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MANK LANGUAGE,
ITS HISTORY AND ITS DECAY.
SURVIVED FOR CENTURIES.
THE CHINA MAIL,
YOUNG LADY'S AGE. MYSTERY RAPPINGS. SAVOY TRADITION!
CLAIM ON PROMISSORY
NOTES.
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES:
Singapore, March 1.
STORY OF TERRIFIED WOMEN.
JUMPING SALAD BOWL.
tions.
ADVICE TO AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETIES.
"MIMICRY NOT ACTING,"
THE BIG SWORDS.
IGNORANT WIVES.
HUNGHUTSE GIVEN FREE HAND IN SUPPRESSION.
MOVEMENT SMOULDERING.
KNOW-NOTHING KIND OF
WOMEN.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928.
BIG ARMS DEAL.
ITALIAN' SUED BY CHANG CHING-YAO IN TIENTSIN.
COMPETENCY TO SUE.
Tientsin, Mar. 5. An interesting sequel to
General Chang
SWEEPING CRITICISM.
The latest critic of modern mar- Much has recently appeared; both [riage sweepingly describes ninety
Harbin, Feb. 20.
A
Since Mr. Frederick Robinson, "It is only by a complete sever- Another language, the native
The case was heard in the Dis one of the occupants of the house, ance from Savoy opera and the tongue of the Isle of Man, is threatental with certain and quick trict Court yesterday in which of mystery in Eland-road, Batter-Savoy tradition that the amateur in the Chinese and foreign preas, per cent. of the woman who marry $1,000,000 armé deal negotiated in
S.W., was taken away operatic stage can fulfil its highest about the activities of the Ta Tou 'now-a-days as know nothing wives-1010 between decay. As a correspondent of Chong San-teaw claimed from sea. "The Times has been lamenting, Low Geok-kee, a young lady, the and placed under observation aspirations," said Mr. F. H. Jessop. Hwel (Big Sword Society) in the they cannot cook, to darn they Ching-yao, then Tupan of Hunas fewer thair one thousand of Manx-sum of $480, being the amount at St. John's Hospital, Battersen, a former president of the National Tanghwa district and the expedi-are unable, they have the vagueat and Signor Egidio Marzoli, an Ita- Jand's 50,000 inhabitants have of principal and interest on two there have been two
more mys Operatic and Dramatic Association, tion led by Tuchun Wu of Hel-notions of stocking a store cup-lian citizen residing in Tientsin, now any working knowledge of promissory notes of $200 each, terious raids upon the house, ac-at the Association's dinner in Lon- lungking against them. He had board, and their minds are biles was heard in the local Italian Manx, whereas at the beginning said to be due plaintiff by the de-cording to the three sisters of Mr. don.
under him over 3,000 troops of all fully blank of the elementary rules Court on Saturday. In view of of this century there were nearly fendant. Mr. Lim appeared for Robinson.
"Amongst amateur socleties the sorts, more than double the num- of domestic organisation, writes the fact that the arms were not
Niold The second rald was no alarm-worship of Gilbert and Sullivan has ber of the Insurgents who have been Hilda
in the 50,000 /bilingüists in the Isle of the young lady while Mr. Conag-
"Daily delivered, the former Tupan is Man. The number of those in-han represented the claimant. Ing that the three sisters left the become an idolatry which is ob- defeated and dispersed. Their Chronicle."
suing Signor Marzoli for a refund habitants who speak na English The main question, however, con-house immediately, refusing to structing the advancement of Brf leader, Taolst prefect, was caught The wedding-day ignorance of of the first installment, amount- is evita leas, though, strangely cerned the age of defendant, for it sleep in it. Peter Perkins, the 14 tlah music as well as British opera, by a ruse and executed, whilst common household affairs provides ing to $300,000, which was paid in esgh, it remains almost the was alleged that she was a minor years-old son of one of the sisters, It is lamentable to think of the lack orders were issued not to give quar-the critics with an abundance of Signor Marzoli's name into a bank same as it was fifty years ago. It when the promissory note was has been taken to stay with rela-of originality and initiative of those ter in any of the villages which incidents which make good copy in Tiantain is estimated that there are still signed.
