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of the British people, but "nat these other things. All this sort of talk to which this particular President has given voice, leads nowhere except to the further un- settlement of the unthinking, the wilfully blinded and prejudiced.
be allowed to be uttered....All
reason.
MONDAY, JANUARY 11,.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
V
"Globefilled," "low-
1
Ever read the
Nowhere except under an enlight ALFRED LORD buried," "purple- THE CABBAGE. Cabbage Patch ened administration believing in TENNYSON. fringed," "lotus. PATCH. books by Kate freedom and Hberty, would they
flute," "fountain-
Douglas Wiggin? "summervault," They belong to another age, but of which proves Mr. G. K. Ches-Pregnant," terton's contention that the great "ilygarlands," "brookbank," they enjoyed a vogue K.D.R. tragedy of the age is that people "blueglossed," "blosomwhite; (Riggs was Mr. Wiggins' name!) have been taught to write (and "diamond-eyed,"
**
"goldencored." had a pretty wit, as the following we may add talk) and not to cedarshade"-no, these faney proves --
compounds are not, as might not- unnaturally be supposed, drawn from a new language ecstaticimi- tators. Nor did the Shreds-mar make them up out of sheer joy in their pie eyed appearance: They are drawn from the early work of Alfred Tennyson, in the period when he was wilting "Keepsake”
MISSING LEATHER.
ALLEGED THEFT AND CONSPIRACY,
TWO CHINESE: CHARGED.
Dear Mrs. Riggs,
20:5.05.
May 1 remind you of your kindness it promising to visit my Library on Monday next.? Lunch at 1.30 precisely.
Yours, sincerely,
EDMUND GOSSE...
Two Chinese were formally
TO EDMUND MOSSE, charged at the Central Magis-verses, subsequently suppressed.
(From a Lady to a Gentleman understood by the Powers. Final-tracy this morning with larcenyThus we learn that there is
of a quantity of leather.
nothing new under the sun, and who has reminded her that she is Mr. E. S. Brooks, for the that words like "brightwind- lunching with him on the 21st, at prosecution, "Informed His Wor- bridled. "steelyringing,' 1.30). ship that he proposed to add a further charge of conspiracy with "strandentwining;" "my riadia- intent to defraud against both the ended.dudlatinlaughing," defendants.
ly, says the Baron, "we should no longer live in isolation in a corner of the Orient and confine our vision only to our own existence, but it is necessary and impérative for us to bear in mind that we have an important voice in and responsibility for the peace of the whole world as well as for the happiness of mankind."
This is, indeed, a New Year cheerful! message of a' most nature which should be most helpful in moulding Japan's for- eign policy both in the immediate "and the more distant future.
PREVERTED BEATITUDES,
The case was adjourned for one week.
Mr. J. M. Hall is appearing for the defence.
STREET MISHAP.
CAR COLLISION AT PRAYA EAST..
TWO PEDESTRIANS. INJURED.
"shellcocoacotored;" "peacock- dwittering," have a precedent, such as it is. The fine rich' earlyvictorian flavour of this re- surrected vocabulary should con- sole us for the untimely loss of the| bustle and make us glad that the Pastor of the Union Church, Kow- loon, goes out of the beaten track occasionally, to And material on. which to base a sermon—as wit- ness his recent effort on a work of Tennyson,
1
The critic may forget the book He lately read with special
zest;
The mother may forget. the
Babe
That's not rot weaned from her
breast,
Is may be that the Mandarin Cun e'en forget the Sacred J038, But black as ink on Mem'ry's
page
Is writ my lunch with Edmund
Gusse.
K. D. R.
TO H. G.. WELLS, (With a Shilling).
A collision occurred between a
(Mr. H..G.. Wells was my neigh- tram car and a motor car near the Nuval Canteen at Praya East
Bour at the Author's dinner, the yesterday morning, both
Edwards, in his London, 1909. He took me for the author of "Mrs. Wiggs," but The "GENTLEMEN OF vehicles receiving damage. Little is heard these days of driver of the motor car preceded
Jury men's
redeemed himself by lending me a the Sermon
the Mount, a tram
THE JURY." Guides,"
shilling for. carbonic water. I car going in the same Leaders in certain classes of direction and found his way
corda cases wrote these lines in a copy of political thought, were wont to barred by repairs to the road. where three of the jurors were "Rebecca" and sent it him next Hongkong, Monday, January 10, 1926.accept it as the foundation on Another tram car coming from found with sweetmeats in their
| morning.-K.D.R.) which they based their line of the opposite direction struck the pockets and the court held that, action. Just as Lincoln's Gettys-motor car.
