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rds others. That is the time when most of t expect to res cave, sympathy, rather than to give.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Dear Belinda,
Yet Christ Himself neither taught nor noted in that way. It may be. human vature, but it is not Chris- OCTOBER 18 waistcoat to lie in all THE PAINTED Somerset Maughan 4 bunity,
I first put on my night this year, and do not intend to put off
Perrs.
And perhaps nothing 1601 shows die essential difference be tween the tre follower of Christ gan Hill spring. and the natural muu ihan just this unit. When Jesus was on His way up to Jerusalem for that last. fate- ful time, then, if ever, surely. He might be expected to be frimersed
VHIL NOW novel,
Panted
The
strangely absorbing story. 1 any strongly, becauso il,is the son of A Fair was hold dry you read at a sitting N on dien wonder why you ever bolig. ST. Luns's Day at Charlton'
OCTOBER 18 this day. This to mad at all. It is far men Fair WRA one being first-r: There is not
The situation with which the
thought concerning if thi uwailed Him there, and to be 'gent- wher, an unusual homee was prac-glity about it, a cleverness al ly oblivions of minor happenings on bised. It was customary for inen toemes off on your hand. If 3. M the way. But in this dark and most comes to it in women's clothes-a essence...novelettish.. wrrow bour He stopped at once favourite mode of masquerading on hearing blind Bartimmus's cry, two or three hundred years ago story opens, is dramatic to the
Tesus stood still."
against which the puritan clergy point of explosion. You read for And it is in just that ready stand-launched many n fulmination. The all you nee world, and look again ing still to stumch another's men also amused themselves, on crave the wonderful ceny wound, when his own heart in their way across Blackheath, in of means by which it was presented. bleeding that the Christian shows lashing the women with furze. A Wife and lover are disturbed by some one slowly turning fire the the true budge of his calling, of sermon was formerly proached at service under Him who came not Curton Church on the day of the bundle of the locked door. The o be ministered unto, but to min fair a practice, which originated the china nohy of the bolted Who why it? Chinese ister to all,
by a bequest of twenty shillings a shutters. your to the minister of the parish for servant or husband unexpectedly re turned? The, wife's suspense and puvaching it.
agony of mind during the hours that William Shake-follow in described with an ar A MOUTH speare the other ring tight to the sub-working. OPENER. William, who has of the femalo mind. The story written a book called never recover from this situation, "Plain Words on Singing"-teils That the worst of kicking off a climax. The rest of the an amusing ineident about with Lablache-the greatest basso of book sfers from grunnlag. all time-whom a friend of his not patently but insidiously, Mike
··18}}' knew intimately. At dinner one the disease itself, and the
dodder “out on a conventional The Straits Government has day, Lablache, full of fun, sang a been asked to loan a million to the long note from piano to forte and Hongkong Government, a very back to planu; then drank a glass proper proceeding, and the loan of wine, without having breath; will no doubt be properly guarded then sang a chromatic scale up the as to interest and amortisation octave in trills still in the same and against
breath, and finally blew out a exchange, though it is in sterling, candle with his mouth open..
There were giants in those remarks the Singapore Free
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STRAITS PAPER'S COMMENT.
fluctuations
in
Presa." All vary neighbourly and days! very proper and well within our
Where flannelled foola' This, however, can be Hos or the leather chase
powers
GRACE? A mighty problem huns
and throbs:
done. by the Governor in Council without reference to the Legisla-} * ture. It comes curiously at a time Who is the greator batsmun, Green when the Currency Reserve Fund Or Hobbs ?
has just had ear-marked from its
balances a considerable sum for Now some, athinning ducks (or
blobs) opium revenue reserve. Happy we to have a balance to lend to a Are easier bagged and by the
Trace A) neighbour (at a fair rate of inter-On modern wickets, plump-for
est) but does it not suggest that Hobbs, our opium reserve nest-egg may Not Grace. not be inaccessible to the riemands
of the Secretary of State or the Some hold that smiters used to face sentiment of a local Governor? Fur deadlier stuff from bowling
nobs, We remember when the Military Contribution was increased in the And in their estimation. Gráca Colony, the essential part of the Lady lobbs. reply of the Secretary of State to the objections raised was but you have got the money and must fork put.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Some say that in the days of fobe Life ambled at a soberer pace,
The game went slower them, the
Hobbs
Leads Grace.
Sonia urgna this is not the catent, And one or other deftly swabs The deck of argument with Gree (Or Hobis);
crutch of optimism which is that
Connie.
