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Crime Prevention.
Figures may be made to prove anything. Those issued in con- nection with the police for the year 1924 prove Kipling right and that east of Suez "there ain't no ten commandments. This is tantamount to saying that tho Chinese certainly the Chinese criminal-does not recognise the moral and social, appeal in the commands beginning
"Thoul shalt not." What suasion, other than the force of the law with its drastic but not necessarily deter- rent punishments, is brought to bear on those who have caused themselves to be punished? If the question is answered according to report, it is in the nega- tive! Is there any Society in Hongkong devoted to the welfare of
believe prisoners? We there is none. The foreigner is not interested to any great extent. It is known that a lady missionary visits the women in prison. The men, presumably are left alone. There may be reasons for this.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
On one occasion a
“So you've
THE CUT totally unknown FLASHES FROM THE colto back FOOTLIGHTS froin Amer¬ DIRECT.
Ical What most State were you in?"
"Aren't you' a little personal ?
man wrote to Sir Henry Irving and
Was # complained that it awkward that he should be so often mistaken for the actor. Irving replied on a postcard,."Got
your hair cut.
"
ЕРІТАРН,
On the First Wo- man M P. Here lies an M.P. the first woman who sat, But not the first Member who
spoke through a hat,
#
*
"Is this book funny?" "I laughed so much that I had to dry the leaves in the oven.”
*
#..
#
"Is she a plain cook?" "Horribly."
"To get anything out of me là To the Man in the Street it ap-like trying to open an oyster with
a 'bus ticket. peared strange and queer That the wife of a rich and
respectable peer
***
"We married in hastē, and ro
Should descend to be one of a pented with pleasure."
Commoners' House
And mix with Tom Clodd, and
Sir Jonathan Louse,
to
#
--From "Boodle."
*
"If two horrid people marry, it them from spoiling two
Her method of speaking prevents
One we may call language. If there are any others one of them is the great cause of all our social troubles- indifference: And to this may be added that the physcology "of the Chinese character is somewhat baffling. But what of Chinese who are not indifferent to the weaknesses of their less fortunate nationals? What of the Confucian Society? Are there no Confucian precepts worth handing out to those who have 'strayed, from the path of rectitude? A prisoner serves his sentence and is let free. He is swallowed up in the crowds that are as ants upon sugar. No one has a good word for Him or a
If helping hand. If he has learnt anything it is perhaps the need for more care when he next plans a theft, or does something that makes him a law breaker: Most large towns at Home have a Society that lays itself out to help the prisoner set free. Near. the
Better still
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BIRTHS.
and Mrs. J. Ralston, Hong- kong, a daughter.
on
'no
As
Members was new
For she never omitted the things that
were true.
houses."
16
"You'll have to live in a board- Ing-house filled with the great
46
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The word Pro. unkissed."
hibition she often would "What he doesn't know would go on a sixpence, and then you'd
use,
By typical Mem-be able to see whether it was
called heads or fails."
bers
"stopping
the Booze,"
When the elo.
quence waxed on the
ills of the Poor,
Tory-cum-Socialist no one
was sure,
Ramsay's own business was
half as well done With Haldane, and Hemmerde
In
rolled into one,
her way she was great: she
fought Men alone, Whene'er you forget it, come
back to this stone.
"I shall see
you again!"
FLASHES FROM THE FOOTLIGHTS. "Yes-Ishall be on the
Jury."
#
!
*
*
"I don't know anything other people's husbands."
Or your own."
1
*
... From "Anyhouse."
50
When the new Tele-
We PERHAPS, phone Co. comes
may expect an im provement on the following.. Perhaps.
"Hello smaizie there?" "Jussa.mint nilé calla."
'Hello smaizie?”.
"Yeah, whoosis?" "Trine givagess." "Tsermon." "Whosermon?"? "Snowonueno.".
"Atzallri buwatt dye wanna nose whosermon ?"
"Aw heezaguy downata awfiss. Now yappy?"
"Watrizee gotta callyup?” "Smutch' riza .nexperson
aboutainhe?"
"Is that dull husband of hers going to be here to-night?"
"Not if he has the faintest idea of if being a good host."
* * *
"It's a good thing for you men that women like clothes more than they like work-otherwise, the men would lose their jobs."
-From "Spring Cleaning."
"Noee ainhel Gethistraykid.. Imya guysee anyutha fellas gotta anserta mefercallinyup."
