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MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
How
many, one:
Bill
Londoners, accord
figures, consume at: Howler,biced Shakespeare's
the present time amazing blunder 27.9oz. por head of boet, mutton. when, In the second a♣ of Julius and pork each week. Boef, mar la Caesar Brutus says, "Peace, count only right in view of the traditional the clock," and Cassius readily re-song, heads the list with 22:7 qz.! plies "The clock has stricken three Shakespeare: may have had a clock, but certainly Brutus never had, for clocks such as struck the hour were not invented until fully 1,200 years after bis day.
mutton is second with 11.8oz.; and park third with 8.6oz. Of the total, quantity, British bred meat equals only 6.6oz. per hoad. The figures are set out by the Superintendent' of Smithfield in an interesting, ra- port ho presents in reference to the work of the year..
ing the Government to re-open the Shakespeare's wonders, have no A City's Meat Ing to Smithfield Education Board meetings to the Press. The request is a reason=;|| able and rational one in every re- spect. It may have been that the previous decision of the authori- ties was of an experimental nature. In that case they have been givan ample time in which to test the experiment and to "show, cause" why such meetings could not in their opinion bè re-
.That those engaged; in' ported. But, they have also been A Kindly martial activities canɛ given evidence of a desire on the part of the public for a know- ledge of Education Board affairs That in itself is a healthy spirit and one to be encouraged in every possible way by the Government
OVERSEAS MEN..
Man
be of a kindly nature is shown by the story of told by a Japanese: the Chinese general. Wu Pet-fu,..
"W Pel-fu is extremely polite. Some time ago he came to the con- clusion that a Japanese general had made money personally out of a Chinese Ton One day he found out that his auspicions had been unfounded.
R.. B. and the Gramophone.
Browning was, In- vited to maků""# record of his voice at the time when mental stage: the gramophone was in the experi
"Madame Lehmann was anxious. to persuade Browning to racite ona of his posms into what Stopford Brooke described as that vile f vention of the scientific folk,' and
ad finally the poot unwillingly consent
11
"He immediately sent for the Japanese general and said. 'T havo
"But so confused · did this an apology to make. I was under amazingly modest man become that, the impression that you had made though he was reciting his own money in a dishonourable way. composition. How they brought the Despite these suspicions I never good news from Ghent to Alx, ho said a word about it to any one. suddenly stopped dead in the second All the same thoughts are na dan-verse and looked appealingly to gerous as words. I apologise." Mr. J. Comyns: Carr who supplied
the line, for him... Thank you.
Sir Edward Stockton has an article in the "Overseas for March called "The Treatment of Overseas men," which is very timely. In its main charges, it may have little to do, with such places as Hongkong. and more meetings of the Education Board with the Straits Settlements; but Not Easily Bacon
An American, called Carr, gasped Browning, gratefully, be again thrown open to the in some quarters it may prick a Impressed. Wu Pai-fu, and lec-of the oom.
visited and then finished speaking the rest Press. It is learned that Mr. B. somnolent. conscience.
Sir.
tured him on the "Neither man had grasped" thà wonders of modern invention as
fact that this little interlude had exemplified in his own home town. become part of the performance,
Wu Pei-fu was bored.
and there was much merriment Eventually, when Mr. Bacon de acribed the sky in America as being stand It no more black, with aeroplanes, he could
Wylle attended the meeting of Edward lays it down as a convic the K.R.A.. Committee and gave ation that unless overseas service report on the work of the Educa is made attractive, it will be im tion Board that report being possible to get the best type of alluded to as "private and con-young men to devote themselves fidential in view of the fact that to it. Character and ability are the meetings of the Board are the qualifications which all young now held in camera."" 'But, if Britons going overseas should such reports can be communicated possess. "The possession of
Sir
once
when the record, which our host claimed as a memento of Robert. Browning, was reproduced!?"
The series of the
a
her
And how can it be otherwise? The happiness and comfort of twenty-two years crushed for I then mixed some pepper in the ever, and the Queen, who did pellets, and the effect of this relish nothing, thought of nothing, on the next lizard was astonishing. without her beloved and gracious faw inches from the ceiling, gave her constant companion, It dashed up the wall, stopped a husband, who was her support, a somewhat queralous lock and, all guide, who helped her in ener of a sudden, whisked off its tail! thing, great and small, stands may mention that this appendage alone in her trying and difficult leaving its owner, and the latter duty, as she will to her last hour, wriggles about. for soma time after position, struggling to do her does not appear to be any the worse with a broken, bleeding heart, and for its loss and soon grows a new with but one consolation-to
rejoin him again, never to part!
