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BRITISH GOODS.
Is it possible for Hongkong British, when making purchases, to insist on an Empire product? Do Hongkong British ever to
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A Navry once christen Hand, Mrs. Strachoy, are taking
trouble to enquire from whence HOMER. ed his baby "Homer, a ten weeka' holiday which they
come the things they buy? 'It
and on the clergyman will spend in America and in
would appear that the answer to asking him whether he had done Canada. No Englishman of their both questions are in the negative. so because "Homer was his acquaintance is a ancerer rooter for those United States of America and Hongkong is a free port and may favourite poet, he replied: seid virtually to exist on free "Poet? Lor', no, sir, I keep they prove it this way. No Amor-
trade. It would be bad polities to pigeons." insist on preferential treatment for Empire goods. But it should be good patriotism for British people to enquire for Empire goods, and as far as possible, to was signed without a SWAN:
PENS, PENALTIES AND PENULTIMATES. for
John
man
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purchase them. There is a wave of this sort of Empire patriotism No blood-bespattered slaughter- going over Britain. The Empire Does business with a WATER- Exhibition at Wembley has been nothing but a huge advertising Then why should Shreds display of the Empire's ability to Patcho provide for her own people. And Kill Time with an ONOTO?
MAN;
and
Such a preposterous idea as Q
ican newspaper correspondent who was in London during any part of Herod's the four years of war, 1014-1018, warrant will ever forget Mr. Strachey. He St. it was who, at a series of afternoon out at Garlant's Hotel, produced for ten-parties, held week in and week them all the big-wigs of the Allies. British Prime Minister receiving a fore Mr. Strachey appeared to cham newspaper man was unthinkably be
pion the cause of the American cor respondents who were trying to cover the war. Within a few days. however, they-the correspondent -received Mr. Asquith-then * ft. Strachey's weekly parties! Prime Minister at the first of
of a vast area. Royalty has set that irritates us and still a third fie, broke down the barners by the example in buying Empire type, and most rare, that wakeris in garanteeing not merely the borlour products, and our own people are us an admiration profound and, if but the discretion of, os he called being urged to do the same, It is only for the moment, ennobling.
them, my colleagues from across not merely a question of senti-
The first kind of cheerfulness has
the water! ment or patriotism, but one of its roots chiefly in good health of
Thereafter he would say to them
----
a second edition of that Exhibi- tion but emphasises an obvious.
There is a cheer- fact. If nothing else, it has open- THREE Soars of fulness that stimu ed the eyes of the people of the CHEERFULNESS. lates us and an- Empire to the vast potentialities
other cheerfulness
good business. And not that body and mind. If the health of each wook only, but a means to helping our either is not perfect then the high "Who would you like to have own kith and kin. Imports spirits may alternate with gloom.ext Wednesday b from foreign countries into Bri- But, while the spirits are high, and Sir Douglas Haig, Admiral Jellicoe Sir Edward Grey Lord French, tain have totalled £891,000,000 particularly if the wits are keen, we Admiral Beatty, Mr. Balfour, Lloyd and exports to those countries find great buoyancy and moch
and.dozens of others were called for
To those who know "frostinesa ** which hedges in
£578,000,000. Foreign countries amusement in the society of such. George., Lord Fisher, Lord Haldans have. thus reaped the benefit of people. £315,000,000 which, with over a The second type, the cheerful-by the correspondents, and produced million unemployed is altogether ness that sometimes exasperates us,hy Mr. Strachey at his American tea too philanthropic. Purchasing, of course, that of complacency parties. Empire-made goods helps to re- and satisfaction.