"Say whoya thinkyar anywayu cavemanor sumpiin? Busize whonell areya?"
haijakidded:
"Goshbud dye thatime Kid. Itsermon."
"Yeah? Well mebbeya think · sobud dye donono gize nameder
sring off antryagenn, mon, Yamay havsum bettaluknextime. Slong yapoorfish."
KING CHARLES'S HEAD,
inflicted by the Police of the Inter-"a warm cup of tea.
there is a warm, hand-clasp. and national Settlement, and that the
a warm word of help. And-who British Government is hot in a knows-it is this sort of thing position to give instructions to that makes for reclamation more than does a period "in prison. the International Municipality to There is opportunity in Hongkong refrain from the use of ball cart- for foreigners and Chinese alike ridges against future demonstra- to commence a similar mission. tors. That demolishes in a word It is long overdue. the arguments of the fanatics that the British are solely responsible for the order to fire The Chinese Parent. when the riots were at their It would be interesting to have height. They can only share that the views of the parents of the three or four hundred boys on the responsibility. But they do not
of their offspring in action shirk it. Nor do they oppose deliberately absenting themselves but rather court the fullest from the Saiyingpun School on a possible impartial inquiry into matter of dispute over routine the incidents of May 30 It is all
regulation. It is charitable to infer that either they do not to the good, in a sense, that most understand their parental duties; of the present agitation in Shang-ate bewildered by the actions of hai is directed against the British their children, or evince
Among the various decorations family was much divided, for while Stephen went on to become interest whatsoever in what they with
Walpole which Horace and that an attempt is being to do. For years now it has been the
a Roman Catholic divine, and isolate the British, for more than desire of the young student to adorned Strawberry Hill was chaplain to the widowed Queen, CATTRELL.-On June 2, 1925,
copy of the death warrant Willi (so he signs himself) was at the International Hospital, anything else it exposts the utter act as a tail wagging the dog. a Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs. shallowness and sham of the case And often, it has to be admitted, of Charles I., inscribed "Major one of Cromwell's peers and remarks # London major-generals, and (as, some J. W. B. Cattrell, a son."
the wagging has succeeded. The Charta," against the British. Likewise, it person whom one might expect to paper.
When the greatest of thought) was "in a fair way to HAYES-On June 11, 1925, at
schoolboys, Tom the Protectorship hereafter,” it: Dr. Fearn's Sanatórium, serves to heighten the grave take an active interest in such Victorian
male parent is Brown, went up to Oxford he England could have endured a Shanghai, Lo Mr. and Mrs. suspicion that the origin of the matters the
something like Brer Rabbit. He exhibited the same cheery docu-Puritan military oligarchy any Egbert M. Hayes, a daughter. present trouble can be traced back es low and says nuffin'. Presum- ment on the walls of his rooms. longer. It is said that he urged. Janet Elizabeth. MARKS.-On June 11, 1925, at
as far as the refusal of the British ably if a boy is filial at home or At the time when Mr. Gladstone Oliver Cromwell's son to make a the Victoria Nursing Home,
Government, on taking office, to seems so nothing else matters. was at Oxford a motion about the fight for it when the Protectorate Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. have, any truck with the Soviet And yet K-Ung Fu-Tzu (Con- execution of Charles I. was a sure was tottering. But Richard fucius) enjoined that in addition and certain ineans of rousing the Cromwell was the wiser man to Marks, a daughter.
