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body of Asiatics who think about such questions.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928
CEREMONY IN FAR-OFF: YUNNANFIL
MANY CHINESE "ATTEND.
Tummanfu, Sept. 1
PRAPS-PRAPS NOTI
Creditor at Bow County Court speaking about a débtor-Let me he runs something over at
Debtor's Wife Yes, het
600,
Leyton
The marriage of MJ. Huns a knife-grinding machine, Andrews and Misa Anna Weber was
A coloured man summoned at solemnized here at the Church of the Pentecostal Missionary Unido) of which both are members.
controlled by economic standards MISSIONARIES WED. of living, and by an unparalleled development of industrial com- petition"."The quiet wisdom" of Asia's culture is good! It cer- tainly sounds better than the trath, which is that the millions of the poverty stricken, disease- stricken, tyrammy-stricken Asia- tics were for ages helpless and hopeless until those from the West came with their idealism to help them. "Asis for the Asia- tics." What Western people The ceremony was performed by wants any part of this sun-baked the Rev. F. J. Dymond of the continent for any other purpose Methodist Mission, and the address than, firstly, to improve economic was given by the Rev. J. Graham of conditions generally; secondly, the China Inland Mission. to improve the
appalling The church, tastefully decorated, conditions prevailing and which was packed to overflowing, both for-
in eigners and Chinese attending. always prevailed have
The scheme of decoration was of Asia? The trouble with
suspended arches of greenery. Asia lies in the influence ob tained by such as the Sirdar and others who, evidently, fail to understand the motives of the West in having anything what ever to do with the East, and who give an equally wrong impression of the attitude of the East gen- erally towards the West,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Sutherland re- turned by the "Empress of Canada" to-day.
The annual meeting of the Hong Kong and Canton Ice Manufactur- ing Co., Ltd. will be held on Friday, Oct. 12, at 11.30 am.
Money and property amounting to over $1,200 in value were stolen
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Chinese Flower Girl, The bride was dressed in a plain;
Willesden Police Court do not wish to say anything against the policeman. I will give him the bonefit of the doubt.
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Mra. Newlywed: "What would you suggest for our literary club to read?"
Mr. Newlywed: "A good cookery book."
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Applicant for Situation: “I've comme erbout the ere job wot was. advertised."
Employer; "Well, and can you do
alarm):
the work?"
Applicant (In great work! Why, I thort it was a fore- The veil em-man yer wanted!"
frock of cream Chinese silk, with a girdle of the same., broidered with flowers, was kept in place with a wreath of orange. blossom. She was attended by Mrs. Parker as lady-in-waiting and a Chinese girl, Miss Chen Li, was the flower girl.
The bridegroom was supported by Mr. A. G. Johnson as best man, and the Rev. T. A. Binks was at the organ.
The reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wood, whore guests assembled to tender the happy couple good wishes.—Our Own Cor- respondent.
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Higgins: "Hallo, Matthews, old chap. I hear you backed Perfect Fool at the races the other day and. made a small fortune."
Matthews: "Yes, I didn't do badly."
"How did you spot the winner?”. "Oh, they were the last words my wife said to me as I left the house,"
.Young Hopkinson had a reputa- tiou to keep up; he was regarded by his fellow students as a great- "wit." So one morning, when an. unpopular professor set the claas to-- write.un essay on "Mannera,"
The Sirdar starts off with the from No. 17, Wing Wo-street, 2nd KOWLOON WEDDING. Hopkinson sprang to his feet. "My
statement that "the lessons of contemporary history will be lost upon those of us who still dis- believe in the challenge the East has thrown to the West." He con- tinues: "It is no mere intellectual
anarchy, but rigorous contesting, even militant revolt, in which, we ace the end of the hypnotic authority of the white man over! the coloured races of the modern world" In our opinion such ideas are not only harmful but absurd-harmful because despite of their absurdity they are writ- ten in such a way as to convey the impression that the writer has pondered deeply over the subject and may in eonsequence be re- garded as an authority-as far
floor, on Saturday night.
