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THE WHITE PAGE,
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So many gods; so
creeds;
many
and
So many paths that wind
wind-
When just the art of being
kind
4
Is all this sad world needs.
THEY SAY THAT
"
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
List our New Year sk QUOTATION. TOmniva, be ter mice
the best of every
of alwar Border inds ho kail recently: raised in tha "They had experienced a
thing; to smile at misfortune should very rough time at Coldstream it come; to endeavour to forget our accommodation. Monk himself occT- through sourcity of food and lack of
My Lord Mayor, I have drunk griovincos, and to greet onch day to-night of your loving-cup with
sionally was compelled to chew fo abacco in lieu of a dinner, though his astute chaplain found abundant rations and comfortable quarters
the German Ambassador. What with a smile. To bear no man I have done this evening, may our grudge, and to endeavour to widen nations do to-morrow. Mr. Four interests and incidentally those with the Fart of Hume. Austen Chamberlain,
around us - Believe blind Fate: i8|||
:
As & Scotsman, I believe the English educational system to be kind and not malicious, and feel the best in the world. The certain that the thing we most want Master of Ballion
will come to us if we have faith..
This would be a most unhappy world if it were not a working world-Lord Balfour
More fuss is made of the Japan's Now Year in Japur than There seems no good reason JOLLITY. in any Wasteen country, why every London street should.
not excepting land. not be as attractive, 'architectural
ly as the main street of a Glouces-The rejoicings begin on New Year' tershire or a Sussex villaga-Mr. Eve, when no one thinks of going
Robert Lynd..
Huppy is the man who Business.com infuse a little humour HOMOUR in the daily grind the common task. The Shreds man wonders if there is a humourist intertain depot in Connaught Road. For the other day his obser vint eye caught sight of a notice with the following words:- Business As Uusal Doors Closed To Cold": Wind Only.
to bed, and bells ring all night long. Perbup the thing is meant
If I were asked what feature in and, though January 1 to 3 are rebe taken seriously. the war made the greatest im-
pression on me, I should say the garded as the three chief days of
The London County power of endurshes and the the Now Year, holidays and jolli- almost indescribably high stand-Ecations continue until January 16, COLOURED Council is to build some ard of bravery shown by the
coked concrete. The human race friend and foe-winding up, characteristically, with Houses of its new houses of a grand Feast of Return to Labour.idea is so Ample that the only curious thing is that it has nevON I'll make a set of now been thought of before." Concrete hae to be mixed, and nothing is
Gen. Sir H. Smith-Dorrian.
Love and happiness have been stressedt in these inadequate. words. Rightly so. The lack of
The large majority of Christ- them in the past has been re-ians still live in a Ptolemaic or
I have never been in business in my life Sir H. Millaby. Deeley.
sponsible for much much that geocentric universe.-Dean Inge. NEW YEAR rescives; I'll manage simpler than to include some colour
has hampered us in our national colonial and individual life. With out these things life is hopeless;
Fhave never met the woman position and power of 'no' who is written about with a avai...
In all sincerity, and to capital
Rose
alt
A Happy New Year,
ANTI-PIRACY PRECAUTIONS."
to
Macaulay.
Miss
A lot of mincompoops, male and female, pursue the cult of the ugly because it is modem. Sir John
Foster Freer
Although I claim to work sa hard and as long as any Trade Unionist, I believe in passing about half my life in sleep-Sir William Orgen
SECRET ROOM.
FORBIDDEN IN LOCAL JUNKS.
In a leading article the "North. China Daily News" deals with the "Tungchow" piracy, which will, it
It ought to be as ignominious to asserts, of a certainty cause a great wave of public indignation let a marriage go to pieces as for a captain to lose his ship or for a The language of symbolism is not so much against the pirates business man to fall in his business.
