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MONEYLENDERS,
a
moneylending announcement. This proposed Amending Bill will, if time is given for its considera- tion in Parliament, pass into law in which case the Hongkong Government might well, adopt some of its provisions, particularly
those relating to the rate of interest to be charged in any
transaction.
Chinese Waste.
The incredible wastage going
Hankow a
few hundred miles
excessive.
Education in China.
Tsing Hua College, Peking, is a result of the return of the Boxer! Indemnity on the part of America. It may thus be called an ovidence of goodwill.
Those conducting it
con-
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1925%
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Lewis Carroll, the
might be expected to manage it
SURPRISH author of "Alice," with this fact in mind. It cannot be FOR THE
历 Wat
real life said to be conscientiously
QUEEN. Charles Lutwidge trolled if the following, which haa
Dodgson a mathome been given wide publicity and has, stical don. He sent a copy of ́sọ far not beeh contnidiated, is true. "Alice" to Queen. Victoria, who in In brief it is that in April. the sted he would not omit to sand acknowledging receipt said she College was visited by M. Karakhan, her his next pablication, to which the Soviet Ambassador, who she looked forward with pleasure addressed the students on the 'evils | able soticipation."
Thousands
of pass
"SIGNING" THE motorista
MAGNA CARTA along the excel-
lent road by the «" side of the Thames which leads from Staines to Windsor with no thought that they are traversing perhaps the most memorable recently it has been under water piece of land in England. - Quite owing to the flooded condition of the Thames. Runnymede is a meadow by the side of the road," from which one catches a glimpse course of
of Imperialism and Western The author of "Alice"id as Cupitalism, and urged them to requested, and in due struggle against world Imperialism, Queen Victoria received a copy of Doubtless there are evils connected ed to be a dissertation on "Conic his next publication. which happen- with certain forms of Imperialism Sectiona and the
Binomial Capitalism evils Theorem.".
Windsor Castle. Magnu Charta Island Hes in the midst of to have been camped on the the stream. The barons are said
meadow and a224 Western
the King on the which the most ardent Imperialist
north side of the river, and the and Capitalist would willingly
delegates of the contending abolish-evils, of which it will do
parties mat on the island to dis- the intelligent no harm to be told,
"I ain't broodin'" cuss the "protocol." It is gener- But such avila need to be explained
BROODING he retorted loftily, ally believed that the King placed by a fair-minded person and not
AND "I be thinkin'" his seal on the document which is by one whose statements are likely
THINKING. "What's the usually regarded as the founda- to be of the worst possible kind
differ?" inquired tion of English Biberaties in a with the worst possible offect.
Jimmy.
pavilion erected on Runnymede. This particular instance illustrates "be difficult to show forth; but yon King John signed it, for he could
"The differ," he said slowly, It is a mistake to
say that the type of gratitude that has many depend 'tis summat like this.not write his own name. What is sprang up in certain
Chinese Thinkin' is thinkin', and you can believed to be the original docu- quarters for the facilities education so generously and whole get the better av ee. But broodia Museum.
for enjoy it if so be you doan't let un ment is preserved in the British heartedly given by foreigners. Its thinkin' round and round 'pon a illustrates further the difficulty of thing you don't want to think reaching right and lasting settle-pon, and there ain't no pleasure nor yet no profit in that sort o' stuff.
menta.
It may almost be true say that the Chinese student class is more sinned against than sin- ning, thanks to the baleful influence that has been cast over them for some considerable time,
A THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY.
"I inill make them joyful in My House of Prayer.'
The pure attendance at so many of our churches on Sundays though neither minister nor little to suspect its true cause is perhape baad of regular worshippers appear almost wholly due to the dour and dismal character of the services us therein conducted.
"Jacky," a quaint old character in an excellent novel, The Rainbow Chasers, by Dorthy Senior (A. M. Philpot, Lid., 75. 6d), says the above and many other entertaining things. It is a story well worth reading.