There are duce this employment figure people whose sympathies are not of
to purchase the quickest, who never look on the ADAPTAMITY, the surely an incentive such goods. The Self-Support, darker side of life and who are tea- ing Empire League is appealing peramentally incapable of despon-thons in authority the work of for the co-operation and action of dency. Their easy good temper Mr. J. St. Toe Strachey, in not to And to get at Home the British people in fulfilment of makes them usefar members of he despised. the principles of the league, which iety, hat there are days when we of the big wgs, here and in Eng- will raise the general well-being hp we shall not run against them. land, is like trying to open a The third sort of cheerfulness has sardine tin with a, match; or, if of the peoples of the Empire to a plane hitherto unachieved, while source partly in experience. It that is vague, like getting a Broker reducing the cost of living and charter. Is has been lurd won Down in Manila when a newspaper the result, not of complacency but to finish his June Settlement. doing away with unemployment.
or hard-sustainer. It knows as man wants to see the Governor Thus will this work prove to be, much of life as the eleverest pessi-Genon, he goes to Government που a palliative, but a definite mism kitows and more. But it in, Flouse, rings the bell and is at cure. Admiral Jellicoe is able to aturally, somewhat rare, and some admitted to the Governor's put his name to such meaning anobtrusive that even when we presence and treated as a respon- words as these and to call the most it we may miss it unless pursible being. In Hongkong attention of the British people eyes are quick. the world over, to them. The
But why speak of the obvious? The Shreds mún has a friend who had Americans say that it occasion to interview former
banks, in fact it has been stated that one of the principal objects in bringing forward the applica-league's aim is to secure as many tion was to save more native members as possible who will 3. Sr. Lon is good to hear that Director of Education. That parti
pledge themselves when making STRACHEY, . St. Loe Strachey, ular Director verbally wigged him banks from having to suspend any purchase, whether it be a
famous editor of Thehecause he didn't sond in a card, payment with consequent loss to matchbox or a.motor car, to Spectator," author of "The Adhut breathed his name in the shell- principally Chinese merchants demand an Empire product, and ventage of Living," mong other like cur of a Chinese clerk. Such and indirectly, to a limited ex- if the quality is satisfactory as books, is soon to pay them a visit. is fume: or welled-headedness. tent, in view of their interdepen- duct, to purchase the former in compared with a foreign, pro-
dence one upon another for pros- preference. The league will perity, to European merchants. undertake the work of leading Whether or not the Government the consumer to demand Empire toan is the minimum advanced on ducers to meet those demands at products and of assisting the pro-
THE HOUSMAN AESTHETIC.
We now cume to a writer, whoj of Pagan Rome. The most subtle.
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When the page
local securities, some organisation reasonable prices. Branches are must be included. here because he of its metres haunt us strangely, must obviously be held responsible to be formed whose task will be developed as a gencine modern pet themselves with a strain of inde- Ivause they seem to accompany for its application and as decen-to encourage industry in their one of the themes out of which the pendent, hut half audible, musio. own immediate territory. These artistic sympathies of the period As we read, we surrender oureelves, tralisation of control would ren- branches will be spread all over was woven. He was alone, I think, how to the accompaniment and now der more difficult the task of keep the British Empire. It remains in the fullness and sincerity of his to the measure, in an alternating ing track of the money and seeing to be seen if one will be establish apprehension of it, and this places and hardly expressible joy. When that it is spent along the lines ed in Hongkong. There can be him outside the crela of men who we try too intently to overhear the for the purpose of which it is no objection to such a branch, were mainly abortive seekers in all accompaniment, the measure draws advanced, it is unlikely that the and to such urging on British but the technics of writing; but this hack to itself as the dominant.
people: Competition is good for solitary eminence emphasizes the partner. loan would be made general to all trade. It is also good for the vitality of the Pagan ideal for which has fallen on our knees, we wonder banks. Its handling by one of consumer who, very often, has to be stood, an ideal that sheorbed his if any composer could capture the the principal banks acting as sink his feelings and buy in the soul while it attracted the senses of musical notation of this mysterious
cheapest market. agent for the Government would and merchants also have to have fer, of course, to Mr. A. F Housendes our mortal eare. The ques Shopkeepers men who were not scholars. I re-accompaniment which fills while it THE TRADE LOAN. appear on the face of it to be the no particular feelings in the man. It is significant of the re-tion makes us understand why I ovat most satisfactory solution and the matter. They are here to trade, verence with which he regarded the Fraser and other artists" have de The common factors governing Hongkong and Shanghai Bank It would appear that a duty rests Pagan ideat, that, though gradled, fired to illustrate A Shropshire Dad, conditions necessary
for the has already been mentioned in with those at Home to study the as it were, in London, he discerned and why too Mr. A, E. Housman
find Hongkong market; Ruccessful conduct of their affairs, this connection.