A gang of robbers entered a house at No. 300 Temple-street, Yaumati, yesterday afternoon and succeeded. in stealing jewellery valued at $19,
A Chinese was fined $10 or 14 days at the Kowloon Magistracy
this morning for "running a fan-tan shop at Yaumati.
He pleaded guilty.
A Chinese, well known round and about Kowloon was fined $3 before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Court to-day on a charge of begging for alms.
Members of the E.A.S.M.A. on Saturday gave a private supper to their President, Lt.-Col. F. Hayley Bell, D.3.0., who is leaving the Colony shorty.
MR. E. SPRADBERY-MISS P. S. RIX.
we write on 'Bad Manners'?" he asked, amid titters. "Certainly," replied the professor blandly. "Just write about what you know beat,"
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St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,
A Scottish minister chanced to was the scene of a largely attend-office of a lawyer, whom he regarded meet two of his parishioners in the ed wedding
on Saturday as being too sharp. the contracking afternoon, parties being Mr. Ernest J. J. Spradbery, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spradbery, and Miss Pansy Spradbery Rix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Rix of Woodford, England.
The lawyer jocularly, and very“ graciously, put the question:
"Doctor, these are membors of:
8017 of
Miss Rix wore an embroidered dress of white georgette, a silver and white embroidered tulle veil, 1 coronet of orange blossoms and "ilver and gold shoes. She car-
your fock; may I ask, do you look upon them as black or white sheep?"
"I don't know," said the divine dryly, "whether they are black or white sheep, but I know if they are here long they are pretty sure to be well fucced!”
"I tell you, gentlemen," said the
great explorer to the crowd in the
ried a bouquet of white lillies and
hotel smoking room, who were listen-- maiden-hair fern.
Miss Irene Spradbery was the ing breathlessly, "you can't imagine- bridesmaid.
She wore
an em- what things are like out in the Arc-- broidered dress of blue georgette tie regions." with silver beads, a blue crino- line hat and silver shoes. Miss Elsie Lane, the flower-girl, wore pale pink georgette and a Dutch bornet trimmed with rosebuds, The bridesmaid's and flower-girl's bouquets were of roses and creep
erg.
C.D.L. Takes Part.
Mrs. J. J. Spradbery, the bride- groom's mother, wore a dress of black satin with an overdress, of black and gold lace.
Mr.
Miss Cecilia Hansen, the famous woman violinist, arrived by the as anyone may be on such a mat-president Grant" and will give her ter. There is not and there never farewell performance at the Theatre was "hypnotic authority" of Royal this evening. white men over the coloured
A house at No. 9, Iron-street, "THE CHALLENGE OF
races, nor has the contact of the Kowloon City, collapsed last week THE EAST."
white men ever been actuated end. The house was occupied as a by h "spírit of domina medicine shop, by an old man who We notice that a prominent tion.".
The White man could sustained minor injuries. position is given to an article not but be conscious of his moral A stallholder of the Tsim Sha entitled "The Challenge of the and mental superiority and, per- Tsui market was fined $50, by Mr. East" by the editor of a London haps altruistically, he get about W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis weekly journal called "The Out-to improve the lives of those tracy on Saturday, on a charge of Roadline." The article is written by whose lot was so transparently on
assaulting a Chinese constable..
Acting Chief Detective Inspec- tor L. P. Lane, who has just.re- Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, author of a much lower 'plane than his own.