Yet in spite of its agrond-rateness, ilm Lir of theatricality. The Painted Veil is undeniably a prip ring wivel. It is booke, to be ind qickly once. There is no Mally fine writing ilik, nothing to be avured. Il comments on lifeared tha chowing-gom-variety-unthing of any permanent, flavour and but sorry stuff to bite on. The high. brows, I imagine, were addreted by hilliancy of technique. Technique first usin to that other sick duck. Be technique's saker eems in he
ari fe ark'o make. It is easy to sev why the book apsided to the low- brow. It is asxy noved. It does not mitee maltra. Its them adultery.
Now there a low-brows and low-brow. There is that said.
i strange memsbranty the elderly low- brow, who car The dismissed as being h rond hope or“ comprehen. sin. There rmine the youthful low-brow. Pow will deny. I think, that youth, whatever its ideals May {3}" may rot be, is a low
thum 淳 rather
Fugla brow practitioner. Youth is out for mysterious, positive. alluring. joy-rides and sex, sits on the pillion
Vendas in greerily interested in sey. and any novel with stresses the new phyake amparts of an is heend to be popular with The young. But Merel troushie is thad youth does not readily distinguish between what is firatland what is Becond-rade. Yeath, indeed, has
of the clause. Neither of these reports, however, went into parti- culars as to how the Government |might deal with the matter and there are certain very obvious difficulties in connection with, say, the enforument of a pro.. vision for longer engagements to be entered
officers. into by Admitted that it is not conducive to good discipline that an officer open to summary dis- missal RS result of com-(To the Editor of the China Mail). The veterung, with smothered sobą; plaints by a subordinate who may or may not have an eye on Sir, cannot
Cry Dammmagine courdingide, and only in literature but in help being Hobby
other masters as well. The fir!. rate is more excoting, less by dig. the post to be vacated, or again of amused at your reporter's account With GRACE!
of the recent Piano-Violin re-
Jess in sorord with the dosa the action of the compradore cital, which was held at St. The younger members just grima danger of a novel such
a good time. And be whose considerable powers on Andrew's Hall yesterday evening. And mummur Sentimentaa rolig!
as The these boats was condemned by the Amongst other things, your re- There' only ons man in ite Painted Veil is this ; not its trunk-
ress-frankness Horts no Piracy Commission Minority re-porter was (it seems) highly de-e HOBBS!
lighted with Couperin's lovely
is
#
THURSDAY'S RECITAL.
י.
For those lost ginants of our races,
18
an easy bias towards the brakuje
Shang
Mr. Silas Dutch delegate, ference and the to China, left S sking last evening up several hou night, owing ti tion of the Fe Changchow
The incident. vallers a day's
The troops of Tupan of Ch moving towards the direction of Local Chinese lul retreat of th across the Yar inforcements ar Nanking.
General Sun asserts that hi baly Autumn má One thousand have arrived on the Settlement th Sis reported that Rating,
not its theme is legitimate 13 any other, lil, the clover, pers anasi, almost hypnotic quality of
port, is a policy of rendering the Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane. And intermittently up, hobe signing of such an agreement an Let me point out, Mr. Editor, The question, slippery as a dars, offence, likely to prove successful-that this piece, although on the Who is the greater hat, sir. He writing which contrives to ly? There would have to be programme, was never played at Or Gree?
all Your reporter must have penalties imposed in the event of some imagination! Furthermore I have it to the populace. infringements and is it I have my doubts as to whether The hero-boisting Oval mobs, feasible
officers the talented artistes adhered to And settle down to watch the gowe. ships'
that
SHIPS OFFICERS POSITION. would be prepared to under the published programme, For Of Holbs.
go imprisonment for such
instance, the last piece on the programme Was down us
hra a moimentary glantor over iba little feces of serïndente people, Mr. Maugham's evuk ally in die d mwmen util nggravated his Olenn
Your friend,
THE NATIONAL
JOKE.
the New date
4 rather peculiar position infringements when they have Capriccio by Vieux Temps, appears to be that in which the themselves concurred in the 24 yet if my memory serves loen! ships' officers' Guild is hours notice clause? Again, me right, the piece played was Bazzini's "Rondo des Lutins." In placed with regard to the 24 could the Government compel the case of such changes in the pro-
One nation is not apt to think norsus, the levity of wives, Geriat hours' mutual notice clause re- owner of a small river boat who gramme, the artistes should an- much of another nation's sense of tomists, and Goverment-mudého so quired to be signed by members was not sure whether conditions nounce the change, so that people, humour. remarks the Dailys last shows the supremo patriole
ism of the race. No one fol entering into agreements with would allow of his ship running like your reporter, will not be | Telegraph."