"We in China," remarked Wa Peffu, "have long discarded ay- "One Long letters of Queen Vic- ing."
[Dark Day," toria begins with the "Indeed," replied the surprised
'period immediately Mr. Bacon. to the KR.A. Committee, why not character is particularly needed in
following the death of the Prince "Certain continued Wu Peffu. Consort, a blow which left Queen to the whole Association and also Oriental countries since on it Bri-will find that the Emperors used stricken. In a letter dated Febru If you read Chinese history you Victoria stunned and grief- to the entire community? If thetish prestige largely rests." to ascend to Heaven on a golden ary, 1862, to the Earl of Derby, Committee of the KR.A. can be Edward Stockton charges, that too cloud.. Now, it is impossible to then. Leader. of the Conservative the repository of reports of this often the younger generation finds fly on golden clouds. It is obvious, Opposition; she wrote: nature why continue the pretence that after it has given several of therefore, that there must have To express what the Queen's
been aeroplanes, of privacy and confidence in re- the best years it possesses to the
desolation and utter misery is, is "However, it is not a Chiness almost impossible: every feeling spect to the work of the Educa-promotion of the highest interests custom to tire our frienda by, disseems swallowed up in that one of tion Board ?
of its employers it is remorselessly cussing such a boring subject."
unbounded grief! She feels as What has been gained to the thrown on the scrap heap, be-
though her life had ended on that Meny cause of education since the Press cause cheaper labour can be A True Tail writes CH. B. in bright angel who was her" idol years ago dreadful day when she lost that
was excluded from the meetings secured. Very often a man goes.
the Punjab during the life of her life; and time of the Board? Has the Board, in out to take up planting on a slid the hot weather, I was amusing seems to have passed in one long common with other public bodies,ing scale contract. He does quite ing fies (musca domestica) on the
myself by watching Heards catch dark day! ANDERSON.On March 6, at 10% not always enjoyed the privilege well, and at the end of the first walls. It occurred to me that per-days lengthen, the primoses com She sees the trees budding, the Alexandra Court, Queen's gate, S.W., to Peggie (née of meeting in Committee when four years he should be entitled to hapse fly could be imitated, so in ing out, but she thinks herself Robertson), the wife of purely private matters were a new contract with an advance of schoolboy fashion I made up still in the month of December! George, Boyd Anderson (now under discussion? Even journal salary as a recognition of the ex-paper, placed this in the end of aing till night, goes out twice
moist pellet of blackened blotting The Queen toils away from morn in Singapore), a daughter. HENDERSON-On March 9, at ists with experience as members perience he has gained. The pen-holder, and took aim so as today, does all she is desired to by Hartfield, Cooden Bench, to of Municipal and other Councils agents on the spot often allow him lodge the bait a few inches in front her physician, but she wastes and Margaret, the wife of C. M. elsewhere will be the first to admit to come home in the blind belief tempta I succeeded. The creature inmost soul which seems to be of a lizard. After one or two at pines, and there is that within her Henderson (late of Penang, that it is not always politic to that this contract will be forth- darted at the pellet and swallowed burdening her existence! S.S.), a son." JACQUES-On February 27, at publish all and everything that coming. It is not forthcoming, it in the twinkling of an eye, or
Clifton, Bristol to Frederick transpires during meetings open and on reaching home the em
should I not say "the twitching of and Evelyn Jacques (both of to the Press. And the Press has ployee is dismissed on the ground
a call? the Malayan Medical Ser- - vice), twin daughters.
always been worthy of the trust "that they are engaging a be- MURRAY-On March 2, at Cecil reposed in it when respectfully ginner to do his job because it is House, Cecil Road, Norwich, requested not, to report certain cheaper." Sir Edward utters to Capt. and Mrs. H. Jmatters at certain stages of de- strictures on the practice of dis- Stewart Murray, of Kudat, B.N. Borneo, a daughter velopment, bealdes other items missing men at the end of the WHITFIELD. On March 31. that may be labelled purely per second four years of contract; of 1928, at European Hospital, sonal the publication of which is the system of half-instead of Kuala Lumpur to Mr. and undesirable, to say the least.
full pay; non-payment of wives' Mrs. Hugh Whitfield, a daughter..
