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Hongkong, Saturday, Dec. 12, 1925.
DOING THINGS. BETTER.
would not go unwelcomed whilat residents themselves would have [work to do and "would in turn become enlightened as to the rea- son for being modestly proud of Hongkong.
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THEY SAY THAT—
(I ailvícato, oquality for women, but only equally-Mrs. Francis
Noihoir.
No one can know more than a lible about exson-Mr. Jamck
Bano
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Sometimes We Ponsibly his most famous plecs DECEMBER. 12. claim these to of work was the Thames Tunnel, THE VERSATILE be the days of whereby ho connected the shorem INVENTOR invention, but of Essex and Kent. He began in the your 1849 this in 1825, but so great were died a very remarkable man, Sir the difficulties involved thất ́ ́it Mare Brunel, whose entire life was not: till 1843 that the tunnet was spent in thinking our and was opened. perfecting an amazing number From those examples it can
of inventions dealing with Almost be seen! what a very remarkable' every sphere of life under the man Mare Brunel was, and yet, sun, and many of the results of with all these inventions to his his genius stand now as boons credit, he was always poor, and to mankind, without bearing any often heavily in debt, Pow man look their host on their improvement since the day on wedding chuya--- Mize." Belke which he patented them: Lowndes.
The following list of some of the inventions with which Brunel
To-morrow is DECEMBER 18. St. Lucy's Day, BRAUTIFUL EYES. is not so well A STORY OF 接 saint who
ji
known,
per-
Bad foreign politics inevitably is credited will go far to show brout bad trade Sir Donald
the wide variety of his wonder- Musclebr
fut ingenious. mind: He devised hups, as others, but who never- The people in England really a machine for twisting cottontheless was martyred like many don't care for the theatre sny more, and forming it into balls, an-another, in the Year 304, in-
Mr. Buel Dom.
other for hemming and stitching.Syracuse, under the persecution Another for knitting, further of the cruel Emperor Dioclesian. I cannot believe that over again ones for copying letters. for The story is told that St. Lucy a great Europoon Wer will be re ruling paper, for nail-making, scorned the persistent attentions graded as anything but a great disfor making wooden boxes, and of a rich young nobleman of the anter-Lord Grey
a hydraulic packing-press, be-city, and, finding that all he aides new methods for building could do to win her was of no It is almost impossible to in- suspension bridges and a procese avail, for she wished to devote test highly educated men and for erecting wide, low arches for herself entirely, to religious life. women without becoming uwbridges.
The accused her before the intelligible to many persons in the Again, too, he was employed governor of the city as one who |Church,--Down Inge.
in the construction of the first professed Christian doctrines, Ramsgate steamer, and was the and the result was that she was There is a great deal of suffering. Arst to suggest the use of steam-bondemned to death and executed. among intellectual workers in Eng bugs to the Admiralty-which A curious legend is told about hand. The Philistines rule every idea, it may be added, was con- the saint, that on her lover tell- where instead of the intellectuals.-temptuously rejected to the firsting her that her beautiful eyes
· Mr. Tarwal Zangwill...
instance. Somebody once play-haunted him day and night she fully suggested to him that he had them cut out and sent to him. might invent a card shuffler, and begging him now to leave her it was not long before he pro-unmolested to load the life she duced such a novelty, which took wished. It is added that Heaven the form of a box into which the restored to her her eyes, and that pack of cards was put, a handle they were more beautiful than turned, and in a few seconds the fever.
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I do not líka đó seg British an- mon trying to god employment who some of our British ships have not get mon of the Ismpire's race on | board-Lord Jellicoe.
would rather my boys have to work for anything they get than live Jon anything I have to lose them
as it is not good for anyone to get anything for nothing.-Viscountess Astar, M.P..
sides flew open to disclose the Because of this old legend St. pack neatly divided into four Lucy is often spoke of as the equal parts well mixed.
patron saint of the blind.
