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DEATH.
HONGKONG'S WOMEN.
ST GEORGE'S DAY
ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOCAL
WAC CELEBRATION:
CONCERT TO BE HELD.
THU
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The young person
Something
mun when
call on him as though there were no one else on earth whom they had to call upon
Observation, who wrote to a friend | A Man and His significant'
saying that "The Reading happened The Englishman unlike his Sons of the Shell" was the more pushing cousins and his more aggressive neighbours is a greatest dessert atory she had realises that in books the greatest non-gregarious and a diffident ever read, must have forgotten the soule of the world will come to | being:
story of Eve and the apple. There are times when though he openly professes scorn at what. he considers the unwarranted claims and assumptions of the junior branches of the family, “in. his heart he secretly envies their power to get together on the slightest pretext to chant their own high virtues and qualities: together at all times..
Aide to Laughter.
Mr. J. C. Squire, in compiling his The Comic. Muse" la said to: have included only those examples which made him laugh, If the reader wishes to compare his sense of the comic with that of Mr. Squire's here are specimens of the things to be found in the
stew
"What do you read, my lord ?” said Polonlus, and Hamlet answer- ed, "Words, words, words:" Many a modern victim of the invention of printing might say the same, With all the reading: that is done, how few people know the experience which made Mrs. Browning, say," "No man can be called friendless who has God and the companion- ship of good books,"
Some books are our servants:
Said the waiter, "Don't shoutThey run errands for us. They are mental drudges. They bring da And wave it about,..
Or the rest will be wanting one, information; they tell us news;
tool"
Yes, undoubtedly their neigh cours have a great advantage over the English in that particular rift of hanging together-andno notice need be taken of the fact book- that in moments of irritation the An epicure, dining at Crewe, wont to brighten the masculinity Englishman may be heard to mut-Found quite a large mouse in his of Happy Valley? Must it be ter that if they didn't hang to- gether they would certainly hang said that somebody's "one. hun separately and this clannish- dred" and one exercises for theness is in a great number of Ipiano' are more hypnotic than a ways, a trait greatly to be envied.
shin-protected game? It sems soclannish."
The Englishman should be more And when the dear old Bishop of To blow one's own trumpet. Eondon drops into this ecclesias occasionally, does not mean a There was an old man of Baroda, tical paradise, we shall pass
continual fanfare. him a gentle hint to leave the purposes is it good to have a com-
Not only for trumpet blowing Who said, "I perceive a bad odour
When they said, "Is it faint?" cocktail drinking business until mon meeting ground for every He replied, "No, it aint." he gets back to "dear old London."national, but also, and more So they fetched him a whisky and particularly for mutual sympathy and for discussion of mutual dif-
⚫ soda, ficulties.
A Eack of Method?
ม
they keep us up-to-date, they "equip
us for our trade. But the great, books are not our alaves; they are our mastera, we sit at their feet Look," they say, and to learn. looking, we catch new visions of life's significance. ""Consider," they say, and considering, we are captured by a new truth and our The Letters of Sir spiritual power is multiplied.. A Humbugs Walter Raleigh," whoman's life is made by the hours Mostly. lectured in literature at when great ideas lay hold upon
Oxford, are full of good him and except by way of Hving ạ things.
persons, there is no channel down "I wish the newly-born would which great ideas come oftener. into human lives than by way of" books. Said Charles Kingsley,
wonderful as a book.”
Save & living man, nothing is so
It is with that purpose in view that the St. George's Society That the F.W.D. "moves in a exists in Hongkong. To set as mysterious way its wonders to the rallying point for all English- perform is shown by the state of men, to assist other Englishmen the road adjoining the Victoria who, temporarily, and perhaps OUT British School. Some consider of sheer bad luck, are in need; able time ago, the playing field of those are the chief objects of the keep a diary. It would be a shock the School was levelled or adjust Society. To keep alive the flame to the public, fancy, like all frank ed and a new road made adjoining of nationalism, while at the same diaries.. and going past the new site of time denying to no other nations of wholehearted disgust that fit The various expressions Queen's College. The earth and the same right, is an object sand washed down by frequent worthy of all recommendation.over the face are our only clue to, rains were banked on the narrow Therefore in no invidious spirit, its contents. There would be side-walk fronting the play but solely to keep alive the sacred the Intolerable inconvenience of ground depriving pedestrians of fame and ail it connotes, should
ARMS DEAL.