The police at Kongmoon discover-turned from a mission to Shang "Afghanistan of the Afghans," Christianity, humanity, and other ed. on Saturday, 24 automatic pis- hai, gave the bride away.
tols and revolvers, upon the arrival W. Taylor of the China Light and and, presumably, he is an beneficent ideals prompted him. of two steamers. The arms were
Power Co., Ltd., was "best man." Afghan. He is obviously & The Sirdar conveys the impression hidden in a trunk which had a false product of western education, that Asiatics have now a very bottom. A passenger was arrested. and it is stated that "he different opinion of the white man
The forthcoming marriage la an- has contributed for years to the from what they had
par-nounced, between Mr. B. C. K. foremast English, Continental ticularly before the World Hawkins of the Civil Service, Hong and American publications." We War. The war need not enter have to confess that previous to into the question, for it has no reading his article we had not thing to do with the Western heard of the Sirdar, and were it contact with the East. not for the fact that the title of The Sirdar refers to the emer the article arrested our attention of Asia from the quiet wis-
gence -for it must be admitted that dom of her ancient history moved the title "The Challenge of the dom of her ancient culture; be East" is indeed arresting we
we cause modern history moved it on should not have known the kind to a plane which was very largely of ideas the Sirdar is circulating
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in his contributions to "the fore- most English, Continental and American publications," Per haps it ought also to be stated: that the article mentioned is em bellished with a portraits of Chiang Kai-shek, who is correctly enough referred to as "the able. leader of the Chinese Nationalist troops and there is another plc- ture showing Chinese Nationalist soldiers using wireless field ap- paratus. We had hoped that with the portrait the writer would have something to communicate on China's crisis and at least on her aspirations. But in this he disappoints, for there is no special mention of China. The writer, it appears, is concerned chiefly with:
as a whole and what he evid ently believes are the political
held by Asiatics (or, at, least, by, the comparatively small
The Rev. W. Walton Rogers M.A., vicar of St. Andrew's, offi ciated.
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"Even if we haven't seen it, we can
"Oh, I don't know," said one..
imagine what it feels like."..
"I doubt it. It's impossible until you've seen it; until you've stood there a small, insignificant atom. surrounded by vast stretches of
white "
"Yes, yes, I know, I've been like that."
"Really? Where was it, may - I ask?"
་”
"First time I appeared in public In a dress-shirt."
The stranger on a walking tour- came across an old man, and began
to ask`questione.
"You are a farmer, I suppose?" ' I gave it up.".
"No, not now. I'used to be, but
"Well, you don't seem to be very busy. You have plenty of time, ont your hands, haven't you?
"Lots of it."
"Ever do any work?"" "Once I did."
"What do you do now, may
The reception was held at the Kowloon Hotel where many. friends, assembled to drink to Kong, Observatory Quarters, Kow- the health of the bride and bride. loon, and Miss Gladys Helen John-groom. The honeymoon is being stone, of Sale, Cheshire, coming to spent in Macao and Canton. The
ask??? the Colony by the "Khyber."-
bride's going-away dress was of
"Don't do nothing. Ain't done fawn figured crepe de chine and nothin' for nearly ten years." she also wore a wrap cont of beige why, you're in luck! If I did: corded silk,
nothing for half that length of time Among the presents was a I should be in the workhouse." dainty silver dressing table set. The old man's face beamed and from the bridegroom to the then, as one who knows his rare bride. The bride's present to the good fortune, and values it at its bridegroom was a pair of cuff
just worth, he cried delightedly links in gold.
That's where I be!"
Á museum will be opened in Macao, probably in November, la the Municipal Council Building. A large number of exhibits have been collected including six interesting original water colours by the well known artist Mr. M. Baptista, a famous pupil of Chenery.
First Oarsman: "I wonder what has given old Slipe such a swelled: head ?!!
"Second ditto: Oh, haven't you heard his brother 'stroked onD of the galleys In Ben Hur
He left her standing there, Without one word of praises For all she'd done for him
throughout.
Those happy days.) 1.7 (t
It seemed unfair that he should.
leave her now.).
In all her beauty in this country
Inne
Yet not one word of protest came
from here
Despite the pain.
He'd loved her once. {no doubt of
There was
left her, with a hate.
Yet
And
wore; cause?
@kad: t him.
ews and Miss Anna Webtel