out it where it still survives, not in the answered oven Lovat Fraser in the Although no wherein competition is severest, appetites, that haunt our city negative, though his designs hove dictate that any measures for thing had been officially announe- and if possible, meet that con Ride. He studies it there, be-world.
streets, but the English country now been given separately to the We should however have assisting local concerns must ed until to-day as to con petition. "Made in England" give similar opportunities to templated means
has always been a slogan suggest cause the life there reminds him thought that the rhythm of such of raising the ing quality and endurance.
most of the humanity that he ad- poems as Chinese and Europeans alike and money, A Ioan from Home, has not always suggested competi- mires in Pagan times and classic although the request for relief of whether direct or by means of tive prices. Hongkong needs en-
authors.
We'll to the woods no more, the present financial stringency bonds issued in London, appear-lightenment to rise to the occt as there is in Greek sculpture, for The bowers are bare of bay There in a rebuke in this poetry,The Jaurels all are cut. Ma came from a purely Chinese ed to be considerably more sion.
all that is not simple, restrained, and That once the Muses wore; source it may reasonably be practicable than the task of rais-]
strong. Only in its reverence for assumed that the provisions of ing in Hongkong at the present
what has perished from the world He stood, and beard the steeple the proposed loan will apply to all time such a sum se six million
is there anything romantic in its wistfulness. No writer is more merchants in need of cash and pounds sterling (which the pro-
original. He has no modern modela possessing the necessary security.visional text of the petition sport Mr. Bernard Shaw.
I cannot endure the boredom of For imitators, and did all other modern verse perish, Mr. Housman's The exact nature of the relief originally contemplated). It'
poems would be like the Greek contemplated by the Government would
Everything but nonsense has Anthology of our tongue. certainly have been long ago been talked out. Mr. His work is small in quantity, but musicians, and if this be their effect would have proved irresistible to has not yet been officially an-logical for the Home Govern- James Smith.
he is perhaps the only poet, techni-ipon the most humble of concert- nounced but the most effectivement to refuse such a loan in The reformed rake is almost for such a term, The most manful as the deal-adder to the chamer's cully a minor, who seams too great goers, who must be to the composer means of ending permanently the view of the statement by the Pre-invariably a married man-Missght in the world to him is that voice how much more then these present stringency of cash is ob-mier in answer to Hongkong's Mollie Izod.
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THEY SAY THAT....
It
Sprinkle the quarters on the morn
-ing town....
One, two, three, four, to marke
place and people
S
It tossed them down,
of a Greek statue, and we feel that poems should awaken in an incor
viously for the principal banks to cable, that the disastrous eltua It is my profound belief that he ins assimilated the living secretceivably more responsive car give practical expression to their tion" was "fully realised." The democracy is at the cross roads.
of its mobility as few connoisseurs Like Rossetti and William Morris, confidence in the future of the policy alace defined elaborates Sir Josiah Stamp...
or sthetic admirera have ever done. Mr. Laurence Horsman was not Every true antior in the writer of content with one art. He wrote Colony by advancing money on machinery which one would be The last thing most people me one book, but Mr. A. Enot only poems and fairy-tales, but. local security. This they have optimistic in anticipating a really want to do is to read the Housman is the author of none made charming drawings for them, declined to do on their
8000kful conclusion to (so far as classica they praise. Mr. R F other Ho reached his aim at and designed book-plates and covers Initiative, and it remains to be Hongkong's difficulties are con Bulla
single, deliberato stride, for the and title pages, so that his volumes seen whether the Government's
Last Poems admittedly dates for are delightful possessions, which cerned),
for another twelve - The fault with women general, the most, part from the petic of link the nineties to the sixbes by loan will be observed letly
months and In the lin of this ly is their false conception of A Shropshire Ead and
carrying on the same tradition. the letter or whet
and their realisation as ind
what constitutes beauty. -1 Lady nothing, ever local security will
Sholto Douglas.
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