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FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
To the descriptions given to SDs, our dollar, has to be add-
od another. We are fami
world's history, beurs out the
statement.
My second fixed idea is the yao. lessness of men above sixty years
it
af uge, and the incalculabló bono- would be in commereint. political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopprit work at this age. He continued with a reference to Aulony Trollopo's The Fixed Period" and concladed :
merit according to the established law and practice of nationa." is a far-reaching statement to make and one that might be found difficult to substantiate. We are not likely to agree that Britain would be one whit behind
He then proceeded to illustrato his her friend and neighbour in line with "bucks and chips, but remarks will examples, and went "stretching, points"-no matter seeds may be consideród now, on- the nature of the provocation of his fine stories makes some of his Mr. Floyd Kuga loent author in one But this is perhaps a small matter.joharators use the Word seeds," There is sufficient evidence to when referring to dollars. The
torm seams fruity to say the least., suggest that the attitude of | America will have a lot to do with the future in China, That
Lander hus been fare- America's actions will all be on
SIR HARRY welling it again in Australia and they t.df the side of equity and justice no true story which has to do some one will dispute. China should what with Labour conditions in of college and chloroform should be Whether Trollope's suggration welcome her share in the delibera- that part of the world.
carried out or not I have become a tions that ought shortly to take from a place called Bowral.
Sir Harry was motoring down litla dubions, as my own time is place. If decided action is to be highway near Camden was "up."
The getting a short.
The storm did not break until stayed on account of the stretch-and the only track was blocked by next day." chronicles his bio- ing of toleration, the same may dray. The motor party waited for gpher, when it was headlined not necessarily apply to words the dray to give ground, but its throughout the country that "Osler which should be as decided and Harry crisply called out.
driver made no move. At length Sir commends Chloroform at Sixty I'
"Hey, For some reason, however, there direct as circumstances fully canna ye shift yo cuirt? Don't seems still to be a division of opin-
block the hael rodway, inddie." Warrant.
ion, and the present writer has heard And the immobile driver, in vigor many rdfer to forty as being the ous voice, replied: "Oh, go to hell. Intal age. In either case it was bad I'll move when I like; the Labour nonghi. hut those in. Hongkong who feared at 40, have now another 20 years to worry about.
Oil v. Steam,
I
How difficult it is to
Fifty thousand copies.
A New Tus of a new "Ten Com- mandments" should
Motor engines were in course of Party's in power now !** production by marine engine Aghast, the great artist was, for builders same time prior to the jonce in his life, speeechless. war during which period it was "Gosh!" was his first word. inevitable that their development should have been considerably retarded. Steady progress has been made since in evolving motor Too OD AT overtake or certainly accomplish some good- engines suitable for nearly all PORTY. mis-statement- or even if they are solely to ba cir classes of vessels, and although
something that has cubted among taxicah. drivers. motor ship tonnage afloat at pre-it has got a start, is shown by the the slogan, "The public os saved," not been clearly understood once This latest decilome is built around sent represents only about $ per Too Old at Forty" cry. It is some. which has been adopted by the m cent. of the whole, recent ship-
ping figures show that during the times heard in Hongkong, and quite pire State Taxical Chamber of first quarter of 1925 many more lieve that Dr. W. Oster made surely, if universally observed by umber of Hongkong people be- Commerce in New York, and as- motor vessels left the ways than atatement to the effect that men at thoses for whom it has been pre- in any corresponding period since forty ought to be chloroformed. Of pared, at least will do no harm. the oil engine made its first course, he said no such thing. Let These commandments include the appearance. Of this 3 per cent na reproduce the evidence.. Hongkong has had quite its share is what he really said :—
so far as memory serves and the latest arrival. the m.y. "Esquilino," is to be the first of four similar boats in course of being constructed to the order of the Lloyd Triestino line. The two factors which are tending to hold back the more general adoption of motor ships in place of steam ships appear to be the uncertainty of obtaining, and at reasonable cost, the necessary supplies of oil, and at present the present rela- tively high first cost of motor engines compared with steam engines. Lord Kylsant, well- known in Home shipping circles, stated in a recent speech that
Here following recommendations by the
elumber to drivers :---
"
I have two fixed idea well known to my friends, harmless obsessions with which I some times bore them, but which have u direct bearing on this important problem. The first is the com- parative uselessness of mon above forly years of age. This may se zm shocking, and yet, read aright, the
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FLAMANT! FLAMANT!
