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Hong Kong, Friday, July 29, 1927.
was
ALL THAT'S WANTED.
attempting to damn their obvious popularity. Again, shorte
are
not unnice or indecent, Anything
ST. PETER'S.
FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927.
"can" be unice and/or indecent YOUNG MEN'S CLUB GALA
if one is looking for these nega-
tive qualities. Then the display
of an expanse of hairy leg is not
an ugly sight. An abundance of
DAY.
MONDAY'S PROGRAMME,
PRAPS-PRAPS NOT!
:
hair denotes virility, and a well turned leg-male or female- St. Peter's Young Men's Club A new minimum for an open-- constitutes one of the most beau- has arranged a gala day for Mon-ing No Trump bid was noted in tiful possessions of any human day (August Bank Holiday) a recent game. A certain con- being. This objection is as futile when various races will be held at vivial young man dealt and bid a as that raised by a writer in, we Clear Water Bay (launch leaving No Trump; all passed. Dummy his hand down and think, a Shanghai newspaper, Queen's Pier at 11.30 a.m., arriv-put
remarked:- who declared that the ladies diding back at 7 p.m.)
On August 5 a whist drive will not like viewing the back of n man's knee! Then again, "there be held at the Cathedral Hall at is no coyness in the way men 8.80 p.m.; on August 8, a social wear shorts." What nonsense! for Service men Why should there be? What man House; on August 13 a moonlight the declarer said, "I bid it on one wants to wear anything "coyly"? bathing picnic, on August 22, an- Jack with two Queens and three It seems that the only sensible other social for Service men on cocktails." point made by the writer now in the roof of the Club and on Aug- our pillory is that shorts are ust 26 a whist drive at the cheap (thank goodness) and that Cathedral Hall.
should be instituted. This is!
"Well, I can't imagine what you bid No Trump on when 1. have three Aces and four Kings."
at the Club "Well, if you want to know,"
certainly needed, whether shorts speaking members of the Club.
At a certain church it is the
The Club is starting a class in custom of the clergyman to kiss a school for deportment for men "easy" Chinese, for non-Chinese- the bride after the ceremony. A young lady who was about to be The Library has been increased married did not relish the idea, husband to tell the clergyman
are worn or not. Exactly what
surer of the Club,
we said in these columns the by donations of books, Gifts will and instructed her prospective. other day regarding the wearing be welcomed by the Librarian.
Mr. F. A. Peterson has been that she did not wish him to kiss of caps applies to, the wearing of shorts. One must possess the appointed Hon. Assistant Trea- her. right sort of face presentably to wear a cloth cap, and one must possess the right sort legs to wear shorts to outward advantage. It is gen- erally the people who have not these attributes who are constant- ly defaming the virtues of caps and shorts. Of course, if one is a snob, the best fitting face or the stoutest legs in the world would not permit of either articles men's wear being affected.
The bridegroom obeyed. "Well, Harry," said the lady when he returned, "did you tell the minister that I did not wish.
"Yes."
MRS. J. W. STEPHENS. him to kiss me?"
CORRESPONDENCE.
FERRIES AND BLINKERS.
(To the Editor of the "China Mail"]
SirThe letter which appeared
LATE PEAK RESIDENT'S
WILL PROBATE.
$111,200 LOCAL ESTATE.
The wish that her body should
got to Kowloon we struck the wharf deners.
"And what did he say?" "He said in that case he would charge only half the usual fee!"
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"That was
A deserted street,
"Thank you very much indeed," be cremated and her ashes scat-beamed the well-dressed flapper oftered to the winds is expressed in in the bus, as a working man
the will of the late Mrs. J. offered her his seat. Williams Stephens, widow of very kind of you." Mr. M. J. D. Stephens, of The other blushed happily, and Hong Kong.
gave a number of other males a Deceased leaves estate in Hong hardy glare as he answered--- Kong valued at $111,200. Pro- "Not at all, miss, not at all. I Manns: creatures who enjoy the|
bute has been granted to local know some men don't give up notaries.
their seats unless it happens to be fag and yet are out on every pos-
Among bequests to servants are a pretty girl, but looks make no $5,000 to the principal servant, adds to me." sible occasion to belittle and de- in your paper yesterday signed
And everybody except the mean all and everything that does "Kowloon-ite" is very much to the $2,000 to the No. 1 Boy and a not accord with their own narrow-on one of the smaller ferries from $700 to the cook and $500 each to
point. Yesterday afternoon I was similar sum to the amah, with young girl smiled. minded and unpatriotic opinions, the Hong Kong side and when we two other servants and two gar- Three a.m. on a cold and frosty It is as well, therefore that at the corner near the Railway Her peart necklaces are direct-morning! America' should have its Strawns Station. People were thrown offed to be divided between Margaret down which meanders a man, and its Dyers just as Britain has their feet and sampans in the vicin- Walker, Gladys Stephens and flushed of face and uncertain of
ity had a narrow escape from being Sarah Elizabeth Ellis,
the first feet. For twenty minutes he its Chamberlains and its Birken-upset. Such steering can only] heads to correct misapprehensions come from cheap and inexperienced two of whom are to receive £500 tries to unlock his front door, watched by an amused policeman, and the latter £200,
who at last intervenes. and to cool the hotheads out for
Another point, Mr. Editor.
