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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES
And so away to allow the boy who wanted
under foreign administration since SEPTEMBER 23, Stevenage, and to learn French to learn French,
-1861.
stald til a Were I schoolmaster I should showre was over, study the natural tastes of the boys and try and develop them, An educational course seems to me to be folly.
There are people who get "J.C." "touch" very easily
I have never had any special training. I read all that took my fancy. For instance, scarcely. know anything" of Shakespeare, and know his contemporarios thoroughly. I. cannot tell you why Tinsisted on reading Fletcher and Marlowe, unless it was to oppose those who endeavoured to lead me, I always had a good memory and I remembered all odd words and phrases. I strove to use them afterward, and I Imitated the style of the author E was reading.
the Taiping rebellion when they were taken over for protection and the supervision then exercised was and so rode easily to Welling, carried on later to order that where we supped well, and had socurity might be assured for fortwo beds in the room and so lay eign loans and the Boxer Indemnity single, and still remember it that Duder this mupervision they were of all nights that ever I slept in built into nu, extensive and off my life I never did pass a night cient organisation under which the with more epicurism of sleep: Chinese Government receives in. full, revenues frean imports and ex-
·Pepys parts which have kept her solvent. The charge on imports is uniform for all countries and following China's declaration of War against
Tell a chap he is not a the Central European Powers, the gentleman or a Christian, and you Treaty States agreed to a revision offend him greatly. Declare he of the tariff in order to bring it up can't write or speak Eng. to five per cent. of the current price lish, and he at once be of imports. This revised import comes your mortal tariff was made effective early in "J.C." becomes "touchy" on a mis- 1923 after the Washington confer proofed prefix and writes a letter French literature had a great ence, but another resolution, that (Monday's issue) which
effect upon me, and 1 read here there should be held a confer jures up visions of those books and there and everywhere, plek- ence in Shanghai to consider fur which set out to teach etiquette ing up something everywhere, ther increases, has not heretofore or good manners. "J.C." is self- and never learning anything been put into effect on account of confessed. aa being far from thoroughly. I was inclined toward disturbed conditions of recent years illiterate. If so the Shreds man desultory reading, and I have and the failure of the Peking Gov- does him the compliment of gratified my inclination to the top ernment to demonstrate her powers assuming he has heard of George of my bent. It is impossible to of control over the provinces. Such Moore, knows some of his books, give any one any idea of what powers were considered by the
paragraph..
enemy.
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But to in the next
BLACK AND WHITE."
Albert Guérard, in an
article, · "The
Last Taboo," in the current "Scribner'a Magazine," asserts that the argu- ments built up against inter- marriage betweanwhite and black races are often faulty:
There is a plaza in Paris de dicated to the three Alexander Dumas. The first, the son of a Haytian planter and of a negress, was a general at the time of the Revolution and the Empire. The second, unmistakably African in colouring and features, was the jolly giant who has fascinated thrée I do not believe romantic tales, who made and generations with his that any
one who ever suc
the
Washington Conference as the first rejoiced in them somewhat, and were my difficulties in forming essential for the putting into effect agreed that as English, they sentences; but I had something to of further increases because these would receive high marks at say, and I sought for the means increases were to take the place of Queen's College. Very often the I still experience great difficulty
of saying it, blindly, instinctively.. Likin, an illegal tax levied on gooda writing of facile prose is what is passing through provincial centres. known as a gift to many, writin disentangling my thoughts. The Chinese have since taken mating is a labour of love, but also of tars into their own hands and as a tears. Let "J.C." and others, result of meetings of a preparatory and the Shreda man applies it to commission they have themselves himself -read George Moore's cailed for a Customs Conference and "confession" with sympathy and invited the Powers to send dele- understanding. After doing so gates. The Powers have severally we may well give thanks that accepted and it was at a farewell "such books as "The King's Eng luncheon to the British delegates lish"." were anathema to him. that Mr. Austen Chamberlain made Those who admit they cannot the speech which Reuter cabled in speli will probably be a little fall this week end: The mutters helped-more so, if the Shreds these delegates are to discuss, how man passes on the dictum of a ever, are not to be limited to the once-Hongkong padre, that spell consideration of the pitting into ing is a gift of God. effect of a tariff increase or tax, George Moore if the advice of the Chairman of the Commission which prepared for the Conference was acted upon by the Chinese Government. In public statement made in Peking, he said A CONFESSİON. that the Chinese Government should;
last several fortanes, managed clearly state when inviting the forceeded in writing a book ever nobbed with the greatest in the newspapers and theatres, hob the economy axe is no respecter of sign Powers to take part in the experienced the same difficulties land, and preceded Henry Ford in persons or principles. What of Conference that it was held for the in composition as I did. When I devising methods of quantity other departments and Govern-of discussing the restoration was five-and-twenty I could not production. ment ventures? Rumours have The text of the invitation has not noun, and until a few years ago I everlasting and deplorable model. of China's right to tariff autonomy, distinguish between a verb and a The third, besides giving an died down regarding the Public heen made public and it is there could not punctuate a sentence of maudlin romanticismo in "La Works Department. Is it true the Powers have undertaken to send never stupid, although I could not suffering from a painful excess fore impossible to state whether This suggests idiocy: but I was Dame aux Camélias," besides that in this Department there delegates on, these terms. have been withdrawals we hate the statement of Mr. Austen Cham consecutive sentences. For many wit, created the modern problem Beyond learn; I simply could not write of technical skill and Parislan the word dismissals! If so to berlain that "we are willing to meet years I had to pick out and strive play, paved the way for symbol- what number and what Chine halfway there is no to put together the fragments of ism on the stage before Ibsen had
authentic indication of the opinion saving? Some public works have of the British Government regard.entences with which I covered been heard been temporarily suspended. Ining a posible extension of the see thought I was deacient in intel- prefaces when Bernard Shaw, his reams of paper. My father homiletic, paradoxical, glittering of, and wrote
which direction? Presumably
of the Conference, but the Japanese Foreign Office has already stated igence because I could not learn ungrateful son, was still in his tremendous Shing Mung that the Powers virtually agree to spell. I have never succeeded cradle. water scheme will go forward. that tariff autonomy cannot be grant. in learning to spell,
Few Nordic families could offer It was undertaken to obviate ed to China at present," and com.
