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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925.
OOOOOR, Allons Bambam that the Navy Benguelas divided Ahis you, W. Tomcel their animat appeal." A nove of optimism, however, is nok.to.be found it is to po hoped that the junctical and sympathetic help-
The soldier, and sailor. To roar upt (To abuse). which has been extended in past SLANG, words and phrases book
To climb the rigging. (To get yens wile again ensure the s004
contains the following angry: Naval), Leens of the oil effort of tho
A Rainbow. (A reinforcement examples of slang | H. K.W.Ch., and M.O.T. Eat your, To beetle off. (Air Force for recruit arriving after the
those responsible for its gaisalan to fly straight).
storm is over). Suge being kwenty apprecative of
Who pulled your chain? (This To read a shirt. (To search it the_work" which was done, your way of anubbing one who intrudes for lice),
To follow the band. after yte an birge measure by the on a conversation, plenses the
(To be- same peopky, teranged the effort Shreds man).
long to the crved of the majority that it wonk not, call for the dove- Got you taped. tion of so much time by the mamyon measure)." burs of the working parties. A To talk well of. Children's fate was refore held one's means or social position). to a ship coming home to pay
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Coil up one's ropes. (Naval
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Savage rabbits. (A Tank
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Huxley and the Bishop.
Aphypes 13 te temirss un last
Friday's Odis an uns mit BARA & ineeling wild-Listop Voorporea að Usjonid in 156U, 15 15: interesting to recall something of the old sgari or coulber, she us Fins evident in the ready bistors
own, wa tọ
To push out the boat, (To stand treat).
Burton.
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He was both hale and stout; Death aid him on his bitter
bler,
Now in another world he hops.
about.
Gone Dis. (Mentally weak: elon & Dentist: telephone signaller's phrase. menhing disconnected).
Lit up. (Under the influerice of drink).
To lock horns. To come to close quarters).
Poodle Faker (A ladies' man: Navy)..
Skrisbanker, (Very old jaymy term: a shirker). Shell-proof (A
term for a braggart)..
sarcastic
Stranger! approach this spot
with gravity
John Brown is filling his last
cavity.
On a Doctor
He survived all his patients.
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The horse bit the parson::
How came that to pass? The horse heard the parson say...
"A flesh is grass.”.
THE ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDEN.
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jenk Dayton wick The Bishop, The fruitful uge of Queen Bia. pluntations into three or four sccording to a contenpurry wizabeth Brought both the plug-divisions, in unch of which a cer resourcerul, pugnacions, impregn Table and not a little arrogant,ing and the planting, of the tain kind of vegetation predomin
Inted "De Berris recommanded four gurdens very is not quite clear let us quote trampled his way to the platform, loveliest English"
Huxley, pale-ciceked, black haired, early to perfection. When the visions,the kitchen garden, the H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in one on the other side of the chair-other arts of the Benaissance had guy garden, the medicinal, and of his most understanding letters, man. Wilberkuce spoke for reneed their maturity and were the frut garden, Markham was The Prince believes that this early half an hour writes Hooker, the, vege of decline, garden satisfied with woons for the househok gastion, the other the great brotherhood of ours will withiniinitable spirit, emptiness making bugim to develop rapidly garden for flowers and sweet and unlairness." It appears that Most of the finest houses in Eug- survive when the war out of
Bata were more or less smells." at this period. the worthy Bishop was dragging and were built
well which it was born is no longer a red hearings cross the trui, trout After their erection an attempt to atended for protit us
Ornamental feutates. for "Toe Hing the subject with a spirit of give then fit surroundings was were then included, and are bitter memory,
Ab condition
stil letands for helping
others levisy at oust have galed the amejitourneren
EM the English Fund, there's no better thing the fishop kept to his fevy, dhe pasure gardens, which for chard; while even such a princely
precise scientist intolerably, Hadwero ripe for the evotion of de-often retained,
kichen garden, hbury; and in life when you come to not descended, to prsonalities, all form withones formality have never analyse it." Helping others then would have been well, bat, encried been surpassed. Both the art and pleasure garden as Bacon describes, is the foundation on which "Toc away with his rhetoric, he turned cft of their constructions were contains certain homely herbs and to Erofessor Huxley and sud, Iderstood as certainly never before. vegetables, In the garden for H" rests its claim for recognition.hould like to ask Professor Huxley, and perhaps never afterward. Like flowers and sweet smella Mark We are familiar with the little who is sitting by me, and is about the gardens described in Sidney'suggests that about the hedge friendly story of the dictum given to demolish me, when I have at Arends, use ware places hot We shall set for to make poltage
withink.