But, on the other hand, there passages; and the reduction of must be many discussions at the salaries during a slump with no meetings of the Board of Educa- increase of them during times of tion the reporting of which would prosperity. Sir Edward says that at Hyères, France, William undoubtedly be helpful to the these are defects of Overseas bual- Reginald Frederick Brock of cause. of education... As weness activities which will have to F.M.S. and Guernsey, aged stated, in commenting on the mat. be faced by employing firms in We of what we are often inclined enforce the kindly ediet: “Love 48. GRIMSTONE On March 31, "atter in our issue of February 26, England. He adds that it is not commonplace, the era in which Sp the era of chivalry will con-
to conclude is the drab age of the thy neigbour as thysel the International Hospital, when meetings of the Board were too much to say that other for generosity, courage, unselfishness tinue with us just so long as this Hankow, Frances Martha, beloved wife of S. E. Grim- open to the Fress, the public eign nations often treat their and even kindness are discounted, inspired counsel la voluntarily generally was stimulated to Overseas workers very much those who hope to succeed must Sefence Monitor") With this ren and in which the only thought of heeded, (anys, the "Christian stone, aged 28 years.
evince a degree of interest in better than our firms do." Heavy be for themselves, have been lisation there comes the gratifying WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT. education that otherwise would responsibilities rest on those who awakened recently to the realisa assurance: that we should not too have been lacking. In addition, employ men from Home. Sir tion that the days of real chivalry apprehensively view the confusing. The wedding will take place at the public was given an oppor-Edward stresses this and urges future than of the present. Hardly dences so profligately displayed are no more of the past and the and somewhat discouraging evi- St. John's Cathedral, at 3 p.m., on Tuesday, April 20, of Mr. S. B. tunity of appraising the worth of firms "to leave no stone unturned a day has passed in the last week which tend to persuade us that the Tan, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. the work of the members of the to see that they get the best men or more that there has not been world of to-day is in a very bad. Tan Cheng-tuan, of Singaporo, to Board in the interests of educa- and to look after them well
recorded upon the scroll of unsel way. The discordant clamour of Miss Elizabeth Wong, eldest
fish buman achievement some out the mob impinges almost relent- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
standing act of real heroism where lessly upon human consciousticas, Wong, Hongkong.
those performing such acts have and as one is disturbed by raucous been impelled by no other motive voices of the night, ao do these who, or purpose than that irresistible listen too closely to the alarms. "We need what I may call an Impulse which brings with it the which are bounded inclina to the emotional shove that will bring us desire, and willingness to express, opinion that the sterner and deeper to a reassertion of our birth-in concrete form, the brotherhood note of righteousness and Justice. right" Jane Addams.
of mankind
has been silenced. "We desire peace, but our safest The affairs of the world, large But reason and right interpreta- peace will be beneath the shadow and small, will all be taken care of, tion come with the morning. In of our swords Benito Musso one concludes, so long as there res the revealing light of day we see rains to be obeyed this prompting outstanding like beacons to human. which, at times of peril or distress, hope, the unimpeachable evidences causes men and women to forget of the imperishable brotherhood
DEATHS. BROCK-On February 27, 1926,
Friends are invited to be pre sent; also at the reception after the ceremony, at the Chinese Mer- chants Club, China Building,
Hongkong, Monday, April 12, 1926.
THEY SAY THAT
taill
THE DAYS OF REAL
CHIVALRY
tion in the Colony. Conversely, through the existence of the Board, the Government was given an excellent medium for the dis semination of its educational policy, thus creating and main- taining public confidence therein. As the Government is always ready to receive advice and sug gestions proferred in regard to the health of the community from was an immortal artist yet both pawn welfare or safety in the upon which rest the foundations of
Neither: Gilbert nor Sullivan
the Sanitary Board, so it used to are Robort Lynd
PLEA FOR PUBLICITY.
Six weeks ago attention was drawn in this column to the
desire to succour and save those civilisation and progress. Just as be regarded as equally ready to secrecy pervading the meetings
"New York has changed little who are unable to help themselves, we are able to forget the discom hear the counsels of the Education in five years except that every There is no need to pass laws to forts which the night brought, so of the Education Board. Now
moj rather faster compel those to do right who by may we regard with lest concern West; and akytospulse are unselfish it would much that is said of so-called crime
vater
the Committee of the Kowloon Re
ation, in: the sing
ter
30-32 Des Voeux Road 0.
of Kowloon parts of the Colony
doci
to ask the over
What has happened and thin
hort
the real letter
In
ike to know he ha
to know throUTH
Sin bout capa
serve no real purpose to meet into waves of human selfchnase, of libles, enthur- law the
den Rule: human depravity and of man's ins the
Svies of humanity to man. All these thinks
SA
Howar
world
of the it may be hoped, will in due time able to pasE AWAY