societies who imagine they are con- bad been sheltering his followers, for them. I could fill a book Signor Marzoli entered a plen about 180 real "Mans" people- In his medical certificate, which:
The following morning a "Daily tributing to art by a constant suc-The Heilungkiang cavalrymen, for with first-year incidents of house that General Chang had not the people who use exclusively the he had written after the examina-Mall" reporter
saw two
of the cession of Gilbert and Sullivan pro- the most part enlisted Hunghutse wifely' failures which have been right of standing before the Court language brought to the Manx tion of defendant. Dr. Savage sisters, Mrs. Perkins and Miss ductions. These
a from the wild north, taking advan-quoted to me as certain prognosties as the contract had been made shores by the westward-roaming states that his patient is not over Kathleen Robinson, an L.C.C.training ground not for actors but tage of the order, sacked all the tions of marriage tragedies.
with the Governor of Hunan. He Celts in pre-Christian days. twenty years of age and that he
places they visited, and, after com- There was the ex-business girl declared that the claim should be Manx is a variant of the Celtic is inclined towards the conclusion school teacher, who had called at for mimics
the house to see what further "They are so steeped in tradition mitting excesses of all sorts, fired wife who made her first experi- submitted by the Provincial Gov- speech. It was brought inta Man, that she is between nineteen and
na to leave no room for Innovation, villages and hamlets. Many inno- ment with cooking a chicken. ernment of Hunan. Ireland, and the Western Isle of twenty years old. Cross-examin- damage had been done..
originality, or the free exercise of cent persons, including women and She had never handled
a dead
The case is proceeding-Reuter. Scotland by the Goidelic branching. Mr. Conaghan asked witness
Broken glass from windows and artistic individuality. The stage children, were butchered, whilst chicken before, and when she took of the Celts. Superficially, Manx if such was not an unusual way of
every cattle, horses, pigs, and poultry the nicely browned bird out of the seems to be much more closely re- ascertaining defendant's age and doors was lying on the floor, and business for every scene,
stereo- were seized and eaten.
oven her glow of pleasure almost lated to Irish than to Scots Gaelic. if the production of a birth certi-in one room there were the shat-song, and every chorua la
of a salad bowl.typed, and the slightest departure, After being in the field for some gave her a temperature. Her hus- Actually, however, the Manxman ficate was not a better method. tered remains
therefore,, is sacrilege.
two weeks, General Wu, a harden-band said he had never Seen A fisherman can murg easily make
Peter has gone away, and I am I shall no doubt raise a stormed soldier of 67, returned to Muk-better bird-till he carved it. himself understood in. Southern Argylt than he can at Kinsale. his opinion as a medical practi-going to Yorkshire to-morrow. We of protest when I say that the musicden on horseback unshaken by the Then their joy fizzled. away. The raid yesterday morning of the Savoy operas, when compared hardships of winter travel in the plumpness of the fowl was not dus Yel the difference between the tioner. On the request. of plain-had a three Celtic speeches is small. A tiff's counsel. Dr. Savage explain after my brother had been taken with that of the bigger composers, wilds of Mancharia, satisfied with to forcement judiciously inserted,
Thumps and Crashes.
To this Dr. Savage replied that he Miss Kathleen Robinson said: had merely been asked to give
tional,
And you know that wisdom teeth do not grow in persons of the same age?
operas are
The Chairman, Sir Frank Benson,
MARRIAGE OF DEVIL'S ISLAND MAN.
a fowl's anatomy
SHIP'S CAT LOST.
OVERSTAYING HIS SHORE LEAVE.
Tommy, the pet cat of the
Gas
Company's collier, is missing, and the company, conscious of his value and valour, offers a reward for his discovery or information about him.
"foot" in Manx is "cass," ined that he based his examination away and another last night after is dull and mechanical, but I would the crude methods he had employed, but was caused by the presence of "Wandle," the Wandsworth, Wim- Scots "cas;" in Irish "cos." on the general appearance of the Peter had gone. Yesterday morn-invite anyone who doubts that state-as they had been swift and effective those parts of Hence the herring fishers of Man, lady. He next inspected her ing we were sitting at breakfast ment to take any of the favourite as a whole, and ho was able to tele-which are always removed before bledon, and Epson District
was a thumping on Sullivan songs without the words graph to Marshal Chong that the a bird is cooked. meeting either Scots or Irish mouth as regards her teeth and when there
doors, then and compare them with a theme suppression had been-completo. fishermen, have, or had, small noted the absence of wisdom teeth one of the bedroom
Every Wife Should Know. difficulty in conversing on simple, which, among the Chinese make there was a crash, and when we from such a work as 'The Immortal It is said that nearly 2,000 Big
we found that a Hour."" straightforward matters.