pense, beanaz, citrous, to a boy that we are here to help seed from
his belier in sing fairer in matural ornaments thuri
encumbers, and such like.” an ape. Is it artificial inventions." others, and his request for in-through his grandfather or le
Pleasure gardens were always. Cautiously the idea was intro- Formation as to what the others grandmother that he claims his at this time, that thing of ected as closely as possible were here for! Helping others descent
The Bishop had goney might be an excuse in itself, with the house, fo forin a prolonga t th garden of tion of the Hving rooms. If practi- to far, and Boxky, turning to his and this led has assumed the idea of dipping neigbbene, wine was Sir Benumin sure, or Hower garden, Butable the drawing-rom opened hand into pocket. That is a Bralie, the Royal surgeon, and orchards, herbaries, ant kitchen into the parterre of flowers; if not, practical way but not given to us President of the Royal Society, gardens were not done away with terrace formed the means of in- tercommunication. As Surflet says: to perfect for obvious. economie Faid, "The Lord hath delivered him anal at the outant event the pleasure his slation of a portion of
When his Ene garden was excuse beim Fustiq into my handi. *** reasons to put it mildly. We un ser aut pade, and very useful side. For instance, in the may have it argued that the quiet, he spoke words that listeners Maison Rustique, the author commendable and seemly thing to behold out at a window many nares away. The historia, Jolin Richura must plant and delectable thing a burden. A society for the aboli-Green, hus give them to the world on French gleis is the flower whether it be a meadow, a plot for Singapore has been enjoying ation of societies has been urged, serted and repent that a garden as well in respect as it planting of willows, visit from the founder of "To But there can be no objection to has no reason to be ashamed of serveth the chief lord whose in- as we have stand upon here- H. Hongkong is to be denied the yet another even in Hongkong If there were au ancestor I should therein," by adding, as also in handsome and pleasant arixours, having an apo for his grandfather.ritance it is to solace himself fore: bat yet it is much more to behold fair and comely proportions, privilege of hearing the Rev. F. that urges the claim of disinter-Team recalling, it would spet to their service is it were closets, delightfal Clayton. whom Mr. Robert
Gerard also pointe borders of lavender, rosemary box, ested service. Many of us are not rather be a man--a man of rest-beehives-in." Blatchford says "is to the manner
here "for the benefit of ours and versatile intellect who, at that most gardens were of prae- and other such like, to hear the born." It may be that we are
not content with fan equivocal) tient service as well as pleasuresisting music of an fufule mam health." This is the trouble. We in his own sphere of activity giving, in fach useful ornamente.ber of pretty small birds which con heartily sick of references to the
believe in the greatest good, for plunge into scientific questions for if delight my provoke finally, day and night, do chatter Great War. In Hongkong. twa organizations serve to remind us the greatest number as a theory with which he law no real quint-menu's labour, what greaser delight and cant their proper azi nature of it. whilst the Annual Armistice and carry it out by getting it, bly to obscure them by it is there than to behold the earth brandssongs upon the hedges and aimless rimstoric, and distract the apparelled with plants, as with trew of the garden, and to smell so for the greatest number Number attention of his hearers from the role of embroidered works, set with sweet a rosegly so near at hand, Service and ceremony, add to the One! An American head of a rout pourt at issue by eloquent crient parts, an arshed with seeing, that this so Ingruent is smell. means of remembrance. Souls university has set it forth that he digression and skilled uppeals to great divensitie of fure and, costlicnnot but refresh, the Lord of the that have suffered need no such would rather give a man some religious prejudice. Quoting again jewels If this varietie and perWarm excodingly, when going out reminders The years, soothe degree that doesn't set him up to Tucknel. A gasp and shudder eie, it is such in herbes and towers after the sun-rise and whiles
from an eyewitnesa, the Rev. Wfection of colours may affect the of his bedelamber in the midning aching hearts, but cannot still the rule, but sets him up to through the run, the scientist un- that no Apelles, no Zeuxis ever yet the clear and pearl-like dow memory. "To H so far has not serve. "The part of higher educaeany, the ghodes inrious, the Bis could by any art expresse the floth perch unto the grass, he giveth reached Hongkong unless we see tion that we want to cherish and hop wearing that fat, provoking like, "
himself to hear the melodious music it in other forms. It was founded develop is that part which con-my, in the House of Lords, to ni argely increased the range of solves in gathering of the same, do Emile that once impaled Tord This discovery of the New World of the beas, which burying them- at Poperinghue in the danger zone sists of adding to the intellectual ubparliamentary notation from horticulture. When Englund join albo fill the air with s most tocept in December 1915. This does not the intangible qualities that lie Hamlet, Jackdaw in "John e od in the great montime movement able meet and pleassal harmony make it a military society. It is within the human heart
London's Weekly adds. In con- Fcarried on by other"", "nutions from besides the borders and continued clusion that there was no mure trafy the muddle of the fourteenth cen rows of sovereigns, thyme, balm, religions, man in the assembly, than tury, her explorers returned with rosemary, marjoram, Inxley, though for him nil dogmaa | diplouda of "outlandish" cominodi- southern wood, and other fragrant and crends were lost, in the words of ties. Among these porta was herbe, the sight and view, where
he Hebrew prophet, What doth an abundance of plants. Just as cannot but give gre the Lord require of thee but to do the art of, gardening had been unto the beholder." justly and to love mercy and to developed by the fresh appreciation Nichols, in English wall humblyth thy God and of the beauty of classic design, no (Hardens, Pa
ved to see Ivolution, not the desire to naturalize these. bedrock of Chris exotica stimulated gedoning
abundance of societies has become described as taking their breatheoncludes his statement that "the of ground well tilled and husbanded:
not so exclusive as the local There is room for a branch of the Ex-Active Service Men's Associa Toc Hin Hongkong.
tion or the British Legion. Men bership is not confined to soldiers
or ex-soldiers. A large propor Saturday's Feta, tion of the present members are
too young to have seen service has two appeals made to it at this has
MEENAK Grile, the Hongkong public
Yet the idea was born of the war time. The ofle is made by the shaftering was, in fact, the direct outcome Navy League for the education and inmity of that fellowship of the trench
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