'themselves as against a con- never put to a more interesting tinuance of conditions which Miss Sheila Kaya-Smith. such use than when we speak of turn-permit
things to be ing over a new leaf. The repent andured in this respect during the ant erring one. makes use of it, last five years. It considers that it is more than an outrage by and in so doing gains at once the Chinese pirates; it is a public. sympathy of those who, if they do scandal which ought. never not condone, yet do not condemu, have been possible, and which is a. deplorable reflection on those. and see in this turning over a basically responsible for the new attempt at a fresh and noble safety of British ships in Chinese existence. It is so with the waters. Its criticism is based on dawning, almost, of a New Year.the question of wireless apparatus on board ships in Chinese waters. There is figuratively spread out Regret is expressed that, in spite before all of us the white page of of the long series of piracies, an unspotted record book upon nothing of a concrete nature has Now the matter is which we must write. There is been done. no choice left either to the in-nothing less than vital to the preservation of the lives of those dividual or a nation. Upon the who travel in ships in these parts, In respect of possession of 2.000 pages there must be traced in to the shipowners themselves, detonators and 94% Tbs. of safety characters legible and intelligible and to the public generally. "It fuses, he was fined $50. On the brooks no farther delay," ex-charge of having the secret com- to all men, the history of another claims our contemporary, which partment was fined a further $25. twelve-month. The occasion is then proceeds to review the
go.
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Reference is next
Resolutions" without nicolinë,
And see my good intentions do not culminate in smoke;
No
go to bed at ten o'clock upon the
very tick att een And when my partner, mükan a pun, I'll try to see the joke. longer will I spend my time on
ing matter. So we are promised for the future, red, buff and brown hoes, instead of the dingy grey bat has hitherto been a note of the concrete suburb.
Londoners in cerstories to come Iwill have chances to rebuild and to make the old city gay with colour. Not in our flime shall we see beside the Tahmes rose-red
The
city half as old ne time." billiards or at theatress"; Card-parties at the chub must prevailing note to-day, to the sur cense, and all that sort of fun; price of visitors who think of And when my wife gives (hose "At London as a city smoke begrimed, Homes I'll promise that'll is whit In the sunshine, the nes palaces of commerse (one cannot call them mere offices) gleam with their fresh, new tone,
:
My
be at hers...
And pass, the mottled mithin and the soppy Sully Lunaļ income is but palley, but I'll give up ton per cent, if I've Not banished all my wooden clubs
and laid my irons by: And if I find I've broken any, yow
in 1926, 19
!
A golfer ought to wriggle cut of
any sort of "gle!
"One might hope even, given m
opportunity to replan and rebuild London in 2025, to give each dia-
and main thorough fare ita dis tinctive colouring,, A Strand rebuilt
of blue, and perhaps a green Iwith red concrete, an Oxford Street Picadilly, would give us a new air of galety. And how much easier to And your way, if you could be told, on leaving the office New Year's Day is the Keep straight along the red "EXPLOSIVE OFFENCE.
THE birthday of the Cold-street ful you get to the great Fireom Guards; It was blue square. That's Trafalgır Perhaps one of the first convic-STREAMERS.
on this date in 1660 Square. Then down the brown tions was recorded, as a result of local smuggling laws forbidding the General Monk started from the street that a Whitehall till you the existence of secret compart-little town of Coldstream, where the go a large, pluk building. That's ments in junks, etc., in Mr. E, W. Tweed is fordable, on his memorable Westminster Abbey. We've just Hamilton's court yesterday when march to ondoa, which resulted in rebuilt it."? the licences of cargo junk No. the Restoration. He took with him But no, that would be too awful. 3079 was fined on two charges,
ST STEPHEN'S BUILDING FUND.
COLD
"THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.”
I shall not describe the book, for to description would help it. But sual just say this: that it is what call u. Household Book By Household Book I mean a book
Well, the writer of my book is a couple of canal references to it, as Kenneth Grahúme. You have heard if it were a classle known to all in... of him? Good, I thought so. The famous novel published last year. an impressive one and cold by various steps since 1921 in favour of the installation of wireless on
books you have read are The Golden It was I who introduced that novel- nature must be those who shun all vessels likely to be attacked COLLEGE EXTENSION. Age and Dream Days. Am I not ist to it-six months before. Indeed Its impressive significance and as being the surest preventive.