an earlier appearance than among ran upstairs
Swords lost their lives, whilst the
Another young wife with whom The Celts gave Man their lan-Westerners and particularly so work-box had jumped from a chest
The real operatic artist, said Mr. | government casualties were about dined gave us oxtail soup. It
He went ashore one night recent- gunge, and this language burvived with the Chinese feminine kins-of. drawers on to a chair and had Jessop; required for his fullest ex 50 killed' and four times this num- was her first oxtail, and after boll-ly while the ship was lying at the centuries-weathering even folk, who possess wisdom teeth burst open. There was another pression music of a fervour and in-ber wounded.
ing it rapidly for ten minutes she Goole docks waiting to go to sea the changes brought about by the earlier than their men. Neither crash in a room downstairs soonspiration which was not to be found The latest news indicates that atrained off the liquor into the and was not missed until the ves- Reformation. But little of the were there any signs of dental after, and when we entered it we in Savoy opera. There was a wealth the movement still is smouldering tureen...
sel; was well down the Humber. island's language found its way eruption..
found that a salad bowl had jump of British grand opera which was and that the natives, incensed at And the critics say:
"Tommy is a rare sailor and has on to paper, except some ballads Mr. Conaghan: You are fully led from the top of a cupboard and aldom seen on the professional what has happened, are again bent "What right have such women the habits of one," said Captain and carols. These latter were aware that appearances are de-landed in fragments by the door stage, such as the work of Bough on revolting. The problem of the to get married? Something should Corney to a reporter. He added:
lat the other side of the room. sung on Christrons Eve or Diel ceptive?
ton, Standford, Holbrooke, Purcell. proper administration of the Yale be done to prevent women rush-: He can swim like a fish. When- Voirrey, the feast of St. Mary. Dr. Savage: They are decep. Last night I was in the kitchen and others, and amateurs would frontier area has yet to be solved ing into matrimony before they ever we are in port, except here One of the earliest monuments of
alone when my niece from Wood-not only be advancing their own art by Chinese officials. *
can do the things which every at Wandsworth, the Manx vernacular is the Rook.i
ford arrived.
he goes ashore There was loud and justifying their existence but
wife should know how to do?" like the rest of us, but wanders. of Common Prayer drawn up and
knocking on the coal-cellar door, would be furthering the cause of SAME WOMAN TWICE, The critics quote these inel-off on his own when Gurney, the issued by Bishop Phillips at the
and a few minutes later a lump British music by turning their at
dents, but they never tell how seaman who feeds him, is not, one beginning of the seventeenth cen That is perfectly true. of soda flew across the room and tention to these composers,
these two know-nothing wives in of the shore party. When Gurney tury. At this period, and up to Eighteen to twenty-one years of erished through the glass door
their first year of adventure learn- goes ashore Tommy follows him ene hundred years later, so flour.nge is the range in Western cases. leading into the back garden.
ed the ways of running a home about like a dog, and when he is jahing was the Manx language If your evidence to her age was Hunt for Supposed "Poltergeist." said he had reason to be very grate
ful to the amateur stage for it had Paris-Eugene Dieudonne, who from their early mistakes and ex at the wheel he lies at his feet such that she would be put on the
Determined efforts were made to sent him many sweet singers and was granted a free pardon when periments, and that now they can all the time. On every other pe scaffold, would you swear that drive away the supposed "Polterge-skilful players. "I do not believe he returned to Marseilles recently give points in domestic efficiency casion when he has gone ashore she is not twenty-one years old? ist" (hubgoblin)
I should still abide by my evid Spirit."
or "Rackety that there is any organisation exist-after escaping from the dreaded to their grandmothers.
The has been at the quayside at 6, ent to-day more capable than the convict settlement at Devil's Is- This sort of thing is typical of o'clock next morning waiting to ence.