A WELCOME MESSAGE.
on
£ very
burg speech is the model of re- Two Chinese pedestrians were whether they had eaten them or strained and perfect oratory so is taken to hospital yesterday with not, they were finable iti the Sermon on the Mount the per- injuries to head and body. One being.
dis- ..great In greeting the New Year the feet sermonising utterance of all was knocked down by a tram car demeanor. Once 22 juror time. Happiness of the highest at Des Voeux Road West, and the had an orange, but he swore he Japanese Minister for Foreign kind is to be the reward of cer- other, a woman, was struck by a Affairs (Baron Shidehara) pub-tain people in certain circum-motor car near Western Street. lishes quite
interesting stances. The poor in spirit' are message. which should
apcomforted. The meek are to BALLET BEAUTIFUL. peal to a wider circle than inherit the earth; the merciful to
Pencemakers are RUSSIAN COMPANY COMING was obtain mercy. those
it whom for
HERE. specially blessed. What applies
an
primarily intended. He explores in an intelligent, reasoning, and hopeful manner the whole gamut of international relations since
to be blessed, those that mourn
to the individual, is applicable no less to bodies of people-to nations.
Theologians
carried it only for the sake of the smell, and so he was excused and the verdict was held good! In the same work an instance is given of
who struck jurer at Westminster had brought in 1
man
B
who
ver-
"
My dear Mr. Wells, do I owe
'you a shilling?
It may be yet more, but I vow
I'm unwilling
To pay you your debt, since the
elight obligation
Produces between us a closer.
relation.
I send you this book, with the
hope small and faint, That you will respond to my
'passionate plaint
For a copy of "Kipps," with your name or the leaf: (My love for that creature is
quite past belief!)
Some hours have passed and perhaps you're unable
To call up the name of your
neighbour at table.
She rhymes with but is not the
famed "Mrs. Wiggs," She is Kate Douglas Wiggin who married a Riggs.
SWEET ALYSSUM.
How far the particular Hongkong is to be favoured dict against him. This man was tenets of this great Sermon ap-next Saturday, for an all to indicted and araigned at the suit plied to those who heard it, or of short period of three nights, with of the King, and the judgment the conclusion of the Great War it; how far they are applicable visit from a newly-formed com-
He notes that, compared with to-day, let
and any which is known a. the was that he should go to the They have been Russian Imperial Light Opera Tower of London and there re- pre-war days, the attitude of all others decide.
main in imprisonment all his life the nations toward international taken as the basis of some strik-Company,
ing utterances by a Filipino pro- They are passing through here and that his right hand should be relations has made remarkable fessor. And as a professor is an their way to the Straits, and progress; whilst the incessant nominally considered a person of India, and that they are showing cut off and his lands seized. efforts that the Powers have since some education, "intelligence and here for three nights only is likely
atanding, these utterances cannot to be the exercised for the reconstruction escape notice. President Comilo complaint that we in Hongkong cne and only cause of of the world have begun to prove Osins of the Manila National hall have against the Shanghai that their efforts were not for University, delivering the prin- Theatrical Enterprises who are re- nothing. The popular feeling of cipal address at the recent. 29th
The Chicadee is so generous generous about specific things like the world has come to warn ofdemned what he called "world
anniversary of Rizal day con, pemarble for the present Company,
Soldom indeed has a company about the garden. Besides help plants and praise, she is generous the abuse of military power; to perversion with its attendant re-boen formed which includes so
enough to borrow an idea; and It is no ing found its fortunes by giving that, for so accomplished a gar- disapprove of aggressive policy:ligious bigotry, racial prejudice,much all-round talent, and to wish for the realisation and imperialistic, egotiam and econo exaggeration to say that the whole us plants-reared by herself-shedener, is the most noble of all: mic selfishness," A perveted of the Company consists of stare was angelic enough to stand in ItWe are so complimented we can maintenance of happiness and world, according to the president, of the first magnitude in the to-day and say it "smelled like hardly walk for the Chicadee. permanent peace of mankind with seemingly is bent upon a revision theatrical firmament, Practically knows all about Greek things; she our centre path, that next year Greek honey.” The Chicadee says-said yesterday, standing in the respect for mutual benefit of the beatitudes for nations. And every one wis trained at the among nations as a principal ob-here are some of those perversions world-famous Imperial School of has been in an unaccountable she is going to have sweet
which President Osias believes are Opera at Moscow.