right? Thank you. But the book I feel sometimes that it was I who deny its importance. The mere As the result of the, agitation,
you have not rand-my book-is The wrote The Wind in the Willows, Wind in the Willows. Am I not and recommended it to Heanoth tally of the years means nothing which was supported by the late. Commander Beckwith when
right again? Ah, I was afraid so Grahame, but perhaps I am wrong in the eternal cycle—
Harbour Master of Hongkong by The year is going; let him ships officers, and, finally, by the In aid of the fund for the The reason why I knew you had here, for I have not the pleasure of
shipowners, our contemporary transfer of the School to Stanley, not read it is the reason why I cut his acquaintance. Let it go with all those others says: "Wireless aeta were im the masters of St. Stephen's fit my book. For the last ten or of lost or accepted opportunity; ported, and if they are not avail College have arranged a special twelve years I have been recom- able for every British ship on the cinema show to be given at the mending it. Usually I speak about of ideals of high or low repute, China Coast, we have good reason buildings of the sister school in it at my first meeting with a Mankind for ever looks forward to believe that there are more Lyttleton Road on Saturday night stranger. It is my opening remark, longingly and hopefully for some than enough to fit every passer A seven real film entitled The just as yours is something futile which everybody in the household Sllent Call" featuring the famous about the weather. If I don't get loves and quotes continually ever promised blessing in the sure and ger-carrying ship" certain hope that each New Year to the wireless school comedy. The Rev. G. E. Arrow
made dog actor is featured also it in at the beginning, I squeeze it afterwards, a book which is read does bring its blessings. It is this in Henglong to train Chinese, as smith is to give a ventriloquial in at the end. The drunger has aloud to every new guest, and is re- belief which induces confidence operatorslund give them certi entertainment and there is also to go to have it some time. Should I garded as the touchstone of his ever find myself in the dock, and one worth. But it is a book which and the determination to look on ficates which would be recognised be singing the bright side of things and the parts. For the alleged failure of charge is made.
for any British ship in these The public, is invited; a small never knows, my answer to the makes you feel that, though every- effort to make them bright. But this schema the Hongkong Gov- the process of turning new pages ernment is blamed by laying down is a futile one unless in the light certain rules regarding the
nationality and personal eligibi A CANTON POST. which is shed upon them we our lity of candidates which, ap- selves inscribe upon the leaves parently, have pullified every US CONSULAR CHANGES. something worth while; some thing that bos beat, done, and, so thing lasting. Abou Ben Adhem far as can be seen, wireless for inscribed himself as "one who all British ships is as far awa
Las ever, loves his fellow men.”
And so, While some criticism of his name led all the rest. In the Hongkong (loving) charity there is no ex-may sound reasonable cess, Bacon reminds us. Sydney in the case of ships
Hi hai; journal Ignores the
Smith with the incisiveness of a of Shanghai, a seco pungent satire tells us that there achol would bar are plenty of people willing Southern Chinese will
with Northern Ch enough to do the good Samaritan, Chinese of Brit hout the oll and the twopence, not obtain Whilst the French Vo
Shinghil factors" of the shor
at-reaching
question whether I had anything to body in the house loves it, it is only say would be Well, my lord, if I you who really appreciates it of its might just recommend a book to the trip value, and that the others are jury before leaving. Mr. Justice incely worthy of it. It is obvious, Darling would probably pretend you persuade yourself, that the that he had read it, but he wouldn'tauibor was thinking of you when deceive me,
Bank them wrote it. I hope this will For one cannot recommend a book please Jones," were his final words, many friends of Mr to all the hundreds of people whom he laid down his pen. Douglas Jenkins, American Con-one has met in ten years without Well, of course, you will sul General of the Canton Con-discovering whether it is well known the book at once. But I must
nice will be eased to own? It is the amazing truth you one word of
moti
at he has received pro that one of those hundreds had you sit down to
to Class 2 Amer board of The Wind in the Willows ridiculous as to suppos district will also be until I told them about it. Some of sitting in judgment that the Canton them had never heard of Kenneth still, less on the
in cherre of
lame swell, one did not have to Grahame. You are
them again, and it takes all in indement on
make a world Bit-most be wor