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MORE ECONOMY..
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Ken on parlor tables, not infrequently
When opening | labourers are ruthlessly exploited LITTER. Wood Park recently they can be made to ballast and
by professional agitators and it
His Majesty King hold upright an otherwise top is to be hoped the scheme has not George said: earnestly hope heavy swinging mirror,Joseph that all who benefit by the use of Conrad used the pages of a little been definitely shelved.
Ken Wood Park will do their book for cigarette papers--they best to assist the authorities in can be utilized as eyeshades, their endeavours to protect it fans, props for short-legged tables from the unsightly litter which, but really, how are they not alas, in so many cases, dis useful? One use has certainly figures our parks and other places not been mentioned." A great The Government "eut its coat" to which the public resort for re- singer confesses that she carries creation and amusement." The a book under her arm and drops according to its income, or the London "Times" had a letter on it every now and again. Stoop- progress. which its income de- this subject from Sir Robert ing to pick it up she finds helpful noted. It built
roads, Baden-Powell in which he refers for beauty's sake. Undeterred by initiated a new water scheme, to a suggestion that untidiness the number of times he will have should be made an indictable to stoop, the Shreds man intends built public offices, increased staff offence, and asks whether it would to try this new usage of books. departments, had an expensive not be better if, by means of valuation of "military lande" education of the citizen, the im
Most of us are made on which it commenced pulse to tidinese came from ASPIRATIONS. imbued with the negotiations with the War Office, within, since preventative 25 and has been considering harbour much as eurative measures are thing extraordinary. Those of Sir Robert an imaginative nature probably improvements. It earned praise the yogue to-day. for its aliveness in all these matters, even if a few wondered how far the Colony was from a
in common with
new
heavier taxation to
mieet
this motto?
wish to do "some-
goes on to say that, in the train suffer more than others. It will ing of the Boy Scouts and Girl help to explain what is meant if Guides, a point is made of this the Bishop of Ely is quoted aspect of the case, and one step, I have always wanted to save deficiency of income from de toward it is the motto, "Always" someone from drowning. It has creased revenue from sales of leave two things behind when been one of my life's aspirations, opium and sales of land. The quitting your camp ground (1) but I've never had the chance. Government must naturally "eus nothing: (2) your thanks." Every time I go over one of the its coat" in view of the decreased Might not grown-ups also adopt bridges in London
I always revenue as a result of the Canton
dawdle, because I have heard that boycott. It cannot be 'accused of
correspondent of "The they are spots where such aspira- indecent haste in indicating in Times" offers a novel suggestion tions as I have, have an what direction it is cutting down for offsetting the litter which dis- casional chance of being fulfilled. expenditure to meet income. It figures so many open spaces.
"If (Laughter). has probably deferred extreme some firm of paper-bag makers
That seems a laudable aspira- made and advertised a measurers-distasteful
as they brown paper bag printed in clear should be worth emulating. This strong tion And laudable aspirations must be until the last moment, hoping for as sudden a return to below," he writes, "and if all pro- nothing to prevent a Hongkong type with some such words as being a "close" season, there is the normal, as the abnormal was vision merchants were urged to Broker or ushered in. Its economies are
two "aspiring to
а
A
ac-
the result might be very wide- paws of bandits. It will be for use them in selling their goods, rescue a wealthy damsel from the spread, even more widely spread those who may see a sense of the than is the loathsome litter at humorous in the idea to suggest present." And here is the other aspirations for aspirants. proposed jingle:-
Holiday ScrapS If you are a person who likes to.
be clean
The remains of your eating will
never be seen.
You'll greatly be adding to other.
folk's bliss you'll light your Home Fires with the fragments in this.
If
What is your Yorn FAVOURITE favourite
scent ? SCENT?
