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FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
"Jshould be observed Education of any section of the community should, be to cultivate the, widest and deepest thought possible.. Often-unconsciously perhaps it
The Hongkong girl Rosalle Muffet, lunch under her tends to develop a class conscious- The Modern must. be above sus-arm, stroked forth in the warm ness which is bad for everyone Girll
picion She does spring sunshine. Ah, it was good concerned. A former lecturer at
not drink cocktails, to be away by oneself, away from the University thought the insti- seldom if ever smokes and takes a them all. Especially from father tution was too much concerned-keen interest in the three Re-Not but that father was a won- at that time-with turning outsidents Associations. The fol-Wonderful! But she loved being derful man! He Was wonderful! engineers, instead of turning out loving can certainly not be ap-alone. She had many things to think of. There was her career. She would have her career, in-
boll,
A
I can swing a six-pound dumb-dependent of any man. Of all men! Into the forest she strolled, and presently seated herself upon a tuffet to partake of the dainty mcheon which she had brought with her. This luncheon consist- ed of curds and whey. She might But she didn't! Instead, she ate have eaten cornflakes and cream.
curds and whey Curda and whey. She liked curds and whey. At the boarding-house she never
I can fence and I can box,. I can walk across the heather,
. And clamber over rocks. I can make a score at cricket,
And play hockey all day long. But I cannot help my mother,
I am not, really, very strong.
men.
The idea may still prevail plied to her The University, after all, is only : e mörúll agent in an indirect sense. Its job, is to turn out Engineers, Doctors, Merchants, etc.. But in auch wise words as invariably fall from the Vice-Chancellor are students reminded that learning without some code of morals, manners, or honour is as nothing worth The world may look with | interest on those who by assiduity und perseverance have acquired degrees, but is apt to despise them if such pursuit of knowledge has produced nothing else:
NEW MEMBER.
ELECTION FOR SANITARY BOARD
TWO STANDING..
Libel
화
If writer gives a
had curds and whey. Never l She hated the boarding house.
.She
Authors And name to the villain Hated it! Her lunch was nearly of his next novel finished "when she discovered a any holder of that spider sitting down beside her A name, as the law stands at present, huge spider! Now if there was is open to sue him for libel, and is one thing on earth which Rosalie likely to win his case against the Muffet hated it was spiders,, Next [ innocent author. To right this to men, she hated spiders more. obvious wrong, the Incorporated than, anything else on: earth Society of Authors, Playwrights. Next to men How she hated and Composera la introducing a Bilmen and spiders! Men and which seeks to make it the law that spiderat. She watched the spider But an assurance is surely requir
"No action for libel shall be main for a moment, fascinated. If this ed that in any future domestic or consequens on the retirement of and proved that the defendant in her career also.
tainable... unless it is alleged spider destroyed her, it would end Her glorious civic crisis: there will be some at the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C... tended to or did negligently publish career! No, no, this could not tempt at centralising control in as a member of the Sanitary Board, such defamatory matter of and con- be.. She must have her career! order that the respective author two candidates have been nomineerning the plaintiff." This should She must have her career
ated, D. F. M.. G. Ozorio, proposed certainly protect the author against must have it! She could not let n ties themselves, no less than theby Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, frivolous claims. After all, no mere spider ruin her career. Sho members of the community,, may and seconded by Mr. C. A. da Roza; author in his senses would delf would have her career! No spider know exactly where they stand and Dr. So Chuen-ho, proposed and berately mention a living person by should cheat her out of it. Better and what is the best thing to do Lee, and the Hon. Dr. R. H. in the House of Lords by Lord curds and whey to the greedy, yeconded respectively by Dr. S. Fan name. The Bill is to be introduced wholly abandon her deliciousi in a sudden emergency.
Kotewall
Gorel himself an author of dis destructive spider than to lose tinction, and if it passes the Lords, her career Sir William Bell will have charge between her desire for food and of it in the Commons.
her desire for a career. Back at". the boarding-house she would find no curds..and whey." Only Little Miss Muffet prunes Prames! But--better Sat.om a tufet, prunes than to lose her career. If Eating some curds the spider destroyed her, he de- and whey:
fatroyed her career. Terrible There came a big spider thought Horrible thought!! And sat down beside her, Glancing fearfully at the gp- Which frightened Miss Muffet proaching spider, Rosalie Muffet
away.
turned and Red from the spot back to the boarding-house and prunes. After the manner of A. S. M. and her career. She must have Hutchinson..
her career Prunesli
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SANITARY BOARD
ELECTION.