number of queer, delicious places, alyssum borders, too, and smell, ject. The tendency of the world, the evils which are tre "scourge There is to be one performance so she could tell us exactly what one infers, of Greek honey. I do. as a survey of the great inter-and affliction of the people of
Greek honey smelled like. I have hope so. It will be a proud day: the Theatre Royal, next
always loved the scent of sun- for us, dim, and inferential gar- national events of 1925 prove, is to-day Established rules of Saturday and two at the Star drowned aweet alyssum, and am deners that we are, to sea our to free itself from international conduct for men and nations are Theatre on Sunday and Monday, so glad it is like something Greek casual and little-meditated white-
being expressed in modified ver strife and to advance to the age sions which seem to say: Blessed respectively, and the Shanghai One can just imagine that sort of ness appearing under the thought- of international co-operation. are the rich and powerful for they Theatrical Enterprises have de- honey. Honey as a rale smells to fulness, of the Chicades's great Although deploring what he de- can impose their will upon nations cided to revert to pre-war prices of me merely like honey; a smell pines. It will be lovely there, and scribes as the "political ahake-up" small and weak; blessed are those $3, $2, und $1. No charge will be that goes wonderfully, (especially by every right, infinitely Greeker
who belong to lighter nations made for programmes. in China, Baron Shidehara, points backed up by powerful cannons to the Tariff Conference as ajand. destructive instruments, symbol of co-operation add friend-for they consider themselves
guardians of darker ship in an endeavour on the part who should only serve of the Powers concerned to fur-pawns to minister unto their ther the welfare and happiness of whims and designs, blessed are. the Chinese people-further testi-those who for so long have been
enjoying freedom because, for The "China Mail" learns mony that the Powers, without getting the pangs of dependent from the police that the French exception, have no narrow and ex-existence they are not desirous lady missing from January 3 has clusive policy whatever, but that that others may likewise enfor the bean traced and the anxiety which regarded, and a wild flower that the autumn, when you don't they are animated by a determina- freedom that they deem so pre- was felt on her behalf has now no one looks at, it is especially suspect her of it and aren't look
clous. There is the rhetoric of been dispelled.
vital there and clutches Itself a ing-and then cleverly burst them tion to act in co-operation for the symbolism in all this which, under Miss Jeanne Lerol. A dressmaker used to smell it first, look up, and a bulb that doesn't come straight
The correct name of the lady is firm hold on the impossible. We on you, all so rich and rare; not" the rays of clear analysis, will not bear mouch Investigation. How by profession she disappeared then see it. We got so we scarce from Holland. And I sometimes Japan,
far the learned President, meant from the Astor House Hotel, ly needed to look up. "Oh one look at my petunias, my mere Baron Shidehara speaks of his utterances; tutapply to the Queen's Road Central, and no clue of us would murmur, sniffing, dashes of colour (even if they do the days when she was altiigtion in the Philippines and to as to her whereabouts was obtain "Sweet alyssum l' and there, play games with the moon 1) and apt to be misunderstood by other the world at lar, only he can ed until yesterday. --
perched high, it was: waving sigh. But after all the dear gar blithely at the tiresome plume of den is getting fat and bumpy, and countries simply because her hissay The mer fyro in the
knowledge of American politics, Messrs. Thos Cook & Son, posticardy smoke above Vesuvius things are falling over into paths tory, tradition, race, customs, and would dispute contentions as whose Des Voeux Road Central (Vesuvius, looked so much better as I hoped they would, and "our
OPALéricas and the office, was made untenable by the with his bead buried in a cloud) heliotrope is heavy in the Her care. Can Hongkong Hotel fire, have moved I wouldn't, if I had been that the Chicadee hasn't'any fons? be applied to new premises, namely No 12 Sorrentine alyssum, ave waved didn't think hellotrope Is the British Empire Pedder Street, first floor (opposite at at all. But then everything mon- and every Shir
about four inches wi these allegations? the Hongkong Hotel) The heal in Sorrento is imp
"religions branch of this famous tourist matured those sou
benefit of all concerned,
regard
In
to
civalisation are much
from those of the European and American nations. As things
bave changed, the lofty spirit of
the Japanese nations Fundo tha
and
racea:
BS/
FOUND.
MISSING LADY
·SAFE. ··
in the Alps) with rolls, but the than ours. With the Chicadee's Greek sort must be very different. wonderful red pinks too-fancy For sweet alyssum has a scent the snowness of the alyssum; she that would go with islands and has a border of scarlet ones; blue seas, and stony, classic bits. scarlet and deep crimson and In Italy its white masses hangmaroon; that makes one want to almost drowningly from adorably-shout. Pines and pinks; and all coloured old walls; over one's head sorts of esoteric blossoms we don't as one walks the narrow lanes even know. Lovely, lily-liku, above Naples, or the steep, cobbled things in all colours tall and pathways of the terraced hillsides awaying: the Chicadee's strong at Sorrento being quite dis-point is to do things with bulbs in
the sunny golden-
el
sees further
desse alike with
gon fabulously
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