I am entirely opposed to educa- the same record of physical and water famines and to ensure a tremely unlikely that such autonomy I would let the boy learn Latin "colourful"
mon sense dictates thut. it is ex- tion as it is at present understood. intellectual: energy ag that unlimited supply of would be granted unless the Powers who wanted
dynasty of to; I water to the Colony's vast popula-were convinced that the state of tion-principally Chinese. future may see a less numerous community than that which was the Colony's lot prior to June fast.
The great figures of the war, Ypres salient, where a quarter of If so the demand for water will be
whose names were on our lips a million of their forefathers gave less. Then there is the Military
almost every day, are taking their their lives for King and country." Lands scheme. In the vernacu→
places In bistory, BRYSS
There can surely be no division of lar-what about it? This busi-
London paper. Those of us who opinion as to the excellence of this ness was or is-like to eat up
proposal. The ideal memorial the Government's reserve funds.
Try to speak distinct English, passed through the ordeal, will serves the living as well as and, for goodness anke, don't never need to be reminded of perpetuating the great dead, and Are there to be further Gov- Some months ago comment was murable. It is sad that in these what we owe to them for their such a chapel would be an altar of ernment economies? If so what made on the "leisurely way in days certain good old words have inspiration as well as for their thanksgiving for the British services. But we have to think peoples when they revisit the are they be? What indeed are which the War Department is almost ceased to exist. People do the economies already entered treating the subject." The War, not say begin; they say com- of future generations, and for scenes where Field-Marshal Sir their sakes we must preserve John French showed the world mence. They do not. say upon? There has been no official Department acted like Brer choose, they say select memories of the sacrifices which what British troops could do in statement either in the Legisla-the vernacular, said nuffin. It is the beginning;" would it be im- pur ordered lives and hand on the all differences of creed were for
Rabbit. It lay low and, again in Genesis opens with the words, In were made that we might follow face of overwhelming odds. As tive Council or out of it. The probably still moribund on the proved by saying 'In the comago Field-Marshal the Earl of have no place in such a house of torch to their keeping. A year gotten in those days, they should. facts of certain economies effect-subject. Does that justify the mencerment" Mr. Ernest pres visited Ypres, the scene of prayer. It must be available, as ed in the Education Department Government in intimating that in an address to the Grammar fe-work of devoted service, and cognises in the letter which he has Page, KC, Recorder of Carlisle, the climax and vindication of his the Archbishop of Canterbury re- were not made known officially, the proposed deal is off or in School boys. but divulged to a press represen- suggesting that the purchase
in the course of a speech remind- written in approval of the scheme, tative bent on confirming, or price needs further consideration
ed the nation that there was no to all denominations the Free otherwise, a rumour.
English church in this salient of Churches as well as the Church of. All that with a view to a reduction The The secret of overcoming is precious memory to which England. The ideal of common we know is that a number of Colony's progress in the future ment, resistance, fighting, squab could come for prayer and re- cause will thus be perpetuated this to refrain from all excite pilgrims from home and overseas service In defence of a common locally-engaged European ladies will be along more settled, and bling, straining, opposing, anatch-membrance of their dead Since Lord Ypres himself have been temporarily retired. steady lines. It may be that ing and trying to get the better of then this great soldier has gone months ago asked us to erect How many have been dismissed and what the saving is likely to be
office accommodation is, and will the other fellow, either by force, to join his contrades-la-arms, and a memorial on this
or amartness, or slimness, and it is suggested with singular ap- his comrades in-azmis as a consequence, there is no N
be, well supplied for years to to retire Instead to the inner life, propriateness by Field Marshal who had gone before, come...... On the question of wherein is to be found super Lord Plumer and General Sir forget them to day, but may well general economy the Government taman wisdom and power. William Pulteneys in a letter commemorate their valour la haughtily silent. It may have This power is not to be used such a church as
which was published recently that person of their leader Who has a statement ready for the next to get the better of the man in mind an
ord Ypres had himself since joined the
Chapel- || compan The project whom we call our competitor, hut should be raised of character and to make our words of the to overcome our own weaknesses in the town.
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FURTHER ECONOMIES?
The
Chinn was such that a rolinhle un- dertaking could be given that her: one solil financial asset should not drift back to the corrupt and in- efficient state from which Sir Robert Hart rescued it,
word. It is possible to voice a word of sympathy with those now- Bacrificed on the altar of economy. It can be said that these ladies came to the assisting of the Le tafive Coun
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who at a time when that Department
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to be up and doing, are of years we must assume, they
as the grave also all
call rendered efficient servic
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and
THEY SAY THAT
would Dumas.
LEST WE FORGET."
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