SHAKESPEARE'S CHOSEN AUDIENCE, Around the man Shakespeare has Send the traveller on his way: grown up a whole literature of But evening grey, and morning red. conjecture; around his works hans Send the traveller wet to bed."
wn a library of scholarly com The appentance of the ruinbow ja "always noted by the shepherd, for - A minbow at morning Is the shepherd's warning: But a rainbow at night
ment.
Is the shepherd's delight." "A bur"-hub is a halo---
round the moon is a sign of rain.““
i
ir is large. The proverb is
They do these things better in France, says Laurence Sterne-or
The something to that effect.
NEW NAMES AND OLD. thought occurs to us that they do
The world, becomes every day certain things hetter elsewhere more difficult to live in, observes
If we wish to know, the than they do in Hongkong. When the "Daily Telegraph.". As if it or of human genius, we should the "Carinthia" with its load of were not enough to learn half our reed Stakespeare, says Mazlittit geography over again, nations, we wish to see the insignificance | fourista got- to Manila, the
Countries; places, are continually of my earing, we may study famous Constabulary band of that changing their names. We do the commentators, The moral is: place was on hand to play not challenge their right to do so do not appreich Shakespeare by vigorous welcome to the visitors. for hint a doubt that their reasons way of the critics but directly.
To rend the plays aright. one are ample. That Czecho-Slovakia There was also Horal evidence of and Jugo-Slavia are words neces-must know something hit me. the feelings of the place. Hong-sary to the safely, honour, and as the dramatist saw them, "in" on welfare of those great States wenge when sanitation was unknown kong, coldly aloof, exhibits the faithfully believe, but we may and dirt and vice flaunted hems rither very wet be very dry." British and often misunderstood be allowed a sentimental sigh for openly in the pablic streets; Bohemia and Croatia and Serbia.
When a robin sings at the bottom: characteristic of aloofness if not i
an age when amp-ratation held men of abish it bebokens bad weather, That Christiania should become
in thrall.. of coldness. These visitants Oslo we duly acclaimed as a right
To what good na they but if he sings at the top of a bush. from a very friendly place-re- celebration of Norway's ancient put the fear of the superna- it will be fair.
fame. The world applauded oral, and what a wealth of fairy! Another proverb is thus latives they might well and truth-when St. Petersburg became res he found along English hedge-pressed — fully be called-come and go. We Petrograd, and accepta, if with a rows Ariel and Calibum, Tisaria see them and they see us. There mile, its transformation into od Pock,
is no "glad to see you" and no attempt to show that feeling. Great artists come to us and the
Ah, well, you would not know, my fairylands. One mist know something, too,
"Far bure, near rain,
Near burg, har radi.
autum
"A mackerel sity..
When the wind's in the cast,
is good for either man
benst.
nor
There is also a saying with refer- nee to the new moon that-
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*March dry, good eyé: the Weird Sistors
April wet, good wheat,** Leningrad. That the Irish Free these were all as real to Elizabethan
When you see the grey shop- State should call Queenstown audiences
Anthony and herd's flocks" before sight o'clock in and Kingstown Kobh
Dun-Cleopatra." To read Shakespearethe morning it will rain before laoghaire troubles none of us right one must know something night. except those who are asked to of the dewy lanes of Shottery and "If it rains before seven, same indifference is in evidence. pronounce the new names. New Strulford from which he drew such
"Iwill cease.before eleven." In Shanghai and in Kobe they do the Urban Council of Holyhead lyric strains; of the song walks 15
has proclaimed that henceforth London...
The sun rising clear in the morn things differently. A great artist | their town shall be called
You have never tramped along called) immediately is a sure indica
ing and going to bed again (as it is in welcomed for his or her own Caergybi. What was the imme-
that countryside? By Bitontion of a foul day. When the small diate cause of this display of Cel- sake, and is often asked to speak tic fervour we are not informed,
Houdly?
