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BIRTHS.
ands respect. ~ Local teachers of"] Instrumental music speak glowing-
y of the inherent abili ties of some of their Chinese puplis, and many foreigners have
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
November, 1925, Rue de la Paix, the Faubourg de Woods, Labour Elysées, Paris.. M.P.. died, 1915,
had the joy of hearing the classics" (A CALENDAR. 23, Mon., Sam Saint Honoré, and the Champs played with intensity of feeling
.1917
and a due appreciation of the 24, Tues., Thomas Henry Bucklegally-trimmed bonnets one sees Here and there among the Ane things that the Masters have l born, 1821.
green ribbons streaming, symbols given to us. Here then is another 25, Wed., Andrew Carnegie born, of hope among the yellow but auggestion to add to the many that!
1835.
there a little else to suggest that have been made to draw Chinese 26, Thurs., Dr. Elsie Inglis died; the ladies concerned do anything but rejoice in their spinsterhood. and foreigners closer together. 27, Fri., Alexandre Dumas Als! As St. Catherine's maids. Chinese interested in all forms of died; 1890.
parade the boulevards in the even, artistic life should be assured 28, Sat., University of London ing, knots of young men ensircle
instituted, 1886. that they need lack no encourage-29, Sun., First London School Bd. dent of rouge and powder la trans- the laughing groups and a good ment and appreciation in what elected; 1870.
ferred to other faces. Perhapa they are doing. They should not
Andrew Car-
this explains a very rare pheno be hesitant in letting the local!
MAN WHO
negie, apoor on St. Catherine's Day,
manon which is to be witnessed MADE MILLIONS. bay, went from are some thousands of giris in There world of Hongkong know what
Dunfermline to
they are doing. There is work to America" and started work at a Paris who pretend to be older be done by the foreign societies in dollar and a half a week. When Day is for spinsters over 25, but than they are. St. Catherine's tereated in art. Ere this we have he retired from the steel company many celebrants will wear St. suggested a federation of all art him $40,000,000.
which bore his name he took with
Catherine's bonnet under false. pretences for some years yet.
bodies, each helping, the other. The time has arrived for this augs gestion to be driven home and act-spent it not on himself. He once He made much money, but he ed on. The time has arrived for said, rather optimistically, that welcome to be extended to the millionaire of the future. Chinese who, in their own way would be the trustee of the are working in the art field. An ap-rate, went to education, libraries, poor. Carnegie's money, at any preciation of each other's work, and so forth. will bring about understanding, leading to a better feeling. great gain to be had thereby is beyond all understanding. Thers is work here for someone to do,
The
French girls who COURTING CAPS are unwed, but FOR MAIDENS, not unwilling to be courted, take November 25, to "set their caps" advantage of St. Catherine's Day.
actually, not metaphorically at any young man they may fancy. That is to say, they don, Many of those who helped to for this occasion only, "courting make Carnegie's money at Pitts-caps of lace; peculiarly shaped burg. lived lives that were a disso a to be easily recognisable, grace-though there were fortun-while some, to make assurance ate ones. Men differ very much doubly sure, wear & little bit of about Andrew Carnegie and his green ribbon on their blouses- in money. Some argue nowadays addition. Any girl so decorated that he would have done better may be approached without to look more after those who offence by any young man whose If I believe that mine is the worked for him, even if he had intentions are honourable, with- truth, I cannot tolerate the less to distribute to others..
jout seeking a formal introduction. clandestine murmur, the little j ambush, the calumny, the de-1 famation-Signor Mussolini.
THEY SAY THAT
On St. Catheine's Day.
This type of PARADE OF November 25, all good THE. PEDESTRIAN. chap is said to A good garden is a cure for SPINSTERS: Spinsters who have
be Communism-Sir Edgar Bonham'
reached 25 years of Dying out. Carter,
age are supposed to go abroad With this 1 'thoroughly agree; bearing the sign of their estate Whenever I go out I see
My only regret is that birth in a lace bonnet trimmed with A lorry heading straight for me. control was not introduced before yellow ribbons. Nowhere is this One day I shan't come home to some of the delegates were born. feast of unmarried womanhood tea, -Mr. Jack Jones, M.P
observed with greater enthusiasm
No doubt than in the neighbourhood of the I shall be propped against a tree great couturiers' salons of the Dying out.
With all its shortcomings, the Church of England is a splendid institution, with a glorious his tory-Dean Inge: .
Christianity does not spoil men for a business career.Mr. W. J. Ervine.
EARLIEST SHIPS.
No ship or type of ship was ever tion in grace and beauty, too, have invented. Our modern fifty- never been far from the thoughts We shall never have a good thousand-ton liner is a direct of the marine architect, probably society until wealth really ex- lineal descendant of the log float, because a floating thing is always presses service.--Mr. Ramsay ing in an ante-diluvian river, to graceful; also, ships framed by MacDonald.
which swam panting primitive sea and sky well advertised the man' that he might float gleefully taste of their designers.
Despotism in any form
is to safety from the pursuing beast The chief item of difference in abhorrent to the genius of the behind. From time to time in the early ships was. not their British race.-Mr. Frank Hodges, history of ship-building we find grotesque appearance so much as
The only sensible people are types so grotesque as to appear, their
size...
