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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
October, 1926.
ing character is to be found in the A CALENDAR. 5, Mon., C. S. Parnell died, booklet, affording additional argu-
1891. ment to those who do not love 6,
Tues., Anzacs landed &t China or who question if any Gallipoli, 1915,
But 7, Wed., Oliver Wendell Holmes good can come out of her.
died, 1894. this apart, it is impossible rot to 8, Thurs., Will Thorne, M.P., admire the honesty and sincerity born, 1857. of the Chinese Minister of Com-9, Fri., Henry Fielding died, 1754.
10, Sat., Dr. Nansen born, 1861. munications, and to wish him suc-11, Sun., Henry Broadhurst died. cess in his arduous and respon- 1911. alble office. Only fools will dis- agree with his statement: "For a modern society communications are as indispensable as water and air to human life. Without them civilization steps back immediate If to the medieval ages.”
THEY SAY THAT—
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It is speed at the wrong places ignorance, of, or indifference to, the rules of the road. The true motorist regards this kind of indifference, as a mark of the bad sportsman.
The local Automobile Associa- tion might do worse than circularise its members to this effect, although, in justice, it may be said, the majority of its mem- bers do not need the injunction. The whole thing suggests the adage ite nice to have a giant's strength but not to use it as a giant. In other words: It's " nice to have a motor car but not to drive it like the wind!
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How a man's private life may indict immense damage on the cause to which he devotes his public career may be
Birmingham seen in the case of Charles "HIGHEST BIDDER" Cathedral, Stewart Parnell. When he en- SEATS.
whose dome tered Westminster in 1875 the
was all but Home Rule cause looked hopeless. destroyed by fire the other day, Ten years later it had been taken was opened in 1215. There is a up by Mr. Gladstone. The won- quaint entry in the Minute Book derful, if unscrupulous, leader- for that date (October 5) which Children are beginning to love ship of Parnell was the great makes interesting reading in school. I look forward to a reason of the change. He had these days of queues: "Ordered time when all children of the then a remarkable reputation. (to avoid all disturbance in ye. Slander, lies-all failed against Church) yt every person shall country "kick up a rumpus" on leaving. The leaving age would him, and only left him stronger, take their place in their seat as raise itself by forces working
Then he went and threw away all, they come, and not to strive for from inside the school.-Principal an intrigue with the wife of his if it shall happen there should be that for a woman, for the sake of any particular place. Ordered, yt L. P. Jacks.
friend. Gladstone advised his any dispute between any persons The Biblical short story, of retirement, but he would not about taking any place in ye seat, which the Book of Ruth is en listen. The party elected Justin ye person who subscribes most to example, is still one of the finest McCarthy as leader, but Farnell ye said Church shall be pre- in all literature. Notwithstand-held on with the rump. In less ferred." ing the literary excellence of the than a year, however, he was dead Bible, makers of readers and died of a broken heart, said other text-books too rarely draw many. from it for their selections.--Mr. H. N. Sherwood.
EXPLAINED.
Many a mere man has been bewildered at the term s "Shingled" as women's hair. more or less-
-strenuous
The "Daily Press" "Bob" and ROAD HOGS. has followed the applied to If you ask someone for an opin-
"China Mail's" After some ion nowadays they will gramo lead in drawing attention to the principally less phone to you the latest record of number of motor accidents and efforts, the Shreda man is able to the newspapers which they take breakage of traffic regulations in throw light on the hitherto in. People no longer trouble to the Colony particularly those clouded meaning of these words. make up their own minds. They which necessitate Police, Court Hold tight. take their opinions from others. enquiry. A recent copy of the The word "Bob" is derived One of the uses of a classical London "Daily Chronicle" in com- from "bob-wig," the name given education is that it helps you to menting on motor accidents into a very short style of wig. form conclusions. Bishop of England, makes the following Southwark.
observation
It is possible, of course, to Нчивая in America `are punish persons who drive to the shingled, shingles being wooden danger of the public. But alates; and shingled hair is cut in there is no regulation which can steps at the back-80.that you abolish immorality. And to look as though your roof is drive a car recklessly and badly shingled. is emphatically an immoral act. It is not necessarily mere speed which constitutes the danger.