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13
She hesitated, torn
INDIA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES.
write
crowded six months in the country
Inevitably the present state of. The election takes place on affairs raises the question of April 12, all whose names appear creating a Municipal Council to on the jury Est being entitled to which could safely be entrusted vote..
Dr. Ozorio had previously occu- the whole civic administration, pled this seat on the Sanitary leaving Government Departments Board for some nine years until Rewritten. to cope with questions and pro-lhe resigned fast year,
Dr. Ho, who comes of a well blems that come more rightfully known family, is a local practi within their purview. With ationer Government official as President of the Municipality, as in the Straits Settlements, and certain members nominated by the Gov- ernment, the latter could always ensure that its interests were amply safeguarded.. The whole (To the Editor of the China Muit) problem of civic administration LOOKER. On March 6, 1926, at would be set well on the right way value to the Chinese community Sir,--Not only is it of immense Great Baddow.toward solution, and there would at large, but it should be held as Essex, Stello May (née Sharp) be no overlapping by the various a precedent at all times that a
India, inscrutable, buffling: with At Delhi we are introduced to off- its teeming millions of people; its cial India. As a guest at Viceregal wife of Herbert W. Looker. M.P., a daughter.
Departments in the domain of
Chinese member of the medical various religions; its fanaticism Lodge the author is able to give.. purely civic affairs:
profession should rightly be ac and trigue; its spirituality and
a first-hand and graphic account of. corded a seat on the Sanitary oss materialism; its caste and
the daily routine there, also a dcs- Now that we liave entered on a Board representing the Sanitary social problems, etc, is not an easy fcription of the opening of the
pardab systems; its economic and new era--as witness a new Gov-interests of the community.
Legislative Assembly. There are Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Holyoak andernor and a new Colonial Secre- Though there are two Chinese country about which to their daughters. Joyce and Dorothy, tary, both of whom "hail from "members sitting on the Board, years of residence thore, yet the remarks anent British Rule. Inter- | authoritatively even after long. E. the Viceroy and some shrewd some interesting. eidg-lights" on desire to convey cordial farewell Ceylon, which simply abounds in
it is clear that as they are author of "Yes, Lady Sahib," Grace greetings to their many friends in Municipalities this movement what difficult to believe that they Thompson Seton after a brief but apersed throughout the book are in- pure business people, it is some.. might well be carefully considered are well versed in matters apper. hua succeeded in producing a very
genious character sketches of some of the leading princes, also vivid in the hope that it will meet with "taining to health and sanitation. interesting, even fascinating, book accounts; of audiences with these the success that it well deserves.bers of the local Medical Board She gives us. India seen through gorgeous splendour of the East is It is only too true to find mem- published by Hodder and Stoughton potentates and of the magnificence The fact of even a Sanitary Board all medical men.
in which they live. Perhaps, the election being really contested is Board ought to consist of Govern extent by close study of Indian looks for the sharp contrasts su
The Sanitary American eyes, 'influenced to some
a trifle too much in evidence. One in. itself an augury for the ment and public medical men. literature, and contact with some awakening of the civic conscience name of Dr. S. C. Ho has been she is
At the coming election the of the most brilliant minds in India. characteristic of India: the high and of a genuine desire on the part put up and I have much pleasure analytical and having DIVIDED CONTROL?
a trained observer, cheek by jowl Especially interest- lights and shadows are always of the leaders of the various sec in supporting this nomination. command of language, is never ating is the chapter devoted to the
good The more one considers all the tions of the community to per-Dr. Ho has the best interest of a loss for the right word, but writes lustrious Women Ruler of India. Her Highness the Begum of published and unpublished griev-form their duties as citizens. But the community at heart, his pro with perspicacity and charm. arces in regard to the restrictions why be content with a Sani-established fact and what is more having travelled in Egypt and
ficiency in practice is a firmly
Although not new to the East Bhopal, and the views of Her High- ness on women and the purdah on dogs the greater grows thetary Board which can only act as he is a member of the medical China-there is nothing blase about
system.. conviction that there is solid an advisory body to the Govern-fraternity and well worthy to be Mrs. Thompson Seton. She went ground for the allegation of ment? Surely the trend of the come a member of the Board. I
wish him every success. divided control. Each of three times points to the establishment of a Municipal Counci", "answer- Departments concerned, has been
Yours, etc.,. an authority on its own, appar
able to the Government for pro-
M..T: S.. ently without any thought of con
per: financing and answerable to Hongkong, April 9, aulting any other or of ensuring the community for effective civic co-ordination among all the auth- crities concerned in the suppres sion of rabies. There is no doubt, of course, that each Department has acted conscientiously and in what it conceived to be the best. interests of the community; but, unfortunately, Instead of "earning merit," it has evoked opproblum and given rein to the critics.
recent illnesя.,
Hongkong, Friday, April 9, 1926..
administration.
