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The 'forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Ralph Stericker Spencelayh, marine engineer, re siding at No. 2 King's Park to Mr. Ruby Evelyn Kow (widów) living at No. 8, Lower Castle Road.
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ROUND THE CINEMAS
The Longest Word in Films
word!
IN PRAISE OF
GLORIOUS BEER
LITERARY. ASSOCIATIONS
"Make a good meal of it, Drink a good deal of it, Glorious, glorious beer!"
curiously enough in Devon, NO runs the song as I heard it, which is the home of cider.
It is Beer.
song of sound sentiment. It is a word that rolls itself loving- 1s on the tongue,
"Oh Beerl Oh Hodgson Guinness, Allsopp, Bass!
Names that should be on every Infant's tongue,"
as Calverly says "But," interrupts
|Hodgson may have "paled his in- effectual fires," other beers, though on a lower floor, have taken ita place! As is well known to those, one in hot and thirsty from, the who, taking a holiday Up-country. Moon Plains, or from a round of golf to a cold stinging glass of real- beer.
Borrow was a temperate man. Ho once tasted
mead-that fine old Anglo-Saxon drink-but declared, himself, against it as "woundfly strong" and he would have no man drink too much ale, but not to drink
a reader, "Guinness, Allaop, Bass.it at all seemed to hima mere foolish
I know, but what is Hodgson?" A ness. There no more dangeròue
cant, he declared than teetotalism, and more than fifty years before prohibition fastened its claws on America, we find him declaiming vigorously against what he declared
the temperance cant of that coun-
try.
pertinent question. What very has become of Hodgson, once
80 much beloved by the Anglo-Indian, and referred to carelessly by Bon Gaultier and Calverley, as though everyone must know what it is? It la rarely seen now, though I did hear of a man who, when wander.
Dickens, too, allowed his favour. ing about in North India, came ite characters plenty of alcoholic Discovered the world's longest across a bottle of it, in a chemist's refreshment. Dick Swiveller Waa shop of all places. Being a literary no teetotaller. You remember his Lewis Stone utters it in "Won-bloke, he leapt upon it with a shout asking the small servant whom he
of "Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, befriended, If she'd der of Women." Metro-Goldwyn Bass-names that should be on Mayer's vivid drama of Germany, every infant's tongue"-and at once
playing
broke the Excise laws of Northern Theatre with dialogue and sound. India, by consuming then and there, Try it as a tongue twister, an the premises, what should have Dick (rightly shocked), "She never "Himmelherrgottkreuzmillionen- been consumed at a decorous distasted it. It can't be tasted In a donnerwetter!" It "went great"
tance from the pill-pounder's, And
sip." He remedied this shocking on the microphones.
he came away exalted, reciting "state of things" as swiftly as The new play is adapted from aloud Bon Gaultier's famous lines might be. But in spite of this won- Hermann Sudermann's novel, "The
on Hodgson's Ale.
derful testimonial to the merits of Wife of Stephen Tromholt," and
this drink, wo can hardly call Dickens an enthusiastic beer drink-
now
at
the
Queen's
It
ever tasted beer.
"'Ad a sip of it, once," admitted the small servant.
"Here's a state of things," said
Readers of the poem will remem reservation. Even when asked was directed by Clarence Brown, ber that Jove, unaccountably one with Stone. Peggy Wood, stage day grew tired of Nectar, and, sum- whether Indians born in India star, Leila Hyams, Harry Myers, moning his butler, Bacchus, called 1er. At all events in "Pickwick," i could receive certificates, like Sarah Padden, George Fawcett, on him to supply something dif. other British subjects, all that the and other noted players in the ferent or to retire at once to the President of the Board of Trade cast
nethermost regions. "THE PASSIONATE QUEST' --
Bacchus, being a beery individual, could or would — say was to What is sauce for the gander is lost his self-possession for a mo-
memory serves me right punch and brandy were the drinks for which Mr. Pickwick had most use. Sam Weller might be allowed to take a draught from his father's tankard that elicited from Tony the admir.