The Shreds man is prompted to ask, ing Mr. E. V. Lucas' "Luck of benuse he has recently been read- the Year," in which he gives a list of what in his estimation are the
most delicious scents. some of them :--
Here are
Two ladies last Sunday on their
BIRDS IN NEW YORK.
not likely to find general accept ance: The first known descent of the axe affected a number of locally-employed teachers, and to this has to be added a suspension of building activities in connec- tion with the new Queen's Col- lege site and buildings. True educationalists will probably de- plore both decisions, and it is possible, in this connection, to suggest once more that the Gov ernment's determination to punish striking schoolboys by re- fusing them admission to Govern-
schools was ing of the closing of guilds when ment
trifle definitely unlawful acts
The new are harsh.
site also,
Ripe apples coffee just ground. by being allowed to lie proved against them. As, how-
derelict, is not likely to im- USE OF BOOKS, books, like the in the box, the under-side of a turf, Of the use of August soil after a shower, sigurs ever, in his struggle' for emanci- prove, and it is possible to argue pation it is essential that the that when the time comes and there is no end. They are useful hicken fern, mint sauce, a dairy acing stable, ten jest opened, ein making of them, namon, should many will hope it will be soon during periods of teething, they fum, walnut leaves bruised, very cedar pencils, crushed: to continue building operations, the cost of auch will be added to doors excellently, they can be
hold open or shut, wind-forced old brandy, a girena, workers of other countries the considerably. It has been decided thrown with impressive effect at return from morning service at the privilege of organising for the to effect a saving by ceasing to purpose of bettering his lot, issue Trade Returns. The banks an advancing enemy, they are (athedral, added one to their own find no use for them and the adequate substitutes for foct favourites. It was the hot-pot smell the question arises as to what Hongkong General Chamber of tools, they lie outrageously but, that wafted its way from the bar best to offer to take the place of Commerce is in favour of the
to the credit of the householder racks! the guilds. The late Mr. abolition of the Statistical Office Where Montague Ede some months be responsible for them.
authorities are in unison the fore he was Stricken with his final voice of criticism is stilled. Trade iliness prepared a lengthy docu-returns are a feature of Customs ment on the subject and if his activity in China and they afford discover the patches of green deep her of birds that make it their home, How birds flying high overhead its three square miles. The num health had held good it is more a valuable insight into the extent down among the stones and cement however, is declining; it is outside than likely that there would have of China's trade with the world. I do not know, but every spring and the park that the census registers We trust it may be possible to every fall flocks of migrante find growth. In 1912 cardinals and been in operation ere this some of continue some less costly form of that miserable triangle which is goldfinches and wrens and wood the machinery for the direction of indicating Hongkong's trade, the gifted with the name of City Hall thrushes still nested there, and the organisation he favoured. commodities and the countries Park. The city gardeners have to twenty years ago the scarlet tanager The scheme provided for the erec may have an effect on the general but the birds seem not to mind. Today there all depart in June or Economies which replace its earth almost every year, found space enough to hide in. Hongkong, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1925, tion in Yaumati of a six-storied health of the community should Juncos always find it, warblers do not come at all; only the robin, building as headquarters from be adopted only after the most often, occasionally a catbird, a the flicker, and the prickle, the which direction would be exer- careful consideration. Hongkong woodpecker, or a thrush; once or Baltimore oriole, the yellow war- eised by the following depart of its ox-driven dust carts, which scarlet tanager's fiery coat on the main....
has been familiar with the sight twice I have caught the gleam of a bler, and the red-eyed 'vireo re- ments: Labour; Technical Educa- are to be retained
Some kinds of birds just as grass among the English sparrows, have learned new habits and. are Although the factor of labour tion; Estimation, (of contracts, many a Home town is familiar as oblivious to the passing throngs most at ease in the city. Some, iff- plays a secondary part in such a tenders, etc.) for work under- with the horse-driven variety. as the multitudes were of it. And deed, which seem mont rural are But in such a place as this where I shall never forget the thrill of thoroughly dependent upon man. movement as is being directed taken by the Association; Insur- the work of vermin can play such stepping ont upon the roof of one The barn swallow and the phoebe from Canton with the object of ance and Banking. The organ. a havoc, the extinction of the old- of the Hudson Terminal buildings, nested somewhere before the white dealing as great a blow as possible isation was to interest itself in style method of removal of rub twenty-two floors above, the city, man supplied convenient barns and
bish is fixing appropriate wage scales
an innovation much one crystal spring day, and hear bridges, but there must have been at Hongkong as a distributing
be desired. The Gov. Ing the whistle of a white-throated few of them. for different trades and a scheme ernment is entitled to sympathy Sparrow singing the same ang The English sparrow and the centre for South China, it may well be that along the lines of a of procedure with reference to in the problem it has so suddenly which would rejoice the Adiron pigeon are of course blissfully at ducks a month later. There they home in the midst of roaring genuine attempt to tackle the pro-arbitration in cases of dispute been called upon to face.
