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the moods and sentiments of a new race and to give articulation to their aspirations. He added. a genial note which was hitherto unknown in letters. Dickens, of the people, wrote of and for them
February 1925. and, as it were,, with them, and
8, Charles A Solomon, fond this was the secret of more thar A Calendar. Mon,
...Dickens born, 1812 half his power over the emotions
Tues., Sir David Brewster died of his fellow-men," Space can 1868 easily be eaten up with a recital Wed 10, Charles Lamb born, 1775. of the qualities of Dickens, and his Thurs., 1. T. A. Edison born, 1847 work. Scotsmen may neglect Fri, 12, Joseph Arch died, 1919. their Burns, but it is safe to saySatur., 13, Second Home Rule B, that the general reading public, 1808.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Justice Russell. was of Totalling "stories of the funny side of his profession. One of his favourites was thla
A ravishingly pretty, young, trish girl who had been filted by her lover, sued him for breach of promise of marriage. In Ireland, the French dot system prevails, and it was upon ascertaining that the girle father; was heavily In Novelists are ued debt and would be unable to pro- The Master, "for various qui, ties.vide a dowry, that the young man, and placed in "order a farmer, had broken off the on- accordingly. "Some would put gagement.
which includes the northerners, Sun., 14, Poto Curran, Mdled, will not readily forget Dickens.."
CHEUNG CHAU NOTES
-¿From Our Own Correspondent)
On Wednesday last, the launch carried off the young folks who were returning to the Chefoo school, their boat sailed promptly at 4 pm, so the parenta were able. to see the vessel depart, before returning back to Cheung Chau..
There was rather an unusual sight in the harbour of a large junk floating on its side, it had been freighted with stone and came into collision with another ¡vessel.
Rev. and Mrs. Dewatoe bade farewell to the Island on Thurs- day last and Mr. and Mrs. Coppin and their daughter who have been residing at No for some months have moved to Hongkong.
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next month, in spite of her ad- vanced age, she made the trip ever comfortably, and is enjoying the residents are also paying brief beauties of our Island. Other old visits here.
1910
Meredith in front of Charles
Dickens in the line of nineteenth "How much do you think she century novelista: But the mass ought to bring you?" asked the of people never understood Mere-judge, who, along with the jury dith while everybody understood had been on the plaintiff's side Dickens...
from the beginning!"
"Five hundred pounds, my lord,” replied the defendant
They knew, too, the men and women whom he drew. They had no doubt of the renity of Sairey Gamp or Sam Weller of Betsy Trotwood or poor Nancy. Indeed scores of Dickens's characters are not looked on as book people at all but flesh and blood creatures sketched from life.
*
It is sometimes said that the
new generation is not appreciative hand, "highbrow persons are dis of Dickens; but that, on the other
covering him.. That, if true, is a sent travail is a thing of the past, A very old friend, Mrs. Kerr great misfortune. For Dickens be the British will rapidly make up known to most of the Missionaries longs to the many and not to the
in South China has come to re-few. the leeway lost, The presenteide with Mrs. Wright for the times, especially with regard to
Shortly before his South China, may seem crushing
A Long, One, death, in 1960 Lord in regard to trade; and it is not
Chief Justice Russell exactly a pleasant sensation for
presiding over a (the famous Charles Russell) was murder trial, British firms to be obliged to
when the prisoner, whose case was stand aside and see other foreign- Rev. W. M. Rabbireached on the hopeless, insisted on supplement- ers securing what trade there is previous Sunday on "The un-ing the speech of his acmewhat in to get the latter are merely fenced Life" drawing useful les- experienced counsel by delivering sons from the life of Esau, partone on his own account. Warming making hay while the sun of the address was delivered to up to his subject the illiterate man shines," which is only natural the children chiefly.
became so incoherent-he was ex- but British trade traditions and
citedly protesting that this was the first time he had ever been in British honesty in commerce will
the hands of the police that the not be easily forgotten by the
Lord Chief Justice was unable to Chinese. When the opportunity is
follow him. afforded once again for the re- sumption of trade relations in those centres where a deadlock exists at present. British goods. will come back into their own.
This week the service was taken
The Sun by Rev. D. McRae.
day School has now beer dis continued as there are very few children left..
The Bible Classes and Prayer meetings are well attended and will be held for the present at Mrs. Wright's house.