The Minister iterates the fact that LEVITZKI RECITAL.
NOTABLE THEATRE ROYAL EVENT
CHOPIN AND BEETHOVEN.
"too much emphasis cannot be placed on the importance of de- velopment of the means of com- munications." He mentions three classifications: (1) Indirect Production Policy: to help agri-
Mischa Levitzki is interpreter cultural and industrial develop"
as well as pianist. The distinction ment by means of communica- needs to be made.
It was de-
tions.
*
This comes from London, the. following from Australia an
The Shreds man dares anyone to ask his lady-love if her roof has been shingled!
IN THE LAND OF PRAYER WHEELS.
On Monday we went shopping again paintings of men, beasts,
(2) Direct Production monstrated at Saturday's recital, in the bazaar. Such quaint shops, and demons, and writing, much Policy. (Communication systems from the organ tocatta of Bach- Behind the shops tower the gompa worn. Behind the altar were are made to yield revenue for the Tausiga benefit of the national treasury) should be kept to the organ-the merchants' houses-into their big climbed up more passages and composition which and castle of the King of Stok. three large gods, and smaller ones
We went into two big Tibetan on either side......
When we came "out again and (3) Relative Production Policy, & beautiful melody from "Orfeo and open upstairs reception-roome, ladders, we finally reached the top- combination of the above two bis lute," to the noisy, thunderous where carpets, cushions, and
The total
is eleven thousand six hundred
policies, aiming at agricultural, compote of Maygar melodies con- quaint divans were arranged for roof, and felt ourselves really on industrial and economical detained is Liszt's Rhapsody, No. 6. guests, beautiful metal pots of the Roof of the World," for Leh velo nent of the country as well Chopin's music lends itself to the cloisonné china (from China) feet......
Lhasa beaten-work, priceless is higher than Lhen actually. Leh as the gain to national treasury. art of the interpreter and it was furs, and turquoises which are The Minister is convinced, "in in the cycle of Chopin nocturne, sold by weight.
There is, however, one higher view of the poverty of the Gov-etudes. Waitz and Scherzo, that
We went to the Residency, point than the castle, to which we which is next the Mission now went on. Leaving the castle ernment, on the one hand, and M. Levitiki gave most pleasure. Compound, and since it is the oid by its "front entrance on the the backwardness of our indus. It has been said that until Corot Palace, is a beautiful house, with other side, under the quaint, old tries and commerce, on the other, painted the twilight, it did not
Chinese shaped porch, we climbed a quaint, painted., Chinese arch at the Relative Porductive Policy, is, exist. It might be said that until the entrance, and the grass lawng up the rock and shale on the side therefore, the most suitable for music, it did not exist.
Chopin composed the fanciful in are studded with chortans. There the old rains of the former of the hill....We trudged past China," China has completed Nocturne, F sharp major (op. 15 biggest in Leb, and from the flag-the highest point of this hill over- In the Is a wood of beautiful trees, the monastery to the present one on only 6,000 miles of railways, No. 2) the player with a superb staff in front a wonderful view looking Leh.... 30,000 miles of telegraph lines, 13 delicacy of treatment brought out of blue hills through the green In a small place like Hongkong wireless stations and 26 tele-theme, and the richly decorated
the sadness and melancholy of the and the sandy-yellow valley below. - We went into the altar-room, the value of road communications phone offices, during the last ornamentation of the music. The the castle and monastery on the side prayer wheels which they A party of us......went over which has in fts porch on either has easily been demonstrated several scores of years since Waltz in A flat (op. 64, No. 8) was hill behind. The Empire Press Conference has she
After a very steep turn on entering. Inside the Was first opened to another wonderful thing. It is for climb up the face of the rock, we same altar, butter-lights burning, been urging the importance of foreign trade."