As Lady the lines proposed by its to such piety, a youth should be angriest passions at the Union. take his fall, meekly RALSTON.-On June 16, to Mr. immediate Labour predecessor.respectful abroad; earuest and These facts we record not out of Fairfax cried out at Charles I.'s An outbreak of the kind that truthful. He should overflow in any reverence for the political trial, "not a half nor a quarter of judgment of Horace Walpole and the people of England" desired to occurred in Shanghai on May 30, love to all, but cultivate the Tom Brown, nor yet to mock at execute the King or to do without
friendship of the good. "Then, »Hongkong. Tuesday, June 16, 1925. attended by the broadcasting of whatsoever of energy may be left the fervour of undergraduates King, though to be sure they Communistic and anti-foreign to him, he should devote to the opinions, but to show that for a were not much conciliated by:
good many generations ordinary King Charles's declaration on the THE OBVIOUS REMEDY. literature, is not planned in a day, improvement of his mind." It
Englishmen had, like David scaffold that the people should nor in a month for that matter. tians do not read their Bible, so deal of difficulty in keeping King "that is nothing pertaining to may be that just as many Chris Copperfield's. Mr. Dick a good have no share in government. In the House of Commons the It was only to be expected that many Chinese do not read the Charles's head out of theirs. We them." Ten years of Puritanism Labour Party are to be thanked the obvious remedy for the pre-Master's words. This may account can do it nowadays. Whatever triumphant bad, however, con- in no unstinted measure for their sent troubles and a preventative for the apparent "decline and fall our opinions, we no longer make vinced them that they would have inquisitive spirit, regarding the for any recurrence
of the Chinese parent." Which is the execution of the King matter a larger share in government with would be greatly to be pitied. Shanghai troubles, for, far from pointed out in the House of
for passion, Whether we be of ja King and Parliament than. the school of Johnson" or of with a Protector and major putting the British Government in Commons. That remedy lies in
Boswell's father as to the justice generals. Charles II. came back, a quandary, they are eliciting the attempt by the Treaty Powers
of the deed and its effects, we and Willi Goffe ran away. Whe replies of a nature calculated to to carry out the decisions of the
consider it with the calm of the ther he had special cause we can-... historian. But the story and the not tell. Nineteen of the men place the British position in its Washington Conference in regard
sequel will always interest people who signed the death-warrant. . true light. It is not likely, of to co-operation in China. Thel
who "speak the tongue which and who were in the hands of the - course, that translations of these assurance was also reiterated that
Shakespeare spake," and in New Government, were not punished... statements by the leaders of the the British Government is con-
England at this moment it seems The Restoration was not murder---' to be found even more interest-ous, though it perpetrated some British Government, if circulated sidering the best means of over-
ing than among the older Eng ignoble vengeance. Goffe got off amongst the Chinese students, coming the difficulties arising
lish. The antiquarians there are to Massachusetts, with a pro- would accomplish very much by largely from the absence of effec-
engaged upon a search "for the clamation after him and £100 on way of counter-propaganda just tive Government in China."
bones of William Goffe, the Judge his head. They were all Puri- who signed the death-warrant of tans in New England, and Goffe at present. But they must serve may be that the forthcoming.con-
Charles ·I". A great many and his father-in-law "held meet- the most useful purpose of reveal-ference on the internal tariff in
judges, of course, did that-fifty-ings where they preached and ing to the industrial workers at China will afford an opportunity!
eight in all Sixty-eight had prayed, and were looked upon as Home, to the Chinese heads, and for removing such obstacles, dis-
taken their seats at the King's men dropped down from heaven. trial. The warrant, still pre- Warrants came after these to foreigners outside China sipating the present atmosphere
served in the library of the House heavenly visitors, and they had to generally, the bona fides of Great of mistrust, and inaugurating an
of Lords, shows that Goffe's name, hide în, woods and caves, from Britain. From this point of view era of fruitful
was signed fourteenth in the first which Goffe suddenly emerged to co-operation.
column. It is very probable that save a town from an Indian raid such official statements are doubly between China and the Powers.
he-vas-one-of-the-fiercer-party by his-old-Cromwelllai-prowess=" welcome, even though they are. Thus, it will be conceded, the
who signed before the rest could Then he vanished from history - made in the nature of replies to real solution lies not with the THE NEED IS VERY URGENT. persuaded to. He was one of and life, and no one knows where
[Cromwell's men; he had been a he was laid. We congratulate the:. questions in the House of Com Powers but with China herself. An attack of dysentery often results leader at the prayer-meeting of antiquaries of Connecticut on from Indigestible food, polluted drink- mong.
Let her as has been pointed outing water, or sudden changes in weather the officers which decided to their zeal for the memory of a re- Take the point made by Mr so often of late put her own shoes. Remedy should be in every thirig is that, at the very sama them not to hope that the Puritan
or climata
Chamberlain's, Colic and bring the King to trial. An odd markable man, but we must warn A. M. Samuel, Parliamentary house in order. The co-opera- home,overy traveller's bag, every time, his own brother, Stephen major-general had, as tradition Secretary to the Department of tion of the Powers is there for dependable in emergencies at home or Goffe, was trying to arrange the fondly says, "a sword-hilt con vacation kit.. A valuable podielne, Overseas Trado, that no Chinese, the seeking,
when travelling For sale everywhere. King' escape from DA COURIER filled his da
It
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