"
THE PAINTED
VEIL"
TOO DAMN sermons, like drinks, In West Australia,
RIGHT." must have a kick in them to be palatable. Archbishop Riley is a strong anti-Prohibitionist, and his son- in-law, Ven. Archdeacon R. H. Moore, is likewise.
the
"I am not one of those who could believe the devil is in a glass of whisky. The devil might be in a bottle of whisky if a man were to drink the lot himself at a sitting, but the mart who drinka like that is either damn greedy or a damn fool."
Archdeacon Moore' was telling the people of his parish at Nor- tham what he thought of the Thus the Lon-subject, and among many
gems don Sunday was the following:- Times": -
It might be Mr. W. Somerset Maugham's new allowed to go without saying that novel, "The Painted (Heinemann, 78, 6d.), Is, viewed Vell ***
style, of a high order of excellence. merely as an exercise in literary Mr. Maugham is a. finished verbal artist, and could hardly otherwise than well. In regard to its possession of other qualities which go to the making of a good who lingered in the doorway turn- And a slightly soozled listener piece of fiction, there will probably ed round, and astounded those be among its readers very marked present by calling out, "Too damn differences of opinion. By those people
right.
write
who thick that al!
Of course one expects a quiet, reverential atmosphere in all places of public worship. But this is not recessarily incompatible with the joyfulness that dod plainly tells us it is.His will to see in His House of Prayer, The waters of all true possible types of human joy run deep, and their very stillness character have a right to full shows their depth.
and frank portrayal, Mr. Maugham's LIQUOR OUT, er" Mr. Churchill But before minister and worship of Charles Townsend and Kitty
very full and frank delineation WIT IN. chose to help him pers in any of God's Houses Fane will be not merely accepted, oration, it did not lead to such an through his Budget of what the old psalm calle af Prayer can bring the magic touch but admired. By those people. amusing
TO-DAY'S SMILES.
"the
who think that certain human types
Whatever "refresh-
scene
UP THE MEKONG.
did. Mr.
The long, slow way is the over-still this indomitable river has ite ture to the Angkor drums, the quiet source-in impenetrable Tibet, whose melting snows provide its preparation
for overpower first floods.
+
It
on almost continually at Canton, and the wasteful happenings at Shanghai must for ever explode joy of salvation" into their services,whose existence they admit, but Goschen's "peculiar wanity"-a the theory that the Chinese are and so radiate broadcast through whose society, whether in palpable glass of port. In introducing a thriftful or even careful. There the world the one spirit that will flesh and blood or in the shadows Budget in which a great part of attract the many hungering for it, forms of artistic reproduction, they is in fact a considerable amount they must learn what is the reul, do not desire will regret that Mr. drink trade, his eyes fell grate
the surplus resulted from the of economic and other wastage the only source of joyfulness in all Maugham should have wasted his fully on a glass of port which his daily taking place in the country, religions life. It is the thing Christ time and talent in depicting them secretary had put on the table. Hongkong.. Saturday, June 13, 1925 And this is confirmed by the shall all men know that ye are My their story, to give a more catalogue it he missed his mark and sent neant when He said, "By this To lay bare the mere skeleton of but in stretching a hand to grasp American Commercial Attache at disciples, if ye have love one to of their creator. But even when tumbler and contents flying. The Shanghai who from his own par another." A community of people touched with the pity-and-lum-House-roared, but it was some ticular coign is able to speak with not alone outwardly professing thenated by the humour Mr. Mangham time before Mr. Goschen, strong
Christian Faith, but manifestly casts around them, most averagely neither in sight nor authority. The Attache's main hearing the true Christ-like love for decent people will find scant could see where the wit came in humour, Only occasionally is Hongkong contention is that China's largest one another, can no more oxist in pleasure in their society.