Overland China Mail."promise to inquire!" He reveal-cranberries for the turkey is the ment, "feeling already in his re-ing comment, "Werry good power ed a further lack of ignorance of moral behind Warner Brother's pro-arward" as Bon Gaultier puts it, auction, Sammy," but, for the the whole subject when asked duction, "The Passionate Quest," "Jove's tremendous toes:" "When Shepherd, pineapple rum, and for (adapted from a book by E. Phillips a bright idea struck him-Dash my Pickwick, punch was generally pro- “what was the use of the letter"? | Oppenheim) showing for the last Thyraus-I'll be ball fer you never |vided. You remember the passage Feebly, he replied that "it quali- time to-day at the Majestic Theatre. were in India-That you know not in David Copperfield:-
The cast, headed by May McAvoy | Hodgson'a Ale." fied the holder for some capacity,
"What is your best, your very and Gardner Jamea, Includes This saved him: The "cloud best, ale a glass?" I asked. but he was unable to indicate the Willard Louis, Jane Winton, Loaise compeller." we are told, having precise way without inquiry"! Fazenda, Holmes Herbert, and De drunk it declared, with some in Replies of this nature only make Witt Jonnings.
gratitude that:- Ambition for 'fame is the theme Ministers look ridiculous. It was
of the story which tells of the already stated on February 19 wanderings of three employees of that "the action of the Hong Kong a glass factory in Norchester, Government was taken with the London, and Paris. approval of His Majesty's Govern- ment." Why should Ministers
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beat about the bush in such a tantalising manner when they have or ought to have-all the information on their files, if not at their finger tips? Why spar with rational questioners merely for the sake of sparring 7
that those passengers,
·
SEQUEL TO A FIRE
Kerosene and Gasoline
in a Junk
"Port and claret are like water To the noble stuff that's here. And Saturnius drank and nodded, Winking with his lightening eyes, And amidst the constellation Did the star of Hodgson rise." - Alas! it has set now. The tem- peramental and whimsical Jupiter must have tired of it-just as classical mythology tells us, he found it hard to confine himself to one lady's charms only. In other words, he was not a model husband. Per- haps he might have been if he'd stuck to Hodgson. However, though
"Twopence-halfpenny," said the Landlord, "is the price of the genuine Stunaing ale.”
"Then," said I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the genuine Stunning, please, with a good head to it."-Straits Echo.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall.” February 25, 1920.1
To-day's dollar is worth 5/74d.
Although there is nothing in the nature of waning interest in the Hong Kong Horticultural Society or in this year's Show, it is feared that the en- tries will fall considerably short of the tatal recorded last year. This is mainly due to the cold and damp wes-
Mr. J. A. Fraser, District Officer North, held an inquiry at Gindrinkers Bay, yesterday, into a fire which oc curred on board a trading junk in the bay at 1.80 a.m., on the 22nd. At the time of the fire the junk was loaded with kerosene and gasoline.
The finding was that there was in- the precautions which had been taken ther during the past three weeks. sufficient evidence to show how the fire against fire appeared to be entirely in- Many promising plants have been ren- was no suficient, and strongly recommended [ dered " useless for show. purposes. was caused, and that there evidence that the fire was the result of that precautions for Junk masters to Among the varieties that have suffered a criminal act.
take when carrying dangerous goods most are geraniuma, sweet peas, and The District Ofeer also found that must be strictly observed.
dahlias.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
China's Government: Telephone Girls Decorated: No Excuse For Boys: Soft And Pampered Race: New Zealand High Commissioner
The Luxury of Boys
when Tom Brown toasted sausages
of Australia to
As is known locally, the letters to be granted to Chinese subjects After, a lapse of three months by the Chief Examiner at the the notice of the Government of Board of Trade examinations are Hong Kong that Chinese will be intended to assist Chinese ship permitted to sit for Board of owners in manning their vessels Trade examinations for master, with capable officers. It is essen- first mate, and chief engineer, tial under the same conditions as laid Chinese and non-Chinese, who en- down for British subjects, has trust their lives and their pro- raised a number of queries in the perty to Chinese ship owners House of Commons. On February should have an assurance that the 19 Dr. Drummond Shiels, replying officers in charge of such ships to a question on behalf of the should be capable of responding · Home Government, had to point to that trust. Emergencies may out what was already well known arise in which a Chinese ship China's Essential Weakness locally that Chinese nationals owner may not have available as AN essential weakness of the NO man of judgment will allow and the bully toasted Tom.
that there is any excuse for the whole fabric of China's Gov- will not receive a certificate of officers for certain specified voy-ernment recently is pointed out existence of boys. We find that out Episcopal Canons
in early youth, and the remaining competency, but merely a letter, ages any but Chinese to whom by the Japan Times: The Organic years of our lives show us how good BY the appointment of the Primats an episcopal signed by the Chief Examiner, are naturally dented the full Law and the Kuomintang Party, and right it is meg should think so,
It is naturally always the modern canonry in St George's Collegiata The boys of Church, Jerusalem, the number of certifying that the examination rights of British subjects who on the face of it, are sufficient to
But yesterday were stout follows, and the such episcopal canons is brought up had been passed. Such letter will pass the Board of Trade examina. bring order from chaos and to boy who is accursed.
create a new born China..
boys of the day before Christian to six.