* MAKING THE MAN.
Whether the Vice-Chancellor's dictum that "the better educated
view
C.C.C. STUDENTS.
EL:
In dealing with Madras acencs
to Inals with fresh vigorous mind we are told of the "never-ending athirst for knowledge which she ragent of weddings-a scrap of a spared no paina, to attał: From girl nine or ten years old,, her the moment of her arrival at tiny handiengulfed in the great paw. Apollo Bunder, Bombay, the of her thirty-year-old husband who glamour of the mysterious East has was taking her to the subjection of her in its grip. She lives in an another wife and a mother-in-law. enchanted land and succeeds in.
A mother-in-law, yes; conveying this spirit of enchant-but a Hindu seldom taken a second ment into the pages of her book wife while his first wife lives, this The naivete of some of her first being permitted only inspectul It has been in Cauton reported impressions makes delightful read-cases where there is no issue by the that three students named Laaning. She is struck with the "the first wife. The Mahommedan is Sun-tong, Lei Chun and Ng King-dral proportions of her suite of polygamous, but the above refors man, were expelled from the Can-rooms in the Taj Mahal Hotel, to a Hindu wedding as a Mahom ed of having disgraced. the Face Hotel, Colombo, as the "Galle bridal procession with her husband. ton Christian College, being accus-though later she speaks of the Galle medan bride does not appear in the one was, the better one's manners student body" according to a Face Inn"! She is also much im-In neither case would the husband would become," is new, we do not decision arrived at by a meeting pressed with the virtues and hold the wife's hand in public. of the Canton Student Union on qualifications of her Indian servant, Again in speaking of Christian know. In any case the should be widely circulated It
April 4
justifiably aq as experience proves,mission we feel that the author's The report sete out various but we rather query her summing knowledge is superficial. A couplo- is something better than the gen- details which seem to confuse up of the raison d'etre of his trust of days spent with some American. erally current idea that a "good" rather than clarify the alleged worthiness. "Never once," she missionaries scarcely qualifies one education is a means to an end-issue.
says, in all his service did he over to be a competent judge... She aums in regard to the outbreak of the end being a safe and satisfac-
step the bounds of strict propriety up as follows-But what the and respect... I still think Christian missionary can and does rabies, how far will the condition tory job another sop to the
the foundation of it is religious teach. for the bedent of India, or of "confusion worse confounded" greatest god of the age the god A most enjoyable social evening training."
China, or Egypt, la improved con- extend when a matter of even of getting on Andrew Carnegie branch of the Church of England this beautiful cosmopolitan city is army of British. Zenana mia- In connection with the Cathedral. The book opens at Bombay, and ditions among men." What of the more serious moment arises? said that "No man has the right Men's Society was held last night, treated comprehensively, says sionaries, and others, whose work Will the lessons of the present to handicap his son by leaving when there were present over 100 LLE in the Straits Times." The amongst the women of India, Ma controversy have been learned in him a fortune," but John Stuart members and friends the gathering description of the Hindu Burning hommedan and Hindu, is carried on good time to avert what may east-Mill's view was that no child has including the Bishop; Sir Henry Ghats and, later, the Parsee Towers so quietly and faithfully and which
and Lady Pollock, and a large of Silence, are good and given with results so often in changed lives,. ly develop into a scandal? The any moral claim to anything be-number of Chinese ladies and careful attention to detall We Joy for despair, happy lives of use- public is at the mercy of the yond the best education. The gentlemen. Mrs. Balean played the note is alight error. ~ Queen's ful service for the Hindu widow authorities, however well-meaning moral claim" will be conceded;
Ada Violin, and songs were contributed Wood" is used in speaking of one instead of the desperate leap into spun by the Heys. E. W. L. Martin and of Bombay's "Great thorough- the well which, l, frequently the these may be in the confines of but the responsibility on teachers. Halward, Games were Indulged faren. This should be Queen's modern substitute for forbidden their respective Departments and parents alike le onerous and in
The question naturally, arises
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state of affairs in respect of divided control can so easily arise
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