The chief difficulty Alice found farther and were proceeding at too- provided the relative price of coal at firat was in managing her flam-pil a pace for accurate observation... and oil is reasonably constant, and subject to there being no undingo; she succeeded in getting its when, on rounding a curve, we saw a flock of some sixty flamingoes comfortably else inshore. Cautiously, disparity between the first cost of body luckal away,
тету.
few inches
American Government, raust also The China Mail" be noted, and it was at Washing
ton that the Powers undertook to the steamship and motorship, the enough, under her arm, with its lege cautiously, we crept across the mud. steamship would be unable to hanging down, but generally, just as hoping that we should not disturb examine China's claim for a compete with the best type of the bad got its neck nicely straight hom we were overnxious, for the revision of "unjust treaties." motor ship engines. Moreover, ened out, and was going to give the The water was but
stately birds practically ignored us. America is opposed to any move he goes on to express his faith in China which is not in accord in the ultimate triumph of the hedgehog a blow with its head, it deep, and little of the pink tarsus motor ship on the grounds that would twist itself round and look up was submerged, and as the birde with the traditional "open door" as soon as the demand for oil in her face with such a puzzled ex-moved they raised their webbed feet policy. America is in favour of expands, the production will be pression that she could not help of the moss-step.
with the deliberate and stiff action The ungled, the policies enunciated in the increased to meet it and further-bursting out laughing." This quota-black-tipped, pink bills were below Washington Treaties concerning methods of standardisation it
more that by the application of tion, in substance at any rate, and, the surface, secking and securing China being put into effet without shout be possible in the not farre vividly still vision of something: the upper ridge or delay. She will not be a party to distant future to produce a first- Tenniel's picture of Alice and her nimen must have scraped the mud,
for the head was upside down... the side-tracking of these pro-class motor engine at a considerauimated croquet-mullet, flashed Every head was down until we got mises in consequence of recent Time alone will prove the justi
ably lower cost than at present, through my mind as I stood on the to within about twenty yards of the troubles. But she does insist that fication or otherwise of his faith margin of the Etang du Valeares and flock, but at last a bird raised its the Peking Government must take and from his guarded expression saw the puzzled expression of the ous neck, fixed as with a yellow rye, and gave a warning, anserine adequate measures for the protec.of it the utmost he evidently flamingoes as they twist their houk. Up cume the other heads, tion of foreigners and for the expects in a long transitionary simous necks to gaze upon us. The but without undue haste, and the period. In the meantime-ships quaint flamingo is familiar to many honking became general as one by carrying out of its obligations will come to and ships will go who have never soon the living bird one the birds spread great wings and under the Treaties. One of the from the port of Hongkong and Lewis Carroll's pen and Tenniel's me. So long as the wings were most prominent of the New York Whilet the humanitarian (with a pencil inscribed it deeply in the closed the birds were merely rose- mind detached from all considera plastic juvenile mind Though and th brilliant coverts and Newspapers comments sharply on tions of cost and efficiency) will ciated with Africa and black primaries were screened by killing of American see in any increase of these Parts of Southern Asia, the flamingo, drooping mantle and scapulars, but citizen:-
smokeless ships signs of the tanks as a European species, for it immediatly they were spread the According to the law and stoking, the philosopher will note pain and the, Camargue in France warlet and black, for the underwing human mechanism involved inats in two districts at least the transformation was amazing. Bone- mariamas of the Guadalquivir in white suddenly changed to vivid practice of nations, Washington in the ever increasing deraand for Butthe bird is capricious or perhaps is even more gorgeons; the black- requires of China the usual specialisation yet another indica-fastidious, and does not est annual fringed wing is deep rose or scarlet. amenda formal
tion of the inexorable advance of y in either place. In addition to Ona or two powerful atrokes lifted apology. punishment of the murderers progress. and indemnification of the victim's family. This is the minimum. That no more will
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AMERICA AND CHINA.
