we ated 'im. He King's Cross. From this be give 'imself such airs and got that ginning, two lines were conaughty that at last 'e arrived at structed, the greater part being such perrogative 'e coudn't finished prior to 1870. The consume it."
routes were not well chosen and
as steam was the only mathod
Advice regarding
then in use for operating cars, MOSQUITOES. mosquitoes are gen- these subways were not a suc-
erally counsels of cess, and it was not until 1886 perfection. A gentleman who that any further attempt was recently had a medal given to him, made to construct a subway for writing about the mosquito line. By that time the use of seems to be unconsciously o electric power had been per humorous, at any rate where he fected and the matter of sub- states that, the sufferer "should ways was taken up by New also catch the mosquito." As. York, Boston, Paris, Berlin and Mrs. Beeton" might say: "First, Budapest. The line in the last catch your mosquito." But this city was put into operation in is what the learned gentleman has 1899. Boston was the first city to say:- in the United States to begin work on subway construction, March 23, 1895. The first subs way in the city was opened September 1, 1897. The work of building the New York subway did not begin until 1900.
One of the best. MALAPROPISMS. collection o'f malapropisma is and of the stage, where it is given to be found in the Bancrofts On
as being overheard by. Mrs. Bancroft, the kitchen door being open: Anne's "Where does your parents live then?" Jane:-
They used to reside in Ighgate (put that picture straight; it
"If a person is bitten and gets septic poisoning he should yo to a doctor, and he should also catch the mosquito, because it. will get hungry and bite some- body else. If a mosquito settles on you, leave it alone and let it have its fill of your blood.. When it inserts its proboscis it Injecta a poison to thin the blood it sucks, and afterwards takes it back again. Do not rub or scratch the place bitten. Put on common soap, iodine, or equal parts of iodine and
· glycerine." Australia's example might well be followed in Hongkong. When Australia wished to rid herself of
s lustre that has never been by the "China Weekly Review." esitates me), but my mother rabbits she offered rewards for It is an essay which deserves the found the air of 'Ighgate too all rabbits killed, Offer a re- widest publicity and sympathetic strong for 'er and when she took ward for all mosquitoes caught it consideration. The writer is ill the doctor said she must move Hongkong and perhaps the place. obviously in earnest. He would to a more atmospheric place. My would soon be rid of them!
dimmed, is the hope of Britons everywhere.
sets:
GOOD WORK.
WHEN WOMEN BECOME DIPLOMATS.”
The
Thrice welcome to H.R.H.
save China ere it is too late. He. Prince George! In his person he offers three suggestions and worthily represents all that the makes "three additional pro- Throne and the Navy stand for posala." The foreign Powers all that has created and main- should stop lending money to China; the importation of arma tained the greatness of the
must be prohibited; and the terms Empire on which the sun never of the Washington Conference which men still contrive to keep to employ women whe could reign over There are not many professions found is well worth their while. to must be observed. The proposals themiatives. Few of us may live to a brilliant, salon us plead for a general peace confer-se a woman on the Woolsuck of Ambasadors. Perhaps we should unofficial ence; a system of federal govern- governing the Bank of England, add that some ambitions mistresses ment and the disbanding of the but it is likely that a time will come of salons sought the prestige and the army. The essayist's, language is when only in the fighting Services income thus to be earned. at all times temperate even if he and the Church, if even there, will most famous example is Madame de While it is not the function of is direct in his statements con- man be safe from the competition Lieven, who began her career in a secular newspaper to enlarge on cerning militarista-their evil of the female of the species, observes England as a Russian Ambassador's the work of any particular sect actions against reason" and the the Daily Telegraph" (London), wife, but was much the better or religious body, there are out of office politicians" who "in Already the few small, highly diplomatist of the two, and after his achievements in regard to which their propagands schemes con-specialised vocations which the male death acted for some years, as the silence might well constitute an stantly pervert the truth." Of still preserves for himself are being confidential agent of Russia in injustice. Such an one is that of the evil results of civil assaulted Lady Frances Balfour Western Europa, and later