Eglouds are seen scudding before on the things of this life, and in but we suspect a determination
larger ones they are called "water- particular its art. The great city not to be outdone by the opposite
When the wind's in the south, eurts." and in' is sure to follow. number, Kingstown; alias. Dun- of Liverpool has recently been "At laoghaire. Caergybi is an ancient of the bare stage and the noisy in the rain's mouth; Home" to its own people and to its name, and Cybi, we understand, bethan audience and remember was a saint of repute, and a vast that Shakespeare was not writing visitors. Big offices, factories,
majority of the people of this plays for posterity but for afips, institutions, etc., were open Anglesey, and doubtless of the grouilings of London. ".. to all and sundry. The people Holyhead, count Welsh their Had he foreseen that his jays were invited to see wherein lay their right to give the town today alongside the Bible, he native tongue. Who would deny would be placed in the homes of the city's claim to material and its Welsh title? In spite of might have written worse plays other greatness and doubtless the sophistries of Shakespeare-who knows? He was writing on emmt of the rain-clouds which they profited by the experience. there is a great deal in a name for the England he loved and nane said to follow its early appear-
A mistake in a man's address, Hongkong's industrial and mari-even a misspelling, has been derstood, as no man before i had The new moon "lying on her time eminence is now beyond dis-known to produce hatred and understood, and along with the back with the horns of her cres "The Smith that spellare jokes and rough reparteo, he cut pointing upwards, is believed pute; but few are able to speak of without a y" the poet sings, "is poured out the best of him, trust to undicate a dry moon; and, on those things which give rise to not the Smith for me:" To blun- ing that somehow it would reach the contrary, when the new moon der about the town or the district the heart of lus England and it appears with the horns of the cres- We read and hear of a man's habitation, especially did. If the audience of Shakespeare cent pointing downwards, or, as it from time to time, of the Shing if there is some tricky way of set was lacking in delicacy and refine is locally expressed, "when it hangs Mun Valley water scheme. It bing down the name, is to lose a ment, it was the crudeness and dripping," it will be a wet moon. friend. If we knew anybody in, naive audacity, of youth'. ToWhen the new moon happens or a would do no one any harm to be Holyhead we should now take par- have great singers we must have turdy it is superstitiously b taken over the ground and to ticular pains to address to him at great listeners, too, said another lieved to be a sign of unfavourable
Caergybi. have some idea of the immensity We who are not Celts cannot be days of Greek tragedy had there A Sturday moon.
But there are limits. poot much later; and not since the weather; thu of the scheme and its probable expected to take tickets to Ireland been such un audience, so imagina If it comes once in seven ameliorative effects in the not-via Caergybi and Dumlaoghaire, tive and responsive, as this one in distant future. We are citizens of and if we tried we should but the golden days of Morry. England. drive blameless but English book-Nalle Burger Miller, in Tha no mean city or place, but resting-clerks mad. The fate of content with the fact as given to ancient languages will not be de- Living Drama.
this claim.
malice.
cided by these revivals or by the inability of the alien tongue to
us in Budget speeches or in some such piece of hackneyism as deal with the result. What lan-
guage is used for the workaday purposes of life will be in the und
WEATHER LORE.
"When early seen "is seldom seen."
comes too soon.'
The following are also common
llowing ar weather proverba:
"If the rainbow comes at night. The rain is gone quite.*
When it raine with the wind in
the east.
It rains for twenty-four hours at
•·lenst
"Shipping la the Iffe-blood of the Colony. What is the matter with the idea of a Welcome Com mittee 2 Chinese and foreigners would find this a common meeting ground, for prosperity and pro- the larger country adjacent, tricte believe that to red west aress are as much to the credit of Words and idioms of the tongue gn of wind and
of the neighbours are likely to oreigner, staal in and corrupt linguistic pensants give it, in our visitors vigo and individuality.
#Evening red, and morning grey,
a matter of practical convenience. Weather fore, too, is found to "May never goes out without The chief danger to the national flourish on those coaste (Norfolk and language of a small community is Sufolk) the fabermen as well as In that pressure and in the per the husbandmen-in- mesting power of the speech of
the Chinese: 85
This
existent
red, esat
The grass that grows in Junires Grows no more all the year?
Very pleasant it is to sit and muse is thus upon the lore of the dy of the coas
Morley Adams, în (In the Footsteps of Borrow and Fitz-
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