Two widely different methods of amateur artists of song and dramaland, French Guiana, has just re- the modern wife-if she is paint-return to the ship with the other attack are being adopted.
of bringing about international married. his wife.
ed in fair colours. Practical-minded local residents
peace, Imperial peace, and indus-i
He was pardoned because after The trouble is that many people
Tommy must have 100 lives, ba- trial peace throughout this Em-16 years he had been found innocent who like to lay down laws about cause he has already lost more pire.""Manchester Guardian." of taking part in the murders com- marriage blind themselves to the than the traditional nine. He has
mitted by the notorious Bonnot fact that the fabric of woman's been rescued
from Hartlepool gang of motor bandits, for which life has changed during the last docks, Goole, and Sunderland at Even the person who the point of being drowned. At he was sentenced to death. It was century. commuted to ponal servitude for prides himself upon his Modern Wandsworth recently 韭 night Point of View will give you a list watchman heard a pitiful mewing life.
The day after the sentence he of essential qualifications for
and saw Tommy battling to get advised his wife to obtain a divorce woman contemplating marriage, and start life anew with their little which tallies exactly with a list back to the ship, but the tide was too strong and he was drifting She obeyed his wish, and made in Victorian days.
Putney way when wo picked him divorce proceedings went through To darn, to cook, to manage a automatically,
maid, to manipulate a man's income up in the small boat. which Paris. Trouser-skirta,
But me. Dieudonne's faith in for his advantage to entertain... shown
1913 her husband's innocence never you can find it all in the domes. but met with little favour, have wavered, and she never remarried. tic manuals of the nineteenth cen-lessly. "I can't darn socks, and 1 been reintroduced.
She worked as a saleswoman in a tury. Paris shop and brought up her son, who is now 20,
that two-thirds of the island's in- habitants knew no English.
Is it the usual method? One is more guided by the teeth than anything els
are looking for a "ghost" with two legs, while spiritualists are trying, to exercise a spirit which is sup- posed to be able to push over heavy furniture and scatter about heavy lumps of coal and soda.
The materialists have been hid- garden adjoining
The Last Manx Bible. In 1764, hardly any of the 20,000! people living in Man knew any other tongue than Manx. These How often do you examine people thought and talked in people for the purpose of ascer- Manx. The Bibles and prayer-taining their age?
There have been two cases in books in their homes were printed!
Mans. Their children learned this Court in which I have ap-
In 1840 peäred. Manx in their schools. came the last issue of the New Testament in Manx, and within thirty-five years the number of people able to speak English and Manx had grown to over 12,000; the number able to speak only Manx had decreased to 190.
Dr. Savage then quoted a pass. The Manx language has age from a book in which it states strong Scandinavian flavour, and that the teeth are a help towards at least one-third of the Mansforming an estimate of the age of proper names are of Scandinavian persons. origin. This is hot surprising You are not prepared to assent when it is remembered that to my suggestion that in some "Orry, the Dane," was Manxland's people wisdom teeth do not grow first Norse ruler. In the at all. thirteenth century many Scots Dr. Savage replied that he had Gaelic words found their way into not gone into dentistry to endorse the Manx language, since the that statement. island then passed into the posses- sion of Alexander III. of Scotland.
The teeth may be relied upon as far as horses are concerned, noting in a back humans.
In matters ecclesiastical Man was still Norwegian, and its bishop was Bishop of Sodor and Man-Sodor, being the Western islands of Scotland as distinct from the northern isles of Orkney and Shetland.
the house of mystery In an en- deavour to catch the "ghost" which throws stones with such re- markuble aim. unknown source fell in the garden close to the house.
Stones from an
Night Watches.
TROUSER-SKIRTS.
WOMEN'S AMUSEMENT AT PARIS DISPLAY.
were
firat
in
Both
·
men.
Watch is being kept every night. On one occasion three Territorial
don't know a thing about buying Modern Point of View. officers and two professional men,
Many examples from well-design-
butcher's meat. But I'm jolly well armed with electric torches and ed pantaloons to a more immature
The modern woman does not sure that I am marrying the right. aticks hid for four hours in a form resembling riding skirts When Dieudonne landed at Mar- worry with domestic manuals be- [man, and he'll stand by me while garden close by and heard a num were shown at one of the seilfes from Devil's Island last fore marriage. Her point of view I'm learning All the house ber of small stones fall close to fashion houses. Women looked at October his faithful wife was the was expressed vigorously by an gadgets." them.
the models with an amused first to embrace him.