It is a matter on Frenchman could find a Frech misguided. The beautiful open- "outside" firms, ie. those other for more than one voyage to com- ing movement (adagio sostenuto) which the Boots and we have long watch anising. The German than the principal, shipping commit himself to the employment of of the Kreutzer Sonata was since agreed to differ. When Mr. Ranglist the abwat-minded. panies (who have their own officers for a longer period? On somewhat marred by the fall of a Kipling wants to bring on a typical fessor, the girl who loves a sudde agreements). According to the
the face of it, the matter seems certain gentleman's walking stick. American citizen be has to give the man who loves the cons.
about the the husblend without a late-by- statement of a local Guild official, to be one
I wish people would leave their him something to say for the Guilds them- walking sticks, false teeth, etc.. British joke. Some of our most | The Tallan gels his fim out of the e number of ships officers, prob- selves to settle among their mem- etc., at home, when they come to admired wits, dead and ative, have gluttonousonic there is a ably the majority, are in favourbers and if unity is reached for recitals! Thanking you ever so won nothing from the French bui memorial themel,
and women's that a dreary amazement. An American naby, of the clause being done away them to make representations to much for the space,
profesor fecinated by these disa. Americans, says the professes, tasha with. Reading between the lines the owners of the ships concern-
Yours, etc.. trepiacion has set himself; with we hope, with any
feeling of of his statement it would not be ed. Government interference,
1ST VIOLIN.
thus minute and patient industry grievance, will bugh at angling. an unfair conclusion to draw that even when the parties concerned
for which the American don has but chiefly they laugh at the part Hongkong, October 15.
become famous, to discover what ne crushed by a Trust, the solid he himself, as representing the have been agreed on the neces
[Not having heard all the it is flat the nations do laugh at Fritisher, whisky labelled temon Guild, is also in favour of the sity of intervention, has seldom compositions in the world for the He has taken a census of national ade, Italian organ-grinder,
There is moren abolishing of the clause. Quite a proved a success and it is still violin, our representative had to jokes and classified them according elcap motor-cars.
it for number of officers, on the other more doubtful if it would when take
granted that to the popularity of their subsimilarity abort these lists in Couperin's Chanson Louis XIII jects. It may be objected that the professor allows.
The great hand, are in favour of the clause such action would run contrary to was being played. He expressed subject is not everything. Someulcoliolic joke is much the sams. being retained as by cutting both the wishes of a considerable sec- no personal opinion on the piece, that there is nothing amusing in keya, American prohibition.
of me may think, for example, whether related to German - ways it enables them to take up tion of the members of the very and simply recorded the a new and perhaps better position body which is asking for the repiece as it was played.-Editor, W. S. Gilbert knew well that he of taale we had omitted. Who
audience's obvious delight at the woman being old and plin, But given the Engrish freedom of scop
we are clearly in the minority. And one crucial example of identity at short notice. The Guild is not dering illegal of such a clause,
China Mail."] therefore in a position to take
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had only to refer to "an elderly not imagine what it is? One sub ugly daughter" or a "quite un-ject there is at which, from China aftracive old thing", to make roars to Peru, all nations laugh. of laughter. Humbler comedians matter how the theme is treated, find i equally safe to mention how familiar the stoty, how fat chesse or kippers. Our professor the phrases, the more mention af For the great majority | this subject shall suffice to wake The silk shipped per s.8. "Preslin right. porting their case by quoting the It is not when we ourave dent Grant," which sailed from it is the subject which matters in laughter long and loud. You have. report of the "Sul-an" Commis. Christians though, we may claim to this port at 6 p.m., September 18, a joke. The wit is nothing. In certainly guessed it. There could England, says the professor, we be but, one joke international and bere suffering or Towing, or arrived at New York at 8 pm laugh most at kisses, unlucky beta, universal, quod semper, qud alon and of the Senior Naval there is some dark cloud or grievous October 12, having been 23 calen- unskilful golfers, and drakords, ubique, quod ab omnibne. TH Officer condemning the operation, trial zooming ahead in our lives, that, dar days and 22 hours in transit. Frenchmen are amused by soldiers, of course, the mother-in-law.
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