Donations to Charity.
"I say, guv'nor," he remarks, self-aggrandisement at the ex-was walking along Des Vaux Following are charitable be- pense of their own nationals in Roddalot of Chinese walking the Blind £500; Great Ormonding to
Road early yesterday evening and quests. St. Dunstan's Home for "I suppose you know you're try
open that door with a China.
outside the white lines, the palice-Street Children's Hospital £500; cigarette?"
The reveller stares at the In referring to the protection of man took no notice of them. Then Maternity Hospital, near Man- Chinese life and property in for-nese had brought a case against Foundling Hospital, London £100 cigarette, badly bent, in his from my paper I saw that a Chichester Square, London, 100; policeman, and then at the eign countries, Mr. Dyer is on a traffic cop from this beat, so I Pearson's Fresh Air Fund, & fingers. Then, with a groan, he equally safe ground, even al-suppose his pals are now saying: Henrietta Street, London, W. C. sinks weakly down on the door-
"Let the blinking blinker do its 100; Dr. Barnardo's Homes step. though he once again may be ac- own work and the lines take care
"Oh, con'sh'ble," he groans, cused of staleness. Only the other of themselves!" Perhaps we will
be allowed to walk along the street Kowloon City Home for the "send for doctor! I've bin an day attention was called in this in peace now. Only the other day Blind $1,000; Church Body shmoked the bleshed key!". column-and not for the first friend and myself who were $1,000, to be employed in the re- time by a long way--to the secur.passing Pedder Street were pushed pairing or building fund of St. in the back by a burly Indian police- John's Cathedral; Little Sisters of afforded the Chinese in man who chattered something we the Poor $1,000. Hong Kong, Malaya, Australia, could not understand. Eventually One half of the residuary insurance ageht had called to North Borneo, and other parts of we discovered he wanted us to estate Mrs. Stephens bequeaths to estimate the damage.
keep within those wonderful white Mrs. Kate Mumby, or in the event "Now, with regard to these
ity
labour.
Yours etc.,
PEAK-ITE
BAIL ALLOWED.
C.S.PS APPLICATION FOR CHINESE.
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£100.
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There had been an outbreak of fire at the artist's studio, and the
of her earlier death to her child canvasses," said the insurance Lor children on their attaining man. "You say they cost about
their majority. One quarter she ten shillings each?"
allots to Mr. Frank Mumby with "Yes," admitted the artist. similar alternative, and the re- "But," he pointed out, "I'd paint- maining quarter she directs shall ed on most of them."
"Ah!" said the agent thought- Alice Memorial Hospital, the fully. "Then suppose we say five Maternity Hospital, the Nether- shillings each?"
be divided equally amongst the
At a friend's house a certain author found himself in company
perienced some difficulty in find ing a suitable topic of conversa- tion. At last he came to books. "Have you read any good books lately ?" he asked.
"Yes," was the answer. "I've just been reading a splendid book."
A fitting epitome of the position the British Empire. And so it is lines. as affecting foreigners in China with the American Possessions. the Shanghai The Chinese enjoy the same de- given to Rotary Club by Mr. L. C. Dyer, a gree of protection of their lives! member of the United States and properly us do American Congress, according to a brief citizens. In the striking picture the Queen's cablegram from Reuter. Mr. Dyer being shown at stated that all that foreigners Theatre to-day and to-morrow Refused bail by Mr. R. E. sole Hospital and the Ho Miu
B Puritanical Attorney-General Lindsell want in China is the same protec-
on Tuesday, a Chinese Ling Hospital.
on a charge tion of life and property which grieves over the tendency to make who was remanded
of manslaughter alleged to have the Chinese receive in foreign of America a melting pot for the of mommitted on July 1, 1925, ALLEGED HOLD-UP. with a youth with whom he ex- countries. If China is unable to scum of the whole world, but in a was again before the Magistrate
The Hon. CHINESE CHARGED WITH give that protection, their re. case of national disaster he has to yesterday afternoon.
DEMANDING MONEY. Captain Superintendent of Police admit that these dregs, so called, made an application for ball, on spective Governments must pro- vide it. No country, he added, rise to the occasion, prove their behalf of the accused's relatives.