Eton-cropped young woman who Let us admit this superabund- One of the party said to a re- curiceity. Many said frankly But legal formality demanded was being catechised by one of ance of know-nothing women who
that they could not see themselves that they should porter:
remarry her flance's relatives about her become wives, but let us admit it It was impossible to tell where
wearing the
best more advanced type. Dieudonne's
Mability for looking after Ernest. as an everyday economic factor, the stones came from. On the pre- All the skirts are considerably Belbon, one of the jurymen who "I can't even boil potato," not as something of which to be A "peculiarly barbarous form vious night while I was on watch longer than the present fashion. found him guilty.
said the Eton-cropped one shame ashamed. were thrown with persecution" against heavy stones Nazarenes in Jugo-Slavia is alleg-extraordinary force and accuracy
PERSECUTED SECT.
ATTEMPT TO “STAMP OUT"
of
NAZARENES.
It would seem, however, that ed in a statement issued by the No in my direction. I was standing while the temporal ruler of Man More War Movement.
close against the back of a house was Scots, and the spiritual ruler It is asserted that the near the one affected. The stones Scandinavian, the Manx them- Nazarenes-whose faith precludes appeared to come from the end of selves found their greatest kin-them from bearing arms, although the garden. ship with their Irish cousins. A they may perform non-combatant A large garden running at the mutual understanding between service are sentenced to long back of the garden of the tur- the two peoples led to some modi- terms of imprisonment for refus-bulent house is being patrolled by fication of the Manx tongue. Buting military service, and after night and day. Manx retained its characteristics, serving the full or a shortened Psychic Investigators. one of which was periphrasis. term are "pardoned." They are Psychic investigators revel in then informed that by virtue of an opportunity to watch a so-call- As a spoken languaga Manx is the pardon" they again entered "Poltergeist" at play. In many In a sad condition to-day. It has into their civil rights and become instances. it has been found after fought a losing fight against a liable for service. They are once long watch that the disturbances constant rising tide of Irish, more sent to the army, and on re were caused by some abnormally Scots, and English especially fusing to bear arms are sent to minded Individual. In other cases English-immigrants. Yet the further imprisonment. The policy, the causes of disturbance. have Isle of Man teems with evidence it is asserted, is to imprison and been elucidated.
Some Old Numes.
of the Manx tongue. Practically pardon, and imprison again until
ail its place-names are Maxx. the victim passes the age when
Douglas, its capital, takes its he is of use to the army or able
nare from its situation on the to earn a livelihood. The Jugo-DEARER DIAMONDS.
two rivers, Awin Dhoo and Awin Slavian Government is stated to
Glass the black river and the have decided that the sect must MR. S. B, JOEL SAYS “AT LEAST bright river. Scattered over the be stamped out,
island are farms innumerable,
Negotiations to induce the Gov-|
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5 PER CENT.".
The larger and finér diamonds are to be dearer.
Mr. S. B. Joel told a “Daily Mail". reporter that the Diamond syn- dicate, which controla the price, had decided upon an increase. Ho said:.
Stones of 8 carats and upwards - will be affected; and the minimum
Increase will be 5 per cent.
practically all of which have ernment to modify its attitude mames beginning with ball or have been undertaken, and bella-Ballaugh and Ballure, re- should these fail an appeal to the spectively place of the lake and League of Nations is possible. place of the yew. The mountains. are aliens, the glens are ihens, the bogs are curraghs and the most sophisticated Manxman,, hearing tradition are strong among the the most Manx of names, never fishermen, and, like their fore. dreams of Anglicising these fami- fathers, they never raise their liar and beautiful local names. laden 'nets till the sun has risen In the towns Kittie Manx is above the peak of Cronk Ny Tree epoken, but in the small coast vill- Las, the hill of the rising day. exes the fishermen still call the That in a beautiful name in which birds, the beasts, and the fish by the Manx may well take pride. their, Manx names; knowing little Yet those who are most anxious of conversational Munk if they to perpetuate the thousand and are young, custom fa still no one lovely place-names of Man are strong that they count their, not the Manx, but the "foreign" catches in Manx Custom and Immigrants! The Observer almost immediately.
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