The canonries are conferred on not entitle the holder to the rights tions. It such emergencies can however perfect the laws promul heroes. Otherwise wo should not be conferred by a certificate of com- be surmounted by the possession gated In China may be on paper, in a position to speak to our present prelates of the various provinces of
rity which is necessary.
special interests in the Mother-City potency. Moreover, the action of by Chinese of Chief Examiners' there is lacking that integrity of little wretches with the moral autho the Anglican Communion, which have character-in the bureaucracy of
Some headmasters have just been of Christiany apresented by the the Hong Kong Government was letters, it is conceivable that the new administration and with Bagellating in public. Their style is
England is Their vigour Bishop of London, who is the senior, pleasantly familiar. taken with the approval of the Chinese shipowners will be able to in the ranks of the Kuomintang nothing abated from the brave days having been appointed in 1911... To
dérive Immediate benefit. It is Party-so necessary to make good of old. One says the modern school the same your belongs the appoint Home Government, :
Apparently the answer given a gesture of a kind that should the intentions and promises of boy is no fighter, but seeks the soft ment of the Archbishop of Cape
And the other Town, The remaining stalls in the House of Commons has be appreciated by Chinese ship idealists. Indeed the Chinese of job and ensues it. not satisfied certain MP's owners, on some of whom, how-to-day, as of yesterday, are too blames the child for his life of capled by the Bishop Cale are c
fourth farm, his existence is "moter of Pennsylvania. to im- the calligraphy of a noble senti- cars and kid gloves,” Observe the Commander Kenworthy had evid- ever, it may do no ha prone to gaze with satisfaction at luxury. Blaso he comes into the Archbishop of Harop, of Calcutin, the ently not studied the terms of press the fact that any deliberate ment or system of life without phrase: it is not mine. that answer, for he asked yester. abuse of the concession will be translating the Ideology of calli-
graphy Into the sphere of prac day whether Chinese receiving a rightly resented. To say more tical action,
to controversial letter certifying that they have might lead passed the examination will be channels that had better be avoid- Not in Hong Kong! entitled to serve as officers on ed at the moment. Nothing can MISS Misso Koulshi of Kobe and British ships. Mr. William be gained either locally or at Graham could not see it to give a Home by wilfully-looking behind straight reply: "he would like to the official notification for some have notice, but he understood thing that does not exist! that it was not the case.” “One. Would have expected the Fre sident of the Board of Trade to
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News in Brief
The Hong Kong the sub-announce that the to haveing the Hong Kong...
Evils of Luxury
New High Commissioner LON TONDON. New Zealanders gave the new High Commissioners rouge welcome at the luncheon in hin ing
honour The attendance cord for such an occasion, and the enthusiasm certainly corrisponded.
taking exercise with
ONE wonders when first comfortable maturity began to denounce the evils of Juxury. Since Horace it common form. But probably as som Miás Mitanko Motoki of Omaka, as the hubid faed had learnt enough
In one sense, however, Mr. Wilford both aged B are probably the only to get into a cave out of the rain failed to rise to the occasion. While two telephone operators to hold Im the conlor cursed the Juniors for
medi and corrupting love cine ball he daringed; his kos, perial decorations in Japan. They their luxurious have had conferred upon them the of keeping dry.
and bring border to respond to Eighth Order of Marit, according to They are au official bulletin of the Cabinet race, these modern boys. They are be supported on an improvised high Decoration Bursam isased on Febru- habituated to baths. They wash, stool, with the toastmaster hovering ary, 15, ........ Miss Konlchị Chas been "The men of the good old days could rather anxiously in the background: working on the telephona exchange not. if they would, They expect to To the superstitious che, o omen for about twenty yours now. She be well fed, they want rooma lit and might have seemed a. llikle depress- I now holds the position of communt. warmed. These gross luxuries were ing, but Mr. Wilford is not supers {cations::secretary at the Kobe Cene unknown to the fine old schools which stitious.- Earl Jellice, in fact, thaté sal Telephone Bureaus Misi Motaki made our grandfathers Banded hire for Always; backing Number If Now?na Laleodiens operators, super. Every honest man must disapprova 18 on the race cand at, menings in fabundent at the, Oraka, Central 19% of boy Hat one wonders if they are New Zealand and winning a lot of *es whose Barende
DE MANZES\lmuch changed, slice the "golden-age"|koney,;:{
And pampered the toast of his health he had to