The "Cheung Chau Residents Association committee met on Saturday to transact necessary
"Gentlemen of the jury," said his lordship, turning to them, "you will award the young lady five hundred pounds. Now, sir" he added; addressing the defendant,, the young, lady has the fortune you consider she should have, 30 there should be no impediment to your marriage."
My curla keep Cinema Stars, shaking like Dora Mary Pickford. in Dickens
And as for the thought of a shingle, it sickens, I've kept as a kiddy for ages and
agoo
-
The nippy the alippy yet kind of
courageous:
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All shawl and swank Rudolph and whandygaff, alf Valensing purbulence and tag-
ban...
I've made the little Pickford look
a little bit suburban;
The wistfulness of Gishes palce be
side my blood-und-aandiness; Charlie is the darling I'm the
cavalier of dandiness.
Tem Sayers, the
· from Whose Dog? Brick - layer
Hoxton, was suid to have shared with the Duke of Wellington" the position of Britain's greatest hero. The one of the "Times" told that champion's blows on Heenan's ribs "sounded all over the meadow as if a box had been smashed in An engraving shows the burlat of Sayers, the chief mourners being
collar bore the inscription
With admirable patienes, how. ever, he listened until the speaker's words becarse a jumble. Then he leaned forward alightly and said
"What was your last sentence?" "Seven years, my lord," was the have proved only a curse to other slight drizzle of rain, but we are response of the prisoner who foreigners dealing with the Chin- still needing good soaking utterly misunderstood the meaning. ese, and history may be expected showers, grass fires have again of the question. to repeat itself in the not very dis-been seen on the hills.
To-day the launch was crowded tant future. "Business, not poli-to the limit with Chinese pussen- A gloomy picture of Great tics," may be the slogan of the gers for the usual New Year Britain's lost trade with China is German and other foreign agents painted by Sir Perceval Phillips in Chine at the moment; "quality, in the "Daily Mail." What he not fantastic terms," will as ever has seen in his trip from Hong-be the motto of the British.. kong to the North has given him a fit of the doldrums. British trade has not only gone to the dogs. It has been transferred in a remark- able degree to the Germans, who
Extended credit terma. in the past business matters. There was also altogether atartling und Sateful his pony, phaeton and dog-whose
seem to have resurrected all their
CHARLES DICKENS.
A very queer, small boy" of delicate health and a quick Imagination. This is the first picture we have, of Charles.
exodus. The fishing junks are "close formation." also beginning to line up now Next Sunday
am Tom Sugerala dog- Whose dog are you?
T
HEALTHY AND WEALTHY.
We live in a complex, difficult ing to grow rich, and such humble the service will be conducted by world. To our simple ancestors, it observation of the habits of sur Rev. A L. Miller of the New
"richards" 8 is possible to the,, seemed quite natural and not too mere bourgeois suggests that they Zealand Mission."
The market square of the vildimcult that a man should be at take as much exercise as other lage is crowded with booths and once healthy and wealthy and wise. people. But, though we do not petty pedlars who seem to be But modern science will have none highly esteem our professor's. doing a brisk business.
WORLD TOURISTS,
of that. Hardly anyone is healthy facts, we propose to believe his theory passionately. What natural now, and nobody deserves to be, man does not want to believe that such are our offences" against the the plutocrats. have horrible- How many humble homes may be cheered by the faith that all millionaires have, ex officio, lá- digestion!
CANADIAN PACIFIC FLAGSHIP lawe of our being (observes a
COMING.
DUE. ON WEDNESDAY.
old pre-war commercial pro- Dickens at the age of two years paganda, with strikingly success-when the family left Portsea to
London daily paper). The pos ful results.
live in London. On February 8,
sibility of offence, indeed, seema to The plan of campaign is the 1812, Charles, the second of the
De infinite for each physiologist same as it as always been with eight children of John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, en- the Germans in the Orient. They ployed in the Portsmouth Dock-in Hongkong early on Wednesday pounds a new code which contra- A Canadian Pacific liner is due who Professor H. Collingwood, saya overcome a natural prejudice or yard, was born. How far this morning with 400 tourists, mostly diets the last We had bean the part of their Chinese cus, event will be celebrated to-day, American, but a number algo of taught to believe, for example, tomers for British goods by giv Societies are certain to remember
we know not The Dickens distinguished British passengera
that, whatever else was dangerousj "Drink The tourist vessel is the s.s. there was safety in milk.. ng extended credits, which our the occasion, and those who have "Empress. of Scotland flagship of more milk, we were assured, Arms will not do. They emphasise derived the greatest benefit and the Canadian Pacific, and the a slogan which not only had the their willingness to meet any pleasure from his writings are largest steamship on regular ser applause, of all the Olympians ef demand, no matter how difficult or sure to give silent praise for a vice to. Canada. She has already science, but was approved by the fantastic. German agents make life, not by any means "roses, made four cruisers, and has proved great heart of the American people, roses, all the way" which has herself particularly well adapted What higher authority could we In done so friends of their customers.