as the liquor went out aroused to the fact that the waste is due to a lack of busy centre of human life without Colony has in its midst those who adequate transportation, Labour drawing the spiritually hungry ones to them, than a magnet can fail to lend money at varying high rates has been cited as cheap in China; find the steel filings hidden in the 0000 of interest. No advertisements yet it is possible to import wheat dust.
appear in the local Press, and from America and sell it at a residents' letter boxes never con- cheaper rate than is the same pro- tain envelopes with circulars duce from the Hwel Valley to offering big and little sums "on note of hand only." Local away, simply because transporta- moneylenders Carry their tion charges are so
'on labours quietly. No spacious One of the many suggestions offices house them and no brass made for the use of the Boxer plates record their habitation.of it should be used for the mak- Indemnity Funds was that part Occasionally it has been necessary ing of roads. The suggestion to reduce the rate of interest they came from a Chinese body show. charge, thanks to the "intering that at least in one direction the need for roads, and with it a ference" of a Judge of the court system of road transportation is when, on occasion, cases of a recognised. There are other in- moneylending nature have been stances of waste In Hongkong the observer is struck with what heard. If there were no borrowers seems to him the numbers of men It follows there would be 'noit seems necessary to have in lenders. The former are so either Chinese stores of the smallest through thriftlessness or by kind and the overloading of reason of some misfortune which uses by the number, of Ber
vants made necessary, by the one they have been unable to avoid man one job system. which pre- At Home an attempt is being vails. There is also the system made to curtall the activities ofls, shown in sudden derelic
of false independence that pre- moneylenders especially those of tons from duty and the desire to the vampire class and to make use suck, double-edged weapons as the calling, less a menace than it the boycott and the strike at any ful wastage. Or militarian all odd moment resulting in harm-
over the country little need be. said. The wastage from this in
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ing scenes.
This is not all of its tricks.. If Angkor Vat and its group were grows so low in the, dry season a accessible to the tourist loafer at to cause even a sampan to look to Suigon, if one could take a riesis its plumb-line, while during the or a gharri from the qual or the summer rains it rises to the print of inundation. The effect of this is public gardens, and a few to make it desirable to visit Angkor minutes reach the rain batily between November and January. Acramble over their bedering Flat, fat, all is flat. "It is just terraces Des of thewald af like the savannahs of Florida," greatest wonders might fall to thrill'nonneca Blake aloud to nobody, The souls of such hasty audience. ferretting the world with his pas
With consummate art of progress matics. The sky line is made of the approach is prepared. After Palms, nothing but palms. One Maid: "What sauce do you have the heat and none of the French thinks of the Bible, of the oper with lamb cutlet?"
eity of Saigon, the deck of a river of "Aïda," of "Enoch Arden, and Mistress: "I have told you be steamer is refuge of cool re one lies down to plonsent dreams fore that you must work out your pose..
at siesta time, own cross-word puzzles f
We awoke to Mythe, the first All day, and all tire long languor- Do- Sondagenisse-Striz, Stockholm.stop. Mytho which seemed only a ous evening, it is the river.
pierful of chattering Annamites, licious monotony of xene. Every baskets of green cocoauta, | native but is like every other native bananas, pineapples-all against a but, a bamboo bird-cago not high on park-like background of tropie trees stilte..
dare you
....
splashed with bongainvilles. From Around each native hut is a that on, one fonts all through the banana grove, a bunch of those fragrant day on, a wide, wide river poetic utilitarians, the coconut of yellow water, while gradually palms, and around the holes of these wise, mild nature changes the die naked brown bobics play hido- ilueried traveller into a topic and-seek with the passing boats, idler
And between each house are the
"Buch a river as it in, the Mékong, wide stretches of the rice paddies. alow, wide, keeping steelf muddy by It is interesting to know that constantly licking off the clay of Khmer civilisation followed the nice paddies, with no banka higher cocres of rice. Whore, it "KAMU" "The Heads of the "browie-ół
ren who play at its "edge.
Bot-gress of the
sed on the map; at runs zigál
ho Frendr
Andaits
terrifying gorge