THEFT FROM CHINESE CRUISER,
ARMOURER CHARGED.
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one
of modest reticence from claiming
Many people shrink with a kind.
the greatest booke
as their own.
HOY. At Kowloon Hospital, a means of safety from passing every Englishman make a point breathing-of the disgustingness of They think that the great books are Hongkong.. on: April 14, vehicles coming round a nasty of getting into touch with the daylight of being mauled of the for plain people Upon the con for scholars and specialists, not Alfred William John Hoy, bend The earth and sand were local Secretary as soon as possible leathly bath. åged $8.
piled high, but, not being solidi-so that on England's Day the
trary, the specialist, has his. library. fied each heavy downpour of Society will stand out as
It's quite true that busy people of learned messengers to run, Hongkong, Thursday, April 15, 1926bankment and much of the sand port of all Englishmen in the some pretence, too. If no one diding, the economist, his books on rain, causes fissures in the "em which has the whole hearted supare humbugs mostly. Such a time-errands for him and for him alone
the engineer his books on engineer- to run over the road, making a re- Colony gular quagmire. Gangs of coolies It will give great pleasure to anything but what is necessary, economies, but the great books are are rushed to the scene, and the every Englishman to learn that there would be nothing in the for us all. They spring, not out earth and sand are most religious-HE. the Governor has honoured papers. The idiots make the work of the human heart. Wheen Macbeth of specialties, but out of the depths. Tirades against the modernly placed and "patted" back. This the Society by consenting to be mostly, and then do it. The world sins and his conscience-faces, re-
sort of thing has been done on at come their Patron, and with such woman are gossipy incidents of least six occasions, suggesting a lead, it is to be expected, that soer round from lack of brains, morse like a tide returning to a Home life. A Bishop sees
want of method on the part of the under the auspices of their newlyke a squirrel in a cage.
ahore, we all know what that means. young couple take two cocktails P.W.D.," and that the cost of elected and popular President St.
I hope you are going to join my and whenever a great creative book before proceeding to dinner and is coolies' work would cover the George's Society is about to enter "Shock Society." It is formed to strikes a deep note it is sure to be horrified and thunderstruck. The Praya East reclamation several years in its records.
dumping of the sand into the on one of the most prosperous give a healthier, firmer tone to dealing with an elemental axperi- morals. Any one is eligible, who is ence which is shared by us all. SA dear old Bishop of London urge: times over.
No better way for Englishmen shocked at things. To disapprove afgnificant day dawne in a man's the members of a girls school to
to celebrate the inauguration of will not do, you must be shocked.life when he says to himself, "The seek clsewhere.for a possible home-
the New Year could be found than When the original list is complete, supreme books of the world Belong provider when a "young man"
the opportunity presented on St. only those who are shocked at some to me. George's Day to meet all other thing which no existing member is Most of the books we read are suggests a cocktail Others be
Englishmen and their friends shocked at will be eligible like the rain water that fell last sides Bishops deplore the tendency
the Concert being got up by the
We have nice vacancies for any night. It is a superficial matter one who is shocked at Bishops, and it soon runs off. But the Society. on the part of young women to
The East Surrey's band willJS (convivial polygamy) and my literature of creative" spiritual indulge in things that would
play selections of English Music, sister (brief widowhood) are power is a whole sen--the accumu shock the mid-Victorian prude
and it is hoped to arrange a very original members. There is also a lated spiritual gains of the ages- should such am one come back The theft of Ave rifles, one varied programme consisting en Strachey (young men preferring and to knew it and to love it, to from the shades to see the modern revolver and 220 rounds of ammunitirely of English Music of differ-four-wheelers to hanaoms), and go down beside it and dip into it. another friend (high too). Wilk to feel its vast expanse the cur Angelina. We are spared such on from on board the Chinese ent periods.
crpiser. "Kwong Ching", which has The plans for this Concert will you join? You must All in a form, rents that run through it and the comments in this Outpost of Em-been in port for some months was be opened at Moutrie's on Satur- mentioning your claims. The sub-tides that lift it, are among the |scriptions go to working expenses, choicest and most rewarding pri- pire-(we think that is the a charge against the armourer of day, April 17, 1926.
and the residue to Putting downvileges that man can enjoy correct phrase). Our maidens and the vessel (Lui Heung) before Mr.