Charged with demanding money humanity, and justify their exile Mr. Wolfe said: "I have aden the with menaces from the Man Kee can live unto itself alone.
defendant and others connected godown, a Chinese who is alleged There has often been a fear in America. The simile can be ap- with him, and in a substantial to have posed as a detective was that the United States did not plied to the Chinese even of the amount I am not prepared to brought before Major C. Willson
"Indeed. What was it?" at the Central Magistracy yester understand the principles gov. class far removed from the under-object to bail being granted.
"Well, I forgot the name." may say that I think the defendant day.
"Who was the author?" erning British policy in China-s world which the Attorney-General will not jump his bail again. He Mr. F. C. Hall appeared for the
"I don't know.” policy that has been reiterated was lamenting. Under the Stars has personally given me an under- defendant, and Mr. D. McCallum
"Well, what was it about?" over and over again on the identi- and Stripes the liberty of the law-taking that he will appear for his watched the case on behalf of the trial, and I can accept that." complainant. while Mr. Lee
"I've quite forgotten. But it cal lines as those so neatly abiding Chinese is us sacrosant as The accused had jumped a ball d'Almada held a watching brief for had a red cover." summed up by Mr. Dyer. In fact, that of any American citizen, and of $5,000 when first arrested in "an interested party."
1025, and it was for this reason The prosecution alleged that on) the only publicist in America certainly, as in the British Em-that ball was refused on Tuesday: June 25 complainant was carting It was the morning after the the some goods which he had bought night before, and a young clerk. worth having so far-from the pire, far more inviolable than in Having ascertained that viewpolat of the foreigner in his own native China. Therefore, accused could raise $8,000 in cash from a shop at Canton Road back having met too many friends, and $3,000 in securities, Mr to his godown at Jordan Road. rang up his chief at home about
that The defendant, with China has been Mr. Silas it should not be asking of China Lindsell granted bail in
two eight o'clock, explained every- Strawn, whose articlce and oral too much when it is pleaded that amount, and the accused was told others not in custody, approach thing, and apologised for his to appear in Court again at 10 a.m., ed the complainant and asked for inability to get to the office that statements must have made men foreigners in China should enjoy on Anguat 2.
$500 before they would allow hiru day. to carry on with his business. of the calibre of, sny, Senator the same security for life and pro- Borah feel very small just because perty as Chinese receive in foreign
countries.
Shorts and Snobs,
OUR CABARET.
OPENING IN KOWLOON ANNOUNCED.
They represented themselves as said the chief, "but don't you.
"I appreciate your frankness," detectives.
of their sheer inability to grasp the guiding principles of foreign policy in China-a policy that must inevitably include the United States. The viewa We feel constrained to join advertisement columns of the date plainant
of the opening performance of the truck the defendant in the chest. the teacher had perforce to let now given
to issue with a writer in a contem-new Our Cabaret, a company of They went away and complainant him go home. expression
Five minutes later Billy Brown in Shanghai by Mr.
Dyer porary who, this morning, seeks ten London artistes whom Mr. informed the Police with the re- are neither fresh, novel, nor to explain why shorts have not Charles Chamier is presenting insult that defendant was arrested. was seen to be holding his jaw
The case a series of intimate reviews.
was adjourned until and pulling a long face, original. They have been repeat- won a "aure place in the local This talented company will make noon to-morrow.
"Have you got the toothache. too, Brown?" asked the teacher. ed a hundred-nay a thousand- sartorial scheme." In the first their first appearance in the Star
"Yessir," was the reply. times in every foreign newspaper place, they have won a sure place. Theatre on Saturday, August 6, at 9.80 p.m., when they will aub-
"Ah, well," was the smiling and on every foreign platform A person has only to walk along mit "Cocktails," a little revue in
rejoinder, "the school will be from Tokyo to Hong Kong within the street with his eyes open to two acts. This will be followed drug store when suddenly seized with over in an hour, and then you the past three years, to go no observe this fact. Because a cer- by other pieces of the same at agonizing intestinal cramps, deadly will be able to go home and join
tractive type, and it can be safely nauses and prostrating diarrhoea, Johnny Stubba." further back. : As America has tain Mr. A. or Mr. B., or the
predicted that the new Our Chamberlain's Colle and Diarrhoea "He Bin't gone 'ome," said its Burahe so has British its writer referred to, does not sport Cabaret will have an excellent med sveriant warmth, comfort Billy: "he's waitin' for me to go Kenworthys, its Cooks, and its them is no reasonable excuse for reason in Kowlcon.
fishin' "
The complainant refused to pay know you're off to-day? This is and they went away. The next Sunday!" day the three defendants again
called at the godown and renewed Johnny had the toothache, and Announcement is made in our their demand. This time the com: his moans so upset the class that
got exasperated and
TOO LATE. THEN TO HUNT. No time to hunt for a doctor or
and ease from every- whero.
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