The ship those women who can be seen
absolutely new. But they are not "Columbus" sailed in was only with short skirts and just auf- new. Close inspection of their seventy feet long and twenty societies seriously cient on their backs to keep them essential detalls reveals the fact broad, or about the size of a Cape the question of from being arrested. Dr. C. S. that their novelty lies only in Cod fisherman. The comparison catering occasionally for the for-Thomson.
modifications that have grown can go no further than size, be- eign community, and bringing to
directly from an increase in sea-cause the fisherman could have the notice of foreigners generally tween the business man and the
There is not much kinship, be- faring knowledge.
sailed circles around the awk The first man that rode astrideward, bluff-bowed: little tub the the abundant enjoyment and writer, possibly because the one of a tree-trunk in mid-stream great discoverer ventured in education there is to be gained culate Lady Rhondda.
is articulate and the other inart must soon have sensed his ability In early viking ships there was no from an acquaintance with, if not
to steer it by padding with his deck in the modern sense. A hands. In shallow water he could rough housing for those who were a knowledge of the Chinese thea- There are thousands of missing drop off and, with fect on bottom, aboard was fitted us sleeping-
links in the chain of humanity. push it. tre. Those associated with theDr. Hrdlica. distinguished Chinese lady actor,
Whence, a brief space quarters. In those days night later, we find him using a rude, sailing was unknown. When dark- Miss Pik Wen Ha have realised men suffer through not taking with a long pole aboard in case of the, anchor and slept. Oars were The punishment which good paddle from a raft of several logs ness came on all hands lowered that if Europeans won't go to a their share in the government of emergency. How exultingly must used chiefly as motive power, Chinese theatre, the play must be the City is to live under the he have laughed at the astonished though a single large square safi brought to the Europeans. The government of men worse than chattering monkeys swinging was spread when the wind was
themselves.-Mr. Sheriff Agar. experiment has justified itself. It
overhead as he glided noiselessly favourable. Even when large beneath them!
ships began to trade, south be has justified itself on commercial
tween the northern countries and Time passed. Rafts enlarged; the Mediterranean in the four- grounds and also, in spite of car-
grew too large became unwield-teenth century, full decking was tain limitations
ly. Possibly here huge river rep-avoided. Such decking as was j on artistic grounds: We believe it has also
"tiles made men draw his legs used was removable for loading
higher aboard. Whence came a justified itself on one other ground which, may, or may not, have been In the Command Orders issued him from attack. Moreover, the Calking of ships' decks, and in the minds of the promoters of Order of the Day, by Colonel C. such as grounded logs encouraged to a powder and mixed with water yesterday, appeared a Special difficulty of avoiding obstacles bottoms in early centuries. con- Miss Pik Wen Ha's short season Russell-Brown,
sisted merely of sea-shells ground: D.S.O. (Com him to develop a more tractable
ARMY'S REGRET.
PASSING OF THE QUEEN MOTHER,
1.
decking to protect the whole; of and discharging cargo......
F
at the Theatre Royal. It has manding the Forces in China) form of craft. Whence the canoe. to form a mortar which was in- ROSS-At the Peak Hospital on" given foreigners an opportunity of
reading as follows:-
Here the woman may have sorted between the seams. This November 26, to Mr. and Mrs. realising the distinct artistic
"The General Officer Com- stepped in: She could sew: She was not very satisfactory for any J. B. Ross, a daughter.
manding the Forces in China may have suggested the fitting of length of time, as it cracked and strain there is in the great mass of TAYLOR. On November 25, at Chinese, and their approval and
announces with deep regret the skins over a frame of withes auch fell out. Later it became the death of Her late Majesty as she plaited for baskets with practice to burn the sea-shell dust e No. 2, King's Terrace, Kow- loon, to Flora, wife of David support of it. Those who enjoy
Alexandra, the Queen Mother. which to gather wild berries while and form lime, which was more Taylor, a son,
the friendship of what, for a bet
In making this announce her man was away after meat effective Wax and pitch finally ment the General Officer Com Such craft were known as coracles. came into vogue and were used ter phrase, we may describe as manding knows that he is They are still in use to-day in practically up to the present educated Chinese, are struck with
voicing the sympathy of all South Wales and on the time Hongkong, Wednes, November 25, 1925, the intelligente interest may take
ranks now serving in China. Euphrates "The deep interest which our the bulrushes in a coracle
Moses as hidden in Nearly all woods were tried. in almost all forms of artistic life beloved. Queen Mother alwaysAmang, tribes where speed was lasted longer. Pine was good but Fir was easily worked, but oak LOCAL CHINESE ART,
-whether it be Oriental or Oech took in the service and, the necessary to pursue game or one's not rugged enough. At one time dental. Literature is discussed.in
many charitable institutions enemy, the canoe form develop it was considered improper to fell The idea of bringing, a Chinese all its most interesting phases.
connected therewith will be The Eskimo kayak is a any wood except on the seven- artist to the Theatre Royal de Expression in the written form is
sadly missed and gratefully re- coracle in canoe form. The South teenth day of the moon Later, membered. serves the strongest commenda-not wholly a Western possession,
Sea man-of-war is a hollow tree-when ships were longer and more tion. The theatre in China Isus, many of us well know,
trunk without-riggers, ↑ Both wood had to be cut, the
super linked up with the life of the use of the bru
still survive in their original form. stition was adjusted to include The
Even inflated skins were used to days between the fifteenth and people. They support it and they Chinese are far
the convey men about. On the Ganges twentythird of the moon, 2an the
they can be seen to-d And our
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