J. H.. B.. Nihill at the Kowloon:
things." mem-quhiba are of the elect.Magistracy yesterday, Afternoon teas; bridge and mah Giving formal evidence, the com jong, and the gossip, that goes mander of the vessel (Kam Chiu- with such things seem to be the lung) said that at the time of the theft he was away from the vessel; main outlets. We have our tenniswhich was left in charge of the amazons, and quite a few are second officer (Pun Song.) | known to smoke a "cig" in the Other evidenca was given to show pavilion at Fanling and else door of his relativen house in where, in the intervals of follow-Temple Strect. Yaumeti, when a ing, and criticising the wayward sum of $100, was found on him ness of a quite little ball. Dances- Defondant made a long statement on outh. He said the arms wera yes Social service-'m! Re-sold to ons Ng Ko for 8880 and gious activities also h'm! All disclosed his part in the transac this seems a somewhat dispiriting tion. He alleged that the second officer had previously sold 18 rifles comment. We have to remember to the same man and added that the that quite a host of "ying ying" second, officer should have been spend a good deal of time in charged with him in the present offices, and leisure time is theres, as the suggestion to steal the arois came from him The money fore limited. It is remarkable he said, was to be used for paying that this class of the fominine arrears of wages.
that defencant was arrested at the
"to-day.
STAYING HERE.
SIR J. JAMIESON RELIEVED
AS CONSULS:
community is not more prominent The case was adjourned until f sport than it is. Cultural pursuits — reading the latest (censored) Helena May Institute novel, or banging out a Chopin nocturne, or a more melodious (?) Chaminade, may have some thing to do with it. Some believe go in for what is known as having the voice trained. All of ich goes to Hongko
ining exam
whole
and that
Ardours 101, the
We
Jamieson, C.MG Hongkong yesterday by ingshan” Krom Canton, relieved as British there by Mr JJE
OPIUM CHARGE.
"SUI AN” DESPATCH BOX FIND,
PURSER ACQUITTED.
HEFA
The Harbour of Hongkong.
(Written for the Shield by an appreciative Princeton
Professor.)
They say that Honolulus the lovellest place afloat: The case in which Mr. J. F Azevedo (purser of the 8.3. "Sui With highlands on the islands and bloaters in the boat; An") and a seaman were charged I guess it's true from all I hear of palm-trees by the sea, with possession of 40 taels of And the mermaids and the other things you find at Waikiki; illicit opium found in a despatch The moonlight's nice to park in on the road to Diamond Head; box was continued before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy And at the old Aquarium are fishes to be fed yesterday.
They'll tell you all about it and they'll sing it in a song: Mr. Leo d'Almada, defending But I'd rather cast my anchor in the Harbour of Hongkong the purser, submitted there was no evidence to show that defen- They say that Kobe's rather nice, especially for spring dent knew the oplum was in the The cherry-blossoms ain't so much the Equor is the thing box.
Defendant, in evidence, said The earthquakes ain't so frequent, the mosquitoes ain't begun, that he had been in the com- And your trousers don't get mildewed just with sitting in the sun, pany's service for fourteen years You listen to the music of the naughty samlesen and there had never been a com- plaint against him. The box in And swear to God you'll never stand
[se as that again- which the oplum was found was But-Kobe ice or Kobe dice; and he used for taking papers to the Td rather hear the coolies in the Haz of Hongkong company's offices. It was never
locked, and was always put out. Ive heard old timers tell of glories lon side the cabin in the alleyway near of the splendours and the spenders a the mail room on the vessel zenre
that
ing Hongkong In answer to the races and the chases and the face! question from Mr. F. C. Hall (for The dining wits and signing thits, and the seaman) defendant the box was always ta) company's office whe full or not. It was back stationery and othe
and
current and the liquor(and rather have my samshu la the
hat climb fro
the
of Shanghai.
strong