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JoachhalyovEDOLINIONONOODFOXITORINGEIRITS | America is becoming more and
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the temporary and irregular pange the long but light body, and one birda are a number of resident, after the other not in a scared mob apies, and others which as winter, --the birds failed to a safer din- visitors find that the Mediterranean |, tance, The awanlike necks were climate supplies all they need. Thenextritched, the long nink lega trailed be demanded, is the Peking
fact, and the hope that flamingoes behind, when the birds were on the Government's good fortune, in (To the Editor of the China Mail): the defective roads... and
would oblige, induced us to brave wing: the body lifts with each to powerful wing-stroke, neck and legs that it is dealing with Washing-) Str,Will you please allow
chance finding in a very wide area, sag slightly.-T. A. Coward, in The ton instead of with Tokio, Lon- to state that I am not the Mr.something of interent. We were well National Review (London), -don, Paris or another.
Beat referred to in your colutons repaid. When skirting the tang. Euge inland sea, its waters stretch Perhaps the last part of the who spoke at the mass meeting ing away to a dim and distant shore,
Imore likely to be a moral force/Concluding sentence might have held at the Theatre Royal on we were pulled up suddenly, is out). SHOULD CHILDREN EAT
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BANANAS? A. than she otherwise would be. But
chauffeur, pointing over the water, shouted, "Flamant Flamant 1" He Almost all children are fond of froit while the looker-on may see most
knew the Camargue, and had seen and expe dally of bapapar. But basins of the game, the help that an temper in a trying crisis. The PW.D., Hongkong, August 26, famingoes on many previous cocs are not suitable diet for children of foa than six years of age, and at no time active worker can give is too comment, in crisp language, pointa
sians, yet he sounded far more ex should a child be permitted to eat them need comment out Chinese misdeeds. Chine
cited than we appeared to be. I unless they are ripe and sound". Fruit PUBLIC MEETING, America is not likely to be a
insists on the Washington pact
doubt if he was. There they were, of any kind which is green, damarad ne the great birds, in hundrede-how overrips is dangerous, ders gin: the auch rious submissive onlooker so far as being observed, but at the same To the Editor of the China Mail many we could not eninmte. They digestion and using things in China are concerned, time she proves her inability to
Sir,-May I take this oppor-deeply that the rose white backs
were a long way off, wading so rouble sa diarrhoes, colic and cholers
infantum. There is official warrant to put it mildly-to observe her own tunity of thanking both you and were all that showed above the au
When a child has eaten fruit that has emphasise this fact. There may treaties, and to protect the lives your staff for the generous assist face: the necks and legs were hid- or they are laxative in remedy, in.. ing Ance which you have rendered in den Broept when a bird mised ita action, quickly yet gently cleansing the and property of foreigners
iving
connection with the three recent head to take, breath, we might have stomach and bowels. There Tables EDU China; but there are many Amert-within her jurisdiction. Our New meetings which have been held in heen watching a flock of aquatic ection stipation, bolic, diarrhoea, moreover, aneife for Infantile In cans realdent in the treaty ports York contemporary says that the Theatre Royal and without sheep, in the mirage haunted land-group welds imp's form and, tretting and alsewhere. Nor is the volume thinking Chinese will realise that have been the success they were might be an mich distorted se the four cheating oun supply!
which the meetings, could hardly dize is deceptive the birds pains. They espal worms
Baby's Own of trade: America enjoys with it is America alone that in this
Yours, etc., low mud islets wi
mgin the Tablets, or post stron: đủ venta poc via. China to be despised. The return Instance stands between them and
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distant, froshe, Dr. Williams Medialne. of the Boxer Indenmity by the the political punishment they Hongkong, August 27, 1925,
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