as wire- the Alice Memorial and Allated war, the writer is convinced claims a fair share of the Diplomatic puller for the Government of Louis Hongkong has a reputation for Hospitals who throughout a most and he points to the fact that Service for her sex. Whatever the Philppo. That she was distinguish- ifficult year have continued to unless malcontents amend their shock to the feelings of the Foreigned for her tact and her faculty of its hospitality in entertaining attend indigent patients, either ways, the unhappy state of Kores Office, it is to be admitted that she turning everyone to account rather distinguished visitors, and there-free or at the most modest sum of will be repeated. The essay, it has a strong case. All sorts and than for sound judgment is not to fore may be expected to live up to 30 cents a day, which roughly should be said, is in the nature conditions of men have ever agreed be construed as evidence of the that tradition to-day. The fourth covers the cost of food. At the of a triumph for Sir Robert Ho that, whatever else women may be, weakness of women in diplomuicy
annual meeting of these institu- Tung, whose effort to create peace they are by nature diplomats. Those Male diplomatists of repute have son of His Majesty King George tions (which are managed in con- is but one in a life devoted to good natural gifts and instincta now and been known to exhibit precisely the will be the guest of honour at the nection with the London Mission-causes,
in every other age have been trained same type of mind: A more uncom garden party at Governmentary Society) building development
and encouraged by the conditions of man, but perhaps an equally House this afternoon. If the is foreshadowed which it is in.
women's hives. To manage a father, feminine, character is to be found ปี suitor, husband, to say it the Baroness von Krudener. She weather only keeps fine there
nothing of those more docile also was a Russian and married a 'should be a record attendance
(creatures; servants and children, diplomatist, bar, totally unlike representative of all grades of the
Jas been woman's only way Madame de Lieven, who was always topence prosperity and hap in the world and very much of the community.
piness Diplomacy, therefore, of world, she became a mystic and an man's life but a part is woman's enthusiast. In 1809 she was making whole existence. Lady Frances trouble in Germany by preaching in pleading her case, will not forget that Napoleon was the Beast in the to add the signal examples of Revelation. In 1816 eho preached Women's supremacy in the aft to the Tear for three hours, till he diplomatic. Elisabeth may not sobbed like a child and said he had of Bover found penca: He then took her have been the greate
but with him to Paris, and she per-- very suaded his to set up the Holy
Alliance, herself revising the Pro clination. He was for some time eritirály, under her influence, till a "but prophetend whom she kept told him nich it was God's will, he should endow her particular religion. At that the We pudrow the line and Madame The Von Krudaner fell from favour
Strange cre tre be she was, it,
bag mistake to imagino that vast without precedent or trint
tended will allow for the establish- THEY SAY THAT-- ment of, among other wards, some for patients who are able to
Differences pate the world in. pay considerably more and will feresting-Mme. Aino Kallas. receive better accommodation and
Conviction in the mother of true more personal attendance accord- eloquence. Mr. Frank Hodges, Entering the Navy in 1916 ingly. The Committee of Manage H.R.H. Prince George became a ment have a considerable sum in Ten o'clock closing is no remedy midshipman in January, 1921, and hand towards this echeme, but for any social evil. Mr. Mitchell returned from his first long looking to a ready response to the
they need much more, and are Bariks, K.C. voyage in 1922. Since the appeal they will shortly launch. I think that one day China will announcement that he was posted If the increase in subscriptions be real national unit-Professor
P. M. Roxby: to the China Station interest in during the past year is to be taken
as indication of a greater realisa both his personality and his tion among the Chiness com man, and the most dangerous is The proper study of mankind is movements has naturally been munity of the obligation imposed woman Mr. Gilbert Watson quickened out
here. The British on those who are able to contri- race are credited with the fact bute to an institution which does that theydearly love a lord so much to help thousands of sad and suffering poor, the optimism but neither are they shamed to expressed at the meeting is likely heir affection for the Throne to be fully justified. There is every reason why the sum required mily. They are
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