the position is made more difficult were, a whole happy flock of them, traffic.... A few native birde, too, was drawn up. Details even into blem in Hongkong lies the means
by reason. of the fact that the fitting about three window. have learned to adapt themselves to of demonstrating our expressed such matters as the provision of future holds out no assurance that white-throat by a woodland brook the city roof a safer nesting-place boxes filed with ས་་ན་ privet. A urban life. The night-hawk finds willingness to entertain and for-gymnasium;" a newspaper of the Chinese labour dementia will sub could never pipe so gratefully as than the bare hillsides and pocky
Association's OWD, hospital, side and conditions remain at a there. restaurant, and sleeping accom general and commonsense level. modation were gone into and a scheme outlined for the issue, of
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ward any policy which will be of real and lasting benent to the Chinese community and thus lead to the creation of that goodwill which is the first and most im-shares. After the late Mr. Ede portant essential for the conduct took to his bed nothing further was heard of the scheme which at
concerned..
to
TRADE FACTS.
And
UNITED STATES REQUEST *OPPOSED.
(Reuter's Service.)
pastures where it used to lay its
I have a little garden, literally moss-speckled eggs: the chimney within a stone's throw of Brooklyn swift has forgotten hollow trees. Bridge. It is a very little garden, and delights in forests of chimneys; and the only garden in the block. and the little screech-owi, too, findu But every year, spring and fall, the warm shelter among the chimney-' shy hermit thrushes find it, al pots.... though I have never seen there one of business. It does not follow the time was considered by many
And the galle! The great bridges one of the familiar robins of loss which reach skyward out of the that the desired result would be
metropolitan backyards. Kinglets tenement regions like city moun to be impracticable: The pro- best obtained by giving way to moter. was, however, confident
and brown creepers and warblere tains provide ideal coservatories come too, usually a dozen or fifteen from which to watch the gulla.. whatever demands or requests that membership of the Associa
species every year. Once a big Except for the breeding months, may be made by labour agitators, tion would be valued both by
flicker landed in our single tree, but gulle are almost always visible high- and it most certainly would not do workers and employers as a pri- |
he plainly felt uncomfortable; above any downtown yard. From hardly as perplexed, however, as a the Brooklyn Bridge the harbour to give གay: further in vilege, so much so that it would
disillusioned sapsncker which I sometimes seems fairly mowy with. the matter of the guilds, induce other workmen and em
found fitting from cable, to them, lazily circling or ploddingly most of which are dependent for ployers to possess similar pri- Congress representing Denmark, and again tapping at the stent iron graceful; and no Indian ever sight. The Scandinavian Commercial cable on the Brooklyn Bridge, now flapping, diving, soaring, eternally their membership on the work vileges he had at the time he Sweden and Norway passed a cables as if in hope that one at ed much flooks as the rich provender ings of an inner society brought the scheme forward resolution protesting against cut least of that forest of upright trunka cast overboard by the ocean liners which extorte exorbitent sub- some 5,000 skilled and unskilled siders having access to merchants would turn out to be nourishing. brings to New York to-day. Each scriptions by means of intimida-workers will
and manufacturers books and The birds that once sang on year seems to welcome an increase, tion and force. -Any relaxation scheme bad
methods of production under Murray Hill and along Minetta and whereas a few years ago it was #Brooke was gone that there are rare to see shy but belting gulls bably as many individual birdag on: from: the bridge; one rusy hope to- MADRASAKIland to-day. when sđây giờt only far the great" "black- Beter Afnyveenu, wak. Sturging biked: “ pulls and · black-masked
bortthere áre
Fulls, but, with Jack, for
coupert's be the ring
of the powers of the Government - although regarding these guilds or the
voking of any decisions.
considered out
extend ́mertiƒ?
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Copenhagen, Sept. 30..
penalty of exclusion standed for importa