superior souls who dance with were rewarded with the view of idols in the dim light, paintings cheap cable communications. On registration of privately, own comes of making exquisite pat-green crops, and the desert peaks
intellectual joy, with the joy that Leh spread out below with its on the wall. top of these facts comes a little ed commercial vessels -isterns and curves. Such was the beyond. At last we, reached the who was with us here stepped in A Buddhist pigtailed pony-man hooklet, called "Better Communi- approximately only 410,000 tons. picture the artist portrayed. The castle, built into the rock ledges. front of the altar and the gods eations. By Ministry of Com- Prior to the fifth year of the re- very effective. Here we have the twisted corners and no less than ed his head on the ground, and Butterfly etude is graceful and We went in, then up queer little sitting behind it, bent, knelt, bow- munications; being proposals on public the communication enter- fleeting, fluttering life of a butter eight different sets of steps and worshipped. He did this again, Improvements and Reorganisa-prises of the Government" were fly. M. Levitzki merits strictures ladders tion of Means of Communica- able to maintain themselves and in that, like all modern virtuosi, largest square of the castle, used position, he kissed the idola to the courtyard the then rising from his prostrate tions Submitted to Rehabilitation show steady improvement. Since the gay little butterfly, making it
he pulled to pleces the wings of for religious dancing.
foot....... Conference, Held in 1925." It is then the Government has given the stamping ground for the dis-view, and a aheer drop over the room built separate, and which It was open on one side for the We went into another big altar- Impossible not to write a word in little financial aid.. Most of the play of piano athletics. no praise of the language of this capital required was raised by
edge of the parapet to the little held a far larger idol, some The first part of the programme mud houses of Leh at the foot of twenty-five feet high, made of interesting document; of its ex-foreign loans a list, a truly concluded with Beethoven's now this great natural fortification. clay or stucco. Here it was that celient English and phrasing, reformidable one, is given of these The composition has been called bullt up into the rock behind made there in the temple, as it well-known Appassionata Sonata. On three sides were more storeys the lama told us the idol had been lieved twice by a reminder of its "and the enterprises have been, a volcanic eruption, which rends We went through long dirty was too large to make below and Chinese source by, such thinge as therefore, burdened from the the earth and shuts out the sky stable-like passages, turnings; then bring up the hill. The upper several scores of years" and beginning with heavy debts." with a shower of projectiles." A windings, quaint doorways with storey was open, for the head and "Aloud cry of suffering rose High military leaders in the pro- ceaselessly
deep passionate note sounds out doors, up more rickety stairs, shoulders of the idol to extend up from the people.". But the read- vinces, we are told, have mistaken first movement; a calm beauty room of the Kingwhen he is in runs a balcony a little, narrows throughout the and into the "chapel or altar through. Outside this upper part er cannot get away from the fact the system of communications as in the Andante with its residence. Just now all was shaky wooden ledge overhanging that the document is a very their own instruments of warfare, variations and immense vitality in empty, as he is at Stok most of the the precipitous cliff. Prayer damning indictment of the Gov
the finale. It is interesting to summer Stepping over the wheels, some fifteen or so are all ernment of the republic, made and placed these systems under know that for selue to this sonata, threshold of the doorway and round the edges and on- certain more so by the fact that it is un- their own control. They have Beethoven referred an enquirer down two or three steps, we found occasions priests and peop inspired by foreigners
and
commandeered rallway rolling to Shakespeare's Tempest Mourselves in the chapel built in the circle, going round, comes from the pen of Yeh stock, telegraph lines and vessels, indifferent temperaments of mere same shut-up, dank smell of y as many times as poss Levitzki played, not as with the the rock and were met with the and always one way, say! Kung-cho, Minister of Com
"Still worse, they have
have often finger players, bukana to pre-incenas and burping rancid they also think th munications.
The necessity and operated the official ayatems of ten, the Tramense force of. the buttere
hearchfor the value of road communica communications for their own ideas contained in the Sonata. The lams who was showing us tons have, ere this, been voiced profit with great detriment to
It has to be added that the over lighted two Uttl Audience was tally numerous, and lumpa" on the altar There is a Chinese org
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