much to enrich the to the cruising service seck? And now arises a physio- Canton alone there are nearly 100 world. No other writer, we are. The "Empress of Scotland" left logist in the University of London, Germans living peacefully among told, comes so near to the nation-New York on December 3, and will Professor H. Collingwood, who says the restless Red-ruled inhabitants death was treated as a national ports on the itinerary having been of the child and the damnation of al heart as Charles Dickens. His arrive here from Manila, other coldly that "milk is the salvation They show no sympathy calamity, and his remains were Madeiru, Gibraltar, Algiers, the adult, and the cause of a with the Soviet, but they let the laid in the most sacred and most Monaco, Naples, Haifa, Suez, Bom-large proportion of the ils to natives see that they are not honoured place in the land, the bay, Colombo, Padang, Batavia, which the body is falsely said to be heir." The stuff, in fact, is not actively opposing it. The Reds Abbey of Westminster To this Singapore,
day, flowers and evergreene, and After leaving Hongkong, the even innocent; you are not even do not trouble them. Business, holly at the Ville Tide he did so cruise will be continued via Shang-safe with it. We submit that if not politics, is the aim of the much to make again a living hai, Kobe; Yokohama, Honolulu, this is true the laity should have new settlers, and they blandly festival, are placed upon his grave. Hilo, San Francisco, Los Angeles, been told before, and if it is not close their eyes to the intrigues For three parts of a century he Balboa, Cristobal and Havana, they should not be told now. had served England instead of a reaching New York again on Something ought to be sacred of Moscow,"
poet, taking the place of a Burns, Saturday April 10, after a trip from the reformers of our diet. There is nothing to be gained where a Burns was not, and of a embracing 20 countries, 25 porte Bat Professor Collingwood is not by being infected by the "cold traditional folk-muse where the of call, 27,644 miles, and 129 days soothing homilist. Healthy we festitis" of Sir Perceval Phillips no more. The passing yours have bares for the trip range from may be, though it ow. But
ballads of the country-side were
of travel, of which 54 will have may be if we eschew milk and been spent In harbour, other toxic matter. Wealthy we although he may be doing British not worn away the charm of his trade a real service by painting books. Hig books are still the $1,750 to 6.36,000, including all physiologist to say how. But out to the people at Home con happy reading of innumerable landing charges, shore accommoda-healthy and wealthy at once few can hope to be. As a man's bank- ditions as he sees them in China, people wherever the English lan
roll goes uphill, his health begins. He himself writes of the "natural guage is spoken. Certain of the
to go downhill The metaphor is moods and aspirations of the
The stingy young man approach- diffleult, the meaning is sternly prejudice for British goods" middle nineteenth century seemed the girl of his heart, plain. One of the worst thinga amongst the Chinese. That is archaic to modern readers. The "Did you received many Christ- that can happen to a man is to get where the ray of hope for the persistent melancholy of Paul mas cards dear?" he inquired. — rich at about forty years of age." future of British tradelles In Dombey, or the equally stent -2. Oh, yes,” said she, "and there. The reason for this is that when
optimism of 26ther Bu spite of all the rided may make us Impal credita and fantastic assurances spite of these, Dic given by German and other for quick to-day as ever he
is still our eign agents to prospective Chin- Auchter
pore a lamp that
Dickans was the first
ese customers, nothing. certain than that? When
tions and fees of various sorts,
erson was one unsigned that I thought a man fa rich he acquires a motor but in particularly dainty and artistic car and gives up all forms of Is I'm sure it came from you." exercise. The word "rich" has, He Indaad exclaimed the delight of course, no particular meaning. aster of ed youth and what makes you It is even, more relative than most
fus of thin
things in this world. Yet we have "all Because I sent it to you last heard it rumoured that men terpret | Christmas," was the chilling reply. · acquire motor-cars without_walt="
One thousand-do postad by Lill=ps Springfield, Mass. --- She Eleanors Sears, who walked from
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tor the mark with bou2 960